Saumitra Chaturvedi

।।। ॐ नमः शिवाय ।।।
What you seek, is seeking you ...

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

In early years of Queen Elizabeth, her well wishers advocated for her marriage alliances with Spain, Sweden, Austria and France, to strengthen England, as they never thought England could survive alone. She resisted all of them for mainl 4 different reasons 1/n

[Āsurā @iAsura_]

There should be a CIEC. China-India-Economic-Corridor. And Chinese SEZs in India. Full economic co-ordination required between India and China.

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

@PTI_News So where are the clearances for AMCA engine and IMRH?

Where are the orders for MGS, LUH, TAPAS, NETRA MK1A/Mk2, MMMA/MRMR, SSSD, SCA, WhAP/AAP etc etc

All this rhetoric for one of the largest defence importers in existence

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@Kal_Chiron @db_is_db When money is collected in the name of the Ishwar, it has to be used with utmost integrity & diligence. People are fallible no doubt, but the name of the deity can't be maligned. Strict laws & exemplary punishment is required.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@TheNavroopSingh @HimjaParekh Also a message has to go to all our friends & partners, that you don't mess with India, in Indian ocean. A country not even top 10 in GDP or military power, brought down planes & killed soldiers of both allied & axis powers, to safeguard its neutrality, in WW-II.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@TheNavroopSingh Best would be if Trump goes hammer & tongs against neocon senators in midterms 😀

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

By, not opting for a twin engine ORCA style program has left the Indian defense ecosystem in lurch.

Rest is a "mirage" & not the French one 😉

[Āsurā @iAsura_]

By not opting for Russian engine collab for the LCA program, our policymakers have pushed Indian aerospace industry 30 years backward.

That's the reality.

Rest is poetry.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@alpha_defense The discontinuation of Kaveri engine program, shelving plans for ORCA, not prioritising Super Sukhoi, with so many other lapses has ler defence ecosystem adrift. Its a big failure of @narendramodi ji's govt. What purpose does a Def Min fulfills, if there is no strategic direction

[trramesh @trramesh]

I had deactivated my X account two days ago. I was not feeling elated with my daily feeding Hindus who, in general, do NOT care about their Temples and Dharma - with victory news from Court actions or about the violations of Dharma and Law by the instrumentalities of the Government and the infamous @tnhrcedept
I did not want to be in Twitter for some time.

But Yesterday and Today - Hon'ble Chief Minister Shri Joseph Vijay @CMOTamilnadu and his Hon'ble Minister for the Hindu Religious Department @RameshOffcl have given me - and the Temple Worshipping Hindus in Tamil Nadu - very good news and great expectations! I activated my Twitter account to share the good news!

In the Governor's address in the Assembly yesterday - the intentions of the Chief Minister
- (1) that Temple Funds would henceforth be used only for the pious purposes of temples and
(2) the past instances of mismanagement in @tnhrcedept would be corrected
--- came out very clearly! Very positive developments !!!

As a follow up today Government has issued two G.O.s and has cancelled 46 projects of commercial wedding halls and commercial complexes using Temple lands and funds - which were announced in the previous DMK regime

Only a handful of us who took this matters to Court and struggled for the past 5 years to save the funds of Temples know what a great development this is. Incidentally - exactly one year ago on 19.06.2025 I got a massive stay order on commercial constructions using temple funds from the Hon'ble 1st Bench of Madras High Court, which the @tnhrcedept did not care to obey under DMK regime.
With deep anguish I had prayed for the welfare of our temples yesterday in Sri Koodal Azhagar Temple and in Sri Meenakshi Sundareswarar Temple, Madurai - Gods have blessed us with good news. !!!

In my opinion it takes a great leader to do more and talk less. @CMOTamilnadu Shri Vijay is action oriented and we, Temple Worshipping Hindus, appreciate the positive steps taken by him.
Thank You Sir !

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@KajoriAikat @paliwal_w @TheNavroopSingh No country stands on any values. Almost all the leaders are the r@$¢@ls of the 1st order. But like true propagandist they keep talking about values. The world leaders know, that Indian leaders know them. That's why they all have a great relationship with Indian leadership.

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

Are you guys serious?

Under @narendramodi India is as dependent on imports as ever and increasingly so for TACTICAL equipment

Modi’s governments have signed contracts for

🇺🇸 artillery, UAS, helicopters, rifles, ATGM
🇮🇱 rifles, MBRLSs, radars, UAS, ATGM
🇷🇺 rifles, SAMs, radars, BVRAAM, frigates, MANPADs
🇫🇷 fighter jets, transport aircraft, PGM
🇰🇷 artillery
🇮🇹 SRGM
🇸🇪 recoilless rifle
🇫🇮 sniper rifles
🇧🇾 UAS/loitering munitions

Meanwhile ZERO/minimal orders (and not even clearances in many cases)for

🇮🇳 artillery (BF ATAGS, BF MGS, BF MArG 39/45/52, BF Garuda)
🇮🇳 SAMs (DRDO QRSAM, DRDO Akash-NG)
🇮🇳 ATGM (DRDO MPATGM
🇮🇳 rifles ( entire SSSD portfolio)
🇮🇳 sniper rifles ( SSSD)
🇮🇳 helicopters (HAL LUH, HAL IMRH)
🇮🇳 AEW (DRDO NETRA MK1A, NETRA MK2)
🇮🇳 AFV (DRDO-L&T/TASL AAP or WhAP)
🇮🇳 VSHORADS

Shamefully India is still one of the largest defence IMPORTERS on the planet, only Ukraine who has been in active war for almost 5 years and is propped up by foreign powers imports more

[K Singh @KSingh_1469]

Import dependency makes you the biggest beggars in the world

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@alpha_defense Looking at Jaguars twin engine configuration which give a 32 kn wet thrust. If India would have had a twin engine dry Kaveri powered aircraft, how good would it have performed ?
Maybe a video on this hypothetical?

[News Arena India @NewsArenaIndia]

Amber Enterprises has entered into a manufacturing partnership with Oppo Mobiles India to produce smartphones for Oppo, OnePlus, and Realme in India.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@FI_InvestIndia @RatanSharda55 Really food work. How many FIR's have been filed against govt servants & how many have been charged with corruption & criminal cases, by him?

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@TheNavroopSingh Actually North-South Corridor, built, maintained & co-owned by India, linking to Russia and BRI.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@AmbJohnBolton @YusufDFI If the only cause of India- US relation is Chinese containment then it may gather a wider support in political circles, but it will never have any solid leg to stand on. Unless both the countries, by design want to be single issue partners.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@KreatelyMedia Because India is paying top 💰 Euros to build French(Rafale) & German (Type 214 sub) Military Industrial Complex while spending peanuts on Indian MIC (Kaveri & other engines, IMRH, TEDBEF, WhAP, HALE & MALE drones, rockets, etc). While China is building its MIC might.

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@TheNavroopSingh A very well written thread. 👌🏻

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@myogiadityanath An opportunity for UP to look into @myogiadityanath ji, @CMOfficeUP

[Saumitra Chaturvedi @SaumitraChat]

@EvanFeigenbaum @sakthivel_cit93 The right principles would be India & US partnerships based on their stand-alone core interests & alignments. But to sell this partnership to China hawks internally, it was branded differently. And in that propaganda, the stand-alone principles were forgotten.