NaradaX

Narada travelled all three worlds carrying stories. I do it in threads. History | Geopolitics | Indian civilisation | Books

[Aravind @aravind]

BBC brown sepoys from London:

"Modi building airports and ports when Indians are poor. British woman got parasites when she visited India in 2007. Should poor India have a space program? India's blocking UK's free foreign funds."

Meanwhile, their localities in London:

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Schrödinger's comrade.

He can be both an unapologetic feminist and an unapologetic misogynist at the same time.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Aravind @aravind]

International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."

🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:

July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.

July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.

July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.

July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.

July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.

July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.

July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).

Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.

Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.

Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.

June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.

June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.

June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.

June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).

June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.

June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.

Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.

Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).

June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.

[NaradaX @NaradaXtya2]

@PoornimaNimo It was gifted to him by someone in the crowd. Even If it was any other religion’s, he would have treated it the same.

[NaradaX @NaradaXtya2]

@TVKVijayHQ Please don’t trust Pappu

[PS @dostoevesque]

If there's one thing I want Vijay to do if he comes to power, it's very simple: Stop government bureaucrats from demanding bribes for routine everyday work such as name change in property tax, EB name transfer, property registration (the biggest loot by the SRO, in my opinion), and similar services.

Doing just this would greatly reduce anti-incumbency on the ground. It would also end the nuisance of councillors knocking on doors every time someone unloads sand, bricks, or materials for minor home renovations, looking for bribe money.

[ᴛᴇɴᴢ @Tenzzzyyyy]

Funny how only the elites hate TVK. You don't see somebody who is very poor hating TVK. Because they are the victims of the past system of the government. They wanted a change. Y'all want democracy but can't accept the result of democracy. Grow up please.

[Subha Jayanagaraja @subhajrao]

Vignesh, if you intend to do this, god bless you. Not one person in power has spoken about the vellalore dumpyard that has ruined Podanur, Chettipalayam and a huge chunk of our area. I've been screaming hoarse for 23 years. You're a local boy. You've lived the horror.

[Aswathyᶜˢᵏ💛 @Dhonifan183]

I hate how some so called intellectual guys calling TN people stupid. You guys should realize its not just Vijay's craze its collective failure of DMK government, they failed to convince the people. So people went with other options!!! If not TVK,ADMK would have won the election.

[Maddy Madhav @MaddyMadhav_]

You can observe a pattern. ADMK supporters are admitting their defeat and accepting the people’s decision. But on the other side, DMK supporters are whining about loyalty, intelligence and cursing tn people’s decision.

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

I bow down to the people of TN for your verdict. Happy to see in my land, people have risen in one voice and spoken

1. No to buying of votes
2. ⁠No to dynastic Politics

& yes to a generational shift in politics.

Whoever gets it done has actually done a favour to all!

Congrats and best wishes to TVK & Thiru @TVKVijayHQ avl for a spectacular debut in TN politics. Let Almighty be with you to do what you intend to do.

And to all NDA candidates, it was a hard-fought battle on the ground. Congrats to all those who won, and for those who couldn’t register a victory this time, let’s keep fighting.

Commiserations to Thiru @mkstalin avl & Thiru @Seeman4TN avl for your loss in this election!

Finally & most importantly, I thank my dear @BJP4TamilNadu cadres and leaders for toiling hard on the ground. Better times will come soon!

[NaradaX @NaradaXtya2]

@notmuttley Every time a dmk goon car(fortuner or Innova) with party flag and Stalin photo in the front probably drunk or drugged bullies people in the road, tvk gets a vote. Now imagine 8 years of that every day.

[Sarah @_satyatweets]

The endless slut shaming of the women who supported TVK , the name calling of any one and everyone that actively campaigned for TVK , this day is for every single of us who campaigned for TVK inspite of all this hate.

The elite performative twitter woke who thought they are the intellectually superior, this is the ppl's mandate. Get out of your bubble and quit being performative to be accepted by the twitter dstocks.

Every protest over unfulfilled promises were treated with absolute cruelty. The fact y'all supported the ruling govt only says you are out of touch with ground reality. So stop going after voters you elite idiots!

[Chocolate chip cookie @Cookiehuntrr]

Stop blaming the voters man. They wanted a change. Stalin and co never took the criticism on law and order issues and was on high horse until the day of elections.

[PS @dostoevesque]

One of the main reasons DMK has been pushed to the sidelines far often in assembly elections is because of their condescending and pompous attitude of constantly branding anyone who doesn't vote for them as backward, irrational, or unprogressive. And even after today's results, they are still repeating the same narrative.

[Sùjith @Sk_twitzz]

An actor winning based on popularity 😭 ppl are fools 😭 I can’t digest it 😭

Then who should win?
An uneducated? Corrupt? Rowdy? Extremist?

An entire state is foolish and you’re the wisest? Lmfao. Ppl have every right to choose their own leader SIT TF DOWN.

[Aaditya Narayan @AadityaN_28]

LMAO, funniest narrative from today is DMK supporters somehow making it out that they're intellectually superior to those that voted for someone other than the DMK. What is this high horse?

[NaradaX @NaradaXtya2]

@Gss_Views Ground reality is different. Deep rooted corruption, nepotism, drug menace in daylight. The sunrise they promised didn’t come.

[NaradaX @NaradaXtya2]

@DhivCM So when people used the power of democracy and voted for a change, they are not intelligent? And voting for a family dynasty party would have been progressive educated decision? Cry more 🤡