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On March 30, 2026, the Home Minister declared the impossible: India is now Naxal-free. But insurgencies don't just run out of bullets; they die when the State alters its posture. We quantified 22 years of political will vs. kinetic outcomes. A Thread. 🧵 (1/9)

A historic moment when Raja Raja Chola era copper plates correctly known as “Anaimangalam Plates” (popularly known world over as Leiden Copper Plates held in Leiden University) are returned to Bharat by Netherlands Thanks mainly to our True Temple Activist - Advocate Shri Jagannath - who filed a Writ Petition in 2019 before the Hon’ble Madras High Court. Jagannath persistently followed up his Writ Petition. Subsequent to that @mygovindia took efforts through diplomatic channels to retrieve the extraordinarily important historical plates and finally they are being returned by Government of Netherlands. Many Thanks Advocate Jagannath! 🙏🏼🙏🏼 Thank you @narendramodi Ji. Netherlands returns Chola-era copper plates to India amid PM Modis visit - India Today indiatoday.in/world/story/ne…

Wow! Cheers to @folksutra guys! #Bengal

Do you remember the horrific incident in Bengal under Mamata's tyrannical rule, where a student at R.G. Kar Medical College was gang-raped and murdered? The mother of the deceased student, who was elected as a BJP MLA, visited the medical college campus. When a fellow student welcomed her by singing a song..., the sight of the mother breaking down in tears became a heart-wrenching moment for everyone! 😥

Imagine a man standing on the docks of Calcutta, watching the empty horizon where a ship was supposed to appear. He realizes the future of his country’s science is at the bottom of the sea. Instead of crying, he turns around, walks into a local welding shop, & starts sketching a vacuum pump on a piece of brown packing paper. We celebrate the architects of the atomic age, but we have forgotten the man who actually built the engine. He was the ghost who brought the 1st Cyclotron to India, dragging the future of nuclear physics across a war-torn ocean, only to let others take the bow. In the 1930s, the world of physics was shifting from chalkboards to massive machinery. Dr. Basanti Dulal Nagchaudhuri was at Berkeley, working directly under Ernest Lawrence (the inventor of the Cyclotron). He was not just studying; he was learning how to build the God-Machine, the particle accelerator. In 1941, Nagchaudhuri & his mentor Meghnad Saha secured the parts for India’s 1st Cyclotron from the US. It was a moment of national pride, India was about to enter the elite club of nuclear research. But then, the tragedy struck. The ship carrying the crucial vacuum pumps & magnets was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in the middle of World War II. The heart of India’s 1st great machine sank to the bottom of the ocean. Most scientists would have quit. Nagchaudhuri did not. He did not wait for a new shipment. He went to the scrap yards & local factories of Calcutta. He used Jugaad before the word existed, fabricating complex vacuum systems & high-tension transformers from scratch in a colonized, resource-starved India. By 1954, he had succeeded & 1st Cyclotron became fully operational in the East at the Saha Institute of Nuclear Physics. He was the man who trained the 1st gen of Indian nuclear scientists. If Bhabha was the Visionary, Nagchaudhuri was the Engineer of the Infinite. Every cancer hospital in India that uses radiation therapy & every nuclear power plant we operate owes its existence to the technical lineage started by Nagchaudhuri’s Scrap-metal Cyclotron. Like many indian unsung heroes, he sacrificed his personal research to build institutions. He became the Vice-Chancellor of JNU & the Scientific Advisor to the Ministry of Defence. He was notoriously modest. While his contemporaries were building public personas, he was in the basement of the physics lab, his hands covered in grease, ensuring the pumps were still running. While everyone knows the name Homi Bhabha, almost no 1 knows the man who was his intellectual superior in the lab... the experimentalist who actually "caught" the particles that Bhabha theorized.

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

Bengal Prediction was done in 2024, when there were no SIR, no central force, no encounter specialist in Bengal. Many didnt believe my prediction at that time, many Muslims even abused me in Instagram reel. At times real astrology sounds like magic. Thank you everyone for all the good words and wishes. Jai Jai Hanuman 🚩

Narrating the story of how the IBM 1620 arrived in Kanpur, Rajaraman says, ‘The machine arrived by plane at Chakeri airport at Kanpur, and from there they took it (to the institute) by bullock carts with inflated tyres. They were worried about bringing it by truck—the vibration of the truck on the bad roads of Kanpur might essentially ruin a lot of the electronic circuits. When the machine was brought, we found that the door (of the IIT Kanpur computer centre) was too small to take in the machine. One of the walls was

Watch who the opposition and their paid channel and youtubers are supporting, TMC is draconian, it needs to go. Better days ahead post 4th May 🤞

Just want to know if u recorded this message after performing Fajr ki Namaz Or not??

Do you really believe this is a“designer’s mistake”? “Poster was outsourced”?🚨🚨 Open your eyes… One poster is a mistake,Four posters is a strategy. Same Lord Krishna,Same non veg plates,Same timing on Vishu. This is not carelessness. This is deliberate.🤷🏻‍♂️🤬 They use your faith to sell,they mock, then hide behind apology. Same script every time. Push limits…Check reaction..If backlash comes, blame the “designer”. Enough. Hindus are not a soft target anymore. We see the pattern,We call it out. Never stay silent when it comes to your faith.🚩 Respect our faith. Or face the response. #Boycott

A deeply sad day for India, and for music lovers across the world. For us, Asha Tai was family. Today, words feel too small for the loss we feel. One moment the heart falls silent, and the next, it drifts through the countless melodies she gifted all of us. It feels as though time itself has paused. Yet through her eternal songs, she will remain timeless forever. Thank you, Tai, for filling our lives with warmth, grace, and unforgettable music. We will miss you beyond words, Asha Tai. 🙏🏻

सीता रामम् अनुनयति भोग रोगसम भूषन भारू। जम जातना सरिस संसारू।। प्राननाथ तुम्ह बिनु जग माहीं। मो कहुँ सुखद कतहुँ कछु नाहीं।। रामचरितमानस

Krooranjagat heenohantathaapi na Dhurandhar ©️SanskritSparrow

Rome spent more money on Indian pepper every year than it made from conquering all of France. A Roman writer named Pliny was furious about it. In 77 CE he did the math. India alone was pulling 50 million silver coins out of Rome a year. The total eastern trade bill, India plus China plus Arabia, hit 100 million. Rome’s yearly take from conquering Gaul (today’s France) was 40 million. The empire was hemorrhaging more gold on seasoning than it squeezed out of an entire conquered territory. And the operation behind it was massive. 120 ships left Egypt’s coast for India every single year under Emperor Augustus. Before Rome took over Egypt, almost nobody made that crossing. One trade record that survived from the Indian port of Muziris lists a single cargo: 4,700 pounds of ivory, 790 pounds of textiles, 1,700 pounds of perfumed oil. That one haul could buy 2,400 acres of Egypt’s best farmland. Pepper ran the whole show. Rome’s only surviving cookbook uses it in 81% of its roughly 500 recipes. The city built entire warehouses just to store the stuff pouring in off the ships. A pound of black pepper cost about a week of a Roman soldier’s pay. When the Visigoth king Alaric besieged Rome in 408 CE, his ransom demand listed 3,000 pounds of pepper right next to 5,000 pounds of gold and 30,000 pounds of silver. The thick cluster of dots across southern India on this map tells the trade side of the story. Over 170 coin finds scattered across 130+ sites, mostly in Tamil country and along the Kerala coast. Indian kings scratched the Roman emperor’s face off these coins, stamped their own name on the metal, and spent them as their own. The Kushan Empire up in what’s now Afghanistan went even further. They melted Roman gold down completely and recast it at the exact same weight into their own currency. Rome’s money was being swallowed and erased. The dots sprinkled across Scotland and Scandinavia are a different animal. Those coins were payoffs. Rome couldn’t conquer the northern tribes, so it bought them off in silver. Archaeologists have pulled 41 separate coin stashes out of non-Roman parts of Scotland. The stray coins that showed up in China and at a medieval castle in Okinawa, Japan probably bounced through dozens of hands over centuries before landing there. Around 300 CE, the whole thing cratered. Rome kept mixing cheaper metals into its coins until they were barely worth the weight. Indian merchants took one look at what was coming off the ships and stopped accepting them. Three centuries of trade, done, because one side hollowed out its own money.

@urbanmonnk @crazytweeep My grandfather was a professor. Same thing happened with him. He was in Delhi and called his 🤡 friend to know the situation. He assured everything is fine and informed the milit@ants. We could not even find our grandma’s body. I’m granddaughter of Late Kundan Lal Ganjoo.

Today marks the 8th day of the Panguni festival at Srirangam. Exactly 703 years ago, on this very day, an event of immense consequence unfolded—one that altered the course of Tamilakam’s history. The people gathered within the sacred temple premises had heard that Ulugh Khan, later known as Mohammad bin Tughlaq, had reached Kannanur Koppam, today’s Samayapuram, with his army. But the people of this land had seen many wars between kings before. Those conflicts, however fierce, had rarely disturbed the life of the temple or the sanctity of its festivals. Believing that this too would pass without touching the Lord’s abode, the devotees chose to continue with the celebrations. What they did not know was that this army was not merely passing through. Suddenly, armed and trained soldiers of the Delhi Sultanate descended upon Srirangam. The unarmed devotees — men, women, and children — who had assembled in faith and devotion were caught without defence. In a matter of moments, the temple town was turned into a scene of horror. Tradition remembers that twelve thousand people lost their lives in that brutal massacre. The great temple of Srirangam was sacked, looted, and devastated.

Earlier, I quoted this to showcase the prowess of ancient India. Quoting it again, this time to reflect the strength of modern India. Hubble indeed observed that galaxies are moving away, but he did not have the math to prove they all started from a single point (The Big Bang). In 1953, a physicist in Kolkata named Amal Kumar Raychaudhuri (AKR) derived a single eqn that changed everything. At the time, AKR was being forced by his university to do mundane lab work on the properties of metals while he secretly solved the mysteries of the cosmos on scrap paper. His equation now called the Raychaudhuri Equation mathematically proved that if gravity is always attractive, a bunch of matter in an expanding universe must have originated from a singularity. Understand the gravity of his work further: Most people think Stephen Hawking invented the proof for the Big Bang. In his doctoral thesis, Stephen Hawking used the Raychaudhuri Eqn as his primary mathematical tool. Roger Penrose & Stephen Hawking’s famous Singularity Theorems (which won the Nobel Prize for Penrose in 2020) are essentially massive expansions of Raychaudhuri’s original 1953 work. For decades, the West cited the eqn w/o even knowing Raychaudhuri was a real person living in India; they assumed "Raychaudhuri" was just a technical term for a specific type of geometric flow.

From Analog Satellites to AI Generated Apps. The story of my dad and my uncle. Dad joined ISRO right after graduating in '83. Uncle worked at Physical Research Laboratory. In '90, they started a tech company in Ahmedabad. Probably one of the first in the city. They built insane hardware products. Niche stuff no one else could build. Versions of which are still in the market today. In '98, they took a leap into software services. Today they build products for the biggest logistics company in the world and one of the biggest pharma companies. 4 of their clients got acquired because of the tech they built. They still work with 3 of them. They built a no-code platform in 2007. Not for a client. Just because they thought it'd be fun. They didn't even have a proper sales team until 5 years ago. All clients came from referrals. Retention was insanely high, ticket sizes over 500K, enough to keep the lights on and the motivation up without ever doing outbound. Lately, both have been semi-retired. Only stepping in for complex hardware problems. Then they discovered AI can help generate code. Dad's been spending more and more time on @Replit. His first app is under review on the Google Play Store. I caught him coding at 3 AM because he had an idea for a logic flow he couldn't let go of. Uncle's been building with @emergentlabs. He wanted a personal finance app that tracks all his investments without worrying about some app out there stealing his data. So he's building his own. Both are 64 years old. The builder energy is unreal. I'm so happy I introduced them to this. I was sitting with dad helping him figure out a specific logic problem and mom walked in and said he's as excited as he used to be when they'd debug code back when they first started the company. That hit different. P.S. They've told all their employees: if you don't learn how to code with AI, there's no future.

West steals everything from us and gives nothing in return ,not even the recognition we deserve. Instead, they collect royalties from us for the masked versions they create. That one Carnatic vocal phrase recorded in the 1990s ended up in thousands of global tracks because the Heart of Asia library became extremely popular among producers worldwide. Know your roots and culture. Protect them from dacoits, because our identity is our right. No one can erase it. India was the mother of philosophy, mathematics, and much of the civilization of the West. ~Will Durant