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His name was Potti Sreeramulu. He was born in 1901 in Nellore and worked as a sanitary engineer with the Indian Railways. His wife and child died when he was 28 years old. His mother died two years later. He gave up his job and walked to Gandhi’s Sabarmati Ashram. Gandhi said of him if only I had eleven more followers like Sreeramulu I would have won freedom in a year. He fought in the Salt Satyagraha and was imprisoned three times. He joined the Quit India movement and was jailed again. After independence, Telugu speaking people wanted their own state but the government refused to act. On October 19, 1952, he began a hunger strike with one demand a separate state for Telugu speaking people. Nehru privately assured him of support but made no formal announcement. Sreeramulu did not stop. He crossed day 30. Then day 45. Then day 58. He died on December 15, 1952. Telugu regions erupted that same night. Riots broke out across Vijayawada, Visakhapatnam, Guntur and Nellore. Police opened fire and seven people died. Four days after his death, Nehru formally announced a separate Andhra state. What decades of petitions could not achieve, one man achieved by dying. His sacrifice did not stop at Andhra. It forced India to reorganise every state on linguistic lines. Maharashtra, Karnataka, Gujarat, Tamil Nadu and Kerala all exist in their current form because of 58 days in 1952. They call him Amarajeevi, which means the Immortal Being. He died so that 50 million people could call a place their own. Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

Her name is Sunita Williams. She was born in Ohio to a Gujarati father named Deepak Pandya and grew up in Massachusetts, carrying Indian roots and an American life. At nine years old, she watched her first Star Trek episode and decided she would go to space. She studied aerospace engineering at Cornell, completed her masters and PhD from MIT, and logged over 3000 flight hours across 30 different aircraft types before becoming a NASA astronaut. She has completed nine spacewalks, more than any other woman in history, with a total of 62 hours and 6 minutes spent outside a spacecraft in open space. In June 2024, she boarded Boeing’s Starliner for what was meant to be an eight day mission to the International Space Station. The spacecraft developed helium leaks and thruster failures serious enough that NASA decided it was too risky to bring her home on it. She stayed for 286 days. In her father’s ancestral village in Gujarat, people lit lamps at Hanuman temples and prayed for her safe return every single day. On March 18, 2025, a SpaceX capsule brought her home and she splashed down in the Gulf of Mexico, greeted by dolphins. She retired from NASA in December 2025 after 27 years of service. On the day her retirement was announced, she delivered a lecture at IIT Delhi. She told the students it is a very exciting time in human space exploration. She had just spent 286 days proving exactly that. Follow for real stories India never makes headlines about.

"Some 3.6 million years ago, in what is now northern Tanzania, a volcano erupted, the resulting cloud of ash covering the surrounding savannahs. In 1979, the paleoanthropologist Mary Leakey found in that ash footprints - the footprints, she believes, of an early hominid, perhaps an ancestor of all the people on the Earth today. And 380,000 kilometers away, in a flat dry plain that humans have in a moment of optimism called the Sea of Tranquility, there is another footprint, left by the first human to walk another world. We have come far in 3.6 million years, and in 4.6 billion and in 15 billion. For we are the local embodiment of a Cosmos grown to self-awareness. We have begun to contemplate our origins: starstuff pondering the stars; organized assemblages of ten billion billion billion atoms considering the evolution of atoms; tracing the long journey by which, here at least, consciousness arose. Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring." - Carl Sagan

After PM Modi's 'Jhalmuri' purchase, Mamata Di's team, struggling to regain control over the Bengali culture narrative, is leaving no stone unturned. Yesterday, she rode a bike in Dumdum, and today, she pretended to buy fruits and vegetables at Jogubazar Market.

Salesforce co-founder Parker Harris just said the quiet part out loud: "Why should you ever log into Salesforce again?" That's a $41B revenue company telling its own customers their seats are optional. Headless 360 launched at TDX last week. Every Salesforce capability, Sales Cloud, Service Cloud, Data 360, Slack, all of it, exposed as APIs, MCP tools, and CLI commands. 60 new MCP tools. 30 coding skills that drop straight into Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, and Windsurf. Agentforce Vibes 2.0 ships with multi-model support including Claude Sonnet and GPT-5. Agents render natively inside Slack, Teams, ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, anywhere with MCP. The browser is optional. The Salesforce UI is optional. The Salesforce UI is the thing customers pay $165 a seat per month to access. Now look at what every other apex SaaS CEO is doing this same week. Microsoft is bolting Copilot on top of Office seats and double-charging. ServiceNow is layering Now Assist on top of Pro seats nobody wants to give up. Workday won't even discuss AI pricing on earnings calls. Every other apex SaaS founder is defending the seat model. Benioff just published the API spec for replacing it. The reason is in Salesforce's own field data. Their internal Agentforce instance resolves 84% of support cases with zero human intervention. A sales engineer running 90 enterprise accounts already sees seat counts down 10%. Benioff watched the compression hit from inside the building before the market could price it from outside. Run the unit economics. A CRM rep costs $80K loaded. Replacing them with an agent at $0.10 per Flex Credit action across 5,000 actions per month runs $6K a year. The customer captures $74K in labor savings, Salesforce captures $6K in software, up from the $2K/year that seat used to generate. 3x revenue per "user" if Salesforce can land it, on a TAM measured in compute hours instead of work hours. That's the bet. Take the smaller-but-faster-growing pie before someone else takes it from you. Headless 360 is the wager that Salesforce would rather be the agent runtime every AI calls into than the SaaS the agents bypass. The stock is down 35% because the market hasn't decided whether the pivot is working. $800M Agentforce ARR on a $41.5B base, growing 169% YoY in 18 months. Faster than any product Salesforce has ever launched. The next four quarters tell you whether Benioff was 18 months ahead of every other SaaS CEO or whether he just open-sourced the eulogy for his own business model. Apex founders don't dabble. They re-platform. Benioff already pulled the trigger.