Devaraju N

Climate Scientist

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in a conversation with the Indian pilot from the flight from Dubai, Captain Smit Machchhar:
"You are a hero for Israel, India, and the entire world. I invite Prime Minister @NarendraModi and you to light a flame on Israeli Independence Day." 🇮🇱🇮🇳

During the emotional conversation that took place this evening, the Prime Minister asked Captain Machchhar how it all started, and Machchhar revealed new details about the terrifying moments in the cockpit.

[Yael Bar tur @yaelbt]

He also mentioned how the Saudis were amazing, the backup pilot landed the damaged plane perfectly (thanks Boeing) and the pilots assigned to fly them from SA to Israel spoke to reluctant passengers who were naturally hesitant about getting back on board. https://t.co/1aIndC5AqZ

[Vineeth K @DealsDhamaka]

Dear Sridhar Sir,

I’m writing this from Chicago, and I have deep respect for you, but I also want to share a lived perspective from many NRIs who chose to stay abroad.

For most of them, it’s not just about earning more money, not any more. That’s a very small part of the story. The real reasons are the quality of everyday life and systems that work more consistently:

- lower day-to-day corruption
- less dependency on “connections” for basic services
- stronger safety nets during emergencies
- better civic discipline
- cleaner cities and better infrastructure
- roads without constant stress and unpredictability

These are not luxury factors, that is just daily living in very fundamental ways.

What is their incentive for them to return back ? How long will we just keep pushing the narrative of the homeland?

Many of them didn’t “leave India behind.” They simply built a life where the system around them allows more predictability and stability.

And to be honest, those of us who stayed back in India like you and I did so by choice too. We can choose to work on improving what’s broken here, instead of framing it as something that can be solved by asking people to return.

Both paths matter. Both contributions are valid.

[Yashodhan @yashodhannn]

Shridhar ji , Your letter resonates because I am one of those who came back voluntarily. Not 37 years, but much earlier in the arc, with the same gratitude to America for what it gave me, and the same pull toward Bharat you describe. The call to return deserves an honest accounting.

Ironically, the trip that pushed me to move back was my H1B stamping trip 6 years ago. My uncle asked: “If you want to do something of your own eventually, why not do it in India? Create value here.” That conversation was the turning point. About 6 months later I moved back.

The good here is real and plentiful. Waking up with parents nearby, Festivals lived and celebrated with family and cousins, rather than performed on the nearest weekend. Also packed social calendars.

The professional network here is dense and generative. One phone call opens doors that would take months of LinkedIn outreach in Chicago or the Bay Area.

The opportunities are genuinely enormous. There is no hanging sword of a visa or green card, no “go back to your country” muttered in a parking lot. You are home. That alone is worth a great deal.

But let me also name what I have made peace with.

My driveway is blocked by random vehicles, sometimes even neighbours who treat the road as personal parking space. The road to office itself is dug up at least nine months of the year! water, then cables, then broken drainage slabs, then white topping, then water again, with no coordination between any of them.

Running a business here means a steady stream of inspectors arriving with creative interpretations of rules, permissions that should take a week taking a year, and a quiet expectation that things move only when something changes hands. The twenty-minute commute takes sixty. The air requires purifiers in every room. an expense Americans simply do not have. Real estate is also priced absurdly because so much of it is parked black money. So what is routine middle-class housing in suburban America commands a premium most honest professionals here cannot meet. Even after 5 years of working I cannot afford a home in a decent locality on my salary income alone.

Quality schooling that does not cost a fortune is genuinely hard to find. Reservations will shape my children’s future in ways I cannot opt out of. The revdi culture gives away tax money I worked hard to pay, to buy votes from people who will demand more of the same next election. Lack of footpaths, if they exist they are blocked by vendors and parked vehicles or debris. Random processions, loudspeakers with random songs blaring at all hours. the public sphere belongs to whoever is loudest!

These frustrations are real. None of them broke me. But I will not pretend they were not there. So why did I come, and why do I stay? Not for any single one of these reasons. The ease of being among my own people, the genuine opportunity, the support system, the network all of these matter. But honestly, the heaviest weight on the scale was the urge to add value to Bharat. Everything else is justification.

I came because the equation worked for me. I would not tell another person to come unless they had thought hard about what they were trading. A daily commute should not be a struggle, but it is. Permissions and inspections should not be harassment, but they are. Affordable quality schooling, a quiet neighbourhood, clean air, roads that stay laid these are the routine background of life in the country we left.

But until that changes, the case for return cannot rest only on civilisational duty. It has to be honest about the daily friction it asks people to absorb. Bharat needs us, yes. But Bharat also has to become a place worth coming to, not just a place we owe ourselves to.

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@savioabraham @ganeshsonawane Looks like I can not send you DM.

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@ganeshsonawane

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@ganeshsonawane Hi! I’m interested in buying the Frido Patient Transfer Lift for my elderly parent, but it’s showing as unavailable on Amazon. Any idea when it’ll be restocked? Also, can we buy it elsewhere, or do you have a store in Bengaluru?

[Jürgen Nauditt 🇩🇪🇺🇦 @jurgen_nauditt]

Finland tops the global ranking of happiest countries for the ninth consecutive year – World Happiness Report.

Iceland and Denmark take second and third place, respectively.

The reasons for Finland's (and the Nordics') consistently high rankings have been similar for years:

- High trust in institutions and fellow citizens.

- Strong social system (safety net, free/affordable education and healthcare).

- Good work-life balance, ample access to nature, low levels of corruption.

- Strong social support (people don't feel abandoned).

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

We trained a new flood forecasting model designed to predict flash floods in urban areas up to 24 hours in advance.

To help address a flash floods data gap, we created Groundsource: a new AI methodology using Gemini to identify 2.6M+ historical events across 150+ countries.

We’re open-sourcing this dataset to advance global research, and urban flash flood forecasts are live now in Flood Hub to help communities stay safe.

[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

Never go cheap on the things that stand between you and the world:

1.Footwear – They carry your entire life’s weight. Bad shoes slowly tax your knees, hips, and spine.
https://t.co/sMmcz37Flk – You drink it daily. Cheap coffee doesn’t just taste bad, it treats your body like a dustbin.
3.Mattress – You spend one-third of your life on it. A bad mattress quietly ruins your back and sleep.
4.Partner – This is the person who will shape your peace or destroy it. Choose character over convenience.
https://t.co/IlvBn7qu6e – Bargain hunting in healthcare is the most expensive mistake people make.
https://t.co/d0UtW3T7Nm – Knowledge compounds for decades. Shortcuts here show up as limitations later.

Some things are purchases.
These are life foundations.

Choose carefully.

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

It is extremely disturbing to note that one masked man took the entire government machinery of the Karnataka State for granted for over a month, with the sole aim of denigrating one of the Pillars of Sanatana Dharma, the Dharmasthala Temple. This is not just one man’s doing but a larger conspiracy that is yet to be unmasked.

It was idiotic on the part of the Congress Government in Karnataka to have given legitimacy to the masked man’s baseless allegations without even a shred of prima facie evidence. In its desperation, it constituted an SIT, ordered random excavations at 13 sites, and shamelessly projected them as “burial grounds” linked to the Temple. Finally, they found one skeleton at one of the sites, but it turned out to be a man, contrary to the claims of this masked man. At one more site, the bones that were found were of someone who likely died by suicide recently and again, a male.

To top it all, during the course of this random digging up, a woman named Sujatha Bhat was coerced into filing a false complaint that her daughter had gone missing in 2003, and later she admitted that the daughter’s existence was fake and that certain individuals had forced her to file this complaint.

The arrest of this masked man cannot be seen as the end of the matter. Who guided him? Who funded him? Who stood to gain from maligning Dharmasthala? These are questions the Karnataka Congress Government conveniently wants to bury. The real masterminds of this conspiracy must be exposed and held accountable.

[sam @sam_d_1995]

this is actually incredible

[SIFF - Save Indian Family Foundation @realsiff]

There are no human rights for men or children in India. There will be a massive revolution if this continues.

All South Indian guys need to join hands to protect Prasanna and his kid on ground. All others,

Pl tweet #ProtectPrasanna 🙏🙏

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@DeepikaBhardwaj @CMOTamilnadu @chennaipolice_ Unfortunately, it's a hard truth that finding honest and law-abiding police officers in many parts of India can be quite challenging to impossible. Many officers often extract money even from poor people.

[nikita huno @NikHuno]

I’m European.

Last year, I moved to India.

What I experienced shattered my Western mindset.

Here are 10 life-changing lessons I learned in India that reshaped how I see the world:

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@ganga_dhari @PavanSiddhi Thank you very much 👍.I will reach out to the company.

[Devaraju N @dr_devarajun]

@ganga_dhari @PMSuryaGhar @mnreindia @RECLindia I am looking for vendors in AP Satya Sai district! In the portal I don't see any reviews for the vendors. Which vendor you have opted and could you please provide feedback on the vendor with installation and documentation process? Thank you in advance for any input.

[Martin Brandt @matin_brandt]

We mapped a half billion individual farmland trees in India, and tracked their fate over a decade. Many large trees have disappeared. The paper in Nature Sus.: https://t.co/GcDVfuKtKA, Viewer: https://t.co/rdY5tQB5BF. It's a new framework for temporal monitoring of single trees..

[Science|Business @scibus]

🌍 EU's DestinE initiative generates 1PB data daily with its new Digital Twin Engine, equal to 11,000 4K movies! Supercomputers analyze it to understand extreme weather. Thanks to @EuroHPC_JU's support, 4 supercomputing giants make it happen. Learn more: https://t.co/MtSnICzVFZ