Col R. Hariharan VSM Retd

“AND YOU STILL DARE TO OPEN YOUR MOUTH…” Sasha Legerman: This is too accurate not to share. This Australian’s response to Trump’s rant that “NATO does nothing for America” is absolutely devastating: “Mate. You run a country where 600,000 homeless people will sleep on the streets tonight. A country where 40% of adults can’t cover a $400 emergency without borrowing money. A country where insulin costs more than a car payment, and people ration it just to stay alive. A country where medical debt is the number one cause of bankruptcy. A country where women die in hospital parking lots because doctors are too afraid of abortion laws to treat miscarriages. You imprison more of your own citizens than any country on Earth. More than China. More than Russia. More than North Korea. In the land of the free, 2 million people sit in cages, and a quarter of them haven’t even been convicted of anything. They’re simply too poor to afford bail. Your life expectancy is declining. You’re the only developed nation where that’s happening. Your infant mortality rate is worse than Cuba’s. Your children practice active shooter drills between math and English classes while you sell defense stocks to your friends. Your minimum wage hasn’t changed in 15 years. Your teachers work two jobs, your veterans sleep under bridges, and you just spent a trillion dollars flattening a country that never attacked you. And now a convicted criminal — found liable for sexual abuse, defending a pedophile, sleeping with a porn star, and running the biggest dumpster-fire campaign since the Taliban — is thanking you for yet another disaster. And you call Greenland badly governed? Greenland has universal healthcare. Free education. One of the lowest incarceration rates in the world. Nobody there goes bankrupt because they got sick. Nobody dies in a waiting room because insurance refused treatment. ‘NATO wasn’t there when we needed them.’ When exactly was that, champ? September 11? Because NATO invoked Article 5 for the first and only time in history FOR YOU. Soldiers from dozens of countries deployed, fought, bled, and died in Afghanistan FOR YOU. Australia wasn’t even in NATO, and we still showed up. For twenty years. And then you left at 2 a.m. without telling anyone and left everybody else to clean up the mess. You don’t care that a great nation is being terrorized by your friend, and you haven’t shown it a single ounce of sympathy. So maybe before calling other countries badly governed, take a look at your own backyard, you aluminum siding salesman with a spray tan. The only thing badly managed in this picture is your damn mouth. And you still dare to lecture the rest of the world?”

Long years ago, a young girl from Chennai decided to join the National Cadet Corps. That small decision was not like many students of her age. For Divya Ajith Kumar, it was a foundational step that slowly shaped her journey into the history books of the Indian Army. In 2010, she became the first woman cadet to receive the Sword of Honour, awarded to the best all-round cadet of8 the course. Major Divya Ajith Kumar studied at Good Shepherd Matriculation Higher Secondary School and later completed her BCom Honours from Stella Maris College. During her college years, NCC became more than just an activity. It became her identity. In 2008, she stood at the Republic Day Camp and was declared the All India Best Parade Commander, leading the NCC Girls Contingent with distinction. She later cleared the Combined Defence Services examination and joined the Officers Training Academy (OTA), Chennai, in 2009. The training days were not easy, but she showed discipline and consistency. What followed soon became history. Her inspiring journey did not stop there. She was commissioned into the Corps of Army Air Defence and again topped the Young Officers Course, receiving the Silver Gun Trophy. In 2015, she led the first all women contingent of the Indian Army at the Republic Day Parade, marking another defining national moment. Major Divya later served as an instructor at OTA Chennai and also represented India in a United Nations peacekeeping mission in South Sudan. Beyond the uniform, she is a Bharatanatyam dancer, percussionist, and sportsperson. Her journey carries a simple truth, a belief she reportedly expressed once: "If, as a girl, I can do it, every other girl can do it. Just following the dreams is what matters.”

For 188 years, India thought it had lost a wild blueberry forever. Now, deep inside Arunachal Pradesh’s forests, scientists have rediscovered Vaccinium piliferum, a rare, endangered wild relative of the blueberry that hadn’t been officially seen since 1836. Only 16 plants were found near the Noa-Dihing river in Changlang district. Imagine an entire species hanging on by just that. But here’s the beautiful part. Arunachal may have been quietly protecting another hidden treasure all along: Vaccinium glaucum, one of India’s rarest indigenous blueberries found at 2500–3000 metres in the Eastern Himalayas. Local communities have known these berries for generations. Sweet-tart, slightly earthy, energising on long hikes, and even believed to boost stamina. Yet science has barely studied them. No major research on their nutrition, medicinal value, or hybrid potential exists. That’s what makes this story bigger than just “a rare plant rediscovered.” Credits : thatguyfromnortheast on IG #ArunachalPradesh #Biodiversity #EasternHimalayas #WildBlueberries #NatureConservation [Arunachal Pradesh, Biodiversity, Wild Blueberries, Eastern Himalayas, Rare Indian Blueberry]

🚨 48 Hours. 2 Capitals. 4 Moves. Beijing Just Walked Into Its Own Trap. Within 48 hours of the leak that exposed Xi Jinping's failed ambush on President Trump, four democracies launched a powerful, synchronized counter-offensive aimed squarely at Beijing's coercion campaign. On May 26, the international response was swift and tightly coordinated across two capitals. In Tokyo, Philippine President Ferdinand Marcos Jr. landed for the first state visit in nearly 11 years. He went straight into talks with Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi to activate the Japan-Philippines Reciprocal Access Agreement and Acquisition and Cross-Servicing Agreement — closing the southern flank of the First Island Chain and tightening the chokehold on PLA Navy access to the open Pacific. Simultaneously in New Delhi, U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio joined Australian Foreign Minister Penny Wong, Japanese Foreign Minister Toshimitsu Motegi, and Indian External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar at the Quad Foreign Ministers' Meeting. They unveiled the most concrete deliverables package in Quad history — maritime surveillance, critical minerals, energy security, and Pacific infrastructure — each item precision-engineered to neutralize Beijing's gray-zone tactics and economic blackmail. On the sidelines, Rubio and Motegi publicly reaffirmed peace and stability across the Taiwan Strait in unusually direct language, explicitly referencing Trump's recent Beijing visit. This was the public answer to what Xi had attempted in private. At the same time, Rubio and Jaishankar signed a bilateral U.S.-India Critical Minerals Framework covering the full supply chain — mining, processing, recycling, and investment — striking directly at China's near-90% dominance in rare-earth processing, the very weapon Beijing had just weaponized against Japan. This was not coincidence. This was deliberate choreography by the democratic bloc. Tokyo and New Delhi moved in lockstep: Japan-Philippines defense integration, Quad deliverables, U.S.-Japan Taiwan Strait reaffirmation, and U.S.-India supply-chain decoupling. Beijing's six-month coercion campaign against Japan has backfired spectacularly. Instead of dividing its opponents, it has accelerated the most substantive democratic integration in the Indo-Pacific in years. The harder Beijing pushes, the faster and tighter the counter-architecture grows. Four moves. Two capitals. One morning. Read the full strategic breakdown below to see exactly how Beijing just walked into its own trap. ⬇️

Fact: the Govt & Judiciary are slaves to India’s most powerful rape-murder convict. They’ve just given Dera chief Gurmeet Singh his 16th vacation from jail, a total of 436 days. My take:

Huge upset at Roland Garros! Indian-origin world No.148 wild card Nishesh Basavareddy stuns 7th seed Taylor Fritz in a thrilling 4-set battle First top-10 win of his career on clay! 🙌

Just to refresh our memory and let the younger lot know, there was a similar situation at Timber Trail (HP) in 1992. The height, distance and terrain were much more challenging. And it was almost sunset when the incident happened. 10 tourists, including a 4-YO kid, had got stranded when, having reached the drop off point at the hilltop resort, they suddenly saw one of the cables breaking and the trolley beginning to slide backwards. One passenger was thrown out since he was in the process of deboarding and landed close to the docking station, while the trolley attendant panicked and jumped to his death when his head hit a rock below. The trolley reached a speed of more than 200 kmph while sliding back, with sparks sparking on the cable. A twist of luck, wherein the broken cable got entangled, stopped the trolley that was now suspended 1500 ft above the valley floor below. An SF officer, who had lost one of his parents a couple of days back (I think his mom had left him for heaven), took it on himself to rescue the stranded tourists. Two brave pilots of the IAF flew him onto the stranded trolley. It was by the late afternoon the next day that the young officer winched himself down and stood on top of the trolley. That was one messy situation wherein they had been stuck for a long time, with one of the passengers suffering from diarrhoea. Needless to say, they had survived the longest night of their life with no water or food and no radio communications. The officer, having briefed the tourists about the drill of winching by a Mi-17 heptr (there was no possibility of getting them down to the valley floor because of such a height), started securing them one by one as the pilots hovered above the trolley, with the wind draft from the rotors shaking the cabin violently. Soon, it was dark, and rescue had to be paused with five people still in the trolley. Fearing that the officer would now leave them to return the next morning, as the stranded tourists looked up to the officer with despair in their eyes, he spoke those immortal words: 'I have two kids at home and the fact that I am staying on means there is nothing to worry." And he volunteered to stay with them for the night. The operation ended the next morning, with the officer winching himself up in the end. Let's now have the names of those heroes: Maj Ivan Joseph Crasto (awarded Kirti Chakra); later Colonel. Group Captain Fali Homi Major (awarded Shaurya Chakra); later IAF Chief. Flt Lt P Upadhyay (awarded Vayu Sena Medal); later Group Captain. I don't know if that kid later joined forces, or if two honeymoon couples who would later become parents did send their kid(s) to forces, but such stories need to be told and retold, for no civilisation can have a future if its past is forgotten. @adgpi @IAF_MCC

A not so small achievement by our scientists at DRDO was missed by headlines. India is now part of an elite cohort, only the 7th Nation to crack Gallium Nitride Chip Technology. These chips are relevant as they’re used in advanced radar and electronic warfare systems on modern fighters.India’s entry into the GaN #technology club is about Atmarnirbharta. Made possible by #DRDO and #scientist Dr. Meena Mishra.

The Chinese fishing vessels are swarming Argentina's Waters again. This time, the size of the Chinese flotilla has increased by nearly 50% over the last years. Many of these so called fishing vessels are equipped with antennas that are inconsistent with fishing activities,

This is what a bad company can do !!

🚨 𝗕𝗥𝗘𝗔𝗞𝗜𝗡𝗚: 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮 𝘂𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗜𝗻𝗱𝗶𝗮 𝘁𝗼 𝗮𝘃𝗼𝗶𝗱 𝗵𝗼𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗧𝗶𝗯𝗲𝘁𝗮𝗻 ‘𝗽𝗼𝗹𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗹 𝗮𝗰𝘁𝗶𝘃𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀’ 𝗮𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝗼𝗳 𝗗𝗵𝗮𝗿𝗮𝗺𝘀𝗮𝗹𝗮 𝗼𝗮𝘁𝗵 𝗰𝗲𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗼𝗻𝘆 🇨🇳🇮🇳 || Beijing has asked New Delhi to “refrain” from providing a platform for “Tibetan independence” as Sikyong Penpa Tsering prepares to take oath in Dharamsala for a second term. 🤝 China has also warned India against “interfering” in the Dalai Lama’s reincarnation process, calling it an internal matter and reiterating its rejection of the Central Tibetan Administration’s legitimacy. 💥 The remarks revive long-standing frictions over Tibet, just as India continues to host the Tibetan government-in-exile and a large refugee community in Himachal Pradesh. ⚡ The diplomatic signal underscores how the Tibet question remains entangled with the already fraught India–China boundary and strategic competition. 📍 @ResonantNews

During rescue of Cabin No 8, stuck at critical height differential in Gulmarg #IndianArmy doing the impossible- Soldiers volunteered to climb up to the cabin & execute rescue - Proud of Army -Nation must take care of #IndianArmy which always comes to rescue in crisis -BIG SALUTE

Another day another ancient Koneru was restored by the same people🧡 Hindus are working really hard and restoring the ancient treasures of Hindu Dharma.🙏🏻 Purva Sampada Rakshana Sena has been working hard on these ancient treasures despite many challenges starting from hot summers to finances. 📍Ramapuram, Owk mandal, Nandyal, AP.

Tanks 👇

30 years ago, I went to a village in the outskirts of Salem, while washing my hand in a public tap , I found worms in the water, then i came to know that people in that village used this water for drinking and cooking. When I climbed the tank I saw a cesspool inside. Dead cats, crows, slippers, bottles etc. the tank had no lid. It was a 30000 ltr over head drinking water tank. There were 3 other tanks in the same village, each was worse than the other. Spoke to the village president, he expressed his helplessness. Then I approached the BDO ( Block development officer) he said every panchayat gets funds it's upto them to do the cleaning , everyone in the bureaucracy was driving me from pillar to post just to clean the tank in public interest People of course were expecting others to do the cleaning. So as a trial I got permission from the village president to clean the tank , i employed few boys to do the job. These water tanks were not cleaned for many many years before that. While cleaning 🧹 we removed one feet thick of black sediments from each tank. Then we gave a coat of white cement inside, and put a lid where it was missing. The response from the people was overwhelming, the word spread and village after village invited us to get the water tanks cleaned. In each tank we painted the last cleaned date, this became a trend, every three months I sent my boys to clean the tanks. At one stage we were serving over 150 villages in Salem district, we did this service for 12 years and ensured every village got clean potable drinking water If serving people is politics so be it

Remembering our Hero Havildar Hangpan Dada - AC (P) 35 RR 4 Assam Regiment on his balidan Diwas today...

Japanese volleyball star Nishida Yuji's ball hits the lady referee. Take a look at his immediate traditional 'Dogeza' gesture. Respects to Japanese culture! Rcvd from WA

A glimpse of NSG Commandos' Training.

@ParveenKaswan @Aryan_warlord In simple terms, can I take it Corbett is providing near ideal conditions for elephants to propagate? Please clarify

Here a mother elephant with twine, as seen in Corbett. Twins in elephants are not just rare; they are a fascinating lesson in population dynamics. In ecology, scientists often describe species using two reproductive strategies: r-selected and K-selected. These terms come from population growth equations. “r” represents the intrinsic rate of population growth - how fast a species can multiply. “K” represents the carrying capacity of an ecosystem - the maximum population that the environment can sustainably support. Species that follow the r-strategy focus on rapid multiplication. They produce many offspring because survival chances are low. Think of insects, frogs or many fish. Their formula is simple: more babies = better chance that some survive. Elephants belong to the opposite category; K-selected species. These animals live near the carrying capacity (K) of their habitat, so competition for resources is high. Instead of producing many young, they invest heavily in very few. For elephants: Pregnancy lasts nearly 22 months Usually only one calf is born Mothers and herds spend years protecting and raising that calf Population growth is naturally slow That is why twins in elephants are so extraordinary. In a species evolutionarily designed for “few offspring, high investment,” producing two calves at once is almost an exception to the rule. In r-selected animals, twins or multiple young are common. In elephants, even one calf is a major biological investment. Two together become a remarkable event in the story of life history and population dynamics.