Anachronist 🇮🇳💉💉

Programmer, fantasy and sci-fi lover. In awe of life, earth and space. Fan of Sachin, Dravid and Rowling.

[InfoQ @InfoQ]

This #InfoQ article explores why human understanding must be treated as a key architectural characteristic, offering practical strategies and design checkpoints to preserve system intent.

Read now: https://t.co/hZIC0GGFEH

#EvolutionaryArchitecture #AI #CodeReview

[The Better India @thebetterindia]

Can changing how children feel about books transform the future of education?
Three sisters are proving that it can.

Founded by Bunty Pai, Madhuri Pai, and Nayana Pai, Turning Pages Foundation is building a culture of joyful reading in underserved schools across India's tribal, coastal, and low-income communities.

Since launching in 2020, the organisation has reached nearly 8,000 students, trained 150 teachers, and circulated 15,000 books across 12 schools in Maharashtra, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, and Madhya Pradesh.

Instead of treating reading as another academic task, the foundation creates classroom libraries, daily DEAR (Drop Everything And Read) sessions, storytelling programmes, and teacher-led reading ecosystems that children genuinely look forward to.

At a time when national assessments show many Grade 5 students still struggle to read Grade 2-level text, this work highlights an important truth. Building literacy begins with building a love for reading.

Read more: https://t.co/IrfWxc12ye

#Education #SocialImpact #Literacy #ChildDevelopment #InspiringIndia

[Turning Pages Foundation, Education, Joyful Reading, Reading Culture, School Libraries, Literacy Education, Children's Learning]

[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting @MIB_India]

On the recommendation of the Dadasaheb Phalke Award Selection Committee, the Government of India is pleased to announce that Shri. Mohanlal will be conferred the prestigious Dadasaheb Phalke Award 2023.

Mohanlal’s remarkable cinematic journey inspires generations! 🌟

The legendary actor, director, and producer is being honoured for his iconic contribution to Indian Cinema. 🎬

His unmatched talent, versatility, and relentless hard work have set a golden standard in Indian film history. ✨

📅 The award will be presented at the 71st National Film Awards ceremony on Sept 23, 2025.

[Nimal Raghavan @being_nimal]

#BounceBackRamnad #SaveWater

This is the before and after picture of Melasaakkulam lake. Earlier, the lake couldn’t even hold a drop of water; today, following our labor, we have preserved 50000000 litres of water.

Do you know how many days it took to complete this work ?

Just 7 days!!!

Location: Keelasaakkulam Panchayat, Muthukulathur Taluk, Ramanathapuram District.

Ps: This work was completely done by a group of women from the village under our guidance and support.

If we can restore a Waterbody and save 5 crore litres with whatever minimum resources available, just think how much water we all could save if we start working together.

Together Lets Make Earth Green Again💚

#WaterCrisis #MegaFoundations #SDG

[Satya @solidview]

Bengaluru's "How not to fix a pothole" example. Corruption and ineptitude means road repair is a perpetual moneymaking cycle for contractors. Bad road is a gift that keeps giving.

BBMP - Is this according to your Road Maintainence Handbook? Where can we find the Handbook?

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

For everyone who is disappointed that we didn’t finish Pakistan. I have only one question.

What exactly do you mean by “Finish Pakistan”? What do you expect to do?

Do you want to do a WW2 style Operation Sickle Cut, launch armored pincer movements, encircle Pakistani armies and annex Pakistan? Why on earth would you want to do that?

Do you want to add 300 million hostile people, some of whom already think blowing themselves up is their greatest purpose in life? How will you manage them?

Is that how you will finish Pakistan?

Or do you want to nuke them out of existence?

Because let me give you a reality check here. We won’t do that. We can’t do that. Indian citizens cannot morally contemplate, let alone sanction, nuking 300 million people. So that option is out.

Then Someone said, “Let’s split Pakistan into 5 countries”.

Now, Pakistan isn’t some Ikea Furniture that you can assemble or disassemble at your will. As hopeless they may be, they still have a functioning military and a working bureaucracy. They will do anything they can to keep the country together.

With all our might, with all our focus, we can exploit that Faultline, but it will take a lot of money and energy and 10-15 years. Are you ready to wait that long?

Some people said we should do a large-scale attack on all their air bases, military bases, Ports, Military HQ everything. Obliterate them out of existence.

Sounds nice if you are movie general.

In reality if we do that, Pakistan will launch nukes on Mumbai and Delhi. Simple. Because it will be their last resort and they will exercise it.

Obviously, we will retaliate and wipe them out of existence, but are ready to lose our 2 big cities and the lives of 20 million Indians as a price for taking out their military?

I don’t think so.

Finally, what is War? War is nothing but politics by other means. And War without objective is pointless.

Any battle launched should be with a purpose.

Our purpose in this strike was two-fold

1. Send a message to Pakistan that for every Indian your terrorist kills, we will kill 100 of your terrorists. We will take you out even if you are ensconced in the heart of your country. We will come after your terrorists like a wrath of God.
2. If Pakistan retaliates, not only can we handle them, but we will also hit and twist the knife if it comes to that.

We have achieved it. In fact, we have more than achieved it.

We have put the fear of God in the terrorists. Obviously, they will try again, but this time they know we will hit back.

And we have clearly shown Pakistan that we can penetrate wherever we want into Pakistan, while the maximum they can do is look up and shake their fists.

Some people also speak about India being diplomatically isolated.

In this entire exercise, if anyone has been isolated, it is Pakistan.

In the olden days, as soon as something bad from Pakistan happened, most countries used to descend on us, asking us to be restrained, calm, resilient etc.

This time not only did nobody speak, but they also allowed us three days of complete freedom of action where we stuck fear in the hearts of the Pakistani military.

So much so, they had to beg to us to stop.

In international diplomacy, no country will come out and say “Please attack someone else. We are with you” .

They will support you only when you are being attacked. The fact that nobody said anything when we attacked, is a diplomatic success in itself. Just that we don’t see it.

To summarize, as far as Operation Sindoor is concerned

1. We sent 200 jihadis to where they belong.
2. Took out 9 terrorist locations deep inside Pakistan
3. Attacked all major Pakistani Air bases, made a complete mockery of their air defence system.
4. Made them beg for us to stop. I mean if it is a wrestling match, the person who taps out first is the one who loses. Pakistan tapped out. Ergo, they lost.
5. Ensured Indus Water Treaty is now firmly in the dustbin.
6. Have given ourselves the freedom to attack Pakistan as soon as a Terrorist incident takes place.

If this is not a win for us, then I don’t know what is.

P:S: India wants to be an advanced country and has to provide for 80 crore people who are below the age of 30.

We have to focus on industrialization, technological self-sufficiency and agricultural modernization.

We have higher priorities than fighting pointless wars against a country who has nothing and can give nothing.

[Aravind @aravind]

This is a message for the younger generation in India who may have never seen a war.

As Indian armed forces start teaching the terrorist country Pakistan a lesson, we may naturally see some losses to our forces. Losses are part of any conflict.

It is the end result that matters. In 1971, Pakistan was split into two in just under two weeks.

But in those two weeks, India lost 45 planes, 1 frigate, 2500+ soldiers. India also had a few thousand of our soldiers captured, and many Indian air fields and bases were destroyed.

This is how wars are. Don't be in any fantasies, and prepare your mind to be as strong as our soldier on the field.

Remember, it is the end result that matters.

Pakistan was not just split in two, but tens of thousands of soldiers were killed, and 90,000+ were captured. The rest surrendered on their knees.

So don't fall for propaganda that will come from across the borders when we see an Indian air craft downed or a soldier captured. Their propaganda power is immense to affect our psychology as a nation.

Because they have their sympathizers and political agents well within in India. And, it is now the age of social media. We haven't had any big conflict in this age.

So beware of the extraordinary psyops and always support our brave armed forces risking their lives for us, for whatever decisions they take.

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

Flood? Army.
Earthquake? Army.
Terror attack? Army.
Child in borewell? Army.
Riots? Army.

But for ribbon cutting?
Actors & politicians.

Whether it’s war or weather, the Indian Army always shows up.
Maybe it’s time we invite them to the celebrations too.

[Cdr Abhilash Tomy KC, NM @abhilashtomy]

There is an eerie silence in the naval WhatsApp groups I am part of. We don’t talk. We don’t speculate. We don’t chatter.

The retired guys aren’t asking. The serving guys aren’t volunteering info.

No one wants anything to be revealed inadvertently- even the fact whether one is on land, sea or in air.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I didn't know that IMF stood for International Military Fund.

[Prof. Feynman @ProfFeynman]

The ultimate test of your knowledge is your ability to convey it to another.

[Anachronist 🇮🇳💉💉 @rnarayana]

People go and rename master branch to main, rename blacklists and whitelists... but keep using "other backward class" #bethechange

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Superb recent campaign by @navneet_edu My mother was a teacher and I enthusiastically sign up to the idea of according Teachers a professional title/prefix…

[Karthik Nagarajan @The_Karthik]

Quite late to this party but 'Mission ISRO' is easily the best Indian narrative podcast I have heard. The stunning research, the beautiful writing and the extraordinary energy that @bhogleharsha brings is pure joy! Take a bow @GauravVaz @sidin 1/3 https://t.co/rpKYrrTfKp

[Anachronist 🇮🇳💉💉 @rnarayana]

Choosing a consumer service type for message queue processing: deployment or job or serverless?
{ by @rnarayana } from @hashnode

#kubernetes #messagequeue #keda https://t.co/ioaQgpBNHs

[Susanta Nanda IFS (Retd) @susantananda3]

Landscapes of Steeplechase is chasing…
What a finish. Proud of my India ☺️☺️

Podiums by countries in 3000m steeplechase since the 1998 CWG
1998: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2002: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2006: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2010: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2014: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2018: 🇰🇪 🇰🇪 🇰🇪
2022: 🇰🇪 🇮🇳🇰🇪

[Anachronist 🇮🇳💉💉 @rnarayana]

@elonmusk blue tick for all.

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

Parents have to choose their battles.

8 fights worth picking with your kids:

[David Morris @wdmorrisjr]

Strong parents raise strong kids.

8 traits of strong parents: