Once at Louvre, a French friend asked me how I felt about the Monalisa. I said "It's ok, looks nice."
They were in disbelief at my nonchalant reaction. I explained, in India:
- we see exceptional artwork in our nearby temples,
- hear exceptional traditional music from neighbors,
- read exceptional poetry from 1000 years ago,
- learn exceptional philosophies from 2000 years ago,
- enjoy exceptional superhero stories from 3000 years ago
- and see exceptional statues from 1000s of years ago
- all just like that, all around us, as part of our daily life
So all other work, be it the latest Hollywood Marvel universe flick or a Monalisa or a Mozart, they don't move us so much or make us go "wow" even as we appreciate and enjoy that art.
Just like how a person growing up in Switzerland isn't going to go "wow" entering New Zealand. But a person from Rajasthan may.
Indians should think about this and understand the richness of our culture. This is why we don't take to western names and western clothes and western culture in marriages or western music like the Chinese do.
By the way, this statue is more than a thousand years old 👇
The post below is misleading and mischievous.
Celebrations of Independence Day and Republic Day at Missions and Posts are undertaken as per relevant rules and regulations of the Government of India.
Modi govt destroyed the ISI-backed terror group Shahzad Bhatti Network ahead of Independence Day and thwarted its plans for subversive attacks by arresting more than 200 operatives.
Indian security forces ripped apart the network by launching coordinated operations across different locations in 14 states upholding a brilliant example of India's zero-tolerance towards terrorism.
Substantial recoveries, including IEDs, grenades bearing Pakistan Ordnance Factory markings, pistols, live cartridges, and CCTV cameras used for espionage, were made from the ISI-funded group. The network was involved in several terrorist activities.
How much of India’s Railways was developed after 2014?
• 100% of Dedicated Freight Corridors
• 100% of Rapid Rail System
• 100% of Premium Stations
• 97.4% of Bio-Toilets
• 87% of LHB Coach Production Capacity
• 69% of Railway Electrification
• 67% of Railway Safety Budget
• 66% of Locomotive Production Capacity
Railway infrastructure is built over decades.
But some decades build more than others.
I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops
before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.
https://t.co/j3E8VfwiUU
The Strategic Forces Command and @DRDO_India carried out successful launch of MRBM Agni-4 from Integrated Test Range, Odisha on 6th August 2026.
I congratulate SFC and DRDO for this textbook mission launch which reaffirmed India’s commitment to defend the Nation with state of the art technologies.
https://t.co/LvgVN9H653
Amazing that instead of East Asia, AMD wanted to Make India its Semiconductor Manufacturing Hub and was investing 3 Billion$ in a Fab in India back in 2005 but it all fell apart just because,
When their Equipment came it got stuck at customs and wasn’t cleared leading to return!
Elon Musk just named AI’s next crisis. It’s not a shortage. It’s a surplus nobody can switch on.
Musk: “By the end of this year, chip production will outpace the ability to turn chips on.”
For three years the world was starved for silicon. Every lab, every government, every company racing to secure the chips that decide who wins the AI era.
That bottleneck is ending. A harder one is replacing it.
Musk: “The chips are going to be piling up and not be able to be turned on.”
Billions of dollars in the most advanced AI hardware ever built. Sitting dark.
Not because the chips don’t work. Because there isn’t enough electricity to run them.
You can’t print a power plant the way you print a chip.
The fabs scaled. The grid didn’t. Now the hardware everyone fought over is hitting a wall capital can’t buy its way through.
Compute becomes abundant. Electricity becomes the most valuable commodity on earth.
Physics doesn’t care about your chip architecture if your data center can’t pull the megawatts.
Every mind that has ever existed was limited by what it could eat. Ours ran on grain. This one runs on the grid.
That has never been solved by thinking. Only by building.
The war isn’t about who can print the most silicon. It’s about who can plug it in.
Whoever solves energy first doesn’t just win. They own the rails everyone else has to rent.
The losers stack chips in warehouses, waiting for power that never arrives.
We built a trillion dollar engine and forgot the fuel.
Brilliant!
“Until now, Indian satellite builders mostly had to import this critical component at high cost and long waiting times.”
TakeMe2Space's PowerBank-50 becomes first India-made satellite battery.
#AtmaNirbharBharat https://t.co/IJ69cUPZ8E
Congratulations to every student in India on the passage of the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Amendment Bill, 2026 in Lok Sabha today.
The bill shields the dreams and aspirations of our youth by laying down iron-clad provisions imposing the harshest punishment on those who dare to breach the sanctity of public examinations.
The Modi govt will spare no one who attempts to imperil the future of our students and will leave no stone unturned to ensure that they face the full wrath of the law.
International media
- People protested against Modi government, nobody got killed, govt accepted all their demands: 24/7 coverage. India is bad. Modi is dictator. No democracy in India
- Pakistani army killed dozens of civilians just for protesting: Not a word. Total silence
“Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it. But I will be back for sure.”
— Captain Vikram Batra
These weren’t just words.
They were courage. Conviction. Duty.
A nation’s soul is shaped by people who speak like this… and then live those words.
Not a day goes by without being inspired by him.
We will remember.
#KargilVijayDiwas 🇮🇳
#WATCH | Delhi: After talks with the government, Cockroach Janta Party's National Spokesperson Ashutosh Ranka says, "All our demands have been accepted, so we request the protesters to withdraw immediately and return home peacefully. We will inform you of our future strategy or any other issues. But we request the protesters to withdraw immediately."
International media in the last 30 days: "India Hunger strike", "protests in India", "Floods in India."
🇮🇳India in the last 30 days:
July 19, 2026: Indian Gen-Z team wins 4 gold medals (top rank) at International Chemistry Olympiad and medals at the International Biology Olympiad.
July 18, 2026: Young Indians working at Skyroot Aerospace successfully launch Vikram-1, India’s first privately developed orbital-class rocket, from Sriharikota, placing payloads into Low Earth Orbit.
July 17, 2026: PM Modi flags off India’s first indigenous hydrogen-powered passenger train (10-coach set) from Jind station, Haryana, on the Jind-Sonipat route as an inaugural service.
July 14, 2026: DRDO completes successful military field trials of an indigenous scalable fiber-based Quantum Key Distribution (QKD) system for secure strategic communications.
July 13, 2026: Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway (63 km), India’s first barrier-free expressway with satellite-based tolling, opens to traffic.
July 12, 2026: Young Indian team wins 5 gold medals at the 56th International Physics Olympiad (IPhO 2026) in Colombia, securing joint world #1 rank.
July 11, 2026: RM Rajnath commissions INS Mahendragiri, the sixth Project 17A stealth frigate, in Visakhapatnam (~75% indigenous content).
Early–mid July 2026: Vimag Labs (Bengaluru) secures its 5th Indian patent for the Virtual Magnet Synchronous Motor (VMSM), a software-defined rare-earth-free electric motor platform.
Early July 2026: ISRO announces plans for a new Satellite Earth Station campus near Ledo in Assam to strengthen space communication in the Northeast.
Early July 2026: IIT Gandhinagar team wins a grant for developing indigenous liquid cooling plates for AI data centres, EVs, and high-performance electronics.
June 26, 2026: Nuclear heat-based hydrogen production facility (copper-chlorine thermochemical cycle) commissioned at Kalpakkam using Fast Breeder Reactor process heat.
June 24, 2026: ISRO successfully conducts hot test of semi-cryogenic engine power head at 175 tonnes thrust level.
June 24, 2026: RDSO (with ARAI) successfully conducts full-scale crashworthiness testing of LHB coaches for enhanced passenger safety.
June 21, 2026: PM Modi commissions three indigenously built warships in Kolkata: INS Dunagiri (Project 17A stealth frigate), INS Sanshodhak (hydrographic survey vessel), and INS Agray (ASW shallow water craft).
June 15, 2026: DRDO successfully flight-tests the indigenous Long Range Land Attack Cruise Missile (LRLACM) from Odisha; all objectives met.
June 10–11, 2026: DRDO conducts successful Phase-2 Ballistic Missile Defence (BMD) trials and anti-ship missile tests, demonstrating capabilities against long-range ballistic threats including ICBM-class.
Mid-June 2026: India’s defence production reaches a record ₹1.78 lakh crore in FY 2025-26.
Mid-June 2026: Maiden flight of the indigenous C-295 military transport aircraft highlighted as a major self-reliance milestone in aviation (with 40 aircraft under production in India).
June 13, 2026: First batch of women cadets trained at NDA commissioned into the defence forces. Marking the start of an women empowered era in defence.