Swaroop

[Garvit Sethi @garvit_sethii]

To all those demanding reservation in India’s private sector — look at South Africa before you destroy what’s left of merit and growth. A case study.

South Africa has spent over two decades forcing racial quotas in the private sector — reserving 60% of top positions for Black, Coloured, and Indian groups — all under the banner of “equality.”

And the result?

A Nation Drowning in Unemployment:

* Unemployment Rate: 32.1%
* Youth Unemployment: Over 60%
* Worse than most developing nations

(Source: Statistics South Africa, 2024)

Despite these policies, South Africa's economy is crumbling, and jobs are vanishing. Why?

The Harsh Truth: Reservation in Private Sector Does NOT Create Jobs.

It scares away businesses.
It rewards identity over merit.
It pushes skilled people out.
It breeds inefficiency and dependency.

What South Africa Did (And Failed):

* BEE Laws forced private companies to hire based on race, not competence.
* Quotas in management, ownership, and hiring ruined competitiveness.
* Companies reduced hiring, outsourced jobs, or left the country.
* A small elite benefitted — the poor remained poor, unemployed, and angry.

India, Learn From This Disaster.

* You want to add caste-based quotas to private companies already struggling with automation, global competition, and high taxes?
* You want to destroy merit and innovation just for political vote banks?

Reservation in the private sector is not social justice.
It’s economic suicide — just like South Africa.

The Solution?

* Quality education for all.
* Skill development, not caste division.
* Economic freedom, not political appeasement.

Think twice before demanding reservation in the private sector.
You're not asking for justice — you're asking for the slow death of opportunity, merit, and economic progress.
Don’t drag India into the same pit South Africa fell into. You’ll kill jobs, crush ambition, and punish excellence — all for caste politics.

[True Indology @TrueIndology]

Somebody tell these dunderheads that Karachi existed 100s of years BEFORE Pakistan and has nothing to do with Islam or Pakistan.

The name Karachi is derived from the name of a Sindhi Hindu Goddess and the owners of this bakery are Sindhi Hindus who themselves were victims of Pakistan.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Five years on, India’s government still hasn’t explained how it was blindsided by China’s stealth land-grabs in Ladakh. Worse, it has sought to obscure the current reality on the ground.

Now, a new and troubling question confronts the nation: Why did India, under U.S. pressure, abruptly halt a military campaign against Pakistan just as its armed forces had seized the upper hand? Instead of capitalizing on that military momentum to secure a decisive outcome, the operation was inconclusively terminated within three days — after a phone call from JD Vance to Modi.

Typically, a ceasefire is carefully negotiated, with terms vetted and agreed upon by both parties. Yet in this case, an oral understanding was hastily cobbled together — without any commitment from either the U.S. or Pakistan to dismantle the latter’s state-sponsored terrorist infrastructure. The root cause of the conflict was left unaddressed, even as Washington shielded Pakistan from the consequences of its actions.

The result? Donald Trump — the real estate mogul who has fancied acquiring Greenland, the Panama Canal and even Gaza — has now turned his gaze to Kashmir, while remaining conspicuously silent on the cross-border terrorism that India continues to face.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Snatching defeat from the jaws of victory has long been an Indian political tradition. Here are just a few examples:

1948: India takes the Jammu and Kashmir issues to the UN and then agrees to a ceasefire when the Indian Army is marching toward victory.

1954: Without any quid pro quo, India surrenders its extraterritorial rights in Tibet and recognizes the "Tibet Region of China."

1960: India signs a treaty benignly reserving over four-fifths of the Indus Basin waters for its downstream foe, Pakistan.

1966: India returns to Pakistan, which launched the 1965 war, the highly strategic Haji Pir, which subsequently becomes a launchpad for Pakistan to infiltrate terrorists into India.

1972: At Shimla, India gives away its war gains at the negotiating table without securing anything in return from Pakistan.

2021: After China's 2020 stealth encroachments on key borderlands of Ladakh, India vacates the strategic Kailash Heights, forfeiting its only bargaining chip in negotiations, and then agrees to Chinese-designed "buffer zones" in some Ladakh areas.

2025: To put an end to Pakistan's four-decade-long "war of a thousand cuts" through terrorist proxies, India launches "Operation Sindoor," only to halt it three days later without achieving any clear objective.

[Subramanian Swamy @Swamy39]

Chumchagiri at the worst. For example, did any Pope express grief at the samadhi attained by Sri Chandrashekara Sarasvati of Kanchi Mutt? So why is India mourning for 3 days for the Catholic Pope? Inferiority Complex too?

[Sanjay Dixit ಸಂಜಯ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ संजय दीक्षित @Sanjay_Dixit]

BJP was in power indirectly when genocide and religious cleansing of Hindus was going on in Kashmir. It chose to be a bystander.
BJP is now again in power, this time directly. And we are witnessing the genocidal attrition of Hindus in Murshidabad. BJP has again chosen to be a bystander.
The only active role BJP played in 1989-90 was to put the blame on Congress. The only active role it is playing now is to put the blame on Mamata.

[Nithin Sridhar @nkgrock]

The greatest challenge we face is the absence of Praamanya Buddhi towards Shastras. The secularization of society at large, but specifically the de Hinduization of education has resulted in this loss of acceptance of Shastras as pramana- valid source of knowledge.

Many contemporary Hindu spiritual teachers who have done great work in developing Praamanya buddhi towards Moksha Shastras such as Upanishads have unfortunately sidelined or outrightly rejected Dharmashastra as pramana for Dharma which has added to further misunderstanding and confusion regarding Dharma.

#ChatuhSlokiManusmriti #Manusmriti #Dharma #Dharmashastra #Hindu #Hinduism

[Rohan Pandey @khoomeik]

i probably wouldn’t be working on LLMs today if i hadn’t fallen in love with linguistics, in large part due to the Aṣṭādhyāyī

2500 years ago Pāṇini realized the structure of language in the mind is entirely computational, and distilled it into <4k morphophonemic lines of code

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Full blown ecocide happening. And all our “environmental activists” are silent 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

my most communist position is that Govt should seize assets of waqf and church and distribute it among poor people like they did with properties of landlords in kerala

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Bill Gates thinks that AI will lead to a two-day work week presumably because AI will do all the work. Totally disagree. Technologists have promised such things since the Industrial Revolution. It is based on the idea that there are limited types of work to be done, but each innovation created new kinds of work. This is why we are just as busy, perhaps more busy, than in 1750.

https://t.co/mGxyq1tEhQ

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

OCI is a multiple visit visa. When court starts deciding visa requests, it’s time to realise that the judiciary needs to be reigned in. The tyranny of the unelected and their assumption that they can overturn executive and administrative decisions is dangerous for any democracy

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

Odisha govt has announced 5248 vacancies for Medical Officers-

Reserved category seats : 4837
General category seats: Just 411

This is 92% #Reservation in healthcare —where people can literally die without proper doctors.

This country is digging its own grave !

[Balaji @balajis]

A deindustrialized America simply does not produce enough to pay for what it consumes.

It prints money instead. And exchanges these pieces of paper for valuable goods.

But if the world stops using that money, the US has a real problem. So, alienating allies is not a good idea.

[Balaji @balajis]

Dollar inflation is global taxation.

If the ~$6T printed since 2020 was spread across just 330M Americans rather than 8B+ globally, you'd go from printing <$1k/head to almost $20k/head. And purchasing power would drop accordingly.

[Vishal Bhargava @VishalBhargava5]

Whenever I get disillusioned with the BJP - this man pops up to remind me that things can be worse. Much worse.

[Vishnu Shankar Jain @Vishnu_Jain1]

There are two ways to deal with draconian provisions of waqf act. One route was through amendment the draconian provisions are removed, certain new provisions are added and the waqf remains with the control of the government. The other route was complete repeal of waqf act. When the amendment bill was introduced intellectually there was a chance for implementing the first route which was far more superior than repeal. Thats why i indulged in that exercise of giving detailed presentation before jpc. Never expected this by JPC.

[Vishnu Shankar Jain @Vishnu_Jain1]

Demolition of three temples of Mayur Vihar phase ii cancelled by dda

[Vishnu Shankar Jain @Vishnu_Jain1]

Waqf amendment act is not answering the issues raised before the JPC. Many of the draconian provisions have been left from legislative amendment exercise. This bill will not solve the problems rather its making it more complicated.

[yajnadevam @yajnadevam]

The goddess Sarasvati has been kind to me and perhaps Rudra himself wants to accelerate the translation.