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[Parimal @Fintech03]

The doctor in the post claims she was "inspired by swimming in the ocean" to invent a "sinus power wash treatment" using pressurized saline.

In reality, she did not invent a single thing. She just mechanized Jala Neti, a foundational practice of the ancient Indian knowledge system that is 1000s yrs old.

Long before Western medicine understood the concept of sinus congestion, the Hatha Yoga Pradipika & the Gheranda Samhita (ancient texts on physiology & yoga) outlined the Shatkarmas: the 6 purification techniques designed to cleanse the body's internal channels.

1 of these primary cleansers is Neti. The texts describe 2 types:

- Sutra Neti: Using a soft thread passed through the nose & out the mouth to physically clear the nasal tract.

- Jala Neti: Using a custom vessel (a Neti Pot) to pour lukewarm, salted water (isotonic saline) into one nostril, allowing gravity to pull it through the sinus cavities & out the other nostril.

When the West 1st encountered the Neti pot, it was dismissed by mainstream doctors as a primitive folk ritual. But over the last few decades, Western otolaryngology (ENT) conducted clinical trials & suddenly realized the ancient rishis were brilliant biochemists.

Here is how it works: The inside of our sinuses is lined with microscopic, hair-like structures called cilia that wave back & forth to push out dust, bacteria & excess mucus. When we are congested, the cilia get bogged down & stop moving. Saline water restores their fluid dynamics & increases their "ciliary beat frequency," allowing the body to naturally flush out pathogens.

This is a recurring pattern where ancient Indian empirical knowledge is stripped of its cultural roots, repackaged & commercialized in the West: Turmeric becomes a patented "Curcumin Golden Latte." Ashwagandha becomes an "Adaptogenic Cortisol-Lowering Serum." Pranayama becomes "Box Breathing" taught by Navy SEALs. Jala Neti becomes a "Sinus Power Wash Treatment" priced at a premium clinic rate :))

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Aaftab Poonawala cut Shraddha into 35 pieces

With her pieces in refrigerator, he contacted 30 Hindu girls to date

When caught he slept like a baby

Now he is doing is MA with thesis on Hindutva threat to secularism

Court cancelled his hearing so he can take the exam

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

A man named Rajkumar was booked under the POCSO Act following a complaint lodged by a minor girl and her mother in Telangana.

But he was later released on bail.

And then, he murdered the girl, her mother, and her grandmother. Later, he also murdered his wife and his two sons.

6 people were killed.

If an accused in a serious POCSO case can secure bail without a thorough assessment of the risk posed to the victim, it raises serious questions about whether the justice system is truly prioritizing the safety of those it is meant to protect.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Amidst all the SM noise, we did not celebrate Vimag labs enough. They built India’s 1st software-defined, magnet-free electric motor platform.

Standard EVs rely heavily on Permanent Magnet Synchronous Motors. These require physical, rare-earth magnets embedded directly into the motor's rotor to create a magnetic field. Vimag Labs completely eliminated the physical magnets.

This is a win for cheaper EV manufacturing, but the real, strategic importance of what they did goes far deeper into global geopolitics & structural engineering:

- The global processing capacity & supply chain for rare-earth materials is overwhelmingly controlled by China. By engineering a completely magnet-free motor, Vimag Labs quietly handed automotive OEMs an escape hatch from a massive geopolitical supply chain vulnerability.

- Vimag Labs designed this architecture to scale up into massive high-power systems ranging b/w 200 kW & 600 kW. This means the software-defined, magnet-free platform is directly targeted for critical, heavy backend sectors: defense applications, robotics & advanced cooling infra, allowing India to build high-performance military & industrial hardware entirely free from foreign mineral dependencies.

- The breakthrough is the result of 87600+ (~10 person yrs) engineering hrs spent by co-founders Manish Seth, Rahul Krishnamurthy & their team. They built a massive IP pipeline (including 5 granted patents, 10 active applications & 15 trademarks) & signed a manufacturing MoU with Jendamark to scale the physical production of these motors right out of India.

Vimag labs handed a rising nation the ultimate industrial escape hatch: a future where our engines run on Indian brainpower, while leaving the rest of the world fighting over the dirt. 🙏🙏

[Comman Man @CommanMan777589]

But seriously give us all our stuff back.

The young woman royally humbled the British.

[Elite Predators @elitepredatorss]

On Instagram, a narrative that the Chinese Army has entered Arunachal and captured 60 km of Indian territory is gaining traction.

I have counted almost 9-10 million views collectively on those reels. It appears to be a cheap paid job, using footage of the Royal Thai Army and depicting it as the Chinese Army, combined with some footage from Manipur to make it more dramatic.

It has been going on for around 7-8 days. I have been closely monitoring it and watching how quickly the Indian Army responds, since it is gaining traction.

The response came 3 days later from an official Indian Army fact-checking handle.

Guess the number of views - approx 19,000 by the time I am writing this post.

The Chinese will cook us so well in IW that the Indian Armed Forces will spend half a decade just fact-checking them!

Good luck, gentlemen.

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Battle flag of the Sikh Empire during the reign of Maharaja Ranjit Singh.

Goddess Chandi is in the centre, flanked by Hanuman to her right and Bhairava to her left.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Amidst all the noise, nobody in India knows where Rahul Gandhi is

He quietly slipped on an undisclosed trip, first went to UK, then Iceland and finally Germany

He has been out of India for 15 days now, absolutely no news coverage

As a Leader of Opposition isn't it his responsibility to disclose his trips? He is no more a private citizen

[Gabbar @GabbbarSingh]

Started watching Satluj. In the first 15 mins, there is a scene where Diljit goes to a police station to file a missing report. The police guy looks at the pic and says “It’s the mother of that Aatankwadi (terrorist)”

Diljit replies: “Maa to Maa hoti hai, Bhale hi Khaarku ki ho”

Kharku is a term which means a fearless fighter, something which the Khalistanis forced local media to call them. If someone resisted they were threatened or eliminated. A protagonist using a term, which is compliant with terrorists shows where the sympathies of this film lies. Laughable how people are batting for it.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Today, the multi-billion dollar fintech startups of India brag about "Buy Now, Pay Later" as if they invented fire. But 7 decades ago, a penniless orphan who spent his nights sleeping on empty gunny bags used a revolutionary currency to build India's retail empire: raw trust.

In the 1940s, a 12 yr old boy named Veraputhra Gnanadraviam Rajadas Panneerdas (often known as V.G. Panneerdas) fled his drought-stricken village in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, with nothing but ₹25 in his pocket. He arrived in Madras starving, homeless & desperate. He took the 1st job he could find, cleaning dishes & sweeping floors at a local ration shop in Saidapet. He worked like a machine by day & slept on jute bags on the floor by night.

By 1954, through sheer grit & skipping meals, he saved enough to set up a tiny tea stall, alongside vending newspapers door to door with his brother. A yr later, he opened a tiny, cramped shop selling alarm clocks, wall clocks & wristwatches.

But Paneerdas quickly hit a massive wall.

In 1950s India, luxury items like a simple watch/a bicycle/a radio were strictly for the elite. The working class Indian: the handcart pullers, the tea sellers, the low-wage clerks could only stare at the shop windows with longing. They could never afford to buy them upfront.

Paneerdas did not see customers w/o money; he saw humans with dignity. He made a move that his competitors called commercial suicide.

He walked out to a roadside cart puller, handed him a shiny new wristwatch & said: "Take it home today. Pay me just 1 rupee every week."

The concept was "Hire Purchase"... the grandfather of the modern Equated Monthly Installment (EMI). There were no credit scores, no digital bank verification & no collaterals. There was only a signature/a thumbprint in a small ledger notebook. People told Paneerdas he would be robbed blind & end up back on the streets.

Instead, a miracle happened. The poor of Madras proved to be the most honest paymasters in history. Defying all traditional banking logic, the default rate was virtually zero. The working class valued their honor & their newly acquired lifestyle too much to break Paneerdas’s trust.

Word spread like wildfire. The lines outside his shop grew so long they blocked the streets. Paneerdas rapidly expanded from clocks to bicycles, then to sewing machines & eventually to heavy home appliances, building a massive 3 story mega showroom under the legendary banner: VGP.

He single-handedly democratized the Indian dream. Decades before banks began giving loans to the middle class, VGP made it possible for an ordinary clerk to bring home a refrigerator/an electric fan. Later, he took the exact same philosophy into real estate, buying up vast tracts of land & offering affordable housing plots to the common man under his signature tagline: "Take possession now, pay later."

He started his life with absolutely nothing to his name, but before he left the world, V. G. Paneerdas had given millions of ordinary, struggling Indians the wealth of dignity & the power to own their own future, 1 rupee at a time.

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

1990. Road widening work uncovers petroglyphs at Nivli Fata, Ratnagiri.

Officials from the Directorate of Archaeology AND Archaeological Survey of India are immediately notified.

This becomes the first reported petroglyph site in Konkan.

Scholars rush in. Books are published. Comparisons drawn to Harappan civilization. An entire academic field of Konkan petroglyph studies is born from this one discovery.

The site itself?

Still half-buried under road construction. 36 years later.

Not neglected by accident.
Not lost to time.
Not awaiting discovery.

Reported to two official bodies in 1990.
Documented in RTI responses.
Still under asphalt.

We widened the road. ✅
We triggered an academic renaissance. ✅
We preserved the site that started it all. ❌

The first petroglyph that launched a thousand studies remains buried under the road we chose to finish.

Who decided tarmac matters more than the stone that rewrote Konkan's prehistory? 🛣️🪨

[Dev @refocus21]

Meet Prabal Pratap :

> Just a common man
> Wanted to file an FIR against an ACP
> Knocked on every door for justice
> First, the Special CJM rejected his complaint
> Then the Allahabad High Court dismissed it
> The Supreme Court also dismissed it
> After losing hope in every court
> Bro was completely frustrated with the system
> Risked his own career
> Did what millions only think about it
> And expressed his anger inside the Supreme Court
> Showed the judiciary its place
> Replaced Your Honour with "Mr judicial servant
> And ordering judges to file an fir against ACP vikas nagar
> Then threw the documents inside the Supreme Court
> And said ye de dena macharord CJI ko

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Cancer patient was about to die. She pleaded. Her plea has been listed 57 times. The court has still not heard it. Teesta Setalvad was about to be jailed. She pleaded. Her plea was listed out of turn. The court heard it at midnight.

Cancer patient is dead. Teesta is alive.

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Apparently the incest, throwing children off the walls of Troy, Trojan women taken as war trophies doesn’t disturb her. Neither does late Iron Age armour in a Bronze Age setting. Only Indians defending their country disturbs this quack.

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

7,000 years before Egypt attempted it, Bharat reconciled 13 lunar months with the solar year. The evidence is carved into Ratnagiri Petroglyph — 13 grooves, horizon line, astronomical precision.

It sits exposed. Endangered. Documented but unprotected.

If this stone survives monsoon and vandalism, it's the earliest solar-lunar calendar reconciliation on record. Globally.

We fund ₹4,000 crore annual ASI budgets. We cannot afford a roof.

The oldest astronomical knowledge crumbles under open sky while we debate which colonial monument needs another coat of paint. 🪨☀️🌙

Who decided 7,000 years wasn't old enough to matter?

[Aravind @aravind]

US embassy for a visit to America:

Prove you are an Indian citizen, prove you work, pay taxes, have money, have relatives or business in the US, give reference letter, attach all IDs, and fill this form with 100 questions, get appointment next year, stand in line since 4 AM...

People: Yes Sir. I am your sepoy, sir. I will do all you ask, sir. Please give me visa, sir.

ECI:

Let's verify you as an eligible voter to safe guard Indian democracy. Here's a pre-filled form. We will send someone to your home to help you do it. Or you can do it anytime before next elections, including online.

People: ECI & SC have made life so difficult. This is unacceptable! They should answer me, now!

[Incognito @Incognito_qfs]

Doctors, teachers, and judges used to be highly respected professions in our country just two decades ago.

However, over the last two decades, public perception of these professions has changed significantly.

Today, doctors and teachers are often seen as individuals who work only for money, lacking morals and ethics, while judges are frequently viewed as the epitome of corruption. Of course, exceptions do exist.

[Pakistan Untold @pakistan_untold]

"Until we slaughter 50000 Hindus, we won't stop"

@diljitdosanjh will never show what triggered 1984. It was massacre of Hindus & Sikhs (who were labeled friends of Hindus) by Khalistani separatists. Long before Kashmir, Hindus were asked to leave Punjab.

[Harpreet Sandhu @harpeetsubh]

As per #Satluj these were the victims in punjab 95.

[Harpreet Sandhu @harpeetsubh]

As per #Satluj That is guitar 🎸

but haters will say AK 47. 😭😭😭