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[Amit @urbansanyasi]

From opinion internet to prediction internet

The internet started as navigation, became a feed, then became an opinion machine. Facebook’s 2006 News Feed, YouTube’s 2012 watch-time turn, and X’s later “For You” stack all pushed the web from chosen pages to

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Be the most accomplished captain in Indian cricket.

Watch an ex-teammate slander you every now and then out of his own insecurities.

Stay unbothered. Do nothing.

Watch his aggressive mentor image collapse under his own bad calls.

Win. Still unbothered. Still do nothing.

[Maria Wirth @mariawirth1]

Finally a westerner with a huge following says it - that the Kailash Mandir basically cannot be explained.

He also doubts the "bulit in 8th century" story.

Indians should have shouted this from rooftops since long. But what a tragedy, most Indians even never heard of it.

Now, if it is humanly impossible today, then WHO built it??

Saying "our ancestors were great craftsmen" won't do.

Why is there no interest in finding out how this miracle could have happened?
@PMOIndia @VHPDigital @RSSorg

[IndiaMetSky Weather @indiametsky]

Icy cold North-westerly wind have started to blow across the Indo Gangetic Plains at an pace, resulting in drop in minimum temperature across the hills, #Punjab, #Rajasthan, #Haryana, #Delhi & adj areas.

Lowest Mins as on 26 Nov 2025
•#Faridkot 4°C
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#Delhi-
•#Ayanagar 7.9°C
•#Safdarjung 8°C
•#LodhiRoad 8°C
•#Ridge 8.8°C
•#Palam 9.4°C
•Imsky01/East Delhi-Gzb Brd 10.1°C

*More data will be uploaded shortly!

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Hope it looks something like this

[Amit @urbansanyasi]

Role of Indian Elephants in war:

In the Maurya and Guptas era, Indian war elephants functioned almost exactly like modern fighter jets or main battle tanks do today: a high-end, high-maintenance, force-multiplying weapon system that only one region could produce in large numbers and at high quality, and which everyone else desperately wanted.
Only India had abundant, large, trainable Asian elephants in the thousands. African elephant were short and in-efficient.

Just as the United States today uses controlled export of F-35s, HIMARS, or Abrams tanks as a tool of strategic influence (you get the hardware only if you are aligned with Washington), the Mauryans (and later Guptas) used controlled export of war elephants as the ultimate lever of geopolitical power in the ancient world.

Want to keep the Hindu Kush as your border and make the Seleucids recognize it forever? Give them 500 elephants (303 BCE).
Want the Sassanian Empire to remain a buffer against the Huns and not collapse? Keep selling them dozens of elephants every decade (4th–6th century CE).

The refusal of Alexander’s army to cross the Beas (Hyphasis) River in 326 BCE and face the Nanda Empire was primarily driven by the combination of two factors you mentioned:

1. The open, flat, monsoon-soaked Gangetic plain - perfect elephant country.
2. The reported number (6000 elephants) and quality of Nanda war elephants - far beyond anything the Macedonians had ever faced.

Let’s break it down with the actual evidence:

1. Terrain: Gangetic Plain = Elephant Heaven
- West of the Beas (Punjab region): broken terrain, rivers, hills, drier in summer elephants still dangerous, but their charge could be slowed or channeled.
- East of the Beas (towards Magadha): vast, flat, alluvial plain, hundreds of kilometres wide, criss-crossed by wide rivers but with huge open spaces and flooded rice fields in monsoon → ideal for massed elephant charges.
An elephant can run 30–40 km/h on flat ground and smash through infantry formations like trucks through people. In broken terrain they lose much of that momentum.

Greek scouts and local informants told Alexander’s officers exactly this: once you cross the Beas-Ganges watershed, you enter a completely different kind of battlefield - wide, open, and ruled by elephants.
The Macedonians had faced only ~200 elephants under Porus at the Hydaspes and that single battle had been their hardest fight in Asia. Men and horses were traumatised by the sight and smell of elephants. At one point Porus’s elephants almost broke the Macedonian centre.

Now imagine 30 times that number charging across flat ground with no hills to hide behind.

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

One of the greatest structure ever created by Mankind

[IndiaMetSky Weather @indiametsky]

Rush of cold icy Northwesterly winds from snow clad mountains tops of Himalayas have picked up pace across Northern Plains & the Indo Gangetic Plains. This will result in drop in temperatures across #Punjab, #Haryana, #Rajasthan, #Delhi, #UttarPradesh, M.P, and the parts of Hills and foothills from tonight into next 7 days. This time drop will be significant and trigger first proper cold spell of this season.

•Rural pockets are already dipping to 5°C levels will dip to 3-5°C range
•Other places to dip into single digit range
•Urban towns, Delhi & Semi urban areas to dip into 7.5/8-11°C range.

-No significant Fog watch for tonight!

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[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Joe Rogan has his mind blown - learning about the Kailasa temple.

[Amit @urbansanyasi]

A king’s greatness in war is inseparable from the army that fights for him. Alexander’s victories were not won by one man alone-they were the result of the Macedonian phalanx, the Companion Cavalry, the siege engineers, the veteran officers, and the discipline built over a decade of relentless campaigning. When that army-the same one that had crushed the Persian Empire at Issus, Gaugamela, and the Persian Gates -refused to march further at the Beas (Hyphasis) River, it was a historic moment. It was the only time Alexander’s troops ever forced him to turn back. Alexander troop was not a soft or inexperienced army. It was arguably the most battle-hardened force the ancient world had ever seen. They were not defeated in battle by the Nandas. They simply refused to fight them at all. That refusal itself is powerful evidence that the Nanda military machine, at least in reputation and reported numbers, was perceived as formidable enough to deter even Alexander’s veterans.

The fact that the army which had broken Persia stopped dead in its tracks says something significant about the power on the other side of the river. It does not prove the Nandas would necessarily have defeated Alexander in open battle (we will never know), but it does prove that the Nanda Empire was seen as a serious, credible threat- not a pushover.

In short: Alexander’s soldiers drew a line in the sand and said, “No further.”
That line was drawn out of respect (or fear) for the military power of the kingdom that ruled the Ganges plain-the Nanda Empire.

That is a historical fact recorded by Alexander’s own historians.

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@ThaEuropeanLad Done

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@indiametsky In next 12 hours it will reach up, Bihar, Bengal region.

[IndiaMetSky Weather @indiametsky]

Update:03 (Delhi&NCR)
Sulphur dioxide rich + Moderately mixed Ash Volcanic Ash plume is reaching #Jaipur and nearby areas of NW & NC #Rajasthan whereas outer thin layer is already reaching #Haryana. The dense concentrated parts of this Ash cloud will move over #Delhi after 1 hr and there is less to worry about as it is between 25,000-45,000 feet high in the atmosphere and there will be low chances for any Ash fall.

What to expect?
-Hazy Skies with enhanced darkness
-Some Delays and extra long flight due to change in routes
-Place may see some deposits of Volcanic dust (Low chances)/(Unlikely)

•This layer will later impact rest of Haryana and #Punjab and then foothills of Himalayas by late midnight/morning

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

In case AQI wasn’t enough, ash from an Ethiopian volcano that has erupted after thousands of years is moving towards India, many flights cancelled https://t.co/r9d3JqbuBs