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Amazing achievement by @SkyrootA and their team. Proud moment for not just them but all Indians. Feedback: Skyroot, next time please get a live feed, overlay launch parameters and better commentary. Make the launch look as cool and slick as it really is.

I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours. This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it. Let me tell you what actually happened. The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12. 381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find. India sent five kids. All five came back with gold. Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad. We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :) That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan. Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them. Now here is what the exam actually was. Two papers. Each five hours long. The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs. The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids. That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer. Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours. HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too. Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO. Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze. In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver. Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade. Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018. So who built this. The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy. They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane. The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai. The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri. Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra. This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own. The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast. That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world. But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think. That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years. So yes, be proud. Loudly. HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD. But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India. I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have. But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying. Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.

@MBVVPOLICE @thelenseye @RoadsOfMumbai @MTPHereToHelp @BhayandarMira Complete mismanagement by traffic division, no planning, just chaos @MBVVPOLICE @RoadsOfMumbai @MTPHereToHelp @nitin_gadkari #wrongsidedriving

@MBVVPOLICE @thelenseye @RoadsOfMumbai @MTPHereToHelp @BhayandarMira Please fine and issue challan for everyone who is driving in wrong direction, once the fine/challan is issue no one will dare to go next time. All drivers are habitual because there is no law and order.. wrong driving can cause major causality and accidents @MBVVPOLICE

2hr+ traffic on NH 48 right after the Bhayandar bridge, as people are driving on the wrong side of the road and blocking both lanes of NH48. #wrongsidedriving @RoadsOfMumbai @MTPHereToHelp @BhayandarMira

Worst traffic on NH48.. traffic police is also not able to manage it #Nolanediscipline

This should settle debate of GOAT - Leo Vs CR7, In any field, Greatness is not just measure by achievements but also the respect you have earn from your colleagues,opponents. In sport,respect from your coach,supporting staff,rivals & team matter most #worldcup #GOATDebate #messi

Nicely summerized by @ARanganathan72 thank you. @aravind @ShivAroor

@aravind What’s your take on E20 and fuel purity issues going on India.. it’s getting difficult to seperate real issue vs manufacture information and it’s getting difficult to understand the approach from Govt. Will this affect the stability of Govt?

Nayara, a majority Russian owned company in India, has reduced fuel prices. Soon we will see other companies reduce too. As I said at the start of the war, fuel prices went up temporarily and will come down. Compared to doomsayers predicting $200 oil believing GLISCO propaganda.

Dear Gen-Z and Students, We were around your age in 2011 when the India Against Corruption movement was started by Arvind Kejriwal & Co. Many people supported it with good intentions, but later they exposed themselves, and many supporters regretted backing them. Today, they are losing their grip on politics, and to stay relevant, they can stoop to any level. Now, through social media, some of their supporters have launched a party called Cockroach Janata Party, while AAP is silently backing them from behind. They are among the biggest political fraudsters who have repeatedly lost the trust of the people. I understand that you are stressed and hurt by the paper leak issue. It is a complete failure of the government and the system. Corrupt individuals exist both within and outside the system, and some people are willing to achieve success through cheating at the cost of honest students. My only appeal is: don't get involved with these people blindly. Their agenda, in my view, is to create chaos and instability in order to bring down the government. You can also examine their alleged links and associations for yourself, including allegations involving individuals accused under UAPA. Do your own research and verify every claim before forming an opinion. Please think critically and try to understand the actual motives of those who are trying to influence your emotions and frustrations for political purposes. Question everyone. Trust facts. Support reforms, not propaganda. Jai Hind Jai Bharat 🇮🇳

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures). From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities. Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization. #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage

राष्ट्र की स्वतंत्रता हेतु कठोरतम अमानवीय यातनाएं सहकर अपना जीवन मातृभूमि के चरणों में अर्पित करने वाले माँ भारती के अमर सपूत, महान स्वतंत्रता सेनानी ‘स्वातंत्र्यवीर’ विनायक दामोदर सावरकर की जयंती पर सादर नमन। उनकी क्रांतिकारी चेतना और संघर्षपूर्ण जीवन हमें सदैव राष्ट्रहित में समर्पण, साहस और अटूट संकल्प का अमूल्य संदेश देता रहेगा।

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity! Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals. While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today. From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳 #PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

@volklub How about Hyundai turbo engine.. specifically 2024 Alcazar ? It’s E20 compliant

I said it last year too and will say it again, if you are picking PETROL NA 1.5 or 1.2 from Maruti or 1.5 or 1.2 i-VTEC from Honda, stay stress free. These engines will be tolerant against poor fuel quality and non compliant ethanol blends for Indian conditions. Stick to fewer petrol pumps and prefer to have 20% tank full all the time. Not performance oriented engines like Turbo Petrols but best for Indian conditions where now travelling from A to B is a big thing in a car peacefully. No journalist or influencer can say this openly, I can bet on that because it will offend many brands. I don't care because I am not in any race. In or out, hardly matters.

2020 की घटना यह गोरक्षनाथ पीठ का गेट है और बगल का रास्ता नेपाल जाता है इस पीठ के पीठाधीश्वर इस वक्त उत्तर प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री योगी आदित्यनाथ जी हैं यह मठ हजारों साल पहले बना था तब आस-पास सब जंगल थे धीरे-धीरे शहर बढ़ता गया रास्ता संकरा हो गया उसके बाद योगी जी ने खुद ही मठ की बाउंड्री तुड़वा कर रास्ता चौड़ा करवा रहे हैं ताकि लोगों को परेशानी ना हो लेकिन जितनी आसानी से मंदिर प्रशासन नगर निगम को रास्ता चौड़ा करने में मदद देता है इतनी आसानी से दूसरे धर्म के लोग सहयोग क्यों नहीं करते ?

The name sounds British, but it is actually a purely Indian acronym. In 1952, a 55 yr old grocery store owner from Nagpur named Keshav Vishnu Pendharkar decided to shut down his shop, pack up his family of 10 children, & move to Bombay. He wanted to create a chemical-free, swadeshi alternative to the foreign cosmetic brands that were ruling post-independence India. He started his business in a tiny, cramped godown in Parel, Bombay. He named his company after his father: Vishnu Industrial Chemical Company. V-I-C-C-O. There was no British Lord or foreign laboratory. It was just a middle-aged Marathi man & his sons working out of a shed with a dream to revive ancient texts. Keshav Pendharkar’s brother-in-law held a basic degree in Ayurveda. Together, they huddled over ancient scripts & formulated a tooth-cleaning powder made from 20 rare herbs & barks (including Babool, Bakul, & Neem).They called it Vajradanti. In the 1950s, urban Indians were rapidly switching to chemical, white, sweet-tasting toothpastes imported by MNCs like Colgate. When the Pendharkers tried to sell a brown, astringent Ayurvedic powder, shopkeepers laughed them out of their stores. Keshav & his sons refused to surrender. They literally walked the streets of Bombay, going door to door to hand out samples, educating people on how chemical foam was destroying their gums, & manually building their empire 1 household at a time. In 1971, Keshav passed away, & his son, Gajanan Pendharkar, took over. Gajanan looked at the skincare market & saw it was utterly dominated by colonial-legacy snow creams like Afghan Snow, Pond's, & Nivea. All of them were stark white. Gajanan decided to launch a face cream containing Turmeric (Haldi) & Sandalwood oil. When the product launched, shopkeepers panicked. They screamed, "Baap re! If women put this on their faces, it will turn them yellow!" Nobody wanted to buy a yellow cream because the world had been conditioned to believe that beauty products had to be white. The Pendharkars weaponized the traditional Indian wedding ritual of Haldi-Chandan. They sent salesmen into the markets armed with handheld mirrors. The salesmen would manually apply the cream onto the shopkeepers' faces right then & there to prove it absorbed completely into a vanishing base, leaving a glow w/o any yellow stains. If you remember the iconic jingle: "Vicco Turmeric, Nahi Cosmetic, Vicco Turmeric Ayurvedic Cream"... you should know that those words were not just a clever marketing tagline. They were a battle cry born from a massive legal warfare. In 1975, the Central Excise Department of India dropped a bombshell on Vicco. They insisted on classifying Vicco Turmeric & Vajradanti as "Cosmetics." If classified as cosmetics, the govt could levy a crippling 105% luxury tax on the products, which would have priced Vicco completely out of the market & forced them into bankruptcy. The Pendharkars refused to pay. They argued that their products were manufactured under a formal Drug License & were Ayurvedic Medicines (Drugs), which attracted significantly lower taxes. This was not a minor dispute; it turned into a historic, grueling 25 yr legal battle. The case climbed all the way up to the Supreme Court of India. While battling global giants in the market, the family spent their resources fighting their own govt in courtrooms for ~3 decades. Finally, in the 2000s, the Supreme Court ruled in favor of Vicco, legally decreeing that their products were indeed medicinal, cementing the truth of their tagline forever. How did a homegrown brand from a Parel godown become globally famous? Through sheer marketing brilliance before the internet existed. In the 1980s, South Asian immigrants abroad were obsessed with watching Bollywood movies on rented VHS video cassettes. Gajanan Pendharkar realized this & started buying ad space directly inside the video cassettes distributed globally. Long before foreign networks recognized Indian brands, families in the US, UK, & Middle East were singing along to the Vajradanti jingle before their favorite movie started. Despite controlling a multi-million dollar empire, the house had only 1 giant mega-kitchen. Every single meal was cooked in massive industrial-sized pots, & the entire family sat on the floor together to eat. Gajanan believed that if the family broke bread separately, the business would fracture into pieces. In the early decades, the sons & grandsons who worked for Vicco did not get individual corporate salaries/luxury allowances. The company took care of all household expenses centrally. If a family member needed a car/a dress/a medical trip, it was cleared by the family elders, ensuring that personal greed could never overtake the company's mission. Vicco did not survive because it was backed by British capital/Western tech. It survived because an Indian family was willing to go door to door with brown tooth powder, rub yellow cream onto skeptical faces, & spend 25 yrs in court defending the scientific validity of Ayurveda. The name might sound like a colonial legacy, but the blood inside the tube is Sampoorna Swadeshi.

The entire civilisation thanks you for getting us back the Bhojshala, @Vishnu_Jain1 and @adv_hsjain.

@atulkasbekar @MTPHereToHelp Add one more.. all the Vehicles on road , battery operated cycle also need to be register, every instument with wheels will have those rules applicable ..

My suggestions to the @MTPHereToHelp to get Mumbai back to civilised ways: - police issue fair warning that the following will be strictly enforced from a stated date - driving on the wrong side of the road results in automatic confiscation of vehicle. Can be recovered once at say 15% of vehicle book value. Similar offence again results in vehicle being impounded n auctioned publicly - if you have an accident running a light or for wrong side driving; then the driver who was correct is automatically absolved of any punishment. The onus is completely on the idiot breaking a very basic rule of the road - running a light should result in crippling fines commensurate wt the value of the vehicle; like in Switzerland. There, for example, a Ferrari breaking a rule is fined significantly higher for the same offence than a cheaper vehicle is - A 100 vehicles seized by the police and I’m certain people will think twice before they break the rules Further suggestions most welcome Mumbaikars Let’s not tolerate this highly dangerous epidemic anymore Action Now…!!!

@sachin_rt वाढदिवसाच्या हार्दिक शुभेच्छा सचिन .. God Of Cricket.. who inspired million by his cricket and behaviour on-off the field ..

I’ve always believed that whatever I am, is because of the people around me. Yesterday reminded me of that once again. Thank you to each and every one of you who wished me. Your love means more than words can ever express. 🙏❤️

Payal Nag. Daughter of a daily-wage mason from Odisha. Electrocuted at the age of eight. Lost all four limbs. And then, found a bow. Spotted through her paintings by coach Kuldeep Vedwan, the same man who shaped world champion Sheetal Devi. Defeated her idol Sheetal Devi at the World Para Archery Series Final in Bangkok, April, 2026 Whenever I am feeling low or sorry for myself I will look at these images of Payal & Sheetal again & remind myself what the words: Courage, Resilience & Positive thinking, really mean. These champions are not just my #MondayMotivation. They will be a source of motivation Every. Single. Day