Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳

Never knew I had an opinion on everything, till Twitter happened.
Said this years ago. Stays true even now. :)

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

Sholay - Evening tune.

[Team Saffron 🚩 @Team__Saffron]

सहानुभूती संपली आता धमक्या सुरु झाल्यात...

जरांगे चा स्वार्थीपणा मराठा समाजाच्या लक्षात आलेला असून आता आंदोलनाला पूर्वीप्रमाणे समर्थन मिळताना दिसून येत नाही.

#MarathaAndolan #Maharashtra #ManageJarange

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

For decades before 2014, the world practically mocked every Prime Minister's foreign trip as 'vanity' or 'photo-op'.

But Look at the last 24 months and try, honestly, to call this theatre.

In a world of tariffs, wars and broken supply chains, Prime Minister Narendra Modi is not collecting photographs. He is building leverage. Leverage over energy, minerals, missiles, markets, technology and of course free trade agreements.

The record speaks for itself.

May 2026, UAE: a brief stop, massive yield. Strategic petroleum collaboration with ADNOC, including potential storage of up to 30 million barrels in India. A long-term LPG track for homes and industry. A Strategic Defence Partnership framework covering manufacturing, training, maritime security and cyber. A ship-repair cluster at Vadinar. Around $5 billion in announced investment into Indian infrastructure and finance.

That is energy security when West Asia is on fire and sea lanes can become pressure points overnight.

February 2026, Israel: sixteen agreements. An agricultural research and innovation centre on Indian soil. Deeper defence and technology cooperation. Cyber. R&D. Cultural and digital ties. An FTA pushed onto a faster track.

That meant technology and capability coming back to Indian farmers, Indian industry and Indian defence.

June 2026, France: the Innovation Roadmap 2030. A series of agreements across innovation, defence, space and technology. An economic-security dialogue. A mechanism aimed at doubling trade.

July 2026, Indonesia: fourteen agreements and new initiatives. BrahMos cooperation—a serious step forward for Indian defence exports. Critical minerals and rare earths. Maritime security. Space. Steel. Healthcare.

And, crucially, an attempt to reduce Chinese dominance over the materials that will decide the future of batteries, electronics and weapons.

Australia: civil nuclear arrangements opening the door to uranium supply, a Maritime Security Collaboration Roadmap, defence agreements and a growing trade relationship. New Zealand added another maritime track.

These are not souvenirs from foreign visits.

They are part of the road map for a more secure, more resilient and more self-reliant Viksit Bharat. Atmanirbhar Bharat.

Today, The New York Times published an article headlined: “Modi Is Hedging Against Trump, One Deal at a Time.”

Its central point is simple: Modi has used each foreign visit to push India’s interests in security, trade and energy.

The India-US trade talks launched in February 2025 under President Trump were expected to produce haste and concession. Duties piled up, at one point heading towards 50 percent, including a penalty linked to Russian oil.

The expectation in some capitals was simple: India would fold.

India did not FOLD.

It refused a rushed, one-sided bargain. It held its ground on reciprocal access, domestic industry and agriculture.

It bought time.

And then used that time.

While talks dragged on, Delhi built alternatives: Gulf energy security, Israeli defence technology and agricultural innovation, French industrial and technology partnerships, Indonesian minerals and missile exports, Australian uranium and maritime cooperation.

That is how a continental economy stops negotiating from weakness.

Even after the February 2026 interim move towards an 18 percent reciprocal rate, Indian negotiators continued to hold out for terms that did not sacrifice agriculture or leave India permanently worse off than its competitors.

Even news media, whose first instinct is to criticise PM Modi, started to understand the value of his initiatives. Reuters described an increasingly confident India drawing strength from new partnerships. The Wall Street Journal wrote that New Delhi’s deal-making with middle powers had strengthened its hand with Washington.

That is the point.

You do not gain respect at a difficult negotiating table by talking about old friendships.

You gain it by showing that you have choices.

Beyond the international coverage of Modi and Trump, reporting on tariffs, tensions and the unfinished trade bargain, something else is happening:

India is no longer waiting for others to solve its problems.

It is securing supply chains, energy, minerals, defence partnerships and markets first and then negotiating.

That is why India can deal with America without surrendering its interests and deal with China without being intimidated.

The world does not hand out influence.

You have to build it.

And 2026 is a brutal year in which to do so.

Energy routes are under threat. Great powers are openly transactional. China remains ambitious. America is demanding.

In that environment, speeches do not keep the lights on. Statements do not fill strategic reserves.

What does?

A Prime Minister who treats every foreign visit as work.

Modi’s personal standing with world leaders is not branding. It has strategic value for India.

It gives India access, trust and room to manoeuvre.

And the growing confidence in India abroad is not charity. It comes from agreements signed, supply chains opened, capabilities built, markets expanded and promises delivered.

This is interest-first statecraft. Relentless.

History will not remember who mocked whose boarding pass.

It will ask a harder question:

When the world became unstable, who came home with oil, minerals, missiles, technology, markets and greater bargaining power?

That work is underway.

It is unfinished.

And it is exactly the work required to secure India’s interests and India’s rightful place in a world that respects countries which have options.
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[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

@DilipTirkey Thank you for the continued service to the game and this encouragement. 👍🏼🏑👍🏼

[Vaitheeswaran K @vaitheek]

A very important thread @mansukhmandviya @khadseraksha - please don’t let the girls down. This is a team on the rise globally. @anandmahindra

[Dilip Kumar Tirkey @DilipTirkey]

A historic performance deserves a special recognition! Hockey India proudly announces cash rewards for our Indian Women’s Hockey Team following their memorable finish at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026.

🏅 ₹2,00,000 for each player
🏅 ₹1,00,000 for each Support staffs

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

What has @IndiaSports @mansukhmandviya done?!

[Sports Apna 🇮🇳 @sportsapna1]

Hockey India has announced a ₹50 lakh cash prize for the team after their historic 5th-place finish at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026.

[Sports Apna 🇮🇳 @sportsapna1]

Hockey India has announced a ₹50 lakh cash prize for the team after their historic 5th-place finish at the FIH Hockey World Cup 2026.

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

@Naveen_Odisha Thank you sir for supporting this game in a big way while you were CM. Odisha has become synonym with hockey.🙏🏼🏑🙏🏼

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

Congratulate Indian Women’s Hockey Team on securing 5th place at the FIH Women’s #HockeyWorldCup 2026, their best performance in 52 years. From the fighting draw against Olympic silver medalists China to the emphatic victory over Germany, the team displayed resilience throughout the campaign. Wish them best for future.
#HWC2026 #OdishaForHockey

[Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 @RajeevRC_X]

From Keralam to Arunachal Pradesh, Onam brings us together!

Thank you @KirenRijiju ji for sharing this wonderful video.

Happy Onam from all of us in Keralam to everyone in Arunachal Pradesh!

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

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[Kiren Rijiju @KirenRijiju]

What an amazing Arunachal Onam! Feeling Keralam in Arunachal Pradesh

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

😂unke ⚽️ mein 🍒hai 🤣🤣

[Political Kida @PoliticalKida]

"उनके बॉल में कोर्ट है.. "

Another gem from Rahul Gandhi.. 😂

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

🙏🏼🙏🏼

[Farrago Abdullah Parody @abdullah_0mar]

Meet Javagal Srinath

He is the only Indian fast bowler to capture over 300 wickets in One Day Internationals (finishing with 315 ODI wickets).

Test Record: He was the second Indian pace bowler (after Kapil Dev) to reach 200 Test wickets, concluding his Test career with 236 wickets.

World Cup Consistency: Represented India across four Cricket World Cups (1992, 1996, 1999, and 2003). He took 44 World Cup wickets, making him the joint-highest wicket-taker for India in World Cup history alongside Zaheer Khan.

[Sameer @BesuraTaansane]

This is going too far ... who has authorised this uneducated fraud to inspect schools?

[Sagar @Pixel_Stripes]

One of world’s biggest disaster has happened in Nepal and the no. of deceased is uncountable. However, look at what our print media shows on d front page. Chalo ye bhi jane do.. where do they print the news of the disaster- 12th page. Then they say people dont read news papers. Ofcourse we ll not read newspapers. You guys in print media are pathetic & are not worthy of being in that space if this is your ideology.

[Keshav. Dixit 🇮🇳 @keshda]

😆😆😆

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

*yawn*

[DINESH KUMAR GUPTA @dkgdelhi]

Few facts:-
1. CIA Dirty Tricks Desk arranged GenZ uprising in Nepal to installl pro US regime or young nobodies.
2. To further reduce China influence on Nepal the Rasuwagadhi–Gyirong border was alway under risk from CIA funded mercenaries

[Jai Samota @jai_samota]

@SongsOfChinar Sappers in 1962... Such great work! And yes the Ghost of Chang La, I met so many veterans one place... Chang La which caused trouble to everyone!

[Jai Samota @jai_samota]

Chang La...

[theZULU🇮🇳 @RaveenKr]

Op Recce;
Lakhusar Dhani, Somewhere in N Rajasthan;
Jun, c.1984;
Mercury hovering at ~ 49° C!