Lohit | लोहित | لوہیت

Interests: Geopolitics, Economics, Technology, History, Nature, Culture

[Emmanuel Macron @EmmanuelMacron]

Nice!

[Aravind @aravind]

India enters the big 5 in manufacturing toppling South Korea. At current growth rates, even considering rupee depreciation, India will displace Japan to become the world's third largest manufacturer (> $1 trillion) by 2029.

Also,

1960: $3 billion -> 2015: $328 billion
2015: $328 billion -> 2025: $781 billion

So India has added as much in manufacturing in the last 10 years as it added in the last 70+ years.

[Sputnik India @Sputnik_India]

🚨EXCLUSIVE: US Navy ignored desperate calls from Indian crew as sailor fought for life

The crew of MT Celestial repeatedly called the US Navy on VHF Channel 16 on 8 June, desperately reporting severe vomiting bouts of Indian seafarer Nishanth Uirthanathan: ship records seen by Sputnik India.

There was no response. On 11 June, he stopped breathing.

The US Navy is still refusing to allow the corpse to be evacuated.

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

When diplomat Devyani Khobragade was humiliated and arrested in the US in 2013, Dr. Manmohan Singh’s government responded firmly. Diplomatic privileges were reviewed, special facilities withdrawn, and India’s national dignity upheld.

Today, after the tragic killing of three Indian sailors, where is that same resolve? Why this deafening silence? A strong foreign policy is not about headlines and photo-ops; it is about standing up for every Indian citizen, everywhere. The nation deserves answers.

[OSINTtechnical @Osinttechnical]

Ukrainian attack drones hit a major Russian oil depot in Rybinsk this morning, setting multiple tanks ablaze.

Seen here, a Ukrainian attack drone flies towards the already burning Russian depot, descends, and then smashes into another oil tank.

[Lt Gen H S Panag(R) @rwac48]

I concur. US has been doing it. A former retired DGMO was denied visa to US for having overseen CI operations in J&K.

[First Squawk @FirstSquawk]

CHINA ELIMINATES 12,000 ‘OBSOLETE’ UNIVERSITY DEGREES IN PUSH TO PREPARE FOR THE AI ERA

CHINESE UNIVERSITIES SCRAP 12,000 DEGREE PROGRAMS AS AI RESHAPES JOB MARKET DEMANDS

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

GADKARI APPROVES LEGAL USE OF 100% ETHANOL, CALLS IT A MAJOR ALTERNATIVE TO PETROL

INDIA CLEARS 100% ETHANOL FUEL AS AUTOMAKERS PREPARE TO LAUNCH COMPATIBLE VEHICLES

TOYOTA, SUZUKI, HYUNDAI AND MG TO ROLL OUT 100% ETHANOL-COMPATIBLE CARS AFTER POLICY APPROVAL

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

A public backlash against the Modi government’s weak-kneed response to U.S. naval strikes in quick succession on three, Indian-crewed commercial tankers near Oman, which killed three merchant mariners, appears to have prompted this call and a second diplomatic demarche.

Yet the response remains feeble: “not justified,” as though the killing of unarmed merchant mariners were merely a matter for debate rather than an act demanding accountability. There is still no demand for a U.S. apology, compensation for the victims’ families, or any indication that New Delhi intends to pursue the matter beyond routine diplomatic formalities.

[Rakesh Krishnan Simha @ByRakeshSimha]

On the left is Nikhil Ravishankar. He went to school in New Zealand, worked all his life in NZ. Yet in 2025 when he was appointed CEO of Air New Zealand, the wave of online racism directed at him became such a tsunami that the country's 3 leading media outlets, the New Zealand Herald, 1News and Radio New Zealand, had to shut down their comments section. The sheer volume of racist comments made it impossible for moderators to do their job. It was like half the population of New Zealand had decided to be racist on Ravishankar.

On the right is Air India’s current CEO - New Zealander Campbell Wilson whose appointment in 2022 attracted no such backlash in India. Wilson hails from Christchurch, arguably the most racist city in New Zealand.

[sdmat @sdmat123]

Anthropic

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

This is big: all access to Mythos and Fable AI models disabled for everyone outside America.

First thoughts:

1. Technology is the ultimate weapon. National sovereignty, national security, all of it is now about technology.

2. Globalization is dead and Bharat must find her own way ahead.

We must keep these two ideas in mind.

What can our government do right now? Ensure that orgs in India embrace smaller models, both Indian and Chinese open source ones. With a bit of effort, we can make them work. Anyway, why pay money to people who don't even want to sell to you?

We must deepen our R&D. Sarvam has been on it and we have been on it but remember that the latest models cost not only huge GPU budgets to train, the GPUs themselves are restricted. So we can't afford the scale of money (of the order of $100+ billion to even get in the game!) and even if we could come up with the money, we can't get all the GPUs. I would not like to ask the government to fund tens of billions of dollars on this anyway - the money has far better uses.

Zoho has been pursuing alternative R&D approaches that are far, far less expensive but by its nature cutting edge R&D takes time and we are patient. I am confident we will get there.

Any remaining people in India who have delusions about globalization should wake up now.

[پری زاد @Parizaad_reborn]

عاصم منیر اگر تو سور کی اولاد نہیں ھے تو بھارت پر حملہ کر اور پاکستان کا پانی کھول لے
(آریہ گورو کا عاصم منیر کو کھلا چیلنج)
@majorgauravarya

[Vasant Shetty | Building Mundhe Banni @vasantshetty81]

India is the second-largest market globally for both ChatGPT and Anthropic. If they can turn off the access at the press of a button like this, we are absolutely at the mercy of a foreign govt. Geopolitics is getting uglier. Globalisation in the current form is dead. This is a huge wakeup call for India.

[Hindustan Times @htTweets]

India joins elite club with successful ballistic missile defence, anti-ship missile trials

(𝗦𝗵𝗶𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗿 𝗚𝘂𝗽𝘁𝗮 ✍🏻)
https://t.co/AwU8UN8epV

[Tehxi @yajnshri]

How Soviet Athletes Built Incredible Strength Without Lifting Weights

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

Spoke to US Secretary of State Marco Rubio this evening. I reiterated India’s strong protest at the attacks by the US Navy in the Gulf that killed three Indian mariners. Such lethal actions against commercial shipping are not justified.

[RedboxGlobal India @REDBOXINDIA]

HISTORIC BOOM: NAGALAND SET TO PRODUCE OIL & GAS AGAIN AFTER 31 YEARS AS GOVT SIGNS TRIPARTITE MOU WITH ASSAM!

[Aravind @aravind]

India must issue notice to all Indian sailors to strike and return back to India. Let the world's shipping stall. Let's see how Trump keeps energy moving and China its exports shipping.

I have long been suggesting India create a network for Indian diaspora, of nurses and doctors, shippers and pilots, workers and constructors etc.

Every Indian going out to work from India - record their skills, put them into a database, give them a community to connect to, with GoI giving info and incentives for them there.

Use the power of this network when needed. Tap their skills if they return to India. And utilize their value outside India.

All countries will be much more respectful to India if India can unify its diaspora workers and make them act in national interests like China does.