Akshay Vasant

Here mostly to follow developments in Fusion Energy.

[Black Journals @blackJournals01]

In 1526, the king of Kongo wrote to the king of Portugal and begged him to stop the slave trade.
The letters still exist. You can read them.

King Afonso I — Nzinga Mbemba.

He was not a victim of ignorance about Europe. He was literate in Portuguese, Catholic, and had welcomed Portuguese traders as partners. Then he watched what the trade actually did.

He writes that merchants are seizing people every day — nobles, family members, free subjects — and that his country is being emptied. He asks for teachers and doctors instead of ships. He asks, plainly, for it to stop.

Portugal's king replied with a letter pointing out how profitable Kongo's trade was and how little else it had to offer.

The trade continued for another three hundred years and helped destroy the kingdom.

An African head of state put his objection in writing in 1526, in the language of the people doing it, and was told the arithmetic did not work in his favour.

"They didn't know" has never been available as an excuse. The correspondence is in the archives.

[👑Che_ಕೃಷ್ಣ🇮🇳💛❤️ @ChekrishnaCk]

Karnataka BJP MLC Insults National flag by doing RSS salute while flag hoisting.

These rogues should be punished under treason.

[The Lie Lamaa™ 🏹 @TweetsOfLamaa_]

Truer words have never been spoken 🎯

[Randeep Singh Surjewala @rssurjewala]

How many more Institutions will Modi Govt destroy ?

🚨 While Modi Govt shamelessly uses ISRO for PR, his government's is rapidly dismantling India’s space legacy and its future ! 🚨

With over 100 brilliant scientists leaving the national space program, Former Chairman G. Madhavan Nair has exposed the alarming reality behind this brain drain:

▪️ Stolen Autonomy: The BJP government's interference has stripped the Space Commission of its power. Critical technical and financial decisions are now being dictated by officers sitting in Delhi secretariats!

▪️ Bureaucratic Meddling: ISRO is being heavily bureaucratized, destroying the unique, unified command structure that built our space program from scratch.

▪️ Siphoning Talent: There is intense pressure from external agencies to siphon out ISRO's highly trained manpower and rich resources, which will severely hurt the space program.

The BJP government is destroying the crown jewel of Indian science.

We are losing our finest minds to their apathy, ignorance & arrogance !

[Indian Youth Congress @IYC]

Amit Shah ke kehne par ab Students ko Hostels aur Gharon se uthaya jaa raha hai.

Bas isliye kyunki unhone protest kiya. Bas isliye kyunki unhone Sarkar se jawab maanga.

Ye kanoon ka raaj hai ya badle ki rajneeti?

Students ko dara kar unki awaaz Dabayi jaa rhi hai.

[Kranti Kumar @KraantiKumar]

सोशल मीडिया पर एक वीडियो वायरल है जिसमें एक पंडित ट्रैन के एसी कोच में ऊपर की बर्थ पर बैठकर आग जलाकर पूजा कर रहा है.

ज्यादातर यात्रियों को पता ही नही था वो आदमी ऊपर बैठकर क्या कर रहा है.

एक यात्री ने धुंआ निकलते हुए देखा तो उसने मोबाइल फोन से वीडियो बनाया और पंडित को ऐसा करने से मना किया.

पंडित सुनकर भी अनसुना कर रहा था. यात्री ने बार बार कहा, पंडित जी ऐसा मत करो, कोच में आग लग सकती है, धुंए से फायर अलार्म बज जाएगा.

एसी कोच में नमाज पढ़ने पर खूब विरोध हुआ था. क्या इस पंडित की हरकत पर भी उतना विरोध होगा या ?

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Here’s how Amit Shah & Delhi Police hatched a conspiracy like a mafia gang

👉 Delhi Police claimed that there was “stone pelting” by protestors at the Jantar Mantar protests on 20th July

👉 Anyone who has been around Lutyens Delhi knows that there’s no stones lying around in this area. It is kept shiny clean because “VIP area”

👉 All protestors coming to Jantar Mantar were being frisked & checked by the cops. Therefore, no one could bring bags full of heavy stones with them

Now here’s where it gets interesting:

👉 On 20th July, many protesters had posted photos of a truck parked at Jantar Mantar by Delhi Police which was loaded with stones. How did it get there?

Delhi Police hatched a conspiracy on orders of Amit Shah to make fake claims of “stone pelting”. This was then used to brutally assault protestors and target women & children.

Will Delhi Police explain how stones ended up in the Lutyens Delhi area suddenly?

Amit Shah has a lot of answering to do. A Home Minister who hatches criminal conspiracies & uses them to mercilessly assault young students has NO RIGHT to remain in office.

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

Elon Musk Wealth
2012: $2 billion
2026: $719 billion

Jeff Bezos Wealth
2012: $18.4 billion
2026: $255 billion

Mark Zuckerberg Wealth
2012: $17.5 billion
2026: $212 billion

Federal Minimum Wage
2009: $7.25
2026: $7.25

Obscene. We must raise the minimum wage to a living wage.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

MLA - BJP
MP - BJP
Mayor - BJP
CM - BJP
PM - BJP
State Government - BJP
Central government - BJP

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

1963 Footage of Indian Protesters MARCHING to the Parliament without any restrictions.

The Degradation of Democracy in India should be studied...

[Akshay Vasant @theakshayv]

@sachintaparia @AshwiniVaishnaw @SecretaryMEITY @TRAI @JM_Scindia @LocalCircles @prasannamohanty @journoprasoon @ramavenu @upadhyay_harsh1 @Rushu_Tushu @Im_ArunDhina @vishal1mehra @internetfreedom @Prashant_T_GKP #FinanceBuddha more like SpammingBuddha

[Ritu #सत्यसाधक @RituRathaur]

Truly #shocking and utterly shameless, @AnupamPKher!!

Just #watch him whitewash the brazen loot at Ram Temple by hiding behind Mughal plunder !! ⬇️

Mughals were open invaders who attacked our temples. But these saffron-clad Sanghis hijacked a 500 year movement built on Hindu blood &sacrifice.

It was ordinary Hindus & kar sevaks like Santosh Dubey who demolished Babri mosque, while sanghis were forming human chains to protect it!!

It was Hindu sages & devotees who fought and won the court battle for Prabhu Shri Ram.

& The moment that happened Sanghi opportunists seized control of our Ram mandir & looted it for thousands of crores in donations and offerings.

This is an act of out an out treachery.
This is stabbing Prabhu Shri Ram in the back. This is betraying every Hindu who sacrificed for this sacred cause.

And @AnupamPKher is defending these looters? What a shameless, third rate fall from grace. 🤮

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

Same audience fixing in India TV and News18 too.

This is not just Aaj Tak.

Did not even have the creativity to change the guy lol.

[Rohini Singh @rohini_sgh]

Amusing to see BJP leaders insisting that the Ram Mandir donation theft issue should not be politicised. This, from a party that has made the Ram Mandir its most potent political symbol and electoral issue for decades. The hypocrisy would be hilarious if it wasn’t so brazen.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Save this before it gets buried:

India just announced full PSLV technology transfer to private companies.

PSLV isn’t just a satellite rocket. It shares propulsion lineage with the Agni missile series. Lt Gen A.K. Bhatt (retd), DG of Indian Space Association, publicly said rocket tech “can be used for missiles.”

Adani Enterprises was already in the running for PSLV contracts back in 2022; confirmed in Parliament by Jitendra Singh himself.

HAL grabbed SSLV tech for ₹511 crore. Now the FULL PSLV; 33 years of publicly funded R&D, 61 successful launches; goes to whoever meets a ₹400 crore turnover bar.

PSLV-C62 already failed in January 2026. What’s the accountability chain when this tech sits inside a private boardroom?

No parliamentary debate. No public security audit. No disclosed oversight framework.

Every airport, port, coal mine, defence factory; and now the rocket that blurs the line between space and missiles.

This isn’t space policy. It’s a transfer of strategic national assets to a pre-selected corporate ecosystem; funded by 140 crore Indians, owned by none of them.

🔴 Ask yourself: which “Indian-owned company” is already positioned to absorb this?

जय हिंद, if there’s anything left to salute. 🇮🇳

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

'India is a $4 trillion economy, China is $20 trillion.'

'India spends $12 Billion on education, China spends $800 Billion.'

There's simply no comparison.

Powerful insight by Vijay Kedia 🔥

[Neha Singhal Trader @nsinghal211]

Manoj Madhusudhanan took a ₹1.86 crore home loan from ICICI Bank.

As collateral, he handed over his original property documents. Every homebuyer does this. You have no choice.

ICICI Bank sent those documents to their storage facility in Hyderabad via courier. Somewhere on that journey — Bangalore to Hyderabad — the documents vanished.

Gone. Originals. Irreplaceable.

When Manoj found out, ICICI Bank had one answer: it was the courier company's fault. Not ours.

He went to the Banking Ombudsman. They told ICICI to publish a public notice about the loss and pay him ₹25,000 for the trouble.

Twenty-five thousand rupees. For losing the original documents to a ₹1.86 crore property.

Manoj sent a legal notice. ICICI denied any mistake.

He went to the NCDRC.

The apex consumer court looked at the facts. The bank had taken custody of the documents. The bank had chosen the courier. The bank could not hand that liability to a third party and walk away.

ICICI Bank — India's second-largest private bank, ₹9 lakh crore in assets — was held liable. Ordered to obtain reconstructed certified copies, issue an indemnity bond, and pay ₹25 lakh in compensation.

One loan. One lost file. One bank that blamed the courier.

Save this — if your bank loses your original property documents, they cannot blame their courier agent. The documents were in their custody. The liability is theirs. File at your district consumer forum. The law is on your side.

(Source: Manoj Madhusudhanan vs. ICICI Bank Ltd. | NCDRC | LiveLaw, September 2023)

[𝙂 𝙎 𝙎𝙃𝙍𝙄𝘿𝙃𝘼𝙍 @ushrit2020]

Make this guy famous.

He called a NEET victim a Pakistani. Then retracted his post.

This termite, your lordship, is flourishing at taxpayer expense.

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

The BJP clowns are next level! 🤣

[Ihtesham Ali @ihteshamali]

A Stanford psychologist spent 4 years proving that the simple act of walking generates 60% more creative ideas than sitting, and the experiment she designed to kill every alternative explanation is one of the most decisive findings in modern psychology.

Her name is Marily Oppezzo.

She got the idea for the study while walking with her advisor at Stanford to discuss her thesis topic, and the paper she eventually published in the Journal of Experimental Psychology in 2014 is sharp enough that it should have ended the seated meeting on the day it came out.

She ran 4 experiments on 176 people. Same person tested twice. Once sitting, once walking. The creativity tasks were the standard ones psychologists have used for decades to measure how good a brain is at generating novel useful ideas.

The result was almost too clean to publish.

81% of participants in the first experiment produced more creative ideas while walking than while sitting. In the second experiment, 88%. In the third, 100%. Every single person walked into a more creative version of themselves.

On average, people generated 60% more novel useful ideas the moment their legs started moving.

The skeptical question is the obvious one. Maybe it was the fresh air. Maybe it was the scenery passing by. Maybe it was the change of environment doing the work, not the walking itself.

Oppezzo killed every one of those explanations with one experimental decision.

She put people on a treadmill facing a blank wall. No scenery. No fresh air. No environmental change. Just legs moving in place while staring at white drywall. The 60% boost held.

Then she ran the experiment that closed the case completely. She took participants outside in two conditions. Half of them walked through a Stanford courtyard. The other half were pushed through the exact same courtyard in a wheelchair. Same outdoor stimulation. Same scenery passing at the same speed. The only difference was whether the legs were moving.

The walkers produced dramatically more novel high-quality ideas than the wheelchair group. The outdoors did almost nothing on its own. The walking did everything.

This is the part of the study that hit hardest when I read it the first time.

She also tested the opposite kind of thinking. Convergent thinking. The kind where there is one right answer and you have to narrow down to it.

Word puzzles where 3 words share a hidden fourth word that connects them. The seated participants did slightly better on these. Walkers got slightly worse.

Walking is not a general intelligence enhancer. It does one specific thing. It opens up the divergent search inside your brain. The part that generates options. The part that produces unexpected connections. The part that takes a problem and finds five ways into it instead of one.

When you need to converge on the single right answer, sit down. When you need to find the answer in the first place, get up.

The mechanism is now well understood. Walking selectively activates what neuroscientists call the default mode network, the system inside your brain that runs when you are not consciously focused on anything. The DMN is where mind-wandering happens. Where memories cross-reference each other. Where ideas that have been sitting in separate folders inside your head finally bump into each other.

When you sit at a desk and force yourself to concentrate, you suppress the DMN. When you walk at a natural pace, the executive part of your brain gets just busy enough handling the walking that the DMN comes online and starts doing the work that focus was blocking.

The most useful finding in the entire paper is the one almost nobody quotes.

The boost did not turn off the moment people stopped walking. Participants who walked first and then sat back down stayed elevated. Their next round of seated creativity work was still significantly better than people who had been sitting the whole time. The rest lingered for at least several minutes after the legs stopped moving.

You do not need to do creative work while walking. You need to walk before the creative work. The brain holds the state.

The history of this is the part that should haunt anyone who still does meetings in chairs.

Charles Darwin built a gravel loop behind his house in Kent called the Sandwalk and walked it 3 times a day for the rest of his life. The theory of evolution was developed one lap at a time on that path.

Nietzsche walked up to 10 hours a day during the years he wrote his most important books and openly said the work was conceived on his feet.

Beethoven composed for the morning and walked for 5 hours every afternoon with a pencil in his pocket for when something landed.

Kahneman said the best thinking of his Nobel Prize-winning career happened on leisurely walks with Amos Tversky. Steve Jobs refused to take important conversations sitting down. He held them on foot.

Every one of them was using the system Oppezzo would not measure until 2014. They just did not know what to call it.

The question worth sitting with is the one almost nobody asks.

Every meeting you have ever attended sitting around a table was a meeting held at a fraction of the brain power that was actually available to the people in the room. Every brainstorm that got stuck inside a conference room. Every problem you tried to solve at a desk and gave up on. Every idea you could not quite get to.

The intervention is the easiest one in modern science. No supplement. No app. No subscription. No training program. Just a pair of legs and 15 minutes.

The Stanford lab proved it. The philosophers knew it. The neuroscience explains it.

And almost everyone reading this is still trying to think their way out of problems sitting completely still.