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@KanwalSibal All true. But why feel offended & outraged? If India and Indians want to be thought of as a big power, they should stop being nettled by minor objects. The attitude ought to be: we don’t give a sh!t to what you say or think about us. China plays that game well.

A rather annoying cartoon from a self- satisfied country of 5.6 million people with no historical or civilisational depth, or experience of handling complex and diverse societies or the depth of challenges that a country of 1.4 billion people faces. Resorting to an offensive snake charmer stereotype of India, that has a racist overtone. India does not need Norwegian oil. It has huge oil rich countries in its neighbourhood. Doesn’t need to charm them as India is a huge market, being the second largest importer of oil. The cartoon reflects the shallowness of Norway’s journalism as this is the country’s largest newspaper.

@MainakM1234 @ihailmyindia Because of linguistic evolution. Old Norse and Sanskrit are part of the same larger family. The two words are cognates, going back to a common root. If you don’t know something, the remedy is to find out and learn. Not exhibit your ignorance.

@ihailmyindia sambandh is a sanskrit word how will it come from iceland

Lol, “Sambhandh” is not an Icelandic term... nah, we are not interested in linking with these folks. The Aryan race is just ours... And I’m not surprised to see these Northern Europeans literally buttering us up to get the trade deals done.

@suryakane @ananthkrishnan The Indian incoherence and eagerness to please was on display yesterday when they elevated a nobody-woman to someone worthy of a response. This is why nobody fears India, unlike China. Why can’t India field better spokespeople?

Can’t expect international press coverage to get any friendlier over time. Orientalism is racism is par for the course in developed countries. The quality of Indian diplomats abroad and the apathy of the Indian state towards maintaining basic civic sense at home fuels pretty nasty tropes. Simultaneously, the country’s rise as a major economy irritates the West. There’s no way to win the narrative game for now. The Chinese understood this when they were growing so they focused on improving themselves and projecting strength. Narratives flow downstream from how much others are dependent on you. Unless India reforms its economy, bureaucracy and judiciary, builds CNP, and makes itself indispensable in global trade, nothing will change.

This cartoon, which I assumed wrongly was from some cheap tabloid but was published in Aftenposten, Norway's largest newspaper and "paper of record", isn't a great advertisement of supposedly superior journalistic standards.

@aravind @Duflee_baja Why does India have these putzes? You need someone who can think quickly on his feet. A one sentence dismissal of that woman was all that was needed. Instead these fellas looked so eager to “explain.” This is why Pakistan walked away with a PR victory following Op Sindoor.

@Duflee_baja I'm sorry, when MMS govt was attacked and I recognized the DS pattern to weaken India and its govt, I called it out. Then I was labeled a Congress stooge. India is weak because we let our internal politics and divides be used by foreign adversaries. Since British times. Sad.

As I had warned, FT, Bloomberg, WSJ - what Trump calls "China Street Journal", CNBC, Reuters, NYT, BBC, DW, Guardian and many others will now do hit piece after hit piece on India and Modi. Brown Sepoys of these GLISCO-DS media and sell outs inside India will dance to their tunes and perform such pathetic pieces to entertain their masters. They will also use their networks in western nations, inside EU & UK's govts, judiciary, and administrations, to create and plant fake news reports of corruption and scams against Indian govt. Because they know the coming months, due to energy and other crises, are the best time to attack Modi and India to weaken both. Right now to next summer is the time every patriotic Indian, Indian organization, and company must offer unwavering support to the elected govt. India's biggest adversary influenced GLISCO-DS is coming for India. Once India is put into anarchy and political instability, they will come for India militarily by next summer. They tried this in 2020 after inciting protests and anarchy, after sending Covid, thinking India will be weak, but got a broken nose and blackened eye trying their misadventure. But they sure are going to try again this year to cause anarchy and govt instability in India. The GoI must also prepare and preempt this upcoming tsunami of attacks. No more adhoc and knee jerk reactions to their hit jobs using media, fake reports, and social media psyops. Acknowledge the DS, recognize it, train every diplomat and official to understand the real hidden hand behind, no matter attack seems to come from Europe, UK or US. And create a comprehensive strategy to fight their "war by other means" against India at the highest level now.

@IndiainSeattle @AmbVMKwatra @shawnchitnis This was a wasted opportunity. No mention of the mango’s history or how deeply it is embedded within Indian civilization. Is it too much to expect Indian diplomats to learn a little about a topic before going on foreign television?

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He doesn't and you don't either. The absence of women in a single diplomatic photograph does not demonstrate the “end of meritocracy." Statecraft at that level is often dominated by institutional pipelines, age cohorts, and geopolitical power structures rather than demographic representativeness. Furthermore, both countries do in fact have highly accomplished women in senior economic, diplomatic, and scientific positions, even if they were not present in that room. I was embarrassed for you and your infantile post.

.Simon Wilson gets it. uk.news.yahoo.com/not-one-woman-…

Indian vegetarian cuisine is of immense antiquity: original, extraordinarily diverse, delicious, and, when properly prepared, nutritious and healthy. What this washed-out ambassadorial schoolboy howler betrays above all is a failure of imagination. Also a striking ignorance of his own civilisational history. I am glad the Indian state still retains alignment with the vegetarian ethos consonant with the principle of ahimsa.

@GitaGopinath Here is an Indian woman, intelligent & accomplished, doing her utmost to efface her own civilisational identity instead of wearing it with confidence. To wit: the Indian saree, the most elegant feminine garment ever conceived. Gita, you need not flee your inheritance.

Thank you Jay Powell for fighting for Fed independence that benefits us all not just now but into the future. Congratulations Kevin Warsh for taking over as Chair. Wish you the very best for what will be a tough role. (Pic from Gridiron Club dinner)

Shrinivas-bab & Pallavi (@bibidempo) If this is truly your view of agriculture, it is puzzling that you have devoted so much of your resources to yet more apartments and hotels on Goan soil instead of helping preserve and expand Goa’s steadily shrinking agricultural footprint. When the Portuguese arrived in Goa, they destroyed every single one of the numerous temples that once dotted our coast. You could have used some of your land to make a symbolic civilisational statement by building a temple on the coast that Goans could look upon with pride. Our temples are not merely religious structures. They are community anchors where seva, cultural continuity, and social life are nurtured. That would not only have been a dharmic act, but something that would have meaningfully sealed your legacy. Instead, what remains to show for it now? Yet another hotel.

Agriculture is the most healthful, most useful, and most noble employment of man. - George Washington

Like many Indians who have recently discovered the word “carbs,” your understanding here is half-baked. Nutritional discourse reduced to counting protein grams is adolescent thinking. The unhealthy turn in Indian eating habits of the middle class and above is tied far more to ultra-processed foods, restaurant culture, delivery apps, sugar overload, sedentary living, chronic stress, and collapsing physical activity. Traditional home-cooked Indian meals - rice or millets, dal, vegetables, curd, buttermilk, legumes, fermented foods, nuts, spices - sustained large populations for centuries, including people performing physically demanding labour. No one sat with spreadsheets counting protein grams because health is not reducible to a single macronutrient. It is the outcome of multiple interacting factors: diet quality, activity levels, sleep, metabolic health, stress, sunlight, community, and lifestyle. Traditional Indian systems also incorporated walking, physical labour, yoga, pranayama, seasonal eating, and moderation. Those matter a great deal. Meanwhile, a population with extremely high protein intake such as the USA is hardly a shining example of metabolic health. It is drowning in obesity, diabetes, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and ultra-processed consumption. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to dal & paneer. Now go home to mommy and ask her to educate you. If you return with another low-resolution response, you will be blocked.

Like many Indians who have recently discovered the word “carbs,” your understanding here is half-baked. Nutritional discourse reduced to counting protein grams is adolescent thinking. The unhealthy turn in Indian eating habits of the middle class and above is tied far more to ultra-processed foods, restaurant culture, delivery apps, sugar overload, sedentary living, chronic stress, and collapsing physical activity. Traditional home-cooked Indian meals - rice or millets, dal, vegetables, curd, buttermilk, legumes, fermented foods, nuts, spices - sustained large populations for centuries, including people performing physically demanding labour. No one sat with spreadsheets counting protein grams because health is not reducible to a single macronutrient. It is the outcome of multiple interacting factors: diet quality, activity levels, sleep, metabolic health, stress, sunlight, community, and lifestyle. Traditional Indian systems also incorporated walking, physical labour, yoga, pranayama, seasonal eating, and moderation. Those matter a great deal. Meanwhile, a population with extremely high protein intake such as the USA is hardly a shining example of metabolic health. It is drowning in obesity, diabetes, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and ultra-processed consumption. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to dal & paneer. Now go home to mommy and ask her to educate you. If you return with another low-resolution response, you will be blocked.

I know you mean well but even someone eating 100 gm cooked urad dal + 100 gm paneer daily (very few do this) will only get 7-9 gm protein from the dal and 20-21 g from paneer along with 23-25 gm carbs total. That's assuming it's just steamed and eaten. Add oils, ghee etc and the composition changes more.

I’m not joking—every time I’ve traveled to India with my wife, who’s from Taiwan, her first comment during a meal is always, “Why is the daily diet so low on protein, especially meat?”

@karandotg @aadilbrar x.com/originalgoan/s…

@OriginalGoan @aadilbrar please break down the traditional indian vegetarian diet as you understand it

@vkhosla @sama @elonmusk Vinod, this kind of blather is what happens when you remain utterly ignorant about your own Dharmic traditions, you fool. “God” in Indic tradition is not the Abrahamic God. India pioneered rational and logical inquiry into this millennia ago. Cc: @RajeevSrinivasa @RajivMessage

True but hope there is a lot more to talk about too! How about the message to eliminate capital gains which is preferential treatment for rich people vs. folks who earn ordinary income? How about how much better a human being @sama is than @elonmusk ? ....

@_MirrorMan Correct. It is largely the fat content and creaminess that determine how milk tastes. The A2 mention was merely an aside, drawing a comparison between cattle from very distant geographies.

@OriginalGoan @aravind Buffalo milk is A2 only and the ice cream taste doesn't have to do anything with a1 or a2 it's about fat and most of the milk from ice cream comes from buffalo because of the higher content of fat so buffalo deserve credit for Indian ice cream and not zebu

Indian milk ice cream is the world's best. Swiss ice creams come close, but you can't get the taste of Indian milk ice cream. In India, "ice cream" means it is made of 100% milk and not hydrogenated vegetable fats like many other countries. IMO, the best Indian ice creams are the ones made with natural fruit, nuts, and milk. But Indian ice creams brands are being bought by foreign investors and companies. This is happening for all products and startups where India excels. Instead of Indian brands expanding and competing world wide, they sell out. The foreign buyer generally never takes the Indian brand international, instead makes it worse, or shuts it down. This can only be stopped by GoI.

@aravind No. Icelandic cows were brought to Iceland by the original Norse settlers from Scandinavia over 1000 years ago and have remained genetically isolated ever since. They graze on some of the purest pasture on the planet, nourished by exceptionally clean water.

@OriginalGoan Interesting to learn Icelandic milk is comparable to Indian. Did they import cows from India?

Another foreigner who doesn't know what he/she is talking about. If you eat mostly samosas and oily food, you will of course be doing damage to your health. Backing up, do you think your restaurant experience of a few days entitles you to draw broad conclusions about Indian food and dietary habits? A traditional Indian vegetarian diet provides more than enough protein and is extremely healthy to boot. Here -

インドから帰ってきて2kg太った。 当然といえば当然。 タンパク質少、油過多の食生活。 インドの年配の人、ふくよかな人ばっかりだったもんなぁ。

@indian_yaksha @aadilbrar Expected a 'reply guy' to chime in. Another one has, too - @Nishant52635675. Read this and go home to mommy. If either of you replies, I will block you.

@OriginalGoan @aadilbrar Plant protein is incomplete protein anyways.

@Ram_Guha @kunalkamra88 Ramchandra, no comments on Udhayanidhi’s call for the eradication of Sanatana Dharma? You would have soiled your underwear if any Hindu had spoken that way about Christianity or Islam. Pathetic coward. Cc: @RajeevSrinivasa

I just spent some time with this visitor to Bengaluru. That his spine is straighter than mine may not be entirely due to the difference in age. @kunalkamra88