Mohan R

[Vijaykumar Shanmugam kaadaiyon @vijayshan]

Our man's mother tongue is Telugu for the uninitiated.

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

What exactly is the argument of Poet Arivumathi in his book "Thamizh Murugan" which is the inspiration for Dhanush x Vetrimaaran's next project?

A thread rebutting his book using his own sources. Do read this important thread, RT it and think for yourself (1/n)

[SagasofBharat (talesbymiirabelle) @SagasofBharat]

True.

That's why Pakistanis should start meditating upon Shiva just like their ancestor Panini did. 😂

When are u starting?

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

All Akshayapatra meals go through the same process. But saaar koreans saaar best saar India worst saar

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

Empathy Has a Skin Colour?

Bourgeois Indians were mocking Mumbaikars sleeping on beaches during power cuts as if it defined India.

Today, Parisians are sleeping in parks to escape the heat wave. No ridicule. Only empathy.

The double standard is obvious. Western hardship is humanised, ours is mocked. And sadly, many Indians are the first to join in.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

Earlier only racist MAGA supporters were using videos from Bangladesh - Pakistan to defame India, now Indian Liberandu themselves have started using Bangladesh video to defame India

Look at the shameless clarification after people called her out 👇

[Aravind @aravind]

Psyops is powerful. Once we are made to believe something is better, it doesn't matter we live inside it or see it from space. I know a woman who got molested/cat-called in France, never in Mumbai, yet believes India is unsafe. France is safe.

Bangalore center | Barcelona center

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

The Global Times basically confirms that the Chinese Caste System is real

And there were some people here who were going over and beyond to defend China

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Will the Chinese accept analysis of the deficiencies of their system from an Indian in order to learn from us or not to lose our friendship?

Or an American or an European ?

We are generally receiving lessons about our political, economic, social, cultural, religious and other deficiencies from western governments, media, think tanks, academics etc.

This entire article is written from a very defensive and almost apologetic mindset.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Comparisons are futile but for me one of India's greatest engineering achievements remains the 217 feet tall shadowless Brihadisvara Temple built by Raja Raja Chola I in 1010.

Crafted with giant interlocked stones and crowned by an 81 ton kumbam, it was built within six years.

[Uzay Bulut @bulutuzay_]

How Did Pakistan Become 96 Percent Muslim?

Today, 96% of Pakistan's population follows Islam, with most of that percentage adhering to the Sunni tradition.

However, Pakistan was once majority-Hindu. It was part of the Indian civilization with significant religious, ethnic, and cultural diversity.

The landscape began to shift in the early 8th century when the Umayyad Caliphate's general Muhammad bin Qasim invaded the Sindh region. The local population’s conversion to Islam was a gradual process lasting several centuries. 

Throughout the last 14 centuries, the Islamization of the Indian subcontinent has been shaped by massacres, pogroms, persecutions, and forced conversions. This spans the initial Arab expansions, the Delhi Sultanate, the Mughal Empire, and the partition of India, up to the present. 

The systematic persecution led to a drastic decline in the Hindu population in Pakistan, from nearly 15% at the time of Partition to less than 2% today.

Hindus and other non-Muslims in Pakistan continue to face religious discrimination, violence, and forced conversions.

My latest is about the history of the Islamization of the region that is now called Pakistan:

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

More Gen Z spotted at the Cockroach Protest 💀

[Āryāvarta @Indo__Aryan]

Pakistan came into existence in 1947, whereas this swastika predates Islam by approximately 2,500 years. You have absolutely no connection to the Indus Valley

[Office Of Vijay Patel @VijayGajeraO]

I don't know why the thread below is not getting visibility.

It's an extremely important thread.

Please share it as much as possible.

[Russians With Attitude @RWApodcast]

There are fewer mosques in Moscow than in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The ridiculously high estimates of Muslim population in Moscow are not official statistics but come from Muslim lobby organizations that are trying to get more mosques built, lol.

The Russian Federation includes entire ethnic regions that are home to majority-Muslim populations in the millions and despite that the self-identified Muslim share of Russia's population is smaller than France's. Moscow has fewer visible immigrants than any German city of 500k.

In 2025 alone, new, stricter immigration laws have reduced the number of immigrant children in Russia by 25%.

If you discount ethnic administrative units - where historical minorities live - and only look at regular Russian oblasts, those are about 95% ethnic Russian. The largest Muslim group in Russia are Tatars who are very secular and barely even register as not ethnic Russian at all.

I still believe that there are immigration problems in Russia and I support the government's current course on restrictive immigration reform - if anything, I think it should be harsher and move more quickly - but Westerners really should stop making things up just to make themselves feel better about what their own countries are doing.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

It is such a fraudulent thing to claim that Tiruvalluvar is not Hindu. This attempt to deny our own spiritual heritage must be fought.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Much of the West’s religious heritage was shaped, directly or indirectly, by Indian thought transmitted through ancient trade networks.

From the 10th century BC, ships sailing from the Red Sea to India under the Hiram–Solomon maritime venture facilitated commercial exchange and intellectual and theological transmission. The Bhagavad Gita idea of the unity of the divine influenced the rise of Yahweh from minor deity to the main and eventually only Hebrew god.

Furthermore, Jain rejection of animal sacrifice influenced the decline of sacrificial practices across the Levant and eastern Mediterranean. Later, Buddhist ideas also traveled west. Under Chandragupta Maurya (c. 321–297 BC) and Ashoka (c. 268–233 BC), thousands of missionaries travelled the same trade routes. The doctrines they carried, asceticism, vegetarianism, the soul’s transmigration, reincarnation and pacifism, influenced far further.

These ideas resonated among Gnostics, Essenes, Manichaeans, Orphics, Pythagoreans, Druze and Neo-Platonists. The non-canonical Gospel of the Ebionites presents John the Baptist as a vegetarian, while parts in Genesis endorse plant-based sustenance.

Traditions surrounding Krishna and Indra include motifs later associated with Jesus: miraculous birth, celestial signs and wise men bearing gifts. Both Buddha and Jesus undergo wilderness fasts marked by temptation. Both advocate celibacy and renunciation of worldly wealth. In a Jataka, a Buddhist disciple walks on water. In another Buddha feeds 500 people with a piece of bread. Another resembles the prodigal son story.
Trinities within Vedic and later Hindu thought, Varuna–Mitra–Agni or Vaishnava–Shaiva–Krishna invite comparison with Christianity. Brahmanical substitution of rice cakes for human sacrifice parallels the Eucharist, where bread becomes Christ’s flesh. Brahmanical prohibitions against contact with raw flesh echoes in ritual restrictions imposed on Roman priests or flamens, probably derived from Brahmin. Krishna, Buddha and Christ were the result of virgin births. The word Christ is from Krishna or Krista. Indian ablution rituals spawned the idea of baptism, the idea of reincarnation became resurrection.

The Vedic “Om” became ‘Amen’. Devotion to Mary, mother of god, the Madonna is from Mata Nah, Our Mother, or the mother goddess. In Buddhist monasteries material gifts were linked to spiritual merit, copied by Christians. The idea of many divine manifestations emanating from a single ultimate reality resembles the hierarchical Christian God, Christ, the Holy Spirit, Mary, angels, saints, and martyrs. John1.1’s ‘In the beginning was the Word and the Word was with God and the Word was God’ was a Vedic mantra.

Accelerating Indian maritime trade unintentionally brought Indian ideas, albeit re-moulded in transmission, which in Christian form eventually replaced European pagan religions, which themselves were originally Indian-influenced from thousands of years earlier.

[LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳 @LestWeForgetIN]

27 years of #Kargil

#LestWeForgetIndia🇮🇳
Major Mariappan Saravanan, Vir Chakra (P)
the Hero of BATALIK led his men of 1 BIHAR to capture Pt 4268, fought fiercely and laid down his life #OnThisDay 29 May in 1999 #OpVijay

Major Saravanan was the Company Commander of one of the companies of 1 Bihar launched in the battalion attack on Point 4268 in the Batalik sector during Operation Vijay.

The attack on Point 4268 in BATALIK Sector was launched at 4 am on 29 May 1999 with his final command to his men - “Do or Die”.

Maj Saravanan killed two enemy soldiers and was wounded in the stomach by shrapnel, but he did not give up. He charged through a hail of bullets and killed two more enemy soldiers.

The first to reach the top, he received a bullet injury in the head and fell into a ravine. His body could only be recovered 37 days later following a bitter fight. His unit went on to recapture Point 4268 on the night of 06/07 July 1999.

Maj Saravanan was posthumously awarded the #VirChakra for his outstanding bravery and sacrifice.

Remember the gallant #IndianBrave - his service, valour, and supreme sacrifice 🏵️

#RememberingKargil