Pranav

Man of Culture 😉

Usual feministslop but few points(thread) 1."There are no modest clothes for men" Ya no shit because men already dress modestly. How often do you see men out n about roaming half naked? They already cover themselves. Even labourers wear full safety gear in Mumbai heat these days

The Steppe Barbarians practiced no agriculture. So, how exactly did they enter India as farmers?

I give up. Mature Indus Valley Civilization is originally dated to 3000 BC. But then, it was tapered down to 2500 BC - not because of any rigid finding but because IVC goods first appeared in Mesopotamia in 2350. If Mesopotamia received stuff in 2350, the one sending it can't be more than 100-200 years, right? Fairservis down dated it to 2500 and Mortimer Wheeler to 2600. And that's where we stand. Not because IVC saw a marked shift from villages to cities(they already had solid proto-cities with fortifications as early as 3000 BC) but because someone "felt" it can't be that older. If this is the kind of mess we are dealing with, is there any sense in individual effort trying to unravel all this nonsense when institutionalization formally supports the nonsensical stand? It's just fighting with windmills. And people will soon give up.

Tale of India's 2 Biggest State Economies 1️⃣MAHARASHTRA Purandar International Airport ✈️ ✅30% Land Acquisition done in 10 days 👷‍♂️Work starts by 2027 2️⃣TAMIL NADU Parandur Airport 🛬 DMK Opposed it in AIADMK Govt DMK U-Turn & Pursues in its tenure TVK CM Vijay Cancels Project

all my victories belong to Modi and all my losses belong to babus, system and others 🐐

Gormint finally making gas from coal, even if not oil. Much better than ethanol blending.

Nothing substantial in this thread except from usual seethe borne out of regionalist parochialism. Regardless, I will try my best to discuss this in good faith. Shivaji Maharaj explicitly formed the Maratha state to safeguard the interests of Hindus and secure their sovereignty. There's no doubt regarding that. But did the people who succeeded him thought along the same lines ? Answer is resounding yes. 1. Key people of Maratha Empire in 18th century always wanted to liberate Kashi, Mathura and Allahabad- Among the Holiest of the sites for Hindus. We have documents where Nanasaheb Peshwa Instructs Dattaji Shinde to take Kashi,Ayodhya and Allahabad from Shuja Ud daula in two of his letters in 1758-59 addressed to Shinde's secretary. We have Malharrao Holkar demanding control of this trio of cities from Shuja in the same period as well. 2. Ahilyabai Holkar revived literally hundreds of temples in north India which Includes today's Kashi Vishwanath temple as well. Most of today's ghats in Varanasi are either built outrightly by Marathas or repaired by them. Dattaji Shinde rebuilt Mahakaleshwar jyotirlinga in Ujjain after pulling down a mosque which had been built in its place. Nanasaheb peshwa similarly rebuilt Tryambakeshwar Jyotirlinga temple after destroying the mosque earlier built at its site. Raghoji Bhosale literally restarted the worship and utsavas at Jagannath Puri temple which was always threatened by this or that Jihadi attacker and main murti of Prabhu used to be hidden under duress. There were some decades where temple was outrightly closed for worship There are literally hundreds of temples which were rebuilt or repaired across the geography of India by Marathas, I've only mentioned prominent ones. 1/2

God level creativity 💀🌚

Fall of Saddam-type scenes in Bengal. Even Congress workers are reclaiming party offices forcibly seized in the last decade or so.

Wtf

"Baloch are the natives of Balochistan for thousands of years" This is what you call historical revisionism. Forget Balcohes, even Pashtuns aren't native to Pakistan. The whole region was sparse but inhabited by Indo-Aryan Prakrit speaking groups like Gandharans until 10th century. There is no historical record of Baloches in any pre-Islamic text.

Hear me out.

Believe it or not, in a world where there is no shortage of political clowns, we have man creating another economical and social miracle, it may very well be the last big miracle we will ever see in this century.

I worked under a scientist at ISRO. He was brilliant and one of the best minds I’ve met. We were building deep-learning image-segmentation models and completing with global benchmarks. His salary was ~₹1L/month. The people he trained now work as AI leads earning crores in Canada, Germany, and the US. He still makes ~₹1.6L/month at ISRO.

Imagery from earlier today shows the International Fleet Review 2025 in Sri Lanka where India's first indigenous aircraft carrier - INS Vikrant is on its maiden overseas operational visit alongside naval vessels from Iran, Russia, Malaysia, the Maldives, Pakistan & Bangladesh

🚿INDIA'S PROSPERITY BEFORE ISLAM: Evidence from Cairo Geniza (1060–1260 AD) Long before the first Sultan sat in Delhi, the Indian Ocean was the highway of world trade. India stood at its heart. Proof: Jewish papers written in Judeo-Arabic. In Cairo’s historic Ben Ezra Synagogue, 200,000 pages lay forgotten in a geniza over 1000 years. Among them: contracts, letters, dowry lists, tax receipts—and many folios on India. Scholars at Cambridge Univ have published some of these India fragments (Goitein's "India Book"). These pages list what India produced and exported before any army crossed the Indus to found the Delhi Sultanate. What India exported to Aden, Cairo, and beyond? 1⃣Raw and simple goods: Copper, bronze, iron, rice, wheat, oil, vinegar, lemon, ginger, coconut, ghee, sugar, betel nuts, spices, dyes, lacquer, etc. 2⃣Finished goods Textiles, ready made clothes, scarves, robes, dyed leather, shoes, furniture, carpets, iron and copper lamps, pots, pans, bowls, glasses, teak boards, locks, bedsteads, table jugs, etc. 3⃣Beauty and fashion Soap (sabun), perfumes, musk, pearls, gems, bracelets, necklaces, silk robes, ornamented mirrors, silver boxes, belts, earrings, jewelry, etc 4⃣Repair work Broken luxury items from the Middle East were shipped to Indian craftsmen, mended, and sent back. What India imported in return? Walnuts, olives, paper, lead, alkali, coral, raisins, dates, cheese, linseed—and silver and gold ingots to pay the bill. Damaged household goods came too, for Indian hands to fix. The ports: Bharuch (GJ), Thana-Mumbai (MH), Kollam (KL), Malabar coast. The people: Jewish letters mention Hindu partners. Jews call them “brother” or “friend.” They trust them with money and family. A Jewish traveller asks his son to lodge with a certain Hindu household on arrival. Hindu names appear as witnesses on Jewish legal contracts. Hindus and Jews co-own ships. Hindus build ships, repair ships, sail them. More evidence waits elsewhere: Ajanta and Bagh paintings, temple reliefs, copper-plate grants—all tell the same story of wealth and skill (future 🧵s). Conclusions: Before 1200 AD, India was the workshop and fashion house of the known world. If silk robes, jewellery, soap, and fine steel already left Indian ports for Cairo and Aden centuries before Babur was born, what exactly did the Sultanates or Mughals bring that India did not already have? from where did they bring it?

The year is 1948. India has just become free and is trying to have a tryst with destiny. And in a country with endless possibilities, you are a 27-year-old man from an affluent family. You have also studied in prestigious institutions like Loyola College and College of Engineering Guindy and have been given a scholarship from the Govt of India to go to the USA and study Dairy engineering. You go to the USA and realize that studying metallurgy and nuclear engineering is more useful and interesting than studying techniques of extracting milk from cows. You follow your instinct and successfully complete your course. You are now a nuclear engineer. And in a world that has just gone nuclear, the opportunities you have are limitless. The world is at your feet. Then the Govt of India becomes a reverse Lannister calls in its debt. They want you to work for them for a limited period as an obligation to whatever they did for you. You have no choice but to come back. You hope you are sent to glamourous locations like Bombay or Madras where you can spend your obligatory time in comfort and luxury. You are an America Return Nuclear engineer after all. But the Govt of India cares as much about your designations and qualifications as a Nokia 3310 cares about a drop. So, they play a cruel joke upon you. They send you to a small decrepit town in Gujarat which doesn't even have electricity. Your accommodation is a rundown Garage and the only sign of life around you are the mosquitos, who are trying to taste your blood. The town is called Anand. And the only Anand you have there is its name. Else it is all despair. You, an affluent gentleman from south India, who doesn't speak a word of Gujarati, who has never lived in a village, are now stuck in a god foresaken village in the middle of nowhere. And You want to get out of this god forsaken place on the first chance you get. Then something happens. You start going around the town. You start speaking to people. You understand their way of life. You understand what they want. Without you realizing you start falling in love with the place. You want to do something for them. And then you create a revolution. A revolution that has changed the face and fate of India. A revolution whose gifts we are still reaping 65 years after it started. And You are the one who started it all. You are Dr Verghese Kurien. Operation Flood was, is and will be one of the greatest movements India has ever had. We went from a country that used to import milk powder from New Zealand and other countries to becoming the largest milk producing country in the world, in 30 years. It gave livelihoods to close to more than 100 million farmers over the years and has lifted more than 50 million people out of poverty and starvation. If you count the people emancipated by Operation flood, it would be the 30th largest country in the world, ahead of Spain, South Korea and Argentina. Today, we move the global dairy market and it is singularly because of Dr Kurien. And he didn't stop at dairy. He realized that India was heavily dependent on Southeast Asia for its edible oil needs. So he got all the oilseeds growers together and started Dhara, India's own edible oil brand. He so thoroughly disrupted the edible oil industry that for a brief period of time, he significantly reduced our dependance on palm oil. Unfortunately, our babus intervened and as they usually do, destroyed it all. But that's the story for another day. When Karnataka's Cocoa farmers went to him to seek salvation from Cadbury's oppression, he created Amul Chocolates and created a big dent in their market share. He also ensured Cadbury treated the farmers with a lot more respect and fairness, now that the farmers had option. When Indira Gandhi complained about farmers not getting fair price for their vegetables, he started Safal, a vegetable selling co-operative under the NDDB umbrella and made it a success. Now most of this is known. But what we don't know more about was Dr Kurien the innovator. Dr Kurien and his friend JJ Dalaya were the first in the world to synthesize buffalo milk and convert it to powder. This allowed us to store and supply milk during times of deficiencies. He was the first to create condensed milk or as you call it, Milkmaid / Mithai Mate, from buffalo milk and ended Nestle's monopoly in this segment for good. He was also the first to pack a dense substance as oil in a Tetrapak, something that their own Swedish engineer's thought was impossible. He made it possible. I can keep going on and on. In today's world, words like Legend, GOAT, superstar are thrown around very very loosely. People who hit balls with a stick, give useless expressions on a giant screen and make cringy unwatchable 30 sec videos on some apps or crack some vulgarly unfunny jokes are given these epithets today. So, what would you call a guy who saved India from hunger and starvation? What would you call a guy who prevented India from malnutrition and stunted growth? What would you call a guy who made a basic commodity like milk, accessible to a billion people? We don't have words for that. Maybe we need to invent some. One more very commonly misplaced word today is disruption. Anything and everything are disruption now. The development of an app, delivering grocery or food in 10 minutes or writing an additional line of code are all what passes off as disruption today. That is not disruption. Disruption is where you create something that changes the lives of people forever. Disruption happens when what you create, rewards people for Generations. Disruption is where you help poor farmers break the vicious circle of poverty and throw them 354 steps up the economic ladder Disruption is not how you change how people do certain things; Disruption is when you change the people themselves. Dr Kurien was India's first and the greatest disruptor. Dr Kurien is India's true GOAT. So, Happy Birthday Dr Kurien. India is grateful that we had you walking on our soil. Thank you!! P:S: The attached image is that of the recreated Garage that Dr Kurien first stayed. Garages have a unique connection to the world of tech, as a lot of tech companies started from there and are worth some bajillion dollars today. This is a Garage that lifted 60 million Indians out of poverty. With all due respect to HP and Google, this is the greatest Garage of them all.

This map is actually incorrect, the historical Chinese core is between the Yangtze and Huang He (Yellow) rivers Prior to the Han dynasty, entire provinces like Sichuan, Guangdong, Guizhou were inhabited by non-Chinese ethnicities. Migration, miscegenation + linguistic imposition altered the demographics of those regions. Northern parts were still not Han inhabited even into the Vijayanagara era.