Anirudh Menon

Sto imparando italiano | @UCL @LSEIRDept @cheveningfco alum | Capoeirista | Views are mine

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

@yasinc_ias @dna I visit Olympia when I'm in Mumbai on work trips. The dal ghosht is so wholesome.

Do visit if you are in Mumbai next.

[DNA @dna]

Ahead of The #Odyssey's release, Matt Damon, #TomHolland and #ChristopherNolan visited India to promote their upcoming film. The team is in Mumbai this weekend, and the trio took an unexpected detour before attending the film's Indian premiere. Instead of heading straight to the venue, they visited the city's popular Olympia Coffee House in Colaba for a chai break.

#ChristopherNolan | #MarrDamon | #Mumbai |

[Shav Ngah ★ @shavnyuyngah]

This house in Parra, Goa is 100 years old and it is still standing because the people who built it understood what they were building with.

Laterite stone walls, Mangalore clay roof tiles on a pitched timber frame, a sweeping verandah that shades every elevation from direct sun. When Studio Praia arrived to restore it, the plaster on the front walls was sanded back to expose the laterite underneath because the stone beneath was in better condition than anything that had been added on top of it. The original roof tiles were intact. The timber rafters were intact. A century of Goa’s tropical heat, monsoon rain and humidity and the building answered every one of those forces correctly because the materials were chosen for exactly that climate.

This is not unique to Goa. You see the same material intelligence across Kerala, across Tamil Nadu, across parts of Brazil and Colombia where the climate is identical to ours. Laterite, clay tile, timber, lime plaster. The same materials, the same logic, refined over generations into something that outlasts the people who built it.

We share the same climate as every one of those places. We have the same materials in the ground. And yet every single time we construct, we reach for hollow concrete block, zinc roofing and imported paint on walls that crack before the building is two years old.
That is not a resource problem. That is a decision problem.

Parra, Goa, India | Studio Praia | Ar. Rochelle Santimano | Photography: Kuber Shah

[Alice Evans @_alice_evans]

Using GPS-linked wearable cameras and randomised street audits across 900 kilometres of roads in Greater Mumbai, taking 4000 street images of 23,000 visible individuals,

They find that women only account for 16% of visible people in Mumbai and 15% in Navi Mumbai.

BRILLIANTLY CLEVER PAPER! 👏

Now do Jaipur and Patna!

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

National Judicial Reforms Commission: A proposal we ignore at our peril [Part II]

Authors: Justice Gautam Patel,
Harish Narasappa, BS Surya Prakash,
Leah Verghese

Read here: https://t.co/yfODyI3lFs

[Paul Halpern @phalpern]

I was delighted too when I heard about the Nobel Prize, thinking as you did that my bongo playing was at last recognised. Imagine my chagrin when I realised that there had been some mistake: —they cited some marks I made on paper some 15 years ago and not one word about percussion technique.'
-Richard Feynman

[NaomiOsaka大坂なおみ @naomiosaka]

文化

[Trung Phan @TrungTPhan]

Anthony Bourdain on Brad Bird’s Ratatouille:

“I think it’s quite simply the best food movie ever made. The best restaurant movie ever made. Best chef movie.

The tiny details are astonishing: The faded burns on the cooks’ wrists. The ‘personal histories’ of the cooks. The attention paid to the food.

And the Anton Ego Ratatouille epiphany hit me like a punch in the chest. Literally breathtaking.

I saw it in a theater entirely full with adults and the reaction to that moment was what movie making was once — a long time ago — all about: Audible surprise, delight, awe, and even a measure of enlightenment.

I am hugely and disproportionately proud that my minuscule contribution (if any) early, early in the project’s development led to a ‘thank you’ in the credits. Amazing how much they got ‘right’.”

Bourdain even visited Pixar HQ to give a chat during the film’s production.

Glorious shoutout in the film credits.

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The Ringer has good history on film: https://t.co/E3UrhO86LO

The text above is an email he sent to another chef: https://t.co/mMKQqU6Fj9

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

A day in the life of an inmate.

Dreams of catching that annoying pigeon.

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

“People think that mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit, it’s the stuff we can understand. It’s cats that are complicated.”

— John Conway (1937-2020)

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

IBM hails new 'block of flats' design breakthrough for tiny chips

0.7nm!! Brilliant!
https://t.co/Wtnc7eGiI2

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

@Rudra_81 @GIS_Impact @raisinadialogue @orfonline Congratulations, Rudra & @samirsaran! All the best and we look forward to working with you.

[Global Innovation Square @GIS_Impact]

Global Innovation Square (GIS) is a @raisinadialogue – @orfonline initiative advancing research, innovation, and dialogue on AI, biotechnology, digital public infrastructure, and emerging technologies.

@samirsaran @Rudra_81

#GlobalInnovationSquare #GISImpact #EmergingTech

[Letters of Note @LettersOfNote]

RIP David Hockney

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

“An egg puff is the heart of South India’s bakeries,” says chef Avin Thaliath co-founder of Lavonne Academy in Bengaluru, about the region's most beloved snack. He loves a good ‘mutta pups’ as they are colloquially known, with a cup of a chai on one of Bengaluru’s many rainy days, writes @Anaghzzz
https://t.co/RnJFT0DE2U

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

Hello! I purchased a new OnePlus 15 device. There's an issue with the front camera. During video calls the screen becomes pink & there r vertical lines.

OnePlus service centre said they were unable to fix it & to wait for the next @WhatsApp update.

@oneplus @OnePlus_Support

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Alice Rohrwacher is set to direct a film adaptation of Italo Calvino’s coming-of-age novel “The Baron in the Trees.”

It revolves around a 12-year-old baron, who after a dispute with his father, climbs up a tree and remains there for the rest of his life.

https://t.co/v51CEv8L9V

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

stranger than fiction...

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

To prevent paper leak in #NEET-UG, Centre is actively exploring the use of #IAF aircraft for transporting question papers for the June 21 retest, as part of a wider "whole-of-govt" security strategy involving the home ministry, central agencies and state police networks, said reports.

Know more 🔗 https://t.co/Wn7xA9SnLN

[Anirudh Menon @kabeermenon]

"We are not the only..."

[Pronto @withpronto]

Unless you have opted-in and paid for the program personally, the Pro doesn't come to the house with a camera. Opt in is not one time, it has to be affirmed before each booking. By default there is no camera involved, and when there is, it's impossible to miss. The pilot reaches 0.1% of customers and we spent months to ensure full DPDP compliance. And we are not the only company in the space doing this.

[NASA @NASA]

We're building a Moon Base!

@NASAMoonBase will serve as a habitat where astronauts live and work during long-term science missions.

Join us at 2pm ET on Tuesday, May 26, for a live news event where we’ll share updates on our lunar exploration plans: https://t.co/IJXA7xYwju