Nehru in his tryst with destiny speech got the old nation vs new country sentiment right: “soul of a nation long suppressed, finds utterance” … “our much-loved motherland, the ancient, the eternal and the ever-new”.

“Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent” -Wittgenstein YouTube and Twitter have become a pool of mildly erroneous ideas presented by ‘educators/influencers’ as objective truth. And these ideas percolate.

If the cost effectiveness of sodium batteries materialises then I’d even venture to say that solar + batteries will become the primary source of power and everything else will get relinquished to niche use cases. One can dream, can they not?

The not handshaking Pakistan players is an attempt by BCCI to make themselves appear “tough and patriotic”. Call out their bluff. As I had tweeted before, since India was the official host of Asia Cup, Pakistan wouldn’t have come. The fact that this tournament is being held in

Standoff in the IT corridor between residents and cops for protesting over poor infrastructure in their area. Residents tried to hold silent protests outside apartments demanding better roads, cops stopped protestors citing lack of permission. Visuals from Lakeside Habitat apt.

#Bengaluru’s broken roads When residents of Prestige Lakeside Habitat in #Varthur came out demanding pothole-free roads…the cops politely sent them back stating protests are allowed only at designated places (Freedom Park, 24km away) or else face arrests. The Times Of India

#GBA Residents of Varthur, Gunjur and surroundings held a protest over pothole-filled roads and traffic in the IT belt. TNIE Karnataka,The New Indian Express,MG Chetan,Aknisree Karthik,Ramu Patil,Bellandur Rising25,sarjapura.rwa,Varthur Rising,Maheshwar Rao.M, IAS

X is deeply concerned by the recent order from the Karnataka court in India, which will allow millions of police officers to issue arbitrary takedown orders through a secretive online portal called the Sahyog. This new regime has no basis in the law, circumvents Section 69A of

This is truly dismaying. Corruption remains rampant across the system and most companies simply comply as part of the “price of doing business”. It doesn’t have to be this way. Indeed it must not be like this if the country is to grow and prosper.

The Government has taken cognizance of the matter raised by M/s Wintrack Inc (Chennai). (WINTRACK INC). The Department of Revenue (DoR) Ministry of Finance has been asked to undertake a fair, transparent, and fact-based inquiry into the present issue. A Senior Officer from DoR has

I have been giving my own example. I lost my wife to ILD, a disease inadvertently picked up from pigeons nesting near our window AC (unknown to us).

Ejipura Flyover has finally resumed construction. A historical day not just for Bangalore but also for us who have grown up with this historical monument. Our forefathers started work on this centuries ago despite the odds. Our ancestors played hide and seek along its beautiful

Ha! Horrible schooling for crores of children of disadvantaged castes will not cause any uproar like a reservation benefitting 1000 people. We have messed some basic cost benefit calculus in people’s minds.

I’m sure we will see visible progress once rains stop. Durability of roads shd be the objective nit quick fixes like you have rightly stated. Encroachments also must be removed

Why work hard? It is a question that comes from a luxury built by several generations of Indians in the past. Indians were left in rank poverty by centuries of looting. Our ancestors sacrificed their lives for the independence that we take for granted. Independence gave us the

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Born in Bengaluru, went to Bishop cottons school, college at Mount Carmel, graduated from Bangalore University, founded Biocon that has over 16 thousand employees many of who are kannadigas, yet being made to prove her loyalty to the land, all because she asked for better

I understand why Harsh feels this way but really no..don't fall down this hole. When you have kids you find a way around those things. This whole India-is-shit meme is getting really tiring.

With this video doing the rounds, does anybody know the YouTube course that she’s referring to? This kind of bottom up learning + assimilation will help Kannada thrive. The current problem is that Kannada courses tend to be designed on how one would teach children. Adults learn

To err is human. The day has come when to determine a human, we look at the kind of errors we (our brains) make.