Saumar Deka

marketer. mostly.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

1/12 👉 Recent comments by Kapil Sibal brought focus to #NorthEast, sparking chatter on whether Assam was a part of Burma.
Short answer – yes and no!
Here's a thread on this fascinating period of Indian history – Read on. #assamhistory

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

@Airtel_Presence been complaining about my TV remote since last week. No technician has come - the responses over the app are so templated!!

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

@Airtel_Presence wifi extremely erratic last few weeks. Disconnects frequently and does not come back for hours. What’s wrong?

[Vipin Tiwari @Vipintiwari952]

I genuinely find Suryakumar Yadav extremely immature in PCs.

First, when he was asked a genuine question about Sanju Samson’s inclusion, he turned it into a joke and mocked the situation instead of giving a straight answer.

Now again, just before a final, he was asked a perfectly valid tactical question : “India has lost the most wickets against off-spinners in the tournament and also has one of the lowest strike rates against them. Naturally, the question was: what’s the plan to tackle off-spin?”

His response was : “We didn’t discuss it. If we reached the final with a 120 strike rate, I don’t have a problem. I’ll keep playing with a 120 strike rate.”

And when he was asked about captaincy : he replied : “Bade papa aur dada banne ki jarurat nhi hai blah blah”

That’s borderline arrogance. A press conference isn’t your personal social media account where you throw out whatever comes to mind. There are some questions being asked about the team before a final, and brushing them off like this just reflects a lack of maturity.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

Phew!!!

What a match :)))

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

@IndianTechGuide @grok can you make this a table. add the population and the gdp per population for each state. Then sort it by GDP per population. Will help us understand which state has the riches population

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

In other news, GPT 5.2 is probably OpenAI's most irritating model ever. They've outdone themselves with the pointless bak-bak (verbosity) and unnecessary line breaks that destroy readability. Even telling it off doesn't help much. Verbal Diarrhea is default for GPT 5.2 it seems.

Looks like, rate limitation permitting, I might just end up mostly using Claude. So far, it's much more grown-up than GPT 5.2. Bit by bit, porting my custom GPTs into skills. 19 skills done today. Another 61 pending...might take a week.

Just set up Claude Code as well. Baby steps.

[Temjen Imna Along @AlongImna]

The Northeast doesn’t add spice, we ARE the spice 😉

Yummy, appetizing photo credit: @naga_belly

[Rosy @rose_k01]

This Guy Tricked ChatGPT 😂😂😂

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

This requires a police case with arrests , an inquiry within the CISF about the failure of its Jawans to protect passengers and apprehend assailants & explanations from Delhi Airport.
An internal enquiry within an airline will solve nothing.

[vnip @vnip09]

You don't realize how many websites use cloudfare until cloudfare stops working. Then you try to look up how many websites use cloudfare and can't because all the google results that would answer your question also use cloudfare.
#TwitterDown #CloudfareDown

[SanatanReveals @SanatanReveals]

“No historical evidence for Chanakya during Mauryan times”?

Let’s apply that same standard globally. Many figures we study as historical lack direct lifetime records:

• Gautama Buddha — Earliest inscriptional evidence appears ~200 years later (Aśokan edicts).
• Jesus of Nazareth — No contemporary inscriptions; earliest texts decades later.
• Pythagoras — No writings or direct records from his time; known only through later biographers.
• Euclid — Life entirely reconstructed from later references; works survive, not his biography.
• Zoroaster — Historicity debated; earliest textual evidence much later.
• Boudica — Known only through Roman historians written after her revolt; no native records.
• Romulus — Traditional founder of Rome; regarded as semi-legendary due to lack of contemporary sources.
• Emperor Sponsian — Known from coins; textual silence from his own era.

Yet, none of these are dismissed outright as “imagined centuries later.” They’re studied critically within their civilizational record systems.

Similarly, Chanakya (Kautilya/Vishnugupta) appears in:
• Arthashastra — Reflects Mauryan polity and administration.
• Mahavamsa & Parishishtaparvan — Buddhist and Jain sources linking him to Chandragupta Maurya.
• Mudra-Rakshasa — Later Sanskrit dramatization, not the origin of the tradition.

The absence of contemporary inscriptions in India doesn’t mean absence of history — it shows a different archival culture built on oral transmission and later codification.

By the same logic, if Chanakya is “fictional,” so must be Buddha, Pythagoras, and even Romulus.

Critical consistency, not selective skepticism, defines true scholarship.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

It’s not something to gloat about, but India fares better than the US on this yardstick. Multiple minority leaders have held mayoral level posts, and we’ve had seven Muslim Chief Ministers beyond J&K — over fifteen if you include it. And three presidents. US has none.

[Karan T @jaanebhidoyaaro]

@SirJambavan Ever heard of Zakir Husain & Fakhrudin Ali Ahmed?

The President of India is a ceremonial position, whereas the Mayor of NY City has significant executive power, acting as the chief executive and overseeing city government and services.

@ghazalawahab

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

Godzila!!

[signüll @signulll]

storytelling is the ultimate compression algorithm for human attention. everything else, data, logic, tech feeds into it, but if you can’t wrap it in a compelling narrative, nobody will give a shit. people think they make decisions based on facts, but they’re mostly responding to the shape of a story, whether it’s a personal arc, a company vision, or a product pitch.

if you want to accomplish anything meaningful, the story is the interface between it & the world. get that wrong & nobody will give af. get it right & you bend steel with your bare hands.

[Johnny @j00ny369T]

1980s Japanese movie shows you the right way to eat ramen.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

@imravikumars @TIME Congratulations Ravi! Incredibly happy to be a part of your AI vision.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

@Airtel_Presence WiFi not working again. DM ed details

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Outstanding 100 by Yashasvi on a sporting pitch that tested courage and concentration. Full marks to Akashdeep too, batting with heart and determination under pressure. Keep fighting, India.

[Saumar Deka @saumar]

True this!

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago! Probably twice as hard back then!

Waqar, Shoaib, Akram, Mushtaq, Kumble, Srinath, Harbhajan, Donald, Pollock, Klusener, Gough, McGrath, Lee, Warne, Gillespie, Bond, Vettori, Cairns, Vaas, Murali, Curtley, Courtney and the list could go on and on…

I’ve named 22 above. Please name me 10 modern day bowlers that can compare to the names above?

[Ravi Kumar S @imravikumars]

Differentiation in the Agentic age comes from layers of enterprise specific context, domain knowledge, work and data flows - to make productive and effective agents. The key is to capture context and digitize it ⁦@Cognizant⁩ ⁦@SorocoGlobal⁩ https://t.co/N6J5N7ny8B