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[𝕊𝕂𝕋 @skt_Bharatwasi]

32 years back in Thyagaraja Universe.
Telugu saint song by Tamil Musicians.
One of the gems of carnatic music.
A Song in praise of Shri Rama.

Jagadananda Karaka 🎶

[atom @itisparmanu]

Never stopped

[kalki @kalkiverxe]

mind cleansing 🪷

[Jacob Coxon @hilbertspaess]

I resigned from Anthropic today. I spent the last three years doing pretraining research at both OpenAI and Anthropic. Neither company is acting responsibly. They are racing straight to self-improving superintelligence and gambling with our lives. More thoughts below.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

The man's software runs in over 10 million cars on the road right now. That alone deserves a tribute.

Here is the great man's story.

Ravi Pandit co-founded KPIT in Pune in 1990, two years before liberalisation, when nobody in India was building software for cars. He came from a family Chartered Accountancy practice, did his master's at MIT Sloan, and instead of staying in finance or moving abroad, he chose to build engineering software for an industry India didn't really have yet.

What he built ended up running inside vehicles made by BMW, Ford, Honda, GM, and most major global automakers. Indian companies usually get to do the back-office work for global firms. KPIT got to do the safety-critical work, the kind of code that has to be reliable enough to not kill people. He spent 35 years earning that level of trust, project by project, contract by contract.

He saw the EV and autonomous mobility shift years before it became obvious. KPIT pivoted hard into software-defined vehicles when most peers were still chasing pure IT services contracts.

The best part was that he kept Pune at the centre of it all. He didn't move the company to Bangalore or to the US. He co-founded the Pune International Centre, which became one of India's most respected policy institutions. He started Janwani and the Zero Garbage Project, which genuinely changed how Pune handled its waste. He supported the Gokhale Institute and the Aga Khan Rural Support Programme. He was the only private-sector member on the National Green Hydrogen Mission's Empowered Group, and recently launched HRIDAY to push hydrogen adoption in India.

He wasn't too social, didn't do podcasts, didn't tweet but he did do was co-write a book called "Leapfrogging to Pole-Vaulting" with R. A. Mashelkar, about how India could skip stages of development instead of just catching up.

I read that book a few years ago and a lot of how I think about Indian companies competing globally came from it.

A genuine builder is gone. The kind who picked unsexy industries, stayed put in his city, did civic work that lasted, and kept his name out of the headlines while doing some of the most consequential engineering work this country has produced.

Rest in peace, sir. Thank you for everything you built, and for showing what was possible from Pune, India. 🇮🇳

[CA Vivek Khatri @CaVivekkhatri]

🚨Last night, India switched on a reactor.

Here are 9 numbers nobody is talking about:

→ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived this plan
→ 22 years: Time to actually build it
→ ₹7,700 crore: Final cost (started at ₹3,492 crore)
→ 500 MW: Power it will generate
→ 2nd: India's global rank only Russia had this before
→ 25%: India's share of world's thorium reserves
→ 400 years: How long those reserves can power India
→ 200+: Indian companies that built it. Zero foreign designs.
→ 3: Countries that tried and quit - USA, Germany, UK

🧵 A thread that will blow your mind:

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, India takes a defining step in its civil nuclear journey, advancing the second stage of its nuclear programme.

The indigenously designed and built Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam has attained criticality.

This advanced reactor, capable of producing more fuel than it consumes, reflects the depth of our scientific capability and the strength of our engineering enterprise. It is a decisive step towards harnessing our vast thorium reserves in the third stage of the programme.

A proud moment for India. Congratulations to our scientists and engineers.

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

Goosebumps Alert !!!!!!

Bharat Maata kaun hai??

I am spellbound on how she has presented Bharat Maata and Bharat!

Na kabhi aisa dekha aur na kabhi sunne ko milega!!

[Keh Ke Peheno @coolfunnytshirt]

Brilliant satire by Shraddha Jain on the political language war and language chauvinism!

Clean, healthy, bait-free, trigger-free, abuse-free standup comedy! A rarity these days! 👌🏽

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

This is something ..
Which should be VIRAL..

A Must watch for us all .
Don't miss ..
Worth your 5 odd mins ..

[News Matrix @NewsMatrixIND]

This Swamiji is from the same lineage as Sri Vidyaranya Swami, the guru of Sri Krishna Devaraya in 16th century.

It was such a joy and peace to witness this interaction at Hampi, next to Virupaksha temple.

[Rajiv Dixit Ji ᴾᵃʳᵒᵈʸ @Ayurvedictips_]

सड़े हुए दांत को कभी म��� निकलवाना...

[Ojasvi ಓಜಸ್ವಿ ओजस्वी ஓஜஸ்வி @MonsoonMuse]

This morning, let your heart tune into the sacred Namavalli
Where Maa Sita grace, Sri Rama dharma and the rhythm of devotion flow as one.

Siyapati Ramchandra Ki Jai!
Radhapati Krishnachandra Ki Jai!
Gauripati Chandrachud Ki Jai!🔱
Pawansut Hanuman Ki Jai! 🙏🚩

Happy Day Guys 🫶

[Sophia @its_Sophia_24]

What life was like before social media

[Taichi for Health @StaminaFitnes]

A daily neck massage could change your brain health Forever 🧠

[tomato 🍅 @neembu_paani31]

i went from zero devops knowledge to getting hired in 6 months

here's the exact roadmap that worked for me

no fluff just actionable steps

[Vatsala Singh @_vatsalasingh]

पितरों और कुलदेवी को कैसे खुश करें....

[Today I Learned @TodayiLearrned]

Exercise to heal shoulder pain

[ShounakD @SdShounak]

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