Sachin Nikam

@arunp2810 Sir, isn’t the idea that large cargo ships will dock in A&N and unload/load there. Hub and spoke model? Before Colombo was our hub now it will GNI. At least for some traffic.

Why have we been dependent, for years, on Colombo for cargo transshipment? Because we failed to create domestic deepwater ports to handle large container/cargo ships. Ports on mainland are supported by hinterland rail/road networks. Viability of a hub 2000 km in mid-ocean??

That’s also because military men like invoking the indispensability of strategy docs (esp as a prerequisite) only against what they see as externally imposed solutions or outcomes. However, to be fair to them, none of their internal reflections or reasoning can be made public.

We’ve had 3 maritime strategy docs. While they were excellent at highlighting or prioritising broader areas of focus for IN, they obviously couldn’t solve or clarify any of this or address other structural issue. Plus, would a doctrine for “chokepoint contingency” ever be public?

Thank you ELTA for allowing us to screwdriver your technology. Keeping marketing aside, this means we are importing the kits and assembling them here in India. Good for the company and Marketing agencies. Thank you for your attention :)

Aadhaar took 12 years and a generation of volunteer technologists. AI will not wait 12 years for Indian capital to find its courage. The conglomerates have, at most, two. Full piece on what India's largest balance sheets are choosing not to do. swarajyamag.com/tech/india-has…

So why is India not full of Sarvams? Raghavan is diplomatic but unsparing. No Indian conglomerate, not Tata, Reliance, Adani, Birla or Mahindra, has placed a Sarvam-scale wager on foundation AI. Indian capital wants guaranteed returns on quarterly horizons.

Screwdriver assembly of Israeli gear. We have shifted frm PSU screwdrivers to pvt screwdrivers in the name of atmanirbharta.

@Lolbunew Opposition will look to replicate TN (new face to dislodge established parties) pattern in other states. Mo-Shah I hope don’t ignore that angle. JS is back to making public appearances. So worry more.

SIR could never have happened with dems in power

@RohitRa70524231 @SadaaShree Please stop this mandala mandala kanging. Based on all historical evidence he tried that but failed.

@SadaaShree He should have kept a consistent mandala policy instead of shifting alliances

Remember Tallikota. Vijayanagara Empire at its peak, confident that there would be no threat, got complacent. Bahmani Sultans realizing that on their own they couldn't defeat Vijayanagara began to form alliances among themselves, overlooking their long rivalries. Aliya Rama Raya felt that his "masterstroke" of siding with one Bahmani Sultan against another, during their conflicts would keep Vijayanagara safe. Was blissfully unaware of the Bahmani Sultans coming together forming a coalition with a single purpose. And then Tallikota happened where the combined Bahmani coalition routed the Vijayanagara army. Aliya Rama Raya was beheaded by the same Qutub Shahi ruler to whom he had given refuge during one of their conflicts. Even when news of Tallikota came in, residents of Hampi believed that nothing would happen to their city. However 3 days after Tallikota, the Bahmanis fell on Hampi, as one of the richest cities in the world was looted, devastated, turned into a ghost town. Vijayanagara did manage to survive after the Tallikota carnage, but was a pale shadow of itself as it kept shrinking and other kingdoms began to form.

This is akin to the discovery of the Haber-Bosch process. It generated ammonia from the air, thus rendering the guano industries defunct overnight. Peru and Bolivia lost their riches when this happened. Labor arbitrage optimising Indian IT services shops are cooked.

At the heart of this piece - the bane of a centuries- old Indian reactive strategy … “It is unclear why a commercial port is needed to support a military mission especially when the Chinese navy has yet to frontally challenge Indian interests in the region.” Meaning, we should start building and militarily strengthening *after* our interests have been challenged? Tells you why our Kings waited for the invaders to arrive to the gates of their forts rather than build the chains of outposts on frontiers which would screen and battle the adversary hundreds of kilometres away… Why border roads and infra never get built…why island outposts remain pillboxes…and why vision never crosses the horizon.

@Akshay_VAK @India_Progress disagree. This "counter religion" is overdone in certain rw circles and feels imposed. What are metric's by which a reform movement gets tagged as "counter religion"?

@India_Progress Jains don’t see themselves as a counter religion, the daily ritual life of Jains resembles that of Hindus and even the differences are on abstract philosophy that masses don’t engage in, plus there are many shared philosophical beliefs. The issue is being a *counter religion*

@Akshay_VAK @India_Progress slight nuance here. It started with Anglo Sikh wars.

@India_Progress It was seeded during British rule - specifically after 1857 first war of independence, and its the implications for British Indian army recruitment, and MacAuliffe who then theorised Sikhism as a distinct “religion” as opposed to another Dharmic Panth.

Let me share the IAF handbook again.

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Just because we read the tweets and we know the domain many startups in India think we can also do this. But we are not even in the same game. The fortune 50 companies will not give the projects to an Indian company. They will not let the money flow out. What is happening is a recalibration. Because of lack of talent they had to outsource IT services. Now the promise of AI is that you can bring all that money back. And they are investing billions in companies which they think will make it happen. If India needs to survive this we have to start building for ourselves. If they replace our services we have to start replacing their products. And I dont mean the Indian customers have to adjust with substandard products. I meant that using AI we have to build world class products for ourselves. Replace Oracle in the banks. Replace the as networks or FB and Google. Replace maps. There is so much to be done. Who will do it? The opportunity is there.

Lives of the Indian public would be much improved if more American necons were to stop cheerleading the war that’s hurting Indians more than anything else, or if they were willing to analyse Israeli actions rather than nitpick on the “discourse” of every other country in S Asia.

@HarveenChadha most likely Anthropic, open Ai will become the new IBM, MSFT, Sun. Our IT companies will continue to be Tech Partners :-) Head count will reduce though.

Indian IT services companies got a competition they were not expecting

Yesterday was all about the @GalaxEye team. And the way the country celebrated their success shows how far we've come. But it is also a good time to remember there are so many other startups who are giving their best and trying to create impact in their own ways. And the margins are so fine in entrepreneurship that for every success we have tons of ventures who don't make it. But all entrepreneurs need to be celebrated. It's an ecosystem, that needs more and more support. I wish for our Govt, our leaders to speak about one startup every month, and get them the attention they rightly deserve. Our Prime Minister has been championing it through @mannkibaat, but we need more and more leaders across party lines to try and help startups across the country. I hope through everyone who has a voice and has the reach, our startups can find more and more customers. So that they don't have to chase investors. :)

Today, we’re taking a step toward truly galactic-scale capabilities. 🚀 We’re partnering with @SarvamAI to bring sovereign AI into orbit aboard India’s first orbital data centre satellite, a pathfinder mission bringing datacenter-class GPUs and high-performance remote sensing together in space. Built and operated by Pixxel, with Sarvam providing the AI backbone, the demonstrator marks a step toward making orbital data centres real, operational, and scalable from India. May the 4th be with us all! ✨