Agastya Sreenivasan

Advocate & Solicitor, Bombay High Court.

Interests include - Philosophy, Chess, Cinema, Music, Art, Poetry, & Politics.

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[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

Wrote some Hindi/Urdu #poetry ✍️

[Nehr_who? @Nher_who]

"I don't want the real Fungsuk Wangdu to die"

Chatur from 3 Idiots calls for support for Sonam Wangchuk & appeals to listen to his cause!!

Finally people are speaking up !!

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

@KarthikRavi02 lmao, that did catch me off guard! Darn it, you never know who writes what these days and whats AI generated

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

so cool to read stuff like this from Grandmasters, can see lot of parallels in law

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

One thing I’ve noticed after more than two decades of professional chess is that almost everyone dramatically underestimates how much preparation has changed.

People still imagine opening prep as memorizing a few lines from a book. That world is long gone.

Today it’s databases with millions of games, engines stronger than any human has ever been, neural networks evaluating positions that used to be considered equal, cloud computing, custom scripts, opening trees, novelties hidden 25 moves deep, and increasingly AI helping organize all of it.

But here’s the funny part.

The biggest difference between the very top players isn’t usually who has the strongest engine. We all have access to incredibly strong engines.

It’s knowing what to ask.

You can spend six hours analyzing a position and learn almost nothing, or ask the right questions and discover an idea in twenty minutes that completely changes your understanding.

Over the years I’ve also realized that preparation isn’t really about finding “the best move.”

It’s about finding positions where:

you understand what’s going on,
your opponent probably doesn’t,
and the practical decisions are difficult.

That’s why sometimes you’ll see a super-GM voluntarily enter a position that’s objectively only equal—or even slightly worse. If it’s easier to play for one side, the engine evaluation isn’t the whole story.

Another misconception is that preparation ends once the game starts.

The first novelty is often just the beginning. After that you’re relying on pattern recognition, intuition built from thousands of hours of analysis, psychology, time management, and occasionally just stubbornness.

Chess has become both more scientific and more human at the same time.

The computers keep getting stronger, but understanding which positions fit you is still something no engine can optimize perfectly.

At least not yet.

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

@legallyuddin Adv Yogo?

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

I so relate to this sentiment

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

I’m sorry, but this appears almost as if someone wants to do away with the senior gowns, and doing so indirectly by diluting the designations

PS: not a comment on this list, but on general north indian trend to designate so many, when southern states have been conservative.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

Delhi High Court Clears Proposal To Designate 85 Lawyers As Senior Advocates, 11 Women Among Those [Read Names]

https://t.co/QMl3LqlSjC

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

@saikirankannan @SGanguly99 Rajeev Shukla is eternally on every poster lol

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

@MandhaniApoorva instant hire - as long as the side quests are funn

[anurag basu @basuanurag]

#Satluj I never thought a day would come when Honey Trehan would face what Jafar Panahi faced in Iran.

[Ronit Pereira @CAronitpereira]

Charlie Munger and Warren Buffett on Ethanol blending in Petrol:

“Ethanol blending is a very stupid way to try and solve an energy problem.”

“It takes more fossil fuel energy to create ethanol than you can get out of ethanol you’ve created.”

- Charlie Munger. 2006.

[Judge Sundar Lal Tripathi @mama_mathre]

Okay, is it just me, or does anyone else think the famous Instagram men's rights activist AoR and his dad (Senior Advocate) look like Akhilesh Yadav and Late Mulayam Singh Yadav??

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

“Sarkar ek soch hai, aur Subhash Nagre, ek aadmi”

[Anubhav Kumar @iam_anubhav]

Apropos the ongoing incorrect usage of the term, it’s telling that Mr. Venugopal had to dedicate an entire page to explaining what is already unambiguously written in the Constitution. 😃

[Naomi Datta @nowme_datta]

The lakes. The lakes. That is all that matters

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

@bettrcallrangan ooh, i thought there was some CCTV footage and all, and witnesses - so i assumed open & shut. But if not, then even more reason to not show contrition.

You can’t show ‘remorse’ for a crime you haven’t committed.

[Agastya Sreenivasan @Mithrandir2851]

obviously, THIS is an open and shut case, but to generically say that an accused must show “signs of regret, grief or emotional conflict” is asinine.

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

In my career, I have interacted with many hardened criminals and murder accused. Most of them show some sign of regret, grief, or emotional conflict, particularly where the victim is innocent.

What is striking in this case is the chilling absence of any such emotion. The allegations speak of a crime planned and executed in cold blood, followed by the conduct that is equally cold and remorseless.
#SiyaGoyal

[Zee. @zzeephhyrr]

show me a picture taken by u that is pinterest coded