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When you come back from long Vacation , you even forget basic maths 🥲

Shivam Chhirolya

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A 100 year old doctor.
A lifetime of savings.
And one decision that will outlive her. ❤️

Dr Laxmi Bai donated ₹3.4 crore to AIIMS to support women’s cancer care.
No PR. No show.

Just pure humanity.

This is what real legacy looks like. 🙏

This hit hard.

One day as an MLA
then becoming an MP
and you can be eligible for 2 pensions for life.

But a common person works 30 to 40 years, pays taxes every month, builds the country…
and if they lose their job at 50, they are told:

“Adjust.”

No safety net.
No support.
No dignity.

That’s not policy.
That’s privilege.

If we truly want “Viksit Bharat”, then basic financial security should not be a luxury.
It should be a right for everyone who works honestly.

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₹2 Cr for 0.67% equity.
Everyone in the tank froze for a second.

I’m talking about the Kalam Labs pitch of season 5.
Three founders from Lucknow, BITS alumni, sending balloons up to 164,000 feet using AI-powered drones.
Tested at Pokhran. Already doing live IMD missions.

As an AI/ML engineer who has built edge models for D2C scale, this pitch genuinely rewired how I think about real-world AI.

What pulled me in first was the story.
They walked away from a Hrithik-backed metaverse startup to build defence-grade tech.
Sub-4 kg payloads. Operating at minus 60 degrees. At one-tenth the cost of satellites.

That is not a pivot. That is conviction.

What didn’t work?
A ₹300 Cr valuation without strong revenue proof.
Aman spotted it instantly and called it out.

The sharks went hard.
Anupam questioned swarm readiness and extreme data reliability.
Namita flagged the risk and execution nightmares.
And yet, the deal happened.

Why?
Because LAC tensions are real.
Atmanirbhar defence matters more than SaaS dreams in 2026 India.

From an MLOps lens, the scale potential is massive.
Edge AI autonomy removes the latency battles I have personally fought.
A DRDO pipeline can become rocket fuel, if they handle certifications early and smartly.

Season 5 takeaway for me?
Deep-tech from Tier-2 cities is quietly outclassing flashy Mumbai food brands.
Funding winters reward real moats, not gimmicks.

Episode 3 was indeed interesting.
What was the boldest move for you?


#SharkTankIndia

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Some brands have confused creativity with cheap double meaning lines.

This is not “smart marketing”.
This is 3rd grade copywriting designed only for attention.

Public billboards are not private WhatsApp groups.
Kids see it. Families see it. Everyone sees it.

And when people call it out, the defence is always:
“Relax, it’s just marketing.”

No.
Marketing is influence.
And influence without responsibility is disrespect.

You don’t need vulgar hints to look cool.
You need better ideas.

Do better.


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#ad At noon today, a client signed off without a single follow-up question.

The GenAI pipeline handled 2.3 million records smoothly.
Dashboards responded instantly.
Outputs landed exactly when promised.

To the client, it looked effortless.

What they didn’t see was the preparation happening underneath.

Amit Singh from IT had already migrated us to faster servers.
Traffic had been redistributed across clusters.
Live monitoring was in place to catch anomalies before they surfaced.

Nothing “broke”.
Nothing needed “fixing”.

Because the system had been designed to hold pressure before it arrived.

That’s the kind of work most people never notice.
And that’s exactly the point.

In high-stakes environments, success isn’t recovery.
It’s non-events.

No delays.
No explanations.
No apologies.

Just delivery that feels dependable.

When we talk about GenAI, scale, and future-ready platforms, this is the layer that makes it real.

IT doesn’t wait for failure.
It prevents it.

Thanks to Tata Tele Business Services  for recognising IT professionals as what they truly are:
Builders of reliability.
Architects of confidence.

#TheyMakeITHappen

When JAM and UPI went live, India quietly solved two of its hardest problems:

identity at scale and money you can move in seconds.

The next frontier is tougher.

Can land records become part of India’s Digital Public Infrastructure
the way Aadhaar and UPI did?

In Business Standard, Arvind Gupta argues that tokenising land titles could do for property rights what UPI did for payments.

Think of each parcel of land as a programmable, auditable token
mapped to a verified registry entry—
not a dusty file sitting in a tehsil office.

Why this matters for DPI

Aadhaar made people visible.
UPI made money liquid.

Tokenised land records can make ownership trustworthy and portable,
with every transfer writing to a shared, tamper-evident ledger.

This connects directly to the ease of justice problem.

Nearly two-thirds of India’s civil cases involve land and property disputes,
locking up wealth and clogging courts.

Clean, digital titles on a common stack would:
• Reduce litigation
• Unlock credit
• Improve state revenues from stamp duty and registration

Some states are already moving.

Telangana is experimenting with blockchain-linked land registries and tokenisation pilots,
showing how reform can start bottom-up and plug into a national DPI layer over time.

If JAM was India’s Web 2.0 unlock,
land tokenisation is a serious Web 3.0 candidate,
where law, code, and registries sit on the same rails.

Strongly recommend reading the full piece by
Dr. Arvind Gupta at Digital India Foundation in Business Standard:

“Tokenising trust: How land reform can meet India’s digital ambition.”

Full blog link attached in the comment.

Not sure if others are seeing this too, but accounts like Dada Ji and Jethani Ji and Maa Ji have been very active under health-related posts recently.

The conviction is strong.

The fear is stronger.

They are continuously spreading rumours & myths around protein. Starting fights & what not. Don’t know who’s after all this

This is genuinely worrying.

Australia has reportedly moved India into the “highest-risk” category for student visa applicants under its Simplified Student Visa Framework (Evidence Level 3).  

What it means (in simple words):

- More documents.
- More scrutiny.
- More delays.
- More rejections.

And this is not a small change.

As per reported numbers:

📍Around 1.4 lakh Indian students are currently studying in Australia  

📍India is one of the biggest contributors to Australia’s international student ecosystem  

So why is this happening?

The Australian side has cited “emerging integrity risks” as the reason for tightening checks.  
Some reports also mention concerns like fraud / fake documentation issues impacting the overall trust system.  

And the sad part is:
When a few people misuse the system, the genuine students pay the price.

The ones who:
	•	saved money for years
	•	took education loans
	•	sold land
	•	built dreams around one admission letter

This decision doesn’t just “slow down visas”.
It slows down lives.

If you are planning for Australia in 2026 intake:
Please be extra careful now:
✅ document quality
✅ financial proofs
✅ genuine intent
✅ university legitimacy
✅ agent credibility

Because the bar is clearly higher now.

I hope both countries find a solution that catches fraud without crushing honest students.

What are your thoughts on this move?

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