satadeep

I'm at my sister's house for Christmas and the Wi-Fi here is a disaster. She has 15 people trying to stream on a single consumer-grade router. Everything was buffering. People were getting frustrated. They started looking at me like I should "jump in and fix the settings." I didn't even put down my fork. I told them the issue isn't the router; it's ISP Throttling. I told them that on national holidays, providers "cap the bandwidth" at the neighborhood node to prevent a total grid collapse. I told them there’s literally nothing anyone can do until the "surge period" ends at midnight. Is it true? No. I could have easily logged into the router, prioritized my own MAC address, and let everyone else deal with the lag. But if I "fix" it once, I’m the family Help Desk for life. By blaming a faceless corporation, I killed the expectation of support. Everyone stopped complaining and started a board game. I went into the den, used my phone as a Private Hotspot, and finished my movie in 4K. Infrastructure is about control. Management is about making sure you're the only one who has it.

पद्म पुरस्कारों से राष्ट्र की सबसे श्रेष्ठ और योग्य प्रतिभाओं को सम्मानित करना राष्ट्रपति के लिए प्रसन्नता का विषय होता है। लेकिन आज जब पर्यावरण की रक्षा में तत्पर, कर्नाटक की 107 वर्ष की वयोवृद्धा सालुमरदा तिम्मक्का ने आशीर्वाद देते हुए मेरे सिर पर हाथ रखा तो मेरा हृदय भर आया।

Where @VishnuNDTV asks some embarrassingly basic questions to @nytimesworld that have not been addressed in the propaganda piece.

"Peace can never be negotiated from a position of weakness. Only the strong who have the power and means to destroy their opponent, get a fair and just deal during peace negotiations"- Mahabharata, Udyoga Parva

Rakesh Jhunjhunwala

India has won! भारत की विजय। अच्छे दिन आने वाले हैं।