Anmol Giri

PhD Physics @ BITS Goa • Darjeeling • Heart forged at Stretford End • だってばよ • मेरा सारा शब्दहरुमा त तिम्रै थिए अधिकार मात्र भएनै कहिले तिमी मेरो ~ B. Rai

[Anmol Giri @wintergreen_04]

An escape from the academic fuss. Just enough to calm yourself for a good night sleep.

[Fabrizio Romano @FabrizioRomano]

🚨💣 BREAKING: Éderson to Manchester United, here we go!

Deal done with Atalanta for €45m package with add-ons included, agreement now in place.

Medical and formal steps to follow but deal in place.

Éderson will sign a four year deal plus option, as @TheAthleticFC reports.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

No-one does it like him.

Bruno Fernandes is the Premier League Player of the Year 🤩❤️

[Anmol Giri @wintergreen_04]

@juliet_turner6 The question arose a couple of years back whilst I was watching The Big Bang Theory when one of the characters mentions “The Indian Chai Tea”. “Chai” is Hindi for tea. So “The Indian Tea Tea”. :)

[Anmol Giri @wintergreen_04]

@juliet_turner6 Now the question: what would one call tea made of tea plant? Tea tea? I mean the idea of chamomile tea, rose tea, or any other beverage prepared by steeping plant matter in hot water closely aligns with the definition of “soup”. Forgive my naivety here. Just a curious question.

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Show this to your children. They deserve to know that there once existed magical forests lit by fireflies, purple frogs that emerged with the rains, slender lorises watching silently from the night canopy, vultures circling wild skies, dugongs grazing seagrass meadows, striped hyenas walking forgotten scrublands, turtles blessing our shores, Raptors soaring high, Amur Falcons crossing oceans without rest for days, and Nilgiri Tahrs ruling mountain escarpments like a kingdom above the clouds.

Perhaps we are the last generation to witness many of these wonders in the wild. The Earth is losing biodiversity at a pace never seen before and with every disappearance, something ancient, irreplaceable and deeply alive fades away forever.

Biodiversity is Earth’s heartbeat. The moment it begins to fade, the planet will slowly forget how to breathe.

If we want a future, we must help the Earth breathe again. We already know what to do. Let’s do it. Protect. Conserve. Cherish.

Happy #BiodiversityDay @UNBiodiversity #LocalAction #KMGBF #IDB2026 #ForNature

[Upendra M Pradhan @UpendraMPradhan]

If equal in the euest of the law is guaranteed by the constitutionz then why do women get schemes like Laxmi Bhandar and Annapurna Bhandar, why are the men left out? Don't mention feel hungry?

This question is asked by a tea garden worker from Dooars in North Bengal

Who will speak for the rights of men?

#MaradBhandar

CC: @DeepikaBhardwaj @mediacrooks

[JIX5A @JIX5A]

It’s time to Decolonise Mount Everest !⛰️🏔️

Do you know why Mount Everest is called Mount Everest? ??

George Everest was the Surveyor General of India so it was his job to map the Indian subcontinent. But he was just the admin guy right? It was actually an Indian mathematician - Radhanath Sikdar who actually for the first time calculated the height and discovered that “Peak XV” was the tallest. So the British did what they do best - they measure it, they own it - they’ll name it. Peak XV was now Mount Everest!

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

Einstein's nemesis, the reason he never received a Nobel for relativity, was an ophthalmologist who, ironically, ended up contributing to Einstein's theory.
🧵

[Ranoj Pegu @ranojpeguassam]

Heartiest congratulations to Dr. Atanu Nath, Assistant Professor of Physics at Tihu College, Assam, on being named a recipient of the 2026 Breakthrough Prize in Fundamental Physics—one of the world’s most prestigious scientific honors.

His contribution to the Muon g−2 experiment at Fermilab, advancing our understanding of the fundamental laws of nature, is a matter of immense pride for Assam and the nation.

Wishing him continued success in his pursuit of scientific excellence.

[Upendra M Pradhan @UpendraMPradhan]

As much as we love Mt. Fuji, Mt. Kanchenjunga is far more majestic...

Darjeeling, Gorkhaland #IncredibleIndia

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Yin and Yang of the wild 🫶
In the wild, dark is as beautiful as light and shadow as beautiful as glow. Diversity in the wild is nature's most beautiful expression

A rare, magical capture of a leopard pair, including a melanistic leopard by Chandrasekar Das in the Nilgiris #leopards #wildlife

[Shikhar @shekhu04]

Meet Manjul Bhargava
(He solved a problem Carl Friedrich Gauss could not. He was 28 years old)

> Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1974, to Indian immigrant parents
> His mother Mira Bhargava was a mathematics professor at Hofstra University
> She was his first teacher. Not in a classroom. At home.
> His grandfather in Jaipur taught him Sanskrit poetry and tabla
> He discovered that ancient Sanskrit rhythms follow the Fibonacci sequence
> A 2000 year old insight hiding inside poetry.
> He was a teenager when he found it.
> Hated school. Bunked half of third grade, seventh grade, twelfth grade and sophomore year of college
> Spent that time visiting his grandparents in Jaipur, reading ancient mathematics texts
> B.A. in Mathematics from Harvard, 1996
> Won the Morgan Prize for the research he did as an undergraduate
> PhD from Princeton under Andrew Wiles, the man who proved Fermat's Last Theorem
> His doctoral thesis sent shockwaves through the entire world of number theory
> At 28 became one of the youngest full professors in Princeton's history
> Just two years after finishing his PhD
> The same institution where Einstein spent his final years
> In his PhD thesis he solved a problem that had defeated Carl Friedrich Gauss
> Gauss, widely considered the greatest mathematician who ever lived
> Could not generalise his own composition law beyond quadratic forms Bhargava did it. Elegantly. Completely
> As a graduate student. Won the SASTRA Ramanujan Prize in 2005
> Won the Fermat Prize in 2011
> Won the Infosys Prize in 2012
> In 2014 won the Fields Medal, the Nobel Prize of Mathematics First person of Indian origin to ever receive it in its 78 year history
> Awarded the Padma Bhushan by the Government of India in 2015
> Trains under Ustad Zakir Hussain in tabla. Performs professionally.
> In February 2026 became the first president of the National Museum of Mathematics in New York

A boy who skipped school to sit in his grandfather's lap in Jaipur went on to solve what Gauss could not. He did not separate mathematics from music, or science from Sanskrit. He saw them all as the same thing

Peter Sarnak of Princeton said, "At mathematics he is at the very top end. I cannot remember anybody so decorated at his age."

"When you discover things about numbers, it is very beautiful. Mathematicians are not thinking about applications. We are pursuing beauty."

He pursued it all the way to the Fields Medal. And proved that the most beautiful mathematics was already alive in ancient India. Waiting for someone to notice

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Hornbill paradise
Somewhere in Valparai Tamil Nadu

India has 9 Hornbill species, of which 4 are found in the Western Ghats. Hornbills need cavities in large native trees to nest as they can not excavate their own nest. That is why their survival depends upon the survival of native trees in tropical forest. We need to therefore protect the entire ecosystem in which they thrive. Photo @shanmughanandam #hornbills #TNForest

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

A beautiful elephant family sleeps deep inside the Anamalai Tiger Reserve in Tamil Nadu, an extraordinary moment captured on camera. The young one gently rests its leg on an elder, seeking comfort, security and love. In the world of elephants, family is everything. And around them stands the forest silent, protective, eternal like a cradle holding life itself. On this International Day of Forests, this tender scene reminds us of a simple truth: if forests do not exist, nothing will remain. Nothing at all. Without forests, the world would be poorer, harsher, emptier. For elephants, for wildlife, for rivers, for people forests are life
Incredible capture @dhanu_paran #InternationalDayofForest #forestday #InternationalDayofForest

[Shanmukh Art @ShanmukhSripada]

this one’s for all Indian Cricket fans! 🇮🇳

throwback to the first World Cup win last year for the women’s team 🏏❤️

a moment worth capturing on canvas 😁

[Nirmalya Kajuri @Kaju_Nut]

This was the first post-conference party I attended where the mood was more gloomy than festive.

Instead of the usual physics debates and academic gossip, the talk veered to worries about diminishing funds, depleting postdoc positions, talented colleagues not getting offers, nirf woes and so on.

[Supriya Sahu IAS @supriyasahuias]

Bravo Team Cuddalore !
What was once a plastic-choked and garbage-filled canal has bounced back in full force. An inspiring transformation in the village of Pichavaram under Tamil Nadu’s Climate Resilient Village initiative. We have rejuvenated 3 kms of the clogged village canal by removing 750 Kgs of plastic, invasives like prosopis and strengthened the embankment to restore natural water flow in Picchavaram back waters. Along its banks, 3,000 mangroves have been planted with 600 local Community members participating, thereby recreating a thriving ecosystem and strengthening coastal resilience. This remarkable effort was led by the Director of Environment Thiru Rahul Nadh, the District Collector Cuddalore Thiru Sibi Adhithya along with their committed team. Great efforts by CF Thiru Periasamy, DFO Thiru Gurusamy and Ranger Thiru Iqbal in planting mangroves for ecological restoration.
#ClimateResilientVillage #MangroveRestoration #TamilNadu #Climateaction Video After and Before

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

In the 1940s, Subrahmanyan Chandrasekhar was committed to his teaching role at the University of Chicago, despite being based at the Yerkes Observatory. Each week, he traveled 80 miles to teach a special course attended by only two students. The students were Tsung-Dao Lee and Chen-Ning Yang. They proved their mentor's faith was well-placed when they both won the Nobel Prize in Physics in 1957, years before Chandrasekhar received the same honor in 1983. Remarkably, this course went down in history as the only one where every attendee received a Nobel Prize, underscoring the extraordinary impact of Chandrasekhar's dedication and teaching.

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