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[Ajai Chowdhry @AjaiChowdhry]

We quit our jobs.

There were six of us — Shiv Nadar, Arjun Malhotra, Yogesh Vaidya, Subhash Arora, D.S. Puri and me.

It was 1976. Startups were not really a thing in India. Venture capital did not exist. Banks were not exactly lining up to lend money to six young men with an idea and no collateral.

And computers? Most people had barely heard of them.

But we believed the microprocessor was going to change the world.

So we took the plunge.

Between the six of us, we managed to put together ₹1.87 lakh. We borrowed, pooled our savings and, in one case, even sold a car.

Our first office was a small barsati in Golf Links, Delhi.

We called ourselves Microcomp. We wanted to build an Indian computer.

There was just one problem.

We didn’t have a manufacturing licence.

That eventually led us to UP Electronics Corporation. They had the licence. We had the technology. And that partnership gave birth to Hindustan Computers Limited — HCL.

But perhaps the most audacious part of the story was what happened next.

We started selling a computer that was still being designed.

We had a brochure and a mock-up of the machine. That was it.

Our sales teams went across India, knocking on doors and convincing businesses to buy into a technology they had never used before.

The first orders came from IIT Kharagpur and IIT Madras.

Then came the harder part — convincing businesses.

In Coimbatore, we were up against DCM DP, a much bigger and more established name. I still remember sitting in the reception area of Premier Mills while the DCM team made its pitch.

We went in second.

And we won.

That one order gave us five more. Then ten.

That was HCL in those early years: not having the biggest balance sheet, the biggest brand or the easiest path — but finding a way.

We were restless.

We looked for gaps. We hired people who had what we called a “cowboy” spirit. We believed that technology had to be made useful and accessible, not intimidating.

And we kept moving.

From building India’s early indigenous computers to taking our business to Singapore when HCL was just four years old. From a small room in Delhi to a global technology company.

When I look back at 50 years, I think about six people sitting together in 1976, wondering if this crazy idea could actually work.

I think about a barsati.

A brochure for a computer that did not yet exist.

And the courage to knock on the next door.

That, to me, is the real HCL story.

50 years later, the technology has changed beyond anything we could have imagined.

But the spirit remains the same:

Dream big. Take the risk. And above all, Just Aspire.

Happy 50th, HCL.

What a journey it has been.

#AjaiChowdhry #JustAspire #HCL #50yearsofHCL #Nostalgic #Founders

[Pooja @poojaofficial5]

I was comfortably making my bed on my confirmed 3AC seat

when a guy suddenly came and asked, "Madam, are you sure this is your seat ?"

I confidently showed him my ticket and said
"Absolutely, this is my seat."

He did not argue. He simply sat aside and waited for the TTE.

A little later, the TTE arrived and said

"This seat belongs to him."

I was completely shocked.

I immediately opened the app and checked my seat details again.

Same seat number. Confirmed ticket. Everything looked correct.

Then the TTE said

"Check the current status once."

I checked it, and suddenly, the whole story changed.

My confirmed 3AC seat had been upgraded to 2AC.

People around me started looking at me as if I had pulled off some major jugaad.

Someone asked
"Madam, how did you manage that ?"

Another asked
"How did you get the upgrade ?"

I smiled and said

"Connections, bro."

The truth ?

No connections.
Just Indian Railways’ automatic upgrade.

That day, I realized something

Sometimes you think you are exactly where you are supposed to be,

only to discover that life has quietly upgraded you to something better.

[Prasanna OG @OGprasanna]

குருவி தயாரிப்பாளருக்கு எதிர்கட்சித் தலைவர் பதவி 😂

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Another story of ordinary people contributing extraordinarily to our society.

Coimbatore, nestled against the Western Ghats, shows that greenery isn’t just scenery, it’s the result of quiet, consistent effort.

One Tree Per Week (OTPW), led by Mohanraj A and friends from Pattanam village, has spent the last few years turning unused pond beds, vacant government land and neglected spots into thriving green zones across Naickenpalayam, Peddampatti and Pallapalayam.

They cleared garbage dumping sites and alcohol hangouts, then planted thousands of saplings using the Miyawaki method for dense, fast growing native forests in small spaces.

The results:

Around 2,000 saplings on two acres, then 3,000 more, and eventually around 10,000 on five acres, now living green zones. They’ve also planted in schools, public places and beyond.

Their simple idea: if every family plants just one sapling a week on unused land, the collective impact multiplies.

In 2022 the Tamil Nadu Pollution Control Board recognised their work with the Green Champion Award. They’ve also signed MoUs with colleges and, through CSR support, improved school toilets for healthier learning spaces.

As the city grows busier, OTPW keeps planting, proving that barren land can become a gift for the next generation.

One tree. One week. Many hands. Real change.

Source: The New Indian Express

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Six faculty members from IIT Madras have been selected for the Anusandhan National Research Foundation (ANRF) J.C. Bose Grant, one of India’s highest honours for senior scientists and engineers. The grant provides ₹25 lakh annually for five years to support frontier research.

Their work spans prosthetics, clean water, next-generation optical networks, sustainable energy, biomedical innovation and fundamental chemistry, demonstrating how cutting-edge research at IIT Madras is translating into technologies that improve millions of lives.

The six professors and their impactful research are:

Prof. Sujatha Srinivasan develops affordable prosthetics and assistive devices tailored for Indian users.

Prof. Thalappil Pradeep creates low-cost water purification technologies that have brought safe drinking water to millions and founded the International Centre for Clean Water.

Prof. Deepa Venkitesh leads India’s first multicore optical fibre testbed and advances high-capacity optical communication systems.

Prof. Jitendra S. Sangwai works on carbon capture, gas hydrates and sustainable energy solutions for reducing emissions.

Prof. Ramakrishnan Swaminathan designs biomedical devices and instrumentation to improve diagnosis of brain and muscle-related conditions.

Prof. Sundargopal Ghosh advances transition-metal boron chemistry for better catalysis and small-molecule activation.

We need to celebrate these real-life heroes.

News Source: Times of India

[Soleil 🇷🇼 @une_kundwa]

He pretended sleeping until fish trusted him then became dinner Tonight hilarious 😂🐟🍽️

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Mysuru, Karnataka | Prime Minister Narendra Modi felicitated at the inauguration ceremony of the Swami Vivekananda Cultural Youth Centre- Viveka Smaraka.

(Source: DD)

[Chota Don @choga_don]

While we are fighting for paper leak, Bro has a luxurious AC setup to sit on ultra-plush executive chair in a motorized glass enclosure, letting devotees touch his feet in lavish comfort 😭

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

Śrī Rāma Rāma Rāmeti... Sahasra Nāma Tat Tulyam.
How can one name equal a thousand names?
The mathematical symbolism is elegant.
Ra's placement in Ya, Ra, La, Va = 2.
Ma's placement in Pa, Pha, Ba, Bha, Ma = 5.
Ra & Ma, not additive, but multiplicative in effect: 2 × 5 = 10.
Rāma Rāma Rāmeti = Chant Rama three times → 10³ = 1000.
The Vishnu Sahasranamam encoded in a single name. Beautiful mathematics that Prof. Kamakoti also described.
But even deeper philosophy.
The three utterances of Rama may be seen as aligning the waking, dreaming, and deep sleep states described in the Upanishads... integrating consciousness itself around the Divine.
Why Rama?
Because Ramayati iti Rama: He in whom all beings delight; He who is Bliss itself.
Not pleasure.
Ānanda: the very Sat-Chit-Ānanda (Existence-Consciousness-Bliss) that the Upanishads identify with Brahman.
The Vishnu Sahasranamam gives us a 1000 names because the finite mind approaches the Infinite through a thousand attributes.
The Srimad Bhagavatam reminds us that the One appears as the many without ever ceasing to be One.
The thousand names are the many. Rama is the One.
In Advaita, the thousand names belong to language. The one name points beyond language.
The thousand names educate the intellect. The one name transforms consciousness.
A metaphor: One can analyze the 1000 different rays coming into the room or marvel at the Sun itself that is the Source of those 1000 rays.
Perhaps that is why Adi Shankaracharya simply said:
"Geyam Gītā Nāma Sahasram."
Sometimes, the Infinite is not reached by adding more. It is realized by returning to the One.🙏

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

This post on the benefits of Vishnu Sahasranamam parayanam reminds me of my own journey with this timeless practice.

I learnt the Vishnu Sahasranamam in 1998. For most of the years since, I chanted it on special days: Ekadashi, some Saturdays, occasions that called for it. I enjoyed it every single time. A remarkable calm would come over me the moment I finished. And yet, despite the benefits I experienced, I somehow never found the discipline to do it daily. Twenty-eight years of an experience I valued, and I still let it stay occasional.

This year, faced with some challenges, I felt I needed that calming anchor rather than merely admiring it and chanting it occasionally. Since the beginning of the year I have chanted it every day, and I am truly glad the discipline finally came.

Somewhere in these months it stopped being something I do. I now feel incomplete on a day I have not chanted it.

What prompted me to start in the first place was Adi Shankaracharya’s Bhaja Govindam, where he exhorts us: “Geyam Gita nama sahasram.” Recite the Bhagavad Gita and the thousand names.

My reaction to that verse was not devotional. It was closer to an economist’s instinct about revealed preference. Here is Adi Shankara, arguably the finest philosophical mind India has produced, a man who dismantled every competing school of thought before he was thirty. He could have prescribed anything. Out of the entire corpus available to him, he pointed to two texts: the Gita, and the thousand names. When someone of that calibre narrows the field so sharply, the sensible response is not to argue. It is to try it.

So I began. And I have really enjoyed chanting it every time in these 28 years.

If I were to offer one thing to anyone starting out, it would be this. I try to chant it meditatively. Not racing to finish, but listening to the sound of each word as I say it, attention resting on the syllable being uttered right now. Done this way, the stotram becomes an anchor to the present moment, which is the hardest place to keep the mind and the only place from which anything useful gets done. The names do the work. You only have to listen.

I write this mainly for the young. Somewhere along the way, many of our brightest students have absorbed the idea that a practice like this belongs to a different India, one they have outgrown. That you can have rigour or you can have the stotram, and choosing the first means quietly setting down the second. It is a false trade, and it costs them something.

Which is why I am glad to share Prof. Kamakoti’s thoughts on the Vishnu Sahasranamam parayanam. Hear him in his own words. A computer scientist who has built his career in computer architecture, embedded systems and cybersecurity, now leading one of the most demanding technical institutions in the country. Nothing about that life required him to give this up.

To any student who has wondered whether the two can sit together, there is your answer.

Some things are best understood not by debating them, but by trying them with sincerity and consistency. Whether you come to the Vishnu Sahasranamam through devotion, through philosophy, or simply as a contemplative practice, I have found it a remarkable source of focus and inner energy.

My thanks to Prof. Kamakoti for prompting this reflection.

Om Namo Bhagavate Vasudevaya.

[Jay Shah @Shahofvision]

This is a rookie's mistake by this husband...newly married I guess..

[Mokka Memes @MokkaMemes_]

The future of Tamil Nadu Politics

[Tamil Memes @Gurunathaaaa]

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[Luckylook 💙 @luckykrishna]

FDFS review

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[Gypsy 🎭 @Gypsy_1809]

பருத்தி மூட்ட சென்சார்ட்டையே இருந்துருக்கலாம் !

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விஜய் ரசிகர் மன்றத் தலைவர்கள் 🤣

[MR. கொடி🖤❤️ @Mr_kodi_2k]

😭😭

[Shreya Agrawal @Shreya_26ag]

Dev vs Tester be like

[Li Mengbai @lvjin1993]

应该给设计师颁个奖，我一直等他烧断，结果人家华丽丽的三头燃烧🤔

[Alíén 👽 @Alien18R]

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