In 1905, scholar Rudrapatnam Shamastry was tasked with cataloging a pile of palm-leaf manuscripts donated to the Mysore Oriental Library by an unknown Brahmin. During this ordinary task, he came across a complete copy of the Arthashastra. Long believed to have been lost for centuries and known only through scattered references in other texts.
In the 1990s, Canadian ecologist Suzanne Simard made a groundbreaking discovery that challenged everything we thought we knew about how forests work. While studying managed forests in British Columbia, she noticed something puzzling: when birch trees were removed to promote the growth of valuable Douglas firs, the firs did not flourish as expected, they actually struggled and grew more slowly.
Determined to understand why, Simard traced the movement of nutrients using radioactive carbon isotopes. What she found was astonishing. Trees were actively sharing resources through vast underground fungal networks known as mycorrhizae. These delicate, thread-like fungi connect the roots of different trees across the forest floor, forming a complex web that allows the exchange of carbon, water, nutrients, and even chemical signals, sometimes between entirely different species.
She discovered that older, larger trees often serve as central "hubs" or "mother trees," supporting younger saplings by redistributing vital resources and helping the entire ecosystem remain resilient. When these key trees are removed, the underground network weakens, and the health of the remaining forest declines.
Simard’s research overturned the traditional Darwinian view of forests as battlegrounds of ruthless competition. Instead, she revealed a far more sophisticated reality: forests operate as highly cooperative systems where trees communicate, support one another, and even warn neighboring trees about threats like drought, disease, or insect attacks.
What appears to the human eye as a silent, still forest is, in truth, a vibrant, interconnected living network, built not on isolation and rivalry, but on deep connection and mutual aid.
>Korean vlogger
>dressed as a pregnant woman
>viral clip claimed to show harassment in INDIA
>full video filmed in Bangladesh & Pakistan
>harassers were Bangladeshi & Pakistani men
>Indian leftists and radfems promoting the false claims as always 🤡
These five Gentlemen have ruthlessly dismantled centuries of deception, distortion, and venom unleashed against Hindus by the entrenched Leftist and Islamist propaganda machinery.
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🛑 Heartbreaking Incident in Barguna, Bangladesh
Hindu woman Iti Rani Biswas and her two young daughters were found dead at the Dakbanglow where she worked.
Cause of death still unknown. Police have launched an investigation. One after another, Hindu employees are being found dead across Bangladesh. When will this end? 😔🙏
In 2016, a boy named Vivek, studying in Class 3, went missing while going to school
His family searched for him everywhere, went to police again and again, but there was no trace of him
Years passed. The family lost all hope
Then, one day in October 2023, the family received a phone call from a police station 500 kilometres away saying they had found the child enrolled in a madrassa
Vivek was now Mohammed Umar
He finally reunited with his family, was renamed Vivek and has since been leading a Hindu way of life
A case of kidnapping and forced conversion against madrassa managers is going on at Muzaffarnagar district court
@swati_gs, founder of @rashtrajyoti, met Vivek, found all that unfolded in his life and counselled him
@sewanyaya is financially supporting his desire to resume school, which he quit long ago
Read: https://t.co/GKxMM3qzHz
Another Bangladeshi Hindu woman was raped and then killed along with her two young daughters. The woman worked as a cleaner in a government office in Barguna.
Anybody listening?
Even the ex-founder of Wikipedia is calling out Wikipedia for allowing malicious propagandaists linked to Audrey Truschke to smear the reputation of Hindu American Foundation. Imagine how cleverly the hatemongers have manipulated online media to ensure that biases against Hindus become deeply embedded.
30,000 hours of footage, equivalent to 3 years and 7 months, were filmed to capture the blooming of 77 types of flowers, and the result is spectacular.
He Won India's First Gold. The Country Lost His Records.
In 1965, Murlikant Petkar was the Indian Army's national boxing champion. He asked his commanding officer for a reward: a holiday to Kashmir, a place he'd never seen.
He was sleeping in his bunker when Pakistani aircraft struck. Seven bullets hit him. An army vehicle ran over his legs in the chaos. Six bullets were surgically removed. The seventh remained in his spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair at INHS Aswini naval hospital in Bombay.
His physiotherapist put him in the water as part of rehabilitation. Petkar kept going. He competed at the 1968 Paralympics in Tel Aviv in table tennis. He changed disciplines to swimming, training every day. At the 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg, Germany, he climbed out of lane three having set a world record in the heats, and then won the final. Time: 37.33 seconds in the 50-metre freestyle. No Indian had ever won an individual gold at the Olympics or the Paralympics. Now one had.
When Petkar flew home, not a single government official was at the airport. No reception. No acknowledgment. When India's Paralympic Committee was formally established, it began keeping records from 1984 onward. Petkar's gold, the one that came before any of them, simply was not entered. "We don't have any record of his medal," a committee official told the Hindustan Times in 2012. Four decades after Heidelberg, he was living on a Rs 4,000 monthly pension from the Maharashtra state government.
He swam the fastest 50 metres in the world with a bullet still lodged in his spine. His country's official records described him as if he had never entered the water.
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With 1.2+ crore manuscripts and 3+ lakh epigraphic evidence within Bharata, we have a long way to go.
वीजयताम्।
@RanvirShorey Dharmendra Pradhan daughter is in the USA. He doesn't understand what it takes to prepare for an All India competitive examination.
However, Modi who gives yearly PARIKSHA PE CHARCHA is completely mum on this burning issue is really shocking.
No praise is good enough for this hero duo Riyazuddin and son who emptied their shop of mattresses to spread them on ground - to cushion the fall of people jumping off from the burning hotel in Malvia Nagar. What an act of humanity and quick thinking. In that chaos to think straight and save lives - this hero deserves full compensation by MCD and commendation by the govt and also a public felicitation at a prominent place in Delhi @LtGovDelhi@gupta_rekha
The race that wiped out millions out of hatred because Churchill believed Indians bred like rabbits and didn’t need grain in famine. 3 million died. The race that thought it had the burden to destroy indigenous cultures across the globe in the garb of ‘civilising’ them.
But yes! Least racist! Race or religious superiority was never the motivation. Just pure business, I believe.
It took the deaths of 375 miners in Chasnala in 1975 for us to realize that we needed safety in mines
It took the death of countless innocents in Bhopal for us to tighten industrial safety standards
It took the death of 25 people in Rajasthan to crack down on illegal modifications made by bus operators
It took the death of 25 people in Indore for authorities to realize that their water supply had major issues.
It took the death of two innocent people by a drunk minor driving a car in Pune for authorities to understand that bars were open beyond scheduled hours and drinks were being served to minors
It took the deaths of 14 people in Mumbai in 2017, for authorities to wake up and realize that pubs were flouting norms, building unauthorized structures and ignoring fire safety norms.
It took the deaths of 135 people in Morbi for authorities to realize that the bridge they constructed was atrocious in quality and all the norms were flouted
And it has now taken 21 horrible deaths in Delhi for authorities to realize that tons of hotels were operating by rampantly flouting norms, violating permissions, ignoring safety certificates and gave a damn about fire and other hazards
Why does it always take innocent deaths for authorities to wake up and start taking action in India?
Why do we have to die for authorities to start doing what they are paid to do?
For years, major institutions have framed India and Hindus through the lens of nationalism, extremism, and suspicion. But what we've uncovered on @Wikipedia raises a deeper question: who gets to write the public record?
Our investigation found that a small cluster of anonymous editors controlled more than 80% of the @HinduAmerican page. Among the findings:
Blatant Conflict of Interest: The editors aggressively shaping HAF’s page were the exact same people controlling the Wikipedia profiles of HAF's legal adversaries and academic critics.
Inserting False FARA Allegations: Editors laundered complaints from HAF's opponents into "facts," using demands for a DOJ investigation to falsely brand HAF as a foreign agent
Administrative Silencing: An admin with supreme platform permissions deleted quotes from HAF's leadership, stripping the organization of its right to reply to allegations.
Over four years (2021-2025), editors systematically erased HAF’s identity as an American civil rights group, transforming its Wikipedia page into a heavily curated dossier of accusations. Our report from @npovmedia documents how it happened. 👇
For years, Kala-Azar was a death sentence for some of India’s poorest families.
And treatment itself felt like punishment.
15 injections. Every alternate day.
A drug that sometimes caused dangerous heart complications.
For many families, surviving the disease wasn’t the only battle, a month away from work often meant losing the income that kept food on the table.
Prof. Shyam Sundar from Banaras Hindu University looked at this reality and asked:
What if one dose is enough?
In 2010, his landmark study in the New England Journal of Medicine showed that a single-dose liposomal amphotericin B treatment could cure Kala-Azar with a 95.6% success rate.
One breakthrough changed everything.
He also helped introduce rapid diagnostic strip tests that cut detection time from weeks to minutes.
WHO updated treatment protocols.
The medicine that cost nearly ₹19,000 per vial started reaching India free through donation programmes.
Today, India has moved from battling Kala-Azar outbreaks to pushing toward elimination.
And behind that story is a professor who spent decades making sure poverty didn’t decide who lives and who dies.
#PadmaShri #HealthcareHeroes #MedicalInnovation #PublicHealth #IndiaNews
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