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[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

A happy kid with her happy elephant

[Go Uttarakhand @go_uttarakhand]

Welcome to Munsiyari uttarakhand . . . 🌸

[Hi Hyderabad @HiHyderabad]

Reflections!

[ಸನಾತನ (सनातन) @sanatan_kannada]

In the concrete jungle of Bengaluru, this mechanical engineer quietly turned his terrace into a thriving mini forest 🌱✨
Mr. Venkataraman proves small spaces can create big impact.
Nature isn’t far; sometimes it’s just one dedicated soul away.

#Bengaluru #UrbanForest #SaveNature #Inspiration

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

It was my second year of engineering undergrad when I decided to move out of the hostel into a paying guest accommodation. I arrived two days before the new semester - early enough that the building felt like a ghost town. Most rooms were locked, lights off.

My room was at the end of a long corridor. That first night, I stepped out to grab dinner, and as I walked down the hallway, I noticed something unusual - light spilling out from just one other room. The door was wide open.

As I passed by, I glanced inside.

A man was sitting cross-legged on the floor, surrounded by what looked like hundreds of DVDs scattered around him. He was carefully organizing them into a massive DVD organizer. Behind him, a cardboard box - overflowing with more discs. AR Rahman's music played from his speaker.

My curiosity spiked - I was a mad film-goer back then, obsessed with cinema, and a die-hard Rahman fan. But I felt shy. I didn't know him. What would I even say? I kept walking.

Finished my dinner. On my way back, I slowed down as I approached his room again. He was still there, still organizing, still lost in his world of films and music. I walked past again. But this time, I couldn't stop thinking about it. That collection. Those DVDs. Who was this person?

I stood outside my room for a few minutes. Then I turned around, walked back down the corridor, and knocked on his door frame.

"Hey - can I take a look at what you're doing?"

He looked up, smiled, and waved me in.

What followed changed everything.

We started talking about movies. Then music. Then filmmakers, storytelling, craft. He told me his story - after finishing 12th, he'd worked in the film industry in the animation department. Not as an intern. As a working professional. But one day, he decided he needed a degree and enrolled in our college. He was two years senior to me, but light years ahead in experience.

I was proficient in Photoshop back then. But I had no idea what the world of design actually looked like. He showed me tools I'd never heard of. Techniques I didn't know existed. A way of thinking I'd never encountered.

I started spending more time with him and his circle. We bunked classes. Spent hours talking about design, art, business - everything except what was happening inside classrooms. He was even running a small startup through the college incubator. I started working for him, learning by doing, watching him build something from nothing.

Then he got into NID - National Institute of Design, one of the toughest design schools to crack in India. He left, but we stayed in touch. He would call me, text me, share everything he was learning. It was like having a window into a world I desperately wanted to be part of.

I was thoroughly, completely inspired. I followed his path. Applied to NID. Got in.

He moved out of India about a decade ago. Today, he works on the Google X team.

But I keep coming back to that one night. What if I had just walked past? What if I'd been too shy, too scared, too comfortable staying in my own room?

What would my life look like today?

It's surreal how life works. How serendipity places the right people in your path at the most unexpected times, in the most unexpected ways. But serendipity only works if you're willing to act on it.

You still have to knock on the door.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The NAMX HUV is a hydrogen-powered car developed by the French company NAMX in collaboration with Pininfarina, featuring a refueling time of just 5 minutes and an autonomy range of 1,500 km, using replaceable hydrogen capsules for its fuel source.

[Surajit @surajit_ghosh2]

Hawaii’s Kilauea volcano just unleashed a massive wing shaped eruption with lava fountains soaring 1,500+ feet high

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Good night 💤

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

When Che Guevara was captured in his hiding place, after being betrayed by a shepherd, one of the soldiers asked him surprisingly: How can you betray a man who has spent his whole life defending you, you and your rights? The shepherd replied calmly: His fight against the enemy frightened my sheep!

Many years ago, in Egypt, the Grand Commander Mohamed Karim had led the resistance against Napoleon's total military campaign. When he was captured, the court sentenced him to death. But Napoleon called him and told him: I regret having to kill a man who bravely defended his country. I don't want history to remember me as a hero assassin. I will forgive you if you pay 10,000 gold coins for the losses suffered by my army. Mohamed Karim laughs and replies: I don't have that much money, but the merchants owe me more than 100,000 gold coins. Napoleon gave him a break. Karim went to the market, chained up and surrounded by soldiers guarding him, hoping that those he had sacrificed himself for would help him. But no merchants responded. On the contrary, they accused him of being the cause of the destruction of Alexandria and their crisis. He went back to Napoleon, morally broken. Napoleon then said to him: - I will not kill you because you fought against us, but because you sacrificed your life for a cowardly people, who prefer trade to freedom. Mohamed Rashid Rida summarized this way: "He who fights for an ignorant people is like one who immolates himself by fire to light the way for the blind."

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

They shut down 20 blocks of Times Square, spent $1 million, and filmed for 3 hours… all so Tom Cruise could run through an empty NYC in Vanilla Sky. No CGI. No cheats. Just pure cinema.

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

If you want to visit heaven, you must visit Singalila National Park in north Bengal. Especially during spring bloom of rhododendrons.

[India Aesthetica @IndiaAesthetica]

Singalila National Park Darjeeling , West Bengal 🌺🌹🏔️ 🇮🇳

[Parveen Kaswan, IFS @ParveenKaswan]

This is how rivers are made. Forest is the mother of river. Documented at 6 AM, during foot patrolling with team. 4/6/23

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

INSV Kaundinya with her sails up. The “Gandaberunda” or two headed bird was the royal insignia of the Kadamba kingdom who ruled the Konkan coast for centuries. Appropriate as the ship was built in Goa and inducted in Karwar

[Teja Karlapudi @teja2495]

This is the craziest thing i have ever seen in my life.

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

The right moment when the Sun disc set behind a tree with the same approximate relative size.

[📸 Tobias Messerli]

[Venkata Dinesh @dinesh_kv]

We live in an age where somehow watching a good podcast or listening to it gives you a false sense of superiority.

[YIMBYLAND @YIMBYLAND]

Jindal steel dropping this fire edit out of nowhere.

US Steel has 24 hours to respond.

[S R I K A N T H @sriboyapally]

@teja2495 Exactly, facing the same issue.