Sashank SV

Volunteer. Marketer. Entrepreneur (at heart).
On a mission to raise human consciousness. Starting with me.
RTs not endorsements.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

@MohapatraHemant Observing the same thing for years now and I have often wondered, do people in corporations work at all? As founders we are almost 24/7 available

[NDTV @ndtv]

Tonight at 8 PM: The Mystic Decodes the Mandate
Five decisive mandates delivered. What is the bigger message?

Is this a generational shift or a civilisational awakening? @SadhguruJV speaks on Indian politics like never before. No script. No filter. The man who rarely speaks on politics — tonight, he is not holding back. Watch this Exclusive conversation with @PadmajaJoshi on The Buck Stops Here.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

In my observation the value of design will change substantially. Pattern replication, flows etc which are logical expressions are already done better by AI. Eg UX for dashboards.
Designing remarkable experiences involves breaking patterns to feel more intuitive. This will remain irreplaceable by AI for foreseeable future.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

@SahilBloom Inner Engineering by @SadhguruJV

[PBD Podcast @PBDsPodcast]

Who Is @SadhguruJV ?

(2:03) The Passing of Time
(11:41) Core Principles & Family
(22:10) What School Gets Wrong
(30:35) Wasting Time & Intellect
(37:33) Who Is Sadhguru Really?
(47:44) Having Children & Life Expansion
(59:00) War & World Peace
(1:07:54) What Success Actually Means
(1:15:36) Belief & Philosophy
(1:19:28) Marital Advice
(1:23:11) Truth about Sexual Urge
(1:32:24) Religion vs Reality

[Sadhguru @SadhguruJV]

Most human beings live and die without ever touching the Inner Genius they hold within themselves. #SadhguruQuotes

[Kunal Shah @kunalb11]

Insecure people struggle to have a growth mindset as every new information or knowledge that crushes their beliefs often feels like a personal attack to them.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

What a fantastic book by @VishnuNDTV. An excellent read for those interested in Op Sindhoor and a must read for the buffs.
I'm glad IAF has encouraged this writing, brings out the story from the strike force which brought a nuclear armed adversary to the cease fire table.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

The Rajasthan Royals traditionally have a smaller fan base than some of the larger city based franchises.
But just like Sachin did for MI, and MSD and Virat do now for their franchises, there will be supporters from other cities who will start supporting the Royals just because it is Vaibhav Sooryavanshi's team.
It is happening already.

[Yash Vijayvargiya @Yash912]

Everyone in India thinks AI robocalling means a robotic voice saying "Sir, would you like a personal loan?" or maybe even "Main Arvind Kejriwal bol raha hoon" if you live in Delhi. And then you hanging up in 3 seconds.

That was in the past. It is not what is happening in 2026.

Let me tell you what happened when we tried it.

March 2025. We decided to test AI voice calling at Skill Arbitrage. We had a sales team making calls. Good people. Trained well. But we were capped. 80 to 100 calls per person per day. We needed to reach 30,000 leads a month. The math did not work with humans alone.

So we called one of the top AI calling companies. They set it up in a week. We gave them the script. The objection handling. The FAQs. The customer database. They said "leave it to us."

First batch of calls went out. Disaster.

The AI sounded perfect. Too perfect. Crystal clear voice. Flawless Hindi. No pauses. No breathing. No background noise. Like talking to a newsreader on Doordarshan.

People hung up. Not because they thought it was a robot. Because something felt off. They could not explain it. They just did not trust the voice.

Our conversion rate was worse than our worst human caller.

We almost killed the project.

Then someone on our team had an idea. What if we made the voice worse on purpose?

We added a tiny bit of background noise. The kind you hear when someone is calling from an office with other people around. We added small pauses before answers, the way a real person takes a second to think. We made the voice slightly less polished. Not robotic. Just human.

Conversion went up 40%.

That was the first lesson. Humans do not trust perfection on a phone call. A voice that is too smooth triggers the same instinct as a salesperson who is too polished. You want to leave the showroom. A little imperfection signals "real person." Even when the listener probably knows it is not.

Then the second surprise.

We expected massive hangup rates. Everyone told us "Indians will not talk to robots." We braced for 30, maybe 40% dropping the call immediately.

6% hung up. 94% engaged normally.

They answered questions. Confirmed details. Booked appointments. Made decisions. 94 out of 100 people did not care that the voice was artificial. They cared that the call was relevant and respected their time.

A bored human reading the same script for the 80th time that day was actually less engaging than a well-designed AI call.

Then the third discovery. This is the one that changed how I think about AI calling entirely.

Our human QA team could review maybe 30 calls a day out of the thousands being made. They would catch a problem, coach a caller, and hope the fix would spread to the rest of the team by next week.

With the AI, we could audit every single call. Every word. Every response. Every point where the conversation broke down.

We would find a pattern. "When the lead says 'I already looked into this,' the AI gives a generic response and loses them." We would rewrite that one response. Deploy it. Within an hour it was live on every call.

Five improvement cycles in a day. Our human team used to do five in a quarter.

By the second month our AI caller was outperforming our best human salesperson on the metrics that mattered. Not because it started better. Because it improved 100x faster.

We started with a system that was honestly embarrassing. We iterated it 50 times in 30 days. Nobody who heard it in month two would believe it was the same system.

Now here is the part I wish someone had told us before we started.

The technology is cheap. Bolna, Vapi, Bland, Exotel. Rs 1 to Rs 5 per minute. A 2-minute call costs less than Rs 10. Compare that to a human caller at Rs 20,000 a month making 80 calls a day. Any vendor can set it up in a week.

That is not where the money is won or lost.

We went through three vendors before we figured out the real problem. Every time we gave a vendor our process and said "build it," we got a technically functional system that produced mediocre results. The calls connected. The voice worked. The script played out. But nothing converted.

Because the vendor did not know our business.

What does the AI say when someone asks "how is this different from that other course I saw on Instagram?" That is not in any FAQ document. That is business judgment.

When does the AI push and when does it back off? When someone says "call me later," do you call them later or is that a polite rejection? If they say "I need to ask my husband," do you offer to call back when he is available or do you handle the objection now?

When the lead switches from Hindi to English mid-sentence, how does the AI respond? In Hindi? In English? In Hinglish? The answer depends on what that switch signals about the caller's comfort level.

No vendor can figure this out for you. These are not technology problems. They are sales judgment calls that only someone inside your business can make.

Every company I have seen get extraordinary results from AI calling has one thing in common. Not a better vendor. Not a more expensive platform.

They have one person on their own team who owns the prompt.

This person listens to 50 calls a day. Spots where conversations break. Rewrites the response. Tests it. Listens again. They are not an AI engineer. They are someone who understands the customer and knows what a good sales conversation sounds like.

This person is the difference between AI calling that produces mediocre results and AI calling that makes your competitors wonder what you are doing differently.

You would never hand a telemarketing agency a one-page brief and expect them to figure out your pitch. You would train them. Listen to their calls. Coach them weekly.

AI calling is the same. Except the coaching is editing a prompt and the improvement deploys in seconds instead of weeks.

We call over 30,000 leads a month now. We deployed AI for onboarding too. It moved our key metrics in ways I did not think were possible 18 months ago.

But the reason it works is not the AI.

It is the person on our team who has been shaping it every single day since we started.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

There are frequent debates in India about what exactly forced the British to grant us Independence in 1947. It was a combination of factors that included a war-weary Britain, and the long-running political mobilisation in India. However, the fear of guerrilla warfare by the revolutionaries, and the possibility of a revolt in the Indian armed forces (esp after INA & Naval revolt) played a major role. We do not need to debate this because Prime Minister Attlee has explicitly noted this in the Transfer of Power papers (Nov 1946). Just look up Vol 9, doc 35, page 68 (199 in the pdf):

https://t.co/yvIioo0zl7

[Dr. Bala Subramaniam @balachundhar]

Meditation ‘Works’ Faster Than Previously Thought | Psychology Today https://t.co/YwDIRJfTA8

[Johan Fourie @JohanFourieZA]

We analysed 3.4 million cricket deliveries across every men's international since 2001. The advantage of left-right batting partnerships? Precisely zero.

The raw data seem to confirm the myth: mixed partnerships outscore right-right pairs. But the ordering is LL > LR > RR. More left-handers = higher score. It is left-hander quality, not hand diversity, doing the work.

With the IPL starting this week, coaches are still engineering left-right balance in batting orders. The evidence says: pick the best batsman. Ignore the hand.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

Huge blow to Conversion mafia where they actively encourage conversions selling best of both worlds promise.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

#SupremeCourt upholds the Andhra Pradesh HC's order, which held that an individual who converted to Christianity and actively professes and practices the same cannot continue to be a member of the Scheduled Caste community.

"the appellant continued to profress christanity for a decade and practised as a pastor conducting Sunday prayers."

Bench: Justices PK Mishra and NV Anjaria

[Ananda S Jayant 🇮🇳 @anandasjayant]

An excellent article by @vikramsampath

Rethinking the ‘Spectacle’ of Faith https://t.co/avAxIa9YUH

[Dr. Bala Subramaniam @balachundhar]

The Brain's Self-Cleaning System: How Meditation Activates Neural Waste Clearance

In 2012, the University of Rochester neuroscience group, led by Maiken Nedergaard, published a paradigm-shifting paper identifying the glymphatic system. In 2013, Xie et al. demonstrated that glymphatic clearance is dramatically increased during sleep. This process is reduced in aging. In 2025, a group from Vanderbilt University showed that the brain's CSF flow during meditation shifted from a turbulent, bidirectional pattern (associated with neurodegeneration) toward a more efficient, directionally consistent pattern- the same shift seen during healthy sleep. It is as if meditation temporarily reverses the CSF flow signature. This research included expert meditators from the Isha Yoga Foundation (Samyama, Shambhavi), Vipassana, etc.

Let us start somewhere to get these benefits in addition to the main one: stillness. The forever-free digital app, Miracle of Mind is a good place to start, amongst others.

Kudos to all the scientists in this field.

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

Incredible piece of writing. A study for those in consumer product and marketing.

Someone can deconstruct how @miraclemindapp is a distinctive product answer in a world exploding with meditation apps

[Paul Graham @paulg]

The Brand Age: https://t.co/U6z3g6ZQGd

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

As you look at the horrific pictures of the bombed Iranian school…

Pause for a minute and think..

Indian Air Force and the Army were given 2 and 7 terror targets respectively to hit on the night of May 6-7 in Op Sindoor…

Each was fully destroyed…

On the morning of May 8, the IAF carried out extensive air defence suppression using long-range kamikaze drones…

On May 9-10 the IAF targeted 14 PAF bases or radar stations/missile batteries…

Destructive evidence of almost all these strikes cane up in satellite pictures…

All strikes were carried out by precision munitions from long distances…

Not one missed aim or strayed to harm civilians… no school, no village or city, no hospitals. None…

This despite not having a fraction of the US military weapons, sensors or surveillance ability…

And in a furiously contested air space against near-peer PAF and its Chinese air defences…

Let’s give credit where due. To our armed forces in this case…

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

@RnaudBertrand It doesn't seem like @grok agrees that Americans are worse than Nazis...

[Sashank SV @svsashank]

@ku1deep Created a prompt template of studying activity monitor videos to check which machines need upgrades when team members complain that their machines need upgrades.