Tushar Prabhu

Observational astrophysicist interested in oriental languages and culture

[Abhishek Avtans अभिषेक अवतंस 🌐 Public Linguist @avtansa]

However, within a few decades, this sense of non-communal 'piety' faded into the background, and everyone's respective Gods became fanatically fixed. 5/end

[Dr Jitendra Singh @DrJitendraSingh]

To promote #Astrophysics & #Astronomy, four Telescope infrastructure facilities will be set up or upgraded - National Large Solar Telescope, National Large Infrared Optical Telescope, Himalayan Chandra Telescope and Cosmos-2 planetarium.

-Smt. @nsitharaman

#DST, Ministry of Science and Technology

#ViksitBharatBudget

[Mudit @muditfx]

Swami Vivekananda had something to say about people obsessed with astrology, food taboos during fasting/eclipses, hyper vegetarianism, concept of nazar, no non-veg on Tuesdays, gemstones, etc. etc.

[Tushar Prabhu @prabhu_tpp]

@tuffimitten chāroñ taraf haiñ maz.habī chāroñ taraf haiñ nafrateñ
sab kī namāz ek hai sab kā jihād ek hai
Atif Tauqeer

[Craig Murray @CraigMurrayOrg]

I write as former Head of Maritime Section of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office
and Alternate Head of UK Delegation to the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea Prepcom.

1) The flotilla is on the High Seas and not in Israel's 12 mile territorial sea. Israel has no jurisdiction.

2) The Israeli maritime blockade has been in place for 17 years and is an intrinsic part of the long term occupation found illegal in the ICJ advisory opinion

3) It is therefore not a short term measure in time of armed conflict as specified in the San Remo manual

4) In any event the San Remo rules explicitly state that humanitarian supplies may not be blockaded

5) The UN Commission of Inquiry has already determined that Israel is committing genocide. The blockade is plainly a part of the machinery of such genocide.

For reasons 1 to 5 the Israeli attack on the flotilla is plainly illegal.

6) On the High Seas, the law applying on each ship is the law of its flag state. An attack by a state military warship on a vessel on the High Seas is an attack on the flag state of the vessel attacked.

7) Acts of illegal possession of vessels or abduction of crew on the High Seas should be pursued by each flag state as crimes within their domestic jurisdiction, not only in international law.

8) So the Metropolitan Police and DPP have an obligation to investigate and act over the abduction of persons from UK flagged vessels on the High Seas.
This applies to each flag state mutatis mutandi.

I hope you find this helpful.

[Tushar Prabhu @prabhu_tpp]

Anyone listening @KONEIndia @KONECorporation

[Sundararajan Srinivasan @sundararajans21]

@KONEIndia @KONECorporation You too should know that your products made and installed in an upscale apartment complex in Bangalore are demonstrating MTBF (Mean Time Between Failures) of 8 days! And your local organisation has not been able to address the issues in a satisfactory manner.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

Comment | Indian academia in times of genocide
✍️Alok Laddha, Suvrat Raju

https://t.co/JAqNhcfBMH

[Dr Babu K V @drbabukv]

#TheKeralaStory

[IIAstrophysics @IIABengaluru]

A lovely essay on the Indian Astronomical Observatory in #Hanle, the Hanle Dark Sky Reserve, and the various ways in which its pristine dark skies are a paradise for amateur astronomers too!

@IndiaDST @karandi65 @fiddlingstars @dorje1974 @lg_ladakh #HDSR

https://t.co/mZE5Qfzij9

[Tushar Prabhu @prabhu_tpp]

@ssaratht I saw this in Andhra Pradesh

[Tushar Prabhu @prabhu_tpp]

India’s unfinished battle for scientific temper https://t.co/sUYTNQExIm via @deccanherald

[Congress Kerala @INCKerala]

Question: Why is cow’s milk considered nutritious?

ECI: Cow is beautiful. The moment it wakes up, it’s milked and tied to a coconut tree. The coconut tree grows 70 feet tall. When coconuts ripen, they fall, husk is removed, dried in the sun, then milled for oil. From that oil, banana chips are fried. Chips come in many varieties, but the unripe ones taste best. That’s what we serve with evening tea at office.

That's @ECISVEEP's press conference in a coconut shell.

[Nature India @NatureInd]

🌌The 2024 geomagnetic storm that lit up Ladakh skies with rare red auroras created unusual magnetic patterns far beyond their usual latitude, a new study suggests.

📎Find out more:
https://t.co/YBQUdkSiEh

@IIABengaluru
#NatureIndia

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

The Supreme Court order on stray dogs in Delhi is nothing but a death sentence for every single stray on every single street in the national capital - and each one of us needs to raise our voice against it to #SaveDelhiDogs.

Listen, I’m not some animal rights activist. I think every single stray dog needs to be vaccinated, sterilised, and released into safe surroundings. Those who bite humans should be rehabilitated or put into a shelter.

But how on EARTH and WHY are you putting EVERY SINGLE STREET DOG in Delhi in a shelter?

Pehle toh aapke paas shelter nahi hai, aur order implement ABHI honi hai. What is the government doing? Releasing them into the forest! Into the ridge! How the hell will they survive?

What is worse, they have absurd rules - you cannot adopt any dog that has been put into a shelter. So what will a puppy who has been picked up from the street today do? Live the rest of his life in a sarkari prison?

The Supreme Court is correct to worry about a rise in rabies cases. But the solution is not this ABSURD, IMPRACTICAL, and INHUMAN plan to throw all our street dogs into poorly managed, poorly built shelters in the middle of nowhere.

GLOBAL examples have shown that there is only ONE solution to this problem: vaccinate, sterilise, and release. Why does the government not want to follow SUPREME COURT RULINGS directing the MCD to carry out sterilisation drives?

With all due respect to the Supreme Court, today’s verdict is not based in legal precedent nor in common sense or scientific fact. Aur toh aur, it goes against laws put in place by Parliament because of leaders like @Manekagandhibjp ji. This is a classic case of judicial overreach by a judiciary that has forgotten that it cannot invent the law.

Finally, baat rahi of long term solutions. Most strays were once pets bought from sasta breeders who don’t care about animals.

What happens when the dog that Dimple Aunty bought for her son’s birthday is thrown onto the streets one year later? When he mates with another dog abandoned by another careless owner and has kids on the street?

How many dogs will you keep transferring to these shelters - and for how long?

Look at the condition of the gaushalas constructed by this government. Look at the failed policy of trying to send monkeys to shelters. Jo gay ko sambhal nahi paaye, jo Dilli mein bandaron ki samasya ka hal dhoondh nahi sake, woh kutton ki kya izzat karenge?

MCD ki incompetence ki keemat hamare strays kyun bhare? @gupta_rekha ji, reconsider your decision. You still have time. We can work together to ensure Delhi’s streets are safe for dogs AND humans.

[DOOT @doot_iia]

In 1976, a young Sunetra Giridhar waited eight hours in the IIA library, with just a packet of biscuits — for a meeting with the Director of IIA Prof. MK Vainu Bappu - a meeting which would define the course of her life in astronomy✨. "1/3"
@IIABengaluru
@CosmosMysuru

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Hello @RubikaLiyaquat, That's not how you search.
Here is an Alt News fact check of Ambani's channel @News18India's 'Live fact-check'.

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Step 7. Open your eyes wide and read what's written in English: ADITYA SRIVASTAVA.

Similarly:
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Step 2. Select District: Bangalore Urban
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Step 8 : LAST BUT IMPORTANT STEP. DELETE YOUR TWEET AND VIDEO FROM SOCIAL MEDIA AND TO THE NATION FOR MISLEADING.

[Annapurni Subramaniam @fiddlingstars]

A small bit from the short recital yesterday.
Thanks t @amoghavarsha_n for recording and sharing

[Cliff Pickover @pickover]

Mathematics.

Please enjoy these curve-fitting methods.
[Select the figure to reveal the entire image.]

Source: Randall Munroe, xkcd/2048/

[DOOT @doot_iia]

📖 Read the full story in the 10th issue of DOOT and take a nostalgic trip into the golden era of Indian astronomy!
https://t.co/m3RnoX3aVa

#Astronomy #Astrophysics #IndianScience #Stars #Galaxies #SpaceResearch #IIABengaluru #Kavalur #Kodaikanal #Dootmagazine #Cosmos
"4/4"

[Neha @nehavermani]

Richard Eaton, doyen of early modern South Asian history, writes “The profound legacies of the Mughal Empire, forged through a remarkable fusion of Persian and Sanskrit worlds, are now under siege from a mythical vision of India’s past”.
https://t.co/giqVjgqzQo