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Anand Ranganathan (@aranganathan72) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Maths, Physics, Engineering, Genetics, and History wouldn't be what they are today but for the contributions of Ramanujan a clerk; Faraday a bookbinder; Edison a grocer; Mendel a monk; and Gibbon a trader. None of them had a degree. Any degree. Only the mediocre or the Leftists

Aravind (@aravind) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mega Rajan Good question. During MMS ji's govt, India had a Strategic Petroleum Reserve of ZERO. But they had initiated construction of phase 1 which was still ongoing when Modi ji took over. During Modi ji's govt, the phase 1 was completed in 2017, they filled the reserves to capacity

Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Awesome to hear! I am not sure how many of you know, vedic chanting uses a forensic backup system called Patha. Why do the chanters often repeat words in strange patterns (like Jata Patha/Ghana Patha)? It is an Error-Detection Algo. By chanting the words in a specific back &

GemsOfINDOLOGY (@gemsofindology) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Imagine only 2 site shook the entire history and there are 400+ mounds lying unexcavated. Not myths. Not folklore. Documented. Mapped. Known. Yet untouched. Haryana alone holds ~100 settlement mounds. Excavated? Barely a dozen. Rakhigarhi - the “largest Harappan city” - still

Chidanand Tripathi (@thetripathi58) 's Twitter Profile Photo

A brilliant statistician who spent 50 years studying why massive engineering projects fail realized one terrifying truth: Individual incompetence is almost never the actual problem. His name is W. Edwards Deming, the man who famously rebuilt Japan's post-war manufacturing

A brilliant statistician who spent 50 years studying why massive engineering projects fail realized one terrifying truth:

Individual incompetence is almost never the actual problem.

His name is W. Edwards Deming, the man who famously rebuilt Japan's post-war manufacturing
Shikhar Gupta (@shekhu04) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Meet Manjul Bhargava (He solved a problem Carl Friedrich Gauss could not. He was 28 years old) > Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1974, to Indian immigrant parents > His mother Mira Bhargava was a mathematics professor at Hofstra University > She was his first teacher. Not

Meet Manjul Bhargava 
(He solved a problem Carl Friedrich Gauss could not. He was 28 years old)

> Born in Hamilton, Ontario, Canada, 1974, to Indian immigrant parents 
> His mother Mira Bhargava was a mathematics professor at Hofstra University 
> She was his first teacher. Not
Massimo (@rainmaker1973) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the

In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the
Vedanjanam (@vedanjanam) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Two Sanskrit texts composed over 2,000 years ago are formal computational systems in everything but name. Pāṇini wrote a compiler. Bharata specified a state machine. Both have been taught as literature for two millennia. They should be taught for what they are to get today's

Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? He lived a life of absolute silence in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, but his eqns are the loudest thing in Theoretical Physics today. Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (1913-68) was the Ghost who figured out how to hear the shape of the

Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? He lived a life of absolute silence in a small town in Andhra Pradesh, but his eqns are the loudest thing in Theoretical Physics today. Subbaramiah Minakshisundaram (1913-68) was the Ghost who figured out how to hear the shape of the
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

How a watchmaker's lathe & a burger-joint's logic blind-sided a $200 medical monopoly. Dr. V was so severely afflicted with Rheumatoid Arthritis that his fingers were permanently gnarled & twisted. He could not even hold a pen properly. Yet, this man, who could barely use his own

How a watchmaker's lathe & a burger-joint's logic blind-sided a $200 medical monopoly. Dr. V was so severely afflicted with Rheumatoid Arthritis that his fingers were permanently gnarled & twisted. He could not even hold a pen properly. Yet, this man, who could barely use his own
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? Before Google was a company, he had already built an early intelligent system based on neural networks. Subhash Kak is the Ghost who bridged the gap b/w Narayana of the past & the Algos of the future. In a quiet lab in Oklahoma, he designed

Next in who after the Ramanujan Series? Before Google was a company, he had already built an early intelligent system based on neural networks. Subhash Kak is the Ghost who bridged the gap b/w Narayana of the past & the Algos of the future. In a quiet lab in Oklahoma, he designed
GemsOfINDOLOGY (@gemsofindology) 's Twitter Profile Photo

1910. Madurai. Children. Different ages. Different backgrounds. One space. One पाठशाला. Palm-leaf manuscripts in hand. Learning together. Not a modern classroom. No degrees. No standardized boards. Yet knowledge flows. Now pause. We are told education was restricted.

1910. Madurai.

Children. Different ages.
Different backgrounds.

One space. One पाठशाला.

Palm-leaf manuscripts in hand.
Learning together.

Not a modern classroom.
No degrees. No standardized boards.

Yet knowledge flows.

Now pause.

We are told education was restricted.
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi asked K.V. Ratnam to make a pen; he issued a challenge that was practically an industrial death sentence. He told Ratnam to build a fountain pen made entirely of Indian materials, or not to bother at all. For 13 yrs, Ratnam operated like a medieval

In 1921, Mahatma Gandhi asked K.V. Ratnam to make a pen; he issued a challenge that was practically an industrial death sentence. He told Ratnam to build a fountain pen made entirely of Indian materials, or not to bother at all. For 13 yrs, Ratnam operated like a medieval
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Today, global dental giants are sprinting to launch Activated Charcoal lines, charging a premium for the charcoal revolution. But in 1925, a physician in a small Kerala village was already selling it in paper pouches. The British mocked it as primitive ash, while secretly, their

Today, global dental giants are sprinting to launch Activated Charcoal lines, charging a premium for the charcoal revolution. But in 1925, a physician in a small Kerala village was already selling it in paper pouches. The British mocked it as primitive ash, while secretly, their
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

This is the Corporate Mookerjee that history books & even his own party rarely discuss. To understand his work as India’s 1st Minister for Industry & Supply, we have to look at how a Bhadralok scholar became as a COO of a bankrupt startup called "Independent India." In 1947,

This is the Corporate Mookerjee that history books & even his own party rarely discuss. To understand his work as India’s 1st Minister for Industry & Supply, we have to look at how a Bhadralok scholar became as a COO of a bankrupt startup called "Independent India."

In 1947,
Parimal (@fintech03) 's Twitter Profile Photo

In 1929, an Indian family bought a German machine & forgot to name their company. They started a Candy War against the British, turning a simple Kiss into a national toffee & engineering a rainbow that would not melt in the heat. From saving a starving nation in 1947 with Army

In 1929, an Indian family bought a German machine & forgot to name their company. They started a Candy War against the British, turning a simple Kiss into a national toffee & engineering a rainbow that would not melt in the heat. From saving a starving nation in 1947 with Army
History इतिहास 🇺🇲🛕 🚀 (@shreehistory) 's Twitter Profile Photo

The river's name is Iravati. Literally it means that she surrounds the earth because of her meandering nature. River Iravati meets Asikhni who literally means one who is brown colored. This brown color is due to sediment rich water . This is incorrectly called Chenab. Other