Quick notes: US weaponry | Booster shots...

• The right way: “First you bring out all of the American citizens. Then you bring out ALL equipment. Then you bomb the bases into smithereens — And then you bring out the military. You don’t do it in reverse order like Biden and our woke Generals did” -- Donald Trump



• Billions in US weaponry seized by Taliban: Planes, guns, night-vision goggles.
  
  Taliban likely to grant Beijing access to any U.S. weapons they may now have control over.



• Worrying drop in vaccine efficacy over time: Pfizer and BoiNTech eye profit windfall from Covid booster shots.



• A Saravanan: Tamil Nadu man makes his own e-bike in three months.



• nirvana (Atma) shaTkam: Music: Deva Premal - "Chidananda".

Quick notes: Auto jobs | Army pensions...

• Job losses coming to auto-sector: A combustion-engine car has 1,400 components in the motor, exhaust system and transmission. An EV’s battery and electric motor has only 200 components. The average IC engine takes about 3.5 hours to make, while an electric motor takes about 1 hour.. Around 410,000 German jobs are at risk by 2030.



• Vengeful CM: Kia looking to move $1.1 billion plant out of Yesu's Andhra.



• India's Missile Defense: China says India can’t build an effective missile defense system. "Inadequate capital, unsmooth R&D process, heavy reliance on other countries for key technology and incomplete systems" 



• Pension burden: Army to spend more on pensions than on salaries. Rs 111,294 crore for army salaries, Rs 113,278 crore for army pensions. Funds that could otherwise go towards equipment modernisation



• Ashtavakra Gita: It is in the infinite ocean of myself that the mind-creation called the world takes place.
  
  



• Be Modern and Use Sanskrit to Decolonize Your Mind: Sanskrit is an analytical and a holistic language. It is both argumentative and sacred. It is good for singing and reciting. It is a wonderful tool to liberate from two of the most pressing problems of the modern world: addiction and depression. Be modern and use Sanskrit to decolonize your mind.



• Slave Thinking: Children penalised for speaking in Kannada 



#Karnataka
Beauty of Govt schools !! It's a government school in one of those remote lambani Hattis in chalkere taluk of chitradurga District. Loved the style of teaching Kannada Gaadegalu using Akshara Maale. 👏👏👏
(2nd half of the video in the thread)@nimmasuresh pic.twitter.com/hBfAGCuLun

— Ashwini M Sripad (@AshwiniMS_TNIE) January 8, 2020





If only I was taught 3-Table like in this #Kannada school.
Not sure about my #math, would have at least got good in #dance by now:).
Wonder which #Karnataka school this is?@readingkafka @neeleshmisra pic.twitter.com/RaUKrFZfFL

— Vasanthi Hariprakash (@vasanthihari) January 21, 2020




• How to end traffic  European cities offer a roadmap for life with fewer cars.. . . . Better bus lanes can fix everyone’s commute. . . . First all-electric bus town

Quick notes: Drone attack | Orbital deviation...

• Costly defenses no match for drones, cruise missiles: Billions of dollars spent by Saudi Arabia on cutting edge military hardware has proved no match for low-cost drones and cruise missiles used in a strike that crippled its giant oil industry. . . . Lesson for India



• Chandrayaan 2, a failure of autonomy? There were significant deviations between proposed and actual orbits. Obviously, the system malfunctioned during the autonomous mode without taking any corrective measures. 



• Bangladesh Shining: Their GDP per-capita would "exceed India's by 2027".... India's numbers are actually worse than shown here.





• Ban phosphate in detergents to save lakes: The rate of active ingredients in detergents in India is higher than prescribed. A complete ban on phosphate in detergents will simplify the process of sewage treatment.



• Election interference by Hans? Australia concluded China was behind hack on parliament, political parties 



• Han tricks: Chinese woman pleads guilty in 'birth tourism' case



• Car free:

I want to share with you two pictures of my hometown (Grenoble, France). The first one dates from the 1960s-1970s. The second is from last year.

The difference? The City Council was slowly voted out and replaced with those in favor of pedestrians, cyclists and the streetcar. pic.twitter.com/FF7aQ6FGPI

— Blaise (@DC1f525) August 29, 2019




• This Greek tradition resembles India's:

In Greek weddings we shower the couple with rice. Rice represents life and growth. In old times, people threw seeds to grow life on earth, so they throw them to bride for increased fertility. pic.twitter.com/wySJV6sDzd

— Eirini Malliaraki (@irinimalliaraki) September 7, 2019




• Sharada Bhujanga Prayatastutih:

Quick notes: Electronics makers | Battery swap...

• Capitalizing on trade war: “There is one other monster country that has a huge domestic market, India, but they have got to get moving. There is no time to waste in catching that new wave and in fact the question is: Have they already missed it?"



• Indian Made Electronics: A mere 700,000 electronics manufacturing jobs have been created since Make in India started. Skilled workers such as industrial designers are in short supply, and there isn't yet much of a supplier network providing crucial components such as batteries, semiconductors and processors. "India is not there yet. But things are beginning to fall in place."



• MNCs ripping off: A CPU purchased from an Intel Authorized Distributor costs 2.6x as much as the same would from a reseller in the U.S



• Free battery swapping: Chinese EV maker Nio is waiving the fees for something that could be a real selling point in the EV market: battery swapping.

Full battery swap in 3 minutes. Exclusive services with a single click. Find out how NIO Power delivers an experience beyond refueling. https://t.co/uhhFd9EJ8h #blueskycoming #electriccar pic.twitter.com/q9JcfrdQjd

— NIO (@NIOGlobal) March 1, 2019




• T.N.’s first public electric bus: The vehicle will be operated on a ‘battery swap’ basis and can run a maximum of 40 km with a fully charged battery.



• Hindu girl in Japan: 15 yr old Japanese Girl Nadya Chants Rudram by heart in perfection ( Sathya Sai Baba Veda Poshana )




• Indumathi D: The woman scientist behind India's proposed neutrino observatory



• Urdu, the other colonial language: Put this on the agenda next -- replace Urdu with Kashmiri

#Urdu is not the first or even the second most spoken language of #JammuandKashmir, yet this alien language is imposed as official language of J&K.

When will Jammu and Kashmir be free of this yoke of Arabisation?@sankrant

— Akankasha Kesar (@kesar_akankasha) August 28, 2019




• K-pop in India: With the expansion of Korean culture, many Korean stores are coming up.



• Millets: superfood to tackle malnutrition: After having lost out to commercial crops such as rice, wheat, and corn in the past, the resurgence of millets can also be attributed to the fact that they are climate resilient. 



• American Factory: The film perfectly captures the escalating workplace cultural divides between the American workers and their Chinese managers: A Chinese worker asks a visiting Chinese-speaking US colleague if workers in Ohio really get eight days off a month, telling him workers in Fuqing production lines only get one or two days off a month, and work 12 hours a day.



• Car free!!:

This city in Spain has been car free for 19 years, with zero traffic deaths since 2009. https://t.co/n6ycpOLivJ pic.twitter.com/fag2aUFFs1

— Vala Afshar (@ValaAfshar) July 28, 2019

Neodämmerung

“Neodämmerung” from Matrix Revolutions

• असतो मा सद् गमय ।
  तमसो मा ज्योतिर्गमय ।
  मृत्योर्माऽमृतं गमय ॥
  From the unreal (delusion) lead me to the real (truth).
  From the darkness lead me to the light.
  From death lead me to immortality. -- Brihad Aranyaka (1.3.28)



• विद्यां चाविद्यां च यस्तद्वेदोभयँ सह ।
  अविद्यया मृत्युं तीर्त्वा विद्ययाऽमृतमश्नुते ॥
  Pursuing both Vidya and Avidya, he overcomes death by transcending them -- Isha Upanishad (11)   .. (pursuing Vidya alone leads to pride/delusion)



• यस्मिन् द्यौः पृथिवी चान्तरिक्षमोतं ।
  मनः सह प्राणैश्च सर्वैः ।
  तमेवैकं जानथ आत्मानमन्या वाचो ।
  विमुञ्चथामृतस्यैष सेतुः ॥
  In him are woven the sky and the earth and all the regions of the air.
  And in him rest the mind and all the powers of life.
  Know him as the One and leave aside all other words.
  He is the bridge of immortality -- Mundaka Upanishad (2.2.5)



• इन्द्रियेभ्यः परं मनो मनसः सत्त्वमुत्तमम् ।
  सत्त्वादधि महानात्मा महतोऽव्यक्तमुत्तमम् ॥
  Beyond the senses is the mind, and beyond the mind is reason, its essence. Beyond reason is the Spirit in man, and beyond this is the Spirit of the Universe, the evolver of all. -- Katha Upanishad (6.7)



• यदा पञ्चावतिष्ठन्ते ज्ञानानि मनसा सह ।
  बुद्धिश्च न विचेष्टते तामाहुः परमां गतिम् ।
  भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिश्छिद्यन्ते सर्वसंशयाः ॥
  When the five senses and the mind are still. And reason itself rests in silence, then begins the Path supreme -- Katha Upanishad (6.10)



• भिद्यते हृदयग्रन्थिश्छिद्यन्ते सर्वसंशयाः ।
  क्षीयन्ते चास्य कर्माणि तस्मिन् दृष्टे परावरे ॥
  And when he is seen in his immanence and transcendence, then the ties that have bound the heart are unloosened. The doubts of the mind vanish, and the law of Karma works no more -- Mundaka Upanishad (2.2.8)






The Matrix Wiki

Quick notes: Nepal vote, Loss of night...

• Nepal vote set to favor China over India: The communist alliance has prioritized rail and road networks with China and has already vowed to revive the Budhi Gandaki Hydropower Project if they gain power. Harder stance against India, softer towards China.



• Naxals using kids as shields: "I was in Class 5 at an ashram in Sameep village. Once, I had to stay home because of fever. The local militia commander Ramlal took me away,"



• ‘Loss of Night’: Serious effects on the Earth’s ecology as artificial light is depriving the planet of its nights.



• Parking fees  and congestion charges: Chandigarh looks for radical solutions to fix traffic woes.



• Semi-high speed project: Delhi-Chandigarh 200-kmph rail corridor to cost Rs 11,000 crore. Total travel time will be 2 hours



• Tesla’s Newest Promises Break the Laws of Batteries:  Elon Musk touted ranges and charging times that don’t compute with the current physics and economics of batteries. 



• Nirvana Shatkam:




• Good old stories: Chandamama available online in Telugu, Hindi and English. More languages coming.



• Words of Wisdom: The best "Make in India" product is our people; we export these aplenty.

The best "make in India" product is our people; we export these aplenty? https://t.co/JNGgaQGhj2

— Makarand R Paranjape (@MakrandParanspe) November 23, 2017




• Extreme Heat: Los Angeles is painting its streets white. To lower the temperature by 3 degrees over the next 20 years. Black pavement absorbs heat from the sun... Read more.