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[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

Every Indian should know this one, and here is why.

Five students from IIT Madras just got a patent granted by the toughest patent office in the world. :)

Now here is what they actually invented.

See, satellites look at Earth two ways.

The first is a normal camera, just a very good one.

Sharp, full colour, easy to read. The catch is it needs sunlight and clear sky. Clouds block it. Night blocks it. Smoke blocks it.

Over India during the monsoon, it is basically blind for months.

The second is radar.

It fires radio waves at the ground and reads the echo. Radio waves pass straight through cloud, smoke and darkness, so radar works at 3 am in heavy rain.

But the picture it gives you is grey and strange. It shows shape and texture, not colour. Reading it takes a lot of training.

So one gives you a beautiful image you often cannot capture. The other gives you an image you can always capture but struggle to understand.

The fix obviously is to combine them.

People tried for years and it did not work well, for a simple reason.

The two images came from different satellites. The camera photographed a field at 10 in the morning from one angle. The radar satellite scanned it at 4 in the afternoon from a different angle. Lay one over the other and nothing lines up.

Different time, different position, different view. You are not looking at the same moment.

GalaxEye's patent covers a way to put both sensors on one satellite and make them fire together. Same instant, same patch of ground, same angle.

The invention is the architecture that keeps the two locked in.

The same technology was already patented in India. Now the US has recognised it too. The company says this makes it the first Indian startup to hold a US patent for satellite imaging technology.

Obviously there are plenty of applications for that technology like defence radars to see through camouflage and tree cover.

In farming, the technology will allow us to watch crops during monsoon, exactly when normal satellites cannot see.

Interestingly, the idea came from a real problem. Suyash Singh was assessing wildfire damage in California using satellite data.

The camera images were useless because of the smoke. The radar images were available but were hard to interpret.

Now you understand why the solution is simply genius. :)

GalaxEye was founded in 2021 by five IIT Madras alumni. Suyash Singh, Denil Chawda, Kishan Thakkar, Pranit Mehta and Rakshit Bhatt.

They met while building Team Avishkar Hyperloop.

In 2019 that team was the only Asian entry to reach the finals of SpaceX's global hyperloop competition. They built India's first self propelled hyperloop pod.

Then they decided to build satellites instead. Incubated at IIT Madras, based in Bengaluru, backed by Mela Ventures, Speciale Invest, ideaForge and Rainmatter.

On 3 May this year they launched Mission Drishti on a Falcon 9. The world's first OptoSAR satellite. At around 190 kg it was India's largest privately built Earth observation satellite at the time.

So, five people who were students seven years ago had an original idea, patented it in India, built the hardware, flew it on a Falcon 9 and then got the invention recognised by the US patent office.

Amazing! 🇮🇳

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Unnecessary controversy over GDP calculations. A response from my EAC collegue @kantisoumya

[Ashwini Vaishnaw @AshwiniVaishnaw]

The chip journey, simplified.

[Project Syndicate @ProSyn]

.@chellaney urges greater transparency and international oversight for China's plan to build the world's largest-ever dam—a project that could affect two billion people. https://t.co/RCQ8hebZqv

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

S. Janaki Ji refused the Padma Bhushan in 2013 and said she deserved the Bharat Ratna instead. A lot of people found that arrogant at the time.

Most of North India does not know her name. Almost all of India has heard her voice. If you have ever heard an old South Indian film song playing in a shop, a bus, a wedding, it was probably her.

So let me tell you who she was.

Her full name was Sistla Sreeramamurthy Janaki. Born 23 April 1938 in Pallapatla, a village in Guntur district.

Her father was an Ayurvedic doctor and a teacher. She spent most of her childhood in Sircilla. She sang on a stage for the first time at the age of nine.

In her twenties, an uncle told her to go to Chennai and try working with a composer named R. Sudarsanam at AVM Studios. She went.

She got her first film song in 1957. A Tamil film called Vidhiyin Vilayattu. She was 19.

In that very first year, she recorded songs in six different languages.

Six. In year one.

Across her career she recorded around 48,000 songs. In roughly 20 languages. Kannada the most, then Malayalam, then Tamil, Telugu, Hindi, Odia, Tulu, Urdu, Punjabi, Bengali, Konkani, Sanskrit.

She also sang in English, Japanese, German and Sinhala.

Yes, 48,000.

Her career ran about 60 years. That works out to more than two songs a day, every day, for six decades.

Including the days she was sick, travelling, grieving, tired.

While her mother tongue was Telugu, but she could speak and write Tamil, Kannada, Malayalam and Hindi. Malayalis claim her as theirs. Kannadigas claim her as theirs. Tamils claim her as theirs.

All of them are correct. :)

They called her the queen of expression and modulation. Meaning she could change how a song felt with tiny things.

A slight break in a word. A softer breath. She could sound like a village girl in one song and a heartbroken woman in the next and a child in the one after that.

That is why composers fought to book her.

Infact, Ilaiyaraaja Ji had heard her voice while assisting the composer G. K. Venkatesh. When he got his own first film, Annakkili in 1976, he asked her to sing three songs. All three became huge.

That started something. For the next two decades, Ilaiyaraaja and Janaki produced hit after hit. He knew exactly what her voice could do and kept stretching it.

She became the first choice for anything with a village setting, anything that needed rawness.

Ilaiyaraaja sang around 200 duets with her himself.

Three of her four National Awards came from his compositions.

And eventually she became the only singer to have won state awards under all three of the giants. M. S. Viswanathan. Ilaiyaraaja. A. R. Rahman.

Imagine, three generations of music.

Three completely different styles.

She worked across all of them and was excellent in all of them. A 40 year span of staying relevant while the entire sound of Indian cinema changed twice.

Her first National Award came in 1981 for a Malayalam song, Ettumanoorambalathil, from a film called Oppol.

She won four National Awards in all, and 33 State Film Awards. Thirty three.

She also had a Hindi chapter that almost nobody remembers. Bappi Lahiri heard her singing a Hindi song for a Tamil film at Prasad Studio and was floored.

He brought her to Bombay. She ended up singing duets with Kishore Kumar.

Now, her personal life was much harder than the discography.

She married V. Ramprasad in 1959. He backed her career fully and used to travel with her to recordings. He died in 1997 of a cardiac arrest.

Her son Murali Krishna died this January, just six months ago.

She is survived by her granddaughter, Apsara Vydyula, who announced her death on Instagram.

She wrote that to the world Janaki was an iconic voice, and to them she was a grandmother whose warmth and humility they will carry forever.

She ended her singing career in 2017 with a concert in Mysuru. The last song she chose was a Malayalam lullaby, Amma Poovinum.

She picked a lullaby to close out 48,000 songs. :)

Now back to the Padma Bhushan.

In 2013 the government offered it to her. It is India's third highest civilian honour. She said no.

She said it had come far too late. And she said if the country actually wanted to recognise her work, it should have been the Bharat Ratna.

At the time, plenty of people called that ego.

But look at what she was sitting on when she said it. 48,000 songs. Twenty languages. Four Nationals. Thirty three state awards. Six decades. Work with every major composer across three generations. A voice that raised entire regions.

Lata Ji got the Bharat Ratna in 2001. Bhimsen Joshi got it in 2008. M. S. Subbulakshmi got it in 1998.

Janaki was 75 when they offered her the third best one.

She had every right to feel that the country had taken her for granted. And she said so out loud, without an agent or a PR team softening it.

But honestly, what bothers me is that she is being introduced to half the country today, in a condolence tweet, at 88, after she is gone.

She was not obscure. She was not niche. Her voice was in millions of homes for sixty years. She was just South Indian in a country where national fame is still mostly decided in Hindi.

If you have never heard her, do not scroll past this.

Go put on Thumbi Vaa Thumbakudathil. Or Vasantha Panchami Naalil. Or Singara Velane Deva. You do not need to understand the words. You will understand the voice in about ten seconds.

That is the whole point of her. She never needed you to know the language.

[Dr. Lavanya Vemsani Ph.D. @ProfVemsani]

I cannot tell you how many messages I received about the Pashupati seal and some western historian denying it by bringing out a comparison with a totally unrelated Elamite seal even though there are stark differences between the two seals.
The Elamite seal is completely different from Pashupati/Proto-Shiva seal. They are not the same. Not even 1% of similarity exists between them to merit comparison.
The Pashupati seal from Sindhu-Saraswati civilization (previously known as Indus Valley civilization) depicts Shiva sitting in Mulabandhasana, which only accomplished yogis perform (representing calm/conscious of the world) surrounded by animals indigenous to India (tiger, elephant, rhinoceros). It scares the folks peddling false constructions of Indian history. Whether they realize it or not Indian history is no longer based on their constructs. Truth is emerging: #ColonizedMinds should bow to truth and accept fact-based history.
Elamite seal is a depiction of an anthropomorphic bull sitting in vajrasana.
Depiction of a divinity wearing horned crown is much different from the depiction of anthropomorphic bull. Somebody’s eyes must be checked for making this false assumption. There is huge difference here between representation of a divinity wearing horned crown and a bull (vaguely anthropomorphic) here. It could be Shiva’s bull but not Shiva/Pashupati if at all comparisons could be made, which is out of context here. And what about all the animals? A seal doesn’t depict “lord of animals” while depicting only an animal and not surrounded by animals.
The colonialists used deflection (like the one we see in this comparison), diffusion, distortion to promote their falsehoods as history. #ReclaimHistory

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@ananyashasau Renewed a couple of times, last one in 2023. Never paid a dime! In fact, last renewal was done in less than a week!

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@ClaudeDevs How about people who paid for extra usage because the limit hit way too fast in the middle of a work?

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

#crowdsourcing, I have already been approached by several @Lenskart_com employees privately with their horror stories about how their points were docked in video audits for wearing bindi/kalawa, how they were denied leave for Hindu festivals, but their Muslim colleagues got time off for Eid very easily.

I am collating everything. But this is an appeal to all present and ex Hindu employees of @Lenskart_com, if you ever felt discriminated against, please reach out in DMs. I give you my word that your identity will be protected.

We need to make this an example so that no company dares to have such discriminatory policies after this. I am willing to stick my neck out for this cause, are you?

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@aravind @mramnath If I recall correctly, the boy threw paint at some cars in the carpark after clubbing or something. It was during Clinton admin.

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@om_patel5 I agree with this! I’ve been using codex whole day and I rarely hit the limit!! But with Claude, an hour and I’m locked, have to wait for another hour or two before I can use it again

[Ejaz Bashir @Ejaz_bashir1]

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[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

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[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@ATechAjay @claudeai I totally relate!! Yesterday I saw someone sharing about using it in Plan mode - i did that the whole day today and it seems to be working great! I was bursting my usage limits so easily prior to this!

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@aakashgupta I’m new to this - how do you guys manage the usage limits? I have a pro plan and I tend to run out the usage limits pretty quick 😭

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@TheRawKnee @amazonIN 2/n then I tried to cancel the order, Amazon doesn’t allow cancelling an order on the way - spoke to customer care, they disconnected on me 6 times. One person said, they cancelled the order, but it wasn’t. Another few attempts and eventually I got it cancelled.

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@TheRawKnee @amazonIN One my worst experiences was recently. Ordered a furniture on Amazon IN, the seller created a delivery via Delhivery, got the tracking number, and cancelled the delivery- used that tracking number and updated Amazon saying the package is on the way - 3 weeks, no delivery 1/n

[☯️🇮🇳 @trilokam]

@SIXOFHAYA Is this better than Kindle?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Court overturns ancient Hindu tradition at the Sabarimala temple. Modi respects the court order, refuses to impeach the judge.

Court okays ancient Hindu tradition at the Thiruparankundram temple. Stalin rebukes the court order, rushes to impeach the judge.

But Modi is fascist.

[Kanika @DalRotiForLife]

Caught in the IndiGo flight mess? We're taking legal action (PIL) regarding these systemic failures.

We need 250+ passengers to join before Dec 10. Let's raise our voices together for better rights.

Support the case here: https://t.co/r0M1jlDQfW