Deepak Dadhwal

A simple Gorkha-trained mind trying to understand the world through a security lens. Questioning narratives, spotting patterns, and analyzing threats in geopol

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In case "kya banau breakfast mein?" is a problem in any house, use this- https://t.co/QAhK37d12o

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@mananbhattnavy Alarmist post. Possible the army officers came once the meeting had already started and they joined.

[ShivamX @aishivamx]

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And boom… you have a live app.

2026 mein coding sirf ek formality reh gayi hai.

If you’ve been waiting to build your idea “when you learn coding” — your excuse just expired.

Who’s building their first app this month? 👇

Follow @aishivamx for more AI tools & productivity hacks.

[Deepinder Goyal @deepigoyal]

The Temple team has made a breakthrough.

We have discovered (literally discovered) a biomarker, only readable on the temple region, and nowhere else, that measures the real-time cost of you being alive.

We are calling it Entropy™.

It's a live number on Temple's home screen, updating every second, on an index from 1 to 250.

1 is the deepest rest we've ever recorded. We've only seen fit, experienced meditators touch it, for fleeting moments deep in practice. 250 is the highest we've seen in elite athletes at the peak of their output and flow.

Everything moves Entropy. Sleep, stress, a sprint, coffee, a meal, a cold plunge, meditation, strength training... everything moves your metabolism, your cost of being alive. And Entropy tracks it, live.

Heart Rate doesn’t come even close to this level of precision in calculating the cost of being alive. We benchmarked Entropy and Heart Rate against a standard metabolic cart (calorimeter). Over a hundred cardio sessions, Entropy tracked the calorimeter's curve at r=0.93 and p <0.001. Heart Rate managed a meagre r=0.55.

Here's why Entropy should matter to you –

Your Entropy Maxima is the highest your body can reach when you push it hard. A high peak is the signature of a capable body, one that can rise to meet effort and recover from it. As we age, that ceiling naturally falls, so this is the number to push upwards.

Your Entropy Minima is the lowest your body settles to at rest. Across the animal world, a lower cost of being alive at rest tends to go with a longer life. Your Entropy Minima is the number to bring down, every single day.

Living with Entropy is magical. 
It teaches you so much about yourself, that no other metric ever has. We are looking forward to you trying out Temple. But not before it’s perfect.

Apply for early access at https://t.co/XxGR9Hpq58

Follow @temple for updates.

[Deepak Dadhwal @DD2sec]

@Dipanshu_AI Very nice. Wish the text was readable.

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@ColSanjayPande Fascinating. A single appointment and you've already mapped the collapse of the military hierarchy, civil service takeover, and career ambitions of every Lt Gen in India.
Reminds me of the 'Coupta' paranoia.
Take a break Sir, the hills are calling.

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@allthingzabsurd The entitled rant....

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@allthingzabsurd The entitled rant....

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@ibleedgreen284 @KlasraRauf Nahi bhaijan, India mein aisa nahi hai
Engineers: Engineers Account for 64% of Successful Candidates in Civil Services Exam | Delhi News - The Times of India https://t.co/o3MI0ijYnz

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View of Dhauladhars from my hotel room. Total Bliss!

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@manaman_chhina Where institutions are slow, opaque and discretionary, brokers sell access, speed and certainty.
The SUV and AK-47 gunman are just the props. The power is a system where relationships matter more than rules.
Who is willing to fix this?

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@_rsk910 Khair Mubarak! May this occasion bring peace, happiness, good health and endless blessings to you and your family.

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@Vinayglb21 @TimesNow @abhish18 @navikakumar Abhishek Singh just took over NTA in April. If there is anyone who can set things right, it is him. Just look at his track record! Give him time folks!

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@Vinayglb21 @TimesNow @abhish18 @navikakumar Abhishek Singh just took over NTA in April. If there is anyone who can set things right, it is him. Just look at his track record! Give him time folks!

[₿en Wehrman @benwehrman]

Anyone who's flown to Europe or Asia from USA (or vice versa) knows that when you watch the in-flight tracker screen, it shows you're making a giant rainbow-arc shape over Greenland/Alaska.

You've probably wondered: "That's weird, why don't they just fly in a straight line? Wouldn't that be the easiest, most fuel-efficient way to get from point A to point B?"

Don't worry - you are not crazy!

Here's what's actually going on with these nonsensical flight paths, explained by Terry Eicher 👇

[Pervaiz Alam @pervaizalam]

Pakistan’s favourite side hustle: diplomatic matchmaker
Former Indian High Commissioner to Islamabad TCA Raghavan notes that Pakistan’s elite has long seen itself as a geopolitical elite, convinced that national interest and national security are one and the same. Yet that outlook hasn’t solved Pakistan’s deeper troubles. He recalls the classic 1971 Cold War caper: while the US and China were still bitter foes, President Yahya Khan helped Henry Kissinger “fall ill” in Islamabad, whisk him onto a PIA flight to Beijing. That single flight paved the way for Nixon’s historic visit.

Raghavan was speaking on Cineink podcast ‘London Vārta: New World Order’. Full link below.
#1971USChinaDiplomacy #PakistanMediation #PakistanElite

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

A donkey skin sells in Kenya for $130. Boiled into a Chinese beauty product called ejiao, it becomes part of an $8 billion industry. Almost 6 million donkeys are killed every year to feed it. The finished products are sold on Amazon.

Ejiao is a kind of gelatin made by simmering donkey skin for hours. It's mixed into face creams, anti-aging pills, candies, and tonics. Even China's own health regulator has admitted ejiao is just boiled donkey skin. No clinical trials show that it works. But a hit Chinese TV drama called Empress in the Palace put it back in fashion around 2012. The country's growing middle class started taking it for anemia, fatigue, miscarriage, even premature aging.

Donkeys can't reproduce that fast. A female donkey is pregnant for 12 full months and has just one foal at a time. She doesn't start breeding until age two or three. So when Chinese demand exploded, China's own donkey population collapsed from 11 million in 1992 to under 2 million by 2020.

The hunt then went global. Africa has roughly 33 million donkeys, two-thirds of the world's supply. Botswana's donkey population has halved since 2016. In Kenya, government-approved slaughterhouses killed about half the country's donkeys in three years. According to The Donkey Sanctuary, 41% of African donkey owners surveyed had at least one animal stolen.

Donkeys are walked for weeks across borders, denied food and water, until they collapse. They're hit on the head with sledgehammers. Their throats are slit. Some are still breathing when they're skinned. A 2017 PETA investigation in China found foals as young as 5 months old killed this way. Up to one in five donkeys dies before reaching the slaughterhouse.

In February 2024, all 55 African Union countries voted to ban the trade for 15 years across the continent. China is Africa's biggest trading partner. The continent banned this trade anyway. The Donkey Sanctuary still projects demand will hit 6.8 million skins a year by 2027. Within weeks of the ban, donkey theft spiked across Africa. The trade went underground. Chinese companies are now in talks to set up donkey farms in Pakistan instead.

A donkey in rural Africa is often a family's only way to fetch water, carry goods to market, and send kids to school. When it gets stolen overnight, the women and children become the donkey. They walk further with heavier loads. The girls drop out of school first.

The donkey in this photo is leaning against a wall because it's exhausted. The industry on its back is worth $8 billion.

[Deepak Dadhwal @DD2sec]

@manaman_chhina No, its not 'just like us' . Besides the obvious W for 'whiskey' or 'water' difference, it doesn't look like the 21C is sitting at the head unlike the British or the present Indian Army, where the PMC sits at the head. There isn't a Mr Vice visible.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

A friend just sent me this delightful Extract from the book "Fools and Infantrymen" by Lt Gen Eric Alexander Vas, Col of the 9th Gorkha Rifles, and former Eastern Army Commander. There could be no more amusing statement of the best of India's religious pluralism -- and the diehard secularity of the Army.

Over to General Vas:

"When an army commander first visits the various states under his operational jurisdiction, it is customary to pay courtesy calls on the state's governor and chief minister. During my first visit to one of the north-eastern states, the Chief Minister held a public function and in his welcoming address said that the people should now feel safe as "the new army commander is a Christian".

"In my reply, after expressing thanks for the welcome, I reminded the public that my predecessor was a Jew; what he had done for the state would be difficult for me to match. I told them that military commanders operate according to military tasks laid down by the government, and we are not influenced by individual considerations of language, religion, or caste.. In conclusion, I said, "I was born a human being, by tradition I'm a Hindu, by training I'm a Catholic, by temperament I'm a Muslim, morally I'm attracted to Buddhism,and every time I have to shave I wish I was a Sikh."

Jai Hind!!

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