Amit Shukla

To be a Navodayan and RemoteXs, only two thing I always remember.

[lynk @lynk0x]

This is what your soul needs, not Dubai.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Did you know that global finance wasn't actually pioneered by the West?

Long before Wall Street, credit cards, or modern risk analysis existed, Acharya Chanakya (Kautilya) wrote down the exact working code of finance in the Arthashastra 2,300 years ago.

From कुसीद (interest) to dynamic risk premiums, ancient India laid the groundwork for how money flows today.

[Revant Himatsingka “Food Pharmer” @foodpharmer2]

Imagine walking into a supermarket where every packaged food had a simple health rating from A to E.

A = Better nutritional quality
E = Poor nutritional quality

Imagine seeing a chocolate bar rated E while healthier options scored much higher. Suddenly, making healthier choices becomes much simpler.

This isn't a futuristic idea. It's already a reality in France and several other European countries through Nutri-Score.

I spoke to Dr. Mathilde Touvier in Paris, the lady who started it all!

I strongly believe India also needs to adopt a front-of-pack nutrition rating system like Nutri-Score.

Let’s Make India Healthy Again!

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

चूँकि मेरे दिए गए समाधान न तो जनवरी में माने गए, न फ़रवरी में (नीचे कमेंट में), और आज पुनः हम उसी मोड़ पर हैं जहाँ भाँग खाने वाले सलाहकारों और पे-रोल पर पलने वाले चापलूस 'कीप काम एंड ट्रस्ट मोदी' का जाप कर रहे हैं, मैं फिर भी पतितों की तरह कुछ समाधान बिंदु लिख रहा हूँ।

यह मैं इसलिए नहीं करता कि कोई इसे पढ़ कर अपनी अंतरात्मा जगा लेगा या सरकार मेरी बात मान लेगी, ये मैं केवल डॉक्यूमेंटेशन के लिए लिखता हूँ कि मैं केवल समस्या बताने वालों में से नहीं था, बल्कि मैं समाधान भी दे रहा था।

1. PM को सामने आ कर विद्यार्थियों, उनके परिजनों से सीधे बात करनी चाहिए। वहाँ स्वीकारिए कि यह समस्या है और सरकार उसे अभी तक केवल आंशिक रूप से सही कर पायी है, वृहद समाधान में समय लगेगा, और आप तत्परता से उस पर कार्य कर रहे हैं। क्या कर रहे हैं, उसकी एक झलक भी दिखाएँ/बताएँ।

2. अब धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को हटाना उचित नहीं लगता क्योंकि यदि अभी ऐसा होता है तो 'जो सबसे लंबा अनशन करेगा, उसके हिसाब से मंत्री हटाए जाएँगे' की एक परिपाटी बनेगी। वो हटे, पर अभी तो बिल्कुल नहीं। बात यह नहीं है कि कॉकरोच की डिमांड क्या है, बात यह है कि 28 करोड़ लोगों के द्वारा चुनी सरकार को अराजकतावादियों के हिसाब से मंत्री नहीं बदलना चाहिए। समर्थकों के कहने पर नहीं हटाया तो इन पर तो बिल्कुल नहीं।

3. चाहे NEET हो, SSC हो या अन्य परीक्षा, इसे ऑब्जेक्टिव तक ही सीमित ना रख कर इसका एक-दो चरण ऐसा हो कि केवल MCQ ही उनका भविष्य तय ना करे। बोर्ड तक उसकी सतत समझ की क्षमता के साथ साक्षात्कार आदि को भी डाला जाए या IIT की तरह उसे भी बड़ा बनाया जाए। यदि यह संभव ना हो तो आप IIT या UPSC से सीखें कि उनकी परीक्षा के प्रश्न लीक क्यों नहीं होते।

4. हर कोचिंग संस्थान, विद्यालयों और महाविद्यालयों में विद्यार्थियों के मानसिक स्वास्थ्य का ध्यान रखने के लिए मनोवैज्ञानिक परामर्शदाता की नियुक्ति अनिवार्य की जाए ताकि हर 40 मिनट में एक विद्यार्थी आत्महत्या ना करते रहें।

5. हर विभाग का परीक्षा कैलेंडर (हर चरण का दिन पूर्व निर्धारित) हर वर्ष निकले और परीक्षा केंद्र छात्रों की सहजता के हिसाब से हो ना कि रैंडम। अभी ऐसी स्थिति है कि सेंटर अनावश्यक रूप से 4-500 किलोमीटर दूर तक दे दिए जाते हैं। इसका कोई तर्क नहीं होता।

6. पेपर लीक से जुड़ी फर्म ही नहीं, उनसे जुड़े व्यक्ति और उनके परिजन तक ब्लैकलिस्टेड होने चाहिए कि ये लोग इसी व्यवसाय में पुनः कहीं से भी नहीं आ सकते। यदि कोई सरकारी व्यक्ति पैसा खा कर ऐसा कुछ भी करता है, उन्हें कोई टेंडर आदि दे देता है तो उस पर देशद्रोह का केस चले और न्यूनतम 20 वर्ष का दंड हो।

7. ऐसे अपराध से जो जुड़े हों, उन्हें शिक्षा मंत्रालय का अपना ट्रिब्यूनल हैंडल करे और ऐसी सुनवाई 'इन कैमरा' होने के स्थान पर 'ऑन कैमरा' सार्वजनिक रूप से हो। इसे एक तय समयसीमा में निपटाने की बाध्यता हो। यदि यह सार्वजनिक नहीं होता तो फिर से हर चीज मैनेज हो जाएगी और इसका कोई महत्व नहीं रहेगा।

8. इस नौटंकी आंदोलन में जो भी हैं, एक-एक को चिह्नित कर, उनका उदाहरण बनाया जाए। हाँ, कुछ वास्तविक विद्यार्थी भी होंगे, तो उन्हें काउंसलिंग के साथ छोड़ दिया जाए, परंतु अराजक तत्वों को, यदि वो किसी पार्टी से हैं, 18 वर्ष से ऊपर के हैं, तो उन्हें जेल में डाला जाए, उन्हें जीवन में कोई नौकरी ना मिले यह सुनिश्चित किया जाए और यह हर हिंसक आंदोलनकारी को बताया जाए कि प्रदर्शन का अधिकार है, आगजनी और हिंसा का नहीं।
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और भी कुछ सुझाव होंगे, परंतु अभी इतना ही। सरकार ऐसा कुछ नहीं करेगी पर 'दिल के ख़ुश रखने को 'ग़ालिब' ये ख़याल अच्छा है' के लिए मैं यह लिख रहा हूँ।

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Telling a child “You’re the smartest” can be counter productive.

What matters most is that they keep learning, stay rooted and remain competitive yet humble. These truly are Indian values.

And to speak of this is my mission with 𝑫𝒉𝒓𝒖𝒗-𝑻𝒂𝒓𝒂 & 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑮𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕 𝑰𝒏𝒅𝒊𝒂𝒏 𝑯𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒐𝒓𝒚 𝑸𝒖𝒊𝒛.

Tell me in the comments below:
Is it more important to tell a child they are the best OR to encourage them to keep learning, keep growing?

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

VImag Labs blew my mind.

They've built what they call a Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM).

Traditional permanent magnet motors rely on rare earth magnets inside the rotor. These magnets are imported and expensive.

Instead of using permanent magnets, VImag's rotor contains windings that are electronically excited and precisely controlled through software. As current is induced and managed in the rotor, it behaves like a "virtual magnet" allowing the rotating magnetic field from the stator to drive the motor just like a conventional permanent magnet synchronous motor.

This means that the motor delivers the benefits of a permanent magnet design without actually needing rare earth magnets.

Their current prototype is rated for 6 kW continuous power, with a peak output of 10 kW and 48 to 58 Nm of torque. The initial target market is EVs (everything from two wheelers, three wheelers, buses, and trucks). They may also use them in compressors and ceiling fans.

The upsides are:

1. Lower cost.
2. Lower weight.
3. Smaller size.
4. Ability to control magnetic field.
5. Improved efficiency over PMSM.
6. Indigenous manufacturing and supply chain resilience.

The company has been working on this tech since 2020.

[Amit Thadhani @amitsurg]

The story is way bigger than this. It’s not Vimag”s first patent. It’s their fifth. The performance matches or exceeds that of traditional rare earth magnets. They have some serious funding backing their research. And they are already in production.

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

A $5 million Indian startup just patented the motor every global automaker has been failing to build for a decade.

Bengaluru based Vimag Labs has been granted its fifth Indian patent for something called a Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor, or VMSM.

It runs an electric motor without any rare earth magnet inside it.

Almost every EV today uses a Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motor. These have fixed rare earth magnets physically built into the rotor.

Vimag's motor does not. It creates and controls the magnetic field using software, power electronics, and control algorithms in real time.

The supply chain problem it solves is enormous.

• China controls about 91% of global rare earth refining and separation.

• China produces 94% of the world's sintered permanent magnets, the exact type used in EV motors.

• China holds only 35% of global rare earth reserves. Its power comes from processing, not from owning the minerals.

China has been using that control as a weapon.

• In April 2025, China imposed export controls on seven heavy rare earth elements and all related magnets. Exports collapsed and carmakers in the US and Europe were forced to cut production.

• In October 2025, China extended the rules to any foreign-made product containing 0.1% or more Chinese rare earth content, even if made entirely outside China.

• Prices outside China have spiked up to sixfold. EV makers report roughly $500 in added material cost per vehicle.

• Licensing approvals for European firms have fallen below 25% in some sectors.

Every major automaker has been trying to escape this.

Tesla switched to rare earth motors in 2017 and has said its next generation motors in 2026 will go rare earth free again. Stellantis and GM are funding Niron Magnetics, a US startup building iron nitrogen magnets.

Neither has said when it reaches production.

Valeo has been working on a rare earth free motor since 2022. And It is not expected to reach the market until 2028 at the earliest. Honda has announced its own funding into alternatives.

Vimag has already run 87,600 engineering hours on this, has active pilots with two wheeler and passenger car manufacturers, signed a manufacturing agreement with Jendamark, and is scaling toward commercial vehicles and industrial systems from 200 kW to 600 kW.

It is also building versions for robotics, defence, and cooling systems.

Now the part worth being careful about.

This is still a $5 million Series A company running pilots, not mass production. Motors that work in a lab or a pilot fleet do not always survive cost, durability, and efficiency testing at scale.

Software defined magnetic fields require heavy power electronics, and that adds its own cost and failure points. Valeo has been at this for four years and is still two years from market.

Analysts estimate the West would need 15 to 30 years to rebuild an independent rare earth supply chain.

Building a motor that does not need rare earths at all skips that entire problem.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Scrolling ⟶ entertains the mind.
Reading ⟶ transforms the mind.

I am on a mission to get the children of India ⟶ reading again, really reading.

My first children's book, Dhruv-Tara & The Great Indian History Quiz ⟶ my first step in that mission.

Let's bring the adventure back to our roots.

@WestlandBooks
@oldbooksguy

[Ananth Rupanagudi @AnanthOnTrack]

An Indian scientist at Harvard discovered ATP (Adenosine Triphosphate). Then he helped create the first chemotherapy drug and the first tetracycline antibiotic. Harvard still refused him tenure. A bowling alley would not let him bowl. He died at 53, without an obituary.

His medicines save tens of millions of lives every year. Most American doctors who prescribe them have no idea what his name was. His name was Yellapragada Subbarow (Subba Rao).

He was born in 1895 in Bhimavaram, India. His father was a Sanskrit scholar who died from tropical sprue. Tropical sprue is an acquired malabsorptive disorder found in tropical regions, characterized by chronic diarrhea, weight loss, and severe nutritional deficiencies. It is most commonly associated with deficiencies in vitamin B12 and folic acid, resulting in anemia, fatigue, and glossitis. The same disease killed two of his brothers. As a child, Subbarow watched them fade away and decided he would spend his life fighting disease.

He failed his school exams twice. Passed on the third attempt. His future father-in-law paid for his medical school books. Subbarow married his daughter and repaid the debt. In October 1922, he arrived in Boston with borrowed money and broken English. He was 27. He entered Harvard Medical School and joined the biochemistry PhD program.

He began working under a senior researcher named Cyrus Fiske. Long hours. Little pay. But he was at Harvard, and he did not care. In 1925, they developed the Fiske-SubbaRow assay, a method for measuring phosphorus in body fluids. It is still used today in kidney failure testing, vitamin D testing, and prostate cancer work. It became one of the most cited methods in biochemistry history.

Then they found something even bigger in 1926 - ATP - Adenosine triphosphate. The energy molecule that powers every cell in every living thing on Earth. That discovery changed biochemistry. It also proved that the 1922 Nobel laureate had been wrong about how muscles worked. Muscles did not run on glycogen. They ran on ATP.

Subbarow earned his PhD in 1930. He stayed at Harvard for another decade. Paper after paper. Discovery after discovery. And every year, Harvard refused to promote him. The biochemistry department had never given tenure to a foreigner. They were not going to begin with an Indian.

His colleagues took him fishing. Played tennis with him. Came to dinner at his home. Then voted against him year after year. Outside the laboratory, he met the same wall. He bought an airplane and learned to fly because he loved flying. Once, he tried to go bowling. The local alley refused him entry. The sign said it was “open only to the Caucasian race.”

Then Fiske turned against him. The senior researcher began blocking Subbarow’s discoveries out of jealousy. Some of Subbarow’s work had to be rediscovered years later by other scientists because Fiske kept his findings hidden.

May 1940. Harvard denied him tenure for the last time. After 17 years of groundbreaking work, he walked away. Lederle Laboratories in New York hired him as Associate Director of Research. By the end of the year, he was Director. In the next eight years, he changed medicine. He developed diethylcarbamazine, an oral medicine that killed the tropical worms crippling American soldiers in the Pacific. The World Health Organization still uses it.

He isolated folic acid from liver and worked out how to produce it on a large scale. Today, folic acid in pregnancy prevents birth defects in tens of millions of pregnancies every year. The same family of diseases that killed his father and brothers became preventable because of him.

Then Dr. Sidney Farber called from Boston with an idea: maybe a drug that blocked folic acid in cancer cells could kill childhood leukemia. Subbarow’s team created the drug. They called it Aminopterin. In December 1947, Farber gave it to an eight-year-old boy dying from leukemia. Within weeks, the cancer cells began to disappear.

It was the first chemotherapy drug in history. The first time anyone had put cancer into remission using a pill. Subbarow’s team later refined it into Amethopterin, now known as methotrexate. It became a gold standard treatment for leukemia, lymphoma, breast cancer, and lung cancer. Then rheumatoid arthritis, psoriasis, and Crohn’s disease. The World Health Organization lists it as an essential medicine. Tens of millions of people use it every year.

In 1948, his lab produced Aureomycin. The first tetracycline antibiotic - a broad-spectrum one that killed typhus, cholera, pneumonia, and many bacteria that penicillin could not touch. It opened the door to the whole tetracycline family: doxycycline, minocycline, and drugs still used today against plague, malaria, anthrax, and drug-resistant infections.

He was 53 years old. He had created medicines that would save tens of millions of lives. August 8, 1948. Yellapragada Subbarow suffered a heart attack at his home in New York and died. No American newspaper gave him a front-page obituary. No university held a memorial. The Nobel Committee never honoured him. His own colleague George Hitchings later won a 1988 Nobel Prize for work built directly on Subbarow’s foundation. Subbarow was not even nominated.

In 1950, Argosy magazine published a feature about him titled “Miracle Man of the Miracle Drugs.” It began with a line that still hits hard. “You’ve probably never heard of Dr. Yellapragada Subbarow. Yet because he lived, you may be alive and are well today. Because he lived, you may live longer.”

Most Americans had not heard of him in 1950. Most still have not. Harvard has never officially honoured him. American medical schools mostly do not teach his name. The Nobel Committee that honoured Hitchings for work built on his foundation never corrected the record. Every methotrexate prescription written today remains silent about the man behind it.

India remembers. The government issued a postage stamp for his 100th birthday. His childhood home became a museum. Indian medical schools teach his name. But the country that denied him tenure, refused to let him bowl, and allowed him to die unknown - the same country that uses his drugs every day - still mostly does not know him.

Here is the truth. If someone you know has ever taken methotrexate for cancer or an autoimmune disease. If someone you love has taken folic acid during pregnancy. If you have ever been prescribed doxycycline for an infection. That was him. Yellapragada Subbarow. Born 1895. Died 1948. Saved tens of millions of lives, while a country he loved barely knows what it owes him.

Please remember his name and let your near and dear know about this little-known scientific legend born on this soil but never got the true recognition that he deserved. A story you need to know. A story all of us need to know. #Medicine #Unknownlegends @centerofright @KiranKS

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Amidst all the SM noise, we did not celebrate Vimag labs enough. They built India’s 1st software-defined, magnet-free electric motor platform.

Standard EVs rely heavily on Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors. These require physical, rare-earth magnets embedded directly into the motor's rotor to create a magnetic field. Vimag Labs completely eliminated the physical magnets.

This is a win for cheaper EV manufacturing, but the real, strategic importance of what they did goes far deeper into global geopolitics & structural engineering:

- The global processing capacity & supply chain for rare-earth materials is overwhelmingly controlled by China. By engineering a completely magnet-free motor, Vimag Labs quietly handed automotive OEMs an escape hatch from a massive geopolitical supply chain vulnerability.

- Vimag Labs designed this architecture to scale up into massive high-power systems ranging b/w 200 kW & 600 kW. This means the software-defined, magnet-free platform is directly targeted for critical, heavy backend sectors: defense applications, robotics & advanced cooling infra, allowing India to build high-performance military & industrial hardware entirely free from foreign mineral dependencies.

- The breakthrough is the result of 87600+ (~10 person yrs) engineering hrs spent by co-founders Manish Seth, Rahul Krishnamurthy & their team. They built a massive IP pipeline (including 5 granted patents, 10 active applications & 15 trademarks) & signed a manufacturing MoU with Jendamark to scale the physical production of these motors right out of India.

Vimag labs handed a rising nation the ultimate industrial escape hatch: a future where our engines run on Indian brainpower, while leaving the rest of the world fighting over the dirt. 🙏🙏

[Caleb @caleb_friesen]

This made-in-Hyderabad UAV will irreversibly change India's defence capabilities.

It launches from a truck, reaching 700km/h (faster than the fastest Shahed drone).

It can travel 150km with a max takeoff weight of 70kg.

GPS-denied navigation with terrain-following capability.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Our children grow up knowing every story in the world, except their own.

I’m on a mission to change that and help India’s children fall in love with their own history. My first children's book, Dhruv-Tara & The Great Indian History Quiz , is my first step toward that promise.

Let's bring the adventure back to our roots.

What is the one thing about India you most want your child to know?

@WestlandBooks
@oldbooksguy

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Ethanol will hurt the BJP electorally, not because of car owners, the are just 8% of the population, but because of bike owners, who make up 60%.

Every issue with a bike, irrespective of whether it's due to ethanol or not, is being blamed on ethanol. Remember that the overwhelming majority of car and bike mechanics are not your voters and, in fact, they hate you and you know why. They are actively telling anyone with any bike issue that it is due to ethanol. Not only does it serve a political purpose, but it is also easy and convincing.

Car and bike dealers are equally happy to lean into this excuse because it completely deflects blame away from the manufacturers and their own service centers. If a part fails prematurely or a vehicle suffers from a chronic engineering defect, blaming ethanol allows dealers to shift the responsibility onto government policy rather than admitting to poor build quality or honoring warranty claims. It gives them a convenient, politically charged scapegoat that customers readily accept, shielding the automotive brands from reputational damage.

It's up to the BJP to smell the coffee. The issue is no longer on Twitter and no longer raised just by English-speaking metro car owners. It has gone to the ground. There is still time to wake up and make corrections.

P.S. I'm not defending ethanol here. It does damage engines and parts. I've been strongly opposing it and will keep doing so. I'm only saying what's happening on the ground. The BJP should do a course correction on ethanol solely because its implementation was wrong and correcting it is only logical. However, since politicians see every controversy from the standpoint of electoral gains and losses, I'm telling them that it will hurt them electorally too.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

12 दिन पहले सार्थक भगत ने (जिनके साथ हमने UGC नियमावली पर केस लगाया था) @DelhiPolice ने जंतर मंतर पर प्रदर्शन की अनुमति माँगी थी। मैं वहाँ जाने वाला था। दो दिन पहले पुलिस ने कहा कि आप लोगों ने समय से अनुमति नहीं माँगी, इसलिए नहीं मिलेगी।

यही गृह मंत्रालय कॉकरोच को एयरपोर्ट पर, पाँव के जूते चाटते हुए प्रदर्शन की अनुमति दे देता है, वह भी दो दिन के शॉर्ट नोटिस पर।

हमने आठ मार्च को प्रदर्शन की अनुमति माँगी @narendramodi और @AmitShah की पुलिस ने हमें हाउस अरेस्ट कराया। आज जब हम UGC पर फिर से प्रदर्शन करना चाहते हैं, तो फिर रोका गया।

इस सरकार की अपने ही समर्थकों से इतनी क्यों फटती है? दिल्ली पुलिस गाली सुन रही है और कॉकरोच को तेल भी लगाना पड़ रहा है। हम चाहे UGC पर प्रदर्शन करना चाहें, या इथेनॉल पर, ये मौनेन्द्र मोदी की सरकार हमें कुछ भी बोल कर अनुमति नहीं देगी।

चुल्लू भर पानी में डूब कर मर जाओ पतित @PMOIndia! वामपंथियों से ऐसा प्रेम क्या इसलिए कि वह तुम्हारे लिए एक अच्छा डिस्ट्रैक्शन है?

[TheDelhiUnion @TheDelhiUnion]

Ajeet Bharti's questions on the Reservation timeline:

1. It has been 75 years of continuous reservation.
2. Where is the empirical evidence or 10-year survey showing which castes were uplifted?
3. If a caste has not been uplifted in 75 years, why continue the same failed method?

[TheDelhiUnion @TheDelhiUnion]

China prioritized Merit + Equity. They built incredible state capacity and lifted millions out of poverty in a single generation.

India prioritized Equity over Merit. We ended up with 60% quotas, mediocre institutions, and a system hijacked by the creamy layer. @gurcharandas

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

3 decades of illegal encroachment, cleared 3 years ago & Nature has reclaimed what was rightfully Hers.

The majestic elephants are back at the southern periphery of Sonai Rupai Wildlife Sanctuary.

Eviction DOES result in restoration and its continuation will be OUR policy.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

Vipin Kumar is an Indian construction worker in Romania.

One day, while he was walking near Nicolae Romanescu Park in Craiova, he saw a girl slip through a thin layer of ice and start struggling in the sub-zero water. Her father tried to reach her but became trapped in the broken ice.

Without any hesitation, Vipin used a nearby sledge to slide toward her. When the ice broke beneath him as well, he plunged into the freezing water, managed to grab the child, and held her above the surface for nearly 30 minutes until emergency crews arrived.

Both Vipin and the girl suffered severe hypothermia and were rushed to the hospital, where they received treatment.

Romania granted honorary citizenship to Vipin Kumar for his bravery and for risking his own life to save the girl.

Nowadays, social media is filled with hate against India, and Indians are increasingly being targeted. But when stories like this emerge, they rarely receive the same attention. They are not shared as widely, and somewhere along the way, these stories get buried and forgotten.