Krishna Pera

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[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

📖 The Sword of Buddha: The Curse of Kalinga
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Rameshbabu Praggnanandhaa is the Champion of Norway Chess 2026! With an incredible win on demand against Vincent Keymer in the final round, Praggnanandhaa wins one of the strongest tournaments of the year scoring 18/30 points, 2 classical wins against World no.1 Magnus Carlsen, and an incredible 4-game Winstreak to finish the event!

A huge congratulations to Praggnanandhaa, his team and his family- this is undoubtedly the biggest achievement of his career so far, and what a way to get there!

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#chess #norwaychess #Praggnanandhaa

[Norway Chess @NorwayChess]

🇮🇳 PRAGGNANANDHAA IS THE NORWAY CHESS CHAMPION 2026 👏👏👏

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📷 Norway Chess / Tor Nilssen & Kjetil V. Tveito

[Kashmiri Hindu @BattaKashmiri]

Sad News for @RahulGandhi

Congratulations to India and @OilIndiaLimited! 🇮🇳

Natural gas discovery in the Andaman Basin marks a major step towards India's energy security and offshore exploration ambitions.

#OilIndia #NaturalGas #EnergySecurity

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@HardeepSPuri @OilIndiaLimited Congratulations, Sir! USA and China are almost entirely geo-mapped for oil & rare earths. India remains nearly 85% underexplored. Legacy Nehru-era laws, NGO activism, and ministers like Jairam Ramesh are to blame for holding back India's mining potential.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@aravind Unlike the USA and China, which are almost entirely geo-mapped for oil, precious metals, and rare earths, India remains nearly 85% underexplored. Legacy Nehru-era laws, NGO activism, and ministers like Jairam Ramesh are to blame for holding back India's mining potential.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@aravind Unlike the USA and China, which are almost entirely geo-mapped for oil, precious metals, and rare earths, India remains nearly 85% underexplored. Legacy Nehru-era laws, NGO activism, and ministers like Jairam Ramesh are to blame for holding back India's mining potential.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

Brilliant take… just a couple of observations:

1. Like you mentioned Pāṇini defined "Mleccha" as linguistic corruption. "Mleccha-deshas" like Parśava (Persia) spoke sister tongues from the same Indo-Iranian root as Sanskrit (Indo-Aryan or Indo-Iranian language).

2.Many Indian tribal groups have deep ties to Indo-Aryan languages. For example, the Bhil language is said to be directly Indo-Aryan, and historical studies even link Chenchu vocabulary and their genetics straight to Bengali and Bengal.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@TheRightGhose Mahua Moitra may eventually end up in the Congress, if or when TMC finally folds. She has burnt her boats in every other direction.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

Guess you are forcing me to respond.

In his 1890 Gifford Lectures, Max Müller explicitly wrote: 'Whether the Vedic hymns were composed 1000, 1500, or 2000 BCE, no power on earth will ever determine.' Yet textbooks still treat his 1500 BCE guess as gospel. Dismissal isn't a counterargument.

I can tell you to go google, or demand a refund on your degree… but I won’t… Out here. Nice chatting with you🙏.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

Guess you are forcing me to respond.

In his 1890 Gifford Lectures, Max Müller explicitly wrote: 'Whether the Vedic hymns were composed 1000, 1500, or 2000 BCE, no power on earth will ever determine.' Yet textbooks still treat his 1500 BCE guess as gospel. Dismissal isn't a counterargument.

I can tell you to go google, or demand a refund on your degree… but I won’t… Out here. Nice chatting with you🙏.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

"Same rules"? No. Western scholars cherry-pick. They jump at a single Roman name to validate a pre-existing belief in Jesus, but dismiss precise Puranic registries and astronomical data that prove ancient Indian timelines. That’s confirmation bias, not equal standards.

Biblical timelines are rarely questioned if at all, but Max Muller can arbitrarily assign 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE to Vedas.. he was decent enough to admit he had no basis later… but your ‘consensus’ guys still stuck to the same timeline.

Anyway, I know we can go on and on, but I don’t want to make the mistake that @ThePujaTeli did in extending this argument.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

"Same rules"? No. Western scholars cherry-pick. They jump at a single Roman name to validate a pre-existing belief in Jesus, but dismiss precise Puranic registries and astronomical data that prove ancient Indian timelines. That’s confirmation bias, not equal standards.

Biblical timelines are rarely questioned if at all, but Max Muller can arbitrarily assign 1500 BCE to 1000 BCE to Vedas.. he was decent enough to admit he had no basis later… but your ‘consensus’ guys still stuck to the same timeline.

Anyway, I know we can go on and on, but I don’t want to make the mistake that @ThePujaTeli did in extending this argument.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@ARanganathan72 @business @RBI Michael Bloomberg is as dangerous as George Soros. Both clearly share an anti-India bias. Whether it's Soros funding hostile narratives or Bloomberg pushing fake stories about the RBI selling gold, the goal remains the same: hurt India's global reputation.

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@SadhaMaanus @NagpurKaRajini It appears to be AI generated. Real ID cards mention exact year of admission..not ‘late 1980s & early 1990s’

[Krishna Pera @krishpera]

@greatbong Facts don't matter to Rajdeep; he'll spin any conspiracy to target BJP.

Notice how he eagerly tweets now, but was totally silent on the cash and guns found in TMC offices.

[Puja Teli @ThePujaTeli]

Yes, because we are a hybrid civilisational culture.

Not just one book, but a library, we can understand the geography, and handle oral traditions like heirlooms of responsibility. 

You asked me explicit questions about oral traditions, I answered them directly, and now you’re running away from data. 

Yesterday you said I was being too sarcastic and ‘throwing a tantrum’, and didn’t know what a lecture was.

You completely ignored the core point: the Vedas describe a massive, roaring river (naditame) exactly where archaeology finds thousands of Harappan sites clustered along the dried-up Ghagger-Hakra bed. That is physical, geographical data - not just ‘tradition’. 

Rig Veda RV 2.41.16:

अम्बितमे नदीतमे देवितमे सरस्वति । अप्रशस्ता इव स्मसि प्रशस्तिमम्ब नस्कृधि ॥

Ambitame nadītame devitame sarasvati | apraśastā iva smasi praśastim amba nas kṛdhi ॥

‘Best of mothers, best of rivers, best of goddesses, Sarasvātī! We are, as it were, of no repute; dear mother, give us high renown.’

There are other verses in this sacred text to tell us about the Sarasvati too. 

If you can’t explain how an oral tradition perfectly preserved the exact landscape memory of the Harappan heartland, just say so. 

Deflecting won’t change the geography. 

You will now have to figure out and have to explain how a massive river and a massive civilisation ended up occupying the exact same space described by the oral tradition. 

The Vedas were unscripted for thousands of years prior to being a written sacred text in its original language, for it to then evolve for you to understand it (I’m assuming you’ve read the Vedas?) in English, unless you’ve understood it in its original form. 

For example, where we say ‘nadītame’ in the verse above, it doesn’t just translate to the English word ‘river’ directly. 

It comes from the root word ‘nad’, which means ‘to roar’, ‘to sound’, or ‘to vibrate’. 

A nadī is not just a body of flowing water; it is a ‘roaring, resonant force’. 

When paired with the superlative -tame, it means the absolute loudest, most roaring, and dominant force on the landscape.

Sanskrit therefore encourages a philosophical outlook to each word. 

You should understand by now why your flat data-driven, evidence-based approach is too small for this vastness of a civilisation. 

This was one verse, and one word, that had to be taken to its root in a language which was spoken way before it was written.

[ChessBase India @ChessbaseIndia]

Check out the incredible final moments of Praggnanandhaa taking down World no.1 Magnus Carlsen with the Black pieces in Round 8 of Norway Chess 2026!

With this win, Pragg becomes the first Indian (and possibly in the world) player who defeated Magnus Carlsen in Classical Chess twice in the same tournament! What a moment for Indian Chess.

[Aparna 🇮🇳 @apparrnnaa]

A glimpse of #RKNarayan 's home in Mysuru.
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[Aravind @aravind]

The US has also proposed tariffs on Switzerland, Singapore, UK, along with India for using "forced labor." Must be a joke to say Singapore and Switzerland use forced labor. This is nothing but Trump admin arm twisting these countries to align with the US.