Ritesh Singh

Director @rtianonymous

[Dr Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

This Remembrance Day I’m back in Digboi, wonderfully maintained by the @CWGC.

With all the silliness on social media at the moment by the ill-informed about the extraordinary contribution of India to the war effort, it was poignant to think on the sacrifices of millions of Indians, many who made the ultimate sacrifice in a war to keep the world free of tyranny, as well as to prepare the way for their own freedom.

We had a few moments of reflection, considering all those who gave of themselves, for us.

“Take these men for your example. Like them, remember that prosperity and true happiness can only be for the free, and that freedom is the possession of those alone who have the courage to defend it.”

[British Future @britishfuture]

More than 2.5 million soldiers from what is now India, Pakistan, Bangladesh, Nepal and Sri Lanka fought for Britain in WW2 – the largest volunteer army in history.
Yet only half the UK public (52%) are aware of their service.
It's important we remember and honour all who served.

[Dr Robert Lyman 🇺🇦 @robert_lyman]

Hey Jack, military historian here. India raised the largest all volunteer army in human history for the Second World, over 2.5m by 1945, defeating the Japanese in two of their greatest defeats. 78% of Allied armies in the Far East were Indian. Don’t believe me? Try reading a book. https://t.co/OGTQPom2i8

[fka vigs @vigneshr4m]

the british indian army was the largest volunteer military in history with 2.5 million in 1945 and 700,000 of those soldiers serving the allies in the pacific theater. in fact, indian soldiers constituted 70% of allied ground forces in SE asia command during WW2.

happy diwali. 🪔

[JM US @JMUSPatriot]

To the people going CRAZY over the proposed bill to make Diwali a federal holiday:

In India, Christmas has been a gazetted federal holiday since 1947 (when India gained it's independence), even though only about 2% of Indian population is Christian.

Don’t assume the US is the only inclusive country in the world. India did this 79 years ago.

If anything, the US is late to "inclusion and diversity"

[Ritesh Singh @ritesh91]

@BanterBallHQ @thind_akashdeep इसमें क्या अपमान है?

[World of Statistics @stats_feed]

“Arabic” numerals (0–9) actually come from India.

They were refined and spread through Baghdad, then brought to Europe by Fibonacci after his dad’s job took him to North Africa.

[Morayita @morayita123]

“Multigenerational living” will not save you from the nursing home once you’re old enough and sick enough.

The way you end up in a nursing home is having a stroke or huge medical issue when you’re in your late eighties, which was nature’s way of mercifully putting you down, going to a hospital, being nonsensically kept alive through some kind of Frankenstein wizardry because they’re legally obligated to save you, going to a “rehabilitation facility,” where you never fully recover because you’re already at life’s natural end, and being too big for your family members to lift and care for at home.

Now you’re essentially dead but still suffering, and you’ll just drain your savings to be tortured. The family compound cannot and will not save you from this fate. Only the DNR and advance directive can. Accept death. It comes for all of us.

[Ritesh Singh @ritesh91]

@janatakadoctor @deepigoyal Such a matured, balanced, and empathetic comment. You are a true well wisher of @deepigoyal and a genuine, kind person who may be a microbiologist professionally but has a great understanding of human psychology 🙏🏼 🙏🏼

[The Nobel Prize @NobelPrize]

What is the meaning of life?

For Benjamin List, 2021 Nobel Prize laureate in chemistry, the answer became clear after a life-changing moment – when he and his family were separated during a tsunami while on holiday.

That experience reshaped how he sees his work, his purpose, and what truly matters.

#WorldTsunamiAwarenessDay

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

A ZERO that speaks volumes.

@crpfindia

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

Simply incredible!

One advantage of being of my vintage is having witnessed the dramatic transformation of our economy over the decades.

In 2023, I shared my sense of wonder at seeing India’s steel production surge ahead of Japan’s. For me, that alone was an almost unbelievable milestone.

And now, India is producing more steel than the US and Japan COMBINED!

I need a moment to catch my breath…

Somewhere in a parallel universe, my grandfather, J.C. Mahindra, who was appointed India’s first Iron & Steel Controller during the Second World War, must be celebrating.

My gratitude to Tata Steel, SAIL, JSW, & all the other companies and people who have driven this extraordinary transformation of one of our most fundamental industries.

What a journey. And what a foundation for the future!

[Rob Henderson @robkhenderson]

"Once in a relationship, both partners usually benefit...entering a romantic relationship itself is typically accompanied by increases in life satisfaction...higher levels of wellbeing, better mental and physical health, and even higher life expectancy" https://t.co/W3RjB0toKV

[Iran in India @Iran_in_India]

The Embassy of the Islamic Republic of Iran in New Delhi expresses its sincere appreciation to the Government of India, the Indian Navy and the Indian Air Force for their successful operation to rescue the 20 Iranian crew members of the fishing vessel Azini from pirates.

We highly commend the professionalism, courage and effective coordination demonstrated by the Indian Armed Forces, reflecting India's strong commitment to Humanitarian Assistance and Disaster Relief (HADR) and its role in saving lives beyond borders.

This humanitarian operation stands as a testament to the spirit of friendship, solidarity and cooperation between Iran and India.

We extend our sincere gratitude to all those involved in ensuring the safe rescue of the Iranian crew.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Indian Navy’s destroyer INS Kolkata, Air Force led the rescue of 20 Iranian crew from pirates off Somalia coast; Iran embassy expresses appreciation.

Video of the operation that involved Navy's Marine Commandos (MARCOS) who were inserted by IAF C-17

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Four thousand years ago, Indian merchants were living in Mesopotamia in large enough numbers to have a village of their own and a professional interpreter to deal with them.

Texts from Lagash written towards the end of the third millennium BC, record a village of Meluhha inside Sumerian territory. Meluhha is the Sumerian name for Indus-Sarasvati lands. The Louvre holds the cylinder seal of a man called Shu-ilishu, whose inscription describes him as an interpreter of the Meluhhan language. Around 2300 BC, Sargon of Akkad boasted that ships from Meluhha, Magan and Dilmun were moored at the quay of his capital, Agade.

Indus seals have been found at Ur, Kish and Nippur, while hardly any Mesopotamian seals or objects have been found in the subcontinent, suggesting the pro-active merchants were Indian. The monsoon blows one way across the Arabian Sea for half the year and back for the other half, so a merchant who sailed west could spend months in a foreign port waiting for the wind to turn. This goes a long way to explaining both the village and the interpreter.

The Sumerians knew perfectly well whose ships were tied up at their quays, and they wrote the name down.

Episode 3 of my graphic novel, Maritime World: The True Cradle, is called The River That Fed the World and follows one of those merchants from Lothal to a Sumerian market and home again. Link in the reply.

[Bloomberg @business]

India saw about 496 million people lifted out of poverty between 2011 and 2023 in one of the world’s fastest declines in this metric, the World Bank said, although the gains remain uneven. https://t.co/4RD7JC4lG2

[The Rocket Media @TheRocketMediaX]

An Indian physicist helped discover the hidden laws governing how millions of living organisms move together. His work has now earned him a place among the world's most distinguished scientists!

Have you ever wondered how thousands of birds fly together without colliding? Or how millions of bacteria coordinate their movements despite having no leader?

These seemingly ordinary phenomena conceal some extraordinary physics.

And Prof. Sriram Ramaswamy, a physicist at the Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bengaluru, helped establish an entirely new way of understanding them.

The field is called Active Matter Physics.

Unlike ordinary materials, whose particles move in response to external forces or thermal fluctuations, active matter consists of entities that continuously consume energy to propel themselves.

Think swimming bacteria, moving cells or schools of fish.

But here's where things get fascinating.

Ramaswamy and his collaborators developed mathematical theories showing how interactions between self-propelled particles and their surrounding fluids can produce unexpected collective behaviour.

One remarkable prediction was that a sufficiently large, uniformly aligned group of swimming bacteria in a fluid would become unstable!

His research also predicted that swimming microorganisms could dramatically alter a fluid's viscosity, and that groups of active particles could exhibit unusually large fluctuations in their numbers.

Several of these predictions were subsequently supported by experiments.

His pioneering contributions earned him the Shanti Swarup Bhatnagar Prize in 2000 and the Infosys Prize in Physical Sciences in 2011.

In 2016, he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.

And in 2025, he was elected an International Member of the US National Academy of Sciences, one of the world's most prestigious scientific institutions.

Today, he is an Honorary Professor at IISc.

From the movements of microscopic bacteria to the extraordinary patterns of living systems, Sriram Ramaswamy has helped reveal that even life's apparent chaos follows remarkable physical laws.

[MyGovIndia @mygovindia]

A Declining Gini Index: Why It Matters for India.

India's Gini Index score of 23, based on recent World Bank data, shows a remarkably equal distribution of income, ranking ahead of major economies like the USA, UK, China, France, and Italy in terms of income equality because a lower score means wealth is shared more evenly across the population.

#GiniIndexInsight
#WealthDistribution

[Nirmala Sitharaman @nsitharaman]

The World Bank’s October 2026 Poverty & Equity Brief records India’s progress as one of the fastest poverty declines in the world.
The report highlights several significant gains:

✅ 49.6 crore people moved above the lower-middle-income poverty line of $4.20 a day between 2011 and 2023, with the poverty rate declining from 57.7% to 16.1%.

✅ Extreme poverty declined from 27.1% to 2.6% over the same period, measured at $3 a day. Both monetary poverty thresholds use 2021 purchasing power parity.

✅ Employment increased by 13.4 crore people between 2017 and 2023, nearly twice the increase in the working-age population.

✅ Rural women accounted for much of the employment gain, entering paid work and increasing the number of earners in their households.

✅ Both rural and urban households experienced substantial welfare gains, with faster progress in rural India narrowing the rural–urban gap.

✅ Access to electricity reached 99% of the population, according to the report’s 2022 survey data.

The World Bank identifies strong consumption growth, rising employment - especially among women—and expanded social transfers, including food subsidies, as major drivers.

Under the leadership of Hon’ble PM Shri @narendramodi, the Government’s sustained policy efforts are yielding tangible results, strengthening the foundations for inclusive growth and greater economic opportunity. This is the reason why NDA govt wins people’s trust and mandate of our citizens.

We remain committed to building on this progress through productive employment, stronger household incomes and effective delivery of public services, so that aspirations of our people are met.