Renay Singh

“The only lies for which we are truly punished are those we tell ourselves.”
― V.S. Naipaul, In a Free State

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@ferialhaffajee I think thousands of black people across many industries can relate.

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@TheStalwart @tracyalloway This is across all industries, even the tech sector.
https://t.co/eHX7CWEjDL

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@IshitaJoshi

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@AkkshyeTulsyan @nickcollins1953 @TVMohandasPai This negates the damage done by the ethnic cleansing of Hindus during the Mughal Conquest—destruction of temples, universities, enslavement of woman, genocide of the most productive members of Indian society—recovery has only began after a thousand years.
https://t.co/H3xtGOJIMp

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Subhash Kak's article on Bhirrana is essential reading. I would like to add one dimension which, from my maritime perspective, is important.

Bhirrana isn't just the world's oldest city that we know of, but the origin of commercial civilisation (as we know so far).

The standardised weights and measures found at Bhirrana, with identical ratios replicated across the entire Indus-Sarasvati world, predate similar systems everywhere else on Earth. When Dilmun (modern Bahrain) became the great entrepôt of the ancient world, it used Indus-Sarasvati weights and measures. But there is almost certainly more. The ruins found in 2012 in the Gulf of Cambay, widely believed to be Dwarka, likely predate even Bhirrana.

Archaeologists have found Indus-Sarasvati seals throughout Sumer. But no Sumerian seals in Indus-Sarasvati lands. Trade flowed outward from India. India originated the ancient world's commercial network.

Bhirrana's firing kilns reached 900–1000°C with controlled temperature adjustment. Its water filtration used sand, gravel, and charcoal. Its city grid had planned drainage. It predates Mesopotamia by millennia.

Those full-arm bangles from 7,500 years ago that women in Rajasthan and Gujarat wear today mean the tradition never broke. No invaders broke it. Continuity is the most significant trait of Indian history.

The AMT theory asks us to believe that a tiny group of steppe nomads from a region with roughly 7% of India's population swept through the most densely populated landmass in the ancient world and erased its language, culture, and memory. There is no historical parallel for this anywhere, ever.

I have acknowledged Subhash Kak in the Epilogue of my just published The Ascent of Maritime Trade, which updates fast changing archaeological and linguistic evidence since my first book.

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@Incognito_qfs Macaulay 2.0
The "Macaulay Minute": He is highly historically recognized for his 1835 policy document on Indian education. It championed the implementation of Western-style education and the English language in India.

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Yes, this is an Arab man threatening to rape and enslave Iranian women.

1400 years and these demons have not changed at all.

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@naval

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@TheEconomist Routine Hinduphobic reporting, "communal" when Hindus unite, but not other religions?

https://t.co/pFHcMpnNbO

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

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@Mediaramaback @TheEconomist https://t.co/pFHcMpnNbO

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

[Epic Maps 🗺️ @theepicmap]

Languages spoken in China

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@DivaJain2 The Economist's "useful idiot" to continue their breaking India project.
They hate Indian nationalists.
This leadership team believes it knows India, who endorsed Rahul Gandhi in 2014.

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@YearOfTheKraken @BanikGurudas

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@gideonrachman @annbernsteinSA @FT South Asia

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@keshav61 Endocannabinoids are self-produced cannabis that work on the CB-1 and CB-2 receptors of the cannabinoid system. Anandamide (from the Sanskrit “Ananda” meaning Bliss) is the most well-known endocannabinoid.
https://t.co/LeWdUrCkB9

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@EYakoby https://t.co/Zde9FmmG1F

[Aravind @aravind]

A public broadcaster of Britain is run by Pakistan.

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Hillary Clinton in 2008: "I want the Iranians to know that if I am president, we will attack Iran."

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@palesa_morudu

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@quxiaoyin @matloff Informative and well-written.

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@DivaJain2 India needs its own Lee Kuan Yew. Modi is not it.
https://t.co/d7bWHR4RXw