Shravan Thakor

[Harsh Goenka @hvgoenka]

What @palkisu is saying makes sense. When algorithms become teachers, reels become textbooks , virality becomes truth, when reading disappears, it is misinformation that flourishes. An uninformed generation can be a potential national security risk.

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@theskindoctor13 People just join govt services for pay check and benefits, they don't truly work or fulfill their duties. Also selecting based on reservation and not merit leads to uncompetitive people in service

[Parimal @Fintech03]

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.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

CJP GETS A FREE RIDE. PM'S MESSAGE DOESN'T? META-STIZED CENSORSHIP? BUT AT WHOSE INSTIGATION?
Many on social media are sharing this screenshot of Facebook allegedly restricting PM Modi's critical selfie video assuring protesters. If true, it raises serious questions about interference in India's internal affairs. But perhaps it was only a matter of time.
Meta's platforms, Facebook, Instagram and WhatsApp, earn enormously from content created by Indian media, businesses and hundreds of millions of users through advertising revenue from the Indian market. They exercise enormous power over what people see, what gets amplified, what gets buried and, most importantly, over the advertising revenue that flows from this vast ecosystem.
That concentration of power is deeply disturbing. It also raises the concern that India may have entered a phase where its democratic discourse is vulnerable to manipulation, censorship by entities that operate beyond the country's democratic accountability.
That is precisely why it is unwise to take any self-proclaimed "prophet of change", including CJP, at face value. There is already speculation and evidence that increasingly protests in "public interest" are SPONSORED and that some "PROTESTORS" are, in effect, "HUMAN BOT ARMIES" serving deeply entrenched anti-India vested interests. While further evidence is needed so is greater transparency. Even as the risk of upsetting Trump and his sarkar MODI GOVERNMENT NEEDS TO IMPOSE TOUGH REDLINES ON MEGA FOREIGN PLATFORMS LIKE FB, YT, X, before it is too late.

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@JJShankar007 Same gestures were shown by Ms in Sanand village near Ahmedabad, when they are in majority. But still some Hindus wants bhai chara

[Advocate Neelam Bhargava Ram @nbramllb]

One more blood shed roads from Jubileehills Constituency, Borabanda, NRR Puram Site-3…

[Advocate Neelam Bhargava Ram @nbramllb]

Streets of Musheerabad, Hyderabad…

I was surprised an entire area is named as Bangladesh by locals in Hyderabad, Telangana

Blood flowing from Bangladesh Market area to Hindu streets in Musheerabad.

Just listen to Hindu women shouting at them.

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@sougat18 Long back somewhere 10 years back, I found an article that major wars will be for fresh water and there is a possibility between India and Pakistan.
Seems like it's unfolding.

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

Let it be stated clear, don’t be fooled by America backed Think Tanks and strategic experts. America is no more interested in any privilege partnership with India. This is the era of transactional diplomacy, the era of bi-partisan consensus is broken and over.

These experts will sing peans, write flowery opeds on Secretary Rubio’s visit and how Viceroy Gor is working to repair the relationship. There is no repair going on and these so called experts wont tell you that America is looking for ‘America First’ in deals with India ! And America First is not India First !

From courting the Billionaires for investments in USA, to visiting the Missionaries in Kolkata, to backing Pakistan regionally & to make India a captive buyer of US Oil & Gas forwarding the profits of Big Oil investments in Venezuela.

This is what America brings to table - transactional diplomacy, extractive trade terms, threats of 301 investigations, Russian Oil tariffs, Predatory Economics, delaying defence projects, doing coups & coloured revolutions in India’s neighbourhood, bailouts to Pakistan.

From which point of view does this look like strategic partnership to you. An Ornamental Quad summit is a joke given what US has done to India economically and strategically.

Even Telegraph, UK knows it but these so called American experts will continue their ball by ball commentary of Secretary Rubio arriving on India Tour.

Dont be under any delusions what Rubio & Gor sell you, they are just salesman for Corporate America & selected lobbies represented through the White House !

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

Something nobody's connecting: India's fertilizer production hit 62.37 lakh tonnes in just Mar-Apr 2026 while West Asia is in full crisis mode. Imports were only 15.39 lakh tonnes.

Five years ago we'd have been panicking. This time the plants kept running.

Quiet wins don't trend. But domestic urea capacity going from deficit to near self-sufficiency might be the most underrated industrial story of the decade.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Punjab police has arrested, for rash driving, the @TimesNow journalist who broadcast the #SheeshMahal exposé @BhawanaKishore (she wasn't even driving the car) and implicated her under the SC-ST act.

No outrage. Democracy is alive and so is Press Freedom.

[Rupa Murthy @rupamurthy1]

A man was caught urinating inside a lift at Delhi Metro’s Kalkaji Metro Station in the presence of two women. When one of them, Deepshika Mehta, confronted him on the platform, his response was: “Tum kar lo jo karna hai.”
Absolute shamelessness and complete disregard for basic civic sense.
But leave it to RJ Sayema to come to the man’s defence and somehow turn this into “bigotry” and “hate against minorities,” instead of condemning the disgusting behaviour for what it is.

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@anujdhar Even padhe likhe AAP supporters will support this drunkard & Kejriwal (so called anti corruption crusader who supports Congress & Lalu's RJD)
Clowns🤡

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

@SupriyaShrinate Didi aisa kaise chalega ????

[Opinion Bakery @IndiaSpeaksPR]

This Jahangir Khan and his men killed a 6 year old with a brick. Police threatened the father and shut him up. You won't find these stories in national media anywhere

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@coolfunnytshirt Kejriwal - II

[Advait Arora @WealthEnrich]

Very interesting point on why sharp jump in Oil prices for India might not be a disaster like before.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition.

GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before.

Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country.

The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything.

The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot.

Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart.

GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution.

Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time.

For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day.

GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission.

Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru.

Take a bow!

[Shravan Thakor @shravanthakor07]

@AskAnshul @OlaElectric This was the reason Kamra going after @OlaElectric

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Dalda became so famous that the brand name replaced the category. Even today, many people call any vegetable oil Dalda. It remains the ultimate Ghost Brand that killed the monopoly of Desi Ghee by dressing up in a green tin & promising a purity that the lab-grown fat could never truly possess.

The story of Dalda is arguably the greatest Psychological Hijack in the history of Indian food. Before Dalda, India was the land of Desi Ghee. But by the 1930s, pure ghee was becoming expensive, & a Dutch company saw a fat-shaped hole in the Indian market.

In the early 1930s, the Dutch company HVM was importing vanaspati (hydrogenated vegetable oil) under the brand name Dada. When Hindustan Lever (now HUL) took over the distribution, they wanted to make it sound theirs. But they did not change the whole name. They simply inserted the 'L' from Lever into the middle of Dada & Dalda was born.

It sounded familiar, soft, & grandmotherly, even though it was a chemically altered industrial product. Before Dalda, fat was sold loose in the market. It was messy, prone to dust, & easily adulterated. Dalda introduced the Green Tin with the Yellow Palm Tree. It was the 1st time an Indian staple was sold in a sealed, tamper-proof container.

In a country obsessed with purity, the Click of opening a new Dalda tin became the sound of safety. Housewives felt that the British-engineered tin was cleaner than the loose ghee sold by the local halwai. They used the Visual of Hygiene to sell Chemical Fat. The creators of Dalda wanted to be a clone. They used a process called Hydrogenation to turn liquid vegetable oil into a solid.

They specifically engineered it to have the exact melting point of Ghee (37 degrees C) so it would feel the same on the tongue. They added synthetic buttery aromas to mimic the smell of clarified butter. They marketed it as Vanaspati Ghee (Vegetable Ghee). By stealing the word Ghee, they bypassed the cultural barrier.

People did not feel they were switching to oil; they felt they were buying a Modern, Affordable Ghee. By the 1940s, Dalda was so successful that it started hurting the dairy industry. This led to a massive Swadeshi Backlash. None other than Gandhi & Sardar Patel spoke out against Dalda. Gandhi called it the death of the cow, & there was a massive movement to force Dalda to dye their oil a different color (like orange/blue) so it could not be used to adulterate real ghee.

Dalda’s lawyers (some of the best in the British Raj) fought back, arguing that no color was biologically safe. They delayed the laws for so long that by the time the dust settled, an entire generation of Indians had already developed a taste for Dalda-fried puris.

Dalda was the pioneer of Experiential Marketing in rural India. In the 1950s, Dalda sent out vans into villages with projectors. They would show a movie, & halfway through, they would host a live cooking demonstration. They would fry pakoras in Dalda & distribute them for free. For a villager who had only ever eaten boiled grains/expensive ghee, the Crunch of a Dalda pakora was a revelation. It was the Taste of Progress.

They taught women how to use Dalda for embroidery & soap-making. They wanted Dalda to be so integrated into the house that removing it would feel like removing a family member. Also, Dalda did not win because it was healthier (it was not; it was full of trans-fats). It won because it solved 2 Indian anxieties: Adulteration & Cost.