Before the stiff tongue and final gasp, take up the good to be done
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TIL: Buddhadeb Bhattacharjee, ex-CM of West Bengal, was the grandson of Pandit Krishna Chandra Smrititirtha, who wrote Purohit Darpan, the manual Bengali Brahmins consult for karmakanda.
The dialectic, apparently, begins at home.
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Intelligence is primarily behavioural. And its strongest correlate is the ability to make and absorb error — risk appetite!
On Mohamed Choukri’s extreme frankness about hunger, sex, violence, and the underclass of Tangier, and why it remains subversive. Ursula Lindsey in @nybooks
nybooks.com/articles/2025/06…
the human body is absurdly capable. the mind just needs convincing.
#VDHM2026
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Pew: 74 per cent of Indian respondents are satisfied with their democracy
V-Dem: India is an electoral autocracy
What explains the divide?
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>@navamcapital held our Annual Day 2026 on October 12 in Kolkata, convening founders, scientists, senior policymakers, investors, business leaders and technologists.
Over the course of the day, we were privileged to host:
– Dr Swapan Dasgupta, Hon. Finance Minister, Government of West Bengal @swapan55
– Dr Sudhir Jain, former Vice Chancellor, Banaras Hindu University and former Director, IIT Gandhinagar @SudhirJainIITGN
– Ashish Dhawan, founder of ChrysCapital, founder-chairman of The Convergence Foundation @AshishDhawanTCF
– Manish Sabharwal, co-founder of TeamLease
Hon. Finance Minister @swapan55 took particular interest in meeting the founders, hearing what they are building and inviting them to come to West Bengal as they scale up their manufacturing efforts!
40+ deep tech founders and executives from across India, drawn from over 20 startups showcased their work through the day, alongside closed-door sessions and direct engagement between industry leaders, our investee companies and Navam's fund investors! We also convened academia and institutional leaders from @iiserkol @IITKgp @IIMCIP @tcgcrestuniv in special sessions to meet with other attending incubators and institutional partners.
It was wonderful to catalyze the right industry and business connects for our portfolio companies, and ignite conversations that have continued well after the Annual Day concluded.
A special thanks to the 200+ individuals across communities, from @navamcapital portfolio founders and executives to investors, industry and academia, legal advisors and consultants, and friends and partners from the startup and venture ecosystem, who participated in the program and made the day a success!
We look forward to hosting everybody again at next year’s program!
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Navam Capital's Annual Day 2026 will be held this year in Kolkata, on October 12 – like last year xitter.cf/navamcapital/status/19…, we shall convene Navam portfolio founders, industry leaders, senior policymakers and leading scientists for deliberations and discussions on the fast-evolving deep tech opportunity in India.
Kolkata has a unique position as the cradle of Indian science and industry - and we are thrilled to bring the best of deep tech to the city!
Registration link: luma.com/phdpefe3
At India’s current income levels, any political project that doesn’t treat $10k per capita as non-negotiable needs to be called out
किं वर्णयाम तव रूपमचिन्त्यमेतत्
किं चातिवीर्यमसुरक्षयकारि भूरि ।
किं चाहवेषु चरितानि तवाद्भुतानि
सर्वेषु देव्यसुरदेवगणादिकेषु॥
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Chacha has launched outright war on the Govt, The Republic of India and Indian economy.
Time for PM to stop being the affable Bauji of the family and become the Gujarat ka Sher that he originally is.
INDIA'S I-T NAVRATNAS, MICROSOFT AND ADOBE ALSO BARRED FROM GREEN CARD PROGRAMME.
U.S LABOUR SECRETARY SONDERLING: "I am hereby suspending from the Permanent Labor Certification Program some of the largest IT outsourcing firms in the world — Cognizant, Infosys, Tata, Wipro, HCL, and Capgemini — and also, due to multiple active federal investigations, @USDOL is suspending Microsoft and Adobe from the program."
Americans are not obliged to like Indian bargaining, and Indian commentators are not obliged to pretend the annoyance is about telecoms. A stalled negotiation produces auxiliaries.
A remarkable profile of Shyam Sankar, Palantir’s CTO for nearly 20 years and, by the account here, the Roman to Alex Karp’s Greek: the road-builder, the forward-deployed engineer, the one who stayed.
colossus.com/article/the-pat…
