62% of Indian resident doctors work more than 36 hours at a stretch. 86% report severe sleep deprivation. 97% earn less than an entry level civil servant. 76% are assaulted while on duty.
We can call ourselves civilised only when we learn to treat our doctors like they treat us.
The West poured $50 billion into fast breeder nuclear reactors and abandoned every single one. India poured $900 million and just achieved criticality on the first commercially viable one outside Russia.
The US spent $15 billion. Gave up. Japan spent $12 billion. Their Monju prototype had one sodium fire in 1995 and never recovered. The UK spent $8 billion. Germany spent $6 billion. France, Italy, all walked away. Six of the richest nations on Earth concluded this technology was too hard and too expensive to pursue.
India started building in 2004 with an initial budget of $420 million. Twenty-two years, a dozen missed deadlines, and a cost doubling later, the Prototype Fast Breeder Reactor at Kalpakkam just sustained a controlled fission chain reaction. The reactor is now alive.
The reason India never quit is a constraint most people have never thought about. India has only 1-2% of the world's uranium reserves. For a country of 1.4 billion people trying to build energy independence, that's a death sentence if you're running conventional nuclear.
But India has 25% of the world's thorium. The single largest national reserve on Earth.
The problem: you can't just burn thorium the way you burn uranium. A physicist named Homi Bhabha designed a three-stage nuclear program in the 1950s specifically to solve this. Stage 1: burn natural uranium in heavy water reactors, collect plutonium as a byproduct. Stage 2: feed that plutonium into fast breeder reactors, where it breeds MORE plutonium AND converts thorium into fissile uranium-233. Stage 3: burn thorium directly at scale.
India just entered Stage 2. Seventy years after Bhabha drew it up on paper.
The math on the thorium endgame is wild. At current energy consumption rates, India's thorium reserves could power the country for over 700 years. Most nuclear nations are playing a uranium game with maybe 80-100 years of runway. India is playing a completely different game with a 7x longer fuel supply.
The West quit because uranium stayed cheap and sodium coolant is terrifying. It catches fire on contact with air. It explodes on contact with water. Russia's BN-600 had 27 sodium leaks and 14 sodium fires between 1980 and 1997. And Russia kept going anyway because Russia doesn't quit nuclear projects. India watched all of that and kept going too.
When you have 1% of the uranium but 25% of the thorium, the engineering difficulty stops being a reason to quit. It becomes the price of admission to a 700-year energy supply that nobody else can access.
A franchise owned by an Indian has signed Pakistani player Abrar Ahmed, who has openly mocked and shown contempt for India, for their overseas cricket league.
They don’t hire Pakistanis in India only because it is not permitted. The moment that restriction disappears, they won’t waste a second jumping in.
This incident neatly exposes the hollowness of big corporate patriotism.
Richest board in the world, yet can’t ensure basic stadium facilities: clean, comfortable seating, clean toilets, and free or fairly priced water.
The main reason is the absurd demand–supply gap. They know that even if they announced 100 lashes on the naked buttocks as the entry condition for fans, the stadium would still be full.
Just found out that the deceased, Tarun, was a Dalit. As usual, there is pin-drop silence from the neo-Ambedkarites.
Ordinary Hindus are standing in solidarity with the family, both online and on the ground. Dalit organizations and leaders are missing. We all know why.
While the whole world is in panic and freaking about their situation in future, our PM @narendramodi carried out a smooth and successful visit to Israel and us Indians are feeling safest in this situation. All thanks to @narendramodi@DrSJaishankar 🙌🏻🙏🏻
Once Israel neutralises Iran, the next strategic focus is likely to be Pakistan’s nuclear arsenal.
After Iran, Pakistan would remain the only Islamic country possessing nuclear weapons, fitting Israel’s doctrine of pre-emptive neutralisation of all existential risks, which it adopted after the Oct 7 attacks by Hamas.
They attempted the denuclearisation of Pakistan in the 1980s as well but dropped the idea because the Indian govt opposed it. That constraint may no longer exist, as the current Indian leadership has demonstrated a far higher tolerance for strategic risk and ambiguity.
The only hurdle is the US, who considers Pakistan as a strategic military partner. However, US policy is no longer predictable, thanks to Trump, and Netanyahu has repeatedly shown an ability to manoeuvre Washington into alignment when it matters most.
Indian students in Iran are now demanding immediate evacuation from the Indian govt after Israel attacked Iran, citing "anxiety and panic".
Interestingly, the Indian Embassy had been advising them to leave Iran for weeks, but that advice was conveniently ignored. The anxiety seems to have discovered its urgency only now.
Hopefully, a fully business class aircraft will be dispatched along with a minister, followed by a grand reception at Delhi/Mumbai airports, and then chartered flights to their respective homes.
India needs an opposition like this, not the leftist liberandu clowns who dance on beats of a ‘GANJEDI’ Puppet of CIA who doesn’t even know what he’s talking. I mean iykyk. #Isreal#ModiInIsrael
#BREAKING: Israel Opposition decides not to boycott Indian PM @narendramodi speech over internal political issues with Netanyahu. Gesture as India is close partner. Opposition has left Parliament and will boycott Netanyahu speech, but will return for PM Modi speech.
Congressi barging into an international event to stage a semi-nude spectacle against the Centre is peak absurdity.
It’s immoral and unethical, but those concepts rarely trouble Congress, so let’s stick to strategy. What did they think they’d achieve? Such stunts still work in the West because they use fit, photogenic protesters, mostly semi-nude females, with carefully curated body-paint messages that grab headlines.
Here, however, the party sent unfit, banyan-dhaari laadle whose only achievement was triggering collective second-hand embarrassment. I hope the Delhi Police make them remember this mistake all their lives.
> Paid 30% income tax on salary
> Paid 50% tax on Skoda SUV
> Paid 18% GST on insurance
> Paid up to 60% tax on fuel
After paying
> get injured by unexpected metro slab falling from sky
> remain immobile for 6 months
> pay medical bills of ₹20 lakh
> Lose your Job 🤡
सोमनाथ स्वाभिमान पर्व के सुअवसर पर सोमनाथ मंदिर परिसर में भव्यता और दिव्यता से भरा ड्रोन शो देखने का सौभाग्य मिला। इस अद्भुत शो में हमारी प्राचीन आस्था के साथ आधुनिक टेक्नोलॉजी का तालमेल हर किसी को मंत्रमुग्ध कर गया। सोमनाथ की पावन धरा से निकला यह प्रकाशपुंज पूरे विश्व को भारत की सांस्कृतिक शक्ति का संदेश दे रहा है।
"We are not Chinese... We are Indians. What certificate should be show to prove that?"
Last words of 24-year-old MBA student from Tripura Angel Chakma who confronted a group of men hurling racial slurs at him and his younger brother. He was stabbed to death.