K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳

Heritage Conservationist / Farmer /🌲Planter / Tourism Promoter / Historophile / Animal, Social & Climate Causes. Alumnus @UnivofDelhi @cardiffuni

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

Dione, the divine water Goddess. #surathbhawanpalace #India #uttarpradesh #heritage #history #architecture #palaces #temples

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

In response to U.S. sanctions on Iranian oil in 2019, India abruptly ended its longstanding energy relationship with Iran, effectively ceding that market to China, which has since emerged as the near-exclusive buyer of Iranian crude — the cheapest in the world. Washington, however, has conspicuously refrained from penalizing Beijing for its open defiance of U.S. sanctions.

Now, as the U.S. sanctions exemption related to Chabahar Port approaches its expiry in April, a compliant India is withdrawing from the Indian-operated port, which is a strategic counter to Pakistan’s Chinese-run Gwadar Port.

This retreat is all the more striking given that in May 2024, India and Iran formally signed a 10-year agreement granting India the right to develop, equip and operate the Shahid Beheshti terminal at Chabahar. The contract, concluded between Indian Ports Global Ltd (IPGL) and Iran’s Ports and Maritime Organization (PMO), replaced earlier short-term arrangements and appeared to lock in India’s long-term strategic and commercial stake in the port. It provided India operational control over the general cargo and container terminal for a decade, with an option for renewal.

Yet last September, the U.S. gratuitously withdrew the Chabahar-specific sanctions exemption it had first granted India in 2018. The following month, Washington issued a temporary six-month waiver — not to protect India’s investment, but merely to allow New Delhi to wind down its operations by April 2026.

This is how the U.S. chooses to build, and assert, leverage over India.

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

Iraq has fallen. Iran must not. Both were long-standing friends of India, consistently standing with us on Kashmir. A strong Iran has constrained Pakistan and checked Western overreach. Indians cheering its collapse confuse geopolitics with prejudice. National interest > borrowed outrage.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

China's 2020 land-grabs in Ladakh were a jarring wake-up call for a reactive and defensive India: "India is spending hundreds of millions of dollars to build roads, tunnels and landing strips throughout the Himalayas, as it prepares for a possible future clash with its longtime nemesis China ... India’s goal isn’t to catch up to China’s vast infrastructure buildup but to create enough of a deterrence to make any further Chinese encroachment more costly."--@WSJ https://t.co/ycSG2oMe6f

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Each time China stirs trouble over Arunachal Pradesh, India dutifully repeats its stock phrase that the state is “an integral and inalienable part of India.” But the stance it took after China’s stealth encroachments on key Ladakh borderlands in 2020 — demanding a “return to the status quo ante” — has been quietly buried.

The irony is that while India invokes the need to build stable bilateral ties to justify restraint, Beijing feels no such compulsion — ensuring that Chinese provocations recur with predictable regularity. India’s response to each provocation — ritual words of protest — is just as predictable. And so the cycle continues.

[RAHUL BARFAL @RAHULBARFAL]

Trek # Greater Himayas # Misty day#

[Camus @newstart_2024]

India’s digital ID disaster is a warning to the world.

Over a billion people were forced into a biometric system linking food, pensions, and healthcare to a single digital ID. The result? A humanitarian crisis.

Criminals hacked and cloned identities, leaving families starving, elderly without pensions, and the sick turned away from hospitals.

In one state alone, two dozen people starved to death after being denied rations due to system failures. Millions of fake accounts siphoned funds meant for the poor, creating a black market for stolen identities.

Sold as “secure,” it became a tool for control and exploitation. When survival depends on a single ID, a glitch—or a hacker—can erase your access to life itself.

This isn’t progress. It’s a blueprint for dystopia.

[Indrajit @Lotus_indrajit]

Singapore’s former Prime Minister, Lee Kuan Yew, once said:

“Missionaries did their best to convert India, China, and Indonesia to Christianity, but they managed to change only a very small number of people. Their plan failed.”

must watch this..

[Ramandeep Bajwa @Ramandeep_Bajwa]

Again underestimating the adversary. Instead of mocking them, learn about their capabilities and prepare well.
In 1971 Pakistan Navy submarine PNS Hangor torpedoed and sunk Indian Navy frigate INS Khukri nearly 600 km from Karachi.
PNS Ghazi, another Pakistan Navy submarine, on a daring mission to sink Indian Navy aircraft carrier INS Vikrant during the 1971 war now rests on the sea floor off the coast of Visakhapatnam, which is more than 2600 km from Karachi.
The submarine fleet of the Pakistan Navy is their elitist wing, their underwater SSG.
Expect the unexpected from them.

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@gssjodhpur @narendramodi @PMOIndia @AmitShah @rajnathsingh @JPNadda @myogiadityanath @BJP4India @MinOfCultureGoI @tourismgoi @unescoindia This is not Lakhnavi cuisine. I know better than you, I'm a Lucknow wala. You can't take the Nawabi element out Sir.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

India has vacated the Ayni air base in Tajikistan, losing strategic foothold near Pakistan. Despite operating there for 25 years, geopolitical pressures from China and Russia resulted in this decision. India’s efforts to maintain military presence included offering Sukhoi jets, but Tajikistan showed little interest. Ayni was crucial for Indian military operations.

https://t.co/17AOXfbWNu

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@farzana_versey He is absolutely right & points out fundamentalism in a barrack room religion, one which is based on exclusivity & does not recognize any other path to the same God except it's own. In contrast even after partition this Hindu majority country chose to remain secular at its core.

[Birender Dhanoa @bsdhanoa]

Can some distinguished generals explain why only the armed forces have been made to adopt the new recruitment scheme “the #Agniveers”, who have to deploy at inhospitable border locations with loss of life & limb, while the CAPF and state police forces have normal recruitment. 🤔

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@TimesAlgebraIND Two hours feel like 2 mins! Please send this lady on deep space exploration..

[Javed Beigh @JavedBeigh]

KASHMIR : THE LAND OF LORD SHIVA

"A young Kashmiri Muslim man finds an ancient Hindu stone Shiv Linga & hands it safely to the Department of Archeology, J&K"

A young Kashmiri Muslim man namely Aaqib Rasool R/o Turkapora, Handwara during the tilling of his horticultural land at Turkapora, Handwara, Kupwara in North Kashmir Valley, found an ancient exquisite Shivling made up of stone.

Displaying his sensitivity towards this religiously significant artifact, he informed the Department of Archives, Archaeology, Museums, J&K.

Mr. Kuldeep Krishan Sidha, JKAS, Director, Archives, Archaeology, Museums, J&K, immediately deputed a team to Handwara and with the facilitation of the District Administration and District Police, the ancient Shivling was taken into custody by the Department.

The Department shall preserve and showcase this ancient Shivling in SPS Museum, Srinagar after asserting its age and other features.

The Department has appreciated the act of Mr. Aaqib Rasool who shall be felicitated soon.

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@Goreunit His US based son will lead the first Indian regiment across the LOC.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

India chose the U.S. over Russia to power its indigenous Tejas light combat aircraft. Now Russia, despite Indian protests, is supplying its advanced RD-93MA engines for Pakistan’s latest JF-17 Thunder Block III fighters — designed by China and jointly produced with Islamabad.

The U.S., meanwhile, has stumbled badly on its own commitments to India. The first GE F404 engine for the Tejas Mk1A was delivered two years late, arriving only in March 2025. And despite the much-hyped deal during the June 2023 state visit by Modi to Washington, commercial negotiations to co-produce GE F414 engines in India for the Tejas Mark II are still dragging on. This is forcing New Delhi to look beyond America, including at France’s Safran, for alternative options.

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@VikasSaraswat If they breed less than us it's not their problem. North Indians produce like rabbits and these regions are truly in danger of being demographically overwhelmed by non locals affecting their culture, way of life, natural resources etc.

[HarshVivek Singh @HVSBanwait]

Dusshera in Lahore of 1923

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@KishoreVaid @chandrarsrikant Would love to see you give such sermons if a rich criminal kid waxxxed your kin in public.

[K. Manuraj Chauhan 🇮🇳 @manuraj79]

@ParaRjs Sir that a typo, rest hope you concur.