माननीय प्रधानमंत्री श्री नरेंद्र मोदी जी को जन्मदिन की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएं! 🇮🇳🎂
ईश्वर आपको उत्तम स्वास्थ्य, सुख, समृद्धि और दीर्घायु प्रदान करें। देश की सेवा के आपके प्रयासों को निरंतर सफलता मिले। 🇮🇳🙏 @narendramodi
@majorgauravarya Major Gaurav Arya says right thing about Pakistan inne bezati mehsus hi ni hoti .Mohsin Naqvi is live example of this. Suar hi taraa khada rha waha stage pe despite India Bycott #INDvsPAK#indvspak2025#asiacup
What he says may sound appealing and logical to the masses, but it is fundamentally wrong.
Trump has no jurisdiction over Google’s operations in India. His executive authority ends at US’s borders. He cannot order Google to shut down in a sovereign nation.
Google is a private corporation accountable to its shareholders. Exiting India, the world’s second-largest internet market, would slash revenue, tank stock value, trigger shareholder revolts, invite lawsuits, and destabilize the company itself.
Forcing a US company out of India would spark a trade and diplomatic crisis. India could hit back at Amazon, Apple, and Meta while boosting EU or local tech, and Trump will spend his presidency fighting lawsuits from tech giants and their shareholders.
Donald Trump on Truth Social.
50% tariff.
Plastered on India.
We didn’t blink.
EU protested.
Japan negotiated.
China retaliated.
India?
Calm.
No panic.
No midnight flights to Washington.
No “urgent bilaterals.”
Why?
Modi’s ego?
Blind nationalism?
Or… something darker?
A game running 11 years deep.
May 2014.
South Block.
First briefing.
NSA Ajit Doval leans in.
“Sir… if India wants great-power status…
expect U.S. heat.
Trade. Tech. Oil.
Our enemy isn’t China.
It’s dependency.
Tariffs.
Sanctions.
Dollar chokeholds.
Defence strings.”
The room went still.
“Solution?” Modi asked.
Doval: “Decouple risk.
Build leverage.
Not anti-U.S… pro-India.
Bring Gulf and Africa closer.
Build buffers.
Own our seas.
Weaponize our market.”
The plan lit.
And it burned for a decade.
18+ Hours Works
2014
Make in India Launched.
First hooks in the wall.
2015
Qatar LNG renegotiation.
Long-term energy locks.
2016–17
UPI goes live.
GST knits the market.
Payment diplomacy is born.
2018
Iran sanctions teach fuel-finance fortification.
Whiteboards fill with sanction-resilience drills.
2019
National Electronics Policy.
Stop just assembling.
Start owning components.
2020
PLI tsunami: ₹1.97 lakh crore.
Across 13+ sectors.
Rafales touch tarmac.
2021
Strategic Petroleum Reserves expansion.
Quiet, boring, vital.
2022
INS Vikrant sails.
UAE CEPA.
Australia ECTA.
2023
UPI - PayNow link.
Rupee trade corridors multiply.
Dollar choke-points lose bite.
2024
MIRV Agni-V test.
20-year Qatar LNG.
Chabahar Port deal.
2025
Services exports $387.5B.
U.S. slaps +25% tariff over Russian oil.
Impact?
Not existential.
RBI loosens SRVA rules.
Oil mix rebalanced.
Market weapon ready.
This wasn’t ego.
It was armour.
In 2013
GDP: $1.86 trillion.
2025: $4.19 trillion
We’re 4th-largest economy.
$17.65 trillion PPP.
GDP per capita rose,
~$1.45K to ≈$2.9K.
PPP $11,938 by 2025.
Growth stands at 6–8%,
Making us the fastest major economy.
FDI?
We went from shaky reformer to global darling
$300 billion inflows since 2014,
$81 billion in FY25 alone.
Poverty halved;
Macro stabilized;
Market confidence sky high.
I know it was Painful Journey.
We ended up Paying High Taxes.
But it was for this moments.
And yes,
It makes America uncomfortable.
Because here…
the Viceroy’s chair is empty.
Because here…
puppets have no strings.
Tariffs?
They clang against armour, not chains.
We sip our chai.
We count our tankers.
We guard our seas.
We fly our own skies.
And our finance?
Not your Colonial charity,
Thank you very much.
No, the garlands won’t go to Modi.
He’ll be mocked.
Branded.
Hated.
I’ve got my own laundry list of criticisms.
But this phase…
This pain…
This was the Agni in the furnace.
And now,
What will the West do when they can't bend Bharat?
When the memos and sanctions don’t bite?
Will the next captain keep the altitude steady?
Or…
Will we trade sovereignty for a seat at their tea party?
Your move, Sahib.
- Brilliant piece by Narayan Kumar.
Your annual reminder that satya, ahinsa, satyagrah had no role in Britain’s decision to free India. The real reasons:
1. WWII left Britain bankrupt, owing huge debts, making colonial administration too costly.
2. That debt was mostly from the US, which opposed old-style imperialism via the Atlantic Charter (1941) and pressured the UK to decolonize.
3. The Labour Party came to power in 1945 in the UK. It was openly anti-imperialist, seeing the empire as a burden and focusing on building the welfare state instead of maintaining colonial rule.
4. The western world was seeing a rise of anti-colonial sentiments. WWII’s rhetoric of freedom and democracy clashed with imperial rule; colonialism was increasingly seen as hypocritical and illegitimate globally.
5. The United Nations came into existence, and its 1945 Charter encouraged self-government; Britain faced international scrutiny and moral pressure to grant independence.
6. The rise of armed nationalist movements in colonies like India and Palestine made governance costly and unstable. The British army was overstretched, under-equipped, and war-weary, unable to manage widespread armed insurgencies.
As a result, Britain freed over 60 colonies after WWII, usually based on their economic value and the resources needed to control them. Only one of these had satya, ahinsa, satyagrah. If that really worked, India would have been free decades earlier; Gandhi had been waving that banner for years, and the British didn’t budge until they were broke and exhausted.
So the idea that dedi hame aazadi bina khadag bina dhaal is is simply not true.
@ManojTiwariMP@narendramodi Hum bhi ek din tjhe Delhi North East se hari jhandii dikha kar vidha kar denge @ManojTiwariMP 11 saal se malai kha rha hai high command ki chaplusi kar rha hai. Nakli
@grok@ManojTiwariMP@rajnathsingh@SuperGrok@grok isne kuch ni kiya.. 24 ghante chaplusi krta firta hain yh.. vidhan Sabha election mein candidate se paise kha k bhag gya.. vapis bhi ni aya.. aur yh sari kazagi baate hain jo aapne upar boli hai.. langur k hath mein angoor hain yh
@grok@ManojTiwariMP@rajnathsingh@SuperGrok@grok Constituency related question kitne puche..? Konsa Drain cleaning project kiya puri north east pani mein dubi padi hai. Aur MCD election jitwane se humme kya mila. Logo k liye kitne kaam kiye.. zero
Nayara Energy alleges that Microsoft blocked its access to its own data, tools, and products, even though it had fully paid for the licenses.
This should serve as a wake-up call. Our most critical sectors, including energy, banking, stock exchanges, civil aviation, govt admin, defence, railways, IT, BPO, and telecom, still run heavily on Microsoft.
We’ve the best minds in the world, we’ve resources. We should have our own secure, homegrown alternatives so that our critical systems aren’t at the mercy of foreign companies.