Krishna Pera

📖 The Sword of Buddha: The Curse of Kalinga My new historical novel (Part 1 of a duology) is OUT NOW from @BluOneInk The missing chapter of Indian history that no one wrote—but everyone should read. Pre-order on amazon: amazon.in/Sword-Buddha-C…

@sardesairajdeep Look who is talking! Not long ago, Rajdeep called all those ‘who study science’ selfish and communal… and the reason why his favourite Communist–Congress party loses elections.

Youngsters/RTI activists who raise their voice, ask hard questions, expose systemic flaws are ‘cockroaches’?? Really your Lordship?? Is this what we have come to in our ‘democracy’? REALLY? Wonder what the likes of Justice Krishna Iyer would have to say. 😡

Sanjeev Sanyal is likely to be appointed as the Finance Minister of #WestBengal and is expected to contest the upcoming Assembly by-election from the Nandigram Assembly seat. CM Suvendu Adhikari has said he will vacate the Nandigram seat & will retain Bhabanipur.

@Shubhamshuklamp India’s problem is we have far too many Rajkumar Bhati’s

राजकुमार भाटी:- मनु स्मृति कहती है कि महिला को कभी स्वतंत्र नहीं छोड़ना चाहिए। सुधांशु त्रिवेदी:- श्लोक बताइए, श्लोक भाई। कुछो नहीं आता राजकुमार भाटी:- बता दिया तो? बोल दिया तो? सुधांशु त्रिवेदी:- बताइए तो राजकुमार भाटी:- यत्र नार्यस्तु पूज्यन्ते, रमन्ते तत्र देवता। लो बोल दिया….. सुधांशु त्रिवेदी:- अरे इसमें कहाँ, इसमें तो पूजने की बात है! मैं अब राजकुमार भाटी जी को क्या कहूं? हर जगह तो ये अर्थ पर अनर्थ करते रहते हैं….!

इस भजन की खास बात यह है की इसमें विष्णु भगवान के 100 शुद्ध नाम हैं और गायिका है महान गायक मोहम्मद रफी की पोती कुमारी परवेज मुस्तफा। 🌺 हरि बोल 🙏🙏

We talk about the Tata Steel Plant (TISCO) as a monument of Indian industry, but w/o this man, Jamshedpur would just be a patch of jungle. In 1904, a retired geologist sent a letter to J.N. Tata that would change the destiny of a continent. Pramatha Nath Bose was not just a scientist; he was a Seeker of the Earth's Heart. While the British were busy mapping India for taxes, Bose was mapping it for treasure. He was the 1st Indian to hold a high post in the Geological Survey of India, & he used his position to discover the massive iron ore deposits in Mayurbhanj. He gave the Tatas the Iron Map to build their empire, then quietly stepped aside, refusing to take a single rupee of the billions he had helped create." P.N. Bose (1855-1934) was a pioneer in more than just rocks; he was a pioneer in self-respect. Despite being the most senior & qualified geologist at the Geological Survey of India (GSI), he was passed over for the Director’s post in favor of a junior British officer, Thomas Holland. Instead of swallowing the insult, Bose resigned immediately. He walked away from a prestigious colonial career to serve the Princely States & Indian industry. This act of defiance is what led him to the service of the Maharaja of Mayurbhanj, where he made his most famous discovery. The Tatas were originally looking for iron in the Dhalli-Rajhara region (which Bose had also identified earlier), but they were facing logistical nightmares. On February 24, 1904, Bose sent a fateful letter to Dorabji Tata. He told them to stop looking in central India & come to the Gorumahisani hills in Mayurbhanj. He did not just point at a map; he provided a detailed geological analysis of the high-quality hematite ore. That letter is the literal foundation stone of TISCO (now Tata Steel). W/o P.N. Bose, the city of Jamshedpur would still be a dense forest called Sakchi. P.N. Bose's career was a series of "Firsts" that were systematically downplayed by colonial historians: He was the 1st to report the presence of oil in Assam (Digboi). He discovered the Daltonganj coalfield in Bihar. 1st soap factory. He was the 1st to discover the Dalli-Rajhara iron ore deposits (which now feed the Bhilai Steel Plant). He was the man whose efforts catalysed the foundation of the Bengal Technical Institute which is better known as the Jadavpur University today of which Bose was the 1st honorary principal. He understood that finding iron was useless if Indians did not know the science of turning it into steel. Bose did not believe science existed in a vacuum. He wrote extensively on the History of Hindu Civilization, arguing that India’s decline was not due to a lack of intelligence, but a loss of its scientific & industrial spirit. He was a close friend of Rabindranath Tagore, making him a core part of the Bengal Renaissance elite who were trying to bridge the gap b/w ancient wisdom & modern tech. While the Tatas became global icons, P.N. Bose died in 1934 as a man who sought no fame. In Jamshedpur, there is a bust of P.N. Bose, but few among the millions who live in the Steel City realize that their entire livelihood exists because of the intuition of a man who was once too Indian to lead a British survey. P.N. Bose did not just find rocks; he found the strength of a future superpower. He was the Geological Ghost who proved that the wealth of India was not in the coffers of the British, but under the feet of the Indian people. He mapped the skeleton of a new nation, ensuring that when India finally woke up to freedom, it had the iron & steel to build its own destiny.

🚨 Toilet access in Indian households: 2014 vs. 2026.

@Go_Movie_Mango Thank you!

Congratulations @krishpera! This is beautiful news

My latest EAC-PM working paper: "How to do Process Reform: Case Study of IEPFA" (co-authored with @AakankshaArora5). The paper lays out step-by-step how process reforms were implemented at IEFPA over the last one year. As a result, the system is now able to do more approvals in a month than it was earlier doing in a year. Indeed, the backlog will be fully cleared in the next six months. This case study is part of our effort to document government re-engineering efforts so that they can be taught and replicated across the system. eacpm.gov.in/wp-content/upl…

Thank you, FIHCR, for including ‘The Sword of Buddha’ in the 2026 S.L. Bhyrappa Prize shortlist. I am deeply humbled and honored to be a part of this list. @BluOneInk

@HPhobiaWatch What exactly is illegal or offensive about what he wrote?

Skin doctor arrested for this tweet which is 1 year old

Exposing the hidden hand behind the protest against the Great Nicobar Project. You won’t find these EXCLUSIVE details anywhere. So let’s start the THREAD. 1. Meet Ashish Kothari. He filed a petition before the NGT against this project. But why? And who is he?

@samx_reels Nice idea!

Turning used mops into bird nests in the garden

While I thought this #SanatanaDharma debate was done & dusted, and had decided to not participate in debates for sometime, this person who made such vicious remarks on the floor of the TN Assembly, coaxed me to. Here are my views that I shared for Padmaja Joshi (@ndtv), Rahul Shivshankar (@CNNnews18) & Arnab Goswami (@republic)::

@BJP4India @artist_rama Udhayanidhi Stalin is still repeating what the High Court called Hate Speech, right inside the Legislative Assembly. The ultimate irony: calling to eradicate Sanatana Dharma in a state whose official emblem features a Hindu temple.

Udhayanidhi Stalin has once again spread venom against Sanatan Dharma. He has again called for Sanatan to be eradicated. Remember, he is the same person who compared Sanatan Dharma to diseases such as malaria and dengue. 𝐖𝐞𝐥𝐥, 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐩𝐞𝐨𝐩𝐥𝐞 𝐨𝐟 𝐓𝐚𝐦𝐢𝐥 𝐍𝐚𝐝𝐮 𝐡𝐚𝐯𝐞 𝐚𝐥𝐫𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐣𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐞𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐦 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐢𝐝𝐞𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲… 𝐒𝐨 𝐲𝐨𝐮 𝐤𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐦𝐨𝐨𝐝 𝐨𝐟 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐞.

@smitaprakash "When you do not cling to the word of the Lord, but consult horoscopes and fortune tellers, you begin to sink" - Pope Francis in 2017.

No big deal actually. Imran Khan married his astrologer who said he would be PM.

A piglet rescued from an industrial farm in South Africa in 2016 was put in a stall with various objects to keep her busy. She ate or destroyed every single one of them except the paintbrushes. The woman who’d rescued her, a former pro golfer named Joanne Lefson, took the hint. She taught the pig to hold a brush in her mouth and touch it to a canvas. By the time Pigcasso passed last year at 700 kilograms, her abstract paintings had been collected by George Clooney and her brushwork licensed by Swatch for a limited-edition watch called Flying Pig, which retailed at around $110. In 2018 she became the first animal in history to host her own solo art exhibition, in Cape Town. They called it OINK. One of her canvases, Wild and Free, later sold to a German collector for $25,000. Total raised for the sanctuary that took her in: over a million dollars.

Udhaynidhi Stalin’s remark, that Sanatana Dharma must be eradicated, has already been adjudged by courts as “hate speech and a clear attack on Hinduism carrying implications akin to genocide”. Today, inside the Tamil Nadu assembly, Stalin repeated the statement. No one objected.

@AbhishBanerj When Nehru mentions “took away 200,000 captives”, he was referring to the practice of - selling men, women, and children as slaves in the Arab Bazars.

PM Modi at Somnath yesterday Read how Nehru mocked Hindus who died when Mahmud Ghazni sacked Somnath He says people took refuge in temple hoping for miracle But miracles don't happen and 50,000 were slaughtered How can someone talk about mass murder with such insensitivity? (Book Source: Glimpses of World History, by Jawaharlal Nehru)