Sriram Mahadevan

UX Professional; F1, NBA & NFL fan; Running

[Sriram Mahadevan @srirammahadevan]

This documentary will be an inspiration for anyone in any field, not just #runners. Watch it !
https://t.co/G4VTtChn3d

[GOATED EDITS @alivethoughdead]

Absolute Cinema 🔥
Greatest Cricket Match ever played ❤️

Enjoy 215 seconds of Madness 👑

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The connection b/w the South Indian Murukku (that crunchy, coiled, savory snack we all love) & the ancient medical treatise of the Sushruta Samhita is 1 of the most brilliant, hidden examples of how ancient Indian snack food was originally engineered as preventative medicine.

When people think of the Sushruta Samhita, they immediately think of plastic surgery, rhinoplasty & complex surgical tools. But Sushruta was a holistic genius. He knew that the ultimate goal of medicine was to ensure a patient never needed surgery in the 1st place.

Volume 1 (Sutra Sthana, Chapter 46) contains an entire, massive section dedicated to Ahara-tattva (the nutritional science of food). And this is where the fascinating origin story of the Murukku begins.

In the Sushruta Samhita, Sushruta categorizes deep-fried pastry items under the broad family of Bhakshyas (cooked, chewable foods). Among them, he singles out a distinct item called Śaṣkulī. Over centuries, as the Sanskrit word Śaṣkulī traveled across different regions of India, it underwent phonetic shifts: In the North & West, the word evolved through Prakrit into Chakli (retaining the circular, coiled meaning).

In the South cultures translated the physical action of making it, twisting the dough giving us the beautiful descriptive name Murukku (which literally means twisted in Tamil).

Sushruta was deeply concerned with the concept of Agni (metabolic digestive fire). He categorized foods based on whether they were Guru (heavy to digest)/Laghu (light to digest). He noted that deep-frying grain dough in ghee makes it highly caloric & strength-giving (Bala-vardhana), but it can be incredibly heavy for the stomach.

To fix this chemical problem, ancient Indian cooks did something brilliant that Sushruta documented: they introduced Masha (Black Gram/Urad Dal) into the rice flour matrix. By mixing rice flour with roasted, ground urad dal, they created a complete amino acid profile (rice is low in lysine but high in methionine, while dal is high in lysine but low in methionine).

A few might think why did Sushruta spend time documenting a fried, coiled snack in a medical text meant for surgeons? Because of shelf-life & thermodynamics.

In ancient India, monks, traders & soldiers traveling across vast empires needed food that met 3 strict scientific conditions:

- It could not contain moisture (water causes bacterial spoilage).
- It had to be compact & physically rigid so it would not crumble into dust in a horse carriage.
- It had to be nutrient-dense to sustain high physical exertion.

By taking the Śaṣkulī dough, piping it into tight, concentric, interlocking coils (which structurally reinforces the snack against breaking) & deep-frying it until 100% of the water content evaporated, ancient Indians invented the ultimate preservative-free, shelf-stable survival ration.

When you hear the crunch of a Murukku today, you are literally tasting a recipe that was vetted, chemically balanced & medically approved by the Father of Surgery himself, Acharya Sushruta, 1000s yrs ago.

So, the next time you serve Murukku/Chakli with tea, you can proudly tell your guests: You are not just eating a snack. You are consuming a highly engineered, ancient Ayurvedic military ration designed to preserve human tissue :))

[Tennis Channel @TennisChannel]

Maja Chwalinska to Mirra Andreeva: “You’re so young and talented. It’s so annoying.” 😂

A big congrats to the qualifier for a spectacular run to the final 🌟🇵🇱

#RolandGarros

[Bastien Fachan @BastienFachan]

An excerpt from Elina Svitolina's emotional letter about Gael Monfils to their daughter Skai, for @PlayersTribune, ahead of Gael's final Roland-Garros:

'The first thing you should know, I think, it’s that Gaël Monfils was one of the greatest shot-makers anyone has ever seen. There are others who were more consistent, or who made fewer mistakes … but it’s interesting. Because when you say why these players are great, maybe you are needing to give a long explanation. Or you are needing to show many statistics, or a whole match, or a whole tournament. But with your dad? It’s not like this. With your dad, it’s so simple. You can show someone a single point of his, even a single shot … and now they will “get it.” Because your dad, in just one shot, one moment, he could achieve what I think few athletes ever achieve. He could make people feel something. Almost like at a concert and there’s a perfect song, or at the movies and there’s a perfect line, and you have this feeling like, Oh my god. WOW. It takes your breath away.'

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

There’s something about Sanju, a grace in the air,
With a flick of the wrists and a nonchalant stare.
When the timing is crisp and the ball meets the wood,
He’s doing the things that we all wish we could.
From Jaipur’s bright lights to the Wankhede sun,
He builds up the pressure then goes on the run.
A century carved with a stylish command,
The "Chepauk" or "Durban," he masters the land.
No slogging or grafting, just effortless flight,
A hundred runs painted in strokes of pure light.
Though the wait may be long, when the milestone is due,
There’s simply no magic like Sanju’s breakthrough.
@IamSanjuSamson @ChennaiIPL #IPL_2026

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

On 20th of April 1976, R.B. Ramesh was born! 50 years ago! He became a GM at the age of 27 years in 2003. In 2002, he had won the British Championships, and in 2007 he became the Commonwealth Champion.

In 2008, he took a bold step in his chess career. He gave up playing chess and started a chess academy and named it Chess Gurukul. He also gave up his job in Indian Oil (IOCL) around the same point. Many told him that this was a dangerous decision. But Ramesh had 2 things going for him:
1. He loved coaching
2. His better half WGM Aarthie Ramaswamy was also ready to support him in this endeavour!

With his immense chess knowledge, willingness to learn and ability to work extremely hard, Ramesh created the base for a real chess boom of Indian chess! Players like Praggnanandhaa, Vaishali, Aravindh Chithambaram, Karthikeyan Murali, Bharat Subramaniyam and many others grew up at his academy! There was a point when almost every single rising talent of Indian chess wanted to work with him.

Today as Ramesh celebrates his 50th birthday, it is interesting to see the road he has travelled. Vaishali is going to play the World Championship Match in a few days! He also received the Dronacharya award recently. He started a completely free chess academy named Chola Chess to develop the next generation of Indian chess.

Thank you Ramesh for powering Indian chess! Your contribution to the growth of the sport in the country has been immense. Wishing you a very happy 50th birthday.

Photo: Tushar Damor

#chess #chessbaseindia #rameshchess

[The Sacred Scroll @SacredScroll]

Everyone talks about "𝗔𝗜 𝗶𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮," but Sarvam AI just walked onto the stage at the India AI Impact Summit 2026 and showed the world what "𝗔𝗜 𝗯𝘆 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮" actually looks like.

This is sovereign compute.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗟𝗮𝘂𝗻𝗰𝗵:
They didn't just launch one thing; they dropped an entire ecosystem tailored for 1.4 billion people.

𝗧𝗵𝗲 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝘃𝘆𝘄𝗲𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁: Sarvam 105B & 30B 🧠
They unveiled two massive sovereign Large Language Models (LLMs) trained from scratch.

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗺 𝟭𝟬𝟱𝗕:This is the beast. It’s a 105-billion parameter model that reportedly outperforms DeepSeek R1 on reasoning tasks and rivals global giants like Gemini Flash in efficiency.

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗺 𝟯𝟬𝗕:The efficiency king, designed to run cost-effectively while handling complex Indic language reasoning.

These aren't just translated models. They understand the nuance of 22 Indian languages, code-mixing (Hinglish, Tanglish), and cultural context that Western models often miss.

Sarvam Kaze (Hardware!) 🕶️
This was the surprise "One More Thing" moment.

▶️They unveiled Sarvam Kaze, India’s first AI-powered smart glasses.

▶️PM Modi was the first person to demo them at the summit.

▶️They capture what you see and hear, processing it with their multimodal AI to give real-time intelligence. Launching May 2026.

𝗦𝗮𝗿𝘃𝗮𝗺 𝗔𝘂𝗱𝗶𝗼 & 𝗦𝗮𝗺𝘃𝗮𝗮𝗱 🗣️
An audio-first model that doesn't do "speech-to-text-to-LLM." It just hears and understands audio directly. It handles Indian accents, background noise, and interruptions flawlessly.

𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝗱𝗶𝗱 𝗮 𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗽 𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗶𝗲𝘃𝗲 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?
Building a 100B+ model isn't just about code; it's a logistics war.

▶️They secured 4,096 NVIDIA H100 GPUs (via Yotta Data Services). This is serious, nation-state level compute power.

▶️They trained on a massive 16 Trillion token dataset. Crucially, 2 Trillion of those were high-quality Indic tokens data that simply doesn't exist in the training sets of GPT-4 or Claude.

▶️They used a Mixture-of-Experts (MoE) architecture. This allows the model to be huge (smart) but only activate a fraction of parameters for each token (fast/cheap).

▶️They are a key part of the IndiaAI Mission, receiving subsidies and support to build "Sovereign AI" so India's data stays in India.

𝗪𝗵𝗼 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝘁 𝘁𝗵𝗶𝘀?

𝗣𝗿𝗮𝘁𝘆𝘂𝘀𝗵 𝗞𝘂𝗺𝗮𝗿 (𝗖𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿):The research heavyweight. Ex-IBM/Microsoft Research and IIT Bombay/Madras alum. He’s the one ensuring the models aren't just "big" but mathematically sound and efficient.

𝗩𝗶𝘃𝗲𝗸 𝗥𝗮𝗴𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗮𝗻 (𝗖𝗼-𝗳𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿):The scale architect. He spent years with UIDAI (Aadhaar). He knows how to build systems that don't just work for a few thousand users, but for a billion people.

For the last 3 years, the question was "𝗖𝗮𝗻 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝗯𝘂𝗶𝗹𝗱 𝗮 𝗙𝗼𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗼𝗱𝗲𝗹?"

Sarvam just answered: "Yes, and we can put it in hardware too."

We are witnessing the shift from India being the "Back Office of the World" to the "Brain Office of the World."

@ajaykraina @samartoor3086
@TheNavroopSingh @col_chaubey
@TGD_06

#SarvamAI #IndiaAIImpactSummit2026

[cinesthetic. @TheCinesthetic]

Ben-Hur was released 66 years ago today.

The chariot race took five weeks to shoot without CGI, using 15,000 extras, real horses running at full speed and months of practical stunt work. When you feel the danger, it’s because the danger was real.
https://t.co/da2c0jG5vb

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

14th August 1990
Sunil Gavaskar to Tendulkar -

If at the end of the career he doesn't get 15000 Runs and 40 Test Centuries I shall personally go and strangle him.

15921 Runs.. (921 more)
51 Test 💯.. (11 more )

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Came across an inspiring story about Thiru S Madhavan avl and wanted to share it with you all.

At the age of 70, when most people are expected to slow down, Thiru Madhavan avl continues to stride onto the cricket field with the same passion, discipline, and youthful spirit.

His journey is a powerful reminder that age is merely a number and that dedication and love for one’s craft can keep the body active and the spirit ever young.

[This Podcast is Making Me Thirsty Seinfeld Podcast @ThisThirsty]

37 year old Jerry Seinfeld in his prime quarterbacks a masterpiece with some of the funniest people on the planet. David Spade, Adam Sandler, Chris Farley, Chris Rock & Siobhan Fallon deliver #comedyroyalty #snl 1992

[Mountain Rats @mountain_rats]

By Col Wattal (retd),PARA’s

It was a total intelligence failure. Well, That’s what they want you to believe.

But the truth? It isn’t trending. It’s buried beneath headlines, and coded in courage.

Between 1st and 10th November India was playing a thriller. And our intelligence officers? Were racing the clock, Chasing whispers, Breathing in Seconds,
Trying to stop something monstrous.

A massacre of 50,000 Indians. Planned. Funded. Set for 26th Nov 2025.
Celebrate Anniversary of 26/11. They couldn’t stop it all. 13 lives still vanished.
But without them? We’d be counting more corpses.

Still think it was a failure? Here’s the story they won’t print.

October 27. Srinagar. Government Medical College.
A regular day. Until someone noticed A JeM poster on a notice board. CCTV rolls. Dr. Adil Ahmad Rather. Inside his hostel locker, Police Found an AK-56.

Then the phones spoke. Encrypted chats. Handler commands.
"Prepare assets for Delhi." Sent to: Dr. Umar Mohammad.
Another MBBS.

November 6. Dr. Adil Was Arrested. In Saharanpur. Private hospital.
Salary ₹4L per month.
November 7. Gujarat ATS picks up Dr. Ahmed Mohiyuddin Saiyed.
MBBS. China trained. Lethal hands. Cooking ricin, A bioweapon.
4 litres of castor oil. Enough to poison thousands. His phone cracked more leads.

November 9.
Azad Suleman Sheikh.
Mohammed Suhail.
Arrested in Banaskantha.

And then, Faridabad. An apartment, Rented.

But inside? 350 kg ammonium nitrate. AK-47s. Detonators.
Manuals.

Meet Dr. Muzammil Shakil. MBBS. Assistant Professor. Al Falah University.

Dr. Shakil spills: Red Fort. Hindu Temples Sikh temple. Jain temple. RSS Offices.
Markets. Delhi metro. 25 sites. Same as Mumbai 1993… but bigger.
That was the Plan. He Spilled the Name of a Woman.

November 10, 10 AM. Meet the queen. Dr. Shaheen Shahid.
Arrested. Was a GynaecologistEx lecturer. Al Falah University.
Now running, Jamaat-ul-Mominat, A female suicide brigade.
Funded ₹15L for Dr. Umar’s bomb car.

Our officers trace Umar. They move. They’re close.
But not close enough. 6:52 PM. Red Fort Metro Station.
A white i20 explodes.13 die. Many injured.

This wasn’t the climax. This was leftover destruction. Because the real plan?
~3000 kg of explosives.~30+ Timers.~20+ Detonators. Seized.

But behind all of them… There was a man they all followed.
A preacher. A paramedic. A professor of poison.Maulvi Irfan Ahmad.
Former GMC, Srinagar staff.Later turned radical recruiter.
Then Maulvi in Shopian.

Till Now? 11 arrested. Most were doctors. ₹2 to 4L monthly income.

So don’t tell me intelligence failed. It’s easy to scream failure,
From the safety of your couch. I salute my forces,The invisible warriors,
Who ran on instinct, unslept,  And stopped a mass genocide. With hours to spare.

You may not know their names. But tonight, you owe them your breath.
8:26 am

[Akul (𝑨𝑻10) @Loyalsachfan10]

Amol Muzumdar talks about Sachin Tendulkar's Ranji Debut and his Euphoria after that.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

A young Zakir Hussain fills in as the great Ali Akbar Khan replaces a broken string on his Sarod and tunes it.

[Jean Claude NIYOMUGABO @jcniyomugabo]

This is how most people see trash, but for innovative minds, it becomes a treasure of endless possibilities.

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

In 1968, Sidney Poitier was at a press conference at the height of his career.

He made it very clear how he felt about the press.

Funny that I had to find this on a discarded film reel with 1000s of books, Microfiche and films.

Now you can see it.

[Sridhar Ravi @SridharRavi90]

All the music tech of the 21st century < A flute that echoes #Ilaiyaraaja

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

PM Modi need new haters,
the old ones became fans

[Indhavaainko (இந்தாவாய்ங்கோ) 👊 @indhavaainko]

This speech of Thalaivar must reach every student in TN ❤️