Raghu Nandan

Just here to be updated on the latest happenings...

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Lately, BLR & many other Indian cities seem to be overflowing with Western-style food joints. Ancient texts state: Yasya Deshasya Yo Jantuḥ. The medicine & food for a person must come from the exact same land they inhabit.

Our gut microbiome is populated by bacteria that co-evolved with local flora. Our bodies carry genetic adaptations shaped by what our ancestors ate for 1000s of yrs, influencing how efficiently we produce certain digestive enzymes (for example, lactase for dairy).

Swapping local food habits for Western 1s creates low-grade gut inflammation & microbiome disruption in many people.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@thehawkeyex Something is not adding up to this guy. Half the time he looks fearful as if something is going to happen to him. As he is inserted to create chaos, we have to wait and see.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@total_woke_ 😂😂. true

[The Figen @TheFigen_]

For a moment, they lost each other. 😂😂

[Anmol Jain @teanmol]

A fortnight ago, Vijay Gokhale observed that China sees Indian democracy as a long-term ideological problem.

The Chinese commentary that followed went to lengths explaining why India does not matter, why Indian democracy is a curse, and why Indian aspirations exceed Indian means.

That vehemence is a tell in itself. Indifference does not produce it.

That India even manages to function at this scale, with this civilisational depth, absorbing its contradictions with a democratic polity, worries Beijing far more than it is willing to admit.

Even after decades of neutralising democratic experiments in China's near abroad (read Hong Kong), the CCP has no template to explain India to its own citizens.

A short breakdown of Beijing's anxiety in my Sharp for @SwarajyaMag — https://t.co/HXPKoK0wKZ

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@WarMonitors Talk about marked cap. Nvidia is just a company. It is not a civilization.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@visegrad24 The disease is spreading faster than imagined. Countries are no doubt in deep sleep, happy in their own thoughts unmindful of the reality around. Consequences are inevitable. When you let in filth, it messes the whole house.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@valuetainment Dumb post. You are comparing a country with a stock exchange trade. If suddenly, Nvidia's supply chain gets decimated then it will tank by 4 trillion. Then you have to compare it with Pakistan or Nigeria.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@total_woke_ What an absolute reality. All those poor countries are more worried about India than Indians themselves. We should thank them :D

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@kothariabhishek Stock marked it not a real picture. Its what's on the ground that matters. Don't jump the ship so fast AK.

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

The iron in your blood came from ancient stars that lived long before you were born

Every atom of iron in your blood ultimately comes from ancient generations of massive stars that lived and died long before the Solar System formed. Iron is created in the late stages of stellar life and is released into space through supernova explosions and other cosmic events that spread elements across the galaxy.

The ashes of dead stars are the life force in our bodies, material that was forged in long dead stars and recycled through space over billions of years.

Over time, this stardust mixed with clouds of gas and dust, which eventually formed new stars, planets, and Earth itself.

You are made of stardust. ✨⭐️

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

This is not a time-lapse video. Amazing footage of a river of lava moving at an incredible speed captured by photographer Ken Boyer.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

We need to bypass the so called "standard", reductive textbook narratives that often treat ancient indian achievements as mere "accidental primitive labor" & Kailasa Temple is 1 such example. We need to treat it like a project that required a level of mathematical precision, spatial visualization & resource optimization that rivals modern aerospace/architectural design.

Advanced tech does not necessarily mean electricity/lasers/computer chips. In civil engineering, advanced tech is defined by the systems, instruments & mathematical models used to manipulate massive amounts of energy & matter with near-zero tolerance for error.

To carve Kailasa from the top down out of a single volcanic mass, the ancient Sthapatis (master engineers) had to solve problems that modern CAD software handles today.

Before a single chisel touched the stone, the entire multi-story complex including its internal rooms, floating balconies, drainage systems & columns had to be mathematically mapped out in 3Ds. In a traditional building, if a room is misaligned, we can tear down a wall & rebuild it. In rock-cut monolithic architecture, we cannot put back rock that has been carved away.

A single 5" calculation error on the roof would cause a column on the 3rd floor below to completely miss its load-bearing alignment, collapsing the ceiling. The then engineers used a highly sophisticated system of geometric grids based on micro-measurements (Angula & Hasta). They used a technique called Volumetric Prototyping. They modeled the mountain as a massive 3D coordinate matrix (X, Y, Z axes), translating a highly advanced, non-surviving theoretical blueprint seamlessly onto the undulating, uneven surface of a natural cliffside.

Carving 400000 tons of basalt, hardened volcanic lava rich in silica & iron cannot be done by simply swinging ordinary iron tools. The tools would blunt/deform/break within mins. The construction period correlates with India's absolute peak in Wootz steel production. This was a form of nanotech where iron was smelted with specific carbon-rich organic materials in sealed crucibles, creating a matrix of ultra-hard iron carbides (cementite).

Now to move 100s of 1000s of tons of rock rapidly w/o modern explosives, they likely used controlled thermal stress. By heating targeted fracture lines along the basalt's natural crystalline planes using massive, localized fires & then instantly dousing them with cold water, they forced the rock to cleanly shear itself apart along flat planes. This is a highly calculated application of thermodynamics.

In ancient India, advanced scientific & engineering knowledge was not published in open-source public libraries. It was fiercely guarded within highly specialized, hereditary engineering guilds (Shrenis/Vishwakarmas). Knowledge was passed down from master to apprentice via encrypted architectural texts (Vastu Shastras) & oral mathematical mnemonics.

This kept the IP secure from foreign theft, but it made the entire scientific system highly vulnerable to a SPOF. If a single elite guild of master builders was wiped out in a war, the complex mathematical formulas for calculating rock stress & monolithic geometric projections died with them instantly.

When British colonial historians arrived in India, they encountered marvels like Kailasa. Accepting that ancient Indians possessed a level of structural engineering, metallurgy & geometry that surpassed 18th century Europe was a direct threat to the colonial narrative of the "civilizing mission." They claimed Kailasa was built simply by throwing a massive, infinite army of "primitive, cheap slave labor" at a mountain with simple stone chisels over 100s of yrs.

This narrative deliberately substituted brute force for brain power. It ignored the complex geometry, the structural dynamics & the materials science, reducing a masterpiece of hyper-advanced calculation to a mere story of "many people digging for a long time."

[World of Engineering @engineers_feed]

Voyager 1 is 24 billion kilometers from Earth.

It communicates with us using a 23-watt transmitter.
Less than a refrigerator light bulb.

The signal takes 22 hours to reach us, traveling at the speed of light.

By the time it arrives, it's 20 billion times weaker than the power of a digital watch battery.

NASA's Deep Space Network picks it up using 70-meter dish antennas cooled to near absolute zero to reduce electronic noise.

The engineering required to hear a 23-watt signal from 24 billion km away is arguably more impressive than the spacecraft itself.

Launched 1977.
Still transmitting.
Still being heard.

We built something that works perfectly, 47 years later, in conditions no one has ever tested in.

That's what engineering for the long term looks like.

[Wonder of Science @wonderofscience]

Slow motion footage of a hummingbird (Selasphorus rufus) feeding. This 60-second clip captures just one second of real time, slowed to 1/67th speed at 2000fps.

📽️: HopefullyUsefulContribution | CC BY-SA 4.0

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@mandate2049 India is one of the world's oldest living civilizations with immense contributions to humanity. Grow up. Memes are fun, but obsessive negativity says more about you than us. Focus on building, not mocking.

[Raghu Nandan @raghun21]

@AbhishBanerj People from stone age. Haven't seen the world yet. Savages.

[Kaustubh Raje 🇮🇳 @Kaustubh_SSS]

Jarasandha attacked 17 times to kill Shri Krishna and Balarama, but each time Krishna destroyed his entire army and left only Jarasandha alive.

Every time Jarasandha used to contact Anti-Krishna Kings all over the World and bring them to fight with Krishna. Once Balarama got angry that why does Krishna leave Jarasandha alive every time.

Hearing this question, Krishna replied, "I purposely leave Jarasandha alive. There is a reason behind this. Jarasandha gathers All the Unrighteous & our Rival Kings from all over the Earth and brings them to us so that we can kill those evil kings in one place.

If we kill Jarasandha, then we ourselves will have to go to every corner of the Earth to kill our Evil Enemies. Jarasandh is making our work easy. When all our Evil Enemies in the world are Finished, we will destroy Jarasandha as well."

Sir ji is Jarasandha of Indian Politics Today.

[🇯🇵SAIGOU🇯🇵郷田剛士🇯🇵 @oidonhagouda]

Bro, let’s stop pretending.

Muslims make up about 25% of the entire world’s population — over 2 billion people across 50+ countries.

Japanese people? About 1.4% of the world. One single country.

Shinto exists only in Japan.

So when people say “Japan should prioritize minorities and be more accommodating to Islam,” who exactly are we talking about?

The global majority is coming to one of the world’s smallest ethnic and religious groups and demanding that Japan change its culture, food, and traditions for them.

That’s not “protecting minorities.” That’s the majority trying to colonize a tiny minority.

Japan has every right to protect its own people and culture first.

If Muslims want to live under Islamic rules, they already have dozens of countries where they can do that. They don’t need to come to Japan and turn it into another one.