Bharat Rakshak

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There are so many references to Yojana in Ramayana, some listed below. Because of oral transmission, later additions, literary freedom, it may be difficult to know what Yojana meant in different context. 'The hermitage of Agastya is one yojana in breadth and ten yojanas in height. It is wonderful, b...

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anybody read this book trying to identify the places in Ramayana. Big challenge is measurement of yojana distance. https://twitter.com/Jijith_NR/status/1613895398997000197 Below is his talk based on his book https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0w-WytFpk he just released book about Mahabharat https://...

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anybody read this book trying to identify the places in Ramayana. Big challenge is measurement of yojana distance. https://twitter.com/Jijith_NR/status/1613895398997000197 Below is his talk based on his book BQ0w-WytFpk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0w-WytFpk he just released book about Mahabhar...

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Thanks Amber Ji for your feedback. I am also not optimistic but cautiously curious. I was trying to get the insider academic chat from folks like you which may be different from the outside stated academic opinions. I was sharing these articles to see what BRF members think of a different POV than f...

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Seoul Economic Daily did a phone interview on the 7th with an official from the Quantum Energy Research Institute https://www.sedaily.com/NewsView/29TBDDJJPG English google translation An official from the Quantum Energy Research Institute said in a phone call with the Seoul Economic Daily on the 7t...

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The attached tweet shows a video of what would be the world’s first fully levitating LK-99 superconductor sample. https://twitter.com/floates0x/status/1687859912133779456 Either this is a very well-done fake, or we really did just enter the era of room temperature superconductors. What is seen here ...

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Highlighting some from the first post Hyun-Tak Kim has given a new interview to a korean outlet here: https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20230803057400017 English translation (S He argued that the diamagnetic data of LK-99 in this paper is much larger than that of graphite (graphite) and that "it ca...

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Again - for LK99 - from physicist's point of view - check out any serious source .. this U of Maryland's CMTC's thread for example: (For most of physicists like me will agree, IMO) https://twitter.com/condensed_the/status/1686373516286005248?s=20 Hyun-Tak Kim has provided the New York Times with a ...

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Hyun-Tak Kim has given a new interview to a korean outlet here: https://www.yna.co.kr/view/AKR20230803057400017 English translation (Seoul = Yonhap News) Correspondent Seunghan Cho = Research professor Kim Hyun-tak at William and Mary University in the U.S., who participated in the development resea...

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New supporting theory of superconductivity of the LK-99 superconductor has been proposed by Indian physicist Ganapathy Baskaran https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.01307 Broad Band Mott Localization is all you need for Hot Superconductivity: Atom Mott Insulator Theory for Cu-Pb Apatite G. Baskaran A hypothe...

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@Amber G, From the below results and papers, does LK-99 look promising or something new? First independent measurement of zero resistance in LK-99 A team of scientists from the Physics Department of Southeast University, a top university in Nanjing, China, have reported measuring 0 resistance in a s...

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Thanks Hari Nair for very detailed explanation. Findings from any accident anywhere in the world could be used to improve the flight safety. ATSB analysis report of that accident https://www.ntsb.gov/investigations/Documents/DCA20MA059-Investigative-Update.pdf The helicopter was not equipped with a ...

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Hari Nair, This accident is very similar to the fatal helicopter accident that killed Kobe Bryant. His helicopter also didn't have TAWS. But NTSB report says even TAWS would not have helped. Pilot was experiencing disorientation. Have you experienced similar issues when flying through fog? When Zoba...

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Short answers for all the below is the election could be won in the past without giving any of these. Maybe because of booth capturing or because of aspirations of people were much lower. Maybe they were able to get votes by giving 1Kg of rice (refer to my previous post, scope and cost of freebies t...

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All politicians knows freebies wins elections. Earlier it was 1 Kg of rice, then it became toilets, gas stoves, houses, TVs, phones, direct cash transfer ever growing list of freebies in the name of lifting poverty. There is no difference in any parties as they cannot win elections without this. Who...

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Some historical perspective on BJP's ideology Bhartiya Jana Sangh (BJS), the precursor to BJP, fought the general elections of 1977 as part of Janata Party group, though there was no formal merger of the two. The Janata Party won 299 seats out of 405 it fought. Interesting part was that the BJS emer...

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BJP government's soft hand approach of issuing just guidelines without any real power to enforce is another wasted effort. SC asks center to frame rules. SC: Centre's current guidelines to regulate social media, OTT platforms lack "teeth" SC: Centre's current rules for OTT platforms don't ...

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Thanks Darshan for giving insights into GJ BJP government in various posts. This helps to realistically predict what will not happen even if BJP is in power at the center for 20 years. BJP in opposition once in a while maybe better than in government for Hindu causes. This opinion will not be popula...

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Not surprising, so whatsapp has 100% penetration in India smartphones. So much power never seen before!

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Even after 7 years in power, the current government still has some kind of insecurity complex. 1.Giving too much importance to the perception of western media 2.Depending too much on courts than executive to drive decisions 3.Not aggressively going after political and media enemies within the countr...

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Twitter stats are interesting. Twitter has only around 17M active users in India, not sure how many are real. Top 10 twitter Indian handles with most followers have 65M to 27M. Number of fake followers may be close to 50% for some of them. Twitter follower and user numbers are hard to believe. The...

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Kapil Sibal is the lawyer representing whatsapp. With close to 100% market share, congress maybe hoping for help from tech giant in 2024 election. A Bench of Chief Justice of India (CJ), SA Bobde and Justices AS Bopanna and V Ramasubramanian said that while the tech giant may be a company with deep ...

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Short term focus for India should be to do catchup and build alternatives for all foreign consumer tech from apps to cloud. To become a strategic asset against foreign colonization, it will need help from government as otherwise Indians won't switch. Despite having tremendous potential, we gave ever...

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I hope Koo succeeds. It needs big whales like celebrities to move and exclusively post some of the major updates only in Koo. Long term it needs to add more features than just being clone of Twitter. Lot of people installed signal in January and adoption may have plateaued now. It has become a ghost...

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Just like investment for roads and other infrastructure, government needs to ramp up investment and also encourage private companies also to invest by giving tax holidays and other incentives. Physical infrastructure can be easily made in 6 months to 1 year but software will take longer. Ramping up ...

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Twitter complies with govt request, blocks 97% handles
The breakthrough in the deadlock came after IT secretary..
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/ind ... 871588.cms

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glad to see some strong words from government finally “When it comes to national security, safety and sovereignty, this government can go to any extent as was evident from our action against TikTok,” he said. “We are giving you [Twitter] space to do business in India, not to run its democracy.” http...

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At some point, when it crosses red line government should stop over thinking of consequences and take punitive actions to show who is the boss. That's basic strategy of negotiation. If government is too scared of this or that, they will continue to have upper hand. If Indian government was over thin...

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Even in UK, data loss trial is expected to take at least 3 years. India may be 30 years :D But the case against the technology giant, expected to last for at least three years , will argue a “loss of control” over users' personal data warrants individual compensation. https://www.bbc.com/news/techno...

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India's track record on enforcing laws against big MNCs is very poor. Even if they try, it will drag in courts for years. By that time irreversible damage would be done. So I don't have much hopes on laws and legal system helpful in this internet colonization. Needs political will and strong proacti...

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Meanwhile Congress is getting ready for big push in SM. It will join hands with MNCs to control the SM messaging during election cycles. Congress launches 'Join Social Media' campaign; Rahul says o .. 5 lakh online "warriors" who, former party chief said, ............ He said people can jo...

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Laws alone don't provide any negotiation power for India. India needs a strong alternative with good market share to dictate terms to foreign monopolies. Government needs to act fast to encourage indigenisation of SM platforms.

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Faced with a warning of arrest of its employees and a penal action, American social media giant Twitter has finally reach out..

http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/arti ... aign=cppst

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India should come up with a plan to quickly move (in 1- 2 years) to desi alternatives for widely used consumer technology. Target should be to grow market share of desi alternative platform to 50% in two years. I believe this is doable with government push and impossible to do without any government...

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Another one from government. Amid row over 257 a/cs, Centre asks Twitter to block 1,178 more accounts After bringing down the 257 accounts that were mentioned in .. Twitter had swiftly unblocked most of them, angering officials at the IT ministry — headed by Ravi Shankar Prasad .. https://timesofind...

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From his looks literally, he may be retiring to Himalayas after this term with a shaky bench strength. Amit Shah has shown his strengths in winning elections but not much to show in administrative or international relations front (Modi was travelling internationally and making speeches from 90s). Yo...

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In US also twitter is used mostly by politicians, journalists, celebrities. Though twitter is not used by ordinary folks, it has the power to set the agenda. Twitter screenshots are shared in whatsapp, shown in TV news etc. So ignoring any of these social media platforms because its not directly use...

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Any update on GOI's ultimatum to Twitter? Its almost two days and no effect.

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Government goes about banning Chinese apps but seems completely blind to bigger threats from monopoly controlled SM. The most popular messaging app has 98% share of the market which is even used by governments and courts of the country. If government don't encourage desi infrastructure for social me...

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Is Modi having some health issues recently? He seems to have lost his old fire to fight opposition and take them head on. Even after 26th incidences, offering lot of concessions to agitators. I truly now believe that the only thing standing between these evil anarchists wanting to spread chaos and u...

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