Inder Sen @indersen

It is amazing that this exists: Hear Tolkien read from The Hobbit (published on this day in 1937) in rare audio from his first encounter with a tape recorder themarginalian.org/2015/08/06/tol…

From a Kakatiya-era masterpiece to a Monument of National Importance🛕 The historic Gollala Gudi Temple at Palampet, Telangana, has been declared a Monument of National Importance by the Archaeological Survey of India (@ASIGoI), recognising its exquisite craftsmanship and enduring Kakatiya architectural legacy. #CultureUnitesAll @TravelTelangana

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JUST IN: South Korea plans to give its entire population free access to generative AI services, the first major state-led offering treating the technology akin to a public utility, per WSJ.

Agreed!

Gems_of_Bharat @Gemsof_Bharat

a month ago

Anime is the best method to bring Indian legends on the big screen. Clean dialogues, Characters having exact traits as described in our scriptures.

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Time for a reread

Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal

a month ago

The Revolutionaries….. out on Amazon Prime on 11th September

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Here’s my review of Qwen 3.8 27B - I can't remember the last time I've had this much fun playing with a local model that runs on my own computers simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/16/qw…

bribes.fyi - report bribes demanded from you.

One of the more optimistic ones this Independence Day.

Shaurya Sinha @shaurya_sinha7

a month ago

This Independence Day 🇮🇳, I asked, "What will the next century of young Indians look like?" $0.01 Drone Deliveries. UAVs that never land. Groceries in under 10 minutes. Meet The 22nd Century Indian. A Documentary on a New India.

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79 years of independence today, and the fight for the economic kind started a good deal earlier. In 1906 VOC Chidambaram Pillai raised ten lakh rupees from ordinary Indians to run ships between Tuticorin and Colombo, straight at the British India Steam Navigation monopoly. One zamindar sold his village to buy shares. The British didn't out-sail him. They cut fares to nothing, leaned on his shareholders, then jailed the man. The company lasted five years. Political freedom arrived in 1947. The economic version is still a work in progress.

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PRAGYA is alive. 🇮🇳 India’s first private Tokamak ⚡️ #Pranos #Fusion #DeepTech #nuclearfusion

We promised open weights for Qwen3.8. Now, time to meet them! 🎉 ⚡ Qwen3.8-27B: - A native multimodal dense model. With just 27B parameters, it outperforms Qwen3.7-Plus overall and shines in real-world coding & office workflows. - 262K native context, easily extendable to 1M tokens via YaRN. - Built for builders. Highly efficient, high-quality, and licensed under Apache 2.0. 🚀 The open weights for Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B (Max-level) have also been released recently. Whether you're shipping lightweight applications with Qwen3.8-27B locally or building agents with Qwen3.8-2.4T-A95B, they're yours now! Download, deploy, and build something we haven't imagined yet. 👀👇 - Hugging Face： huggingface.co/collections/Qw… - ModelScope： modelscope.cn/collections/Qw…

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The curse of discipline is that every day looks the same. The curse of indiscipline is that every year does.

The Indian space sector seems to be getting more exciting with each passing day. Today, I had the privilege of witnessing the unveiling of EVEREST—a full-flow staged combustion engine being developed by Astrobase @astrobase_space in Bengaluru. For those outside the space community, this may sound like just another engine. It isn’t. A full-flow staged combustion cycle is among the most demanding engineering challenges in rocketry. To date, only a handful of companies—not countries, but companies—have seriously pursued this architecture, and only SpaceX has successfully flown one to orbit. What stayed with me, however, wasn’t just the hardware on display. It was the faces in the room. Behind every piece of metal stood years of calculations, failed tests, redesigns, persistence, and quiet determination. You could see it in the smiles of the engineers and the pride in their eyes. Those expressions told the real story of the milestone. My heartfelt congratulations to the entire Astrobase team on reaching this point. Milestones like these are never the finish line, they are proof that the journey is moving in the right direction. Wishing you all the very best for the hot-fire tests and the many successes that lie ahead. This is how ecosystems are built, not through a single breakthrough, but through many ambitious teams choosing to solve problems that once seemed impossibly hard. And that is what makes me deeply optimistic about the future of India’s space sector. #shux #space #india #shubhanshushukla #astrobase

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On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting. bharatrajya.com The idea is actually very very simple You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.

A major milestone in India’s space exploration

Skyroot Aerospace @SkyrootA

2 months ago

ORBIT ACHIEVED. 🚀 Vikram-1 Test Flight-1 has reached orbit. India's first privately developed orbital rocket has completed its final burn and injected its payloads into a ~450 km orbit, making India the third country in the world with private orbital launch capability.

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A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly. And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.

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By all accounts, the NTA appears to have done a commendable job conducting the NEET retest after the earlier paper leak. The scale of the security apparatus deployed appears to have been massive (ToI report). 51,311 jammers, 38,795 frisking personnel, 48,448 biometric verification staff, a nationwide mock drill, and real-time AI-based surveillance across 551 cities. The agency also seems to have acted swiftly against the viral "fake leak" video and cracked down on impersonation rackets in Bihar and MP while the examination process was underway. Yet, while all this may reassure students about the integrity of the examination, lot of folks continue to raise the question - why does a medical entrance exam require a command-centre-led, near military-style operation to ensure fairness? The answer lies in the structure of NEET itself. NEET is the only score that determines admission to medical colleges in India. One exam. One day. One number. Every vulnerability (paper leaks, impersonation, dummy candidates, biometric fraud) is concentrated into a single point of failure because the rewards for cheating are enormous and the attack surface is massive. Which is precisely why an "on-demand, 24x7x365" NEET (something occasionally floated as a solution) is unlikely to work. We simply cannot sustain this level of security infrastructure every single day, indefinitely, across thousands of examination centres. TBH, the smarter solution is the one the NTA is finally moving towards, although it is unfortunate that it was not implemented immediately after the 2024 leak episode. A JEE Main-style model. A computer-based test conducted across multiple sessions over a few fixed days, combined with percentile normalisation and best-of-attempt scoring, reduces the risks substantially. TA has already informed the Supreme Court that NEET-UG is expected to move to a CBT format from 2027, with multi-session and potentially multi-stage testing under consideration. Digital delivery effectively eliminates the traditional physical paper-leak vector. A limited number of staggered sessions also removes the incentive to target a single mega examination day, without requiring a parallel security state to operate every day of the year. In countries such as the United States, the MCAT is only one component of the admissions process, alongside science GPA, clinical exposure, research experience, personal statements and institution-specific evaluations. In India, however, NEET remains the sole criterion for medical admissions. A genuinely multi-criteria admissions model is still years away from being practical at scale. Until India eventually moves in that direction, the NTA will continue to rely on a massive security apparatus to protect the integrity of an examination that shapes the aspirations of nearly 1.4 million medical aspirants every year.

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launching silk mulberry 1.5 one of the fastest multilingual voice models in the world it matches the best voice models in quality benchmarks (MOS) all this at more than 95% lower cost ₹0.40/min (~$0.0046/min) try now 👇