Balu Varanasi (బాలు)

[Balu Varanasi (బాలు) @vabasu]

mahān apyekajo vṛkṣo balavān supratiṣṭhitaḥ | prasahya eva vātena śākhāskandhaṁ vimarditum || 166 ||

And the tree that stands alone, though gigantic and strong and deep-rooted, can easily have its trunk smashed and twisted by a mighty wind.

[Lokesh Nara @naralokesh]

Guess what’s taking off from Puttaparthi on 15th May?

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

📢 Open-sourcing the Sarvam 30B and 105B models! Trained from scratch with all data, model research and inference optimisation done in-house, these models punch above their weight in most global benchmarks plus excel in Indian languages.

Get the weights at Hugging Face and AIKosh. Thanks to the good folks at SGLang for day 0 support, vLLM support coming soon. Links, benchmark scores, examples, and more in our blog - https://t.co/DcCG3zlN8p

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

We are welcoming their universities.

Without even insisting on our learning paradigm.

They educate us on their paradigms, instill their values, norms, behaviors.

They own and curate our aspirations.

And then shut doors.

Globalism for export, nativism for policy.

We must address root cause.

Change the mechanism that generates the desires and aspirations and downstream anxiety.

Repurpose education and cultural content towards our own civilization.

That is the enduring response.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

What a talent, what a delightful success story.

HIs work in reviving interest in Telugu classical literature using modern art forms is one of the most endearing creative successes am aware of.

[vakibs @vakibs]

Telugu offers certain advantages as a secondary Indian language to Hindi speakers:

1) Geographically, it is understood in the widest range within India after Hindi. Apart from Andhra and Telangana, significant minorities exist in Karnataka, Tamil Nadu and Odisha.

2) Telugu literature is highly influenced by Sanskrit, and in its volume, definitely amongst the largest in India. Fluency in Telugu greatly helps capacity in Sanskrit, especially in Samāsas. Learning Telugu will be typically easier than languages like Tamil. So it’s a good second language.

3) Telugu cinema, music and contemporary culture is also amongst the most successful in India.

[Jayesh S @JayeshSidhwani]

Looking for a DevOps freelancer for a 2-month project. The person should have experience with AWS + Pulumi. Please DM if interested.

[Susmitha Gudapati @susmitha_sg]

I'm fully loving the fire at work today. #RCBvsPBKS.

[Balu Varanasi (బాలు) @vabasu]

@yskanth సెవెంటీ కాదు అండీ.... షెవంటీ. రఘురామ కృష్ణంరాజు పలుకుతారు కదా... జలగన్ గురించి.

[Jayesh S @JayeshSidhwani]

I am hiring a Ruby on Rails developer for an early-stage sports-tech startup. You’ll work on building video infrastructure and vision models. We are a small team and we work from our office in Mumbai. If you’re interested or know someone who might be, please DM me.

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

Alright who is looking for a remote job with an SF based AI company?

This is a role for a cracked senior backend engineer. Extra marks if you read AI papers and implement POCs ie new RAG techniques and other AI engineering stuff.

#python.

https://t.co/C0X0O4rtKH

[Balu Varanasi (బాలు) @vabasu]

@_svs_ I'm interested Sid @_svs_

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

This is pretty lit. Hire this guy!

@icantcodefyi I saw your resume. Heavy on JS. Time to add another language to your stack.

I would actually go with a mind bending language like clojure or OCaml (or ReasonML). It will change everything about how you write JS (for the better).

Failing that you can go with python or golang but both of these languages aren’t great for learning the power of abstraction in coding.

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

Do you (or know someone who) breathe(s) TypeScript? I have an amazing role for you. Comment below, DM or tag.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

In Telugu literature, there is a much loved work :-

"Paramanandayya Sishyulu"
(Paramanandayya and his disciples)

One version is based on disciples having a mix of a curse and a boon simultaneously.

They are dumb but somehow their stupidity ends up serving a larger good.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

This is a popular line of thinking and understandable too but it doesn't represent reality.

Game production is very different from playing games.

And Game business is much bigger than game production.

And a Studio that can sustain, even more rarer.

Indian Game Industry has many structural issues on policy, production, talent, and market making side.

- 80% if not more of Indian game content that monetizes is either betting or card games like Rummy.

- 99% of the audience that plays games does not monetize

- A sustainable freemium model or ad revenues or commissioned content is not viable

- The audience that really plays games and pays for it is consuming the best content from the world and they are not looking for 'Indic content' - They are looking for top class gaming content.

- To attract that sophisticated audience which can generate ambassadorship and with INdic content, you need very high quality game production which is millions of dollars upfront investment with high risk

So, what we need is a multi-pronged approach that factors:-

1) Talent - not just art and engineering but all the disciplines - Production, Writing, Design, Community building, Product Marketing, Studio strategy. This is available but not in abundance.

2) Senior Production and creative leadership which can create cross over potential in the global markets for Indic content - THis is the key.

3) Authentic cultural research and story telling support which can power creative storytellers to be authentic.

4) Funding - Not for product but for building studios which is long range return

5) Paying habits - A culture where creative labor is paid for esp when we can access so much for free

6) Consolidation of the 17-20 different associations into one or two and creating top class gaming conferences/events which can provide real inputs to policy.

All of this will fall in place and we will see success but it requires a real understanding and concerted effort.

At @brhat_in we are working on 1, 2 and 3 from above directly and 6 indirectly through strategic partnerships.

Will take a few years but we will get there.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

The 3rd point about education in mother tongue is the most critical policy move one can make in Education.

Very good to see this clarity from RSS.

In fact, as Prof Kapil Kapoor ji says - this is the only policy question in education - rest is instrumentality.

There is a whole body of scientific literature that explains how creativity, relationality, ability to think in metaphors that bind us to our land and mindscapes is inextricably linked to mother tongue.

We like to throw the word Macaluayites etc but we miss the central strategy he used.

All of his policy was to dismantle Sanskrit and replace with English. Decolonization would be to reverse that and go back to either Sanskrit or mother tongue.

We will see India's real creative genius flourish within a generation if this were to happen.

This will also be the cultural immunization we need for National integrity.

On the social side, this restores dignity by addressing the violence we have imposed on our own people by making them experience a lack of self-worth.

And before someone jumps in with an accusation of elitism or hypocrisy, this does not mean our children won't learn English.

They will learn when they are prepared for it and this is 'backed by science'.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

The path to Dharmic Future runs through Hindu performative arts.

We need to marry the creative self expression of Gen next with the eternal efflugence of Dharma.

A new generation of Culture creatives.

That is our work @brhat_in

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

The ethical and cultural dimensions apart, Ghibli trend reveals a profound gap of Hindu civilizational thinking and strategy needed to tie all aspects of our Nation together.

Indian contribution should not be (merely be) giving our photos for Ghibli but a symphony between our artists, designers, technologists and strategists to create our stacks that the world will be excited to partake.

Tanjore, Gond, Phad, Kalighat, Bapu Ramana, Ravi Varma and a million more.

Unless we see the super structure of Hindu civilization, we won't be able to bind industry, polity, society and the individual into one sacred compact.

[Raghava Krishna | రాఘవ కృష్ణ @Anviksiki]

Culture for us @brhat_in is that which bridges the gap between Hindu civilization and Indian State with Society as the agent.

Anything else is a trend, not Culture.