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Education is massively overrated Common sense/Critical thinking is criminally underrated. A pinch of salt is recommended while understanding this.

Roger Federer: "Effortless is a myth. I worked very hard to make it look easy." "I left school at age 16 to play tennis full-time. So I never went to college. But I did graduate recently. I graduated tennis. I know the word is 'retire', but retired sounds awful. Like you, I finished one big thing and I'm moving on to the next. Like you, I'm figuring out what that is." Lesson 1: Effortless is a myth. "People would say my play was 'effortless.' Most of the time, they meant it as a compliment. But it frustrated me when they'd say, 'He barely broke a sweat' or 'Is he even trying?' The truth is, I had to work very hard to make it look easy." Roger shares the wake-up call: "An opponent at the Italian Open publicly questioned my mental discipline. He said, 'Roger will be the favorite for the first two hours. Then I'll be the favorite after that.' Everyone can play well the first two hours you're fit, you're fast, you're clear. After two hours, your legs get wobbly, your mind starts wandering, your discipline starts to fade. My parents, my coaches, even my rivals were calling me out. So I started to train harder. A lot harder." He explains the paradox: "I got the reputation for being 'effortless' because my warmups at tournaments were so casual that people didn't think I'd been training hard. But I had been working hard before the tournament when nobody was watching." Roger redefines talent: "Yes, talent matters. But talent has a broad definition. Most of the time, it's not about having a gift, it's about having grit. A great forehand can be called a talent. But discipline is also a talent. Patience is a talent. Trusting yourself is a talent. Embracing the process, loving the process, these are talents too. Some people are born with them. Everybody has to work at them." Lesson 2: It's only a point. "You can work harder than you thought possible and still lose. I have many times. Tennis is brutal. Every tournament ends the same way: one player gets a trophy. Every other player gets back on a plane, stares out the window, and thinks, 'How the hell did I miss that shot?'" Roger shares the statistic that changed his mindset: "In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points do you think I won? Only 54%. Even top-ranked tennis players win barely more than half of the points they play." He explains what this teaches: "When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot. You teach yourself to think: 'Okay, I double-faulted. It's only a point.' 'I came to the net and got passed again. It's only a point.' Even a great shot, an overhead backhand smash that ends up on ESPN's Top 10, that too is just a point." Roger shares the key mindset: "When you're playing a point, it has to be the most important thing in the world. And it is. But when it's behind you, it's behind you. This frees you to fully commit to the next point with intensity, clarity, and focus." He reflects on losing Wimbledon 2008: "Some call it the greatest match of all time. Okay, all respect to Rafa, but I think it would've been way better if I had won. Looking back, I feel like I lost at the very first point. I looked across the net and saw a guy who just a few weeks earlier crushed me in straight sets at the French Open. And I thought, 'This guy is maybe hungrier than I am.' It took me until the third set to remember 'Hey buddy, you're the five-time defending champion. You're on grass. You know how to do this.' But it came too late." Roger shares what champions understand: "The best in the world are not the best because they win every point. It's because they know they'll lose again and again, and have learned how to deal with it. You accept it. Cry it out if you need to. Then force a smile. Move on. Be relentless. Adapt and grow. Work harder, work smarter." Lesson 3: Life is bigger than the court. "A tennis court is 2,106 square feet. That's where singles matches happen. Not much bigger than a dorm room. I worked a lot, learned a lot, and ran a lot of miles in that small space. But the world is a whole lot bigger than that." Roger explains his philosophy: "Even when I was just starting out, I knew that tennis could show me the world, but tennis could never be the world. I knew that if I was lucky, I could play competitively until my late 30s, maybe even 41. But even when I was in the top five, it was important to me to have a life, a rewarding life full of travel, culture, friendships, and especially family. These are the reasons I never burned out." He shares what matters most: "Tennis has given me so many memories. But my off-court experiences are the ones I carry forward just as much. The places I've travelled, the platform that lets me give back, and most of all the people I've met along the way." Roger concludes: "Tennis, like life, is a team sport. Yes, you stand alone on your side of the net. But your success depends on your team, your coaches, your teammates, even your rivals. All these influences help make you who you are." His final words: "Whatever game you choose, give it your best. Go for your shots. Play free. Try everything. And most of all, be kind to one another, and have fun out there."

@AnkitaUppel Congratulations Ankita!

Life update I am married

@iamSgarg Safe to avoid akash chopra any day. Mushaira chala deta hai. 😂

bc ye kesa sankat hai ek taraf akash chopra ek taraf harsha bhosde

Observations - T20 WC Great to see Zim and WI top their groups. Slightly unfair that it counts for nothing in the Super 8s. Group toppers should carry 2 points forward as they’ve already beaten one of the Super 8 qualifiers. The fans have made this tournament. 20,000 turning up for associate games at neutral venues. Only in India. This has been a reminder of who really funds the game - the Indian cricket fan. Pakistan were based in Colombo and had already played multiple games there before facing India. Didn’t see many complaints then about scheduling giving teams an advantage, unlike during the Champions Trophy. Guess it doesn’t fit the narrative. #T20WorldCup

CEO of Alphabet is Indian. CEO of Microsoft is Indian. CEO of IBM is Indian. CEO of Adobe is Indian. CEO of Chanel is Indian. True. But these successes aren’t automatically a point of pride for India; on the contrary, they expose weaknesses in its ecosystem. Leaders like Pichai, and Nadella did not become global CEOs because of India’s corporate, academic, or policy environment. They succeeded after leaving India, shaped by Western universities, meritocratic firms, deep capital markets, strong institutions, and a reliable rule of law. India’s only real credit is raw talent. Beyond that, it failed to build an ecosystem where this talent could thrive. The talent was exported; the value addition happened elsewhere. If India were truly benefiting, such leaders would be building world-class companies from India, not running them from abroad. Celebrating them avoids the harder question: why can’t Indian companies, operating in India with Indian capital and institutions, produce leaders of similar global impact? Until India moves beyond identity-driven appeasement, hierarchy, jugaad over systems, regulatory hostility, and risk-averse capitalism, “Indian CEOs abroad” remain less a badge of honour and more a reminder of what India fails to retain, empower, and scale at home.

@delhivery horrible experience from ypur side as delivery guys deliberately cancelling the delivery since 14/02/2026 by giving missed call and "delivery attempted but failed" message . its really poor from the support side as nobody is coming to solve the issue despite complaint

the impact ai summit in delhi was a perfect demonstration of why india keeps losing in tech and i’m tired of pretending it wasn’t a disaster. let me paint the actual picture: > cash-only payments at a “digital india” upi ?? > pm visit → main hall cleared for hours, everyone else just stood around doing nothing > exhibitors locked out of their own stalls > 3-hour queue just to enter > a founder’s product got stolen during the summit > no wifi at an ai event. > can’t take your keys if you came via car/bike > no laptop/camera at tech event > people were asked to sit on the ground > speaker lineup with consultants/bureaucrats who’ve never shipped a real product > the registration system crashed multiple times. people who registered weeks in advance couldn’t get in. vips walked past massive queues while founders and builders stood outside in the heat. 🤡 and 27 countries witnessed all of this live networking areas? no space to stand. many demos didn’t work because there was no stable internet. 5g?? this is what happens when optics matter more than execution. when innovation becomes photo-op the sad part is india has insane talent. founders building world class products. engineers and researchers doing real work. leave India for a sec, im at network school and the youngest crowd is all Indians. but we keep shooting ourselves in the foot with performative nonsense. the west isn’t winning because they’re smarter. they’re winning because they care about details. because they respect builders. because their tech summits actually work. same story when @sama came to india last time. boomer uncles asked the dumbest questions. and when he said it’s hard for india to build foundational models, we took it on our ego. rn, every founder who attended left embarrassed. imagine international delegate left with stories about our “infrastructure.” many friends and young builder lost a little more faith. this wasn’t just bad planning. it was a signal of what we value. and clearly, it’s security theater and photo-ops over builders. we can do better. we have the talent. we have the market. we have the potential. what we don’t have is execution and respect for the people building the future. maybe one day we will do better. till then if you’re a founder, ignore the noise. keep building.

Imagine your mother is due for a total hip replacement. On the way to the OT, you learn the orthopedician operating on her had scored 4/800 in the PG entrance. Would you still have the courage to let the surgery proceed? This is no longer hypothetical. An MS Orthopaedics seat at a govt institute in Rohtak was allotted in the third counselling to a candidate with just 4/800. At a premier Delhi medical college, a Gynaecology seat went to someone who scored 44/800, and a General Surgery seat was filled at 47/800. It’s high time patients started asking about the NEET PG scores of their doctors. Your health should not be left at the mercy of social justice or buisness policies of the republic.

If you eat momos and on your way back a dog bites you, it doesn’t mean the momos caused the dog bite. Two events happening close in time doesn’t automatically create causation. India has one Centre, 28 states, and thousands of local bodies. Elections are always happening somewhere every single year. So a blast occurring during some election season is not evidence that elections caused the blast. Here, we have arrests, confessions, seized explosives, CCTV trails, and documented radical networks. This is open intel, not guesswork. Denying all of this and peddling conspiracy theories based on a third-rate shayar’s “pata karo chunav hai kya” as evidence only shows that you are part of the problem. You defend and enable radicalism in India.

Police get rightfully criticised on social media for poor work ethics and corruption, but when they do splendid work, they deserve praise on the same scale too. Until 2019, posters glorifying terror groups were a common sight in Kashmir. The police would usually remove them, but not every time was there a serious investigation into who put them up. The busting of Faridabad's white-collar terror module began when on 19 Oct some police officers in Srinagar noticed posters praising a banned terror outfit, something that might once have been dismissed as routine propaganda. But this time, the J&K Police got curious. The SSP Srinagar GV Sundeep Chakravarthy insisted that the source be traced, refusing to let it pass as just another poster incident. That single decision, to investigate promptly, set off a butterfly effect. CCTV footage led to Dr. Adil Ahmed Rather of Saharanpur, which led to Dr. Muzzamil Shakeel, the seizure of 3,000 kg of IED-making material, and finally to a full-blown terror module stretching from Kashmir to Delhi and Faridabad. Yes, one blast did happen, but had the J&K Police not acted when they did, those explosives, ten to fifteen times more than Pulwama, could have unleashed devastation on a scale this country hasn’t seen since 26/11. This is how policing should work: alert eyes, curious minds, and relentless follow-through. J&K Police, Haryana Police, UP Police, and everyone else involved, well done. Please keep giving us more opportunities to say good things about the police.

. @nitin_gadkari sir, This Biker has paid Road Tax, GST on bike & Excise Duty, VAT, Cess for E20 Fuel. Who will pay for his Broken Spine? 🔔 And sir, he was not paid by anyone to fall and break spine to defame you

Nature used to be the world’s most prestigious science journal. Now it’s one of many accused of favouring authors because of their identity group rather than the excellence and importance of their science. hxstem.substack.com/p/why-i-no-lon…

Karnataka is bringing the Rohith Vemula Act against caste/religion-based discrimination in higher education, specifically for SC, ST, OBC, and minority students. As per Indian Express, the offence under it will be cognizable, so police can register FIR and arrest without a warrant. The affected student needn’t provide proof to file an FIR. It will also be non-bailable, so bail isn’t automatic; you must seek it from the court after arrest. There are no safeguards against misuse. What if a student sees not being passed (due to poor performance) as discrimination and files an FIR? What if a student reports personal enmity as religion-based discrimination? And since colleges risk losing govt grants if they are seen as the part of discrimination, they too will blindly side with the complainants. A more balanced approach would be: first, an internal anti-discrimination cell conducts an enquiry and refers genuine cases to the police; next, a quick, time-bound preliminary police inquiry by police before any FIR or arrest; and finally, punishment if the complaint is proven false. But aisa nahi hoga because desh logic se nahi, populism se chalta hai. Soon, the Rohith Vemula Act will come to other Congress-ruled states too. All the best.

Welcome to the Islamic Republic of India, where not only is a man beheaded for supporting a woman who merely quoted Islamic scriptures, you cannot even screen a film depicting it as Muslims claim it will disturb communal harmony. My views, on the stay on the film Udaipur Files:

BJP should consider an “art of public dealing” course for their MP/MLAs. During the 2024 Lok Sabha campaign for Sidhi seat (Madhya Pradesh), Rajesh Mishra visited Khaddi Khurd village and promised the villagers he’d get a road built for them. A year passed and nothing happened. So a woman named Leela Sahu made a video reminding him of his promise, pointing out that there are ten pregnant women in the village who struggle to reach a hospital without a road. The video went viral, putting the "honourable" MP in an embarrassing spot and forcing him to respond. And how did he respond? Said: “Delivery ka ek expected date hota hai, uske pehle hum unko uthwa lenge.” The arrogance and anger just couldn’t be hidden, how dare an ordinary woman put a mahamahim MP on the spot? The road obviously couldn’t be built so quickly, so the MP could have simply acknowledged the delay and assured he’d speak to the concerned dept. But instead, he displayed a sheer lack of empathy and irritation at being questioned.

Seems like there’s a competition going on between Indian cities to create the best modern engineering marvel. Here is Lucknow's entry : Officials started Kesari Kheda flyover construction without completing land acquisition or route clearance. Even got a shilanyas from Rajnath Singh, but work’s been stalled for 6 months, nine houses and shops stand between the two parts of the flyover, which officials didn’t bother to acquire. Now they're allegedly offering compensation one-third below circle rate, which residents refuse. ₹75 crores spent so far, the project is stalled, the public is suffering, but the world gets to witness yet another modern structural wonder from India. Proud. (Source: Amar Ujala)

Imagery from today shows no visible runway damage at Udhampur Airport, contrary to circulating claims. It's likely that ongoing runway maintenance work, started in April was misinterpreted, PAF itself released imagery showing possible damage located away from the airstrip

This is a massive appreciation tweet for Damien Symon (@detresfa_), easily the finest imagery analyst today. His renderings of battle damage by the IAF on PAF bases all found an echo in today’s armed forces briefing. Follow him if you aren’t already.

The usually hyperactive and sensationalist Indian media seems oddly restrained right now.

These are a few of the Operation Sindoor visual evidence. 🇮🇳 Where are all the Operation Chaddi-Banyan-MassorKiDaal videos?