suvabrata

In awe of the power of the written word..! (RT is not an endorsement, all views & opinions are personal)

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

There are many such takes floating around, being pushed by many “geopolitical strategists” and “economists”. Some of them are planted and propagated by pawns of the Indian mega conglomerates themselves - wouldn’t they love to have a new age sector become closed off in this suicidal manner by India, made available exclusively to them?

I am happy to see the unqualified pushback against the terrible ideas suggested here!

[JJ @JosephJacks_]

There’s an Indian VC (based there, invests there) who I won’t name. Every term sheet he writes — even $1M checks — includes this: founders must return 5x, he keeps full anti-dilution AND his equity on top, and if they don’t hit it in 3 years, he gets to fire them. 😂😭

I told him, “dude, I can’t invest into this structure, it’s insane.” His response: “JJ! No no, you don’t understand — this is totally normal in India, man! We want you to invest!!”

LESSON: Any founder in India who’s been handed this — email me. I’ll personally make sure you get introduced to VCs who aren’t actively trying to fuck you over.

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Most people think bad governance persists because nobody tries to fix it. Bihar is the opposite.

Over the last 20 years, it has launched grievance portals, public hearings, legal deadlines and accountability laws.

The problem is that the system keeps reverting to old habits.

[Zscaler @zscaler]

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[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Iceman @herrmann1001]

Mind blown 🤯

Some smartphones sold in mainland China (like certain OPPO models) can read MIFARE Classic cards, crack the keys in seconds, store them, and then fully emulate the card directly on the phone.
No extra hardware. Just the phone.
Access control, transit cards, hotel keys… game over.

Huge thanks to Ian for showing me this in person. Really eye-opening how far NFC capabilities have gone in some regions.

Who else has seen this in the wild?

#NFC #MIFARE #TechSecurity​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​ #oppo

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@jayasartn will it be available in in @amazonIN sometime soon?
Can't even see it for pre-order

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@DalrympleWill @juggernautbooks Unfortunately not yet available to preorder on Amazon

[ADG PI - INDIAN ARMY @adgpi]

Seeking Solutions for Technological Challenges

The Indian Army had released the Compendium of Technological Challenges (#CTC 2025) on 23 September 2025, outlining 41 futuristic challenges across domains such as Unmanned Systems, AI, Quantum Technologies and Directed Energy Weapons. The index of the compendium is available on the Army Design Bureau (ADB) webpage.

Interested agencies may request detailed information by emailing [email protected] to obtain the relevant sections of the compendium.

The last date to request details is 20 April 2026, and solutions may be submitted by 31 May 2026.

Further updates are available on the ADB webpage.

[Avi Vaid @avaid96]

Everyone knows the Mumbai was built from reclamations. Few know that it was Mumbai's own hills that fed this reclamation.

The original Bombay was 7 islands dotted with 22 hills. Early visitors described the sight of arriving in Mumbai harbor as a "superb amphitheater" of "wood-crowned heights".

To merge the islands, those hills were quarried and thrown into the sea. Dongri, Chinchpokli, Mazagaon, Ghodapdeo. The rock that once rose above the waterline became the waterline.

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@TharoorOffice @ShashiTharoor Almost broken but never bent. Speedy recovery!

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@joshwoodward @GeminiApp LAWCET ?

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@sanjeevsanyal @INSVKaundinya Hope you have learnt swimming before the trip!!

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

#Chennai desperately needs any Airport. The question is, when will it get one, if ever?

[Network Thoughts @networkthoughts]

Top 10 airports in India by passenger footfall - November 2025

Kochi loses a spot in total traffic

Top10
NTTraffic
NTAirports

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@DigiYatraOffice Wanted to close out by thanking you. It worked . Viz I had to disable display scaling and text size to default. But please FIX this, and test for accessibility. This is very very inconvenient for seniors and literally everyone without perfect vision.

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@DigiYatraOffice ios app is not working. Frozen at the starting “type your phone number” state. On screen keypad frozen. Can you please check?

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

Her foreign opponents fixated on #SheikhHasina through a narrow lens: elections that didn’t meet Western democratic aesthetics, long incumbency, centralised power, human rights reports. All real issues, but treated in isolation, stripped of context. Bangladesh was judged as if it were Denmark with a turnout problem, not a fragile, densely packed state with a violent Islamist history and a traumatised political culture.

In doing so, three hard realities were ignored.

First, Hasina was a stabiliser, not a revolutionary hero, but a state-builder in a hostile environment. She kept Jamaat and its offshoots contained, maintained civil-military balance, protected minorities better than any realistic alternative, and kept Bangladesh economically and geopolitically predictable. Her western opponents knew this. They just chose to downplay it.

Second, they overestimated the “democratic opposition”. There was no credible, unified, liberal alternative waiting in the wings. Removing pressure from Hasina didn’t empower democrats. It empowered street power, radicals, and actors who thrive precisely when institutions weaken.

Third, there was the old habit of believing that toppling or delegitimising a strong incumbent automatically opens space for pluralism. History says the opposite. In divided societies, power vacuums don’t fill with moderates. They fill with the loudest, angriest, and most organised forces. Often religious, often violent.

These were destructive missteps. Not because Hasina was flawless, but because state collapse is always worse than imperfect order. Chasing democratic optics ended up accelerating a counterrevolution that hollowed out politics, normalised persecution, and destabilised an entire country.

This wasn’t values-driven paternalism . It was context-blind activism masquerading as strategy. And Bangladesh will pay for it long after the policy memos have been forgotten.

#Bangladesh
#CounterRevolution
#RuleOfLaw
#PoliticalViolence
#IslamistExtremism
#MinorityRights

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@BLRAirport has bowed to pax who refuse to look at announcement boards (of which there aren’t enough). Result? Noisy, loud environment with constant announcements. Lower ceilings make it worse than a busy railway station!! Terrible experience.

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

@DigiYatraOffice Send DM

[suvabrata @suva_brata]

It’s a critical service. Sad to see it non functional