Kumar Subham

The message to the enemies is loud and clear. 𝐃𝐨𝐧'𝐭 𝐦𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐰𝐢𝐭𝐡 𝐮𝐬! Unlike the UPA regime’s passivity, New India has no patience for futile peace talks. #OperationSindoor

Today, Hon’ble Union Minister for Education, Shri @dpradhanbjp chaired the National Advisory Council meeting, focusing on strengthening the implementation of the Right to Education (RTE) Act, which mainly focuses on access to school education. The National Education Policy 2020 emphasises the revision and revamping of all aspects of the education structure, including its regulation and governance to create a new system that is aligned with the aspirational goals of 21st Century education. The Education Minister emphasised the need to bring coherence between National Education Policy 2020 and RTE. The National Advisory Committee members shared their valuable insights to create a more cohesive and equitable education system. The meeting was attended by distinguished dignitaries and senior officials from the Department of School Education and Literacy and Autonomous bodies of the Department. #SchoolEducation #NEP2020 #Education4All #InclusiveEducation

On @Linkedin, @Microsoft and their wokeness. As an Indian institution, Ola is for genuine actions on diversity. We run one of the largest women only automotive plants. Not 1 out of 10 lines, or a small section, but the whole plant! Almost 5000 women now and will grow to tens of thousands in the coming years. And regarding gender inclusivity, we don’t need lectures from western companies on how to be inclusive. Our culture didn’t need pronouns to be inclusive for thousands of years. On a personal note, I had visited Ayodhya last year and learnt about how transgenders had been accorded special respect in our culture from ancient times! Here’s a short video from our national broadcaster DD on this - youtube.com/watch?v=goDQFI…. On the other hand, the pronouns issue I wrote about is a woke political ideology of entitlement which doesn’t belong in India. I wouldn’t have waded into this debate but clearly Linkedin has presumed Indians need to have pronouns in our life, and that we can’t criticise it. They will bully us into agreeing with them or cancel us out. And if they can do this to me, I’m sure the average user stands no chance. As a founder and CEO, this western DEI system has a major impact on my business as it grows an entitlement mindset in our professional lives and I will fight it. This situation brings me to the need for us to build our own Indian tech platforms. I’m not against global tech companies. But as an Indian citizen, I feel concerned that my life will be governed by western Big Tech monopolies and we will be culturally subsumed as the above experience shows. This is not about Ola or any of my companies. Ola is too small to make any impact against this. I want to confront this forced ideology as a free thinking Indian and do what I can in my capacity. So here are the actions I’m taking. Putting my money where my mouth is. ⁃While we can’t do anything about Linkedin’s monopoly overnight, I’m making a commitment to work with the Indian developer community to build a DPI social media framework. DPIs like UPI, ONDC, Aadhaar etc are a uniquely Indian idea and is even more needed in the world of social media. The only “community guidelines” should be the Indian law. No corporate person should be able to decide what will be banned. Data should be owned by the creators instead of being owned by the corporates who make money using our data and then lecture us on “community guidelines”! ⁃Since LinkedIn is owned by Microsoft and Ola is a big customer of Azure, we’ve decided to move our entire workload out of Azure to our own @Krutrim cloud within the next week. It is a challenge as all developers know, but my team is so charged up about doing this. ⁃Any other developer who wants to move out of Azure, we will offer a full year of free cloud usage. As long as you don’t go back to Azure after that! Mail us on exitazure@olakrutrim.com. Offer is perpetually open! Read more here: blog.olakrutrim.com/ola-on-linkedi…

Dear Mr Shekhar Gupta, (@ShekharGupta) This refers to the article "‘Einstein was a fraud, West stole calculus from India’ – mathematician’s claims slammed by peers" by Mohana Basu, ThePrint, 15 September, 2023, reporting on my lecture of 14 September at the Vivekananda International Foundation. It is unfortunate that the reporter you designated to report, on a scholarly talk on the philosophy of mathematics, not only lacked the mathematical training to understand it, but was even unable to identify the right "peers" to consult. However, what crosses the line into journalistic malpractice is that she was careless, did absolutely no homework, and was intent on twisting and distorting all facts to fit her simplistic narrative that any challenge to the West is a Hindutva conspiracy. My research on Einstein and relativity was repeatedly published since 1992 in prestigious publications such as Time: Towards a Consistent Theory, Kluwer Academic Dordrecht 1994, journals such as Foundations of Physics, etc. My work on Indian origin of calculus since 1998, was published in journals such as Philosophy East and West, and my book Cultural Foundations of Mathematics: ...the Transmission of Calculus from India to Europe in the 16th c. CE (Pearson Longman 2007) etc. Her attempt to paint my entire lifework on Einstein and calculus too as a ridiculous Hindutva conspiracy is not only highly unfair but is a clear act of defamation. This is deliberate because she has not engaged with a single fact or argument in my numerous publications on these two issues: her only point is they are surprising to her hence wrong. The “peers” she consulted are not competent to speak on either issue of Einstein or calculus and didn’t. But the headline suggests they did. Has this become ThePrint’s new standard of journalism? I am perhaps old-fashioned, but I expect some truth, some understanding, and some adherence to facts in journalism. My rejoinder is attached. I suggest, you publish it promptly. I will be publicly tweeting this mail (though not the attachment). Sincerely,