Niraj Marathe

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting.

https://t.co/SGfD2ebBpO

The idea is actually very very simple

You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.

[saket साकेत ಸಾಕೇತ್ 🇮🇳 @saket71]

Surgeons with their scalpel arrived at NEET protests.

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

Why don’t opposition and activists pick one of their states, improve governance, reduce corruption, build phenomenal schools and universities and show that to public. People will happily shift their votes.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

Fact 1: Home Ministry cancelled #FCRA registration of @Wangchuk66’s NGO, #SEMCOL, in September 2025 following a CBI inquiry that found financial irregularities & foreign exchange violations in the NGO.

Fact 2: @abhijeet_dipke was an #AAP social media volunteer in 2020-23 & helped the AAP team create a digital campaign for the Delhi election.

Fact 3: Govt must fix accountability for the NEET paper leaks. But it must not give into street thuggery & political blackmail.

[Nick de Semlyen @NickdeSemlyen]

Sam Neill and Peter Jackson were good mates. Love this story about a prank the latter played on the former.

[Niraj Marathe @nirajmarathe]

@AtombergCares @atomberg_tech
Fan Repair pending for 8 days now despite repeated followups. Not even a call back.
@arindam___paul why not build service capability with vendors if your team is not able to address common issues. The vendors aren't trained for basic service?

[Math Files @Math_files]

Happy Birthday to Coulomb

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Days shut in a year:

Hospital: 0
Border post: 0
Police station: 0
High court: 155
Supreme court: 159

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Indian Navy safely recovers and disposes of unexploded missile warhead from crude oil tanker MT Olympic Life off Oman coast.

The Marshall Islands-flagged vessel, en route from Fujairah to Kochi, had the projectile lodged in a fuel tank following a hull explosion on 26 May.

[Aravindwrites🇮🇳🇸🇬 @Aravindwrites08]

#Annamalai - The easier route is to make some compromises and become a central minister to make a name for himself at the national level, but he chooses the harder terrain where the risk of failing is high. This choice defines who he is.

Special 👏👏👏 for this alone.

@annamalai_k

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

Indian business is controlled by a small coterie of business dynasties, many of whom are linked together by marriage. It is a closed circle of elites, who function like old school zamindars.

One simply doesn’t expect these 21st century zamindars to be able to contribute to Indian economy’s growth to $20T in output. In fact, the Licence Raj orientation and manipulative, predatory mindset of many companies is a serious impediment to India’s progress.

For India to progress, these businesses have to be out-competed and neutered. The same had happened 30 years ago, when the first flush of reforms speared through and reshaped the Indian business landscape. Many of today’s corporate giants swept away blue chip names of that era - as life goes, today the challengers of that period have become like the old guard they had displaced.

The problem is barriers to entry and barriers to scaling slow down the turnover. This generation of Indians is counting on Prime Minister @narendramodi to deliver on necessary reforms, so that new entrants can once again displace the distracted, tired and corpulent incumbents who at this point can be generously described as squatters impeding the path of India’s progress. https://t.co/hY8DYmT7wP

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

That water clarity is an engineering decision, and the math behind it is wilder than the video.

Roman aqueducts ran on gravity alone. No pumps, no pressure systems. Engineers carved channels with a gradient so shallow it borders on absurd. The Pont du Gard in southern France drops 2.5 centimeters over 275 meters. That's roughly the thickness of a coin over the length of three football fields. They surveyed that accuracy with plumb lines and wooden leveling instruments.

The clarity you're seeing is a direct product of flow velocity. Too steep and the water erodes the channel walls, picks up sediment, turns brown. Too flat and it stagnates. Roman engineers targeted a slope of about 20 centimeters per kilometer, which kept the water moving fast enough to stay fresh but slow enough to stay clear. Before the water reached the city, it passed through multi-chamber settling tanks where velocity dropped near zero. Suspended particles sank. Clean water flowed out the top into the next chamber. Repeat three or four times.

Pliny specified the minimum slope in writing. Vitruvius published the exact mortar ratio for hydraulic cement: one part lime to two parts volcanic ash for underwater work. The pozzolana from Pozzuoli reacted with water to form a calcium-aluminum-silicate compound that actually gets stronger the longer it sits submerged. Modern concrete degrades in water. Roman concrete bonds with it.

Scale the whole system and it gets harder to process. Eleven aqueducts fed Rome at its peak. Combined output: roughly 1 million cubic meters of water per day. That works out to about 250 gallons per person for a city of one million. Modern New York delivers about 125 gallons per person per day. Ancient Rome had access to double the per capita water supply of the largest city in the United States, running entirely on slope and stone.

The Trevi Fountain in Rome is still fed by one of them. Two thousand years, same source, same gravity, same water.

[Niraj Marathe @nirajmarathe]

"Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence. To remain available without agenda."

https://t.co/4m3I7s78DP

[dickenson @Pghsld]

Holy based Gujarat, and then people ask why everything goes there.

https://t.co/kSklsNKtqI

[Harsh Sanghavi @sanghaviharsh]

No more tangled wires above.
Smarter cables below.
Gujarat’s Wire-Free City Mission is transforming our urban skylines safer, cleaner & future-ready.
Work in full swing across UGVCL, MGVCL, DGVCL & PGVCL zones.
Gujarat leads.

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

PM needs to stop virtue signalling. Convoys and security protocols and arrangements should be based on threat perception. PM and HM are in high risk and shouldn’t compromise on security. All other ministers can make do with even one vehicle. State ministers and babus should not get more than one vehicle. These people should not travel with an army of attendants and hanger ons. Put an end to that even if there was no austerity.

[OpIndia.com @OpIndia_com]

Madhya Pradesh: 50 IAS officers purchase argicultural land on same day

Approve ₹3,200 crore bypass project, reclassify land as ‘residential’ and jack up property prices 11 times

https://t.co/TYX25Tmvrl

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

Send Honey Singh.

[India in Pixels by Ashris 🔱 @indiainpixels]

How strong is victimhood narrative in states of India?

AI scores states based on public discourse, news framing, and political rhetoric.

[Niraj Marathe @nirajmarathe]

@etnow @HoeZaay FYI. Do your thing.