Ninad Sonawane

The superficiality of our choices and consumption, reflect the shallowness of our lives. You cannot fill emptiness with even more emptiness. Two negatives don't add up. Rise.

When they say one tablespoon chia / sabza seeds, do they mean before or after soaking?

The way the government has washed its hands off affordable healthcare and education is unjustified. Successive coalitions in 80-90s, Mandal commission and globalisation / privatisation have put the citizens at the mercy of private hospitals and schools.

It's amazing how metro passengers scowl when asked to move their personal belongings to make space for others to sit. It's a Pune thing I guess.

We need to bring back courtyards. It was such a stupid idea to follow western modern minimalist architecture inspite of us having these.

Every now and then sport produces a moment that challenges an old assumption This rocket-like free kick from Manisha was one of those moments Challenged the assumption that raw football talent doesn’t exist in India Our real challenge is to locate it early and build an ecosystem that can nurture it Because the rockets are clearly there. We just need more launchpads 👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽💪🏽

Ajanta. 5th century CE. Leonardo. 1503 CE. One is called Renaissance genius. The other is ancient mural. When Ajanta painted psychological depth, Europe wasn't painting faces like this. When Ajanta mastered mineral shading, oil technique was centuries away. Yet one became human achievement. The other became Eastern art. Power curates memory. Mona Lisa: bulletproof glass. Ajanta: bats, moisture, colonial neglect. One was the rebirth of civilization. The other was discovered—waiting for validation. Ajanta's eyes move. Think. Withhold. Mona Lisa's smile? Endlessly interpreted. Endlessly reproduced. Which one needed the hype? If Ajanta were Italian, we'd call it the birth of realism. Instead we call it mural art. Art history didn't just rank paintings. It ranked civilizations. We memorized the ranking. 😶 #Decolonisation

Indian Muslim here n I have a question for the Indian Left that claims moral consistency. When Mahsa Amini died in 2022, what followed? Months of protests across Iran. Hundreds reportedly killed. Thousands arrested. Journalists detained. Women removing hijabs in open defiance of the state. This wasn’t Western propaganda rather Iranians were on their own streets, chanting “Woman, Life, Freedom.” Under Khamenei, Iran has seen repeated crackdowns since 1999 student protests, the 2009 Green Movement, the 2019 fuel price unrest where internet access was cut and force was used at scale. How does a movement that calls itself feminist, anti-authoritarian, and pro civil liberties suddenly grow hesitant when the authoritarian happens to speak in anti-West slogans? You cite imperialism which is fair. You critique sanctions valid debate. You oppose war absolutely necessary. But why does that become an excuse to downplay state repression? Since when did opposing US require polishing Tehran’s image? This isn’t abstract theory. Iran’s Guardian Council vets candidates. Dissenting voices are barred from contesting power. The morality police enforce dress codes. Journalists n filmmakers have faced prison. These are structural realities. History isn’t binary anymore. The 1979 Revolution overthrew a monarchy. It also entrenched clerical authority n mandatory veiling. Two truths can coexist. If your principles vanish the moment power wraps itself in the language of resistance, then those principles were never steady to begin with. Solidarity should be with people especially those risking their lives on the streets n not with regimes. Anything else is politics n bs.

The death of Dhulwad and Rangapanchami and its replacement with playing colors Holi, is cultural imposition that has happened over the last 2 decades. And no, it's not organic. It started with migration and us accommodating their practices to the point of forgetting ours.

The Iranian women’s national football team refused to sing the anthem of the Islamic Regime. Tonight. At the opening match of the Asian Cup. In front of the entire world. So, to all liberal Western women: Watch and learn. THIS is what real feminism looks like.

This is a classic misdirection! They are creating an unnecessary issue to get the people and media engaged, while the real news worth debating and opposing is happening behind the scenes. Pay attention people!! #KalakarKatta #Pune #BJP #PMC share.google/OCGjqbvh1o7Rf0…

If centaurs are Greek mythology, what do we call THIS? Harappan seal. Woman torso, fused animal body. c. 2500 BCE. A thousand years before Greek centaurs existed. Yet Greek versions get names, theories, museum labels. Harappan composites? Filed under "motifs". Same concept. Different courage. Greek centaurs are loud, violent, masculine. Harappan hybrids are ritual, controlled, precise. No chaos. No drunken rage. Just mastery over animal force. And that discomfort is the tell. Because acknowledging this means admitting: complex symbolic thought didn't start in Athens. It was already alive in the Indus. Not borrowed. Not fantasy. A visual grammar of power, carved before Europe even had cities. Ignored not because it's unclear — but because it's too clear. Who decided which antiquity deserves the mythos label? And why are we still repeating it? 🐅🔥

Which one has better coverage, offers and plans in Pune/MH circle? Jio coverage is terrible and spam calls are insane.

The United States has been militarily protecting Saudi Arabia for 52 years, after Saudi promised to sell oil only in US Dollars. Not a single day, Saudi Arabia had democracy during these 52 years. Surprisingly US has never showed interest to "bring democracy" to Arabia 🙂

Lack of local representation has caused damage, like flyover pillars at the entrance of the colony, illegal parking, transforming residential areas with hostel culture, exposing citizens to midnight fire crackers and birthday celebrations, and rise of suspicious non citizens. 2/2

All major political parties ignoring candidates from Hingane home colony in the Karve Nagar constituency is shocking! The area has one of the maximum population density and hasn't had any representation for the last 2 decades! #Pune #Karvenagar 1/2

Jain monks sporting reflecting wearables is the coolest thing I saw this weekend while on a road trip. Takes pedestrian safety to the next level. Have a super Monday and a great week ahead.

@ssaratht The US needs a base in the subcontinent - to counter China and keep Bharat in check. If BD offers that, it means multiple ripple effects in geopolitics and power dynamics between us and the global north.

Came across this piece. What are your thoughts on this? Understand who benefits if India intervenes in Bangladesh. “Bangladesh is boiling. Hindus are dying. Modi is silent. India is weak. India has failed again. That’s what they said. Attack Bangladesh. Capture it. Expand the Chicken’s Neck. That was the noise. I didn’t react. I never do. I study first. Then I react. And a pattern emerged. The riots didn’t start randomly. They started after an assassination. December 12. Dhaka. Two unknown gunmen. One man dead. Sharif Osman Hadi A young leader. Anti establishment. Anti Yunus. Anti Jamaat-e-Islami. Anti BNP. Anti Awami League. An independent. With a massive following. Planning to contest elections. So I asked myself. Who benefits from his death? Then something strange happened. The narrative flipped. Instantly. Anti India slogans. Marches to the Indian embassy. But the crowd didn’t stop there. They destroyed flyovers. Burned media houses. Stormed Parliament. Smashed their own state. Which political party destroys the country it wants to rule? None. Unless the goal is collapse. Then the picture became clear. This wasn’t Awami League. This wasn’t BNP. Reports even say BNP spoke quietly to Delhi. If BNP wins, Bangladesh tilts back to India. That’s not acceptable to some players. So who benefits? Jamaat-e-Islami. Chaos helps them. Fear helps them. No elections help them. Islamist consolidation needs disorder. And Yunus? An unelected man. Backed by Washington. Thrives in instability. Every opponent neutralized. Every alternative erased. Then came the masterstroke. A video. One Hindu man. Mobbed. Lynched. Burned alive. Horrifying. Real. But here’s the data. Nearly 250 people died. Just 2 were Hindus. Yet one video flooded Indian phones. Instantly. Every platform. Every channel. What happens next? Outrage. Congress made statements. Inside Parliament. Outside Parliament. Demanded justice for a Hindu man. Demanded action. The pressure built. React now. Or look weak. Then I paused. Congress demanding justice for Hindus? That’s when it clicked. This wasn’t organic. This was engineered. Because if India reacts militarily… Bangladesh becomes Ukraine II. Endless war. Endless funding. Endless pressure. India stuck. Economy strained. Autonomy compromised. Who funds Bangladesh then? America. Europe. Who gains leverage? America. Funny timing, isn’t it? Mid December. India again rejects a US trade deal. Talks pushed to February. And suddenly… Bangladesh explodes. Coincidence? Wars are not fought on emotion. They are fought on trade. On leverage. Geopolitics is not clean. They tried this with Pakistan. It failed. Now they tried the East. India didn’t react. India paused. Modi watched. Doval read the board. No panic. No bait taken. This isn’t a street fight. It’s chess. So before you shout, “Attack Bangladesh”… Think again. The loudest outrage is often the sharpest trap. What goes viral is rarely the truth. And the real game? It is never played on screens. It is played in silence.”

Bangladesh has started behaving this way because its people have been radicalized by a deep state operation using Pakistan as proxy worker. India allowed it to happen and didn't seem to anticipate a regime change in 2024 that was a year in the making - as I warned in Aug 2023. Also, the way all this has been done is not some sophisticated operation. It is just simple psyops and radicalization using social media and local imams under ISI payroll. Indian govt has to accept they has been apathetic about Pak, China, and the DS's online and offline psyops in our neighboring countries and around the world inciting their citizens against India. Forget neighboring countries, India has been apathetic to the psyops and radicalization being done on Indians themselves so blatantly by foreign adversaries using our social media and media. Only when our leaders and officials realize that everything boils down to perception of the public in democracies and give the importance it deserves, will India be able to have better control over the world. And no matter how much aid India and relief India provides during disasters, how much it bails out our neighbors, how much Modi ji acts as a friend spending billions, all these countries will still hate India and act against India because their public are being programmed to do so by our adversaries spending very little money. This same young population programmed now will become their army officers, politicians, intel agents, and police tomorrow. Bangladesh is a reflection of this prolonged, cheap, mind programming operation by Pak and DS orgs for over a decade. The kids brainwashed in 2014 are now burning Indian flags, are jawans in the army, and radical new political leaders against India. What did India do for the last 10 years in countering this? We can say for sure India did NOTHING, even with a friendly govt in power there. We can say this for sure because we know India has done nothing in its own territory to counter this mind programming issue that is leading to so many issues for the country. Stone pelting on Vande Bharat, sabotage of trains and infra by youth instigated by SM, ethnic and religious riots, young city youth in trendy fashion shouting communist slogans like Naxals wanting to subvert, and our own people trying to bomb our own cities. Everything is easily blamed away on their religion, country, ethnicity, region, wokeness etc. But these are not the real reasons. The real reason is India is NOT doing enough to control and counter a massive mind programming campaign going on using SM and media by adversaries making our own people go woke, radical, anti-national, become terrorist, or India haters. The biggest weak point and failure of the current Indian govt is they have been utterly unable to control and counter anti-India and anti-national narrative outside and inside India respectively. If OpSindoor did not shame them and wake them to take even small actions like removing so many fake, astroturfing accounts seeding hate and misinfo, nothing will. PM @narendramodi, @PMOIndia, @AmitShahOffice @MEAIndia can do all the good for Indians and the world. But everything will come to a naught if narrative is not under India's control.

Time to repost an old post of mine. So true