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[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

Why are youngsters giving up so easily on life and life's problems?

Where has their inner strength gone?

Why aren't they able to face up to bullies at work or home??

The first way to build resilience in youngsters : it starts from parents. Parents should not construct a make believe world around them, where they are the prince and princess. Parents should now and then, in a grading manner, expose them to the harsh world outside.

Parents should be able to tell a firm NO to their children without feeling guilty. The child should learn how to accept a NO without throwing a tantrum.

Children should learn how to sit in silence, to observe their thoughts, to listen to their thoughts. In this silence, their inner self speaks to them. The more one has a meaningful dialogue with one self, the more their inner-self (read higher self) empowers them.

They get that much needed strength to carry out with life's issues from their inner self.

Teach children to ACCEPT. Life is never fair. The sooner one accepts this truth, the better it is. One will then not go into victim mode. One starts focussing to find a solution to the problem in hand.

Have multiple plans. Plan A, plan B etc...this reduces stress in children.

Equip children to connect to a Higher Power (God or whatever one wants to call Him), to talk to that Higher Power. When everything else fails, they get that silent strength from this connection.

When children start developing their inner strength , slowly they grow into mentally stronger teens and young adults, who ready to face life's problem.

#Children

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

The best thing about Astrobase imo is the people. That sounds trite but there’s a reason they were able to go from incorporation in '24 to India’s first FFSC engine in '26 and orbital launch slated for '28.

I've never seen such a powerful mix of humanity and relentless urgency.

[prasshanth @prasshanth_k]

Hi @_tripfactory Team,
This is extremely disappointing. I have been chasing your point of contact for our upcoming travel, and there has been absolutely no response from your side. This level of negligence is unacceptable. If your team is serious about handling our booking, someone needs to reach out to me soon. I am prepared to share all the required details, but only if you show the basic courtesy of responding. If I continue to be ignored, I will have no choice but to escalate this matter and reconsider working with TripFactory altogether.

[BINDHU @_BindhuR_]

Seriously 💔.

உண்மையில சிலர் வாழ்க்கை இப்பிடி எல்லா இருக்கு போல.

முடிஞ்ச அளவுக்கு பிறர் மீது அக்கறை எடுத்துக்கோங்க.

[迈克 Mike Chong @mike_chong_zh]

前两天在 YC 听到主持人问 Jeff Dean 回到加入谷歌的年纪要做什么，Jeff Dean 的回答挺有意思的。现在他们真的心理上回去了，开始融资创业了。他是 Google 史上最重要的员工，没有之一，谷歌能有几天最不可缺少的人就是他，没有之一。现在在 Google 也是相当于二三把手的角色。他和他的好哥们儿离职了、创业了。

然后同样的，还有诺贝尔奖获得者 Demis Hassabis 也已经不做管理了

非常有意思的时代

[Shaurya Sinha @shaurya_sinha7]

25 kilometres east of Bangalore, a group of 20 year olds are building in a small village called Hoskote.

Building what? Wings.

Introducing the full trailer for The 22nd Century Indian. Releasing this Independence Day 🇮🇳.

[Ajeet ( opensox.ai ) @jackedAJ]

one of the most favourite tweets of mine.

[Ojasvika (Oz) @Ozacle23]

my housemate raised $2 million dollars to replace micro-plastics with bio-polymers.

living in the same house with her @shrutikutmutia is a luxury money can't buy :)

follow her and her work @bacaltlabs

she is a gals' gal and an amazing founder 💪

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

Wanted to take a moment to thank someone who gave @SkyrootA its first real lift-off—Mukesh Bansal.

8 Years ago, we sent him a cold LinkedIn message.

He replied.

We met that very weekend.

Soon after, he became Skyroot’s first investor with a ₹10 crore cheque.

At the time, there was no space policy. No proof that we could build an orbital rocket. Immense technology risk. And every reason to say no.

Yet he looked beyond the uncertainty. He believed in our passion and saw possibility long before there was evidence.

But what stayed with me even more than the investment was the trust.

He gave us complete freedom to build, trusted us to make the right decisions, and was always there to mentor us whenever we needed him. More than capital, he helped shape our thinking with one piece of advice:

“Always do the right thing. This journey will be much longer and much harder than you imagine. Build two things with equal importance: the product and the organisation.”

This has guided us through every phase of the journey and continue to shape how we build Skyroot today.

The first cheque is never just capital. It is belief.

Every great startup needs someone willing to take that first leap of faith—when all they can really invest in is the founders’ conviction.

India needs many more such risk-takers backing ambitious deep-tech entrepreneurs long before success becomes obvious.

Thank you, Mukesh. 🙏

@mukeshbansal06

P.S. This picture was taken during one of Mukesh’s visits to our factory in Skyroot’s early days. We were showing him just how light Vikram-S’s carbon composite structures were—a small moment from a journey that has since come a long way. 🚀

[Pawan Chandana @PawanKChandana]

As everything slowly begins to sink-in, and after finally getting some sleep last night, I wanted to share a small personal note…✍️

The first call I made after Vikram-1 successfully reached orbit was to my Dad.

He is the man who made my journey possible—with dreams for me far bigger than the ones I had for myself, and by simply never giving up on me.

Until my 8th standard, I was a bad student. I scored 51 marks in Maths and even failed another subject. Back then, I could never have imagined that I would one day make it to an IIT—or have the privilege of contributing to India’s first privately developed rocket reaching orbit, making India only the third country in the world to achieve this.

When I called him after the launch, he just cried.

And cried.

He couldn’t speak a single word.

But I understood every word he couldn’t say.

I managed to hold back my tears when Vikram-1 reached orbit. But somehow, writing this, I can’t.

Thank you, Dad. ❤️

And a big shout-out to every dad who dreams big for their children—and never gives up on them. 🙏

P.S. A picture with Dad from one of my birthdays after starting @SkyrootA.

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

After 30 years, this is what I have learned:

1. Go to the factory
2. Talk to workers
3. Touch the product
4. Fix problems

The people who stay close to the factory usually stay in business.

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[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

Thank you Ajeet! I won't claim to be more Indian, but I'm so excited to be here. As a Canadian living in India, I know I am an outlier (hence why a small group of people are incredulous and invent conspiracy theories just to wrap their minds around my choice to live here) but I look forward to the day when the reverse is true and non-Indian people are flocking to India because of how obvious the opportunity is. I have already begun to see the beginnings of that reverse brain drain over the last few years, and know a number of founders who chose to relocate back to India after realising that innovation was thriving (especially amongst Gen Zs and Gen Alphas) in ways that it wasn't when they left many years ago. There has never been a better time to build here. I believe that with every fibre of my being!

India is witnessing a new era. It's the era of "you can just do things" and that's why I'm not going to stop. This unfolding story needs to be told. People around the world need to know that India is changing, for the better. Right now, the global perspective of India is distorted by biased news media and view-hungry influencers. And so many of the Indian content creators that I've seen covering tech (not all, but many) just focus on updates from the West. They're making videos about Anthropic and OpenAI and Anduril and Tesla and there's nothing inherently wrong with that but there's also a lot of incredible stuff happening in India too, and most of it is getting entirely overlooked for reasons I cannot fathom.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Some advance toward greatness, others return to it. We Indians do both.

Congratulations, @PawanKChandana and the entire @SkyrootA team on the great success of Vikram-1, making India only the third country in the world after USA and China with private orbital launch capability.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

PV Sindhu clinches the Japan Open!

Winning this major title at the age of 31.

Never, ever, give up on a true Champion.

👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽🇮🇳

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

Congratulations @Pvsindhu1 on becoming the first from 🇮🇳 to win the 2026 Japan Open women's singles title.

We are proud of you!

[Aravind @aravind]

International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."

🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:

July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.

July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.

July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.

July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.

July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.

July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.

July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).

Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.

Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.

Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.

June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.

June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.

June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.

June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).

June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.

June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.

Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.

Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).

June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

When I first came to India, the space industry was closed to private players.

The most well-known "startup" at that time was TeamIndus. Skyroot didn't exist.

A year later, in 2018, Skyroot was founded. Private companies in India couldn't launch rockets yet, but Pawan and Bharath forged ahead regardless, optimistic that liberalisation would happen someday.

Then, in 2020, it did. Indian companies were finally free to compete with American, Russian, European, and Chinese startups. They could build their own launch vehicles. And satellites. At an undisclosed location in the United States, Elon swallowed hard.

I was publishing videos about Indian companies on YouTube at this point. I remember thinking, "Making content about these spacetech developments is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity."

Now, ~6 years later, Skyroot has gifted India with the biggest white pill of all time. While the world watched, a team of ~1,000+ Indian optimists (with an average age of 28) flawlessly executed an orbital rocket launch.

No private space company IN THE WORLD has ever done this on their first try. As I write this, I have goosebumps. I feel incredibly privileged to have been able to witness this firsthand. I also feel inspired by the resilience, ingenuity, and wherewithal of the entire Skyroot team.

The next chapter of India's space journey has officially begun.

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

Hello space, we have arrived! Vikram-1's Test Flight-1 has completed it's mission.

The first ever Indian private sector launch has been successfully completed.

#Vikram1 #MissionAagaman #OpeningSpaceForAll

[Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA]

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀

Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

History is made. 🇮🇳

#Vikram1 #JourneyToOrbit #SkyrootAerospace

[Aravind @aravind]

Amazing achievement by @SkyrootA and their team. Proud moment for not just them but all Indians. Feedback: Skyroot, next time please get a live feed, overlay launch parameters and better commentary. Make the launch look as cool and slick as it really is.