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@AlexHormozi Look for Eisenhower matrix

Successful people do important things first, urgent things second. Average people do urgent things first and important things only when circumstances for them to. Losers avoid both.

@mchellap @amargov @astrokaran These are huge opportunities ready to grab by Indian companies if planned and executed well but only by showing intent first. Thanks for such pieces which gives real insights.

My piece at Swarajya on who actually owns the brains behind India's Automotive industry. This is blowing up, and I am learning from the responses as well! Keep 'em coming. @amargov @astrokaran

A Danish scientist counted bugs on the same windshield, same road, same conditions, every year for 20 years. By year 20, 80% of the insects were gone. In Germany, a group of volunteer bug scientists did something even bigger. They set traps in 63 nature reserves, not farms, protected land, and weighed everything they caught. Same traps, same method, 27 years straight. The total weight of flying bugs dropped 76%. In midsummer, when insects should be peaking, it was 82% gone. A follow-up in 2020 and 2021 checked again. No recovery. In the UK, they literally ask drivers to count splats on their license plates after a trip. The 2024 count came back 63% lower than just 2021. Three years. A 2020 study pulled together 166 surveys from 1,676 locations around the world. Land insects are disappearing at roughly 9% every ten years. Here’s where it hits your plate. About 75% of the food crops we grow depend on insects to pollinate them, everything from apples to almonds to coffee. One 2025 study modeled what a full pollinator collapse would look like: food prices jump 30%, the global economy takes a $729 billion hit, and the world loses 8% of its Vitamin A supply. Birds are already feeling it. North America has lost 2.9 billion birds since 1970. A study from just weeks ago found half of 261 bird species on the continent are now in serious decline, and the losses are speeding up in farming regions. The birds that eat insects lost 2.9 billion. The birds that don’t eat insects? They gained 26 million. That ratio tells the whole story. One of the German researchers behind the 27-year study drives a Land Rover. He says it has the aerodynamics of a refrigerator. It stays clean now.

Look inside a "Made in India" satellite. GPS receiver? Chinese. Optics? European. Thrusters? French. Solar cells? German. Onboard computer? Imported. What's Indian? The bus structure. Sometimes. So, the label is technically accurate but strategically misleading. 🧵👇

@PhysInHistory The idea of binary system came from India by the Acharya Pingala. Millennium before the Leibniz. Please do your thorough research before posting. This is highly unscientific attitude, you should do better. Not expected from you.

Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, a German polymath, developed the binary numeral system (base-2) in 1679. This system, which uses only two digits (0 and 1), is the foundation of virtually all modern computing and digital technology. ✍️

@Bakwasur @Tushar15 Thanks for letting us know.

@capomav @Tushar15 These are Iran flagged and taken because Iran captured a ship with Indian sailors.

After unknown gunmen, we have unknown oilmen.

@antirez Hey, super cutious if have you tried Sanskrit ??

Italian is an intrinsically understandable language, by people and machines.

Duniya jhukti hai, jhukaney wala chahiye …..

Qualifications of @nsitharaman: BA (Economics) MA (Economics) MPhil (Economics) Assistant to Economist, AEA, UK Senior Manager, BBC Senior Manager, Price Waterhouse Commerce Minister, India Defence Minister, India Finance Minister, India Qualifications of @RahulGandhi: Dynast

@harshmadhusudan Could you please elaborate a little more so that we can understand? Thanks in anticipation.😊

~15 years of broad REER appreciation wiped out (this chart is INR compared to a broad basket, not just the USD - latter would make INR seem much more undervalued.) Tariffs and monetary policy to blame here. Both getting resolved. Indian competitiveness has not changed overnight.

The linked article goes over the history of how Mrs Indira Gandhi buckled under US pressure and devalued the rupee by 57% one day in 1966 and how her action destroyed the rupee's standing in global trade and made India much poorer in one stroke. The amount of damage she did to our nation is immense and that is not even counting the Emergency. I was not aware of her 1966 decision and we need these historical facts to be brought out. businessworld.in/article/1966-w…

Recent research from Kyoto University reveals that female dogs actively assess human competence—while male dogs do not. Female dogs clearly prefer approaching humans who successfully complete tasks, such as opening food containers, over those who fail. In contrast, male dogs show no preference and treat both competent and incompetent humans equally. These findings, published in a study titled "Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans," indicate that female dogs exhibit a more advanced form of social evaluation, particularly when food or resources are involved. They pay closer attention to human actions and their outcomes, using this information to decide who is the most reliable partner for obtaining rewards. This competence bias suggests female dogs are more sensitive to efficiency and social results than previously thought. For dog owners, it means your female companion isn't just loyal—she's also quietly evaluating your ability to provide. These results highlight an intriguing sex difference in canine social cognition, potentially evolved to enhance females' chances of securing resources and survival. [Chijiiwa, H., Horisaki, E., Hori, Y., Anderson, J. R., Fujita, K., & Kuroshima, H. (2022). Female dogs evaluate levels of competence in humans. Behavioural Processes, 203, 104778. DOI: 10.1016/j.beproc.2022.104778]

Does it tell you why UAE's "brother" is visiting India? Why do they want Akash air defence system? Will answer but notice how in recent days, much has been spoken about Rafale jets, some right, a LOT wrong. Yet beyond plain reporting & reacting to news headlines, no expert has been able to tell why we are really going through the deal. They are doing the usual boring theatrics on what ammunition packages can/cannot be loaded, how its inferior/superior to other jets, unnecessary discussion on price per jet, silly comments on DRDO/ISRO/HAL/Defence PSUs. Had they known the answer to all these why, they would have easily guessed that India would have never gone with F-35 or any other jet after signing for the 36 Rafale jets in the initial deal itself. How? When we signed up to buy Rafales, so did UAE. This despite "brother" having F-35 on offer, they went with what India is buying. Experts/media failed to read this development. Now UAE wants to have the same air defence Akash system which India has to integrate with their air force. Experts/media have again failed to see the link. Simple reason for it - haven't read or don't want to read dedollarization & its impact. In a dedollarized world where multipolarity will be the new world order, security of the region will be decided by regional power centers. VidurNeeti has extensively written about it, search for 'spheres of influence' on primary handle to read more on it & understand the basics. Therefore what we buy, UAE too buys so that integration of our armed forces is easy. The security which US used to provide to M̶i̶d̶d̶l̶e̶ ̶E̶a̶s̶t̶ West Asia in a dollarized setup, they vacate that space in a dedollarized setup & we fill that vaccum. US out, France in. Manufacturing lines setup in India. Our armed forces will train them. And eventually our two armed forces will integrate with time. We will essentially provide security to their region in times to come. It's not for a reason PM calls them "brother". No media house or expert is able to tell such predictions & outcomes. All they indulge in is reacting over media headlines, outrage & amplify the fake media stories by talking over them, & give no solid analysis ahead of its time to their readers. Commenting over Transfer of Technology, price per jet, advantages/disadvantages of this deal can be done even by 5th standard student using Google/AI tools. What is so "expert" in such commentaries, hour long YouTube videos? Time waste. Related to this is one very disturbing trend seen on social media which people must be made aware of - You will see a section of veteran's lobby on social media that will throw the weight of their uniform to discredit age old institutions like HAL, DRDO, ISRO, Defence PSUs, etc. Don't fall for such propaganda. These veterans are living a very lavish life, some settled abroad & instigating masses here. Beware of them because the moment you question them they will deflect it to - how dare you question the army, the uniform, our sacrifices, etc. kind of arguments. While they will abuse anyone, won't spare scientists working in above organizations & sow seeds of doubt in our own indigenous R&D capabilities. Gullible masses who fall for it end up questioning our jawans when we are fighting two useless neighbours both on the West & East. They ask for proofs, highlight our pitfalls giving ample ammunition for our country's enemies to use them, amplify them. Don't become a part of it. Keep calm, don't indulge with them, have faith in your country's political & armed forces leadership. Yes we lag behind in many areas & need to work hard but also please understand why these government organisations are necessary. The expectation from any public sector enterprise is never efficiency. Please get that straight in your mind first. Yet they are needed so that the private sector doesn't have a free run & monopolize the market. Take the example of Argentina. VidurNeeti.

Historically, the month of January has been very bad for India Especially the 48 hours between 14th and 15th January 1761. These 48 hours had mor impact on us as a civilization than anything else in the last 350 years of Indian history. On 14th January, the Marathas lost more than 100000 men in the third battle of Panipat against Ahmad Shah Abdali. It dealt a mortal blow to their ambitions of being a sub continental superpower. They might have recaptured a good chunk of their pre-1761 territory, but they never were the power they could have been. Marathas never truly recovered from their Panipat loss. Then, On 15th January, 2435 Kms away, another bitter battle was coming to its end. The Battle / Siege of Pondicherry ended with the French surrendering to the British in the third Carnatic War. This dealt a death blow to the French ambitions in India and ended their status as a Colonial power. From that day on, the French were reduced to being bit part players in the sub continental power game, restricted to the crumbs that the Brits threw them once in a while. In those 48 hours, the only empire that could have crushed the British East India company and the only European partner who could've helped them do it, got pulverized simultaneously 2435 kms away from one another. Any hope of us throwing out the Brits, ended on that fateful day between Panipat and Pondicherry

Dear @narendramodi, a billion Indians nominate @sanjeevsanyal and the Kaundinya team for this year's Padma honours, for proving ancient India's maritime prowess by sailing a ship built to 5th century specification. Some advance towards greatness; others return to it. We do both.

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Migratory birds can't become an umbrella species.

Sleeping on the deck of INSV Kaundinya. There are no lights except the mandatory ones to warn other ships, but eyes adjust to moonlight (plus we have headlamps).

@AshwiniVaishnaw Sirji, 250 kmph toh minimum chahiye year 2026 main to call it high speed.

Vande Bharat Sleeper tested today by Commissioner Railway Safety. It ran at 180 kmph between Kota Nagda section. And our own water test demonstrated the technological features of this new generation train.