Long (& love) India. Past life : Inv banking 🗽🌃 NYC ✈️ 🗼Paris. Teacher (https://xitter.cf/t.co/FUhalPLDZE), Founding partner @ BlueLotus Ventures

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Without Homer, there would have been no Greece. I wrote that 14 years ago — and then never wrote about Homer. I've finally turned to the Odyssey itself (the epic, not Nolan's film). A thread on my Odyssey piece — part One of Two. The war that made the man. 🧵
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Do you, by Indian law, you cannot claim that Ayurveda cures a listed set of diseases even when there are complete scientific studies supporting the claim. By contrast, China is funding and requiring Traditional Chinese Medicine centers in all hospitals.
This ashwagandha study is insane. Chronically stressed adults taking 600mg of ashwagandha a day cut their cortisol by 27.9% in just 60 days. Their stress scores dropped 44%. Here's the breakdown (1/10):
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Hammurabi code to the rescue. Eventually, other European nations will start to see the wisdom in @myogiadityanath's bulldozer + pay for damages approach. Copying is welcome 💯
Italy's @GiorgiaMeloni “If, during a march or demonstration, you join a group of five or more people and start throwing stones, firecrackers, sticks... you risk up to five years in prison and a fine of up to €20,000. You break it, you pay for it. And if the person who breaks it is a minor, their parents pay.” 👏👏👍
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This is what IISc Prof T V Ramachandra says about Hebbal Lake & Tunnel Project - PLEASE LISTEN. Hebbal region = WATER EXPLOITED BLOCK. Groundwater fell from <100ft to 1800ft after lakes were removed. No groundwater now. Tunnel project alters lake integrity = Violates Wetland Rules 2010/2017. Even Central Govt says you CANNOT alter physical integrity of lake. Tunnel won't solve traffic, but WILL deprive right to water - Art 21 violation. When unscientific project & drainage fails, result is Brand Bengaluru failure. Save Hebbal Lake = Save Bengaluru water security. Full expert note: Dr. T V Ramachandra, IISc #SaveHebbalLake #BrandBengaluru @publictvnews @AsianetNewsSN @solidview @DTDevareSubhash @BangaloreMirror @DeccanHerald @TOIBengaluru. @IndianExpress @THBengaluru @Vijaykarnataka @BoskyKhanna @sanatan_kannada @KannadaPrabha @XpressBengaluru @krjayathirtha @krishnabgowda
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We call on France to exercise restraint when dispersing the freedom fighters on the streets of Paris. These brave warriors for justice must receive immediate humanitarian aid, and their safety must be guaranteed in accordance with international law. Failure to comply will leave us no choice but to bring a case before the ICJ, in close cooperation with that renowned champion of human rights, Afghanistan.
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France is arguably the most leftist country on earth & it's still not sufficiently left enough for the protestors there is free healtcare, free education, they work 35-hours a week, 6 week vacation, there is retirement accounts, free immigration, etc the goal is a total destruction of a functioning country, no military, no police, no laws, whatever goes you can not capitulate to the mob, they are finding out & hopefully others wake up
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Zero 0 LT Tax for FIIs + Ease process, please @FinMinIndia India needs to position better on the global stage. Also commit to Not changing this rule for 20Y.
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The fact that the FM is is even talking about "listening" is to me a sure sign that a) New Delhi sees how capital starved our economy is & b) they may need a real fix to get $ in at scale. STT ought to go.
The Finance Minister on LTCG/STT “On this specific issue, and on any issue, we are always ready to hear and willing to listen to the people. We will certainly take their inputs.”
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Sumanth Raghavendra @sumanthr, co-founder of the Ken, does an ad-hom attack on @svembu (classy journalism, Sumanth!) then scoots when Sridhar points out his lack of integrity in non-disclosure. Blocking people & writing in bad faith is how you build a great biz 🚀 @TheKenWeb 👏
Replying to @sumanthr
The profits reported were for last year - and we had a pay hike last year. The server prices have gone up massively this year. When we sign up new customers we have to buy servers, and we also have to replace old servers. Then there is AI usage and GPU spending, also up substantially. Basic business economics: revenue up but capital investment (seevers) to get that revenue is up massively so cash flow goes negative (but remember capex is depreciated over time). We have cut marketing and deferred pay hikes to get cash flow to zero. Raghavendra: basic journalistic ethics would require you to disclose that a) your previous company used to compete with Zoho b) you present company received investment from a direct competitor of Zoho.
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Elon, you've officially run out of arguments. Now every Indian who disagrees with you is "Ambani's shill." Nobody said Starlink is too strong. Nobody's scared of your competition. India's problem is you. A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch. Ambani's de facto monopoly? You SIGNED A DEAL with that monopoly in March 2025 to sell Starlink in India. You didn't have a problem with Ambani when he was your reseller. You only discovered his monopoly when Jio announced its own satellites. And let's talk about hypocrisy. Tesla's biggest factory is in Shanghai. Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist? Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi? No. Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't, so India gets the insults. now the math your own fans keep posting starlink could add 100–200 million Indian homes. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps over India. Split across 100 million homes, that's 6 kilobits per second each. Your revolution is slower than a 1998 dial-up modem. 🤡 If it's too expensive, no one will buy it. Your own India website showed ₹8,600 a month. A Jio plan costs ₹349. Indians already ran the numbers. Five days of meltdown. Crime against India. Prime Minister Ambani. collages. And now shills. The richest man on earth, crying on his own app because a sovereign country wants a security check. Sit down, elon. Finish the paperwork. India isn't a tesla shareholder you can bully on X.
The ridiculous arguments by Ambani’s army of Internet shills make no sense On the one hand, they say Starlink couldn’t possibly compete with the amazing low prices offered by Ambani’s de facto monopoly in India and then, in the same breath, they essentially claim that Starlink would be too strong of a competitor! This is absurd hypocrisy and hyperbole. The reality is that competition would greatly benefit the average citizen in India by giving them more choices, as it always does. Ambani’s profits will be lower, but he is not going out of business. And, obviously, if Starlink is too expensive in India, no one will buy it, so SpaceX will need to make pricing affordable.
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Have we stopped cultivating taste? The Nobel Prize in Literature 2026 was awarded to Anne Carson for creating "new forms for contemporary literature”. The committee mentioned her poem The Glass Essay and I quote for your reading pleasure the following extraordinary lines:
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A few weeks ago, I prefaced my first piece on the Odyssey with this: "the cycle of society that we are living through appears to be allergic to greatness, nobility, and high ideals - it dwells and wallows in the mundane." udaythinks.substack.com/p/th…
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If what our society celebrates is so mired in the mundane, can we take the survival of good taste for granted? Those of us who still value beauty, nobility, and greatness must ensure that the young encounter works that embody these qualities.
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Vibe manufacturing is here, thanks to madmen like Jeff. I can't really wrap my head around what Atomic Machines has accomplished. This is Sci-Fi, only Real 🤷🏽‍♂️
After six years in stealth, Atomic Machines is out. Our mission: on-demand, universal command of matter. First beachhead: the Matter Compiler, an AI-native manufacturing system that builds working micro-machines from code alone. No per-product tooling. No process development. Different code, different machine.
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Gloves are off now, Elon. Still no licence? Wrong. Starlink got its Unified Licence with GMPCS authorisation from the DoT in June 2025. You know that. Your own VP posted about it. Ambani is the real boss? Ambani's Jio lobbied for a spectrum auction. India gave you administrative allocation, the exact thing you asked for. Then you signed distribution deals with Jio and Airtel. If Ambani is blocking you, why is he your reseller? Five years of complying? In 2021 you took pre-order money from Indians with no licence at all. The DoT had to order you to stop and refund people. That was your first move in India. India's home ministry reportedly froze clearances after Starlink terminals showed up in Iran, where you aren't even licensed. Before that, our army pulled one out of a militant cache in Manipur. Your own company says talks are active and productive. So which version is true: the one your VP tells Delhi, or the one you tell 200 million followers? The spectrum rules were cleared last month and are headed to Cabinet. You're weeks from the finish line, and you're throwing a tantrum in public to rush a sovereign country's security review. India isn't a market you can bully on X. Wait your turn.
Starlink is licensed in over 165 countries and has spent five years complying with every single law and requirement of the government of India, so why still no license? Is Ambani the real boss of India?
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Incredible research on a diff way to treat cancer. Hoping this approach becomes mainstream one day
THIS IS BIG! The Cancer Cells That Changed Their Minds A KAIST team just reversed cancer without killing a single cell — and the method may matter more than the result. For a century, oncology has had exactly one strategy: find the cancer and destroy it. Chemotherapy poisons it. Radiation burns it. Surgery cuts it out. Immunotherapy teaches the body to hunt it. Every weapon differs in precision, but not in philosophy. The tumor is an enemy. You win by killing. Now a team at South Korea's KAIST has proposed a heresy: *what if the tumor doesn't need to die?* In a study led by Professor Kwang-Hyun Cho of the Department of Bio and Brain Engineering, published in Advanced Science ("Control of Cellular Differentiation Trajectories for Cancer Reversion," DOI 10.1002/advs.202402132), researchers took colon cancer cells and — without poisoning, irradiating, or cutting them — turned them back into normal cells. Not dead. Not damaged. Just normal again. The tumors, grown in mice, shrank dramatically. The surrounding tissue was left intact, because there was never an attack to survive. This is early research — cell lines and animal models, no human trials, real obstacles still unsolved. But the conceptual break is the story. For the first time, cancer treatment has a second verb. Not just destroy. Also: convert. The digital twin of a cell The KAIST team's insight begins with a redefinition of what cancer is. The conventional view treats cancer as a pile of broken machinery: mutations accumulate, checkpoints fail, cells proliferate. Cho's group looked at the same evidence and saw something different — a trajectory. During oncogenesis, they observed, normal cells don't just break. They regress, sliding backward along the differentiation path they followed when they matured. A colon cell becomes, in effect, a confused stem cell: immature, proliferative, lost. If cancer is a wrong turn on a developmental road, then the treatment question changes. You don't blow up the road. You build a map and find the turn. That map is what the team calls a digital twin — a complete computational model of the gene network governing a cell's differentiation. Using data from 4,252 intestinal cells, they reconstructed a network of 522 interacting components, capturing how genes regulate one another as a cell matures or degrades. Then they did the audacious thing: they asked the simulation which levers, flipped together, would push a cancer cell back down the road toward normalcy. The answer came through a system they built called BENEIN (Boolean Network Inference and Control), which models gene interactions as logical relationships and systematically tests which interventions redirect the network's state. The simulation pointed to three master regulators — the genes MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2 — acting together as the switch that holds the cancerous state in place. Turn all three off simultaneously, the model predicted, and the cell would stop proliferating and differentiate into something resembling a normal intestinal cell. They tested it, and it worked. In three colon cancer cell lines, suppressing MYB, HDAC2, and FOXA2 together strongly induced differentiation into normal-like cells. The cancer cells began expressing markers of healthy intestinal tissue. Proliferation collapsed — not because the cells died, but because they grew up. In animal models, tumors formed from the reprogrammed cells were dramatically smaller than controls, and under the microscope they looked far more like normal tissue. The signature achievement, and the one that would matter most to any patient reading this: there was no collateral damage. Nothing was poisoned, burned, or irradiated. The healthy tissue never came under fire, because there was no fire. 1 of 2
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The KAIST 2024 study showed that inhibiting MYB, HDAC2 and FOXA2 induced differentiation in colon cancer cells to a normal-like state in cell and mouse experiments. No human trials have been done. The before-and-after scan is not from this research. doi.org/10.1002/advs.2… eurekalert.org/news-releases/…
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YOUR CHILDREN WON’T BE LITTLE FOREVER. Here are 20 things you’ll wish you had done before they grew up: 1. Take more everyday photos
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Hero
Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences. Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible. Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person. Yes. One Indian man.
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A goddess offered Odysseus immortality and eternal youth on a paradise island. He chose a mortal wife on a rocky one, and the certainty of death. Read closely, the Odyssey is not the adventure we take it for. It is a soul under test. 🧵👇
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Epics do not merely belong to civilizations — they help form them. We wallow in the mundane and are half-embarrassed by greatness. A culture that loses sight of the heights forgets they were ever there.
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The Odyssey reminds us that we are capable of more than comfort, appetite and possession: of fidelity that endures suffering, of the strength to command and govern ourselves, and of a love that can consent even to letting go. Full article : udaythinks.substack.com/p/th…
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