Tejaswini Pagadala

The year is 2004. As a school-going kid, I remember crying & asking my dad if we will now have to leave Andhra Pradesh because TDP lost the election and Chandrababu Naidu @ncbn would no longer be our CM. Responding to his naive daughter, my father didn't laugh at my innocence then but explained how governments function and how elections work. 20 years later, I'm happy to see that the man I adored as my Chief Minister since Childhood, stood his ground and is still the CM of Andhra Pradesh today. I'm the same child even today, even after authoring Chandrababu Naidu's biography #IndiasGlocalLeader. Irrespective of who you are or what political ideology you believe in, @ncbn is one of the rarest leaders India has ever seen and will ever see. When he envisioned #Hyderabad and the fallout of bifurcation took place, people blamed him for being ahead of times. Today, the same city has grown to become one of India's best talent hubs because its foundations for economic growth were planned well. Thank God, CBN was ahead of his time! Otherwise, we wouldn't have had KCR as CM or Revanth Reddy as CM of Telangana right now. So, Thank God for Chandrababu being ahead of his time! Whether you are from Andhra or Rayalaseema or Telangana or just from anywhere in India, Chandrababu is a person who makes every Indian proud. This time, the fate of Andhra hangs in the hands of people. And, maybe, this time, people need to be that innocent child who wants a good CM to develop the state. Hoping for a brighter Sunset for Andhra Pradesh, today...better Sunrise tomorrow and always! INDIA's GLOCAL LEADER 2 Loading... #ElectionResults #AndhraPradesh #TDPWinning #ChandrababuNaidu #Amaravati #CBN #Lokesh

#HistoricAmaravatiResolution Today marks a truly historic and deeply emotional moment for my state. With the passage of the Andhra Pradesh Reorganisation (Amendment) Bill, 2026 in the Lok Sabha, recognising #Amaravati as our sole Praja Rajadhani, the collective aspirations of millions have found expression on the floor of the nation’s Parliament. On behalf of my people of Andhra Pradesh, I express my heartfelt gratitude to the Union NDA Government led by Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi ji for making this moment possible and for taking this decisive step towards securing our capital. I also extend my sincere thanks to every Party and Hon’ble Member of Parliament who spoke in support of the Bill. It was truly heartening to witness unity across party lines in support of Andhra Pradesh and in recognition of the sacrifices made by our farmers. I sincerely hope that the Bill will receive similar support in the Rajya Sabha. @narendramodi

New MRI study on 3–5 year olds: Just 2 hours of interactive screen time per day is linked to measurable loss of white brain matter. "Screentime will be to this generation what smoking was to a previous generation." This report is worth your attention. youtube.com/watch?v=EPqItS…

@umasudhir @ndtv @ndtvindia All the best. Hearing your stories and your name will be missed in Hyderabad. Thanks for inspiring many of us in our initial days of journalism. 🙂

After 27 incredible years of countless stories & meaningful journalism, I have resigned from @ndtv @ndtvindia. This had become an inseparable part of my life, almost a middle name. It's a deeply emotional moment as I sign off for the last time with immense pride as #UmaSudhirNDTV

We've had so many songs (great/bad,etc). But why isn't anyone writing a song on Millennials? #MillennialsAssemble

Today was not just a ceremony. It was India’s bold declaration of quantum leadership from Andhra Pradesh, bringing industry, academia, and government onto one common platform. Thirty companies under the #AmaravatiQuantumValley will soon begin operations from Medha Towers. In addition, MoUs have been signed with 15 more companies spanning quantum computing, algorithms and hardware development, quantum security and cryptography, quantum sensing, quantum biofoundry, and strategic investments. Four landmark initiatives were also announced by leaders from industry and academia: TCS Quantum Cloud Services, the Quantum Talent Hub, the Quantum Reference Facility (India’s first and the world’s fourth), and Quantum-Safe Application Q-AWARE 2.0. My sincere thanks to all the experts from industry and academia who joined us today and contributed their insights to shaping India’s quantum future. @TCS @ibm_in @SRMUAP @iit_tirupati @iitmadras

@scientifitt_ Good one and absolutely true

I genuinely feel sorry for people who say “Bro our grandparents ate Indian food, no protein, ghee, roti, chawal and lived 90–100 years. Add the full sentence next time. They also: - Walked 10–15 km daily without calling it cardio - Had no Swiggy, Zomato, midnight snacks or weekend binge culture - Slept on time - Had lower population stress, lower pollution, lower noise, lower cortisol - Didn’t stare at a glowing screen 8–10 hours a day - Didn’t sit on for 12 hours and call it desk job lifestyle And most importantly: They didn’t eat ghee on top of ultra processed junk and then blame genetics. Bro, face reality. You’re eating ghee - sitting all day - sleeping 5 hours - scrolling till 2 AM - stressed about money, body and validation - breathing polluted air - moving less than your grandfather did before breakfast Stop romanticising the past to justify your present laziness. and no amount of “but Indian food” will save modern body living an ancient lie.

A Finnish teachter quietly solved phone addiction.

My non-verbal son made this with his own hands. A kind word from you could mean the world to him. My son is 14 and he’s never said a word. Not one. Non-verbal since birth, and every specialist we’ve seen has given me that look — the one that says “manage your expectations.” I stopped managing them years ago. I just started watching him instead. Last year was brutal. Middle school is hell for any kid, but for mine it’s a different kind of torture. The staring, the whispers, the way other kids would talk around him like he’s furniture. He’d come home and go straight to his room, wouldn’t even look at me. I could see it happening — that slow collapse inward. I was terrified I was losing him to a place I couldn’t follow. He started spending hours in the garage with my old button collection, the one my grandmother left me. Thousands of them in jars, sorted by size and color. I thought he was just stimming, organizing them over and over. That’s what his teacher said he does when he’s overwhelmed. But then I noticed he was taking wire from my jewelry supplies. Taking wood glue. I didn’t stop him. I just watched. Three weeks ago he showed me what he’d been making. This massive circular board covered in buttons arranged in a perfect rainbow gradient, each one glued down and some threaded on wire like little gardens growing up. Butterflies made from buttons scattered across it. It was stunning. Not kid-art stunning. Actually stunning. The kind of thing you’d see in a gallery and wonder who made it. I took a photo and posted it in one of the creative groups on the shop where I sometimes sell the small wooden boxes I make. I woke up to 300 comments. People asking if he takes commissions. Teachers asking if he’d make one for their classroom. A woman who runs an art supply shop on the shop sent us a whole box of vintage buttons for free. She said she believes in young artists who create without words. He read every comment with me. And then he did something he’s never done. He took my phone, opened the shop, and pointed at the word “artist.” By marta hanger

“Can I bring my baby to the interview?” The message came in at 11 PM: “Hi, I have an interview with you tomorrow at 2 PM. My childcare fell through. Can I bring my 8-month-old? I understand if you need to reschedule.” Old me would have rescheduled. Unprofessional. Distraction. Red flag. New me replied: “Absolutely. See you tomorrow.” She showed up with her baby on her hip. She apologized three times before even sitting down. Ten minutes in, the baby started crying. She tried to soothe him while answering questions. She apologized again. I stopped the interview and said: “Hey. You’re managing a fussy baby, answering complex questions, and staying calm under pressure. That’s literally the job. Handling chaos while staying professional. You’re already proving you can do it.” Her eyes filled with tears. We hired her. She’s been with us for a year now. The most reliable team member we have. Why? Because when you’re used to handling a screaming infant at 3 AM and still showing up to work the next day, workplace stress feels like nothing. Working parents, especially mothers, are some of the most organized, efficient, and resilient people you’ll ever hire. Yet we lose them because our hiring processes are built for people with zero caregiving responsibilities. If your interview process can’t accommodate a parent facing a childcare issue, you’re not filtering for professionalism. You’re filtering for privilege.

100% agree with India's Economic Survey that we need age limits on social media now. It's frying kids' brains, decreasing productivity and focus, and will result in a generation of children that are chronically online and incapable of real-world hard work. This is not how we build Viksit Bharat. In fact, we should ban it outright in schools and colleges.

🚨 The biggest beneficiary of the HSR triad Bangalore–Hyderabad–Chennai is Andhra Pradesh.

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BREASTMILK She thought she was studying milk. What she uncovered was a conversation. In 2008, evolutionary anthropologist Katie Hinde was working in a primate research lab in California, analyzing breast milk from rhesus macaque mothers. She had hundreds of samples and thousands of data points. Everything looked ordinary—until one pattern refused to go away. Mothers raising sons produced milk richer in fat and protein. Mothers raising daughters produced a larger volume with different nutrient balances. It was consistent. Repeatable. And deeply uncomfortable for the scientific consensus. Colleagues suggested error. Noise. Statistical coincidence. But Katie trusted the data. And the data pointed to a radical idea. Milk is not just nutrition. It is information. For decades, biology treated breast milk as simple fuel. Calories in. Growth out. But if milk were only calories, why would it change depending on the sex of the baby? Katie kept digging. Across more than 250 mothers and over 700 sampling events, the story grew more complex. Younger, first-time mothers produced milk with fewer calories but significantly higher levels of cortisol—the stress hormone. The babies who drank it grew faster. They were also more alert, more cautious, more anxious. Milk wasn’t just building bodies. It was shaping behavior. Then came the discovery that changed everything. When a baby nurses, microscopic amounts of saliva flow back into the breast. That saliva carries biological signals about the infant’s immune system. If the baby is getting sick, the mother’s body detects it. Within hours, the milk changes. White blood cells surge. Macrophages multiply. Targeted antibodies appear. When the baby recovers, the milk returns to baseline. This was not coincidence. It was call and response. A biological dialogue refined over millions of years. Invisible—until someone thought to listen. As Katie reviewed existing research, she noticed something unsettling. There were twice as many scientific studies on erectile dysfunction as on breast milk composition. The first food every human consumes. The substance that shaped our species. Largely ignored. So she did something bold. She launched a blog with a deliberately provocative name: Mammals Suck Milk. It exploded. Over a million readers in its first year. Parents. Doctors. Scientists. People asking questions research had skipped. The discoveries kept coming. Milk changes by time of day. Foremilk differs from hindmilk. Human milk contains over 200 oligosaccharides babies can’t digest—because they exist to feed beneficial gut bacteria. Every mother’s milk is biologically unique. In 2017, Katie brought this work to a TED stage. In 2020, it reached a global audience through Netflix’s Babies. Today, at Arizona State University’s Comparative Lactation Lab, she continues reshaping how medicine understands infant development, neonatal care, formula design, and public health. The implications are staggering. Milk has been evolving for more than 200 million years—longer than dinosaurs walked the Earth. What we once dismissed as simple nourishment is one of the most sophisticated communication systems biology has ever produced. Katie Hinde didn’t just study milk. She revealed that nourishment is intelligence. A living, responsive system shaping who we become before we ever speak. All because one scientist refused to accept that half the story was “measurement error.” Sometimes the biggest revolutions begin by listening to what everyone else ignores.

Life was good when final projects were like this...!!

Thank you

@rekha_9999 DM me.

@Tejaswini7 That’s so sweet of you, thank you

Little did I know that my book "India's Glocal Leader" a political biography of CBN, would become Amazon Bestseller in Political Biographies in India, making me India's youngest political biographer at 27. Been 8 years since its launch & it has taught me to follow my dreams. 🙏

@Ramski1069 Exactly why it is a sad thing. Meeru nenu cheppindhe malli chepparu..haha

@Tejaswini7 Skin color obsession has been in existence for many decades in our country 😁

People's skin colour obsession is so saddening in our country that they don't even leave out newborn babies. When my baby was born, the first thing a lady asked me when I was in ICU was "is he fair or dark"? I mean...what kind of human are you even, lady? #TruthBomb

This needs wider reach and more PR.

This is the need of the hour. Thank you for thinking about this. This will help kids enjoy their childhood, indulge in free play and make relationships stronger and be more social.