Chitra Ananth

Devotee of #SriSriRaviShankar, #Modi Bhakt, #Annamalai Fan #Bharath First , Japanese Translator in #Triniti Corp ,Faculty member, #AOL & Proud #Brahmin.

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

Beautiful spiritual trip to Kumbha mela .
Amazed at the arrangements, at the people, at their civic sense .⁦@Uppolice⁩ ⁦@CMOfficeUP⁩ other NDRF, RAF etc 24/7 in awe .

[Chota Don @choga_don]

Modiji is full mood to rule the Instagram algorithm 🔥

After getting 1.5 Billion views on his last 5 Reels, he is back with another REEL

This time he is asking GenZ to make GRWM videos on 7th August 🔥

Love to see Cockroaches getting defeat in their own game, they won't be able to sleep tonight 😹

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@ratnadeep201701 Very bad service in your outlet in Padmaraonagar, Secunderabad 500020 @www.ratnadeep.com

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@British_Airways It seems that your app is not available on the India App Store. A friend was able to download it since his phone is from the US store!

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@British_Airways Do you have an app for managing my booking in Apple Store?

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@British_Airways Can you please send the link? This is what I see!

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@IndiGo6E done everything https://t.co/KFWUddpURH

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@IndiGo6E I think it’s just AI responding .I have given all details on DM but it keeps asking for it .

[IndiGo @IndiGo6E]

@chitrananth Hi, we request you to elaborate on your concern along with PNR via DM, so we may look into it and assist you further. ~Pankaj https://t.co/WfT1Gae1rO

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

🚨 SHOCKING CLAIMS by Former MHA Under Secretary R.V.S. Mani:

​— "26/11 was a fixed match between Congress & ISI"
— "Had Kasab not been caught alive, 26/11 would be called Hindu Terror"
— "Modi & Amit Shah were targets in Ishrat Jahan case"

[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

@RGIAHyd @IndiGo6E I will be traveling with 3 senior citizens aged 90,80 and 76 with mobility issues next week. We definitely cannot deboard from th car within the time given . Please let me know how I can get this done without problem.

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

Met the President of the Moscow Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Mr Vladimir Mikhailovich Platonov and his team.

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

A vibrant cultural evening at the Moscow Concert Hall, where thousands gathered for a session of wisdom and meditation.

[Smita Prakash @smitaprakash]

Do watch, such a refreshing take from a politician from the southern part of India on issues that matter to all Indians. @PawanKalyan on the podcast

[Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar @Gurudev]

Art of Living volunteers and teachers across Russia gathered in Moscow to share experiences and updates on various ongoing projects.

[Pawan Kalyan @PawanKalyan]

Wishing @BJP4TamilNadu Leader, my dear brother Thiru @annamalai_k avl, a very Happy Birthday.

Your clarity on issues, strength of conviction, and unwavering commitment to public service have earned the admiration of many. May you continue to serve the nation with courage, purpose, and dedication.

May Lord Murugan bless you with good health and strength. Whichever path you choose in the years ahead, may you continue to serve the sacred land of Siddhars, Tamil Nadu, and our beloved motherland, Thai Bharathi, with the same passion, integrity, and commitment.

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

I bow down to the people of TN for your verdict. Happy to see in my land, people have risen in one voice and spoken

1. No to buying of votes
2. ⁠No to dynastic Politics

& yes to a generational shift in politics.

Whoever gets it done has actually done a favour to all!

Congrats and best wishes to TVK & Thiru @TVKVijayHQ avl for a spectacular debut in TN politics. Let Almighty be with you to do what you intend to do.

And to all NDA candidates, it was a hard-fought battle on the ground. Congrats to all those who won, and for those who couldn’t register a victory this time, let’s keep fighting.

Commiserations to Thiru @mkstalin avl & Thiru @Seeman4TN avl for your loss in this election!

Finally & most importantly, I thank my dear @BJP4TamilNadu cadres and leaders for toiling hard on the ground. Better times will come soon!

[THE WEEK @TheWeekLive]

In a world constantly searching for calm, @Gurudev Sri Sri Ravi Shankar has become a voice millions continue to turn to. As he turns 70, this week’s cover story explores the journey, influence and global appeal of the spiritual leader who has shaped conversations around peace, meditation and human connection across borders. @ArtofLiving

With voices from public life, personal reflections and exclusive insights, the story looks at the many layers behind his enduring impact on people around the world.

Also in this issue:
• One year after Operation Sindoor and how drones are changing modern warfare
• Why the Iran war is fuelling fears of a wider arms race
• Karan Johar on cinema, commerce and why films should make money too
• A special health supplement on the brain, computers and our future

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[Chitra Ananth @chitrananth]

Brilliant #Narishakthi

[Vishnuuh 🖤 @im__vishnu_]

Raw emotion, flawless intensity — SJ Suryah reached his pinnacle in this powerful scene.

🎬 Iraivi

[Venky Ramachandran @venkinesis]

Whenever we talk about traditional Indian knowledge system, there is an elephant in the room we often shy from addressing. Why does Vrikshayurveda - a corpus of plant science older than almost any living intellectual tradition - still have to justify its existence every time it enters a room?

Why, after thirty centuries of farmers using neem, does India hold no position of leadership in neem research? Why, when a tribal community in Andhra Pradesh is using 420 species of medicinal plants with documented efficacy, does the nearest IIT estimate ten years and twenty lakhs INR (~21K USD) per plant per application to validate what farmers have already spent generations refining?

In my podcast with AV Balasubramanian (AVB), we explored many of these gnarly questions. AV Balasubramanian is one of the leading pioneers of deploying the wisdom of Vrikshayurveda in Indian Agriculture.

He is the co-founder of the Centre for Indian Knowledge Systems (CIKS) in Chennai, one, besides conserving 170+ traditional rice varieties, of the most serious institutional efforts to apply Vrikshayurveda -- the classical Indian science of plant health - to modern day challenges in sustainable agriculture.

His background is unusual even by the standards of people who do unusual things. A biochemistry and biophysics training at premier Indian institutions, a PhD abandoned in the US in 1982 in favour of a deep interest in exploring Science rooted in the Indian tradition, a decade as a student and teacher of Yoga at Krishnamacharya Yoga Mandiram under the direct lineage of T. Krishnamacharya and T.K.V. Desikachar, and eventually a decades-long collaboration with the Patriotic and People-Oriented Science and Technology (PPST) group, the intellectual collective that, more than any other, attempted to recover the epistemological foundations of Indian science rather than merely its recipes.

AVB could have made a career from positioning traditional knowledge as a cultural heritage to be preserved. He didn’t.

He has made a career of asking whether it works, under what conditions, for which problems, and how to scale it. His field team used a principle from Vrikshayurveda -- that bitter taste is an indicator of pesticidal potential -- to crack a fruit-and-shoot borer problem on brinjal that neem had failed to solve.

His experiments with Ayurvedic storage forms (arkas, thailas, arishtas) have demonstrated that shelf life -- the most commonly cited limitation of natural bioprotectants -- is a solvable problem, using technology the Ayurvedic drug industry has operated for over a century.

It’s unalloyed joy to hear when AVB speaks.

He speaks with scientific precision (while warning of the dangers of epistemic fascism) and carries his passion for Indian knowledge system with a scientist’s penchant for rigor. What made this conversation personal was not just the fact that he studied Yoga under the same lineage I have been studying since 2013. It was our shared love and passion for Indian Knowledge systems.

In the first part of this wide-ranging chat, AVB and I engage in philosophical throat clearing, exploring the context of Vrikshayurveda, before engaging with the the content of Vrikshayurveda.

I started off the dialogue with a fundamental question.

Traditional Indian medical and philosophical frameworks seem to rest on categories like vata, pitta, kapha that have not changed in millennia. A modern scientist looking at that would say: if your categories never change, is it really science?

In response, AVB shared a beautiful analogy he had read from Captain Srinivasa Murthy.

Imagine you make a list of every group that has tried to invade or conquer India over thirty centuries. You can list them in chronological order -- Greeks, Turks, Arabs, Portuguese, British, and so on. Or you can classify them differently: those who came by land, those who came by sea, those who came by air. The second classification not only subsumes everything that happened in the past but is capable of accommodating anything in the future.

An Ayurvedic physician examining a patient is doing exactly this. When he looks at a complex of symptoms and asks whether the primary doshic imbalance is vata, pitta, or kapha, he is using a classification scheme that exhausts the universe of discourse.

[The Hollywood Reporter India @THRIndia_]

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