This is something all Indians must understand leaving behind politics and ideologies:
The massive boom in India's infrastructure in the last 10 years is undeniable. Be it highways, border roads, airports, trains, metros, or ports - there's a 100-300% increase compared to before. No joke.
I have not seen this level of development and building for decades before. Projects are not just announced but are actually being completed and inaugurated.
When you have this much infrastructure being built by thousands of contractors and companies, there will always be some issues come up. From bad quality here and there to delays in some.
It happens in every country. Even in the most developed and advanced ones like the very large US or very small Singapore. They too have leaking metro stations, roads that cave in, bridges that break, and trains that breakdown.
But only for India, there's a coordinated communist campaign being run online to blackpill Indians by lifting every issue around the large country, amplifying it as the worst that only happens in India, to destroy the credibility of India's development and government.
If you suddenly start building 100,000 kms of highways, using thousands of contractors and hundreds of companies, yes there will be a few kms of bad patch somewhere or a bad contractor doing a shoddy job.
Yet, that is being taken and amplified online to disillusion Indians about their own democracy, destroy their confidence, and derail India's development using their disillusionment. They are made to believe and say "Everything is bad, everything is corrupt."
This is being done in a coordinated way targeting India's youth primarily. Because the adversaries know India's youth have no past experience to judge. And they are the ones who will take India to the future.
They can be easily programmed showing only the glitzy images of Shangai & Shenzen to make them feel sad about their cities. They know by disillusioning them, and destroying their confidence, India's development can be arrested for a long time.
If you as an older adult understand this and the significance of the current infrastructure boom for the future, it is your responsibility to inform at least a few of the people you know offline about what's going on.
It's OK you get challenged, ridiculed, or even abused. Because we know the mental programming and blackpilling is that much these days. Yet, it is important to try make them understand for India's sake.
Excavations at Bhirrana, conducted between 2003- 2006, revealed four cultural phases — Period IA (Hakra Ware Culture, 7500-6000 BCE), Period IB (Early Harappan, 6000- 4500 BCE) , Period IIA (Transitional/Early Mature Harappan, 4500-3000 BCE) , and Period IIB (Mature Harappan, 3000-1800 BCE). The findings reflected gradual development of settlement patterns, architecture, craft activity, and urban planning.
Period IA revealed the earliest occupation consisting of subterranean circular dwelling pits dug into the virgin alluvium. Nine pits of varying dimensions were excavated, serving habitation, industrial, sacrificial, and refuse-related functions. The pit walls and floors were plastered with yellow alluvium, while reed-impressed earth fragments reflected wattle-and-daub construction techniques. Crucible fragments with traces of molten copper indicated early metallurgical activity. The phase also yielded Hakra Ware, Mud Applique Ware, Incised Ware, Black Burnished Ware, Bi-Chrome Ware, Black-on-Red Ware, and Plain Red Ware decorated with chevrons, criss-cross patterns, wavy lines, geometric designs, festoons, and pipal leaf motifs.
Period IB marked the transition from pit dwellings to mud-brick architecture with house complexes, rooms, courtyards, and chullahs. Antiquities recovered included shell seal fragments, copper arrowheads, terracotta figurines, rattles, sandstone pounders, and beads made of carnelian, agate, jasper, and lapis lazuli.
Period IIA reflected increasing urbanization with standardized mud-bricks, streets, pathways, platforms, hearths, and circular fire-pits indicating organized settlement planning.
Period IIB represented a fortified urban settlement with gateways, drains, paved streets, verandahs, courtyards, kitchens, chullahs, circular tandoors, and circular sunken mud-brick structures containing decarbonized husk and decomposed grains, suggesting storage or industrial activity. Crucibles with copper slag confirmed continued metallurgical activity. Important discoveries included steatite seals depicting a three-headed composite animal and a horned deity, along with a painted caricature resembling the famous dancing girl figurine of the Harappan civilization.
The Assam Regimental Centre held its passing out for 726 Agniveers at its parade ground in Happy Valley 🇮🇳
The ceremonial parade marks the completion of the training schedule for recruits at the training centre. #IADN
India's Shield Armoring Private Limited has unveiled the PAMA-APC, a next-generation armoured personnel carrier built on the Toyota Hilux platform. Designed for defence, paramilitary and high risk security operations, the vehicle "combines enhanced protection, mobility, and operational adaptability for complex environments".
The PAMA-APC is currently being deployed by the Maharashtra Police and Arunachal Pradesh Police. The company is also in final-stage negotiations with several other state police forces for the induction of these vehicles into their fleets.
VIDEO | Jammu: The extended Srinagar-Katra Vande Bharat Express is set to be flagged off today by Railway Minister Ashwini Vaishnaw from from Jammu Tawi Railway Station. The train is expected to cut travel time between Jammu and Srinagar to around five hours. Visuals of preparations for the flag off from Jammu Tawi railway station.
(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)
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Tactical Mistake -> Restricted Rules of Engagement.
Before going-in for strike into Pakistan, the IAF would've generally taken on the PAF fighters on Combat Air Patrol (CAP) and suppressed their air defense using SEAD/DEAD missions.
It seems we'd restricted Rules of Engagement (ROE) during opening phase of #OperationSindhoor [remember Secario border crossing scene? You must be enaged to be engaged] to NOT attack military targets or engage the PAF.
Because engaging PAF (even across the border) or striking their SAMs/Radars would've leant a military dimesion to the conflict while we wanted to convey that we'd restricted ourselves to terrorist infrastructure.
This was evident from the Press Release the next day where we emphasized hitting ONLY terrorist infra and have an option to Pakistan to not escalate.
This restricted ROE put the IAF in disadvantage and that is when some IAF fighters were hit.
The PAF threw everything at the IAF strike component, hoping someting would strike. It was spray and pray.
That is why you found Chinese PL-15 BVR missiles falling all over the place within India.
Lucky shots on interveing night of May 6-May 7 don't count for anything.
When this restricted ROE was lifted, and when the IAF next went in for strikes, the same PAF was shitting bricks and hiding inside their hangars on the ground.
They did not even put-up any fight.
On the contrary, the PAF ended up losing targets on the ground, and in the air in their failed attempts to target Indian assets.
PAF was neither able to prevent the IAF from hitting targets on the ground or attack and destroy any worthwhile target in India.
So what did the PAF achieve?
But Pakistanis will not question the PAF but some in India will question the IAF. Same goes for foreign media.
Here you have an airforce which pummelled the adversary into a state of complete shock.A mauling so comprehensive that a whole generation of PAF officers will carry deep scars on their psyche for decades to come.
From Nur Khan to Bholari , the message was loud and clear ; you can run but you cannot hide ! It was not a question of why but when ?
The pièce de résistance of the entire campaign emerged when Chad boys disabled Sargodha’s main runway and then mockingly flew above the airbase as PAF looked on bewildered.
And then to just rub it in , dropped a bunker buster on Kinara Hills to rub PAF’s nose into the ground.The nuclear bluff was called out so loudly that the reverberations were felt from Islamabad to DC. Halwa Atomi Bum !
The @IAF_MCC boys at Vayu Bhawan have a very twisted sense of humour which is colloquially called “Haramipan”.When Kinara was bombed one of the older faces in the Ops room gleamed knowingly.He could now hang his boots in peace knowing that ,
“An adversary that proudly calls itself the sole possessor of the Islamic Bomb and guardian of the Caliphate’s nuclear mecca was left devastated by the utter humiliation piled on it”.
This half burnt portrait of Asif Ali Zardari from the smouldering debris of Rahimyar Khan airbase is symbolic. It has in many ways given us a legacy which complements Pakistan’s surrender at Dhaka in equal measure.
Jai Hind ! Jai Hind Ke Sena !
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India is filthy.
Few places in the world are filthier. There are countries with a fraction of our GDP that look pristine in comparison.
There’s a country with the same population as ours and a worse economy until not too long ago, where street-food carts in a tiny frontier town looks cleaner than the kitchen of a star-rated restaurant in Mumbai.
There’s places with half our literacy and twice our population density that enjoy better air, cleaner water, and a more evolved civic sense.
There’s rivers that hold zero religious or cultural value and are still far more potable than the ones we call and worship as “maa” here.
India is impossibly filthy.
I don’t know which government has the wherewithal or even the will to do anything about it, but it’s beyond depressing.
No amount of moon missions and AI will ever make up for this most fundamental negative in our culture.
If a government really wished to do something revolutionary, this right here is what it should fix.
How, I don’t know.
But we have zero rights to take offense when the world runs hate campaigns over our ugliness.
And no, frantically googling images of dirty Philadelphia alleys and packed Chinese trains won’t help. Sanatan-kanging won’t help. Harping about “muh million-year-old culture” won’t help. Calling every criticism an anti-India conspiracy won’t help.
Acceptance might.
The stereotypes exist for a reason.
Today, it’s one podcast, tomorrow it’ll be the rest.
This is gut wrenching. The whole eco-system is trying to cover this up trying to blame un-named people & waiting out the news cycle. Let’s keep this alive!
Indian Rescue Academy (Maharashtra) has unveiled it's latest 'ITUS' water drone with a payload capacity of 100 kg designed to save lives during floods.