Anish

The drop that maketh the Ocean.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@KiranKS Tunga

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

FCRA is India’s domestic law.

Foreign funding for missionary work in India should not be allowed.

Hinduism does not believe in conversions. It is overwhelmingly the majority faith in India.

Hindus are primarily the target of conversions.

This is a form of assault on the majority faith.

We should stand firm on this and reject any intrusion into our internal affairs.

The US is not being secular in seeking to promote Christian lobbies in India.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@cbkwgl The way Rubio was sent off from Jaipur.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@elonmusk Constantine in the mind.

[Ananth Rupanagudi @AnanthOnTrack]

An Incredible Story!

A ₹3,480 crore IPO of Physics Wallah has hit the market. While reading about this issue, I came across information about a village called Patwa Toli in Bihar.

This year, 45 students from this village cleared JEE, and 38 of them cleared JEE Advanced, meaning 38 students from a single village secured admission to IITs.

Patwa Toli is a village of traditional weavers. There is not a single coaching institute here. Instead, it has a community-driven education system run by current and former students of the village.

The Patwas are traditional weavers, originally from Rajasthan. They were brought to Bihar by Raja Man Singh during Emperor Akbar’s reign to produce a specific type of cloth used in Hindu funeral rituals. Over time, their weaving industry flourished so much that the village earned the title Manchester of Bihar. Today, however, it is better known as the Village of IITians.

The spark of educational transformation was ignited in 1991 when Jitendra Patwa became the first student from the village to gain admission to IIT. His success inspired an entire generation. Although he now lives abroad, he has never forgotten his roots. Through the NGO Vriksha Foundation, he and other IIT alumni continue to support educational initiatives in the village.

The educational model followed here is truly unique. Students from earlier batches mentor the next generation. Whenever a junior student faces difficulty, they seek help from their seniors. Over time, this has created a continuous support network where everyone helps one another move forward.

The foundation has established a digital classroom and a well-equipped library. Expert teachers from cities such as Delhi and Mumbai conduct online classes. A dedicated team continuously monitors students’ progress to ensure that no one is left behind. This is a remarkable blend of modern technology and community participation.

This is more than an educational program—it is a movement that is transforming lives. For many students, attending expensive coaching classes in big cities was once an impossible dream. Today, they can pursue those aspirations from their own village. Most importantly, the doors of opportunity have also opened for girls, enabling them to dream of a brighter future.

Patwa Toli teaches us an important lesson: when an entire community decides to invest in its children, extraordinary things can happen. A united community is the real need of the hour. If schools improve, villages will progress. #Bihar #education #IIT

[Parimal @Fintech03]

This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke.

Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects.
When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart.

​If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance:

असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l
हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll

Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory.

This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence.

Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context:

अश‍िक्ष‍ितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l
श‍िक्ष‍ितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll

If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased!

Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists.

She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@Malay4Product It's basically west European version of white racism masquerading as journalism. The real trouble these chaps have is not our poverty or lack of freedom or corruption but with having a leader from South being shown as an equal to theirs. That's what irks them.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

She is specious.

Affirms emphatically that
“this isn't Shiva”. To support her view she finds escape in speculation .

“Its more likely adapted from proto-Elamite iconography”, she says, knowing well that she is not certain of this.

Worse, she talks of an Eurasian deity "lord of animals”.

So , rhinos, tigers, elephants water buffaloes were populating the proto Elamite region?

To be historically and intellectually honest she should provide proof of this.

This insufferable lady with a missionary heritage has a pathological urge to be at the centre of controversy.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Proto-Elamite?

The Pashupati seal has an elephant, a water buffalo and a rhinoceros. Ancient Elam was centred in southwestern Iran. Elephants, water buffalos and rhinoceroses are not native to ancient Elam. BTW, they are native to India. Also, the figure is seated in a Yogic posture. Is Yoga also Elamite now? Seriously?

Your profile says you are a professor. I don't mean to sound rude, but your students deserve a refund. And seriously, Western universities need to improve their hiring practices.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@Abinash00483633 @Nher_who "Cockroach"! That's getting corrected. Please be patient. It's difficult at first when your long held delusions start facing challenges.

[Sougat Chakraborty @sougat18]

For instance, the alleged Track 1.5 talks in London were organised by a think tank that reportedly depended heavily on Bahraini funding. One must legitimately ask: why is a British think tank bankrolled by Gulf money so invested in managing Bharat-Pakistan relations?

The answer is simple. Such institutions thrive not by resolving conflicts, but by curating permanent instability. Conflict management, not conflict resolution, is their business model. This is the same IISS that reinvented itself overnight after 9/11 as a counterterrorism authority focusing on Al-Qaeda. During the 2003 Iraq War, it was also accused of amplifying the hysteria surrounding weapons of mass destruction that helped legitimise the American invasion.

if you want peace, prepare for war. That is certainly the case with Pakistan.

Absolutely gem of a read by @Utpal_Kumar1
https://t.co/ExsNXp9g5B

[Anish @31kAnish]

@Abinash00483633 @Nher_who Palpable to people who live here with a sense of history and an above average understanding on the world of this past century.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@naziafarheen15 @HelleLyngSvends It shows the persisting servitude to the white skin.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@AbhishBanerj Basically the ambassador did a bheja fry of every journalist in that room which in itself was an entertainment.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

West has completely run out of structural arguments. When they cannot beat India on GDP growth rates, cannot match India's digital public infrastructure, & cannot stop India from anchoring global supply chains, their only remaining tool is to pull out a racist drawing of a snake charmer.

Thank you, Aftenposten, for confirming that India’s independent foreign policy is working flawlessly. If the Global South is not annoying the legacy gatekeepers of Europe, it means we are not doing it right.

Anyway, Rossavik is not a lifelong, neutral journalist. He spent yrs working as a direct press secretary & political operative for the Socialist Left Party (SV) of Norway & as an information director for the European Movement.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@HelleLyngSvends Please don't read too much into your experiences these past 24 hours. You have been riding the Lituya wave caused by the presence of the Indian PM & the accompanying tremors of subcontinental politics in your slender fyord.

[Anish @31kAnish]

@HelleLyngSvends Papparazis would soon be lining up for your instructions.

[Anish @31kAnish]

The indices are just distractions to obscure the inherent racism. The deeper you go into the European "paradise", to its fairer insular interiors, the sharper it gets.

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Shocking. Racist. Derogatory.

Norway’s largest broadsheet newspaper Aftenposten brazens it out with a shocking cartoon depicting Indian PM @narendramodi as a Snake Charmer with the headline: “A sneaky and slightly annoying man”.

They can’t digest India’s rise and success. Pity!

[Anish @31kAnish]

@iramsubramanian On an inverted scale.