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[નીરવ @nirr_J]

At Dholavira, Kutch #sunrise

[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

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

It’s wild how the world basically runs on nothing but this.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

40 years in shipping gave me one unusual qualification as a historian: I had no academic orthodoxies to protect.

When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I followed the sea lanes backwards into deep antiquity. Without exception, they converged on the Indian subcontinent. This was not the book I had intended to write.

I must give credit to my editor, who gave an unknown author with a controversial approach, an opportunity. His first attempts to find peer reviewers encountered significant resistance. The argument that India sat at the centre of ancient world trade, not its periphery, was considered, to put it gently, inconvenient.

What I found, and what I could not stop finding, is that placing India at the centre of world history does not simply revise one chapter. It cascades. Correct the starting assumption and you are forced to reconsider the origins of mathematics, medicine, philosophy, linguistics, religion. Each conclusion leads to another. I came to call these the collateral heresies.

My three books explain the architecture of how they connect.

If you work in a field where received wisdom is protected by institutional interest rather than evidence, you will recognise the pattern. The question is whether the evidence eventually wins.

[Dr. Shah @ankitatIIMA]

💥Almost everyone's grandparents had half a dozen or more siblings, you think their parents were ultra rich??

This has got nothing to do with inflation.

Even in stability these were the most stable couples and marriages compared to today from financial to social parameters.

[Prem Soni @ValueWithPrem]

Everyone is completely right to hate Gautam Adani. He is a terrible entrepreneur.

Instead of doing real business like importing ₹50 plastic electronics from China, slapping a minimalist logo on them and burning $50M in VC money to build a revolutionary D2C brand he is just wasting time.

Look at his utterly boring businesses:
• Building massive deep water ports that actually handle global trade.
• Constructing the world's largest renewable energy parks in the middle of a barren desert.
• Taking on brutal, high risk, decades long infrastructure projects that actually require guts and physical execution.

Nobody else in the private sector has the guts to build such heavy infrastructure businesses. If there is anyone in India who can make India a superpower, it is none other than Mr. Gautam Adani.

But how dare he build the physical backbone of an economy?

He has absolutely no vision. If he really wanted to help the economy, he would launch a podcast and sell a cohort based course on productivity.

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

@RoseTint4 Because of Firoz Nadiadwala production and Ahmed khan direction. It is supposed to be tacky.

[shobhit mathur @shobweet]

Today is the beginning of Adhik Maas.

Ancient Indian astronomers realized that the lunar year is ~11 days shorter than the solar year. Without correction, festivals and seasons would slowly drift apart.

Their solution was Adhik Maas, an extra month added roughly every 32.5 months to create a self-correcting calendar system based on actual celestial motion.

One of the world’s oldest living examples of scientific timekeeping integrated with civilizational life.

[KV Iyyer - BHARAT 🇮🇳🇮🇱 @BanCheneProduct]

Late Shri Manohar Parrikar Ji once narrated his ordeal.

"I'm from Parra, a village in Goa, so we're called 'Parrikars.' My village is famous for its watermelons. When I was a child, the farmers there held a 'Watermelon Eating Contest' in May, after the harvest. All the children were invited and asked to eat as many watermelons as they wanted.

Many years later, I went to IIT Mumbai to study engineering. Then I returned to my village after 6.5 years. I went to the market to look for watermelons. But they were gone. The ones I found were very small.

I went to meet the farmer who used to hold the 'Watermelon Eating Contest.' Now his son had taken his place. He still held the contest, but there was a difference. When the old farmer offered us watermelons to eat, he would ask us to spit the seeds into a bowl. We were forbidden to chew the seeds. He was collecting seeds for the next crop.

We were, in effect, unpaid child laborers.

He would keep his best watermelons for the competition, using them as the best. He obtained good seeds, which produced even bigger watermelons the next year. When his son arrived, he thought the larger ones would fetch a higher price in the market, so he started selling the larger ones and keeping the smaller ones for competition. The next year, the watermelons grew smaller, and the next even smaller. A watermelon generation lasts one year.

In seven years, Parra's best watermelons were wiped out. In humans, a generation changes every 25 years. In 200 years, we will realize the mistakes we were making in educating our children.

Selecting good seeds, that is, talent, is a huge task in itself. Due to irrelevant ideas and useless things, our good watermelons will go to market, leaving us with useless, inferior seeds.

We must think about this in today's context.

[Saiswaroopa Iyer @Sai_swaroopa]

So here is my take on @svembu sir's call to Indians in US

1) The call apparently isn't meant for pansies who cant stand the heat. So sit there.

2) It is also not meant for those holding regular jobs there, with the only reason being dollar value. If you come back home, you will fail here. That country does pay mediocrity. Sit there, earn and send the money home.

3) It is meant for exceptionally talented guys who can disrupt the status quo back home and be real changemakers in whatever the firld they are in.

I agree the ease of doing business is a pain in India. Good to have a discussion out on the real pain points of change making. The country too must be proactive in head hunting the crucial entrepreneurial talent back home and I am hopeful there will be changes. But in short, this move is for heroes as of now. Along with that heroism, you need strategy, grounded thinking and thoughtful networking.

Also, I really hope Vembu sir excludes that Hotmail guy in his invite.

PS : I might be one of those blessed ones who (and spouse) found a better mix of opportunity-purpose back home after a reasonably rewarding stay outside.

[Dr. Shah @ankitatIIMA]

💥Why Nita Ambani has a Career, but Mukesh doesn't?

Career is how many least financial hours required to take out maximum non-financial hours for family, community and the nation.

Blind run for Money collection won't let you learn what you will not be able to spend money on after you have lost TIME!

[Harshil (હર્ષિલ) @MehHarshil]

Heard of Chhogala Tara song?

#AshaBhosle ji sung it in 1976 and it was themed on Gopis waiting for Krishna for Raas.

Bollywood corrupted it later.

[Akanksha Parmar @iAkankshaP]

Brahma Kamal "ब्रह्म कमल" 🪷

10,000 feet high in the Tianshan Mountains, the snow lotus survives some of the harshest conditions on Earth,

blooming only once in its lifetime after 5 to 8 years of silent endurance.

A rare and sacred wonder of nature.🪷

[Victims of Capitalism Memorial Foundation @karaokecomputer]

Iranian Tar player Ali Ghamsari is currently camped at Damavand Power Plant, which provides a significant amount of electricity to Tehran. Ghamsari says he’ll remain there for a while in the hopes that his presence will protect it from bombing.

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

CONTINUING FROM PREVIOUS TWEET

Production design shifts from hyper detailed, noisy, lived in realism showcasing multiple storylines unfolding in cluttered frames that mirror the chaos of happenings . Production Designer Saini Johray made me believe that I was in pakistan
Editor Shiv Kumar who Dhar gives a lot of credit to (Dhar told me personally about Shiv’s contribution ) delivers a “pulsating edit pattern” that compresses the cuts and then releases like a heartbeat both in quiet tension and also in exploding emotions . Slow burn domestic/emotional beats give way to rapid fire action cuts

The use of retro Hindi songs (“Tamma Tamma Loge,” “Tirchi Topiwale”) cheekily during violence not for the effect sake , but as ironic, mood shifting devises transport you into a heightened, almost mythical and trance like world.

Sound design is equally masterful: stripped back silence builds dread, then erupts into an array of thunderous, fragment driven scores (Shashwat Sachdev’s hip hop influenced work). Every grunt, impact, and explosion lands with physical weight. This “silence as sound” technique keeps you on edge for the entire runtime.
The complexly layered, internalized performances wouldn’t have been possible without Dhar’s crystal clear and precise briefs and then him giving the actors their space for their own interpretations. Ranveer’s performance is a study in it’s nuances of controlled rage and emotional vulnerability
Madhavan’s strategist is quiet authority personified. His helplessness of an entire nation on his shoulders he channels it into a cold, precise strategy rather than displaying overt emotion.
In a film where Ranveer Singh delivers explosive energy and the ensemble brings intensity, he has choosen subtlety not relying on loud dialogues or dramatic outbursts, but on micro expressions, a measured voice with an aura of quiet authority. Each and every character no matter how small get real and deeply felt arcs and never in a single frame do they get reduced to props.
Dhar’s world building is like a master chef mixing Geo politics , gang dynamics, espionage without once feeling lectured in grounding this larger than life revenge drama in a never before seen or experienced setting of a tangible and pulsating atmosphere created by Saini Johray
Dhar’s genius lies not in balance but in glorifying each aspect of his craft addictive and delicious and the food items prepared In the pre march 19 th 2026 era will be now stale and disease ridden
This isn’t direction. It’s surgical warfare on celluloid. #Dhurandhar2 should not be just seen but should be read like a textbook.
My one line advise to all film students is “Leave your institutes and spend that money and time in #Dhurandhar2 theatres”

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

Pakistanis demand half of #Dhurandhar2 movie earnings 😁#pakistanireaction https://t.co/fcSwytfqoP via @YouTube

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

@Xsupport @Support please look into this

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

Why I am unable to post any reply to any post @x ⁦@XSpaces⁩ this is for quite sometime now. What’s the issue! I can quote and repost though.

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

Great work. Think about the mindset if the school principal is such intolerant!

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

.@India_NHRC has directed Chhattisgarh govt to pay Rs 50,000 as compensation to a 3-5 year old girl who was beaten up by Eva Colvins - principal of Mother Teresa school in Durg - for greeting her with Radhe Radhe

The Bench of @KanoongoPriyank which passed the order has allowed the govt to recover the amount from school

I was the complainant before NHRC in this case

A significant win. Meanwhile, the criminal trial is underway in Durg Sessions Court

[નીરવ @nirr_J]

Why I am unable to post any reply to any post @x ⁦@XSpaces⁩ this is for quite sometime now. What’s the issue! I can quote and repost though.