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[Dev @devargtweets]

Living lab is open now.

Param Science Experience Space (ParSEC), Whitefield, a 30,000 sq. ft. living lab where curiosity meets creativity is now open for Public.

Tickets are now live on BookMyShow and District

Discover more:
https://t.co/dn71xynf0M

[Rajesh Padmar @rajeshpadmar]

Namaste Bengaluru !

New Centre of Param Science Experience Centre (PARSEC) at Whitefield in Bengaluru, on 26 April 2026). This marks an important milestone in science engagement and future-focused learning spaces, set to redefine how people engage with science.

The centre was inaugurated by Dr. K. Radhakrishnan, Former ISRO Chairman and Sri Kris Gopalakrishnan Co-Founder of Infosys, both distinguished leaders who have made defining contributions to India’s Science, Technology and Innovation journey.

The centre will be open to the public from 1st May, 2026 onwards.

Location:
PARSEC Whitefield, JP Tech Park, Near Vydehi Hospital Gate 1, KIADB Export Promotion Industrial Area, Whitefield, Bengaluru - 560066

Google Maps: https://t.co/j32WVlpWLv

[Dev @devargtweets]

amazing people around...

[KV Iyyer - BHARAT 🇮🇳🇮🇱 @BanCheneProduct]

"I didn’t pick up a girl from that garbage dump. I picked up a diamond."

This is not a movie story. A real miracle happened in the state of Assam.

Soberan, a 30-year-old man, earned his living by selling vegetables. He was not married yet.

One evening, while returning home after work, he heard the sound of a baby crying from the bushes near the road.

When he went to check, he found a new born baby girl left alone on a garbage pile. The child had been abandoned. Soberan looked around, but no one was there. The baby was innocent, cute, and beautiful. Not knowing what else to do, he took her home with him.

He decided to raise the baby himself instead of getting married. He named her Jyoti.

He worked hard every day and night to take care of her, making sure Jyoti never faced any hardship. He sent her to school and fulfilled all her needs.

Even if he went hungry, he never let her suffer. Jyoti completed a degree in Computer Science in 2013. She then began preparing for competitive exams.

She passed the Public Service Commission exam in 2014 and got a job as an Assistant Commissioner in the Income Tax Department.

Soberan cried with joy when he saw his daughter achieve something he never had the chance to do.

Jyoti now takes care of her father, but even after all her requests, he still continues to run his vegetable business.

Soberan told the media, "I didn’t pick up a girl from that garbage dump. I picked up a diamond. She is the light of my life."

Both of them are truly inspiring people.

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

A very well written piece by Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM
https://t.co/1I0C7Fz9AM

[Dev @devargtweets]

Good read ☺️

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

https://t.co/SE3BCAdjmS

[Dev @devargtweets]

@JethmalaniM Good to see the recognition of the change at least now

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.

May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?

Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?

In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?

The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.

It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.

Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.

Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?

India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

[Dev @devargtweets]

@ErikSolheim Well said. True

[Dev @devargtweets]

Diplomacy!!!

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Thank you for the gift

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Yellapragada Subbarao.

He was born on January 12 1895 in Bhimavaram, in present-day Andhra Pradesh. His family was poor. Several of his siblings died young from disease.

He studied at Madras Medical College but his British professor deliberately gave him a lesser diploma instead of a full MBBS degree.

He scraped together enough money and sailed to America in 1923. He arrived in Boston with almost nothing.

To pay his fees at Harvard Medical School he worked as an attendant at a hospital, cleaning rooms and changing bedsheets at night. Colleagues called him the Indian who cleans toilets.

He did not stop.

At Harvard he began research with chemist Cyrus Fiske. Together they developed the Fiske-Subbarao method for measuring phosphorus in body fluids, still used in biochemistry today.

He then discovered the role of phosphocreatine and adenosine triphosphate in muscular activity. That discovery entered biochemistry textbooks worldwide.

It is what we now call ATP, the energy currency of every living cell.

Harvard denied him a full professorship. He was a foreigner and had few friends in the right circles.

His colleague Cyrus Fiske suppressed and destroyed many of his contributions out of jealousy. Years of Subbarao’s work had to be rediscovered by other scientists because Fiske would not let them be published.

He joined Lederle Laboratories instead. There he developed the first method to synthesise folic acid, Vitamin B9.

He showed it could treat megaloblastic anaemia and tropical sprue. He then helped develop methotrexate, one of the first chemotherapy drugs, still used today to treat cancer and rheumatoid arthritis.

He led the team that discovered Aureomycin, the first tetracycline antibiotic, more powerful than penicillin, which saved hundreds of thousands of lives during and after World War II.

He never became an American citizen. He lived in the United States for 25 years on a temporary visa. He applied for permanent residence and never received it.

On August 8 1948 he died of cardiac arrest in New York. He was 53 years old. No citizenship. No Nobel Prize. No fame.

A writer named Doron Antrim wrote this about him in 1950. “You have probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subbarao. Yet because he lived, you may be alive today.”

The drug that treated your anaemia. The antibiotic that fought your infection. The chemotherapy that gave someone more time.

All of it traces back to a man from Bhimavaram who cleaned hospital rooms to pay his Harvard fees.

India forgot him. Science did not.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Kuljeet Kaur Marhas.

She is a professor at the Planetary Science Division of the Physical Research Laboratory in Ahmedabad, one of India's most respected space science institutions, which works closely with ISRO.

On May 9 2026 she was elected Fellow of The Meteoritical Society, one of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world dedicated to the study of meteorites, planetary materials and the origins of the Solar System. The society was founded in 1933. It has been electing Fellows for 93 years.

She is the first Indian woman in those 93 years to receive this honour.

She is only the third Indian scientist ever. The two before her were Devendra Lal and J.N. Goswami, both giants of Indian science.

Her work focuses on understanding how the Solar System was formed billions of years ago. She studies ancient extraterrestrial materials, tiny grains that existed before the Sun was born, fragments locked inside meteorites that fell to Earth carrying secrets from the earliest moments of our Solar System's existence.

Using advanced instruments including a technology called nanoSIMS, she reads isotopic signatures at the nanoscale, measurements so precise they can detect variations in matter that formed 4.6 billion years ago.

Most Indians will never hear her name.

She is quietly answering one of the oldest questions in science: where did we come from?

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Today I met Vivek Kumar, who was kidnapped when he was in Class 3, converted to Islam, circumcised, fed beef, enrolled in a madrassa

At age of 17, he was being prepared to be sent to a Gulf country when Aadhaar biometrics revealed his real details to an alert official

Vivek was reunited with his parents after 9 long years

It was after his case that @KanoongoPriyank ordered all govt-aided madrassas in UP to furnish details of their students from Hindu families, which is now being opposed by a lobby in Allahabad high court

Vivek, who is from a scheduled caste, has learnt nothing other than memorising Arabic verses all these years

At 20, he now wants to pursue school and we @sewanyaya are helping him

Have recorded an interview of him which I will soon post

Counselled him for long - he was shocked to learn about the truth and tactics of conversion rackets and how youths are being radicalised to join terror outfits

[Incognito @Incognito_qfs]

Vijay Joseph promised to give ₹2500 per month to women in Tamil Nadu in his manifesto.

This Vijay Joseph's fan girl is very happy and explaining that Vijay Joseph's TVK will pay this money to women from their own pocket and not from taxpayers money like DMK or AIADMK.

GOD SAVE TAMIL NADU.

[IISc Bangalore @iiscbangalore]

We are introducing 3 new and exciting BTech programmes in Materials Science & Engineering, Mechanics & Computing, and Aerospace Engineering at IISc!

These future-ready undergraduate programmes are designed to shape engineers who will lead across interdisciplinary domains.

[Dev @devargtweets]

@travelingflying @vonbrauckmann Ohh

[Neuralink @neuralink]

We're building a surgical robot capable of reaching any brain region. The goal: a generalized neural interface to help solve any condition that originates in the brain.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A kid drew himself sleeping in bed between mom and dad and labeled it 'safe.'

In Japan, this exact sleeping arrangement has a name. They call it 'the river.' Mother is one bank. Father is the other. The child between them is the water. Roughly 70% of Japanese mothers sleep this way with their kids, sometimes through the teenage years. The Western model of putting a kid alone in their own bedroom is barely 200 years old. For most of human history, in most cultures still alive today, kids slept beside their parents.

James McKenna runs the Mother-Baby Behavioral Sleep Lab at Notre Dame. He spent decades watching what happens when parents and kids share a bed. The bodies sync up. Heart rates align with the parent's, breathing falls into the same rhythm, and by morning even sleep stages have started matching. The parent's body, in McKenna's words, acts as a kind of biological jumper cable for the child's.

In 2013, researchers in the Netherlands tracked 193 babies through the first year of life. They measured cortisol, the brain's main stress hormone. Babies who had spent more weeks co-sleeping in the first six months produced less cortisol under stress at 12 months. Sleeping near a parent had rewired the kid's stress system to be calmer under pressure.

Inside the kid's brain at night, the amygdala, the fear alarm, gets more sensitive as the body gets tired. Darkness makes it worse. A 2021 paper in PLoS One from Australian researchers showed that light directly suppresses amygdala activity. Lights off, alarm louder. The whole brain is wired to read 'alone in a dark room' as a threat.

Now add a parent's body to that bed. The kid's nervous system reads warm body, breathing nearby, familiar smell. The threat alarm dials down. Two parents on either side dial it down twice. The drawing is the kid's brain calculating maximum safety: I am surrounded by the people who keep me alive, and nothing can reach me without going through them first.

The arrangement in this drawing is what most of human history called 'sleeping.' Sleeping the kid alone in another room is a 200-year-old Western invention that we forgot was an invention. Every kid who has ever padded into your room at 3am and crawled into the middle of the bed is just trying to redraw the picture.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

The results of the recent state elections have been dramatic by any measure.

But for me, this image will remain the most unforgettable outcome of the elections.

More than 166,000 votes were cast between the two leading candidates in this constituency in Tamil Nadu.

And history was changed by just one vote.

This image should be shown in every school in the country & perhaps around the world.

So that every child understands that when they grow up, the greatest power they may possess is the Power of One.

The power of their one vote.

[Dev @devargtweets]

@kiranshaw Best wishes 🌺🌼🌸🌾🌾💐

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

Mukherjee never came back. The entire nation wanted an inquiry into how he died in the jail under Shekh Abdulla. Nehru said NO. A custodial death that too of a towering leader and an MP was denied

[SK Chakraborty @sanjoychakra]

Fidel Castro of Cuba identified moringa(Moringa oleifera) as “the miracle tree”—capable of nourishing the people, strengthening livestock, and reducing import dependency.

He encouraged moringa plantations in Cuba. Fidel Castro got his aides to bring him drumstick seeds from Kerala and Tamil Nadu, and had them cultivated for his daily diet after being told they are good for stomach ailments.

Moringa or drumstick contains
Vitamin A,Vitamin C ,Vitamin E ,Iron- managing anaemia, Calcium, Potassium, Magnesium.

Plant based protein moringa leaves are around 25% protein, comparable to soybean meal and they also contain all nine essential amino acids.
This is rare for a plant food and makes moringa especially useful for vegetarians and vegans.
Drumsticks have
· 7 times more vitamin C than oranges
· 4 times more calcium than milk
· 2 times more protein than yogurt
Moringa absorbs 20 times more CO₂than traditional trees.
Use moringa leaves and drumsticks in your diet.

[Dev @devargtweets]

What an incredible achievement 😳🤩

[Weather Monitor @WeatherMonitors]

7-year-old Ishank from Ranchi, India just set a world record by swimming 29km across the Palk Strait (Sri Lanka to India) in just 9 hours and 50 minutes. The youngest ever to conquer this route! (April 30, 2026)