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@Fintech03 Exactly. You don’t build a hypothesis always out of thin air. Often scientists find test known practices and then claim credit for ‘discovering’ it.

The West removes ancient experiential wisdom from its cultural context, maps it to a molecular pathway & names it something like Autophagy (which got a Nobel in 2016)/Intermittent Fasting and suddenly it is ‘science’. If our Indian grandma tells us to fast on Ekadashi, she is a backward dogmatist. But when Dr. Valter Longo does this for us in a Cell Stem Cell journal, it becomes a major medical breakthrough. When Ayurveda says Langhana (fasting) fires up Agni which burns Ama, they were indeed naming the very same phenomenon as Dr Longo. Ayurveda witnessed the forest: “When we stop putting wood in the fire, the fire burns the dead leaves inside the house. Modern Science says: “Glucose depletion negatively impacts the PKA pathway, activating a decrease in IGF-1 & initiating regeneration with hematopoietic stem cells.” Looking at the same mountain from 2 different angles shows two interpretations. 1 describes a user manual for life; the other a chemistry breakdown of the machine. Modern peer review is a gatekeeping mechanism with deep ties to the Western pharma & academic economy. Producing a scientific paper requires significant financial resources to support research, publication & distribution. There is no profit in telling people to eat nothing. Therefore, for decades, Western science actively ignored fasting research because it did not feed the trillion-dollar pharmaceutical pipeline. The moment it became clear that fasting could complement chemotherapy, reducing the toxic side effects of multi-billion dollar oncology drugs, suddenly funding appeared, papers were reviewed, and it became "validated." The West will continue to "discover" what India always knew. The goal for young India now is to stop waiting for a Western certificate of approval. We need to fund our own clinical research, study our own texts with scientific rigor & reclaim the narrative before it is packaged & sold back to us in a capsule.

@MonaADhar Sarve Sukhino Bhavantu

Millennials, slowly ticking off the dreams we once scribbled on our wish lists - with the blessings of our parents and the unwavering love of our siblings. After calling nearly 22 places home - bunk beds, hostels, PGs, rented apartments, I finally have a small nest to call my own. A journey of years, countless memories, and immense gratitude. 🙏

@CJBdingo25 Since we’re in the FIFA WC season, the US handling of its India relationship over the last 2 years can be called an own goal. Undid a lot of solid work of the past 10 years. And to what end?

US adventurism with Iran has shown you need allies to help with the heavy lifting. The US doesn't like to lose. American leaders aren't stupid. They know China will have its breakfast if push comes to shove. American isolationism might serve domestic politics well, but on the world stage it will leave the USA weaker. Trump will have to engage his brain for once.

@smitaprakash But please note the reference in their statement to area of operations from WCUSA to Western limits of India’s borders.

Sun mitva Sun mitva Tujhko kya dar rey! Ye dharti apni hai, apna ambar hai rey! Indian Ocean is Indian. Seize the moment

@AskAnshul This is clear that their funding was used as a tool of foreign influence and creating safety/stability issues within our country

Who would have thought that India's FCRA would unite both parties in the USA? In USA, members of both the Democratic and Republican parties on Capitol Hill have raised objections to the proposed changes to India’s Foreign Contribution Regulation Act (FCRA). Under FCRA rules, an organisation whose registration is cancelled or ceases to be valid cannot receive foreign funding. This has also impacted those missionary organisations that were engaged in religious conversion activities, as the loss of FCRA registration and foreign funding has significantly curtailed their ability to carry out such activities. In the coming days, expect a barrage of articles, commentaries, and carefully crafted narratives not only from the USA but from across the Western world portraying India as a country where religious freedom is disappearing, NGOs are being choked, and human rights voices are being suppressed. The playbook is already unfolding.

@TrulyMonica @BBCWorld As much as I love yoga and detest the BBC, the squat position is used by many across Asia, without it being articulated as a yoga asana.

Losers at @BBCWorld are now appropriating Malasana as ‘Asian squat’ without even naming India. Hatred is real

@nickcollins1953 For those interested in the book, here's a teaser on my podcast (a follow up episode dropping soon): on.soundcloud.com/DbRDVGU351XYL8…

I have now read all your three books. Their theme is maritime, the trail that you follow is maritime- which is your domain of expertise - and your books state what the evidence on your trail uncovers. For me the biggest takeaway was that maritime leads the way for nations to become prosperous, powerful, and an influence of good for the world. Thank you for writing this valuable series.

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write. I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient. What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies. My three books explain the architecture of how they connect. If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

@KhalidBaig85 Mufti wants to revert to the old status quo where she and her family would be the gatekeepers for Kashmir

Pakistan Occupied Jammu and Kashmir(POJK) resembles a ghost town as hartals and curfews continue to mar the region since last few months now. Civilian protestors death toll has crossed the figure of 50. Normalcy looks like a distant dream, as the civil society and the Army regime are locked in a tensed battle, which refuses to end. On the other side, in Kashmir(India), daughter of opposition leader Mehbooba Mufti, is not happy with too many tourists, as there are frequent traffic jams being witnessed in Srinagar nowadays. As history has shown, State of Pakistan has always indulged in terror activities in Kashmir(India) whenever the situation there returns to normalcy and prosperity, so that they can the heat off their own domestic issues, which currently they have in plenty, from POJK to Khyber Pakhtun to Balochistan. India's Security forces and Intelligence agencies have their task cut out, as the Army regime of Pakistan find's itself cornered on multiple fronts.

@Zakka_Jacob The poor eagle appears to be impaled on a cardinal mark

I have been arguing for months now. Trump and Xi have cut a deal. It's a G2 world now. And there are down the line consequences for countries like India. Like this one here 👇

@AndFragment @dhume Suggest watching Johnny’s Desk on YouTube. Chashma badaliye aur Pham dekhiye 🙏

@GoldenStripesLS @dhume Sir 2014 se paudha laga rahe hain, 2026 ho gaya. Phal to dur dur tak dikhayi nahi de raha. Aur nahi to ganne ke juice ka petrol bana kar bech rahe hain.

Going by the responses to this tweet, it doesn’t look like the Indian middle class is convinced that the Modi government has been “working towards fulfilling” its aspirations over the past 12 years.

@DivaJain2 India was already fully decoupled from the crude price in 2014, as a policy. In return, the Indian public got predictability, though at times it may have seemed as if any discounts were not being passed on (taxes were absorbing the cushion).

If peace MoU holds, Fin Min will yet again be proven right in ignoring both "Free Market" economists who wanted full pass through of fuel shock to consumer, and "Share Bajaar Economists" who wanted a rate hike to shock investment. What works in textbooks does not work in India.

For one of my podcast episodes, I spoke to an American captain of one of Reliance's oil rigs in the 90s. He spoke about how Ambani risked everything to find the oil. Just when they felt they were getting nowhere, spending I assume I assume $100k x a day on hiring the rig, they struck oil, that started a pipeline to where they are today. I was at a conference in Sweden last week where a presenter spoke about Ambani's bet on Jio. People who dismiss Ambani as a 'dhandho-maxxer' couldn't be more wrong.

India hasn't been the first in any of the large areas in the past. We got our internet access right two decades after every one else. We skipped most of the CDMA drama and went straight to GSM+3G after the world had figured out mobile telephone way earlier. We were late to payments, but figured out a way better way to clear payments than most others. We have been late to every new technological change, mostly because we've been loathe to invest large sums where failure is a given. Even our space and nuclear programs - where we have had to work indigenously with local research - we've taken a lot of time, to avoid major failures. The cost of failure is not just financial in India, it's the fear of shame that runs way too deep. New nice looking road? Oh look, not enough traffic on it, shame. That rocket didn't take off? Shame on us, we should have worked harder so it wouldn't fail the first time. Failed an exam? Shame. A gap year in your resume to try something out? Shame. This feeling is pervasive, but it's changing as we speak. As it does, India is investing into things, and we embrace failure a lot more these days. This will come from the next brand of companies that aren't afraid of failure, perhaps not so much from the older set of companies that have designed themselves to be cash flow giants. Not just IT, but in FMCG, etc. (Though in metals, we have seen massive risk being taken) There are companies that have transformed themselves through very large risk oriented projects - the biggest company in India is one. But I believe technological risk will be taken by startups and will be funded by people in the space who've seen what risk can produce, through successful exits in ESOPs or as founders from companies in otherwise boring spaces. We've lacked that capital really, because otherwise capital has been preserved in large families - risk taking is obviously stunted there as preservation takes a larger role in their future. Now that the first gen capital is more, expect some of this to happen. And no, I don't think the government should play this role (they can help by deregulating business) - it's private capital that should fund the next big thing. From the people that don't consider it shameful to fail.

@Iyervval கீழ விழுந்தாலும் மீசையில மண்ணு ஒட்டல

Trump on Trump 😂😂

@RakeshK32229480 Yup, Pakistan's roads were much better than India's up until 20 years ago.

Wtf !!! Pakistan had a higher expressway network than india . 😭😭

@ThePrintIndia @NPDay Words from my Greek taxi driver last week: 'I would rather see India or China as the number one country in the world' because they have ancient civilizational values. Not the current state, where might is right, and might is exercised with impunity and callousness towards others.

Bhagwat slams US’ ‘America first’ model, says India will use its power as ‘Vishwaguru’ for world welfare Neelam Pandey @NPDay reports for ThePrint theprint.in/india/bhagwat-…

@RT_India_news So the $135 billion p.a. in foreign remittances are not assets? The view fails on this one metric alone. Shri Ram blessed the nation to survive despite such people in positions of influence and power in the nation.

‘We Should Stop Seeing Indian Diaspora as an Asset’: Author, Policy Analyst & Journalist, Sanjaya Baru on ‘In Conversation with Salman Khurshid' ‘It is a liability. Because these are people who could have stayed in this country and contributed to the development,’ the former Media Adviser to 🇮🇳 PM Manmohan Singh tells @salman7khurshid

@SwarajyaMag Awesome article. How come no one is grabbing this bull by its horns?

Maharashtra has spent Rs 90,000 crore writing off farmers' debt in the last decade, and yet the debt keeps coming back. That's because the crux of the distress is not farm credit but FARM IRRIGATION (especially in eastern MH)🧵

@akarlin Here's another:

Strongly believe this. Indians can do anthropology like no one else.