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The 1978 Ranga-Billa case involved the brutal kidnapping and murder of teenage siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra in Delhi by career criminals Kuljeet Singh (Ranga) and Jasbir Singh (Billa).
The horrific crime shocked the nation, leading to a massive manhunt and the swift conviction of both killers, who were ultimately hanged in 1982.
The investigation was led by Inspector VP Gupta of the Delhi Police, with SI Ram Chander serving on the team. A bystander, who had tried to save the children, and later helped the police identify the killers by providing their descriptions was Babulal. The journalist who covered the case was Prabha Dutt.
Amazon Prime's series Raakh, which is based on this incident, replaces Inspector VP Gupta with SI Jayprakash Jatav, explicitly portrayed as a Dalit officer navigating institutional bias. Furthermore, SI Ram Chander is replaced by SI Javed Murtaza, Babulal by Saleem, and Prabha Dutt by Nisar, while a lazy hawaldar character named Mishra has been added to the narrative.
This isn't creative liberty. Creative liberty is meant to enhance a story, not distort historical facts to fit a specific ideological agenda. Another stark reminder of how easily history can be rewritten in plain sight under the convenient guise of creative freedom.
Indian worker Vipin Kumar has been awarded honorary citizenship by the city of Craiova, Romania, after he jumped into an icy lake and saved the life of a 5-year-old girl. 🇮🇳🇷🇴
For nearly 30 minutes, he held the child above freezing water until rescuers arrived.
This is the side of Indians the world rarely sees in headlines: courage, sacrifice, compassion and humanity.
Yet stories like this seldom receive the attention that anti-India narratives do. No coverage from Western media outlets.
As India's envoy noted, Vipin's actions embodied the spirit of Vasudhaiva Kutumbakam "The World is One Family." ❤️
"No European country has been attacked with Indian Weapons... So Keep that in Mind"...!!!
I think Europe was not expecting that answer from Minister @DrSJaishankar 👏
Ever heard of Dr. R. Ganesh? He’s a Padma Bhushan awardee (2026) who has unlocked the latent power of the human brain through an ancient Indian tradition called 'Avadhana'.
Here’s why his feat is mind-bending: 🧵
Imagine locking Dr. Ganesh in a room with no pen, paper, or tech. 100 people enter, one by one, each whispering a unique code in any language.
He doesn’t just repeat them; he remembers the exact sequence. Ask him about person #47, and he’ll tell you instantly.
He doesn’t just store data; he captures context. If a bell rang during that 100-person event, he can tell you exactly how many times it chimed.
He is a 'Shatavadhani'—someone capable of performing 100 tasks simultaneously with perfect recall.
Why does this matter in the age of Google?
People ask: "Why memorize if we have AI?"
I ask: "Why go to the gym to build muscle if we have machines?"
Training your brain is essential for cognitive strength. Our kids are struggling with basic grammar and communication—we are losing the ability to think critically.
Dr. R. Ganesh speaks 18 languages, has written hundreds of books, and performed thousands of times. He is living proof of our ancient 'Vishwa Guru' heritage.🇮🇳
It’s time to bring 'Avadhana Vidya' into our schools.
We will be discussing about Avadhana Vidya in the next thread. Till then stay connected.🔗
📽️ inbministry
This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).
From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.
Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.
#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage
Modi told Indians not to travel abroad.
Then he visited five nations in six days.
How rude.
While television screamed about press freedom…
While Trump flew to China collecting headlines…
While Melodi memes flooded timelines…
While half the internet debated cockroaches…
India quietly changed the board.
Not the game.
The board.
And almost nobody noticed.
This was positioning.
11 years of positioning.
Executed in 6 days.
Without firing a bullet.
May 15.
Abu Dhabi.
Two and a half hours.
That was enough.
Three things happened instantly.
One.
India no longer panics during oil shocks.
The reserves are already home.
Two.
Gulf capital now flows into Indian infrastructure.
Not Chinese infrastructure.
Three.
If the Gulf burns tomorrow…
India becomes the escape route.
May 15 to 17.
The Hague.
ASML.
The company China cannot touch.
No ASML machine…
No advanced chips.
No AI race.
No missile guidance.
No semiconductor future.
India walked in quietly.
And got the deal.
Three consequences.
One.
India enters the chip war.
Not as a customer.
As a manufacturer.
Two.
Western technology companies now need India.
Not China.
Three.
The next war will not begin with bullets.
It will begin with semiconductors.
India just armed itself.
May 17 to 18.
Gothenburg.
India-Sweden Technology and AI Corridor.
Signed.
And Ursula von der Leyen was present.
Three outcomes.
One.
Indian AI startups now get direct European access.
Two.
Sweden's defence industry needs Indian scale.
Three.
The India-EU trade relationship just became technological.
Not transactional.
May 18 to 19.
Oslo.
First Indian PM visit in 43 years.
That alone should tell you something.
Norway's Sovereign Wealth Fund.
1.7 trillion dollars.
Largest on earth.
Just signed a Green Strategic Partnership with India.
Not aid.
Not charity.
Partnership.
Three implications.
One.
The world's largest pool of money…
is betting on India.
Two.
Arctic shipping routes are opening.
India just secured a seat.
Three.
Green maritime and hydro technology transfer begins quietly.
May 20.
Rome.
People thought he went there for photographs with Meloni.
He went there for IMEC.
Bye Bye… China & BRI
One.
India becomes Europe's trade artery.
Two.
Italy's stagnant ports revive through Indian trade routes.
Three.
IMEC now has two anchors.
UAE on one side.
Italy on the other.
India runs the pipe between them.
And this is the part people still don't understand.
China needs India.
America needs India.
Russia needs India.
Hostile to none.
Necessary to all.
The next era will not belong to the loudest country.
It will belong to the most indispensable one.
India just applied for that role.
And nobody rejected the application.
If someone tells you India is collapsing…
Show them this post.
And just enjoy the reaction.
A predator entered five boardrooms…
In six days…
Wearing kurta and jacket…
Smiling for cameras…
While quietly acquiring India’s Future.
Jai Bharat!!!
I’ve been reading the Vedas a lot recently, and what’s stood out is how it doubles as an encyclopedia as well as a religious text. Astronomy, medicine, mathematics, metallurgy, linguistics, are all woven through hymns and rituals as one body of knowledge. Simply calling it “religious” forces it into a Western category that didn’t have the apparatus to recognize what it actually was. It’s closer to a tradition of formalized epistemology in which metaphysics, observation, and language form one continuous inquiry, which as a result led Indian civilization to develop along a fundamentally different path because of it.
You can see the effect most clearly in the sciences. Around 600 BCE, the Vedic record describes a surgical procedure that matches modern rhinoplasty and is still foundational to reconstructive surgery today. Centuries before Western Europe stopped treating eclipses as supernatural, Indian scholars had calculated the circumference of the earth within 0.2% and explained eclipses as shadows. Centuries before Plato and Aristotle rejected atomism, the Vedic tradition already held that matter is composed of indivisible particles combining into binary and triatomic compounds, transformable by heat. The first formal rules for zero and negative arithmetic appear in the Vedas, along with infinite-series derivations of π, sine, and cosine centuries before Newton and Leibniz.
The interesting question is how did they get so much right, so early? My best guess is language.
The Vedic tradition is unique compared to other oral traditions as it demanded letter-perfect oral transmission across generations. Around 500 BCE, scholars composed a generative grammar of Sanskrit called Panini so rigorous it anticipates Backus-Naur form, the notation that defines programming languages today, by 2,500 years. Sanskrit is recursive, rule-based, and built to minimize ambiguity. It reads more like mathematics than English.
When you think in a language built like that, the precision of the language becomes the precision of your reasoning. The West didn’t formalize this until much later. Kant argued our categories of understanding shape what we can know, Wittgenstein wrote that the limits of language are the limits of one’s world, and Kripke showed that naming doesn’t just describe things, it constitutes what they mean and how we can reason about them. All three touch the same insight which is that thought is downstream of language.
The Vedic tradition operated on that insight thousands of years earlier. To the point that they built a whole language first and used it to think clearly about everything else after. I find that all really fascinating.
An old man in our neighborhood died today. He was hospitalized with chest pain three days ago, underwent angioplasty, but passed away in the ICU. His wife had died during the COVID wave, and he had been living alone since then.
His only son lives in Australia and couldn’t come to see his father. Now, I’m not saying that the son is uncaring or abandoned his parents. I don’t know him. Maybe he is really a nice man. The elderly couple used to visit him every year and spend a few months with him. But maybe once you build a life outside, you can’t really come back. Life, distance, responsibilities, things become complicated.
The son hadn’t come to India in nearly 10 years. He couldn’t come for his mother’s last rites due to COVID travel restrictions, and I don’t even know if he’ll be able to come now or will have to arrange his father’s last rites from there itself.
This has stayed with me all day. To think of an old man spending his final years largely alone, losing his partner, and then leaving this world without his son by his side. Even as an unrelated observer, the whole thing feels unbearably sad.
"Modi has not done a single press conference in 12 years."
So what?
Not taking questions from the press is not some moral crime in itself. The media is not a council of high priests conducting a legitimacy exam that every Prime Minister must clear for democratic certification.
In a democracy, legitimacy comes from public mandate and governance, not from standing before cameras to satisfy a section of the media that mistakes access for accountability.
As such, today's media ecosystem is not some sacred, neutral institution operating above politics. Much of it is deeply polarized. Different political camps have their favorite journalists, narratives, and ecosystems. Questions are designed less to seek answers and more to manufacture headlines, extract viral moments, or build personal brands.
And those who hold frequent press conferences are not automatically standing on higher moral ground either. We have all seen planted easy questions from pliable journalists and difficult questions brushed aside with “aap rival party ki bhasha mat boliye,” deflections, or outright evasions.
The number of press conferences a leader does is not a certificate of transparency. Otherwise, by that logic, Trump, who interacts with the press almost daily, should automatically be considered the most transparent, most democratic, and the finest leader in the world.
Huge respect to these real heroes 🧡🫡
This is 3rd out of the 12 jyotirling they are cleaning up 🔱
Cheer them ; Support them & tag biggies who can lend more help in this initiative 🙏🏽
The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.
An extreme commitment to the truth makes relationships acutely dysfunctional but systems chronically functional (think Elon Musk).
An extreme commitment to kindness makes relationships acutely functional but systems chronically dysfunctional (think Sweden, UK)