Maanas Agarwal

Mostly retweets about art, politics, finance and other random or interesting things.

[Impressions @impression_ists]

Georges Seurat died at age 31, leaving behind only seven large-scale works.

The result of pure obsession.

A Sunday on La Grande Jatte: 2 years and over 2 million dots, placed one by one

Look at the lady with a pet monkey, the man smoking a pipe, or the rigid soldiers.

Seurat spent thousands of hours placing millions of microscopic dots, forcing your brain to do the work of blending them optically.

His routine was brutal. Every single morning, he took the ferry to the island of La Grande Jatte, sketching in complete silence for hours.

Every shadow is pure mathematics: red dots sitting next to green, violet beside yellow.

He was so fanatical about controlling light that he even painted a border of colored dots around the edge of the canvas.

He produced over 60 preliminary oil studies before the final canvas. In his tiny studio, the work was so huge he built a mechanical pulley system just to tilt it and reach the top corners.

In 1924, the Art Institute of Chicago bought it for $24,000—a move local critics slammed as a complete waste of money.

Today, the canvas is far too fragile ever to travel, making Chicago its permanent home.

[Dr David Vernon @DrDavidVernon]

still my favourite way of saying ‘died’

[Johann Kurtz @JohannKurtz]

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[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

@FairmontHotels hi, am staying in Mumbai Fairmont. Terrible service at Gold Lounge. Waiting for more than 30mins for a drink that we had to remind for twice. Incredibly, others were served well in time. Not able to understand the reason for discrimination. All in all, pathetic

[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

@JioCare Hi, my Jio Fiber account linked to 01353555398 has been giving a lot of trouble. my parents have been raising multiple complaints but to no avail. pls have it resolved ASAP

[Nasty | @NastFatunla]

Jim Carrey playing Don Rickles at the United Nations is wild. I would simply crawl under my chair watching him target diplomats like that.

Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: And you are an Israeli, pardon me, I didn't recognize you without the gas mask.

Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: Look at the Polish guy, he's putting on headphones, he thinks we're going to show a movie.

Jim Carrey as Don Rickles: Why can't you be more like the Irish guy? Always quiet and happy. Watch me wipe the smile off his face. Last call.

Insulting world leaders face to face is something else.😩😩😁😂

[Arjun @think_in_points]

One thing I've noticed about a lot of Indian parents.

During school or college exams, they'll do everything they can to make sure you aren't disturbed.

Guests are told to come later. The house is quieter. Everyone understands that you need uninterrupted time to study.

But once you start working, that same seriousness often disappears.

A major client presentation, leadership review, or an important meeting can directly impact your appraisal, bonus, or promotion. In many ways, the stakes are even higher.

Yet it rarely gets treated with the same seriousness as an exam.

People who work from home will probably relate to this. Since you're physically at home, it's easy for everyone to assume you're available. Whether it's household work, running errands, or meeting guests, work often gets interrupted simply because you're at home.

Obviously this isn't true for every family, but it's something I've noticed quite often.

[Swish 🍒 Tennis @Zwxsh]

I won't criticize Sinner and Alcaraz for this match. They should never be held to Big 3 standards.

But let this be a big wake up call to all those saying that they'd beat prime Rafa Nadal on a clay court.

11x champion, conquistador of wind, master of elements. Nobody is close.

[Swish 🍒 Tennis @Zwxsh]

2 years after retirement... 40 years old... He still takes the time to sweep his own court.

How many young players are taking the time to do this, let alone a legend of his status?

Be like Rafa Nadal.

[Piyush Sharma @misterpiyush]

What even was that era. 1st wicket pe hi match khatam maan lena

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨In 1700s, French mathematician Georges-Louis Leclerc took a needle, a wooden floor, and a question that sounds almost childishly simple.

If you drop a needle randomly onto a surface ruled with parallel lines, and the needle's length equals the distance between those lines, what are the odds it crosses one of them?

The answer is 2 divided by pi.

No circles anywhere in that experiment. No curves, no arcs, no radii. Just a straight needle falling onto straight lines through pure chance. And pi crawls out of the probability like it was hiding there the entire time, waiting for someone to ask the right question.

Mathematicians call this Buffon's Needle, and it remains one of the most conceptually violent results in the history of probability. You can physically recreate it on your kitchen floor. Drop a needle 500 times, count the crossings, divide, and you will approximate pi to several decimal places through nothing but randomness and straight lines. The circle was never in the room. Pi showed up anyway.

This is what separates pi from every other mathematical constant. It doesn't stay inside its original context. It migrates. Euler discovered it hiding inside the sum of the reciprocals of all squared integers, a problem involving no geometry whatsoever. The Gaussian bell curve that governs how errors distribute in measurements, how heights vary in a population, how quantum particles spread across space, carries pi in its foundation even though the curve itself was never constructed from a circle.

Physicist Eugene Wigner wrote a paper in 1960 that never got the mainstream attention it deserved. He called it "The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences." His central bewilderment was precisely this pattern: mathematical structures developed in complete abstraction, with zero intention of describing physical reality, keep turning out to be the exact language the universe was already using before anyone looked.

Pi is his strongest case. It wasn't engineered to fit physics. It was found already fitted, in places nobody thought to look for it, in systems that share nothing geometrically with a circle.

The needle doesn't know about circles. The universe apparently does.

[Abhishek Murarka 💹🐂 @abhymurarka]

I strongly urge all serious readers of my tweets to bookmark and read this article in full. This can change your life.

[Spandan Roy @talksports45]

Most international runs till the age of:

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[NP @nadalprop_]

Rafael Nadal has more titles than losses on clay.

Not wins, 𝐓𝐈𝐓𝐋𝐄𝐒.

[NP @nadalprop_]

“Dad, how good was Prime Nadal?”

[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

@HyundaiIndia The team from Sai Hyundai showed up at my house, without intimating me. Since I wasn’t home, they are accusing me of absconding. Does Hyundai endorse their behaviour and stalking me?

[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

@HyundaiIndia got my i20 serviced at Sai Hyundai in Borivali East. Had a terrible experience - completely contrary to what one may expect from Hyundai. Firstly, my car got a challan for illegal parking while the car was under the their care. They have so far refused to (1/n)

[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

Still no response or acknowledgement from them. All they said was - sir it’s clean only.

[Maanas Agarwal @maanasag]

Acknowledge their fault. To add further spice, they charged 1400 for interior cleaning, but the car was clearly not cleaned properly. Attaching photos of same

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

Umberto Eco, who owned 50,000 books, had this to say about home libraries:

“It is foolish to think that you have to read all the books you buy, as it is foolish to criticize those who buy more books than they will ever be able to read. It would be like saying that you should use all the cutlery or glasses or screwdrivers or drill bits you bought before buying new ones.

“There are things in life that we need to always have plenty of supplies, even if we will only use a small portion.

“If, for example, we consider books as medicine, we understand that it is good to have many at home rather than a few: when you want to feel better, then you go to the ‘medicine closet’ and choose a book. Not a random one, but the right book for that moment. That’s why you should always have a nutrition choice!

“Those who buy only one book, read only that one and then get rid of it. They simply apply the consumer mentality to books, that is, they consider them a consumer product, a good. Those who love books know that a book is anything but a commodity.”