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Arun Krishnan 🇮🇳
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Seeker, धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः, Author of The Battle of Vathapi Trilogy (Harper Collins) Instagram:@authorarunkrishnan
Dec 22, 2023 • 45 tweets • 29 min read
Thread 🧵 on our trip to #Cambodia. Will share thoughts and impressions.
I always notice traffic flow and sense, cleanliness and road conditions as a first step.
Orderly traffic. NO HONKING. Clean place. No trash that I could see. Roads are smooth. Even the joints between sections on bridges are smooth. Bangalore vaasis who have traveled on ORR will know what I mean. Very similar stores. Medical stores. Auto repair shops . Tyre shops. 100s of little kirana stores. Typical of Asia.
A Suvarnabhoomi school. Of course written and pronounced differently.
The script is Thai-ish but also looks very Brahmi-based.
We knew this part of the world, especially Malaysia/Indonesia as Suvarnabhoomi.Image
Dec 8, 2023 • 32 tweets • 14 min read
Baba ka Bulava.

Reached Varanasi. Stunning road from the airport.

Yeh sab kab se Aisa hai?

2014 ke baad.
That says everything @narendramodi Ji's constituency

Sitting at a rooftop restaurant, overlooking GangaJi.

Oh yes. Not Ganga. Not Ganges. It is Ganga Ji here. Every time. All the time. 🙏🙏🙏 Image
Jun 23, 2023 • 28 tweets • 5 min read
Listening to Modiji's address tonthe US Congress. A short thread.

It is clear that there is genuine respect for thr man going by the number of people who came over to shake his hands on his way to the podium.
1/ Large strides in AI (Artifical Intelligence) but even more progress in another AI (America India)

Says we must have a difference of opinion at hone but come together as one when we speak for our nations. (Dig at someone?)
May 6, 2023 • 15 tweets • 5 min read
Intermission.

This movie is scary. As a parent, even scarier.

@adah_sharma has done a fabulous job.

The ease with which Hindu girls at an impressionable age can be brainwashed is frightening.

Hinduism's natural openness and acceptance can and is being used against it. twitter.com/i/web/status/1… @adah_sharma It is 1:35 AM in the morning. EO and I just got back from watching the #KeralaStory. I don't know where to start. There hasn't been a movie that has scared and distrubed me as much as this movie has, in a long long time.
Apr 24, 2023 • 24 tweets • 7 min read
A recent paper titled "Sparks of Artificial General Intelligence: Early experiments with GPT-4", published by Microsoft Research makes for very interesting reading. I have gone through the entire report and it IS TL;DR. Here is my summary of the same #GPT4 #AGI #LLMs 1/n Image But before that, let's take a brief detour into what intelligence actually means. One of the definitions is that intelligence is a multifaceted and complex cognitive ability that involves the capacity to understand, learn, reason, solve problems, adapt to new situations, 2/n
Apr 24, 2023 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Since today is the day to reminisce on one's Sachin encounters, let me share a story I have shared a few times earlier.
The year was 1989. Somewhere around February. I was in my 12th. A hostel student at MCC school where the MRF Pace foundation is located. It was my habit to 1/n walk along the road that led past the pace foundation grounds to our school's back gate as I studied from my book. One day, as I was walking past the MRF nets, I noticed two people I recognized. One was @sachin_rt . the other was @jats72 . They were at the nets, getting ready 2/n
Mar 4, 2023 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
12:30 AM: The phone dings silently as a new chat group is created. We sleep on.

4:30: OH wakes up and looks at her phone. A new group has been created by a childhood friend and includes her and just one other friend. Group Name: "My little baby is no more".

1/n One single link to a news article.

5:00 AM. OH wakes me up and tells me that the elder daughter of her friend has passed away. I wake up, all confused. What? How?
The young lady, all of 18 had committed suicide.
We are both heartbroken. We know the young girl.
2/n
Mar 3, 2023 • 35 tweets • 6 min read
For those who don't want to listen to this, here is my summary (with occasional notes. Might be a slightly longish thread so fair warning).

My comments are in parantheses.

1/n First, the presentation template he uses is something I used like 8 years back. At least update karo Pitroda ji.
Starts off with "Indian democracy is under pressure"

"Idea of mobilisation - Idea of moving around is being constrained"

"Attack on basic structure of constitution"
Feb 19, 2023 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
There is something very poignant about the end of Bhagwan Krishna on this earth. The complete destruction of his clan and the submergence of Dwaraka. And his fatalistic acceptance of the fact that it was time for him to move on. The man, or God who was singularly Responsible for charting the course of events in Bharatavarsha for over 80 years. His death at the hands of a hunter. The true Karmayogi, passing away into the ages, alone. Brings to mind those immortal words of Kannadasan...
Feb 2, 2023 • 19 tweets • 4 min read
Thread 👇

I was listening to @smitaprakash and @ANI 's podcast with Lt. Gen Kuldeep Singh Brar, the commanding officer of Opn Bluestar, ony way in to work today. Caution: if you are a patriot and a nationalist and are moved to years by bravery, please don't listen & drive 1/n It was a good reminder of what those days were like on Punjab in the early 80s. The lawlwssness. A limp police force. Khalistani terrorists calling the shots. Bhindranwale the big Kahuna. A timely reminder. 2/n
Oct 21, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Thead:Britain using a Western Lens:

The situation in the tiny island nation in the north of continental Europe has taken a turn for the worse with the new Prime Minister, Liz Truss, having resigned.

Political instability is not new to this tiny nation with a bloody history 1/n of conquest, pillage, plunder and exploitation.

The island which is a constitutional monarchy, recently lost its longest reigning monarch, Queen Elizabeth and that seems to have triggered a bout of infighting among the countries far right, Christian Nationalist politicians 2/n
Sep 18, 2022 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
How the middle class lived/lives in India. Keeping careful traal of expenses. Page from my mom's expense tracking from 1981.
Even accounting for "Air for cycle - 20p" This one has the account for our trip to Calcutta where we got my cycle. My one and only vehicle till I bought my car.

₹500 Atlas cycle
Jul 22, 2022 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
One of the problems with Tamil Nadu's lack of connect with its history is that the last "Tamil" king was actually a Pandya king from the 14th century. After that, TN has been ruled by the Vijayanagara Empire, the Marathas, the Nawabs and British. Even Kattavomman was Telugu. Think about it. The Kannadigas have the Vijayanagara Empire to be proud of as well as the Wodeyars. The Maharashtriana hv Shivaji and the Peshwas. The Malayalees have their Zamorins and Travancore Kings. The Tamils don't have any memory of a Tamil kingdom other than the old ones
Jul 22, 2022 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
The fourth and final leg of the trip was to Chitradurga Fort. Folks interested in the other legs can look at the series of embedded tweet threads. The fort dates to the 14th century with the earliest structure/inscriptions there from the middle of the century. It is a formidable fort, with 7 concentric thick stone walls. This is the entrance.
Jul 21, 2022 • 25 tweets • 15 min read
The third leg began today. Badami. Or Vathapi which was its original name. For the Aihole & Pattadakkal leg, please see embedded thread. The town of Badami is laid out at the base of a horseshoe shaped series of hills with the two arms or spurs jutting out. This pic was taken from one of the spurs where the cave temples are. The other arm contained the fort and the palaces. Agasthya lake lies serenely @ the bottom
Jul 20, 2022 • 19 tweets • 10 min read
Second Leg of my Trip. Aihole and Pattadakkal. Separating out these from Hampi so it is easier to read. You can read about the Hampi Leg in the embedded thread. Startee off with the Sun temple at Aihole. Aihole or Aryapura was the old capital of the Chalukyas. Readers of #BattleOfVathapi #NandisCharge will remember the scene where Pulikeshin is introduced. It was here!
Jul 17, 2022 • 45 tweets • 19 min read
Start of a #RoadTrip with the EO.

:-) Windmills on the way... Image
Jun 11, 2022 • 11 tweets • 4 min read
How could I not visit the Shaniwar Wada? You can't really have elephants breaking down THIS door!
Jun 8, 2022 • 42 tweets • 7 min read
Thread!
1/
OK Folks, I have gone through the entire document and so here is (hopefully) a simplified account of what Aadhaar is, what it is meant to and NOT meant to do, how it works, the privacy aspects etc. This thread is probably going to be long, so bear with me. 2/ For those who would like to read through the document, here is the link:

ia800108.us.archive.org/17/items/Aadha…

The document can be heavy reading for non technical folks, so let me try and simplify it here in this thread.
Mar 13, 2022 • 16 tweets • 3 min read
Thread.

Have just been watching "Ukraine Under Fire" and I must say that it is a revelation.
The parallels to the Maydan protests in Ukraine in 2014 and our own "Farm Laws" protests are eerily similar.
rumble.com/vwxxi8-ukraine… The show talks about how there were three main pieces of any of these color revolutions
1. Money
2. Media
3. Tactics

2/n
Mar 12, 2022 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Intermission during #KashmirFiles

Shall write a note detailed thread later, but this movie is stark and visceral.
Anupam Kher and the lady who acts as Sharda. The pain in their eyes is reflective of the collective pain of the Kashmiri Pandits.I feel the guilt on behalf of India That we let this happen to them, to our own people. That they have had to suffer this on their own, their stories unfold, their cries unheard, their Hope's of justice dashed by an uncaring state, and even more uncaring fellow citizens.