Rabin Patra @Whyireless

Co-founder, Tarana Wireless (@TaranaWireless). Other half of @Whytamin. taranawireless.com Pune, India Joined March 2008

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Article 14 @Article14live

3 days ago

Senior advocate Rebecca John to @betwasharma after Delhi HC rejects bail for Muslim activists jailed for 5 yrs without trial"the complete breakdown of criminal justice is apparent from the fact that 3 different benches heard the matter for over 3 years" article-14.com/post/how-the-r…

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Siddhartha Basu @babubasu

a week ago

Resurrected from a forgotten box of negs: pics from the very first Quiz Time, 1985 — when Sunday 9 p.m. on DD became quiz time for the whole country. IIT Kanpur took the title, Presidency College Calcutta a breath behind. The cleanest pics yet, unseen since they were clicked

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वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover

2 weeks ago

Naya standup video from my 90-mins special Nothing Makes Sense. Full special dropping soon on YouTube. Tab tak ye dekh lo. youtu.be/pV6nw040l4c

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Manu S Pillai @UnamPillai

3 weeks ago

Pictures from a lecture on "What is History?" delivered at IISER Pune a few days ago. The full video is here: youtu.be/_vGm7nqvMEY

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88

4 weeks ago

Reminder: “Between Worlds: the IF Anthology of New Indian SFF” will be in bookshops from Monday. And if you can’t wait that long, the pre-order link is in the tweet below. 👇🏼

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शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek

a month ago

Trump’s Tariff: Why this isn’t India’s '1991 moment' Cartoon @MANJULtoons My essay @newslaundry @MnshaP Trump’s 50 percent tariff on Indian exports has led to calls for India to use this crisis as a “1991 moment” to become self-reliant via manufacturing. But decades of…

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IISER Pune @IISERPune

a month ago

Come join us for a #Colloquium / #PublicLecture by historian and author Dr. Manu Pillai @UnamPillai on “What is History?” Dr. Pillai will address the question of what constitutes history and its study. Venue: C.V. Raman Auditorium, IISER Pune Date and Time: August 19, 2025, 5:30…

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IITM Pune @iitmpune

a month ago

Congratulations Dr @anoopsmahajan ,ScF, @iitmpune -recognized as winning National Champion for Argentina in 3rd ed. of the Frontiers Planet Prize! -as contributing author: Natural short-lived halogens exert an indirect cooling effect on climate,Nature,2023 nature.com/articles/s4158…

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Steven Pinker @sapinker

a month ago

RIP Tom Lehrer, one of the funniest and cleverest men who ever lived. nytimes.com/2025/07/27/art…

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joyojeet pal @joyopal

4 months ago

I found out that I can finally refer to myself as 'Professor'. It took this long to get the job with no qualifier of assistant, associate, without tenure, without ambition, without kidney etc. Had I become a cricketer, I would be a retired commentator a decade and a half ago.

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gt.dad @gtdad

3 months ago

People—teachers, students, parents—have been complaining for a century that memorization is pointless when ”you can just look it up“. This complaint predates AI, it predates Google, it predates this internet. But it’s wrong. Here’s Pauling on why he gave closed notes exams:

Carl Hendrick @C_Hendrick

3 months ago

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Anurag Chugh @duniyakashaana

3 months ago

Mali's "Automatic Story Writing Machine" from Malgudi Days was snake oil back in 1988. Now with AI, it's a reality.

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Andrej Karpathy @karpathy

3 months ago

An attempt to explain (current) ChatGPT versions. I still run into many, many people who don't know that: - o3 is the obvious best thing for important/hard things. It is a reasoning model that is much stronger than 4o and if you are using ChatGPT professionally and not using o3…

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G V Pavan Kumar @Pavan_KumarGV

4 months ago

The full text of the first essay in the 'Mechanics' sub-series on 'A Global History of Physics' is online I will post two other essays in the coming days. My hope is to compile each sub-series into an open-source book Comments welcome links ⤵️ 1/

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Bar and Bench @barandbench

4 months ago

In a major push for transparency, the Supreme Court to publish the entire process of judicial appointments (High Courts & SC) from Nov 2022 to May 2025 — including names, sources (Bar/Service), recommendation dates, appointment status, and even familial links to sitting/retired…

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Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal

4 months ago

"To make it to India's top 10% income earners, one must earn just Rs. 2.9 lakh a year. To enter the top 1%, Rs. 20.7 lakh will suffice. Wealth paints a similar picture. Accumulate Rs. 21 lakh in net assets, and one is now a 10-percenter. Accumulate Rs. 82 lakh and one is in the…

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greenpunemovement @greenpunemvmt

4 months ago

🧵1/5 On behalf of the Green Pune Movement, 31,000+ signatures were submitted today to protect Pune’s hills and oppose any construction in the Bio-Diversity Park (BDP) reserved areas. 🌳 #SavePuneHills #GreenPuneMovement

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Gautam Bhatia @gautambhatia88

5 months ago

There's been a lot of fall-out over the SC's recent decision on Governors sitting on state legislation. In @the_hindu, I have a piece on why the Court had to do what it did, and why the only long-term solution is to abolish the Governor's office: thehindu.com/news/national/…

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The Cutlass Magazine®️ @cutlassmagazine

5 months ago

As we approach the end of Ramadan this weekend, let us take a look at an Indo-Caribbean “meethai” (sweet) often served at Eid celebrations. Particularly popular in Guyana and Trinidad, it is known as “vamazelli cake” by Guyanese people and “sawine” (suh-wine) among Trinidadians.