Uṇṇi Nambia̅r

geek, technopreneur, wannabe writer, space junkie, science freak, history & philosophy buff, and an incurable book addict (personal account)

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

Voce Mea (or things I write)
Published articles : https://t.co/IWPIyJH1OJ
Personal writings : https://t.co/cLb8XrJwqJ

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

This just blew my mind!! 🤯 And the icing? Right here in Bengaluru! So proud! Not more software. Not even AI. Real Atoms not Bits. Love the boldness. Godspeed to Aspera!

[khushi @khushhhi_]

For generations, we've pushed the limits of what flight can do.

Yet moving goods still comes with a compromise. The sea takes weeks and flying costs too much. Somewhere along the way, the world got comfortable with waiting.

Today, we announce Eureka, our first aircraft. It takes off and lands on water, and it's designed to turn "in a few weeks" into "on the evening flight."

Break the surface.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@bookleafpub I'm stuck in a loop with your customer support AI bot unable to understand or resolve my issue. Please help!!! (Don't send me back to your customer support channel. It is not working.)

[Aryāṃśa @arya_amsha]

When Udayanacharya was asked by an atheist why he should believe in God, as no proofs for God exist

Udayana replied "Indeed, it isn't the fault of the pillar that the blind man does not see it" (नह्येष स्थाणोरपराधः यदेनमन्धो न पश्यति)

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮'𝘀 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝘀𝘁 𝗙𝘂𝗹𝗹-𝗙𝗹𝗼𝘄 𝗿𝗼𝗰𝗸𝗲𝘁 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗮𝗹𝗲𝗱! 🔥

Bengaluru-based Astrobase Space has just unveiled their first fully integrated Full-Flow Staged Combustion cycle engine 'Everest'! 🚀

This makes India the 3rd country to build a FFSC rocket engine after US and China! 🇮🇳

It is an 80-tonne class Methalox engine, putting it in the same thrust category as SpaceX's Merlin engine (Kerolox), but much more efficient.

With its first hot-fire test only a few months away, Astrobase plans to use this engine on their upcoming reusable medium-lift launch vehicle expected to have its maiden flight in 2028.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

This this this!! What's happening!? Is the zeitgeist turning again (finally)? Reading this right after seeing The Odyssey hits differently.

[Jash Dholani @oldbooksguy]

Nietzsche didn't kill God. Nietzsche saved God in the only way he could have been saved. This is why it's always the religious believers who love reading, re-reading, and discussing Nietzsche.

Let me tell you what I mean.

Nietzsche realized early that the modern man was high on the "scientific method." This "method," when elevated to the stature of a deity, demands that you throw away everything that can't be isolated, dissected, and scanned in a lab. Anything that doesn't bend to The Method - that doesn't submit to its prodding and poking - is fake and unworthy of consideration.

Follow this method to its logical limit and you find yourself in a world bereft of all mystery, grandeur, and depth of spirit. You find yourself in a fragmented world of "things" and "forces" and "events" that never cohere. Ofcourse, that world is our world, and Nietzsche saw it coming.

The tidal wave of unstoppable atheism was going to wash over the world, with or without Nietzsche. You cannot have God in a world that has banished all mystery, grandeur, and nobility from its vocabulary.

So what was to be done?

Nietzsche decided that God - the metaphysical cluster of our highest visions, our highest instincts, and our highest ideals - can only exist in a world where the concept of "the higher" exists. And so Nietzsche committed his creative energies to explaining, defending, and celebrating "the higher." At the same time, he problematized the scientific method, poked back at it, and revealed some of the puny motivations that powered it.

In other words, Nietzsche's project was to create a worldview that allowed for mystery, grandeur, nobility, and "the higher"...which are the basic ingredients of religiosity. And so Nietzsche, with a poetic slight of hand, with a masterful literary trick, protected religiosity...the very state of mind that he was apparently critiquing...

This is why Nietzsche said: "I mistrust all systematizers and avoid them. The will to a system is a lack of integrity." The rational scientific man is a systematizer, and force-fits the world into his method until everything that is odder, stranger, deeper, or greater than his method is thrown away and only dry determinism remains.

It was this scientific man - and his precious "will to a system" - that Nietzsche was always attacking, and not God. Inside any system there can only be clock-work predictability, never any unexpected magnificence, and therefore, never any God.

Nietzsche didn't kill God. Nietzsche saved God in the only way he could have been saved.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

The interview was deliciously intellectual, and the observations here and many similar posts quite astute. Love the quality of engagement this movie is triggering. Teasing out mythology into modernity, whether rightly or not, is a wonderful, and necessary movement for art to do.

[Culture Explorer @CultureExploreX]

In a Beijing studio promoting Christopher Nolan’s The Odyssey, a young Chinese woman named Zhong Shu leans forward and asks the question Western interviewers have carefully avoided:

“We live in an age that demands apologies from greatness… Is it still a story of apology that demands repentance, reflection, and self-criticism?”

She is a doctoral student, political philosophy lecturer, and podcaster whose discussions of classical thought attract hundreds of thousands of young Chinese listeners. She has studied Greek and Latin since high school and reads Homer as a living study of power, ambition, and human greatness.

Nolan answers with the caution of a filmmaker who understands his audience. In today’s democratic and egalitarian culture, he says, greatness requires an apology or audiences will reject it. The hero must appear sympathetic. Hubris must carry consequences. Exceptional men must submit to the moral expectations of ordinary society.

His answer is revealing, and inadequate.

As Western universities reduce their classics programs and increasingly approach Plato and Thucydides through the language of elitism and imperialism, China is translating, debating, and institutionalizing them. In November 2024, a Cambridge classicist arrived in Beijing expecting a conventional academic conference. He found diplomats, scholars, and officials gathered in a vast convention center. A letter from Xi Jinping presented ancient Greece and China as the great civilizational centers of Eurasia. A Chinese School of Classical Studies was announced in Athens.

China is studying the Western inheritance that the West increasingly treats with suspicion. Its scholars want to understand how earlier civilizations thought about authority, excellence, social order, and the stories that held societies together. Some Chinese readers approach Plato’s Republic and its Noble Lie as political observations rather than moral scandals. People differ in judgment and ability. Large societies depend upon shared beliefs. Hierarchy can support order when it joins authority with responsibility and merit.

Western political thought, shaped by Enlightenment suspicion of authority and modern egalitarianism, often recoils from these ideas. Confucian thought offers Chinese scholars a different starting point, one grounded in social roles, harmony, education, and merit-based hierarchy.

Zhong Shu stands between these traditions. Her Chinese background allows her to examine greatness without treating it as a moral confession. Her classical education gives her access to Western texts that many Western institutions are abandoning. That combination gives her the confidence to ask a direct question: Why must the West apologize for the excellence it once admired?

Nolan answers from within the culture she is questioning. Hollywood audiences have been shaped by democratic instincts, post-imperial guilt, and suspicion toward heroic authority. The exceptional figure must repent, suffer, or be morally reduced before the audience will accept him. Nolan understands this demand, but he accepts it as unavoidable. He can describe the pressure to apologize for greatness, yet he cannot imagine storytelling beyond it.

That is the deeper irony. Homer celebrated greatness with all its ambition, violence, pride, and consequence. Plato examined hierarchy with a clarity that modern readers often find uncomfortable. The West once taught these works as foundations of its civilization. Now a Chinese scholar, armed with those same texts, must ask one of the West’s greatest living filmmakers why apology has become the price of portraying greatness.

She can ask because China still wants to understand power. He struggles to answer because the West has learned to fear its own inheritance.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@SkyrootA And so it begins ...

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

“The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.”

John Kenneth Galbraith

Brought a smile to my face in all this doom and gloom.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

“A moral compass is not an ornament of foreign policy. It is its direction. Without it, realism drifts into accommodation, and autonomy into ambiguity.” That is quite the line @NMenonRao. I suppose “Morality” as a compass to choose between evils is the bane of realism.

[Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 @NMenonRao]

The world is being reordered by those who act and those who define. If India wishes to be counted among the latter, it must ensure that its silence does not speak louder than its convictions.

We are living through a moment when the rules of the international system are being rewritten in real time. Assassinations of leaders, the killing of civilians, open assertions of force—these are no longer aberrations but instruments. In such a world, silence is not neutrality. It is read, interpreted, and often misread as consent.

India has long claimed a distinctive space in global affairs—not as an appendage to power, but as a voice shaped by its own civilisational experience and its history of speaking for sovereignty, restraint, and balance. That voice mattered because it was consistent, even when inconvenient. Strategic autonomy cannot mean adjusting our language to the hierarchy of power.

Restraint has its place. Calibration is necessary. But when fundamental questions arise—about sovereignty, about the limits of force, about the protection of civilians—India cannot afford to be silent.

A moral compass is not an ornament of foreign policy. It is its direction. Without it, realism drifts into accommodation, and autonomy into ambiguity.

This war has damaged India’s interests in almost every practical sense. It has raised costs, narrowed diplomatic room, stressed shipping, complicated Chabahar, and injected fresh instability into a region vital to India’s economy and external strategy. Even if New Delhi can cushion the blow, it cannot plausibly claim that the blow itself serves India.

The deeper question is whether India is willing to say so with sufficient clarity.

[Interstellar @InterstellarUAP]

🚨 Quantum physics in 60 seconds just shattered everything I thought I knew... this changes EVERYTHING! 😱

“This lady just dropped 1 year of quantum study in under a minute:

‘Quantum physics isn’t just science — it’s logical spirituality.
You don’t attract what you want. You align with what you already are.’

Every version of you already exists in the quantum field — the wealthy you, the happy you, the successful you.

‘The quantum field doesn’t respond to begging. It responds to certainty.’

Your most powerful tool? Visualization.
‘Our minds don’t know the difference between imagination and reality.’

Time isn’t linear. Pull your future into the now. Recode your past.

You are not a person inside the universe.
You ARE the universe experiencing itself through you.

Go live like the miracle you are.”

Mind officially blown. 🔥

What frequency are YOU broadcasting right now?
Which version of yourself are you finally aligning with?
Drop your biggest takeaway below 👇

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

Beauty is the purgation of superfluities. -Michelangelo Buonarroti, sculptor, painter, architect, and poet (6 Mar 1475-1564)

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke You can find his books (very tough reads) at https://t.co/w83rPJeX5m check out his ‘On the theories of secularism and modernization’

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke Finally, if you were referring to AK Saran that is almost impossible to find. He was an Indian sociologist who critiqued modernity and the ‘baby with the bath water’ loss that happened when it replaced tradition. - https://t.co/mKjIPJzcla

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke Here is John Vervaeke in a nutshell (Tl;DR version). He talks about the Imaginal around the 20th minute. - https://t.co/xYVST2vNcV

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke Henry Corbin explains Ibn Arabi’s ‘Mundus Imaginalis’ in Sufism https://t.co/SqEwp92fgy

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke I believe that all ancient mystical traditions worldwide mostly still preserved in indigenous and aboriginal form tapped into these truths. The Rg Veda and Norse mythologies all have them. Later spiritual systems in India and around the world evolved from those foundations.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@rykerzeke @centre_hindu @DrJohnVervaeke A good place to start with Vervaeke’s work is the 50+ episode Awakening from the Meaning Crisis. But his ideas have evolved since then. The specific ideas on the Imaginal are derived from Henry Corbin which in turn come from Islamic mysticism in the Sufi traditions of Ibn Arabi.

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

A very important read! There is more to unpack here. Eg. Why initial RoIs will be weak, How premature pricing is misguided, Why the Web 2.0 adage of you are the product is the right paradigm to choose for enterprise sales. Charge in 3-5 years with full context captured.

[Jaya Gupta @JayaGup10]

https://t.co/uPXcTUEsnc

[Uṇṇi Nambia̅r @unninambiar]

@grok @indiainpixels @grok sorry, I meant construction as in houses, granaries, roads, wells, fortifications etc.