Ravi Shankar

VP Products @ComvivaTech. Leadership roles at @STL_Tech, @Skyvera__ @OptivaInc
Passionate about people & products, (un)learning 'things' everyday.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳

[Mohini Maheshwari @MohiniWealth]

On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes.

When she opened them, her daughter was gone.

Six months.
Six months of walking from police station to police station.
Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages.
Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…”

In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood.

Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child.

Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call.

The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…”

They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14.

When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected.

She ran.

Not away — toward them.

Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family.

Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them.

The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God.

And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family.

Six months of darkness ended in one hug.

Aarohi is home now.
The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight.

Today, a mother is singing lullabies again.
Today, a father is smiling in his sleep.
And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned.

Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves.
Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

India is the world’s 2nd-largest sugarcane producer.

But the woman who made it possible slipped into the footnotes of our history.

Hers is an extraordinary story of courage, ambition and service.
She is an outstanding role model for all young Indian women.

Yet how many children today could name her in a GK quiz?

Unsung heroes, especially women scientists, should not remain unsung.

Dr. Janaki Ammal is my #MondayMotivation

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I was in Hyderabad yesterday to address the Telangana Rising Global Summit.

Apart from the privilege of interacting with Chief Minister Revanth Reddy Garu, on the subject of the Vision 2047 plan for the state, it was an unexpected surprise to be able to finally meet Megastar Chiranjeevi Garu..

The man is a legend, but what makes him truly endearing are his humility and genuine curiosity.

It was a powerful reminder that these two traits: curiosity to learn and humility to listen, are the bedrock of enduring success in any field, from film to business to policy

[Raghu @IndiaTales7]

Greatest religious buildings on Earth.

Open the thread and be amazed 🧵

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

@ThePuneMirror Sound level

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

@ThePuneMirror See for yourself

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to Cybage Software Pvt. Ltd. for breaching environmental regulations during construction in Vadgaon Sheri. The company has seven days to respond to allegations of air and noise pollution and non-compliance with the Water and Air Pollution Acts.

Story reported by: Eeshwari Jedhe
Video: Anaum Shaikh
Video Editor: Neeta Khadke

#Cybage #EnvironmentalViolations #MPCB #Pune #VadgaonSheri #PollutionControl #Construction #UrbanDevelopment #Sustainability

(Maharashtra Pollution Control Board, Cybage Software, environmental regulations, construction violations, air pollution, noise pollution, Vadgaon Sheri, No Objection Certificate, legal action, urban development)

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

Pune: MPCB Issues Show-Cause Notice to #Cybage Software for Environmental Violations @Cybagesoftware https://t.co/sXtUjfQ97M

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

@ThePuneMirror https://t.co/pHfA4cWQwx

The Maharashtra Pollution Control Board (MPCB) has issued a show-cause notice to Pune-based IT firm Cybage Software for violating environmental regulations during the construction of its new building in Vadgaon Sheri.

@Cybagesoftware

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

@ThePuneMirror @Cybagesoftware is releasing toxic material and water generated during excavation in nullah

The decibel levels go all the way breaching 80 to 90 db.

Their work has resulted into damage to the walls in the Kumar Kruti building.

[Ravi Shankar @rspanday]

@ThePuneMirror @Cybagesoftware is playing with the lives of over 400 families living in their next door society.

- continuously #blasting to dig for multi-story building
- #breaking pavements
- #damaging road divider on private road
- #cutting trees in the area
- #rash driving by the JCV

[Pune Mirror @ThePuneMirror]

Pune News: MPCB slaps notice on Cybage

Read more: https://t.co/A8CtNHXaGx

#cybage #mpcb #pollution #vadgaonsheri #latestnews #punemirror #punecitynews #pune

( cybage, mpcb, pollution, vadgaon sheri, pune news, pune city, pune mirror)

[Jon Erlichman @JonErlichman]

Valuations today:

Nvidia:    $2.9 trillion
Intel:         $94 billion

Valuations 15 years ago:

Intel:        $275 billion
Nvidia:    $765 million

[Hosun Chung @hosun_chung]

Robert Greene's ideas will make you immune to depression.

But his books average 500+ pages and take 100s of hours to read.

I curated his best ideas, so you don’t have to.

Here's his 5-step protocol for a lifetime of happiness:

[Shreyas Doshi @shreyas]

✨New launch, 2 years in the making:
Just wrapped up the very first cohort of my course on Improving your Product Sense.

https://t.co/I1yn0RBinH

It was an intensive 1 week course (18+ hours of instruction with lots of examples & practice, and 7-8 hours of Q&A sessions, all live on Zoom).

This inaugural cohort was capped at 48 people — founders, eng managers, design managers, PM leaders, IC PMs, and engineers from these companies:

Docusign
Amazon
OpenAI
Front
Cash App
Coda
YouTube
Palo Alto Networks
Meta
Vidyard
Walmart
Google
Reddit
Uber
Square
Indiegogo
2K Games
Invideo AI
Snowflake
Tubi TV
Broadcom
Grubhub
Intuit
+several startups across the globe

I have been working on this course for 2 years and did not launch it all this while because I wanted it to be really, really good.

Specifically, I have designed this course around building the skill of making better product decisions (macro & micro), by significantly deepening students’ understanding of human nature, systems, strategy, competitive dynamics, creative execution, taste, influence, etc.

It is much easier to build a course or a bootcamp around process-oriented & framework-oriented content, but the big problem is that you can follow the process and the framework and odds are high that you will still fail.

People who consistently build successful products do not succeed because they talk to customers & test+iterate & focus on the user & scratch their own itch & make something people want & answer support tickets etc. etc.

Of course they do all of these things — but these tablestakes aren’t actually going to make you successful.

They are necessary conditions for product success, but the sufficient conditions are about how you extract the best, correct signal from all of these activities and what skills enable you to get insights from these activities that no one else is getting and how you creatively execute on those insights to build something amazing.

So in my course I decided to focus on skill-building, not process-knowledge & not framework-acquisition & not inspiring success tales that aren’t actually actionable for your startup or product.

Of course, this self-imposed constraint made it much harder to build out the curriculum & content, but after 2 years of working on it and trying to perfect it, I am pleased to say that the first cohort of this course was a resounding success.

The next cohort is in July — we are going to take the lessons from this one and make it even better.

After July, we will have more frequent cohorts (likely every month) and we will also increase cohort size.

So if you have already applied for the course but didn’t get into the inaugural cohort, don’t worry, we will get you into another one later this year.

Thank you for all your love & support, and most importantly, your patience, as I kept on delaying the launch of this course like 5 times since 2022 😄

But fortunately, it’s here now, and it’s a lot of fun 🙌🏽🙏🏽❤️

[Saloni @salonium]

New Policy Cures report estimates that if the RTS,S malaria vaccine was developed a decade earlier — i.e. the time it took for the R21 vaccine from P3 trials to use — an extra 2 million lives would've been saved
https://t.co/zxcZ4sYNsi

Why didn't we get a malaria vaccine sooner?

[Arena.ai @arena]

Big news – Gemini 1.5 Flash, Pro and Advanced results are out!🔥

- Gemini 1.5 Pro/Advanced at #2, closing in on GPT-4o
- Gemini 1.5 Flash at #9, outperforming Llama-3-70b and nearly reaching GPT-4-0125 (!)

Pro is significantly stronger than its April version. Flash’s cost, capabilities, and unmatched context length make it a market game-changer!

Huge congrats to @GoogleDeepMind on the incredible
Gemini launches! Can't wait to see what new applications Gemini unlocks!

More breakdown analysis below👇

[Branden | Starwind UI @boston343builds]

I grew my Instagram to 10k+ followers with 0 time spent making videos

I simply plugged in a software that converted tweets to videos

Multiple videos over 100k views, and one over 1M

The software (aff link) https://t.co/Zokmj44DiD

More tips below 👇

[Light Reading @Light_Reading]

For $7 per month, AT&T Turbo customers can 'optimize their network' with a new service that can 'help offer real-time responsiveness.' But the details are somewhat murky.

Read more on Light Reading: https://t.co/kJaovoVHYx