Nandini 🇮🇳 👇

40 years ago today, I started a company with ₹30 lakh capital, in a 300 sq ft office in Fort, Mumbai. Today that company, which I ran for 38 years, is Kotak Mahindra Bank. As this Indian institution navigates changing times, may it prosper. Happy Birthday…tum jiyo hazaaro saal.

26/11. Never forget the day when terrorists made our financial capital their playground with rifles and ammunition. Killing our citizens was a sport to them that tragic evening. And never forget the impotence of the government that failed to respond to Pakistan militarily.

Tukaram Ombale sir was hit by 40 bullets. He gave his life but didn’t let go of Kasab. The conspiracy to portray it as a ‘Hindu terror attack’ was shattered because of this great man🙏 He saved an entire civilization❤️ We are forever grateful to him and all the heroes who gave

Ather's year end wrap is here! This is how Ather owners rode in 2025: Bengaluru shows almost 4× higher panic braking than Mumbai. We finally know how often you are likely to fall - depending on which city you are in! iPhone is one of the most commonly used phones with an

India steps into the Ratings game. About time. “Responsible Nations Index is India’s first globally anchored index designed to assess countries on the basis of responsible governance, social well-being, environmental stewardship, and global responsibility, moving beyond

1986: India and China both start building a military jet engine. 4 decades on, China's J-20 flies on a homegrown engine. India is buying more Rafales. Same starting line, very different stories. 🧵

I was wrong about Sarvam. When I wrote about them a year ago, I felt like the direction to train small "indic" language models was wrong. But boy, have they turned it around. They have the best text-to-speech, speech-to text, and OCR models for Indic languages, and that's

Sarvam went from “embarrassing” to “well done” in eight months, and the reversal is coming from the same VC who trashed them. Deedy called Sarvam’s flagship LLM launch embarrassing in May 2025. Said their 24B model got 23 downloads while two Korean college kids got 200K. Now

Smoke can clean the air better than some chemicals. A study published in the Journal of Ethnopharmacology analyzed the effects of "medicinal smoke" - specifically the combustion of wood and a mixture of odoriferous and medicinal herbs - on airborne pathogens. The goal was to see

And Parva Darshini 2083 Parabhava Samvatsara is now live on our website!

The coolest way to introduce children to the magic of the Panchanga. Learn the names of the months, nakshatras and understand how our timekeeping/calendar was attuned to natural rhythms. Spread the word!

"Equity regulation cannot be inequitable. The UGC Regulation is irrational. It must be amended."- Santishree Pandit, JNU VC. She had a choice - stay silent like the govt and all those it appoints, or speak up. She spoke up. Now she is being maligned. Support her. Stand with her.

If someone told me a semiconductor shipment was late because it was the wrong phase of the moon, I would not have believed them before reading this paragraph!

The Madras Sanskrit College (MSC) is embarking on a bold new chapter! Since 1906, we have been a cornerstone of Sanskrit education. After decades of partnership under various government schemes, MSC has made the strategic decision to return to its roots as a private,

I’ve taken 4 auto rides this week. All between 15-25mins. Every auto driver has been on the phone non-stop for every single minute of every ride. It’s the same in stores, salons, shops,… Everyone is busy on their phones instead of doing work. We have a serious cellphone

📢 Open-sourcing the Sarvam 30B and 105B models! Trained from scratch with all data, model research and inference optimisation done in-house, these models punch above their weight in most global benchmarks plus excel in Indian languages. Get the weights at Hugging Face and

“The Supreme Court banning Prof Michel Danino and others for their NCERT chapter on judicial corruption, is nothing short of judicial dictatorship.” Thank you, Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳, for being the voice of a billion Indians. You have said what the govt and its law minister should have.

Obsession is the mother of invention

i often think about this..