Deepanshu Dabas

🇬🇧Commonwealth Scholar • @unibirmingham'27 • DU'24 • Intern @India_NHRC • @YESProgramNews'20

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

But too much for someone who's had none is just enough.

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

Too much motivation is demotivation.

[Sātavāhana. @SatavahanasIN]

Reconstruction of the gold crown and earrings worn by the royal prince bringing offerings to Vajrapāṇi, Ajanta Cave no. 1, ca. 467 CE, Maharashtra.

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

To all the trollers: Stop confusing religion with spirituality.
Religion seeks followers. Spirituality seeks transformation.
Religion is an institution that defines identity, authority, and control. Spirituality is a deeply personal awakening that expresses itself through every thought, word, and action.
Politics infused with religion divides. Politics guided by spirituality unites and aspires to the ideal of the philosopher-king: one who serves with wisdom, compassion, restraint, and truth.
Sri Aurobindo said, "When it is said that India shall rise, it is the Sanatana Dharma that shall rise. India is rising for the sake of the Sanatana Dharma."
Sanatana Dharma is the bedrock of Indian civilisation. It was never meant to be a religion in the narrow, institutional sense, nor can any political party monopolise it. It is a way of being, a path of inner evolution, and a lived pursuit of Truth.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

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[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

@UnivofDelhi Entire university has been turned into a consent manufacturing machinery. On-ground and online.

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Indian temple ceilings

[The Economist @TheEconomist]

The chief concern of Indian readers is self-improvement. Most of India’s bestsellers are written in English. It is, after all, the language of aspiration, not of pleasure https://t.co/2pktuPNn7S

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

Medieval Christian Garuda Purana

[the little seamstress 🪡📚 @wren_and_paper]

I always appreciate a good map in a book 🧭🔥

[ICRIER @ICRIER]

India is the world's largest producer and exporter of rice, yet the Food Corporation of India (FCI) is holding rice stocks that are nearly five times the prescribed buffer norm, at a carrying cost of over Rs. 10,712 crores in FY25.

In their latest article, Ashok Gulati, Ritika Juneja, and Purvi Thangaraj trace this surplus to three interlinked policy distortions: open-ended MSP procurement, with several states offering bonuses above the MSP; free electricity and heavily subsidised urea.

Instead of addressing these underlying distortions, the government's response has been to divert surplus rice to ethanol production, supplying rice to distilleries at Rs. 23/kg despite FCI's economic cost of about Rs. 44/kg on the justification that it is broken and damaged rice.

The authors also highlight the environmental costs of the current policy framework, including the use of ~ 4,000 litres of water to produce one kilogram of rice, high methane emissions from paddy cultivation, and nitrate contamination of groundwater associated with serious health risks.

To address these challenges, the authors recommend capping state procurement at 40% of production, discontinuing state MSP bonuses, limiting free PDS supplies to the most vulnerable households, shifting ethanol production towards maize, and replacing fertiliser subsidies with direct income support.

Read more:

Financial Express: https://t.co/PGado3L3Dg
Indian Express: https://t.co/43KiCohXWn

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

Education is not what a person does when a book is open in front. It is what they think, say, how they behave and how they act when the book is closed.

[Pratap Bhanu Mehta @pbmehta]

America at 250: The Declaration will remain Universal, America may not

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

@MattooShashank Lee Kuanistic pragmatism on matters is uncomfortable but apt at times. Including critique of Indian model.

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

Nowadays, an avg 20k word soft sciences dissertation draft requires at least 1k liters of water. Those who know, know.

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

@Bhangu_00 @sidhant For PBG Cavalry

[Himanish Ganjoo @himganj153]

My Delhi book list.

Most books on this are about Delhi / exploring Delhi history. Would love to add more titles, academic, non-academic, literature etc.

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

Guelta d'Archei Lake, Chad; UNESCO World Heritage Site (2016)

[Aseel Swaid @aseelswaid9]

Republic of Chad

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

Its 2026, the biggest flex isn't owning a car. Its living in a neighborhood where you don't need one.

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

यही जाना कि कुछ न जाना हाए, सो भी इक उम्र में हुआ मालूम – Mir Taqi Mir (1723-1810)

Parh parh kitābă dher kure, merā vadhdā jãe anēr kure – Punjabi proverb

I know that I know nothing – Socrates

[Deepanshu Dabas @Deeepanshu]

The schooling system wants one to be meek; to resist one's way out of it is to be truly educated.