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If you sincerely train for combat search & rescue, have the right means to be able to conduct such ops deep in hostile territory & finally be willing to risk life & equipment to bring out a downed comrade, then the chances of succeeding in actual life are even. Or else dream on.

Hot Ones is teasing their “biggest” episode yet. Who do you think it is?

They should be bold and refuse to pay back the loan. We are in a new era where bold action is rewarded and might is the major currency. The UAE has no capacity to retaliate against a default or other threats and is already in a dire situation. It would be tough but realistic.

Meet Narendra Karmarkar ! (Legendary Mathematician from India) The mind behind one of the most important breakthroughs in Mathematics > Born & brought up in Gwalior, Madhya Pradesh > Graduated from IIT Bombay with President’s Gold Medal (1978) > Did Master’s from California Institute of Technology > Pursued his PhD at University of California, Berkeley under Richard M. Karp > Became a postdoctoral research fellow at IBM Research > Worked at AT&T Bell Laboratories, one of the world’s leading research labs > Served as Professor at MIT and Princeton University > Developed the revolutionary Karmarkar’s Algorithm for linear programming > Awarded the Fulkerson Prize and Paris Kanellakis Award for his work > Returned to India & Became Homi Bhabha Chair Professor at TIFR > Served as scientific advisor to Ratan Tata and the Tata Group > Where he Led the scaling of an advanced supercomputer at TIFR & outperformed leading global systems at the time Today, his algorithm powers systems in logistics, finance, telecommunications & large-scale planning. A rare genius whose work quietly runs the modern world. Not widely known to the public. But deeply respected in the world of mathematics.

The women of India and Pakistan need to deploy our ingrained common sense and suggest ways forward in our relationship. We need a women’s caucus. Not to throw accusations against each other but to think calmly and sensibly about the future ahead. For the sake of our children. We need to bring in the counterpoint: without naming it, without sounding defensive, but making it impossible to dismiss. For decades, India–Pakistan engagement has been trapped in a single script: territory, terror, recrimination. We repeat it with ritual precision, but it yields diminishing returns. What if we widened the frame? In West Asia, especially the Gulf, our interests often run in parallel: energy security, diaspora welfare, maritime stability, crisis response. These are not abstractions since they affect millions of lives and the resilience of both economies. Engaging here need not dilute our positions, create false parity, or reopen familiar disputes. It can remain tightly bounded, issue-specific, and without prejudice to core differences. Skeptics will argue that Pakistan cannot compartmentalise, that any engagement risks being instrumentalised, and that peripheral cooperation has never altered core hostility. But the purpose here is not transformation, it is insulation. Not to resolve the conflict by other means, but to prevent it from defining all means. Some may also say Pakistan has found a “role” in the Iran crisis and India should not be seen as seeking one. But this is not about visibility or mediation. Our interests are structural not transitory. If anything, the moment underscores a larger truth: even adversarial states operate beyond their disputes when interests demand it. When the central track is blocked, responsible statecraft does not stand still. It explores parallel ones, carefully, deliberately, and on its own terms. Sometimes, widening the field is not weakness. It is strategy. The women must speak.

Not hyperbole to say the most ridiculous ending to an NBA game this season just happened in Indianapolis. That Nembhard “out of bounds” which started all of this, by the way, was him banking in a pass while inbounding. You have to watch it and experience the majesty.

BREAKING: A Norwegian company has just raised $40m to revolutionise chipmaking and take on ASML! To make chips manufacturers use a process called lithography which uses light to draw complex circuits that form the foundation ​of advanced artificial intelligence chips. Lace Lithography has developed a new approach that uses a helium atom beam. The cofounders, Bodil Holst and Adrià Salvador Palau, have spent their careers working across atomic beam physics, instrumentation engineering, and applied AI. Today the company has announced a $40m Series A led by Atomico (Sasha Vidiborskiy), with participation from M12 (Michael Stewart), Linse Capital, SETT, and Nysnø. The startup has ⁠developed prototypes with the aim of having a pilot up and running by 2029. VERY COOL - congrats!

Cubans, Venezuelans, Iranians, Ukrainians, Nicaraguan, etc: if you're able to, make sure you share content in English to counter the propaganda being massively spread by western communists right now

Exceptions like Arundhati Roy aside, can we name any Indian scholar/journalist/columnist who criticised Israel? Amitav Ghosh refused to distance himself from Israel. Romila Thapar was an ardent friend Khushwant Singh kind of prostrated before it. Naipaul refused to criticise it.

Can someone please explain to me why Russia owns this part of Germany?

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neither “chickpea” nor “garbanzo bean” really capture what those things are all about