Today, the multi-billion dollar fintech startups of India brag about "Buy Now, Pay Later" as if they invented fire. But 7 decades ago, a penniless orphan who spent his nights sleeping on empty gunny bags used a revolutionary currency to build India's retail empire: raw trust.
In the 1940s, a 12 yr old boy named Veraputhra Gnanadraviam Rajadas Panneerdas (often known as V.G. Panneerdas) fled his drought-stricken village in Tirunelveli, Tamil Nadu, with nothing but ₹25 in his pocket. He arrived in Madras starving, homeless & desperate. He took the 1st job he could find, cleaning dishes & sweeping floors at a local ration shop in Saidapet. He worked like a machine by day & slept on jute bags on the floor by night.
By 1954, through sheer grit & skipping meals, he saved enough to set up a tiny tea stall, alongside vending newspapers door to door with his brother. A yr later, he opened a tiny, cramped shop selling alarm clocks, wall clocks & wristwatches.
But Paneerdas quickly hit a massive wall.
In 1950s India, luxury items like a simple watch/a bicycle/a radio were strictly for the elite. The working class Indian: the handcart pullers, the tea sellers, the low-wage clerks could only stare at the shop windows with longing. They could never afford to buy them upfront.
Paneerdas did not see customers w/o money; he saw humans with dignity. He made a move that his competitors called commercial suicide.
He walked out to a roadside cart puller, handed him a shiny new wristwatch & said: "Take it home today. Pay me just 1 rupee every week."
The concept was "Hire Purchase"... the grandfather of the modern Equated Monthly Installment (EMI). There were no credit scores, no digital bank verification & no collaterals. There was only a signature/a thumbprint in a small ledger notebook. People told Paneerdas he would be robbed blind & end up back on the streets.
Instead, a miracle happened. The poor of Madras proved to be the most honest paymasters in history. Defying all traditional banking logic, the default rate was virtually zero. The working class valued their honor & their newly acquired lifestyle too much to break Paneerdas’s trust.
Word spread like wildfire. The lines outside his shop grew so long they blocked the streets. Paneerdas rapidly expanded from clocks to bicycles, then to sewing machines & eventually to heavy home appliances, building a massive 3 story mega showroom under the legendary banner: VGP.
He single-handedly democratized the Indian dream. Decades before banks began giving loans to the middle class, VGP made it possible for an ordinary clerk to bring home a refrigerator/an electric fan. Later, he took the exact same philosophy into real estate, buying up vast tracts of land & offering affordable housing plots to the common man under his signature tagline: "Take possession now, pay later."
He started his life with absolutely nothing to his name, but before he left the world, V. G. Paneerdas had given millions of ordinary, struggling Indians the wealth of dignity & the power to own their own future, 1 rupee at a time.
This beast must not be spared..🔥
Repost until arrest, Hindus.... 🚨
In Kurukshetra, Haryana, dargah mullah Gaffar Ali broke the temple priest’s legs, put a noose around his neck, and dragged him like an animal… just because the temple was stopping crowds from visiting his dargah..😡
Hindus wake up...
This monster deserves the gallows...
The Samajwadi Party opened fire on kar sevaks at Ayodhya.
Yogi Adityanath does not need to answer to the Samajwadi Party on Ayodhya. The Samajwadi Party needs to answer to Ayodhya. That debt has not been paid. It will not be forgotten.
#AyodhyaSIT
HINDU TIGRESS FROM BANGLADESHsi:
“I am a Sanatani. Don’t you collect taxes from me? Don’t I have rights?
“When you offer namaz on the road despite having mosques, do we object?
“Why do we have to explain why we establish Shri Ram in our homes?
“We have humanity. You have none.
“Bangladesh is ours too. If you exceed your limits, we will go global and build resistance.
“If you start riots, you will hit us twice, but we will hit back at least once. Remember this.
Maulana At Islamic Summit in India:
"Thousands of Jats have declared themselves non-Hindu, Sikhs, Buddhists, tribals, Dalits, Lingayats, and the people of Tamil Nadu are also not Hindu; we have made Hindus a minority in this country too."
I don’t care about the rest. But Saayoni Ghosh, TMC MP, posted a meme showing a condom being put on a shivling. It shook me to my innermost being. I had filed a police complaint against her at Rabindra Sarobar PS, Kolkata - predictably with no results. Then she sung a song as part of TMC’s election campaign, which said she had the Kaaba in her eyes, Madina in her heart.
For Lord Shiva’s sake, do not have anything to do with her. @narendramodi@AmitShah@BJP4India
🚨 Hundreds of local Hindus in Barguna, Bangladesh, are protesting and demanding justice after a Hindu mother and her two daughters were reportedly raped and murdered.
#SaveBangladeshiHindus#AllEyesOnBangladeshiHindus
Listen to these heart-piercing, soul-shattering wails of the wife of Megh Shyam Gautam. 💔💔💔
A practicing Hindu Brahmin Sub-Inspector who was slowly, systematically driven to hang himself because his senior Inspector Mohammad Shahid Ali couldn’t tolerate a Hindu wearing his tilak & living his dharma.
These are not ordinary cries. These are the same broken, helpless wails that echoed through our villages when our mothers & sisters watched their husbands and sons being slotted for refusing to abandon their faith and become Muslim
Today, in BJP ruled Uttar Pradesh, in this so called New India, those same wails have returned.
We are being made to bleed via 1000 cuts in our land .
🚨 Sylhet BNP leader Fahim, one of the richest men in the region, was asked by a Hindu public representative for a small donation to help build a temple.
His blunt reply: “As a Muslim, I cannot help build a temple.”
Yet it was Hindu votes that helped elect BNP leaders in Sylhet.
This is the gratitude minorities receive.
Let’s all unite together in condemning the detention of ISKON Bangladesh Priest ‘ Chinmoy Krishna Das’ by Bangladesh police. We urge and plead Bangladesh Govt under Sri Mohammed Yunus to stop atrocities on Hindus.
Indian army blood has been spilled , our resources had been spent , our Army Jawans lives had lost for Bangladesh formation.
We are deeply disturbed the way our Hindu brothers and sisters are being targeted.
We plead @UN@UNinIndia to intervene.
Tired, but not giving up! Pls download and share before there is a gag order on me.
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It was one of those mornings where the forest feels alive… but not in a comforting way. March 2009, Kupwara.
At the front of that team was Major Mohit Sharma.
The kind of officer soldiers don’t just follow because of rank… but because they trust him with their lives.
What most people don’t know is that this wasn’t the first time Major Mohit Sharma had faced danger. In fact, some of his toughest battles were fought without a uniform.
For months, Major Mohit Sharma lived a completely different life — as Iftikhar Bhatt. No rank. No identity. Just a man trying to blend into a world full of enemies. He spoke like them, lived among them, earned their trust. Imagine that for a second — sitting, eating, talking with people who would kill you instantly if they knew who you really were.
One small mistake… and there would be no coming back.
But Major Mohit Sharma stayed. Calm. Patient. Sharp.
And slowly, piece by piece, he started breaking their network from within. The kind of work that doesn’t make headlines — but saves lives quietly.
Then came that day in Kupwara.
The team had intel — terrorists hiding deep in the forest. It sounded like just another operation. But operations like these are never “just another.”
The moment they moved in, gunfire broke out.
Loud. Sudden. Relentless.
Most people would take cover first.
Major Mohit Sharma moved forward.
He spotted one of the terrorists and took him down. But the firing didn’t stop. More were hidden, shooting from positions the team couldn’t immediately see. In the chaos, two of his men went down — injured and exposed.
That’s the moment that defines a soldier.
Without thinking twice, Major Mohit Sharma moved toward them. Crawling under heavy fire, bullets hitting around him, he reached his men and started pulling them back to safety.
He was hit.
But he didn’t stop.
That’s the part that’s hard to explain — how someone continues after that. But Major Mohit Sharma did. He got up, pushed forward again, and engaged the terrorists at close range.
One by one, he neutralized them.
By then, the outcome of the operation had changed — because one man refused to step back.
But the injuries were too severe.
Major Mohit Sharma didn’t make it back.
For what he did that day — and for everything he had done before — he was awarded the Ashok Chakra.
But honestly… medals feel too small when you think about a life like that.
A man who could disappear into the enemy’s world as Iftikhar Bhatt… and then stand tall in uniform leading from the front.
Some soldiers fight battles.
Some change them.
Major Mohit Sharma was the kind who did both — quietly, fearlessly, and without ever asking for recognition.
And maybe that’s what makes his story stay with you.
Not just the bravery.
But the way he chose to live it.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳🇮🇳🇮🇳 Jao Bharat 🇮🇳🇮🇳🙏🙏🙏
Hello @dpradhanbjp ji,
Please bring some regulation to school textbook pricing as well.
What exactly is being taught that a single book costs ₹1000?
This is not education anymore, it’s becoming a financial burden on families.
DHURANDHAR 2 crosses ₹950 crores in just 6 days. Thanks to ‘panautis’ like Dhruv Tatti, whose every criticism is a blessing for Hindu unity and uprising. DHURANDHAR 2 is going to cross the ₹2000 crore mark very soon. What a slap to these Hindu liberals.
Something to ponder upon…..
1.Mangal Pandey sparked the first rebellion.
2.Netaji Subhas Chandra Bose formed the Indian National Army.
3.Vinayak Savarkar sent to Kala Pani (Cellular Jail).
4.Lala Lajpat Rai beaten with sticks.
5.Bhagat Singh hanged.
6.Rash Behari Bose forced into exile.
7.Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting, not negotiating.
8.Ram Prasad Bismil hanged.
9.Khudiram Bose executed at 18.
10.Udham Singh hanged after avenging Jallianwala Bagh.
11.Alluri Sitarama Raju hunted and executed.
12.Rani Lakshmibai died leading her troops in battle.
13.Matangini Hazra shot while leading a protest.
14.Pritilata Waddedar died after attacking a British club.
15.Kalpana Dutta jailed for armed resistance.
16.Usha Mehta ran underground radio, imprisoned by the British.
17.Veerapandiya Kattabomman
fought and executed by the British.
18.Tatya Tope died fighting in 1857 rebellion.
19.Subramanya Bharathi jailed for revolutionary writing.
20.Vanchinathan assassinated British official in vengeance.
21.Birsa Munda led rebellion, died in custody.
24.Thousands of unnamed revolutionaries rotted in jails without trial.
25.Millions of Hindus faced bullets, lathis, famines, and humiliation.
People praise Lehdu and Gandhu on what achievements of their???
Partition and genocide of Hindu’s is the only contribution of these two TRAITORS..
Love how Durga stuti has riled up the vermin.
Just two drops of their own medicine, and they start screaming in pain. Namaz from loudspeakers five times a day does not offend them.
Good of @Kompella_MLatha-ji to reclaim prayer spaces. Others must follow.
The real story in the Supreme Court verdict, which no journalist sold out to foreign-funded conversion mafia will touch, is this:
Article 341 is absolutely clear that Scheduled Caste status is meant only for practicing Hindus, Sikhs and Buddhists. Yet converts to Islam and Christianity have been blatantly misusing it for years
They have grabbed SC-reserved panchayat seats across India
Many have even become MPs on SC quota
Once they get elected, they end up diverting the benefits meant for real SCs to converts, effectively acting as agents of conversion ecosystem
By the time some actual SC person manages to drag this open fraud to court, their term is over
Our @RashtraJyoti cell head Bhupendra Jatav has managed to get fake caste certificates cancelled in multiple cases through DMs, courts etc. But even then, either police won’t file FIR or concerned officer won’t kick out the frauds from their position
We are currently fighting 50 such cases legally. Three of those are listed in this report
https://t.co/HJ2AmZHYir