Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.
"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.
We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.
Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.
We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.
But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.
We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.
India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.
And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”
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"I am sometimes taken aback by how people can have a miserable day or get angry because they feel cheated by a bad meal, cold coffee, a social rebuff or a rude reception. We are quick to forget that just being alive is an extraordinary piece of good luck, a remote event, a chance of occurrence of monstrous proportions. Imagine a speck of dust next to a planet a billion times the size of earth. The speck of dust represents the odds in favor of your being born; the huge planet would be the odds against it. So stop sweating the small stuff. Don’t be like the ingrate who got a castle as a present and worried about the mildew in the bathroom. Stop looking at the gift horse in the mouth – remember you are a Black Swan." - Nassim Nicholas Taleb
If you put someone above yourself, they will definitely put you below themselves.
Unfortunately, Humility is not basic human nature, it often translates to powerlessness.
Your humility, humbleness, and modesty don't mean anything,
when you are NOT a Powerful person.
I love India.
We need more Indian exceptionalism. We’re polite monsters. We can smother you with our hospitality and shrewdly take the crown. We’re a nation who’s waited for too long for their time to come. And now it’s come.
And the world better be ready.
New defaults all the time. Take the pain. Bite more than you can chew. Push yourself to the max. Squeeze out all the juice. Only to realise you can do more. New defaults all the time.