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[satou @n0bor]

@DpreetG Waheguru Ji Ka Khalsa, Waheguru Ji Ki Fateh!

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[ใจเกเร ⁷ ภารโรงราชมัง🌺🌧 @Jaikayrey]

For me, Ramayana is pride and proud of Asian. The film not just represents the epic, but also the fascinating culture that presents how gorgeous of our root is. Even I'm Thai, I cried and was proud of our continent's culture. So proud of being Asians because of this film!

[The Khel India @TheKhelIndia]

🚨 STOP THE PRESS!!! INDIA HAS A FIRST YOUTH OLYMPIC BOXING CHAMPION! 🥇

India’s Lairenlakpam Ambekar Meetei defeats Ireland’s Kristian Jubani 3-2 in a thrilling final to clinch Gold Medal in the Men’s 50kg category

THE FIRST-EVER YOUTH OLYMPIC BOXING GOLD FOR INDIA!!!!!!! 🇮🇳 🥊

THIS IS PRETTY HUGE STUFF, FOLKS! 🔥

[satou @n0bor]

@aravind @Iyervval Looks like their delusional belief that bringing all these ‘prominent’ faces at front would reignite legitimacy for them and their actions. But it’s classic case of ‘विनाशकाले विपरीत बुद्धि’ imp and I am loving that they are constantly exposing their hands.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Imagine New Delhi becoming home to the world’s largest museum display area?

Think scale. Think culture.

That is the vision behind the Yuge Yugeen Bharat Museum!

Today’s Cabinet decision will give impetus to transform historic North and South Block buildings into a magnificent celebration of Bharat’s civilisational journey.

From ancient knowledge systems, mathematics and astronomy to architecture, art, languages and spirituality, the museum will bring thousands of years of our heritage to life through immersive experiences and world-class galleries.

Buildings that have been centres of governance will now become a place where millions can discover, experience and celebrate the timeless richness of our civilisation.

A historic new chapter for India’s cultural heritage!

https://t.co/lV7gjJ0iXk*

[satou @n0bor]

@thekaipullai Would be fair to also add stats about people who are joining armed or central forces and defending the borders, industries and infrastructure from each state. Some are brains and some are brawn I am sure :)

[satou @n0bor]

I differ on this one Aravind, your argument would likely be sound on facts you referenced but I found hearing Perplexity quite intriguing, enough that I checked it out and downloaded the app right after I heard it.

Besides, Aravind did quite nice partnership deals in west with likes of Revolut etc. and lately with major podcasters, which has made me use Perplexity even more.

So that’s purely from brand identity perspective, don’t know about IPO or something.

I think Aravind was onto something when he chose the name.

[Eric Weinstein @ericweinstein]

Three and a half weeks ago, a paper in Yang-Mills theory was intercepted by 5 people. Despite no reason for taking "Custody" nor need for "Shepherding".

Since no one else is saying it, let's review:

2/5: Octogenarians (85 and 88) who have been Washington's "Steady Hands" in Physics and Math for 50 years.

4/5: String Theorists. Despite ZERO mention of String Theory in the work at hand.

1/5: Rennaisance Technologies.

2/5: Stonybrook.

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As I have been trying to explain on every major podcast well in advance of this inexplicable 'custody' which happened in front of all our eyes...this is what happens to every major potential change in mathematical physics that comes from outside the "Only Game In Town" crowd. Like clockwork.

This is an enormous story about a tiny number of people: David Gross, Arthur Jaffe, their academic descendants and north shore Long Island. Remove that command and control complex and we go back to being the leading force in theoretical physics.

[satou @n0bor]

@pickover @grok add relevant references and sources please

[JM US @JMUSPatriot]

To the people going CRAZY over the proposed bill to make Diwali a federal holiday:

In India, Christmas has been a gazetted federal holiday since 1947 (when India gained it's independence), even though only about 2% of Indian population is Christian.

Don’t assume the US is the only inclusive country in the world. India did this 79 years ago.

If anything, the US is late to "inclusion and diversity"

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Hold a metal plate up like a mirror at night. There is a slit along the top edge. Look through it and line up 2 stars: the mouth and the tail of a fish drawn around the Pole Star. On the front, a weighted index hangs straight down.

That is the Dhruvabhrama-yantra, "the pole-star rotation instrument"....

Padmanabha wrote it up around 1423, probably in central India near the Narmada. The text is 31 verses + his own commentary.

The 2 stars are Polaris and Kochab. A line between them turns like a clock hand once every sidereal day, 23 hours 56 minutes.

The front has 7 rings of scales. The index has 4 arms. With the Sun's longitude taken from an almanac, the long western arm reads how many ghatis have passed since sunset.

The eastern arm gives the sign rising in the east. The middle one gives the sign on the meridian. The back is a sine quadrant for daytime.

The last verse says: time from the stars was taught before, from the Pole star by no one, so out of curiosity this was done.

Kautukat kritam. Sarma notes that Sanskrit authors rarely claim a thing as their own.

Pingree's census lists some 70 manuscripts of the text. About 20 instruments survive, in Pune, Jaipur, London, Oxford and Paris. Oxford and Paris each hold a quarter-circle one, made by a goldsmith named Morarji for an astronomer called Pandya Premji, set for the latitude of Bhuj, 2 June 1815.

2 Persian versions called "night indicator, day indicator" survive too.

Sources: Sarma, "The Dhruvabhrama-Yantra of Padmanabha", Sanskrit-Vimarsah 6 (2012), 322-342; Padmanabha, Dhruvabhramadhikara vv. 1-16, 31; Sarma, A Descriptive Catalogue of Indian Astronomical Instruments (2019); Science Museum Group object 1990-581.

Photo 1: Dhruvabhrama-yantra, India, 19th century. Science Museum, London, object 1990-581 (the museum calls it a "Hindu quadrant"). Slit at top, concentric scales, four-armed index.

Photo 2: The last verse (DBA 31) and Sarma's note, "out of intellectual curiosity (kautuka)". Sarma 2012, p.327.

Photo 3: How it is used: held like a mirror, two stars through the slit, the eastern pointer gives the rising point. Sarma 2012, pp.330-331.

Photo 4: 31 verses, about seventy manuscripts, about twenty specimens. Sarma 2012, pp.324 and 336.

[NSE India @NSEIndia]

A new landmark is set to redefine Mumbai’s skyline!

NSE has unveiled the architectural design of its proposed new headquarters at Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC), Mumbai.

Designed by the renowned architect Shri Hafeez Contractor, the iconic structure aims at being a symbol of innovation, ambition and India’s growing stature in global financial markets.

A landmark in the making. A vision for the future.

#NSEIndia #NSE #Mumbai #BKC #Architecture #BuildingTheFuture #IndianCapitalMarkets #FinancialMarkets #IndiaGrowthStory @ashishchauhan

[Firstpost @firstpost]

Why are Chinese vloggers showing Dhaka slums as New Delhi?🧵

[Parimal @Fintech03]

A Jain temple in Punjab sold its manuscripts to Henry Wellcome's agents, cheaply. The temple no longer exists.

This May, Wellcome Collection in London said it would return those 2,000+ manuscripts to the Jain community. They go to the University of Birmingham 1st.

It made me think about how much of our written heritage is still scattered / unsearchable / sitting in cupboards.

India's national survey has now reported 1.19 crore manuscripts. Government digitisation stands at 8 lakh+, and about 4.4 lakh can be viewed by the public.

This Deepavali, MIDF opened Smriti. MIDF says it holds 11 lakh+ manuscript records and 1 lakh inscriptions, free to search, in one place. Their next step is a Rs 15 crore fund for digitisation grants to Indian institutions.

Our manuscripts and inscriptions should sit in an archive we build, host and keep ourselves. MIDF is making a start. Who else would build this for us, if we ourselves do not?

If you can donate, volunteer, or know someone who can, please reach out to the MIDF team. 🙏🙏

[satou @n0bor]

Happy Diwali Deepi 🪔

Needed to be said exactly the way you did.
You have no obligation to satisfy and convince the self appointed health experts to innovate and commercialise your products, if their opinion was needed, they would have been participating in Temple research already. I still feel proud just from the fact that Temple started from where it did.

Rooting for you and Temple.

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

What an amazing, soulful rendition of Shri Ram Stuti by the talented Music Club of Arihant International School, Nahan, Himachal Pradesh. 🙏❤️

[satou @n0bor]

Chindian -> most likely Chinese + Indian couple
And NE/N/S Indian outside India is just an Indian homie :)

I have never seen one introduced or introduce themselves based on their region, it always starts off as I am from India and then if the person is interested, they go deeper in region, state and so on.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Leave aside other arguments, did Alexander have India or South Asia in mind?

Did Columbus want to find a route to India or South Asia?

Why were the natives of America called Red Indians and not Red South Asians?

Why did the British set up the East India company and not the South Asian company?

Why was it British India and not British South Asia?

East Indies and West Indies?

Why is it called the Indian Ocean not the South Asian Ocean?

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Today is the birth anniversary of Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman, born 7 November 1888. Here is a vow he made in a Calcutta lab that almost nobody tells.

In late 1927, the Nobel Prize in Physics went to Arthur Compton, for showing that X-rays scatter off electrons with a changed wavelength.

In a lab at 210 Bowbazar Street, Calcutta, Raman heard the news and turned to his student K. S. Krishnan. If this is true of X-rays, he said, it must be true of light too. "It must and shall be found. The Nobel Prize must be won."

The apparatus would not impress a school lab today. A beam of sunlight, converged by a telescope objective of 18 cm aperture and 230 cm focal length. A 2nd lens focusing it into a carefully purified liquid. And the detector: Raman's own eye, watching through complementary filters for a faint trace of light of a changed colour.

On 28 February 1928, they saw it cleanly.

Then Raman did something rare. Before the Nature letter even appeared in print, the newspapers had it. On 1 March 1928, The Statesman of Calcutta reported that earlier experimenters had "reported definitely negative results", and that Raman "took up this question afresh".

It ended with an invitation: he would demonstrate the phenomenon publicly at Bangalore on 16 March....

Munich heard within months. Arnold Sommerfeld wrote to Raman on 16 June 1928 that the discovery had been the subject of his colloquium lecture, and added: Japan, which had worked in modern physics for much longer, "has nothing to show comparable with this discovery."

In Nov 1930, the Nobel Prize came. On 1 December, Rutherford presented Raman with the Royal Society's Hughes Medal and said the Raman effect "must rank among the best three or four discoveries in experimental physics in the last decade."

A vow made in a Calcutta lab. Kept with sunlight and the human eye. 🙏🙏

Sources: vow as recalled by K. S. Krishnan in S. Banerjee, The Making of Modern Physics in Colonial India; Raman & Krishnan, "A New Type of Secondary Radiation", Nature 121, 501 (1928); The Statesman, Calcutta, 1 March 1928 (facsimile in J. Raman Spectrosc. 39, 316, 2008); Sommerfeld to Raman, 16 June 1928, quoted in D. C. Sinha, Prasanga: Kolkata Biswabidyalay (2007), p. 349, via A. R. Choudhuri, Resonance (Dec 2024); Hughes Medal, Nature 126, 897 (1930).

Photo 1: The first announcement in Nature. Sunlight, an 18 cm telescope objective, and the eye as detector.

Photo 2: The Statesman, Calcutta, 1 March 1928.

Photo 3: The Raman Tree, a Roseodendron, at the spot where he was cremated on the RRI grounds. This original tree collapsed in a storm around 2022. RRI planted a Sita Ashoka sapling there in Jan 2024.

Photo 4: Group photograph with Raman (5th, seated) and K. S. Krishnan (4th, seated), per the RRI caption.

[satou @n0bor]

@parmita Absolutely. This would the single best and impactful thing they can do before they reach the cure Or along with their efforts for finding the cure.