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Well said
Points to ponder 🤔
Just recieved this interesting stuff on WhatsApp but the writer is anonymous.
**🪳protests is a major issue funded from abroad and will cripple many not only abroad but here in India as well.
'People want Dharmendra Pradhan, Education minister,) to resign. The agenda for CJP is not visible on the face of it,but... The desperation of the cockroaches surprised me.
Even I was ready to give Dharmendra Pradhan a pass.
The man has failed.
Scrutiny is deserved.
But then a question appeared.
Why this desperation?
Why Boston?
Why Germany?
Why now?
Why June 2026?
So, I started digging.
What I found had little to do with a paper leak.
It had everything to do with money.
A lot of money.
Three decisions were sitting on Pradhan's table.
All scheduled for July - Aug 2026.
All capable of reshaping Indian education.
Decision 1.
NCERT.
New textbooks.
Classes 9 to 12.
The new Mathematics curriculum introduces the Sulba Sutras.
A dangerous idea.
Because it tells Indian children something many would rather hide.
Mathematics lived here.
Long before Europe claimed ownership of the story.
The new History curriculum goes further.
The Aryan Invasion Theory.
Out.
The Sindhu-Sarasvati Civilisation.
In.
India's own story.
Returned to India.
Decision 2.
May 15, 2026.
CBSE issues a circular.
3 languages mandatory from Class 9.
At least two must be Indian languages.
Decision 3.
K. Radhakrishnan Committee reforms for NTA.
Decentralised examinations.
Technology-sovereign architecture.
No single point of failure.
No single point of manipulation.
Now ask the real question.
Who loses if all three happen?
Start with academia.
Harvard.
SOAS London.
Columbia.
Chicago.
Departments built around the Aryan Migration framework.
Annual grants at stake.
~ $500 million.
Then foreign universities.
UK.
US.
Australia.
Together earning roughly $3.7 billion annually from Indian students.
Around 1.8 million of them.
Fix India's system.
Build confidence.
Restore self-worth.
And that pipeline starts shrinking.
Then comes the coaching industry.
Manufacture anxiety.
Sell hope.
Repeat.
Worth ₹58,000 crore today.
Projected at ₹1,33,995 crore by 2028.
Built on scarcity.
Built on English-dominated examinations.
Decentralise NTA.
Expand Indian languages.
And the economics begin to wobble.
Allen.
Aakash.
FIITJEE.
BYJU'S.
Resonance.
Drishti IAS.
Thousands of smaller players.
Global investors have poured billions into this ecosystem.
Not for charity.
Not for patriotism.
For returns.
Then comes the NGO ecosystem.
The outrage industry.
The grant circuit.
A narrative that survives only if India remains intellectually dependent.
Teach children their own history.
Accurately.
And the narrative starts suffocating.
Funding follows narratives.
Funding leaves with them too.
Add it together.
Conservative estimate.
Nearly ₹3 lakh crore at risk.
More than $35 billion.
This is a business survival fight.
That is what India was about to dismantle.
That is why the meme factory found fresh energy.
That is why the protest lands on June 6.
Before the academic year begins.
Before the reforms become irreversible.
Pradhan may go.
Perhaps he should.
That is a separate debate.
But the policies are the real battlefield.
Always were.
Most people are still watching the headline.
And missing the war.'
It's so obvious.
Wondering why it's not easily acknowledged.
A friend of mine, who happens to be an MBA student with a decent job, asked me whether I support the ongoing protest
When I asked him why do you think I should support the protest?
He said:
> India has the highest debt of 500 lakh crore
> Highest unemployment rate in the world
> No new education institutions
> Primary schools getting closed
> Highest inflation in the world
> Per capita GDP very low in comparison to other countries in the world
> Students not being able to crack competitive exams
> Multiple paper leaks
> Vishwaguru is JUMLA
I was surprised to see how someone so educated could be so misinformed.
I answered to his questions:
> In 2014, India's external debt stood at around 23.9% of GDP (approximately ₹55 lakh crore)
Today, it is around 19.1% of GDP (about ₹181 lakh crore). This is nowhere close to the ₹500 lakh crore figure he mentioned
> Sudan has the highest unemployment rate in the world not India, India currently has an unemployment rate of 5.5%. In global comparisons among major economies, India performs better than countries like France (8.1%) and Spain (10.83%)
> In 2014, India had 16 IITs, 7 AIIMS, 13 IIMs, and 9 IIITs. Today, there are 23 IITs, 22 AIIMS, 20 IIMs, and 25 IIITs
> Venezuela has the highest inflation rate in the world not India, India is performing the best even in the ongoing wars with inflation below 4.5%
> India's per capita income has increased by more than 45% since 2014
> The inability to crack competitive exams is largely an individual outcome. However, the government's role is to ensure a fair, transparent, and merit-based examination system
> If we are comparing with the past, the situation was worse. Even high school examination papers used to be leaked. That said, paper leaks remain unacceptable, and there must be strict accountability
> Any country that confers its highest civilian honour does not do so without recognizing a person's influence, contribution, or global stature. Whether one agrees with the term "Vishwaguru" or not, India's growing international standing cannot be dismissed
I have no issue with anyone protesting or criticizing the government. In fact, that's a fundamental right in a democracy. But if your arguments don't stand up to basic fact-checking, then you're not challenging the government, you're simply spreading misinformation.
@aravind @Sanjay_Dixit @SanjeevSanskrit @JaipurDialogues @UdayMahurkar @prafullaketkar
Who to follow
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🚨‼️Big expose.
Who’s funding Jantar Mantar protests of CJP?
A Telugu influencer received this offer of ₹50,000 if they post in support of CJP, @Wangchuk66 and Dipke on Insta.
FB and Insta are anti-India platforms.
ऐसे लोग दुर्भाग्य हैं भारत का !
𝖬𝖾𝖾𝗍 𝖩𝗂𝖻𝗎 𝖣 𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗐, 𝖺 𝖡𝗈𝗋𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝖲𝖾𝖼𝗎𝗋𝗂𝗍𝗒 𝖥𝗈𝗋𝖼𝖾 𝖼𝗈𝗆𝗆𝖺𝗇𝖽𝖺𝗇𝗍 𝖿𝗋𝗈𝗆 𝖯𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖺𝗇𝖺𝗆𝗍𝗁𝗂𝗍𝗍𝖺, 𝖪𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗅𝖺. 𝖧𝖾 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖻𝗒 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖢𝖡𝖨 𝗐𝗁𝗂𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗋𝖺𝗏𝖾𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗇𝗀 𝗂𝗇 𝖲𝗁𝖺𝗅𝗂𝗆𝖺𝗋 𝖤𝗑𝗉𝗋𝖾𝗌𝗌. 𝖧𝖾 𝗁𝖺𝖽 ₹76 𝗅𝖺𝗄𝗁 𝗂𝗇 𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗅𝗎𝗀𝗀𝖺𝗀𝖾. 𝖶𝗁𝖾𝗇 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖢𝖡𝖨 𝗋𝖺𝗂𝖽𝖾𝖽 𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝗁𝗈𝗎𝗌𝖾 𝗂𝗇 𝖪𝖾𝗋𝖺𝗅𝖺 𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗒 𝗋𝖾𝖼𝗈𝗏𝖾𝗋𝖾𝖽 𝖺𝗇 𝖺𝗌𝗍𝗈𝗇𝗂𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗇𝗀 ₹96 𝖼𝗋𝗈𝗋𝖾 𝗂𝗇 𝖼𝖺𝗌𝗁.
𝖬𝖺𝗍𝗁𝖾𝗐 𝗐𝖺𝗌 𝗉𝗈𝗌𝗍𝖾𝖽 𝖺𝗍 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖨𝗇𝖽𝗂𝖺 𝖡𝖺𝗇𝗀𝗅𝖺𝖽𝖾𝗌𝗁 𝖻𝗈𝗋𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝗂𝗇 𝖶𝖾𝗌𝗍 𝖡𝖾𝗇𝗀𝖺𝗅.
𝖭𝗈𝗐 𝗒𝗈𝗎 𝗄𝗇𝗈𝗐 𝗐𝗁𝗒 𝗆𝗂𝗅𝗅𝗂𝗈𝗇𝗌 𝗈𝖿 𝗂𝗅𝗅𝖾𝗀𝖺𝗅 𝖡𝖺𝗇𝗀𝗅𝖺𝖽𝖾𝗌𝗁𝗂𝗌 𝖺𝗋𝖾 𝖺𝖻𝗅𝖾 𝗍𝗈 𝗐𝖺𝗅𝗄 𝗂𝗇𝗍𝗈 𝖨𝗇𝖽𝗂𝖺 𝖺𝗌 𝗂𝖿 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝖻𝗈𝗋𝖽𝖾𝗋 𝖽𝗈𝖾𝗌𝗇'𝗍 𝖾𝗑𝗂𝗌𝗍.
During the recent earthquakes in Venezuela, young Mateo was reportedly trapped beneath the rubble in complete darkness. His faithful Golden Retriever, Max, stayed right by his side without moving an inch. He wrapped his warm body around the child, shielding him from the cold and fear as the world seemed to crumble around them.
Hours later, rescuers’ flashlights cut through the debris. They found an unforgettable scene: the boy resting peacefully, held close by a dog whose eyes showed exhaustion but also unbreakable resolve.
Max had completed his duty. He never abandoned his post. In that instant, amid the dust and emotions, it was evident that the real hero possessed golden fur and a heart full of endless love.
Incredible!👏🏾
Her name is Sonia Meena.
She is a young officer, still in the early years of her career. She seized the trucks of one of the most feared mining mafias in her state. In return, she got a death threat. She kept going to court to give evidence against him anyway.
She came from Rajasthan, cleared the civil services examination in her early twenties, and was posted into the Madhya Pradesh cadre.
She was handed the kind of postings that break people, districts where the sand and mining mafia runs a parallel government, where trucks strip the riverbeds through the night and everyone, from the local strongman to the officials meant to stop him, has quietly agreed to look away.
She did not look away.
As a sub divisional magistrate, she went after the illegal sand mining directly. She impounded the loaded trucks of a powerful mining operator, a man used to being untouchable.
She did not accept the usual arrangement where the raid happens, the fine is paid, and the trucks quietly return to the river the next night.
So the threats began. The mafia boss she had taken on was reported to have threatened her openly. A formal death threat followed, serious enough that the state had to increase her security.
Here is the part that tells you who she is. Even under threat, she kept travelling to the other district to submit her evidence in court, in person, so the case against him would not collapse. The easy thing was to fall ill, to be busy, to let the file go cold. She refused.
She is not a famous name. She has no film about her. She is simply one of those officers who took the oath seriously, in a system that often punishes exactly that.
They thought a young woman in her first postings would be easy to frighten. They were wrong.
During PM Modi’s visit to Slovakia, @Richard_Rasi received Thekua from my state Bihar.
We usually associate Thekua with Chhath Puja, but I have always felt there is some serious food science behind it as well. Maybe I am wrong, but it never seemed like an ordinary festive prasadam to me.
At 1st, to understand why Thekua is made the way it is, we have to look at the Satapatha Brahmana (c. 900 BCE), a massive Vedic prose text detailing the exact science of sacrificial offerings.
The text outlines the Apupa (the ancestor of Thekua). The Vedic priests discovered a fundamental chemical problem: when we offer raw flou/boiled grains to a fire, the high moisture content causes rapid charring (incomplete combustion) & bad odors, which ruined the Yajna (ritual).
Their solution was a breakthrough in ancient food tech: dehydration through fat-binding. The Satapatha Brahmana details that the grains must be ground, mixed intimately with Ghrita (clarified butter/ghee) & then fried.
The ghee coats the starch molecules, a process chefs today call shortening/moyen. When the dough hits the heat, the ghee acts as a thermal conductor, instantly driving out 100% of the internal moisture w/o burning the outer carbohydrates. The result was a food item that achieved absolute sterility. Because it lacked water, it could not support fungal/bacterial life, making it the 1st documented shelf-stable sweet in human history.
The wooden mold (Saacha) used to press Thekua is not just a decorative folk tool. It is a living application of Vedic ritual geometry straight from the Baudhayana Shulba Sutra (c. 800 BCE).
The Shulba Sutras are the world's oldest manuals on applied geometry, written specifically to transform geometric shapes into equivalent areas (like turning a square altar into a circular 1) to appease different cosmic forces. The Thekua is the edible extension of this geometry.
When making Thekua, a perfectly spherical ball of dough is placed onto a hand-carved wooden matrix. High physical pressure is applied using the palm to flatten it into an oblong/circular disc, transferring a carved emblem.
This is an ancient method of standardizing mass & density. In an era w/o digital kitchen scales, the Saacha ensured every single offering had the exact same thickness & volume. This uniform thickness meant that when the pieces were fried together, they reached thermal equilibrium at the exact same second, preventing under-cooking/over-frying.
The designs themselves, the Sunburst & the Pipal leaf, represent the Savitr Mandalas of the Rigveda. Chhath Puja is dedicated to Savitr (the sun at dawn & dusk) & Usha (the 1st light). The lines pressed onto a Thekua represent the mathematical rays of the sun radiating outward, making the food a literal, physical map of solar energy.
The specific use of Gur (unrefined sugarcane jaggery) over honey/white sugar is tied to a historical pivot in ancient Bihar (Magadha).
During the Rigvedic era, sweets were sweetened exclusively with wild honey. However, by the time of the rise of the Mauryan Empire, the fertile plains of Magadha perfected the chemical extraction & boiling of sugarcane juice, creating Gur(jaggery).
The Sushruta Samhita (Ayurvedic medical text) features an entire chapter classifying the chemical properties of sugarcane derivatives. Sushruta notes that regular sugar cools the body, but Dhauta Guda (cleansed jaggery) processed in iron vessels is rich in iron, increases body heat (Ushna) & purifies the blood.
Because Chhath Puja occurs at the onset of winter (late Oct/Nov), the creators of Thekua deliberately chose jaggery as a bio-available heat source. When jaggery is fried in ghee, it undergoes a complex Maillard reaction & caramelization process, binding with the iron from the processing vessels.
This creates a deeply dense, mineral-rich nutrient pack that perfectly sustained the Vratins (pilgrims) breaking their grueling 36 hr waterless fast (Nirjala Vrat) w/o shocking their digestive systems.
Thekua is an unbroken, 1000s yrs old operational design that flawlessly combines Vedic geometry, thermodynamic preservation & seasonal biochemistry, passing down completely intact through generations of women in Bihar w/o losing a single parameter of its original formula.
Her name is Rukhsana Kausar.
She was twenty years old, a farmer's daughter in a small village in Kashmir who had left school after class ten. One night, armed terrorists broke into her home to drag her away. By morning their commander was dead, killed with his own rifle, by her.
It was the night of 27 September 2009. Three militants of the Pakistani terror group Lashkar e Taiba came to her family's house in Rajouri. They forced their way in and demanded that the family hand Rukhsana over to them.
Her father refused. So they began to beat him, and her mother, and her brother, with the butts of their guns.
Rukhsana was hiding under a cot, listening to her family being battered in front of her. And something in her decided that she would not stay hidden while they were killed.
There was an axe in the room. She picked it up, rushed out, and struck the terrorists' commander on the head. As he staggered, she pulled the rifle from his hands, turned it on him, and shot him dead.
She grabbed a second weapon and threw it to her brother. Together they opened fire on the remaining two, who fled into the night.
The man she killed was Abu Osama, a commander of Lashkar e Taiba, a name the security forces had been hunting for years.
A twenty year old girl with no training, who had never held a gun in her life, had killed a wanted terrorist with his own weapon and saved her whole family.
She was given the Kirti Chakra, one of the highest bravery awards India has. Later she put on a uniform of her own and became a police constable.
They came to her home to make her disappear. She made sure it was their commander who never went home.
Very rightly said. I haven’t seen Satluj… but now when I see it I’ll keep these points in mind!
BY ALL MEANS DEFEND FILMS LIKE SATLUJ. SCREEN IT. BUT DON'T HIDE FROM THE FACT THAT IT REWRITES HISTORY TO PAINT THE INDIAN STATE UNFAIRLY AS A BLACK SHEEP. IT IS A POLITICAL PROJECT. ADMIT IT.
The filmmakers say Satluj is educational. It purports to tell the story of a rights activist who was abducted and killed by security forces for seeking justice for victims of extrajudicial killings. Yes, they happened and they shouldn't have. But in its retelling the film is being faulted for not showing the "whole truth". Education cannot be based on half-truths. There's another side.
1. Pakistan's ISI propped up Khalistani terrorist groups with training, sanctuary and logistical support. This was a transnational movement to balkanise India. The film needs to present this unapologetically.
2. Innocent men were co-opted and coerced by Khalistani terror organisations in the name of religion to pick up arms for an invented cause. Many became perpetrators of extraordinary brutality. They strode into village homes committing wanton murders and extortion, intimidating entire communities. In other words, they adopted means that are deemed blasphemous in Sikhism.
3. The film should have also depicted how Pakistan-sponsored Khalistani terrorists targeted thousands of innocent families for their loyalty to the idea of India. Sikh policemen, village defence volunteers, public servants, journalists and ordinary citizens were marked for death because they stood by the Indian Union.
4. The film could have also belaboured the murderous zeal that prompted the blowing up of trains, planes, cinema halls and restaurants. The bombing of Air India Flight 182, which killed 329 people, remains one of the deadliest acts of aviation terrorism in history. No cause can justify such extrajudicial means.
5. The film should have also focussed on how security forces led by KPS Gill not only defeated the insurgency but also secured the surrender and rehabilitation of large numbers of Sikh youth willing to lay down arms.
6. What about the sacrifices made by families of security personnel who were heinously "punished" by Khalistani terror groups simply for standing in solidarity with the Indian Union?
7. No retelling of history can be complete without also focussing on the xenophobic zealotry of Khalistani terrorists who singled out hundreds, if not thousands, of Hindus simply because of their identity.
• The 1983 Dhilwan bus massacre (6 killed)
• The 1987 Lalru bus massacre (38 Hindu passengers killed)
• The 1987 Fatehabad bus killings (34 killed)
• The 1991 Punjab train massacres, in which 125 Hindu passengers were killed.
1. Watching Satluj you'd never know that Jarnail Singh Bhindranwale continues to be revered as a martyr by sections of the Sikh community and that his portrait hangs within the precincts of the Akal Takht, the highest temporal seat of Sikh authority. Why? In homage to what?
This isn't an argument against making Satluj. But remember just as every victim deserves to be remembered, every truth alao deserves to be told.
His ideas are shaking the foundations of science??
Really?
It is common knowledge in India.
Even I, as a teenager in Germany, read already in the 1960s about the Indian concept of 'Maya'.
Fritjof Capra said it in 1982 in Mumbai.
Strange, that this "sensation" comes in the news every few months.
Why?
The people on top are surely aware of it since long.
@ARanganathan72 @jsaideepak
Thought provoking 🤔
Ayodhya was looted.
Not by thieves outside the gates.
By hands inside the sanctum.
Everyone is reporting the theft.
No one is reporting the timing.
June 5.
Champat Rai quietly informs police.
A search happens.
Cash recovered.
Silence maintained.
June 7.
A Samajwadi Party leader stands before cameras.
Breaks the story wide open.
Two days.
That gap is not noise.
That gap is the story.
And no one is talking about it.
Ask yourself why a Samajwadi leader broke this.
Not a devotee.
Not an auditor.
Not a temple administrator.
Not a whistleblower from inside.
Ask yourself how he knew within 48 hours of raid.
Someone fed him the file.
Someone wanted this public.
Fast.
This was never random looting.
The precision says otherwise.
Insiders placed.
Roles assigned.
Evidence erased on schedule.
I am not saying theft didn't happen.
It definitely happened.
But that story looks very simple.
The story is as if someone wanted the theft to happen.
Follow it further and two targets emerge from the smoke.
Target one.
Yogi Adityanath.
Ask who gains from him bleeding before 2027.
Not just Akhilesh.
Not just Rahul.
The real enemies of Yogi do not sit in opposition benches.
They sit closer.
Much closer.
You exactly know what I mean.
UP's 2024 Lok Sabha collapse was the pattern.
BJPs old leaders in UP feel sidelined.
Men inside his own house who do not want him as 2027 CM Candidate.
A scandal in his Ayodhya is not an accident.
It is a message to BJP HQ.
You need another CM candidate for 2027.
Target two.
Older.
Colder.
A wave was building across India before this theft.
State after state, voices rising.
Give the temples back.
Let Hindus run their own gods.
What if Government was planning a reform in temple administration before 2029?
RSS first raised it in 1959.
67 years and still waiting.
That wave just hit a wall.
Since 1947, one belief has never died.
Hindus cannot be trusted with their own temples.
That narrative was the major fuel for secular politics.
This scandal just gave that belief new oxygen.
Two birds.
One arrow.
Fired from inside the temple walls.
Who placed the moles.
Who timed the leak.
Who benefits when Yogi falls and the secular state tightens its grip on every temple in India.
Connect the dots yourself.
I have only shown you where they lie.
As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.
If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.
We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.
We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.
Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.
We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.
We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.
As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.
@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.
Most fathers don’t do anything unusual.
They simply do what fathers are meant to do.
They show up.
In the stands, at the dinner table, during difficult conversations, through failures, celebrations, worries, and dreams.
They may not always have the perfect words.They may not always get everything right.But their quiet presence often becomes the foundation on which a child builds confidence, courage, and security.
Sometimes, the greatest thing a father can do is simply be there.
And that is no small thing ❤️
Wishing all fathers and fatherly figures out there a very Happy Father’s Day. M
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P.S. Father's Day isn't easy for everyone.
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If the internet connection in our homes, the gas cylinder in our kitchens, and the fuel in our vehicles reach us without interruption, there is a woman working behind the scenes in the dark depths of the ocean, holding her breath and taking immense risks — Atulya K.V.
Born in the small village of Pattambi in Kerala's Palakkad district, Atulya is a Malayali woman who ventured into the world's deep oceans and made history. She is India's first female commercial diver.
While scuba diving is generally a recreational activity enjoyed for exploring the beauty of the sea, Atulya's work involves the far more dangerous field of commercial diving.
When major underwater oil and gas pipelines or internet cables are damaged, it is Atulya who dives beneath the sea to carry out repairs, welding, and maintenance work. She is also the only woman in India with the commercial license required to perform such operations.
She has visited many parts of the deep-sea world that most of us have never seen. Beneath the sea behind the Sree Padmanabhaswamy Temple in Thiruvananthapuram, Atulya discovered unusual cave-like underwater formations.
Similarly, while diving off the coast of Kozhikode, she discovered ancient boats and marks believed to have been caused by cannonballs in an area thought to have served as a hideout of Kunjali Marakkar.
One of Atulya's long-standing dreams is to ensure that such discoveries are properly documented and preserved as part of history.
She completes these missions while facing powerful underwater currents and dangerous marine creatures such as stonefish and stingrays.
According to Atulya, nothing on the ocean floor truly belongs to us. The creatures living there are lives just like ours. Rather than disturbing them, we should become a part of their world, respect them, and appreciate them.
Atulya, a Malayali woman who safeguards both critical national infrastructure and remnants of history in the unseen depths of the sea, is herself a part of history.
Sadly, it must be said that even Wikipedia has not adequately recognized her with photographs and proper documentation.
The world should know about people like her—especially this young woman who is a pride of Kerala. Let that recognition begin with us.
Leading by example
He is one of the richest people in India — Anand Deshpande. He recently entered the list of billionaires with billion-dollar wealth. He is the founder of Persistent, a multinational software company. The company, which has 53 offices across 18 countries, recently did a ‘Griha Pravesh’ / housewarming at yet another new location.
When you hear “software company”, what comes to mind is usually ‘Western culture’. But Persistent is an exception. See this photo. They entered the new place by performing a Satyanarayan Puja in the traditional Indian/Hindu way. In this company, holidays are given only for Indian festivals — meaning Hindu festivals, and specifically Marathi ones. So the New Year holiday isn’t on 1st January, but definitely on ‘Gudi Padwa’. No holiday for Christmas, but there _is_ a holiday on both days of Ganesh Murti Sthapana and Visarjan.
In Hinjewadi, Pune, the office has 4 towers named after Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. The 2 towers of the office near Nal Stop are named after ancient Indian scientists Pingala and Aryabhata. The office building on Senapati Bapat Road is named Bhagirath. And inside the buildings, references from the Vedas are displayed on the walls at various places.
Just saying “Hindu culture is great” doesn’t achieve anything. To uphold its greatness, you have to send that message through action — and this company has done that, time and again. I’ve experienced the work culture here closely (I worked there for 2.5 years). Let me tell you a small thing: even though it’s an IT company, the women members here celebrate traditional customs like ‘Haldi-Kumkum’ with great joy. Even Satyanarayan Puja is performed properly. And despite all this, Persistent stands at a completely different peak in the IT sector. Last quarter, revenue was a whopping ₹1,491 crore.
The people working here aren’t called ‘employees’ but ‘members’ of the Persistent family. With over 15,000 members worldwide, this company’s turnover runs into hundreds of crores. We know Ratan Tata for “simple living, high thinking” — but Marathi Anand Deshpande Sir is an equally inspiring personality. (By Deviprasad, an ex- employee of Persistent)
He is one of the richest people in India — Anand Deshpande. He recently entered the list of billionaires with billion-dollar wealth. He is the founder of Persistent, a multinational software company. The company, which has 53 offices across 18 countries, recently did a ‘Griha Pravesh’ / housewarming at yet another new location.
When you hear “software company”, what comes to mind is usually ‘Western culture’. But Persistent is an exception. See this photo. They entered the new place by performing a Satyanarayan Puja in the traditional Indian/Hindu way. In this company, holidays are given only for Indian festivals — meaning Hindu festivals, and specifically Marathi ones. So the New Year holiday isn’t on 1st January, but definitely on ‘Gudi Padwa’. No holiday for Christmas, but there _is_ a holiday on both days of Ganesh Murti Sthapana and Visarjan.
In Hinjewadi, Pune, the office has 4 towers named after Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda, and Atharvaveda. The 2 towers of the office near Nal Stop are named after ancient Indian scientists Pingala and Aryabhata. The office building on Senapati Bapat Road is named Bhagirath. And inside the buildings, references from the Vedas are displayed on the walls at various places.
Just saying “Hindu culture is great” doesn’t achieve anything. To uphold its greatness, you have to send that message through action — and this company has done that, time and again. I’ve experienced the work culture here closely (I worked there for 2.5 years). Let me tell you a small thing: even though it’s an IT company, the women members here celebrate traditional customs like ‘Haldi-Kumkum’ with great joy. Even Satyanarayan Puja is performed properly. And despite all this, Persistent stands at a completely different peak in the IT sector. Last quarter, revenue was a whopping ₹1,491 crore.
The people working here aren’t called ‘employees’ but ‘members’ of the Persistent family. With over 15,000 members worldwide, this company’s turnover runs into hundreds of crores. We know Ratan Tata for “simple living, high thinking” — but Marathi Anand Deshpande Sir is an equally inspiring personality. (By Deviprasad, an ex- employee of Persistent)
Exactly. Moment you take a maritime view of world history, India is at the center of it. This comes as a surprise even to most Indians.
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