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Chetan Krishnaswamy

@Chetankrishna

Write, read, run. Likes sparkling and musical minds, spirited conversations, expansive skies. Ex-Google. Now, Vice President-Public Policy @AmazonIN.Breathe!

Bangalore شامل ہوئے Temmuz 2009
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Joy Bhattacharjya
Joy Bhattacharjya@joybhattacharj·
He could speak 8 languages and they said he could recite all 37 of Shakespeare's plays from memory. An award winning playwright & stage artist and one of Satyajit Ray's favourite actors. Also one of India's finest comic actors in films like Golmaal, and Hirak Rajar Deshe. The irony is that the marvellous comic roles in Golmaal and other films, what most people outside remember him for, is what he regarded as the least important "I have developed a technique of shutting my mind off, switching it off, rather. I will not be able to tell you even the names of the films I have acted in or even the name of the character I have just finished shooting.” He was also a brilliant writer & regular theatre reviewer. “Mr.Dutt as Othello was rather a pitiable sight, with his voice gone, his breathing laboured and his bulk enormous.” This was Utpal Dutt reviewing his own stage performance using the pseudonym Iago. He also loved classical art and there is this wonderful story told by his daughter. "When we went to Italy, it meant we would have to spend at least one day on viewing each sculpture. We had hired the services of a guide. But, we found that Baba knew more about the place than the guide. The next day, the guide asked us if we would be ready to go on our own." A true renaissance man and a principled one, not scared to go to prison for his views. Utpal Dutt was truly one of our greats. 97th birth anniversary today.
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Bengaluru’s edge isn’t just innovation, it’s intention. Its first-gen billionaires aren’t just giving back, they’re building systems, institutions, and the core “software of the state” shaping India’s future.
Prasanna Viswanathan@prasannavishy

via @TheEconomist Why Bangalore has India’s best billionaires Its philanthropists want to do more than just give money away Beyond traffic and chaos, Bengaluru’s another real edge lies in something rarer. A new kind of billionaire. Unlike legacy wealth in Mumbai or Delhi, the city’s tech founders are first-generation, problem-solving capitalists and they’re channeling money not just into charity, but into institution-building, governance, and public systems. From Aadhaar to science labs to urban governance, this cohort is funding the “software of the state” and quietly shaping how India works, not just what it builds.

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Exceptional piece by Guha on Ustad Bismillah Khan. Sanaadi Appanna is a 1977 Kannada-language film starring Dr. Rajkumar, where the shehnai music was performed by Bismillah Khan. Not many know that he called his shehnai endearingly as his ‘begum’
Ramachandra Guha@Ram_Guha

Today is the 110th birth anniversary of the great shehnai maestro Ustad Bismillah Khan. As I wrote about him in 2006, “In a delicious paradox that can only be Indian, the man who best embodied the spirit of the holy Hindu city of Banaras was a Muslim.” ramachandraguha.in/archives/bismi…

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Post below the first word you see.
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On Ugadi, had a productive meeting with Shri @PiyushGoyal Ji. Inspired by his vision for inclusive retail, MSMEs & digital growth. Impressed by his pragmatic leadership in forging trade partnerships that balance national interest with global opportunity @AmazonNews_IN @PMOIndia
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On this auspicious occasion of Navratri, it is truly heartening to see the Hon’ble Prime Minister share a timeless Kannada rendition in devotion to Goddess Chamundeshwari, immortalised by the legendary Dr. Rajkumar. @Tejasvi_Surya @PCMohanMP
Narendra Modi@narendramodi

जगतजननी माता पर अटूट विश्वास उनके भक्तों में नई चेतना और स्फूर्ति का संचार करने वाला है। youtube.com/watch?v=fRYPwN…

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Public Affairs Forum of India
Today, PAFI hosted an insightful dialogue on "Strategic Convergence: Engagement with the Indo-Pacific and Africa – The Role of Public Policy and Public Affairs", featuring Ernie Bower, Founder, President, and CEO of @BowerGroupAsia. In this interactive session, Ernie shared his perspectives on the evolving geopolitical landscape, emerging strategic interests in Africa, and the opportunities for India and Indian companies at this pivotal moment. The welcome address was delivered by @Chetankrishna, President, PAFI & Vice President, Public Policy, Amazon India, and was moderated by @khannaajay, Co-Founder, PAFI. @anujg, Managing Director India, BowerGroupAsia, provided context on BGA's impactful work. @shivithukral, Vice President & Secretary, PAFI & Vice President, Public Policy and Government Affairs, PhonePe Limited, delivered the vote of thanks. #PAFI #PublicPolicy #GlobalAffairs #Geopolitics #IndoPacific #AfricaEngagement @TSVishwanath1 | @majorranjeet | @ishteyaqueamjad | @meditatingmuse | @DeepshikhaD | @Harishkrishnan | @lakshmikanchaan | @ssafaya | @zulf20
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Manjula Singh
Manjula Singh@SinghManju37713·
NRIs visit India more for their root canals than for their roots! 😂😂
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Thought provoking
Dustin@r0ck3t23

Satya Nadella just said what the entire industry is too invested to admit. Every CEO signing $100 billion data center contracts right now is making a bet that history may not honor. Nadella: “We are one sort of innovation away from the entire regime changing.” Right now, every major player is running the same play. More data. More GPUs. Bigger clusters. Same architecture. They’ve convinced themselves scale is destiny. They’ve convinced themselves the biggest balance sheet wins. They’ve convinced themselves this is a resource war. It’s not. Nadella: “If you look at where we’ve gone, it was all about pre-training scale, then it was about post-training, then we came up with reasoning, then we said, ‘oh, there’s RL.’” The architecture isn’t stable. It never was. It’s been mutating the entire time. Each shift rewriting the rules. Each breakthrough making the previous moat irrelevant. And the companies that didn’t see it coming didn’t get a warning. They just woke up behind. Nadella: “A new model architecture that could even be more efficient in its performance.” When that lands, the $100 billion clusters don’t matter. The hoarded GPUs don’t matter. The multi-decade infrastructure advantage doesn’t matter. Every castle built for the current paradigm becomes a monument to the wrong bet. This is what makes the AI race unlike anything in history. In nuclear competition, more warheads meant more power. The advantage was permanent. Cumulative. Compounding. In this race, one person with the right insight at 2am in an apartment somewhere erases a trillion dollars of infrastructure before the market opens. No warning. No negotiation. No second place. The most dangerous competitor in this race doesn’t have a data center. They just have the equation.

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Big one here…👍
Andy Jassy@ajassy

Excited about our new strategic partnership with @OpenAI. Developers and companies of all kinds are eager to run services powered by OpenAI models on AWS, and our unique collaboration will provide a stateful runtime environment for them that’s powered by OpenAI’s frontier intelligence on Amazon Bedrock. OpenAI is also going big on our custom Trainium chips, which are 30-40% more price performant than comparable GPUs, to power their growth. Both the leading AI labs now have made significant commitments to Trainium, which is gaining a lot of momentum. We’ll be the exclusive 3P cloud distribution provider for OpenAI Frontier (which enables organizations to build, deploy, and manage teams of AI agents). And finally, we’re excited about our investment in OpenAI — it’s an extremely talented team with great products, IP, and vision for how they can continue to serve customers and enterprises. We think they’ll be one of the big winners in AI, we can help them grow, and we believe we’ll earn a strong return for Amazon over the long term. aboutamazon.com/news/aws/amazo…

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Orange BMW on Bangalore-Mysore expressway near Maddur is driving at supersonic speed breaking all legal speed limits @CPMysuru @SPmysuru please note.
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श्री
श्री@shree_2_2·
There’s a reason why Vishnu Sahasranamam has been chanted for thousands of years. Not for ritual. Not for tradition. But for inner restoration. When life feels scattered… this chant brings alignment. 🧵
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Aakash Gupta
Aakash Gupta@aakashgupta·
Instead of watching a 3-hour movie, watch this masterclass on AI instead
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