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Priya Ravichandran retweeted
WHAT A RACE! 😱🔥🇮🇳
India were around 4th-5th place, but Abinaya Rajarajan, the rising 19-year-old, made that final 100m INSANE! 😱
WHAT A COMEBACK! 🔥🇮🇳
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
🧵 Corporate governance clash at Tata? @satishjohn and I write. A high-stakes conflict-of-interest allegation has emerged involving Tata Sons chairman N. Chandrasekaran and TVS Motor's Venu Srinivasan. Here is what you need to know about the transaction and disclosures 👇 1/10
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
>math professor spends a year on one of the hardest unsolved problems in math
>"Navier-Stokes"
>his drafts for the whole project went through codex sessions
>openai had his logs in codex
>suddenly rumor leaks AI solved it
>he emails openai to ask what's going on
>openai calls within days
>"funny story, our model also solved it"
>using his exact approach
>asks openai: did you train on my sessions?
>no answer
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
This is so shockingly cruel I’m not sure I can look at the author of Catcher in the Rye the same way again.
As a contingency for marrying her, JD Salinger had his future wife drop out of college and burn all her own writings.
Then he gave her a copy of the short story Franny, which was based on her, as a wedding gift.
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
Once upon a time in colonial Madras, a young medical student walked into class wearing a swadeshi surgical apron made of hand-spun khadi, the cloth Gandhi had turned into a symbol of resistance to British goods. Years later, he gave the world chemotherapy.
Thread. 1/20
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Somewhere around 1930, on a sandy village road in Alappuzha, a woman rode a British motorcycle alone, sari hitched at her waist, while a crowd gathered on the roadside just to jeer. They called her Bullet Narayani. For almost a century afterward, everyone forgot her. 1/16
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Completely neutral and strictly educational thread 🧵
Non-exhaustive list of all private vendors who provided surveillance tech and other tools of oppression & control to the Delhi Police during the Jantar Mantar youth protests 1/n
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This is becoming common across our hill stations. How are they getting permission to build in the middle of the forest. VAO’s, Tahsildars, and registrars are highly corrupted in Tamil Nadu. Same thing is happening in Kodaikanal/Palani hills, Ooty/Nilgiris, Yercaud..etc. 😔
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Gujarat cops (accompanied by Delhi police) came to journalist Ravi Nair’s home over a story he did with The Washington Post on Adani. An FIR has been lodged against Ravi, but not The Washington Post, based on a complaint by an Adani Group staffer.
The police took away two of Ravi’s phones, his son’s laptop, and the laptop and iPad of a colleague who happened to be at home and is not an accused in the case. The cops had a judicial magistrate’s order. Refused to give hash value of the devices
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
What a paper! Comparing India’s trajectory with and without Modi.
rgrier88.github.io/modi-prom…
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Prabhat Patnaik on Umar Khalid and Sharjeel Imam: “Even the British colonial government did not incarcerate prisoners without trial for such a long time. The infamous Rowlatt Act of 1919 provided for incarceration without trial for a maximum period of two years.”
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Please turn your eyes towards the famed Indian Statistical Institute, founded by the great PC Mahalanobis. For over 90 years, this pioneering institution has stood at the forefront of global economic and econometric research, producing stalwarts for many generations.
The Modi govt's proposed ISI Bill threatens to dismantle this legacy by replacing its representative Council with a government-appointed Board, effectively throttling its academic voice. It is nothing but a way to Saffronize this institution, and open the door for its ideological capture.
We're witnessing the collapse and dismantling of another institution, another brick that had propped up our founding fathers' vision for a modernized India, which was premised on the spirit of scientific inquiry.
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
Excellent from a former DGP of J&K and Manipur. Delhi Police had no leadership, no discipline and poor training. They behaved like a bunch of goons with sticks and tearhas shells against students, without any purpose, as he shows.
The Commissioner should have been sacked by now.
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
In the last 200yrs, TN saw biggest change in landuse pattern with plains converted into farmland & hills into tea, pine, & eculyptes plantation. TN lost 85% of its iconic Shola Grasslands, only found in TN, KA & KL. Palani hills(Kodaikanal) lost 60% of its Shola in last 50yrs 1/2
Priya Ravichandran retweeted
WATCH THE HISTORIC FIRST EVER MEDAL FOR INDIA IN 5000M AT CWG! 🤩🔥
- Gulveer Singh does it AGAIN!!!!! 🥉
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VIDEO | Glasgow: The first person judoka Asmita Dey wanted to tell about her Commonwealth Games gold was the one person she no longer could do it. Her father, a cycle mechanic who earned barely Rs 300 a day and raised his family in a mud house in a small village in Tripura, died of a brain stroke seven months ago.
On Friday, as the 23-year-old became the first Indian judoka to win a Commonwealth Games gold in the women's 48kg category, the medal felt as much his as hers.
"When my father passed away, I thought everything had finished because he was the one who supported me," Asmita said, struggling to hold back tears after her historic triumph.
For a few moments, the celebrations gave way to memories of the man who had carried her dream long before it became India's dream.
"I am from a very small village in Tripura. People there don't dream this big. But Papa always supported me," she said.
(Full video available on PTI Videos - ptivideos.com)
