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Ex-aviator | Ex-Mil-spec std. designer | Adventurer | Professional runner

[Parimal @Fintech03]

It does not matter how many global summits a country hosts/how many billions are committed to infra; if a 10 yr old homegrown brand can be erased overnight by an aggressive interpretation of an import code, "Make in India" becomes a high-risk gamble for honest entrepreneurs.

The founder mentions changing their HS Code (Harmonized System code used for customs tracking) in 2023 based on professional advice. In India, Customs & Tax depts frequently use a tactic: Retrospective Reclassification.

The Trap: A founder openly declares a code for yrs. The dept accepts it, clears the shipments & takes the tax. Then, a local audit officer decides, "Actually, I interpret your product differently. It should not be under Code A (10% duty); it should be under Code B (30% duty)."

The Penalty: They do not just apply the new rule going forward. They hit the company with retrospective bills for the last 3-5 yrs, piled high with 100% penalties & interest charges. For a MSME, this instantly wipes out their entire lifetime liquidity.

If we want to compete with China, we need to realize that Ease of Doing Business is not some rank on a World Bank list but a feeling in a founder's gut.

Right now, that feeling is fear. The system must learn to distinguish b/w a fraudulent tax evader & a genuine corporate classification dispute. Until the process stops feeling like a punishment, our best minds will keep choosing to register their companies outside instead of their own homeland.

[Sagar Awatade @SagarAwatade]

I don't know who else to tell this to, so I am going to tell my story here.

Every day is a struggle for a young business, but the last few months have been harder than usual.

We are a small Indian company. For more than ten years we have been building a homegrown brand in a product category dominated by big foreign players.

There are almost no Indian names in this space. We set out to be one.

We started in 2014. Over the years we began making parts in India instead of just importing, and we started selling in the US, Dubai, Nepal, Malaysia and South Africa.

We showed up at global trade fairs to represent an Indian brand on the world stage.

In 2023 we changed the import code we use for our product. We did not do this quietly. Every shipment was declared. Nothing was hidden. We didn't invent our approach.

We followed written professional advice and the way this product is treated in markets around the world.

And now we are facing a government demand running into tens of crores in duty recovery and penalties, plus personal penalties on the founders and even on an employee.

For a company our size, this is not a fine we can pay and move on from. This ends us.

We have not run from any of this. I am not built like that. It is not how I was raised. We have written to the authorities, met officials in person, and we have now filed a writ in the High Court.

All we are asking for is a fair treatment.

I set out to build in India and sell to the world. I am asking only that the system back honest founders trying to compete globally, instead of breaking them.

The process is the process, and it exists for a reason. But process should not feel like punishment.

From where I am standing today, it does.
I am not giving up. I have worked too hard for this. If you have read this far, please share it. If you know someone who can help, point them my way. Help me get the word out.

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

The Tragic Story of How India Was Deindustrialized

Between 1813 and 1853, 3 Acts of British Parliament killed 3 world-leading Indian industries.

Bengal cotton, South Indian wootz steel, and Indian Ocean shipbuilding - all demolished within forty years. Manchester, Sheffield, and Lloyd's of London grew on the corpses.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Shi, Shang, Nong or Gong?

Kaun Jaat Ho?

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

How do such intelligent officers choose such wicked and greedy women ? Exactly what did she do to get this money ? Why shouldn't the parents, who made him the man he is, get this cheque from the government???

[RAJSHEKHAR VERMA @shekhar_br02]

Indian Express के अनुसार बिहार के उप मुख्यमंत्री विजय चौधरी ने अपने परिवार का 10 बीघा जमीन बचाने के लिए पटना - पूर्णिया ग्रीन फील्ड एक्सप्रेसवे का रास्ता ही बदलवा दिया ।

येलो लाइन- प्रपोज़्ड अलाइनमेंट
रेड लाइन- बदला हुआ रूट

जबकि ग्रीन फील्ड एक्सप्रेसवे में कोशिश ये की जाती है कि रूट ज़्यादा से ज़्यादा नॉन रेजिडेंशियल एरिया में क्रॉस करे लेकिन यहाँ परिवार की जमींन को बचाने के करीब 6000 छात्रों वाला एक कॉलेज , 150 घरों का एक एरिया और बाज़ार को बर्बाद कर दिया जाएगा !

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

So, Telegram dragged the Indian government to the Delhi High Court today, angry that its app got switched off for the whole country.

Ever since the NEET exam this year got cancelled, Telegram channels have popped up with names like PAPER LEAKED NEET, Re-NEET 2026 and Private Mafia.

They told students, pay us and we will give you the real paper before the exam. The price ran from a few thousand rupees to several lakhs.

Most of it was a lie. They were not leaking anything. They were just scaring kids into paying.

In Ahmedabad, police caught one gang running eight such channels. In a single month, those channels had contacted around 1,000 numbers and moved about 1.5 crore rupees through fake bank accounts.

The government tried cleaning it up one channel at a time. They kept pulling pages down. New ones kept popping up. So on June 16 they went big.

They used a law called Section 69A and blocked Telegram across all of India until June 22, covering exam day. Google and Apple even removed the app from their stores.

They added one more order. Telegram had to switch off the edit button for old messages until June 30 because cheaters were posting a plain message before the exam, then editing it afterwards to make it look like they had predicted the paper.

In moments of panic and fear, a few students ended up ignoring the 'edited' tag and getting scammed.

Telegram was furious. It rushed to the Delhi High Court.

The hearing happened today before a vacation judge, Justice Tejas Karia, who agreed to hear it fast because the exam is only days away.

Telegram's lawyer, Madhav Khosla, made his case.

You have punished 150 million Indians to catch a few crooks. Most of them are students and teachers using the app to study. That is far too harsh.

He said Telegram had already removed over 900 illegal NEET links and hundreds of channels, and was even using AI tools to find more.

Telegram's founder Pavel Durov said the same thing online. He even accused Reliance of blocking Telegram for users outside India. A telecom official hit back that this was fake news.

Then the government spoke.

This was not about a few stray messages, they said.

It was a full fraud business running on the platform, preying on frightened children. They had asked Telegram to act again and again, and it still did not do enough.

They pointed out that Vietnam, Iraq, Kenya, Algeria and Jordan have also blocked apps during exams or police cases, and that India's ban was actually smaller, one app, for just a few days.

So here is where things stand as of now.

The ban ends on its own on June 22. The edit block stays till June 30. The judge is holding the case.

And now the court has to answer one big question, can the government switch off an entire app for everyone, or should it only be allowed to remove the bad parts?

Whatever it decides will shape how India treats every app we use, for years to come. :)

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The West removes ancient experiential wisdom from its cultural context, maps it to a molecular pathway & names it something like Autophagy (which got a Nobel in 2016)/Intermittent Fasting and suddenly it is ‘science’. If our Indian grandma tells us to fast on Ekadashi, she is a backward dogmatist. But when Dr. Valter Longo does this for us in a Cell Stem Cell journal, it becomes a major medical breakthrough.

When Ayurveda says Langhana (fasting) fires up Agni which burns Ama, they were indeed naming the very same phenomenon as Dr Longo. Ayurveda witnessed the forest: “When we stop putting wood in the fire, the fire burns the dead leaves inside the house.

Modern Science says: “Glucose depletion negatively impacts the PKA pathway, activating a decrease in IGF-1 & initiating regeneration with hematopoietic stem cells.”

Looking at the same mountain from 2 different angles shows two interpretations. 1 describes a user manual for life; the other a chemistry breakdown of the machine.

Modern peer review is a gatekeeping mechanism with deep ties to the Western pharma & academic economy. Producing a scientific paper requires significant financial resources to support research, publication & distribution.

There is no profit in telling people to eat nothing. Therefore, for decades, Western science actively ignored fasting research because it did not feed the trillion-dollar pharmaceutical pipeline.

The moment it became clear that fasting could complement chemotherapy, reducing the toxic side effects of multi-billion dollar oncology drugs, suddenly funding appeared, papers were reviewed, and it became "validated."

The West will continue to "discover" what India always knew. The goal for young India now is to stop waiting for a Western certificate of approval. We need to fund our own clinical research, study our own texts with scientific rigor & reclaim the narrative before it is packaged & sold back to us in a capsule.

[Md Ismail Šojal 🕷️ @0x0SojalSec]

Insane, Yeah he really did it, he made a RAM at home in his backyard shed.

While big tech cries about RAM shortages Man builds functional DRAM from scratch using homemade sputtering and lithography tools.

20-bit memory cell array, 12pF capacitance.

Turned it into a legit Class 100 cleanroom and fabricated memory cells himself. 5x4 memory cell array fabricated,This is the first RAM ever made at home.

Drug lab vibes, semiconductor god mode.

[Tathvam-asi @tathvamasi6]

Kudos to whoever cracked China’s firewall 👏🏼👏🏼

China insider David has shared this on his insta page.

Exposes a lot about China which is 500yrs ahead of India. 😉🤭

[lean @floresisle_lean]

banda converted musalman ho aur uske andar paxtan ke liye sympathy na ho aisa nahi ho sakta

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

Bangladeshi social media influencer Farhan Jaman Sadman, who had a history of making anti-India remarks and spreading racist hate against Indians, and who even celebrated the crash of an Air India flight in 2025, has now died after being electrocuted.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Pranjal Patil.

She was a small child in Maharashtra when her eyesight began to fail.

By the age of about six, after a condition that detached the retinas in both her eyes, she had lost her vision completely.

Surgeries were attempted.

None of them worked.

She would never see again.

Her parents made a decision that shaped everything that followed.

They refused to treat her blindness as the end of her education.

They enrolled her in a school for the blind in Mumbai, where she learned to read and study in braille.

She turned out to be brilliant.

She scored eighty five percent in Class 12. She earned a degree and then a master’s in international relations from one of the country’s top universities.

She continued her studies beyond that.

Most of the books she needed were not available in braille.

So she used special software that read printed text aloud and learned by listening, hour after hour.

Then she decided to attempt the Civil Services Examination, the hardest exam in the country, entirely without coaching.

She cleared it on her first attempt in 2016.

But when she went to take up a post, she was turned away.

The Railways told her they did not employ someone with total blindness.

The examination she had passed on merit was not enough to protect her from being denied the job.

She did not accept it.

The very next year, she sat the entire examination again.

In 2017, she improved her rank significantly and secured an All India Rank of 124.

This time she could not be denied.

She was appointed to the Indian Administrative Service and posted to Kerala, becoming the first visually impaired woman in India to become an IAS officer.

Today she administers entire subdivisions, signing decisions that affect thousands of lives she will never see.

A girl who lost her sight before she could finish childhood now sees, more clearly than most, exactly what needs to be done.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Harrapa Civillisation Times @harrapasabhyata]

Kuch banane denge nahi ye log.

"They are integrated the way North and South Korea are integrated"😭🙏.

I see why Stalin sent people to gulags and hated journalists.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

A highly geopolitically uneducated comment.

The Indo- Pacific concept linked the security of the Pacific Ocean to the Indian Ocean.

Chinese maritime expansionism in the western Pacific and Japan’s concerns underlay this concept.

The Quad provided the structure.

Trump in his first term renamed the US Pacific Command as the US Indo- Pacific command to convey a strategic message.

Now he has reverted to the original name of the Command, delinking conceptually the security of the Pacific Ocean from the Indian Ocean.

It is natural to analyse the strategic thought behind this change.

China has opposed both the Indo- Pacific concept and the Quad.

China will seek to understand the geopolitical implication of this change as much as Japan and Australia.

Those out of depth on such matters should cease meaningless pontifications.

This is not an issue of fashion accessories.

[akshay | Contour 🗺️ @thede_plandude]

Sometimes when I'm on a call I wanna explain stuff using diagrams. Its too much of a pain to pull up excalidraw and share screen.
So, I'm making this browser plugin for myself.
Draw, Edit, Move, Scale objects on screen while you talk.

[Shadow @mchellap]

Says "Michelle".

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

If you call Virus Chinese, you are Racist

If you call Grooming Gangs Pakistani, you are Islamophobic

If you call Patriarchy Brahminical, you are Rocket Scientist

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In 1913, 3 boys sat in a classroom at Presidency College, Calcutta, competing to top their mathematics exams. Today, the 1st boy is celebrated globally for creating "Bose-Einstein Statistics." The 2nd boy is a household name for mapping the temperature of stars (the Saha Ionization Equation). But the 3rd boy, the 1 who actually beat them both to top the postgrad exams, traveled straight into the heart of Berlin, stood before Albert Einstein's closest circle & became the 1st Indian to mathematically unlock general relativity. Yet, while his classmates became immortal legends, he became a ghost whose foundational blueprints built India’s modern defense and aerospace tech from the shadows.

Born in Dhaka in 1894, Nikhil Ranjan Sen grew up as a quiet prodigy. When he entered Presidency College, he found himself surrounded by giants: Satyendra Nath Bose & Meghnad Saha were his daily desk-mates & Jagadish Chandra Bose was his teacher. In this clash of titanic minds, Nikhil did not just survive; he shattered the 1916 MSc Mixed Mathematics exam, topping the entire university ahead of his peers.

But while Bose & Saha focused on light & quantum states, Nikhil’s mind was locked onto the fabric of the universe itself: gravity. In 1921, he caught a ship to Germany, arriving at the Humboldt University of Berlin. This was the golden age of physics & Nikhil’s PhD advisor was none other than Nobel Laureate Max von Laue, Einstein’s most trusted confidant.

Nikhil threw himself into a mathematical nightmare that even the greatest European minds were avoiding: What happens to Einstein’s smooth eqns of spacetime when matter suddenly stops/breaks/collapses at a boundary?

His 1923 doctoral thesis solved the boundary conditions for gravitational fields at surfaces of discontinuity. He had mathematically proven how Einstein's laws held true even when cosmic space cracked/hit a hard wall of matter. He was the very 1st Indian to secure a doctorate in relativity, validated in the elite rooms of Berlin.

When Nikhil returned to India in 1924 as the Ghosh Professor of Applied Mathematics at Calcutta University, he did not seek personal fame. He chose to build. He founded the Calcutta School of Relativity Theory.

If we look at the greatest breakthroughs of Indian physics in the mid-20th century, we will find Nikhil Ranjan Sen's invisible fingerprints everywhere.

When his student, A.K. Raychaudhuri, created the world-famous Raychaudhuri Equation (which Stephen Hawking & Roger Penrose later used to mathematically prove the existence of Black Holes), he was using the exact mathematical foundations laid by Prof. Sen.

When India needed to understand how fluids rip apart at high speeds, Sen built the nation's very 1st Fluid Dynamics Lab.

When the newly independent nation secretly needed to calculate how missiles cut through air & how explosives detonate, Sen pioneered the study of military ballistics.

He was a mathematical polymath who could map the internal pressure of a burning star, model the expansion of the entire universe w/o Einstein's cosmological constant & calculate the trajectory of a missile, all with a fountain pen.

So why is his name missing from our text-books?

Nikhil Ranjan Sen suffered from the unique curse of the "Applied Mathematician." In the hierarchy of science, the world awards its ultimate glory to pure theoretical physicists who discover a single, catchy particle/an elegant cosmic law. Sen, however, was the builder. He was the man who took the messy, impossible theories of geniuses & forged them into practical, mathematical tools that institutions, engineers & defense labs could actually use.

He did not market himself. While his contemporaries traveled the world giving high-profile lectures, Prof. Sen spent his late yrs writing astronomy books like Soura Jagat (Solar World) in native Bengali, desperately trying to make complex astrophysics accessible to poor rural schoolchildren.

He passed away quietly on 13th Jan, 1963. Today, every time an Indian missile launches safely into the upper atmosphere/a physicist calculates a fluid pipeline's turbulence, they are using the mathematical math-models carved out by this 1 man.

His classmates' names are permanently etched into the stars & the quantum universe, but the man who taught India how to mathematically calculate the heavens died in absolute silence. We built an entire nation's aerospace & defense matrix on his back, but we left Nikhil Ranjan Sen to remain a ghost standing at the boundary line of his own eqns.

[Aakanksha Sadekar Chauhan @scotthakuraaiin]

Interesting how India’s startup ecosystem loves packaging privilege as resilience.

When first-generation founders fail, they lose homes, savings, family peace, sometimes years of life.

When legacy founders fail after allegedly not paying vendors, somehow the next chapter becomes a ‘gutsy comeback story’.

PR really is magical.