Harshvardhan Modi

Vipassana meditator, Microsoft USA alum, Michigan Engineering alum. Real Estate Developer, Techie at Heart, Angel Investor. RTs are not endorsements.

[Harris Sultan @TheHarrisSultan]

SIX STEPS needed to save the West from falling into civil war

1: Mercilessly deport every single illegal migrant, including those who have overstayed their visa by even a single day.

2: Change the culture. Go from welcoming other cultures to being highly suspicious of them. The goal should be to encourage self-deportation.

3: Remove special privileges. No halal slaughter, burqas, or kirpans. The message should be clear: anything that even hints at clashing with the host culture will be strictly prohibited. Start with heavy fines, but if that doesn’t work, deport non-citizens and impose heavy prison sentences on citizens.

4: Brutally cut Welfare. Britain’s welfare bill now exceeds its income tax revenue. This means more is being spent on welfare than is being raised through income tax. Cut welfare payments for foreign-born residents and even citizens. If you haven’t contributed, you don’t get support. If you can’t make a life in the West, go back to your own country.

5: Cancel Citizenships. Every visa holder with a criminal record, no matter how trivial, should be deported. If they have become naturalised citizens, then those convicted of violent crimes such as murder, rape, or gang rape (of both children and adults) should have their citizenship revoked, serve their sentence in an offshore detention facility, and then be deported. Personally, I’d rather see the death penalty, but I’m willing to settle for this for now.

6: Three Strikes Rule. Naturalised citizens convicted of lesser offences such as fraud, assault, or other crimes resulting in a criminal record should face a three-strikes rule. After the third strike, their citizenship should be revoked.

You will notice behaviour change drastically. Migrants will fear and respect the host country and its laws far more than they do now.

Start with this, and then go even harsher if the problem persists. Ethno-nationalists and neo-Nazis want to go straight to the gulags and cattle cars. That’s not how things work, nor will it ever work. Baby steps.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

Such posts are very important. We must reclaim our archaeology process and place primary evidence in front of people, along with its meaning, without western or breaking-india interpretations. It should be done with speed, efficiency and scale, the way our space programme works.

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

Located in Hisar (Haryana), Rakhigarhi is the largest known archaeological site of the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation, spanning approximately 550 hectares, significantly larger than both Harappa and Mohenjo-daro.

Major excavations at the site have revealed advanced urban planning, sophisticated craftsmanship, a large lapidary workshop, drainage systems, wells, and a substantial cemetery.

Many scholars believe it may have served as a major provincial capital or an important regional center of the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation.

These discoveries firmly establish that the heart and largest expanse of the Indus-Saraswati Civilisation thrived across a vast area of Bharat.

Ongoing research and preservation efforts at Rakhigarhi continue to provide deeper insights into this ancient civilisation and its profound roots in Indian history.

#Rakhigarhi #IndusSaraswatiCivilisation #LargestIndusSite #AncientIndianHeritage #CivilisationalContinuity

@ASIGoI

[Bhavesh Kansara @kansaratva]

The Wire: Candle Sellers Face Loss of Business After the BJP Government Imposes Majoritarian Power Moves.

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

India Today has accessed photographs showing Asgar Hossain, the contractor who died in the building collapse in Taratala area, in the company of senior Trinamool Congress leader and former Kolkata mayor Firhad Hakim at multiple events | @AnirbanSinhr
https://t.co/pw35aPXjoU

[Arshia Malik @arshiaunis]

As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.

If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.

We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.

We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.

Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.

We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.

We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.

As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.

@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

Requesting follow up research on this from other labs testing NK cells and also from groups who dont particularly care for outdoors to get more data on this.

[Millie Marconi @MillieMarconnni]

A Japanese immunologist spent 20 years proving that the chemicals trees release into the air walk into your bloodstream, hunt down your stress hormones, and arm your immune system in ways no therapist or pharmaceutical has ever matched, and most of the data has been sitting in Japanese medical journals for two decades waiting to be translated.

His name is Qing Li.

He is a clinical professor at Nippon Medical School in Tokyo and the president of the Japanese Society of Forest Medicine. The Japanese government has been funding his research since 2004, and the body of work he has produced is the reason forest bathing is now an officially prescribed clinical therapy in Japan and Korea.

The story actually starts in 1982, when the Japanese Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries coined the term shinrin-yoku to describe the practice of slow, mindful walking in a forest. They did it for a practical reason.

Japan was urbanizing fast, stress-related illness was climbing, and the country had thousands of square kilometers of forest sitting unused. The idea was to give people a reason to walk into the trees... They had no idea what was actually happening to the human body during those walks until Qing Li ran the first proper experiment in 2005.

He took twelve healthy adult men on a three-day, two-night trip to a forest park. They walked for a few hours each day. Nothing strenuous. No prescribed routes or breathing exercises. They simply walked slowly through the trees, breathing the air, looking at the forest.

Li drew blood and urine samples before the trip, on the second day, on the third day, on day seven after returning home, and again on day thirty.

The numbers that came back from the lab were not what anyone expected.

The activity of a specific type of immune cell called the natural killer cell, which is the cell your body uses to hunt down cancer cells and virus-infected cells before they can spread, had jumped by roughly 50 percent during the forest trip. The actual number of natural killer cells circulating in the bloodstream had increased significantly.

Three different anti-cancer proteins that those cells produce, called perforin, granzymes, and granulysin, had all risen sharply. And the effect did not disappear when the men went home. The immune boost was still measurable on day seven and was still partially present on day thirty.

Two hours a day in a forest had upgraded the immune system for a full month.

Li ran the same experiment with women a year later and found nearly identical results. Then he ran it with a control group who took a three-day trip through an urban area with the same amount of walking, the same hotel quality, and the same diet.

The urban group showed no measurable change in natural killer cell activity at all. The forest was doing the work, not the vacation.

The mechanism turned out to be a class of airborne molecules called phytoncides. Trees produce these compounds to defend themselves against insects, bacteria, and fungi. Pine, cedar, oak, and cypress trees release them in particularly large amounts, especially in warmer weather and after rainfall.

When you walk through a forest, you are inhaling those molecules into your lungs and absorbing them through your skin, and once inside your body they appear to directly stimulate the production and activity of the very immune cells Li was measuring in his lab.

Roughly 50 percent of the health benefit of a forest walk, according to Li's data, comes from the chemistry of the air itself. The other half comes from what the forest is doing to your nervous system.

This is where it stops being only about the immune system and starts being about stress.

A separate Japanese research team measured cortisol, the body's main stress hormone, in 84 participants across 35 different forest sites. They drew samples before and after a 30-minute walk in each forest and compared them to control walks in matched urban environments. The cortisol levels of the people who walked in the forest were lower than the cortisol levels of the people who walked in the city by a significant margin. Their heart rates were lower. Their blood pressure was lower.

The activity of their parasympathetic nervous system, which is the part responsible for rest and recovery, had gone up. The activity of their sympathetic nervous system, which is the part that drives fight or flight, had gone down.

Then a researcher at the University of Michigan named MaryCarol Hunter ran the cleanest version of this experiment ever done. She recruited participants from a city and told them to take a nature pill three times a week for eight weeks.

They were free to choose the time, the place, and the duration of the nature experience, as long as it was outside, in daylight, and free of phones, conversations, and aerobic exercise. They sent her saliva samples before and after each session so she could measure cortisol changes accurately and rule out the normal daily drop in stress hormones that happens to everyone.

The result was that participants experienced a 21.3 percent drop in cortisol per hour spent in nature, with the biggest payoff happening between minutes 20 and 30 of the walk.

After that, the cortisol kept dropping, but more slowly. The threshold dose for measurable stress relief was just 20 minutes outside in something that looked and felt like nature.

What none of this means is that nature is a substitute for therapy or for medication when someone genuinely needs them. Therapy treats different things than a walk does, and Li himself has been careful in interviews to call forest bathing a complementary intervention rather than a replacement for clinical care.

But what the research has settled is that the human body has a physiological response to being among trees that operates on the same biological systems modern medicine is trying to reach with drugs and clinical protocols, and that response is fast, measurable, and free.

The strangest part of Li's work is the implication he keeps repeating in interviews. The average person now spends more than 90 percent of their life indoors. Their cortisol stays elevated. Their natural killer cells stay sluggish.

Their parasympathetic nervous system rarely gets a chance to take over. The system that was tuned by millions of years of life under a canopy of trees is being asked to run permanently inside a box made of drywall and screens.

Your body has not forgotten what it is supposed to do in a forest. It is waiting for you to walk into one.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

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[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

Cabo Verde, an archipelagic nation of just 5.25 lakh citizens, holds European champions Spain to a draw in the FIFA World Cup.
What is India doing wrong in football?

[Vinod Khosla @vkhosla]

The stupidity of these @Stanford students to take the greatest opportunity for equality in humanity ever and to really free humanity and go walk out on @google and @sundarpichai that's pioneered that. Biased, idiotic, short-sighted and very selfish. Selfish because they ignored the bottom 3 billion people on this planet that could benefit from AI and they are worried about their misinformed selfish self-interest.
https://t.co/EFg09aLgLQ

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

This post needs to go viral around the world.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Every calculation you have ever done uses a system India invented.

Before Indian mathematicians gave the world zero and the decimal place, Greek and Roman maths used letters for numbers. Try multiplying MXLVII by CCXCIV. Merchants, architects and astronomers across the ancient world were trapped.

Baghdad's Al-Khwarizmi (c.780–847) transmitted it west. His book on the Indian place system and algorithmic calculation laid the foundation of modern mathematics. The word "algorithm" is a corruption of his name. "Algebra" comes from his treatise title. Both are Arabic transmissions of Indian originals.

Abraham Seidenberg's History of Mathematics credits India's Sulba Sutras as the inspiration for all mathematics of the ancient world.

Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher: "India was China's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics."

Carl Sagan thought Vedic cosmology the only ancient system whose timescales correspond to modern scientific cosmology.

Every time a computer runs, it counts in a system India designed.

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

My demand: West Bengal needs a Truth and Reconciliation Commission for every victim of political violence and crime under Trinamool Congress rule of 15 years.

A full, public, time-bound inquiry.

Start with Abhijit Sarkar - hunted, killed, his family broken, his old mother sexually abused, his brother forced into a relentless fight for justice.

Then reopen the full record of 2021 post-poll violence, where the Calcutta High Court had to order a CBI probe into serious cases of murder, rape and crimes against women.

Look at all the cases that Bengal was asked to forget.

👉The assault on BJP worker Gopal Majumdar’s elderly mother, Shova Majumdar.

👉 The Birbhum horror, where people were burnt alive.

👉 The Sandeshkhali terror, where women were abused amongst many other criminal acts.

👉 The Chopra flogging case, where medieval brutality played out in public.

👉 The Murshidabad and Bhangar violence.

And many more...

This was TMC's political terror protected by power and normalised by police.

Chief Minister Suvendu Adhikari's government must document every case, protect every witness, reopen every buried file, expose every political-criminal network and prosecute every cadre-protected accused.

Bengal cannot heal through silence or egg therapy.

Bengal needs truth before reconciliation.

Justice for Bengal must begin now.
@narendramodi @SuvenduWB

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

Graphic posted by Islamabad based person validating the poverty reduction that has happened under Modi's tenure, despite rising population.

[Javed Hassan @javedhassan]

Worth noting that in absolute terms Pakistan in 2026 has almost as many people living in extreme poverty as India, a country six times the population.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

Shocking! India should spend money and effort for creating clean toilets (paid) across cities, developing cultural tourism like Mehrangarh fort across. There is massive opportunity for experiential tourism, for world class museums, for all kinds of tourism.

[Amitabh Kant @amitabhk87]

Tourism is the fastest ways to earn foreign exchange and create jobs at scale.
A foreign visitor brings dollars directly into the economy. And every direct job in tourism creates thirteen indirect jobs.

Over the last four years, India’s overseas tourism marketing budget has been cut to near zero. The sharp reduction in India’s overseas tourism marketing budget is surprising as PM @narendramodi Modi has been the strongest advocate of tourism.

India is buying 2000 airplanes . We will end up doing outbound rather than inbound tourism. We need to vigorously promote, market and sell India as the greatest destination on earth - for jobs and for foreign exchange.
My edit piece in today’s ET.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala: RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat says, "...People from Muslim and Christian faiths sometimes meet us. We tell them that by tradition, ancestry and cultural influence, they are also part of the same civilisational heritage. Some object to being called Hindus and say they would rather be called Hindavi or Bharatiya. The meaning, however, is the same. Hindavi belongs to Hindustan, and Bharatiya reflects a shared civilisational identity. Hindustan is a Hindu nation, and this sense of Hinduness connects all of us. It also has the capacity to connect everything in the world."

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

This exposes the speakers as the buffoons that they are.

Many, many more people had far more money than Elon even after his Paypal exit.

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

“Elon Musk has no knowledge.
He is almost finished”

Kaise kaise kaise jokers ko sir par chadha rakha hai logo ne

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

This is critical. @PMOIndia
@nasscomCoEIoT

https://t.co/m6vO9EzhrY

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

Rarely, I have to agree with her.

Except that Pak has no ability to nuke India.

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

It’s hilarious how the Pakistanis are “brokering peace” with Iran when the Pakistanis are so unhinged and so dedicated to Islamic supremacy, President Trump literally had to step in to stop Pakistan from nuking India.

But yah, Pakistan is really going to get the genocidal Iranian regime to stop chanting Death to America and threatening to nuke the West. I’m sure the Iranians are going to snap out of it and stop plotting to assassinate Donald Trump and his family. I’m sure they will stop funding and arming Hamas and Hezbollah.

I’m sure we can trust Pakistan, because they have such a longstanding record of being trustworthy, hiding Bin Laden and all.

Muslims are just so committed to peace. 😂😂

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

@paulagnimitra1 Thank you for taking such initiatives.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

I will be very happy to work for the city and state if given an opportunity. Other suggestions for improved urban environment, discipline and order. Orderly city will invite more industry and commerce and services industry and help our citizens live better:

1) Buses, taxis, private cars pollution test to be enforced.
2) Buses to stop at bus stops only.
3) Bus incentive system to be changed to prevent unsafe overtaking.
4) Kolkata is too hot and humid + pollution + climate change. Buses to be airconditioned and electric.
5) Electric charging stations, and electric buses and taxis to be promoted for pollution and also foreign exchange.
6) Single use plastic to be banned and thicker plastic bags to be compulsorily charged to encourage people to use reusable jute bags for shopping like many foreign countries
7) Traffic dividers to be used at intersections along with lane markers and lane blockers using simple, cheap cones. Signs on road floor of left lane, right lane, and forward lane to be designated to make traffic orderly smooth.
8) Each lane to have its own flow leading to somewhere. Any lanes creating bottlenecks to be preferably used for parking or merging very smoothly, by informing motorist "lane merging ahead"
9) pedestrians to be made responsible for their own safety also, but proper zebra crossing and passage created for all locations.
10) pavements broken in many places. Encroachments by shops, electric items, garbage to be kept clear especially in narrow zones.
11) Heat action plan to be made for Kolkata with incentives for coolroofing, shade of large canopy trees, electric cars, lower pollution
12) Public paid toilets a must, with strong cleanliness. UPI payment encouraged there.
13) Commercial establishments to be given free FAR to have food stalls with limited cost per meal, to move meals indoors instead of on pavements.
14) only few large pavements to be allowed for very regulated food vending.
15) surprise checks on food vendors, urban infra, with geo time stamped photos required. Citizens to be engaged for this also, like swachha app.

[Harshvardhan Modi @hvmodi]

@paulagnimitra1 How can citizens engage with these initiatives in deeper ways?