Pranay Srivastava

[Lt Colonel Vikas Gurjar 🇮🇳 @Ltcolonelvikas]

🔥 Wounded but Unbowed: The Triumph of Lt. Col. Amardeep Singh 🇮🇳

To every soldier and military family... this is what true resilience looks like.

Some journeys aren't measured in miles, but in pure courage.

In 2017, then-Major Amardeep Singh survived life-threatening injuries during a counter-terrorism operation in Kashmir. After a prolonged coma and a grueling battle through rehabilitation, he refused to let his wounds dictate his destiny.

A soldier’s duty doesn't surrender to adversity. Retained in service, his unbreakable spirit culminated in a deeply emotional milestone: his promotion to Lieutenant Colonel. In a beautiful moment of family pride, his new rank was pinned by his wife, an officer of the Corps of Signals, and his veteran father, Col. Dehal (Retd.).

His story proves that true strength isn't just standing tall on the battlefield, it's finding the will to rise every time life tries to bring you down. The Olive Green is worn with equal honor by those who conquer pain and uncertainty to keep their promise to the motherland.

Jai Hind. 🇮🇳

[Arshia Malik @arshiaunis]

As an Indian woman from Muslim heritage, I write this rebuttal with the clarity and directness that comes from living the reality @Ilhan only tweets about from afar. Ilhan Omar’s claim that India has reached the “eighth stage of genocide” against Muslims is not analysis. It is reckless, fact-free propaganda that insults every one of us who actually live here, work here, raise families here, and exercise our rights every single day.

If there were even the beginning of genocide, our population would not have exploded. In 1951, Muslims were about 9.8% of India. By 2011, we were 14.2%. Today we are estimated around 14.5–15%, heading toward 18% by 2050 according to Pew projections. From roughly 35 million in 1951 to over 200 million now. Absolute numbers have multiplied nearly six-fold while the country’s overall population grew far slower in percentage terms. Genocide does not produce the world’s largest Muslim-minority population that keeps growing faster than the national average for decades. It produces mass graves and fleeing refugees. We have neither.

We vote in every election in the world’s largest democracy. We contest seats, win them, become MPs, ministers, judges, IAS officers, doctors, engineers, and business leaders. Three Presidents of India have been Muslim. We serve in the armed forces and police. We own businesses, run hospitals, produce films, and dominate segments of entertainment and sports. This is not the signature of a community facing extermination.

We are thriving and prospering — with real data and real lives. Yes, like every large community, we have internal challenges — lower average literacy and educational enrollment in some metrics, pockets of poverty, and the need for better skilling. But the narrative of uniform victimhood is a lie told by people who have never walked through a Muslim-dominated area in Mumbai, Hyderabad, Lucknow, or Kerala and seen the middle class, the professionals, the entrepreneurs, and the young women studying medicine and engineering.

Prominent Indian Muslims — from business (Wipro’s Azim Premji built one of India’s largest companies), to cinema (generations of stars and directors), to sports, academia, and medicine — show what is possible when talent meets opportunity in a free society. Millions of ordinary Muslim families have moved from villages to cities, from informal work to formal jobs, from one generation of limited schooling to the next pursuing professional degrees. That is prosperity in motion, not persecution.

We enjoy specific rights and accommodations that Hindus as a group do not. This is the part Omar and her echo chamber never mention. Indian Muslims operate under a parallel personal law system for marriage, divorce, inheritance, and maintenance rooted in Sharia. Hindus do not.
After independence, Hindu personal law was comprehensively reformed and codified into a uniform framework (Hindu Marriage Act, Hindu Succession Act, etc.). Muslims retained the right to follow their own religious laws — including provisions for polygamy (up to four wives) and differential inheritance rules that the Hindu majority surrendered decades ago.

We also have constitutional minority protections under Articles 29 and 30 that allow us to establish and administer our own educational institutions with significant autonomy — rights the Hindu majority does not claim as a group because it is not classified as a minority. The Waqf Act gives Muslim institutions unique control over vast religious and charitable properties in a manner unparalleled for any other community.
In short: the Indian state has gone out of its way, through personal laws and minority safeguards, to preserve and accommodate Muslim religious and cultural identity in ways it has not extended equivalently to the Hindu majority. These are not “equal rights” in every narrow sense — they are deliberate accommodations that give us more space to live according to our traditions than the majority community receives under the same Constitution.

As a woman from Muslim heritage in India, I have the full protection of the Indian Constitution plus the framework of personal law. The criminalization of instant triple talaq in 2019 removed a specific vulnerability that existed under uncodified practice. I can study, work, vote, travel, criticize the government, wear what I choose (or not), and practice my faith openly — all while living in a country where my community’s population share has steadily risen for 75 years.

@Ilhan Omar’s “eighth stage of genocide” rhetoric is not solidarity. It is the lazy export of American culture-war talking points onto a country and a people she does not understand. It erases the agency of 200+ million Indian Muslims who are neither cowering nor waiting for rescue from Washington. It cheapens the word “genocide” while real atrocities happen elsewhere.
Stop peddling foreign fantasies about our lives. We are here. We are visible. We are voting. We are building. And we reject your narrative with the facts of our own existence. That is the view from inside — not from a podium in the United States.

[Smita Barooah @smitabarooah]

The quiet grief of adult friendship: One of the most beautiful articles I've read in a while. Hits hard
https://t.co/qXi6UBaTs3

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Farewell Maroof Raza. A great journo, deep thinker and all around top guy that I was proud to call my friend. Inna lillahi wa inna ilayhi raji'un

[Byomkesh @byomkesbakshy]

Asim Munir in White House 🏛️😹

[Southern Command INDIAN ARMY @IaSouthern]

Lt Gen Prit Pal Singh, AVSM, GOC, #SudarshanChakraCorps, reviewed the operational preparedness and combat readiness of #AgnibaazDivision. During the visit, the General Officer witnessed tech-driven innovations & applauded the formation’s push towards a modern, agile & adaptive force aligned with #IndianArmy’s transformation vision.

#OnPathToTransformation
#SudarshanChakraCorps
#SouthernCommand
#DecadeOfTransformation
#ViksitBharat
@adgpi
@SpokespersonMoD
@PRODefPune

[Raj Shukla @Gen_RajShukla]

Do watch - the great outcomes of Op SINDOOR and the laudatory role of the CDS in the most crushing military defeat of Pakistan, since 1971

[Alpha Defense™🇮🇳 @alpha_defense]

#FundKaveriEngine is trending now.
In my feed it is No. 1

[Lotus 🪷🇮🇳 @LotusBharat]

Reality of the hardships people on ground face in Terroristan ,but their generals are smoking gazwa fazwa instead of giving 2 square meals to their people ! What a pathetic society !

[Southern Command INDIAN ARMY @IaSouthern]

“आकाशे शत्रुन् जहि”

Operational flight trials of the #MRSAM - Army were successfully conducted from Dr APJ Abdul Kalam Island. The #IndianArmy, in collaboration with the Defence Research and Development Organisation (#DRDO), achieved all mission parameters at the Integrated Test Range (ITR), #Chandipur.

The trial was witnessed by Lt Gen Prit Pal Singh, GOC, #SudarshanChakraCorps, along with officers from the #ArmyAirDefence College and officials from DRDO and the defence industry.
The test reaffirmed the weapon system’s capability to intercept targets at critical ranges.

#AtmanirbharBharat #MakeInIndia #Aerospace #AirDefence #MissionReady @adgpi @HQ_IDS_India @SpokespersonMoD @DRDO_India

[Southern Command INDIAN ARMY @IaSouthern]

The Sudarshan Chakra Eagles launched a comprehensive Cyber Security Awareness Campaign at Bhopal Military Station, featuring interactive workshops, dynamic seminars and engaging audio-visual presentations. The campaign focused on the importance of cybersecurity and responsible social media use. Informative posters and leaflets were distributed to enhance the digital literacy of troops.

#SudarshanChakraCorps #CyberSecurity #SatarkNagrik #StaySafeOnline #DigitalDefense #NCSAM2024 @adgpi @HQ_IDS_India

[EasternCommand_IA @easterncomd]

#IndianArmy
#EasternCommand
#indianarmedforces
#HistoryMatters

𝟲𝟮𝗻𝗱 𝗪𝗮𝗹𝗼𝗻𝗴 𝗗𝗮𝘆, 𝗔𝗿𝘂𝗻𝗮𝗰𝗵𝗮𝗹𝗣𝗿𝗮𝗱𝗲𝘀𝗵

#IndianArmy is commemorating the valour and supreme sacrifice of the soldiers in the #BattleofWalong during the #1962War by organising numerous events in #ArunachalPradesh.
The gamut of events being conducted by #SpearCorps under the aegis of #EasternCommand will include #BattlefieldTreks, #CyclingExpedition, #WhiteWaterRaftingExpedition, #MedicalandVeterinaryCamps, #MotorcycleExpedition and #HalfMarathon.
The events will commence with an opening ceremony flagging off the #BattlefieldTreks and culminate with a solemn closing ceremony wherein the renovated #WarMemorial at #Walong will be dedicated to the nation.

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[Southern Command INDIAN ARMY @IaSouthern]

Maj Gen APS Chahal, SM, GOC #AgnibaazDivision, visited the Ghatak Strikers, Nasirabad to assess the operational preparedness and combat readiness of the Formation.During his visit, he witnessed inventive innovations and immaculate drills of Intelligence, Surveillance & Reconnaissance (ISR) and long-range weapon systems. He also interacted with all ranks, commending them for their exceptional performance and unwavering professionalism.

#SouthernCommand
#SudarshanChakraCorps
@adgpi
@PRODefPune
@SpokespersonMoD

[PRO, Defence, Guwahati @prodefgau]

764 ASC BN (AIR MAINT) under the aegis of HQ 41 Sub Area conducted "Ride with Pride and Freedom Bike Rally" at Mohanbari, #Assam on the occasion of 78th Independence Day. The event was well participated by the Rhino Warriors and NCC Cadets of NCC Gp HQ Dibrugarh.
@easterncomd

[Pranay Srivastava @pranay688]

@HPhobiaWatch @ReallySwara .31
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[Gaurav Pradhan 🇮🇳 @OfficeOfDGP]

So How do you Fight Information Warfare, When all the Weapons are Owned by the Enemy?

STEP BACK

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

David Mulford (Former US ambassador to India) - Back in Manmohan Singh's time Pakistan sponsored terror attacks were normal throughout India causing much chaos and casualties, and then Modi came and did the right thing .....Punched the bully right in the face (Surgical Strike).

[@firefurycorps_IA @firefurycorps]

#ParashuWarriors organised a medical camp at #VibrantVillage #Phobrang for the community members. The event was focused especially on the elders and witnessed an overwhelming response. Critical care medical equipment were also handed over to Sub-Health & Wellness Centre, Phobrang.

#OpSadbhavana
#WeCare
#IndianArmyPeoplesArmy

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