Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳

Journalist, Formerly with @goachronicle

Nationalist, सनातनी, ସ୍ଵାଭିମାନୀ;
Orator, Musician, Bibliophile.

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

"Country is what we live in but nation is what lives in our hearts."

Know why the emotions of millions of Indians all across the globe are echoed when I say that nationalism is not for you~

#AzadiKaAmritMahotsav @PrinceArihan @shashank_ssj @ugendarraju
https://t.co/9XH9kyCNb1

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[Parimal @Fintech03]

It is a fascinating paradox. We spend centuries creating something, then spend decades convincing ourselves it is valuable only after the West gives it a new name.

Dahi becomes yogurt, paneer becomes cottage cheese/tofu, haldi doodh becomes turmeric latte. The product remains Indian. The packaging becomes foreign & the applause becomes louder.

The transformation of traditional Indian food into "cool" Western terminology is a psychological & marketing phenomenon known as Cultural Laundering.

Stop trading your ancestral gold for plastic imitations just because the plastic has a barcode & a west exonym on it.

Our Agni does not care about our accent. Eat your Paneer/Dahi.

[Kunal Gandhi @kunalvg]

Indians, especially Gen Z:

Criticize your government as much as you want. Ask hard questions. Hold them accountable.

But never become a pawn for forces sitting outside this country.

There is a reason we were sanctioned after Pokhran. There is a reason our strategic developments are met with protests. There is a reason you are being systematically taught to hate your civilization.

Revolutions don't work in a country as large and complex as India. It will always become a tool for our adversaries to exploit our fault lines.

So protest. Push back. Confront.

But always be cautious of anyone trying to steer a revolution from outside. They have zero skin in the game.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

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[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

You don’t become resentful overnight.

You arrive there by being 'understanding' for too long.

#mentalhealth

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

India is not a low trust society ffs.

Things at random

1) ever noticed parents travelling with kids in crowded coaches? Some kindly person will say leave them with me and the parents will sight unseen do just that and then pick their kids up when their stop comes. This extends across trains / buses, kids being handed over for temporary care is something very unique to our society.

2) almost all of us give our spare keys to our neighbours, why? Because of implicit trust. Does this happen in "high trust " societies?

3) you can test this even today, go to some random shop, pick up stuff for 300-400 bucks, say sorry sir phone is down can I pay you later, 8/10 times they will say "no problem". Try this anywhere else and you will be locked up for shop lifting.

4) heck the very lack of formal paperwork across society is proof of this. Kirana stores will give credit to their buyers without questions being asked. They will get credit from their stockists without a single signed document. Supplier credit even in MSME sectors is done on face value alone and on and on and it goes.

5) the entire agricultural ecosystem running into lakhs of crores is driven by"word" and verbal commitments. That's it.

6) even our lack of systematic surveillance for instance trains carry millions and millions of passengers daily, with minimal checking by TC's and yet fare evasion is a very miniscule factor.

7) even our crime stats are so low precisely because we are a high trust society. Even in low income areas (in fact mostly in low income areas) most people don't even lock doors, try this in a ghetto in the US and your house will be robbed in hours.

8) when was the last time a period of calamity was used for mass looting? Ever? Even during riots looting of stores (so common in"high trust" places like the US and UK) doesn't happen. Heck during the Mumbai / Chennai floods so many strangers opened up their homes to other strangers, fed them, clothed them...show me one "high trust society" that does this.

Anecdotally I have so many examples.

During the 2023 floods in Chennai, networks went down, cash was short and UPI was not working, a kirana store near my house basically said he will supply goods without immediate payment, just wrote down the number / amount on a book and expected everyone to pay up later. I was curious and visited him a week later and asked if everyone did pay up and he said except maybe 2-3 bad apples everyone paid up and some even added small amounts as appreciation for his generosity.

Another time I was in Delhi, showed up with only 15 mins to spare and saw that I was in T1 when it was T2 (or something like that). Luckily the cabbie was still there and I asked him if he will take me. Sadly I forgot I didn't have cash and didn't have time to stop at an ATM (pre UPI) told him I will add his account and wire him the money once I reached the gate. He just said koi nahi sir tension mat lo. Dropped me, and I paid him and he just sent me a smiley on WhatsApp.

We are a beautiful culture, we trust implicitly. Our issue is with our state and its bureaucracy which no one trusts. This doesn't make us low trust.

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

I’ve been away from my hometown since childhood. Every time I visit, I bow down and touch its soil with reverence.
It may sound over-emotional, but I love doing it.

Recently, during a train journey, I crossed my hometown. Asked the staff to wake me up a little before arrival. it was 4:30 AM when the train stopped for just two minutes. I stood there on the platform for those two minutes and boarded again. Felt peaceful. Felt home.

You don’t love your parents, your motherland, or your nation for what they have to offer. They aren’t a give-and-take business where you check the rate of return. You love them simply because they’re yours.

[Rahul Roushan @rahulroushan]

We were watching in awe videos of Iron Dome in action a couple of years ago as Isarel shielded itself from Hamas. Honestly, how many of us thought we were ready with similar defense system? Gratitude to those in command for keeping us safe 🙏

[Dr.Dhruv Chauhan @DrDhruvchauhan]

Resident doctors MASS SUICIDE letter from Gandhi medical college ,Bhopal should shake the soul of every single citizen of this Nation.

The residents have given ultimatum of mass suicide on 31st may if the toxic culture is not removed completely

It has never happened in the history that harassed doctors are ready to take their own lives due to torture by their medical college .
Just to remind GMC Bhopal is the same place where multiple residents (including a pregnant doctor died due to toxicity)

[Dr.Dennis Adison Ouma. @DrDennisOuma]

@elnathan_john -Paul Graham just communicated to the world that most USA citizens might not be English proficient.

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

@Psychodoctor06 Both go hand in hand.

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

"आज मेरे पिया घर आएंगे...
आज मेरे पिया घर आएंगे..."

#RamMandirPranPrathistha #RamMandir #JaiShreeRam

[Swathi Bellam @BellamSwathi]

AIIMS is killing my father tweet which went viral and got everyone from opposition parties to health minister get involved in the case proved to be a emotional reaction by an agitated son over his dads health
Father has only 20 % Ejection fraction and it means the heart muscle and pumping is weak and hence surgery might not benefit hence the doctors didn’t offer By Pass surgery in AIIMS and wanted to treat him with medication only
He needs further valuation and perhaps uncontrolled diabetes has weakened the heart

But AIIMS was maligned
Whole healthcare system was abused
Doctors were called names and suddenly everyone had an incident to narrate about how bad our indian healthcare system is
This is exactly what happens whenever a crime happens against and suits a particular narrative and goes viral and India get abused as rape capital even while our rape statistics are one of lowest in the world
it only shows how emotional we are towards these issues and hence it attracts so much attention
Hence the need to not emotionally react to news without knowing the facts of the matter
Indian doctors are most accessible in the world
Indian tertiary care is the cheapest and India has world biggest healthcare insurance scheme
Till i went to US even I thought Indian healthcare was not great
now i see the world and can compare and tell with pride that we are one of better countries and what we get for the money we spend in big value for money compared to any other nation as our doctors and nurses are most competent and also cheapest and most accessible
What India or the world needs is not huge hospitals where everyone can get heart transplant but system where we can address our metabolic health
Diabetes obesity and hypertension is what is causing all these issues and they are all life style problems due to food, pollution, stress and lack of activity
They need a different approach than building more and more hospitals or increasing healthcare budgets
Even after spending 4 Trillion $ (more than indian gdp) usa hasn’t been able to tackle them for 1/5 of India’s population
How can we do it ?

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

"पंखों से कुछ नहीं होता, हौंसलों से उड़ान होती है...
मंज़िल उन्ही को मिलती है, जिनके सपनों में जान होती है!"

Take a bow Team #ISRO and our beloved #KSivan Sir!

#Chandrayaan3 #Chandrayaan3landing

[ISRO @isro]

Chandrayaan-3 Mission:
'India🇮🇳,
I reached my destination
and you too!'
: Chandrayaan-3

Chandrayaan-3 has successfully
soft-landed on the moon 🌖!.

Congratulations, India🇮🇳!

#Chandrayaan_3
#Ch3

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

"With numerous names, starting from #Aryabhatta to #Ramanujan, however hard the West might try to steal the spotlight, #India shall always be at the vanguard of knowledge and prosperity!"

A humble tribute on #NationalMathematicsDay~

https://t.co/Xcla9yPtCK

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

He invented the ORS sachet that, next only to vaccines, saved millions of infants from certain death. Lancet termed it the greatest medical breakthrough of the twentieth century but leave alone the Nobel he never even got a Padma.

He was Dilip Mahalanabis. And he died yesterday.

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

“In a war, no resource can make a difference, unless every single person does not unite against the common foe.”

Right before #WorldMentalHealthDay, I write on why we need #MentalHealth #Empowerment and not just awareness~

@PrinceArihan @ugendar_raju

https://t.co/lK9KG84FBW

[Goa Chronicle @goachronicle]

“In a war, no resource can succeed in making a difference, unless every single person does not unite against the common foe.”

@SatMegha writes on why we need #MentalHealth empowerment and not just awareness.

https://t.co/3xdSqt58hl

#Suicide #Depression #IQuit #LetMeSleep

[Thamizh Labs @thamizhlab]

Lot of debates going on about the Chola dynasty's religious identity.

Thankfully, the Cholas themselves have left plenty of surprising data that answer such debates.

Leaving politics and ideologies aside, if we look at history, the truth emerges without a shadow of doubt!

A🧵!

[Megha Satapathy 🇮🇳 @SatMegha]

"Until 1725, all of world's diamonds came only from one country: #India."

All about the bejewelled #English royalty and how its history is coloured with Indian blood; highly enlightening #Thread by @BharadwajAgain! A must read.