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“I believe that the main cause of India's weakness is not subjection, nor poverty, nor a lack of spirituality or Dharma, but a diminution of thought-power, the spread of ignorance in the motherland of Knowledge. Everywhere I see an inability or unwillingness to think.”
~Aurobindo
~Aurobindo
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Prof. Makkar retweeted
JUST IN | A family of Sikhs affected by the 1984 anti-Sikh riots stages a protest by burning Sonia Gandhi’s book in New Delhi.
📸@shashiskashyap
📸@shashiskashyap
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The fact that nobody has ever seen a Congress leader read a single one of Shashi Tharoor's better written books with such interest and enthusiasm reveals everything that is wrong with the Congress today. All optics, no substance. No respect for real books with real merit. Just sance to the central command's whims whancies and windowdressing.
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Remember September 2013?
This is the exact pre-2014 Congress era that the dynastic ecosystem cries day and night to bring back!
Look at how the country was run back then:
The Supreme Court had ruled that any convicted lawmaker would be immediately disqualified from Parliament. and save convicted ally Lalu Prasad Yadav from losing his seat, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Union Cabinet cleared a controversial ordinance.
Then came the real feudal spectacle:
While the sitting Prime Minister of India was on an official bilateral visit in the United States, Rahul Gandhi—who wasn't even a minister in the Cabinet , just a party vice president—barged into Ajay Maken’s press conference at the Press Club of India!
With cameras rolling, he completely humiliated his own Prime Minister, publicly trashed the Union Cabinet's collective decision, and declared it should be torn and discarded!
"My personal opinion on this ordinance is that it's complete nonsense and should be torn up and thrown out!"
An unconstitutional super-power above the Prime Minister’s office.
Pure dynastic arrogance, zero accountability, and sheer contempt for democratic institutions.
This is the chaotic, puppet-PM era India permanently threw into the dustbin in 2014! 🇮🇳⚖️
This is the exact pre-2014 Congress era that the dynastic ecosystem cries day and night to bring back!
Look at how the country was run back then:
The Supreme Court had ruled that any convicted lawmaker would be immediately disqualified from Parliament. and save convicted ally Lalu Prasad Yadav from losing his seat, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh’s Union Cabinet cleared a controversial ordinance.
Then came the real feudal spectacle:
While the sitting Prime Minister of India was on an official bilateral visit in the United States, Rahul Gandhi—who wasn't even a minister in the Cabinet , just a party vice president—barged into Ajay Maken’s press conference at the Press Club of India!
With cameras rolling, he completely humiliated his own Prime Minister, publicly trashed the Union Cabinet's collective decision, and declared it should be torn and discarded!
"My personal opinion on this ordinance is that it's complete nonsense and should be torn up and thrown out!"
An unconstitutional super-power above the Prime Minister’s office.
Pure dynastic arrogance, zero accountability, and sheer contempt for democratic institutions.
This is the chaotic, puppet-PM era India permanently threw into the dustbin in 2014! 🇮🇳⚖️
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Prof. Makkar retweeted
Sonia Gandhi says in her autobiography that the cause of the Godhra Train Fire "remains disputed".
This is NOT TRUE.
31 criminals were convicted by the Judiciary for setting fire to the train. How did this blatant lie pass Penguin's editorial check?!
This is NOT TRUE.
31 criminals were convicted by the Judiciary for setting fire to the train. How did this blatant lie pass Penguin's editorial check?!
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Prof. Makkar retweeted
Fun Fact: In Sundara Kand, this scene is exactly how Hanuman ji described Ravan & women all around him, intoxicated, sleeping all around his body.
wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/…
wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/…
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Prof. Makkar retweeted
Before you mock children who believes in Santa
Please remember, there are adults who still belives every thing written on twitter is true
Please remember, there are adults who still belives every thing written on twitter is true
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Of all the excuses offered by the apologists for the movie, perhaps the most ridiculous is, “There are many versions of the Ramayana, bro. This is just one more.”
Yes, there are many versions and retellings of the Ramayana, with variations in certain episodes, characters and interpretations. These differences are certainly worthy of academic study. But that is not how the Ramayana has lived in the hearts and minds of millions of ordinary people across Bharat.
For thousands of years, the Ramayana has been told and retold across the length and breadth of this country, passed down from grandparents to parents and from parents to children. However, the central moral framework has remained remarkably consistent.
Rama is the embodiment of Dharma. Ravana, despite his extraordinary learning, power, devotion and accomplishments, represents the disastrous consequences of surrendering to lust, arrogance and Adharma.
The Ramayana is fundamentally about the conflict between Dharma and Adharma, between righteousness and evil, and the ultimate triumph of Dharma.
Ravana's virtues are certainly acknowledged. But that is precisely what makes his downfall such a powerful lesson. All his knowledge, scholarship, devotion and strength could not save him once he chose the path of Adharma. The message is not that Ravana lacked greatness in every respect, but that none of his greatness could justify his actions or protect him from their consequences.
This is the essence of the Ramayana that generations of ordinary people have understood, cherished and passed on.
There is no overarching narrative of oppression and suppression in which Ravana must be recast as a victim and Rama as an oppressor. Nor is Rama portrayed as someone burdened by guilt or constantly apologising for upholding Dharma.
It is the attempt to replace the very essence of the Ramayana, while claiming the legitimacy of its tradition, that needs to be called out and criticised, as many people unfamiliar with the original texts may end up accepting it as the truth.
Let that sink in.
Yes, there are many versions and retellings of the Ramayana, with variations in certain episodes, characters and interpretations. These differences are certainly worthy of academic study. But that is not how the Ramayana has lived in the hearts and minds of millions of ordinary people across Bharat.
For thousands of years, the Ramayana has been told and retold across the length and breadth of this country, passed down from grandparents to parents and from parents to children. However, the central moral framework has remained remarkably consistent.
Rama is the embodiment of Dharma. Ravana, despite his extraordinary learning, power, devotion and accomplishments, represents the disastrous consequences of surrendering to lust, arrogance and Adharma.
The Ramayana is fundamentally about the conflict between Dharma and Adharma, between righteousness and evil, and the ultimate triumph of Dharma.
Ravana's virtues are certainly acknowledged. But that is precisely what makes his downfall such a powerful lesson. All his knowledge, scholarship, devotion and strength could not save him once he chose the path of Adharma. The message is not that Ravana lacked greatness in every respect, but that none of his greatness could justify his actions or protect him from their consequences.
This is the essence of the Ramayana that generations of ordinary people have understood, cherished and passed on.
There is no overarching narrative of oppression and suppression in which Ravana must be recast as a victim and Rama as an oppressor. Nor is Rama portrayed as someone burdened by guilt or constantly apologising for upholding Dharma.
It is the attempt to replace the very essence of the Ramayana, while claiming the legitimacy of its tradition, that needs to be called out and criticised, as many people unfamiliar with the original texts may end up accepting it as the truth.
Let that sink in.
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This is how Mamta celebrates Diwali.. Such an arrogance and insensibility towards Hindu customs and traditions.
Lighting lamp with candle, throwing flowers are not bhakthi.
Who asked her to show off her Hindu affinity like this? The lady who fears #JaiShreeRam is trying to score wali.
I had pointed out such behavior earlier when she did such antics during Siva Pooja. And this time again.
She is still to learn the lesson.
#Diwali2026 #Mamta #HinduEcosystem
Lighting lamp with candle, throwing flowers are not bhakthi.
Who asked her to show off her Hindu affinity like this? The lady who fears #JaiShreeRam is trying to score wali.
I had pointed out such behavior earlier when she did such antics during Siva Pooja. And this time again.
She is still to learn the lesson.
#Diwali2026 #Mamta #HinduEcosystem
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Prof. Makkar retweeted
July 1991. India was days from defaulting on its loans.
So the govt quietly put gold on planes. 20 tonnes to Switzerland in May. 47 tonnes to the Bank of England in July. 67 tonnes of the country's gold, pledged for $600M to stay afloat.
Now open the RBI's own reports, the .
Since 2022, the RBI has been bringing gold back.
384 tonnes moved home in 4 years. Of the 880 tonnes India holds today, 680 sit in Indian vaults - 77%. What is left in London and Basel: 198 tonnes, down from 437 in 2023.
Gold is 16.7% of our fx reserves now. It was 5.9% in 2021.
No speech about this. No announcement. Just gold moving in the other direction.
Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏
P.S. I made this chart from RBI's own data.
Sources: RBI Half-Yearly Reports on Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves (latest: Oct 2025-Mar 2026); RBI's official history of the 1991 pledges.
So the govt quietly put gold on planes. 20 tonnes to Switzerland in May. 47 tonnes to the Bank of England in July. 67 tonnes of the country's gold, pledged for $600M to stay afloat.
Now open the RBI's own reports, the .
Since 2022, the RBI has been bringing gold back.
384 tonnes moved home in 4 years. Of the 880 tonnes India holds today, 680 sit in Indian vaults - 77%. What is left in London and Basel: 198 tonnes, down from 437 in 2023.
Gold is 16.7% of our fx reserves now. It was 5.9% in 2021.
No speech about this. No announcement. Just gold moving in the other direction.
Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏
P.S. I made this chart from RBI's own data.
Sources: RBI Half-Yearly Reports on Management of Foreign Exchange Reserves (latest: Oct 2025-Mar 2026); RBI's official history of the 1991 pledges.
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Our modern educational and economic system around the world trains young people for "steady paycheck" jobs and those jobs are not just not growing, they are under serious challenge due to automation and AI.
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Our modern educational and economic system around the world trains young people for "steady paycheck" jobs and those jobs are not just not growing, they are under serious challenge due to automation and AI.
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"For decades, young Chinese were promised a simple deal: Study hard. Get a good job. Become richer than your parents. That deal is breaking"
China is the factory of the world, has impressive technology capabilities across a vast array of sectors and runs a $1.2 trillion merchandise trade surplus and yet is not able to create jobs for a big cohort of her college-educated youth.
Approximately 70% of all unemployed individuals in the 20-to-24 age group hold university degrees in China.
Our modern educational and economic system around the world trains young people for "steady paycheck" jobs and those jobs are not just not growing, they are under serious challenge due to automation and AI.
This problem is about to get worse, not better.
What is the solution? Dramatic gains in entrepreneurship and self-employment. That has been the foundation of prosperity even in America all the way until the mid 20th century. The rise of the big industrial and corporate "steady paycheck" job is a relatively recent phenomenon. We have to move away from that model.
Policymakers in India must pay heed.
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Why spend money on R&D when you have an easier, cheaper, faster way to access tech through Honeytrapping ? 😅😁
Chinas “R&D” strategy has for decades been built on shortcuts - “helping themselves” to western technology - often using means that most other countries would baulk at.
Foy their means - any means, any way - that’s their way. No global ethics or norms like Trust apply to them.
Anyone who has studied Tech history of last 3 decades and Chinas rise will also learn about the “China way”.
RTing an earlier 2020 tweet of mine , with this latest Chinese “R&D” move 😅
Chinas “R&D” strategy has for decades been built on shortcuts - “helping themselves” to western technology - often using means that most other countries would baulk at.
Foy their means - any means, any way - that’s their way. No global ethics or norms like Trust apply to them.
Anyone who has studied Tech history of last 3 decades and Chinas rise will also learn about the “China way”.
RTing an earlier 2020 tweet of mine , with this latest Chinese “R&D” move 😅
I m not going to comment on #HunterBiden’s role.
But open democratic systems like US n Western Europe are where #China has harvested (aka stolen) most of its tech from - this Tech proliferation has been helped by people from those countries eithrr deliberately or stealing.
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In 2013, China exported 21 tiles for every 1 India exported. India was the world's 9th largest exporter, at 55 millio square metres.
By 2023, India exported 589 million against China's 615 million. India is now the world's 2nd largest. The gap is the smallest it has ever been.
iles come from one town: Morbi, Gujarat. They go to 135 countries.
Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏
P.S. India's exports dipped in 2024 (589 to 525 million sqm) when the Red Sea crisis raised freight costs. The 2022 dip came when gas prices doubled after the Ukraine war. Both times exports recovered or kept their world rank of 2nd.
Sources: Indian customs data (DGCIS/UN Comtrade); MECS/Acimac via Ceramic World Review; IBEF. I made this chart.
By 2023, India exported 589 million against China's 615 million. India is now the world's 2nd largest. The gap is the smallest it has ever been.
iles come from one town: Morbi, Gujarat. They go to 135 countries.
Bharat is rising. 🙏🙏
P.S. India's exports dipped in 2024 (589 to 525 million sqm) when the Red Sea crisis raised freight costs. The 2022 dip came when gas prices doubled after the Ukraine war. Both times exports recovered or kept their world rank of 2nd.
Sources: Indian customs data (DGCIS/UN Comtrade); MECS/Acimac via Ceramic World Review; IBEF. I made this chart.
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“Diwali khushiyon ka ek Eid hai.”
~ Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.
If they still didn’t hope for some residual ‘secular’ Hindu votes, the Nehru-Gandhi Congress would happily change their party’s name to Muslim League.
The irony, when you look back a hundred years. x.com/BeelzebubJagga…
~ Congress President Mallikarjun Kharge.
If they still didn’t hope for some residual ‘secular’ Hindu votes, the Nehru-Gandhi Congress would happily change their party’s name to Muslim League.
The irony, when you look back a hundred years. x.com/BeelzebubJagga…
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Imagine the leader of the GoP can’t even properly wish the people of this country on the biggest and popular festival. Shame
I’m sure he did it deliberately. x.com/BeelzebubJagga…
I’m sure he did it deliberately. x.com/BeelzebubJagga…
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Some su*cides are less important than others because 'Brahminical Patriarchy' can't be blamed here.
Tribal rights leader Nisha Bhagat, who fought against the land mafia and religious conversion, dies by suicide; holds the Hemant Soren government responsible in a Facebook Live
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