Kousik

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[IIT Madras @iitmadras]

A historic finish for Team AgniRath!

Team AgniRath from IIT Madras has secured 3rd Place overall at the Sasol Solar Challenge 2026 in South Africa, marking a landmark achievement for Indian solar racing.

Driving Aagneya across 1,192.6 km over eight days of challenging terrain and weather, the team became the first Indian team to participate in the Sasol Solar Challenge and bring home a trophy.

This podium finish is a celebration of student innovation, engineering excellence, teamwork and the relentless pursuit of sustainable mobility.
Congratulations to Team AgniRath for putting IIT Madras and India on the global solar racing map! 🇮🇳

The journey continues. The future is solar.

@TeamAgniRath @iitmadras

#IITMadras #TeamAgniRath #SasolSolarChallenge2026 #SolarRacing #SustainableMobility

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

An unforgettable conversation with Captain Smit, filled with pride and emotions.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Before the world knew the power of Big Pharma, a journalist in a tiny lab in Bombay created a substance so potent it triggered a trade war with London. It was a yellow grease that did not just soothe headaches but funded a movement, bypassed British blockades, & became 1 of the few Indian products to make the Empire's own medicine look like scented water.

Unlike other brands started by chemists, Amrutanjan was founded by Kasinadhuni/Kasinathuni Nageswara Rao, a man who was primarily a journalist & a freedom fighter. In the late 1800s, the pain balm market in India was a British monopoly. If your head throbbed, you bought imported ointments. Rao saw this as a tax on pain. He retreated into a lab & perfected a formula that was significantly more potent than anything coming out of London.

The British tried to push their own balms like Vicks/early menthol rubs as sophisticated & odorless. They attempted to smear Amrutanjan as primitive because of its overpowering scent. Rao leaned into the scent. He realized that in a country where literacy was low, a brand could not just be a name, it had to be an experience.

He distributed free samples at music concerts (Sabhas) & religious festivals. By the time the British tried to patent the market for pain relief, the entire Indian public had already associated the smell of camphor & menthol with trust. The British balms felt alien & weak compared to the sensory explosion of the yellow tin.

The smell of Amrutanjan... that piercing, camphor-heavy aroma became the literal scent of the freedom struggle. If you walked into a room & it smelled of Amrutanjan, it was a silent signal: A patriot is present. It was a scent the British police could not arrest, yet it was everywhere.

The British had a Patent Medicine Tax that made imported drugs expensive. However, by classifying Amrutanjan as an Ayurvedic Proprietary Medicine, Rao managed to navigate a complex legal gray area. He essentially used the British legal system against itself. By proving his ingredients were ancient yet his manufacturing was modern, he avoided the crippling taxes that applied to purely Western drugs, while maintaining a price point (initially 10 annas) that made British imports look like daylight robbery Rao fought back not just in the market, but in the press. He used the profits from the balm to fund Andhra Patrika, 1 of the most influential anti-British newspapers.

The British were literally paying for their own downfall. Every time a British officer’s wife bought a jar of Amrutanjan for a migraine (because it worked better than the London balms), she was inadvertently funding the printing of revolutionary literature that called for the end of the Raj.

By the 1930s, this Indian yellow grease was being exported to Indian diaspora & locals in South Africa & Ceylon. It became a global symbol of Eastern Wisdom defeating Western Chemistry. It was 1 of those few occasions, an Indian OTC (Over the Counter) product achieved cult status internationally w/o a single pound of British investment.

In fact, the yellow tin became so iconic that it did not need a label in the villages. The color & the smell were the brand. It was a biological Swadeshi. While others were fighting with words, Rao was fighting with molecular relief.

[Cheng Lou @_chenglou]

5. Your typical auto-growing text area, accordion, multi-line text centering, pure canvas multiline text, and all other things that used be real CSS challenges, now reduced to a boring footnote https://t.co/j3JRgcP37a

[United Nations @UN]

We can no longer ignore the climate crisis.

It's time to stop making excuses and start making changes!

Let's take #ClimateAction before it’s too late: https://t.co/UaBpA8VLbn
via @UNDP #DontChooseExtinction

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@Neeraj_chopra1 congrats on the gold!! You were brulliant!!!!

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@dbrand hey my order id is 9346977, its been 4 days and hasn't been shipped, I've raised a ticket with some personal info, could u check it out and give me an update?

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungIndia Sent, can u respond in DM ?

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungIndia Sent.

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport Check ur dm

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport The only resolution to this im finding is to turn off the phone let it cooldown. This is a premium phone top of the line in ur lineup. This is not the way i envisioned using it after using s8+ for so much time which gave me 0 issues till date.

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport The phone is getting extremely heated. Like i said yesterday its been only 2 weeks. Im just unable to use the phone due to the heat

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport Hmm.. let me see if this occurs again

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport Im scared to try now.

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport First time, other apps popup like primevideo no

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport I did do all that restarted the phone once and tried to use the app but once u use the popup window from swiggy it just drops. I had to shut down and am scared to use the app or any popup app for that matter.

[Kousik @kuttykousik]

@SamsungSupport Today after the swiggy app was minimised. The popup view opened and phone started heating up like crazy n performance went to the drain. FYI the phone is 1 week old