Jayesh Surisetti

A 94-year-old Nobel laureate spent his career proving the Big Bang created our universe. Now he is arguing that the Big Bang was the death of the universe before ours. Roger Penrose won half the 2020 Nobel Prize for a 1965 paper. He showed that any star big enough, when it collapses under its own weight, has to form a black hole. It is still considered the most important work on Einstein's theory of gravity since Einstein himself. The same math says our universe began at a singularity, a single point so dense that physics breaks down inside it. Stephen Hawking later joined him to extend the proof to the universe itself. Then in 2010, at 79, he proposed something stranger. The Big Bang was a handoff between universes. One universe ended at the moment ours began. His theory is called Conformal Cyclic Cosmology. Space keeps expanding forever, pushed apart by dark energy, a force scientists cannot fully explain. Eventually stars die, galaxies drift apart, and all matter falls into supermassive black holes, some as heavy as a hundred trillion suns. Those black holes then slowly evaporate through Hawking radiation, where particles slip out from the edge until nothing is left. The process takes about 10^106 years, a 1 followed by 106 zeros. Our universe is only 13.8 billion years old. Only massless particles remain, mostly photons of light. Penrose noticed that particles with no mass cannot experience time, because nothing inside them can tick like a clock. Without time, the difference between infinitely big and infinitely small disappears. A vast empty universe, stretched out forever, ends up looking identical to a new Big Bang. Penrose argued they are the same thing. In 2018, he and three other physicists published a paper in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society. They claimed to find about 30 bright dots in the cosmic microwave background, the Big Bang's faint afterglow. They called the dots Hawking points, each the dying glow of a supermassive black hole from the universe before ours, leaking through the seam between worlds. When other astronomers reanalyzed the data in 2020, the dots could be explained by ordinary physics. A 2022 machine learning search could not confirm the patterns. Penrose has not backed down. If he is right, every black hole, including the giant one at the center of our galaxy, is quietly weaving the next universe. Heat death becomes inheritance. The man who proved beginnings have to exist is spending his last years trying to prove there is no such thing as a beginning.

Fantastically written piece, irrespective of whether you agree with the politics of it.

There's a version of Suryakumar Yadav that made cricket look unfair. He was India's first genuine Modern-day T20 Batter with High AVG and High SR both which was rare. His 360 degree batting style caught the eyes of experts around the world. But, today that same 360 degree style is causing a decline in his performance graph. Something has shifted. And tonight, with Mumbai Indians facing a must-win against Sunrisers Hyderabad, understanding what that shift actually is matters more than just saying he's out of form. The easy story is that SKY has lost touch. But, I tried to find what exactly is wrong with SKY. #IPL2026 #MIvSRH

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I've written this up as a full article — the structural changes, the institutional reforms needed to give them durability, and the sequencing logic that makes the difference between reform and ritual. The Rashtriya Kosh: Reimagining India's Budget. @jayeshsurisetti/the-rashtriya-kosh-reimagining-indias-budget-18f28e4216d0" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">medium.com/@jayeshsuriset…

6/ Is the structure fixable? None of this requires new institutions. None of it requires new legislation. None of it requires inter-governmental negotiation. It requires a Finance Ministry willing to present more honest information than it currently does. 9/10

Every February, India's Finance Minister walks into Parliament with a briefcase. Markets hold their breath. Studios fill with noise. And not one person can tell you whether India's sovereign net worth went up or down that year. We don't measure it. We never have. 1/10

I have no idea what happened in Kolkata in the Messi event. But I couldn't help thinking that we Indians really do not like sport. We like stars. What else could explain the millions, and I mean millions of dollars we spend to fly in superstars, when they will not even play a proper match. I am ok with paying whatever it takes to bring in a top football team to play in India, like Messi did in 2011 or Tata Steel did for a long time in the 80s and 90s. But getting them to come here just to shake hands and pose for pictures defies all reason. They will sell real estate, take pictures with every sponsor and go back with more money in two days than say the I League used to spend in a year. I don't blame the organizers for getting into this, its a really profitable business, because the politicians are getting serious free mileage and the sponsor is spending his, or his company's money to fulfil his childhood fantasy. The journalists are overawed just to be there with a generational superstar, lots of folks are spending a reported Rs 10 lacs for a handshake and a photo op and the real estate guys are busy pushing deals. That's millions of bucks spent on a footballer, whose closest attempt at action would be kicking a few footballs at the crowd or dribbling for a few minutes. Money that is desperately desperately needed elsewhere in actual football. Real camps, matches, ground level sponsorships. Or even to revive a football league. And then we expect India to be better at sport!

This might not work. But we’re releasing our first feature film on YouTube. For free. We’re putting it out on a YouTube channel called Chalchitra Originals - a curated platform we want to use to champion, showcase, distribute, and produce films and shows from creators across India who are looking for a YouTube release. What we’re doing isn’t backed by any data. But YouTube changed our lives when we started Chalchitra Talks in 2018. It was our BC-to-AD moment. And we want to create another one. A film is made to be seen by as many people as possible, and there’s one medium we truly understand that allows that: YouTube. Right now, Chalchitra Originals has fewer than 3,000 subscribers. Our goal is to reach 10,000 before release day. It would mean the world to us if you head to YouTube, search for Chalchitra Originals, and subscribe. Once you do, comment “Subscribed” below. We feel this could disrupt the world of independent filmmaking in India through YouTube - and all we need is your help. So let’s do it. Scenes from a Situationship Releasing on 24th December On the Chalchitra Originals YouTube channel. For free.

We all lament that India is obsessed with cricket and everyone wants to only play cricket and nothing else. However a 15 year old Haryanvi kid, Hardik Rathi wanted to be different. He wanted to play Basketball. And he was doing it quite successfully. Hardik was already a national level player, and in a country with a billion people, playing at a national level is a big deal. And not only did he play at the national level, he was amazing at it. He had won a silver at the Sub Junior National championship and a bronze at the National Championship as well. He had been selected for the upcoming U-17 national tournament for which he was preparing in full tilt. Hardik had promised his father that he would play for the Indian team in 2026. And Aman had told his mother, "Believe me, I will make you proud". Sadly it was not to be. On 25th November at 10:30 am, Hardik was practicing on the local basketball court in Lakhan Majra Village in Haryana, when he did a routine dunk on the basket. He missed his first attempt but on the second one he made it. Towards the end of the dunk, he caught the basket and the entire 750 Kg pole, came crashing down on him, crushing his internal organs and causing massive internal bleeding. His friends immediately lifted the pole and rushed him to the hospital, but unfortunately he had passed away. What was supposed to be a happy practice session followed by a nice time with family, ended with unfathomable tragedy for the family of Hardik Rathee. It would have remained a tragedy had we not learnt the story behind the killer pole. Because after that it is very clear. It was not a tragedy. It was a murder. A murder by the biggest mass murderer in India. Governmental corruption. Four years ago, the Lakhan Majra villagers had pointed the dilapidated facilities at the stadium including the rusted basketball pole. They said it posed grave danger to the kids using them. Rajya Sabha MP had sanctioned Rs 11 Lakhs from his MPLADs fund for its repair, but the file was "stuck" in the Gram Panchayat office. They were waiting for Tenders. A delegation even met the CM, Nayab Saini to do something about it. On his exhortation, the tender was floated last week. Too late for Hardik Rathi. It is very clear that it was Govt apathy, lack of intent and corruption that killed Rathi. The pole was merely a weapon in the hands of these corrupt people. Bu the saddest part in this whole tragedy is that, nothing is going to happen to the Govt officials involved. On cue, the Govt has announced Rs 5 Lakhs as ex-gratia, appointed a 4 member committee to "investigate", the CM has ordered a "thorough" audit of all sports facilities and the removal of rusted equipment from all sites. And for scapegoat, they have suspended a lowly official, who will be quietly reinstated once the furore dies down. This was not even the only death as a result of malfunctioning govt equipment. 65 Kms away in Bahadurgarh, Aman Kumar also died when a broken basketball pole fell on him. He died painfully and his last words to his father were "Papa, take me in your lap, my pain is unbearable" Nobody, I repeat nobody deserves to face a situation like what Aman father faced. Like Hardik's father, he too had to face it, because of the monumental apathy, mindboggling corruption and the absolute lack of repercussions for the govt employees to do whatever they want. They know they will face no consequences for killing promising kids, other than have chai and samosa with members of the 4 member committee whose only job is to clear them. Below is the image of the pole that killed Hardik Rathi. It is a very good metaphor for the system of governance that we in India currently have. How many more innocent kids have to die, before the govt wakes up and understands that governmental corruption is the biggest threat to India, not China or Pakistan? They threaten to attack from outside, but these parasites eat from within.

India is least productive; we do work that is lowest in value chain. Worse, the productivity gap is every increasing. Our GDP is primarily population driven. As population saturates, we won't be able to push up the GDP much further. The only way out is massive focus on quality education and R&D so that our people are skilled enough to do work higher up the value chain and produce more dollars for the same hours worked. We need to move up the value-chain. whatsapp.com/channel/0029Vb…

The women have won! India has won! Brought it home finally! #TeamIndia

Bow down to the #KING 👑 #KINGTitleReveal