Sankar Rajamani

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting.

https://t.co/SGfD2ebBpO

The idea is actually very very simple

You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.

[Sachin Singh @CerebrumPeak]

Arnab Goswami delivers a BOMB explosion! 🔥

Deep State funding of protests fully exposed as he demands hard answers from Abhijeet Dipke & team.. How did the American Embassy know in advance every detail of the mass mobilisation?

No more hiding. The truth is out. Republic is unstoppable!

#ArnabGoswami #AbhijeetDipke #CJPProtest #funding #RepublicWorld

[Sankar Rajamani @utopia4u]

@KalamCenter 73

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In the 1990s, India was facing a Biological Colonization. If Dr. R.A. Mashelkar had not stepped in, we might have ended up paying a royalty to a US corporation every time we used turmeric on a wound/exported Basmati rice.

In 1997, a Texas-based company called RiceTec was granted a patent by the USPTO (US Patent & Trademark Office) for Basmati Rice lines & grains. They claimed they had invented a superior strain of rice. Mashelkar realized that if this patent stood, Indian farmers would be barred from selling their own rice under the name Basmati in the US. It was a theft of Geographical Intellectual Property.

He did not just shout Injustice. He assembled a team to find Genetic Fingerprints. They proved that the new rice was actually derived from Indian germplasm that had existed for centuries. The USPTO was forced to strike down the majority of the claims.

2 researchers at the University of Mississippi were granted a patent for the use of turmeric in healing wounds. To a Western patent officer, this was a novel invention. To an Indian, it was something their grandmother did every day. Mashelkar produced an ancient Sanskrit text as Prior Art. The USPTO demanded a translation. He provided evidence from the Journal of the Indian Medical Association dating back to 1953 + ancient Ayurvedic texts.

This was the 1st time in history that a patent granted to a US entity was successfully challenged & revoked based on the Traditional Knowledge of a developing country.

Mashelkar also realized that India could not fight 10000 legal battles every yr. He needed a Scalable Solution. Patent officers in the West were not malicious; they were just Data Blind. They could not read Sanskrit/Tamil/Persian. If a discovery was not in an English journal, it did not exist in their system.

He hired 100s of experts (Ayurveda practitioners, IT engineers, & Patent lawyers). They took 500000+ formulations & converted them into a digitized Shloka to Code format. The data was rendered in English, French, German, Japanese, & Spanish.

Today, India has signed agreements with the USPTO, the European Patent Office, & others. Before an officer grants a patent, they run a TKDL Scan. If the herb/method is in the library, the patent is rejected instantly.

[We Dravidians @WeDravidians]

Know all about our districts of #TamilNadu

Great Work!

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

By now, I hope it is clear to all of India's educated elite that we must build up our capabilities here. The mindset "we can buy whatever we lack" or its much deeper axiomatic version "money can buy everything" won't work in this new era. For one, money cannot buy national security nor sovereignty nor resilience. We cannot stand up to bullies if we don't build ourselves up.

More broadly, educated Indians must reexamine our fundamental belief systems. As one example, why are we paying so much for a degree from abroad (and here I am not referring to the low cost medical education in Vietnam - we must examine why medical education is so costly in India!)

Second, should we still value English as the _medium of instruction_? We should learn English _as a language_ but does it make sense to make it the medium for teaching mathematics or history or technology or medicine? English as the medium of instruction is a status symbol from our colonial past. Should that be our future as well?

Why I repeatedly come back to this question is because language has separated us into two classes and that division has only grown worse. English as a status symbol is a bigger barrier today than caste. I know how deeply it is holding back our rural youth.

The solution "government schools offer English medium to everyone" does not work and has never worked. Instead I propose that all our children - rich and poor - must be educated in our own languages as it happens in countries big and small and as it happens in all of the nations of EU.

Yes that means that every kid in Bengaluru must study in Kannada (not just learn Kannada!) and in Chennai must study in Tamil. Countries like the Netherlands with a quarter of the population of Tamil Nadu make it mandatory to learn in Dutch only after a year of enrolling in school there. Children do learn quickly.

So before you react emotionally to my suggestion "how dare you suggest my English fluent children study in Tamil or Kannada medium" ask yourself if that has served our nation well. Are we bringing up our children to have no pride or attachment towards India, particularly the vast majority of our people who do not speak English? Are we not alienating our own children from our roots?

Please don't bring up "IT jobs". We build sophisticated tools like compilers and the team mostly speaks Tamil. We never made it a requirement to be fluent in English and our engineers learn enough English to read English documentation, just as engineers in Japan and China and Korea and Germany all do.

And we do have a lot of non-Tamil speaking engineers too and since they choose to live in Tamil Nadu they learn enough Tamil to work with colleagues. This is what Indians learn to do when we migrate to, say, Germany. It is not the big deal we often make it out to be.

So we must stop making excuses. It starts with our mental attitudes towards our nation and our fellow citizens.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Bangalore mock drill is pretty straightforward -
1. Get down from the car.
2. Hide under whichever flyover you were stuck on.

[Grace Gym🏋️‍♀️ @GraceGym_]

Make a fun spinning toy with just paper strips! This simple DIY craft is perfect for kids and can transform into different shapes 🌈🧸

A must-try for creative play!😍👇

[Hasan @Ubermenscchh]

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[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

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[Vertigo_Warrior @VertigoWarrior]

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[Dr Pooja Sachdev @ImDrPooja]

What happens to your internal ear
When you continuously use earbuds in full volume!!

[Sankar Rajamani @utopia4u]

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[Sankar Rajamani @utopia4u]

@whirlpool_india one of my worst experiences. First, u sell a fridge saying 10 yr compressor warranty. Second, compressor fails. Third, when we raise a service request, u guys close it without action just because of the time taken ?

Can’t even get a compressor replaced ?

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Taiwan had 135K babies in 2023 and South Korea 230K babies. Tamil Nadu alone had 900K babies in 2023, well over double that of Taiwan and South Korea *combined* - just in one state of India. All of India had about 23 million babies in 2023, and most of those babies were born in rural India.

Right now, the human potential to build world class companies is available in *every* region of India, just waiting for the opportunity!

That is why we don't hesitate to invest in deep rural areas. What we bring are patience and endurance, our only real assets.

What our regions need are the dreamers. Dreamers who can "Start Small, Dream Big and Stay the Course!" 🙏

[Sankar Rajamani @utopia4u]

@svembu Our deepest condolences, Sridhar Sir. Om Shanthi. May his soul rest in peace.