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We are the echo of our environment. Some choose to live within it. Some choose to live outside it. Some dare to change it. Daring remains constant — yet the results never are.

@KasthuriShankar ma'am , you are mixing too many things. You are sounding like my sister. It is hard with all these in single mind. Need a good mindset before coming here. Without mindset, at lease good network helps. Some people babble, disrespect and be careless after coming here. Be choosey with whom you spend time with. Some times, have to take break from best friend too. Reading pd books helps.

I came back. Many of my classmates did too. Each of us had a dream to give back to our motherland. All of them regretted it. Most of us left decades ago because TamilNadu did not want us, value us, miss us. When we came back, we still were unwelcome. Many of them went back. A few refuse to admit failure, we fight on... clinging to the blind hope that somehow we can be architects of change... but everyday we fail a little more. India is terrible to do business in. It is impossible to stay honest and feel proud about it. Here, integrity is considered a liability ! My stomach turns everytime I see a millionaire gloats his way to govt freebies... because he is rich enough to game the system My heart bleeds everytime I see government officials steal, embezzle, exploit and extort... from rich and poor alike. My will wanes everytime I see parents falsifying their caste papers... building a future for the next generation on the foundation of deceit... And my hope dies when this is all considered not shameful, but 'smart' and 'successful'. India is a cesspool of Social Injustice- where merit is shoved out by vote politics . Justice in India is lost in the corridors of our judiciary. Here, the process is the punishment. After I was hit with fake criminal cases and put in jail - 'to teach me a lesson'- I had no choice but to send away my kids.... yet I hold on, stay on, but at what cost? how much longer? Not many others can boast my kind of resilience... or perhaps foolhardiness. What has this country done for selfless social warriors except ugly deaths and oblivion? What has it done for it's academics ? It cast away entire generations of top scientists and economists who only wanted to do their job and not jump through the hoops of bureaucracy. Please remove your rose colored glasses and come up with a realistic solution. I will be the first to sign up.

Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu

In 2019, we moved back to India. My wife, with one-year-old son, and I were prepared for the relocation. We felt somewhat indifferent when we realized we had to relinquish the H4 EAD card to make the move. @svembu Sir, this concerns dignity and self-respect. I noticed how people in the US are influenced; sometimes our own people unintentionally looks down on Indians. Some individuals lose critical thinking amid the seemingly abundant freedom. The H1B visa does not represent freedom but rather resembles a modern form of servitude. This may relate to the tonic immobility seen in animals. For instance, a chicken freezes when a line is drawn in front of it. Similarly, H1B and green-card holders might stop thinking beyond certain boundaries. I observed this pattern in people as well. Behavior often changes significantly after obtaining a green card, due to influence and practices towards immigrants. Many find this hard to grasp, but conditions are worsening and linked to various geopolitical issues. The "hellhole" comment is offensive to other cultures and tends to affect future generations. This narrative especially influences our own people living in the US. The technology sector and businesses (particularly in Silicon Valley) emerged from many individuals who believed in slogans like "Make the world a better place," which aligns with the Indian philosophy of "Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam".

@squarespacehelp We are keep getting this response while saving new dns records. Is there anything we are missing ?

It’s NEVER too late to fly. She’s my hero of the day…

@shaneparrish Yes this is an intense book. I am hearing the audio book. @shaneparrish you can draw a thin line inside a thin line and show Mariana trench depth. There you can take deep divers without breaking apart. Huge 👍

Deep though: how listening helps ? helps every person, parent or a leader.

@shaneparrish Wheel and Axial .. both are important

@vensykrishna A good one.. will keep on my desk too

@anandmahindra Hey, buddy try this for flossing ..

I’ve been reminded that I haven’t done a caption call for quite a while now. So here’s something to compete for your time on a Sunday! Send me your proposed caption for the image of the lioness on the left. And the writer of the best caption—in my opinion—will receive a model Mahindra #Furio model toy truck shown in the video on the right. Entries have to be given by 3pm IST on Tuesday 9th May. On your marks, get set…

Received this post of a sequence of portraits generated by Artificial Intelligence showing a girl ageing from 5years to 95 years. I won’t fear the power of AI so much if it can create something so hauntingly beautiful….and Human…

China 🇨🇳 is the dominant solar power in the world. Its not always pretty, but provides huge amounts of renewable energies. This solar farm is installed on the mountaintop of Northern Shanxi, stretching 80 kilometers.

@NavalismHQ @naval "SMART" word is overused word in the past 3 decades Happiness is like a sugar cube! how many cubes you want for your ☕ - Addictive - Packageable - Mass production - Can mix with drinks easily - Cavities and many more Use if wisely;

"If you’re so smart, why aren’t you happy?" @naval

@vensykrishna Well said 💯 Talent is a state of mind to solve/fix things in certain way. "Talent" can be gained by Hard work, Practice and Obsession. Once the Hard work, Practice or Obsession - stoped talent is no longer a talent, a rustic wheel ⚙️ Practice, Patience, and Planning! Loop ↻

The water you drink affects the ideas you think. 💭Thoughts?

10 Visuals that will make you a better reader: 1.

In just one sentence, what does growing up mean to you?

Current financial system explained 😂