Birdy Edwards

Just an ordinary guy!! Re-tweets/likes not endorsement.

[PEPE @hijibijihijibi]

@PratPanc But you had already graduated from college and had a job..why are you still preparing for neet in kota ??😅

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[कल्पना श्रीवास्तव 🇮🇳 @Lawyer_Kalpana]

अज़मगढ़ के महाराजगंज थाना क्षेत्र में बनस्थान मोड़ पर पीडब्ल्यूडी की ज़मीन पर बिना अनुमति मज़ार का अवैध निर्माण चल रहा है। शटरिंग का काम जोरों पर है।

जिला प्रशासन @dmazamgarh प्रशासनिक अधिकारियों से अनुरोध है कि इस मामले को तुरंत संज्ञान मे लें जाँच कराएँ और अवैध निर्माण करने वालो पर सख्त कार्रवाई करें।

[Vivek Krishnan @Viv_Krishnan]

Screwdrivergiri
A lot of folks defend this trend. But they find it difficult to describe it. At it’s core, when a foreign OEM signs up with an Indian co to provide it with all the core (strictly proprietary) elements & allows it to assemble in India with minor or no value add, we’re in the zone. In effect, if the OEM were to turn off the tap on component supply, it’s “The End���. Now, if this denial were to only impact an Indian co, we could justify it - risks of doing business, caveat emptor etc. But it will hurt the nation finally and then who takes the blame ? Now, if all works well & there’s no likelihood of denial, we’ve got a product, created some (very little at times) employment and a bunch of manufacturers who will never be allowed to violate terms and build their own product. Of course, if Indians are Chinese, we’d have violated and already done so since the same screwdrivergiri has been going on for decades. Bottom line, we are best served by sanctions and embargoes. It’s in our DNA.
Several years ago, a foreign weapon OEM had extended us an offer - we’ll give u pressure parts, trigger group & receiver. U guys can easily do the assembly, sling swivels, grips, sling and carry case. Pay us for the components & an upfront data package fee for only 1
Weapon (an outdated one). If U’re smart in invoicing, Indian content can be 50%. Forget the core tech. U just need the margins. Saying NO was the best decision of our journey. Today, we compete globally with the same co but respect them for being upfront with us.

[Krishnan @cvkrishnan]

USAF Orders Both General Atomics’ FQ-42 And Anduril’s FQ-44 Into Initial Production “to support continued testing, validation, and, ultimately, operational fielding,”
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[Indu Viswanathan @indumathi37]

I just published this essay in The Turtle about the beauty of Hindu rituals, and how they hold us with grace and meaning in our most vulnerable moments.

“There is a tendency in some modern and Westernized discussions of Hinduism to treat philosophy as the “real” Hinduism and ritual as something secondary, symbolic, or even childish. As if ritual were something simplistic and socially immature that we needed to evolve past collectively and individually.

I think this creates a false distinction. Hindu ritual is not separate from philosophy; it is philosophy enacted.

Just as music and poetry communicate what cannot always be expressed in prose, rituals communicate insights about life, death, impermanence, grief, relationships, and liberation in ways that go beyond intellectual understanding. They engage the body, the senses, the emotions, the family, and the community.”

#hindu #ritual #spirituality

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[Treeni @treeni]

EXCLUSIVE:

During Annual Day programme of Kids World English School in Partur, Jalna — school children danced on the Pakistani song of "Gustakh Nabi Ki Ek Saza..." with dummy swords.

In the background, they had celebrated with photo of Pakistani terrorist Mumtaz Qadri, who had assassinated Pakistan's Punjab Governor — as he had spoken in defence of a Christian woman Asia Bibi, accused of blasphemy.

This school claims to be affiliated with CBSE board ( @cbseindia29), and allegedly is promoting extremist ideology amongst children.

We urge @NCPCR_ to immediately take cognizance of the matter, and direct security agencies to investigate it and take appropriate action.

cc: @DGPMaharashtra, @sp_jalna

[Indu Viswanathan @indumathi37]

Not every place in the world can be examined through the historical template of the United States.

One of the reasons conversations about India are so difficult for folks in the West to untangle is that many of the frameworks Americans use to understand power, intergroup dynamics, identity, and historical injustice do not map onto India. Not at all.

For Americans who have adopted a critical lens, the template derived from American history is fixed. A dominant demographic majority group seeks to preserve power while marginalized demographic minorities fight for recognition and inclusion. Because this template is so fixed in the imagination, there is a tendency to view and interpret dynamics and events in other countries in exactly the same way. I have seen it myself. "We've all seen how this works," someone will say, and proceed to apply the American template to a different place.

And the history of the Americas (both North and South) is dominated by European (white) Christian colonization. As a result, Americans are familiar with the legacies of European empire and Christian missionary expansion. By contrast, the history of Islamic conquest and rule, which shaped large parts of Asia, Africa, and Europe for centuries, occupies far less space in the American imagination. So too does the contemporary influence of petrodollar-funded religious institutions, transnational Islamist movements, and the global circulation of Islamist narratives.

This does not mean these forces explain everything. It does mean that many Americans have little historical or conceptual framework for understanding how they might shape politics, memory, education, or intergroup relations in places like India.

India's history is not the same as that of the Americas.

For centuries, India experienced successive waves of colonization. The first came through a series of Muslim invasions and dynasties, culminating in the Mughal Empire. The second came through British colonial rule, predated by British mercantile and missionary efforts. Yet unlike many colonized societies, the civilizational majority was never fully displaced, converted, or absorbed. Hindu traditions, practices, languages, stories, temples, and collective memories survived.

This is perhaps the single hardest aspect of India for many Americans to grasp because it has no real analogue in American history: the Hindu demographic majority is also the historically colonized population.

For many Western observers, this creates immediate suspicion because it violates the assumptions embedded within our familiar frameworks. The expectation is that majorities defend power while minorities challenge it.

As a result, contemporary debates about textbooks, public memory, historical figures, temples, and national identity are often seen and interpreted by folks in the West through frameworks that retrofit Indian history into contemporary American critical analysis through the reductive binaries of majority/minority, right/left, which are memeable and digestible, but obscure much more than they reveal about power, history, equity, policy, foreign influence, etc.

When Hindus argue that violent and painful aspects of Mughal conquest have been whitewashed in public education, they are frequently accused of attempting to rewrite history to justify the alleged "Hindu right wing" suppression of a minority group today. (Please do read my analysis of religious-based violence in India. It's not what you think it is. Link in comments.)

Yet Americans themselves are familiar with the process of revisiting historical narratives to advance truth and reconciliation. We have debated how slavery is taught, how Indigenous history is taught, how immigration is taught, and how women and minority groups have been represented in textbooks and in classrooms. We generally accept that historical narratives evolve as new evidence emerges and as previously marginalized perspectives are taken seriously.

What makes India different is that the group seeking rigorous reconsideration of historical narratives is often the majority population. For many Western observers, this creates immediate suspicion. The assumption is that majorities seek dominance while minorities seek justice.

But history does not always work that way.

The result is that efforts by Hindus to recover historical memory are often denounced as nationalism (which is falsely equated with white or Christian nationalism in the United States) before they are examined on their own terms. Questions about historical representation become questions about political motives. Efforts to revisit narratives become "evidence of extremism" or, even more bizarre, "anti-intellectualism." And figures who have occupied a central place in Hindu memory for centuries are presented as newly invented symbols of contemporary political power.

The result is that the Indian voices most readily amplified in Western media are often those whose analyses are already legible within familiar Western frameworks. Their arguments are immediately understandable, which lends them "credibility." Perspectives that do not fit those frameworks are frequently dismissed as "Hindu nationalist" before they are seriously considered.

One need not agree with every argument made in these debates to recognize that they are, in fact, debates. The question is not whether history should be examined. The question is whether everyone is permitted to participate in that examination without having their motives presumed in advance.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

India is 138th in FIFA rankings.
The world’s most populous country is nowhere in football, the world’s most popular sport.
If our authorities get on war footing, we can change things drastically by 2035.
There needs to be will.

[Padma Awards @PadmaAwards]

Renowned geneticist, Dr. Kumarasamy Thangaraj honoured with Padma Shri, globally recognised for his outstanding contribution in the field of population and medical genetics, advanced Indian population science through studies of genetic origins, migration patterns, and an alternative hypothesis on ancient Indian population history.
#peoplespadma2026 #padmaawards2026 #padmashri #scienceandengineering

[Team Hindu United @TeamHinduUnited]

Wife of an Armed Force was drugged, gang-raped, filmed by Ayyaz Taj Madare and Ameen Shaikh on the pretext of land deal in Nagpur.

Blackmailed, extorted lakhs, forced to drink Halal liquid, chant Islamic verses, converted by Hazrat Maulana in Chhindwara, MP, "nikah" to Ayyaz and forced to eat Gau-mans!

Two arrested, Maulana absconding. Husband filed FIR.

[ANUPAM MISHRA @scribe9104]

छिंदवाड़ा : एयरफोर्स में तैनात एक फ़ौजी की विवाहिता को धोखे से नशे की गोलियों देकर रेप और धर्मांतरण का ख़ौफ़नाक वीडियो सामने आया है

यकीन नहीं होता कि ये हिंदुस्तान में हो रहा है, देखने में पाकिस्तान या बांग्लादेश का वीडियो लगता है

आरोपी ~ अयाज़, अमीन और मौलवी

[Kumaon Jagran @KumaonJagran]

A 90-year-old ex-serviceman from Tehri Garhwal has been separated from his family for 25 years. He is working at a dhaba in Mukerian, Punjab. Help bring him home.

Pratap Singh Parmar, a retired Indian Army soldier originally from village Mangsu Chauras in Tehri Garhwal, lost contact with his family around the year 2000. For 25 years, this 90-year-old veteran has been living alone, earning his keep at a roadside dhaba in Mukerian, Punjab.

His son is believed to be Vinod Parmar, a teacher in Rudraprayag, who may have been searching for his father all these years.

If you recognise him or know his family, please contact immediately.

Rakesh Sharma (Dhaba owner), Mukerian, Punjab
Mobile: [phone]

A soldier who served his nation deserves to spend his last years with his loved ones. Do your bit.

[Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation @midf_org]

Something most people don't know:

India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.

We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.

Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.

In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.

MIDF is working to change that.

Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below

[Parimal @Fintech03]

Nah... that is not even the best part. Here is the real FUN FACT:

In the Aryabhatiya (Ganitapada, Verse 21), written in 499 CE, Aryabhata introduces the mathematics of stacking. He explicitly lays out the formula for finding the total number of items in a pyramid pile with a triangular/square base. For a pyramid stack where each side of the base has 'n' spheres:

Total Spheres = [ n × (n + 1) × (n + 2) ] / 6

Think about the timeline here. Johannes Kepler conjectured that this layout was the densest in 1611. Aryabhata had already mapped out the exact algebraic discrete-volume matrix to count every single individual sphere within that dense packing formation 1000s yrs earlier.

Fun Fact is still not over. Fast-forward to the 12th century. The legendary mathematician Bhaskara II takes Aryabhata’s foundation & elevates it into a poetic, highly advanced art form in his textbook, the Lilavati. Bhaskara creates a dedicated mathematical category called Citi-Ghana (the volume of a pile). He did not just give 1 formula; he realized that different stacking bases create different geometric properties. He breaks down eqns for:

- Triangular-based pyramids (where spheres rest in the gaps of a triangular grid)
- Square-based pyramids (the standard grocery-stack style)
- Oblong piles (where the base is a rectangle)

To solve these, Bhaskara had to utilize Varga-Sankalita (the sum of squares of natural numbers) & Ghana-Sankalita (the sum of cubes). While Western mathematics at the time was struggling with basic arithmetic using Roman numerals, Indian scholars were utilizing advanced series expansions to handle the discrete boundaries of 3 dimensional sphere packing.

Now the Fun Fact is over 🙏🙏

[Suhag A. Shukla @SuhagAShukla]

Savarna! Brahminical! Caste! Oppressor…all in one tweet!

Relax @tmkrishna, your Marxist-leftist bonafides are already well established, no need to try sooo hard.

[Team Hindu United @TeamHinduUnited]

Sharukh stabbed Kuldeep Khatik after a horn-blowing dispute in Shahdara, Delhi.

Locals claim police were present on spot, including officer Mohammad Nafees, but didn’t intervene.

Locals say an officer even said: “Tumhare chakkar mein apni gardan utarwa lu?”

[Kumaon Jagran @KumaonJagran]

Two policemen on duty allegedly harass homestay owner’s daughter near Kainchi Dham. Villagers beat them up and drag them to the police post.

The incident happened Saturday night around 11 pm. The constables, deployed for the upcoming annual fair, were staying at a local homestay near the temple when they allegedly harassed the owner’s daughter. Locals caught them on the spot, thrashed them, and marched them to the Kainchi Dham police post. Hundreds of villagers gheraoed the post for hours demanding immediate suspension and arrest.

Nainital SSP Manjunath TC ordered a public medical examination of both accused and made his position clear. Those who disrespect women have no place in the force. Strict action will follow once guilt is established.

[ocean jain @ocjain4]

मु���्तफा शेख ने एक 15 वर्षीय नाबालिग हिंदू लड़की को एक झाड़ी में खींच लिया और हावड़ा, डब्ल्यूबी में उसके साथ बलात्कार करने की कोशिश की।

स्थानीय लोगों ने उसकी चीखें सुनीं, शिकारी को पकड़ लिया, उसे एक पेड़ से बांध दिया और उसे पुलिस को सौंप दिया।

हिंदू ग्रामीणों ने लड़की को जानवर से बचाया।

[NCMIndia Council For Men Affairs @NCMIndiaa]

Social media influencer Anita Bishnoi from Jodhpur in Rajasthan was trolled so brutally by feminists for her reel criticizing indecent dresses of women that she came live and consumed poison to end her life. She somehow survived as her family rushed her to the Hospital on time. No Women Commission will take cognizance of such brutal trolling of woman like Anita Bishnoi.

[Treeni @treeni]

HORRIBLE ONE FROM DEVBHOOMI!

Muslim mob entered a Hindu house and brutally killed BJP OBC Morcha leader Vinod Kashyap in Vikasnagar, Dehradun.

Vinod and his family were attacked over a minor field water dispute.

Hindu organizations blocked the national highway demanding immediate arrests.

@DehradunPolice @BJP4UK