Pushpinder Singh

Product & Tech guy. Interested in many things

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@olympic_indian ..and India did come 4th in the following Olympics. Now we are below 100.

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.

And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.

Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”

But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.

India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.

So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.

[copwatchbharat @copwatchbharat]

Latur, Maharashtra Police !

Are we waiting for people to die at the hands of such Police Officers ?

When are we going to say enough is enough ?

The role of the traffic police is to regulate traffic, enforce road safety, and issue penalties (challans) for violations.

They do not have the authority to inflict physical punishment on citizens. Any act of physical violence by an officer is a violation of the law and human rights.

Right to Due Process: If a rider fails to stop, the legal recourse for the police is to note the vehicle's registration number, track the owner, and issue a challan or summon the individual to court.

[News24 @news24tvchannel]

"हमारे नुकसान की भरपाई हो गई है, अब पैसा ना डाले"

◆ दिल्ली के मालवीय नगर अग्निकांड में लाखों रुपए के गद्दे बिछाकर 8 लोगों की जान बचाने वाले रियाजुद्दीन और अरमान मंसूरी ने कहा

#MalviyaNagar | Malviya Nagar

[Madhavan Narayanan @madversity]

Breakaway #TMC faction joining the NDA is morally a bankrupt move. But this doesn't make Mamata Banerjee a victim. It is just her karma payback for practicing haughty authoritarianism at the top and franchise politics at the grassroots.
But the elephant in the room is a washing machine taller than that Sardar Patel statue. We are now officially behaving like a tinpot African state. Vishwaguru has gone to buy snake oil.

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@yeggiiyer @Aunindyo2023 https://t.co/ivr1GJG8Da

[Pubity @pubity]

India's fertility rate has fallen to 1.9, the first time in modern history its gone below replacement rate.

If this trend continues, India's population will gradually decline.

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@davideoks There is a correction in your article. China's GDP is about 5 times higher and not 2.5 times higher.

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@olympic_indian That too after winning the SGP open !

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

BIZARRE BUT TRUE! Top sources to India Today @IndiaToday
IAF to provide logistic support for NEET Retest
IAF to carry Question papers
IAF to carry the packets from 18 places: sources
Forces are prepared for whatever support required.
Can there be a greater lack of faith in existing examination systems?

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@Aunindyo2023 Yes. What if he eats onions and meets foreign leaders? We cant entrust India to him. The current polity is better off.

[SK @Djoko_UTD]

Alexander Zverev is living on needles for the last 25 years...taking Insulin everyday since age 4.

Today at 29, he became a GRAND SLAM CHAMPION. Overcame a life nemisis.

Huge Inspiration to children with diabetes. He runs a foundation for the same 👏

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@Aunindyo2023 Yes. Agreed. My cook is a bengali and she makes chicken/mutton in mustard oil. Ghee lacks the sharpness. However the condition is that the quality of mustard oil should be good.

[Anoop Nautiyal @Anoopnautiyal1]

I condemn the decision to cut 700 trees from Garhi Cantt in Dehradun via Kimadi to facilitate traffic movement to Mussoorie. It’s also vital to discuss that these 700 trees will provide eco services to the tune of more than 50 Crores during the next 10 years. I urge the state govt to commit that they will look for alternate solutions to manage the rush of both tourism and traffic in Dehradun and Mussoorie. Further details in the video!

#Uttarakhand

[Sajid Yousuf Shah @TheSkandar]

Today, I experienced something that left me deeply saddened.

After checking into a hotel in Aurangabad, Maharashtra, I was later (After an hour) asked to leave because of concerns linked to my Kashmiri identity.

The owner was courteous & candid. He acknowledged that the decision was unfair and hurtful, but said he was following instructions. I appreciated his honesty and left without any confrontation.

I am not sharing this to seek sympathy or assign blame. I share it because such moments remind us that while laws can unite a nation, trust and understanding take longer to build.

For decades, countless Kashmiris have worked to strengthen the bonds between Jammu & Kashmir and the rest of India. Most Indians have welcomed us with warmth and respect. Yet incidents like this show that stereotypes and apprehensions persist.

My faith in India and its people remains unshaken. I hope we continue moving toward a future where no citizen is judged by their region, faith, or identity, but by their character and conduct.

That is the India we must strive for.

Cc:- @PMOIndia @narendramodi @HMOIndia @AmitShah @CMOMaharashtra @Dev_Fadnavis @mieknathshinde @nitin_gadkari @maha_governor @DGPMaharashtra @DMAurangabadMH

[nnis Sports @nnis_sports]

🚨 Tejas Shirse wins silver at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026!

India's 110m Hurdles national record holder Tejas Shirse finished 2nd in a thrillingly close final, clocking 13.58s at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026.

Chinese Taipei's 20-year-old Hsieh Yuan-kai stunned the field to claim gold in 13.57s.

🤏 Just 0.01s separated gold and silver in an incredibly tight finish!

📹 - ELTA Sports

#IndianAthletics #Athletics #TejasShirse #110mHurdles @afiindia

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Police have arrested this cook who was preparing food in the kitchen of Hotel Flourish Stays, where the fire reportedly started.

Next, they should arrest the vegetable, grocery, and dairy suppliers. Had they not supplied ingredients that day, there would have been no cooking and no fire.

After that, they should arrest the farmers who grew the vegetables, the factory owners who produced the grocery items, and the cows that gave the milk.

Sabko pakad lena. Kisi ko mat chhodna. Except, of course, the officials whose job it was to inspect such establishments and flag safety violations before a tragedy occurred.

[Pushpinder Singh @pushpinder]

@MrinalPande1 Pilaf is still widely used in Middle east, Europe and Americas. पर कुँए के मेंढक को नहीं पता।

[Mrinal Pande @MrinalPande1]

Word Pulao or Pilaf is from Persian. The dish originated in Persia after the Islamic Agricultural Revolution. First credible recipe for pilaf comes from the 10th C Persian scholar Avicenna (Ibn Sīnā), considered by Iranians to be 'the father of modern pilaf'.

[Brady Holmer @Brady_H]

2 hours of resistance training/week = 13% mortality risk reduction and no further benefit above that.

~7 hours+ of aerobic training per week (same study) = 47% mortality risk reduction.

Not hard to see which form of exercise is more potent. 😁

[nnis Sports @nnis_sports]

🚨 India's Women's 4x100m Relay Team wins Gold, matching the Championship Record!

India's Women's 4x100m Relay team stormed to gold in 44.07s, equalling their own Championship Record (CR) at the New Taipei City Athletics Open 2026.

Srabani provided a solid start, Sneha held her own on the second leg, Sudheshna produced a blistering third leg, and Tamanna capped off the race with a strong finish as India dominated the field.

Interestingly, the Indian team also won gold at the same meet last year in exactly the same time — 44.07s!

The quartet has shown the ability to run much faster, having clocked 43.86s at the Asian Athletics 2025, their best performance over the past two years.

With the Asian Games on the horizon, India will be hoping to produce a few more sub-44-second performances and further strengthen their position among Asia's leading sprint relay teams.

📹 - ELTA Sports

#IndianAthletics #Athletics #Relay #4x100m #NewTaipeiCityAthleticsOpen @afiindia