Happy Birthday, SRK! ❤️
Thank you for existing. Some actors entertain us, some inspire us, but only a rare few make us feel every emotion. You are truly one of a kind.
Forever grateful to live in your era. 👑
#HappyBirthdaySRK
Extremely poor from President Musk, who ensured BYD didn’t enter the US for fear of his Tesla sales crumbling . And here making an issue out of our right for national security. A great entrepreneur but a v bitter man. Earlier went after Trump claiming his name is in Epstein files only to calm down later to ensure his business doesn’t suffer. Lol Musk.
I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.
We Indians. especially Bengalis, have been brought up on the legend of the Battle of Plassey, where the last Nawab of Bengal, Siraj-ud-Daulah, was defeated by Robert Clive.The foundational event for the British Raj.
Truth: The people of Bengal welcomed Clive. Siraj was the most psychopathic ruler Bengal had ever had to endure.
Disclaimer: I am no supporter of Clive, a lowly fortune-hunter who struck gold on a rainy day in Plassey. He had tarpaulin to keep his powder dry; his incompetent opponents hadn't thought of that.
What did Bengal (or India) get?
Siraj, of Turkic origin, never bothered to learn Bangla. He was as much a foreigner as Clive.
Sir Jadunath Sarkar, in The History of Bengal Vol II, calls Siraj "this insane and cowardly tyrant", "the craven Nawab" and that "sadists like Siraj... made even their highest subjects live in constant terror".
Contemporary accounts have recorded that Siraj was a vile debauch who delighted in picking up any woman he fancied and raping them. One of his major pastimes was sinking boats carrying people across the Bhagirathi {Ganga) and watching men women and children drown.
When Clive entered Murshidabad after the Battle of Plassey, he was astounded to receive a boisterous welcome from the citizens.
The Bengali nationalistic spirit under the British Raj whitewashed this animal Siraj's deeds and made him a tragic hero. Rousing plays were written about him. That is very understandable. But high time we re-evaluated some of these legends.
@letsblinkit Please start providing the option for printing on both sides of the paper as well. Will surely saves tonnes of paper everyday! Thanks! #savepaper
@AdityaDharFilms 8. Even if the movie is fictional or a fictionalised version of reality, I think one of the intended impacts of the maker is to inspire gratitude and a sense of duty towards home and homeland. I hope this message isn't lost on the audience in its quest for "peak detailing".
7. The depiction of human emotions, their viscerality & depth, is something @AdityaDharFilms has clearly some mastery over. Perhaps, his own experience as a Kashmiri Pandit, apart from his invididual brilliance,has a role to play in it. That may explain his body of work as well.