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Congratulations @prasen_yadav Your breathtaking photograph of the rare black tiger from Similipal shines on the October 2025 cover of National Geographic. A once-in-a-lifetime image that brings spotlight on India’s wild treasures to millions in the world. Bravo 👏 @NatGeo #Blacktiger

@GoodNewsCorres1 So beautiful ❤️❤️

Boy asked his father to perform with him at a school function and their song left everyone stunned and in tears. Give this listen 😭🎶🎵 (🎥:nickhagelin)

@supriyasahuias Awesome. Many congratulations 👏👏

The second synchronized Nilgiri Tahr survey successfully concluded across 176 blocks in Tamil Nadu’s Western Ghats, with 800 staff covering about 2,000 km. Nilgiri Tahr were frequently sighted, with young ones, suggesting a healthy female-to young ratio. Here are some incredible observations; 1. In Periyattumalai (Coimbatore division), Tahrs were sighted again after a decade, showing encouraging conservation signs 2. New colonization was confirmed in Pasumalai block (Megamalai division), indicating habitat recovery. 3. Nilgiri Tahr were also seen at low elevations 4. Pavetta oblanceolata- a rare flora species has been recorded in Anamalai. A critically endangered species A Big Shout out to my team led by the Project Director Thiru M.G. Ganesan,APD Ganeshram and the entire team of researchers and scientists . Way to go team 👏 #ProjectNilgiriTahr #Nilgiritahr #Synchronisedsurvey @tnforestdept @IUCN @WWFINDIA @tanuvas

@Rainmaker1973 Outstanding creativity & brilliance 👏👏

Karakuri puppets are traditional Japanese mechanized automata wonders made originally from the XVII and up to XIX century. The word Karakuri stands for “trick” or “mechanisms” in Japanese. [📹 NHL World Japan]

@gunsnrosesgirl3 So Adorable ❤️❤️

Angelica Nero sings "let it be" She is 3 years old x.com/visualfeastwan…

@vishy64theking @chesscom_in @ChessbaseIndia @viditchess @rpraggnachess @DGukesh So lovely ❤️❤️

A day to remember! @chesscom_in @ChessbaseIndia @viditchess @rpraggnachess @DGukesh

@ENV_ASP @XCorpIndia What an ugly thing to say. Instead of congratulating the hard work, bringing in food preferences shows the low level mindset.. kudos to Supreme court!

.@XCorpIndia If this post doesn't violate your hate speech policy, then it's time you reconsider having one at all. Silence in the face of hate is complicity. Your system can't detect hate in this post, but only a human who understands how the caste system works can infer its true meaning!

@LynAldenContact Watched it after seeing your tweet. Outstanding & the visuals were insanely good! Eagerly waiting for the next season now. 😊

I don't usually like video game adoptions, but Arcane on Netflix was *shockingly* good. A rare case where one throws an unlimited budget at something, but also prioritizes the writers. I ignored it originally, but watched it for the upcoming second season finale. A masterpiece.

மகிழ்ச்சி மகிழ்ச்சி #மெய்யழகன் #ஏறுகோள்காணிக்கை #பிரேம்குமார் youtu.be/LwkPh1Cf1no?si…

@PayaniDharan Wish you a very Happy Birthday Sir! 🎂 வாழ்க வளமுடன்.

💚 என் பிறந்தநாள். நீண்ட சாலைப் பயணம். கடந்த பிறந்தநாள் கொண்டாட்டங்களின் ஒரு அழகிய நினைவு. இன்னும் நடந்திருக்கலாமே என்பது நப்பாசை. இப்படியும் ரம்மியமாக நடந்ததே என்பது நெகிழ்வு. பயணம் தொடர்கிறது. பிறந்தநாள் வாழ்த்து தெரிவிக்கும் நண்பர்கள் அனைவருக்கும் மிக்க நன்றி. #பயணிதரன் #வாழ்வெனும்பயணம் Vaidehi Sridharan Ramesh Babu Lakshmanan Renuka Ramesh #birthday #travel #வாழ் #உருவாக்கு #பகிர்

@gunsnrosesgirl3 More beautiful than a ballet! ❤️

Courtship dance of the Pin-tailed whydah 📹softcorebirder twitter.com/Earthlings10m/…

@bharatbetpf Excellent Analysis!

Short note on potential long term growth challenges to Bajaj Housing. 🏡 Please note: This is not a view on the IPO (which will likely do well), but rather an attempt to understand the drivers of growth for the business and how sustainable they could be. 1. Mix shift: AUM mix has shifted significantly towards historically riskier segments like Developer financing and Lease Rental Discounting. These segments have compounded at close to 60% and now drive ~33% of total AUM. 2. Concentration risks: The faster growing segments face a natural concentration risk since few clients with large individual ticket sizes avail of these loans. In economic downcycles, developer failures, execution slowdowns or occupancy risk can kick in quite sharply. Segment, Avg ticket size, Client count Developer finance: 45.9cr, 432 Lease Rental Discounting: 101.8cr, 249 Less than 700 clients contribute to ~33% of the firm’s loan book 3. Regulatory caps: RBI guidelines for housing finance companies have also been becoming stricter with time requiring more part of the book focussed on housing finance and retail housing. This will likely put a cap on further growth on the LRD & Developer financing numbers and thereby firm's AUM. 4. BT slowdown: As the business scales it will face competition with much larger competitors with substantially lower cost of capital. This will have an impact on transfer of balances. In order to be more competitive for prime clients, the business may have to reduce spread (% transfers from other banks and financial institutions) Balance transfers from other banks to Bajaj Housing have been on a downward path 5. Spread compression The combination of a move towards large commercial lending and increased competitive environment with scale has also put a pressure on spreads of the business. While this will be offset in part by the lower operational costs from catering to the institutional segments, it is an important factor to monitor.

@shyamsek What a beautiful composition! ❤️

The first time I heard this piece was almost forty three years ago. It was in a theatre not too far from where the music was originally recorded. The whole experience of a musical composition within a movie that's not a song was new. It opened up an interest in me that has stayed on to this day. The most interesting thing is the music feels so modern and current even today. That Embar Kannan could play what VS Narsimhan played in the original to such perfection and recreate the same magic is the highlight of this performance. Pure joy for the @ilaiyaraaja fan. youtu.be/srH4mHYE8bg?si…

@ArcherSheetal @abhilasha21192 @RakeshK21328176 Many congratulations 👏👏 You are an inspiration to all!

Last evening's post-match moment... etched in my heart forever! With humble hearts, we deepest gratitude we bow down to Matarani for her love and blessings. ❤️@abhilasha21192 @RakeshK21328176

@shyamsek Congratulations & Best wishes Sir!

I see myself primarily as an investor. My focus is just totally on that role. Whether I invest for myself or others, I do exactly the same things. I never try to go beyond what I mandated myself. I don't compare. I never race with others. (This is a bit tough as the market measures only relative performance). But I never let that bother me too much. I don't consciously try to outperform. I focus more on risk management and absolute alpha. Relative performance is only a consequence of doing my investing with total focus. Enjoying what I do is my most important need. By the time I started a PMS, I did not need to earn money. But, I still chose to work for others. The money does not interest me so much. But I love the job. Creating products gives me the highest satisfaction. Why am I saying all this now? Because the journey completes five years tomorrow. @ithoughtpms

@simonmontefiore Such an insightful post! 👏👏

The desperate quest by Western pundits and politicians for that elusive holy grail: the "reformer" - pragmatic & proWestern - within the dark cliques at the top of authoritarian, totalitarian tyrannies or Islamist terrorist sects or police states reveals both weakness and naivety. An example is this extremely good but far too positive piece in the FT today about Iran's new moderate presidency. This is very much a historical phenomenum. A few thoughts on this. We sought these elusive ghosts in Stalin's Politburo, Hitler's court, Saddam's Revolutionary Command, Taliban's Shura Council, Hamas's Politburo and Hezbollah's Shura Council. In Russia we fall for it every time. Stalin loved to claim he was the moderate liberal in the Politburo and that mysterious hardliners were forcing his hand. The appeasement of Hitler in 1930s depended on this narrative. In fact of course the dictators in those cases were the chief extremists in a covin of extremists. We hoped Putin was our reformer too. He turned out not to be either. We long for friends like us and this gullible neediness makes us very liable to be manipulated and played by tyrannies and terrorist parastates. The media, hungry for 'access' and supposed 'insights' but also naively well meaning, is so easily played by these organizations and regimes. The Taliban claimed they were now moderates, a myth that appeared in endless 'authoritative' media stories that eased the way US negotiations and withdrawal. Now in the tragedy of Afghanistan we see their real policies. In Hamas, Western media claimed Hamas were now 'moderates' and books appeared entitled with titles like 'from terror to governance'. Then came October 7th and the brutal war sacrificing their own people with flinthearted and self righteous elan. More recently Haniyeh was hailed as pragmatic moderate in respectful obituaries. Even though he repeatedly turned down ceasefire deals. & in Iran, for 45 years, every other president is hailed as a pragmatist moderate. We never learn. In this case the existence of an elected presidency befuddles Western analysis: Iran is ruled by the autocratic sacred monarchs known as Supreme Leaders who decide everything. Of course this is an inbuilt psychological weakness and neediness within liberal democracies, govt and media. It is a sign of our better hearts, our openmindedness, our decency, our liberalism. We crave glints of moderation and decency in brutal murderous groups. We hope for people like us. But the fact is that people who devote their lives to rise in terrorist groups or Islamist dictatorships, who embrace the conspiratorial and paranoid life, who risk everything to pursue and use violence to terrorize and kill civilians, are not like us. There is always politics in any organization or regime with different shades of opinion style approach. There are always personal and organizational rivalries though often the ideological differences are tiny. It is also very easy to manipulate Western optimism, naivety and yes self loathing; there is a strong strain in our mentality that respects the religious and fanaticism and belief that is (thank god) lacking in our own societies. But manipulating these tendencies is the oldest trick in the book and requires no sophistication, just a bit of cunning. In fact changes are usually made in these regimes only because of the realities of power change ( see Khamenei's recent change of tone on negotiating with America after massive US deployment and Israeli acutely successful strikes and assassinations against Iran itself and its vassals Hamas and Hezbollah.) But as we found in Taliban, in Russia, in Hamas, in Iran: sometimes there is noone who can really be described as a moderate... and we have to steel ourselves to bleakly, robustly play the World Game accordingly to win....

@PayaniDharan Really inspiring! 👏👏

"எட்டாவதுல அப்பா இறந்துட்டாங்க. பத்தாவது முடித்துவிட்டு மேலே படிக்கவேண்டும் என்றபோது, “பொம்பளைப் புள்ளைக்கு எதுக்குப் படிப்பு?”ன்னு ஒரே வார்த்தைல முடிச்சிட்டாரு சித்தப்பா. என் அம்மா செய்யும் எல்லா வேலையையும் கூடவே போய் செய்வேன். தேசிய நெடுஞ்சாலையைக் கடக்கும் போதெல்லாம், நாமளும் ஒரு நாள் இப்படி வேலைக்குப் போவோமா என்று தோன்றும். முதலில் தையல் வகுப்பு. அதைத் தொடர்ந்து, தட்டச்சு, பிறகு பட்டப்படிப்பு, பட்டமேல்படிப்பு முடித்துவிட்டு, ஆசிரியர் தகுதித் தேர்வு (TET) பெற்று, இப்போது அரசாங்கப் பள்ளியில் ஆசிரியராக இருக்கிறேன்." கலக்கல்! வாழ்க, வாழ்க! கல்வி எனும் ஆயுதம்! 💪 👍 😻 *** #பயணிதரன் #வாழ்வெனும்பயணம் #தன்மேம்பாடு #சமூகமேம்பாடு #அறிவியல்சிந்தனை

@ENV_ASP Such brutality! I am reminded of the quote 'The strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must'

#PoliceBrutality against vulnerable citizens isn't isolated—it's a systemic problem. CCTV live streams from #police stations would likely reveal countless similar incidents. Abusing power against the powerless is the epitome of cowardice. 📹 Jitupatwari.

@DanWuori So beautiful ❤️ And the musical piece being played Einaudi's Experience is also magical 👏

New sensory experiences “light up” your child’s developing brain. I just love this video, which has gone viral in recent days, of a toddler being exposed for the first time to a new and fascinating sound: a violin being played by a street performer in Valencia. It’s almost as if he’s drawn by a magnet to the sound and performer - joyfully waving his hands as he wobbles his way over to get a closer look. New sensory experiences activate the brain’s neural networks and help to create and strengthen their pathways. But I also want to spotlight something special the violinist does: Noticing her little admirer, she not only turns to face him, but crouches down to meet him at eye level - allowing him a better vantage point on the whole situation. Not only is this a strategy parents should employ as much as possible, but it’s a great marker of early childhood classroom quality. Looking for an amazing infant-toddler teacher? One really committed to optimizing your child’s early development? Be on the lookout for those who spend their days down on the floor, interacting directly with children face-to-face at eye level. This lovely interaction comes via reh_violin on TT.

@ManuTsr @FreeFinCal @pattufreefincal So scary!! 😳

The underestimated risk of encumbrance in real estate investing (which equity doesn't have). freefincal.com/the-underestim… via @freefincal @pattufreefincal