Rohit Jayas

@havellsindia Extremely poor taste of your "No Aaguddin" ad showing childrens exam center/school being shown in complete fire, nobody wishes the same ever! Am sure you have much better creative minds at your end to work out something better and we trust you on that.

Let me explain what just happened today because it deserves so much recognition. GalaxEye is a Bengaluru startup founded in 2021 by IIT Madras engineers. Today they launched Mission Drishti on a SpaceX Falcon 9. It is India's largest privately built satellite at 190 kg. And it carries a technology that no commercial satellite has ever carried before. Normal satellites take photos of the Earth using optical cameras. Like your phone camera, but from 500 km up. The problem is obvious. Clouds. Night. Fog. Smoke. If any of these are in the way, the photo is useless. India has monsoon cover for 4 months a year. That is 4 months where optical satellites are partially or fully blind over large parts of the country. The alternative is SAR. Synthetic Aperture Radar. Instead of taking photos with light, it sends radar waves down and reads what bounces back. Radar goes through clouds, through darkness, through smoke. A SAR satellite can image a flooded village at 2 AM during a cyclone when no optical satellite can see anything. The problem with SAR is that the images look nothing like photos. They look like grainy black-and-white radar maps. A military analyst or a trained geospatial engineer can read them. A farmer, a disaster response team, or a city planner cannot. Until today, if you wanted both optical and SAR data for the same location, you needed two different satellites, passing over at different times, at different angles. Then someone had to manually align and fuse the two datasets. Expensive, slow, and the data never perfectly matched because the satellites saw the same spot minutes or hours apart. GalaxEye put both sensors on one satellite. Optical and SAR, fused into what they call OptoSAR. Three times more information than a single sensor. Processed onboard by an NVIDIA AI chip at 1.8 metre resolution. Now in practice, during the next cyclone hitting Odisha, one satellite pass gives you a clear image of which villages are flooded, which roads are cut, and which buildings are standing. Day or night. Cloud or clear. In near real-time. For defence, it means you can monitor a border area 24/7 regardless of weather. For agriculture, it means tracking crop health across an entire monsoon season without a single cloud gap. For infrastructure, it means monitoring construction progress on highways and bridges without waiting for a clear day. GalaxEye tested their SAR tech on ISRO's POEM orbital platform. The satellite was tested at ISRO facilities. IN-SPACe provided regulatory clearance. NSIL, ISRO's commercial arm, will distribute the imagery globally. And it launched on SpaceX because ISRO's PSLV doesn't have the right orbit slot for this mission. Yes, four IIT Madras graduates built a world-first satellite in 4 years in Bengaluru. Take a bow!

@Ananth_IRAS Lovely perspective!

Worth a read! 😍 My mom wanted to send me homemade pickles. But I said ‘no’. I was 27, living in New York, working on Wall Street. I didn't need pickles shipped across the world. The shipping would cost more than buying them here. Three years later, I read the psychologist take on what I'd actually done. When you reject someone's offer to help, you're not just declining assistance. You're declining their need to matter to you! Benjamin Franklin figured this out in 1736. He had a rival in the Pennsylvania legislature who hated him. Instead of trying to win him over with favors, Franklin asked the rival to lend him a rare book. The rival agreed. They became lifelong friends. It's called the Ben Franklin effect.When people do something for you, they convince themselves they must like you. Otherwise, why would they help? My mom didn't want to send pickles because I needed them. She wanted to send them because SHE needed to feel useful to me. To feel like despite the ocean between us, she still had a role in my life. Every time I said "I'll manage," I was taking that away from her. Here's what I learned after a decade of living away from home: → Accepting small favors isn't about you needing help. It's about letting people you love feel needed. Your dad wants to transfer ₹5000 even though you earn well? Let him. Your friend wants to pick you up from the airport even though Uber exists? Say yes. Your partner wants to make you tea even though you can make it yourself? Accept it. The people who love you don't want to solve your big problems. They want to matter in your small moments. Let them. #lifelesson

@SSBCrack 🙏🙏

Colonel Navjot Singh Bal, Shaurya Chakra, of the Indian Army’s elite 2 Para (Special Forces), was the embodiment of courage, resilience, and leadership. A decorated Special Forces officer who faced terrorists in close combat, he later fought a relentless battle against a rare and aggressive cancer with the same indomitable spirit. Even after losing his right arm, he continued to command his unit, adapt to every challenge, and inspire his men till his final days. An NDA alumnus commissioned in 2002, Colonel Bal distinguished himself early in his career through excellence in operations, leadership, and adventure. He was awarded the Shaurya Chakra for his bravery during counter-insurgency operations in Kupwara, where he eliminated terrorists at point-blank range. He also served in a UN mission in Congo and played a role in operational planning at Northern Command, including during the 2016 surgical strikes. In 2018, while commanding 2 Para (SF), he was diagnosed with a rare bone cancer. Despite chemotherapy and the amputation of his right arm, he continued to lead from the front—training, motivating, and setting an example of unmatched determination. His empty sleeve became a symbol of courage for his troops. Colonel Bal passed away on 9 April 2020 at the age of 39, leaving behind his wife and two sons. His life remains a powerful reminder of the Indian Army’s highest values—duty, sacrifice, and the never-say-die spirit. #IndianArmy #SpecialForces #ShauryaChakra #RealHero #SaluteTheBrave

Solid Explainer on INS Aridhaman by @SandeepUnnithan Please do listen in.

@KalamCenter 🙏🙏

Every year in Yelahanka, Bengaluru, a mother and father quietly stand beside a road that bears their son’s name... Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan Road. For the country, it is a tribute. For K. Unnikrishnan and Dhanalakshmi, it is a place to remember the child they raised. Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan was one of the brave commandos of the National Security Guard who laid down his life during the 2008 Mumbai attacks while rescuing civilians at the Taj Hotel. In the middle of that night of terror, he reportedly told his team: “Do not come up, I will handle them.” He fought the terrorists so others could live. For India, he became a symbol of courage, duty, and sacrifice. But for his parents, the pride of a hero comes with the pain of losing a son. On his birth anniversary, they still come to pay their respects... quietly, with folded hands, carrying memories only parents can understand. The nation stands proud of Major Sandeep Unnikrishnan. And it remains forever indebted to him and to the parents who gave their son in service of the country. Because the freedom and safety we live with today were secured by sacrifices like his. #SandeepUnnikrishnan #Terrorism #TerrorAttack

@37VManhas 🙏🙏

She was supposed to receive him in a wedding sherwani in next few days.. But Squadron Leader Anuj Vashisht came home wrapped in #tiranga.. MATA RANI gives strength to his parents, brother, fiancee, friends to bear this irreparable loss. #FreedomisnotFree a few pay #CostofWar.

@maveinlux @thebajajgroup 76.8% oil is LLP - Light Liquid Paraffin Oil, derived from Petroleum products! Completely avoidable.

Mis-selling and misbranding aren’t just for foreign brands in India, even homegrown giants like @thebajajgroup keep duping consumers with deceptive ads. Take their “famous” Almond Oil: At a glance, it screams pure almond. But check the fine print, it’s 77% mustard oil, a dash of almond, and a bunch of chemicals. Yet, Indians buy it thinking it’s real almond oil! In their defense, they slyly call it Almond ‘DROPS’. In fact, to sell it in EU, the have to put an additional while sticker with ingredients clearly and visibly placed. Time to scrap @CDSCO_INDIA_INF and fire the lot, they’re failing us! #ConsumerRights #FalseAdvertising

@arunpally @Wonder_La "Inverto"

First ever test ride of India's new king of rollercoasters! We are yet to name this beast! Drop a name in comments and win an annual pass to @Wonder_La Chennai!📍🎢🎡🎠

Bengaluru Roads 🫠 Tag whoever needs to be tagged. We need to start holding people accountable #Bengaluru

@anandmahindra @MahindraRise Sir, Pranaam would you and your organisation be able to help this Gorkha Military Inter College on its existence which has given us war heroes and is meant for their kids? youtube.com/shorts/PemN81U…

🆘🆘🆘 A humble request to all companies on Outer Ring Road — @Infosys, @Wipro, @GoogleIndia, @AccentureIndia, @IntelIndia, @Cisco, @0RRCA — please do something! We can’t spend 6 hours a day just sitting in traffic in Bengaluru! 🙏🏻😞 #BengaluruTraffic #Bengaluru

@blrcitytraffic @wftrps Serious shame on you how you're managing the traffic on the Varthur Road!! Pathetic traffic and zero traffic management! #bengalurutraffic Do your Job!

#OperationSindoor on the games field. Outcome is the same - India wins! Congrats to our cricketers.

At Adani Vizhinjam Port, history is being written: 9 women from #Kerala’s fishing community now operate giant automated cranes — first in India. 750+ homes run kitchen gardens, saving ₹900/month. 6,500 women trained in digital literacy. As @ManjuWarrier4 said: “Nature’s blessing. Human will. Women’s power!” #InclusiveGrowth #WomenEmpowerment

Work done by PWD: 3km done out of 7km work order! Pwd Minister: Buying Helicopters! Only possible in Karnataka.

Hosa Road, Bengaluru! See the unique design of @GBA_office engineering — creating an elevated drainage that has created an unnecessary speed breaker, destroying roads and causing jams! Don’t know what they smoke. Is their engineering degree genuine? @GBAChiefComm @DKShivakumar @BSCCoffic @siddaramaiah

Here’s proof that nothing in #Bengaluru ever gets done 100%. This is a CDP (Comprehensive Development Plan) road, Carmelaram meant to decongest the chaotic IT corridor. 👉 5 years in the making. 👉 Just 1 km long. 👉 Still incomplete. The road falls under @MALimbavali’s constituency. It’s missing from the work orders of @GBAChiefComm, @DKShivakumar, and @siddaramaiah for years! #BrandBengaluru

got the high score on Pothole Patrol: Sarjapur Road I lived on Sarjapur Road for multiple years. met multiple small accidents due to potholes + silt/sand between 2018 and 2023. always kept dettol and bandages in my backpack which stretch in Bengaluru should I patrol next?

Respected @DKShivakumar avare, If all the tax money is spent only in the CBD area, the genuine demands of the IT corridor will appear like a conspiracy or blackmail! Please open your eyes and see the reality of Varthur–Panathur Road! @MALimbavali