Books didn’t just teach me—they quietly built me.
From a handwritten childhood book to a life in publishing, the journey has been… unexpected.
Sharing a personal note on what reading has meant to me this #WorldBookDay 👇
India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.
Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.
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Renowned British mathematician G.H. Hardy once took a taxi to visit his collaborator, Indian mathematician Srinivasa Ramanujan, in the hospital.
Hardy noted that the taxi's number, 1729, seemed "rather dull," which prompted Ramanujan to respond that on the contrary, it was "very interesting" because it was the smallest number that could be expressed as the sum of two cubes in two different ways:
1729 = 1³ + 12³ = 9³ + 10³.
Numbers that can be expressed in this way have since been known as "taxicab numbers."
She was only 10 months old.
Too young to write her name.
Yet old enough to leave behind a legacy that will fill thousands of notebooks across Kerala.
Months after becoming Kerala's youngest organ donor and helping save five lives, little Aalin Sherin Abraham is now inspiring a new generation through Supplyco's 2026 "Aalin" notebook series.
Designed with storytelling covers created by students, these notebooks carry more than pages. They carry a reminder that even the shortest lives can leave the deepest impact.
In a world that often measures life by years, Aalin's story reminds us that compassion has no age.
#AalinSherinAbraham #OrganDonation #Kerala #PositiveNews
[Aalin Sherin Abraham, Organ Donation, Kerala]
A startup built a space robot with octopus arms and gecko grip.
The REACCH system unfurls eight arms that conform to any shape, sticking with micro-wedges that mimic gecko feet, no docking port needed.
It got 172 test runs aboard the ISS.
The mission: grab dead satellites and space junk moving 10x faster than bullets before Earth's orbit becomes an impassable junkyard.
An orbital tow truck, and we're going to need it.
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In Chinese schools, artificial intelligence now reviews homework by scanning notebooks, grading assignments automatically, and printing feedback that highlights errors.
@XFreeze Yes, moving up the Kardashev scale and down the Barrow scale seems akin to treading toward the All-Knowing, All-Encompassing Creator and Sustainer of the Universe!
@elonmusk Yes, moving up the Kardeshev scale and down the Barrow scale seems akin to treading toward the All-Knowing, All-Encompassing Creator and Sustainer of the Universe!
India trains the engineer.
America files the patents.
Gurtej Sandhu was raised in Amritsar and trained at IIT Delhi.
He now holds 1,299 US patents at Micron, Edison topped out at 1,093.
Sandhu is the 7th most prolific inventor in American history.
His titanium nitride deposition work is why every DRAM cell in your phone and every GPU training a foundation model actually holds charge.
Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix own 95% of global DRAM.
None of them are Indian.
We export the inventor.
We import the chip.
If @elonmusk does really think like that, then most of his mistakes could be perhaps forgiven. But if and if only he does genuinely want to be useful at scale.
What is life?
Socrates: "It is a test."
Aristotle: "It is the mind."
Fyodor Dostoevsky: "It is hell."
Friedrich Nietzsche: "It is power."
Sigmund Freud: "It is death."
Karl Marx: "It is ideology."
Pablo Picasso: "It is art."
Mahatma Gandhi: "It is love."
Arthur Schopenhauer: "It is suffering."
Bertrand Russell: "It is competition."
Albert Einstein: "It is knowledge."
Elon Musk: "It is curiosity."
Steve Jobs: "It is belief."
Stephen Hawking: "It is hope."
Franz Kafka: "It is only the beginning."
Therefore, each person must give meaning to life for themselves, based on how they perceive it.