In the 1980s, most IITians would go abroad. In 1989, when I graduated from IIT Madras, I remember feeling extremely dejected about our country. Punjab, Kashmir and Assam were all burning.
My heart was not in engineering. I was mostly reading books in Economics and Philosophy - we had a good library. The burning question in my mind was "Why are we so poor?"
Some of my classmates and I wrote an article in the IIT campus newspaper in late 1988-early 1989 (there were two newspapers, Focus and Spectator, and I believe we published in Focus, they were reproduced using "cyclostyling" machines - please look them up!).
In my vague recollection, the thrust of the article was that the IIT system was failing to serve the needs of the country and the country itself was facing a profound stagnation (I wish I could get that article now - a copy may be in some dusty basement in IIT). I want to know what I thought and said as a 21 year old in 1989 that I agree with and what I disagree with today.
By 1989, I had become a committed anti-socialist, having lived through the socialist stagnation of India. By 1989, the collapse of the Soviet Union was on, and China was in turmoil - the Tinananmen student protests and their forced suppression.
By 1991, India needed an emergency IMF loan. The 1991 economic reforms by Shri Manmohan Singh happened due to pressure from the IMF. So you can imagine the mood in 1989.
That was the India I left in 1989. I was feeling miserable to leave but hopeless to stay. In 1990, I came home for a visit and thought of dropping out of my PhD and staying home. I was home sick.
I started to study Singapore and Japan during 1990-94 in my PhD years - the "Why are we so poor" question. By 1994, I decided I would be in the private sector and took up an R&D job in Qualcomm.
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When a computer tracks the Indian classical dancer in this video, it picks up perfect circles, triangles, and curves in every movement. There are exactly 108 of them. All 108 were written into a manual over 2,000 years ago.
That manual is the Natya Shastra. Six thousand verses, written somewhere around 200 BCE. It describes 108 specific dance movements for Bharatanatyam, one of the oldest dance forms in India. Each movement spells out three things: where your hands go, what angle your body holds, and the exact path your legs trace. Roughly 150 step combinations grow out of those 108 base movements. A trained dancer spends years learning 70 to 80 of them.
Watch the dancer's legs in the video. The bent-knee squat creates a diamond shape. Palms together make a triangle. When researchers plotted these positions in three dimensions this year, they found the moving body carves out twisted spirals and bowl-shaped curves, the kind of shapes you see in an engineering textbook, not a dance studio. Every limb holds a specific angle and moves a measured distance.
The rhythm is math too. A 7-beat song gets filled with dance steps of 3 and 4. Scale that to 35 beats and the groups of 3 and 4 repeat five times. Choreographers work out these splits in their heads while performing live. All 108 movements are also carved into the stone walls of a 12th-century temple in Tamil Nadu called Chidambaram, many panels still carrying the original Sanskrit description next to them. A choreography textbook in granite, still legible after 900 years.
A 2013 study put 25 people on a walkway rigged with motion-capture cameras. Every human stride has two parts: when your foot is on the ground and when it swings forward. The ratio between those two parts came out to 1.620. The golden ratio is 1.618. Your foot lifts off at 61.8% of every step you take, and it has done this your entire life. A Bharatanatyam dancer takes that same built-in proportion and amplifies it across 108 movements, each one tracing shapes that were set down in writing over 2,000 years before the tracking software in this video existed.
Bengaluru was founded in 1537 by Kempe Gowda, Hyderabad in 1591 by Muhammad Quli Qutb Shah, and Chennai in 1639 by the British East India Company under Francis Day. It took 500, 430, and 380 years respectively for them to become the metropolitan cities they are today.
These cities were not built in haste, but shaped over generations.
Amaravati cannot be manufactured overnight with borrowed money and grand illusions, especially when it is not self-financing as claimed.
Build the basics first, Assembly, Secretariat, High Court, and essential housing for government employees and stop there.
Let Amaravati grow organically with people, business, and time.
A capital city must rise from strength, not debt.
Indiscriminate spending on fancy designs and oversized infrastructure is not vision; it is financial recklessness.
Every unwarranted rupee spent today becomes a burden on the people of Andhra Pradesh tomorrow.
Loans for non-revenue-generating projects do not build prosperity, they strain public finances.
Governance requires functionality, not vanity architecture.
If caution is ignored by the @ncbn government, Amaravati risks becoming a monumental excess rather than a model capital.
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They weren’t supposed to even make it to Spain.
They weren’t supposed to compete.
They definitely weren’t supposed to win.
But they did something far louder than belief.
Built on loans, backed by a ₹45 lakh crowdfunding push, and carried on sheer grit, Minerva Academy FC’s U-15 boys walked into Spain, and walked all over Liverpool FC.
A stunning 6-0.
Against a club founded in 1892, worth thousands of crores…
By an academy that’s barely a decade old, running on limited resources.
From the very second minute, there was no hesitation, only hunger.
Azam Khan struck early, Amerson followed, and captain Wahengbam Raj Singh led a ruthless charge with a hat-trick.
This wasn’t luck.
This was domination.
And the journey to this moment? Even tougher than the match.
Crowdfunding fell short.
Visas were rejected.
The trip almost didn’t happen, until director Ranjit Bajaj took a personal loan, pushing liabilities to nearly ₹2 crore, just to give these boys a shot.
They didn’t just show up.
They announced themselves.
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