Devangshu Dutta

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Student of Life. What concerns me:
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[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

This has to be the message that needs our daily contemplation and action.
#environment #sustainability #water #airquality #soilhealth

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

India's consumers have always bought groceries frequently through the week, and quick commerce today is enabling that trend for the digital-native generation.
#QuickCommerce #India #Ecommerce #FMCG #food #consumerbehaviour
https://t.co/hPFqdGtGRL
@devangshu

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

A comment on not just how educational institutions function, but how society and its expectations are structured.

[Divya Mittal @divyamittal_IAS]

IIT Delhi to IIM Bangalore to IAS. I got the best education my country had to offer. It taught me how to crack tough exams and manage big responsibilities. But it never taught me how to quiet my own mind or handle loneliness. We spend many years learning how to achieve, but not a single day learning how to be happy.
My thoughts on what is missing in school education.

Emotional Regulation:
We memorized the periodic table, but no one explained the chemistry of a broken heart. School demanded we stay quiet, confusing silence with peace. Now, we don't know how to host our own storms without drowning in them. We feel lost because we were taught to suppress, not to process.

Deep Communication:
We were taught to write perfect essays, but not how to say "I’m hurting" or "No." While there is a strong emphasis on communication, we are not taught the vocabulary of the adult life. There is no course on how to stand our ground in face of bullying by a boss or how to protect our work boundaries by saying 'No'

Critical Thinking:
In school, the person with the most answers won. In life, the person with the most questions survives. This is the reason many adults can repeat opinions confidently without ever questioning where those opinions came from. We are told everything as the gospel truth. So we end up just following blindly

Financial Literacy:
We spent years learning maths and solving for x, but never learned how to keep ourselves from falling in a debt trap. Money isn't just about math; it’s about the dignity of choice. We do not learn how to use debt effectively without it controlling our freedom. How impulsive spending compounds over time, or how money affects stress, relationships, and mental peace. Financial literacy is missing because education often focuses on earning money someday, not managing it wisely once it arrives.

Self-Discipline
School is a world of bells and schedules. Someone else always tells you what to do and when. But adulthood is a world of total silence. We feel stuck because we were never taught how to push ourselves without a teacher watching. Discipline is simply the habit of keeping promises to yourself. This is a habit many of us are lacking

Handling Loneliness
In school, you are always shrouded by people. You never realize how loud the silence of adulthood can be until you’re in it. We feel lonely because we weren't taught how to be our own best friends. Peace is learning that being alone doesn't mean being lonely. It is a sacred space, not a sign of being unwanted.

Reading People
School is a time of innocence where friendships are often given to you. But as we go along, not everyone retains that purity. We feel cheated because we weren't taught to see the hidden intentions or the masks people wear. Reading people is the quiet wisdom of seeing the truth behind the words.

Mental Health Maintenance
We have gym class for our bodies, but nothing for our souls. We are taught to push through exhaustion to finish a project, which is exactly how we end up in burnout. Honoring your nervous system is the only way to make sure the light inside you doesn't go out. We should know when we are dealing with a stressor and unable to handle it anymore. We should know when to reach out for help if we feel that we are drowning in that distress

Knowing Yourself
We spend years trying to be the "best" student, only to realize we don't know who we are without a gold medal. We are left inadequate because we studied every subject except our own souls. The ultimate education is discovering what truly matters to you before the world tells you what to want.

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

The @ETNowSwadesh discussion on the dual challenge of a weakening rupee & rising crude oil prices driving "imported inflation". @devangshu on the panel with @davemansi145 as anchor
https://t.co/DRY7Om8CdI
#India #economy #prices #retail #consumer

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

"AI isn’t just changing what we do, it’s rewiring our brains as we use it, just like literacy did. We’re trading deep thinking for quick answers without realising the cost to memory and judgment...People tend to trust AI even when they shouldn’t. "
https://t.co/DB3nip4jt2

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

As legacy retailers balance speed with customer experience, is near-instant delivery a sustainable goal for fashion, or will the costs outweigh the rewards? https://t.co/7U91koIly9
@devangshu
#Retail #SupplyChain #Strategy #India #Fashion #SupplyChain #Omnichannel

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

#Nature

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

This is a monarch butterfly migration arriving in the oyamel fir forests of central Mexico. None of these butterflies has ever been here before.

Their great-great-grandmothers left this exact grove in March. By July those grandmothers were dead. The butterflies you're watching are four to five generations downstream, born somewhere between Texas and Ontario, and they just flew up to 3,000 miles to a tree none of their parents ever saw.

The brain doing the navigation is smaller than a grain of rice.

The mechanism is a sun compass time-compensated by a circadian clock running in the antennae. Cut the antennae and the monarch loses orientation within hours. The clock corrects for the sun's position drifting across the sky as the day moves. Add iron-bearing magnetite particles for magnetic field detection on cloudy days, and a 0.5 gram insect is running redundant inertial guidance.

The destination is more specific than the navigation.

They cluster on a few dozen oyamel fir groves in the Sierra Madre at 9,000 to 11,000 feet. The microclimate has to sit between 32 and 41°F. Below freezing kills them. Above 41°F burns the fat reserves they need to survive five months without feeding. The right band exists a few hundred meters thick on a few specific mountains. Outside it, the migration ends.

One generation each year is built differently from the rest. Summer monarchs live two to six weeks. The fall generation lives eight months. It postpones reproduction, fattens up, and carries the entire round trip in a single body.

The map is genetic. Nobody has fully decoded how.

A monarch hatched in a backyard in Toronto in September has never seen a mountain, never smelled a fir, never met an ancestor. It flies south for ten weeks, picks the right peak, and lands on the tree its bloodline has been returning to for tens of thousands of years.

The forest knows the families that come back.

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

Shrinkflation, price hikes buzz in consumer firms as war spikes costs @itmeansjustice
@devangshu
https://t.co/9JIsYpSPTn
#FMCG #Food #Beverage #Pricing #India #SupplyChain #CostControl

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

A problem that has only grown further since this was written..."Is Retail Design Tone Deaf?" (@devangshu, 2011)
https://t.co/1bsXS1wiFk
#retail #architecture #space #sound #design #noise #pollution #health

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

Ikea has been around in India for about eight years. and has taken a long-term view on India with product and format customisation, and future investment plans of over $2 billion.
https://t.co/FfjkUafvKh
@devangshu #Ikea #India #FDI #retail #global #omnichannel #StoreFormat

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

The female of a Purple Sunbird couple building the nest #Delhi #India #UrbanWildlife #environment #biodiversity #ecology

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

Modern retail, consumption, brand building, M&A, balance of power between brands & retailers/platforms, sustainability vs growth and more; tune in if you're building for the long run
@vishalkrishna @devangshu
Youtube: https://t.co/EcP8k123Pe
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[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

Urban wildlife
#bees #Delhi #India #wildlife #environment #biodiversity

[Shrimad Rajchandra Mission Dharampur @SRMDharampur]

How can I become powerful in unpleasant situations?

Here’s a tip by Pujya Gurudevshri from today’s Sadguru Udghosh at the Ashram.

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

"...chatbots are “always hallucinating...A predictive model predicts some text, and maybe it’s accurate, maybe it isn’t, but the process is the same either way. To put it another way: LLMs are structurally indifferent to truth."
https://t.co/nB5rBf5y4Z @RollingStone

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

अर्ज़ है...
ज़हर तो हमनें इतना उगला है कि
आज हवाएँ भी साँस लेने से कतराती हैं।

[Third Eyesight @thirdeyesight]

Speaking with @Priyamouli1812, @devangshu explained that new-age lab grown dia­mond play­ers are for­cing tra­di­tional jew­ellers to intro­duce LGD options or risk los­ing younger cus­tom­ers.
https://t.co/6pLS81JCqL
#India #jewellery #labgrowndiamonds #diamonds #consumer

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

"You must try to combine in your life immense idealism with immense practicality." ― Swami Vivekananda

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

The #health crisis is a #GDP crisis & long term #economic #security & national security threat. Without clean environment India can't achieve full power potential
@narendramodi @narendramodi_in
@PMOIndia
@FinMinIndia
@nsitharaman
@PiyushGoyal
@nitin_gadkari
@moefcc
@NITIAayog

[Devangshu Dutta @devangshu]

A real drag on India's GDP, in health terms today & prolonged future illness. Investors, innovators & professionals also don't want to move to cities where they & their families are at risk. If cities in the West AND the East can clean up their air, so can India.
@PMOIndia