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@PiyushSandilya @MumukshuSavitri Lovely stone work. The conception and execution is breathtaking.

@MumukshuSavitri भगवान वराह 700–800 CE Central India, probably Madhya Pradesh Medium sandstone Credit Line Gift of Maxeen and John Flower in honor of Dr. Stanislaw Czuma 2011.148 But who are these fuckers who can gift our heritages to foreign museums..

Silver and copper-inlaid bronze Murti of Bhagwan Vishnu in his Varaha avatar, Northeastern India, Pala period (10-12th c.) Varaha avatar stands in a beautiful dynamic pose on one leg, holding his chakra and gada. He wears a short, pleated dhoti and is adorned with various detailed ornaments. His head is turned to one side and is meticulously inlaid in silver, with curling tusks which balance the weight of Devi Prithvi (earth).

@MumukshuSavitri Beautiful. I just hope that we don’t lose this tradition and expertise.

@DivaJain2 Correct. People must listen to the entire podcast episode before commenting. ANIs back to back with Shamika Ji, Mishra Ji and Anand JI was too good. Good to see we have such brains in our EAC.

This is a highly misleading and mischievous interpretation of what he said. He was making a broader point about acquiring skills that matter in the current economic environment, not suggesting that white collar jobs are ending.

@IndianTechGuide His recent interview on the ANI podcast is very interesting

🚨 “The era that favoured software jobs and MBA degrees is coming to an end and that the country must place greater value on trade skills such as welding, plumbing, electrical work and carpentry.” - CEA Anantha Nageswaran.

@TheKhelIndia I think you may find some of our best rugby talent in our kabaddi teams

Rugby could be the next big thing in India 🔥

Ajmer 1992: The Brutal Gang Rape and Blackmail Hell That Targeted Hundreds of Hindu Schoolgirls – Identical to British Pakistani Grooming Gangs. The Indian Congress Party protected the perpetrators just as the labour protected the grooming gangs in the UK. In Ajmer influential Muslim men from powerful Khadim families tied to the Ajmer Sharif Dargah turned the lives of young Hindu girls into a nightmare of systematic sexual terror. From the late 1980s into 1992 they hunted an estimated 250 Hindu school and college girls. Many were just 11 to 20 years old some barely teenagers. Around 250 victims were reported in the scale of the scandal with many more likely never coming forward out of deep fear and shame. These Muslim predators befriended the girls lured them to remote farmhouses and bungalows drugged them and subjected them to gang rapes by multiple men. They photographed and filmed the assaults in explicit detail capturing the horror to weaponize against the victims. Using those nude photos and videos they blackmailed the girls into silence forced them into repeated rapes and pressured them to recruit their own friends and sisters to feed the same monstrous cycle. Lives were shattered. Reputations destroyed. Families lived in fear and shame. Several girls reportedly took their own lives. The scandal only exploded when local journalists exposed it but the powerful accused including Youth Congress figures dragged justice out for 32 agonizing years. Only recently did a court finally hand life sentences to six of them. This was no random crime spree. It was targeted exploitation of Hindu girls by influential Muslim men who abused their community influence and connections at the Dargah. Just like in the UK cases members of the Congress party protected or were directly linked to the perpetrators. This is identical to the Pakistani grooming gangs in Britain. Rotherham Rochdale and beyond. Where groups of predominantly Pakistani Muslim men systematically groomed gang raped and trafficked thousands of vulnerable white British girls many from Christian or working class backgrounds. Labour party members and officials protected them or looked the other way for years terrified of racism labels while the predators operated with impunity viewing non Muslim girls as fair game. In both cases the pattern is identical. Organized predation along religious and cultural lines. Blackmail and control through explicit photos and videos. Protection of perpetrators by political parties. Congress in Ajmer. Labour in Britain. Innocent girls targeted specifically because they were non Muslim. Hindu schoolgirls in Ajmer. English girls in the UK. Both left to suffer while the system failed them. India failed its daughters in Ajmer through delays denial and elite protection. Britain failed its girls through political correctness and cowardice. The cases are the same and deeply alarming. No more hiding behind excuses. These young Hindu schoolgirls were drugged violated photographed for blackmail and discarded like trash. Their pain was real their betrayal by the system total. So many never came forward out of terror even as the known toll reached 250. British community take note. Ajmer and Rotherham are the same evil. Demand real justice protect vulnerable girls without apology and confront these patterns head on. The predators counted on shame and time to bury the truth. Never let them win. Justice for the girls of Ajmer. No forgiveness for the enablers.

@ArunKrishnan_ Never gets easier

Saying bye to one's kid in a foreign land is tough. No matter how old the kid gets. That last hug. The desperate desire to not let go. The eventual parting. The seemingly-nonchalant no lookback, if you are a father. And then that long taxi ride to the airport with the warmness of that last hug still with you. Sigh.

@subhsays 'Senior Research Scholar of the English Department' - what is the benefit of such a role to society?

NIA has started a crackdown on anti-national elements in Kolkata. NIA is conducting a raid in the residence of Jhelum Ray, Senior Research Scholar of English Department, Jadavpur University - urban naxal by profession. (1/3)

Most of the mentioned countries are two-party democracies. Voters and their representatives are usually born into their parties. India's democracy is much more vibrant and has the largest number of political parties. For an elected representative to make any impact, they have to align with a 'party' that can help deliver the MP/MLA/ councillor's manifesto. Ditto with the 'party' that needs alliances to be able to pass bills in the House. Apples and oranges.

.@virsanghvi: In democracies like Canada and the UK, defections from a major party to one that opposes its ideology are rare. In India, they are so common that they don’t even surprise us any longer. theprint.in/opinion/sharp-…

@ByRakeshSimha Excellent article and I am very much rooting for this project to manifest in my lifetime. Two points: Minimal dredging will be required, and 'broken spine' descriptions saddens me because I grew up in those islands. Archipelagic arc, emergent ridge might work :)

The Andamans Standoff: Meet the Nexus Sabotaging India’s Economy and Military Might 1. The Andaman and Nicobar Islands stretch like a broken spine for 700 kilometers between the Bay of Bengal and the Andaman Sea. Great Nicobar Island turns this geography into powerful strategic leverage. 2. By developing a major port and dual-use airbase near the Malacca Strait, India gains the ability to monitor, influence, and — if necessary — disrupt movement through one of the world’s busiest maritime chokepoints. 3. The island’s naval and aviation infrastructure would allow Indian forces to project power far beyond the eastern Indian Ocean. Warships could refuel and rearm without lengthy diversions, while surveillance aircraft and drones could maintain constant watch over critical sea lanes. In a conflict scenario, Great Nicobar would effectively function as an unsinkable aircraft carrier. 4. The Andamans serve as a potential kill-switch for the Malacca route, and geography explains why. Positioned near the western gateway of the strait, Great Nicobar lies within operational reach of nearly every vessel entering or exiting the corridor. India already maintains a military presence across the Andaman and Nicobar chain; this development strengthens and completes that strategic network. 5. Its greatest significance lies in deterrence. A substantial share of China’s energy imports and trade flows through these waters, placing a vital economic artery within reach of Indian monitoring and rapid-response capabilities. 6. The $10 billion mega-project on this remote island chain could reshape Indo-Pacific power — if India can stop the saboteurs, foreign and domestic, from killing it first. Read the rest at @IHindudvesha: stophindudvesha.org/the-andamans-s…

No one from the top-20 in my school peer group aimed for a government job. Only those in '(under?) privileged' categories got a government job. This was 30+ years ago but I don't see much of a change now as well. Tata wanted to build the 'Nano'; you know what happened in Bengal. Sterlite wanted copper self-sufficiency for India; you know what happened to the Tamil Nadu plant. Nambi had the cryogenic engine; Kerala Police and IB scuttled his plans. The fault is not in our young minds; it is the communists, the spies on behalf of foreign powers, the apathetic babus and the so-called environmentalists who are the leeches of our society.

In America, the smartest kid wants to build a company. In India, the smartest kid wants a government job for life. We train our best minds to clear an exam and not to bet everything on a moonshot. Elon risked bankruptcy on a rocket. Our toppers risk nothing for a pension. That’s why there’s no Indian Elon Musk

@sadhavi Sister- your observation is spot on. When Tamas becomes dominant, Sattva qualities recede. This is not conducive to Dharma. I tried to share this message through my book, that the Yogic discipline can truly liberate our consciousness from under our ego.

We proudly tell the world that India is the land of Dharma, Yoga, and ancient wisdom. Then why are honesty, integrity, and moral courage becoming so rare in India?

I would frame the situation differently. Iran-US relations are defined by competition and containment. The negotiation has been one about extricating themselves from an open conflict. India-US relations, on the other hand, are built on collaboration and long-term relationships. I don't like the way we've allowed the US to regulate our energy supplies or the tariffs that have hit our small businesses, but can we really be hard-nosed about it, given the economic asymmetry? Btw, I agree with your separate thread about making the US personnel accountable for the 3 innocent sailors who lost their lives.

Tehran Drove a Hard Bargain. New Delhi Didn’t. Iran has shown that through hard-nosed diplomacy and deft negotiations, a far weaker state can extract a framework agreement on almost equal terms from a superpower that initiated a war of aggression against it. By contrast, the February U.S.-India trade framework front-loaded India’s obligations, making them specific, quantifiable and readily monitorable, while leaving U.S. commitments phased, conditional and subject to reversal. Yet it is this lopsided framework that now serves as the foundation for the final bilateral trade agreement nearing completion. reuters.com/world/middle-e…

@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.