Neelacantan (Neel)

Co Founder: @coolturedesigns
✒️Author: Feedback Decoded.💡 Creativity aficonado 🤯I help teams brainstorm🚍Infra-watcher, Public Transport advocacy

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

Zojila Tunnel - Engineers achieve the breakthrough blast on the 13.15 km Zojila Tunnel, India's highest and one of its most challenging road tunnel projects.

Once operational, it will provide all-weather connectivity between Kashmir and Ladakh, ending the annual winter isolation caused by heavy snowfall and temperatures that usually plunge below -30°C.

The tunnel expected to be ready for military use by December 2026, with civilian traffic targeted for February 2028 though Gadkari hints efforts are underway to advance the timeline.

The impact will be transformational: Srinagar–Ladakh travel time will fall from over 2 hours to just 15 minutes across the Zojila stretch, while year-round connectivity will boost tourism, logistics, local livelihoods and military mobility along one of India's most strategic corridors. via @IndianExpress

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

India’s birth rate has fallen below replacement.

Among those most educated, India’s birth rate fell below replacement many years ago.

[Anand Sankar @saybwala]

In any sane country, this would be a recruitment poster, not a subject of outrage.

Wishing the young couple a lifetime of happiness and good health together. 🤗

[WellBuiltStyle @WellBuiltStyle]

A morning workout is the best way to start the day.

An afternoon workout is the best way to break up the day.

An evening workout is the best way to end the day.

Hint: it doesn't matter when you train.👇Just go train!

[Blake Burge @blakeaburge]

Underrated life advice: Have a place where you go to think. A porch. A trail. A coffee shop. A park bench. Somewhere your mind knows it's time to slow down. Most people spend their lives searching for answers. Few create the conditions for answers to appear.

[BowTiedPhys @BowTiedPhys]

Dreaming about an unsolved problem more than doubled the odds of solving it next morning (42% vs 17%).

Always be sleeping on your problems.

[Deepak Prabhu @ragiiing_bull]

Good Morning/Suprabhatam
☀️☀️🌄🌞🌞
34 years. Countless kilometres. Thousands of passengers. One unforgettable legacy, Mr.Joseph Machado.
Mr. Joseph Machado retires from KSRTC after servicing for 34 years on the Mangalore to Mumbai route.

[Janhavi Jain | Building SKIPD @janwhyy]

The Delhi High Court just ruled against Google in a trademark case that every Indian founder needs to know about!!

Hindware sued because searches for "Hindware" returned competitor ads - Cera, Grohe, above their own listing. Customers looking specifically for Hindware were being intercepted at the moment of highest intent.

The court ruled it trademark infringement. Competitor keyword bidding on your brand name is now legally actionable in India.

Search your brand name on Google right now.

If a competitor's ad appears before yours, you have a case, and your competitor has a problem.

This reshapes performance marketing in India. Keyword bidding on competitor names is standard practice across every category - beauty, fintech, edtech, D2C.

The brands doing it most aggressively are also the ones most exposed to this ruling. Let's see how this pans out.

[Freyy @Freyy_is]

the em dash is no longer the clearest sign of ai-generated writing.

honestly? it’s this.

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

https://t.co/Oa3N180brV

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Suspect ALL religion-based grps/ppl, but case in point on eternal hypocrisy: Criticise RSS: Brave secular!
Criticise Teresa: Cowardly bigot!

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

#MustWatch Hell's Angel: Chris Hitchens's brilliant documentary exposing what he saw as the Mother Teresa fraud. | http://t.co/kZIAF7e9HG

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

The other side of Mother Teresa: The not so pious history of the Catholic Church’s saint

On Mother Teresa's birth anniversary, it is imperative that the truth does not get lost in the cacophony

Fantastic article @YearOfTheKraken

https://t.co/hQVHfFZIJT

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Top 10 Reasons Mother Teresa was a Fraud. https://t.co/HSKMmwOF0i

[Neelacantan (Neel) @neelearning]

@namma_vjy Fantastic... You are my go to account for Bangalore weather. I wish it rained more though.

[Bṛhat | बृहत् | Brhat @brhat_in]

We are back with another Aucitya workshop!

This Bangalore edition is a one-day immersive lab for creators, founders, designers and storytellers who want to build culturally resonant products and experiences.

From rasa theory and storytelling to Pañcāṅga-inspired product thinking, the workshop explores how Indian Knowledge Systems can move beyond theory into living design, communication and innovation frameworks.

Designed especially for Bangalore’s vibrant startup and creative ecosystem, the workshop brings together aesthetics, ethics, technology and product imagination to ask an important question: how can culture become a meaningful consumer experience?

If you are a cultural entrepreneur, product storyteller, designer, founder, educator or creator working at the intersection of culture and innovation, this workshop is for you.

Join us in reimagining Indian knowledge as contemporary product experience, narrative and design.

Registrations are now open: https://t.co/9PrXoTh8Sj

@MohanRaghavan8 @CooltureDesigns @RaoNarahari

[Coolture Designs @CooltureDesigns]

An exciting collaboration loading in Namma Bengaluru

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

Awesome. Mumbai city authorities cleared 6 metres of legacy garbage from Asia's largest dumpyard, built a 12-hectare power plant on it, and it will soon generate 8 MW of electricity from 600 tonnes of trash every day.

Every Indian city needs one. Demonstrable proof that India's waste crisis has a solution.

[N. @Nlacombe_]

you’re 22. you scroll 3 hours a day. it feels harmless

at 28 you can’t read an article without checking your phone twice per paragraph

at 32 you don’t understand why nothing you start ever finishes, you’re still dreaming of this project you wanted to start. still no time

at 40 you’ve never finished a book in a decade.

it all passed