Varma S Konala

[Aravind @aravind]

China is "far ahead" of India is a myth. In terms of development and tech, yes they are ahead. But not "far ahead."

Most of China's tech are copies of US/European tech got by buying up companies, forced tech transfers, or outright stealing which India doesn't do.

Their fighters, engines, rockets, tanks - most are copies of Western/Russian tech. Sometimes part for part. 2000 years ago too they were good replicators, traveling thousands of kms to India to copy Indian texts on religion, science, philosophy, medicine. Commendable.

They do a good show with the robots and drones, producing them in numbers and deploying them publicly. But most of them are still behind what the US has. And all the tech was first innovated in the US/West.

They still assemble 80% of a smartphone "Made in China" from imported parts. They still rely on western tech for their chips. Yet, not a single Chinese will ever mock themselves as "only assembling." This is their strength.

Their AI models are definitely good, but most of them are distilled from western models, trained on illegally obtained sanctioned American GPUs, and lag in capabilities to frontier US models.

Their cities are definitely built to impress. But built by printing huge sums of money and taking large amounts of debt. And rebuilt from scratch razing down entire localities without any choice given to citizens.

Their development model is something a democracy like India simply cannot replicate.

When some in India compare some infra from China, as it is trend now, and mock India's, also ask them to say in the same sentence:

"Let's have a dictatorship, I am ready to go through a cultural revolution that destroys all dehati behavior including mine, I'm ready to leave my religion, and give up all I have to the govt to redevelop India."

They won't. But this is what happened in China before to get what it has now. Millions of historical books were burned, religions and local languages were destroyed, millions of dehatis killed, teachers were roasted and eaten, tanks rolled over protestors. Not a single thing I said in this para is an exaggeration.

And some of their practices like stealing tech and sabotaging others to rise, or use their women like assets to influence the weak western elites to gain from them are somethings India will never do.

Indians must get rid of this inferiority complex instilled into us by clever psyops and propaganda to disillusion us and derail our development.

India has long been the land of innovators and riches. A rich India shielded China from the worst of Islamic invasions and western colonialism.

China's "century of humiliation" they play up pales in comparison to 1000 years of oppression India faced destroying its culture, civilization, and capabilities.

Yet, India has risen up since independence, and even with a democracy where reforms can't be pushed through and no cultural revolution killing 30-40m, India has done well enough to keep up with China.

At present, if you look worldwide in developed nations where both Indians and Chinese migrate to, you will see Indians far outpace the Chinese in wealth, income, innovation, startups, leadership, politics etc. In every single nation. No exceptions.

Given similar opportunities, Indians and India will do extremely well. Indians do better than even natives while starting from scratch. And this is across castes, religions, and regions.

Come to a country like the US or take UAE - Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs, Malayalis, Punjabis, GCs, STs, Christians - every Indian group will have people who have excelled.

I am not saying the Chinese aren't capable or inferior. That's what they do to us trained by CCP's toxic supremacist propaganda. We don't need to be them. But every Indian must understand, India will quickly catch up and surpass China if it is allowed.

This is something many Indians do not realize themselves, but China and the US realize. They can already see an India doing wonders in development at current per capita. That's why they actively try to sabotage and slow down India.

You may be of any political ideology or religion or region in India, but you can't deny that India has been constantly attacked and sabotaged from rising up.

It was the British during Nehru, the Americans during Indira, and now China has joined them to derail, destabilize, and disillusion India during Modi.

Leave aside politics and you will see clearly outside interference and destabilization efforts on India since independence. From meddling in internal politics to creating protests to outright assassinations of our leaders and innovators.

So stop listening to these blackpillers day-in and day-out mocking India comparing it with China when it suits them. They themselves are puppets of a psyop and hence do it, but otherwise will say "India and China can't be compared. China's centuries ahead."

I agree India doesn't need to be compared with China. But not because China is centuries ahead (its more like 10 years now), but because India need not be China. India can be better and will be better.

And for that every Indian has to do their part without derailing and destabilizing everything in a fit of rage because somethings you want aren't happening soon enough and some are constantly telling you a revolution will sort out everything.

The revolution is already happening. Peacefully. The changes will happen, the country will rise, and it is inevitable if there's political stability and current pace of development, India will have much better cities, facilities, and reforms that all want.

[Prasanna Viswanathan @prasannavishy]

A sharp piece by M Ramesh in @businessline on why India's solar manufacturing story is a big win, and why the US is quietly shutting the door.

In 2014, India made roughly 2.5 GW of modules and zero cells.
Today
Modules: 242.7 GW
Cells: 40.5 GW, with about 40 GW more coming (half of it in 2026)
Wafers: 2.5 GW, with 24 GW announced

Investment grew from $85 million in 2018 to $12 billion in 2025, and another $4 billion came in H1 2026. That is $16 billion in 18 months. Announced pipeline around $16B in 2025 plus $8B in H1 2026 (Rhodium Group).

What made this happen was entirely government policy. ALMM mandate (locally made modules, then cells, and soon wafers) built a guaranteed domestic market, and industry built factories to supply it.

India now has 168 GW of installed solar, about 12% of its electricity. Clearly are building the energy transition and the factories that supply it.

But here's the uncomfortable truth.

US has hit Indian solar with a 123% anti-dumping margin and a 107% combined deposit rate. On top of that come Section 232 floor prices of $0.22/W on cells and $0.38/W on modules. A $1.2B export market has effectively been erasedovernight.

India must realise this despite sepoy propaganda. The US will not facilitate India's rise the way it facilitated China's. For China, it offered WTO entry, open markets, and decades of offshored manufacturing and capital. For India, the offer is tariff walls and "build it here."

So the path is tough but no choice. We got to deepen the domestic market, get into wafers and polysilicon, and compete on scale. No one is going to hand India the ladder. It has to build its own

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

For all those who emerged from our education system with degrees in the Humanities but did not become communists, leftists, entitled little whackjobs - I have nothing but respect.

You must have read the same biased books, had the same sociopaths as peers; how did you manage it?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Development and emancipation of one community cannot be at the cost of another community. Discrimination should be terminated, not transferred.

A draconian law and its enforcement on campuses will offer India's finest minds a choice - leave science, or leave the country.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

I deeply respect Ananthan's principled stand in this matter.

Prof Suryanarayana Doolla should not be subject to this.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

A student at IIT Bombay dies by suicide.

Outrage against the IIT admin.

IIT clarifies that the student was caught using ChatGPT for answers during an exam, was counselled. He went to hostel and died by suicide.

Student's father suddenly realised that since last many months, his son was subjected to caste based abuses by Prof Doolla, the faculty who caught him cheating, and this caste based harassment was "under the directions of IIT director".

Politically suitable scenario, caste groups jump in. Dalit Politicians jump in, including those in power and speak against the professor.

The eminent and illustrious professor, with an impeccable career, is now subjected to a media trial, receives threats, faces calls to be hanged, and is booked under the SC/ST Atrocities Act.

The IIT director resign/forced to resign.

The Ministry of Education, under which IIT operates, does not utter a single word in support of the Prof Doolla who is being hounded simply for doing his job as per the laid down procedure.

On the contrary, IIT Bombay today apologized for its tweet about the cheating incident, stating that the cause of death remains under investigation.

Next, in all likelihood Professor Doolla will be sacrificed to calm the caste groups.

This country is beyond repair.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

Having visited at least 2 top IIMs to deliver lectures and interacted with the management and students, I believe we must next anticipate an IIT Bombay like situation in IIMs. The Ambedkarite-Periyarite activism in these institutions has reached alarming levels. Wait and watch.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

"IIT Humanities departments are saturated with individuals committed to undermining India. Our premier institutions are becoming havens for Urban Naxal sympathisers."

A timely warning by @JNU_official_50 VC. An essay of stunning clarity that must be read. https://t.co/HmZdMSU5kf

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Dear Mr Javed Akhtar. Alhamdulillah. The quote is from Maulana Azad's Calcutta Speech. The speech was published in Khutbat-e-Azad. Here is the link: https://t.co/yXkvYTTW1j

The Maulana is exhorting the Indian Muslims to unite with Muslims around the world and save the Caliphate. He begins by stating that all relationships in the world can break down, father can turn against son, brother against brother, mother can shun her child but the relationship of a Muslim with a Muslim can never be severed.

The Maulana then continues: if even a grain of the soul of Islam is still alive in its followers, then if a thorn enters the foot of a Turk on the field of battle, I swear by Allah that no Muslim of Hindustan is a Muslim until he feels that prick in his own heart. For the Millat of Islam is one body, and Muslims, wherever they are, are its limbs. If a finger of the hand is cut, the rest of the body cannot remain at peace until it has felt the blow. This is not rhetoric. It is the plain meaning of the well-known hadith which Imam Ahmad related: the Messenger of God, peace and blessings be upon him, said that the likeness of the believers in their mutual love, mercy and compassion is that of one body: when one limb complains, the whole body responds with sleeplessness and fever. And there is the other hadith, related by Abu Musa al-Ash‘ari: The believer to the believer is like a building; each part supports the other. This is the first and last distinguishing mark of the people of Islam, to which the Qur’an itself has pointed.

Then, to reinforce Muslim unity, Maulana Azad provides his commentary after quoting the Quranic verse 48: 29.

The Messenger of Allah and those with him are severe against the Kafirs, merciful among themselves.

Whatever hardness they have is for falsehood and unbelief; whatever love and tenderness they have is for truth, sincerity, Islam and Tawhid. So be extremely hard against disbelievers but extremely sympathetic and kind among ourselves; take heed, then, and do not pass over this as if you had not heard it.

P.S. This is the second time I am enlightening you on your heroes and their lifelong sociopolitical stances. The first time was when you refused to believe that books were banned, editors sacked, films blocked, and Majrooh jailed, under Nehru's rule. Please don't ask me about Gandhi next - the Mahatma, not Rahul, though both are probably your heroes. Cheers, WDTP

[Smita Deshmukh🇮🇳 @smitadeshmukh]

Refuse to sing Vande Mataram because it associates the nation with goddess Durga, while simultaneously demand to join garba - a festival literally dedicated to goddess Durga - under the pretext of secularism is pure hypocrisy.

​If strict monotheism prohibits the anthem, it prohibits the dance.

You don't get to switch your theology on and off depending on what suits you.

Pick a standard and stick to it. 😡

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Anticipatory bail has just been denied to @ajeetbharti in the case where the FIR against him invoked draconian SC/ST act provisions. Ajeet's remarks were a reaction to provocation involving his sister. He could be jailed for up to 7 years.

I stand with Ajeet. And so should you.

[ISRO @isro]

Clarification regarding media reports on concerns relating to Space Sector Reforms and the role of ISRO

ISRO’s Next Chapter: Leading India’s National Space Ecosystem
There has been considerable reporting in parts of the media around the future role of ISRO including speculations and misinformation that there is an attempt to privatise ISRO or reduce its role. These assertions are completely baseless and incorrect.
We wish to categorically state that ISRO will neither be privatised nor will its importance be diminished.
ISRO will continue to remain India’s principal institution for advanced space research and technology development, national and strategic missions, space science and exploration, and critical and frontier space capabilities.
Participation of private sector in space is not about reducing ISRO’s role. It is about enabling ISRO to focus even more strongly on the next generation of India’s space programme, while industry scales mature technologies and capabilities. What is changing is not the importance of ISRO, but the scale and structure of India’s space ecosystem.

Towards an ISRO-Led Space Ecosystem
The space-sector reforms initiated since 2020 and institutionalised through the Indian Space Policy 2023, along with progressive liberalisation of FDI policy, aim to create a larger, stronger and globally competitive Indian space ecosystem.
Industry, start-ups and academia are being enabled to participate across the space value chain, complementing and multiplying ISRO’s capabilities. The reforms should therefore be seen as ecosystem expansion and capability multiplication, not privatisation.
As India’s industrial and technological capabilities have grown, mature and scalable activities can increasingly be undertaken by Indian industry. ISRO has already transferred around multiple technologies to industry. Transferring a mature technology does not mean ISRO is withdrawing from that domain.
It enables large-scale production, commercialisation, innovation and access to global markets while allowing ISRO’s scientific and technical manpower to concentrate on advanced research, next-generation technologies and complex national missions.
The transition is therefore towards an “ISRO-led national space ecosystem.”

ISRO’s Focus Will Move Further Towards Frontier Technologies
ISRO’s role will progressively strengthen in areas where its scientific expertise matters most: frontier R&D, advanced technologies, human spaceflight, next-generation launch systems, deep-space and planetary missions and strategic national capabilities.
It will continue developing cutting-edge technologies, including advanced payloads for communication, navigation and Earth observation, sensors, propulsion systems and other critical technologies.
Meanwhile, mature and routinely manufactured systems can increasingly be scaled through industry. Production of mature launch vehicles, routine satellites and other established systems can increasingly be undertaken by industry or PSUs through appropriate competitive processes.
This allows ISRO to devote more resources and scientific manpower to the next generation of technologies and missions, while the wider ecosystem provides the investment, manufacturing capacity and scale required by an expanding national space programme.

[Pawan K Goenka @GoenkaPk]

Five years ago, when India opened up its space sector, we had two clear objectives: enable ISRO to conquer new frontiers and empower our private industry to scale up.

Today, we are seeing both take shape.

EOS-05 is a major achievement by ISRO, and this is just the beginning.

At the same time, from barely a handful of space startups five years ago, India today has over 450. Indian private industry has already flown a rocket to orbit.

Now comes the real test: scaling up.

We have set ourselves an ambitious target of 50 launches a year by 2030.

A goal of this scale cannot be achieved by one organisation alone. Government and private industry have to build this future together.

ISRO’s research will continue to push the frontiers of what is possible. Private industry must translate that momentum into manufacturing at scale: more rockets, more satellites, more launch capacity and new technologies.

That is how we will build a complete space ecosystem and create the capacity to match our ambition.

The opportunity before us is immense: build in India, launch from India and serve the world from India.

We are well on our way to taking India’s space sector to a new orbit, figuratively and literally. @isro @INSPACeIND

[ISRO Spaceflight @ISROSpaceflight]

🚨 𝗦𝗘-𝟮𝟬𝟬𝟬 𝗲𝗻𝗴𝗶𝗻𝗲 𝗣𝗛𝗧𝗔 𝘀𝘂𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝗮𝘁 𝟭𝟬𝟬% 𝘁𝗵𝗿𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗹𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗹 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝟭𝘀𝘁 𝘁𝗶𝗺𝗲! 🔥

ISRO has successfully conducted the first hot fire test of their Kerolox SE-2000 (formerly, SCE-200) engine Power Head Test Article (PHTA) at its full 2,000 kN (200 ton) thrust level today at IPRC, Mahendragiri!

This was the 9th test of SE-2000 PHTA. Previously, it has been tested at 47% (94 ton), 60% (120 ton) and 88% (175 ton) thrust, and this was the first time it was tested at the 100% (200 ton) thrust level.

Today's complete test lasted for 35 seconds, where the engine was fired at 100% thrust for 5 seconds.

Additionally, ISRO also tested switching over of propellant supply from a low pressure tank to a medium pressure tank to validate the engine performance for subsequent longer duration hot fires!

SE-2000 will power ISRO's upcoming SC120 stage which is being developed to replace LVM3's hypergolic L110 stage alongside replacement of LVM3's C25 cryogenic stage with the mkre powerful C32 stage, as part of the LVM3 upgrade program to enhance its payload capacity.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Smash the patriarchy

[Indian Retail Investing @IRInvesting]

Janmashtami is tomorrow yet NSE and BSE will trade as usual.

The 2026 calendar has holidays for Good Friday, Bakri Id, Muharram, Mahavir Jayanti, Guru Nanak Jayanti and Christmas but not for the birth of Shri Krishna.

Welcome to 'secular' India

[Tathvam-asi @tathvamasi6]

Waqf land - 38,00,000 acres
Church land - 7,00,00,000 acres

Ram Mandir - 2.5 acres

But Congress, commies and Dimagi Naxals wants to build schools and hospitals only in the place of Ram Mandir.

Any idea Why?

[Brown Sepoys @BrownSepoys]

Brown Sepoy of the day is
“Ro Khanna”.

🧵 He deceives people in the name of being a Hindu. Became a signatory to a campaign against the RSS. Partners with anti India groups like Hfhr & IAMC. Meets banned SIMI leader, and sympathises with Islamists and anti-Hindu folks.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Krishna Janmasthan must be legally reclaimed and rebuilt, its decapitated idols exhumed from the steps of the Jahanara mosque and reestablished and consecrated.

Here I recount its history and explain why, of all the disputed sites, Mathura is the easiest to adjudicate on:

[United Hindu Council @UHC_Media]

🚨 Nearly 100 politicians just signed a pledge to refuse donations from RSS supporters. Look at the list. Nearly every single one a Democrat.

Our message to these candidates: if you signed this pledge -
Do not come to our temples for photo opportunities.
Do not come to our Diwali celebrations for votes.
Do not send us fundraising emails.
You have already decided our community's institutions are the problem.
We have noted it.

You were either hood-winked by coordinated anti-Hindu propaganda, or you made a deliberate choice to treat Indian-American civil society as radioactive. Either way, the Hindu community now has its answer about where you stand.

The RSS runs schools for tribal children, disaster relief across India, and medical missions for the poor of every faith. While Dr. Bhagwat stood at Madison Square Garden and told 6,000 people about Universal Oneness, these politicians signed a pledge calling that organization anti-democratic.

Misguided or malicious, the result is the same. You have told us who you are.

When the next temple is shot at, when the next Hindu worshipper is harassed, when the next Hinduphobic attack goes viral, we will remember who signed this pledge and said nothing. We will remember who chose smear over service.

Zero dollars. Zero votes. Until you choose your constituents over your anti-Hindu allies.

#HinduVoterBlock #NoMoreSilence #HindusAreAmericans @UHC_Media