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doctor, intensivist, entrepreneur, anaesthesiologist, trekker,diver,driver,holidayer, er,er,er not necessarily in that order

[🇮🇱The Ayotollah of Rock’n’Rola 🇮🇳🇺🇸 🟦 @RockEnnRolla]

#IndiaSpecialForces for sure deployed encounter terrorism operations in Kashmir and all the Islamist terrorism affected areas.

Take a lot of strength and grit to get through this 🔥👊

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In 1919, 1 man bought a Ghost Ship & challenged the entire British Navy. They tried to bankrupt him with a Zero-Price war, but he won by turning a ferry ticket into a vote for Freedom. From building India’s 1st aircraft factory in secret to carving railway tunnels through impassable mountains, he was the Industrial Guerilla who taught a colony how to fly, sail, & drive. Discover the man who made Made in India a threat to the Empire.

He is the man who looked at the British "No Entry" signs across Indian industry & decided to build a sledgehammer.

After WWI, the British shipping giant BI (British India Steam Navigation) had a total monopoly on Indian waters. No Indian was allowed to own a large-scale shipping line. On 5th Apr 1919, just days before the Jallianwala Bagh massacre, an Indian man, with no background in shipping, Walchand Hirachand Doshi spotted a ship called the SS Loyalty in Bombay harbor. It was a hospital ship being sold after WWI. W/o waiting for a license, he bought it & launched the SS Loyalty, the 1st ship of the Scindia Steam Navigation Company.

The British tried to sink him financially. They started a Price War, dropping ticket prices to almost zero to bankrupt Walchand. Walchand did not blink. He appealed to Indian pride. He told the public: "Even if their tickets are free, if you travel with them, you travel in chains." Indians chose to pay for Walchand's tickets. He broke the 100 yr British naval monopoly. This is why 5th April is still celebrated as National Maritime Day.

The British govt in India had a strict policy: "India will produce raw materials; Britain will produce machines." They flatly refused to give a license for an Indian car factory. Walchand realized he could not wait for permission. He went to the USA & met Walter Chrysler.

He told Chrysler, I want to build an Indian car for Indian roads. Chrysler was impressed by his grit. Together, they bypassed British red tape to set up Premier Automobiles (the birthplace of the legendary Padmini/Fiat). He proved that an Indian could build an engine, not just a bullock cart.

During WWII, the British were desperate for aircraft maintenance in the East but did not want Indians to know the secrets of aviation. Walchand did not ask the British. In Oct 1939, Walchand was returning from the United States (where he had gone to explore setting up a car factory, including talks with Chrysler).

On a Pan Am Clipper flight from San Francisco to Hong Kong, he had a chance meeting with American industrialist William D. Pawley (president of Intercontinent Corporation and involved in aircraft manufacturing for China). Pawley was on his way to China to support aircraft production there (for the Chinese government amid the war with Japan).

During the flight, Walchand discussed his ambitions with Pawley, who shared insights from his China operations. This conversation sparked the idea for an aircraft factory in India. With the help of Maharaja of Mysore, he set up Hindustan Aircraft Ltd. (now HAL) in Bangalore in 1940. When the British realized what he had done, they were furious but had to nationalize it because they needed the planes for the war effort.

Every time we see a Tejas/a Sukhoi take off today, remember that the runway was laid by Walchand’s defiance in 1940.

Walchand’s company, Hindustan Construction Company (HCC), was responsible for the Bhor Ghat & Thull Ghat railway tunnels. British engineers said the Sahyadri mountains were too tough for Indian contractors. They wanted to give the contracts to London firms. Walchand took the contract, used indigenous techniques, & completed the tunnels ahead of schedule & at a lower cost. He proved that Indian Civil Engineering could move mountains.. literally.

Despite being 1 of the richest men in India, Walchand was a symbol of the Swadeshi spirit. He would walk into boardrooms with British Lords & present his papers in Marathi/Gujarati if he felt they were being condescending. His agenda was clear: "I do not want to be a rich man in a poor country; I want to be a productive man in a rich country.

Walchand Hirachand was the Architect of Infrastructure. If Tata built the Steel, Walchand built the Speed.... the ships, the cars, & the planes. He was the 1st Indian to understand that true independence is the ability to move our own people on our own machines.

He was the man who turned "Made in India" from a dream into a Turbine. He did not just compete with the British; he made them irrelevant in their own specialized fields.

[John Spencer @SpencerGuard]

"It shows that early aircraft losses, which dominated international coverage, were only one part of a larger campaign that unfolded very differently over time and ended with the Pakistan Air Force outmatched, India establishing air superiority over significant portions of Pakistani airspace, and conducting precision strikes across the depth of Pakistan."

[Adv Sunil Sharma @AdvSunilSharma_]

This video has separate fan base 🤣

@Shehzad_Ind

[Himanshu Jain @HemanNamo]

Thread with Credit to @mujifren
🧵 THREAD: Rahul Gandhi in Muscat — “Just a café visit.” Let’s follow the chain.
1/8
Special thanks to @mujifren for the sharp research.
On the eve of Bengal election results, India’s Leader of Opposition Rahul Gandhi was spotted at Café Farah, Muscat — in the diplomatic quarter.
Not in Bengal. Not in Delhi. Muscat.
Let’s trace who owns that café. 👇

[Himanshu Jain @HemanNamo]

🔴 OSINT BREAKDOWN: Rahul Gandhi secretly spotted in Muscat, Oman — TODAY — on election result eve. Cap. Glasses. No itinerary. No announcement. Why? Let’s draw the map. 🧵 1/8👇

[Brivael Le Pogam @brivael]

Elon Musk avait dit un truc qui m'avait marqué sur l'allocation de ressources. En substance : passé un certain niveau de richesse, l'argent n'est plus de la consommation, c'est de l'allocation de capital.

Cette phrase change tout.

L'économie, dans le fond, c'est juste un problème d'allocation. Tu as des ressources finies et des usages infinis. Qui décide où va quoi ?

Imagine une cour de récré. 100 enfants, des paquets de cartes Pokémon distribués au hasard. Tu laisses faire. Très vite, un ordre émerge. Les bons joueurs accumulent les cartes rares, les collectionneurs trient, les négociateurs trouvent des deals. Personne n'a planifié. Et pourtant chaque carte finit dans les mains de celui qui en tire le plus de valeur. Le système maximise le bonheur total de la cour. C'est ça, la main invisible.

Maintenant fais entrer la maîtresse. Elle trouve ça injuste. Léo a 50 cartes, Tom en a 3. Elle confisque, redistribue, impose l'égalité. Trois effets immédiats. Les bons joueurs arrêtent de jouer, à quoi bon. Les mauvais n'ont plus de raison de progresser, ils auront leur part. Les échanges s'effondrent. La cour est égale, et morte. Elle a maximisé l'égalité, elle a détruit le bonheur.

Le problème de la maîtresse, c'est qu'elle ne peut pas avoir l'information que la cour avait collectivement. C'est le problème du calcul économique de Mises, formulé en 1920. L'URSS a essayé de le résoudre pendant 70 ans avec le Gosplan. Résultat : pénuries, queues, effondrement. Pas parce que les Soviétiques étaient bêtes, parce que le problème est mathématiquement insoluble en mode centralisé.

Quand Musk a 200 milliards, il ne les consomme pas, il les alloue. SpaceX, Starlink, Neuralink, xAI. Chaque dollar est un pari sur le futur. Et lui a un track record. PayPal, Tesla, SpaceX. Il a démontré qu'il sait identifier des problèmes immenses et y allouer des ressources avec un rendement spectaculaire.

L'État aussi a un track record. Hôpitaux qui s'effondrent, éducation qui décline, dette qui explose, services publics qui se dégradent malgré des budgets en hausse constante. Le marché identifie les bons allocateurs, la politique identifie les bons communicants.

Le profit n'est pas une finalité, c'est un signal. Il dit : tu as alloué des ressources rares vers un usage que les gens valorisent suffisamment pour payer. Plus le profit est gros, plus la création de valeur est grande. Quand Starlink est rentable, ça veut dire que des millions de gens dans des zones rurales ont enfin internet. Quand un ministère est en déficit, ça veut dire qu'il consomme plus qu'il ne produit. L'un crée, l'autre détruit, et on appelle ça redistribution.

Dans nos sociétés il y a deux catégories d'acteurs. Les entrepreneurs et les bureaucrates. L'entrepreneur prend un risque personnel pour identifier un problème, mobiliser des ressources, créer une solution. S'il se trompe il perd. S'il a raison, ses clients gagnent, ses employés gagnent, ses fournisseurs gagnent, l'État collecte des impôts. Il est la cellule de base du progrès humain.

Le bureaucrate ne prend aucun risque personnel. Son salaire est garanti. Au mieux il maintient une rente existante. Au pire il la détruit par excès de réglementation, mauvaise allocation forcée, incitations perverses qui découragent ceux qui produisent. Mais dans aucun cas il ne crée.

Regarde les 50 dernières années. iPhone, internet civil, SpaceX, Tesla, Google, Amazon, Stripe, mRNA, ChatGPT. Toutes des inventions privées, portées par des entrepreneurs, financées par du capital risque. Pas un seul ministère n'a inventé quoi que ce soit qui ait changé ta vie au quotidien.

La France est devenue le laboratoire mondial de la dérive bureaucratique. 57% du PIB en dépenses publiques, record absolu. Une administration tentaculaire, une fiscalité qui pénalise la création de richesse. Résultat : décrochage face aux États-Unis, à l'Allemagne, à la Suisse. Fuite des cerveaux. Désindustrialisation. Dette qui explose.

Et le pire c'est que la mauvaise allocation s'auto-renforce. Plus l'État prélève, moins les entrepreneurs créent. Moins ils créent, moins il y a de base fiscale. Plus l'État s'endette et taxe. Boucle de rétroaction négative parfaite. La maîtresse pense qu'elle aide, et chaque année la cour produit moins.

Dans nos sociétés, ce sont les entrepreneurs, toujours, qui font avancer la civilisation. Les bureaucrates au mieux maintiennent une rente, au pire la détruisent. Aucune société n'a jamais progressé en taxant ses créateurs pour subventionner ses gestionnaires.

La question n'est jamais qui a combien. C'est qui alloue le mieux la prochaine unité de ressource pour maximiser le futur de l'humanité. La réponse depuis 200 ans n'a jamais changé. Ce ne sont pas les fonctionnaires.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Tragically & hilariously true

[Dilpreet Grewal ☬ @DpreetG]

Retweet if you support him.

[The Curious Tales @thecurioustales]

🚨 JUST IN: A migratory bird just shattered world records — flying 8,425 miles (13,560 km) NON-STOP across the Pacific without landing once.

The bar-tailed godwit doesn’t stop to eat, drink, or sleep during its migration across the Pacific Ocean. Its journey from Alaska to Australia takes roughly 11 days of continuous flight, covering over 13,000 kilometers through storms, headwinds, and open ocean with zero land beneath it the entire time.

Before departure, it does something almost surgical to its own body. It shrinks its digestive organs down to almost nothing, converting the stomach, intestines, and liver into raw fuel. The bird essentially eats its own gut to make room for fat reserves that will power its wings for nearly two weeks straight.

The brain doesn’t fully sleep either. Half of it stays active while the other half rests, alternating in shifts mid-flight at altitude over the open Pacific. The godwit is simultaneously unconscious and navigating with magnetic field sensitivity that no human instrument in the 18th century could replicate.

What makes this genuinely staggering beyond the physical record is the navigational precision involved. The bird leaves Alaska and arrives in New Zealand with accuracy that would embarrass early GPS systems. It reads Earth’s magnetic field, atmospheric pressure gradients, star positions, and potentially quantum-level compass mechanisms inside its eye that literally let it see magnetic field lines overlaid on its visual field.

Evolution spent millions of years building an aerospace navigation system inside a 300 gram animal.

We spend billions engineering machines that do what this bird does on instinct, fat reserves, and half a sleeping brain.
The longest recorded non-stop flight by a commercial aircraft is around 20 hours.

This bird does 11 days.

Without a runway.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

India is currently a world leader in this field (I know majority of us would not have an iota of idea 😢) through a Bangalore based startup called Pandorum Technologies (incubated at C-CAMP).

Last month, Pandorum raised $18M to move their flagship product, the Liquid Cornea (Kuragenx), into human clinical trials.

Instead of a solid plastic-like implant, they developed a photo-sensitive hydrogel. A surgeon applies the liquid to a corneal wound & then cures it with a specific wavelength of light. It acts as a biometric matrix that tells the body’s own cells to rebuild the cornea w/o scarring.

Sometimes it genuinely makes me wonder why we do not talk more about our own breakthroughs, & instead get so easily swept up celebrating discoveries that come from elsewhere.

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

One morning in 2012, the wife of the Israeli Defense Attaché to India is on her way to pick up her kids from school in her diplomatic vehicle in Delhi.

At a traffic junction, a motorcyclist pulls up alongside and attaches a “sticky bomb” to the rear of the vehicle and sped away.

The bomb detonates seconds later, causing the car to catch fire. The wife suffers moderate shrapnel injuries but manages to escape. Her driver and two bystanders in a nearby car are also injured in the blast.

5 months later, Delhi Police concludes that the perpetrators were acting for Khamenei’s IRGC.

What follows is a series of most unserious actions (Red Corner, arrest, the works) finally culminating in the perpetrators going scot-free just like Warren Anderson did after Bhopal.

YOU were the de facto head of government at the time. To your credit, the Iranian Ambassador WAS summoned. But once Iran declined to cooperate, expectedly, what did your government do?

Nothing.

The Iranian agent lives happily in Iran. His Indian co-conspirator remains in jail without conviction.

But none of that is the point.

Point is, here’s a regime that has precipitated a literal assassination attempt.

In your national capital.

On your watch.

And you couldn’t do shit about it.

And today you’re demanding our solidarity with it?

Ma’am, with all due respect, and with no malice…

ARE YOU HIGH?

[mike bski @BskiMike22802]

https://t.co/E4ny9oYrxA

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 HUGE! UGC itself may CEASE to EXIST, reports News18’s Yatendra Sharma.

The proposed panel will have ~10 members, incl Gen category & HoIs/Principals.

Modi Govt has tabled VBEA Bill 2025 (Dec 15) to set up HECI, merging UGC+AICTE+NCTE.

Once MERGED, UGC guidelines will automatically END.

Bill is before a Select Committee (21 LS+10 RS MPs); report due by Budget Session-I end.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The linked article goes over the history of how Mrs Indira Gandhi buckled under US pressure and devalued the rupee by 57% one day in 1966 and how her action destroyed the rupee's standing in global trade and made India much poorer in one stroke.

The amount of damage she did to our nation is immense and that is not even counting the Emergency.

I was not aware of her 1966 decision and we need these historical facts to be brought out.

https://t.co/euan0Hcpen

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

📍Incredible video from the cockpit as the solo Rafale ‘Vijay’ roars over Kartavya Path 🔥

[tanks @tankspeak]

@elonmusk Is she a registered practitioner? Even quacks would have answered that question. Activist masquerading as a doctor. Her patients should think more than twice before going to her.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

When I was in Jodhpur, I visited some nearby villages. I wondered if the dry landscape could be turned green.

Here is a lady who has found the answer and has turned barren desert into a thriving forest in Rajasthan. Amazing work and my pranams to her.

We have a lot of dry land in Tamil Nadu too and I would like to try her approach.

[tanks @tankspeak]

🤣

[Chakravarty Sulibele @astitvam]

When an out-of-syllabus question shows up in the exam, here’s the only correct way to answer it..

Rahul never fails! But he’s just behind @PriyankKharge

[tanks @tankspeak]

@hem_foxtrot Congratulations