Dev Kumar Vasudevan

"The bicycle is the most civilized conveyance known to man. Other forms of transport grow daily more nightmarish. Only the bicycle remains pure in heart." -Iris Murdoch, writer (15 Jul 1919-1999) Courtesy A Word A Day wordsmith.org Photograph: Wikipedia

Disqualified for being real. Great fun!!! Courtesy inshorts

@jamestanton Tilted & non-tilted squares sides are 5/4 and 4/3 units respectively. Ratio of sides = 15:16 So ratio of areas will be 225:256

3^2 + 4^2 = 5^2. The lilac triangle is a right triangle. What can you say then about the area of a tilted little square compared to the area of a non-tilted little square?

@PenguinIndia The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

What's your favourite books to screen adaptation?

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

1700 year old dodecahedron to be displayed for 1st time in UK. Courtesy inshorts shrts.in/72y7H

April 22. Earth Day today - “The world has enough for everyone's need, but not enough for everyone's greed.” - Mohandas K Gandhi. Pic: Tagore and Gandhi at Shantiniketan in 1940, public domain pic.

"I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulette I could have worn." Henry David Thoreau, (1817 - 1862) Pic from 28.12.12

Kindly help in saving the historic 1866 built heritage building in Mhow Cantt of Dr Ambedkar Nagar (Mhow) in Indore district MP Used as BMH (1866-1947), All Arms Wing of MCTE (1953-1991), ARTRAC (1991-1994) Army Public School Mhow (1994 - 2024). Demolition today 14/01

Raksha Mantri ji kindly stop the demolition of the historic (1866 built) heritage building of the Army Public School building in Mhow Cantt. It's in very good condition. Its loss would truly be irreparable. @DefMinIndia @adgpi @suryacommand @ASIGoI @Intach_AH @IndoreCollector

@PhysInHistory Einstein: "You have to practice more to excel in Tic-tac-toe"

What could they possibly be talking about? Wrong answers only ✍️

Sep 2, 2023. 140th birth anniversary of the Polish immunologist, inventor and doctor Rudolf Weigl. The man who invented a vaccine for typhus, who saved 5,000 Jews from Nazi concentration camps. A true hero!!! Born Sep 2 1883. This Google doodle was for his 138th in 2021.

Surviving the shadowlands: Interview with Arati Kumar-Rao, artist and author of Marginlands Jun 13, '23 The author brings us stories of people who inhabit the most hostile corners of the subcontinent in her new book DIVYA GANDHI thehindu.com/sci-tech/energ…

Water Lily - digital illustration by Sridevi Vasudevan Based on a photograph clicked while birding in Mhow in 2021 by Dev Kumar Vasudevan :-)

@suchetadalal He knows which side of the bread is buttered. Pucca sycophant. People have lost all respect for him.

You ignored them for a month firmer chief of army?! Did you lead your forces like that?

The arrogance of power!!! If I had believed in rebirth I'd have said that Dushasana has been reborn!!! Justice will prevail finally. With our brave wrestlers #JusticeForWrestlers @Jhatkaadotorg

From the walls of the Ambedkar Birth Memorial in the Kali Paltan area of Mhow Cantonment. A 1950 photo of his with soldiers of the Mahar Regiment. He had, as a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council, revived this regiment in 1941 roughly three decades after it was disbanded.

Apr 13, 2012 The Akola Ratlam 'Fast Passenger' enters Kalakund Station an hour and 50 minutes behind schedule!!!! It was pretty crowded with people sitting on the roof. Wonder how they handled the four tunnels.... #postcardfrommhow #mhowmetregauge #mhowrailway #pkghatsection

@jamestanton How about (1, 2,-4) & (-1, -2, 4) ?

Are there two points (a,b,c) and (d,e,f) with integer coordinates so that, with (2,3,2), the lines connecting each of the points from the origin mutually are orthogonal?

@Math_World_ A = 7, B = 1

Question of the day 02.04.2023