Ambuj Sahu

ABD @IUPOLS | Visiting @RishihoodUni | Dissertation Writing Time |
Trained @IITDelhi | ex-SAU | ex-@DPG_ORG | IR | Foreign Policy | 🇮🇳 – 🇺🇸 – 🇨🇳

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

Are U.S.-India relations entering into a Clash of Civilizations? In my latest for
@TheNatlInterest, I argue that as strategic convergence weakens, deeper cultural tensions between the two countries are becoming harder to ignore. Questions of religion, identity, immigration, and political subversion are now moving to the center.
https://t.co/e8vzvyXgbn

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

@parasratna 🤫🤫🤫

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

Chinese analysts on India often make far more sense than many Western or West-aligned commentators on India. What a world we are living in!!

[Chen Zhuo | Katrina @SouthernM46171]

Honestly, it is depressing how much writing on Indian politics has become dull and powerless since Modi took office. Around 70% of it repeats the same point: India is no longer democratic. Guha’s essay is a polished example. It treats Modi’s centralization as the disease, then attaches unemployment, regional inequality and pollution as its symptoms. The causal argument is remarkably thin.

India’s deeper problem is its long-standing inability to turn political authority into social integration and developmental capacity. Centralized power can be necessary for major reform; its value depends on what it builds. Modi has created a formidable electoral machine and shown that the state can mobilize national resources. Yet he has failed to turn that power into mass industrial employment, better education or a state capable of disciplining capital and local elites. His Hindu coalition also limits how far he can impose costs on his own supporters.

His power is politically immense but socially shallow, strong enough to disrupt old arrangements, yet too constrained to build a new developmental order.

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

@parasratna There are three ways in the statement. Which one are you talking about?

[Yiyang Zhuge @ZhugeYY]

Here is my interview with Christopher Nolan: are you a bard for a civilization at dusk?

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

NEET Aspirant Harsh Dubey was so angry and outraged with the system that he stood up from his chair inside NDTV Studio to speak up and raise questions. Leave everything and watch this video from @ShivAroor’s show India Matters!

[NDTV @ndtv]

#IndiaMatters with @ShivAroor

"All the government needed to do was to provide a listening ear, was to have said yes we have got this wrong, we are going to correct this, they didn't do it and now that the complete issue has been hijacked by anarchists": Author @ARanganathan72

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

People who argue Dhurandhar is a propaganda are making a hero out of an activist popularized by 3 Idiots.

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

@avatans @Yale For the record, Modi is only an year older than Deng Xiaoping when he assumed power in 1978.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Tendulkar was a true great, but played for an increasingly self confident country on its way to becoming a cultural and economic superpower.
For most of his career Sunil Gavaskar batted for the self respect of a third world country and its despairing middle class whose ultimate ambition was a government job or a green card. The Sehwags, Gangulys and Dhonis who followed have given us ample reason to celebrate, but for most of his cricketing career Sunil Gavaskar would just make sure that millions could get up and face their bus or train commute the next morning.
Happy birthday Sunil Gavaskar.
You were the original rock.

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

Adipurush Pro Max Loading.

[Fola @OFolaby]

Christopher Nolan explains why people think historical epics have to sound so formal, and why he completely broke that rule on THE Odyssey

Interviewer: The language is very modern. You say "Dad" rather than "Father." What's the thinking behind that?

Tom Holland: I wouldn't have said "Father" back then anyway; it would've been in Greek, so it's no less correct.

Christopher Nolan: People view the ancient world with cultural prejudice, elevating it just because it's old. But the original poem is actually very earthy, grounded, and accessible. In building the film, I wanted to do away with illogical assumptions, look at the actual archaeology, and make the world feel fresh, credible, and exciting for modern audiences.

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

@premanshsinha You're a morning person, only in a different timezone.

[Debajit Palit 🇮🇳 দেবজিৎ पालित @debajitpalit]

Amidst #E20 debates, @akankshajn14 & I argue in @TheDailyPioneer tht beyond targets, success of India’s ethanol strategy will depend on balancing #energysecurity w/ #watersecurity, agri sustainability, env safeguards, vehicle compatibility & #foodsecurity.
https://t.co/XUF67SCECW

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

@Royalsinghz3 Iske bolne ka tareeka thoda casual hai.

[Manish Tewari @ManishTewari]

After Pearl Harbour on 7 th December 1941 the US persevered till they obtained the unconditional surrender of Japan in 1945.

Post 9/11 the US chased the Al Qaeda and the Taliban to the gates of hell and back for twenty years including neutralising Osama bin Laden in Abbottabad in Pakistan in 2011 .

From 2003 -13 the House of Saud fought a secret war inside Saudi Arabia against the Al Qaeda before driving the remnants to Yemen and other places in the Middle East .

From 1999-2009 Russia fought a brutal campaign against Chechen separatists before finally triumphing.

The fight against terror requires firmness and steadfastness and the national resolve to stay the course.

How can people forget the Baisaran ( Pahalgam ) Massacre within 14 months ?

And the countless similar atrocities perpetrated over the past four decades that were state sponsored by Pakistan.

To some folks it seems that the misty eyed romanticism of a dialogue with Pakistan is far more important than the lives of innocent Indian Tourists who were identified on the basis of their faith and slaughtered in cold blood by terrorists who came from Pakistan.

Which is that invisible hand that is incentivising the push for a pseudo normalisation with Pakistan without any verifiable guarantees that Pakistan will dismantle the Military- Jehadi Complex ( MJC) they have spawned over the past 55 years?

https://t.co/gFVJwhsjR6

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

Genuine question: Leaving aside an ineffable thing called prestige, what has Islamabad gained because of its role in the Iran war? And leaving aside a port made to serve a market that does not exist, what has India lost?

[Debajit Palit 🇮🇳 দেবজিৎ पालित @debajitpalit]

Glad to share @akankshajn14 & my co-authored op-ed on d benefits & long-term implications of #ethanol blending program, pub in @prabhatkhabar. The program has undoubtedly supported #ruralincomes; for it to strengthen #energysecurity it needs to be evaluated thru a 'systems' lens.

[Diva Jain @DivaJain2]

Most people whining about lack of eggs have never run an organization. Veg/Non Veg segregation is a logistical nightmare for a project of this scale.
Also Govt is under no obligation to help you meet your (expensive) protein goals.
If you want eggs/meat please eat them at home.

[Ambuj Sahu @AmbSahu]

Adults are busy debating proteins and eggs. Legends known why ISKCON keeps getting picked to run midday meals. Anyone who has spent time with its preachers, especially outside India, will get it.
Suvendu Da is playing 3D chess.

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

BIG BREAKING 🚨 CM Suvendu Adhikari announces that ISKCON will provide Mid-Day Meals to school children across Bengal.

🥗 Pure Sattvik meals to be served under the initiative.

[shobhit mathur @shobweet]

If you've built a home, managed a factory, or run a hospital in India, you've already felt it.

Skilled electricians, plumbers, welders, masons, and caregivers are becoming harder to find.

This is not a temporary shortage. It is the beginning of a global talent war.

Rich countries are ageing rapidly and are recruiting India's blue-collar workforce at scale. That's great news for Indian workers and remittances.

But it also raises a strategic question: Who will build Viksit Bharat if the world hires our builders?

In our latest article in @TheDailyPioneer, @sureshpprabhu ji and I argue that India needs a national labour export strategy alongside a domestic skill retention strategy.

Labour mobility is no longer just a migration issue. It is an economic and geopolitical issue.

Read the article and let me know your thoughts.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Winning against the Chinese. In China.

At the Asian Relay Championships.

Srabani, Sudeshna, Sneha & Tamanna in the 4x100 relay.

Power. Speed. Grace. Commitment.

But above all, teamwork.

This clip has it all.

I’m watching it on loop.

More of this please. 🇮🇳