Alok Swain 🇮🇳🇺🇸

I am always surprised when someone asks, “What exactly has Modi done?” Then I begin listing the accomplishments, and the mood invariably shifts. I’ve never understood this collective short-term memory loss. It isn’t just puzzling - it can be fatal for both the nation and its people. So today I decided to look at just one area: education. Specifically, the institutions established since 2014. Too often, we form our opinions on hearsay, emotion and sentiment rather than evidence. So let’s look at the numbers. They may well challenge what you think you know. - Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) First 67 years: 16 IITs established. Last 12 years: 7 new IITs established, taking the total to 23. Capacity expansion: 5 existing IITs expanded, adding 6,576 seats. Global footprint: Two international IIT campuses established - in Zanzibar and Abu Dhabi. - Indian Institutes of Management (IIMs) First 67 years: 13 IIMs established. Last 12 years: 8 new IIMs established, taking the total to 21. Global footprint: In September 2025, IIM Ahmedabad opened its Dubai campus. - All India Institutes of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) First 67 years: 7 AIIMS established. Last 12 years: 16 new AIIMS established, taking the total to 23. - Industrial Training Institutes (ITIs) First 67 years: 9,977 ITIs. Last 12 years: 4,705 new ITIs, taking the total to 14,682. Skill development: PM–SETU (Pradhan Mantri Skilling and Employability Transformation through Upgraded ITIs), launched in October 2025, will upgrade 1,000 Government ITIs under a hub-and-spoke model. - Universities First 67 years: 723 universities. Last 12 years: 607 new universities, taking the total to 1,330. - Colleges First 67 years: 38,500 colleges. Last 12 years: 13,500 new colleges, taking the total to 52,000. - Medical Colleges First 67 years: 431 medical colleges. Last 12 years: 387 new medical colleges, taking the total to 818. - MBBS Seats First 67 years: 51,348 seats. Last 12 years: 77,628 additional seats, taking the total to 128,976. - Postgraduate (PG) Medical Seats First 67 years: 31,185 seats. Last 12 years: 36,990 additional seats, taking the total to 68,175. - Internationalisation of Higher Education 15 foreign universities are expected to establish campuses in India.

@sarcaustically @arunpudur @NIA_India That’s what Intelligence agencies do - track finances of these people. One day you will see dozens of arrests once they have figured out the entire network. The crackdown will last months.

@arunpudur @NIA_India So aspublic we are worried, as the effected Govt they have the ability to track but don't care? Past 3 weeks he's been doing it , long enough for them to trace, why haven't they? Some poor salaried chap hides 1000 rs income and the whole dept in on his head

‼️Shaheenbagh we saw Aasmani Biryani. Islamic Terror Org PFI funded Shaheenbagh Riots, Food and paid rioters. Now we are Kudrati Bread Pakoda. No ordinary mobile repair guy can afford lakhs in food Now the question is who is funding these Islamist rioters now? @NIA_India

I came across this by chance.

@vineet498ec @UnSubtleDesi 😁😜🙏🏼

@UnSubtleDesi He could have literally pee in his pants after getting that Lathi, and became true PeeingHuman 😁

@somnath1978 I think parents may not know. x.com/CuteAaruhi4/st…

Parents of these kids are highly irresponsible chaps. There is zero personal - societal - national benefit of risking kids for a clearly-political slugfest. If these guys were so bothered, they shd have come themselves, wht kind of parents send minors in harms way?

@rish_shady209 @VatsRishap 😁😜👍🏼

@VatsRishap Raja Mohan on Trump's fart : Trump farted, it was a masterstroke ,let me tell you why .... it was a strategic masterstroke on Trump's side,it showed that he is healthy,he is eating well and his digestive system is okay sending a solid signal to china & Russia that he is active...

Can’t wait for the Raja Mohan column rationalizing this move and putting the blame squarely on “emotionalism” in India, if and when this comes to pass.

@autodidaclzfm @Z_DauletSingh Do you have a link to that video of him on 🇺🇸 soil after arrival from 🇺🇦.

@Z_DauletSingh But there was a video of him landing in usa and giving shot response to tv media on another republican senator death suspense.

The U.S. President and his handlers would be shaken up after this high value strike. The visit by Graham was intended to signal the US policy shift towards renewed support for Ukraine.

@MacaulaysMonkey It’s about a satellite - OptoSAR satellite - not drone.

This 👇🏽 for the crash of an Indian assembled Israeli drone with years of battlefield use behind it. Would he have been so kind if the drone in question had been a Tapas or another IDDM product?

The opposition spent years doing nothing but symbolic stone layings, leaving Marwar in the dust. Today, PM @narendramodi Ji delivers a ₹79,000+ Crore "state of the art" BS-VI refinery creating nearly 90k jobs. Cry all you want but you can't hide the scale of this development.🙏

India’s first Hydrogen train start operating across the country.

@PrinceArihan Congratulations to both parents 👍🏼😊

We are immensely proud of our daughter, Kaydence Rodrigues, for graduating at the top of her college in her double major in Psychology and Philosophy, with an outstanding overall score of 98.88%. Her dedication, perseverance, intellectual curiosity, and commitment to excellence have culminated in this extraordinary achievement. This milestone reflects not only her academic brilliance but also her character, discipline, and passion for learning. We celebrate her success with immense joy and look forward to the many accomplishments that lie ahead in her journey.

Some of that GDP increase will come from US Dollar depreciation (or Rupee appreciation). Mind you he is talking about Indian GDP in nominal dollar terms. In PPP terms Indian GDP is already north of $17 trillion.

@LeftyCricketer9 @suryakane @Tushar15 Some of that GDP increase will come from US Dollar depreciation (or Rupee appreciation). Mind you he is talking about Indian GDP in nominal dollar terms. In PPP terms Indian GDP is already north of $17 trillion.

@suryakane India won’t be a 25 trillion economy soon. Reaching the numbers Kwatra mentions will require 11%-14% real GDP growth over the next 4 years and then 8% afterwards. We need to consider rupee depreciation, inflation, etc. He is math challenged. @Tushar15 can back me up on this.

The US will deny technology, weaponize dependencies, incite civil unrest and wage proxy wars long before India has a realistic shot at becoming a $25-30 trillion economy. Even at 50% of the US’ GDP, an India of that size would be a de facto competitor of the US.

It’s becoming a pattern: whatever the world embraces, celebrates, or makes part of its daily life, its Hinduness is promptly denied. Yoga becomes ‘wellness.’ Transcendental Meditation becomes ‘mindfulness.’ Onam is reduced to a harvest festival, Garba to a dance form. Namaste is a trendy greeting, Pranayama rebranded as breath work. Ayurveda and Ayurvedic massage turned into spa treatments, and Chakras taught as energy centres divorced from their roots. They market the fruit but mock the tree, fearful to acknowledge its depth and wisdom.

Honestly most countries just do not have an entrepreneurial & capital generating community at scale like India does. 73 million or 5% of India is just absolutely manic about business & capitalism from cradle to grave. For a country still struggling with socialism, that demographic is a blessing.

The glorious Ekambareswarar Temple in Kanchipuram, Tamil Nadu. One of the 5 major Shiva Temples or Pancha Bhoota Stalam represents the element of Earth.

India’s wild tiger population has officially more than doubled over the past 15 years, marking one of the greatest wildlife conservation comebacks in modern history.

@ManojeNath @RajivMessage This is a difficult question to answer. In my opinion Modi pursues Indian national interest zealously.

@RajivMessage What I would like knowledgeable people to tell me is whether India pursues Indian interests single mindedly or pursues one of the many competing interests in the country at the interest of the whole country .

All this is fine as advice on what is best for USA. But your focus should be on what’s best for India given the other countries are the way they are whether that is right or wrong. Indian diplomacy should not be about morality or advice to others, but pragmatic policies for India’s self interest. @KanwalSibal

🚨 India has inaugurated the world's first plant that makes hydrogen using nuclear reactor heat instead of electricity at Kalpakkam in Tamil Nadu. 🤯

@Dineshkjoshi007 This looks filmi, like in one of those old Hindi movies.

Without firing a single shot, Maharashtra police apprehended armed gangsters. A truly commendable operation.