Sudhanshu Verma

@Portfolio_Bull Works only if there is choice between tier 2, tier 3 govt college in an obscure district or private colleges like Manipal etc.

My sister wants to become a software engineer. She got 2 college offers: • Govt. college~ ₹1.2L fees
• Pvt. college~ ₹11L fees Sister:
“Let’s save money. Govt. college is enough.” Father:
“Pvt. college gives better exposure.” Family took ₹9L education loan. 8 years later…

@swapnil70127530 @x_rahulraj But what they are doing is in front of you. All the big shops operate in even more unhygienic conditions.

@x_rahulraj Most of the street food vendors do not have FSSAI licence, so they even don't exist in check list of controlling authorities.

Yesterday, I watched a video showing how rusks are made. Once you see the conditions in some of these factories, it becomes difficult to eat them again. Similar videos of soya chaap, toffees, ice creams, samosas, rasgullas, and many other food products are easily available online. Workers operate in unhygienic environments, using poorly maintained equipment and following poor practices. Our collective acceptance of low standards for food safety, combined with the glorification of "cheap food," has created an environment where adulteration is often treated as a business strategy rather than a crime. From mixing harmful substances in milk and paneer to the excessive use of chemicals on fruits and vegetables, shortcuts have become normalized. The consequences are increasingly visible in the form of rising health problems around us. Recently, Japan refused a consignment of Indian mangoes over compliance concerns. In the past, exports of Indian grains and other agricultural products have faced rejections or restrictions in Europe and the United States due to safety and quality issues. It is easy to dismiss such actions as protectionism or politics, but doing so prevents honest introspection. The uncomfortable truth is that food safety and quality standards remain a serious challenge in many parts of India.

@ykykaman Jab ladkiyan (aur ladke bhi) shaadi etc. kii jimmedariyon se bachna chahte hain to kahte hain ki taiyaari kar rahe hain.

My cousin spent 9 years preparing for govt exams/UPSC, cleared none, and never got a job. Much of that time went into reels, song statuses, and social media. Now she's marrying someone earning 30+ LPA. Makes me wonder if women in India have a stronger safety net than men.

@AaryanPrateekX @_baskarohenry If love had been something and of such an importance that marriages should be based only on this factor then for the majority of human civilization, all over the world marriages shouldn't have been arranged.

@_baskarohenry love is just an illusion

People say love is a beautiful feeling. Maybe it is. But the deeper you love, the more it hurts when things fall apart. Every heart has a limit to the pain it can carry. That's why I think love isn't for everyone. Maybe not for me.

@Guy_Arrogant2 Bhai tu Jammu ka hoke KNIT kab chala gaya? Aur agar gaya bhi hoga to ye 10 saal puurani baat hogi ab koi 5 point someone nahi padhta. 2004 mein to mere IIT mein Mr aur Mrs Fresher ko bhi yahi kitaab gift milti thi.

Dehaatans from Uttar Pradesh's KNIT ,SULTANPUR college would keep a copy of 5 POINT SOMEONE in their hands midst bus from Madiwala to ELECTRONIC City to look intellectual. Oh the fucking UP DEHAATANS.

@aquablue8006 @loveofcinemasf8 Is tarah ki filmen Hindi cinema ne banana chhod hii diya. Ise hii south mein shayad janpad genre kaha jaata hai.

@loveofcinemasf8 Jai Pataal Bhairavi. Alag Fan club hona chahiye !!

Amjad Khan truly was an actor of all seasons

I speak Awadhi to My children as well. Of course My wife speaks it too. My main problem is when Awadhi gets crushed by Bhojpuri because mostly they sound the same to common folk while Bhojpuri has gained the status of a separate language and has a thriving industry without any significant literary presence unlike in Awadhi which has highly revered literature like Ram Charit Manas and Padmavat etc.

@adityajakki Ans sadly most North Indians, due to their brainwashed hyper-patriotic obsession with Hindi, don't even consider Awadhi as a language. North Indian rich regional languages got killed systematically by Hindi by labeling them as mere dialects of Hindi.

Is Hanuman Chalisa the only non Sanskrit recitation that is as popular in the subcontinent, if not more powerful, as much as other popular veda suktas, smritis, stotras, mantras etc etc Interesting how something written in Awadhi has gained this status among masses across languages and sampradayas

@vicharabhio 2004 movie, the first year of my college. This song used to be there on TV in the hostel common room.

A good movie "Bardaasht" that didn't do well at the box office but this song became an instant fan favorite.

1999 world cup was my most favourite and epic followed by 2003. I used to copy the bowling action of Geoff Allot which surprisingly was fruitful as well. Roger Twose, Neil Johnson and unforgettable Klusner.

@drsunita02 Yea both should be working so that even having one child becomes a herculean task.

Seeing something now a days: Young working women from middle class families (or below) and wishing to get married - if a potential groom asks you to give up your job, please don't marry him. Financial independence is needed for women in this day and age, especially if the women don't have any inheritance. Not all days are the same. Things may take turn for the worse, life is like that. In those times, your job will save you. #FinancialFreedom

@travisreporting You mean GT?

Finally an IPL final after 2020 where we all know who the winner is.

@bagga_buntyy1 Ketan Mehta made another movie with Shahrukh and Deepa Sahi - Oh Darling Ye Hai India.

Maya Memsaab became one of Bollywood’s most controversial films because it was directed by Deepa Sahi’s own husband Ketan Mehta. At that time, the bold nude scenes between Deepa Sahi and Shah Rukh Khan shocked audiences across India. Many people couldn’t believe Ketan Mehta himself directed such intimate scenes featuring his own wife on screen. Even today, the film is still remembered as one of the boldest and most talked-about Bollywood movies of the 90s.

@kuruwila Perth kii pitch ab waisi nahin rahi jaisi wah 1990 mein hua karti thi.

Saying again.. जिस दिन perth जैसी pitch पर 17 साल की उम्र में शतक बना लेगा उस दिन इसे मैं सचिन के बराबर मान लूंगा।

This is an unbelievable piece of work by Sarthak and something that requires amplification. Let me explain what he found, in simple terms. Sarthak is a Class 12 student from the 2025-26 batch, one of the 17 lakh students whose answer sheets went through CBSE's new On-Screen Marking system. He spent days reading through CBSE's evaluation tenders, scraped all 576 tenders CBSE has issued, and tracked how the rules changed across three versions of the same tender. The core finding is that the company that won the contract to scan and grade 17 lakh students' answer sheets is Coempt Eduteck. Coempt used to be called Globarena Technologies. Globarena was the company behind the 2019 Telangana intermediate exam disaster, where software failures led to 3.8 lakh students getting wrong or missing marks, and 23 students died by suicide. A government committee found systemic failure and negligence. Six months later, Globarena rebranded to Coempt Eduteck. So a company with that track record won a contract to handle 17 lakh CBSE students. Sarthak's investigation is about how the rules were rewritten to let that happen. The tender was issued three times. > First tender, February 2025. It existed, then disappeared from the public GeM portal. Sarthak scraped all 576 CBSE tenders and this one was missing from the archive entirely. > Second tender, May 2025. Four companies applied including TCS and Coempt. All four failed the technical evaluation. Cancelled. > Third tender, August 2025. Coempt won. Between the second and third tender, a series of rule changes happened, and every single one made it easier for Coempt to qualify. Here is what changed, one by one. 01. The old rules disqualified any company with a history of abandoning work, failing to complete contracts, or financial weakness. The new rules deleted this clause entirely. Coempt's Telangana history stopped being a barrier. 02. The old rules disqualified any company that was "blacklisted earlier." The new rules changed this to "currently blacklisted." Because Globarena rebranded after Telangana, removing the word "earlier" effectively erased their past. 03. The rules required Rs 50 crore average turnover over three years. Coempt's exact average came to Rs 50.86 crore. They cleared the bar by less than 1%. Earlier, a smaller company had asked CBSE to lower the bar to Rs 30 crore for fairer competition. CBSE refused. So the bar was kept high enough to block small players, but sat exactly low enough for Coempt to scrape through. 04. Software maturity is measured on the CMMI scale, 1 to 5. The old rules required Level 5. The new rules dropped it to Level 3. Coempt is a Level 3 company. 05. The cooling-off period for engaging retired CBSE officials was cut from two years to one. This makes it easier to use recently retired insiders to influence the process. 06. The old rules required experience with large projects of at least 5 lakh students each. The new rules removed the student count and counted cumulative answer-book volume across small projects instead. Coempt has many small fragmented university contracts. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS. 07. The old rules required bidders to own their own data centre and disaster recovery centre on Indian soil. The new rules allowed third-party MeitY-empanelled cloud hosting. Coempt runs on AWS and Azure. This helped Coempt and hurt TCS, which owns its own data centres. It also means student data is no longer on sovereign, Indian infrastructure. 08. The old rules required the bidder to own or control the complete source code of its software. The new rules deleted this. Coempt's platform runs on Microsoft's proprietary IIS, which they don't own. 09. A last-minute corrigendum, issued right before bid submission, removed CBSE's own power to blacklist the firm if its software failed catastrophically. So even a Telangana-scale failure couldn't get Coempt banned from future government tenders. 10. The penalty structure shifted from punishing mistakes to punishing delays. The old rules fined the vendor for wrong scanning, merged pages, and unscanned books. The new rules dropped those and instead levied Rs 50,000 per day for delays. This incentivises rushed scanning over accurate scanning. 11. The old rules had a hard accuracy threshold, error rate not to exceed 0.5%. The new rules removed this number entirely. 12. The old rules specified proper book and robotics scanners. The new rules just say "sufficient scanners." The definition was vague enough that, as Sarthak notes, the scanning could be done with a phone on a stand. 13. On the security side, the contract required a VAPT (vulnerability and penetration test) certified by CERT-In before go-live, and a restricted beta phase before launch. The system clearly wasn't restricted, because the other researcher, Nisarga, was able to access it and find vulnerabilities four days before go-live. So the mandatory security audit appears to have been bypassed. These are more than a dozen rule changes, all between the failed tender and the winning tender, all pushing in the same direction, all benefiting the one company with the worst track record in the field. The security holes Nisarga found last week now have an explanation. The system was built by a vendor that was specifically allowed to skip the security certification, the source code ownership, the data sovereignty, and the quality thresholds the original rules demanded. Following things need to happen immediately; 1. An immediate CAG audit of the tender process. 2. A parliamentary debate on the topic. 3. An independent investigation into > Why the first tender vanished? > Why the disqualification clauses were deleted? > Why the turnover bar was held exactly where it was? > Why the security level was dropped? > Why the blacklisting power was removed at the last moment? Sarthak, this is genuinely exceptional investigative work. Far better than most journalists with full resources ever manage. Take a bow. :)

Everyone's children and their mom's wanted to go to IIT so government opened more. There were some changes in education after 2006 based on income/caste and gender and wanted to claim that effectively the seats will remain the same as prior so they increased the no. if seats and IITs.

When IIT Guwahati was established in 90s due to Assam Accord, people made similar claims that an IIT in NE will dilute the brand. The new IITs will develop their brand and quality in due time. In comparison, Tshinghua has 60K+ students. Govt has taken the right view on expansion of "elite" education and has pushed for more campuses and higher enrolment, including international campuses of IITD and IITM. Engineers will have to feel special about the fruits of their labor, not the exclusivity of the club.

@Cricketracker You either go with Pandya theory or Ruturaj theory. With the former, the winner is GT and with the latter it's RCB.

If you know, you know👀 📸: IPL/BCCI

@Vipintiwari952 Watched this match highlights on Doordarshan (they used to show this in the early morning) for two days straight as the match was completed in two days.

OTD 1999 - - England went into the 1999 World Cup with home expectations and control over their own fate - It fell apart at Edgbaston with a 63-run defeat to India, a loss that effectively ended their campaign - The timing made it worse, it happened just hours before the official World Cup song release, adding to the embarrassment around the exit - They were eliminated on net run rate, not because of one result, but a series of missed moments earlier in the tournament - They had already slowed themselves down with underwhelming finishes against Zimbabwe and Kenya, where they should have closed games comfortably - Other results didn’t help either, especially Zimbabwe beating a dominant South Africa, which reshaped qualification scenarios - There was also frustration around a controversial lbw call against Graham Thorpe, which became another moment England felt had gone against them

@Hriday1812 Only pattern I notice is this: Hardik wins 2022, Hardik loses in 2023 Shreyas wins 2024, Shreyas loses in 2025 Patidar winds 2025, ....

RCB defeated PBKS ruthlessly in QF1 in 2025 RCB defeated GT ruthlessly in QF1 in 2026 PBKS captain played a match winning knock in QF2 in 2025 GT captain played a match winning knock in QF2 in 2026 Are you noticing a pattern here?

@VidyadharMishr @IndianTintin_ Someone on X once told an anecdote when he had spotted him once with his partner in London.

@IndianTintin_ Akshaye is Gay? How do you know?

One son is bi and the other one is gay. Stud father usually has th0t daughters or gay sons.

Rabadwa has got one match advantage for winning purple cap.