Govind Agarwal

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

At the BRICS foreign ministers' conclave last month, EAM Jaishankar called out sanctions imposed outside international law as measures that "disproportionately affect developing countries." Strong words. Rightly said.

But words need backing.

India claims the mantle of the Global South. Yet when extraterritorial sanctions from Western jurisdictions disrupted a fully law-compliant Indian refinery, severing access to its own paid-for digital infrastructure, our response was a court petition. Not a law.

The EU built a blocking statute to protect its operators. China built one for policy autonomy. Canada built one for sovereignty. Each of them forced the US to think twice before letting sanctions bleed into their jurisdictions.

India is BRICS Chair in 2026. It is hosting conversations about a fairer global order. It cannot keep speaking sovereignty while leaving its own companies legally defenceless.

Enact the blocking statute. Let the law do what diplomacy alone cannot.

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[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

Must watch!

@lsanger says Wikipedia was weaponized by just 4 editors to vandalize HAF's wiki page [including the very same editors who created & defend Audrey Truschke's & Hindus for Human Rights' wiki page].

India has a billion people--can't the country find 4 editors to fight inaccuracies, Sanger asks?

Sanger also lays out how Wikipedia is useful for factual information, but when it comes to disputed issues, a left-wing & partisan bias predominates.

[Ministry of Defence, Government of India @SpokespersonMoD]

DRDO successfully demonstrated a multi-layered Ballistic Missile Defence system and conducted the maiden flight-test of the Naval Anti-Ship Missile–Medium Range, marking a major boost to India’s defence capabilities.

The achievement places India among a select group of nations with advanced BMD capabilities. Raksha Mantri Shri @rajnathsingh congratulated @DRDO_India on this significant milestone.

Read here: https://t.co/555b3s40Np

[Aravind @aravind]

"Dancing is very bad behavior only when it is Indians doing it in foreign places. If foreigners join in, it becomes an art and celebration of life." - Self hating, Low self-esteem, colonized sepoy minds of India.

[India First Post @ifpost47]

Indian worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Craiova, Romania, after he jumped into an icy lake and saved the life of a 5-year-old girl. 🇮🇳🇷🇴

For nearly 30 minutes, he held the child above freezing water until rescuers arrived.

This is the side of Indians the world rarely sees in headlines: courage, sacrifice, compassion and humanity.

Yet stories like this seldom receive the attention that anti-India narratives do. No coverage from Western media outlets.

As India's envoy noted, Vipin's actions embodied the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam "The World is One Family." ❤️

[Parimal @Fintech03]

This is perhaps the most heavily paraded "gotcha" fact by armchair food historians. They absolutely love to smirk & tell us, "You know Jalebi is not Indian, right? It is a Persian dish called Zolbiya/Zalabiya brought by invaders in the medieval era!"

They mistake a linguistic corruption for the birth of a culinary concept. They confuse the trade name that eventually stuck with the actual evolutionary genealogy of the recipe. The entire liberal historian argument rests on 1 fragile pillar: the 10th century Arabic cookbook Kitab al-Tabikh, which mentions Zalabiya. They smugly point out that detailed Indian texts appear only in the 15th century & declare victory.

But here is the fatal flaw in their timeline trap: They mistake the date of the 1st surviving written recipe for the date of invention & popular practice. Ancient Indian texts were primarily medical & philosophical, they classified broad food principles, not every street vendor’s technique. The absence of a detailed halwai-style recipe earlier does not mean the dish did not exist. It means our ancestors did not write down casual street sweets the way later cookbooks did.

Technically, India had already mastered the 2 pillars that define real Jalebi centuries earlier: large-scale sugarcane crystallization into refined sarkara & syrup (perfected during the Gupta era) & the uniquely subcontinental art of lactic acid fermentation (khameer). These gave us the signature tangy, porous batter that aggressively absorbs syrup, something far superior to the honey-based versions in West Asia.

Our dish was referred to as Jalavallikā (from Jala meaning water/juice & Vallikā meaning a creeping vine/coil). It literally translates to "the juice-filled coil." Another classical name was Kundalikā (derived from Kundala, meaning a circular coil/ring, the exact same root used for Kundalini energy).

If Jalebi was some foreign royal import tied to Islamic court culture, why does it make its 1st formal appearance in Indian literature inside a strict, vegetarian Jain religious text? The Priyamkara-nrpa-katha, composed by the Jain author Jinasura in 1450 CE, describes an elaborate feast hosted by a wealthy indigenous merchant. Jalebi appears right alongside deeply traditional Indian sweets, already fully integrated into local high cuisine.

Shortly after, the 16th century Sanskrit text Bhojana Kutuhala by Raghunatha & the Gunyagunabodhini (pre-1600 CE) give the exact, unambiguous recipe for making Kundalikā: fermented fine flour batter, fried in pure desi ghee & immersed in flavored sugar syrup, 100% identical to what our local halwai does today.

Ancient Indian culinary science was obsessed with the sour-sweet axis (Amla-Madhura). The genius of Jalebi lies in leaving the batter to ferment naturally overnight. This lactic acid fermentation creates that perfect tangy, porous crust. When deep-fried in hot ghee & plunged into hot sugar syrup, a spectacular thermodynamic reaction occurs, the sour crust aggressively drinks up the sweet syrup. This mastery of fermented frying (khameer-pakwa) is uniquely subcontinental.

India was never a culinary blank slate waiting for outsiders to teach it how to fry flour in circles. When West Asian traders arrived, they encountered a popular, thriving local street sweet called Jalavallikā/Kundalikā. They had a similar (but inferior) fried sweet back home called Zalabiya, so over centuries of marketplace haggling the 2 names merged.

The shorter foreign name stuck in common parlance, but the dish itself, its technique, its fermentation, its syrup mastery, its crisp-yet-juicy soul & its deep roots in vegetarian feasts was entirely home-grown. The invaders did not bring Jalebi to us. We perfected it & they simply borrowed the name.

[India First Post @ifpost47]

Funny how the rules change.

When Indians sing, dance, or celebrate abroad, it's suddenly called a lack of "civic sense." But when foreigners do the exact same thing, it's praised as culture, art, and the joy of life.

A Bengali song bringing together people at the Van Gogh Museum is a reminder that culture isn't a nuisance when Indians share it, it can create connection too.

The double standards say more about the critics than the performers. 🇮🇳

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

Chief Ministers have come and gone, but in all my years I have never witnessed this kind of pent-up rage as is now directed at Mamata Banerjee and her nephew.

What they ran was a grotesque hybrid of mafia and gulag.

And the greater shame? The complicity of the media, the educated class, and the so-called elite. They enabled it. They rationalised it. They helped crush dissent.

The vulnerable were extorted. Political opponents, especially those who supported the BJP were hounded, brutalised, and silenced through unspeakable acts. It is unforgivable.

What we are seeing today: eggs thrown, heads tonsured, white sarees draped in chilling symbolism is still a fraction of what Bengal endured.

And yet, the old Indian instinct will be to ‘move on.’

That instinct has cost us dearly before. History is witness: suppressed anger does not dissipate, it ferments.

There must be, there should be consequences.
By law, first and foremost.

But ‘moving on’ is certainly not an option.

[Stringg @StringReveals]

🚨Exposed - Congress Helped China Snatch a Major Strategic Project from an Indian company.

In September 2024, Jairam Ramesh claimed that protests against the Adani proposal in Kenya could turn into anti-India anger. What actually happened over the next two years has now made one thing crystal clear Congress didn’t just oppose a deal, they actively worked against Indian interests to benefit China.

Hence proved that Congress is Anti-India. (Thread 1/4)

[Arpita Shaiva @arpispeaks]

Kolkata Metro work was stalled for 15 years.

The only reason was that if the metro project had been completed, Narendra Modi would have inaugurated it, and Mamata Banerjee did not want that. Because the central government is building it.

Yes, Rail Vikas Nigam Limited, which was working on the Kolkata Metro's rail line, had to build a bypass over a bypass, but that required a 15-day traffic stoppage.

15 years ago, RVNL sent a letter to the local administration asking them to stop traffic for 15 days. The TMC government did not stop the traffic!

4 more letters were sent, but traffic was not stopped.

After that, RBNL had to approach the High Court. The HC immediately ordered the West Bengal government to halt traffic so that the Metro project could be completed.

But Mamata Banerjee's stubbornness led her to appeal the High Court's decision to the Supreme Court.

When the Supreme Court ruled that traffic must be halted for 15 days, Mamata Banerjee filed a review petition.

And most surprisingly, no media outlet even reported the dirty game being played in West Bengal just to prevent Modi from inaugurating the project.

Millions of people in her own state were wasting their time stuck in traffic jams, but Mamata Banerjee's pride was paramount.

Then came the elections, and this issue was widely discussed.

Then the Mamata government was gone, and a project that had been stalled for 15 years was completed in just 15 days.

That's why I say that India's opposition is the biggest enemy of the country's development.

[Arshia Malik @arshiaunis]

Like I keep saying, India keeps getting brought down by useful Hindu idiots and makes the task of dissenters and reformers so much more difficult.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Each and every person who spreads racism against Indians is a loser in real life

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

Over 5,000 years ago, the people of the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation developed extensive methods of cultivation and processing cotton. Archaeological evidence from Mehrgarh, Mohenjo-daro, Lothal, and Rakhigarhi including charred seeds, delicate woven threads, and production tools highlights a specialized, region-wide textile economy.

This ancient expertise continues unbroken in India’s rich handloom traditions from Khadi and regional weaves to the timeless beauty of cotton sarees and fabrics used across the country every day. The thread of innovation and craftsmanship from the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation remains woven into the very fabric of Bharat’s living heritage.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilisation #LivingIndianHeritage #CivilisationalContinuity

[The Story Teller @IamTheStory__]

The ISI Sponsored Indian Hate factory in media started with Suroosh Alvi who founded now defunct Vice Media.
VICE entered India in 2016 through a partnership with the Times Group.

Indian Journalists who worked with Vice:

Pragya Tiwari: She was the first Editor-in-Chief of VICE India who helped launch its initial digital operations.

Rituparna Som: She served as a subsequent Editor-in-Chief during a critical phase of the company's growth.

Dhvani Solani: She worked as the Editor-in-Chief and Associate Editor for five years, producing viral trend forecasts and essays.

Esha Paul: She acted as the Director of Content for VICE APAC, overseeing video, podcast, and social teams across Mumbai and other Asian hubs.

Samira Kanwar: She managed regional creative expansions as the Vice President for Content at Vice Asia-Pacific.Prominent Correspondents and Writers

Pallavi Pundir: A South Asia Correspondent for Vice News, she focused on human rights, tech, and gender politics.

Shamani Joshi: A Mumbai-based culture reporter and staff writer, she covered Gen Z lifestyles, drugs, music, and unconventional trends.

Arman Khan: A multimedia journalist for VICE who reported on underground Indian subcultures, quirky traditions, and relationships.

Tania Rashid: An award-winning documentary filmmaker and correspondent who produced major investigative videos, including pieces on India's water crisis for VICE on HBO..

[Dr. Lavanya Vemsani Ph.D. @ProfVemsani]

Sinauli chariot rewrites the history of India disproving the previous colonialist/Marxist dishonest theory of horses and chariots brought into India by mythical warriors called Aryans. Along with genetic history, the Sinauli chariot is crucial in establishing the indigenous development of Indian history prior to 2000BCE. #NoAryans

[Bharath Gopu 🇮🇳 @bgopu1973]

The Indus Water Treaty, signed in Karachi by Indian prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru and Pakistani president Ayub Khan on 19 September 1960, allowed only 19.71% of the total discharge of the Indus, Jhelum, Chenab, Ravi, Beas, and Satluj to India and gifted 80.29% to Pakistan. Not only this, for the 10-years transition period (1960-70), India had to give the water from Ravi, Beas and Satluj to canals in West Pakistan's eastern part until Pakistan developed a canal system to carry the waters of the western rivers Indus, Jhelum, and Chenab. And for building that canal system, India had to give FOREIGN EXCHANGE EQUIVALENT OF 125 METRIC TONS OF GOLD. In 1965, India was forced into a war against Pakistan but continued to give it waters from the eastern rivers Ravi, Beas, and Satluj, and, more shockingly, also forex equivalent of 12.5 metric tons of gold every year until 1970. Nothing in the world comes anywhere close to this great generosity and magnanimity by an upper riparian nation for to a lower riparian one.
.@prafullaketkar .@RatanSharda55 .@MumbaichaDon .@ARanganathan72 .@NBDwrites

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Meenakshi Natarajan: concealing cases against her (intentionally or not)

Parimal Nathwani: 1) given name / surname swapped 2) 1 part left incomplete 3) 1 part not furnished in “prescribed format”

Rajdeep understands the difference, he’s just pretending not to.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

“He has anchored Indias perception of itself in a worldview rooted in Indian heritage, not western secularism.”

What is wrong with this? Why should India divorce itself from its own heritage and define itself by yardsticks that have no civilisational basis in India?

There has been no conflict between temporal and ecclesiastical power in India, as in the West.

Interestingly, the Enlightenment in the West has “pagan” Greek roots.

Hindu civilisation is inherently secular.

The secularism debate in India is political, rooted in the partition of the country on the basis of religion and the political need to integrate the Indian Muslims in an independent India.

Western ideas of secularism have been artificially planted in India and have created political, social and religious dissensions in our country.

The burden of being “secular” in India should be shared equally by all religious communities. But is it the case?

European and US societies have deep Christian roots. Europe defines its roots as Judeo-Christian. It has powerful Christian lobbies that exert influence in their societies as well as colour the European world view.

The Evangelists in the US, the global power of the Catholic church, the religious activities of the Presbyterians- and all have been active in conversions in India- call into question “western secularism”.

Western societies have an understanding of Abrahamic religions but cannot intellectually and politically connect with Hinduism and hence the obsession with the caste system, cow worship and perceived social ills.

More can be said.

Erik Solheim may mean well but the phrase “Hindu nationalism” is a wrong term that distorts reality and carries a negative connotation.

India wants to be India, defined by its own civilisation and not western idioms.

[Saynotolibrandu @saynotolibrandu]

Elund is supposed to be one of the smartest people in America? What a joke.🤡

No amount of whitewashing or propaganda can hide the blood-soaked truth of what the British, French, and Portuguese did to their colonies. Those so-called infrastructures: roads, railways, ports, buildings, weren’t built to develop the countries. They were built to suck the wealth out faster and ship the loot back home more efficiently.🤑

When the British first arrived, India accounted for 24% of global GDP. By the time those parasites finally left, it had been bled dry to just 4%. Historians estimate $45 trillion was looted from India alone. Forty-five fucking trillion dollars!

So spare me the “British built railways and roads” cope, Elund. 🪱With $45 trillion stolen, of course they built some tracks and buildings, you clown. That wasn’t generosity, it was the minimum investment required to rob an entire subcontinent blind.​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​​

Puk off! 🖕

[Parimal @Fintech03]

It is a new form of digital colonialism. Foreign accounts use India as rage-bait/validation-bait to farm data & ad-dollars from Indian citizens. Because India has the cheapest mobile data on the planet & 900M+ internet users, the volume of traffic an Indian audience can generate is completely unmatched.

A Western page can post about the GDP of Germany/Japan & it will get standard, predictable engagement from the audience. But if that same page slaps "INDIA" in the headline, especially with a polarizing, provocative comparison, the X algo detects a massive spike.

Anyway, the person who made this post does not understand basic economics. They are comparing a Stock (Market cap) to a Flow (GDP). Comparing Nvidia's market cap to India’s GDP is like comparing the estimated resale value of a tech company's stock to the entire physical food & manufacturing output of a subcontinent.

Nvidia's actual revenue (~$130B+ in FY2025) is a tiny fraction of India's economy. If Nvidia had to actually liquidate & turn its valuation into hard cash tomorrow, its value would collapse instantly.

We have seen this script play out before in economic history: During the Dot-Com boom of 1999, Cisco Systems became the most valuable company on Earth, surpassing the GDPs of entire developed European nations.Once the speculative market corrected, Cisco's stock crashed by ~90% :))

Also, every time global media mentions India, they automatically pull the stock photo of the Taj Mahal. They completely ignore the architectural & civil engineering marvels of the Kailasa Temple/Hampi/Konark.

Sometimes I think if India could impose a "Metric Tax" on global content creators & financial pages, the treasury would be overflowing within a week.