@asuvathaman@svembu Please provide a blog post or write up on how its not dependent on other frontier models and if you are running a local LLM, how you secure compute for this. The entire thing is the plan.
Romila Thapar’s false claim for 30+ years
For more than thirty years, eminent historian Romila Thapar has claimed that Patañjali compared the relationship or conflict between the Brahmanas and the Shramanas to that between the snake and the mongoose.
The claim is completely false. Watch to know more.
VEDIC CIVILIZATION WAS MARITIME FROM THE EARLIEST PERIOD, going back into the Ice Age.
With numerous references in RigVeda to the ocean (Samudra). Varuna as deity as the sea. Rishis connected to the sea like Bhrigu-Varuni, Maitri-Varuni Vasishta, Maitri-Varuni-Agastya, with two or four oceans, east and west, earthy and heavenly.
Sarasvati was the central river but Ganga, Sarayu (Ayodhya), and Narmada were part of it and Dwaraka. Travel by sea was common, including to South India, Persian Gulf and Southeast Asia.
Je suis parisien mais il faut remettre un peu de contexte et garder un minimum d'objectivité.
Le PSG évolue dans une époque du foot où Arsenal était à un penalty de réaliser le doublé LDC + PL.
Le PSG n'a aligné son équipe type qu'une seule fois cette saison et c'était en finale.
Ils ont le luxe de pouvoir gérer leur effectif toute l'année, se reposer en championnat et même décaler des matchs pour arriver dans les meilleures conditions en LDC.
De son côté, Barcelone 2015 a battu successivement les champions d'Angleterre, d'Allemagne, de France et d'Italie, tout en disputant plus de 60 matchs ensemble au cours de la saison.
Le Barça 2015 était clairement plus fort.
Modi-hatred is almost a requirement to be called an "intellectual" in some circles. We have to counter them, so let's recall some history.
Congress had left Punjab, Kashmir, Assam all burning. The Naxal menace had made middle India ungovernable. Bihar and UP had become lawless. Bengal stagnated and deteriorated.
Today, Bengal has been rescued from the lawless TMC. For the first time since my childhood, we can discuss development and progress in all these states. We can disagree on specific paths to development, but at least we get to have that conversation.
These achievements did not happen magically. They required a lot of hard work and sacrifice - and all of it happened democratically. Let us not forget that Congress used Article 356 very often to dismiss state governments and now they lecture us on "democratic values".
If we elect the wrong crowd, we risk losing all the gains we have made.
Modi and Shah have provided strong and resolute leadership that has allowed these useless intellectuals to indulge their Modi hatred. Deep down, even they know the truth.
"India is overcrowded" is the most successful gaslighting campaign Indian babus ever ran on their own citizens. They underbuilt the country for forty years and convinced 1.4B Indians to blame themselves for it.
Every overcrowded space you've ever queued in is a supply failure the state engineered, not a demographic accident. Five lifts in a hospital, one working. Seven railway counters, one ticketer. Toll plazas, water boards, municipal offices: built once in 1972, patched once in 1996, abandoned ever since. The only exception is airports, and even those lounges are gigafried at peak.
Why did this happen? 4 reasons, none of them are "too many people."
1. Cost of capital. Rupee down 60% against the dollar in two decades. Inflation 5-7% on paper, 8-10% in reality. Risk-free rates above 7%. No rational allocator underwrites a hospital with a 30-year payback under those conditions. Capital flows into software and consumer brands; anything with a 3-5 year ROI window. Parks, ports, metros, dams, schools need multi-decade underwriting that India's macro structurally cannot support.
2. The regulatory stack is engineered to prevent construction. 50+ clearances across municipal, state, and central bodies for any large project, each with its IAS gatekeeper extracting rent. Real builders give up. The only construction happening at scale is therefore illegal, which is exactly why slums mushroom while sanctioned housing projects sit at 15% completion for a decade.
3. The corruption tax. Budget 15-20% of project cost in bakshish before pouring a single slab. Stacked on top of GST, stamp duty, capital gains, property tax, labour cess. Software shops escape it; they ship from a laptop. Anyone touching cement, steel, or land pays the surcharge in cash, off the books, with zero recourse and zero deductibility.
4. State capacity has collapsed into pure friction. GST portal crashes on filing deadlines. MCA21 is a relic. Every regulator (SEBI, RBI, IRDAI, FSSAI, BIS) optimises for CYA, never throughput. Babus paid 1990s salaries to administer 2026 complexity respond rationally by doing nothing.
India's perpetual undercapacity is a capital allocation story the political class would rather you never learn. The 1.4B is a feature. The people running the country are the bug. Until cost of capital drops, the regulatory fat gets gutted, and the corruption surcharge gets squeezed out, the lifts and the counters and the hospitals will stay exactly as broken as they were when your grandfather first complained about them in 1987.
See the charakha in the back. And Gandhi said he couldn’t find charkha in the 1920s households. You can imagine how much our ancestors were forced to change to become serfs and dependent labor. They killed our culture and skills so they can use us as servants. Colonialist regime is criminal!
@Mayoveli Not true. Many Chinese were students at Nalanda university. There are Chinese travellers who extensively travelled India. The Shoalin KungFu school was founded by a dude from South ndia