Prashant Gupta

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

CBSE’s May 2025 tender required answer sheets to be scanned with automatic robotic scanners, spines preserved, at a minimum of 300 DPI.

The tender re-issued in August quietly removed all of it. “Scanners” became generic. Resolution dropped to 200 DPI.

Now we know what that meant in practice. It has been exposed that COEMPT scanned the answer sheets using mobile phones.

The blurred copies, the missing pages, the unscanned books - they are not “errors.” They are the predictable outcome of a contract written to fit a vendor.

This is fraud. And every child whose marks were wrongly evaluated is a victim of it.

This morning, the Prime Minister had time to speak about mangoes. He has not had time to speak about 18.5 lakh children whose answer sheets were scanned with phones.

Dharmendra Pradhan ji still sits in office.

Modi ji’s silence is no longer indifference. It is complicity.

[Addy Osmani @addyosmani]

https://t.co/jKCIAEzai7

[Siddharth's Echelon @SiddharthKG7]

Contrary to what people believe, majority crowd at airports is of extremely poor labourers going to gulf, Kuwait, Saudi etc for work. They are hungry after a long travel from their villages and avoid eating altogether at airports.

Just because you cannot see the point behind cheap food at airports, does not mean govt did not think it through.

And in a country, arguments like first do this-then do that have no validity. It is not a one man job or a grocery list. Everything happens simultaneously or when it has to happen.

[Aditya Jakki @adityajakki]

Only reason why Southern and Western regions of India are more prosperous than Central and Eastern parts of India because politicians from South and West realised much earlier that there is more money to be made in corruption by being pro business than being against business

Now gradually UP is also realising this

Soon Bihar and Bengal will also realise

[Priyaa @pritopian]

India doesn’t need to build its own nuclear program.
But it must lead in ensuring the benefits of deterrence are widely shared.

See how absurd that sounds? you can’t lead in distributing a benefit you don’t control. if you don't own any part of the core capability chain, you don't get to dictate the terms of access.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Dear expat techbros of Bangalore.

That Y Combinator gig is not where you will get your next investment. Neither is it that 9000 rupee run event or that pure veg thindi walk in Gandhi Bazaar/Malleswaram.

The really big funding deals happen in Century Club, Bowring Institute, the Karnataka Golf Association, Bangalore Club and Karnataka State Cricket Association, over beers and baby corn Manchurian. If you are not a member of these clubs, find a co-founder who is.

These guys have not studied in your nouveau riche Greenwood or DPS or Narayana or Brigade type schools. Nor are they former IIT aspirants from dummy schools in Kota or Vizag. They don't subscribe to Finance with Sharan.

Their dads wear safari suits and are board members in nondescript co-operative banks, which they treat as their private piggy banks. They have land in Devanahalli and Maddur. Bathroom fittings showroom in Kumara Park.

Your co-founder needs to be from Mallya Aditi, Valley School, Bishop Cottons, Baldwins, Frank Antony or St. Josephs (European). Management quota seat in RV or PESIT, or BCom from Surana College.

Old money. Political connections. ICSE English. No Fear Sticker.

Basically get a Danish Sait as your co-founder.

[Yann LeCun @ylecun]

Dario is wrong.
He knows absolutely nothing about the effects of technological revolutions on the labor market.
Don't listen to him, Sam, Yoshua, Geoff, or me on this topic.
Listen to economists who have spent their career studying this, like @Ph_Aghion , @erikbryn , @DAcemogluMIT , @amcafee , @davidautor

[Nithin Kamath @Nithin0dha]

I recently had dinner with Dr Devi Shetty, the founder of Narayana Hospitals. For those who don't know him, he's the guy who figured out how to do open heart surgery for a few hundred dollars when the same procedure costs a bomb in the US. Narayana has 18,000 beds across India, and if you ask most middle-class people in Bangalore about it, they'll speak highly of it.

There was one thing I kept thinking about over and over again after meeting him.

Narayana's market cap is around ₹38,000 crore. Now compare that to pretty much any half-decent financial services business in India, and it'll be valued more than that, including Zerodha. A brokerage, worth more than a hospital chain, that has probably saved hundreds of thousands of lives.

I get the arguments. If you're a fund manager/analyst, you can immediately explain it away using margins, capex, asset-light vs asset-heavy, and all that, and I'm not saying the market is wrong.

But it's still a strange world we've built, where the businesses closest to money get valued the highest, and the ones doing the hard and essential things get priced like boring utilities. A hospital carries physical infrastructure, enormous liability, thin margins and the actual weight of keeping people alive. And somehow that's worth less than a platform for buying and selling stocks.

I don't have a clean take on this. All of this just felt odd.

Ps: Nothing here is investment advice. For that, go to @zerodhavarsity

[Khalid Baig @KhalidBaig85]

Next time anybody gaslights you about the slide of democracy in the World's largest and oldest democracy, show them this tweet. The head of Indian state visits Israel on an official visit, to secure India's National Interests. A sitting Member of Parliament, from India's Muslim Majority State, expresses his extreme displeasure at the policy of the country, where he does not recognize the official two state solution policy followed by state of India, regardless of who has occupied the chair of PM.

The same MP, is also a diehard supporter of the Islamic regime of Iran and the World knows what that regime has done to thousands of it's own people in the last few weeks.

Democracy is not only thriving in India, it even has the audacity and Azaadi to abuse the National Security of the Indian State.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

Addiction to short-form videos reduces brain activity in the frontal lobe weakening the ability to focus.

[Priyanshu Ratnakar @0xratnakar]

TIL galgotias university files more patents than all IITs combined.

not because they’re innovating. bcz they figured out the cheat code.

filing a patent in india costs ₹1,600.

govt reimburses up to ₹2 lakh per filing.

that’s a 125x return. before the patent does anything.

so universities found the playbook:

file 1000 patents → collect ₹20cr → boost NIRF rank → attract more students → collect fees → repeat

the patents? take a guess 🤡

india ranks 5th globally in patent applications.

last among the top 6 in grant rate.
japan converts 70% of filings into grants.

we convert 40%.

we ain’t building but chasing wrong metrics.

and the worst part? the system rewards it.

NIRF counts raw filings, not grants. so the incentive is to file garbage at scale, not build real IP.

this is what happens when you optimize for the scoreboard instead of the game.

we’re really good at looking innovative.
not as good at being it.

fix is simple btw:
reimburse at grant stage, not filing stage. tie incentives to commercialization. weight NIRF on grants, not applications.

but simple fixes don’t happen when the people gaming the system are also the ones writing the policy. need young + smart policy makers

innovation isn’t a form you fill. it’s a product you build. 🫡

[Tarun Mehta @tarunsmehta]

The number of people on Twitter fighting hard to prove that Sarvam is a bad idea and has 'nothing novel' is just insane.

They are doing fantastic work and unlike many AI companies they are genuinely exploring and expanding on a possible moat with their focus on Indian languages.

How this thing did not have legions of fans is beyond me! India needs more local built brands and companies!

Fantastic work @pratykumar and the @SarvamAI team!

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Congrats on the launch @simile_ai ! (and I am excited to be involved as a small angel.)

Simile is working on a really interesting, imo under-explored dimension of LLMs. Usually, the LLMs you talk to have a single, specific, crafted personality. But in principle, the native, primordial form of a pretrained LLM is that it is a simulation engine trained over the text of a highly diverse population of people on the internet. Why not lean into that statistical power: Why simulate one "person" when you could try to simulate a population? How do you build such a simulator? How do you manage its entropy? How faithful is it? How can it be useful? What emergent properties might arise of similes in loops?

Imo these are very interesting, promising and under-explored topics and the team here is great. All the best!

[Aaraadhya Saxena 🇮🇳 @ihailmyindia]

Raghav Chadha is a classic example of how easy politics looks when you’re not in power. You can pick a quote from Instagram every day, deliver sermons in house, and get applause because there’s no accountability to words.

He has been with AAP since 2012, yet there’s little to point to in terms of tangible delivery over the last decade and now suddenly the preaching sounds louder than ever. I can see why he was pushed early on as a party spokesperson..

[Katyayani Shukla @aibytekat]

He literally explained the Black Coffee Theory and why it changes how you approach life.

[Isomorphic Labs @IsomorphicLabs]

Today we share a technical report demonstrating how our drug design engine achieves a step-change in accuracy for predicting biomolecular structures, more than doubling the performance of AlphaFold 3 on key benchmarks and unlocking rational drug design even for examples it has never seen before.

Head to the comments to read our blog.

[Sanjeev Gupta @sanjg2k1]

So, finally, the @WhiteHouse has retracted from its own Fact Sheet on the US–India Trade Deal. In a brazen departure from the Joint Statement, it had surreptitiously inserted the phrase “certain pulses” and quietly upgraded “intends to” into “has committed to,” as if India had signed up for a $500 billion import obligation. This sleight of hand was carried out at 21:51 GMT on February 9.

Now, in typical @realDonaldTrump administration fashion, the @WhiteHouse has executed a stealthy volte-face, scrubbing out its own mischievous insertions without acknowledgement. The Fact Sheet has been hastily brought back in line with the Joint Statement as of 10.02.2026 at 18:38 GMT.

I am attaching screenshots of the multiple archived versions of the same webpage via the @waybackmachine, along with page-source evidence, to document this juvenile and embarrassing attempt at rewriting an international understanding on the fly.

Good to see @RajeshAgrawal94 and his team compelling their American counterparts to issue this correction. Otherwise, it would have made a complete mockery of @PiyushGoyal, who has been consistently insisting that the $500 billion figure was merely an intention, not a binding commitment.

But we cannot stop at merely forcing the US to correct its unauthorised wordplay. We must now confront the real issue: making the $500 billion figure remotely realistic—an astonishing quantum jump of 2.5 times.

At the same time, India must safeguard its own interests, especially our farmers, and in particular cotton growers, and garment exporters, who could face serious fallout in light of the emerging US - Bangladesh trade deal.

[Nicholas Fabiano, MD @NTFabiano]

2 weeks without smartphone internet significantly improved sustained attention.

The effects were similar to being a decade younger.

[Manish Bothra🇮🇳 @MoneyMystery]

At his best @ShashiTharoor ji

☺️ Tharoor bhai on Budget !

[ARUN KUMAR @arunkumar3112]

Triglycerides are your metabolic report card.
Triglycerides indicate how your body handles energy. After you eat especially carbohydrates and sugar - your liver package excess fuel into Triglycerides for storage.
Elevated levels don't mean that you ate too much fat. They usually mean that glucose and insulin are chronically high, fat burning is suppressed your system stuck in storage mode.
High triglycerides are not fat problem - a sign you are eating too much Carbs and sugar.