Naga Sampath

Proud Hindu * Software Professional * Equity Investor * Spiritual * Music lover.

[V. Somanna @VSOMANNA_BJP]

ನೈಋತ್ಯ ರೈಲ್ವೆ ವ್ಯಾಪ್ತಿಗೆ ಮಂಗಳೂರು!

ಕರಾವಳಿ ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ರೈಲು ಬಳಕೆದಾರರು, ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಆಡಳಿತ ಮತ್ತು ಸೇವೆಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಂಬಂಧಿಸಿದ ಕಳವಳಗಳನ್ನು ನಿವಾರಿಸುವ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ಭಾರತೀಯ ರೈಲ್ವೆಯು ಐತಿಹಾಸಿಕ ನಿರ್ಧಾರ ಕೈಗೊಂಡಿದೆ.

ಮೂರು ವಲಯಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಹಂಚಿಹೋಗಿದ್ದ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಪ್ರದೇಶವು ಇದೀಗ, ಈ ಭಾಗದ ಜನರ ಅಪೇಕ್ಷೆಯಂತೆ ನೈಋತ್ಯ ರೈಲ್ವೆಯ ಭಾಗವಾಗಲಿದೆ. (ವಿಭಾಗೀಯ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕಚೇರಿ ಮೈಸೂರು ಮತ್ತು ವಲಯ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ಕಚೇರಿ ಹುಬ್ಬಳ್ಳಿ ಆಗಿರುತ್ತದೆ.) ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ಆರ್ಥಿಕ ಅಭಿವೃದ್ಧಿಯ ಅವಿಭಾಜ್ಯ ಅಂಗವಾಗಿರುವ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಪ್ರದೇಶಕ್ಕೆ ಈ ಮೂಲಕ ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಹೆಚ್ಚಿನ ಶಕ್ತಿ ದೊರೆತಂತಾಗಿದ್ದು, ಸಕಾಲಿವಾದ ಆಡಳಿತಾತ್ಮಕ ನಿರ್ಧಾರಗಳನ್ನು ಕೈಗೊಳ್ಳಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗಲಿದೆ.

ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಜಾಲವು ಪ್ರಾದೇಶಿಕವಾದ ಗಡಿಗಳನ್ನು ದಾಟಿ ಹಬ್ಬಿದ್ದರೂ, ಆಡಳಿತಾತ್ಮಕವಾಗಿ ವಲಯಗಳನ್ನು ಸಂಯೋಜಿಸುವುದರಿಂದ ಅಧಿಕಾರಿಗಳನ್ನು ಸುಲಭವಾಗಿ ಸಂಪರ್ಕಿಸಲು ಸಾಧ್ಯವಾಗುತ್ತದೆ. ಅಲ್ಲದೇ, ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರ ದೂರುಗಳನ್ನು ತ್ವರಿತವಾಗಿ ಪರಿಹರಿಸಬಹುದು ಮತ್ತು ವ್ಯಾಪಾರ ವಹಿವಾಟುಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಸುಲಭತೆಯನ್ನು ಮತ್ತಷ್ಟು ಸುಧಾರಿಸಬಹುದಾಗಿದೆ.

2024 ರ ಜುಲೈ ತಿಂಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಮಂಗಳೂರಿಗೆ ಭೇಟಿ ನೀಡಿದ ಸಂದರ್ಭದಲ್ಲಿ ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರು ಈ ಬೇಡಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ನನ್ನ ಗಮನಕ್ಕೆ ತಂದಿದ್ದರು. ಆ ಭಾಗವಾಗಿ ದೀರ್ಘಕಾಲದ ಕುಂದುಕೊರತೆಗಳನ್ನು ಪರಿಹರಿಸುವುದು ಮತ್ತು ಸಾರ್ವಜನಿಕರಿಗೆ ಅನುಕೂಲ ಕಲ್ಪಿಸುವ ನಿಟ್ಟಿನಲ್ಲಿ ದಕ್ಷಿಣ ರೈಲ್ವೆಯ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕರು, ನೈಋತ್ಯ ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಪ್ರಧಾನ ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕರು ಮತ್ತು ಕೊಂಕಣ್ ರೈಲ್ವೆಯ ಅಧ್ಯಕ್ಷರು ಮತ್ತು ವ್ಯವಸ್ಥಾಪಕ ನಿರ್ದೇಶಕರೊಂದಿಗೆ ಸಭೆ ನಡೆಸಿ, ಚರ್ಚಿಸಲಾಗಿತ್ತು.

ಈ ಪ್ರಸ್ತಾವನೆಯನ್ನು ಅನುಮೋದಿಸುವ ಮೂಲಕ ಮಂಗಳೂರು ಭಾಗದ ಜನತೆಯ ಬಹುದಿನಗಳ ಬೇಡಿಕೆಯನ್ನು ಈಡೇರಿಸಿರುವ ಮಾನ್ಯ ಕೇಂದ್ರ ರೈಲ್ವೆ ಸಚಿವರಾದ ಶ್ರೀ ಅಶ್ವಿನಿ ವೈಷ್ಣವ್ ಅವರಿಗೆ ಹೃತ್ಪೂರ್ವಕವಾದ ಧನ್ಯವಾದಗಳನ್ನು ಸಲ್ಲಿಸುತ್ತೇನೆ.

A historic decision for coastal Karnataka!

To address long-pending demands and improve accessibility for rail users, the Mangaluru railway region (up to Ullal) is being transferred from Southern Railway’s Palakkad Division to South Western Railway’s Mysuru Division, effective 1 October 2026.

This landmark shift brings Mangaluru’s railway administration under a unified regional setup with its Divisional HQ in Mysuru and Zonal HQ in Hubballi. Unifying this network resolves decades-old administrative division, drastically reduces jurisdictional friction, speeds up public grievance redressal, and accelerates regional infrastructure development.

Resolving this long standing grievance was one of my major priorities as I had visited Mangaluru in July 2024 and chaired a meeting with GM SWR, GM SR and CMD KRCL to evolve a permanent solution to the matter.

As a crucial economic and port hub for Karnataka, streamlining Mangaluru’s rail network under a common administrative jurisdiction will enhance the ease of doing business and unlock the region's full economic potential.

My heartfelt gratitude to Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi Ji and Union Railway Minister Shri @AshwiniVaishnaw Ji for approving this historic proposal. This decision marks a new chapter in the growth, connectivity, and overall development of coastal Karnataka!

[Harsha Bhat 🇮🇳 @bhatinmaai]

Wow!

CM of our neighbouring state is actually saying the Centre can’t stop Kerala from doing what it does best - use Mlore to feed its state coffers!

What Rubbish!

Like they take our trains, take the revenue, dump garbage in Mysuru, want freeway through Bandipur, Sullia and its demographic shift is for even nincompoops to see, go to Madiwala station on Friday and you have to struggle to hear Kannada, come COVID and they have an issue if Mlore seals its borders coz they got no hospital of their own.

Like clap clap!!! This is literally asking how can you take back and give to Karnataka what is rightfully theirs 😒

God’s Own Country!!!

[Suresh Prabhu @sureshpprabhu]

Yes,PM Atalji appointed me,had prepared comprehensive assessment of addressing water management issues,from supply &demand side,as we have only 4%of fresh water of world,used by more than17%of population,conducted studies on Enviorenment impact,social issues,economic costs,rehabilitation of people,protect biodiversity,SPV for timely execution,reports prepared by top class indian institutions,were presented by us to Supreme Court.Agriculture,livelihoods,biological&human life,sustains on water.I had done 5000 road shows,across India,met all sections of society,consulted,taken their views on board,was indeed unprecedented,mammoth efforts for widest possible involvement.

[Vedvrat @I_am_Vedvrat]

I thought Rajdeep was an idiot but this lady is just worst of the worst!

She is asking Tukaram Mundhe “We live in India after all, it is hot & humid, toh makkhi machhar aur cockroach ayenge, why make a big issue of it?”

Is being low IQ the only criteria to be a television anchor these days? 😶‍🌫️

[Justin Skycak @justinskycak]

The best career advice for young people is to just focus relentlessly on 3 things:

1. Get skilled. Technical skills, writing skills, people-orchestration skills, everything.

2. Get involved contributing to a mission you're aligned with. It doesn't have to be pure bliss and your contribution doesn't have to match your top strengths exactly. But at the end of the day you have to feel some pride in what you did or what you learned. If you can find something like that while becoming skilled in a number of different ways then you'll find ways to increasingly wrap your skill profile around it (and you'll find/develop strengths in your skill profile that you never expected).

3. Pick up momentum. If you do (1) and (2) right then you've got direction and potential and all that's left is to sprint forwards and achieve it. The more momentum you pick up, the better you get, the more real value you produce, the more opportunities you create, the more you get noticed, the more value you capture into your own life, the more effort you want to put in... you create a virtuous cycle with so much momentum behind it that it becomes an unstoppable virtuous cyclone.

[Shweta Rajpal Kohli @ShwetaRKohli]

I just watched The 22nd Century Indian. And absolutely loved it.

The setting: Hoskote, a village 25 km east of Bengaluru, where a group of twenty-somethings is building wings, literally.

Among them are three Startup Policy Forum members we're so proud of:
🔹 Khushi Mittal, Aspera Industries, building autonomous cargo planes that take off and land on water
🔹 Samay Sanghvi, Alteon, long-range UAVs that can stay airborne for up to 417 days
🔹 Naman Pushp, Airbound, delivery drones already turning heads in global startup circles

Released today, on India's 80th Independence Day, this documentary follows them and other young founders. It's a testament to a simple truth: India is changing, and India's startup story is changing with it.

Directed by Shaurya Sinha and produced by Shunya Productions, the film spotlights founders rewriting the old script, the ones choosing a different, more uncertain path of entrepreneurship, and the belief that they can transform their nation for the better.

The documentary is about wings, about those building the wings, and about the people who tell you to fly.

No spoilers, but here's a sneak peek into my favourite scene: the intercuts between Khushi and Sabia Ahmed of Lucknow, someone Khushi met on a flight, and now credits, alongside her grandfather, for believing in her. And Sabia, with the kind of line you don't forget: "auntie talk kabhi achi bhi ho sakti hai."

A strong message runs through the film. For VCs: if you want a nation's appetite to grow, you must feed it. For founders: build your own wings, because even if you fall, the greater fear is to never fly at all.

Just 22 mins, do watch.

🇮🇳 🚀🔥

@shaurya_sinha7 @khushhhi_ @TheRealNamzoo @samaysanghvi @AlteonAerospace @Airbound_Aero @srajagopalan @emergent_vc @SPF_India

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Good one! Very alarming but informative!

For all, including Gen Z and others! How foreign forces can manipulate the minds of our people using Social Media platforms and their engineered algorithms!

[Mallika Bajaj @mbajaj20]

🇮🇳 भारत में जन्मे हो?
ये जन्म संयोग नहीं।
तुमने भारत को नहीं चुना
भारत की दिव्य mandate ने तुम्हें चुना है। 🦋🧿🇮🇳

#JaiHind

[Mallika Bajaj @mbajaj20]

Friends I need your help

जब Bharat के लिए कोई अकेला खड़ा था, तब हम कहाँ थे?

और हमने क्या किया?

🪳 Cockroach से डर गए।

🇮🇳 इतिहास सिर्फ पढ़ा नहीं जाता।
इतिहास में हमारी भूमिका भी दर्ज होती है।

डरकर पीछे हटना भी एक चुनाव है। @dpradhanbjp @narendramodi @AmitShah @myogiadityanath @mbajaj20 #HarHarMahadev

[“Riseyourself” RL Narayanan @rlnarayanan]

🔴 A MUST WATCH FOR YOUTH AND THOSE WHO HAVE CHILDREN
— I HAVE WRITTEN ABOUT THIS MANY TIMES.
The evil design of the algorithm is to separate children from families, divide the country.

Divide and rule “old wine” in new bottle but to intoxicate children with garbage,

The next war may not be fought for our land.

It may be fought inside our minds.

I have written many times about how algorithms are no longer merely deciding what we watch.

They are increasingly influencing what we notice, what we desire, what we fear, what angers us—and eventually, how we think.

Mallika Bajaj raises an uncomfortable question India cannot afford to ignore:

Are foreign-controlled algorithms quietly conditioning the minds of India’s youth?

She describes what she calls an Algorithmic Cognitive Reinforcement Loop (ACRL)—where repeated exposure, engagement and algorithmic amplification can progressively shape behaviour and perception.

And what gets amplified?

The Four Vs:

Viciousness.
Virality.
Vulgarity.
Violence.

Because outrage captures attention.
Attention creates engagement.
Engagement creates data.
And data creates enormous economic—and potentially cognitive—power.

A generation spending several hours every day inside digital ecosystems should understand one fundamental truth:

If you don’t consciously choose what enters your mind, an algorithm may increasingly choose it for you.

India fought for political sovereignty.

We built economic sovereignty.

We are pursuing technological sovereignty.

The next frontier may be even more important:

COGNITIVE SOVEREIGNTY. 🇮🇳

India needs indigenous technology, stronger digital literacy and a generation capable of questioning the algorithm rather than unconsciously obeying it.

Control the attention, and you influence the mind.
Influence enough minds, and you influence the future of a nation.

This deserves a national conversation.

🎥 Credit: ANI Podcast with Smita Prakash — clips featuring Mallika Bajaj

[Mallika Bajaj @mbajaj20]

भारत की Consciousness बिकाऊ नहीं है। 🇮🇳

सावधान, भारत। 🚨
#स्वयंबोध
#धर्मोरक्षतिरक्षितः

[Wokeflix @wokeflix]

Watch this and share. @mbajaj20 articulates what’s happened last month and how danger still mounts upon India.

Full Video: https://t.co/xnhgVTgE2U

[Dr. Shama Mohamed @drshamamohd]

My cook plays the Gayatri Mantra every day when he enters my kitchen, and I listen to it every day and like it.

But my question is: Why was the Gayatri Mantra played at an IIT convocation? It wasn’t a religious event. Our educational spaces should be free from religious slogans and chants of all religions

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

This just shook me to the core. As I type these words, I am in another city, admitting the teen to a university, ensuring that the essentials that would be needed for the next four years are all in place. To the best possible extent.
I shall be leaving for home shortly. I am already dreading that journey. I know the teen may not pick up the phone when called. Sometimes may not even call back later.
When I look at the teen, radiant, excited, looking forward to a whole new life, I feel both proud and a little blank.
Thank you, @smritiirani ji, for putting it so beautifully. The missus is crying here, listening to you. Only the wearer knows where the damn shoe pinches.

[Rohitashw Trivedi @RohitashwT]

The mantras, stotras and anushthans that the Rishis composed and set down were themselves an act of deeksha — an initiation they offered freely to all beings, not to a chosen few.

Mantra jaap, stotra paath and anushthan carry no side effects ever. They harm no one. Always good results. Irrespective of your horoscope, dasha, gochar or muhurat.

A guru can certainly make the path easier — clarifying the meaning, correcting the pronunciation, guiding you through the vidhi. That value is real, and the importance of the guru remains undiminished. But for these particular mantras and anushthans, a guru is not a precondition. Consider the Gayatri Mantra, Vishnu Sahasranama, Durga Saptashati, Aditya Hridayam, Shiva Panchakshari, Shiva Tandava Stotra, Mahamrityunjaya, Saundarya Lahari — and many more.

The words of the Rishi are themselves the guru. A guru need not be a person in flesh. Guru is a tattva — a principle, not a personality.

[Sundar Pichai @sundarpichai]

I also want to give a huge thanks to the incomparable @JeffDean after an incredible 27-year run at Google. He’s off to start his own public benefit corporation with @Sanjay_Ghemawat focused on accelerating discoveries across ML, science, & engineering. @Google will support as a founding investor and Cloud partner. On a personal note, it’s been a privilege to work with Jeff and Sanjay, and I wish them all the best. Thank you for everything!

[Ambi Moorthy @AmbiMoorthy]

2014 I was working at Zoho,
Mani took me into his mentorship, nurtured me and made me the person that I'm today.

At work I was very rebellious, wanted to move very fast and not a very nice person to work with.

I feel very ashamed of that right now.

I ask the forgiveness of my co-worker.

I got work done but ended up burning a lot of bridges.

Mani took me aside one day and made me realize that it is good to win but it is much more important to win as a team.

Mani never advised, he would simply lead by example and you can learn so much just by observation and reflection.

In the last 12 years, working with him has helped me overcome almost any professional challenge through sheer grit and going to the root of the problem.

He taught me that the whole of life is a grand experiment.

Thanks @MVhandle for nurturing my grit and shaping my sensiblities around people and product.

Indebted to you and SV for building an institution / mothership like Zoho 🙏

[Vedanjanam @VEDANJANAM]

Simplest remedies all should do:

1. Arghya to Surya
2. No meals after Sunset
3. Coarse grains to replace wheat
4. Ekadashi Vrata

These can change your life!

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

(continued) Let me come to the jobs and income issue in the AI and factory automation era.

Let me start with this: "why does a Swiss school teacher afford an iPhone in 2-4 days of income while an Indian school teacher needs to work 2-4 months for the same thing?"

The answer in a nut shell: Switzerland has the deep tech capability to trade for iPhones made elsewhere on favorable terms and the Swiss political economy chooses to pay teachers well.

First, technology capability is absolutely critical not because of the direct jobs it brings but because of the "optionality" it gives in being able to arrange our own political economy in terms of the nature of jobs and income distribution.

That is a fancy way of saying "If you have the deep tech capability in a region, the regional economy has the option of paying non-tech occupations like teachers, farmers, barbers, ... well." Here "paying well" is translated as "how many days of work buys an iPhone".

Why do I say "option of". The regional economy can also be arranged in dystopian ways where prosperity is not widely shared and a few extremely rich people and a lot of very poorly paid people exist.

Now let me be clear: if a regional economy does not have the deep tech capability to exchange for the iPhone on favorable terms, the regional political economy has no option but to keep going into debt to the outside world.

Ultimately the debt will be held by the deep tech capable regions and companies. So they would give us all the tech and we become indebted to them.

Switzerland avoids that fate by having capabilities the world wants. Israel is another example. Each nation has fewer than 10 million people, so Chennai is bigger than each nation. Or as I prefer to see it "a few southern districts of Tamil Nadu have the population of Switzerland".

Now let me come to the UBI question: the way we can avoid the UBI hell is to first develop deep tech capability in the region (lots of R&D) and then we create jobs in what I call "Nature, Nurture, Culture and Scripture".

The jobs part is the political economy and I would spend the tech wealth in nature conservation and sustainable farming and decently paid farmers, good schools and decently paid teachers, good health care and decently paid nurses, good cultural and sports events and decently paid local artists, good religious institutions and decently paid priests and counselors.

The option to decently pay these jobs exist only if the region can trade on favorable terms and that comes from deep tech capability.

That is the long explanation of my thesis: Rural Development through Research and Development.

The R&D creates the external balance and the RD creates the internal harmony in society. That is my economic thesis: Balance, Symmetry, Harmony and Contentment.

R&D only makes it all possible, let me get back to work!

[PrabhuChawla @PrabhuChawla]

It wasn’t an ideological safe seat for the BJP . It was a family fiefdom of the Sinha’s. #Bankipur saw a clash between two personalities. It was a giant @PrashantKishor vs an unknown pigmy some Sinha. And a non performing Chief minister made it easier for JSP to walk away with a trophy. No big lessons emerge from this non battle.