Manu

Jag Darpan | RTs != endorsements

[Sachin Naik @sachindn]

Are we becoming a dumping ground for cheap electronics?
Something we learnt the hard way these past few months.
Customers started returning our UPS units, saying backup wasn't enough. We pulled every returned unit, charged it, loaded it up, and ran it down. Full backup, every single time. On our bench, nothing was wrong.
This went on for almost 3 months. Honestly, a wild goose chase. We suspected our design, our battery batches, everything except the actual problem.
The actual problem: The humble 12V 2A adapter powering the router. After about a year of use, even at a small 1A load, these adapters don't give 12V anymore. We measured 10.4V on some.
Our UPS sees 10.4V and thinks the power has gone. And switches to battery. Sits on battery the whole day while mains is perfectly fine. So when a real power cut comes, there's nothing left. Customer is right no backup. But the UPS was never the problem.
We thought fine, let's just source good adapters for our customers. Turns out most "Made in India" adapters are SKD kits — the cheapest possible design imported from China, assembled here. Nobody checks whether it still holds voltage after a year, because nobody's testing it after the return window closes.
So here we are, building our own 12V 2A adapter now. Yes, with Chinese components; that's just the reality of electronics today. But the design is ours. Stable voltage for years, low ripple, proper protections. Boring stuff nobody prints on the box.
A 200 rupee part quietly killing the devices around it, and the device maker takes the blame. And this isn't just our story; it's happening across categories.
We badly need stricter standards on what gets imported and assembled here. Otherwise we're just the last stop for the world's worst designs.
If you build hardware in India, I am sure most of you would have faced this too.

[Manu @manageall]

How many Indian academics can ask such engaging questions depsite having significant presence in the Western institutions?

[Yiyang Zhuge @ZhugeYY]

Here is my interview with Christopher Nolan: are you a bard for a civilization at dusk?

[Manu @manageall]

Commendable initiative by Lodha family. 👏🏻

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

Jainendra Jain (Wolf Prize winner and co-discoverer of composite fermions) is building the new Lodha Theoretical Physics Institute around simple themes

-Just 10–12 faculty. No institutional sprawl.
-No committees, minimal administration, no travel caps, no teaching load.
-Assemble exceptional minds, remove bureaucracy and give them uninterrupted time to think, breakthroughs will follow.
-No PhD programme initially
-Success to be measured by by fundamental discoveries made in India, not citations or paper counts.

$100 million over a decade, funded entirely by the Lodha family.
Modeled on the Institute for Advanced Study and Perimeter Institute via @the_hindu

[Manu @manageall]

Timing bruh

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

In a short while from now, at 11 AM, will launch the ‘Nasha Mukt Yuva for Viksit Bharat Sankalp Abhiyan.’

This initiative seeks to inspire our youth to remain free from substance abuse and bring about positive changes in society. It will mark the beginning of a 100 week nationwide Jan Bhagidari campaign, with activities being organised every Sunday to spread awareness and mobilise society for this cause.

Youngsters from over 10,000 locations will participate, along with MYBharat and NSS volunteers, schools, colleges, universities, youth clubs, NGOs and spiritual organisations.

https://t.co/qiX11A8A2F

[Manu @manageall]

Declare all foreign media operaating in India as foreign agents.

[Amit Malviya @amitmalviya]

Veteran BBC journalist Rehan Fazal has revealed how BBC India blocked, delayed or rejected content related to the RSS.

Among the instances he cites are:
• A documentary on M.S. Golwalkar that was delayed despite prior approval.
• A story on Nathuram Godse’s last day before his execution.
• Multiple articles on the RSS that were reportedly rejected.

If these claims are true, they reinforce what many have long suspected: that editorial gatekeeping was driven less by journalistic judgment and more by ideological preferences.

BBC’s editorial partisanship extends well beyond these examples, we have seen it reflected in its coverage of India over the years. It is significant when someone from within the organisation begins to lift the veil on how editorial decisions were made.

[Manu @manageall]

Tata is subverting republic for decades sans consequences

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

Interesting. TISS invited CJI Surya Kant for this year's convocation ceremony. At the last moment informed that the program stands cancelled due to "unforeseen" circumstances
https://t.co/6Prm2EfbYr

[Manu @manageall]

India in UPA era was not a mess, it was a colossal debauchery and debasement.

[Harrapa Civillisation Times @harrapasabhyata]

Amazing that instead of East Asia, AMD wanted to Make India its Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub and was investing 3 Billion$ in a Fab in India back in 2005 but it all fell apart just because,

When their Equipment came it got stuck at customs and wasn’t cleared leading to return!

[Manu @manageall]

Legit and major source of societal troubles

[Suren @zeneraalstuff]

The average middle class Indian knows almost nothing of how the poorer among us eat, cook, commute or pray, I think. A guy told me bicycle lanes are useless in India because of the heat. While we were driving past scores of people waiting for the bus without a shelter

[Manu @manageall]

History has the best jokes, if at all we could remember.

[Rohan Dua @rohanduaT02]

FLASH: Newly sworn-in UK PM Andy Burnham speaks to Indian PM, pledging stronger ties while referring to Gujarat as Manchester of India

Burnham seeks to carry forward recent FTA where big UK brands made deeper penetration & Indian farmers got formidable access.

Shows evolution of trade between two countries after Piyush Goyal & Harjinder Kang inked the deal.

[Manu @manageall]

@avataram ...

[Manu @manageall]

Legit

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Young people of this generation are so proud that they are young.

Actually, almost all stereotypes about Gen-Z are about kids whose parents are well to do, and have given them enough cushion to be themselves. Ask the young adults who have to bear the responsibility of the family.

[Manu @manageall]

Green revolution or Himalayan rivers?

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Government Report Finds Uranium In Delhi's Groundwater; NGT Steps In

⚠️ Uranium above safe limit across six Delhi districts

🚰 Capital ranks third nationally, after Punjab and Haryana
https://t.co/dEeuKt56Sf

[Manu @manageall]

What happened to the NewsClickIn case receiving Chinese money?

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

Shikha Dalmia published in the Week “China Bashing is for Losers”

[Manu @manageall]

When do we expect such list of journalists in India working for or influenced by the US, the UK, China, Pakistan, Germany, France, etc?

[Natalie Winters @nataliegwinters]

REVEALED: Here Are the Mainstream Journalists on China’s Payroll 🚨

I exclusively uncovered the identities of prominent U.S. journalists flown to China by a CCP-linked influence operation seeking “favorable coverage” and “positive messages” about Beijing. 🧵

[Manu @manageall]

Water war is real. Tribalism is real. Fundamentals don't change.

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

On 15 July, some 25-30 armed robbers had stolen a 3000 kg cannon from Narwar fort of MP.

Police traced the vehicle used to Karauli, Rajasthan. Started searching for it.

2 men arrested. A dozen more are suspects.
They revealed the cannon was taken to blow up a dam!

Panchana dam of Karauli is contested by Gurjar and Meena communities of area. Meenas demanding an irrigation channel to be opened since 2006.

Water instead is going to Gurjar villages as they claim.

So, they decided to threaten Gurjars by the cannon and use it to blow up the dam if need arises.

Fun part! Locals say they have tried to do it once in 2007 and used an old cannon which couldn’t fire & got exploded. 1 man lost his life in it.

[Manu @manageall]

BJP neta's kids do not find their parents or parents' political party as cool.

That's the power of narrative and propaganda of left liberal in education and entertainment sector.

[Manu @manageall]

Soviet produced greater common good in terms of scientific books, donated and sold widely but did not survive long. America maximized profits and continues to do so and remains the only superpower after the fall of Soviet.

[Cullen Roche @cullenroche]

I went to the Tour de France last week and it feels like a perfect microcosm of how Capitalism and Socialism differ (and why America is diverging economically and stagnating socially).

As an American I couldn't believe how poorly they monetized the event. You have millions of people watching and 99% of them watch for free.

The result - the median rider in the event is earning $250K a year, but the public has an event that is loved and accessible by all. The broader result is you don't get the private (and public) investment that coincides with such events in the USA because it's not being monetized well. That is, the teams earn less, the riders earn less and municipalities hosting earn less. So the aggregate result is everyone is poorer, on average, in the long-run because they don't capture the economic value of the event well.

BUT, the Europeans love their bikes. Boy do they love their bikes. And you see the happiness and social value of making this a public good instead of a private profit maximizing endeavor. So there's social value in NOT monetizing the event that **arguably** makes it a better overall social value than the Capitalist model.

In short, the American model creates a wealthier, more capitalized industry, while the European model sacrifices financial maximization to generate a widely distributed, unpriced public good. Which is better? Most certainly a mix. The hard part is getting the balance right.

[Manu @manageall]

All fine with you? Asking for a Chinese friend.

[S.L. Kanthan @Kanthan2030]

In China, Uyghurs are not even allowed to name their sons “Muhammad.”

Even the Quran is edited by the CCP.

But Chinese people on X are fervent supporters of the Islamic Republic of Iran… which bans communism!

Geopolitics = cynicism & hypocrisy.

[Manu @manageall]

I have Suez Canal to sell if you think Ukraine has agency here. DC eunuchs are insufferable.

[Trita Parsi @tparsi]

Ukraine is not trying to just enter the war with Iran. Rather, it appears it is trying to merge the Ukraine war with the Iran war.

Why? Because if these two wars merge, Ukraine will be a belligerent in the Iran war and America will be a belligerent in the Ukraine war.

That is, the US will no longer just be arming Ukraine, but also actively and openly fighting Russia with US personnel.

That is the key objective Zelensky has tried to achieve since 2022...

[Manu @manageall]

A Mohammedan mayor of NYC achieving greatest heights and surpassing Soviet is commendable. Games of white folks are so deep and long that ordinary people never cross that ocean.

[End Wokeness @EndWokeness]

Mayor Mamdani just announced that he will be opening 5 city-run, tax-funded grocery stores:

"Prices set at 30% below retail prices"