In awe of SpaceX and its story - past, present and the future. You can think about it in 10 different ways and continue re-blowing your mind in circles. Huge congrats to the team! 🚀

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Just bought a copy. Looking forward to reading it.

as more ai-driven companies attempt to vertically integrate software and hardware, eng teams need better ways to build and optimize the software part of the equation. been cool to watch Revel develop this space from the start. congrats @scottgmorton and @Revel_Software team 💥

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Nothing against Curly Tales (Kamiya Jani) but the Government (I&B and Tourism Ministry) is literally Paying 6,00,00,000 (6 Crores) to Kamiya Jani (Curly Tales) for eating in Vande Bharat and Having Chaat at Ghats in Varanasi and that too gets Aired on Doordarshan a Channel that no one Watches. On the other hand Government’s MoD’s ADA (Aeronautical Development Agency) is hiring Professionals for 5th Generation AMCA (Advanced Medium Combat Aircraft) and 4.5 gen Tejas Mk2 and the Maximum package offered to the Appointment of Project Admin Officer (PAO) 5 Vacancies with 10 Years of Experience is 59,276 per month that makes 3,55,656 Per Year.

My latest for @latimes: I travelled to southern India to document the rise of the AI "arm farms" — where young engineers strap GoPros to their foreheads and fold laundry or pack boxes to teach humanoid robots how to do chores. latimes.com/business/story/2…

It is so sad to read @AkshayaS90's father's posts on Linkedin. Imagine losing your only child and then paying bribe for her death certificate. Stuff like this makes you lose faith in humanity.

This is the Ejipura flyover in Bengaluru, under construction since 2017, still incomplete after 8 years. For perspective, the UAE built the Burj Khalifa in 5 years. The US reconstructed the World Trade Center in 7 years. China turned Shenzhen from a fishing village into an industrial city in 7 years. And here we are, unable to finish even a flyover in nearly a decade. The irony is that after all that delay, whatever finally gets built barely lasts a few years.

Today is Chhatth Pooja Celebrated mostly in the gangetic belt Let me explain why Chhath Pooja is a big deal. And why it is my favourite festival. Here is why 👇 1. Chhath is a festival of faith unlike any other. There are no stringent rules. There is no mahurat. There is no pandit ji. You don't have to go to a temple. No specific mantras or pooja or havan. This is a festival of individual faith. A prayer that brings together the softest of things - the heart of a mother.. with the mightiest of elements - the Sun.. There is no conduit - no Panditji, no specific place of worship, no chanting of hard-to-know mantras, no stringent rules and process gatekept by anyone Women (my dadi, my mom, my aunts) stand in any water body, in the cold, before the sun rises, praying to the sun. They murmur silent prayers for everyone's well being. There is no loud music or lud chants Just a woman with irrational faith and a soft prayer for their kids and families and community. 2. You can do chhath even if you have nothing to offer to the deity (Sun). There is no defined offering, no sweets, dry fruits, no dakshina to offer to panditiji. You just offer water to the sun if you have nothing else. In hindi we call it ' Suraj ko argh dena' If you have the means you offer whatever fruits are locally available. There is scant difference in how the richest perform this festival, versus the poorest. It is truly, a festival for EVERYONE The only thing you need is faith and good vibes 3. Chhath is unique in that it celebrates and worships both the rising sun and the setting sun. The same prayers are offered to both The whole world pays homage to the rising sun- symbolic of the powerful, mighty, on their way up. Chhath reminds us to value the setting sun too ❤️ Paying homage who came before us, and past their prime, and whose shoulders we stand. It is also a symbolic gesture to remind us of impermanence. What rises up, sets down and rises again. And both who are rising and setting deserve our homage and prayers and kindness 4. It is truly a community festival. Many people you see in this photo are not family, but from the local community. For 4 days people flock to the homes where chhath Pooja happens. People come to help. Pooja is hard on the ones doing it ~ 4 days of fasting, last 2 days fasting without water. If someone is not able to fast and pray, they try to participate by association. By helping, and by doing the pooja -via the ones who are fasting and praying My house in Ranchi is buzzing with people for 4 days - with folks from the community, friends-from near and far. People come to seek blessings from the ones praying, to help, chit-chat and most importantly, to get prasaad The faith is strong :) I wish I had more time to dig deeper. Maybe next year. But I hope this helps you understand why 'Chhath' is a big deal for some of us. And kyun, "Diwali pe chutti mile na mile, chhatth pe milni chahiye" is a legit request for some. Because there is an unsaid rule in our part of the world - " You can be a moron, good-for-nothing son all year But if you come home for chhath, and help decorate the ghaat (water body) and do the service and participate in the faith, all is forgotten and forgiven. And you qualify for the best blessings from the kindest warmest, hearts brimming with faith.. like only a mom's heart can be ❤️❤️" Jai Chhathi Maiyya Happy Chhath pooja to all 🙏🙏🙏

I was high on India’s growth story. But not anymore. For years, I thought we were on the right path, it’s only that we’re a poor country (thanks to colonisation) but as our income grows everything will change. And that’s going to happen soon. We’ll have great infrastructure, cleaner roads, efficient systems and whatnot. But lately I’ve been feeling it’s just a story being fed to us, the change isn’t actually coming. The slow growth that we see, that’s not going to change anytime soon- in fact, it might get worse. Simply because corruption is too ingrained in the system and scarcity mindset supersedes our desire to do better for each other. Every single time. It’s not our fault. Good behaviour starts at the top. When our politicians and their rallies leave roads dirty, I can’t expect an average Indian to take the ‘Clean India Mission’ seriously. It pinches me when I pay tax because I know it’s not just being used to build better infrastructure, it’s going to someone’s pocket too. I would love to pay more tax, but all I ask for is more transparency into where it’s being used. Every time I interact with a govt institution, I am left in awe of how inefficient and opaque the processes are. It’s a nightmare to get things done if you have good ethics. ‘Additional fee’ is almost always expected to move anything. And there's unnecessary focus on language that also sometimes dictates how you're treated. Just recently, my neighbour lost their only son (22 yrs old) to a pothole accident, within 6 hours that particular pothole was covered, while all others around it weren’t. And within weeks, that one pothole is also back to the same condition. Imagine how they must feel. We talk about taking care of our citizens- it’s almost a JOKE. My friends keep telling me govt is focussing on bigger problems right now, but I have never really understood what those are. If you know the answer- please educate me. With AI and humanoids taking over in the next decade or so, we’re pretty much doomed. We will end up with millions of jobless Indians and I don’t expect the govt to do anything about it. Maybe they’ll prevent humanoids from becoming a reality in India the same way they don’t want self-driving cars. The only way I see us doing better is if entrepreneurs take charge of building better systems, funding research, improving healthcare and driving more innovation against all odds. All around me, young ambitious Indians are driving real change, and I am so freakin proud of our entrepreneurs. We need to celebrate them more for trying, for failing. For privileged Indians like me, we live in a bubble of our mostly privatised world and that’s nice because 80% of our time is spent at home/office. So I am not complaining about my life, this is not a rant. I truly want my country to do better, and I don’t see it happening rn. I'd love to know where I'm wrong. Until then, I hope India is thriving in some other universe, because I really believe she can.

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🤦‍♂️ indeed

The five schemes combined cost more than Rs 95,450 cr cumulatively through August 2025 To fund this, the state increased borrowing to Rs 63,377 cr with CAG specifically identifying ₹63,000 crore borrowed to fund guarantees 20% of revenue receipts now locked into welfare 15/21

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Who is stopping Nitin Gadkari from doing this?

I have written my first book! A passion project of almost 10 years, Runnin' Down a Dream aims to give people both the motivation & the methods for thriving in a career they actually love. Put a lot of heart and soul into this - hope you ❤️ it. Pre-order: a.co/d/5APYleb

So let me understand this. The existing transport authority creates infrastructure with flaws. So now more government employees can be hired to fix those flaws, okay? Logic has left the room 💁🏽‍♂️ In any other normal country, they will overhaul the transport Authority to improve them, not encourage them to make flaws!

Two years. Two years passed since the last moment I saw Avinatan, the love of my life. Two years since the moment terrorists kidnapped us, put me on a motorcycle, and tore me away from Avinatan before the eyes of the entire world. From that moment, our journey in captivity was separated. I was held captive with children, women, and the elderly, while Avinatan was held alone. I was mostly kept inside houses, while Avinatan was only in the tunnels. Hamas released videos and signs of life from me, while there was no information at all about Avinatan. I was held captive by Hamas for 246 days, while Avinatan was held for 738 days. I came back in a heroic rescue operation, and Avinatan returned in a deal. But both of us, against all odds, came home and were reunited! I cannot put into words the range of emotions I felt when I saw him for the first time after so long. Each of us faced death countless times, and yet, after two years apart, we are finally taking our first steps together again in the State of Israel. At last, we can begin our healing together. The recovery will be long; we still haven’t truly processed what has happened here over these past two years. But we won. We won our personal war, and the war of all those who fought alongside us to reach this moment. And now, the time has come to begin our shared journey together. I want to say a huge thank you, first and foremost, to the @IDF soldiers and security forces who have been fighting for so long and risk their lives for us every single day. Thank you to our family, friends, and to the people of Israel, Am Yisrael, who raised their voices when we couldn’t speak. To the people around the world who embraced us, to all the incredible individuals who supported us through the hardest times and never lost hope throughout this long period. To the US government, which opened its doors to me and was always there to listen, especially @SEPeaceMissions Steve Witkoff, @jaredkushner, and the exceptional, President @realDonaldTrump. To all the people who too stood beside our hostages and understood that light must overcome darkness. We will never forget the fallen and the murdered, and we will not stop fighting until every fallen soldier and hostage is brought home for a proper burial in Israel. Thank you, thank you, thank you! This could never have happened without you. We are back ❤️

Catching up on this late — the EPFO and its processes have needed deep cleaning. This wasn’t what was needed! What was needed was easier access / better process to manage OUR money! EPFO / Govt shd remember this is borrowed money. They pay us interest, yes. We lend them money, which they borrow for various purposes and more and more lately. (Borrowings from small savings). Hope these provisions get reviewed.