Vikas

There's no shame in not knowing things! The only shame is to pretend that we know everything.

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.

This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.

Let me tell you what actually happened.

The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.

381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.

India sent five kids.

All five came back with gold.

Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.

We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)

That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.

Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.

Now here is what the exam actually was.

Two papers. Each five hours long.

The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.

The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.

That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.

Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.

HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.

Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.

Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.

In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.

Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.

Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.

So who built this.

The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.

They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.

The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.

The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.

Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.

This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.

The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.

That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.

But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.

That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.

So yes, be proud. Loudly.

HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.

But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.

I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.

But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.

Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

[VatsRohit @KesariDhwaj]

The reason why most Sikhs vote for Congress in spite of 1984 and detest BJP is pretty simple.

BJP is seen as a Hindu political party which wants to implement Hindu Rashtra.

To RSS/BJP Sikhism might be a 'panth' under Hinduism but for many Sikhs, Sikhism is a separate religion which was made by the Gurus after rejecting Hinduism and its practices.

They consider all this bhaichara from RSS/BJP as surrepticious attempts to dilute the Sikh identity.

While RSS and BJP never stop mentioning that Sikhs and Hindus are one people, to many in the Sikh community this is an attempt to bring Sikhism under the fold of Hinduism.

That Sikhism is a separate religion is not a view held only by Khalistanis. In fact, you'll see the most ardent pro-India Sikhs also holding this view.

An extension of this thought process are acts like asking Granthis not to sing those portions of Gurbani which have reference to Krishna or Ram or any form of Hindu gods and godesses. That's why Shiv Sena and RSS members are targeted in Punjab. And SGPC appointment holders consider Sikhism to be more close to Islam than Hinduism.

[Rajiv Malhotra @RajivMessage]

You incorrectly stated China’s approach as merely blocking it. In parallel they also deployed a complete system of their own in record time that offers a better alternative. Your incomplete option would not solve India’s problem. Why not suggest India’s own FULL SCALE alternative that serves the entire region.

[Tamralipta Coppermint worker @Ayush90588474]

Chandigarh is a Babutown. Built by bureaucrats, for bureaucrats. The only people who live there are currently working and retired govt employees. And babus never keep their own areas in bad condition. Same goes for Gandhinagar

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

100% true !!!!
The difference is that Hitler killed Whites in Europe while Churchill killed Indians.

[Adv. Aman Yadav @amanakkiyadav]

The Western idea of teenagers working in cafes makes zero macroeconomic sense in India.
First there is absolutely no need for it.
​India is a labor surplus economy. Western cafes hire 16 yr due to a severe shortage of cheap adult labor. Here millions of adults desperately need these entry level service jobs to feed their families.
Allocating a cafe job to a teenager for pocket money when an adult needs it for basic survival is socially and economically tone deaf.
​Second the wage economics completely fail here. Because unskilled labor is abundant the market wage is incredibly low.
A teenager’s time is their absolute highest ROI asset. In our hyper competitive, developing economy, their sole economic utility should be human capital formation studying, clearing exams, and building specialized skills.
​Blindly importing a Western model built for labor scarce economies isn't progressive, it's just bad economics.
That's what atleast i think......

[Ganesh @me_ganesh14]

Ravneet Singh Bittu has urged Punjabi Hindus to come forward and tell the world about the massacre of 25,000 Hindus by Khalistani terrorists.

If Hindus don't do it now then more propaganda movie like #Satluj will come and paint brave Cop like KPS Gill as villain.

[sushant sareen @sushantsareen]

This is easily the best thing you can watch to know what was happening in Punjab. Instead of pulp fiction on X or Insta/FB, hear from one of the few intrepid journalists who covered events in Punjab. This gives you the political context and the security situation in the state.

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Request people to see this

Thank you Shekhar Gupta for sharing the horror of Khalistani terrorism in old days

Terrorists had banned girls from wearing skirts in school

A school headmistress begged for some time for the poor kids to buy salwar kameez

They shot her in the belly

Anyone in India today who tries to create sympathy for Khalistani terrorists is a monster

[TheDelhiUnion @TheDelhiUnion]

Ajeet Bharti's questions on the Reservation timeline:

1. It has been 75 years of continuous reservation.
2. Where is the empirical evidence or 10-year survey showing which castes were uplifted?
3. If a caste has not been uplifted in 75 years, why continue the same failed method?

[GC Movement @GCMovementOrg]

Reservation is the biggest mistake done by Ambedkar said by an old lady with facts.

@GJP_4_India @GJP_YouthWing @GJP_Intel

[Priestlyclass Strongman @priestlyclass]

No doubt americans are bad faith actors & do not wish good for us. But if we had even a quarter of the Promethean spirit that country possesses, things would be fine for us. That relentless drive to push boundaries & frontiers, the meritocratic society they built & the institutions they created are the real sources of their strength. Their elites may be corrupt & may ravage the world in pursuit of their personal interests but they never act against american interests. Here it feels like the opposite. I do not even want to begin with how they are killing whatever little defense manufacturing & strategic capacity we possess. The ruling class here works for foreign & personal interests, govt use full might to sabotage businesses, talented individuals & the very people capable of creating wealth & innovation, eventually forcing them to leave

[Fundamental Investor ™ 🇮🇳 @FI_InvestIndia]

Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72 ji doesn't hesitate on the Topic of Ethanol Blending. He Spoke our Mind.

This Must Go Viral. I am Happy that More People are Talking about this & must be reconsidered.

Government has an opportunity to Listen to us !!!

#FI

[Royal Singh 🦁 @Royalsinghz3]

Just like Taiwan controls the world's advanced microchips, India has some of the biggest & most sophisticated refineries on Earth

Only Refineries in India can refine the Thick Venezuelan Crude Oil, that's why Trump is taking help from India to help set up a refineries in Texas for the first time in 50+ Years

[Semu Bhatt @semubhatt]

I avoid commenting on the land of the pure & on some experts. But this appeared a couple of times on my feed, & as our people fall for anything a western expert says as intelligent & profound, making an exception. What's promoted as great insight is nothing revelatory, only confirmatory, & even there, she messes it up, deliberately or otherwise.
1. Kashmir is not ideological even when presented so; it's water security.
2. Pakistan got a better people-to-land ratio in 1947; not really a 'bum' deal.
3. CF gets confused in her own explainer about Pakistan military. Is it ideology? Is it interests? Is it running the nation? What? It's common knowledge that Pakistan military needs enmity with India to justify its power, economic interests & iron grip on the nation. It's not that she doesn't point out military's enormous footprint, it's that she wraps it enough to not make it what it is: the driving force, & everything else as tools towards sustaining & enhancing that power/interests. If Pakistan military's job to run the nation had domestic acceptance, it would have wanted peace with India for the very reasons she mentions.
Then she says there aren't protests. Like dharnas in Pakistan are as easy as in India! Like she is unaware of military trials of civilians who participated in May 2023 protests. Like how critical voices get silenced, not with FIRs but with gun shots.
4. Pakistan uses terrorism to retard India's rise? Not to bleed India to death through thousand cuts? Btw, is it ideological battle or a battle against a hegemon? Is it two-nations/ Hindu-Muslim, or just a for-hire terror State that can carry out dirty jobs to keep India's rise in check?
5. Pakistan is too dangerous to fail works post 1998. It has been America's #UtilityState for over five decades. So this Western narrative that it is keeping Pakistan afloat because it is a nuclear state is BS.

Sadly, our people amplify such BS happily.
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[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

A refinery is more than a massive piece of energy infrastructure, its economic reach extends far beyond the plant itself. It creates regional ripples, driving demand for logistics, transport, construction, engineering, hospitality, and thousands of supporting small businesses. Over time, it attracts downstream industries, multiplying jobs and diversifying the local economy.

The HPCL Rajasthan Refinery is set to build exactly this kind of ecosystem for western Rajasthan, serving as the bedrock of a vast industrial network. Backed by a ₹79,000+ crore investment, the plant will produce both fuel and critical petrochemicals to directly feed the packaging, textiles, and manufacturing sectors. This massive capital influx ensures a powerful regional evolution, upgrading infrastructure, empowering local MSMEs, and unlocking wave after wave of long-term employment for the youth.

[Handre @Handre]

Central bankers will never recover from this.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

Korean podcaster Daniel M Oh says that the average Korean is atheist but there is strong Christian influence in the country right now, which he says is unfortunate. He then narrates two legends, one each from the life of the Buddha and Jesus to show that Buddhism is a far superior religion compared with the infantile nature of Christianity. Buddhism teaches you to stop obsessing over your own problems. That's when you can open yourself up to connections and develop compassion for yourself and for others, understanding that there is no us vs them. Christianity on the other hand is the easy religion to follow because it offers miracles - that Jesus can heal you or bring back people from the dead.

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

America can fight wars & still host the biggest event on earth so flawlessly. It’s an exceptional country with zero historical baggage, which has scooped the most hardworking & smart top 1% of every nation.

[Rashtra Niti @RashtraNiti3]

Just 2 years back India had literally ZERO Semiconductor manufacturing units.

The speed with which Modi government works is mind boggling.

Respect 🫡