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[Baku @bhaskartdas]

Such an a*hole

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Welcome to India, Elon.

Wait till you discover the other guy.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

Almost immediately after India’s Q1 GDP print of 7.8%, the questions began: Where is the growth? Can we trust the number?

My answer: don’t look at one number , look at all of them together.

GDP: 7.8% | GVA: 8.2% | Nominal GDP: 10.3% | Manufacturing: 9.2% | Investment: 11.9% | Household consumption: 7.1% | Exports: 12% | Financial, real estate & IT services: 12.1%

And the momentum hasn’t stopped:
📈 July industrial output: +6.7%, capital goods: +16.1%
📦 April–July exports: +13.16%
💰 August GST collections: ~₹2 lakh crore, +14.8% YoY
🚚 E-way bills: 13.9 crore, +7.7%
🏭 Purchasing Manager Index: 54.1 , 15
Month high
💵 Forex reserves: all-time high of ~$741 billion

How many indicators have to move in the same direction before we accept that India is growing?

This strength isn’t confined to the Centre. In August alone, the Government sent States an extra ₹1.09 lakh crore in tax devolution. The 16th Finance Commission has locked in ₹4.35 lakh crore for our villages and panchayats over the next five years. A stronger Union means stronger States and stronger States mean more reaching our people. That’s who all this is for: WE THE PEOPLE.

And all of this, while the world battled war, oil shocks and inflation. No LPG crisis. No ₹150 petrol. Reserves at a record high instead of collapsing. That’s resilience.

Beneath the headline numbers, something bigger is happening: India is becoming a manufacturing power. Electrical equipment: +27%. Transport equipment: +20%. Capital goods: +15%. Electronics and semiconductors are moving from announcement to implementation.

For decades, India imported what it consumed. Today, the ambition is different: Make in India. Design in India. Innovate in India. Manufacture in India, for the world.

This didn’t happen by accident. It’s the result of years of investment in highways, railways, airports, ports, power, digital infrastructure and manufacturing ecosystems under Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri @narendramodi Ji.

And the world is opening its doors to match that ambition. India has built a growing network of Free Trade Agreements -with Mauritius, the UAE, Australia, the EFTA bloc, and the UK - opening new markets for our exports while pulling in fresh investment and jobs, with more deals, including the EU, in the pipeline.

Question the Government on legitimate issues. Demand employment, jobs. That is democracy. But there is a difference between questioning a government and questioning every single Indian achievement.

GDP rises, question it.
Exports rise , question them
Reserves hit a record, question that too.
Global companies invest, dismiss it.

At some point: what evidence would satisfy you?

Do not tell India’s youth that their country can not win. They have watched it happen in real time, and they will keep watching it for years to come.

There was a time when Indians looked at China’s extraordinary growth and wondered: When will India grow like this?

Today, India is among the world’s fastest-growing major economies.

Why should we not be proud of that?

Question India where India needs to improve. But when India delivers, have the courage to say so.

Jai Hind 🇮🇳
@nsitharaman @PiyushGoyal @GoIStats @blsanthosh

[God of Shinobi 🇮🇳🚩 @Shinobi_nokami1]

Taking views Influencers ❌
Taking views from informed ✅

Protest is a fundamental right of citizen so is the duty of state to impose reasonable restrictions when they found unlawful activities

People must stop falling for those edited sympathy videos and see the truth

#CJP

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

More strict actions against paper leaks to come in tomorrow’s Cabinet!

[Zahack Tanvir — ضحاك تنوير @ZahackTanvir]

“Modi is a dictator.” Dude, he hasn’t even reached the “D” of dictatorship. Try doing in China, Iran, or the Middle East what you’ve done in Delhi. They’ll give you a real taste of what dictatorship actually looks like. Don’t abuse the leniency!

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Riccha Dwivedi @RicchaDwivedi]

FCRA licences are cancelled, yet many NGOs continue to function by shifting foreign-funded assets and operations to new entities.

The FCRA Amendment Bill aims to close that loophole. Watch:

[Baku @bhaskartdas]

@jupiter_astro You had predicted Modi govt will resign in 2025 based on oath muhurat, release a video based on that too

[Baku @bhaskartdas]

@Mimiiben1 5

[Radhika Khera @Radhika_Khera]

Under Art 19(1)(c) of the Constitution, registration is a choice, not a mandate for voluntary movements. Since you want to police unregistered ideological parent bodies, please also share same letters to these massive networks in Karnataka?👇🏼
1️⃣ Tablighi Jamaat: Vast Islamic missionary network; zero corporate registration or central bank accounts
2️⃣ Jamaat-e-Islami Hind: Cadre-based movement; parent body is an unregistered Association of Persons
3️⃣ The Catholic Church: Spiritual authority derives from internal Canon Law, not state codification
4️⃣ Sufi Chisti/Khadri Silsilas: Vast Dargah networks managed via customary, unregistered lineages
5️⃣ Evangelical Fellowships: Hundreds of localized, unregistered prayer groups

Like the RSS, these parent movements are unregistered, while their individual local schools/properties use separate registered trusts.

Is this about public transparency, or is the accountability drill reserved for your just one organization?

Your Hatred for Hindus & Sanatan Dharm is well known.

As asked in my tweet, I am looking forward to seeing you share similar letters to the above organisations as well.

जय श्री राम 🙏🏼

[Baku @bhaskartdas]

The biggest hole, you never address freedom of association. The RSS’s standard defence isn’t “we’re a religion” it’s that it’s a voluntary, unincorporated association, and Article 19(1)(c) protects the right not to register or incorporate. Many voluntary bodies (caste associations, congregations, informal movements) operate unregistered and lawfully. Your letter demands registration but never explains the legal basis for compelling a voluntary body to formalise. As written, an opponent simply says “no law requires us to register, and the Constitution protects that choice,” and your central demand has no answer.

[Baku @bhaskartdas]

The biggest hole, you never address freedom of association. The RSS’s standard defence isn’t “we’re a religion” it’s that it’s a voluntary, unincorporated association, and Article 19(1)(c) protects the right not to register or incorporate. Many voluntary bodies (caste associations, congregations, informal movements) operate unregistered and lawfully. Your letter demands registration but never explains the legal basis for compelling a voluntary body to formalise. As written, an opponent simply says “no law requires us to register, and the Constitution protects that choice,” and your central demand has no answer.

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

A video of @DrMohanBhagwat ji is being widely circulated as a response to my letter is false.

I dispatched my letter and put it up on social media on June 15, while this interaction by the RSS Chief was on June 13/14.

Let me set the record straight.

The RSS has every right to be a cultural organization. That is their choice. But it cannot simultaneously exercise enormous social and political influence while repeatedly insisting that it has no political agenda and therefore owes no public accountability. The BJP itself acknowledges the RSS as its ideological parent and their sway over public life is undeniable.

The RSS receives donations through a vast ecosystem of 2500+ affiliated organisations, both domestic and overseas and operates out of a sprawling headquarters in the national capital and other State capitals.

The RSS chief enjoys Advanced Security Liaison protocol and other people of RSS have protocols funded by the taxpayer and the public is entitled to know whether the organisation complies with the same legal standards expected of everyone else.

Formal recognition under law would settle this contradiction once and for all.

The argument that a religion cannot be registered and therefore the RSS need not be registered is both flawed and absurd. The RSS cannot be considered to be representing any religion when they themselves are only 100 years in existence and no Government has asked any religion to be registered.

I have no objection to the RSS carrying out cultural, social, political or any other lawful activity. It can run schools, service organisations, think tanks or even a music academy if it chooses. The only expectation is that it functions transparently and within the framework of the law, like every other organised body in this country. It is pursuant to this principle that a formal response has been requested in writing.

Above all, Mr. Bhagwat's immediate assertion that the RSS is under no obligation to answer any questions is the most troubling (while he enjoys every protocol on tax payers money), It reflects a mindset that public accountability is optional and that the organisation stands above legal scrutiny.

In a constitutional democracy, no institution, however old or influential, enjoys that privilege.

Shun the arrogance, follow the law and have your “office bearers” or “legal heads” come and explain to me.

Jai Samvidhan.
Jai Hindu.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

https://t.co/iPg58qcmIG

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Should Jawaharlal Nehru be credited
with setting up India’s first IIT as is
claimed by Nehruvian fantasists?

NO.

Should PM Modi be credited with setting up seven new IITs, taking the total to 23?

YES.

Nehru did not ‘create’ IITs. Nor did he set up India’s first IIT.

Dr BC Roy, CM of West Bengal, set up India’s first IIT in Calcutta in 1950; it later moved to Kharagpur on land owned by West Bengal Government.

IIT Kharagpur Act came six years later in 1956.

Soviet Union set up IIT Powai; US set up IIT Kanpur; West Germany set up IIT Madras (all of them with trade surplus and aid).

The idea of setting up Indian institutes of technology took shape in 1946 with Humayun Kabir leading the way and Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Committee preparing a report. Extant records do not mention any role played by Nehru.

So,

Why was the first IIT set up in #WestBengal ?

Because in 1950s West Bengal had the highest concentration of industry in #India.

What went wrong?

Nehru's Freight Equalisation Policy killed industry in West Bengal and all of east India. West Bengal became the 'Disinherited State'.

Rest is history.