Nilekani and many other industry bigwigs spent the last two years insisting India did not need to build its own frontier models because it could simply rent them from Silicon Valley, but this week Washington finally flexed its muscles and showed the world who is really calling the shots.
The US government told a private company, Anthropic, to switch off its frontier tier model Fable 5 for every foreign national on the planet, its own foreign staff included, days after TCS signed up 50,000 of its engineers to run on Claude.
The models a rung below still function, so the deal is not dead, but its ceiling has been set by someone in Washington rather than anyone in Mumbai, and our dhandho overlords' reply is to smile and take what is left on the shelf.
Sarvam shipping a pair of open weights is genuine progress but still nowhere near the scale this moment demands. The real obstacle was never just about talent or capital: it was that our lala IT houses have spent decades fattening on the malai of labour arbitrage and have no stomach for the unglamorous, capex-heavy grind of frontier R&D, while the sarkari establishment that might have forced their hand with danda and serious subsidies stays more animated about whether a child's midday meal is properly sattvic than about who owns the GPUs or frontier model weights.
Anil Masih was caught on camera tampering with ballot papers. What consequences did he face? None. Not even an FIR.
Now we have a case involving the gross abuse of power by the Returning Officer in the Meenakshi Natarajan case. By the time her election petition, if she files one, is decided, her opponent may well have completed his tenure.
We are a country where jokes, unfavourable media reports, and even comedy often attract harsher reaction from the courts than the actions of authorities entrusted with maintaining the rule of law and upholding democratic principles. Those authorities face little to no accountability for failing miserably to discharge their responsibilities and for abusing the powers vested in them.
One silent scam destroying the middle class is this:
The government collects taxes promising public services.
Then the same middle class pays again privately for everything.
Private schools because government schools fail.
Private hospitals because public healthcare is broken.
RO water because tap water is unsafe.
Inverters because electricity is unreliable.
Gated societies because public safety feels weak.
Private vehicles because public transport struggles.
So what exactly are people getting in return for their taxes besides more taxes?
The middle class is no longer paying once for survival.
It is paying twice for every basic necessity.
Bohot hi fattu nikla bhai ye to..
Manmohan Singh ne laude laga diye the US consulate ke Devyani ke case mein.
Bulldozer se barricades hatwa diye the live on TV.
Unscientific Homeo & many Ayerveda commercial crooks business interrest to fool science illeiterate people in India.
Dr has been at forefront on twitter to counter all kinds of malpactices in public space. I support you.
Good morning! Just got to know this!
1/2 A whole government Ministry is unleashed on me - because I speak against unscientific practices and primitive traditional healthcare that can harm, I communicate scientific information for public and patients alike.
This was an official memo released during the Ministry of Ayush meeting on 12-6-2026 fully dedicated towards shutting down my social media presence.
Imagine - the people in this meeting were eating biscuits and drinking tea, paid for by the citizens of the country - to decide how to gag and shutdown a citizen doctor who educates people on medical science via social media.
Yesterday, my Instagram account was briefly hacked, but I got back control and removed unauthorized access within an hour.
The Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution outlines the fundamental duty of every citizen to develop a "scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform". Added during the 42nd Amendment in 1976, this non-justiciable directive promotes logical reasoning, critical thinking, and rationality.
The Ayush system is not scientific, it kills scientific temper, it does not promote the spirit of inquiry, it lacks logical reasoning, has the deadest version of critical thinking and none of its products and practices are rational.
The only thing that needs to be shut down, is an unscientific body like Ayush that goes against the Indian Constitution and wastes public tax money... and not me.
Also, please look closely at the person at the end, who is copied to, by the Ministry. His name is Vaidya K P Manikandan and he is the owner and founder of CNS Ayurveda Hospital, where children are treated for chronic conditions such as severe mental health disorders, autism and epilepsy (please see an official release from the hospital in the next post). One such victim of his was saved by my team (we reported it: https://t.co/eXeWt2n6N7) and he put a criminal defamation case against me and the authors (for publishing a scientific peer reviewed paper!) which was later "stayed" by the High Court of Kerala.
This has nothing to do with service to patients, but everything to do with protecting the business of alternative medicine (especially Ayurveda). These low life complaintants should be ashamed.
Good morning! Just got to know this!
1/2 A whole government Ministry is unleashed on me - because I speak against unscientific practices and primitive traditional healthcare that can harm, I communicate scientific information for public and patients alike.
This was an official memo released during the Ministry of Ayush meeting on 12-6-2026 fully dedicated towards shutting down my social media presence.
Imagine - the people in this meeting were eating biscuits and drinking tea, paid for by the citizens of the country - to decide how to gag and shutdown a citizen doctor who educates people on medical science via social media.
Yesterday, my Instagram account was briefly hacked, but I got back control and removed unauthorized access within an hour.
The Article 51A(h) of the Indian Constitution outlines the fundamental duty of every citizen to develop a "scientific temper, humanism, and the spirit of inquiry and reform". Added during the 42nd Amendment in 1976, this non-justiciable directive promotes logical reasoning, critical thinking, and rationality.
The Ayush system is not scientific, it kills scientific temper, it does not promote the spirit of inquiry, it lacks logical reasoning, has the deadest version of critical thinking and none of its products and practices are rational.
The only thing that needs to be shut down, is an unscientific body like Ayush that goes against the Indian Constitution and wastes public tax money... and not me.
Also, please look closely at the person at the end, who is copied to, by the Ministry. His name is Vaidya K P Manikandan and he is the owner and founder of CNS Ayurveda Hospital, where children are treated for chronic conditions such as severe mental health disorders, autism and epilepsy (please see an official release from the hospital in the next post). One such victim of his was saved by my team (we reported it: https://t.co/eXeWt2n6N7) and he put a criminal defamation case against me and the authors (for publishing a scientific peer reviewed paper!) which was later "stayed" by the High Court of Kerala.
This has nothing to do with service to patients, but everything to do with protecting the business of alternative medicine (especially Ayurveda). These low life complaintants should be ashamed.
The @ECISVEEP must clarify whether these 4,000 EVMs were indeed used in the recent West Bengal elections. Otherwise, we can't help but wonder whether this was truly an accidental fire or the same convenient and mysterious kind of blaze that, in Bollywood movies, always seems to erupt just in time to destroy crucial evidence.
E20 was rolled out to all 90,000 petrol stations in India. No parliamentary debate. No formal notification to vehicle owners. No Lok Sabha vote. No Rajya Sabha resolution. A fuel change affecting 234 million vehicles and every Indian who fills a tank was done as a bureaucratic order. Where is Parliament in this policy?
अन्तर्राष्ट्रीय जल में तीन दिन में तीन जहाज़ों पर अमेरिकी हमलों में तीन भारतीयों की मृत्यु हो गई। और हमारे Compromised PM? एक शब्द तक नहीं।
जब कोई विदेशी ताकत किसी भारतीय की हत्या करे, तो प्रधानमंत्री को बोलना पड़ता है। लेकिन मजाल है जो ये एक शब्द बोल जाएं।
अगले हफ्ते G7 में, हमारे नाविकों की हत्या के बस चंद दिनों बाद, मोदी जी मुस्कुराएंगे, गले मिलेंगे और समझौते करेंगे - मगर, उन तीन भारतीयों के लिए उनके पास एक शब्द भी नहीं होगा।
Compromised PM भारत माता के बेटों की रक्षा नहीं कर सकते, क्योंकि जिन्होंने उन बेटों की जान ली उन्हें नाराज़ करने की इनमें न हिम्मत है, न ताकत।
If even half the outrage being dumped on 370 Biryani was shown for corruption, communal hatred and destruction of forests we'd be a different country. We don't have the spine to call out criminals sitting in parliament so we overcompensate with cultural outrage on easier targets.
@tanvi_madan Stating facts isn't taking a dig at India. Also their exams papers were not sold off by some madarchod greedy asshole destroying aspiration of hard working children. If anyone did, they be hanged.
That US resident Dhruv Jaishankar 's father was present for US 250 years celebrations in US embassy. But sending his secy to Russian event!!
This Government is a complete sellout.
Most anti national Government EVER.
An Indian, if not involved in some crime anywhere in the world, is the government's responsibility. If anything happens to an Indian, whether inside or outside the country, the government is responsible.
This is why we elect them, this is why we pay taxes, and if they can't take accountability, what's the point of them being in power?
You call America a friend, yet the same friend attacks and kills three of your citizens, and now you are acting like nothing has happened. When asked, you are using terms like "sanctioned," "we hope," "we expect," etc.
The country deserves better!!
The US Navy attacked a third ship with Indian crew even after the MEA had summoned the US CdA in Delhi and conveyed its concern over the killings. Tells you of how seriously the US takes Indian concerns and how ineffective the Modi govt is, with such gestures.
Bhakts trying to convince pissed off Indians that if a vessel is sanctioned, that means US can bomb it. THREE vessels with Indians bombed. Bhakts making excuses for the US.
News now: A young 'physician' in his early 40s working as medical officer at an Ayush Primary Health Center and an executive member of one of the leading Association of Homeopathy practitioners, developed infected diabetic ulcer related complications leading to progressive leg infection and sepsis with multiple organ injury. They took him to a proper hospital where, to control the source, they even chopped his infected leg. But it was too late and even that did not help and he eventually died of septic shock and multiple organ failure. He was on Homeopathic management himself, for diabetes. The Homeopathy community is shocked. The Medical science community is not.