Nitin Shanbhag

Nation first | Interest in politics, sports & trek

[Aravind @aravind]

You may see this comment (either racist or patronizing) that "India has poor nutrition" from the Chinese online.

Yeah, India is poor in nutrition overall and where China was 15 years ago and fast catching up as per capita rises.

But here's how Chinese live for their nutrition:

Diabetes (adults 20–79)
China: 148 million
India: 90 million

Chronic hepatitis B
China: ~80–84 million
India:~30 million

Stroke (prevalent cases)
China: 26.3 million
India: 4.1 million

COPD (prevalent cases)
China: ~50–52.5 million
India: 43 million

Lung cancer (new cases)
China: ~1,060,000
India: ~82,000

Liver cancer (new cases)
China: ~368,000
India: ~39,000–42,000

Stomach cancer (new cases)
China: ~359,000
India: ~65,000

Esophageal cancer (new cases)
China: ~224,000
India: ~71,000

Nasopharyngeal cancer (new cases)
China: ~51,000
India: ~6,500

Adult overweight + obesity
China: 402 million
India: 180 million

Children/adolescents (5–19) high BMI
China: ~62 million
India: ~41 million

Children/adolescents obesity
China: ~33 million
India: ~14 million

All data has been adjusted for missed/under reported cases in both countries. China is the diabetes and cancer capital of the world.

Also, one small note: protein is very important. Eating required protein for your particular needs (gender, activity, age etc) is important.

But too many studies have shown lesser protein consumption leads to longer lifespans.

In India too, the Jains, Brahmins, and Vegetarian Sikhs tend to live the longest. So keep that in mind about protein intake. As I always say, don't overdo it.

If you are following some protein fad overdoing it, one day in future you will understand I was saying the right thing all along. You can abuse me for now.

[Nitin Shanbhag @NitinShanbhag]

@jaypanicker This tweet alone took Ex Finance minister, @PChidambaram_IN and his ilks to the corners!

[S.Jayashankar @jaypanicker]

Spare us the lecture on “regime change is normal in a democracy.”

You know exactly what the phrase means when Prashant Bhushan and AISA’s Neha Bora use it while invoking Bangladesh’s Gen Z street movement that toppled a government outside the electoral calendar. That is not “oppose, expose and depose through elections.” That is a deliberate attempt to normalise extra-constitutional pressure, street veto and manufactured unrest.

If it is only about elections, why the hurry? Why the Bangladesh template? Why frame protests against the Election Commission as a “fight for regime change”?In a real democracy, governments change when voters decide at the ballot box, not when a handful of activists and opposition leaders decide the system is “dictatorial” the moment they keep losing. You yourself have used the phrase in purely electoral contexts before. The difference is context, and this context reeks of anarchy-shopping.

The BJP is not “apoplectic with feigned rage.” We are simply refusing to pretend that “regime change” + Bangladesh reference = routine parliamentary opposition. India is not Bangladesh. Our institutions, our voters and our Constitution will decide the next government in 2029, not street theatrics dressed up as high principle.

Do your job in Parliament and on the campaign trail. Stop trying to import instability and then gaslight the country about dictionary definitions.

[DisInfo Lab @DisinfoLab]

THREAD:

Across Europe and beyond, a fresh wave of street mobilizations is being read by some observers as the latest chapter in a resurgent global contest between left and right.

- In France, high-school blockades over teacher shortages, overcrowded classrooms and crumbling buildings have drawn in major unions and the far-left La France Insoumise, with marches swelling into broader cost-of-living actions.

- In Spain, tenants’ unions and labor federations (CCOO and UGT) have driven nationwide protests against soaring rents and evictions, culminating in a snap election.

- In Belgium, the socialist and Christian unions have led anti-austerity marches, joined by students protesting education costs in a movement explicitly influenced by events across the border.

- In India, the Gen Z-led Cockroach Janta Party has partnered with left student organizations such as AISA and SFI have found street mobilisation opportunities manufacturing public concerns over electoral rolls and earlier exam irregularities.

What unites these episodes is the organizational weight of left-leaning unions, student federations and parties that have supplied structure, framing and political grammar to ever present general grievances rooted in education quality, public-service strains and youth economic insecurity.

Interestingly, a Fox News investigation has observed that a transnational network of communist and socialist groups, amplified by media outlets linked to Shanghai-based financier Neville Roy Singham, has helped project the French protests internationally.

We investigated and discovered the same pattern in India.

[Prakash Sesharaghavachar 🇮🇳 @sprakaashbjp]

Karnataka Congress is in complete disarray!

State Mahila Congress President Soumya Reddy resigns.

Santosh Lad, M.B. Patil, Eshwar Khandre and Suresh Bairathi and KJ George maintain a stoic silence, seemingly gripped by an inexplicable fear.

IAS officers are reportedly split into rival power camps.

Chief Minister Siddaramaiah appears politically paralysed.

The KPCC President is busy charting his own course.

Priyank Kharge seems trapped in an endless cycle of verbal attacks on the RSS and H.D. Kumaraswamy.

H.D. Kumaraswamy going hammer and tongue over Stingy CD

No unity. No direction. No accountability.

While Congress leaders fight their own battles, governance has taken a back seat.

Karnataka is witnessing not merely a leadership crisis, but what increasingly looks like a complete collapse of governance.

The government exists on paper, but who is actually running the state? @Narendramurthy @Nimmabhaskar22 @CTRavi_BJP @BJP4Karnataka @BJP4India

[Girish Bharadwaj @Girishbdwj]

Karnataka Congress Government:
1. Odd Days: Follow court orders. Freedom Park is the only designated protest site.

2. Even Days: Review police action against protesters who violate the rules by blocking roads at non-designated protest sites.

One government, two standards. The rule of law change according to political convenience.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

When Arvind Kejriwal was put behind bars for months by Modi, Rahul Gandhi was enjoying his trips to Bangkok.

Today the man-child is lecturing Kejriwal on courage. Tomorrow he will fly away to abroad again.

[Venkatesh Prasad @venkateshprasad]

Extremely poor from President Musk, who ensured BYD didn’t enter the US for fear of his Tesla sales crumbling . And here making an issue out of our right for national security. A great entrepreneur but a v bitter man. Earlier went after Trump claiming his name is in Epstein files only to calm down later to ensure his business doesn’t suffer. Lol Musk.

[Nitin Shanbhag @NitinShanbhag]

Doped 😂😂😂😂

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Dear Prime Minister Ambani,

Please accept my humble apologies for not realizing that you are the real boss of India.

Naturally, you would prefer to maintain your monopolistic exploitation of the great people of India, but would you nonetheless consider allowing Starlink to compete?

There are many areas of India, as there are in all countries, with no Internet access, which denies children the opportunity for education and for small businesses the opportunity to sell their goods to a global market. Starlink would change their lives for the better.

Thank you 🙏

[Nitin Shanbhag @NitinShanbhag]

Hey @elonmusk, food for thought 🤡

[Prakash Dadlani @prakdadlani]

first in my bloodline to witness a trillionaire get ratio’d by India on his own app

[Farrago Abdullah Parody @abdullah_0mar]

Siddaramaiah and Rahul Gandhi DID NOT allow Amul to put diary in Karnataka but they want Starlink in India.

[shobhit mathur @shobweet]

When Amazon hired me on an H-1B visa, Amazon was making losses for 10 straight years. It was operating out of a rented building where we worked on door desks in small cabins. I was in the initial team that built AWS.

Today AWS contributes more than 60% to Amazon's profit. The stock price has gone 300x. Amazon's buildings have changed the skyline of downtown Seattle. Jeff Bezos went on to become the world's richest man.

There were about a hundred H1B visa holders like me in the initial team of Amazon. Good luck building companies and wealth without these 'indentured servants'

[ED @dir_ed]

ED, Bengaluru has arrested Shivashankarappa Sahukar, the suspended KPSC Chairman and B V Geetha, KPSC Member while investigating the multi crore cash for selection racket and Proceeds of Crime tied to the KPSC Veterinary Officers’ Recruitment Examination (for 400 posts), acting on FIRs filed at Vidhana Soudha PS under BNS 2023, as custodial interrogations expose deep rooted malpractices, paper leaks, and systemic corruption in KPSC.

[ShotPointBlank @SHOTPointBlank1]

Did u remember Razzaq Khan who once opposed CAA. He is opposing Gyanesh Kumar now.

Lord Arnab : Razzaq! You are talking about rights that the Indian citizens have, but is it true that you have applied for US citizenship ?

Khatam Tata Bye Bye. 😂😂😂🔥🔥

[Aravind @aravind]

"130 million Indians removed from voting" - this is the propaganda being spread around the world now by a coordinated operation.

Let's see where this "130 million" is coming from.

SIR is a constitutionally required revision of electoral rolls as per a section in Art 324, 1950 of the Indian constitution.

The govt has to do it. It was last done in 2003. It must have been done again last decade by 2013, but it was delayed for various reasons.

The world's largest population, India, registers deaths of about 5-6 million people a year (Covid was higher. And as per these same foreign propaganda accounts, it was "millions more").

Since 2003, until 2026 when SIR was done, in 23 years, 138 million Indians have died at 6 million deaths a year. Or 115 million at 5 million deaths a year.

Apart from this, so many Indians migrated to other cities, towns, and states. So they will also be removed from existing rolls as they already have new addresses to vote from.

Now, during 2026 SIR, EC has only made a draft count of Absent, Shifted, Dead and Duplicate entries - and this comes to 130+ million. It is not even final deletion - the list is challenged by parties, people via appeals, goes to court etc to get finalized.

So this "130 million removed from voting in India" is fake news and fear mongering deliberately done to make the world believe "India has deleted 130 million eligible voters in some unconstitutional scam operation."

The fake news and fear mongering is being spread in a coordinated way internationally. Along with planted nothing-burger reports creating doubts on EC and a protest movement on the same in the name of Gen-Z.

The GoI is totally failing in at least fighting the fake news and misinformation.

They seem to have zero independent network to counter these 'paid to post' international SM influencers that don't look like an IT cell defending the govt.

As for any influence in international media - forget it, India seems to have ZERO, while pauper Pakistan seems to run whatever news it wants on major media orgs. Shame.

And Indians themselves are not being educated well by GoI on what's SIR, the need for it etc. Forget fighting the misinfo campaign at international level.

Such gaps in information, communication, and PR is so easy to be used by adversaries for planting their own fake news to turn even Indians against the GoI.

Apathy and ineptitude in fighting infowar and PR cost. No matter how successful we are in internal and external security, and in fighting traditional means of war against the country.

I have said this before and will say it again - everything from some deranged boys throwing stones on Vande Bharat, to a perverted group doing gang rape, to riots in some cities, to protests and huge movements for regime change, are all being triggered and run via Social Media.

If our own people can be easily turned against us using misinfo and fake news within our own country, and we cannot do anything about it, then we are still weak.

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

@SauravDassss It wouldn’t, @SauravDassss, if I had the slightest idea what you are referring to! Do enlighten me.

[Deepak Mhaskey @deepakmhaskey]

“13 Crore Voters Deleted” needs context.

The figure includes:
• 9.5 crore (71%) absent, shifted or other cases
• 2.7 crore (20%) deceased
• 1 crore+ (~8%) duplicate/multiple entries

So the real question is: should deceased, duplicate or shifted entries remain on electoral rolls?

Congress-led governments conducted 7 SIRs in the past. Why is the issue being framed differently now?

Electoral rolls need to be accurate, updated and free of duplicate or ineligible entries.

[Nitin Shanbhag @NitinShanbhag]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

Thank you @jaypanicker ji for introducing me to this platform 😊

[S.Jayashankar @jaypanicker]

Mr @RahulGandhi and the notorious electoral fraud perpetrators associated with the Indi faction seek to seize polling stations and foment civil disorder throughout the nation. Consequently, they remain determined to reinstate fake voters and the use of paper ballots.

Before EVMs, booth capturing was rampant. Musclemen storming booths, chasing away genuine voters, stuffing ballot boxes in minutes. EVMs ended that era by limiting voting speed and making mass fraud impractical. Returning to paper ballots is not about transparency; it is a calculated push to revive the chaos and rigging of the past. India will not go back, bro.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

AI-NARCHY IN THE NAME OF GEN-Z?
A crucial twist in the Delhi Police “misconduct” video at JANTAR MANTAR.
THE “CCTV EVIDENCE” WAS AI-GENERATED: POLICE
What was being circulated as CCTV footage showing a senior Delhi Police officer inappropriately touching a woman was allegedly FABRICATED using AI.

Police have arrested 24-year-old Nadeem Ahmed, who runs a YouTube channel called “News Aiyna”.
Police say he had multiple AI tools, has admitted creating the video to show Delhi Police in a bad light, and that sections relating to riots have now been added to the FIR.
The probe is now widening: Was he acting alone? Was there funding? Was he being handled by someone else? Was this pre-planned?
In this case, the police were not caught on camera. THE POLICE WERE FRAMED BY A FAKE CAMERA.