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@mufaddal_vohra At least now, I hope they will get @MdShami11 drafted into the team to pair up with Siraj!

Jasprit Bumrah ruled out of the Test series against Sri Lanka. (TOI).

Honestly, I'll take a builder over a commentator any day. That's exactly what India is getting right in education now. Aadhaar. UPI. FASTag. Nandan Nilekani didn't just show up; he showed how. Now he will bring that same get-it-done mindset to exam reform. Millions of futures on the line. Great move by PM @narendramodi for the youth of our country. Right builder. Right time. Btw, here's my 2-year-old chat with @NandanNilekani on the future of learning.

The spirit of Kashmir is not just found in its mountains or its valleys. It lives in its tehzeeb; its grace, its humanity, its hospitality, and its openness to dialogue. My sincere thanks to Chief Minister @OmarAbdullah for embodying those values. He gave the time to listen, and engage so openly on ideas to build ground level entrepreneurship and scale for the women and young people of Jammu & Kashmir. Looking forward with optimism. To everyone, come and build with the most resilient and passionate people of Kashmir. You’ll be very, very inspired. ❤️💗 #Kashmirstories

@SharmaShradha The Jammu & Kashmir story that we haven't heard before. Quite promising indeed!

Jammu & Kashmir has over 3.5 million young people. And please go to Kashmir to see the hope and the spirit and the “drive to bring change” residing in the young hearts. One thing I heard repeatedly: private industry never really took off in a big way. We know the last few decades have been difficult. But instead of giving in to those circumstances, a new generation of founders is choosing to change the trajectory. Entrepreneurs like Manik Bandral (CLMRAT), Sheikh Yameen (E-Curve), Aquil Rasool (Halal Nation), Rahul Bhola (Studio Agama), Ayush Divyansh (MAC Fly), Syed Ashfaq (CRED), and Atul Vinod Duggal (AVD) are building companies that create jobs, inspire confidence, and give young people a reason to stay and build. They are not just building startups. They are helping write a new economic story for Kashmir. Kashmir’s next chapter won’t be written by conflict. It will be written by its young people and their startups.) Kudos to @IrtifLone and team for organising the biggest startup event in Srinagar. For inspiration, please go to Kashmir 💗💗

भविष्य पर विश्वास किसी आँकड़े से नहीं, भारत के युवाओं से मिलता है। और जब कश्मीर की बेटियों से मिलती हूँ, तो यह भरोसा और गहरा हो जाता है। कश्मीर का भविष्य बहसों से नहीं, इस नई पीढ़ी के सपनों से लिखा जाएगा। 🇮🇳 #KashmirStories #startups

We were making chips in Punjab in 1984. TSMC didn't exist yet. India started at the same line as Taiwan in 1976. What we lost wasn't capability. It was continuity. A fire in Mohali in 1989 cost us 37 years. But 2026 is where that interruption ends. • Micron is shipping from Sanand. • Kaynes built a plant in 14 months. • 12 projects worth ₹1.64 lakh crore approved. • Semicon 2.0: ₹1.27 lakh crore more. Taiwan and Korea won because they survived the bad years. Now India has the machinery to do the same. Point to note - in 2026, India’s chip mission is rapidly moving from files to physical infrastructure. Read my detailed story to understand what’s happening in India’s semiconductor story with @PremManukonda: yourstory.com/2026/07/india-…

youtu.be/kz9HnspgeV0?si… This is a must watch. We have grown up watching similar stories and interviews of politicians from other countries, and it's heartening to see we have such leaders amongst us as well. Would urge influencers and media companies to make this go viral, as the residents of Bengaluru need to listen to this!

Two years back, I slipped and fractured my hand because of a broken drain cover around Ulsoor Lake. For many of us a broken and unlivable city is a reality. Traffic. Flooding. Pollution. Broken infrastructure. When I had just about given up on what can change, I found hope. My conversation with Krishna Byre Gowda is not about politics. It is about governance. It is about execution. It is about what happens when someone chooses to solve problems instead of merely talking about them. Whether you live in Bengaluru, Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai, Hyderabad, Kolkata or any Indian city, this conversation matters. Because if one city can become more liveable, every city can. If you’re a young Indian wondering whether public service can still create real change, watch this. If you’re building India in any way, as a founder, citizen, student, policymaker, or professional, watch this. We spend enough time amplifying what’s broken. It’s time we also amplify people who are trying to build. This is one of the most important conversations I’ve had this year. Watch it. Share it. Let’s make stories of builders go as viral as stories of outrage. Bringing to you “The Nation Builders” @krishnabgowda

Venture Builders to Nation Builders! 👌 Minister @krishnabgowda has shown that if you have the will, you can find a way. Chief Minister's( @DKShivakumar ) vision of making Bengaluru as a world class city, needed a start like this. Now it's up to the residents of the city to play our role to contribute and make it a reality. Fantastic work @SharmaShradha !

I was thinking about it too. Ironically, being a specialist is a curse in the Indian team, as you would most likely get replaced by "all-rounders," as we have consistently seen over the years. We have had @ashwinravi99 suffering a lot because of this in the past whenever we played overseas. Kuldeep faces this even now. You will keep Shami out of the Indian test team by stating that he is not fit, and then we will bring in Nitish, who will bowl less than 15 overs in the whole test match. Only 6 out of the 11 who played the match yesterday were part of the World Cup final that happened a few months back.

Washington Sundar: He has been playing for India for 8.5 years. With the bat: 5 runs off 8 balls, and he made sure India didn’t score a boundary in 19th and 20th overs. With the ball: 19 runs in 1st over. And team management treats him like Yuvraj Singh. Another series lost!

@hvgoenka Selectors need to be let go immediately for messing around with the team's stability under the pretext of preparing the team for the future. We have all done this as leaders - you've got to have a balance of managing tactical priorities that coexist with long term strategies.

A miserable display by India against Ireland and now England. Today’s defeat completed a clean whitewash. Time for some serious soul-searching. My view: months of batting on flat IPL pitches encouraged risk without consequence. On sporting wickets, the flaws have been exposed. The long, humid IPL may also have left the team mentally and physically drained. Your views?

@BCCI World Cup-winning captain gets dropped in a few months after lifting the trophy MVP of the World Cup gets dropped in a few months Coach stays, and the mercurial Selector stays When will this mockery stop ?

England win the 3rd T20I by 125 runs to lead the series 2-0. Scorecard ▶️ bit.ly/ENGvIND-3rdT20… #TeamIndia | #ENGvIND

@virendersehwag :) You would also find one of the most unique and impactful academic institutions, there in Dhoni - lead.ac.in

Kerala ke Palakkad mein, ek jungle ke andar, ek waterfall hai jiska naam hai -Dhoni. Koi seedha nahi pahunch sakta. Rasta mushkil hai thoda.Guide chahiye. Teen ghante chalke jaao tab dikhta hai. Aur jab dikhta hai? Upar se bilkul shant. Andar se aag. Surface smooth, lekin kareeb jao toh pata chalta hai kitna powerful hai. Kerala Forest Department ne iske saath ek rule banaya hai - “Paani dikhta calm hai. Hai nahi.” Mujhe nahi pata yeh rule waterfall ke liye tha ya No. 7 ke liye. Aur yeh jagah ,yeh Dhoni Kerala mein tab se hai jab Mahendra Singh Dhoni paida bhi nahi hua tha. Jaise nature ko pehle se pata tha. Koi aayega. Aisa hi hoga. Aise hi milega , mushkil raaste ke baad, bilkul unexpected jagah pe. Aur ek baar jo mil gaya toh bhoolna mushkil hai. Happy Birthday @msdhoni . Stay blessed forever

@HOVERCRAFT50167 Kallis

Only OG cricket fans can guess this player...

Kind attention, folks. Prem's account has been hacked. It's not like him to buy a car like this one and brag about it here. He has asked me to post a warning here. Kindly RT for reach.

@nixxin ➕ on Miten Extremely sharp, straight shooter, and focused, as I discovered during my recent meeting with him. CRED is definitely in safe hands.

Before Kunal Shah started CRED, Meta (then Facebook) had tried to hire him as WhatsApp India CEO. They already knew him. I've heard this from multiple folks in the founders community, in terms of Kunal telling them this. I'm sharing this because I'm seeing a lot of speculative commentary about how Meta might have learned about Kunal... all of that is way off. I guess this time the opportunity was big enough, the role was big enough: it's a major step up into a whole new world, and most importantly, Kunal leaves CRED in extremely able, capable and trusted hands, with Miten at the helm. I know he's interim CEO, but I'd love to see Miten take CRED to an IPO. He'll be amazing as a listed company CEO, and I think he's been ready for it for a while. He's the kind of guy who will see a listing as an opportunity to build it bigger, use a corpus to invest in new companies to open up new opportunities, rather than merely give investors an exit. At least that's how I see it.

@MohapatraHemant @LightspeedIndia @Rephrase_AI @Adobe Ashray and the team saw the future way ahead of time.

Today ~7yrs ago we @LightspeedIndia signed off on an investment in @Rephrase_AI (later acqd by @Adobe). Usually "blast from the past" is from decades ago but in AI 5-6yrs feel like that. This video was before the world knew of LLMs / how to lip-sync AI models to any input.

@krishnabgowda The whole of Bengaluru will support you in your efforts to fix the city, as those who truly love the city are eager to see this change for future generations.

If you have been in Bangalore since a few years, you must have observed the changing climate and reducing green cover in the city. Many streets in Koramangala and HSR are still so densely green and breezy that one enjoys just walking there without any purpose. Thanks to the previous generations of Bangaloreans who planted these trees. Now it's our time to act! On 27th June, a tree planting drive is being conducted where you will not only get to plant trees, but will also be given refreshments, snacks, etc. Let's join hands and make the city greener! Details in next tweet ⬇️

"My cholesterol is normal. How did I get a heart attack?" This is one of the commonest questions I hear from patients. The answer may explain why Indians develop heart disease 5-10 years earlier than many Western populations. A thread. Repost for wider reach and bookmark for future reference. 1/n

I was using Fable to improve security for my apps and when it suddenly stopped working. It's only on twitter that I found out that it has been stopped for people who are not US nationals, by the US government. Here's how I'm seeing this: 1. Fable comes with security safeguards to prevent misuse, and can be used to plug security loopholes. I've seen it identify and plug security issues in my apps. The US government refusing to let non-US nationals protect themselves is deeply problematic in an interconnected internet world, especially when these issues will impact US customers of foreign apps and websites. It doesn't make sense. This hurts everyone by making all systems vulnerable. 2. Yesterday Anthropic announced a partnership with TCS in India as a commercial deal. Today Fable is banned for Indians. During the AI summit they had announced a partnership with Infosys. The fact is that these are just commercial deals but the Indian companies have no strategic leverage here. Both companies run critical systems in India: Infosys runs finnacle. TCS runs passport sewa etc, all with critical personal data at stake. They had zero access to Project Glasswing when it launched to secure systems with Mythos, while some US companies got access. This proves that for Anthropic, Indian partnerships are just about the money. To call such partnerships strategic is hogwash. I think Anthropics leadership and policy teams in India have much to answer for. I would request @nishikant_dubey to take up this bipartisan issue up in the standing committee on IT since MEITY is quite toothless. 3. We've seen this story play out before: in President Trump's last term, the US govt momentarily stopped Android security updates for China. Today China has its own Huawei OS. Where is IndusOS? We need to adopt open source tech because geopolitics is increasingly win-lose, and the win-win era is behind us. It's sad but this is where we are today. We need to invest in research, and building a culture that supports research. The Atal Tinkering Labs are a great starting point and we need to build on this, at a university level. Allow universities to monetize research and professors and students to start companies with university support. Let professors consult. Build a marketplace that rewards innovation and expertise. 4. CERT-IN, RBI and other agencies holding meetings regarding mythos was farcical. Its proof that our cybersecurity agencies are out of their depth, and doing a checkbox exercise to show the PM that they're doing something when they can't, because this is about Zero Day vulnerabilities, not predictable cybersecurity issues. We need a cybersecurity strategy overhaul. Basically fire bureaucratic-mindset people doing farcical compliance at CERT-IN and get technocrats with actual cybersecurity understanding. Hire for competence, not loyalty. Hire for competence not badges (definitely not the clueless famous IIT professor we know who does committe hopping). 5. Time to start ignoring Nandan Nilekani's ignorant comments on what India should do in AI. We need to focus on hardware, start working on small language models and get people who know AI to drive policy. As history has shown us, Vishal Sikka was right, Narayan Murthy and Nandan Nilekani were not. We have a long way to go. The AI Summit was great for increasing diffusion, and we need more of that, but not just that. The IndiaAI mission needs to speed up and become a mission critical project. Cc @narendramodi. Hire better people please. Choose open source. Build a long term strategy.