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Bharatiya, sanatani. Curious about life, dharma and investing. Blessed and grateful. 🙏🏻

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Most of the stereotypes about India in Western countries are true.

The reason you get defensive and try to push back is because you don't fit in those stereotypes and it infuriates you to be judged by the lowest common denominator. You push back because you confuse Bharat, the great ancient civilization, with modern India, the democratic socialist republic, and passionately fight for the sacred honor, philosophy, and heritage of the former, entirely ignoring the crude realities of the latter. You reject the humiliation of a collective reputation you did nothing to create, refusing to be grouped with the lawless, the uncivic, and the vulgar when your own values are entirely at odds with them.

But you're part of the quiet minority. The harsh truth is that the rest of the country, the overwhelming majority, simply does not care. They are a hopeless, unreformable mass of selfish, ignorant, and shameless parasites who lack even the basic capacity for self-reflection. Operating on a primitive threshold for crime and corruption, they are far too pathetic and lazy to care about rules, progress, or the public good. They would eagerly wallow in filth, chaos, and shortcuts just to satisfy their immediate personal greed, leeching off the system while leaving the few civilized people like you to carry the dead weight of a demographic dividend that lacks the decency and dignity to ever grow up.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

Forget de-JNUising JNU and like institutions. The IITs are being JNUised. Let's light a diya for IIT Bombay.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

Dear @iitbombay students!

It is high time that you reclaimed your campus from the blue casteist bigot infestation and did away from the bullshit that the government has forced upon you.

Go outside your dorm rooms. Organise in large numbers and kick these bastards out of your campus, as they are hired hooligans who travel from Delhi to spread caste hate on your soil.

Your college is a sovereign place. Your professor is a father figure. Your classroom is your soil to nourish your wisdom. Your hostel is a place for discussing life, lessons and projects.

Support what is right. Support the teachers that shape you, make you, guide you and push you to your limits. If you back out today, your will be ashamed of your deeds in future.

Go out! Light a candle. I am happy that some of you are organising marches. Shun classes till this political crap settles. make up for lost classes on Sundays, if need be. But, this is an important moment of your life. Be a part of it.

Thieves and thugs shouldn't sit among you. Cheaters can not and mus not be promoted by the system. The government or their stooges cannot dictate academia.

Reclaim your campus.

[ghatak @Neetivaan]

to every General Category reading this, if you get a chance to settle abroad, do it without any guilt trip or hesitation, all that patriotism fades away when the state is against you and your career will be destroyed by Modi act.

instead make money abroad, they value talent.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

2014 में जम्मू-कश्मीर में बाढ़ आई थी, तब यह ज्ञान आया था जन्मदिन पर। आज बिहार के 13-18 जिले आंशिक या गंभीर रूप से बाढ़ में डूबे हैं, सामान्य लोग और NGO सहयोग कर रहे हैं, पर इनके @PMOIndia का मायक्रोमैनेजमेंट देखिए कि सर्कुलर निकाल कर दीपावली मनवाए जा रहे हैं।

क्या आपको रत्ती भर भी स्मरण नहीं हुआ इस विभीषिका का जहाँ से 31, 39, 30 सीटें बिना कुछ माँगे दिया।

[A 🕉️ @ARBharat3]

Shame! #RollbackMDR

[Ministry of Finance @FinMinIndia]

Speculation and claims that the MDR will be charged on UPI transactions are completely false, baseless, and misleading.

Such baseless and sensation-creating speculations cause needless uncertainty, fear and suspicion among our citizens.

The Government remains fully committed to promoting digital payments via UPI.

[Richard @ricwe123]

Saudi Arabia is learning a lesson that money and American weapons could never erase: you cannot buy your way out of geography.

For years, Riyadh behaved as though its oil wealth and its alliance with Washington made it immune to the consequences of its regional policies.
It accumulated weapons, hosted foreign forces and poured billions into military adventures while treating Iran as an enemy to be contained.

Now the bill has arrived.

With the Strait of Hormuz effectively strangled and the kingdom’s vital East-West oil pipeline to the Red Sea disrupted, Saudi Arabia’s ability to move its most valuable commodity has been severely compromised.
The kingdom can possess some of the world’s largest oil reserves, but reserves sitting underground do not pay the bills.

Oil has to reach the market.

And suddenly, the country that imagined itself the dominant power of the Gulf may have to knock on Tehran’s door.

That is the bitter irony.
Iran, the state Saudi Arabia spent years trying to isolate and contain, now possesses enormous leverage over the regional environment in which Saudi Arabia must operate.
If Riyadh wants relief, it may have to negotiate with Tehran,and Tehran will not be doing favors out of charity.

Iran will demand a price.

It will demand political concessions. Security guarantees.
Changes in Saudi regional policy.
An end to support for hostile operations.

Whatever the final bargain looks like, one thing should be obvious: Saudi Arabia will be negotiating from weakness, not strength.

And what of the United States?

The American military presence has not prevented this strategic nightmare. Billions spent on weapons and decades of dependence on Washington have not abolished the vulnerability created by geography.
American bases cannot make the Strait of Hormuz disappear.
They cannot permanently protect every pipeline.
They cannot manufacture a stable regional order through military force.

So perhaps it is time for Riyadh to ask the question it has avoided for generations:

Why should Saudi Arabia continue hosting US military forces when those forces have failed to provide the strategic security they promised?

The answer should be a complete rethink.

Get rid of the permanent American military footprint.
Stop treating the Gulf as an arena for American-Iranian confrontation.
Stop imagining that endless weapons purchases constitute a foreign policy. And start negotiating directly with the countries that Saudi Arabia actually has to live beside.

Because Iran is not going away.
Iraq is not going away.
Yemen is not going away.
The Gulf is not going away.

Washington can send aircraft carriers.
It can deploy troops.
It can sell another hundred billion dollars of weapons.

But it cannot change the map.

Saudi Arabia's real security will ultimately have to come from diplomacy, regional arrangements and mutually understood limits,not from renting an American shield while antagonizing its neighbors.

The age of assuming that Washington will solve every Saudi security problem is over.

If Riyadh now has to negotiate with Tehran, it should negotiate seriously.

And if that means paying a steep price for years of strategic miscalculation, perhaps that is precisely the point.

Sometimes the price of avoiding diplomacy is eventually having to negotiate from your knees.

[Gorakkh @gorakkh]

People are mocking this BRICS state dinner because it is vegetarian.

This is not “just a vegetarian menu.” It is a carefully curated showcase of Indian ingredients, regional traditions and fine-dining technique.

Look at what is actually on the table:

• Gucchi / Himalayan morels — among India’s most prized mushrooms. They grow seasonally in Himalayan regions, are difficult to source in quantity and are traditionally hand-collected, which is why good-quality morels command premium prices.

• Saffron — one of the world’s most expensive spices by weight. Thousands of delicate crocus flowers are needed to produce a small amount of saffron.

• Mamra almonds — a premium almond variety valued for its rich flavour, high natural oil content and limited production compared with ordinary commercial almonds.

• Sheermal — a saffron-scented bread with Persian-Mughal culinary roots, traditionally associated with rich festive and royal-style cuisine.

• Khandvi Mille-Feuille — not simply “gram flour.” Khandvi itself requires precision to cook, spread paper-thin and roll properly; presenting it as a mille-feuille turns a Gujarati classic into fine dining without losing its identity.

• Khumb Galouti — a vegetarian interpretation of the famous galouti style, using mushrooms to create the same soft, delicate texture while keeping the menu entirely vegetarian.

• Millets — ancient Indian grains brought into a modern state-banquet setting, combining heritage with contemporary nutrition and sustainability.

• Phirni with mulberries and gold leaf — a traditional milk-and-rice dessert finished with fruit and edible gold, giving a centuries-old dish a ceremonial, luxurious presentation.

And that is what makes this menu impressive.

It moves from Gujarat to North India, the Himalayas, South India and Old Delhi; from humble grains and lentils to saffron, morels, premium almonds and gold leaf.

This was not vegetarian food chosen because something was “missing.”

It was vegetarian food chosen because Indian cuisine is rich enough to make meat completely unnecessary.

The menu is thoughtful, regional, luxurious and unmistakably Indian.

Sometimes luxury is not a steak on a plate.

Sometimes it is a wild Himalayan morel, a few strands of saffron, and centuries of culinary knowledge behind them.

#brics #india #bharat #GOI #narendramodi #vegetarian #luxurious #food #foodfascism

[Preet Sirohi @BhaiPreetSingh]

भारतीय सेना के हवलदार पर क्या बीत रही है ?

क्या आप महसूस कर सकते है @rajnathsingh जी

@balliapolice @CMOfficeUP न्याय मिलेगा?

[Ajeet Bharti YouTube @NijiSachiv]

24 सितंबर को लेकर सवर्ण समाज से अपील

24 सितंबर को लेकर मैं सामान्य वर्ग के लोगों से एक महत्वपूर्ण अपील करना चाहता हूं। 24 सितंबर को चंद्रशेखर रावण शक्ति प्रदर्शन के लिए आ रहे हैं। मुझे आशंका है कि वे सवर्ण समाज के लोगों से टकराव चाहते हैं। पिछली बार के आंदोलन में 14 लोगों की हत्या हुई थी। इस बार भी यदि दिल्ली में सवर्ण समाज के लोग वहां आते हैं, तो टकराव की स्थिति पैदा हो सकती है।

आप लोग बिना तैयारी के वहां जाएंगे और पुलिस भी आपको सुरक्षा नहीं देगी। यदि पुलिस को आवश्यकता पड़ी, तो वह गोली चलाने से भी पीछे नहीं हटेगी।
इसलिए 24 सितंबर के आसपास यदि कोई रैली या प्रदर्शन करने की योजना बना रहा है, तो उस विचार को अभी त्याग देना चाहिए।

हमें किसी के उकसावे में नहीं आना है। सामान्य वर्ग और ओबीसी समाज के लोग, तथा SC/ST एक्ट, यूजीसी की नीतियों और आरक्षण व्यवस्था से प्रभावित लोग, सभी से मेरा विनम्र निवेदन है कि 24 सितंबर को चंद्रशेखर रावण और भीम आर्मी जो करना चाहते हैं, उन्हें करने दीजिए।

वे जंतर-मंतर आएं या पूरी दिल्ली में प्रदर्शन करें, लेकिन हमें उनका सामना नहीं करना है। उनके आसपास बिल्कुल नहीं जाना है। उनके एक, दो या पांच किलोमीटर के दायरे में भी नहीं दिखना है।

उन्हें सरकार के साथ अपनी लड़ाई लड़ने दीजिए। हमें इसमें नहीं पड़ना है। सरकार भी चाहती है कि लोग हिंसा करें और फिर उनके विरुद्ध कार्रवाई की जा सके। यदि किसी व्यक्ति का चेहरा हिंसा में दिखाई दे गया, तो उसका भविष्य बर्बाद हो सकता है।

सरकार अपने आपको बचाने के लिए अलग-अलग लोगों को सामने लाती है और फिर अपनी कार्रवाई को सही ठहराने का प्रयास करती है। हमें ऐसी किसी भी योजना का हिस्सा नहीं बनना है।

हमारे लिए हिंसा से बचना जरूरी है:
मैं बार-बार कह रहा हूँ कि हिंसा मत कीजिए। 24 सितंबर को शक्ति प्रदर्शन मत कीजिए। इसके बाद तीन-चार दिन या सात दिन तक भी ऐसे किसी कार्यक्रम से दूर रहिए। यदि शक्ति प्रदर्शन करना है, तो अक्टूबर या नवंबर में कर सकते हैं। चुनाव की तारीख घोषित होने के बाद भी लोकतांत्रिक तरीके से अपनी बात रखी जा सकती है।

हमें अभी सड़कों पर आने की कोई आवश्यकता नहीं है। हमें सड़कों पर जाकर किसी से पिटने या लड़ने की जरूरत नहीं है। यदि टकराव हुआ, तो आप पर मोदी एक्ट, NSA और अन्य गंभीर धाराएं लगाई जा सकती हैं। आपको लंबे समय तक जेल में रहना पड़ सकता है।

इसलिए 20 से 30 सितंबर के बीच सवर्ण समाज का कोई भी समूह उनके आसपास कहीं भी दिखाई न दे। उन्हें अपना प्रदर्शन करने दीजिए। यदि वे हंगामा करते हैं या तोड़फोड़ करते हैं, तो यह दिल्ली पुलिस, सरकार और उनके बीच का मामला है। हमें इसमें नहीं पड़ना है।

हमें अपना ध्यान उत्तर प्रदेश के चुनाव पर केंद्रित रखना है। हमें अपने तीन मूल एजेंडों पर ध्यान देना है:
1. यूजीसी से संबंधित नीतियां
2. एससी-एसटी एक्ट
3. आरक्षण सुधार (12 मांगें)

यही हमारे मूल मुद्दे हैं। हमें इन्हीं पर केंद्रित रहना है। हिंसा नहीं करनी है। हमें किसी के जाल में नहीं फंसना है और शांतिपूर्ण तथा लोकतांत्रिक तरीके से अपनी बात रखनी है।

[India First Post @ifpost47]

US Open is smelling less like a Grand Slam and more like a sewage plant.

Fans at Arthur Ashe Stadium have complained about a strong sewage/human-waste smell, while another match was disrupted after Aryna Sabalenka noticed a cannabis smell.

Yet somehow, the world’s favourite lecture circuit still loves lecturing others about “standards.” Fix your own backyard first.

[Wokeflix @wokeflix]

BJP should hear this monologue on repeat 🔁

[Financelot @FinanceLancelot]

Oh sh!t... @andreijikh just went down the rabbit hole.

Except it isn't 2028...🤫

[Shesh Paul Vaid @spvaid]

Both The Government of India and Supreme Court have surrendered before the Cockroach Janta Party. The consequences of this capitulation will be serious in the days ahead.

As always, the police are left with no one willing to stand by them. If this is the message being sent, then perhaps, during the next riot, the police should simply step aside and let rioters and criminals do as they please. After all, why should the police risk their lives when the system refuses to stand behind them?

Is this really the message we want to send?

[Sreemoy Talukdar @sreemoytalukdar]

Activated.

Didn't take long. Note, how the media outlet doesn't take a position. Merely floats a doubt. That is enough.

The narrative, years from now, will become "India's GDP data is widely accepted to be untrustworthy since the government has been accused of cooking up the numbers."

Job done.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

माननीय @narendramodi जी, इन ब्राह्मण परिवारों तक भी आपकी आवास योजना कभी पहुँचेगी? या ये आपको वोट दे ही देते हैं, तो आप दलीत-पीड़ीत ही करते रहेंगे?

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

@Shrimaan विकास दिव्यकीर्ति चूतिया है।

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

India International Centre, which invited Swara Bhasker during its recent event that triggered outrage over her remarks on Padmaavat's Jauhar scene, was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation.

@immortalsoulin breaks down IIC’s shady history

https://t.co/Az8z4m0Ctf

[Amit Schandillia @Schandillia]

- 1020-1140, Chaulukyas vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1100-1200, Paramaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1150-1180, Chaulukyas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1160-1180, Chauhans vs. Gahadavalas: No jauhar
- 1200-1500, Sisodias vs. Rathores: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Sisodias vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1300-1500, Sisodia internal succession wars: No jauhar
- 1300-1400, Rathores vs. Paramaras: No jauhar
- 1350-1500, Rathores vs. Bhatis: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Kachwahas vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1000-1200, Internal Chauhan branch feuds: No jauhar
- 1100-1300, Bhatis vs. Jadons: No jauhar
- 1100-1150, Tomaras vs. Chauhans: No jauhar
- 1400-1500, Rathores vs. Kachwahas: No jauhar

No fewer than two dozen major wars were fought among the Rajputs with zero Muslim involvement. Not a single episode involved self-immolation of any kind. Not one. Neither Indian, nor foreign accounts record a single instance. Now see this:

- 712-712, Dahir of Sind vs. Muhammad bin Qasim: Jauhar committed.
1232-1232, Gwalior (Rajputs) vs. Iltutmish: Jauhar committed
- 1301-1301, Ranthambore vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1299-1299, Jaisalmer vs. Alauddin Khalji: Jauhar committed
- 1303-1303, Chittor vs. Alauddin Khalji: 1st jauhar of Chittor
- 1327-1327, Kampili vs. Muhammad bin Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1326-1326, Jaisalmer vs. Ghiyath al-Din Tughluq: Jauhar committed
- 1486-1486, Kuva (Kankavati) vs. Mahmud Begada: Jauhar committed
- 1528-1528, Chanderi vs. Babur: Jauhar committed.
- 1535-1535, Chittor vs. Bahadur Shah: 2nd jauhar of Chittor
- 1543-1543, Raisen vs. Humayun: 3 jauhars committed
- 1568-1568, Chittor vs. Akbar: 3rd jauhar of Chittor
- 1634-1634, Bundelkhand vs. Aurangzeb: Jauhar committed
- 1710-1710, Daddanala vs. Mir Fazlullah: Jauhar committed

Similarly, when the British came, we had a series of gruesome engagements starting with Plassey and Buxar, then going on to the Carnatic Wars, the Anglo-Mysore Wars, the Anglo-Maratha Wars, the Anglo-Gurkha War, the Anglo-Sikh Wars, the Anglo-Burmese Wars, the Anglo-Afghan Wars, and many, many more.

No jauhar.

Now, when someone like that book reviewer condemns “Hindutva” for “glorifying jauhar,” I am fully on their side. I agree it was a morbid ritual that does not belong in a civilized society, thank goodness we no longer do that. But do you see a pattern in the above lists?

Why do you think this macabre ritual was practiced EXCLUSIVELY in conflicts involving Muslim forces?

Why didn’t women feel the need to self-immolate when their kingdoms fell to any other adversary?

You can’t be dumb enough to not draw the only possible conclusion here.

Nobody glorifies jauhar, it was not picnic.

We “honor” it. No, not the immolation itself but the debilitating sentiment behind it. With the honor we keep our alive in our collective memory. Know why?

Because the demons that drove our ancestors to such extremities still live and breathe amongst us to this day.

And they haven’t changed one bit.

When someone prefers death to your touch, what even are you?

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

लगातार आप सब के विचारों के सुनने के उपरांत, हमने एक सरलीकृत माँग पत्र बनाया है। एक बार आम सहमति बन जाए, फिर डिजिटल से धरातल की योजना बनाई जाएगी। तब तक, नीति निर्धारकों के लिए यह पत्र हम सार्वजनिक कर रहे हैं ताकि उन्हें AI से हिन्दी लिखवा कर, उसमें प्राइवेट में आरक्षण जैसी बकलोली न करनी पड़े।

@JPNadda जी, कॉपी ही करना है, तो ठीक से करो। वैसे, आपको दोबारा झुका देख कर दुख हुआ।