𒀭Dr Able Lawrence MD DM🦉周天堂🌻

My debut appearance on National Television on @CNNnews18 with @maryashakil

"India doesn't believe it has a clash of civilisations with Pakistan. But jihadis in Pakistan believe they have a clash of civilisations with India. Since they do, India has to be prepared," strategist K Subrahmanyam warned. - @MattooShashank

@Phil0fax @Noahpinion Cat comes out of the bag

@Noahpinion Those founders would never have been billionaires if they’d stayed home.

"They took our billionaire founder jobs" is literally a thing that rightist chuds believe

New York Times is a joke @nytimes

@jcrajan00 What is that we? Have you invested in any deep tech company? Then you can talk. Significant chunk of Taiwanese stock market is owned by foreigners unlike India or U.S. @grok

Taiwan overtook India as the 5th largest stock market. $4.95 trillion. One company — TSMC — drives nearly 40% of that value. We're more diversified. But do we have even one deep-tech company in the global top 50 by market cap?

@beatsinbrief Majority of Taiwans stock market is foreign owned, unlike China, India or USA @grok

🚨 Taiwan has overtaken India as the world's 5th largest stock market. Taiwan's stock market cap has reached $4.95T while India's stands at $4.92T. The world's top 10 stock markets are: 🇺🇸 United States – ~$73-76T 🇨🇳 China – ~$11-17T 🇯🇵 Japan – ~$7-8.7T 🇭🇰 Hong Kong – ~$7.25T 🇹🇼 Taiwan – $4.95T 🇮🇳 India – $4.92T 🇰🇷 South Korea – ~$4.89T 🇨🇦 Canada – ~$4.1-4.5T 🇬🇧 United Kingdom – ~$4T 🇫🇷 France / Others – ~$3.5T+ (Rankings fluctuate daily with market moves.) This was mainly due to TSMC's AI-driven rally (up ~50% YTD, ~42% of Taiwan's index).

@sharma_views @grok where can I buy this chair

THIS IS WHAT VIP COMFORT LOOKS LIKE 🔥 Rekha Gupta appears to be sitting on a luxury chair listed up to ₹1.10 lakh. Zero gravity recline. Automatic footrest. Built-in massage. Premium genuine leather. High-density cushioning. A normal office chair does the job under ₹10,000. Delhi struggles with water shortage. CM comfort has gone full luxury lounge.

@GeniusGTX @Ant_Philosophy I have seen LLM reproduce my idea with some hints and nudges

Dwarkesh Patel says give any human 0.0001% of what an LLM has read and they'd produce thousands of new ideas. But the LLM produces none. "Give me one new idea, one fundamental new idea that's been generated." Naval continues: "Every poem ever written by an LLM is garbage. I think even their fiction writing is terrible." "They're very bad at actually distilling the essence of something and what's important. They don't have an opinion or a point of view." "They are a fundamental breakthrough in computing. It is a different way to program a computer. Rather than you explicitly speak its language and write the code, you just run enough data through it until it figures out how to write the program." "But are they AGI? Not yet. And I don't see a direct path from here to there." P.S. I made a playbook breaking down 100+ most powerful decision making mental models used by history's greatest thinkers. 5,000+ downloads. 113 five-star reviews. Grab a free copy here: besuperhuman.gumroad.com/l/mentalmodels — Naval Ravikant ( @naval ), co-founder of AngelList, on Chris Williamson's ( @ChrisWillx ) Modern Wisdom

People keep calling the Odyssey and ancient Greece “Western heritage” as if they emerged from a western European or even European world. But the modern “West vs East” divide did not even exist yet. Ancient Greeks did not see themselves as “westerners.” They were one civilization among many in the interconnected eastern Mediterranean world alongside Egyptians, Phoenicians, Anatolians, Cypriots, Levantines and Mesopotamians. And the evidence for this is everywhere.

@cvkrishnan @grok Lanes aren’t narrowing. It’s a visual illusion due to wide angle lens

The lanes narrowing randomly(trucks would suddenly look to switch to middle lane), a curve without banking, seems a Hyderabad flyover car incident type waiting to happen.

@sheela2010 @virsanghvi This is something civil servants appropriated for themselves from the British colonial misallocation. Something like Delhi Gymkhana should reflect the nation more broadly with fairer entry rules beyond list Civil Service.

Well argued by @virsanghvi : My view is that if you object to retired government servants having a club of their own, then you must also evict ministers from their bungalows and make them drive around in small cars without these huge convoys. Why should politicians, most of whom have access (should they want it) to vast cash incomes, be allowed to live like kings while retired government servants are turfed out of their clubs? You can’t have one standard for the political class and another for everyone else. theprint.in/opinion/sharp-… via @theprintindia

Malayalam is agglutinative language, therefore in Malayalam, Keralam becomes Kerala for noun compounding. English word | Malayalam translation Keralam People = Kerala Janatha Keralam Police = Kerala Police Keralam government = Kerala Sarkar Keralam capital = Kerala thalasthanam

@aravind Don’t they pay taxes in their home countries.

For investors in Indian markets: Short-term capital gains tax (stocks held <1 year) went from 15% to 20% two years ago. Long-term capital gains tax (held >1 year) went from 10% to 12.5% two years ago. And FIIs outflow since then: 2025: Record ₹1.66 lakh crore net - the highest annual FII outflow ever recorded in Indian markets. 2026: ₹1.51 lakh crore net just until April 2026. Just a 2% increase matters a lot if you are an FII investing billions. FIIs invest in India because of high growth opportunities, but a depreciating rupee and an increase in taxes means they may move out their capital. And FIIs definitely move their capital when they sense global issues may drag India's growth. We are already seeing this. This causes more stresses to India's economy, currency, and companies. Even if futures and options keep their increases in STT (for various reasons it can be argued to make sense), for capital gains from equities, this increase in tax definitely needs to be reconsidered by GoI. An idea I propose is the increases in taxes can be applied (some other way) only for FIIs, and only when they are taking out the capital from the country. Not sure how it can be implemented, or if it is even practical. If not, the increases in CGT must be reconsidered, and reverted for at least the time being, to incentivize FIIs and DIs in investing in India's growth story.

@ichandigarh @ForeignPolicy Stop BS.

@ForeignPolicy And in the election rigging!?

The vibrancy of Indian democracy was on display during the country’s recently concluded state elections, writes Chietigj Bajpaee. foreignpolicy.com/2026/05/22/wes…

India didn't lag the West in building universities. We invented universities. Let me explain; Nalanda University was founded in 5th century CE. That's roughly 700 years BEFORE Oxford (1096) and 1,000 years before Harvard (1636). At its peak, Nalanda had 10,000 students and 2,000 teachers from across Asia. Students came from China, Korea, Japan, Tibet, Sri Lanka, Persia, Greece. The library alone had 9 million manuscripts spread across three multi-story buildings called Ratnasagara, Ratnodadhi, and Ratnaranjaka. The library burned for 3 months when Bakhtiyar Khilji destroyed it in 1193. Three months. That's how much knowledge we had. Taxila University in present-day Pakistan was operating from 6th century BCE. That's 2,500 years ago. Chanakya taught there. Panini, the world's first grammarian who wrote Sanskrit grammar that linguists still study today, was educated there. Charaka, the father of Ayurveda, studied there. Taxila had specialised faculties in medicine, military science, law, astronomy, mathematics, and philosophy 2,000 years before Cambridge was built. Vikramashila University. Founded in 8th century CE under the Pala dynasty. Had 1,000 students and 100 teachers. Specialised in tantric Buddhism, logic, grammar, philosophy. Odantapuri University in Bihar. 8th century. Around 12,000 students. Somapura Mahavihara in Bangladesh. 8th century. The largest Buddhist monastery and learning centre in the Indian subcontinent. Pushpagiri University in Odisha. 3rd century CE. Operated for over 800 years. Sharada Peeth in Kashmir. 6th century CE. The library was so important that the script of Kashmir is named after it. Vallabhi University in Gujarat. 6th century CE. Specialised in secular subjects including law, medicine, economics, accountancy. Operated for over 600 years. The Indian university system existed for almost 2,000 years. It was the most advanced learning infrastructure in the world from around 500 BCE to 1200 CE. Students from China and Korea traveled for years to study here because India was the global centre of higher education. So why don't we have Indian universities older than 150 years today? Because most of them were systematically destroyed. Nalanda was burned by Bakhtiyar Khilji in 1193. He killed thousands of monks and scholars. The site was abandoned for almost 700 years. Vikramashila was destroyed in the same campaign by Khilji. Odantapuri was destroyed in 1197. Somapura was destroyed multiple times. Vallabhi was destroyed by Arab invasions in 8th century. Taxila was sacked by the Huns in 5th century, but the destruction of higher education in north-west India continued through successive invasions. By 1200 CE, every major Indian university had been razed. The intellectual class was scattered. The libraries were burned. The patronage system that sustained universities collapsed. Yes, we were in the darkness for higher education because the institutions that produced education were physically destroyed and never rebuilt. What we built during the 1100-1700 CE period was the Taj Mahal, Red Fort, Jama Masjid, Qutb Minar, Hampi temples, Brihadeeswara temple complex, Konark Sun Temple complex, Madurai Meenakshi temple complex, Khajuraho temple complex, hundreds of forts and palaces. We built architecture but the university tradition was simply broken. When the British arrived in 1757, the rebuilding of formal universities began but on the British colonial model. Calcutta University in 1857. Bombay University in 1857. Madras University in 1857. These are now 169 years old. Punjab University, Allahabad University, Banaras Hindu University, Aligarh Muslim University all crossed 100 years. So India does have universities that are over 150 years old. Calcutta, Bombay, and Madras universities were all established in 1857. But more importantly, India was the centre of global higher education for 1700 years before America even existed as a concept. The Harvard founders studied texts that had been written and refined in Indian universities centuries earlier. The numeral system that allows Harvard to do mathematics today was developed in India. Calculus was developed in Kerala 250 years before Newton, by the Kerala school of mathematics. We had the most sophisticated university network in the ancient world. It was destroyed. Then we rebuilt under colonial constraints. Then we built modern IITs and IIMs in the 1950s and 60s. The IITs are now 75 years old. They are already in the top 200 globally. IIT Bombay and IIT Delhi rank ahead of multiple Ivy League universities in engineering. ISRO sent missions to Mars and the Moon at one-tenth the cost of NASA. The intellectual capacity is fine. What we lack is institutional continuity. Oxford got 1,000 years of uninterrupted development. We got 700 years of destruction followed by 250 years of colonial reconstruction followed by 75 years of independence.

@MattooShashank @DrLuttapi @grok what percentage of Taiwans market cap is owned locally (vs foreign investors. Compare the same for South Korea, USA, China and India

Breaking: Taiwan - a country of just 23 million people - has overtaken India as the world’s fifth largest stock market

@Briankeating What are the implications for physics and why we live in a 3D world.

Moral of the story? In high-dimensional space, geometry is ruled by corners. The “middle” disappears. Everything hugs the boundary. The sphere? It’s basically a ghost.

My intuition about geometry was catastrophically wrong. I never knew that, in high dimensions, spheres effectively disappear. By 100 dimensions, an inscribed sphere occupies a smaller fraction of its cube than a proton occupies of the observable universe. By 500 dimensions, the volume is smaller than what standard floating-point arithmetic can even represent. The equations are real. Here’s the wild horror hidden in higher-dimensional geometry:

@abhishekbhaya Totalitarian China is a less relevant model for India.

I agree. There’s a tendency in India and the West to celebrate Japanese innovation and social progress while overlooking similar — often far larger-scale — developments in China, without even acknowledging why China may be the more relevant case study for India. While Chinese advances in tech, AI, EVs, and robotics have recently become too significant to ignore, the world still largely turns a blind eye to the human and social development dimensions of China’s rise.

Government should reduce the risk. Nokkukooli is primarily a risk. I think the laws as it stands can be circumvented by creating a “moving service” business that uses technology which can then amortise the cost of lawyers and registration. There is no better time to test the waters than now. An app based service.

@abledoc @grok First free land from onerous regulations, then find a way to channel savings into productive capital which will reduce input cost to biz, energy , transit , housing etc.

Data centres for Kerala, let’s go. Near the coast, one can even build a desalination plant to get enough water to match any demand curve.

@SayantikaSays Try time travelling to Shakespeare’s time

Even the remotest villages in England look 100× cleaner and better than most Tier-1 Indian cities. And guess what, Britain never called themselves Vishwaguru.