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Couple crows wait patiently every morning in the balcony for their morning treat! Credits: anita_vlogs_

When Classical Dance Meets the Moon… Pure Magic.

Why Norman Borlaug is the greatest human being who has ever stepped foot on earth in the last 100 years Invents things that saves lives instead of killing people Creates a new variety of Wheat in Mexico which resists all diseases like Rust Orchestrates a masterclass in international collaboration where he crosses his Mexican wheat variant with a Japanese variant to create the new Wolverine of Wheat which grows anywhere. Doesn't patent it and gives it away for free. Distributes his wheat seeds at no cost to both India and Pakistan right in the middle of the 1965 war. Works closely with India and doubles our Wheat output in 5 years In 1974, Ensures the second most populous country at that time became self sufficient in food. The same country which imported weed infested wheat just 10 years prior Then creates a new rice variant by crossing Indian and Japanese variants which doubles productivity Creates a maize variant for Africa, triples its output and saves 10 African countries from Famine. Is out on a field planting crops at 4 AM when he receives the news of his Nobel Prize. Saves a billion people from Starvation Saves entire nations from revolution. Reduces the area required for Cereal cultivation in the world by 66% Awarded USAs highest civilian award and our own Padma Vibhushan. (Should have been given the Bharat Ratna, but I digress) Saved 1/3 rd of Humanity from descending into chaos and madness What he did has been feeding a billion people daily for the last 50 years and will for the next 50. Doesn't it feel awkward that we shower epithets like God, Legend and GOAT on sportsmen and actors, when someone like Norman Borlaug exists

Lol, now let me narrate what Rash Behari Bose did next. You are not ready for this! Obviously he didn't stop at the failed attempt on Viceroy Hardinge's life in Delhi. He returned to Dehradun, where he used to work as an officer in the British government's Forest Research Institute (and sourced bomb-making ingredients to be supplied to his revolutionary nationalist comrades), and continued as if nothing had happened. When Viceroy Hardinge came to Dehradun to recuperate from his bomb attack injuries, chad Bengali Rash Behari Bose organised a grand welcome for the viceroy in the town, and personally came down to the railway station to receive the viceroy. He had thrown a dinner party one evening in the viceroy's honour, in which he himself gave the welcome speech, proposed a toast to Viceroy's health and passed a unanimous vote of honours for Hardinge. Viceroy Hardinge was beside himself when he came to know about it, and profusely thanked Rash Behari for the grand welcome and the honours arranged so meticulously and so well even before he could arrive in the town! Moreover, some well-placed police officers were directed to seek the "loyal government servant" Rash Behari's assistance to track down the revolutionary nationalists who had attacked the Viceroy. Unreservedly, the police shared with him all the secret papers & plans which they had recovered in the course of their investigations. Rash Behari went through all these investigation proceedings himself and took note of the plans made by the British police (LOL). After returning from Dehradun, Viceroy Hardinge came to know that the man who had organised his welcome, received him personally at the station, and gave a speech in his honour in Dehradun was the same man who masterminded the bomb attack on him. By then, Rash Behari had vanished. Hardinge writes:

He skipped placements at IIT Madras for 2 consecutive days. On the third day, he took a flight back to Mangalore just to avoid being forced by his family to attend placements. His desire to build an aircraft company was so intense that it made him act irrationally in front of his family. He then started building his aircraft company from Bengaluru. When he had barely Rs 20,000 in hand, he still hired an intern, promising a stipend of Rs 7,000. On one of the days when he could not make it back to his PG on time, he spent the night at the Majestic bus stand. All of this at the age of 23! That is the story of @shreepoorna365, founder of Arctus Aerospace, a company building unmanned aerial vehicles that can fly up to 45,000 feet and capture imagery for a wide range of use cases. Hear his full story on the @mundhebanni podcast, with English subtitles for those who do not follow Kannada. 👇 youtube.com/watch?v=qiXXbr…

Not many are talking about it, but this is one of the most underrated things India is shipping right now and every Indian must know what this is all about. Let me explain; The system is called DIGIPIN and the username layer sitting on top is called DHRUVA. Built by the Department of Posts in partnership with IIT Hyderabad and ISRO's National Remote Sensing Centre. Officially launched on May 27, 2025. Here's how it works. DIGIPIN divides all of India into 4 metre by 4 metre squares. Every single square gets a unique 10-character code like 829-4G7-PMJ8. That's down to the level of your front door, your shop counter, your hospital entrance, your village home, even a fishing boat in territorial waters. The entire country is now a digital grid. But remembering a 10-character alphanumeric code is hard. So DHRUVA sits on top of it. You convert your DIGIPIN into a simple readable handle like rajesh@dhruva. The handle stays with you for life. If you move houses, only the underlying DIGIPIN updates. Your handle doesn't change. Exactly like UPI replaced 16-digit bank account numbers with simple handles. malay@ybl instead of remembering an account number. But why is our government building this? Today roughly 20-25% of Indian addresses are unstructured. Slums, tribal areas, unplanned colonies, rural homes without proper street names. An average Indian spends 8-12 extra minutes on an average in finding an address in India versus 2-3 in the West. Ambulances reach late because nobody can describe the lane. Banks reject mortgages because they can't verify the property location. Insurance claims get delayed because addresses don't match across documents. Quick commerce loses crores in failed deliveries every day. DIGIPIN solves all of this with one open-source standard. The full source code and documentation are on GitHub. Any government department, private company, or startup can integrate it for free. This is exactly the India Stack playbook. Aadhaar (identity), UPI (payments), ULPIN (land), DigiLocker (documents), and now DIGIPIN (address) are all open public infrastructure that private companies build on top of. Of course developed countries already use a version of this. But India is building the best of the lot. > UK uses postcodes plus house numbers. Works because they have structured street planning from the 1800s. We don't. > Dubai built Makani numbers. 10-digit codes tied to building entrances. Government-only, not open. > Japan uses block-based addressing that relies on physical signage and local familiarity. India just built the best version of all of these. Open-source, geo-coded, privacy-first, with a human-readable layer that even a non-tech grandparent can use. And it's free to integrate. Once this gets rolled out, the government expects that; > Ambulance response times improve by 40-60% in unplanned areas. > KYC verification becomes instant. No more manual address proof. > Rural credit unlocks. Banks can verify property and ownership in seconds for loans. > Disaster response improves. Floods, fires, earthquakes. Rescue teams know exact homes to reach. > Insurance pricing becomes location-precise. Same building, ground floor versus third floor, different flood risk, different premium. > E-commerce delivery accuracy goes from approximate to exact. Failed deliveries drop sharply. > Privacy too gets better. You share your DHRUVA handle, not your physical address. The delivery agent gets the GPS coordinates without seeing your full address. Less data exposed, less misuse. Boring infrastructure rarely gets any hype. Everyone laughed at UPI for the first two years. Now it processes 16 billion transactions a month and seven countries have adopted it. DIGIPIN will be the same story. In 5 years we'll wonder how we ever functioned without it. In 10 years it'll be quietly running underneath every delivery, every emergency call, every loan approval in India.

Holy based Gujarat, and then people ask why everything goes there. #google_vignette" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">theprint.in/the-fineprint/…

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"Indians in Trinidad are still called ‘coolies’ in some places. But I feel no shame in that. Today, that little coolie girl has become the Prime Minister of Trinidad" - Trinidad’s Indian-origin PM Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Tired elephant requesting mahout to give a leg massage.

This tiny girl giving a full-on class to a peacock for knocking over her front porch flower pot 😂 Nature vs. Housekeeping: Round 1 goes to the peacock! #PeacockProblems #VillageVibes

What happened in 2014? 👊

Enjoy the Synchronisation, enthusiastic crowd appreciation of the Percussion Music in Kerala Temple festivals 🌹

Some people just have it all.

Believe me, this man bowing down in front of public is their Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi ji. 1001 reasons why Modi ji wins your heart! #Bengal

After a 42-year conservation effort, the Archaeological Survey of India has rebuilt the sunken dance pavilion of Hanamkonda’s Thousand Pillar Temple using Kakatiya-era sandbox technology. The reconstruction of the temple’s iconic Nandi sculpture, brings back the grandeur of the 12th century monument ✍️@serish thehindu.com/news/national/…

You will never be able to guess what this ad is for. Brilliant ad making. Seeing such a good ad after a long time. Watch till the end. 🤣

Housekeeping aaya turned ultimate gym spotter 💀 Real power move right there 😂 Who’s stronger? #GymHumour #GymSpotter