Jayant Varma

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[Jayant Varma @jvarma]

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[Jayant Varma @jvarma]

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[prathosh ap @prathoshap]

Namaste X!

This is my first post here - I'm humbled to release my app: VedaVaaNi.

It is an interactive learning platform designed to help you practice Rig Veda and Krishna Yajur Veda chanting with absolute phonetic and prosodic (Chandas) precision.

[Jayant Varma @jvarma]

@preshtalwalkar 100

[Godman Chikna @Madan_Chikna]

This blew my mind 🤣

[Jayant Varma @jvarma]

@NoahKingJr That's why, important to not have such typos in the first place 😇

[Paul Chase @PaulRChase]

Well, here are my thoughts...
Firstly, I doubt that Trump has ever heard of Hegel or would have the slightest inkling of what 'dialectic' means.

But the picture you present is essentially Trump's narrative - that NATO allies and others are free-riders on American hard power. But your analysis is ahistorical. You write as if America has no skin in the game - like they're doing the rest of us a big favour keeping the bad guys at bay.

You don't mention the petrodollar system that replaced the Bretton-Woods Agreement that was repudiated by the 'Nixon-shock' in 1974. That new system was a deal between the US and Saudi Arabia, and then the other Gulf petrostates, whereby in return for American guarantees of security and investment these states would price and sell oil in US Dollars - and then recycle the Dollar surplus back into the US economy by buying US debt. It is this arrangement that has created an almost limitless demand for US loan notes and funded 50 years-worth of US budget deficits.

Part of that US security guarantee was to keep the Hormuz Strait open so the oil exports could keep flowing. But in this present conflict America has failed to defend its Gulf allies from Iran's retaliatory strikes and now the Hormuz Strait is closed.

This is a strategic catastrophe for the US - proving themselves to be unreliable allies to the very states that buy their debt. This could be the fulcrum on which the petrodollar system is undermined or even collapses and the Yuan becomes the currency for pricing oil.

This isn't some Trump-genius Hegelian dialectic working its way through, it's a god-almighty cock-up by a President being manipulated by a Zionist Israeli leader. The tail wagging the dog nearly always leads to disaster.

[Indologia @indologia]

Nobody elected them. Nobody appointed them. But somewhere after 1947, a small class of people decided they were in charge of your conscience.

The arrangement they made was simple. They sit at the top. You sit below. They speak English and write op-eds.

You speak your mother tongue and are always wrong. Their job is to explain you to yourself. Your job is to accept the explanation.

The tools are familiar. Caste guilt. The backwardness narrative. The constant suggestion that Hindu majoritarian violence is always one election away, perpetually imminent.

Each 'concern' is framed as a uniquely Hindu disease. It's never a residue of centuries of colonial extraction. The blame is Yours alone.

There is one rule that never changes. Hindu pride is fascism. Hindu confidence is dangerous. Hindu civilizational memory is extremism.

You are permitted to exist but you are not permitted to feel good about it. A Hindu majority that felt no guilt about existing would have no need for moral tutors.

Thus this whole structure — the secular Lutyens elite and their the prime-time sermons — rests on your uncertainty.

The moment that uncertainty lifts their foundations shake.

A class that profits from your shame has no incentive to tell you the shame was manufactured. Your misplaced guilt keeps them employed.

Your recovery would put them out of business.

They need you on your knees. Apologizing. Explaining yourself. Grateful for the permission to exist. The moment you stand up the whole arrangement falls apart.

Will you stand up?

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Destroyed India critics in just 5 mins :

India isn’t an option - it’s the new benchmark.

A London-based fund manager just ended the debate.

[SUDHIR @seriousfunnyguy]

No, this is not a Chinese Robot by Galgotia University, it’s a life saving solution discovered by the students of a Government Polytechnic.

A Sonic wave Fire extinguisher that uses low frequency sound waves to push Oxygen molecules away from the fire and extinguish it. At the time when we have witnessed 2 deadly fires in DelhiNCR, this needs to be made popular and available in a practically usable form.

[Balbir Punj @balbirpunj]

An Open Letter To @RahulGandhi

Dear Rahul ji,
I write with candour, yet with due regard for the office you occupy as Leader of the Opposition in the #LokSabha. In any parliamentary democracy, this office is not meant merely to oppose, but to scrutinise rigorously, question the government of the day, fearlessly, and do so while safeguarding national interest. A mature democracy requires both - a strong government and a credible opposition. When either falters, democratic balance weakens.

Unfortunately, I must say that the dignity of the office has declined since your takeover, due to your conduct and statements that appear impulsive, theatrical, and lacking a solid grounding in facts or historical knowledge. My concern is not limited to a single incident. The pattern predates 2014 and indicates a deeper intellectual attitude—one that is sometimes disconnected from historical realities and national sensitivities.

In 2010, diplomatic cables released by #WikiLeaks recorded that you told the US Ambassador that radicalised “Hindu groups” posed a “bigger threat” to India than the Pakistani terror outfit Lashkar-e-Taiba— responsible for the horrific 2008 Mumbai 26/11. This disclosure came when India was still scarred by the Godhra train burning, where fifty-nine pilgrims were burnt alive by jihadist.

Yet, instead of confronting Islamist extremism with clarity, a fake counter-narrative of “saffron terror” was constructed, even casting suspicion on organisations such as the @RSSorg. The 2007 affidavit questioning the historicity of Lord #Ram further reflected a disturbing intellectual drift. In a continuity of this disposition, you and your family chose to absent yourselves from the historic 2024 #RamTemple Pran-Pratishtha ceremony at Ram Mandir Ayodhya.

In 2013, the country witnessed an extraordinary spectacle. During PM #ManmohanSingh’s tenure, you publicly dismissed your party-led Cabinet-approved ordinance as “complete nonsense” that should be “torn up and thrown away.” The ordinance had already been cleared by the Cabinet and the Congress leadership. Democracy welcomes dissent; it also demands institutional respect. Where do you get such arrogance? From a sense of entitlement owing to your dynastic roots?

More recently, on 13 March last in Lucknow, while commemorating #KanshiRam’s birth anniversary, you suggested that had #JawaharlalNehru been alive, Kanshi Ram might have become Chief Minister through the @INCIndia.

The claim surprised many observers — not just because it was speculative, but because it overlooked Kanshi Ram’s political journey and the historic disdain of Congress for dissenting Dalit voices outside its organisational structure.

In 1994, I had the opportunity to meet Kanshi Ram several times. Each interaction lasted hours. These meetings were facilitated by a Dalit leader from South India who then served as a minister in the government of P. V. Narasimha Rao and remains associated with your party even today.

Kanshi Ram impressed me as a man uniquely dedicated to Dalit empowerment. Unlike many politicians who see power as an end in itself, he viewed political office solely as a tool for social change. Personal ambition did not motivate him. He politely declined an offer to move to Rashtrapati Bhavan, made by Atal Behari Vajpayee. Ultimately, he trusted his movement to Mayawati, whom he believed could continue the struggle.

The analogy you used in your speech—holding a pen vertically to symbolise hierarchy and horizontally to represent equality—was actually Kanshi Ram’s favourite metaphor. I remember him demonstrating it vividly during our conversations.

Invoking Nehru in this context, however, appeared historically misplaced. Kanshi Ram built his politics precisely because he believed the Congress system had failed Dalits.

The historical relationship between Congress leadership and Dr B. R. Ambedkar also deserves reflection. Kanshi Ram regarded #Ambedkar as his greatest inspiration. Yet Ambedkar’s political experience with #Congress leaders—particularly Nehru—was marked by sharp tensions.

Nehru had no hesitation in awarding himself the Bharat Ratna in 1955. Ambedkar, the chief architect of India’s Constitution, received the same honour only in 1990—thirty-five years later—under the government of V. P. Singh, which was supported from outside, by the Bhartiya Janta Party and the left.

Ambedkar’s entry into the first Cabinet of independent India occurred largely because Mahatma Gandhi insisted that the new government must include distinguished non-Congress figures. Thus, Ambedkar served alongside leaders such as Syama Prasad Mukherjee and Sardar Baldev Singh.

The 1952 general election further highlights the relationship. After resigning from the Cabinet, Ambedkar contested from North Bombay. The Congress fielded Narayan Sadoba Kajrolkar against him. Ambedkar lost by around fourteen thousand votes, while over 75000 ballots were declared invalid. It was probably the first case of vote chori (theft), scandalising independent India in its very first election to Lok Sabha.

Compounding the hostility, Congress and Communist leaders called Ambedkar a “traitor.” Yet such accusations were not entirely novel. Writing to Rajkumari Amrit Kaur on January 26, 1946, Nehru himself remarked that Ambedkar had “allied himself with the British Government against the Congress.”

Savita Ambedkar records in her autobiography that Nehru was “keeping a sharp eye on the constituency” during the 1952 election. According to her account, Nehru, S.K. Patil and Dange were determined to ensure Ambedkar’s defeat.

Nehru himself appeared jubilant with the outcome. In a letter to Lady #Edwina #Mountbatten dated January 16, 1952, he wrote: “In Bombay city and to a larger extent in Bombay province, our success has been far greater than expected. Ambedkar has been dropped out.”

#RahulGandhi ji, please ask yourself: Why was Nehru celebrating Ambedkar’s electoral defeat? I am not implying anything, but I wonder why he was happily sharing the news of Ambedkar’s loss with a woman, who was the consort of a colonial ruler responsible for planning and executing India’s partition, and had then left Indian shores for her country. Hopefully, you know the answer.

Ambedkar’s anguish is recorded by his biographer Dhananjay Keer in ‘Dr Babasaheb Ambedkar: Life and Mission’. Ambedkar lamented that Congress leaders routinely branded him a “traitor”. In contrast, Mahatma Gandhi once told him: “I know you are a patriot of sterling worth.”

In this context, your recent demand for the Bharat Ratna for Kanshi Ram raises questions about consistency. When Mayawati made the same request in 2008, the Congress-led UPA government rejected it, arguing that such honours should not be subject to lobbying. Why were you silent then? Today, the same demand, raised by you on the eve of Uttar Pradesh elections, seemingly appears insincere and driven by political opportunism.

Kanshi Ram himself had little faith in the Congress. In his 1982 book ‘Chamcha Yug’, he accused the party of cultivating “stooge” Dalit leaders who served its interests rather than empowering the community.

Your rhetorical framework often echoes familiar ideological clichés about India’s civilisation. This has repeatedly led to judicial corrections. Your remarks linking the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh to Gandhi’s assassination required clarification in court. The “Chowkidar Chor Hai” episode led to an apology to the Supreme Court. Your statements on Vinayak Damodar Savarkar invited judicial caution.

Criticism is legitimate, and indeed a vibrant democracy’s lifeline. However, undermining the nation while trying to criticise the government, echoing external prejudices, and making baseless accusations against political rivals and ideological opponents fall into a different category. It's an irresponsible behaviour unworthy of a credible leader.

Your endorsement of foreign criticism describing India as a “dead economy” raised concerns about national disparagement. Your remarks abroad suggesting that “Sikhs may not freely practise their faith in India” were swiftly appropriated by hostile elements. Most alarming was your assertion that your party is fighting not merely the @BJP4India or #RSS, but the “Indian State”—a formulation historically invoked by insurgent movements.

In 2018, you made an unsubstantiated claim in the Rafale matter, invoking the French President—swiftly contradicted by the French government. In 2017, during the Doklam standoff, you met the Chinese Ambassador, with your party first denying and then admitting the meeting.

During foreign visits, Rahulji, you have expressed concern that Western powers no longer comment on India’s internal affairs and have repeatedly described India as merely a “union of states” — not as a nation. This is less a constitutional observation and more an intellectual stance that diminishes India’s civilisational continuity — a doctrine Gandhiji often emphasised and strived for.

Even recent episodes— such as the conduct of Youth Congress activists at an international forum, followed by your approving remark—suggest a troubling preference for spectacle over seriousness.

You have warned that India would “burn” if BJP return to power and questioned constitutional stability. After electoral defeats, you and your party have cast doubts on institutions such as the Election Commission. Opposition is legitimate; delegitimising institutions is not.

Your parliamentary conduct has occasionally reinforced perceptions of theatricality—the 2018 embrace of the Prime Minister followed by a wink, or recent public gestures that prioritised superficial optics over substantive politics.

Your renewed emphasis on redistribution slogans such as “jitni abaadi, utna haq” raises further concern. History offers a cautionary lesson. Under Indira Gandhi, excessive nationalisation weakened production, fuelled shortages, and culminated in the Indian Emergency. Redistribution without wealth creation destroys the very foundation it seeks to distribute.

The test of leadership lies not in applause, but in arguments that withstand scrutiny—historical, judicial, and intellectual.

India deserves an opposition that challenges the government with seriousness—not slogans; with evidence—not conjecture; with statesmanship—not theatrics.

As Leader of the Opposition, you have a rare opportunity to elevate national discourse. That responsibility demands intellectual discipline, historical awareness, and an unwavering commitment to the dignity of the Republic.

I hope you will reflect—not as a matter of partisan disagreement, but as an appeal to restore seriousness to India’s political conversation.

Yours sincerely,

@DattaHosabale @sgurumurthy @mediasurya @ARanganathan72 @jsaideepak @RajeevKSachan @yv_post @AMISHDEVGAN @sardesairajdeep @rajkamaljha @republic @anjanaomkashyap @sudhirchaudhary @Mayawati @bspindia @amitmalviya @KanchanGupta @nishikant_dubey @SudhanshuTrived @RatanSharda55 @ShashiTharoor @SupriyaShrinate @Pawankhera @himantabiswa @annamalai_k @CTRavi_BJP @Tejasvi_Surya @OpIndia_com @SwarajyaMag

[Dr. Deepessh Divaakaran (Dr. DD) @md_deepesh]

I need to leak something today.
Something the mainstream media will never report.

It was not Modi.
It was not Jaishankar.
Not his quiet back channel across Tehran, Gulf and Washington.

No.

It was our beloved Cambridge educated Young Prince of India.
Rahul Gandhi Ji.

He personally held a 24 hour call with the IRGC leadership.
On chai.
And Parle G biscuits.

No compromise.
No Epstein files.
Just pure intellectual firepower.

He opened the call by explaining something critical.

India is not actually a country.
It is a collection of states.
A divided nation.
With zero reservation in Apollo Hospital.

The IRGC commanders listened in silence.
They wept.

They immediately grasped the gravity of India's:
Healthcare crisis.
Reservation Crisis.

Then Rahul Ji switched gears.
He told Iranian leadership he is not compromised like Modi.

America and Israel can wait.

He said what Modi is too shy to say.
The real alliance India should have is with China.
Not with the US.
He even displayed the CCP Agreement.

He then recited a mantra.
Holding his grandmother's Rudraksh.

The Supreme National Security Council of Iran froze in their chairs.

And then the results came.
6 LPG carriers.
1 LNG carrier.
4 oil tankers.
1 products tanker.
3 container ships.
2 bulk carriers.

All 28 ships.
Released.

Heading home.
Within 72 hours.

They even threw in extra ships from some unknown country.
Just out of sheer dosti.

Meanwhile in Parliament.

Modi Ji had apparently fainted.
The moment Rahul Ji walked in.
He was shivering.
As if he touched 240 volts.

Jaishankar quietly passed a chit to Rahul Ji.
“Please handle the LPG situation.”

And Hardeep Puri Ji was found frozen at his desk.
Still processing his Epstein file conversations.

People who think this is a joke are completely wrong.
Diplomacy is a serious science.

You cannot do diplomacy by hugging world leaders.
You cannot do it by visiting 50 countries.
You cannot do it by projecting strength.
Or civilisational pride.
Or strategic confidence.

Real diplomacy requires a Cambridge degree.
Real diplomacy requires a Gandhi surname.
Real diplomacy requires a grandfather like Nehru.

Not a mere chai wala from Gujarat.

You must tell Iran that India is religiously intolerant.
You must demand caste reservation in the military.
You must portray India as poor, divided, and desperate.
You must display Hindus as oppressor.

Only then will any country listen.

That is the Congress model of foreign policy.
Beg first.
Borrow credibility.
Deliver nothing.

611 sailors were stranded in a live war zone.

The man who apparently saved them.
Was having chai.
At Parliament steps.
With biscuits.

Just see how diplomacy works.
Congress can only save this country.

God save the LPG cylinder.
God save Rahul Gandhi Ji.

Bharat Needs Rahul Ji.

Jai Hind.

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

India:
Buying Russian oil.
Building drones with Israel.
Investing in a US refinery, which Trump personally announced.
Sheltering Iranian sailors and also negotiating tankers to pass through Hormuz .
Airlifting food supplies to the UAE.

All at the same time! Wow, Modi!

[Dustin @r0ck3t23]

Jensen Huang just called the exact top of the pharmaceutical industry.

Not a pivot. Not a disruption.

An extinction event.

Huang: “Where do I think the next amazing revolution is going to come? And this is going to be flat out one of the biggest ones ever. There’s no question that digital biology is going to be it.”

The medical establishment has spent centuries playing a chaotic game of trial and error.

We’re about to mathematically engineer the human operating system.

Huang: “For the very first time in human history, biology has the opportunity to be engineering, not science. When something becomes engineering, not science, it becomes less sporadic and exponentially improving.”

Biology is no longer the dark art of random discovery.

It’s a predictable, compounding execution loop.

Translate the chaotic variables of chemistry into the laws of computer science and you stop waiting for accidental breakthroughs.

You simply compute the cure.

That line should terrify every pharmaceutical executive alive.

Huang: “It can compound on the benefits of the previous years. And every researcher’s contributions compound on each other.”

For decades, drug discovery has been an isolated, artisanal process.

One lab. One team. One molecule. Years of blind iteration.

The algorithm just shattered that entire bottleneck.

Every failed protein fold, every successful synthetic molecule instantly trains the foundational model.

Makes the next iteration mathematically smarter.

Huang: “We’re going to have incredible tools that bring the world of biology, which is very chaotic and constantly changing and diverse and complex, into the world of computer science. And that is going to be profound.”

Incumbent pharma looks at the human body and sees an unmanageable wall of variables.

Engineers look at that exact same body and see raw data waiting to be compiled.

No longer guessing how a molecule will react in the physical world.

Running millions of zero-cost simulated iterations before a single test tube is ever touched.

Rip the chaotic friction out of the physical lab and drop it directly into a massive GPU cluster?

The timeline to map, edit, and optimize the biological machine doesn’t shrink.

It collapses.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

The Supergolden Ratio & Narayana’s Cows (1356 CE)!

Everyone knows the Fibonacci sequence (again stolen from us). Almost no 1 knows about Narayana Pandita.

In his text Ganita Kaumudi (1356 CE), Narayana proposed a problem about a cow that produces a calf every yr, & each calf starts producing in its 4th yr. This generates the sequence 1, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 6, 9, 13, 19... defined by the recurrence N_n = N_n-1 + N_n-3.

The ratio b/w these terms converges to the Supergolden Ratio ~1.465. Narayana had effectively generalized Fibonacci's work into higher order recurrence relations 600 yrs before modern combinatorics caught up.

[Mike Sowden @Mikeachim]

OK, this is nuts.

In Sept 2023, geophysicists over the world started monitoring an odd signal coming from the ground under them.

It was recorded in the Arctic, then Antarctica - then everywhere, every 90 seconds, regular as a metronome - for NINE DAYS.

What the HELL?

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[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

Ajanta. 5th century CE.
Leonardo. 1503 CE.

One is called Renaissance genius.
The other is ancient mural.

When Ajanta painted psychological depth, Europe wasn't painting faces like this.
When Ajanta mastered mineral shading, oil technique was centuries away.

Yet one became human achievement.
The other became Eastern art.

Power curates memory.

Mona Lisa: bulletproof glass.
Ajanta: bats, moisture, colonial neglect.

One was the rebirth of civilization.
The other was discovered—waiting for validation.

Ajanta's eyes move. Think. Withhold.
Mona Lisa's smile? Endlessly interpreted. Endlessly reproduced.

Which one needed the hype?

If Ajanta were Italian, we'd call it the birth of realism.
Instead we call it mural art.

Art history didn't just rank paintings.
It ranked civilizations.

We memorized the ranking. 😶
#Decolonisation

[Moments & memories @momentmemori]

Today's live-streaming generation has no idea what real struggle was like when we used to watch cricket matches."

[Honest Cricket Lover @Honest_Cric_fan]

Mohammad Amir was right about Abhishek Sharma