Vikram Mohan

@greatbong That one person who added the bit about Imran Khan...you think they would have got their 1/2 kg of aata for this tweet?

Pakistan has invested in social media and influencer game very well…

AH Wheeler and Higginbotham were am integral part of my train memories. remember looking for a book shop when I took a train recently and couldn’t find a single one in Kachiguda. share.google/Q2iEh8PBWs5dQU…

IT TAKES A LOT TO BE REVATHI…!!! While the whole country is celebrating the landmark judgement of death penalty for the NINE policemen in the Santhanakulam custodial torture and murder of Jeyaraj and Bennix, you should know about Revathi. Revathi was a constable in Santhanakulam police station in 2020 when the gruesome incident took place. She was the key witness and the sole reason for all the arrogant officers getting punished today. The police men involved in the brutality were all big men, Revathi was a small time constable. But she stood unperturbed. When Magistrate Bharathidasan, who initially investigated this case, arrived at the Santhanakulam police station he had no clue that constable Revathi will help close the case. "Sir, I will tell you everything, every detail, the truth that is being hidden. But I am the mother of two young girls... can you guarantee the safety of my children and my job?", she had asked the magistrate. Revathi was on night duty when the cruel incident took place. She witnessed the brutality being inflicted on Jeyaraj and Bennix and narrated every single detail. She told how SI Balakrishnan, inspector Sridhar and SI Ragukanes, kept beating the father and son with whatever they found, and how they also stomped on their private parts with their shoes. She remembered their screams. She saw how the officers took pause only to sip alcohol while the victims withered in pain. When the father and son were semi-conscious, unable to bear it, Revathi asked Jayaraj if he needed anything. She gave him coffee which the officials spilt it immediately. Revathi couldn’t stand the brutality but being a woman constable there was only so much she could do. She then offered water to the victims. The so called policemen then stripped Bennix naked, tied his hands and legs separately, and beat him up. They did the same to Jeyaraj. Revathi couldn’t bear the pain of their screams, she left the place. According to the postmortem report, their entire back was skinned, iron rods were inserted and they bled from their rectums. When the case was being discussed by the media, when even the CM of Tamil Nadu tried to brush it away, Revathi knew the truth. The police officials, cleaned up the station of any DNA evidences, erased the CCTV footage and warned everyone to shut-up and not try to become heroes. But Revathi didn’t just narrate the entire ordeal in exact detail…she even helped the investigating officials obtain other crucial information. Despite everything being cleaned, Revathi gathered DNA of the victims in crevices of the walls and floors, on furniture and other objects. She was questioned, threatened, intimidated, bribed and even abused. She stood by justice. She had to go against her colleagues for justice of comman man. In the time when police force is often looked upon with reasonable suspicion, there are people in uniform like Revathi. Today court could pronounce death sentence to nine police officers - only because one woman decided she will stand by truth! Kudos to Revathi, an amazing woman and an absolutely fabulous police officer. The world is a better place because of her courage. Salute ma’am 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

With this, the Union Cabinet is set to soon consider the approval of the Nuclear Energy Mission with a proposed outlay of ₹20,000 crore - a transformative step toward achieving 100 GW of nuclear power capacity by 2047 under the Viksit Bharat vision. Notably, the Mission has already received in-principle approval from concerned ministries. This initiative represents a path-breaking reform in India’s clean energy transition, with a strategic focus on indigenously developed Small Modular Reactors (SMRs)-a next-generation nuclear technology that is safer, scalable, and cost-efficient. Here’s the project-wise break-up of the scheme under consideration:

@beastoftraal Best thing I could read today Karthik. I begin this journey next Monday. Fingers crossed.

8 years since I quit full-time employment and went independent! And it has been the best 8 years of my working life! No, it's not about the organizations that I was employed in earlier, but about the sheer freedom to choose what I want to work on and when, not bound by the city's or someone else's time zones. Of course, this may not fructify when you are at the start your career, and you need to have put in solid work (of being employed) before you can consider going independent. Also, long before I decided on a date to quit, I had been planning, in small, background'ish ways, a base to stand on... a professional identity that I can call my own, without it being tied to a company or a designation. This eventually became my signature workshop - personal branding for working professionals. Oh yes, the initial 1-1.5 years were difficult. There was far less work to choose from, the fee was lower. But my preparation did not just involve personal branding for myself, but also saving for at least an 8–12-month runway of no-income/very-less-income (with a home loan, and 2 kids' education included). I could call it luck or could say that I attracted my own 'luck' by working towards it, but I did get some really good, lucrative projects and workshops by the end of the first year of going independent. And all of this happened without any outbound push - they were all inbound leads from people who 'had heard of me' or 'noticed me online'. All my work continues to be based on inbound leads. A simple operating principle I work by - have a monthly figure (mine's significantly larger than my last-drawn monthly salary) in mind and stop taking more just because it all comes to you. There's always the temptation to say yes to more, earning more, hiring one/more people, build a company, expanding, etc. I chose to remain independent - just me and my GST number :) Sure, there's a hidden cost to freedom as well. What nobody tells you: freedom comes with a silent trade-off. You become your own HR, accounts, and admin. The discipline required is different, but it's still discipline. And when my health threw a curveball last year (my angioplasty), I was grateful I didn't have to ask anyone for time off. That is also freedom. If you have already put in 10-15 years of work experience, I'd suggest that you start working in the background towards building your personal brand and financial saving for an exit route to become independent in the next 2 years or so. Once you taste that freedom, there is absolutely no going back :) One thing you can do this week: write down what you'd want people to say about you, independent of where you work. That's where your personal brand begins. #career #personalbrand #personalbranding

@ash_chowder If you are going to Allu Cinemas, ensure you are booked in the center. Your neck will thank me.

Going to finish the book before I find a decent seat for Project Hail Mary at a #Hyderabad screen that it deserves to be watched in, at a time that works for me 😭😭

@ash_chowder I was in third row from front. But not the center columns. The screen is huge, and not curved. So anything in the corner will also look lopsided apart from neck sprain.

@TheVikramMohan for the next few days, all I can look forward to at ALLU are the first rows. Where do you think that leaves the very healthy equation I currently have with my neck? 🥲

The Cocaine Bear spinoff we deserve.

And success is being the person worth knowing.

CoWIN was such a catchy brand and domain name, pity its lying unused now. Perhaps repurpose it as a dashboard for Gau Rakshaks by calling it COWin?

@thevirdas Daaru party accompanyments. Chips, chakna, soda, and maybe some dessert.

For something I’m writing. What would you say the number one item is that is ordered on these quick grocery delivery apps?

In related news I recieved a call from Bajaj Finance today.

Spot the number of @TGSRTCHQ public busses in this traffic.

The extraordinary courage of the humblest citizens rivals the prodigious cowardice of our highest offices May a million more such bloom in this land!

the judi dench cameo fucking sent me 🤣😭

@joybhattacharj @ajay43 Damn! I thought this was already the way it was.

@ajay43 No they cannot, the maximum slab is 2 crores

One of the problems with the IPL auction system is players getting picked up at a base price and then not finding it worth their while - specially English players who have to compensate their counties and pay significant taxes. One way to tackle this is to allow a player to put a reserve price, just like in an art auction. That is the minimum price the player is comfortable at. If he comes, he's definitely satisfied, and if teams think he's not worth that amount they just do not bid.

@sidin Will the mugs have coffee? It's that free?

Thinking of hosting a hackathon but you have to solve specific problems I have and I will not pay you for it afterwards. There will be coffee mugs and mouse pads. But you have to return them afterwards.

It’s all Iran this and Israel that Well Iran out of coffee this morning and the struggle Israel