Professional rolling stone. Failed revolutionary. Dependable friend. Dependant son. Still trying to find my zen...
Gurgaon
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@antonioguterres Sir, just change the way of distributing #aid in #Gaza. Instead of #Palestinians lining up, making for easy targets of #Israel and #IDF, have the aid delivered to them, at their abodes, whatever is left. This might be safer.
#GazaGenocide
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The Raman effect is the change in the wavelength of light that occurs when a light beam is deflected by molecules. It was named after Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman who was born #OnThisDay, 7 November 1888. The Raman effect is used to analyse different types of material.
ALT Black and white portrait of physics laureate Sir Chandrasekhara Venkata Raman. He is wearing a suit and tie.
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After everything we’ve been through these past two years, too many voters STILL didn’t understand the assignment.
What will it take?!
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The 2027 Census is going digital, but its geo-mapping software has gone to a single bidder using a US-owned proprietary platform allegedly exploited by Chinese state-backed hackers for over a year. Who gets access to household location data?
@apar1984 | @internetfreedom
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شاب هندي يقوم بعمل غريب وفي أقل من ثانية لكي يقوم بسرقة المحل وكاميرا المراقبة توثق ما حدث.
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What if every particle is a vibrating string?
Prof. Ashoke Sen explains why.
Electrons, photons and quarks aren't fundamentally different, they're different vibrations of the same string.
Interesting part is that the universe might not be built from particles, instead it may be built from vibrating strings.
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They stopped the flow of the Ganga near Har ki paudi at Haridwar for next 18 days just so they can clean it before Diwali. And the moment the water level dropped the truth came out...the entire riverbed is buried under clothes, plastic bags, discarded slippers, and pure filth.
The natural stones that should be there..but completely hidden under our garbage.
Year after year the same story bhakts leave behind their waste the administration stops the water once a year, locals cleans up the mess we created and then we start dumping again the moment the water returns. 😒
You cant revere a river as divine and simultaneously turn her into a landfill.
If this is how we treat the river we claim to worship then maybe we dontt deserve to call her MAA at all.
Period !!
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The online crisis involving @eMudhra is just the tip of the iceberg for the Indians.
Our entire #DigitalCircus based governance architecture can be upended by any AI model made for fun.
This is NOT fear-mongering!
This is a result of outsourcing governance!
Read more - emudhra.com/en/post/certific…
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MATTER OF GREAT PRIDE FOR INDIAN SCIENCE!
Ashoke Sen becomes the first Indian to win the prestigious Oskar Klein Medal (2026), jointly awarded by Stockholm University and the Nobel Committee for Physics of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences for his pioneering work in String theory.
deccanherald.com/science/ben…
String theory gives a unified description of all matter and the forces between them based on the postulate that the elementary constituents of matter are tiny one dimensional (string-like) objects instead of point particles. Sen’s breakthrough work has shown that multiple string theories are all different versions of a single underlying theory.
Incidentally, I met Ashok Sen for the first time, when both of us were elected as FRS (Fellows of Royal Society) in 1998. Ashoke ( nominated by Stephen Hawking himself) was young 42 yrs and
I was an oldie - 55 yrs though!
What struck me was Ashoke’s incredible simplicity. His wife Sumathi Rao has reportedly said that Ashoke bought his first suit and needed some assistance to wear his first tie for that prestigious 1998 FRS ceremony in London, when one signs in the same book that Sir Isaac Newton has signed.
A film made on the life and work of Ashoke Sen, when we at the
H K Firodia Award in Science & Technology honoured him in 2005 in Pune, will inspire all our budding scientists - showing how science & simplicity goes together.
youtu.be/CoVc5cM5XlU?si=vQNQ…
We all feel so so proud Ashoke!
@PMOIndia @NITIAayog @PrinSciAdvOff @IndiaDST @CSIR_IND @ictstifr @PuneIntCentre @kvijayraghavan
#chorbaganstampede
#ChorbaganSarbojonin
Why arrest only the organisers?
What about those who gave the permissions?
Who cleared the layout, the emergency plan, the lighting or lack of it, the fire safety?
Everyone must be accountable and held responsible.
DurgaAI namo namah!
This is what happens when one depends on #AI for everything. And does not have the patience to check before amplifying.
Durga with 14 hands.
A shame, really!
Only when you commit a serious crime, are you this afraid.
As someone famously said 50 years ago, "जो डर गया, समझो मर गया।"
#RightToProtest
#FreedomToMove
#Democracy
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This is what government has revealed about BJP rule in West Bengal — in a reply to RTI filed by @SaketGokhale
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Why has India failed to industrialize?
Ha-Joon Chang argues that it’s because India’s business and financial elites oppose industrialization — and that it won’t happen unless their power is curbed.
Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.
Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?
We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.
Stay with me....
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