Official DBT data: ₹5.14 lakh crore saved in a decade through elimination of duplicate/fake beneficiaries and leakages.
This is the scale of developmental capacity that has been created.
People abuse and dehumanize Indians any which way they like on X. For every report we send, X says there's no violation found. Yet, you call a Pakistani as Paki and you are suddenly violating rules. This shows even X is now infiltrated by Pak, just like they infiltrated Meta.
Pak is punching much above its weight in infowar simply by infiltrating and influencing media and social media companies. In India, people naively think German govt is anti-India due to DW programming or Elon is promoting anti-India content. The fact is, there's no agenda at these high levels.
Just a few countries are able to infiltrate and influence the world's narrative using their assets and money. This is something India can easily do given its economic power and human resources if it wishes to. At the least, India can fight against such influence that's anti-India by taking these up with relevant countries and companies.
For example, in the recent case of state planted hate against Indians in Singapore, it was not MEA or Indian Embassy which took up the issue with Singapore. Their govt, themselves, took it up to prevent problems. Or when hate is manufactured against Indians on SM in the US or UK, we do not see India taking it up with the companies or countries. This needs to change.
You don't get to decide if a foreign citizen is a war criminal, nor does India, as a sovereign nation. We neither have the right nor the responsibility. Democracies distinguish between individual civilians and the actions of a state.
Foreign policy is defined by mutual diplomatic interests, not by individual emotions or online outrage.
South Africa, one of Israel's fiercest critics, which took Israel to the ICJ accusing Israel of genocide, still allows Israeli tourists.
Turkey, another fierce critic of Israel, which funds weapons against its adversaries, yet Israeli citizens can still visit.
Indonesia does not even recognize Israel diplomatically, yet Israeli passport holders can enter under special permission.
Even Muslim-majority countries such as the UAE, Jordan, and Egypt, despite their long and complicated history of conflict with Israel, allow Israelis to visit.
So why should India, a democratic republic with no direct stake in this conflict, impose a blanket ban on ordinary tourists solely because of their nationality?
One the contrary, I'm quite sure in the past you would not have argued for a permanent blanket ban on every Pakistani citizen, despite Pakistan's direct and indirect role in sponsoring cross-border terrorism against India for decades.
Those claiming we are currently living under an Emergency were the ones demanding Nupur's head for merely quoting Islamic scriptures. These hypocrites don’t stand against a draconian law, they stand against its application to their friends and ideological bedfellows.
My views:
Our civilization, our heritage, our history. We have to defend it with facts, evidence, and credible sources. Never let porki 🇵🇰🐐 psyop & misinformation rewrite India's civilizational legacy. Be very careful 🇮🇳
Pakistan ISI Info Ops through a foreign actor planted a story about Israel’s Mossad planning to kill Asim Munir in Switzerland. This is as part of Munir’s Global PR Op. Mossad honestly has better things to do than waste bullets on a nobody who can’t ever be a threat to Israel.
The institution of the Kshetrapāla or Kshetradevatā represents one of the most compelling demonstrations of Hindu civilisation’s decentralised yet integrative character. Few religious traditions permit such an intensely localised experience of the sacred, wherein a hill, river, grove, village, or region may possess its own guardian deity while simultaneously participating in a larger metaphysical order.
The uniqueness of Hindu civilisation lies not merely in tolerating local cults, but in its extraordinary capacity for synthesis. Tribal gods, village deities, pastoral cults, serpent worship, fertility traditions, and regional guardian spirits were seldom annihilated or declared heretical. Instead, they were gradually situated within an expansive sacred framework, identified with Shiva, Vishnu, Devi, Skanda, or other manifestations of the divine. The local was never abolished by the universal; it was elevated into it.
What modern sociology terms as Sanskritization is often criticised as cultural homogenization. Yet, viewed through a civilizational lens, it may also be understood as one of the most profound nation-building processes in human history. The spread of Sanskritic cosmology, pilgrimage networks, epics, Puranic narratives, temple traditions, and shared sacred geography created a civilizational unity without requiring political centralisation or cultural eradication.
India was not integrated through a single state, a single church, or a singular prophetic authority. It was integrated through sacred geography. Rivers became mothers, mountains became abodes of the divine, forests became sites of penance, and local gods became manifestations of universal principles. Every region retained its individuality while becoming intelligible within a larger metaphysical order.
This stands in contrast to many historical instances in which the arrival of a new religious order often entailed the displacement, marginalisation, or destruction of preceding sacred systems. The Hindu mode of expansion was characteristically incorporative rather than exclusive: the old deity was rarely abolished; it was reinterpreted, assimilated, and situated within a broader cosmology.
The Kshetrapāla, therefore, is not merely a village guardian. He is evidence of a civilizational principle: that the infinite may inhabit the local, that diversity need not imply fragmentation, and that a nation may be unified not by uniformity but by participation in a shared sacred order. Hinduism, in this sense, functioned not merely as a religion but as the metaphysical grammar through which the civilisation of India mapped, ordered, and stabilised its immense diversity into a coherent whole.
Dear Indians, defend our civilizational history with facts. Wherever the history of the Indus Valley Civilization is discussed, ensure India's historical and cultural connections are accurately represented. Stay informed, cite reliable sources, and counter misinformation with evidence. Protect our heritage with knowledge and conviction.
One of the really ironic see-saws of Hindutva’s journey is the arc from Ram Mandir to LS2024 to present.
Ram Mandir was supposed to be this grand uniting force that lifted Hindus above caste, yet many Hindus answered in LS2024 by voting for caste rather than Hindutva.
Jatitva dealt a mortal wound to Hindutva. People claimed to see the omen of Modi & Hindutva’s doom in the stars.
So the BJP decided to give the people what they wanted - caste & cash. They bent the knee to caste anxieties & autism & subsequently went on a tear of state election wins.
People can say other factors contributed (esp in a marquee election like WB), but it is hard to ignore the BJP acquiescing to such big ticket adversarial policies like the Caste Census or just petty caste based sops & reservation.
Nonetheless, I think they realize this is a structural issue that requires a structural solution.
Hence why I am intrigued by the sibling bills of Delimitation & Women’s Reservation. The former shattering the caste pangs of rural India (Le Dehat) by placing primacy on urban India. And the latter banking on a cohort that is apparently less swayed by caste (I am still kind of skeptical regarding this but let’s see).
Whatever case, I think even beyond the case for Hinduism or Hindutva, de-emphasizing caste in electoral politics will be good for INDIA’s development itself in the long-term.