Nitin Pai
@acorn
Followers
72K
Following
32K
Media
2K
Statuses
122K
“Eppur Si Mouve!” Director of The Takshashila Institution @TakshashilaInst https://t.co/bWbaasEgoq Fediverse: @[email protected]
Bangalore
Joined April 2007
I am an Indian nationalist. There are the tenets of my position
github.com
The Indian Nationalism Project. Contribute to nitinpai007/indiannationalism development by creating an account on GitHub.
3
7
39
Take the Political Mandala quiz — discover where you stand in the political spectrum
173
99
401
Its time to have another community Fan Art event where you make the art, and the community votes their favorite! The top 5 art pieces will be receiving the rewards! RULES: - Anything Hero Siege related - No NSFW - No AI (we will filter these out) - Post progress pictures, at
7
11
188
On 30 October 2025, the Takshashila Institution hosted an insightful conversation with Bruno Macaes (@MacaesBruno), author of the book “World Builders: Technology and the New Geopolitics”, in dialogue with Nitin Pai (@acorn), Director of the Takshashila Institution. The
0
3
9
Chinese researchers have been intrigued by an elite couple's tomb from the Northern Zhou (557-581 CE) capital of Xi'an. It contains Chinese, Indian, & even Byzantine elements. New genetic analysis confirms the epitaph: the man, Li Dan, was an Indian Brahmin & his wife was Chinese
42
398
2K
The NBA has returned! The experts at Run Pure Sports have you covered for everything you need in DFS --> - Main Slates - Showdowns - Late Slates All with cores, projections, rankings and more! + 24/7 updates from best discord in the business. *NBA only subscription now
9
20
71
I’m not an expert. To me it looks like the US progressive establishment is tied up issues that are important to itself and not the voters. Hence, Zohran Mamdani. In that sense it’s not too different from 2016 and 2024 when Trump won.
4
2
25
I just started reading @samanth_s's "The Web Beneath the Waves" and it promises to be outstanding. As someone who worked in the undersea telecom cable business around the turn of the century, even I am struck by how much it has now become part of geopolitics.
1
6
27
Why does Nepal need to be reintroduced to India despite sharing deep historical, cultural, and economic ties? Find out in the latest #NEFview by @sujeevshakya!: https://t.co/Vfqo2LbRs3
#NEF2025 #NepalIndiaRelations #RegionalCooperation #SouthAsia #CrossBorderTies
0
2
2
I do not fully agree with this diagnosis, but there is a point about a lot of Indians knowing and caring more about American politics than the local. We should ask why.
That India’s balcony people now know more about Mamdani than any Indian chief minister is a natural outcome of the huge cultural surplus America has over us. We are interested in America and America has no interest in us. I don’t want to stretch a metaphor too much but maybe
20
10
138
EZ Grip Friction Drops© solves 3 of the most troublesome issues encountered by OEMs, logistics system integrators, conveyor & sortation manufacturers and repair mechanics. How can using EZ Grip Friction Drops© help prevent: 1.Fastener loosening after perfect torque. 2.Jamming
0
0
4
Mitochondria are alive. A swelling tide of evidence suggests they are not just organelles, but rather their own life forms. The precise definition of “life” has been debated since the inception of biology, but molecular biologists tend to focus on characteristics like
18
126
546
All manifolds are shapes, but not every shape is a manifold.
quantamagazine.org
In the mid-19th century, Bernhard Riemann conceived of a new way to think about mathematical spaces, providing the foundation for modern geometry and physics.
7
69
335
Bertrand Russell's message to Future Generations, 1959. ✍️ "And if we are to live together and not to die together, we must learn a kind of charity and a kind of tolerance, which is absolutely vital to the continuation of human life on this planet."
52
349
1K
Faith makes you blind. This is as true for economists as for lay people.
4
4
25
That’s the business taking the risk. Not a task for the government to make business decisions. We need to get over this malaise that afflicts us - looking to government for everything. Govt has plenty to do. And it does those badly. Let’s please not add to that
'Rs 100 For Water Bottle, 700 For Coffee' : Supreme Court Says If Multiplex Rates Aren't Fixed, Cinema Halls Will Be Empty #SupremeCourt #SupremeCourtofIndia
https://t.co/DjJxU7pXT5
1
8
33
Ultimately a society should think how to use its most talented members in the best possible way to create value for the whole society. Most of these will be the folks who chance has favoured. And the lucky ones have to think what are they using their privilege for?
1
1
4
The socially optimum price of long-distance communications is not zero.
0
1
10
TIL, thanks to @ManjulBhargava, that what we know as Fibonacci numbers are now called Virahanka-Fibonacci numbers, to acknowledge their real origins, which happened way before Fibonacci.
17
411
1K
No court verdict can save a population that does not have enough of a sense of commonness to cooperate on a matter of survival. If political preferences of voters don’t care for bodily survival then why should any other institution care?
0
0
3
Why can’t India tackle problems like pollution? Because there is no “them” who can demonised as the culprit. There’s only “us”. And “we” don’t like to be blamed.
7
22
123