Quick notes: Electronics makers | Battery swap...

• 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



• 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?"



• 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

Quick notes: Little Sun | Curbing cars...

• "Made In India" written all over "Little Sun": This is the most expensive mega-science effort India is participating in and globally ITER is the most expensive science project on Earth ever to be undertaken in the 21st century. India, by contributing to about 10% of the cost, gets access to 100% of technology.



• Ditch cars:

  In 2003, the share of cars was 14.8%. By 2031 that is expected to touch 40%. More cars will occupy more space. Our standard response to the traffic problem is making new roads and also widening the existing roads. But every time we make a new road or widen an existing one precious land is being used for it. The car owner gets most it for free for his use. The city indirectly pays for his car.
  
  While we are busy making bigger and wider roads many countries are moving in a different direction. Developed societies are not adding roads. Instead they are reducing cars and other private transport. Cities like Rome, Madrid, Copenhagen, Oslo and Mexico City are using methods like high parking fees, pedestrianising the streets in peak hours and keeping some days as no car days for curbing traffic. London, has started charging congestion fees from owners of cars and taxis coming to its central area.





• Long road ahead: Cities are saying ‘No’ to 5G, citing health, aesthetics.



• ‘Waterman of India’, Rajendra Singh: “Instead of politically administrative boundaries, we should recognise geo hydrological boundaries. Contractor-driven and corporate-driven solutions don't work. We need integrated watershed development”.

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• A vegetarian beef farmer protecting his stock from slaughter:




• Honor killing in Kerala: Neenu's father, who hailed from the Latin Catholic community strongly opposed his daughter's relationship with Kevin, a Dalit Christian.



• Savarkar believed in AIT? Savarkar settles for the AIT and seems to indicate that the Aryans came from Persia and thereabouts. He inferred that upon coming to this land they felt a deep sense of oneness and belonging to the river that sustained them.



• Wellness at workplace: Overworked Indian employees just want a room to nap at the workplace



• How a Differential works (1937):

Quick notes: Fake accounts | Visa's angst...

• N Ram will be proud: China used fake accounts to target Hong Kong protests, Twitter, Facebook uncover. The social networks are blocked in the mainland, but  not in Hong Kong. The assertion of a covert disinformation campaign is the latest twist as China seeks to quell the largely leaderless protest.



• Chinese telecom firms are security risk for India: “China today controls a significant section of India’s telecom networks even though information dominance is at the core of China’s military strategy, posing an unacceptable security risk”.



• Entrenched and entitled: Card payments group Visa is critical of the India’s move towards no-fee debit card transactions



• Hindu Nectar: Spiritual wanderings in India




• Why Schools Are Banning Yoga: They promote non-Christian belief system



• And now, plant-based eggs: Mung bean based liquid egg product, JUST Egg, is the second-best performing in the category. 



• Fermented rice or Pazhaya saadam: Increase healthy gut bacteria. High in vitamins like B12 lacking in other vegetarian foods. Use only organic milk free of antibiotics

Quick notes: Sunni rule | Crown jewels...

• The other side: Ladhakis celebrating independence from Sunni rule

#Article370
The celebrations haven't stopped in Ladakh.

This video was posted by a friend, Joshna Sharon Johnson, I met on Facebook. She says this is happening EVERY DAY.

No MSM will cover this. So Make them famous. #KashmirMeinTiranga pic.twitter.com/fbn6txxPpO

— RSS - Ready for Selfless Service (@PartyVillage017) August 11, 2019




• Google is sharing the 'crown jewel' of its AI efforts with China: Peter Thiel. "AI is a military technology.  Starting an AI lab in China while ending an AI contract with the Pentagon is shocking". . . . Sentient, the classified artificial brain behind US intelligence.



• 5G Hype: China warns India of 'reverse sanctions' if Huawei is blocked



• Han tricks: Chinese exporters dodge tariffs with fake made-in-Vietnam labels



• China's pharma dominance is a "National security risk":

Speaking of China, there's a good chance the medicine you take originated there. The Defense Department is flagging this as a national security risk after pills made there were found to contain carcinogens https://t.co/TqX0xLdr6w

— Anna Edney (@annaedney) August 5, 2019




• Water can act as a battery, too: It’s called pumped storage and it’s the largest and oldest form of energy storage in the US, and it’s the most efficient form of large-scale energy storage.



• Beef ban: UK university banning beef burgers and introducing a levy on plastic bottles as part of a wider drive to tackle climate change.



• People-focused innovations: e-slippers, gliding platforms and more: meet the student innovators of Maddur  



• 'Dangerous Korean cult':  A lot of youth from the Northeast have fallen for the Christian cult from South Korea, Shincheonji, led by Lee Man-Hee.



• Why does my child study Sanskrit? You will find universities from many countries having a Sanskrit faculty. Although India has been its custodian, Sanskrit has had universal appeal for centuries.



• Kauai's Hindu Monastery:




• Historical map of India:

Hats off to the creator of this video.. The entire history of our civilization in 5 mins. And we are only taught of Mughals in our history books... pic.twitter.com/hHnSwntYSI

— 〰ಶಂಕರ〰 (@PRO_Shankar) August 6, 2019

Quick notes: Amazon's next move | Rising Tulsi...

• Amazon's quest to rule India: Amazon in talks to buy stake in India's Reliance Retail.... We love our East India overlords



• Lockheed may fly with Bengaluru startup's nanotech: “Traditional aircraft built out of aluminum could withstand lightning strikes, because the hit would be channelled down, but modern fighter aircraft, including the Tejas, are created from composites which cannot conduct electricity. In this situation, lightning strikes can destroy the aircraft.  Consequently, aircraft are equipped with a wire mesh to channel the lightning strike to ground but the wire mesh also adds to the weight of the aircraft. Nanotubes served the same purpose but at a significant reduction in weight”.



• Tulsi Gabbard: The most-searched candidate following primary debate... MSNBC trying to pull her down.




• Sino-imperialism: Why China Is Taking over Africa's Resources One Country at a Time. . . About six million rosewood trees have been cut down in Ghana for illegal export to China. Investigations found massive institutionalised timber trafficking scheme, enabled by high-level corruption and collusion.



• Sign of the times: China's capital orders Arabic, Muslim symbols taken down. . . . . How do the Chinese make a profit on eBay selling items for 99p with free postage



• The Most Intolerant Wins: The Dictatorship of the Small Minority by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

We are effectively moving towards a situation where one community will enjoy complete monopoly over the whole meat industry worth billions of dollars based on religious identity.https://t.co/h3NF1neQd3

— Amar Govindarajan (@amargov) August 2, 2019




• Water Stress Index : India’s large cities staring at water crisis. . . . Ancient Water Management System at Mandu, Madhya Pradesh
  



• Mother Teresa: Turns out she was a child trafficker, selling babies and funneling between $50-100 million/year to the Vatican.