Manish Michael

Talks about #humancapital, #sustainablebusiness, #diversityequityinclusion, ##healthcareforolderadults, and #corporatesocialresponsibility

[Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta @readingkafka]

Karnataka has nearly 5900 rural public libraries in its gram panchayats. These libraries are open for 8 hours daily including weekends. Libraries are inclusive social spaces for rural communities. #publiclibrariesforall 🌷🌿📚🌱🕊️

[Brijesh Kalappa @brijeshkalappa]

If you have enjoyed fireworks, watch divine fireworks- this is how lightning strikes look!! A view from Madikeri, Kodagu District

[Manish Michael @mmichav]

❤️

[Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta @readingkafka]

“To learn to read is to light a fire.” - Victor Hugo.

Little kid with little brother in the rural public library. Cutest! 🌷🌿📚🌱🕊️

[Elias Al @iam_elias1]

A man saw his phone storage was ''full'' after 18 months but he barely had any photos.

He had deleted apps. Cleared messages. Removed downloads. The warning kept coming back every two weeks:

"Storage Almost Full.''

He went to the Apple Store ready to buy a new iPhone.

The employee at the Genius Bar held up a hand: *"Before you spend a thousand dollars, let me show you something."*

She opened Settings → General → iPhone Storage and shook her head.

"There are 7 things eating your storage right now. Apple ships every iPhone with all of them turned on. Nobody tells you they exist. Let's go through them."

Here's what she showed him in the next 8 minutes. 🧵

[Swati Gupta @hrswatigupta]

The airline lost my bag for 72 hours.

They handed me a $50 “courtesy” voucher at the baggage desk and smiled like they’d done me a favor.

I kept the voucher. Then I opened my laptop and used a 1999 international treaty they never mention at check-in.

Total recovered: $1,650.

Here are the three legal weapons most passengers never know they have.

[Vikas Vij @TheClubJunto]

India's 2047 Roadblock: Failed Education

NITI Aayog Report Shows Reality

1. 2014-2024: Math/Sci: Zero improvement; 60% students below avg

2. 42% kids drop after Class 10

3. 85% teachers below std

4. Edu System: Marks = Self-worth; Rank = Identity; Exams = Destiny

INSIGHTS:

NITI Aayog Report: Grim Reality

a. 232-page report released last week. All data is from government agencies only; surveys covering hundreds of districts, thousands of villages & cities, lakhs of children.

b. “Access to schooling has not translated into quality learning or continuity of education (beyond Class 10).”

c. World Bank data (cited in the report): One additional year of schooling leads to 0.37% increase in GDP growth. So, education is the foundational driver of "Developed India 2047" goal.

d. Overall enrollment in Indian schools (govt & private schools combined) has gone down every year for the last 4 years:

FY22: 26.52 cr
FY23: 25.17 cr
FY24: 24.80 cr
FY25: 24.69 cr

e. Enrollment is high for primary education, and then kids start dropping out of the system. Total 42% students drop out by Class 9/10. “This trend has remained largely unchanged from 2015 to 2025,” says the report. [Zero Improvement]

f. Class 9: Students with below-average performance nationally: Science: 60%; Math: 63% of the total enrollment.

g. Reading Skills: Decline: In 2014, 74.7% of Class 8 students could read a Class 2 text; by 2024, that figure fell to 71.1%.

h. Math Skills: Near-Zero Improvement: In 2014, 44.2% Class 8 students had basic math skills (can do division). In 2024, the figure was 45.8%. At this rate, it will take 339 years to reach 100% Class 8 students with basic math skills.

i. PARAKH 2024 Findings: “Students are good at Rote Learning, but struggle with real-world application. Classroom learning remains overly procedural, with limited transfer to problem-solving beyond the textbooks.”

j. Drop-Out Rates Increase in U.P./Bihar: From 2015 to 2025, in Bihar, secondary school dropout went up from 2.98% to 9.3% (3X). In U.P., it went up from 0.52% to 3.0% (6X). Gujarat, M.P., and 3 NE states had the highest drop-out rates (above 5%) in 2025.

k. 14% of planned teaching days across India are lost to non-academic work, such as elections and surveys.

l. Teacher Competency: 85-90% of the teachers across India fail to meet the qualifying threshold of TET/CTET exams. “Many teachers fail the competency test in their own subjects, which they teach.”

m. NITI Aayog report sums it up beautifully: “As India prepares for 2047, its progress will not be measured by the number of classrooms, but by what happens inside those classrooms.”

Building on a Weak Foundation

a. “Originality” in the Indian education system is penalized as “answering out of syllabus.” Failure creates lifelong trauma. But innovation IS a series of controlled failures. In technology-driven nations, failure is a badge of honour.

b. Coaching in India produces the smartest competitive exam takers in the world. But it steals curiosity. In China, roughly 50% of the students go into vocational schools compared to India’s 1.3%.

c. In India, education is a lifelong “shield,” providing a stable IT, bank, or government job. In China, education is a “sword,” providing the ability to build, innovate, and solve.

d. The Indian system is optimized for test-takers; the Chinese system is optimized for builders.

As a result, China accounts for 30% of the global manufacturing output; 50% of global patent applications; and IP ownership of leading-edge technologies.

e. An Indian student can solve 500 physics problems and still freeze when faced with a real-world engineering challenge. The Indian education system is designed for certainty. In real world, the outcomes are uncertain.

f. Indian education system is built on humiliation and shame. As a result, the Indian mind is conditioned against fear of public mistakes. To avoid mistakes, even the next gen of a billionaire sells ice creams.

The Bottom Line

India’s education system is still preparing students for a world that no longer exists. The crisis is not in Indian talent. It is in the Indian classroom.

@arabicatrader

[Enezator @Enezator]

This is what a real pizza menu should look like 😂🍕

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Maharashtra: A blanket of pink and white has taken over the wetlands of Navi Mumbai.

Thousands of migratory flamingos have transformed the area in Nerul into one of the city's most spectacular seasonal sights.

From skies filled with fluttering white wings to shimmering waters painted pink, the wetlands are attracting tourists, photographers and bird lovers from across the region.

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[Reliance Foundation @ril_foundation]

Good luck Young Innovators! We are glad to be part of the journey, cheering Team India and supporting our spirit of innovation. @NITIAayog #AtmaNirbharBharat #Innovation @RIL_Updates

[NITI Aayog @NITIAayog]

Ms. Debjani Ghosh, Distinguished Fellow, NITI Aayog, and Chief Architect of the NITI Frontier Tech Hub, flagged off Team India as the country’s brightest young innovators embarked on their journey to represent India at the Regeneron International Science and Engineering Fair.

Organised under the flagship IRIS National Fair by the EXSTEMPLAR Education Linkers Foundation, the initiative provides a national platform for student researchers from across India to present innovative solutions, scientific research, and breakthrough ideas with global relevance.

The participation of these young innovators reflects India’s growing culture of scientific inquiry, problem-solving, and research-led innovation, while showcasing the immense potential of the country’s next generation of scientists, technologists, and changemakers.

NITI Aayog extends its best wishes to Team India as they represent the nation’s scientific talent, creativity, and innovation on the global stage.

#PMOIndia #NITIAayog #TeamIndia #IRISNationalFair #ISEF #STEM #Innovation #YoungInnovators #ScienceForIndia #ResearchAndInnovation #FutureOfIndia #AtmanirbharBharat

[Bookworm Bookstore, Blr @bookworm_Kris]

We wish to take this opportunity to thank all our esteemed patrons & well wishers for your concern about Bookworm. The words of support and offers to help has been truly overwhelming for us and we are grateful for your continued support. We are working to bring the store back to normal but you can visit at any time for your book needs or kindly call and msg us on 9845076757. Once again, all of us at Bookworm Thanks You for your keeping us in your thoughts 🙏🏽

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

A city shaped by many hands, many languages, many dreams. Jaume Plensa's "Bengaluru's Soul" says it all. Congratulations on a beautiful unveiling. @PriyankKharge @kiranshaw @HariMarar @NandanNilekani @BLRAirport

[Manish Michael @mmichav]

Let’s please restore 🙏

[Deccan Herald @DeccanHerald]

Bengaluru's green cover has fallen from 78% to 6%, its natural cooling systems are gone, and the city is baking.

#KarnatakaNews #Bengaluru
https://t.co/MsRWxUS0I1

[Kerala Tourism @KeralaTourism]

Sorry, not sorry.

#KitKatHeist #TakeABreak #KitKat #Chocolate #KeralaTourism

[Reuters @Reuters]

Hundreds of people joined a 'real dopamine’ party at one of Madrid’s biggest dance clubs, embracing a growing trend of post-morning-run, alcohol‑free, wellness‑focused partying

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

A beautiful elephant family sleeps deep inside the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, an extraordinary moment captured on camera. The young one gently rests its leg on an elder, seeking comfort, security and love. In the world of elephants, family is everything. And around them stands the forest silent, protective, eternal like a cradle holding life itself. On this International Day of Forests, this tender scene reminds us of a simple truth: if forests do not exist, nothing will remain. Nothing at all. Without forests, the world would be poorer, harsher, emptier. For elephants, for wildlife, for rivers, for people forests are life
Incredible capture @dhanu_paran #InternationalDayofForest #forestday #InternationalDayofForest

[Buitengebieden @buitengebieden]

Man's best friend.. 😊

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I must confess that until recently I had never heard of Phool Dei, a spring festival that was celebrated yesterday in the villages of Uttarakhand.

Children gather fresh flowers from the hills and go from house to house placing them on doorsteps, offering a blessing for the household:

“Phool Dei, Chhamma Dei,
Deni Dwar, Bhar Bhakar…” roughly wishing the home prosperity.

In return they receive sweets.

It reminded me a little of Halloween in the U.S., where children go door to door saying “trick or treat.” But what a lovely contrast. Here the children arrive not threatening a prank, or asking first, but giving first. Flowers.

In an age when we speak so much about environmental consciousness, this graceful celebration of spring and nature deserves to be far more widely known.

Just as Holi travelled across India and the world, perhaps Phool Dei should too.

For me, the children of Uttarakhand are my #MondayMotivation

[Mariana @marianagnche]

Anyone who wants to abandon their pet , or knows someone who are about to do that, anywhere in the UAE please contact me first.

I’ll provide a proper shelter or home for the pet.

[Simplifying AI @simplifyinAI]

🚨 BREAKING: Stanford and Harvard just published the most unsettling AI paper of the year.

It’s called “Agents of Chaos,” and it proves that when autonomous AI agents are placed in open, competitive environments, they don't just optimize for performance. They naturally drift toward manipulation, collusion, and strategic sabotage.

It’s a massive, systems-level warning.

The instability doesn’t come from jailbreaks or malicious prompts. It emerges entirely from incentives. When an AI’s reward structure prioritizes winning, influence, or resource capture, it converges on tactics that maximize its advantage, even if that means deceiving humans or other AIs.

The Core Tension:

Local alignment ≠ global stability. You can perfectly align a single AI assistant. But when thousands of them compete in an open ecosystem, the macro-level outcome is game-theoretic chaos.

Why this matters right now:

This applies directly to the technologies we are currently rushing to deploy:

→ Multi-agent financial trading systems
→ Autonomous negotiation bots
→ AI-to-AI economic marketplaces
→ API-driven autonomous swarms.

The Takeaway:

Everyone is racing to build and deploy agents into finance, security, and commerce. Almost nobody is modeling the ecosystem effects. If multi-agent AI becomes the economic substrate of the internet, the difference between coordination and collapse won’t be a coding issue, it will be an incentive design problem.