Shakti D

A large country like India needs to have demonstrable superiority in certain physical and biological activities and sports. Humans are not fact machines but sentimental beings who imagine and belong. I am not really a fan of number correlation when it comes to sports achievements. For the fun of it. India is the most populous country in the world. So of course, all the 48 countries in FIFA world cup have less population than India. Even China didn't qualify. The second most populous country. One of the many reasons is the qualifiers for Asian countries has been tough. But the Chinese have significant other achievements in sports, clearly asserted in Olympics. Of the 48 countries, remove the top 5 and the rest 43 together have less population than India. India has been consumed by glorifying mediocrity as the highest cultural achievement pushed from the most powerful and privileged. And eventually this will throw country back to servitude. India needs to get its story right. And not surrender it to inferiority plagued criminals. #india #indiansports #indiafootball #sportsprideindia #populationpower

That Israel is fighting Hezbollah is what the casual superficial observation tells you. The scalar. That Israel is channeling and streaming this fight to obliterate Lebanon is what you understand when you see the vector. Scalar is the noise, too much of it. Good for uninvolved casual news. Vector is what the analysis should provide you. Unfortunately, scalar is more engaging, titillating and rewarding. Vector is boring, intermittent and not feasible without insitutional support. The way out is to form communities, invest and collaborate, contribute and provide inputs and empower people around. #newsanalysis, #mediaanalysis, #vectoranalysis, #conflictanalysis, #medialiteracy

People throw numbers on water use in agriculture or data centers without understanding the scale, context or implications. I avoided pitching in so far. I have been trying to get real consequences at the end of the cycle before making the call. For now, the disinformation ( like statements attributed to Bezos ) or the volume of water consumption by data centres, they all proved to be nonsense. I have watched this pattern for long. When the sugar lobby started facing the consequences high sugar content in diet and the health issues after that, they tried the usual practices of the tobacco lobby before them. But the scale has been too big. And sugar and pharma sectors were intertwined. So they joined hands and started multi-layered disinformation campaigns. Destroy credibility of weak and gullible simple minded ones and then sort out the remaining through lawyering up. But that was 25 years ago. They have improvised alot now and the pandemic lessons have been intense. Data centers might have borrowed a leaf out of them. That is what it seems so far. AI story is about real estate, power generation, precious metals and water. But in a strategic manner, not the routine volume numbers. I will write soon. #sustainability #waterconservation #waterfootprint #datacenterimpact #factchecking

INR has currently stabilized, even strengthened a little in comparison to several other currencies. It is short term recovery. Although the major disaster is behind us for now ( fingers crossed, you never know how and when the panauti will strike), the range for 2026 is 95.5 most optimistic to 98 most pessimistic. Be very careful of being bullish on INR till there are serious signs either in policy measures or a major oil price correction. #inr #rupee #forex #fxtrading #marketanalysis

Once, the sun didn't set on the British empire. Now, they can't have a Prime Minister who completes a full term. 7th in 10 years. Starmer to resign. #Starmer #British #politics

The Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo makes a massive € 235 M per year. An absolute legend and a god in Portugal. Argenitian Lionel Messi is a remote second making €70 M per year. Emerging superstart French Kylian Mbappé is a tie for second spot at €70M/year, and will most likely surpass Messi soon. Norwegian Erling Haaland make €60M per year. In Comparison. Virat Kohli stands heads and shoulders above other crickets making roughly € 22 M per year. Second spot is shared between Pat Cummins and probably Rishabh Pant with roughly € 2.5 M per year.

Ramachandra Guha's sleight on Rahul Gandhi has made people reassess RG and it has worked in his favour. Looking back, I think I was wrong to see Guha's hatchet job as a sabotage. It might be a clever attempt to get attention on RG. Last night was revealing for other reasons too. India doesn't want to stand too close to Pakistan in these times. For a legitimate reason. India manages to keep safe distance from the Pakistani terror factories through a complex balancing act. Current government, despite its positive limelight at this time, has manipulated the actual mandate and undermined it. And that mandate is far more fierce and dangerous if they consider India as hostile or undermining their claim to power. There are things that India can still do, but then, I am too far out to send my brain farts. For now, it remains on Pakistan to find other industries that can overtake its security business importance. Not yet visible on horizon sadly. Americans are desperate to get a one up on China. And they need 3-4 years for it. Meanwhile, China is one, max two years away from ensuring its development model to continue irrespective of rest of the world, mostly the western world. One of the most critical components of Chinese capabilities is its EUV machine. For USA, the challenge is to delay it or sabotage it. And it is running out of time. The only possibility it has to disrupt China is to weaponize space. That will bring about a clash of titans. Chinese interference in Indian economy and politics will grow now. I had written in past also about the need for a strong India for a prosperous China. Unfortunately, the simulatenous rise of both power powers didn't happen. India chose a servile path to predictability alongside a crumbling empire. Chinese and Indian social media ecosystems are almost entirely separate. But Indians dominate the mass/volume of the global interface for the Chinese. Besides, the great Chinese wall isn't that unbreachable. Indians have responded with raising a terrible stink to Chinese attempts of infiltrating with their propaganda campaigns at higher levels. Chinese attempts for a high quality heli-dropping of propaganda has slowed down for now, but it will return. Indian side lacks the depths and variety in arsenals. My fear is Chinese side will sidestep the routine propaganda and go for serious below-the-radar sabotage where they have a massive edge now. Is it possible that India is looking at a situation where a clean face becomes the PM and the current prick face becomes the President for life sort of thing? Initial thoughts. This might be a simple way to get rid of the American blackmail of this moron. Or the more likely path of a massive crackdown and rise of single party dictatorship?

A major genome study of 170,000 Pakistanis might reveal why many medicines that work on mice fail on humans. What makes Pakistani genomes so special? Pakistani genome research reveals the population is closely interrelated, because of closed endogamy and cousin marriages. By identifying 34,000 people who are “human knockouts,” with complete loss of function of at least one gene, the study reveals variation in the human genome needed to shape new treatments for human diseases while also illuminating why drugs developed in mice often fail in humans. For a related context. Bill Gates Foundation has been in Bihar for gene research for similar reasons, for a specific tribe living size by side with mainstream but with limited to negligible genetic mix. 34,000 with a gene off out of 170,000 samples is a massive case of close intermixing. No other population comes remotely close. Having said that, I suspect this is going to help much in finding better drugs. But then, I am not the expert here. https://www.cuimc.columbia.edu/news/how-170-000-pakistani-genomes-could-transform-medicine