Neeraj Kalantri

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

For the last 15 years, I've always had one dream and desire which was to make Indian history interesting for everyone.

In that time period, I have tried writing blogs, long-form posts, stories and threads, to do exactly that.

Some worked, most didn't. But with every post, I always had this nagging question.

Why is Indian history always taught with a tunnel vision. Why is it so fragmented?

Why do we always learn things from the perspective of one empire, kingdom, king or invader.

Why do we never see an all India view of history?

I mean most of us struggle if we are ever are asked this question

1. What was the true extent of the Mughal Empire at its peak?
2. Who were the Cholas' contemporaries in North India?
3. While Muhammad Ghori was fighting the Second Battle of Tarain, who ruled Thanjavur?
4. While Harsha ruled Kannauj, who ruled Assam?

I have always wished there was a simple way to see the political map of India for any year in Indian history.

I have always wished there be a place where

1. One Could Select any year and instantly see who ruled every part of the Indian subcontinent.
2. One could Discover the important events that happened in that year
3. One could select a time period, say 1700 - 1947, and see how the Indian subcontinent evolved in that period.
4. How did one tiny red dot in West Bengal, from a tiny red dot in Europe, somehow came to rule an entire subcontinent of 400 million people,

For years, that idea remained just an idea and a dream because

1. I didn't know how to build a website.
2. I couldn't afford to hire someone who could.

Then Claude Came along.

Thanks to generous support and heavy lifting by Claude, over the last few months, that 15-year-old idea is slowly transforming into a reality.

And today, it has reached a position, where I'm excited to share with all of you, the first sneak peek of https://t.co/6ph2s9Zzl9

It is my attempt to create an interactive historical atlas of India that lets you travel through time and explore the political history of the subcontinent, one year at a time.

This is my attempt to make history interactive and fun.

I'd love to hear what you think.

[Amit Thadhani @amitsurg]

These people speak as if the world will end if people don’t eat eggs. The biggest built wrestlers from Haryana and the brainiest chess masters from the South have one thing in common. They don’t eat eggs, or meat for that matter. Stop buying into myths.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Rajdeep Ji is super duper smart & funny also. This is exactly why he & his ecosystem of Part-Time Egg Bhakts/Protein Pujaris will conveniently hide the actual data from us.

Since the last 2 days, I have been seeing these people on SM shouting their lungs out that 'Eggs have been removed! OMG, how dare they remove the Protein-max eggs!' Looked like these children were previously being served a massive daily buffet with a variety of Boiled Eggs, Shakshukas, Omelettes & Ghee-fried Poaches!

Let us talk facts: under the old system they are mourning, children were fed on a massive Deep Tech level budget of ₹6.78/plate, getting a single egg only once a week while surviving on a carb-heavy diet of rice, aloo dum & watered-down dal on the remaining days.

ISKCON’s Annamitra Foundation is replacing that single egg with a diverse rotation of soy chunks, paneer, rajma & nutrient-dense pulses.

Sardesai Ji, Please stop using children's plates to feed your personal political frustration. Data beats your rhetoric every single time.

[Shivam Mishra #savekashi @Bharatvidya1]

Modern day civil engineers are the most illegitimate children of Steel frames and glasses. They have no sense of Indian weather and no idea of air circulation. And when u talk about it, they resort to abusing vastu shastras.

[Amit Lakhani @TheAmitLakhani]

Prosecutrix and the accused never even met, she sends WhatsApp messages and transfers 12k to his account, he asks her reasons & tells her to take back the money sayingI don'tknow you, she takes the money back and asks for a job.
R@pe FIR is lodged, the photos of the woman is uploaded in the accused’s phone after it was ceased by the police. CDR shows that closest they've ever been is 8 Km apart, still the police goes on to say that they were in close proximity.
Bail denied by the High Court.

The way R@pe laws are blatantly being misused in India is just unbelievable.
VC: @SamSiff

[Malay Krishna @Malay4Product]

I taught JEE students for a while, so this one stings a little.

Those free lectures that saved you weren't free. Someone made them. A Telegram channel ripped them and handed them out without paying that person a single rupee. :)

To build one lecture, you need hours of prep, recording, editing, and continuous refinement until it finally clicks.

This is literally theft.

This is an old Telegram problem.

Back in 2022, educator Neetu Singh dragged them to the Delhi High Court because channels were selling her lectures and books at cut prices. The court had to order Telegram to reveal who was running them.

Spain blocked the app in 2024 after its biggest media houses complained about the exact same thing. Their content was getting passed around with nobody's permission.

I get it. A free lecture feels like a lifeline when coaching costs are so high, but the answer to unaffordable education is not stealing from the people who built it. :)

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Fully agree with The Wire!

Nehru's term as PM should be counted from Sep 1946, when he was head of Interim Govt

Means when Nehru wrote this letter in Nov 1946, he was essentially PM

Here he says he feels relief that police murdered 400 Hindus in Bihar

Imagine horror of PM talking like this!

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Every calculation you have ever done uses a system India invented.

Before Indian mathematicians gave the world zero and the decimal place, Greek and Roman maths used letters for numbers. Try multiplying MXLVII by CCXCIV. Merchants, architects and astronomers across the ancient world were trapped.

Baghdad's Al-Khwarizmi (c.780–847) transmitted it west. His book on the Indian place system and algorithmic calculation laid the foundation of modern mathematics. The word "algorithm" is a corruption of his name. "Algebra" comes from his treatise title. Both are Arabic transmissions of Indian originals.

Abraham Seidenberg's History of Mathematics credits India's Sulba Sutras as the inspiration for all mathematics of the ancient world.

Lin Yutang, Chinese philosopher: "India was China's teacher in trigonometry, quadratic equations, grammar, phonetics."

Carl Sagan thought Vedic cosmology the only ancient system whose timescales correspond to modern scientific cosmology.

Every time a computer runs, it counts in a system India designed.

[FinSkeptics @FinSkeptics]

Why would mandatory cleaning up of toxic bank balance sheet be portrayed as scam?

[Vedic Wisdom..ॐ @VedicWisdom1]

"Poet" and "Lyricist" does not know the difference between ए and ऐ

What I said is 100% correct, I can prove it with evidence from Shiksha Shastra that tells us how to pronounce these sounds.

अल्फ़ा would be the closest, एल्फ़ा would be with slight accent, but under no case it can be ऐल्फा (Ailpha)

[Anshul Saxena @AskAnshul]

Jairam Ramesh tweeted in September 2024 that the Adani Nairobi airport proposal would spark protests turning into anti-India anger because of the Prime Minister’s so-called “special friendship” with Adani.

What actually happened tells a very different and disturbing story. Adani offered nearly $2 billion to upgrade Jomo Kenyatta International Airport under a concession model. The deal was cancelled in November 2024 after a coordinated campaign of protests, negative publicity, and a social media drive led by Kenyan influencer Nelson Amenya all fuelled by US allegations that have now been closed by the Department of Justice for lack of conclusive evidence.

Even a fake press release was circulated to damage Adani during this period.

Two years later, Kenya awarded a $2.9 billion contract almost 50% higher than the original Indian offer to a Chinese state-owned company. India lost a major private investment opportunity in East Africa. China gained strategic ground while Kenyan taxpayers were forced to pay significantly more.

Jairam Ramesh and the entire Congress party didn’t just stay silent they actively amplified this controversy from India. Their political attacks helped turn a legitimate commercial proposal toxic and made it easier for China to step in after an Indian company was pushed out. Was this really just political opposition, or was there something more deliberate behind it?

Congress has a long and consistent history of aligning with China. They had signed an MoU with the Chinese Communist Party and maintained that relationship for years. Whether it is weakening India’s stand on the border, opposing Indian companies abroad, or creating obstacles for projects that can strengthen India, Congress has repeatedly shown that it has no problem working against Indian interests when China stands to benefit.

When it comes to choosing between protecting Indian interests and helping China, why does Congress always seem to choose China?

Their actions in the Kenya airport case have once again exposed whose side they are truly on.

[AstroCounselKK 🇮🇳 @AstroCounselKK]

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I lack civic sense.

They can overturn cars, burn streets,
and vandalize a city after a championship game.
I dance at an airport excited about my first foreign trip, and suddenly I am the face of poor civic sense.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I steal jobs.

They move factories across oceans,
shift profits through tax havens,
and automate entire industries overnight.
I study, compete, earn a visa, work 18 hours a day, sometimes multiple jobs and somehow I am the one stealing jobs and scamming the system.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am everywhere.

I build your software,
treat your illness,
teach your children,
drive your taxis,
and open your stores.
The world became a village,
yet my presence remains a problem.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am too loud.

The evening news screams outrage.
Political rallies shake entire cities.
The internet echoes with anger day and night.
I celebrate a wedding, a festival, a victory,
and I am told my joy is too loud.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I smell of curry.

The world smells of gunpowder,
of hatred,
of division,
of endless arguments about race and religion.
I carry the fragrance of spices from my grandmother's kitchen,
and somehow that is what offends.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I have no culture.

I come from a civilization that counted the stars
when much of the world was still learning maps.
I speak languages older than nations.
I celebrate hundreds of traditions,
yet I am told I have no culture.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I am backward.

I send missions to the Moon.
I build vaccines for millions.
I run companies across continents.
Yet a viral video of one fool becomes evidence against a billion people.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I worship celebrities.

I celebrate my favorite actor's success
with flowers, music, and a few glasses of milk.

Others worship influencers who sell outrage, turn every disagreement into a battlefield, and every opinion into a war.
Yet my celebration is the one that makes headlines.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I gather in crowds.

We walk together in processions,
celebrating our faith, our culture, our traditions.

Everyone is welcome.
No shops are looted.
No neighborhoods are burned.
No one is threatened for thinking differently.

We sing.
We dance.
We pray.
And somehow our gathering becomes the problem.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I bring my culture everywhere.

I light a lamp in a foreign land.
I wear a saree in the snow.
I teach my children the language of their grandparents.

Others build walls between neighbors,
argue endlessly over identity,
and forget where they came from.
Yet I am told I should leave my culture behind.

I am an Indian,

and everyone says I live in the past.

But my past gave me yoga,
mathematics, philosophy, meditation,
and the idea that the world is one family.

The future keeps borrowing from my past,
while telling me to be embarrassed by it.

I am an Indian,
and everyone says I should be ashamed.

Ashamed of my accent.
Ashamed of my food.
Ashamed of my festivals.
Ashamed of my traditions.
Ashamed of existing.

But I am not ashamed.

I am the child of farmers and philosophers,
scientists and saints, workers and dreamers.

I come from a land that taught the world
that truth can be many-sided,
that all paths deserve respect,
and that the entire world is one family.

Yes, we have flaws. Every nation does.

But judge me by my actions, not by your stereotypes.

For I am an Indian.

And before you tell me what is wrong with me, look honestly at what you have normalized in yourself.

For I am an Indian.

The world may mock my accent,
question my customs,
laugh at my celebrations,
and judge me through a thousand stereotypes.

Yet I stand tall.
For I belong to a civilization older than empires, a culture richer than prejudice, and a people whose spirit refuses to bend.

Jai Hind

[𑘢𑘿𑘨𑘜𑘪 𑘟𑘹𑘫𑘢𑘰𑘽𑘚𑘹  @dpranav88]

पुरोगामी नेहमी स्वतः आधुनिक असल्याचा दावा का करत असावेत? महाराजांच्या काळात संपूर्ण जग ग्रेगोरियन वापरत नव्हते. ब्रिटिशांनी ते १७५२ मध्ये स्वीकारले, तोपर्यंत ब्रिटिश सुद्धा ते वापरत नव्हते. भारतात ज्यांची सत्ता होती ते हिजरी सन वापरत, असे असताना सुद्धा शिवाजी महाराजांनी हिंदू कालगणनेशी सुसंगत शिवशक सुरू केले. उर्दू फारसी ला फाट्यावर मारून संस्कृतप्रचुर मराठी स्वीकारली. इतर वेळी मराठी मराठी करणारे ब्रिटिशांची कालगणना वापरा म्हणतात, बरं धांद्यासाठी समजू शकतो पण सणांसाठी? तेही ज्याने परकीय सत्तेविरुद्ध लढा दिला त्या व्यक्तीसाठी? असले कसले पुरोगामी तर्क असतात?

[Hugh Laurie @hughlaurie]

Thanks for your critique, Janet. We actually tried a couple of episodes where House (Hugh Laurie) (please put the brackets in the right place) gets it right first time, but they were only 6 minutes long. NBC weren’t happy. Then we tried some where House never gets it right and the patient dies. The audience wasn’t happy.

One could apply your trenchant analysis to other art forms: JS Bach wrote 30 Goldberg variations on the same chord structure; Frida Kahlo painted 50 portraits of herself; Henry Moore, what??

The point is, or was, variations on a theme; if all you see is hospital, medical blah blah, then it wasn’t meant for you.

Nonetheless, I look forward to your first novel!

[maithun @Being_Humor]

Full comedy 😂🤣😂🤣😂🤣

[Deepak Shenoy @deepakshenoy]

Bloomberg used indian prices to value rbi gold. Rbi hasnt changed to Indian prices yet , so they used lbma prices to value their gold and converted to rupees. Gold price in rupee went up 10% in may when the govt increased gold duty.

Since rbi releases the rupee and dollar value of gold every week, Bloomberg used to rupee value and Indian prices to figure out how much gold they have and assumed they've sold. Measure in dollars with Lbma prices, there would have been no sale detected.

Just explaining what's happened.

[Punekar News @punekarnews]

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[Acyuta @AgniVesa_07]

Ironic coming from commies who literally ran massive protests against india's nuclear program 😂