Lord Worcestershire Sauce

I’m an old, fat, and opinionated aristocrat with aristocratic ways, aka vah-rey prop-ah

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[Benjamin Michael @RealBenMichael]

‘But how could you live and have no story to tell?’
- Fyodor Dostoevsky

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@cmkshama Fuck off. So glad you will never touch Indian soil again.

[The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX]

His father is a truck driver. He failed every subject in college. He then launched India's first reusable hybrid rocket and built a company now valued at ₹800 crore.

Here is how it happened.

Anand Megalingam grew up in Tamil Nadu, walking six kilometres to school every day. When he joined college to study Electrical and Electronics Engineering, he failed every single subject in his first semester. Every single one.

His love of sports saved him. It earned him a seat at a private college where, almost by accident, he enrolled in Aeronautical Engineering. The subject took over his life. He competed. He won. And when he had enough prizes and enough conviction, he founded Space Zone India in December 2021.

Before he built a rocket, he did one more thing. He made his father a co-founder and 50% stakeholder of the company.

"My dad has been there from the beginning, supporting me through every challenge," he said.

Work on RHUMI-1 began in January 2023. Tight deadlines. Limited funding. The first prototypes did not work. Regulatory hurdles piled up. The team triple-checked everything until the last minute.

On August 24, 2024, at the coastal village of Thiruvidandhai in Tamil Nadu, Anand pressed the ignition button.

Nothing happened for four seconds.

"These four seconds were probably the longest four seconds of my life," he said. "I remember that the entire year, my team, the government, and everyone's hopes flashed before my eyes."

Then RHUMI-1 lifted off. India's first reusable hybrid rocket, powered by a combination of solid fuel and liquid oxidizer, rose from a mobile launch pad, reaching suborbital space and carrying three cube satellites and 50 PICO satellites for atmospheric climate research.

The boy who once failed every subject launched India's first reusable rocket from a beach in Tamil Nadu.

And his father's name is on the company. That was Anand's first decision; Before the rocket, before the launch and before any of it.

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@sidin Why would anyone want to place a steel sphere next to a tungsten cube? For what joy?

[Anand Shah @Anand_shah07]

https://t.co/R5oG8luX7G

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@Fintech03 I spent some time researching carbon nanotubes in 2005/06 and got nowhere. So good to see this happening in Bharat. What a time to be alive! I’ll give them my money too.

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@DilliDurAst Blackstone owns these rats btw. No point stressing. The partners at BX will buy another Alibaug farmhouse and a Hussain oil on canvas with the carry they make on this.

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What the flying fuck?

[Office Of Vijay Patel @VijayGajeraO]

Giva has done an advertisement in which Kriti Senon is tying a Rakhi to his brother in semi-nude wear.

Azim Premji is one of the biggest investors in Giva!

I think people forgot Lenskart!

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@GabbbarSingh Pustak Mahal FTW!!

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@Rahul_J_Mathur The War Below is kinda okay. Does have some startling facts about America’s mineral wealth though. Breakneck is a tad better but gets a little repetitive towards the last third of the book.

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@irenaakbar That’s precisely the reason why you remain tribally illiterate. You’ve read only one book while you pretend to extol the virtues of a well-stacked bookshelf. If it were really up to you, the entire bookshelf except the one book would be burned to ashes.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Hey @NYCMayor @ZohranKMamdani, you skipped India Day Parade at Manhattan’s Madison Avenue, the first NYC mayor to do so since the parade was first held in 1981. But of course you attended terrorist-sponsor Pakistan’s event with its diaspora. Says a lot about you.

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@shraddhaha Eitherway, it remains a piece of garbage written by Oxbridge idiots.

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@BillAckman @Gautam__Baid Good luck with AOI, I hope it succeeds in its mission. And god bless Lucy. Hope she recovers fully and sooner than expected.

[📖 @NoteForYou26]

This sentence by Dostoyevsky never fails to hit hard:

“You sensed that you should be following a different path, a more ambitious one, you felt that you were destined for other things but you had no idea how to achieve them and in your misery you began to hate everything around you.”

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@aravind But the fucking politicians who own sugar mills and ethanol plants will ensure that state policies remain favorable to some of the most resource intensive crops at the cost of producing foodgrains.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Marcus Aurelius wrote this over 1800 years ago:

“It never ceases to amaze me: we all love ourselves more than other people, but care more about their opinion than our own.”

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Ma buoy finally posting stuff worth saving / retweeting.

[Deedy @deedydas]

We teach kids things that have no connection to the world around them and wonder why they’re not engaged.

So I made this list of books covering 18 core pillars of “boring” infrastructure modern society is built on.

There are cathedrals everywhere for those with eyes to see.

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[Amit Ranjan @amitranjan]

The most useful vibe-coded app till date!

Crowdsourced bribes registry https://t.co/McdeH4qPpS

[Hemant Mohapatra @MohapatraHemant]

The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

[𐌁𐌉Ᏽ 𐌕𐌉𐌌𐌉 @OrevaZSN]

I saw a post on Reddit that said, “When you walk through a museum, you’re not just looking at art. You’re moving through centuries of people trying to explain love, grief, power, beauty, and belonging.” I don’t think I’ve ever seen a museum described so beautifully.