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Retired from Government. Nationalist. Patriot. Want to see India leapfrog to become a developed nation.
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@VIKRAMPRATAPSIN 😀😃

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

CJP Team Stopped & Att@cked by Villagers During School Visit in Jaipur, Heated Clàsh Follows

[Rajeev Chandrasekhar 🇮🇳 @RajeevRC_X]

Little Karga Tinkle Gongo, it pains me to see that you had to experience this.

But your innocent and powerful appeal has made many Indians reflect on the ignorance and prejudice that have no place in our society.

India is a beautiful mosaic of many cultures, languages and faces, but we share one proud national identity - Indian.

I’m proud of you. Always remember, the nation stands with you. 🇮🇳

#EkBharatShreshthaBharat

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@VIKRAMPRATAPSIN 😀😀

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

I anticipated this squirming by Pakistan.

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Talk of any US base in Kashmir is pure fantasy. Completely nonsensical.

All Indian states are an important part of India. However, in the background of long standing US policy on J&K and Trump’s openly expressed desired to mediate which implies recognition of Pakistan’s position, Gor’s statement has significance.

One shouldn’t read it as twisted word play or a desire to please the government. It is possible that he has exceeded his brief and the US may reiterate its standard position to placate Pakistan which has protested violently.

Interestingly, Gor wears the hat of Special Envoy to South Asia which includes Pakistan. Given that Pakistan has strongly attacked Gor, the Pakistani part of his mandate now seems unworkable, which is a good thing.

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@Chellaney Sir, the intriguing part is that the study and warning come from the Chinese State Geological Survey!

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The intriguing part is, if the study and warning comes from Chinese State Geological Survey, why the Chinese Govt is going ahead with the project?

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

A Ticking Water Bomb: Why Is New Delhi Silent?

Why is New Delhi silent even as China’s own scientists warn of serious geological risks at the site of the world’s largest dam, now being built in one of the world’s most seismically active regions? China is constructing the super-dam just a few miles from India’s border, potentially putting millions of people at risk downstream in India’s northeast, particularly the Assam Plains, The consequences could extend into Bangladesh, located farthest downstream.

In a recent paper published in Sedimentary Geology and Tethyan Geology, a journal overseen by the state-run China Geological Survey, Chinese geologists warned that the dam project (almost three times the size of the Three Gorges Dam, currently the world’s biggest) not only lies along a geological fault, but also the construction site has a “loose structure and weak cohesion.” Fault activity or an earthquake, they warned, could “very easily trigger” instability of the reservoir slopes, affecting the integrity of the entire dam project and nearby infrastructure.

The paper recommends design changes, including reinforcing the reservoir slopes and installing retaining structures. The reservoir will eventually impound a mammoth volume of water from the Yarlung Tsangpo, better known as the Brahmaputra River.

China has learned little from the controversy surrounding the 2008 earthquake that struck the Tibetan Plateau’s eastern rim, killing nearly 90,000 people. Scientists have long debated whether the nearby Zipingpu Dam, completed only a few years before the quake, contributed to the disaster. One influential study concluded that the massive weight of the water in the dam’s 156-meter-high reservoir may have caused severe stresses on the underlying geological fault, or what scientists call reservoir-triggered seismicity (RTS), thereby hastening the earthquake by decades or even centuries.

The risks posed by the new super-dam are significant because it is being built in the Himalayan seismically active belt, where the Indian and Eurasian plates collide. The belt has produced some of Asia’s strongest earthquakes, including the devastating 2025 Myanmar earthquake, whose tremors extended to Thailand, causing the collapse of a high-rise building under construction in Bangkok.

With the lives and livelihoods of millions of northeastern Indians potentially at stake, the least the Indian government should do is demand that China lift the veil of opacity surrounding the super-dam project and allow Indian and other international experts to visit the construction site for an independent scientific assessment.

When a potential water bomb is being assembled upstream, how can downstream silence be justified?

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@kmdharan 👍👍

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@KaurageousDils Welcome back🙏
Hope you are fine.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Actions Speak Louder Than Words

U.S. ambassadors often adapt their messaging to the countries where they are posted. But official State Department policy does not change.

During a visit to Srinagar yesterday, U.S. Ambassador to India Sergio Gor said that Jammu and Kashmir is "an important part of India," prompting a swift diplomatic protest from Pakistan.

In October 2022, it was India that protested when U.S. Ambassador to Pakistan Donald Blome visited the Pakistan-held part of Jammu and Kashmir and repeatedly used the Pakistani political term "Azad [Independent] Jammu and Kashmir" instead of neutral terminology. New Delhi regards the entire territory of Jammu and Kashmir as an integral part of India. After touring historical sites there, Blome described them as “symbols of the cultural and historical richness of Pakistan,” a remark viewed as tacitly legitimizing Pakistan's control over the region.

Under Trump's second presidency, U.S.-India relations have reached a new low. As ambassador, Gor is naturally trying to repair the relationship, as his latest statement suggests. But his boss, President Trump, resurrected the Kashmir issue last year.

More tellingly, Trump has remained silent on the root cause of the 2025 India-Pakistan conflict — cross-border terrorism — while repeatedly portraying Kashmir as the central dispute. That framing mirrors Pakistan's longstanding effort to use the Kashmir issue as a smokescreen for its cross-border terrorist operations.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

आपत्काले च कष्टेऽपि नोत्साहस्त्यज्यते बुधैः।

इति प्रबोधितस्तेन कथञ्चिद् दृढबुद्धिना।।

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

Very sensible statement.

Would be appropriate to keep the conversation confined to development prospects and progress in many fields.

US Ambassador’s visit in the background of Trump’s pro-Pak/ Asim Munir leaning and desire to mediate on Kashmir is politically sensitive.

He could have avoided making this visit at this stage when many wrinkles have appeared in India- US ties because of Trump.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

एतावज्जन्मसाफल्यं देहिनामिह देहिषु।

प्राणैरर्थैर्धिया वाचा श्रेय एवाचरेत्सदा॥

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

A major boost to railway infrastructure and connectivity across Andhra Pradesh, Odisha, Tamil Nadu and West Bengal!

The Cabinet has approved four multitracking projects, adding important capacity to the Indian Railways network and benefiting lakhs of people.

These projects will have many benefits like:

Strengthening passenger and freight movement.

Reducing congestion.

Greater logistics efficiency.

Better connectivity, commerce and tourism.

https://t.co/NArk0bSx17

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@ANI The chickens come home to roost!

[Kanwal Sibal @KanwalSibal]

“Important part of India”- a welcome political affirmation. Asim Munir and Shehbaz Sharif will have noted the significance of this remark. Let us see the reaction from Pakistan.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

INDIA HOLDS MEETINGS, U.S. HOLDS TRIALS.

$1.4 tn OR 1/4th OF INDIA'S GDP: PROSPECTIVE PENALTY

In U.S. Four states demand that Meta pay as much as $1.4 trillion as restitution for the harms it has caused young users in a federal trial that begins today and could see founder Mark Zuckerberg take the witness stand.

WILL INDIA PUT META ON TRIAL?

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@kmdharan 🙏

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Dismissive of international norms and laws, Trump is a law unto himself.

In May, he threatened to “blow up” Oman, a peaceful, longtime U.S. ally, if it entered a deal with Iran to share toll revenues from shipping through the Strait of Hormuz. Now he warns, “If Oman gets in the way, we’ll bomb the s— out of them.”

No wonder all six Gulf monarchies are quietly building alternative partnerships to insulate themselves from Washington’s whims.