In my career, journalists have called me:
"Temjin"
"Timjen"
"Temken"
Once, memorably, "the short minister from somewhere in the Northeast"
And yet, I love the press.
Because even when they spell my name wrong, they showed up. To Nagaland. To cover a story most of India ignores.
On #WorldPressFreedomDay, I salute every journalist who travels to the Northeast, who tells our stories, who puts a face to a region many still cannot locate on a map.
@sanjeevsanyal The meme shared by former civil servant @DrSYQuraishi comes across as rather distasteful. His discourse on social media ought to have a certain level of dignity. The state carries a great legacy much beyond his domestic help.
🚨 Daylight Robbery by 🦘
This is why India lost the Sydney Test in 2008 shocking umpiring, blatant errors and a match overshadowed by controversy.
8+ wrong decisions in a single game.
Peak Make Friendship since 2003 WC finals between Bucknor &🦘🔥
My Shia Aga Khani family chose Bharat over Pakistan in 1947. We had a choice
Islamic Pakistan or Secular India. We chose Bharat.
Today, is yet another day, I feel grateful for that decision! It will remain the best decision my family has taken till the end of existence.
As an Indian Shia Muslim, I couldn’t feel more grateful & secure for being born in here especially watching the chaos unfold with the Iran-US-Israel crisis, amid strikes and retaliation.
In India, we enjoy freedoms, stability & security - no fear of regime changes/collapses, foreign airstrikes or civilizational erasures or crazy mobs taking over seats of power with force (even if some try to provoke this)
Take a look at other Muslim nations or nations in our very neighbourhood.
The instability. The chaos. The violence.
But in Bharat 🇮🇳 - our brave Forces, our committed government under PM @narendramodi & our Holy Constitution protects us all.
It is a Suraksha Kavach far stronger than a thousand iron domes.
While vast regions of the world burns in endless conflict and radicalism, Bharat offers peace, progress and true pluralism under a stable & strong leadership.
Have always sported my signature line:
My religion is Islam
My culture is Hindu
My ideology is Bharatiya
Today, I reiterate it even more proudly.
Not as a party spokesperson.
But as a Bharatiya.
Vande Mataram. Jai Hind. 🇮🇳
A pod of dolphins greeted INSV Kaundinya this morning — weaving past the bow and riding the gentle swell, as if escorting us on our journey. 🌊🐬⚓
Moments like these remind us the ocean is never truly empty.
#INSVKaundinya sails on with India’s maritime heritage alive at sea.
#IndianNavy #MaritimeHeritage
@MinOfCultureGoI@sanjeevsanyal@IndianNavyMedia
Frankincense sourced from Muscat gently filling Kaundinya, just as traders would have done centuries ago. If we’re sailing an ancient stitched ship, might as well keep the fragrance ancient too! It also helps to overcome the fish oil smell, applied on the hull.
Day 3 at sea.
Steady SW winds through the night carried us nearly 25 miles. Morning brings calm waters & gentle drift with the current at 1 knot.
Breakfast aboard #INSVKaundinya — poha, open skies and endless blue.
Simple moments. Steady voyage. ⛵🌊
#Underway#MaritimeHeritage
Moon rise captured from INSV Kaundinya. Its celestial brightness is enough to light up a pitch dark ocean. If Astrophotography is possible from a rolling, pitching wooden sail ship, the sight of starlit skies in the high seas would b unbelievable! @IIABengaluru@IUCAApune
Fluid resistance to INSV Kaundinya's forward movement in water was experimentally estimated in a Towing Tank & using Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD) at the High Performance Supercomputer facility at @iitmadras. These Hydrodynamic studies led to finalisation of the hull shape.