Pankaj Sharma

Proud Indian | Globalization habitué | MD @Neo_Group | Sustainability @Green Wattage @IndiaWaterFoundation | Traveller | RTs are not endorsements.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Hertz I have provided all details and you still keep on repeating g the same question. Is this a hoax too

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Hertz I had booked a car for today pickup Reservation Number L666EA60B04. I am at the San Ramon center and I am told that there is no car. How is that possible. This is a clear case of a bad client services and taking the clients for a ride, literally. @CNN @FoxNews

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Hertz And then I was advised to cancel the reservation which I did. After that I was offered a different car at a higher price than originally booked. It’s a complete fraud.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Hertz Here are the details:

I booked a car at Hertz rental #L666EA60B04 for your San Ramon CA, USA location. I got a confirmation message too. When I went there I was told that there is no car and Hertz books without cars being available. I am 100% sure my car given to someone else.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Hertz @CNN @FoxNews I booked a car at Hertz rental #L666EA60B04 for your San Ramon CA, USA location. I got a confirmation message too. When I went there I was told that there is no car and Hertz books without cars being available. I am 100% sure my car was given to someone else

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@MGSupportIndia Worst ever. No one should buy MG ever. Your Dehradun center agreed to pick car in morning. If car stalled in different city-no priority at all. Promised & still no solution. Put on record I will get car repair outside as your service center has not prioritized a distress client

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@MGSupportIndia @MGMotorIn My MG Hector stopped on the road. The RSA and Pulse Hub number called from app - receive messages that number is invalid. Who and how to contact.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@ndtv @Krishna_VK12 What a time we all live in and what a great journey people of our generation are having!!!

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@Meenakshi_70 what a lovely pic and great to see you both. Boss looks relaxed for a change. @Rajeevkrishna69 looking dashing. God bless you both. Best wishes.

[Meenakshi Singh @Meenakshi_70]

Cops have to be reminded that they have a family too !! 😊
#sundayvibes @Rajeevkrishna69

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

As you look at the horrific pictures of the bombed Iranian school…

Pause for a minute and think..

Indian Air Force and the Army were given 2 and 7 terror targets respectively to hit on the night of May 6-7 in Op Sindoor…

Each was fully destroyed…

On the morning of May 8, the IAF carried out extensive air defence suppression using long-range kamikaze drones…

On May 9-10 the IAF targeted 14 PAF bases or radar stations/missile batteries…

Destructive evidence of almost all these strikes cane up in satellite pictures…

All strikes were carried out by precision munitions from long distances…

Not one missed aim or strayed to harm civilians… no school, no village or city, no hospitals. None…

This despite not having a fraction of the US military weapons, sensors or surveillance ability…

And in a furiously contested air space against near-peer PAF and its Chinese air defences…

Let’s give credit where due. To our armed forces in this case…

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@gpsinghips 🙏🙏🙏

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@dgpup @myogiadityanath @CMOfficeUP @UPGovt @ChiefSecyUP @homeupgov Heartiest congratulations and best wishes to the entire force.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@navsekera 🙏🙏🙏 He must be immensely proud.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

We were onboard and then the pilot and crew left. It’s a chaos at the aero plane and a security hazard as the passengers are all over

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Status of 1pm at 1:18pm. Being told crew not available. @airindia should be brought to task like Indigo and it should be devoid of the word “India” from its name. @PMOIndia please take note @DGCAIndia and @MoCA_GoI have been ineffective. It’s a disgrace.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

@PMOIndia @MoCA_GoI @DGCAIndia please see the gross harassment on the hands of @airindia
Are you covering this @htTweets @TOIIndiaNews @ndtv @IndiaToday @aajtak @ABPNews

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Status of 1pm at 1:18pm. Being told crew not available. @airindia should be brought to task like Indigo and it should be devoid of the word “India” from its name. @PMOIndia please take note @DGCAIndia and @MoCA_GoI have been ineffective. It’s a disgrace.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Status of 1pm at 1:18pm. Being told crew not available. @airindia should be brought to task like Indigo and it should be devoid of the word “India” from its name. @PMOIndia please take note @DGCAIndia and @MoCA_GoI have been ineffective. It’s a disgrace.

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Laughable that @MoCA_GoI will repost the Air India post. Yes there is fog and there are delays but how are the passengers being treated. Will India become the leader of the world
Like this @PMOIndia

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Laughable that @MoCA_GoI will repost the Air India post. Yes there is fog and there are delays but how are the passengers being treated. Will India become the leader of the world
Like this @PMOIndia

[Air India @airindia]

#TravelAdvisory

Poor visibility due to dense fog in Delhi this morning has impacted flight operations for all airlines. We are closely monitoring conditions and will resume operations as soon as it is safe to do so.

In the interest of safety, and to avoid prolonged uncertainty for our guests, some flights have been cancelled. We understand this may cause inconvenience, and our ground teams across airports are working round the clock to assist and support you.

We request guests to check their latest flight status at https://t.co/tyXyGOAAHD before proceeding to the airport.

Thank you for your patience and understanding during this situation.

Flights cancelled so far:
•AI2767 / 2768
•AI1787 / 1872
•AI1721 / 1837
•AI1701 / 1806
•AI1725 / 1860
•AI1745 / 1890
•AI1797 / 1838
•AI1703 / 1884
•AI2653 / 2808
•AI2469 / 2470
•AI866
•AI1737 / 1820
•AI1719 / 1844
•AI1785 / 1851
•AI2495 / 2496
•AI1715 / 1816
•AI3313 / 3314
•AI881 / 882
•AI2465 / 2880

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

Status of 12:30 at 12:44

[Pankaj Sharma @pankshar5]

12:15 pm - no data available. After IndiGo @airindia breaks down. I am a platinum member with this airline and in this mess. Think of all my fellow passengers. Total apathy from @MoCA_GoI @DGCAIndia - for not working. What’s the purpose of so many new airports @PMOIndia