Inder Sen

Technology Entrepreneur | Built 3 Startups | 1 Exit

[Chidanand Tripathi @thetripathi58]

A guy sat at his laptop ready to permanently delete his 15-year-old Gmail account.

He was getting 400 spam emails a day. Fake Best Buy receipts. Phishing links from "Netflix." Cryptic extortion threats.

He hovered his mouse over "Delete Account" and sighed: "I just want peace."

His coworker, a former email deliverability engineer, looked over his shoulder.

"Before you nuke 15 years of contacts and data, let me show you something. Your email isn't broken. It's weaponized. There are 22 ways you've been leaving the door wide open. Google won't tell you this because the data collection feeds their entire ad engine. Give me 14 minutes."

Here's what she showed him:

[Hardeep Singh Puri @HardeepSPuri]

Congratulations @OilIndiaLimited !

An ocean of energy opportunities reinforced in the Andaman Sea!
Very happy to report the presence of natural gas in Sri Vijayapuram-3 an exploratory well drilled by Oil India Ltd. 15 km off the east coast of the Andaman Islands at a water depth of 355 meters.
Initial production testing of the well at the depth of 1900 plus meters in the Eocene formation has established the presence of natural gas through continuous flaring.
Oil India is carrying out gas sampling to assess the composition & calorific value of gas and to carry out isotope studies to understand the genesis of the gas.
Under the Samudra Manthan Mission (National Deep Water Exploration Mission) announced by Hon’ble PM @narendramodi Ji on Independence Day 2025, large number of deepwater & Ultra deepwater exploration wells are planned in our offshore basins to fully exploit our hydrocarbon reserves.
Presence of hydrocarbon is now reported in 2(Two) wells out of 3 (Three) exploratory wells drilled by OIL in current exploratory campaign off Andaman Basin.
This presence of natural gas will help us in taking forward our exploration ambitions in coordination with global deepwater exploration experts like @petrobras, @TotalEnergies, @bp_india, @Shell, @exxonmobil and will be a significant milestone in our journey through Amrit Kaal!
@PMOIndia @PIB_India @PetroleumMin @mygovindia
#OilIndia #EnergySecurity #Exploration #NaturalGas #Andaman

[Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation @midf_org]

2,000 manuscripts. Live. Free. Searchable now live on the #MIDF platform.

More in progress.

This is what India's knowledge infrastructure looks like,
- https://t.co/1RQXcPLlB2

#MIDF #IndianHeritage #Manuscripts #PMO @GyanBharatamMoC @gssjodhpur

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

Is Pashupati Shiva?

Retweet for visibility @authoramish

https://t.co/dNLeTFPXYF

[Panthera uncia @anya_wanders]

Tomasetti's work of Mahabharata is nothing short of elite! So glad that Modiji has recognised it

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

Google just got a DISCOM licence for its Vizag data centre hub.

Read that again. Google. Got an electricity distribution licence. In India.

For the first time, a tech giant is not just a customer of the grid. It is a regulated utility. The same legal authority that lets Tata Power sell electricity to a Mumbai apartment now lets Google supply its own data centre.

This is not a story about cheap power. This is a story about who controls infrastructure. Vizag is going to host hyperscale AI workloads — single buildings drawing more electricity than entire small towns. The traditional DISCOM model assumed customers and utilities were separate. AI workloads broke that assumption.

Also note who quietly approved this: Andhra Pradesh. The state betting hardest on data centre investment is also the one rewriting the regulatory book.

The next time someone tells you data centres are 'just servers,' remind them they now come with their own utility licence.

[Palki Sharma @palkisu]

We are building a global newsroom based in India. Looking for passionate storytellers. Write to us at https://t.co/TxwQhaCH3H

#IGR #IndiaGlobalReview

[Inder Sen @indersen]

An inspiration to all

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

At 98, she didn’t slow down — she started up
Ahmedabad’s Prabhavati Nani now runs her own food business, cooking for 200+ families. #SeniorInspiration #WomenEntrepreneurs #IndianFoodStories #AgeIsJustANumber #InspiringIndia

[98 Year Old Entrepreneur, Ahmedabad Food Business, Nani Homemade Snacks, Elderly Woman Startup, Indian Homegrown Brands]

https://t.co/kfGGK4r1sy

[Inder Sen @indersen]

I make it a point to always use BHIM app. It’s very good.

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

Every time we've considered building a UPI app at @zerodha the conversation always ends at the same place: @NPCI_BHIM already exists.

We could never figure what we could do differently. It's kinda surprising that 10 years after UPI, the BHIM app just as 1% market share. I think it should be much higher. If you haven't tried it, you should, it's quite slick.

[Pranay Kotasthane @pranaykotas]

Details of India's semiconductor manufacturing projects are scattered across hundreds of press releases, news reports, and government announcements. There's also a lot of hype and misreporting. So I built a tracker using Claude Code to fix this. It scores each project on technical complexity (benchmarked against a 3nm fab), tracks slippage from original announced dates, and links every data point to its source.

It's open source. If you have a status update, a correction, or know about a new facility, there's a form to contribute. Let's build this together.

[Sreedev Krishnakumar @sreedevkkumar]

Grab today's HT to find an annotated version of the India-US joint statement putting specific key details in context. If you couldn't get your hands on a copy, we have also made an online interactive version of it that you can read from our app (link in Roshan's tweet).

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Wonderful to speak with my dear friend President Trump today. Delighted that Made in India products will now have a reduced tariff of 18%. Big thanks to President Trump on behalf of the 1.4 billion people of India for this wonderful announcement.

When two large economies and the world’s largest democracies work together, it benefits our people and unlocks immense opportunities for mutually beneficial cooperation.

President Trump’s leadership is vital for global peace, stability, and prosperity. India fully supports his efforts for peace.

I look forward to working closely with him to take our partnership to unprecedented heights.

@POTUS

@realDonaldTrump

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Finding myself going back to RSS/Atom feeds a lot more recently. There's a lot more higher quality longform and a lot less slop intended to provoke. Any product that happens to look a bit different today but that has fundamentally the same incentive structures will eventually converge to the same black hole at the center of gravity well.

We should bring back RSS - it's open, pervasive, hackable.
Download a client, e.g. NetNewsWire (or vibe code one)
Cold start: example of getting off the ground, here is a list of 92 RSS feeds of blogs that were most popular on HN in 2025:
https://t.co/dwAiIjlXet
Works great and you will lose a lot fewer brain cells.

I don't know, something has to change.

[Ranjani Gayatri @ranjanigayatri]

https://t.co/LCZ0BewWLx
With a deep sense of fulfillment,we share the complete version of #VandeMataram as we commemorate 150 years of this special song that's beloved to every Indian! Vande Vani- Durga - Kamala 🙏🏼

[Inder Sen @indersen]

@hnshah Very true.

[Inder Sen @indersen]

Amazing example of how interconnected our nature is!

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

She Turned Barren Desert Into A Thriving Forest in Rajasthan

What happens when one woman returns from the USA with a mission to rebuild the soil of Rajasthan?

This is the story of Deepti Agrawal, an inspiring woman who is overseeing an extraordinary environmental transformation: turning desert-like soil into a lush green organic forest. Her work is heavily inspired by Allan Savory, whose regenerative grazing and holistic land management principles emphasize restoring soil health, improving water cycles, and using animals as allies in healing degraded landscapes. Deepti adapted these ideas to the Indian context, proving they work even in extreme desert conditions.

A key part of her success is the indigenous Tharparkar cow—a resilient desert breed whose dung, urine, and presence are central to her regenerative approach. These cows provide natural fertility, enhance soil microbiology, and help build long-term ecological stability without chemicals.

Her work proves that with patience, community support, and ecological wisdom, even the harshest landscapes can heal.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

INSV Kaundinya flying the tricolour across the Arabian Sea: Ship of Wood with Men of Steel

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Bill Gates, Demis Hassabis (DeepMind), Dario Amodei (Anthropic), Shantanu Narayen (Adobe), Marc Benioff (Salesforce), Cristiano Amon (Qualcomm), Raj Subramaniam (FedEx) to attend India AI Summit in Feb 2026

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

INSV Kaundinya doing its first night sortie

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

The math on this image is insane.

New Horizons transmitted at 2,000 bits per second from 3 billion miles away. Slower than a 1990s dial-up modem. It took 16 months to download all the flyby data.

The spacecraft had to hit a target box 100km wide, arriving within 150 seconds of schedule, after 9 years of flight. Miss it and the preloaded observation commands point at empty space.

Ten days before arrival, the spacecraft crashed and went into safe mode. Engineers had 72 hours to restore everything.

The probe is now 5 billion miles out, still whispering data back to Earth. We got 50 gigabits of Pluto photos using technology slower than your phone’s bluetooth.