Curiosity. Skepticism. Mockery of a "dead language." We saw it all.
Yet Gīrvāṇī thrives: an hour on AI and LLMs, from reliability to Vedānta, in Sanskrit between an AI researcher and a VC.
Quite lively for a language written off :)
अथातः सम्भाषणजिज्ञासा।
Watch and debate.
Do you know: This report on India's amazing poverty alleviation accomplishment in the last decade has been on the World Bank site since early October?
But nobody in Indian media or GoI of various ministries posted about it, until after Oct 29 when the post I made got the topic trending on X.
Now, it is being covered by international media too as a major win for India. I even saw some Indian media covering the story as "breaking" reading the words of my post verbatim!
I think it would be so much better if Indian govt and Indian media start looking around for positive stories on India proactively to cover. There are so many around and they are not being taken to the public.
Anyway, I am happy I could do my bit for the world to talk about something positive on India. The news has come as a huge dose of whitepill now for Indians.
The full-blooded passion of rural Bharat has found fantastic expression through Isha Gramotsavam! We want Isha Gramotsavam to become a gamechanger for rural communities across Bharat. -Sg
I recently facilitated my first World Café-inspired session at ICF Bengaluru. It reinforced a question relevant to leadership and AI-enabled work: how do we bring different perspectives together before deciding what to build or change?
Before Designing the Solution, Design the Conversation
I’ve shared my reflections on LinkedIn:
https://t.co/d4nGpnVkcy
An AI coworker drafts a proposal in minutes. The team still takes two weeks to send it.
Before designing the solution, design the conversation.
How does your team bring different perspectives into decisions?
https://t.co/qvf2fwRK0o
While Bollywood is obsessed with heavily mimicking Western culture, Vidyut Jammwal is proudly seen sticking to his roots on international platforms.
At the CinemaCon 2026 trailer launch of his upcoming movie Street Fighter in Las Vegas, he chanted the Gayatri Mantra for the protection of everyone.
This is what actual representation of Indians looks like, not those diversity-hire actresses doing cringe performances, trying to get validation that they are similar to Westerners and calling themselves "baddies" by promoting hookups.
It's sad that hardworking Hindu chads like Vidyut are not promoted more.
Street Fighter director Kitao Sakurai and he straight up said Vidyut Jammwal is Dhalsim in every fiber of his being 💀
-Bro doesn't even need CGI he's an actual martial arts yoga master showing off raw ancient traditions right on set
-Bollywood walo ne iski kadar nahi ki toh seedha Hollywood jaake Cody Rhodes ke aage aukaat dikha di
-Talking about mind and spirit being in sync just to absolutely drop a dude and yell "Shiva" is pure violation lmaoo
Vidyut didn't just get cast he walked in and made everyone else look like an NPC.
People either overestimate the Śāstras as modern physics or dismiss them as dogma.
Here is my balanced take on how to navigate them via a rigorous dependency graph of formal grammar, epistemology, logic & peer-reviewed debate, being a student for more than 2 decades.
@vinitkumar Great lesson for new managers, Vinit. Asking "what do you think we should do?" before giving your answer builds people who can think without you. It feels slower in week 1 and saves hours by month 3.
Joined a panel for new managers at Adobe. One lesson I shared: knowing the answer doesn’t always mean giving it.
Treat leadership as a craft you need to learn.
Thanks to the organizers and fellow panelists.
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Mr. Vembu, I came back after my Harvard programme wanting to build in India. I still do. But my experience has shaken my faith in the system.
I’m working in AI and healthcare. Even getting clarity on the regulatory pathway for a clinical validation study has been a struggle. In education, I’ve encountered resistance to adopting AI. My qualifications feel irrelevant when institutions won’t engage with the work. And when basic civic issues arise, police support has been difficult to secure.
Where is the conducive environment we’re asking people to return to?
Who is accountable for giving founders clear regulatory answers? How do educators evaluate new technology responsibly? Where does a citizen turn when local authorities don’t help? What recourse exists when nobody takes ownership?
You’ve built here. What concrete governance reforms would you push for and how can people like us help make them happen?
“Come back, let’s build” is a call I believe in. How do we make the system support those who answer it?
Swami Sarvapriyananda is a hyper pro legend max person.
A long time ago, he had visited IIT Kanpur and gave a 2 series presentation on Mandukya Upanisad.
Which is the smallest of all Upanishads (one page), and is regarded to be most potent.
I unfortunately wasn't one in the audience (he gave the talk in 2014, I joined IITK in 2015), but due to
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Naval Ravikant: "You're going to die. It's all going to zero. What's there to stress about?"
"Stress is when your mind has two conflicting desires at once. You want to be liked, but you want to do something selfish. You don't want to go to work, but you want to make money. You have two conflicting desires, and that's stress."
Most people use stress and anxiety interchangeably. Naval says they're different things:
"Anxiety is this pervasive, unidentifiable stress where you're stressed out all the time and you're not even sure why. The reason is you have so many unresolved problems that have piled up in your life, you can no longer identify what the problems are. There's this mountain of garbage in your mind. A little bit is poking out the top like an iceberg; that's anxiety. But underneath, there's a lot of unresolved things."
His fix for it is thinking about death:
"One big anxiety resolver for me is just ruminating on death. You're going to die. It's all going to zero. You cannot take anything with you. If you can keep that idea in front of you at all times, what's there to stress about?"
Which raises a question. If nothing matters, isn't all time wasted?
"What is wasted time? Everything is wasted time in a sense because nothing matters in the ultimate. But in each moment, it's the only thing that matters. So if you're doing something you want to do and you're fully there for it it's not wasted time. If your mind is running away, wishing you were somewhere else, anticipating the future, regretting the past, that's wasted time. That's time you're not present for."
And the part most people miss:
"People get worried about dying and no longer being here. But they don't realize that so much of their life is spent not being here in any case."
AI is making cognitive capability abundant. But capability is not judgment, purpose or wisdom.
A family trip to watch @HanumanAnsh led me to ask:
As machines become more intelligent, what should humans become?
https://t.co/leqhDVZhuZ
#EnterpriseAI#Leadership@filmervishal #HanumanAnsh @ShobhinawSatyaa #SadhuTiwari
Bollywood has always mocked Sadhus.
#HanumanAnsh is perhaps one of the few films that portrays the life of a Sadhu in a genuinely positive light.
For generations, Hindus have grown up respecting the saffron robes not as a costume, but as a symbol of sacrifice, spirituality and renunciation.
Yet Bollywood has too often reduced our Sadhus and spiritual traditions to comedians , caricatures or stereotypes.
Somewhere, millions of us have always wanted to see one simple story:
How does an ordinary boy leave the material world behind, embrace spirituality, and become a Sadhu?
Maybe that’s why #HanumanAnsh is connecting with audiences.
It isn’t just a movie about a Sadhu.
It is a story about a part of our culture that people have quietly wanted to see represented with respect.
And hence that word-of-mouth is turning into something bigger.
If you haven't seen #HanumanAnsh you are missing something divine.
Go take your kids , take your parents to watch this movie.
Sitaram 🙏🚩 @filmervishal
UNIMAGINABLE 2150% GROWTH IN WEEK 3 – MIND-BOGGLING... #HanumanAnsh springs the BIGGEST SURPRISE and is fast emerging as one of the BIGGEST SUCCESS STORIES of recent times.
This is IMPORTANT... #HanumanAnsh has withstood the arrival of the mighty #Toxic on Wednesday and Thursday, collecting MORE than even #Awarapan2 on both days.
In fact, #HanumanAnsh is the ONLY #Hindi film that has remained UNIMPACTED by #Toxic... A truly REMARKABLE TURNAROUND.
Growth in Week 3 [vis-à-vis Week 2]: 2150%
⭐ #HanumanAnsh [Week 3] Fri 15 lacs, Sat 87 lacs, Sun 2.27 cr, Mon 1.14 cr, Tue 2.34 cr, Wed 1.43 cr, Thu 2.15 cr. Total: ₹ 11.70 cr.
Official Nett BOC | #India biz | #Boxoffice
⭐️ #HanumanAnsh biz at a glance…
⭐️ Week 1: ₹ 89 lacs
⭐️ Week 2: ₹ 46 lacs
⭐ Week 3: ₹ 10.35 cr
⭐️ Total: ₹ 11.70 cr
Official Nett BOC | #India biz | #Boxoffice
Okay Hugging Face just launched Microduck, an open source robot for $399.
25 cm. 15 motors. Walks, picks things up, roller-skates, gets back on its feet after a fall.
Here is why it is open source.
The entire training stack is on GitHub. You train a move in simulation on your laptop. Export it. Load it on the duck. It does the thing.
Every skill is a file. Walking is a file. Roller-skating is a file. 7 ship in the box. Teach it something new, publish it, now every duck in the world can do it.
Think about where we have come.
Today open source means a robot that walks around your room.
We went from sharing how machines think to sharing how machines move.
a skill people at Anthropic have been using a lot recently: ELI5
/eli5 <what you want explained>
"explain like I'm someone who knows nothing about this topic, using a HTML artifact with big pictures and few words"
Saw #HanumanAnsh movie.
It is just too good ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
Guys, if you are thinking it will be a boring documentry on a baba, you are grossly wrong !!!
⭐ See first 10 min and I bet you will see it till the end. Infact you will feel why the hell interval is coming in between.
⭐ A very fast paced movie with back to back events happening.
⭐ Very gripping, emotional and soulful
⭐ Top notch direction and screenplay.
⭐ Superb natural acting and locations.
⭐ awesome background score
⭐ excellent songs which gel very well in the movie
⭐ You can compare it with the likes of #Kantara
⭐ See it once and you will take your loved ones along for second time.
The true story on spiritual powers of Neeb Karori Baba has all the elements of compelling story, very crisp editing, relatable characters, strong audio and visual execution, wisdom, thrill, miracles...
Among those who have praised/supported the film are #Kantara star #RishabShetty @taran_adarsh #ManojMuntashir #AdiviSesh, #PranithaSubhash, #OmRaut, #AanandLRai, #AnandTiwari, #MeeraChopra, and others.
Excellent Direction by @filmervishal superb acting by #ShobhinawSatyaa, #VihaanShedge, #NikhilDubey
@chandankanand, #PurnimaTiwari , @AKRastogi and #GulshanPandey
Mesmerising music and singing by #SadhuTiwari
Special thanks to #RaginiS #NamrataGSingh #AnupriyaNagar @filmervishal for putting your money in a movie that will inspire a new direction in film making. 🙏SITARAM 🙏