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The quiet grief of adult friendship
A beautiful piece on adult friendship
"Friendship, however, has always depended on a certain irrational generosity. A willingness to waste time together magnificently. To listen to the same anxiety for the fifth time. To sit through silence. To remain available without agenda.
And perhaps this is why adult friendship feels increasingly radical. It resists the transactional logic modern life rewards everywhere else. Because a real friend offers something profoundly rare: unoptimised presence. Family is structured by blood. Marriage by institution. Work relationships by utility. Friendship survives purely through mutual choosing. Nobody has to stay. And yet some people do."
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/civil-irony/the-quiet-grief-of-adult-friendship/
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India's hottest district shuts at 10 am as mercury breaches 48 C mark
https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/indias-hottest-district-banda-shuts-at-10-am-as-mercury-breaches-48-degrees-celsius-mark-101779240653594.html
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India's Rapido raises $240M more to intensify its fight with Uber
https://www.asiatechreview.com/p/indias-rapido-raises-240m-more-to
Rapido raised $240 million at a $2 billion valuation to expand its ride-hailing operations in India, positioning itself as a major competitor to Uber and Ola.
Data from Sensor Tower indicates that Rapido has surpassed both Uber and Ola in user numbers, recording nearly 74 million users in early 2026.
Nvidia has reportedly received US approval to allow approximately 10 Chinese firms to purchase H200 AI chips, though deliveries remain pending.
The AI startup Recursive Superintelligence, co-founded by former Meta researcher Tian Yuandong, successfully raised over $650 million at a $4.65 billion valuation.
Singapore's Foreign Minister, Dr. Balakrishnan, demonstrated the use of a custom AI agent built on a Raspberry Pi to function as a digital diplomatic assistant.
Chinese AI companies are reportedly gaining a competitive edge over their US counterparts in the field of AI video generation.
Agrani Labs, an Indian AI chip startup founded by industry veterans, is reportedly raising up to $100 million in a significant Series A funding round.
Flipkart has indefinitely suspended its plans for an IPO due to ongoing market volatility.
SoftBank is diversifying its strategic focus, planning major investments in AI infrastructure, cloud services, and large-scale battery cell manufacturing in Japan.
TSMC projects that the global semiconductor market will grow to $1.5 trillion by 2030, largely driven by the ongoing expansion of AI technologies.
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@kazani
"Talking about chess, yoga and covid while answering a question on democracy and human rights is peak incompetence.
The audience is Norwegian media, not whatsapp boomers."
https://x.com/i/status/2056615059556913385
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"Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to.
Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba.
It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with."
https://x.com/i/status/2056349011213181063
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/football FIFA’s India Broadcast Crisis.
More than 110 million people in India streamed the FIFA World Cup online in 2022.
India still has no official broadcaster for the FIFA World Cup 2026.
With just weeks left for kickoff, FIFA’s talks with JioStar and Sony are reportedly stuck.
FIFA reportedly wanted around $100 million for Indian rights.
JioStar’s reported offer was only $20 million, while Sony chose not to bid.
If no deal happens soon, millions of Indian football fans could miss the World Cup live.
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"Notice that no one is even trying to dose off the fire. They just wanted to somehow complete all the rituals and be done with it. This explains why we are a nation of free-riders who don't give a damn about the negative externalities (mess) that they have created."
https://x.com/i/status/2056028009321336941
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@kazani
India has 543 Lok Sabha MPs + 245 Rajya Sabha MPs = 788 parliamentarians.
Each gets:
→ ₹2,86,000/month total package
→ 34 free flights/year
→ Free government bungalow worth ₹24L
→ Lifetime pension after just 1 term
→ Free unlimited first-class train travel
Annual cost to taxpayers: ~₹2,700 crore
That's just for their salaries and perks.
Not a single pothole fixed.
Note: Cost of Corruption= UNLIMITED
https://x.com/venkat_fin9/status/2055535484554895695
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"Inside the Fake RTO Challan Checker: How I Uncovered a Sophisticated Android Spyware Targeting Indians"
Part 1: https://medium.com/@singhbkn07/inside-the-fake-rto-challan-checker-how-i-uncovered-a-sophisticated-android-spyware-targeting-8f2da6a9a5a0
Part 2: https://medium.com/@singhbkn07/fake-rto-challan-checker-part-2-cracking-the-payload-mapping-the-operator-and-why-this-is-3eb78e512d7f
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"A fuel hike of 3% in India in comparison to 40%+ across the world is absolutely misleading.
And that is because our fuel prices never came down when they should have, and thus calculating the percentage from a "high base" is misleading.
Here is the 10-year chart of price increase across some neighbors and major economies to give a clear picture."
https://x.com/i/status/2055168274758082663
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More than 12.40 lakh chemists and pharma distributors across India are going on strike on May 20 to protest against online medicine platforms.
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"Dear GenZ,
Where is your leader Raghav Chadha?
A man marketed as leader of middle class, leader of youth.
No tweets on NEET-UG exam cancellation, no media bytes.
You thought he was standing for you, he never, he was just doing that for his personal gains."
https://x.com/i/status/2054258615004065960
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"Decided to be a good citizen. Inspired by PM's call for austerity, left the car at home.
Auto to the Metro station: ₹30.
Metro ticket: ₹30.
Feeder bus for the last stretch: ₹20.
Total one way: ₹80.
Return journey: another ₹80.
Grand daily total: ₹160.
My car gives 14 kilometres to a litre. Office is 7 kilometres from home. Roughly ₹100 a day, door to door, including the petrol and the quiet dignity of arriving without fuss.
Public transport, in other words, costs me ₹60 more than driving myself. Per day. In a city with a functioning Metro.
This is what we call last-mile connectivity gap — the small, unglamorous gap between the grand infrastructure and your actual front door.
Austerity, apparently, is for the commuter alone. The PM travels by motorcade. The last I checked."
https://x.com/i/status/2054154072278917345
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Never forget that India used to buy cheap crude oil from Iran directly, not in US dollars, but in Indian Rupees, and stopped doing that under US pressure.
Indian rupees. For crude oil. So no USD pressure.
All along in 13 years, decisions and choices were made.
And here we are.
https://x.com/i/status/2053924386076553490
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