Varun Suresh

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Why is the West not curious on the great Indian 🇮🇳 civilization?

This week Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Norway. The government rolled out the red carpet. King Harald invited for lunch. All bigwigs of Norwegian business turned up. This is of course as it should be at such a historic visit.

Rather different was media. No curiosity, no real attempt to understand India. When the third most powerful man in the world visits Norway, you may expect some real interest? An attempt to understand the world’s third largest economy, a global green leader, one of the world’s brightest civilizations??

It’s not that Norway is overrun with visit at this level. Last Indian top visit was Indira Gandhi in 1983. Last Chinese president visit was 1996, last American president was 2009.

Here are some taste bits from Norwegian media:

* Aftenposten the largest newspaper printed a caricature of Modi as a snake charmer, many found it racist and derogatory. The accompanying article (written by an otherwise brilliant journalist) described Modi as a “slightly annoying man” and simply showcased that India is not high on the papers reading lists.

* Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the state broadcaster, explained “why prime minister Støre is clearing his desk to receive Modi”. From everyone outside Norway I got exactly the opposite question: Why did Modi use his valuable time in such a small and insignificant place?

* Dagsavisen, a left of center daily, sent a young journalist to throw questions after Modi - claiming that India is 157 on a global democracy ranking. When a ranking is so contrary to common sense - why doesnt she ask those who created the ranking why they spread such nonsense?

I am not aware of one Norwegian journalist closely following India. NOT ONE! How can the public learn more?

Unless you believe democracy only fits a handful of small, homogenous, ultra rich western nations, India is the miracle of democracy. The large, complex, lingustically and religiously diverse nation with many poor people - which has etablished a vibrant democracy and is much less violent than Europe or America.

India can in fact make a claim to be the worlds most homegrown and impressive democracy.

We are entering the Asian century. Unless we Europeans become more curious - to civiliazation, history, politics and economy in the Global South - we will become the big losers of history.

[Office Of Vijay Patel @VijayGajeraO]

This is an extremely important thread for the Indian Gen Z.
1 Why is the Cockroach Janta Party a threat to national security?

Why are they operating from the USA?

Who is behind Abhijit Dipke and his party?

Keep reading this thread for the complete answer.

[Aravind @aravind]

The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

It’s based on the pie fallacy, the naive view that there's a fixed amount of wealth, and thus more for someone else means less for you. In reality, wealth is created. When you fix up a car, you increase its value without making anyone else poorer. Wealth creation throughout history is why the average person today has more luxuries than a medieval king. And those who are best at creating wealth tend to become billionaires.

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

“The highest reward for a man's toil is not what he gets for it but what he becomes by it.”

—John Ruskin

[Krish Ashok @krishashok]

8 phrases on food/nutrition social media content that should immediately make you swipe away. 8 phrases you should ignore
https://t.co/ZpJNC0Swbo (what are your personal favourite scaremongering terms?)

[Yo Yo Funny Singh @moronhumor]

A foreigner gets it more than many Indians would. You’ll see them replying to this tweet. 😏😏

[Himanshu Jain @HemanNamo]

https://t.co/R8JRI8lv5k

[Athenaeum Book Club @athenaeumbc]

Did you know C.S. Lewis predicted the modern obsession with “being nice” would destroy the soul?

In The Abolition of Man, Lewis argues that when a society stops believing in objective virtue, it doesn’t become tolerant… it becomes manipulable.

He calls the result “men without chests.”

People with appetites and intellects, but no courage, no honor, no trained moral instincts. They can calculate everything and defend nothing.

Lewis saw that once we reject inherited moral law, we don’t become free. We become raw material… easily shaped by propaganda, pleasure, and fear.

Modern man prides himself on compassion while quietly surrendering every standard that once gave compassion meaning.

Lewis’s insight is brutal: a civilization that educates clever cowards will eventually be ruled by tyrants or technicians.

Because when nothing is worth dying for, everything becomes negotiable… including human dignity.

[CA Vivek Khatri @CaVivekkhatri]

🚨Last night, India switched on a reactor.

Here are 9 numbers nobody is talking about:

→ 72 years: Time since Homi Bhabha conceived this plan
→ 22 years: Time to actually build it
→ ₹7,700 crore: Final cost (started at ₹3,492 crore)
→ 500 MW: Power it will generate
→ 2nd: India's global rank only Russia had this before
→ 25%: India's share of world's thorium reserves
→ 400 years: How long those reserves can power India
→ 200+: Indian companies that built it. Zero foreign designs.
→ 3: Countries that tried and quit - USA, Germany, UK

🧵 A thread that will blow your mind:

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

Whether you agree or not, the 2016 Demonetization was the exact moment when Pakistan fell off the comparison chart with India.

It never recovered in terms of per capita income.

Historic!

[NASA @NASA]

“You can see the surface of the Moon…we just went sci-fi.”

On flight day seven, images from our @NASAArtemis II crew amazed, turning science fiction to reality. From the lunar far side to a solar eclipse from the Moon, the views are EVERYTHING. No pressure to pick a favorite.

[Jeremy @ManaByte]

This is one of the greatest photos ever taken by a human…so far.

[bhatnaturally  🇮🇳 @bhatnaturally]

Brilliant read on @SwarajyaMag:

'A country that flinches from telling itself heroic stories does not thereby become more honest. It becomes more vulnerable—to the mythologies of others, to the paralysis of perpetual self-doubt, to the corrosive belief that agency is something that happens to other nations'

'Myths, as every civilisation since the Greeks has understood, are the stories a people tell themselves about who they are and who they wish to become. A nation that does not mythologise its own stories cedes that space to others. And every civilisation that has ever projected influence—hard or soft—has understood that the easiest way to shape a national psyche is through a story people choose to watch on a Saturday night.' https://t.co/ueEe9NES4X

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

https://t.co/ZtrRsRNuK9

[Trendulkar @Trendulkar]

Nowadays every time someone says “Ladies and Gentlemen” my brain automatically completes it “You’re not ready for this…”

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

The goal of International Women's Day should be to remove the need for an International Women's Day.

[George Mack @george__mack]

https://t.co/Mc3K7ZhLJ9

[Gurwinder @G_S_Bhogal]

A thread of useful concepts to equip you for 2026:

[Cinema Pithan @Cinemapithan_]

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