Devaraj

ಕನ್ನಡಿಗ | Aspirant | An Engineer | Photography | Student of Life | Chess | Maths

[निसर्गराजा @shetakriraja288]

Happy 80th INDEPENDENCE DAY 🇮🇳

[Bharat Indians @voicesindians]

Celebrating 80 Years of
India's Independence 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳

[Devaraj @devarajyv01]

I’m trying to apply for Land surveyor KEA recruitment when i tried to register through Digi Locker it is showing this all the time, don’t know what to do Can you resolve this sir… @KEA_karnataka @Captain_Mani72

[Devaraj @devarajyv01]

@SWDGoK Got selected through Karnataka PETC exam for free KAS free coaching and course has been started in Jan 3rd week and we got stipend for only 2 months after that we haven’t get any and it’s been 4 months, Institutions are also not responding properly, so when we can expect?

[DD News @DDNewslive]

Did you know every tiger has its own stripe pattern - even on its skin?

From shaping ecosystems to symbolizing resilience, the tiger remains one of nature’s most extraordinary apex predators. Stronger than it looks. More unique than you think.

@moefcc #IBCASummit2026

[Rajasthan Forest Department @ForestRajasthan]

On this National Endangered Species Day, let's acknowledge Rajasthan’s rare and endangered species, whose survival depends on our collective conservation efforts.

#NationalEndangeredSpeciesDay #WildlifeConservation #RajasthanWildlife #BiodiversityConservation

[Virat Kohli @imVkohli]

Thank you guys for all the love & support - the entire team including the fans, the ground staff & the support staff! Promise to come back stronger next year. ನೀವು ಇಲ್ಲಾಂದ್ರೆ ನಾವು ಏನು ಅಲ್ಲಾ 🙏🏼 @RCBTweets #RCB #RCBBoldArmy #PlayBold

[Himanshu Tyagi, IFS @Himanshutyg_ifs]

There is a tree in the USA that looks like an entire forest. Its name is Pando.

Spread across 106 acres, it appears to be a forest of around 47,000 aspen trees. But it is a single living organism. What look like individual trees are simply clones, all connected underground by one massive root system.

That root system is estimated to be over 80,000 years old. By both weight and area, Pando is the largest known living organism on Earth, weighing an estimated 6000 tons.

It existed before the first modern humans walked out of Africa. It stood through the rise and fall of every empire in recorded history. It watched glaciers carve out the entire North American landscape.

And it is still standing. Not because it is the biggest. But because its roots run deeper than anything else alive.

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 A nine-year-old Shreyovi Mehta from India wins global recognition at WPY for capturing a striking peafowl moment in Rajasthan’s Keoladeo National Park. 👏

[Earth @earthcurated]

High-frequency patterns in birdsong can signal safety to the brain, helping the body unwind, ease stress, and restore mental clarity.

At times, nothing soothes the mind more effectively than the quiet rhythms of the natural world.

[Devaraj @devarajyv01]

@kunalrv Direct tax

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@RailMinIndia @AshwiniVaishnaw

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Huge Water has been leaking from a pipe between 8th and 9th platform of the KSR Railway station Bengaluru

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@drmsbc

[Devaraj @devarajyv01]

The first step is the most important. It need not be big or perfect. That first step builds confidence. It tests your resilience. It shows you that the biggest obstacle was never the journey—it was simply starting. It shows you the way, and once you start, you rarely look back.

[Jatin Gupta @jatingupta25]

An Open Letter to Those Who Just Cleared the Civil Services Exam

The UPSC CSE 2025 results are out. And before the dust of celebration could settle, the circus began. Coaching institutes racing to claim you. Ed-tech platforms stitching your face into their next ad. Teachers attributing your years of struggle to their one course. Social media turning your journey into a 90-second reel with a discount code at the end.

I want to talk to you. Not as someone watching from outside, but as someone who has lived inside this process.

In 2011, I left a corporate job I genuinely loved. Walked away from comfort because something about this examination had gripped me. I was starry-eyed. Hopelessly, naively starry-eyed. A few of us from college started preparing together, and I remember how we treated every word from our seniors who had cleared the exam as gospel. We discussed their advice endlessly, in rented rooms in Rajinder Nagar, at tea stalls, on our way back from the libraries. But here's what I also remember clearly: we could always tell apart the seniors who guided with care from those who were reckless with their words. The ones who oversimplified, who credited one book or one trick for their success, we looked down on them. Not because they had failed us, but because we knew that someone somewhere would take that careless advice seriously and pay for it.

That instinct, to hold successful people accountable for the weight their words carry, seems to be disappearing.

You have cleared an examination that tests you across seven papers, an interview, and years of sustained reading, thinking, and writing. The idea that one teacher, one test series, or one Telegram channel "cracked" this for you is not just inaccurate. It is disrespectful to your own effort. And when you let that narrative stand unchallenged, or worse, when you participate in it, you are not just misrepresenting your journey. You are reshaping someone else's.

Think about that person for a moment. A first-generation aspirant in a district town, watching your interview on YouTube tonight. They don't have a mentor. They don't have a senior to call. They are going to take what you say and build their entire strategy around it. If you tell them one source was enough, they will believe you. If you make it sound easy, they will blame themselves when it isn't. If you become a billboard for a coaching brand within a week of your result, they will think that's what success looks like.

Don't do that to them.

Be honest about how long it actually took. Talk about the multiple sources, the failed attempts, the loneliness, the self-doubt. Don't reduce a journey of years into a brand endorsement. When someone puts a camera in front of you, remember that the person watching isn't looking for content. They are looking for direction.

Maybe most of you will never read this. Maybe it won't reach the ones who need to hear it. But if even one of you pauses before that next interview or that brand deal and thinks about the aspirant watching, it will have been worth writing.

I have taught in this ecosystem for twelve years now. I have watched it change, some of it for the better, much of it not. Ed-tech democratised access, and that was genuinely important. But it also turned preparation into content, candidates into audiences, and rankers into influencers. That slide has been gradual, but it is now impossible to ignore.

You have earned something extraordinary. Tomorrow, your responsibilities begin. To the public, to the Constitution, to the idea of service. But today, right now, you already have one responsibility. To every aspirant who is looking at you and trying to find their way.

Don't let them down. Be the senior you needed when you started.

I am disappointed. But I am still here, still teaching, still hopeful, because I believe you are better than what this ecosystem is trying to make you.

Prove me right.

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6-year-old got welcomed back at school after beating leukemia.. 🥺

[Devaraj @devarajyv01]

Never lose faith in goodness. There are enough good people around you.

When you need help, ask for it and seek it—there will always be someone with a solution.

Wait for the right person and the right time. With positivity and patience, help will come to you. Always.

[Himanshu Tyagi, IFS @Himanshutyg_ifs]

When comparison ends, life begins. When you see people struggling, you don't laugh at them; instead, you understand their situation with empathy and no judgment. When you see people on a higher rung, you don't feel jealous but feel happy for them for being luckier. Peace. Focus.