Dr. K. Shreedhar

My research article #ScienceDiplomacy and Indian Freedom Movement: A Retrospective View of Events during the 1870s-1940s is available on @ResearchGate: researchgate.net/publication/36… @spf_in @SciDipAlliance @IndianDiplomacy @SciDip

I will tell you exactly why TN has been fighting against NEET. This state has highest number of private colleges. Mostly politically linked. They all earn a lot on capitation fees, like hundreds of crores every year. Much of this is lost due to NEET. PM Modi's govt also capped fees, increased seats, and did many things that's hurting them a lot financially. They want NEET gone, Modi gone. So as they protest for these things, GLISCO-DS has joined the issue and told them to link NEET to Brahmans, Modi (though the man is OBC), and Adani (Jain). They do it faithfully like slaves of the CPC without any brain cells.

Once upon a time... there was a nation called Persia, they gave shelter to 4,000 muslims..a 100 yrs later, every Parsi was wiped out. Today, that nation is Iran. Just thought you should know what you’re bringing to this Country….

The actual reason the entire ecosystem was haunting him for a long time. Unfortunately, even some from our side were helping them.

How many of you know this? It’s time to remind these Gen-Z who were babies when this happened. That’s the difference between BJP and present opposition. 2010 April 6. Dantewada. Naxals ambush and kill 76 security personnel one of the worst attacks on Indian forces. Next day, then Home Minister P. Chidambaram offers his resignation, taking full moral responsibility. The Prime Minister rejects it. What does the main opposition party (BJP) do? They don’t demand his head. They don’t create street theatre. They don’t stall Parliament. Their spokespersons come out and say clearly: this is not the time for politics. The country is facing a serious internal security challenge. Chidambaram resigning now would only be celebrated by the Maoists. The nation comes first. Stay and fight. That was the stand of the opposition in 2010. Fast forward to 2026. Paper leak in NEET. Serious issue, no doubt. Students are angry, and they have every right to demand answers and reforms. But look at how the Congress and other opposition has handled it. From day one they made one single demand the non-negotiable condition for everything: Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan must resign. They refused discussion in Parliament unless he is sacked first. They turned the entire monsoon session into a slogan-shouting ground. They joined every protest and amplified the demand for resignation as if that alone would magically fix the examination system. In 2010, when 76 jawans were killed, the opposition said “nation first, politics later.” In 2026, when students are frustrated over exam leaks, the opposition’s first and loudest demand is “minister must go.” This is the difference between treating a crisis as a national challenge and treating every crisis as a political opportunity. One side in 2010 chose restraint when the country was bleeding. The other side today chooses maximum pressure and street-level agitation the moment they see a chance to corner the government. People can decide for themselves which approach shows respect for institutions and which one reduces every problem to a resignation drama. Accountability is important. Reforms are needed. But turning every issue into a demand for one minister’s head, while blocking Parliament, is not statesmanship. It is pure, petty politics. That’s the contrast. Clear as day.

This young man is an engineer from IIT, Chennai. PhD in Aeronautical Engg on Boeing Scholarship. Married to the daughter of VC of BHU. He is Madhavan from Chennai, director of a Bangalore based company. He is allowed to work from home as he said his first priority is Maduranthakam Ramar temple kaikaryam. His wife padmasana is pursuing a PhD in Sanskrit. Who says Tradition and Technology can not go hand in hand...This IITian has very early understood that education is not just limited to technology as there is no end to knowledge. Salute to his hard work , dedication and motivation.

An Indian institute filmed a professor teaching classical physics with no notes, no slides, and a green board. Almost nobody outside India watches it. This is Classical Physics, lecture 1, taught by V. Balakrishnan at IIT Madras, published free by NPTEL, India's national open courseware programme. Balakrishnan taught at IIT Madras for decades. Students who sat in that room describe the same thing: the whole subject held in his head, delivered in order, no paper on the podium. Lecture 1 is the introduction. What classical mechanics claims, where the claims hold, and the exact points where they stop holding and quantum takes over. Watch how he speaks. Complete sentences, no filler, each idea finished before the next begins. Rare in any lecture hall on any continent. A physicist I know worked through the whole NPTEL series and rates it above the western courses he paid for. Free on YouTube, 17 years online, low resolution, no marketing. The teaching was never concentrated in the famous universities.

Mandatory military training for a few years in high school & college is the way to instill some discipline with a declining low iq crowd.

Sharing as received.. Very Interesting.. Read Full .. THE COBRA EFFECT 🐍 (Lesson for Reservation policy) During the British Raj, officials grew concerned about the rising number of venomous 🐍 cobras in Delhi. To tackle the issue, they introduced a bounty for every dead 🐍 snake. At first, the policy seemed successful, many 🐍 cobras were killed. But soon, an unintended consequence appeared. Enterprising locals began breeding 🐍 cobras to claim the reward. Once the government realised this loophole and scrapped the bounty programme, the breeders released their now-worthless 🐍 snakes. The result ? 👉🏼 The 🐍 cobra population surged to even higher levels than before. This episode is remembered as the 🐍 Cobra Effect, a classic example of how well-meaning incentives can backfire, producing the exact opposite of the intended outcome. The “Cobra 🐍 Effect” is such a powerful reminder that policies and incentives don’t just create results, they create behaviours. When you reward outcomes without thinking of human ingenuity, people will always find a shortcut. That’s why in governance, business, or even personal systems designing incentives matter more than setting targets. Otherwise, you end up with more 🐍 cobras, not less.

Sujatha once received vi0lent threats from an enraged mob over his weekly historical novel Karuppu Sivappu Veluppu, set in 1857 British-era Tamil Nadu. The mob's demand was clear - stop writing or face vi0lent consequences. Although the editor of Kumudham stood firmly behind him and urged him to continue despite the intimidation, Sujatha made the pragmatic decision to discontinue it. Predictably, he was branded a coward. Critics mocked him as a hypocrite who lacked the courage to stand by his own writing. But Sujatha swallowed his pride because he knew he could not reason with a mob that was hell bent on misunderstanding him. He also knew that his critics won't stand by him if he loses a limb standing for "principles" they admire. Years later, after the outrage had faded and the mob had found something else to be angry about, Sujatha returned to the very same novel. He published it under a different title (Ratham Orey Niram) and completed it on his own terms. Not everything that appears to be a L today remains an L in the long-term. Retreating from a battle you are not interested in fighting is also a winning strategy. Let them stick to their job of namecalling you as Ranchod, you stick to your job of picking your battles.

2007 : Rajdeep Sardesai airs a program on CNN IBN claiming Sohrabuddin encounter was fake 2008 : Rajdeep is awarded Padmashree by Sonia Gandhi 2010 : Amit Shah arrested in Sohrabuddin case and spends 3 months in jail. He is acquitted in 2014 as it's a fake case. 2018 : Courts declare Sohrabuddin case false. Everyone is acquitted. Many had careers ruined and spent years in jail. 2020 : Rajdeep and 10 other "journalists" apologise in court for fake reporting in 2007. 2026 : Rajdeep is glorifying CJP Ashutosh Ranka without mentioning his role as AAP spokesperson. Calls others Godi media. Your short memory is the only reason they exist. Share it.

They have always been stupid, everywhere...

THE COBRA EFFECT 🐍 During the British Raj, officials grew concerned about the rising number of venomous cobras in Delhi. To tackle the issue, they introduced a bounty for every dead snake. At first, the policy seemed successful, many cobras were killed.

Why 10 years jail proposed for those who leak question papers but no punishment for those who buy them? Why shouldn’t parents and children not receive a hefty fine and a jail term?

Some definitions in our country, we should be aware.. 1Atheist - One who hates only Hindu gods.. 2Secular - One who loves all religions except Hinduism. 3Feminist - Those who oppose only the patriarchy in Hinduism. 4Animal lover - Those who argue that cruelty towards animals exists only in Hindu traditions. 5Environmentalist - One who feels bad about pollution only during Hindu festivals.. 6Freedom Of Speech - The right given by the Constitution only to abuse Hindus, Hindu gods, and Hindu customs

Don’t know about Rang De Basanti, but let me tell you what some of us millennials actually grew up watching. I was in primary school during the 1993 Mumbai bombings -- too young to even understand what terrorism meant. But I distinctly remember my mom repeatedly warning me not to pick up anything lying around while playing outside because, you know, it could be a bomb. That was childhood. Then came the seemingly endless procession of attacks: the 1993 Mumbai blasts, Red Fort in 2000, Parliament in 2001, the Mumbai bus bombings and Akshardham in 2002, three separate blasts within eight months in Mumbai in 2003, the 2005 Delhi blasts, the 2007 Hyderabad bombings, and the 2008 Bangalore and Ahmedabad blasts. In July 2006, I was supposed to be on one of the trains that was bombed near Mahim. I stayed back at the office because of a meeting. A completely mundane change of plans is probably the reason I’m alive to type this instead of being a name on a list of the dead. I remember that evening far better than I remember any stupid movie. Our office went into lockdown. Phones were jammed. People were crying and frantically trying to reach their families. Nobody knew what was happening, whether there were more bombs, or whether someone they loved was lying dead inside a mangled train compartment. Two years later came 26/11. I had the misfortune of watching uncensored footage of the aftermath. One clip showed bodies being piled and stacked inside a makeshift room at CST while someone wheeled in another load on a bloodied wheelbarrow, with blood dripping onto the floor. The sanitised footage shown on television didn't come remotely close to what actually happened inside that station. So yes, us millennials lived through an era where we went to work knowing that the crime of simply boarding the wrong train, getting on the wrong bus, eating at the wrong restaurant, or standing on the wrong street at the wrong fucking moment could get you blown to pieces or riddled with bullets. Some of us literally went to work wondering, somewhere at the back of our minds, whether this would be the commute we wouldn't come home from. So please, spare us millennials this sanctimonious horseshit about Rang De Basanti and what some Bollywood movie supposedly should have taught us about how to vote.

I am disturbed because every protest in India seems to have the same script. 1. Abuse Lord Ram. 2. Abuse Bharat Mata. 3. Abuse PM Modi. 4. Abuse PM Modi’s late mother. 5. Abuse Brahmins. 6. Abuse Hindutva. No discussion. No solutions. Only slogans, abuse, and chaos. The opposition seems to be living under the illusion that one day they will be able to create a Nepal-like situation in India. No trade deal with the US has even been signed yet, but some farmers are already ready to block Delhi. This is becoming a circus. How can a nation progress when so many people are willing to protest first and verify facts later?

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was. I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent. Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation." Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened. What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool. When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion. In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all. So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate. Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

To everyone who was trying to become another Che Guevara today, let me tell you a cold reality - IF the Delhi Police decides to scan the footage for so called 'students' who were hitting the policemen and indulging in property destruction and stone pelting, and press charges, you will spend many years running around polic stations and courts. Ask those who participated in farmer's protest and now have cases against them. Your so called leaders and sponsors will be sitting in their a/c rooms and won't give two hoots about you. Its your life which will be ruined.

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