Sunil Bitla

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

the way you live your life, has changed the way I live mine.

thanks.. @naval

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

'Lets not pretend some great principle involved here", says EAM Dr S Jaishankar, as he points how US asked India to buy Russian energy, then imposed tariffs, & then revoked them.

Terms Russia as a "steady" supplier of energy

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

"European sells weapons which are used to attack India, for many many years. We Indians have never done anything to endanger Europe", EAM Jaishankar says when asked about India's stance on Russia Ukraine conflict

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Why are we indirectly justifying the US action by referring to OFAC and using terms like non- compliance?

These are illegal actions even if the ships are not Indian- flagged.

Our concern is that Indian seamen have been killed and no regret has been expressed by CENTCOM.

If India and the US cooperate on maritime security in the Indian Ocean, hold elaborate naval exercises, subscribe to the concept of the Indo- Pacific, the US can’t be indifferent to killing Indian seamen in the Indian Ocean whatever the circumstances.

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

@REDBOXINDIA Good decision.

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

S Jaishankar: Many Western countries entirely put their security in the American basket. But they are revisiting that. A lot of things India used to say - like strategic autonomy - now make sense to them. India always had an independent line

[Anish Giri @anishgiri]

India and Uzbekistan love chess.

And chess loves them back.

[Hans Niemann @HansMokeNiemann]

India's chess rise is one of the great sports stories of our era, backed by Adani, celebrated by PM Modi, embraced by cricket stars and the whole culture. That's what national belief looks like. American chess has the talent to compete at that level. What we need now is that same support behind our next generation. 🇺🇸

[unusual_whales @unusual_whales]

BREAKING: This has been the worst day of the year for the QQQ.

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

@atrupar 🎯

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

India's power comes from the diversity of people, cultures and religions.

India is a secular state.

India that is Bharat, Bharat that is India.

India is a democratic nation, People > Politicians.

The Constitution of India is the supreme of all.

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

@shipoast @johnkonrad @balajis Everyone pedophile protecter is here.. lol 😂

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

@johnkonrad @balajis One who says "I’m an expert" is no true expert.

Your take on the Hormuz disaster proves it.

Ride your ego, mate. @johnkonrad

[bubble boi @bubbleboi]

I’ve been reading the Vedas a lot recently, and what’s stood out is how it doubles as an encyclopedia as well as a religious text. Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, metallurgy, linguistics, are all woven through hymns and rituals as one body of knowledge. Simply calling it “religious” forces it into a Western category that didn’t have the apparatus to recognize what it actually was. It’s closer to a tradition of formalized epistemology in which metaphysics, observation, and language form one continuous inquiry, which as a result led Indian civilization to develop along a fundamentally different path because of it.

You can see the effect most clearly in the sciences. Around 600 BCE, the Vedic record describes a surgical procedure that matches modern rhinoplasty and is still foundational to reconstructive surgery today. Centuries before Western Europe stopped treating eclipses as supernatural, Indian scholars had calculated the circumference of the earth within 0.2% and explained eclipses as shadows. Centuries before Plato and Aristotle rejected atomism, the Vedic tradition already held that matter is composed of indivisible particles combining into binary and triatomic compounds, transformable by heat. The first formal rules for zero and negative arithmetic appear in the Vedas, along with infinite-series derivations of π, sine, and cosine centuries before Newton and Leibniz.

The interesting question is how did they get so much right, so early? My best guess is language.

The Vedic tradition is unique compared to other oral traditions as it demanded letter-perfect oral transmission across generations. Around 500 BCE, scholars composed a generative grammar of Sanskrit called Panini so rigorous it anticipates Backus-Naur form, the notation that defines programming languages today, by 2,500 years. Sanskrit is recursive, rule-based, and built to minimize ambiguity. It reads more like mathematics than English.

When you think in a language built like that, the precision of the language becomes the precision of your reasoning. The West didn’t formalize this until much later. Kant argued our categories of understanding shape what we can know, Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world, and Kripke showed that naming doesn’t just describe things, it constitutes what they mean and how we can reason about them. All three touch the same insight which is that thought is downstream of language.

The Vedic tradition operated on that insight thousands of years earlier. To the point that they built a whole language first and used it to think clearly about everything else after. I find that all really fascinating.

[Sunil Bitla @_besunil]

@KuldeepD746 @MattooShashank Midwit

[Ed Krassenstein @EdKrassen]

India calls America out for Trump’s racist comments and Rubio calls Americans stupid.

President Trump amplified a post last month referring to India as a “hellhole.” So when Secretary of State Marco Rubio visited New Delhi, he was confronted directly about remarks viewed as offensive toward Indians coming from the United States.

Rubio responded: “Every country in the world has stupid people who say dumb things.”

The State Department initially posted the exchange online, but later removed it after people pointed out that Rubio’s answer appeared to indirectly characterize Trump’s comments as “dumb.”

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Just in: US State Dept deletes the post involving my question on racism against Indians.

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

When Udayanidhi Stalin repeatedly attacks "sanathanam" in Tamil, why is there not more outrage among the highly religious Tamil Hindu population?

I believe it comes down to language.

In Tamil language, the word "sanathanam" (eternal in English) is not in regular use. Most Tamil people do not know this word and I did not know it myself as a child.

On the other hand the word "dharma" (spelled as "dharmam" or "dharumam") is common in Tamil and there is a district named Dharmapuri in Tamil Nadu. There is also the word "aram" used in Tamil with the same meaning as dharma.

Interestingly, in Hindi, the word "dharam" means "religion" in general and Hinduism is "hindu dharm" or "sanatan dharam" and Christianity is "isai dharam" in Hindi.

But in Tamil usage, the word "dharmam" would effectively mean "Hindu dharam" in Hindi.

Now if Udayanidhi had attacked "dharmam" in Tamil (which effectively means Hinduism) he would be widely criticised for proclaiming adharmam.

That is why he is picking the word "sanathanam" to attack because that word is not widely known in Tamil.

With all his "sincere" effort, he is making the word known in Tamil too and he has made the already huge anti DMK vote in Tamil Nadu even bigger. The DMK has never won a majority on its own ever, because of that huge strong anti-DMK current. They established that current with their constant attacks on Hindu deities. The AIADMK never did that and they harvested the anti-DMK current well.

Now, in spite of the TVK being the new anti-DMK party and in spite of the AIADMK splitting the anti-DMK vote (see how I worked it!) and in spite of the DMK spending extraordinary amounts of cash, in spite of the DMK having a strong alliance and the TVK having no alliance, the DMK lost the election.

Udayanidhi wants to ensure the DMK would never come back. May the eternal sanatana dharma grant his wish 🙏😉

[Shashank Mattoo @MattooShashank]

Indian General’s big statement on Pakistan:

“No terror sanctuary across the Line of Control is safe. We will hit everything. The condition, timing and method will be ours.”