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"Better to write for yourself and have no public, than to write for the public and have no self" Cyril Connolly

@homam108 Imagine this d*mwit studied in iit! Shows the quality of high end Indian education.

Shani Deva & A Bus Journey That Changed My Life I studied in my native town (Machilipatnam, AP, India) till 10th standard, in Telugu medium. Plan was always to go to a local junior college. Someone told me about a government residential junior college in Nagarjuna Sagar that usually got 6-10 out of of top-10 state ranks in Intermediate (12th standard) exams! I found out about its entrance exam at the nick of the moment and appeared at a local high school. Fortunately, I got a high enough rank to pick MPC English medium (Math-Physics-Chemistry, i.e. get into engineering stream later). In June 1985, my father took me to Nagarjuna Sagar for admission. That was my first time staying away from home for an extended period! Guru was transiting the 12th from my natal Moon and would be in 12th & 1st for the next year and half or so (bad transits!). Shani had entered my 10th house a few months back and would be there for 2.5 years (terrible transit)! Karma Shani is not considered a good transit for academic success and the start of good professional education. Moreover, I was in Shani mahadasha then! Based on various astrological factors, my father was confident that I would have great academic success 2 years later, but that it needed some propitiation. The bus journey was 6 hours long (with a change of bus or two). During that journey, my father talked to me in detail about my horoscope, the opportunity and the challenges ahead of me (I already had working knowledge of Jyotish). In a spur, he was inspired to teach me Shani Ashtottara Shata Nama Stotram (Shani's 108-name prayer)! Fortunately, I have excellent memory and usually remember anything I hear or read just once. After we repeated it a few times, it was fully memorized. I chanted it a few times by myself in the bus and my father was pleased. He strongly advised me to chant it EVERYDAY without fail. And I did! I started off there struggling. As I studied in Telugu medium till then, I didn't know English equivalents of many math & science technical words. And, I wasn't fluent in English. It was a real struggle for 3 months or so. Then I got used. Half the way into the first year, I was in the middle of the pack in my class there. But, by the end of the year, I rose to the top. And, I finished my 2 years there by standing state first with a record score (at that time) in my state in 12th standard exams. In fact, that junior college got 7 out of top-10 state ranks! I also got into IIT-Madras (where I again started off at the middle of the pack in first semester, but finished as second in class after 4 years). In fact, however smart I was, I wouln't have made it to IIT without correspondence coaching. I wouldn't have learnt about it in my native town, but, at that residential college, everybody had IIT aspirations and got either Brilliant YG or Agrawal coaching. I definitely benefited from that correspondence coaching. It gave a direction to my innate intelliegence, which WAS important. Standing state first & getting into IIT-Madras was foundational to my life later on - after all, I come from lower middle class. Now, when I look back at my chart, dasas and transits, I can explain why it happened. But it was not at all guaranteed. It could certainly have panned way differently, given Karma Shani transit of dasa lord Shani. I essentially ended up getting the absolute best of the spectrum of possibilities and I believe it was due to sincerely & faithfully chanting Shani Ashtottara Shata Nama Stotram everyday during those 2 years! Friends, don't overthink. If your elders or gurus advise you to chant a prayer, do it sincerely and faithfully. Its impact may not be visible immediately, but it WILL help you when you really need it! It will help you get the best result out of the spectrum of possibilities based on your karmik mometum!! Secondly, some people discourage others from doing sadhana (e.g. you can't chant Lalita Sahasra Nama Stotram by yourself, you can't do Homa by yourself, Hanuman Chalisa is a fake prayer, you can't chant Durga Saptashati without initiation, you can't chant Ashtottara Shata Nama stotras of grahas - especially malefic grahas - by yourself, you can't chant a prayer without following many rules, etc). Please do some sadhana, perfectly or imperfectly, and, more importantly, don't discourage others. 🙏🕉️🙏

@TruthTrumpPost What do you do when disinformation is coming from powerful positions?

Former Pentagon intelligence official Luis Elizondo claims the U.S. government holds nonhuman biological remains and advanced technology, alleging a secret crash retrieval program. 👽 In his book Imminent: Inside the Pentagon's Hunt for UFOs, former Pentagon official Luis Elizondo claims the U.S. government has known about possible non-human intelligence since the 1947 Roswell incident. He adds that the military developed ways to interfere with unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP) technology and recover crashed objects.

@Neetivaan What you see here is the kind of depravity that is not at all uncommon. This is another startling display when sanctum is squatted by worst of people, so common people lacking self-awareness are morally rudderless. More money worst it becomes.

Pune Porsche Case there’s no hope left, a morally dead country with no hope for justice. everything is happening right in front of us, and in any sane country, that kid would already be begging for mercy. x.com/republic/statu…

The world is not a safe space. The liberal world order didn’t survive because everyone agreed with it. It survived because the West was strong enough to defend it. Meanwhile, the Europeans are busy debating whether free speech is too offensive while China, Russia and the rest of the world are playing for power. Weakness is not a virtue. It’s an invitation.

@JakeKeuhlen Don't agree with IQ concept but yes it becomes quite difficult when the gap is too big

"Von Neumann would carry on a conversation with my 3-year-old son, and the two of them would talk as equals, and I sometimes wondered if he used the same principle when he talked to the rest of us." - Edward Teller

Gaming the system seaslope.blogspot.com/2026/05/gaming… #education #examination #research #neet

🚨BREAKING: There is NO water in The Rio Grande?! I’m standing here in New Mexico and the river is completely DRY. Nearby AI data centers are consuming massive amounts of water to keep their systems cool. Meta’s Los Lunas facility alone has reportedly been tied to roughly 75 million gallons of water usage per year connected to Rio Grande resources and it’s only ONE of many projects expanding across the state. People can argue over the exact numbers, but one thing is undeniable… these facilities require enormous amounts of water and there are more data centers across the country being built as we speak. This is starting to look like an environmental disaster in plain sight. We need to put pressure on local representatives and the President to examine this environmental crisis before it’s too late.

@TinyDhillon Question should also be asked to media (mostly nepotistic power salivating sycophants) as to did they immediately flag her behavior, it could even be that uncouth media initiated this -you can expect lowest denominator from these market driven wastrels

This is not only stupidity but total lack of dignity in the uniform she is wearing.

@iherrsonniger @TruthTrumpPost Precisely this is what vassal state looks like

USA-India critical minerals deal looks good on paper, but the real question is how it helps our own manufacturing. We need tech transfer and processing hubs here, not just becoming a raw material supplier for the West. Hope this isn't just another diplomatic photo-op or diplomatic hand shake. How can India easily forget the word "hellhole" 🇮🇳🇺🇸

NOW: The United States and India have signed a bilateral agreement to strengthen and secure supply chains for critical minerals and rare earth elements. 🇮🇳🇺🇸 The deal was formalized at Hyderabad House in New Delhi by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Indian External Affairs Minister Subrahmanyam Jaishankar, marking a significant step in US-India economic security cooperation and critical mineral integration.

@Rohit51388267 ....the official who took such insensitive irresponsible decision must be taken to task. This society cannot feed incompetent parasites in responsible positions.

When the solution is the problem... Indore residents: "We don't have water to drink." Police: Brings out water cannons 💦 Talk about hitting the point but completely missing the mark. 👇 #Indore

PSA: if your water runs 50°C hot, you should consider covering your rooftop tank with one of these

I am a CBSE Class 12 student. After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process. Today we received the copies. And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine

@IndianTechGuide Very kind act , God bless to person who even think about this .

@IndianTechGuide Great work by Indian railways. Congrats 👏

🚨 Bilaspur railway station sprays water from its roof to cool passengers amid extreme heat.

I do not believe in a God who maliciously or arbitrarily interferes in the personal affairs of mankind. My religion consists of a humble admiration for the vast power which manifests itself in that small part of the universe which our poor, weak minds can grasp! - A. Einstein, in a 1930 interview with M. K. Wisehart

Hear the lament seaslope.blogspot.com/2026/05/hear-l… #poem #poems #poetry #climate #nature

🚨: According to Philosophy, the highest form of peace is to have zero desire to be understood, admired, pitied or even known

@Gabbar0099 ..and in this collective pride they also conceive mass entertainment of crude delusion of grandeur

Well said 👏 Bitter Truth 🎯

Karl Popper (1902-1994) on what it means to be a rationalist ✍️ When I speak of reason or rationalism, all I mean is the conviction that we can learn through criticism of our mistakes and errors, especially through criticism by others, and eventually also through self-criticism. A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn from others — not by simply taking over another's opinions, but by gladly allowing others to criticize his ideas and by gladly criticizing the ideas of others. The emphasis here is on the idea of criticism or, to be more precise, critical discussion. The genuine rationalist does not think that he or anyone else is in possession of the truth; nor does he think that mere criticism as such helps us achieve new ideas. But he does think that, in the sphere of ideas, only critical discussion can help us sort the wheat from the chaff. He is well aware that acceptance or rejection of an idea is never a purely rational matter; but he thinks that only critical discussion can give us the maturity to see an idea from more and more sides and to make a correct judgement of it. -- as mentioned in All Life is Problem Solving (1999)