12/12. So when Europe's microphones ask why the world should trust India, the answer is simple:
That is the wrong question.
The right one is, has Europe spent the last 500 years giving the world any reason to trust it?
India rose without exploiting.
Europe rose by exploiting.
India shared without a patent.
Europe locked its knowledge behind cost.
India built on limited resources.
Europe built on the resources of every continent it touched.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
Views invited, let the transformative debate begin.
11/12. In the past:
Ayurveda. Yoga. Sanskrit. Astronomy. Surgery. Metallurgy. Mathematics. Lifestyle. Civilizational ethos.
All of it, shared with the world through the great universities of Takshashila, Nalanda, Vikramshila, free of cost, free of patent.
At its peak, India contributed nearly
25% of global GDP - all this without ever colonizing even a single nation.
In the present:
A constitutional democracy of 1.4 billion. Lifting hundreds of millions from poverty. Supplying the world's vaccines, the world's medicines.
Building digital public
infrastructure that other nations now adopt, UPI, Aadhaar, ISRO, the Solar Alliance.
And mark how India has done all of this, both then and now:
~ Without exploiting others.
~ Developed in a Just manner.
~ With limited resources and a small share of the world's land.
10/12. Europe's GDP rests on centuries of compound interest from extraction.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
Bharat's future rests on what it is building, not what it is taking:
~Aadhaar and UPI, digital public infrastructure now adopted by dozens of countries
~The world's largest renewable energy expansion
~ISRO's interplanetary missions at a fraction of NASA's budget
~The International Solar Alliance, a coalition Bharat founded for the Global South
India does not need to take from anyone to rise.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
9/12. Europe's modern wealth was
built on what it took.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India's gifts to the world were given,
not taken:
~Yoga and meditation
~Chess
~Ayurveda
~The grammar of Panini,
foundational to modern linguistics
~The philosophy of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam, the world is one family
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
8/12. In 2026, European governments still face their own courts for human-rights violations against indigenous peoples.
Apologies are still being issued. The colonial wealth has never been returned.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
In 2026, India is the pharmacy of the developing world, supplying 60% of the world's vaccines. During COVID, India sent vaccines to over 100 countries under Vaccine Maitri, often before vaccinating its own.
When the world needed help, India shared. Europe delivered lectures.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
7/12. Across Scandinavia, indigenous Sami people were subjected to forced assimilation, language banned, children removed, identity erased into the 1960s and 1970s.
Formal apologies came as recently as 2024.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India is home to more than 20 official languages, 700 tribal
communities, 6 major religions, and tens of thousands of jatis and
sub-cultures, each with constitutional protection of language, faith, and custom.
No assimilation policy.
No banned tongue.
No erased identity.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
6/12. Two centuries of British rule extracted from India an estimated $45 trillion in today's terms. 2-3 million Indians died in the Bengal famine of 1942 while grain was exported to England.
No formal apology. No reparations. No full acknowledgement.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India, in 75 years of independence,
is recovering from that poverty without the bloodshed that defined post-colonial reform almost everywhere else.
No revolution. No purge. No dictatorship.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
5/12. Holocaust vs. India's pluralism.
Within Europe itself, 80 years ago, six million Jews were murdered in an industrial extermination carried out by a European state, with the collaboration of police, citizens, and bureaucracies across the continent.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India, in the same decade, drafted a Constitution that guarantees equal rights to every faith, Hindu, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Jain, Buddhist, Parsi, Jew, atheist, without distinction.
It did not invent this tolerance in 1950. It inscribed what India had already practised for millennia.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
4/12. Between 1885 and 1908, the personal colony of Belgium's King Leopold II killed an estimated up to 10 million Congolese through forced labour, mutilation and terror.
Children's hands were severed for unmet rubber quotas.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India, in records of history has not invaded a single country to plant a flag, extract a resource, or convert a people. Not one.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
3/12. For nearly 400 years, European powers, Portugal, Spain, Britain, France, the Netherlands, Denmark-Norway, shipped an estimated 12 million Africans across the Atlantic into slavery.
Cities, banks, universities were built on this wealth.
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
India, in the same centuries, gave refuge to Jews fleeing Rome, Parsis fleeing Persia, Syrian Christians, Tibetan Buddhists, and the Dalai Lama himself, without a single forced conversion, without a single expulsion.
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
2/12. This is not about one journalist or one country.
It is about a continent that built its modern wealth, its modern borders, and its modern moral vocabulary on three centuries of conduct that, by Europe's own present standards, would today be called crimes against humanity.
And which still asks the rest of the world to prove itself.
So this thread runs on two questions, asked in every line:
๐พ๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐๐๐๐๐ ๐ฌ๐๐๐๐๐?
๐ช๐ต๐ ๐๐ต๐ผ๐๐น๐ฑ ๐๐ต๐ฒ ๐๐ผ๐ฟ๐น๐ฑ ๐ป๐ผ๐ ๐๐ฟ๐๐๐ ๐๐ป๐ฑ๐ถ๐ฎ?
In Oslo, a Norwegian journalist asked India's MEA Secretary why we should trust India.
It is a question worth answering, but first, a question worth asking back.
By what authority does Europe ask it?
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An initiative with an underlying vision of endeavouring to educate, preserve and propagate Bharatโs traditional, social and cultural construct of #VasudhaivaKutumbakam as the most balanced way of social living.
By extrapolating these rich ideals at #global level, this conclave is an attempt to foster shaping a #world order that is #Free, #fair and #just such that it can also protect and revive numerous cultures and civilisations throughout the world.
Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam ki Oar 3.0 looks to shape a harmonious world based on Bharatโs cultural #heritage. The Conclave series returned with two distinct facets of Vasudhaiva Kutumabakam this year - #Legal and #Geopolitical.
Esteemed Partners :
Research Partner : @gitarthganga7
Knowledge Partner : @vifindia@indfoundation #WadiaGhandy&Co
Education Partner : @mnlumumbai@NirmaUniTweets
Media Education Partner : @NimcjOfficial
Support Partner : @TheGeostrata@gra_aca_por, BMK foundation, Shri Adarsh Krlavani Mandal
Shubhecchak : Pravarsh group of companies
Esteemed Guest of Honour : @sureshpprabhu
Advisory board : @lbscidsa, @vijai63 & @rammadhav_
Advisory & Executive Committee : @journogujarati, Shri Nikunt Raval, Shri Dhawal Mehta & @LalanBhavik
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VIP attendees : @durapada, Shri V Ramakrishnan & Shri Ravi Shah.
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Took blessings of Jainacharya Yugbhushansuri Maharaja ji, the 79th successor of Tirthankar Mahavir.
His wisdom seamlessly bridges ancient scriptures with modern challenges, offering valuable insights for a better world.