Nataraj Basappa | ನಟರಾಜ್ ಬಸಪ್ಪ | नटराज बसप्पा

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[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

For India, @TheEconomist opines that Sharia law should be enforced alongside any Indian uniform civil codes.

For the UK, @TheEconomist opines that enforcing Sharia law alongside any British uniform civil codes "poses problems."

Rules for thee, but not for me? 🤔

[Wokeflix @wokeflix]

Stories are coming out now. Politicians will think a Pandora’s box has been opened, but in reality it is the opposite.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

“Either I will come back after hoisting the Tricolour, or I will come back wrapped in it. But I will be back for sure.”
— Captain Vikram Batra

These weren’t just words.

They were courage. Conviction. Duty.

A nation’s soul is shaped by people who speak like this… and then live those words.

Not a day goes by without being inspired by him.

We will remember.

#KargilVijayDiwas 🇮🇳

[Danish Kaneria @DanishKaneria61]

Someone shared this video with me: “How India punished the wrong person.” One of India’s best Education Ministers resigned. Worth watching.

[Amish Tripathi | Author | Broadcasting | History @authoramish]

Did you know that global finance wasn't actually pioneered by the West?

Long before Wall Street, credit cards, or modern risk analysis existed, Acharya Chanakya (Kautilya) wrote down the exact working code of finance in the Arthashastra 2,300 years ago.

From कुसीद (interest) to dynamic risk premiums, ancient India laid the groundwork for how money flows today.

[Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw @kiranshaw]

Truly game changing ! 👏👏👏👏

[Navee @naveenabalasub1]

Annamalai sharing an interesting happy moment during his police services.

KA: One day when I was in my office one farmer from Ajjampura(Chikkamangalur-Chitradurga border) came and place a huge rice bag( must be around 2-3kgs) on my table.

I asked what is it ⁉️

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

Brilliant video on Reclaiming West Bengal by the Hindus. By @folksutra. Follow them.

[Karthik Reddy @bykarthikreddy]

Family from Odisha. On a visit to Bengaluru. Parents and two kids..

..Parents can't speak nor hear well.

..The daughter becomes the voice.

When you see things like these, you know a caring family is the best thing one could ask for.

[Nataraj Basappa | ನಟರಾಜ್ ಬಸಪ್ಪ | नटराज बसप्पा @natarajmb]

@JaipurDialogues @Sanjay_Dixit Why stop halfway, they should stop using their names too. Be referred using roll numbers or your post.

[Dr. S. Jaishankar @DrSJaishankar]

“The rise of India will be determined by India. It will be determined by our strength, not by the mistakes of others”

Just finished an animated session ‘Heart of the Seas: The Future of the Indian Ocean’ at #RaisinaDialogue2026 with colleagues FMs @HMVijithaHerath, @RitishRamful, @BarryFaure, Fmr FM Marise Payne, #SriLanka #Mauritius #Seychelles #Australia.

[Ministry of Information and Broadcasting @MIB_India]

🚨 Help us preserve India’s literary heritage! 🇮🇳

​Publications Division is digitizing rare books published between 1941-1990. If you own one, please share a photo & details (Year, Pages, Subject).

​📧 Email: [email protected]

​Your bookshelf could hold a piece of history! 📚✨

#RareBooks #NationalArchives #Digitization #IndianHeritage #OldIndianTexts #Books #Archives

[vivan. @VivanVatsa]

https://t.co/zGD21Wa5tm

[Prof. Shamika Ravi @ShamikaRavi]

This is a new pandemic. Needs regulation. It cannot be left to ‘markets’ alone.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Trust the Pakistanis to make a pigsty even out of the @OxfordUnion. And as always, they are genetically incapable of being truthful. So here's the complete story of how this so-called debate played out.

[P.T. USHA @PTUshaOfficial]

In 1986, after winning 4🥇 & 1 🥈at the Asian Games, Dharmendra ji sent me Rs. 50,000/- cash prize for my achievement. We couldn't meet personally due to our busy schedules but sometimes love & affection are enough to keep the hearts connected even 1000 miles apart. RIP 🙏🏽

[Tapesh Yadav @tapeshyadav_usa]

🚿INDIA'S PROSPERITY BEFORE ISLAM: Evidence from Cairo Geniza (1060–1260 AD)

Long before the first Sultan sat in Delhi, the Indian Ocean was the highway of world trade. India stood at its heart.
Proof: Jewish papers written in Judeo-Arabic.

In Cairo’s historic Ben Ezra Synagogue, 200,000 pages lay forgotten in a geniza over 1000 years. Among them: contracts, letters, dowry lists, tax receipts—and many folios on India.

Scholars at Cambridge Univ have published some of these India fragments (Goitein's "India Book").

These pages list what India produced and exported before any army crossed the Indus to found the Delhi Sultanate.

What India exported to Aden, Cairo, and beyond?
1⃣Raw and simple goods:
Copper, bronze, iron, rice, wheat, oil, vinegar, lemon, ginger, coconut, ghee, sugar, betel nuts, spices, dyes, lacquer, etc.
2⃣Finished goods
Textiles, ready made clothes, scarves, robes, dyed leather, shoes, furniture, carpets, iron and copper lamps, pots, pans, bowls, glasses, teak boards, locks, bedsteads, table jugs, etc.
3⃣Beauty and fashion
Soap (sabun), perfumes, musk, pearls, gems, bracelets, necklaces, silk robes, ornamented mirrors, silver boxes, belts, earrings, jewelry, etc
4⃣Repair work
Broken luxury items from the Middle East were shipped to Indian craftsmen, mended, and sent back.

What India imported in return?
Walnuts, olives, paper, lead, alkali, coral, raisins, dates, cheese, linseed—and silver and gold ingots to pay the bill. Damaged household goods came too, for Indian hands to fix.

The ports: Bharuch (GJ), Thana-Mumbai (MH), Kollam (KL), Malabar coast.

The people:
Jewish letters mention Hindu partners. Jews call them “brother” or “friend.” They trust them with money and family. A Jewish traveller asks his son to lodge with a certain Hindu household on arrival. Hindu names appear as witnesses on Jewish legal contracts.
Hindus and Jews co-own ships. Hindus build ships, repair ships, sail them.

More evidence waits elsewhere: Ajanta and Bagh paintings, temple reliefs, copper-plate grants—all tell the same story of wealth and skill (future 🧵s).

Conclusions:
Before 1200 AD, India was the workshop and fashion house of the known world.
If silk robes, jewellery, soap, and fine steel already left Indian ports for Cairo and Aden centuries before Babur was born, what exactly did the Sultanates or Mughals bring that India did not already have? from where did they bring it?

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Devdutt’s original post against Chanakya:
954.4 K views
3.5 K likes
1.3K RTs

My rebuttal to his lies:
64.6K views
1.7 K likes
772 RTs

It's becoming increasingly clear that the problem lies with the algorithm which ensures that posts by strident Hindu voices like mine are made less visible so that our audience doesn't even get to see them.

Sad that Hindus have to deal with this kind of subtle censorship on SM platforms

[Nataraj Basappa | ನಟರಾಜ್ ಬಸಪ್ಪ | नटराज बसप्पा @natarajmb]

@iyoushetwt Nedit on Solaris CDE

[Science girl @sciencegirl]

A British hiker got lost at 4,180 metres in the Peruvian mountains until a stray dog emerged from the fog and guided him to safety.