Embarrassing: MIT Student Can't Even Manage Synthesis of Dimethyl Mercury

Lovely piece! Though I’ve never understood the “Tintin or Asterix” question. I grew up devouring both. They’re both fabulous, in completely different and incomparable ways. Also, Asterix pops when you’re slightly older because of the puns/history.

The Marwari Horse from the Marwar region of Rajasthan in northwestern India.

Even Odysseus stopped eating the brain washing lotus after 7 years. It's been 12 years..

Only 40 cinemas on EARTH could show what NOLAN actually filmed.

Saif Ali Khan said, "I see a time before #Dhurandhar and a time after Dhurandhar," in front of Anupama Chopra 🤡 He also raved about the film's music, praising the way the songs were seamlessly blended into the narrative 💯💯

Two of the greatest Indians of the 20th century, born less than a decade apart, in the same city- Cuttack.

At this point the government should just courier the question paper to everyone's home a day before the exam so that everyone is on equal footing on the day of the exam and nobody feels left behind.

Mahua was banned under British colonial rule and spent generations in the shadows. Now, a new wave of Indian distillers is reviving the heritage spirit, bringing centuries of tradition to a global audience. ft.trib.al/jHthyct

Now that’s a real scientist (Remers, Chemists at War).

The world’s first sub‑1 nanometer node chip is here. Delivering 70% greater energy efficiency, this breakthrough powers a new era of computing that’s more capable while using less energy. Dig into this next-gen tech: ibm.co/6016EOHpM

The West removes ancient experiential wisdom from its cultural context, maps it to a molecular pathway & names it something like Autophagy (which got a Nobel in 2016)/Intermittent Fasting and suddenly it is ‘science’. If our Indian grandma tells us to fast on Ekadashi, she is a backward dogmatist. But when Dr. Valter Longo does this for us in a Cell Stem Cell journal, it becomes a major medical breakthrough. When Ayurveda says Langhana (fasting) fires up Agni which burns Ama, they were indeed naming the very same phenomenon as Dr Longo. Ayurveda witnessed the forest: “When we stop putting wood in the fire, the fire burns the dead leaves inside the house. Modern Science says: “Glucose depletion negatively impacts the PKA pathway, activating a decrease in IGF-1 & initiating regeneration with hematopoietic stem cells.” Looking at the same mountain from 2 different angles shows two interpretations. 1 describes a user manual for life; the other a chemistry breakdown of the machine. Modern peer review is a gatekeeping mechanism with deep ties to the Western pharma & academic economy. Producing a scientific paper requires significant financial resources to support research, publication & distribution. There is no profit in telling people to eat nothing. Therefore, for decades, Western science actively ignored fasting research because it did not feed the trillion-dollar pharmaceutical pipeline. The moment it became clear that fasting could complement chemotherapy, reducing the toxic side effects of multi-billion dollar oncology drugs, suddenly funding appeared, papers were reviewed, and it became "validated." The West will continue to "discover" what India always knew. The goal for young India now is to stop waiting for a Western certificate of approval. We need to fund our own clinical research, study our own texts with scientific rigor & reclaim the narrative before it is packaged & sold back to us in a capsule.

Telegram, as I write, has this special feature that allows editing of post WITHOUT reflecting that edit has been done. This is dangerous. No other major social media channel has this. One can still aruge that banning is not a good idea. But the context of ban needs to set right.