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@MadrasMobile Just checked the tagline in @WhatsApp & found this advisory. Earlier it used to be "Avoid sending #Fruits, #Flowers & #Forwards".

The Man from Madras Musings discovers the perils of establishing contact with an old classmate who turns out a #WhatsApp Forwarding Fiend and a Good Morning Godzilla - One for the Archive - Madras Heritage and Carnatic Music sriramv.com/2026/03/23/one…

My deep condolences. Grew up reading his articles on #Hockey when I was also playing actively in 1990s. Closely observed his coverage of #ChampionsTrophy 1996 @ SDAT Mayor #Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium Egmore. Thanks for introducing many #idioms & #phrases in those days.

@kcvblr @Sportskeerthi My deep condolences. Grew up reading his articles on #Hockey when I was also playing actively in 1990s. Closely observed his coverage of #ChampionsTrophy 1996 @ SDAT Mayor #Radhakrishnan Hockey Stadium Egmore.

S. Thyagarajan, veteran sports correspondent and doyen of hockey writing, who worked with The Hindu for many decades, passed away.

put 👏 the 👏 social 👏 back 👏 in 👏 social 👏 media

@beastoftraal That's how my friend replied to my @WhatsApp status

Mildly curious (and worried) about the remaining 0.07%.

@shanaka86 @AvadhMaheshwar2 @p_vimal_kumar

Helium is the only element that escapes Earth’s atmosphere permanently. Once released, it rises through the troposphere, passes the stratosphere, and leaves the planet. It cannot be manufactured. It cannot be synthesised at industrial scale. It accumulates over billions of years in the same geological reservoirs as natural gas. And one third of the world’s supply just went offline because Iran hit the facility that extracts it. Qatar produced roughly 63 million cubic metres of helium in 2025, accounting for 30 to 36 percent of global supply from a total of approximately 190 million cubic metres. QatarEnergy’s three large helium purification plants at Ras Laffan form the world’s biggest helium production base. When LNG production stopped after Iranian drone strikes on March 2 and the subsequent missile damage on March 19, helium extraction stopped automatically because helium is recovered during natural gas liquefaction. You cannot produce helium without producing LNG. The byproduct dies with the primary product. Spot helium prices have roughly doubled since the crisis began. Industry consultants warn that prolonged disruption could push contract prices toward $2,000 per thousand cubic feet. A major industrial gas supplier has already begun assessing customers a helium surcharge. Phil Kornbluth, the most cited helium market consultant, stated the assessment directly: the world cannot compensate for the loss of a third of its helium supply. South Korea imports 64.7 percent of its helium from Qatar. SK Hynix and Samsung operate high-volume fabs producing the DRAM and high-bandwidth memory that power every AI accelerator, every data centre GPU, and every cloud computing cluster on Earth. Helium cools silicon wafers during fabrication. It serves as a carrier gas in deposition and etching tools. It enables leak detection in vacuum systems. Modern extreme ultraviolet lithography requires helium-cooled environments for precise temperature control. Without helium, the fabrication process degrades or stops. SK Hynix and Samsung hold two to three months of helium inventory. Two to three months is not a buffer. It is a countdown. If Ras Laffan remains offline beyond that window, South Korean memory production faces rationing. TSMC in Taiwan is somewhat more diversified but still uses Qatar-linked supply chains. The entire AI hardware supply chain, from HBM3E memory stacks to advanced logic chips, sits inside helium-dependent ecosystems. Beyond semiconductors, helium cools the superconducting magnets in more than 14,000 MRI machines operating worldwide. It pressurises rocket fuel tanks and purges propulsion systems in aerospace. CERN’s Large Hadron Collider depends on helium cryogenic systems. There is no substitute for helium in any of these applications at industrial scale. The United States and Qatar together account for more than 70 percent of global production. The US federal helium reserve and private suppliers offer partial relief, but global prices and spot availability are still governed by Qatar’s market share. Japan’s Iwatani has drawn on US reserves. Canada and the Rockies are seeing renewed investor interest. None of this replaces 63 million cubic metres in weeks. The war hit uranium first. Then oil. Then nitrogen. Then water. Then plastic. Then medicine. Then sulfur. Now helium. Eight layers. Each one deeper. Each one closer to the infrastructure that sustains modern civilisation. The chip that processes your data, the magnet that scans your body, and the rocket that launches your satellite all depend on an atom that leaves the planet when you lose it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…

@noise_segar @Mykuhl You know what I would say

@Mykuhl Soccer

Almost impossible

@sriky73 @Ananth_IRAS @DrmChennai @GMSRailway

@Ananth_IRAS @DrmChennai @GMSRailway

thehindu.com/news/cities/ch… The extension of MRTS to St.Thomas Mount has led to a rise in patronage of the EMU services! Better late than never! #MRTS #IndianRailways

@tnrags @Amockx2022 Adaadaadaa !!

@Amockx2022 I see Yadav pride as well

BREAKING : This will win your heart ❤️ Akhilesh Yadav went to the wedding of Indian cricketer Kuldeep Yadav When Kuldeep tried to touch feet of Akhilesh, he grabbed his hands & stopped Then he hugged him & stopped Kuldeep's wife from touching feet. RESPECT 🫡🔥

@1shankarsharma Had wholesome fun & banter with friends after your Algebra & Calculus opening setting for the vantage position that Iran gets into it over this war.

Le Grand Fromage piece in Business Standard today: The Algebra of the Calculus of the War. Don't fall for the crocodile tears. US has Venezuela and needs higher Oil prices to boost production from old Infra. So do ME, Russia, Iran. ROW can go €¥$¢ itself

@sriky73 @sureshsamy28 What do you mean by Bluedart ?

@sureshsamy28 Super slap!

@n_shekar_IND @livingdevops @divakarssathya You mean Sun Microsystems in 1980s which you had fondly recollected earlier in your tweets ?

@livingdevops @divakarssathya His language gave me my career in software in the USA. Long live D R.

Dennis Ritchie created C in the early 1970s without Google, Stack Overflow, GitHub, or any AI ( Claude, Cursor, Codex) assistant. - No VC funding. - No viral launch. - No TED talk. - Just two engineers at Bell Labs. A terminal. And a problem to solve. He built a language that fit in kilobytes. 50 years later, it runs everything. Linux kernel. Windows. macOS. Every iPhone. Every Android. NASA’s deep space probes. The International Space Station. > Python borrowed from it. > Java borrowed from it. > JavaScript borrowed from it. If you have ever written a single line of code in any language, you did it in Dennis Ritchie’s shadow. He died in 2011. The same week as Steve Jobs. Jobs got the front pages. Ritchie got silence. This Legend deserves to be celebrated.

Also stunned at your clarity over Algebra & Calculus explanation in setting the tone. Wonder how the students @ @iitmadras would have felt when you met them last year.

Respected @1shankarsharma had punctured most of the lies pedalled by IND media about Iran. Lovely to have quoted P Sainath also. @bsindia

@sabeer The famous newspaper from Madras is so rightly named @the_hindu denoting the land & civilization.

The word “Hindu” didn’t start as a religion - it started as geography. From Sindhu (Indus River) → Persians said Hindu → Greeks said Indos → India. An outsider’s label for people beyond a river became a 1B+ identity. History humbles identity.

@ZenNivesh @ajay_shah This is how I read & shared with my #RuchirSharma gang. His writings in Chapter 08 "#Cheap is Good" from "The Rise & Fall of Nations - Rules of Change in the Post Crisis World" (Jun 2016) is almost reflective of this OpEd by Mr @ajay_shah in @bsindia.

No macro guru on social media will explain this is in such a simple manner with so much clarity of thought. Respect 🫡

@tnrags His fighting 100 against IND @ Premadasa in a losing cause in the SL Independence Cup was also a stunning batting display in chase

A childhood hero ♥️

@noise_segar @cricbuzz Doug Bollinger

@cricbuzz Musavir Khote

We'll go first... Shadab Jakati! #IPL2026