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[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

These two b@st@rds r@ped a 15 year old girl in Kalyan, Maharashtra. Arrested under POCSO, but knowing the great Indian judiciary and their religion, they will be out on bail in about a week! Both are senior citizens. Crimes against women are increasing by the day in Maharashtra!

[SANATAN @Eternaldharma_]

During the Partition era in 1947, a Muslim League mob reportedly surrounded the Golden Temple in Amritsar.

The mob was allegedly preparing to attack and desecrate the sacred shrine. At that critical moment, RSS volunteers in Amritsar stepped forward to defend it.

On 6 March 1947, crowds associated with the Muslim League marched toward Harmandir Sahib, raising slogans such as “Pakistan will be ours” and references to repeating what Ahmad Shah Abdali had done in the past.

However, the advancing mob faced stiff resistance. They were surrounded, pelted with stones, and driven back. Many were forced to flee to save themselves.

According to accounts from that period, the defenders were RSS volunteers. One volunteer, known as Bijli Pahalwan, was said to be particularly feared by the attackers.

The RSS reportedly deployed hundreds of volunteers around Harmandir Sahib to protect the shrine from desecration and maintained round-the-clock security.

Volunteers guarded the temple continuously, and protective deployments around the shrine reportedly remained in place throughout the year to ensure its safety during the turbulent period of Partition.

[Aravind @aravind]

France gonna hit 45 coming week
Paris already touched 41
UK some places 39
Netherlands ~ 34
Germany ~ 38
Italy - 47.6 (Sicily island)
US many places > 35-40

Yet, no psyops going on in Europe or US against their govts and development. Especially no psyops and instigation against development in far away islands using it.

There are no news or screenshots claiming "hottest cities of the world are in EU." Their social media influencers aren't instigating their populations against their govt using the weather parroting foreign communist propaganda.

But in the US the same red-green cabal, working for China, is instigating citizens against data centers and AI, just like in India.

[Sheeraz Zaman @sherazzaman]

A heartbreaking reminder of a pain that still echoes through Kashmir

After 36 long years, an elderly Kashmiri Pandit woman returned to her ancestral home in Danew, Bogund, Kulgam.

She touched the soil she was forced to leave behind, kissed the old walnut tree standing silently in her courtyard, knelt before it in prayer, and broke down in tears. For a moment, time stood still. The tree had waited for her; the home had remembered her.

Some wounds never heal. Some separations never end.

And one cannot help but ask: where will those find peace who turned these innocent people into refugees in their own land, who tore them away from their homes, their memories, and their roots?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

In the decade preceding @myogiadityanath’s tenure, UP suffered 47,509 cases of Encephalitis leading to 8,373 infant deaths.

34 million vaccinations and 21 million tap water connections later, comes the news that for more than 2 years running, UP has reported 0 deaths. Stunning.

[Rishi Kalia 🇮🇳 @rkalia80]

THE SUHRAWARDY FILE IS BECOMING A SKELETON FACTORY
Every New Defence Is Revealing Another Forgotten Connection....🔥

Before you read further, here are five documented facts:

• The Nehrus were among the most prominent public advocates of Hindu-Muslim unity during the freedom movement.

• Yet when Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit (Nehru's Sister) married Syud Hossain, a Muslim intellectual and journalist, the marriage reportedly faced strong opposition from Motilal Nehru and Jawaharlal Nehru himself.

• Syud Hossain's one of the sisters was married to Sir Hassan Suhrawardy.

• Sir Hassan Suhrawardy was the uncle of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, who later became Prime Minister of Pakistan.

• Congress is suddenly furious that people are discussing the Suhrawardy legacy and the historical connections surrounding it.

Now let's come to the question @Pawankhera doesn't seem comfortable answering.

For days, the @INCIndia ecosystem has tried to reduce the entire Suhrawardy debate to a technical argument: "The road was named after Sir Hassan Suhrawardy, not Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy."

Interesting.

Because the moment people started examining the Suhrawardy legacy more closely, several forgotten chapters of history began resurfacing.

One of them leads directly to the Nehru family.

Historical accounts record that Vijaya Lakshmi Pandit, also known as 'Nan' married Syud Hossain in 1919. The marriage created a major controversy and reportedly faced stiff resistance from the Nehru family despite their public advocacy of Hindu-Muslim unity.

But the story doesn't end there.

Research into Syud Hossain's family background shows that his sisters were married into the Suhrawardy family, including Sir Hassan Suhrawardy. This means the Nehru and Suhrawardy circles were not operating in completely separate worlds. Through Syud Hossain, a documented family connection existed between the two networks.

And who was Sir Hassan Suhrawardy?

The uncle of Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy — the man who would later become Prime Minister of Pakistan and whose political legacy remains one of the most debated chapters of Bengal's history.

This is where Pawan Khera's response becomes particularly revealing.

Instead of addressing these historical connections, he points to a professional association between Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee and Dr. Hassan Suhrawardy. Nobody disputes that prominent academics and administrators worked together in institutions. That was never the issue.

The real question is different.

Why does every discussion about the Suhrawardy legacy trigger such extraordinary defensiveness from the Congress ecosystem?

Why the sudden rush to draw distinctions, build firewalls and discourage scrutiny?

Perhaps because every layer that gets peeled back reveals another forgotten chapter.

The Direct Action Day chapter.

The Pakistan chapter.

The Nehru-era chapter.

The family connection chapter.

What began as a debate over a road name is increasingly becoming a debate over history itself.

And if the reaction from Congress leaders is any indication, many more forgotten chapters may still be waiting to be rediscovered.

Because history has a habit of opening old cupboards.

And not everyone is comfortable with what comes out.

(In the attached family photo, Syud Hossain, sitting bottom right, can be seen with the Surhawardy family)

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Hasan Shahid Suhrawardy CHOSE Pakistan after Partition. He served Federal Public Service Commission of Pakistan till 1952. He was the Pakistani ambassador to Spain, Morocco, Tunisia and spent the entire remaining rest of his life in Pakistan.

Why the HELL should any street in India be named after a traitor who chose terrorist Pakistan?

Stop behaving like a Peda. Otherwise not just the Assam CM but the W. Bengal CM will also teach you the lesson of your life.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

The surveys of British missionary & official, William Adam in the 1830s reveal startling data directly contradicting colonial myths about Sati in Bengal.
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What Adam found in his surveys of the district of Murshidabad was astonishing. He explains that there were many more households with just one or two members in the city than in the surrounding countryside, for several combined demographic reasons. Besides day traders and laborers who migrated without families, he noted a large population of thousands of women living without family households of three classes: public women (prostitutes), aged women residing near the Bhagirathi River because of the river’s religious sanctity, and numerous widows.

Adam writes that there were so many widows that people said there were far more widows in the city than in the countryside, because epidemics were killing many more men than women. The demographic implication is striking: many Hindu widows were maintaining their own small households in the city rather than living within large extended family units. Hindu Bengal’s urban social landscape therefore included many widows who were not only a visible part of society but also often living independently or semi-independently with some form of income.

Many likely supported children, since they appear in Adam’s statistical category of households consisting of one or two individuals. This means widowhood was not rare or exceptional but a recognized and enduring condition of social life among Bengal's Hindus. If Sati had been the normal fate of widows, how did Adam encounter such a large concentration of them in the very heart of Bengal’s society??

Adam also records that many Hindu Zamindar families educated their daughters in writing and accounting so that, if widowed, they could manage their estates. Some who were uneducated before marriage were even taught by parents or brothers after widowhood to protect their own interests. If Hindu families expected widows to die routinely by sati, why would they invest in educating them for estate management? The evidence suggests the complete opposite: families anticipated widowhood as a long-term social reality and prepared women to navigate property, finance, and household authority after a husband’s death.

In Adam’s survey of Natore District, he found that about half of the principal zamindars were widows. Two in particular - Rani Suryamani and Kamal Mani Das- were even known to be fully literate in Bengali writing and accounts, and several others were at least semi-literate.

The very fact that Adam could record such large numbers of Hindu widows across Bengal's districts proves clearly that widowhood was not just common but also socially accommodated. If Sati had truly been the universal fate of Hindu widows as colonial rhetoric claimed, then how were there so many widows living across multiple districts? Adam’s own observations reveal how incredibly misleading that malicious trope was. The statistical evidence he recorded instead points to a far more complex social landscape in which the overwhelming majority of Hindu widows didn't just live on instead of committing Sati - they remained embedded in society, and in many cases exercised real economic responsibility. Many even lived independently in urban areas. Their everyday visibility stands as quiet but powerful evidence against the bigoted British colonial myth of Sati as prevalent in Hindu Bengal.

It's high time we got rid of this utterly false colonial narrative of Sati which was created by the British to demonize Hindus and achieve missionary objectives - and demolish it permanently with the concrete evidence we have at hand.

Source: William Adam, Reports on the State of Education in Bengal (1835 & 1838), ed. Anathnath Basu (Calcutta: University of Calcutta, 1941).

[Jijith Nadumuri Ravi @Jijith_NR]

Archeologists dropped a new bombshell!🔥

A newly analysed, directly dated OCP Copper Hoard weapon has revealed something explosive: it contains up to 30% iron and belongs to around 2000 BCE. 1🔥🔥🔥🔥

This single finding overturns decades of textbook claims about when iron use began in India.

For years we were told that the subcontinent only entered the Iron Age around 1000 BCE and that all Vedic references to iron must therefore be late.

But this darker, copper–iron alloyed weapon, far removed from the typical reddish hue of pure copper, fits astonishingly well with the metallurgical vocabulary of the later Vedic texts.

The Yajurveda and Atharvaveda repeatedly speak of Kṛṣṇa Ayas and Śyāma Ayas, terms meaning dark, blackened, or dusky metal.

Scholars struggled to explain these references under the 1000 BCE Iron Age model, but the OCP weapon’s composition finally resolves the puzzle.

A copper–iron alloy with about 30% iron naturally produces a darker, harder metal, precisely matching the textual descriptions.

Even in Rāmāyaṇa and Mahābhārata, the weapons described as dark or blackened never aligned well with the narrative of a late-arriving Iron Age.

Now, with actual artefacts reflecting this alloy at 2000 BCE, the material record and the textual record are unmistakably aligned.

Ṛgveda, in contrast, mostly uses the simple term Ayas meaning “metal”—which in early contexts overwhelmingly refers to copper.

This is exactly what one expects from a text whose composition ends before widespread copper–iron alloying, that is, by around 1900 BCE during the final phase of the Sarasvatī civilisation.

Later Vedic texts describing darker metals fit chronologically after 2000 BCE, while the Ṛgvedic use of generic Ayas fits a copper-dominant world.

This single discovery therefore collapses the long-held assumption that iron in North India appears only after 1000 BCE.

With directly dated alloyed weapons from 2000 BCE, and with Vedic literature already distinguishing between reddish copper (Ayas) and darker copper–iron alloys (Kṛṣṇa Ayas, Śyāma Ayas), the entire colonial chronology begins to melt.

The archaeological record is now catching up with what the texts had always preserved.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Wow

[Monidipa Bose - Dey (মণিদীপা) @monidipadey]

Suggest @AITCofficial to study history first!

That Sir Doctor Suhrawardy was the uncle of the Butcher Suhrawardy, and he was one who held on to freedom fighter Bina Das and handed her to the British police. He was given his ‘Sir’ title for that very reason that he had betrayed an Indian freedom fighter and saved a British governor!

Your Sir Doctor Suhrawardy was also a Muslim League supporter, and in favour of the ‘two nations’ theory, and later his daughter became a Pakistani politician. Just because he was educated doesn’t mean he was a nationalist. Even Osama bin Laden was an engineer!

Keeping all arguments aside, the name Suhrawardy should have never been used for a Kolkata road because of that name’s role in Direct Action Day riots, and removed right after independence. Any self respecting nation would have done that. But for Congress, Communists, and TMC, the words self-respect and dignity are unknown.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In 1959, the Ministry of Defence wanted to see if India could even comprehend the thermodynamics of a jet engine. They did not build a fancy campus in BLR. Instead, they selected No. 4 Base Repair Depot at the Air Force Station in Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh.

They set up a tiny cell called the Gas Turbine Research Centre (GTRC). The initial team consisted of exactly 8 engineers & scientists, supported by ~20 local Air Force technicians.

Their testing cell was retrofitted into a humid, echoing hangar. They had no advanced digital telemetry & even no imported CFD softwares. Everything had to be calculated manually on paper using slide rules & log tables.

Because they had almost no budget & 0 supply lines for complex aerospace alloys, the team had to innovate using pure scavenged materials.

They took old, decommissioned British Rolls-Royce Derwent & Nene centrifugal compressor parts from scraped Air Force planes, altered the blade profiles by hand-filing the surfaces & completely re-engineered the internal combustion chambers from raw scratch.

A centrifugal jet engine works by slinging air outward using a spinning impeller wheel to build high pressure, catching it in diffusers & blasting it into combustion cans. If a single blade on that compressor wheel is off by a fraction of a mm at 15000 RPM, the entire engine acts like an internal pipe bomb, shredding itself & anyone standing nearby into shrapnel.

Working in the sweltering heat of Kanpur, with nothing but rudimentary safety screens made of sandbags & thick wooden railway ties, this rogue unit cast, balanced & assembled India's 1st completely functional 10 kN thrust centrifugal jet engine.

In late 1961, the team was ready to fire up the system for its definitive full-throttle run. They rigged the jerry-built engine to a primitive mechanical thrust-bed inside the hangar. They had no digital control rooms; engineers stood behind primitive reinforced barricades, holding mechanical clipboards, manually reading dials connected to physical pressure tubes.

When the starter motor cranked, the engine whined, caught fire & stabilized into a deafening, supersonic roar. The exhaust gas temperatures spiked, the fuel pumps held & the needle on the mechanical scale climbed steadily until it hit 10 KN of clean, sustained thrust.

8 engineers in a repair depot in Kanpur had just crossed the ultimate threshold into the supersonic age completely on their own terms.

Immediately after this breakthrough in Nov 1961, the govt realized the project had completely outgrown its makeshift Kanpur garage. The entire unit was institutionalized, packed into crates, brought under the DRDO, renamed the Gas Turbine Research Establishment (GTRE) & ordered to relocate to BLR.

But during the chaotic transit & the subsequent institutional restructuring over the decades, the original 10 kN centrifugal prototype built out of sweat, slide rules & modified scrap metal was quietly pushed into storage, stripped for parts & completely lost to public memory.

When people look at GTRE today in BLR & critique the delays of the Kaveri/the new Advanced High Thrust engines, they completely forget the 1959 Kanpur digital footprint.

[Adv. Homi Devang Kapoor @Homidevang31]

Love BJP or Hate BJP, one reality remains unchanged: Peace is back in Valley-Kashmir

"Mushtaq Ahmed Bhatt", who once trained in PoK and comes from a Congress-linked family, praises BJP's Kashmir policy:

"After 2019, under the BJP Govt, not a single stone pelter has died in Kashmir. There is no stone pelting anymore. What more can one ask for?"

Now CONGRESS BOOTLICKERS who see leadership in a clown shouldn't be judging BJP-Modi, who devoted his life to India.

What Congress failed to do, BJP did.

[महावीर, ಮಹಾವೀರ, Mahavir @Mahaveer_VJ]

Kumar Vishwas on Dhurandhar 2: hits the nail on the head... fantastic reply.

Wow! Perhaps one of the best tributes to Aditya Dhar for making Dhurandhar. In just a few words, Kumar Vishwas hits the bullseye

The interviewer looks visibly uncomfortable and must be cursing his luck for asking the right question to the wrong person. Enjoyed this conversation 😘😍👊🏼

[Arpita Shaiva @arpispeaks]

During the hearing of a defamation case in the Supreme Court regarding the label "Maafi Veer" applied to Veer Savarkar, the judge addressed the matter by citing 12 letters written by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi to British Lords and Viceroys.

He asked Rahul Gandhi's lawyer, Abhishek Manu Singhvi,

"Is your client, Rahul Gandhi, aware that at the end of every letter written to the British Viceroy, Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi used to write

'Your loyal servant'

and received a monthly salary of ₹1,200 from the British?

So, would Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi be considered a servant of the British, and consequently, a traitor to the country?"

Hearing this, lawyer Manu Singhvi fell silent.

If these 12 letters are genuine, then Gandhi was indeed a traitor—an agent of the British.

This matter has now been certified by the court as well.

[LabRat 🐭 @dranujoshi1]

@megirish2001 May God bless and guard all our veers 🙏🙏

[Meghna Girish 🇮🇳 @megirish2001]

'Inn 75 varshon mein, veer jawanon ne aisa kaam kiya hai... ki Parachute Regiment ka danka sirf desh mein he nahin, videsh mein bhi bajta hai...'

Chief Guest addressing the Passing out Parade of the maroon berets 🫡🇮🇳

Bharat is blessed. So many young soldiers taking Oath to defend our nation even at the cost of their lives 🙏

'Balidanam Veera Lakshanam'

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

Shocking revelation by ex-terrorist Mushtaq Ahmad Bhat:

"The Khanani brothers printing fake Indian currency at an ISI established printing press shown in Dhurandhar is fact.

I was handling half of its distribution via south Kashmir. I was the financer."

[Soumik Sarkar @sarkar28922]

The Finance Minister of West Bengal, Honorable @swapan55, has given a clear message that the claim that Muslims and Bengali Hindus have always lived with a sense of brotherhood and that religion never caused any problem between them is completely false.
Muslims and Hindus are never one nation.

As for example, in 1905, when Lord Curzon proposed the partition of Bengal province to create a Muslim province in order to curtail the power of Bengali Hindus, no Muslim opposed it back then. Instead, they unanimously supported the Partitioning of Bengal.

However, despite being a minority, the entire Bengali Hindu population and Bengali intellectuals consistently protested against the Partition of Bengal and built public opinion against the British.

Therefore, Bengali Hindus have always thought of the country and the nation, whereas Muslims have only thought of Islam. Thus, even though Muslims speak the Bengali language, as long as they believe in Islam, we should not establish brotherhood with them. Because to them, Islam comes first.

In this context, Rabindranath Tagore sang a song - “Banglar mati, Banglar jol, Banglar bayu, Banglar phol, ek hok ek hok ek hok he bhogoban” (Let the soil of Bengal, the water of Bengal, the air of Bengal, and the fruit of Bengal be one, be one, be one, Oh Lord).

In response, the Mullas of East Bengal composed another song, hurling immense abuse at Rabindranath -
“Banglar mati, Banglar pani, khoda tomar meherbani. Bhag kor bhag kor bhag kor he rohman” (The soil of Bengal, the water of Bengal, are your blessings, Oh Khoda. Divide it, divide it, divide it, Oh Rahman).

@monidipadey @tathagata2

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The self-styled guardians of “free speech” & “democratic truth” have taken a few days to completely make-up a dystopian fantasy out of nothing. Headlines went up on the internet that Jeff Bezos wants to take drinking water out of the mouths of humans to cool Amazon AI servers.

Predictably, the internet lost its collective mind. Countless intellectual essays were produced. Threads on Reddit erupted with usual anti-billionaire fury. & the Truth? He did never say that. None of it is true. It was entirely made up.

The journalists from Print heard a lecture on productivity & suddenly imagined a water crisis. This is not a bad translation, but a full-blown psychotic trip out of reality. They crafted a fake quote out of mere desperation for engagement. The editors of Moneycontrol have only 1 brain cell that asks, “Will this headline give our readers a stroke?” If Yes, copy-paste. Forget verification/fact-checking. Just lazy to farm rage-clicks.

These media houses love to be condescending to the public & lecture everyone else on misinformation & the death of objective reality. Turns out, the biggest threat to truth is not an advanced AI hallucination but a lazy journalist with an engagement quota & zero professional ethics.