GK

[Hari Balakrishnan @HariBalakrish20]

I think people outside India do watch these great lectures, but I agree with the sentiment that this is a very good way for anyone in the world to understand basic physics. Said with no bias :-)

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

We gave Elephanta's caves UNESCO status.

We buried the reservoir that made the island survivable for 1,500 years.

March 2026. ASI digs 5 meters down.

20 stone steps emerge. Massive T-shaped structure. Stone blocks ferried from the mainland across open water.

Why?

Because Elephanta's rocky terrain couldn't hold monsoon rain. Water ran straight into the sea.

So they engineered a solution. 💧🏗️

But here's what we remember:

The 5th-century Shiva caves. UNESCO World Heritage. Tourists. Guides. Postcards.

What we forgot:

The reservoir that made the settlement possible.

The 3 port localities — Morabandar, Rajbandar, Shethbandar.

The 3,000 amphorae sherds from the Mediterranean.

The torpedo jars from Mesopotamia carrying wine, oil, fish sauce.

The dyeing vats for textiles.

The 60 coins. Kalachuri dynasty. 6th century CE. Ruler Krishnaraja.

This wasn't a temple island.

It was a thriving maritime trade hub with Mediterranean connections, sophisticated water engineering, and textile production.

The caves were the ceremony.

The reservoir was the civilization.

We celebrate the art.

We bury the infrastructure that made it survivable.

Excavation began November 2025.

Discovery made March 2026.

1,500 years it waited beneath the soil.

How many more reservoirs, ports, workshops are we standing on?

Who decided only temples deserved memory?

[GK @gkrishn]

@cbe_sam @bbgo91 nope..!

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

RT if you think Meenakshi Jain Ji should be the next education minister of India🔥

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

I remember one of my first tweets against Reservations. It went viral & got around 500+ comments.

Around 90% were people tagging Delhi Police, demanding my arrest under SC/ST Act.

Today, the same issue is being discussed in the mainstream media. We've come a long way.

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

I just realized he posted these photos with Odisha MPs as a show of strength to Modi. He effectively has support of 20 MPs which makes him as crucial for the coalition as Naidu or Nitish.

Well played sir 🫡

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

This is not how paper leaking works. The coaching centers buy the leaked paper. They dont then just pass it on to students saying "hey here is the leaked paper - enjoy!"

The coaching center has a "last minute revision" session. Their top students are segregated separately. The students are bright and will get very high scores anyway. They are now asked to practice 200 "mock" questions. 50 of these are leaked questions. If a bright kid has seen a question, he/she will remember it and get a huge advantage in an exam. They largely dont know they are being fed leaked questions.

A bright kid who may have got 690 marks anyway will now get 710 marks because he/she has seen a few questions before. He/she most likely did not know it was being fed - they were not in on the conspiracy.

Smart coaching institute owners wont leak questions to dumb students. In fact this is why it blew up this time - some coaching center got too greedy.

[GK @gkrishn]

@GoonRider07 @SomChaterji @HondaCarIndia very valid. but is that the experience of other high end imported cars honda selling?

[GK @gkrishn]

@CitadelofAmer @volklub @ashvek3141 and it is not like india is rejecting high quality product.
that is part of the reason.
the other part is, very high over all tax which is significant part of the on road price.

[Bimalendu Pradhan @bpradhanodisha]

WE SAW IT IN ODISHA: THE PLAYBOOK NOW UNFOLDING IN KARNATAKA

Dear friends at @KA_HomeBuyers and fellow homebuyers across Karnataka,

What you are witnessing with the Karnataka Apartment Bill draft is not new. We in #Odisha lived through this exact sequence, stage by stage, until Odisha became the first state in the country to enact a fully RERA-compliant Apartment Ownership and Management Act in 2023.

1️⃣THE ERA OF DELIBERATE NEGLECT (1972–2016)
For decades, buyers believed builders knew the law and authorities would enforce it. An older, perfectly usable statute lay dormant because the government never appointed a “Competent Authority”. It was a simple, effective trick and it worked flawlessly for nearly 45 years.

2️⃣THE RERA AWAKENING (2017)
Enactment of the RE(R&D)Act in 2016-17 changed everything. Buyers suddenly started asking questions about title transfers, registration of Association, Declaration, common amenities and common area ownership. Accountability was no longer optional.

3️⃣THE POLITICAL PROMISE PHASE
Faced with this awakening, every political party in 2023 promptly added “Apartment law” to its election manifesto. Politicians knew the game perfectly well.

4️⃣THE CONVENIENT REDISCOVERY
The new elected government suddenly discovered the “merits” of the long forgotten old law. Overnight, those dormant clauses became the centrepiece of official defence in courts and in public statements.

And of course, fringe elements were fielded to challenge the validity of a KAOA and title transfer.

5️⃣THE DELAY TACTICS (SINCE 2024)
When sustained public pressure made a new law unavoidable, the familiar lines appeared on cue:

“We will look into it.” and “We are in the process of drafting…”

Each phrase bought time. The objective had quietly changed: from blocking the law TO delaying its implementation for as long as possible.

6️⃣DEVELOPERS’ STRATEGIC SILENCE
Have you noticed the complete silence from real estate developers throughout this commotion. They do not make noise. In this game, invisibility (but present) is the sharpest weapon.

💯KARNATAKA, THIS IS WHERE YOU STAND TODAY........from now on.....

7️⃣Govt. STRATEGY
The current draft contains provisions that deliberately contradict core RERA requirements (especially Section 17 on transfer of common areas), OC, SBUA, Separate Parcel. Those who drafted it know these contradictions will invite court challenges, challenges that will consume years.

8️⃣THE FUTURE CHAPTERS OF DELAY
Even if the draft is corrected under public pressure, the next acts are already scripted:

Cabinet approval ➡️ Introduction in Assembly ➡️ Withdrawal after discussion ➡️ Constitution of a Committee ➡️ Re-introduction

And then, showing extreme urgency: Ordinance versus full Assembly route

But in all this, you will definitely get the new Apartment law in the state before 2028, the next state election....they understand your desperation very well by now.

Each stage is carefully designed to gift the industry a few more years of comfortable lawlessness.

9️⃣ODISHA HAS ALREADY LIVED THIS SCRIPT
#Odisha has passed through every single one of these phases.

Homebuyers had to file 4 writs in the HC and 2 appeals in the SC before the Act was finally enacted.

Even today, multiple PILs are pending to stop the government from diluting the hard won provisions through amendments and “office order” notifications.

🔟THE STORY NEVER ENDS
The enactment of the law is not the end. It is merely the signal for the next round of dilution attempts.

👬To my brothers and sisters in Karnataka,

Your patience must be strategic and your fire must stay steady. The path is long, but it is not endless. Odisha’s experience proves that sustained, informed and united advocacy eventually forces the balance towards transparency and accountability.

The script is old. The ending is still being written by those who refuse to look away.

With solidarity,
From someone who has seen this story before. -Bimalendu Pradhan, Odisha-

[GK @gkrishn]

@Ajaychennai2 @nagarjund you mean trinity circle is thriving in organic matter?!?

[Krishna Byre Gowda @krishnabgowda]

ನಗರ ಎದುರಿಸುತ್ತಿರುವ ದೈನಂದಿನ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಹರಿಸುವುದರ ಮೂಲಕ ನಾವು ಶ್ರೇಷ್ಠ ದರ್ಜೆಯ ಮಹಾನಗರವನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಾಣ ಮಾಡಬಹುದು.

ಬೆಂಗಳೂರು ನಾಗರಿಕರ ಈ ಪ್ರಮುಖ ಸಮಸ್ಯೆಗಳತ್ತ
ಈಗ ನಾವು ಗಮನ ಹರಿಸಿದ್ದೇವೆ.
* ಸುಗಮ ಸಂಚಾರ
* ಉತ್ತಮ ರಸ್ತೆಗಳು
* ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಸ್ವಚ್ಛ ನೆರೆಹೊರೆ

A great city is built by solving everyday problems. Our focus remains on what matters most to Bengalureans:
• Smoother mobility
• Better roads
• Cleaner neighbourhoods

#NammaBengaluru #BengaluruDevelopment #GoodGovernance

[Revolutionary Monk @RevolutionMonk]

Here’s the story of Ranjish. 💔

He was 38, a bus conductor. He married the girl he loved and had a daughter.

Two years later, his wife left them both and moved to the Gulf. There she found another man, fell in love, and abandoned Ranjish and her daughter.

Ranjish raised his daughter alone for 8 years, pouring every drop of his love and strength into her.

Then his ex-wife filed a case. He fought desperately for the child he had brought up with his own hands. But the court sent the daughter to her mother and “stepfather.”

He lost his wife. Then the system took his daughter too.

Completely broken, Ranjish took his own life.

Apparently, men seem to have no rights in this society. No one sees their pain, their struggles, their silent battles.

Pranamam Ranjish 💐

[Rajneeti Tadka 🌶️ 🔥 @RajneetiTadka]

He just wanted to walk through his own gali. 🚶‍♂️

An elderly man in Bengaluru reportedly found his path blocked by an auto driver's vehicle.
He did what any of us would tell our parents to do → he asked, politely, for the auto to move.

What he allegedly got back was a slap. In broad daylight. In his own neighbourhood.

Think about that for a second.
An old man, probably someone's father, someone's grandfather → humiliated for simply expecting basic courtesy on the street he calls home.

This is the India we're building?
Where age and dignity mean nothing the moment someone's ego is bruised?

Share this. Let it reach someone who needs to see what just an argument actually looks like. 🙏

[Vinodsrinivasan @vinodsrinivasan]

To be fair to Tata, this is how chipmaking actually works.

Their Taiwanese partner PSMC says starting with mature nodes and advancing gradually is standard practice. Nobody walks into a fab and produces cutting edge chips in year 1.

The learning curve is real and Tata is on it honestly.

[GK @gkrishn]

@Snowydecemberr @grok none of them. you have to lift the ass off the seat and then use the first method.

[Tinku Venkatesh | ಟಿಂಕು ವೆಂಕಟೇಶ್ @tweets_tinku]

A must watch

“There is an attempt to make Tipu Sultan a national hero, I don’t know why”

Tipu Sultan unleashed destruction in the Malabar region & wanted higher-caste women to be converted or killed

Atrocities of Tipu Sultan by HH Aswathy Thirunal Gowri Lakshmi Bayi of Travancore

Credits to Culture calls YT channel

[Dr. Priyam Bordoloi @DocPriyamMD]

Pancreatic cancer is notoriously silent. After diagnosis, the average survival time is often just 6 to 12 months.

​Because it hides so deep in the body, catching it early is your only real chance.
​5 EARLY WARNING signs you can't ignore.

1. ​Painless Jaundice.

[GK @gkrishn]

@adityalala2000 NCAP rating?