Aadwitya

“Prevention is mankind’s privilege, curse is god’s.” Introspect, reflect.

The Stone Age did not end because humanity ran out of stone. The oil age will not end because the world runs out of oil. It may end because the system that sustains oil loses trust.I discussed it here in detail , do give it a read open.substack.com/pub/abhishekch…

Hard 🦅🦅🦅

@chillichapato 😱 you write so well

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What an ironic birthday gift for Marx from the Marxists. As Bertrand Russell pointed out, Marx’s thinking was inspired by hatred and that hatred was only magnified by his followers.

@Peroneal_ Bhai sahab I don’t know how he pulled it off but he did

Anyone from TN tell me what exactly happened that an actor is welcomed with open arms by literally all the folks

@Acs2093 Told a very good friend that he is behind WB’s win. All credit duly and rightly should go to him

Himanta Da isn’t playing politics. He’s playing chess while others are still figuring out the board.

Mercantilism never died. From Venetian oligarchs to the Bank of England to modern central banks, merchant-financiers have created money from nothing, funded empires, and extracted rents for 800 years. The hidden system still ruling global finance.Please read it ,link in comment

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition. GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before. Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country. The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything. The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot. Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart. GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution. Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time. For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day. GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission. Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru. Take a bow!

@Literariium That’s why my dad named me.

this!

@Acs2093 So it shall ✨

@Aadwi_ Everything will workout on its own 🙌

Mere saath hi kyu? Because you allowed it.

Literature is humanity’s longest conversation with itself about what it means to be alive. It has been going on for thousands of years. You are not late, you are not unqualified, you are not too much or too little or too broken. Pull up a chair. This conversation was always about you.

History tells us that India was won by the sword & the spinning wheel. But there was a 3rd, silent weapon: a Speed Graphic camera wielded by a woman the British thought was a brand promoter. They let her into their inner sanctums because they feared the man, but they completely ignored the Dalda lady with the lens. In the 1940s, the British Raj was hyper-paranoid. They were monitoring every journalist, every telegram, & every man with a notebook. But they had a blind spot: The Domestic. Homai Vyarawalla realized that in a colonial patriarchy, a woman was considered a background character. She decided to lean into it. She adopted the pseudonym “Dalda 13.” To the British censors, the name did not scream Revolution; it screamed Vegetable Oil. When she applied for press passes to high-security zones, the name Dalda acted as a psychological filter. The officers saw the name & assumed she was there to photograph lifestyle content or kitchen advertisements. They did not realize they were granting a front-row seat to the executioner of their Empire. Picture a tiny Parsi woman, draped in a simple saree, lugging a massive, 5 pound Speed Graphic camera. This was not a sleek modern device; it was a beast of bellows & flashbulbs that looked more like a weapon than a tool. She traveled by bicycle/jumped into Dalda delivery vans. She moved through the dusty streets of Delhi like a shadow. At the Red Fort on August 15, 1947, while 500 male photographers were jostling for the official shot, Homai, the Dalda Lady slipped past the cordons looking for the soul. She captured the exact moment the Union Jack was lowered. The British guards let her stand inches away because, to them, she was just a commercial girl with a camera. They did not realize she was documenting their final heartbeat in India. Homai’s secret weapon was not just her camera; it was her car, a humble vehicle with the license plate DLD 13. During the chaotic days of Partition, the streets were a war zone. But a car with Dalda (DLD) on the plate was often ignored by both freedom fighters & military patrols. They assumed it was a supply vehicle for the kitchen. Inside that car, tucked under the seats/hidden in empty vanaspati tins, were the undeveloped rolls of film that contained the only visual proof of the secret meetings b/w Nehru, Gandhi, & the Mountbattens. She chose the number 13, a number the British considered unlucky as a silent middle finger to their superstitions. For her, it was the luckiest shield in history. In 1970, she packed her camera away forever. She did not like the new era of paparazzi & fake news. She had spent 30 yrs as a double agent, feeding the British the Dalda lie while feeding the Indian people the Visual Truth. Today, every time we see the grainy, black & white glory of India's independence, remember: we are looking at the clandestine heist of a woman who proved that a lens can be sharper than a sword, especially when it is hidden behind a tin of cooking fat.

@Acs2093 Not at all 🤣

@Aadwi_ It was a mistake to share the video😂😂

Every party I show up planning to dance like Lyonel Baratheon, the Laughing Storm. But my default energy setting instantly switches to Ser Duncan the Tall.

The humble moringa tree has grown wild in India for ages and has been part of the staple diet in large parts. But we didn’t realise its magical medicinal worth until Indian scientists showed it and the Western world validated it as “superfood”. We realise the worth of things only when we get Western labels because we don’t work with inherent pride. Now we worship it on our insta feeds and have woken up to India’s ecological heritage.

Game theory explains why being too available destroys your bargaining power. Availability lowers the cost of accessing you, and whatever is easy to access is easy to undervalue. People do not respect what they can summon at will. They respect what has constraints, standards, and opportunity cost. Your absence is not ego. It is pricing.

#Map shows the effect of urban heat island in #Delhi Builtup areas (Buildings, roads etc.) are warmer at night than their rural peripheries. The greater the urbanization, the higher the temperature rise at night.

I was obsessed with bioluminescence as a child cause I loved the idea that the sea, just like the sky, was full of stars, too.