Craft of Warfare

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[Craft of Warfare @craftstrategy]

Samuel Benner's work from 1875 illustrates intervals of distress, opportunities moments to divest/invest in assets

Prescient forecasts of major events - Great Depression, World War II, the dot-com bubble, COVID-19 market crash that we recently experienced.

[Nighat Abbas @Nighat_Abbass]

Pak forces opened fire and tear gas on the unarmed protestors in #POJK seeking basic life amenities and constitutional rights and representation..

Meanwhile the same Pakistan keeps on calling Kashmir its jugular vein at international platforms. Hypocrisy at peak!
#PoJKBleeds #JAAC #PakArmyFiring #StopKillingPoJK #HaqqoqDo
@ajaykraina @amritabhinder @divya_gandotra @UnSubtleDesi @a_angaar555

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

His empire was gone. His army was destroyed. The Mongols were right behind him.
And in front of him: a flooded river. Thirty feet below.

Jalal ad-Din Mingburnu, the last ruler of the Khwarazmian Empire, looked back at the cavalry. Looked down at the water. And drove his horse off the cliff.

Genghis Khan watched him go. And raised his hand.

Stop. No arrows
.
Even the most feared conqueror in history could recognise something worth respecting.

Some defeats are more powerful than any victory.

#GenghisKhan #JalalAdDin #KhwarazmianEmpire

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

327 BCE. The Beas River. Punjab.

A Greek soldier named Philotas had survived eight years of war without fear.

Mountains. Deserts. Cities he could not even pronounce.

Not once afraid.

Then a rumour reached the camp.

"Six thousand elephants."

He said it again. Quietly.

The camp went silent. Not because anyone explained it. Because no one needed to
.
Eight years of victories began to feel very, very far away.

India was not the edge of the world. It was the beginning of another one entirely. And Alexander the Great never crossed its rivers.

Your ancestors did not need to fight the greatest army in history. They just had to exist.

"Drop a 🐘 if you had no idea this is what stopped Alexander. Guaranteed your school left this out."
"Share this with one person who still thinks Alexander conquered India. Do it now."
"Follow India's Golden Age. Every week, one chapter of your history that was buried. This is just the beginning."

#IndianHistory #AlexanderTheGreat #NandaEmpire

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

He had never walked away from a fight. Not once.

But when his scouts came back from the east, Alexander the Great stood in silence and listened to numbers that changed everything.

Six thousand war elephants. Two lakh infantry. Twenty thousand cavalry. Walls stretching for kilometres. A moat wide enough to swallow an army whole.

The Nanda Empire was not a battle. It was the end of the road.

And every soldier standing in that camp knew it.

#AlexanderTheGreat #AncientHistory #NandaEmpire

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

India had twenty-two shrutis. A musical universe built over two thousand years. Then the British arrived and called it out of tune.

They replaced ancient precision with twelve equal notes on a keyboard and told Indian musicians to look to London for validation.

But the story they do not tell you? India's classical traditions survived. Not through institutions. Through women.

Devadasis in the South guarded Bharatanatyam and Carnatic music through temple ritual. Tawaifs in the North kept Hindustani classical music, kathak, thumri, and dadra alive inside their kothas, which were not dens of shame, but living academies of art.

Empire could occupy land. It could not silence the raga.

Follow for more histories that were buried by empire and are now being brought back to light.
Which part of this stunned you most? The shrutis, the tawaifs, or something else? Tell me below.
Save this. Send it to someone who thinks Western music theory is the default. Let the conversation begin.

#CarnaticMusic #HindustaniMusic #MusicHistory

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

From Bhimbetka to Lata — One Unbroken Thread

India's musical memory begins not with a court or a temple but with a cave. At Bhimbetka in Madhya Pradesh, 12,000-year-old paintings show a circle of dancers, hands linked, with a drummer at the edge. It is organised rhythm. It is likely music. If we follow the continuum from that cave to the Harappan bird whistle of 3000 BCE, through the Sama Veda, the Natya Shastra, Pingala's rhythm mathematics, and the ragas of classical India, we arrive at something the world's music textbooks have never shown us: an unbroken 12,000-year tradition. This episode traces it.

#MusicHistory #IndianMusicTheory #DecoloniseHistory

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

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[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

Brahma lusted after Saraswati, his own daughter. Shiva cut off his head. And then nobody worshipped him again.
That is the myth. But scholars say these stories only appeared after his worship had already collapsed. Perhaps the gods, like powerful men, need a scandal to explain their fall from grace.
What does it say about a religion when it writes a goddess into a story only to use her as the reason a god fails?

Does Brahma deserve his fate, or was the myth written against him unfairly? Tell me in the comments.
If you think mythology is just stories, this one will change your mind. Follow for more.

#Brahma #Saraswati #HinduMythology

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

500 CE. A Gupta Emperor whispers to his sculptor: "Make Vishnu magnificent. Brahma? Put Brahma somewhere." And just like that, the Lord of Creation was sidelined for 1,500 years. Gods, it turns out, need patrons too.

💬 Which forgotten god or chapter of Indian history should we uncover next? Tell us below — your suggestion might become our next story.
🙏 Like if you think Brahma deserves better. Follow if you think history deserves better storytelling.

#HinduMythology #AncientIndia #GuptaEmpire

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

5,000 years of iron history. Buried. Ignored. Misattributed. India was working with iron at 3000 BCE. The Mediterranean Iron Age only begins at 1200 BCE.

An eight-foot iron spear at Thirumalapuram is the longest Iron Age iron implement found in India. And most people have never heard of it. The linear Bronze-to-Iron progression wasn't a universal truth. It was a Mediterranean story dressed up as world history. We need to talk about this.

👇 What other historical "facts" do you think need to be challenged? Tell us below.
🔔 Follow now — we cover the history that didn't make it into your textbooks. New drops every week.

#AncientIndia #IndianMetallurgy #TamilNadu

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

The iron pillar forged in 400 CE. Still standing. Still rust-free. Still unexplained.

The smiths of the Gupta era had no electricity, no microscope, only deep observation, accumulated knowledge, and complete mastery of their craft.

Researchers from top institutions worldwide have studied it and still struggle to fully replicate it. Someone in ancient India understood iron better than modern science does today. That is not mythology. That is metallurgy.

What else do you think ancient India mastered that we've forgotten? Tell us below.

📌 Like, share, and follow for more stories that your textbook never told you.

#IronPillarOfDelhi #AncientIndianScience #IndianHistory

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

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[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

This is perhaps what ‘silent freedom’ feels like.

A Life Lived Without Armour by
Sarvajeet D Chandra

I walk with nothing in my hands,
no sword of pride,no shields of praise.
The masks I wore are slipping away,
revealing my raw, true, simple face.

I soar like an eagle, above the eye-line
desiring not to be seen, but to see.
A river, not chasing a distant ocean
but simply enjoying the journey.

The world is not a stage for show,
but a canvas where my colours flow.
The song of my soul lights my days,
in quiet, effortless, meaningful ways.

#poetry #instapoetry #selfreflection #innerjourney #mindfulpoetry #healingwords #emotionalpoetry #lifeinpoetry #poetsofinstagram

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

Why Ancient Greeks FAILED at Math/Algebra (And One Indian Genius Changed Everything)

350 CE. A Roman merchant stares at MCMXCIV × DCCLXIII. Nightmare. He reaches for his abacus.
Same time, across the world: An Indian merchant smiles, calculating compound interest in his head. His secret weapon? A simple dot representing śūnyatā: emptiness. ⭕

Fast forward to late sixth century Rajasthan. A boy named Brahmagupta is born. He'll make the abstract tangible, transforming that sacred emptiness into zero: the number that would change everything.

Greece rejected it (thanks, Aristotle). India embraced it. The difference? Cultural worldview. One saw the void as horror. The other saw it as possibility.

This is why STEM-only education fails. The greatest innovation in human history came from philosophical depth, not just technical skill.

🔥 Agree or disagree? Drop your take below

➡️ Follow for more stories and lessons from India’s Golden Age

#Brahmagupta #InnovationCulture #Mathematics #Zero #IndianHistory

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

Modern Numerals do not come from ‘Arabic numerals’ . Infact Arabs themselves called them "Indian numerals." Here's how an entire civilization lost credit for inventing 0-9.

In 628 CE, Brahmagupta formalized zero in Ujjain, India. By 820 CE, al-Khwārizmī discovered it in Baghdad and called it "Indian calculation." When Fibonacci introduced it to Europe in 1202, the europeans renamed it based on where THEY learned it from, not where it came from.

India invented it. Arabs preserved and spread it. Europe renamed it and claimed ignorance.

Sound familiar? How many modern breakthroughs by Indian researchers get credited to "Silicon Valley" without mentioning the pipeline?

#HiddenHistory #AncientIndia #MathHistory #HistoryPodcast #IndiaGoldenAge

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

"Arabic numerals" aren't Arabic.

Zero wasn't invented by priests.

And the woman who made Chandragupta Vikramaditya emperor? Forgotten from history.

I spent 25+ yrs transforming businesses. Now I am uncovering India's forgotten stories.

Every week: One story from India's Golden Age that changes how you see leadership, innovation, war & strategy, art and culture. Most importantly it changes how you see Ancient India.

Latest: How a 7th-century astronomer's approach to "nothing" created binary code.

#AncientIndia #IndianHistory #HistoryPodcast

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[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

Prashant Kishor himself said it was arsh par or farsh par(on the floor). Floor is a good place to start in politics. AAP’s success in city state Delhi is not a useful template. Takes courage to champion development/employment vs caste/freebies

#BiharElection2025 #BiharPolitics

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

With around 55% market share now, India will have close to 75-80% share of GCC by 2030. That’s another 4 million jobs.

These will be high skilled jobs, as Indian GCCs shift from simple cost arbitrage to becoming a hub for innovation and high-end R&D.

#GoldenAge

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

I think building a subtle narrative through sculptures (one of the media of ancient India) was quite common.

There is a counter narrative of Buddha being an avatar of Vishnu at a later date.

Indra and Brahma gradually became ‘lesser deities’ when compared to Shiva and Vishnu

[Sarvajeet Dinesh Chandra @authorsarvajeet]

There is a thin line that separates courage from foolishness. Often that line is drawn post facto, in hindsight. Long after the outcome of the endeavour is known.