I was fortunate enough to see the many original tibetan manuscripts last year.
The monk show showed me also told me the story of how they were protected and brought across the Himalayas.
A lot of knowledge went from India to tibet during the Buddhist period including lost branches of Vedas.
@laalsaalan#Leftists ensured that India missed the rapid industrialization post independence. By sheer chance if luck, we boarded the software express, despite their fear mongering. Can't allow these people to ruin our next 100 yrs by backing their blind opposition to progress.
@Lifestyle_Store Bought a watch online from your store, the product recieved had scratches on the glass, there was no protective film and it seems like an old product. I want to return but your application policy states there's no return policy. Guide me. This is loot
Her foreign opponents fixated on #SheikhHasina through a narrow lens: elections that didn’t meet Western democratic aesthetics, long incumbency, centralised power, human rights reports. All real issues, but treated in isolation, stripped of context. Bangladesh was judged as if it were Denmark with a turnout problem, not a fragile, densely packed state with a violent Islamist history and a traumatised political culture.
In doing so, three hard realities were ignored.
First, Hasina was a stabiliser, not a revolutionary hero, but a state-builder in a hostile environment. She kept Jamaat and its offshoots contained, maintained civil-military balance, protected minorities better than any realistic alternative, and kept Bangladesh economically and geopolitically predictable. Her western opponents knew this. They just chose to downplay it.
Second, they overestimated the “democratic opposition”. There was no credible, unified, liberal alternative waiting in the wings. Removing pressure from Hasina didn’t empower democrats. It empowered street power, radicals, and actors who thrive precisely when institutions weaken.
Third, there was the old habit of believing that toppling or delegitimising a strong incumbent automatically opens space for pluralism. History says the opposite. In divided societies, power vacuums don’t fill with moderates. They fill with the loudest, angriest, and most organised forces. Often religious, often violent.
These were destructive missteps. Not because Hasina was flawless, but because state collapse is always worse than imperfect order. Chasing democratic optics ended up accelerating a counterrevolution that hollowed out politics, normalised persecution, and destabilised an entire country.
This wasn’t values-driven paternalism . It was context-blind activism masquerading as strategy. And Bangladesh will pay for it long after the policy memos have been forgotten.
#Bangladesh
#CounterRevolution
#RuleOfLaw
#PoliticalViolence
#IslamistExtremism
#MinorityRights
A most shocking case. A matter of great shame for Rajasthan govt
A girl from a Pakistani Hindu refugee family living in Jaisalmer has been allegedly gangraped by local men - Fazal Khan and accomplices
Girl’s father alleges police have taken bribe and have made no efforts in arresting the culprits even after 20 days
Listen to the father’s statements: heartbreaking. It’s so infuriating
I learnt about it today and immediately arranged for our @sewanyaya team member to reach Jaisalmer. We are tracking the case for justice and accountability
What’s your response, @JaisalmerPolice?
Yesterday at Delhi’s Kamani Auditorium, hearing Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia’s flute left me heartbroken. He can no longer truly play. His hands tremble; the flute will not stay steady. He blows into it with immense effort, yet no music emerges.
The blame lies with the organizers. It was cruel to subject him to such physical and emotional pain. Panditji must have suffered—struggling to blow, to hold the flute, and to hear its faltering sound. The audience too shared his agony, watching his helplessness.
If they felt compelled to bring him before the public, they should have seated him on a beautifully adorned stage while those soul-stirring recordings of his flute played in the background. The audience would have been enchanted by the music and moved by the sight of its creator.
When I met him only a few months ago, he spoke with such grace and warmth. And just a few years earlier, on this very stage at Kamani, he performed alongside Shivkumar Sharma—a concert of sheer perfection.
Ah, how cruel the weight of age can be.
जब बहन राखी लेकर वृद्ध आश्रम (जहाँ बुज़ुर्ग लोग रहते हैं) पहुँची,भाई बहन दोनों का रो-रो कर बुरा हाल हो गया। दिल का दर्द आँसुओं का सैलाब बनकर बह निकला।
ऐसी औलाद से ओलाद का ना होना बेहतर है जो बुढ़ापे में मा बाप का सहारा ना बन सके ।
The US has imposed 25% tariffs on India, impacting key sectors. @moneycontrolcom spoke to economist @Devendrakpant on what’s at stake.
Can #India Shield Its Exports as #USTariffs and Trade Uncertainty Rise? | #DonaldTrump
https://t.co/6scQlLXkkO
Ancient Hindu Idols Found in Kashmir.
Local labourers have unearthed ancient Hindu idols, including 11 Shivlings, during the renovation of a spring at Karkoot Nag in the Salia area of Anantnag district’s Aishmuqam in South Kashmir. The discovery was made during clearing a section of the spring.
As the water level had receded in recent months, the workers uncovered a small compartment-like stone structure inside the spring, where the idols had apparently been placed and preserved underwater.
When you have FRAUDS controlling Hindu Temples for more than 70 years by brazen Contempt of Courts - you can expect them to loot the temples at any cost
Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple - Tiruvannamalai - A valiant example of Hindu resurgence and heritage - A temple that rose high even after invasions and destructions by Milechas.
The @tnhrcedept is shamelessly controlling this temple by fraud from 13.12.1951 - In violation of orders of Hon'ble Division Bench of Madras High Court and in violation of Multiple Orders of Hon'ble Supreme Court of India's Constitutional Benches.
Before 2026 elections in Tamil Nadu - much of the temple's funds will be depleted due to the unauthorized and illegal civil works mooted by the @tnhrcedept -
The civil works in the temple and impinging on the temple are entrusted with misfits who do not have even basic idea about conservation and preservation.
The pictures enclosed show unprofessional and very dangerous approach to the structures of this ancient temple - The attitude is also insulting to our Hindu faith
Unless we drive these fraudsters from our temples - we cannot save - our heritage - our faith - our culture
The Indian trade delegation is currently negotiating with the US and inevitably the issue of GM foods and seeds has been discussed.
Twenty years ago, I warned about the risks of GM foods for consumers and the need for farmers to purchase new GM seeds each year. These seeds are not self-generating. This would mean dependence in perpetuity. Besides, there would be harmful effects that these would have on environment and individuals.
A French researcher Nathan Batalion listed 50 harmful effects.
Those interested in reading this may like to see https://t.co/GcjNTXaV0U Hindustan Times December 27,2004.
For America it is always American interests first, which also means American business interests, varying from Lockheed Martin to Monsanto to Microsoft to ExxonMobil and everything else. Annoy them and you annoy America. At least it used to be like that.
India and US see regional threats and interests differently. India does not have to acquiesce to US interests and America needs to accept that differences are inevitable and are not meant to be anti-US.
What kind of a government is this where a babu in @GoI_MeitY is entitled enough to make a complete mamu of his own government and appease an enemy country like Pakistan by defying orders of @PMOIndia & @NarendraModi and flouting govt policy to ban Pakistani social media handles and youtube accounts? What good is the minister if his own babus can defy him and sabotage government policy. Who wants to embarrass the PM when he is on a foreign tour - his clueless minister or the treacherous babu in the ministry doing favours to Pakistanis?
The small circular holes that you see here are actually 𝐁𝐮𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐭 𝐇𝐨𝐥𝐞 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐤𝐬 on our sculptures made by Portuguese soldiers.
This is from Bhaja caves, dated 200 BCE.
To add to your post @ShreeHistory
The Portuguese would use them for target practice ! Whatever the Islamic invaders missed out during their pan-India temple destruction campaigns, the Christian invaders made it up by vandalising them in other different ways.
While Elephanta caves bullet practice is historically known, the Bhaja caves destruction is not known. These images were left out from public viewing and never discussed as to why they have these rampant circular grooves all over them!