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@sanjeevsanyal This is so terrible. He was such a warm and wise gentleman. A wonderful man gone too early. My condolences to his bereaved family. Om Shanti. 🙏🏼

Very sad to hear this. I will always remember him for the positive attitude he had about everything…. Om Shanti !! 🙏🏽🙏🏽🙏🏽

@sagarikaghose @MamataOfficial @BJP4India @ECISVEEP You are shameless

"I haven't lost and I won't resign:" @MamataOfficial . The single sentence that will stand in history as the sharpest and most pointed INDICTMENT of the way the @BJP4India -@ECISVEEP BRAZENLY RIGGED the Bengal Election of 2026.

Do watch.... @authoramish: youtu.be/LvD-LK8H1FI?si…

@RatanSharda55 @YouTube Thank you for sharing, Ratan ji 🙏🏽

जय जय महाराष्ट्र माझा, गर्जा महाराष्ट्र माझा!

@saumilchaubey @authoramish @saumilchaubey your article is deeply moving. Your words have emerged from your heart and have touched the reader’s heart. Administrative efficiency, political will, and the supreme sacrifice of our heroes and their equally heroic families. Salute to our heroes. 🙏🏼

@authoramish Thank you so much @authoramish. This made my day!

Rarely does one read an Op-ed that brings a tear to the eye. The sacrifices our police officers make to keep our motherland safe is not talked about as much as it should. Thank you for this article, @saumilchaubey. Lord Shiva bless you. Naman to your father's immortal soul. 🙏🏽

@MattooShashank Foreign policy, respectfully, is not about displaying anything besides national power, and protecting national interest.

“India did display independence even when it was a much weaker power. India had credibility as an international player. It was willing to stand alone to defend its interests,” argues former Foreign Secretary Shyam amid India’s stance on the US-Iran conflict

@virsanghvi @Dior @ScentidoIndia Is it a Delhi thing and not an Indian thing?

Always shocked by how snobbish sales people at so called designer stores in Delhi malls are . At @dior at Promenade Vasant Kunj, the salesman was obnoxious & rude. At nearby @ScentidoIndia they were aggressive & patronising. What makes Indians who work for foreign brands feel so superior to ordinary people? It disgraces the brands themselves & suggests that this is how they feel about Indians.

@scribe_it @priyankachopra She did not say ALL were. She said A LOT were. How is that not factual?

So @priyankachopra says a lot of people I Kerala “were” converted” to Catholicism, she didn’t say lot of people “converted” —suggesting that they were lured or forced. This is absolutely disrespectful for Indians of Kerala or others who voluntarily chose Catholicism x.com/JoeRoganRecaps…

Ved Vyas didn't just write the Mahabharata. He lived it. Did he compose the great epic after it happened? Or did he know what was coming? What do you think? Comment below.

Happy Holi 🙏

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@MrinalPande1 This is just such an uneducated, unthinking, shallow and hateful thing to say about a set of characters from an epic that teaches us about the complexities of life and living, to this day. Or, are you just seeking attention, even if negative, and we are obliging you?

Hope the bride’s fate is very different from Draupadi, Kunti, Gandhari, Tara, Mandodari, Ahilya..

@ShivAroor He will be deeply missed by us, the citizens also. His analyses were honest and well thought through, and he did not allow his love for his country and his expertise as a thinker, to mix unappetizingly. Ever. Travel well, good man.

Maroof Raza is no more. Was a friend and mentor. Fought a long battle with cancer. Will be missed by all in the national security space where he was a pioneering reporter/writer who bridged the gap between practitioner and the public. Travel well, Maroof.

Before the great war. Before the dice game. There was a King named Shantanu who fell in love - “twice.” Ganga ma, Satyavati and the Bhishma Pratigya, events that led to the Mahabharata?

One sentence. One insult. That was all it took to turn a childhood friendship into a lifetime of war. King Drupada’s ego didn’t just create an enemy in Drona; it set the stage for the entire Mahabharata.

📙Vajrasuchi Upanishad (pre-10th century) All pre-colonial versions reject colonial caste theory Twenty years after Aurangzeb's death & thirty years before British East India Company rule began, a Hindu Upanishad predominantly discussing "Varna" was copied. It rejects Varna. 🧵: 📙Manuscripts: 1⃣Vajrasuci Upanisad belongs to the Sama Veda. 2⃣Seventeen Sanskrit manuscripts found in North, Central, East and South India. Nine more in regional languages, including Hindi, Telugu, Kannada, Marathi etc. There is a Buddhist text titled Vajrasuci too found in Nepal, attributed to Asvaghosa or Dharmakriti – but that is little more than elaboration of the Hindu text. 3⃣Dating of manuscripts is unclear, as they are all copies. One we can date to 1728 AD. Vajrasuci is mentioned by an independent 10th-century text, so Vajrasuci must have existed before then. 4⃣Sarvepalli Radhakrishnan appended several minor Upanishads including Vajrasuchi Upanishad in his "The Principal Upanishads" translation. 📙Summary Opens with prayers to Ganesha. Then asks, what is a Brahmin? It reasons: neither birth nor seven traits define a Brahmin. Argues for equality of all, anyone can be any varna. Says, Brahmin is not someone born in a Brahmin family. Some versions explicitly say, per Prof David Lorenzen's translation, that "a Chandala can become a Brahmin". Here are Vajrasuci Upanishad's arguments to "what cannot define a Brahmin?": 1⃣Jīva (soul) — as the soul is identical in all humans, sharing the same potential omniscience. 2⃣Deha (body) — since all bodies share the same composition, suffer old age and death alike; if body defines a Brahmin, then cremating any Brahmin's body would be a sin. 3⃣Jāti (birth) — because many renowned sages (e.g., Ṛśyaśṛṅga, Kauśika, Gautama, Vālmīki, Vyāsa, Vasiṣṭha, Viśvāmitra, Agastya, Jambuka) were born in other castes, and the Puruṣa Sūkta states all varṇas emerge from one Puruṣa. 4⃣Varṇa (colour) — as the supposed colours mix in reality and hold no fixed ontological difference. 5⃣Erudition (knowledge/learning) — since people of all varṇas can acquire learning and realize truth. 6⃣Karma (actions/deeds) — because if karma determined fruits, Brahmins should live twice as long as Kṣatriyas, Kṣatriyas twice as long as Vaiśyas, and so on—but this never occurs. Karma-phala is same for all. 7⃣Dharma (duty/virtue/rites) — since every varṇa has dharma 8⃣Dhārmika (giving/charity) — because people from all varnas give gifts generously. The Upanishad concludes: "One who understands and realizes the Self, free from distinctions, attributes, and infirmities; sees his own soul in all beings; seeks inner fulfillment; is tranquil, free of spite, greed, and pride, lives in the state of the Supreme Self." The Hindi-language Vajrasuci manuscript found in Varanasi states, "A knower of Supreme Self is the liberated one, and no one else. It's the inner Self that matters. A Candala who seeks inner knowledge and Supreme Self is a liberated Brahmin. All exists within You. Nonduality is supreme knowledge." 📙Significance 1⃣The widespread discovery of the Vajrasuci Upanishad manuscripts in temple and monastery bhandaras (libraries) across India shows the text's popularity and influence across pre-colonial India. Its ideas must have appealed widely among Hindus speaking Hindi, Telugu and other languages. Remarkably, all these versions, link it to Adi Shankara's ideas (8th-century). 2⃣This Upanishad suggests some Hindus were at least a century ahead of Abolition Movement in Europe, those copying this text were decades ahead of American and French Revolutions in debating human equality. 3⃣These ideas were preserved in Hindu monasteries and temples in India despite the broader dhimmi-persecution and slavery documented by scholars in Asia and Africa. 4⃣While the Hindu Upanishad text is short yet powerful, a 53-verse elaborated polemic version was found in Nepal (which is 90%+ Hindu, rest Buddhist). I, as well as scholars (Schrader, Olivelle), after reading the primary texts conclude that the Buddhist version is a late commentary on the Hindu Upanishad. This is significant in who inspired whom and literature history studies. Sources: 1. David N Lorenzen, A Vajrasuci in Hindi, in The Banyan Tree (Editor: M Offredi) 2. S Radhakrishnan, The Principal Upanishads, pp. 933-938 3. A.M. Sastri, Vajrasuchi Upanishad, in Samanya Vedanta Upanishads

@Ram_Guha @ttindia What a fall this is, @Ram_Guha, for a man purportedly of erudition. It is intellectually dishonest and worse, untruthful, what you write. It’s a shame.

My column in @ttindia on how, in politics and in law, in symbol and in substance, in word and in deed, India is becoming ever more like Pakistan, except that here it is Hindus, and not Muslims, who rule over fellow citizens who are of other faiths: telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-hind…

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We all know that it was Arjun's arrows which finally brought the mighty Bhishma Pitamah down... But who really made it happen?