Offered puja at Arulmigu Arunachaleswarar Temple in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. Prayed for the blessings of Bhagwan Mahadev to bestow happiness and good fortune upon every citizen of our nation.
The life and teachings of the sage Bhagwan Sri Ramana Maharshi are a fountain of wisdom that will continue to light humanity’s path for eternity.
Today, visited the sacred place Sri Ramanasramam in Tiruvannamalai, Tamil Nadu. May the blessings of the great saint fill everyone’s life with well-being and prosperity.
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தமிழ்நாட்டின் திருவண்ணாமலையில் உள்ள அருள்மிகு அருணாசலேஸ்வரர் கோவிலில் பூஜை செய்தேன். நமது தேசத்தின் ஒவ்வொரு குடிமகனுக்கும் மகிழ்ச்சியையும் நல்ல அதிர்ஷ்டத்தையும் அருளுமாறு பகவான் மகாதேவனின் ஆசீர்வாதங்களை வேண்டி பிரார்த்தனை செய்தேன்.
"A scientist in Japan demonstrated that the air inside a forest strengthens your immune system for a full month"
Just yesterday, a visitor from Chennai told me "I feel tired often in Chennai and I feel a lot less tired past 2 days, even after doing a lot of work".
We need to live closer to nature and in harmony with nature.
I come across a large number of people of various age groups, and I don't find categorizing generations based on age all that meaningful.
A 19 year old employee told me last week that she works hard to earn money so that her parents can repay their loans and support her younger siblings. That is her foremost priority in life. She buys only low cost clothes, she mends her broken footwear and so on because she wants to save every rupee. I told her I would visit her parents and tell them how proud they should be of their daughter.
Recently two marriages happened among our employees (ages around 25) and both told me they took my advice to keep the wedding simple and not spend too much money.
These attitudes are timeless. I find them equally in Gen-Z.
In Bhogapuram, Andhra Pradesh, the Alluri Sitarama Raju International Airport will be inaugurated. This is a modern and futuristic airport that will boost connectivity, commerce and tourism. This project also incorporates principles of sustainability and energy efficiency.
Since Professor V Kamakoti has been nominated in the committee to overhaul our education system, he is being mocked by opposition leaders for his beliefs.
Today, I sat to check his academic credentials . Alongside serving as the Director of IIT Madras, his academic and professional accomplishments include:
• 250+ Research Papers and Patents: He has published over 250 research papers in leading international journals and conferences and holds numerous national and international patents.
• Development of the SHAKTI Microprocessor: He led the design and development of SHAKTI, India’s first indigenous, open-source microprocessor.
Microprocessor Development Programme (MDP): He heads this flagship initiative of the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY), aimed at strengthening India’s semiconductor and chip-design ecosystem.
• Record Patent Filings – “One Patent a Day”: As Director of IIT Madras, he introduced the vision of “One Patent a Day.” Under his leadership, the institute filed a record 417 patents during 2024–25.
• Role in the National Security Advisory Board (NSAB): As an NSAB member, he provides strategic advice to the Government of India on cybersecurity, telecommunications security, and digital infrastructure.
• Leadership of the AI Task Force: He chaired the Artificial Intelligence Task Force constituted by the Ministry of Commerce and Industry, helping shape India’s AI policy framework.
• Information Security Education and Awareness (ISEA): He oversees initiatives under the ISEA programme to build India’s cybersecurity workforce and promote public awareness of information security.
• Research in VLSI and Hardware Security: His primary academic contributions lie in VLSI design, algorithms, and strengthening cryptographic security at the silicon hardware level.
• Institutional Reforms at IIT Madras: Since assuming office as Director in 2022, he has helped IIT Madras retain its top position in the NIRF rankings while launching new online degree programmes and expanding the institute’s startup ecosystem.
In recognition of his outstanding contributions to science and technology, he has been awarded the Padma Shri (2026), the DRDO Academic Excellence Award, and the IBM Faculty Award.
Here is in his native village, moving on roads in a Prabhat Feri invoking the Grama Devta.
It's been over 14-15 hours since Parliament passed the anti-paper leak bill, yet not a single "Gen Z" icon/influencer seems to be celebrating it.
Were they really concerned about paper leaks? Were they genuinely standing up for students?
I don't think so.
For many, it was never about students or education. It was either about hating the BJP or simply joining the trend, without even knowing what they were protesting.
𝐆𝐞𝐧 𝐙, 𝐭𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐨𝐧𝐞'𝐬 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐲𝐨𝐮. 🫵🏻
The list was so long... it nearly exhausted the entire Parliament. You know the craziest part?
𝐓𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐰𝐚𝐬𝐧'𝐭 𝐞𝐯𝐞𝐧 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐨𝐟 𝐢𝐭. 𝐓𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐰𝐞𝐫𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐫𝐞 ▶️
For anyone wondering, what qualifies Prof Kamakoti to be on task force on exam reform?
JFYI, he was put in charge of IIT Madras Joint Entrance Exam in 2010 and has overseen the entire process.
For more, listen to man lampooned as ‘gaumutra expert’.
Namaste, Ma'am...Aapko 1 story sunata hoon....
In the summer of 1980, a distraught 7th grade boy stood in the courtyard of a modest house in Mylapore, watching his father toss his cricket bat down a deep well. A fast bouncer had shattered the boy's spectacles during a local match & his father, a renowned Sanskrit logician, was terrified for his son's sight.
"Your cricket days are done," his father declared, handing him a violin. "If you want to master precision, master this."
The boy did not throw a tantrum. He directed his focus toward the strings, training until he was performing alongside musical legends, even taking direct corrections from Bharat Ratna M.S. Subbulakshmi.
5 yrs later, he suffered another blow: he failed to clear the IIT-JEE examination.
He did not give up. He enrolled in a regional engineering college, quietly mastering computer science logic gates. He eventually worked his way into IIT Madras as a postgrad researcher, earned a PhD, joined as a prof & eventually became the Director of the very institute that had once turned him away.
By 2011, while the world was building consumer mobile apps, this prof was looking at a hidden national vulnerability: every radar, fighter jet, banking server & defense system in India was running on foreign-designed microprocessors.
He had a single question in his mind: "We can test that a foreign chip does what we WANT it to do. But can we guarantee it does not do something we DO NOT want it to do when a war starts?"
He proposed building a completely indigenous, industrial-grade microprocessor from scratch. Global tech giants insisted it could not be done w/o billions of dollars in infrastructure & massive foreign patents.
He did not care. Working out of cramped labs on long shifts, he & his team adopted the open source RISC-V instruction set. They hand-coded logic gates, mapped silicon layouts & verified billions of instruction cycles.
In July 2018, a tiny 16mm² piece of silicon codenamed Risecreek arrived back at the lab. The team wired it up, flipped the switch & watched a flickering monitor as the Linux operating system booted on 100% Indian-designed silicon for the 1st time in history.
Today, his SHAKTI processor architecture powers everything from defense communications to space grade controllers built in collaboration with ISRO.
That young boy whose father threw his cricket bat down a well...
The student who missed the JEE list in 1985...
The violinist who turned down the official IIT Director's mansion to stay in his family home & protect his late father's Sanskrit library...
His name is Prof. Veezhinathan Kamakoti.