Atul Kumar

Ayush Mhatre. The U19 winning captain. Behind every such prodigy is an irrational parent. A misfit. One who’d take asymmetric bets. In an academics obsessed country, a parent traveling 30 kms everyday to take their 6 yr old to an academy is whimsical. 👏

On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes. When she opened them, her daughter was gone. Six months. Six months of walking from police station to police station. Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages. Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…” In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood. Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child. Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call. The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…” They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14. When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected. She ran. Not away — toward them. Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family. Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them. The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God. And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family. Six months of darkness ended in one hug. Aarohi is home now. The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight. Today, a mother is singing lullabies again. Today, a father is smiling in his sleep. And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned. Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves. Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.

The #NSEBell has rung in the celebration of the listing of PhysicsWallah Limited at our exchange @nseindia. #NSEIndia #listing #IPO #StockMarket #ShareMarket #PhysicswallahLimited @ashishchauhan @physics__wallah @PhysicswallahAP

"Mehnat karne walon ki kabhi haar nahi hoti." Our students have secured top ranks in JEE Advanced 2025, and we’re proud to celebrate the success of our toppers. Their achievement reflects consistent effort, self-belief, and the support of our teachers to offer clarity and accessibility, online and offline. To every aspirant reading this, top rank ho ya nahi, yeh sirf ek padav hai, poori kahani nahi. #JEEAdvanced2025 #PhysicsWallah #StudentJourneys #LearningWithPurpose #EducationThatEmpowers #PWImpact

@GabbbarSingh Wigs is more like it

Best advertisement of Hair Dye. Modi ji just 2 years older.

Here you have an airforce which pummelled the adversary into a state of complete shock.A mauling so comprehensive that a whole generation of PAF officers will carry deep scars on their psyche for decades to come. From Nur Khan to Bholari , the message was loud and clear ; you can run but you cannot hide ! It was not a question of why but when ? The pièce de résistance of the entire campaign emerged when Chad boys disabled Sargodha’s main runway and then mockingly flew above the airbase as PAF looked on bewildered. And then to just rub it in , dropped a bunker buster on Kinara Hills to rub PAF’s nose into the ground.The nuclear bluff was called out so loudly that the reverberations were felt from Islamabad to DC. Halwa Atomi Bum ! The @IAF_MCC boys at Vayu Bhawan have a very twisted sense of humour which is colloquially called “Haramipan”.When Kinara was bombed one of the older faces in the Ops room gleamed knowingly.He could now hang his boots in peace knowing that , “An adversary that proudly calls itself the sole possessor of the Islamic Bomb and guardian of the Caliphate’s nuclear mecca was left devastated by the utter humiliation piled on it”. This half burnt portrait of Asif Ali Zardari from the smouldering debris of Rahimyar Khan airbase is symbolic. It has in many ways given us a legacy which complements Pakistan’s surrender at Dhaka in equal measure. Jai Hind ! Jai Hind Ke Sena ! #IndiaPakistanWar2025

@shubhu_dxt God bless you!

My past 6 years of life flashed infront of my eyes today. Humbled, grateful, blessed.

I have been saying this since 8 years before each budget. Sent representation to Late Mr Jaitley also Just allow GST receipts of purchases to be set off against personal income tax. You will see how GST revenues will increase exponentially as informal channels collapse as everybody and their mother will shift to the formal economy. Fall in income tax if any will be well replaced by increase in GST. Many birds targeted in one arrow. - GST, poor income tax realization, formalization, cash economy, accountability etc. I hope someday there will be a discussion on this @FinMinIndia

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Hum Children's Day Kyu Manaye? hum to Mature adults hain, Bhole Bache thodi na! Bhole bache isliye kyunki dimaag kuch bhi soch leta tha Pilot banege, Astronaut banege, Hero banege, Par fir Mature Jawani aa gayi, bhola bachpan khatam ho gaya. Ab No imaginations, No dreams! Ek normal life jeena hai, 10th me 90% or 12th me IIT krna hai. 22 me Naukri, 26 me Gadi, 29 me shadi, 32 me bache.. Sab decided hai yaha to, Bachpan ki shayad koi umar nahi, ye ek feeling ha,Try karte hain Bhole Bache ki tarah is bar Children's day manane ka. Happy Children's Day to Each & Every One!

God is kind!

@aparanjape Two GOATS in one frame!

Caption this 😊

Sharing the truth for everyone to decide. #NEETResults #NEET #RemoveNormalization

India me to haath hi kaafi hai

We are proud to announce that our students have distinguished themselves in the Indian National Olympiads: Sushant Padha in Chemistry (INChO), Harshit Agarwal in Astronomy (INAO), and Om Anand Kutte in Mathematics (INMO). #olympiad #StudentSuccess #physicswallah

@GabbbarSingh Lightning strike is imminent!

Everyone who studied Resnick Halliday Walker while preparing for JEE knows what happened next :)

Step into the future of education with us as we celebrate #VishwasDiwas, the festival that honors the invaluable connection between teachers and students! Join us for "Padhai Ka Naya Andaaz" (A New Era of Education) as we unveil groundbreaking initiatives! m.youtube.com/live/WQZ_SwwQn…

youtube.com/live/-6SXjoHOK… Big big event by PW today! Do join

Big Announcement! Physics Wallah is launching PW Gurukulum School in Gurugram. It is a premier educational institute where culture meets innovation, and the focus is on holistic development of students.This marks our commitment to be lifelong learning partner of the students.