kanika handa

I like silver rings, vintage photographs, turquoise, lavender, rainy nights. Solitude. Reading at 3 am. I call it 'my little happiness'.

There's no match to human ideas, vision and brilliance. Even in the age of AI, original thinkers will be much more valued that executers. AI will be the tool to sharpen abd execute. Movies like Dhurandar, especially music is an ode to sheer human vision.

#notestoself #subtleartofnotgivingafuck

There was a time… when India had almost nothing. No modern weapons to defend our borders. No strong economy to power our dreams. No health system that could reach every village. We faced terrorism without the technology we have today. We guarded our vast frontiers without strong fencing. And yet — we stood. We fought. We endured. Because we are the children of a civilisation that has never bowed its head to fear. We turned our wounds into wisdom, our challenges into opportunities. Brick by brick, we built a nation that could look any adversary in the eye. We strengthened our borders, not only with steel and concrete, but with the courage of our soldiers. We modernised our forces, fenced our boundaries, and said to the world: India will protect her own. We must remember — Independence is not only what we inherited; it is what we must preserve and strengthen. Our freedom is not a gift from history; it is a duty to the future. So today, I call upon every Indian: Stand tall, as a protector of our unity. Stand strong, as a builder of our economy. Stand proud, as a soldier of progress. Let us dream of an India where terrorism finds no shelter, where every village has a doctor, where our farmers are prosperous, our soldiers are fearless, our women are empowered, our youth are unstoppable. Because the story of India is not just about how far we have come — it is about how far we will go together. Jai Hind! Jai Bharat! 🇮🇳

It's difficult to imagine what will be left of in the work world with this AI juggernaut.

Monday thought..

Perfection is enemy of growth. Also not trying at all..

The world is too complex to allow 100% of your actions to dictate 100% of your outcome. - Morgan Housel

History never repeats itself, man always does. - Voltaire

Thinking is difficult, that's why most people judge. - Carl Jung

Of heartbreaks, separation, love & life. There are, a very few times when this song has not wet my eyes. I keep revisiting it, not to wallow, but to shake myself and feel alive in it's profound journey.. Will be forever indebted to creaters for this. youtu.be/WjjKlwt0UNk?si…

Just watched The Diplomat on @NetflixIndia Reality often is much stranger than fiction. Tension is palpable in the world of Diplomacy, ebery step of rhe way, especially when you are in Pakistan. Commendable performance by leads.

Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi. "The world doesn’t know what to do with India. We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white. We’re not monotheistic. We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized. We are something they can’t decode. We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical. We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum. We’re chaos that somehow moves forward. That bothers them. Because we aren’t supposed to succeed. We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands. Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived. When we rise, they frown. When we achieve, they doubt. Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered. But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement. They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script. They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval. We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered. We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared. And that is unsettling for those who thought we would. India rising doesn’t fit their world order. Because we didn’t wait for permission. We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will. And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise. They resist it. Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”

युद्ध कहाँ तक टाला जाए, द्वंद्व कहाँ तक पाला जाए। #IndiaPakistanWar

The more things change, the more they remain the same.

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Why can't people say one thing and also mean the same thing.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.- Fypdor Dostoevsky

Reflecting on whether I have left valley of despair or not in this journey..

The greatest obstacle to discovery is not ignorance, but it is the illusion of knowledge. - Daniel J. Boorstin