Dearest @AshwiniVaishnaw ji,
Why should a RAC passenger bear full charge for 50% of a side lower seat? Isn't it unfair?
Once the chart is prepared, Railways must refund 50% of the fare with interest for RAC passengers. The same source of payment can be used for the refund.
Pls implement this immediately. I see many ladies and senior citizens who travel by RAC, without sleep and they pay full charge.
If any of you reading this feel that this should be implemented immediately, comment with your thoughts and share until Railways makes it a fair deal for passengers.
This is long long overdue.
On behalf of Indian Passengers,
#FI
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Balachandran S (@benignbala@fosstodon.org) retweeted
I would like to take this opportunity to thank @ubuntuu
and @Canonical for their work towards promoting Free Software across the world - Their efforts in the early years of this century is humungous. 1/n
It is worth mentioning the support that the management of @tceofficialpage (the then Principal Dr. Abhai Kumar and HDCSE, Dr. Mercy Shalinie and the Dept. of CSE staff) offered us in conducting FS'tival - the local Free Software Festival (aka Software Freedom Day) 5/n
GLUGOT (GLUG of TCE) and GLUG-Madurai did some amazing work in the first decade of the century, along side other popular GLUGs in the country to help a generation of youngsters take to technology removing learning and cost barriers that proprietary solutions had setup. 6/6
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Madras Sanskrit College launched our AI/ LLM program for sanskrit yesterday on the auspicious Vijayadasami day.
Our 3 year plan is to create a personal learning app for Sanskrit, sastras and all Indian knowledge systems. We have assembled a crew of talented scholars and engineers for this initiative.
The IIT Madras which already has great experience in this field has promised help and guidance in this project. We are looking for data scientists and programmers who also have good knowledge of Sanskrit. Interested people can contact us. You can DM this site
#finmin#NirmalaSitharaman#IITM
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Balachandran S (@benignbala@fosstodon.org) retweeted
Madras Sanskrit College launched our AI/ LLM program for sanskrit yesterday on the auspicious Vijayadasami day.
Our 3 year plan is to create a personal learning app for Sanskrit, sastras and all Indian knowledge systems. We have assembled a crew of talented scholars and engineers for this initiative.
The IIT Madras which already has great experience in this field has promised help and guidance in this project. We are looking for data scientists and programmers who also have good knowledge of Sanskrit. Interested people can contact us. You can DM this site
#finmin#NirmalaSitharaman#IITM
There have been a lot of criticism of @Zoho's @Arattai for its lack of E2EE for chats. Zoho has now confirmed that E2EE is in the works and will be available soon. You call it nationalism, or call it any other name, it doesn't matter - I'll choose @Arattai over WhatsApp any day.
This isn't just emotion - Considering The CLOUD Act, 2018 of the USA, this is much needed. @Arattai is a relatively new product. It will take its time to mature. So, it is worthwhile to wait and watch.
Most certainly, I'll prefer a Free/Libre software for any category of software. But anything that is not from the USA, and specifically developed by a passionate team with a non-corporate culture (this is what I have understood about Zoho's culture) is definitely worth using.
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Balachandran S (@benignbala@fosstodon.org) retweeted
Honoured to receive the ‘Sri Shanmukhananda Bharat Ratna Dr. M. S. Subbulakshmi Sangeetha Pracharya Award’, presented by Justice Sri K. R. Shriram. I dedicate this to the eternal Guru Parampara of Sanatana Dharma, with love and gratitude. #VandeGuruParamparaam
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Balachandran S (@benignbala@fosstodon.org) retweeted
Congratulations to the @ApacheGroovy team for the 5.0 release - what a great milestone! Having been retired for two years now, looking back on it all - easily the best developer community I ever worked with. Amazingly nice and over-the-top talented!