Dreamer, Architect-Interior Designer, Environmental Empath, High on Life
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Few generations ago - cars, home appliances, electronic gadgets were luxuries. Clean air, water, green spaces were (a given) necessities. Now - things considered as luxuries in the past are necessities & clean air, water, greenery are luxuries. Is this progress? #FoodForThought
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This year let’s forget for a while -
- arguments about when the fireworks or gun powder were invented
- arguments about which era/ civilisation/ country first started pyrotechnics
- arguments about when & who made the fireworks a part of tradition
- arguments about why-no-one-says-anything-about-fireworks-during- other-celebrations
- arguments about pollution all through the year via vehicles, ACs etc.
But please let’s remember -
- to use fireworks responsibly
- to use crackers that are less polluting
- to clean up afterwards
- to celebrate every festival with as less a negative impact on environment & health as possible
- to mark designated areas for fireworks
- to light up everything around you with joy, remember to shine & sparkle with your being, let your deeds make an impact with a bang!
May the divine lights, the celestial sparkles, the laughter continue always!
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There was a day your mother picked you up for the last time.
Neither of you knew it.
When you were small, she carried you thousands of times. Then it was hundreds, then a handful, and then one ordinary afternoon she set you down and never picked you up again.
It happened to both of you, and neither of you can remember the day.
If she had known, she would have held on a little longer.
Every ordinary thing you share with someone you love has a final count. It is true of the phone calls, the Sunday dinners, and the hugs at the front door.
The number is already set, and nobody ever gets to see it.
A last time feels exactly like every other time. Nothing about the moment changes. Everything after it does.
So right now, you are living through moments whose meaning has not been decided yet.
Your phone holds years of photos. The cloud keeps every message you have ever sent, and the machines being built now are learning to recall every conversation you have had.
They are getting better at predicting what you will buy, what you will watch, and what you will say next. They still cannot show you the count.
A machine can already learn someone’s voice and have it say things they never said. It still cannot give you back the last thing they actually said to you.
A machine can store a moment, but only you can be there for it.
Somewhere ahead of you is the last time your dad calls just to talk, the last time your kid asks you to stay until they fall asleep, and the last time everyone you love fits in one room.
You are on someone else’s count too. There will be a last time your kid runs to meet you when you get home, and neither of you will know it.
Something ordinary in your life is happening for the last time right now, and it looks like nothing.
Grief always arrives late. It waits until something is gone before it lets you feel what it was worth.
Paying attention is the only way to feel it on time.
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Stop frying your brain with endless short form content. Read long, complicated, books. Especially novels. Cultivate the ability to think deeply. To focus for long periods. Stare into space and enjoy boredom. Do tasks without any media playing in the background. Resist the urge to reach for your phone every time you feel uncomfortable. Get used to being with uncomfortable emotions instead. Wonder and think about the questions you have instead of asking AI. Become deeply present with everyone around you. Your ability to focus, pay attention, to think deeply, is one of your most valuable assets. Reclaim the immense beauty of experiencing your life directly instead of living it through a screen.
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Not again people! Why? Do we seriously wish to destroy all beautiful tourist places? Are we intelligent humans so incapable of managing our waste?
Can the flow of disposable plastics be stopped urgently first thing?
@hp_tourism @moefcc
Condition of Mcleod Ganj.
Next time you hear someone saying Switzerland.. Send this video.
Himachal needs to start promoting trash tourism now.. Come volunteer to clean and get a room and food for free for a few days.
#himachalpradesh #tourism #himalayas
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Another day, another tourist spot, another year of unaware, zero #civicsense citizens & tourists!
@maha_tourism @moefcc
Obvious yet overlooked fact - whether you are on the constructive or destructive path can be gauged by who is supporting you. Imagine the outcome when being surrounded by nihilists, radicals & anarchists vs imagine the outcome when surrounded by builders, inventors & visionaries!
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Never ever judge someone’s intellect by their ability to speak. psychological research shows that complex conceptual thinking often overloads working memory, creating a gap between deep thought and verbal expression. a quiet or clumsy explanation isn't a sign of low intelligence. it's just a mind moving faster than words can follow.
The easiest trend to start online - #boycott - from place to person to brand to restaurant to movies - fits on anything & everything. Funny how everyday there’s something worth boycotting! 😬
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Navi Mumbai Success Story
From Textile Waste to New Possibilities
What happens when a discarded textile gets a second chance?
In Navi Mumbai, a pilot project led by the Textiles Committee, Ministry of Textiles, is creating a structured pathway for post-consumer textile waste, from collection and AI-enabled fibre identification to sorting, upcycling, recycling and market linkages.
The initiative is not only giving discarded textiles a new life, but also creating skills, livelihoods and opportunities for communities.
From waste to value.
From discarded textiles to new possibilities.
Building a more circular textile future.
#MinistryOfTextiles #CircularTextiles #TextileWaste #CircularEconomy #SustainableTextiles
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Yes, India achieved the first soft landing near the Moon’s south pole with Chandrayaan-3’s Vikram lander in August 2023 at about 69°S. The US followed with commercial Intuitive Machines landers: Odysseus (IM-1) in 2024 at 80°S and Athena (IM-2) in 2025 even closer, the southernmost so far. China’s Chang’e-7 aims to land nearer still, launching soon.
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Removing friction is how rich people end up losing agency and human IQ
It starts with Uber-everywhere, grocery delivery, all-inclusive holidays, then private driver, chef, assistant etc… without noticing you’re also removing exposure to reality
I see this in London with young ambitious professionals aka HENRYs (High Earners Not Rich Yet) trying to remove every tiny friction from life so they can focus on work + gym + sleep + money, while forgetting that a lot of the “inefficient” shit they’re deleting (cooking, walking somewhere, random talks etc) is also just… being a human in your 20s/30s
The thing is you’re not only saving time, you’re removing thousands of tiny reps of dealing with the world. Finding the place, fixing the booking, working out what to do when the train gets cancelled, asking someone for help, improvising because the plan is fucked. None of these makes you smarter on its own, but remove basically all of them for 10 years and I’d be surprised if it has zero effect. You can become incredibly high-agency at work while weirdly low-agency at normal life
It’s why so many high-agency rich people are deliberately paying to add friction back into their lives (difficult travel, long treks, sailing, marathons, remote places, silent retreats, climbing mountains, etc). They’ve understood that once comfort is abundant, difficulty becomes scarce. The luxury good eventually becomes optional hardship. The distinction is agency. Being forced to walk 10km because your car broke down sucks. Choosing to hike 20km in Patagonia feels meaningful
The way I think about it personally is just aggressively remove boring / repetitive friction, while keeping a decent amount of unpredictable friction. I’ll happily pay more for the direct flight, live centrally to kill a commute, outsource cleaning/admin, take the Uber if it genuinely saves 40 mins. A 15-min annoyance x300 a year is actually expensive. There is absolutely no hidden life lesson in doing your laundry for the 800th time or spending 2h getting somewhere you could reach in 30 mins
Think the objective of wealth shouldn’t be zero friction, but simply choosing your friction. Basically removing all the boring shit so you can expose yourself to more of the interesting stuff
This is probably controversial: I think using money to eliminate every minor inconvenience from your life is a negative in the long run.
There's a certain level of inconvenience that's just an important part of the human experience.
The smooth, textureless life is the forgotten life.
Experiencing friction is part of being human. Some of your most memorable life experiences are so memorable precisely because they had friction.
It's why you still laugh about the trip when your bags got lost by the airline and you had to wing it. When your flights got cancelled. When the hotel lost your reservation. When all your plans went awry.
And friction builds tolerance for the inevitable chaos of life.
I know so many people who have obsessively removed friction from their life and now seem to be utterly thrown by the tiniest thing.
They've got private planes, private drivers, and private chefs. People managing and staffing their various houses. All the trappings of a friction-free life. But then get absolutely derailed by the smallest unexpected bump in the road.
As with all things in life, when it comes to reducing friction, the dose makes the poison.
A little bit of friction reduction is good. You reduce your stress. You improve your happiness. A medium bit is maybe even better. But a lot becomes toxic to your life. Not diminishing returns. Negative returns.
Be wary of the blind pursuit of friction elimination.
You may find that the friction was what made your life feel real.
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You can zoom out far enough and realize we’re billions of little organisms on a rock, inventing governments, money, status, rules, then spending our lives taking all of it incredibly seriously.
Then five minutes later you’re staring at your phone because some random person replied to you.
And somewhere between me writing this and you reading it, a machine is quietly deciding whether this sentence ever reaches you.
We can see the madness and still be completely inside it.
That’s the weirdly beautiful part.
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Two scientists, a fluid mechanics PhD and a nanomaterials fellow, building membrane chemistry that only 3 other companies on Earth can do, sitting quietly in a 20MW pilot plant in Bengaluru while the world argues about whether green hydrogen will ever be commercially real.
A few might be thinking what is Green Hydrogen?
Green hydrogen is nothing but hydrogen made by splitting water using renewable electricity instead of fossil gas. It is one of the few credible paths to decarbonizing steel, fertilizer, shipping, and heavy industry.
But the electrolysers that do this splitting have a dirty secret: the membranes inside them need to be highly selective for ions while staying chemically stable, which makes them expensive to manufacture and most designs lean on rare earth metals and complex materials that keep costs stubbornly high.
This is the actual reason green hydrogen has stayed a subsidy dependent science project instead of a real industry.
To solve this exact problem Newtrace was born 5 years ago.
2 people, real scientific depth, not repackaged engineers, Prasanta Sarkar holds a PhD in fluid mechanics from Université Grenoble Alpes, and Rochan Sinha is a J.N. Tata fellow with a background in nanomaterials and electrochemistry, both having cut their teeth in renewable energy systems in Europe before coming back to build this in India.
They rebuilt the electrode and membrane chemistry from scratch. The manufacturing costs cut by ~30%, with the rare earth metals eliminated entirely from the process.
Newtrace has a near-commercial prototype running and operates a 20MW pilot facility, and is building toward 1MW electrolyser systems today, scaling to 10MW by 2027.
They have raised $1M pre seed in 2022 led by Speciale Invest and Micelio Fund, then $5.6M seed in 2023 and most recently $6.3M raised specifically to commercialize their electrolyser electrode technology and push down green hydrogen production costs further.
Peak XV Partners and Aavishkaar Capital are in the cap table, serious climate tech literate money, not just government grant chasers.
Why this matters for Bharat......
- Steel, fertilizer, and shipping are exactly the industries where Bharat cannot simply "go electric", they need actual clean hydrogen as an input, not just clean power.
- Every electrolyser India imports today is a strategic dependency, the same story as solar cells and semiconductors before this.
If Newtrace's cost down chemistry scales, Bharat will build exportable IP in the one segment (electrode/membrane tech) that is genuinely defensible and globally scarce, at a moment when the government's own National Green Hydrogen Mission and rare earth corridor push are explicitly trying to create exactly this kind of domestic deeptech champion. 🙏🙏
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The Indian Social Science Review (ISSR), a multidisciplinary journal of the Indian Council of Social Science Research (ICSSR), invites original research papers for a Special Issue on: “Understanding India’s Demographic Shift: Trends, Transitions and Policy Perspectives”.
#research #journal #demography #india
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i made a website where you can watch India being built, live.
every day, things are being built, launched, discovered and improved across the country. I wanted one place where you could actually see all of it happening.
happy independence day 🇮🇳
indiaisbuilding.live
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I just want you to remember. That we live in a world where octopuses dream, otters have a favorite shell that they carry with them all their lives, cows have best friends, and bees have different "dialects" of dance depending on the region. Cats purr at a frequency that accelerates bone healing, the forest grows flowers first after a fire, and dolphins give each other names and respond to them. Penguins make proposals by giving each other the most beautiful pebble
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Seven children. One childhood game. One international gold for India.
From Mumbai’s underserved communities to the international podium, these young Box Langadi athletes have turned playtime into a sporting dream.
After winning district and national-level competitions, they represented India at the Asian Box Langadi International Championship in Nepal and returned with gold.
But getting there wasn’t easy. Travel, accommodation, shoes and essentials were made possible because people chose to support their journey.
Now, they have another chance to make India proud.
The seven athletes are set to compete at an upcoming international championship in Thailand, but need financial support for travel, training and competition expenses.
Want to help? Call +91 82919 29942 or email [email protected].
#BoxLangadi #IndianSports #YoungAthletes #GrassrootsSports #TeamIndia
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