Getting set to represent India. I will be speaking on what I believe should be the future of education using films. Films are vehicles of communications and it can be a wonderful tool for learning. Sharing my views at the International Forum “Film Pedagogy. Eurasia” in Sochi, Russia, as part of the 3rd International Film Festival ‘Eurasia Kinofest. @syedsultan
India was supposed to run out of Fuel and Gas in 25 days.
Yet after 100 days of war, everything is normal in the country.
When the Iran war erupted, experts predicted India would run out of fuel in weeks.
The logic seemed simple.
India imports over 85% of its crude oil.
The Strait of Hormuz carries nearly 20% of global oil trade.
Block Hormuz and India suffers.
Yet months later, there are no fuel queues, no rationing, no shortages.
Why?
Because India was never sitting on just "25 days of reserves."
Officially, India had around 60 days of actual stock cover and 74 days of total reserve capacity. More importantly, India had already secured alternative supplies before panic reached television studios.
The real story is bigger than oil.
It is about how Modi transformed India from an energy buyer into an energy power.
When the crisis came, India did not ask who would save it.
India had already prepared to save itself.
That is the difference between governance and headlines.
"European sells weapons which are used to attack India, for many many years. We Indians have never done anything to endanger Europe", EAM Jaishankar says when asked about India's stance on Russia Ukraine conflict
India must issue notice to all Indian sailors to strike and return back to India. Let the world's shipping stall. Let's see how Trump keeps energy moving and China its exports shipping.
I have long been suggesting India create a network for Indian diaspora, of nurses and doctors, shippers and pilots, workers and constructors etc.
Every Indian going out to work from India - record their skills, put them into a database, give them a community to connect to, with GoI giving info and incentives for them there.
Use the power of this network when needed. Tap their skills if they return to India. And utilize their value outside India.
All countries will be much more respectful to India if India can unify its diaspora workers and make them act in national interests like China does.
As @narendramodi completes twelve years in office and becomes India's longest continuously serving democratically elected Prime minister, I reflect on twelve of his most significant accomplishments and the profound impact they have had in transforming India and its people.
On the day Modi began cracking down on the Delhi Gymkhana Club, I told my friend that he had picked a fight with the most powerful ecosystem in India.
Places like the Delhi Gymkhana Club are ideal venues for foreign intelligence agencies to penetrate India’s elite power circles.
Remember, yesterday Rahul Gandhi claimed that many people from the bureaucracy are secretly sharing intelligence with him and are ready to revolt against Modi. Rahul Gandhi himself is a member of the Delhi Gymkhana Club
This man is the strongest wall between us and our enemies. This time, he needs our support, it’s time for the common public to stand firmly with him
Got a Rs 5 crore defamation notice yesterday from the former AAP MLA Somnath Bharati of Delhi constituency Malviya Nagar for the below discussion. My legal will reply appropriately.
https://t.co/i3TVxCpMFh
The word Sanatana is often poorly translated as "ancient." Its true Sanskrit definition is Nitya (नित्य - Timeless/Eternal) & Apaurusheya (अपौरुषेय - Not authored by any man).
Sanatana Dharma is not a religion founded in a specific century by a specific human prophet. It is simply the underlying operating system of reality. If a cataclysmic event happens tonight & wipes out every library, every computer & every memory on Earth:
Every man-made ideology, political party & dogmatic religion will vanish forever, because there is no living prophet to re-author them. However, within a few centuries, scientists & meditators will independently rediscover gravity, the laws of thermodynamics, the properties of sound frequencies & the architecture of the human mind.
That which will inevitably be rediscovered because it is woven into the fabric of nature is Sanatana. It is the default setting of the cosmos. Haters often attack religions because they find rules hypocritical/contradictory. Sanatana eliminates this entirely through the concept of Adhikara (अधिकार - Individual Qualification/Aptitude).
Sanatana does not force a uniform, mass-produced blueprint onto 8 billion unique human minds. It recognizes that humanity is an ecosystem of varying intellectual, emotional & psychological frequencies.
If we are highly intellectual & demand logic, Sanatana offers us Jnana Yoga (The path of pure philosophy & inquiry). If we are deeply emotional & experiential, it offers us Bhakti Yoga (The path of devotion). If we are a pragmatist who believes only in action & work, it gives us Karma Yoga.
It does not even mandate a belief in God. The Nasadiya Sukta in the Rigveda explicitly wonders if the Creator even knows how the universe began, openly embracing cosmic agnosticism. We cannot hate Sanatana because the moment we reject 1 aspect of it, it smiles & says, "That is fine, here is an alternative path designed exactly for your current psychological state." It is not a cage; it is a mirror.
The absolute core reason why critics melt when they understand Sanatana is that it structurally lacks the concept of The Infidel/The Heathen. In binary, man-made theological systems, the world is divided into Us vs. Them, Believers vs. Disbelievers, Saved vs. Damned. The ultimate goal is conversion/domination.
Sanatana operates on the non-dual baseline of Aham Brahmasmi (अहं ब्रह्मास्मि - I am the Cosmos) & Tat Tvam Asi (तत् त्वम् असि - You are also That).
When a critic stands up to attack a self-aware follower of Dharma, the Dharmic mindset does not view that critic as an evil sinner destined for hellfire. It views the critic as an expressions of the same unified, cosmic consciousness (Brahman), currently acting under the temporary evolutionary fog of Avidya (ignorance).
We can hate a book, we can hate a temple, we can hate a historical figure & we can hate a political decree. But we cannot hate a civilization that looks us in the eye & says:
"Your skepticism is valid. Your doubt is an expression of your intelligence. Search for the truth on your own terms, because whatever path you take to reach the ultimate reality, you are still moving within Me."
What's this guy talking about?
The wells we see in backyard of Indian homes, the brick houses, the bullock carts, the rangoli, the co-existence with wild animals, the bangles, the pottery, the toys, the ditches on the side of roads, the use of millet, the textiles - so much hasn't changed in India since Harappan times.
Perhaps no other civilization has such an unchanged continuous history for some 7000+ years preserving itself and its dangerous wild animals as well. If a Harappan time travels to present day India, he will instantly feel at home. Albeit scoff at the bad sanitation and cleanliness of our modern towns, I am sure.
@ThusSpokeDharma China has some things worse than India. Corruption is rampant. The number of student suicides the highest. Yet only the cool stuff they do here and there in limited ways will be made the news. And all the bad things hidden. Indians parrot their psyops. https://t.co/wqEGwgtnjp
@gautam_adani Great to see this. Please invest in and enable some startups that can fight the infowar for your company as well as for India. This is a critical capability India is lagging in. https://t.co/yg7tk2g6G2
Here's What you need to know about Audrey Truschke:
1. Her father-in-law & Husband had a business of missionary conversion in India.
2. Her FIL formed an NGO bless India with the motto "Win India for Christ"
3. Indian Govt has destroyed their family business of conversion.