pulkit nakrani

explorer ~ photographer ~ filmmaker

[Anoop Antony Joseph @AnoopKaippalli]

🇺🇸 US: Diesel
🇨🇦 Canada: Diesel
🇦🇺 Australia: Diesel

Major economies run double-stack freight trains, but they still rely on diesel because standard electric lines can't clear two-story trains.

But instead of settling, India custom-built a 7.5-meter high-rise grid. Today, India is the FIRST and ONLY country on Earth running double-stack containers on pure electric power. This is the scale of transformation happening under the Modi govt.

[GRITCULT @GRITCULT]

Dostoevsky was 28 when they stood him in front of a firing squad. Blindfolded. Hands tied. He could hear the rifles being loaded.

At the last second a messenger on horseback arrived. The Tsar had commuted the sentence. The entire execution was staged. Psychological torture designed to break him.

It worked. He had a seizure on the spot.

They sent him to a labour camp in Siberia. 4 years. Freezing. Starving. Sleeping on wooden planks next to murderers. His epilepsy got worse. He had no paper. No pen. Nothing.

When he got out he was broke. His first wife died. His brother died. He inherited his brothers debts. He was so desperate for money he signed a contract with a publisher that would have given away the rights to everything hed ever write if he missed the deadline.

He wrote The Gambler in 26 days to make it. Dictated it to a 20 year old stenographer named Anna. Married her three months later.

Then the real work started. Crime and Punishment. The Idiot. Demons. The Brothers Karamazov. The greatest novels in the history of the Russian language. Maybe any language.

The man who stood blindfolded before the firing squad, who convulsed on the ground while soldiers watched, who slept next to killers in Siberia for 4 years, who was buried in debt and grief.

That man wrote: "every minute can be an eternity of happiness."

He earned the right to say it.

its never over. never give up fren.

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

“Conquer yourself rather than the world.”

— Rene Descartes

[pulkit nakrani @visualkeeda]

@TommiPedruzzi ROI

[Math Files @Math_files]

People usually think Albert Einstein was a genius simply because he was good at mathematics. But many scientists of his time were excellent mathematicians.

What truly set Einstein apart was something else—what cognitive scientist Robert Sternberg calls creative intelligence.

Einstein’s real strength was his ability to look at problems in a new way. While others worked within accepted ideas about space and time, Einstein questioned those ideas themselves.

He used thought experiments—like imagining himself riding on a beam of light or thinking about clocks moving at high speed—to explore possibilities that no one else had noticed.

Creative intelligence is not about random ideas. It is about structured thinking. It means finding new and useful ideas by changing how a problem is understood. And this skill can be practiced.

For example, take a problem you are working on and rewrite it in three different ways. Change the goal, the limits, or how the problem is framed.

You may not become another Einstein, but you can become someone people rely on for fresh and effective solutions.

[Melodies & Masterpieces @SVG__Collection]

“It takes a long time to sound like yourself.”

— Miles Davis

[Aravind @aravind]

Indeed.

(Read the attached post first, then till the end of this post).

Carl Sagan (Legendary Cosmologist) - "The Hindu religion is the only one of the world’s great faiths dedicated to the idea that the Cosmos itself undergoes birth and death in cycles."

Neils Bohr (Atomic model) - "I go into the Upanishads to ask questions."

Robert Oppenheimer (Father of Atomic bomb) - "Access to the Vedas is the greatest privilege this century may claim over all previous centuries."

Erwin Schrodinger (Quantum mechanics) - "Atman = Brahman. The multiplicity is only apparent. This is the doctrine of the Upanishads."

Nicola Tesla (Legendary inventor) - "All perceptible matter comes from a primary substance, or tenuity beyond conception, filling all space, the Akasha or luminiferous ether, which is acted upon by the life-giving Prana or creative force, calling into existence, in never ending cycles, all things and phenomena."

Fritjof Capra (Particle physicist) - "For the modern physicists, Shiva’s dance is the dance of subatomic matter."

Albert Einstein - "When I read the Bhagavad-Gita and reflect about how God created this universe everything else seems so superfluous"

Carl Jung (Analytical psychology) - "Our unconscious definitely prefers the Hindu interpretation of immortality."

Nietzsche (popular philosopher) - "There are so many dawns that have not yet broken" (from the Rig Veda).

Arthur Schopenhauer (pessimistic philosophy) - "In the whole world there is no study so beneficial and so elevating as that of the Upanishads. It has been the solace of my life—it will be the solace of my death."

Then there are so many other legends in science, philosophy, and other fields who were highly influenced and inspired by Indian philosophy, like - Mark Twain, Victor Cousin, Alfred North, Romain Rolland, Rudolf Steine, Humboldt, Voltaire, Huxley, Emerson etc.

But the average Indian ignorant programmed by communists, imperialists, and racists by education, then thinking they are very educated and smart - "The vedas are mythology, Indian scriptures are religious rubbish, there is no use for them, we need to burn the bhagavat gita and eradicate sanatana dharma."

If you are someone still thinking like the above, or asking "what's the use now", first find out for yourself why some of the greatest modern minds read them and swear by them. And they do this even in the age of AI. Ask Sam Altman what he believes is the ultimate truth.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

If International Humiliation has a face 🔥

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

Dr. S. Jaishankar

Education :
-Bachelor’s in Chemistry – St. Stephen’s College, DU.
-M.A. in Political Science, JNU
-M.Phil & Ph.D. in International Relations (JNU)

Career:
1. Joined Indian Foreign Service (IFS) – 1977 Batch.
2. Held key diplomatic posts in:
Moscow (Russia)
Colombo (Sri Lanka)
Budapest (Hungary)
Tokyo (Japan)
Washington D.C. (USA)

3. Ambassador to:
Czech Republic (2000–2004)
China (2009–2013)
USA (2013–2015)

4. Foreign Secretary of India – 2015 to 2018.
5. Joined Tata Sons as President, Global Corporate Affairs – 2018.

6. Became External Affairs Minister – May 2019 (till date)

A YouTuber named Dhurv Rathee with 1.5 GB data, sitting in Germany is teaching him diplomacy and some clowns are literally cheering for it...

Priceless!!

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

Which is the best science biographical drama film of all time? ✍️

[Vijay Sarathy @canvasoul_]

breathe, and let your heart break for the world

[The woman @Tarmeim]

Word of advice

[Indrajit @Lotus_indrajit]

The Communist Song 😂

This guy dismantled Indian communism in under a minute 🔥

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Vijay Mallya is once again proving to the world, that In India, as long as you speak polished English, you can get away with anything.

To all the people who think Vijay Mallya is a saint, a victim of circumstance and political vendetta, here are some things you should think about.

Point no 1

The basis of any law is intent, and you are a criminal if you willfully break it.

Vijay Mallya willfully, deliberately, with a sound mind and body, broke the law.

In fact, he blew thru it in an armored Humvee at 300 kmph.

When he ran away, he was a Rajya Sabha MP with a diplomatic passport. If he was so sure that the cases that were filed were wrong, he could have stayed back and fought them in a court of law.

He didn't. Deliberately.

And if you deliberately break the law, you are a criminal. Period.

Point no 2

You can come up with all the legalese, limited liability, corporate separation etc etc, to acquit Mallya of all his salary liabilities.

And you are probably right. And wrong.

Are you telling me that a man like Vijay Mallya, who could go to London on a "pre-planned" trip and then stay there for 10 years, who turn and twist the Indian aviation policy to favour him, one who also ran India's biggest alcohol company, was so helpless that he couldn't pay Kingfisher employees?

This is a guy who used to wantonly pledge UB shares to raise money for Kingfisher, that too without informing UB Shareholders. He even sold 8% of UB without informing the stock exchanges.

He treated UB as a bank to fund Kingfisher when it was having good times. So, why suddenly talk about limited liabilities when things got sour?

Then there is always his personal / generational wealth.

In 2015, when Kingfisher employees were without salaries for 5 years, some even committed suicide, he had a party to end all parties in Goa. The cost of the party alone would've exceeded the annual salaries of the bottom 30% of his employees.

This was when he was already neck deep in legal troubles.

Now If he can manifest money for that jamboree, couldn't he have found some money for Kingfisher employees?

He could have. But he didn't want to.

I agree, it is his money, and he can choose to spend it however he wants.

But if he wants to spend it on parties and lifestyle, then he should not shed crocodile tears on PR podcasts, give apologies as honest as Byjus account statements and say there was nothing he could do.

If the bugger can transplant a palace 500 feet up in the sky, sure he could have found a way to pay those poor people.

Point no 3

Some people said, all he did was run a business badly, surely it was no act of crime.

First, he collected PF and Tax from employees, but didn't give it to the government. And the fact that he did it deliberately, is criminal act 1.

He deliberately didn't pay fuel costs, airport handling costs, maintenance costs and all the other Kingfisher Airline operational costs. That is criminal act no 2.

So many small scale vendors, ones who provided food, the guys who stitched those beautiful uniforms, the ones who provided cleaning staff etc etc, were also defaulted on payments. Many of them even shut down. That is criminal act no 3.

Insider trading, not informing exchanges, diverting shares from one corporation to the other, the list of wrongful activities goes on and on.

You get the drift.

The most damning indictment is the fact that Mallya has not come back after a spending a decade abroad.

He knows what criminalities he has done.

The fact that he is hiding away in London and is making extra efforts to stay there, itself points to his guilt.

Point no 4

Some say that Govt has recovered his money. So, what is the problem?

The problem is that if you willfully default a loan and the banks sell your assets to recover the amount, you still are a criminal under Section 420, 406 and 409.

They cover the clauses of obtaining loans through false promises/documents and misusing loan money.

Now one of the documents our man submitted to take a loan was something that valued the "Kingfisher" brand at $500 million.

Safe to say, he is guilty of that one.

Point no 5

Mallya keeps saying how he wanted to settle the loan but the govt didn't allow because of Vendetta.

Kingfisher went belly up in 2011. He fled in 2016.

If he so wanted to settle, he could've paid at least one tranche of his owed money and then sat for negotiations

The fact he didn't pay a single paisa and forced the banks to attach his assets, shows he had no intention to ever pay or settle.

To summarize, Vijay Mallya can do everything to presents himself as holier than thou businessperson, who was simply unlucky.

The fact remains he intentionally ran away, intentionally avoided the law, intentionally refused to pay and intentionally avoided paying his dues.

He thought nothing could happen to him.

Which, sorry to say, makes him a criminal.

P:S:

In July 2022, the Supreme Court sentenced Vijay Mallya to four months in jail and imposed a fine of ₹2,000 for contempt of court because our man transferred $40 Million dollars to his kids, in violation of court orders.

$40 million translates to around Rs 350 crores.

If he had the ability to transfer such a large sum of money to his kids, by circumventing Indian law, he surely could have given some of it to his poor ex-employees.

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

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Who is incharge of UN's anti terrorism? 🇵🇰

[Prasad @theprasad_]

Netherlands is the reason we are able to use AI.

Not the U.S., Not China. Not even Nvidia.

One Dutch company controls the machines that create every AI chip on Earth.

Here's how this one company created a monopoly no one can break:

[𝐍𝐢𝐨𝐡 𝐁𝐞𝐫𝐠 🇮🇷 ✡︎ @NiohBerg]

Question:

Why is Pakistan not on Trump's ban list?

[🎼🌺Music Love♥️ @ThoNg676733]

This choreography is so unique ✨💯💯

[pulkit nakrani @visualkeeda]

@sabeer Following this analogy blindly, one shouldn't proclaim to be a builder and a seller of any email service either.

In other words, never take any wisdom blindly based on its face value.

[YN @itsYNZ]

Who’s your favourite Bruce and Alfred duo?