Shre.yans Chordia

I am a free thinking skeptic. I love a battle of ideas tempered with respect for all people.

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@SpencrGreenberg Generational trauma. The pain of farmed animals has no ethical consideration.

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

Warren Buffett famously said, “I would rather be approximately right than precisely wrong.”

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

Interview
https://t.co/g3KDZGfuD9

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

A rare but important Indian achievement,
Zaynich by Wockhardt is the first New Chemical Entity to be fully invented, developed and commercialised by an Indian pharma company and cleared by the FDA in May2026.

Interview of founder and chairman @dr_khorakiwala linked 👇

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@strongbyishaan A "standard Indian vegetarian thali" is inferior in terms of low protein and high carb. Contributing to increasing non-communicable diseases in India (even in villages). @krishashok's video on this was very insightful. He shows how "traditional" the thali really is.

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@komal_42 It's not that complicated to replace eggs.
10 g of whey in the breakfast.
hummus in lunch.
100g cooked sabut dal in dinner.

Good bait for getting reactions for your post ;)

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The discussion sparked by a recent statement on Passport Seva Divas has generated more heat than light.

The Ministry of External Affairs stated that a passport is a travel document, not a document of citizenship. Legally, that is correct. A passport is issued under the Passports Act, while citizenship is governed by the Citizenship Act, 1955. One law regulates the document; the other regulates the legal status.

But law and public understanding are not always the same.

For most Indians, the passport is the most authoritative document the Republic issues. It bears the name of the Republic of India, carries the holder’s identity, and is accepted around the world because foreign governments trust that India has verified the bearer’s nationality before issuing it. It is therefore entirely understandable that many people asked: if a passport is not proof of citizenship, then what is?

The answer requires some nuance.

A passport does not create citizenship. Nor is it the legal instrument that finally determines citizenship if that status is challenged before a court. Like many democracies, India distinguishes between citizenship law and passport law. In rare cases involving fraud, disputed parentage or illegal acquisition, citizenship may have to be established through the provisions of the Citizenship Act and supporting evidence. That is why a passport is not regarded in law as conclusive proof in every conceivable circumstance.

But that should not be confused with its practical significance.

A passport is issued only after the Government has satisfied itself that the applicant is entitled to one. In everyday life, and in international travel, it is the strongest evidence of Indian nationality that most citizens will ever possess. Nothing said by the MEA changes that. No immigration officer abroad will suddenly regard an Indian passport with suspicion because of a legal clarification made in New Delhi.

The episode does, however, remind us of a larger challenge.

India’s systems of civil registration developed unevenly over many decades. Millions of older Indians were born when birth registration was incomplete. Names were recorded differently across school certificates, land records and electoral rolls. The painful experience of the Assam NRC showed how documentary inconsistencies can create profound hardship when citizenship itself becomes the subject of legal scrutiny.

The lesson, therefore, is not that passports have somehow lost their value. It is that India needs stronger and more comprehensive civil registration, universal birth registration and reliable archival records so that citizenship can never become hostage to missing or inconsistent paperwork.

Sometimes a legally precise statement can create unnecessary public anxiety if it is not accompanied by explanation. A better way of putting it might have been this:

A passport is issued only after the Government has verified that the applicant is an Indian citizen. While citizenship itself is governed by the Citizenship Act, the passport remains the Republic’s most trusted document for international travel and, in ordinary life, the clearest evidence of Indian nationality.

That is both legally accurate and reassuring. The law need not be diluted, but neither should public confidence in one of the Republic’s most important documents.

To distil the argument:

A passport is issued because the Government has satisfied itself that you are an Indian citizen. It is therefore powerful evidence of citizenship in ordinary life and in international travel. But in a legal dispute over citizenship itself, the governing law remains the Citizenship Act, and a passport is not conclusive proof that overrides all other evidence

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

"The ability to witness your neighbor getting rich or buying stuff without getting jealous is a financial superpower."
Sage advice from @awealthofcs
Re-reading parts of the book

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@MikeLevin @paulg @BretWeinstein @joerogan corruption much? Why don't you just ask questions?

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

https://t.co/49f2MH4ky4

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

Biology is full of exceptions to rule. In this case, another exception to the Central Dogma of molecular biology.
DNA -> RNA -> Protein

New research shows that a Protein can act as a template for producing DNA.

Reporting about this study in the comment👇

[Mushtaq Bilal, PhD @MushtaqBilalPhD]

Don't go to open-slum[.]org.

Because there you will see links to LibGen, Anna's Archive, Z-Library, and Sci-Hub.

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

https://t.co/VivP0XdvQP

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

Insightful article on effective policies for reducing illegal boat crossings by asylum seekers.
Case in point Australia.
Europe has drawn the wrong lesson so far.
See comment for link.

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@pranaykotas In the longer term, as models get more capable:
China will stop sharing model weights.
Agentic LLMs will be far more productive and competitive than human in loop Indian AI apps.
By a small margin, its better for human extinction risk, if US company wins AI race. So block chips

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

@pranaykotas Read Zvi Moshkowitz's take on this. When a model can help design or even build better chips, then the race will be clearly won by the side that has more capability. So in expectation it is good to maintain a big lead. And dont export chips to China.

[Zvi Mowshowitz @TheZvi]

https://t.co/TPtqpSoc9W

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

Source: Business Insider
https://t.co/f4T0jhov66

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

The AI safety crowd predicted powerful models in short timelines.
Anthropic's newest model Mythos is highly capable!
Appreciate Anthropic's transparency thus far.
Article 👇

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

https://t.co/SKOnMQhgmx?

[Shre.yans Chordia @doinayans]

What is the going rate for your children's teeth these days?
In 2026, is the income from the tooth fairy keeping up with inflation or lagging behind?

For an economic analysis on the same read the article 👇