Harshad Joshi

Algorithm Gods Please take Vijay, Sangeeta, Trisha and their personal/family matters off my TL 🙏

I watched @narendramodi ji’s Hyderabad speech very carefully. His appeal for economic self-reliance, sustainable living, and reduced import dependency was much needed, and people listen to him. But his govt and the @BJP4India state govts should lead by example. Here are a few of my asks from the govts. 1) Shift to online inaugurations of ALL projects. No city needs a massive VIP entourage and 30 police cars blocking traffic every 15 days because a minister has to come to inaugurate a bridge/road/tunnel/hospital. This is also non-essential travel. VIP entourages are going out of hand and that’s a waste of public money. 2) Most politicians, from all parties, spend huge amounts of money on lavish weddings. There should be a ceiling on that first. At least here @BJP4India can take the lead. 3) Prioritising Made-in-India and locally manufactured products is a very necessary ask, but again, should be started from the top. What stops @BJP4India politicians from wearing a made-in-India watch, carrying a made-in-India phone, wearing made-in-India textiles? People listen to you @narendramodi because you usually practise what you preach, but what about the rest of your govt and the state BJP govts? When will they walk the talk?

As a boy in the 1970s, I remember seeing abandoned overhead water tanks and the like in villages. Many are still there, slowly rotting away, even as new infrastructure gets built. Reason? There was no local involvement in the creation and maintenance of this infrastructure. Today, we still see irrigation ponds being poorly unmaintained in villages. They used to be maintained at the village level (every village would have an irrigation committee and a head) and the state Public Works Department took them over (in the 1970s) and destroyed the existing local institutions. That is when they started to deteriorate. Our Panchayati Raj reforms did not go all the way. We have to strengthen these institutions substantially at the panchayat, mandal (panchayat union) and district level. In a similar way, Hindu temples, once they were taken over by the state government HR&CE, started to deteriorate. Today, in most cases, local devotees fund their upkeep or renovations, and the state HR&CE department works as a "write letters to local wealthy people to ask for help" agency (and that is the good part). The only solution in every case is to hand control of these to local institutions. We need to build real governance capacity at the village, town and district level. Just as lack of exercise destroys muscles, our governance capacity degrades when unused. That has bad consequences because when we neglect village/town level governance, we don't develop an organic talent pool of governance-capable people to draw upon at the state or central levels. The IAS is administrative machinery, not an organic governance or policy making enabler. The machine needs capable drivers. It is that capability we must build organically. Our districts are more populous than small nations like Estonia. Pondicherry and Goa, small states with about the same population or even less than that of Tenkasi, get far better focused governance, so we already have a model of this within our nation. When we push responsibility down, local capability grows. This is the same principle behind scaling companies as well. Unless we push governance responsibility down to the village and district level, we cannot truly unlock the capability and potential of our people. I call this the District Driven Development model. In my personal capacity, I have set myself the goal of contributing to the holistic development of at least one rural district in my life time, hopefully 3 or 4. Bharat Mata ki Jai 🙏

@gharkekalesh Good brother.. 🙏

Brother chases four boys with a bat after they tease his younger sister🗿

Nation First Duty Above Comfort! PM @narendramodi gave 7 important appeals to strengthen India during challenging global times prioritize work from home wherever possible, reduce fuel consumption, avoid foreign travel for a year, adopt Swadeshi products, cut down cooking oil usage, move towards natural farming and reduce unnecessary gold purchases. A collective spirit of responsibility can make India stronger and more self-reliant. #LeadershipOfPMModi

The SIT has intensified its probe into prime accused Ayan Ahmed Aman in Amravati/Paratwada coaching class scandal. Two young girls have come forward with complaints in this case which reportedly has 180 victims whose 300 plus videos were made by Ayan Ahmed. Under heavy security, police paraded him through Achalpur to recover a hidden iPhone from an accomplice. 8+ arrests have been made so far. ​12+ devices (phones, laptops, hard disks) are sent for forensic analysis. SIT is tracing the source of funds behind his luxury SUVs, flats, and weapons seen in viral reels. The forensic teams are analysing multiple seized devices to crack this horrific blackmail racket. Demolition action taken on illegal portions of his residence.

Happy Mother's Day to all Moms; especially my mom Thank You for all the love & for being my strongest support system

Why the PM said what he said in Hyderabad today about WFH, saving petrol, avoiding destination weddings, not buying gold for a year, etc. India imports massive quantities of both crude oil and gold, and both are paid for in dollars. In a period of geopolitical instability, if crude oil prices rise sharply while gold imports and luxury foreign spending continue unchecked, it puts enormous pressure on India’s foreign exchange reserves, trade deficit, rupee stability, and inflation. Oil is a necessity. Gold and luxury foreign expenditure are lnot. From a policymaking perspective, reducing non-essential dollar outflow during economic uncertainty becomes strategically important. If people don't save fuel, keep buying imported gold at record levels, and spend heavily abroad, the pressure eventually hits the rupee itself. A weaker rupee makes imports more expensive, fuel prices rise, transportation costs go up, and eventually the price of almost every commodity in the economy starts increasing. So his appeal is logical for collective good.

Today Kids Are Too Smart 🤓

Matar anyone? Mom's cooking :)

Historic May heat in Pune Pune Shivajinagar: 41.4c (3.4c above normal). This is the highest maximum temperature observed in Pune in May month at least since 2016. Data: IMD #punesummers

In April, a website that has been sued, blocked, deplatformed, and chased across thirty-seven domains over fifteen years quietly launched its own AI. Sci-Hub is the largest unauthorized library of scientific papers in human history. Ninety-five million academic papers. Tens of millions of books. Built and maintained by a single Kazakhstani neuroscientist named Alexandra Elbakyan since 2011, funded by donations, hosted on whatever country's registrar will tolerate it that year, mirrored across torrents and IPFS and Telegram bots. Elsevier sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. The American Chemical Society sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. India sued. Sci-Hub stayed up. Swedish registrar Njalla cut the .se domain in January. Sci-Hub stayed up at .al, .ru, .ee, .box, and a half-dozen .onion addresses the registrars cannot reach. Now the library has built its own intelligence. Sci-Bot launched in alpha in April. You ask it a research question. It answers, and it cites real papers from inside the corpus, with links that actually open the actual papers. The bot does not hallucinate citations. It cannot, because it only draws from papers it actually holds. The same property that the venture-funded labs have spent four years and forty billion dollars trying to engineer back into their products is a free side effect of training the model on a library that contains the books. Anthropic, OpenAI, Google, and Meta have all been sued in the past eighteen months for training their models on the same shadow libraries that Sci-Hub assembled. Meanwhile the corpus those scripts were pointed at, the corpus those models were trained on, the corpus the entire generative AI industry is built on, sat right there the whole time, free, with a search box on top. The pirates beat them to it. Sci-Bot was built on a corpus that was already free, by a team that asked no permission, charging no one, with the explicit position that the right to read scientific research is older than the cartel that decided to charge for it. The same arithmetic the medieval guilds used to keep the printing trade in approved hands. The same arithmetic Pope Paul IV used in 1559 to publish the Index Librorum Prohibitorum. The same arithmetic the Stationers' Company used in seventeenth-century London. Knowledge has always had a fence around it. The fence has always been guarded by men who did not write the books. The library answers. We never asked permission. We never had to.

Meet Sweety Raina- Mother of Samay Raina.. She absolutely breaks down seeing the ruins of her house in Kashmir 💔💔 And you MF’s say Kashmir File is propaganda??? Wake up Hindu’s, all our fate is the same if you dont kick out mullethi’s

Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s whirlwind tour today across Telangana and West Bengal wasn’t just about the usual project inaugurations. It was a masterclass in balancing long-term national security with immediate political messaging. The standout moment came from Hyderabad, where the PM made a blunt appeal for "great restraint" in the consumption of petrol, diesel, and gas. This isn't just an environmental pitch; it’s a calculated strategic move. By framing fuel conservation as a "national necessity" to protect foreign exchange amid the Middle East crisis, he is positioning mindful consumption as a form of modern-day patriotism. While the opposition predictably labels this a "panic response" to mask economic mismanagement, the reality is that the PM is preparing the Indian public for global volatility, choosing transparency over hollow populism. Politically, the PM is doubling down on his "pro-women, pro-youth" governance model. In West Bengal, his appeal for a record voter turnout was specifically directed at these demographics, offering a developmental alternative to the cycle of political violence that has long defined the state. By calling for a shift from "badla" to "badlaav", he is essentially challenging the status quo of friction-based politics. And perhaps most significant was his outreach to the South regarding the Women’s Reservation Bill and delimitation. By urging parties to rise above "political colour," he is dismantling the narrative that national reforms come at the cost of regional representation. From the ₹9,400 crore infusion in Telangana to his virtual presence in the "festival of democracy" in the East, the messaging today was clear: this is a leadership willing to speak uncomfortable truths to ensure long-term resilience. And while critics demand immediate subsidies, Modi is focused on building a "financial fortress" that can withstand the shocks of an unstable world.

Janhit mein Jaari for all my lovely Tamizhar friends. 🙏 You only fight the system in a democracy if & only if : (I) - The system is fair. OR (II) - You have the people by your side. We Bengali Hindus have developed this insane intuition (borderline psychic) ability, thanks to TMC & CPM. We can realize when an entire state is about to go down in the gutters. Good luck again fellow Tamizhar! You really need it for the next few years. Regards, A Bengali HINDU

We're so used to seeing Home Minister Amit Shah as this formidable political figure, but listening to him on Mother's Day talk about his mother's blessings being his daily fuel is incredibly relatable. It's a universal sentiment - that feeling that you're only standing tall because of the person who raised you. Seeing him get this emotional and hearing about his daily lamp-lighting ritual is a side I think we all needed to see!

खाली बस व मावशे, तू मंत्री असताना पोलिसांना मारायची. सत्तेचा माज दाखवताना खिसे भरायचे काम करायची तू

Jayalalithaa was one of the few Dravidian leaders who was never afraid to speak Hindi. Even after spending decades in Tamil Nadu politics, she never relied on anti-Hindi or anti-Sanatan politics. Stalin,Vijay and Rahul Gandhi should at least learn from Jayalalithaa how to truly win people’s hearts and rule through public support.

Dilip Kumar Singh bought a ₹50 lakh life insurance policy from HDFC Life in June 2015. Two months later, on August 16, 2015, he was returning from Omkareshwar to Ujjain at night. His vehicle met with an accident. He died at the scene. Severe head injury. His wife, Neeta Singh, filed the death claim. HDFC Life rejected it. Their reason: Dilip had not disclosed that he had diabetes, coronary artery disease, triple vessel disease, and had previously undergone angioplasty. He died in a road accident. His heart had nothing to do with it. The State Commission dismissed Neeta's claim. She appealed to NCDRC. In November 2024, NCDRC reversed the decision. The bench said: "The DLI died from a road accident, which is entirely independent of his undisclosed ailments. The insurance company's repudiation of the claim is untenable." HDFC Life was ordered to pay ₹50 lakh with 9% interest from the date of complaint. He had heart disease. He died in a car accident. HDFC Life used his heart to deny his wife's claim for a death caused by a road. Save this — if your insured family member dies in an accident, the insurer cannot reject the claim citing unrelated health conditions. The cause of death is what matters. Not the medical history.

Hahaha. Loved this just to see face of Pappu when full Vande Mataram is being chanted. And the bugger had to respectfully stand and smile while “tvam hi Durga dashapraharaNa dharinim….” Ek dil kitne baar Jeetoge @narendramodi bhai. 😂😂