Ganesh Siddhu 🇮🇳

Proud INDIAN.

[Ganesh Siddhu 🇮🇳 @ganeshsiddhu]

That's Patriotism. Huge respect for this elderly man. A real patriot. Sir, India is with you.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH Bihar: Father of Sepoy Kundan Kumar, who lost his life in #GalwanValley of Ladakh on June 15-16, says, "My son sacrificed his life for the nation. I have two grandsons, I will send them too."

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

In a recent interview, Dr Raghuram Rajan says we are getting only low paying manufacturing jobs in Tamil Nadu. He also opposes industrial policy at the national level. Let me explain the intrinsic contradiction between these two ideas.

Let us consider the iPhone factory in Tamil Nadu. It would take the average worker there about 5 months of work to afford the entry level iPhone. In China, it would take only 1 month of the same factory work. The work is the same.

High paying jobs, which I agree we need, come from high value addition and that requires that we not only perform the R&D but we also own the IP in India and capture the resulting economic value addition. Only then would pay in even products where India does not have much IP (like the iPhone) would go up.

If you look at major IP-rich, successful companies in the world, all of them do substantial R&D in India. But only a tiny fraction of the economic value added by these companies (measured by their gross profit, as distinct from the net profit) actually is accounted for in India. Gross profit captures employee compensation, net profit and taxes, and goes directly into GDP calculation.

I will present two admittedly crude examples, just to illustrate the issue.

Nvidia has a gross profit of well over $200 billion a year and 24% of Nvidia employees are in India, mostly in R&D. Microsoft has a gross profit of about $230 billion a year and 10% of its R&D staff are in India. India's economic accounts will not show anywhere near 24% of value added by Nvidia or 10% of value added by Microsoft. India would only show a small fraction of the $48 billion value added by Nvidia or $23 billion of value added by Microsoft (presumably) arising from Nvidia India and Microsoft India R&D operations. Again, crude example, for illustration purpose only etc.

If we create Indian companies that own the IP in India, much of their economic value will accrue in India.

This is why long term R&D and capability building is so important.

Now let me come to industrial policy. The only mechanism the world has known for a "developing country" (no IP, low value addition) to become a "devloped country" (lots of IP and value addition captured locally) is to spur the domestic entrepreneurs and industry to gain the know-how and capability. This is the lesson from East Asia, and a great book on that topic is "How Asia Works".

Dr Raghuram Rajan represents what is called the "Chicago School" economic theory, originally arising from Milton Friedman. The Chicago School does not agree with industrial policy.

Following the Chicago School will get us to Mexico's economic situation (lots of low wage manufacturing) but never to Japan or Taiwan or South Korea and now China. Getting to Japan or Taiwan or South Korea or China require us to understand "How Asia Works". China rose from very low wages and now has overtaken nations like Mexico, because China has the know-how and IP and Mexico does not.

In one interview, Dr Rajan has managed to both want high paying jobs (yes!) and oppose the very policy needed to get us there!

Book link below.

[Aravind @aravind]

"Liftoff narmal." Engine performance normal. Satellite separarated. Love those phrases. ISRO is back on track.

2367 kgs EOS-05 successfully placed by GLSV in orbit. It will be India's first dedicated earth imaging satellite from a geostationary orbit that can see anywhere in the Indian subcontinent at 40m "stated" resolution ;)

Now ISRO must regularly post one non-sensitive image of interest from India. For a start, point it at the glacier collapse area and release the latest images.

[Sann @san_x_m]

On 22nd June 2015, off the coast of Odisha, second officer Manoj Chauhan spotted a small boat through his binoculars, 2.5 km away.

Men on board were waving their shirts.

The captain who saw that signal was a woman, and what happened next made her the first woman in the world to win the highest bravery award the shipping industry gives.

Her name is Radhika Menon.

She is from Kodungallur in Kerala, and she is the first woman ever to captain a ship in the Indian Merchant Navy.

That day she was in command of the oil tanker Sampurna Swarajya, sailing down the east coast of India. A deep depression at sea had brought winds of 60 to 70 knots and waves 25 to 27 feet high. The tanker itself was being thrown around in it.

The boat Chauhan had spotted was called the Durgamma, a small fishing vessel from Andhra Pradesh. Its engine had failed and its anchor was gone. It had drifted for days from Kakinada all the way to Gopalpur, at the mercy of the storm. There were 7 fishermen on board, including a 15 year old boy. Their food had washed away. They were surviving on ice from the cold storage.

They had given up hope of being found.

Menon looked at the boat through her binoculars and made a decision in seconds. She has said her focus was on the boy. She knew that if she did not pick them up, none of them would survive.

A large tanker cannot simply pull alongside a small fishing boat in a storm like that and expect it to be safe. It took 3 attempts, using a pilot ladder lowered down the side of the tanker, with life jackets on standby, before all 7 men were finally brought aboard.

They stayed on her ship for about a week before it reached port and they were reunited with their families.

She has said plainly that an award was the last thing on her mind that day. She considered it her duty.

The International Maritime Organisation disagreed with how ordinary she made it sound. On 21st November 2016, at its headquarters in London, it gave her the Award for Exceptional Bravery at Sea.

No woman, in any country, in the history of that award, had ever received it before.

She said afterwards that it was the greatest honour any seafarer could receive, and that it was worth cherishing.

7 men are alive today because a woman looking through a pair of binoculars in a storm did not look away.

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

She is Ramabai Ranveer, a 47-year-old mother from Ambajogai in Maharashtra.

She works hard to support her family and her daughters’ education. After the death of her husband, the responsibility of raising and educating her two daughters fell on her shoulders.

When she heard about a local marathon called Amrit Daud, she decided to participate. The winner would receive Rs 3000. For many people, Rs 3000 may seem like a small amount.

But for a mother struggling to support her children’s dreams, that money meant something much bigger. It could help with education. It could help with fees. It could help her daughters move one step closer to their dreams.

She did not have proper running shoes, professional sportswear, or special training. But she had something much stronger than all of that....a dream for her daughters and the determination to make sure their education continued.

On the day of the race, she arrived wearing a simple saree and slippers. Around her were younger runners, many of them better prepared and wearing proper running shoes. But Ramabai was there with only one goal in her heart: to run for her daughters and their future.

As the race began, her slippers started causing problems and slowing her down. She could have stopped. She could have given up. But she didn’t. Instead, Ramabai removed her slippers, held them in her hands, and continued running barefoot.

Imagine that moment. A 47-year-old mother, running on the road without shoes, wearing a saree, competing against younger runners with proper running shoes. Every step must have been difficult, but the thought of her daughters and their education gave her the strength to keep moving forward.

And then, she did something truly incredible. Ramabai Ranveer crossed the finish line first and won the marathon. She won the Rs 3000 prize money that she had hoped to use to support her daughters’ education.

Respect to you, Ramabai Ji. There is no greater warrior than a mother.

Maharashtra govt should help fund her daughters’ education. When so many freebies and welfare schemes are being offered, why shouldn’t meaningful support be given to those who truly need it and are working hard to build a better future?

[Aravind @aravind]

This middle class madam you see here pulling her own luggage, always dressed humbly, with a no-nonsense attitude?

She needs a big applause for what India has pulled with a 7.8% growth during one of the toughest global economic climate year.

She has delivered consistent growth for India, maneuvering India through multiple crises, while keeping inflation low and reducing deficit.

She just doesn't get enough credit for what she has done. In fact, she gets hate and mockery mostly. I think just because she's a woman.

> She has cleared 10 lakh crore NPA from banks
> Delivered 7.6%+ avg GDP growth for past six years (after Covid, Ukraine war, Gulf war and trade war with USA)
> And cut income tax up to 13 lakhs and indirect tax to 9% at its lowest
> Done so many things for India better than all those Oxford, Cambridge economists before

But most people are being constantly blackpilled about the economy by foreign adversarial and political propaganda.

They keep parroting "high tax" "high inflation" as if everything was lower before. But the truth is, they were much higher and she has brought all down (taxes, deficit, NPAs, and inflation) while keeping growth good.

Even under this post we will find people complaining because that's how powerful the propaganda is. It is easy to blackpill and make people feel miserable when actually things are better now than before in so many ways.

[Maratha Newz @Maratha_NEWz]

Sirf 2 second ki deri hoti, maa apni dono betiyon ke saath paani mein sama jaati.

[Johnny Walker @plandidalways]

If any Western Army had pulled something like this off for a casevac in a vintage helicopter manufactured in the 60s, their entire state machinery would’ve gone bonkers praising their own & would’ve called it the sortie of the century. Most folks don’t fully realise that the probability of not coming back from such a flight for the pilots is more than a safe return. Next time in an airshow near you, try if you can get a glimpse of the Cheetah’s cockpit. A Maruti Swift dashboard has more components on it.

And yet, our warriors go on and on. Probably landed back, made a good night call home & went to sleep, woke up today for business as usual. Probably both pilots in their late twenties or thirties. Unreal commitment to duty & professionalism. Indian Army for you.

[Meidas_Charise Lee @charise_lee]

His friend from upstream who called him to warn him about the flash floods and his quick thinking and decisive leadership saved the lives of everyone. He basically saved a generation of Nepalese 🙏

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

THIS IS WHAT MAKES US HUMAN.

Nepalese Army shows us what heroism and selflessness can achieve.

This footage shared by the country's prime minister office shows soliders carrying survivors and crawling across thick slates of mud to reach others.

An update issued by officials on Thursday indicated more than 100 people were estimated to have been trapped in the same tunnel.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

10 days. The chess world just watched this happen :))

18 August - A 15 year old named Vandan Alankar Sawai, rated 2,288, sat down in Chess[dot]com's Titled Tuesday and got paired against the World No. 1, Magnus Carlsen, rated 2,823. A 535-point gap. Vandan later said the quiet part out loud: "I did not have anything to lose and everything to gain."

50 moves later, Carlsen blundered his king on move 26. Vandan closed it out.

Vandan did not tell anyone. Went back home like it was a regular Tuesday. His parents had to physically ask him how the tournament went before he mentioned, almost as an afterthought, that he had beaten Magnus Carlsen. His own mother later said they had to force him to play the event in the first place.

24 August - Grand Chess Tour semifinal, St. Louis. Praggnanandhaa Rameshbabu takes down Vincent Keymer, winning both the classical and rapid segments outright to punch his ticket to the final before blitz even starts.

27 August - the final. Caruana. Praggnanandhaa walks into the last day 6 points down. Wins both rapid games. Holds his nerve through blitz. Closes it 15-13.

First Indian ever to win the Grand Chess Tour.

10 days. 2 world class GMs beaten in 1 week by 1 Indian, and the World No. 1 quietly taken down by a kid who forgot to mention it at dinner.

[ひろと 市川 @Scrobbs]

ネパールのこの人、本当に英雄だと思う…。
自分の命まで危険にさらして人を助けるなんてすごすぎる❤️🙏

[नेपालको सत्य @thenepalitruth]

अत्यन्त जरुरी सूचना — खोजी तथा उद्धारका लागि सहयोग गरिदिनुहोस् 🙏
मेरो छोरा प्रज्वल थापा र छोरी प्रनिषा थापा रसुवा, गोसाइँकुण्ड घुम्न गएको अवस्थामा हाल परिवारको सम्पर्कमा आउनुभएको छैन।
रसुवा क्षेत्रमा विपद्को अवस्था रहेकाले उहाँहरूको अवस्थाबारे परिवार अत्यन्त चिन्तित छाै ।
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बाबू नानी सम्पर्कमा आउने काेसिश गर घर परिवार तिमीहरूको प्रतिक्षामा छाै । — with Sunkanchi Gauchan.
- Naresh Thapa

[Nirmal Prasai🇳🇵 @NirmalPrasai5]

दुई वर्षका बाबुको जिवितै उद्धार। धन्यवाद भगवान।🙏
#nepal #everyone #highlights

[Sann @san_x_m]

She was standing under a tree in an Assam village when a man cut it down.

9 baby birds fell to the ground in front of her. Some were injured. Some died there.

She stopped her PhD that year and did not go back to it for more than a decade.

Her name is Purnima Devi Barman.

She was born in 1980 in Pub Majir Gaon, a village on the bank of the Brahmaputra in Assam. Her grandmother used to sing to her about the birds in the paddy fields and taught her to tell the different storks apart.

She studied zoology at Gauhati University and began a PhD in 2007 on the greater adjutant stork, which people in Assam call the hargila, meaning bone swallower.

It is one of the rarest storks in the world. It stands about 5 feet tall, it is bald, and it eats carrion and rubbish. In 2007 the number left in Assam was estimated at around 450.

The problem was not poaching. It was that people hated it.

Villagers thought it was dirty, thought it smelled, and thought it was a bad omen. They threw stones at the birds. They cut down the trees the birds nested in, or tried to smoke them out. As one report put it, people would rather cut down their own trees than live near them.

She did not fight the villagers. She worked out that the birds could only be saved if the people around them wanted them there.

So she went to the women.

Her own words about the start of it are worth repeating. Men would dismiss her, she said. The women would laugh at her, but they would invite her into the house, and they would listen.

She held cooking competitions in backyards and talked about the bird while they cooked. She got theatre groups to write plays about it. She had the stork woven into textiles. She organised baby showers for hargila chicks, so that a nesting tree became something a family celebrated rather than something they resented.

She told villagers the bird could have gone to any village in Assam, and it chose theirs.

The women became the Hargila Army. It started small. It now has more than 20,000 members.

Since 2010, she says, not a single nesting tree has been cut in those villages. The women planted 45,000 saplings and rescued more than 500 chicks that fell from nests. Nests in one colony in Kamrup district went from about 30 to over 250.

The stork population in Assam has gone from around 450 to more than 1,800.

In December 2023 the International Union for Conservation of Nature moved the species off the endangered list.

She was given the Whitley Award in 2017 and the Whitley Gold Award in 2024, which people call the Green Oscar. India gave her the Nari Shakti Puraskar. Time named her one of its Women of the Year in 2025.

The women in those villages, who once laughed at her, are now the reason the bird exists.

[Desert Scorpion🦂🇮🇳 @TigerCharlii]

"Supreme Sacrifice at age 20!"

Sepoy Pawan Singh Sugra
The Kumaon Regiment
From: Uttarakhand

Joining Indian Army was his childhood dream that he fulfilled at age 18!
He made sacrifice in cross-border firing by #Pakistan army in 2017 in Jammu & Kashmir!
Salute 🇮🇳
#IndianArmy

[🇮🇳 Sangitha Varier 🚩 @VarierSangitha]

🇮🇳Gen Z #RoleModels
Taking a direct bullet to his head, he refused to fall. Bleeding profusely from a fatal wound, this young Ghatak Commander eliminated his fourth terrorist at point-blank range & dragged a wounded comrade to safety before taking his final breath.

Most men would instantly collapse upon taking a gunshot wound directly to the head. What this 25-year-old fearless officer did to annihilate an entire infiltration module in the treacherous mountains of Gurez earned him Bharat’s highest peacetime gallantry award.

On the midnight of August 20, 2011, around 0030 hours, Lieutenant Navdeep Singh, serving as the ferocious Ghatak Platoon Commander with 15 Maratha Light Infantry, received critical intelligence regarding a heavily armed group of 17 infiltrating terrorists in the high-altitude Gurez sector of Jammu & Kashmir.

Displaying masterclass tactical acumen,
Lt Navdeep swiftly analyzed the treacherous terrain, predicted the hostiles' exact infiltration route, and laid a deadly, silent ambush. As the infiltrating pack walked into the kill zone, the fearless young officer sprung the trap.

Leading the charge from the absolute front, Lt Navdeep engaged the hostiles in fierce, point-blank combat, single-handedly eliminating three heavily armed terrorists in rapid succession. Suddenly, spotting a fourth hostile maneuvering to target his men, he completely disregarded his personal safety and swiftly repositioned himself to neutralize the threat.

In that split second, a fatal enemy bullet struck Lt Navdeep directly in the head.

Despite sustaining a catastrophic, life-threatening head wound and bleeding heavily, his warrior spirit completely refused to yield. With sheer, superhuman willpower, he locked onto the fourth terrorist and shot him dead on the spot. Even while losing blood at a rapid pace, the gallant commander crawled through the heavy crossfire to physically drag an injured comrade to hard cover, continuing to fire his weapon at the remaining infiltrators until he fell unconscious.

His supreme valor and sacrifice broke the back of the massive infiltration bid, leading to the elimination of 12 terrorists in total.
Lt Navdeep Singh made the supreme sacrifice in the line of duty, attaining eternal immortality.

For his indomitable spirit, terrifying raw courage, and extraordinary leadership under fire, Lieutenant Navdeep Singh was posthumously conferred the nation's highest peacetime gallantry award, the ‘Ashok Chakra’

He proved that an Indian Army Ghatak commander fights past the point of death itself to protect his men and the motherland.
Salute to this immortal legend.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
#IndianArmy
Credits: MaroonEagle

[VERSHA VERMA @iamvershaverma]

*🙏 एक बेटी की तलाश में मदद की अपील*
🙏 मेरी बेटी तुष्या की तलाश में मदद की अपील

मेरी 16 वर्षीय बेटी तुष्या सिन्हा 10 अगस्त 2026 को लखनऊ स्थित घर से लापता हो गई है। इस संबंध में 11 अगस्त को FIR दर्ज कराई गई है, लेकिन आज 10 दिन बीत जाने के बाद भी मेरी बेटी का कोई सुराग नहीं मिल पाया है।

एक माँ के लिए इससे बड़ी चिंता और पीड़ा शायद कुछ नहीं हो सकती। मैं हर पल अपनी बेटी की सुरक्षित वापसी की प्रतीक्षा कर रही हूँ।

इस समय मेरी एक ही प्रार्थना है कि तुष्या की तलाश में हर संभव मदद मिले और वह सुरक्षित अपने घर वापस लौट आए।

यदि किसी को तुष्या के बारे में कोई जानकारी, सुराग या ऐसी कोई भी बात मालूम हो जो उसकी तलाश में सहायक हो सकती है, तो कृपया तुरंत इस नंबर पर सूचित करें:

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🙏 कृपया इस संदेश को अधिक से अधिक लोगों तक पहुँचाएँ।
आपकी एक छोटी-सी सूचना मेरे लिए मेरी बेटी को वापस पाने की बहुत बड़ी उम्मीद बन सकती है।

मेरी बेटी तुष्या को सुरक्षित घर लौटाने में मेरी मदद करें। 🙏

[Desert Scorpion🦂🇮🇳 @TigerCharlii]

On this day in 2000,
India lost braveheart

Brigadier BS Shergill
3 Punjab Regiment / Commander 7 Sector

He made sacrifice in an IED blast in Kupwara (J&K)
Salute 🇮🇳
#IndianArmy

[Anuj Dhar @anujdhar]

Which freedom fighter suffered the longest incarceration during the colonial era?

Trailokya Nath Chakravarty was jailed for a total of 30 years. This included Mandalay jail in Burma with Subhas Bose and Cellular Jail in Port Blair with Savarkar.

As @chandrachurg and I write in our book "Conundrum: Subhas Bose's life after death", in 1939, at the behest of Subhas Bose, Trailokyanath met his old friends — Keshav Baliram Hedgewar, Pandit Paramanand, Veer Savarkar and his younger brother Ganesh in an attempt to organise an upsurge across the country. Didn't work out and Bose was soon out of India.

In 1963, Trailokya received secret message from a fellow revolutionary and very close aide of Bose that Subhas was alive and in UP at that time.

[ANI Digital @ani_digital]

"I don't have eyes, but I am smart": Visually impaired 'flood hero' leads relief efforts in Odisha's Kendrapara

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#Odisha #flood #floodhero