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Indian currency has fallen 11% against Pakistani currency, who are our biggest enemy, 12% against Bangladesh’s currency, whom we consider useless & dumb, and 13% against Sri Lankan currency, which went through an economic collapse just a few years ago. India is truly on the path to becoming a superpower in 2047, except that other countries will become superpowers by 2035 itself. If it were a global issue, the currencies of all other countries would have struggled, but only India is struggling. This is not a global issue, but a shameful act of keeping incompetent bureaucrats in the ministry. I feel really sad seeing my mother country India being destroyed in front of my eyes while I can do nothing to save it 🥹

He was Satyendra Nath Bose, an Indian physicist whose quiet brilliance in the 1920s forever altered our understanding of the quantum world. In 1924, Bose, then a 30-year-old professor in British India, sent a groundbreaking manuscript directly to Albert Einstein. The paper offered a novel, more elegant derivation of Planck's law for blackbody radiation by treating light quanta (photons) as indistinguishable particles—a radical departure from classical statistical methods. Impressed by its insight, Einstein personally translated the work into German and facilitated its publication in the prestigious Zeitschrift für Physik. This exchange sparked a brief but profound collaboration. Einstein extended Bose's statistical approach to material atoms, predicting a bizarre new state of matter at ultra-low temperatures: what we now call a Bose-Einstein condensate (BEC), where particles behave as a single quantum wave. Bose's original framework became known as Bose-Einstein statistics, and the class of particles that obey it—those with integer spin, including photons, gluons, W and Z bosons, and the Higgs boson—was later named bosons in his honor by Paul Dirac. Unlike fermions (matter particles like electrons), which obey the Pauli exclusion principle and cannot occupy the same quantum state, bosons can pile into identical states en masse. This "social" behavior underpins extraordinary macroscopic phenomena: the coherent light of lasers, the zero-resistance flow in superconductors, and the collective quantum coherence in BECs. Despite the monumental impact—his statistics describe half of all fundamental particles and enabled key advances in quantum field theory, condensed matter physics, and particle physics—Bose remained remarkably unassuming. He continued teaching at universities in Dhaka and Calcutta (now Kolkata), mentored students, pursued ideas in X-ray crystallography, unified field theory, and other areas, and never sought the spotlight. Nominated several times for the Nobel Prize (notably for Bose-Einstein statistics and his later work), he was never awarded it, and his name rarely appears in popular accounts of 20th-century physics. There's a poignant humility in his story: a man whose legacy literally names one of the two fundamental families of particles in the universe, yet whose personal fame never matched the scale of his contribution. Bose reminds us that true influence often arrives without fanfare. Some breakthroughs echo through textbooks and technologies, while their creators work in the background, content to let the universe carry their ideas forward—even if history's spotlight rarely finds them.

Utter nonsense. In 2009 or 2010 I had attended some sell side broker investor conference where PC was speaking at Taj. All of Colaba was shut down, we had to get down from our car and walk 500m + go through 3 layers of security. PC arrived in massive cavalcade for a 30 min talk.

Non-delivery of engines by an American company cannot be condoned under any pretext. Stop self-flagelating as Indians. Do not start believing that there must be some Indian at fault, such as HAL, ADA, DRDO, or X,YZ. There is one and only one shortcoming on Tejas Mk1A...ENGINE

🇮🇳 India has the potential to manufacture most everyday consumer goods domestically, yet India still imports large quantities of basic products from countries like 🇨🇳 China and 🇻🇳 Vietnam. Here are some of India’s biggest avoidable import dependencies: • Umbrellas - 95.8% imported from China • Bamboo sticks for agarbatti - Majority imported from Vietnam • Toys - 52.5% imported from China despite India’s huge toy market • Artificial flowers and decorative items - 91.9% imported from China • Glassware - 59.7% imported from China • Handbags and leather accessories - 54.3% imported from China • Ceramic products - 51.4% imported from China • Musical instruments - 51.2% imported from China despite India’s strong artisan tradition • Furniture, bedding and lamps - Nearly 48.7% imported from China • Silk products - Around 41% imported from China • Tools, implements and cutlery - 39.4% imported from China • Decorative and Diwali lights - Chinese imports continue to dominate the market Many of these imports can be replaced by stronger domestic manufacturing, deeper local supply chains and better MSME support.