Utkarsh Srivastav

Writer | Poet | Might want to check insta(Click on the link) हम आह भी करते हैं तो हो जाते हैं बदनाम, वो क़त्ल भी करते हैं तो चर्चा नहीं होता। ~अकबर इलाहाबादी

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

बदनसीबों के हिस्से मे ताज महल की तस्वीर आती है। ख़ुशनसीब अपना-अपना ताजमहल अपने साथ रखते हैं।

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

Forever grateful to Shoojit Sircar sahab for Piku and Vicky Donor.

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

THE BOYS FINALLY DID IT!!!!!! 🏆🥹

- Defeated the Chinese pair at home and won the China Masters for the first time ever!

WHAT A MOMENT!!! 🇮🇳❤️

🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

@avanindra43 आँख भर-सी गई। शानदार।

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🤣

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@CricDiva https://t.co/ZEhk4e8r3h

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

@smileandraja The one you haven’t mentioned here. Sachin playing 200 test matches is here to stay till eternity. The longevity requires a brilliant debut at 16 and playing till 40 :) 200 matches despite the career being marred by serious injuries. Amazing!

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

😳

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Taj with Mumtaj.

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@IndieHabitat @iamsrk @naman2307 @shobhit2102 Taj sans Mumtaj.

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

I used to think Banaras has bad traffic sense and then I drove in Pune. Terrible state of affairs. Gorakhpur has a better traffic and safety compliance(Helmets, people?) than a supposedly Tier-1 city.

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

Well put.

[koreanoli @koreanoli]

The Pain
The Glory
The Farewell

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

Kailasa Temple, Ellora. Long overdue. Check.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

@ParveenKaswan Greetings, Parveen sahab.
While it’s true that you’re humble and polite, it’s worth noting that you’re kind of proving his point by not sharing photos. Power does stays in the shadow. 😁
Best wishes.

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

Mamdani is charming(among 100 other things). Sad he can never run for that highest office!

[Michael Mathes @MichaelMathes]

“England historically has struggled here in Massachusetts”
— #WorldCup announcer on Fox
👀

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

“cope with it from top to botham”

[Anuj Nitin Prabhu @APTalksCricket]

They had no problems when every World Cup was played in England and when Indian teams were served cold sandwiches throughout the tournament and were not given Lord's accred until they made the final.

Tables have turned..cope with it from top to botham.

[Hugo Hélin @helinhz]

Les mots "Endrick", "Ancelotti" et "à l'origine en portugais"

[maldidown @maldiidown]

🚨🚨🚨ÚLTIMA HORA: Ferran Torres, fruto del enfado del empate, ha disparado a varios compañeros de selección

No hay heridos

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

@rpraggnachess daabe raho jawaan. Best wishes.

[Amyy🌱 @amyyyyy_18]

Me liking every RCB winning tweet on my timeline 😭❤️

[Utkarsh Srivastav @dipulala]

Champions.

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Back-to-back champions. Wow! Unbelievable. Feels like a dream. RCB are champions once again. We used to pray for times like these! Congratulations, @RCBTweets.