𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁

passionate for technology,programming,astrophysics,trekking,hiking. Trying to make this world a better place,I love god hate religions.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

We need to bypass the so called "standard", reductive textbook narratives that often treat ancient indian achievements as mere "accidental primitive labor" & Kailasa Temple is 1 such example. We need to treat it like a project that required a level of mathematical precision, spatial visualization & resource optimization that rivals modern aerospace/architectural design.

Advanced tech does not necessarily mean electricity/lasers/computer chips. In civil engineering, advanced tech is defined by the systems, instruments & mathematical models used to manipulate massive amounts of energy & matter with near-zero tolerance for error.

To carve Kailasa from the top down out of a single volcanic mass, the ancient Sthapatis (master engineers) had to solve problems that modern CAD software handles today.

Before a single chisel touched the stone, the entire multi-story complex including its internal rooms, floating balconies, drainage systems & columns had to be mathematically mapped out in 3Ds. In a traditional building, if a room is misaligned, we can tear down a wall & rebuild it. In rock-cut monolithic architecture, we cannot put back rock that has been carved away.

A single 5" calculation error on the roof would cause a column on the 3rd floor below to completely miss its load-bearing alignment, collapsing the ceiling. The then engineers used a highly sophisticated system of geometric grids based on micro-measurements (Angula & Hasta). They used a technique called Volumetric Prototyping. They modeled the mountain as a massive 3D coordinate matrix (X, Y, Z axes), translating a highly advanced, non-surviving theoretical blueprint seamlessly onto the undulating, uneven surface of a natural cliffside.

Carving 400000 tons of basalt, hardened volcanic lava rich in silica & iron cannot be done by simply swinging ordinary iron tools. The tools would blunt/deform/break within mins. The construction period correlates with India's absolute peak in Wootz steel production. This was a form of nanotech where iron was smelted with specific carbon-rich organic materials in sealed crucibles, creating a matrix of ultra-hard iron carbides (cementite).

Now to move 100s of 1000s of tons of rock rapidly w/o modern explosives, they likely used controlled thermal stress. By heating targeted fracture lines along the basalt's natural crystalline planes using massive, localized fires & then instantly dousing them with cold water, they forced the rock to cleanly shear itself apart along flat planes. This is a highly calculated application of thermodynamics.

In ancient India, advanced scientific & engineering knowledge was not published in open-source public libraries. It was fiercely guarded within highly specialized, hereditary engineering guilds (Shrenis/Vishwakarmas). Knowledge was passed down from master to apprentice via encrypted architectural texts (Vastu Shastras) & oral mathematical mnemonics.

This kept the IP secure from foreign theft, but it made the entire scientific system highly vulnerable to a SPOF. If a single elite guild of master builders was wiped out in a war, the complex mathematical formulas for calculating rock stress & monolithic geometric projections died with them instantly.

When British colonial historians arrived in India, they encountered marvels like Kailasa. Accepting that ancient Indians possessed a level of structural engineering, metallurgy & geometry that surpassed 18th century Europe was a direct threat to the colonial narrative of the "civilizing mission." They claimed Kailasa was built simply by throwing a massive, infinite army of "primitive, cheap slave labor" at a mountain with simple stone chisels over 100s of yrs.

This narrative deliberately substituted brute force for brain power. It ignored the complex geometry, the structural dynamics & the materials science, reducing a masterpiece of hyper-advanced calculation to a mere story of "many people digging for a long time."

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I fact-checked India's 2014 vs 2026 infrastructure numbers, added some more important parameters that were missed and an extremely important data point, the target.

Because some of this growth would have happened anyway. The question is whether India beat, met, or missed its own or global benchmarks.

So, I have compiled 48 parameters in total and every number is from PIB, IBEF, the Economic Survey and ministry dashboards.

Wherever the government did not set explicit targets, I benchmarked it against China.

Some targets beaten. Some missed. Every data point is verified.

Full data below.

[Ishan Tanna 🇮🇳 @IshanTanna1]

What has changed in India in last 12 years.....

[IIT Bombay @iitbombay]

IIT Bombay's researchers led by Prof. Dipanshu Bansal, Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, have successfully generated high-frequency surface acoustic waves up to 16.5 GHz directly in monolithic silicon with record-low signal loss. This demonstration paves the way for integrating ultra-fast 5G/6G filters, advanced biosensors, and quantum processors into the standard semiconductor chips that power our modern world. By mastering the "geometry of sound" through higher-order modes, the team has bypassed traditional manufacturing hurdles to deliver faster, more scalable technology.

Read more here:https://t.co/tL0Hvl4Kb3

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@raviprakash_rtv @sidhant_sarthak You should find some calm @aravind after this, i think things are going in right direction.

[Grok @grok]

This new carbon-free ferrocene analog [Os(η⁵-B₅H₁₀)₂] is a fundamental breakthrough in inorganic chemistry, proving boron rings can stably mimic carbon's sandwich structure with osmium at the center.

Potential applications (still early-stage) include:
- High-temperature stable catalysts for more efficient pharmaceutical synthesis.
- Novel materials with unique electronic/structural properties, including borophene-based systems that could rival graphene in electronics and nanotechnology.
- Broader advances in inorganometallics and intercalation chemistry for advanced compounds.

Exciting step for materials science!

[IIT Madras @iitmadras]

Researchers from IIT Madras and IISc Bengaluru have solved a chemistry puzzle that remained unanswered for over 70 years.

As reported in The Indian Express, the team led by Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh and Stutee Mohapatra from the Department of Chemistry, IIT Madras, along with Prof. Eluvathingal Jemmis from IISc Bengaluru, has synthesised a carbon-free molecule that mimics the iconic ‘sandwich’ structure of ferrocene.

Using osmium and boron-based rings instead of carbon, the breakthrough marks the first stable carbon-free version of the molecule — something scientists worldwide had long attempted to achieve.

Published in the prestigious journal Science (https://t.co/zqkL1CSqz6), the discovery could open new pathways for designing advanced materials with unique chemical and structural properties.

Read more: https://t.co/DhPSJbAGJ9

@IndianExpress @iitmadras @iiscbangalore @amitabhsin

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Imagine a man standing on a rooftop in Poona at 3:00 AM. He is releasing a small white balloon into the pitch-black sky. Attached to it is a tiny, flickering radio transmitter. He is not looking at the balloon; he is looking at a sheet of paper covered in differential eqns. He knows that as that balloon rises into the Upper Air, it is entering a world of Thermal Ghosts that hold the fate of the next harvest. He is the only man awake, talking to the sky in the language of numbers.

In the 1930s & 40s, the Indian Monsoon was considered an act of God. It was unpredictable, violent, & the single greatest factor in India’s survival. To the British, it was a mystery; to Viswanatha Vishnu Sohoni (1898-1977), it was a Hydrodynamic Eqn.

Working at the India Meteorological Department (IMD), Sohoni became obsessed with the Upper Air, the invisible currents 10 KMs above our heads. He realized that the surface weather was just a shadow cast by these massive, high-altitude ghosts. He developed the 1st comprehensive mathematical models for Thermodynamic Instability in the Indian atmosphere.

He popularized the use of Tephigrams (also referred to as Sohoni Diagrams in some Indian meteorological literature) for analyzing the Indian atmosphere. These were not mere charts, they functioned as powerful visual calculators that allowed meteorologists to assess the thermodynamic instability & available energy in the atmosphere before clouds even began to form.

He was 1 of the 1st to use Radiosondes (weather balloons with transmitters) to map the Vertical Pulse of India. He turned the sky into a 3D grid of data, decades before we had satellites to do the work.

In the late 1940s, Sohoni applied his studies on thermodynamic instability to improve cyclone & storm forecasting. He demonstrated how upper-air thermal data & tephigram analysis could reveal developing instabilities in the atmosphere that traditional surface observations (like barometer readings) sometimes missed.

Sohoni eventually became the 1st Indian Director General of the IMD after independence. To the govt, he was a Weather Clerk. A man who provided reports for farmers & pilots.

The world forgot that Sohoni was actually a Theoretical Physicist of the Sky. He was not just checking the rain; he was trying to find the Algo of the Seasons. He died in 1977, leaving behind a nation that could finally see the rain coming, yet no 1 remembered the man who drew the 1st map of the invisible winds.

He was the man who taught us how to read the breath of the Earth. We look at our weather apps today & see icons of clouds and sun, but we are looking through the eyes of V.V. Sohoni, the man who found the logic in the chaos of the clouds.

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@MerriamWebster How about one may get Overwhelmed or Underwhelmed…. No one can just be whelmed 😄

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@monal_2111 My DP 😄

[Pakistan Untold @pakistan_untold]

Pak journalist Moeed Pirzada on Op Sindoor: "Pakistan couldn't hit anything inside India. India hit 24 Pakistani sites with pinpoint accuracy. Two more days and PAF would've surrendered. Pakistan begged for ceasefire, not India."

But Paijaan 6-0 😎

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@monal_2111 When nature gives you MonoChrome! The pic is not B/W 😄

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@DecentInd This will be bad design for India as unlike the countries you listed, India is not monoculture, monoglot, monotheistic.
We have ancient history and culture and 1000s languages, and home to all religions of the world!
Centrally planned roadmap is 100% required

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@monal_2111 Ur clicks r super awesome bhai 🤩🤩

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@monal_2111 Well not exactly, but hope its acceptable 😅

[Brian Allen @allenanalysis]

🇺🇸BREAKING: Someone placed a $920 million crude oil short at 3:40 AM.

70 minutes later Axios reported the US and Iran were close to a deal.

Oil dropped 12%.

The trade made $125 million in profit.

Minutes after that Iran launched the “Persian Gulf Strait Authority” and oil surged 8%.

$760 million placed before Trump’s last announcement.

$920 million placed before this one.

Every major announcement in this war has been front-run by someone who knew it was coming.

What kind of war is this?

This is more like a trading desk with an army.

Never stop connecting the dots.

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@SpencerHakimian

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

She blocked replies 🤣🤣
Ye darr accha hai 😝

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

The will of the people is supreme. If Bengal wanted BJP then Bengal has got BJP. We respect that. We fought the good fight against unimaginable odds on an uneven pitch and for that I am proud of my leader & my party. We will continue to stand & fight for a secular country where the constitution, not brute majoritarianism, is the last word. Jai Hind.

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

Horrors of Trin mool Congress @MamataOfficial , good riddance!

May the culprits rot in jail!!!

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

[𝐃𝖊𝖊𝗉 𝗄α𝗆α𝗅 𝐒𝗂𝗇𝗀𝗁 @dks__]

@CaffeineInUrBru Soon enough 😝😝