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Bodh

Bodh simply means “awareness,” ...

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[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

Ukraine was not defeated only by Russian brilliance. It was defeated by a Western decision to treat Ukrainian men as a renewable resource.

Russian killed remain in the 50–75,000 range.

Ukrainian irrecoverable losses run eight to ten times higher, with total dead and permanently disabled already at or past one to two million.

This is not the normal arithmetic of peer war.

The inversion was deliberate.

Western planners assumed Russia would break under casualties and sanctions while Ukraine could absorb unlimited losses so long as the munitions kept arriving.

They inverted the actual realities:

Russia could replace both men and material; Ukraine could replace neither once NATO stocks were exhausted.

Every month of fighting therefore widened the gap rather than closed it.

No previous major war has been structured this way.

One side’s political class treated its ally’s population as expendable while protecting its own from any meaningful cost.

The result was predictable to anyone who counted production and demography instead of press releases.

The Hollywood made up war still denies the ratio but the army that entered the war no longer exists.

This is the simple truth.

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

India now makes some of cheapest solar power in world. Making one megawatt hour of solar electricity costs about $35 in India, versus $44 on global average

When companies sign solar contracts, price stays locked for 25 years. Coal electricity gets more expensive every year because fuel prices rise with inflation. Every year that passes, gap between solar and coal grows wider.

India used to avoid heavy industry because power was too costly that problem no longer exists because of how cheap solar has become

Europe started charging extra money on steel and aluminum imports based on how much carbon was used to make them. Indian steel now costs 20 to 35% more when sold to Europe because of this tax.

But India makes green hydrogen cheaply because solar power is very affordable. Research from Berkeley shows India can produce green steel cheaper than coal steel by 2030. Companies using coal pay full carbon tax. Companies using green energy skip it. India cost disadvantage is turning into cost advantage.

Setting up data centers in India costs 30 to 50% less than in US or Europe. Building one megawatt of data center capacity costs $6 to 7 million in India, compared to $10 to 14 million in Western countries.

Chennai electricity costs less than half of what Singapore charges. India data center capacity is expected to grow from 1.5 gigawatts to 12 gigawatts by 2030. Cheap power is doing what government subsidies could not do for decades, it is pulling big tech investment into India

I would say, if you read the filings of companies over the last year, you will notice that many are entering into renewable energy partnerships, which are helping them reduce their power costs. This is one way Indian industries are getting access to cheaper electricity.

Right now, India is importing batteries from China, and every month we are seeing tons of new BESS orders. Just think about what could happen over the next 5 years when India slowly starts building its own battery manufacturing capacity.

That could change the entire dynamics of the energy sector. As renewable energy and battery storage become more affordable, the cost of electricity could come down further, making Indian industries more competitive in the long run.

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

Varanasi has a 1.07 km long Malviya bridge over the Ganga

It's 139 years old

Has single lanes for cars & two lines for railway. Always causing bottlenecks on both

In April this year PM Modi laid foundation of a new Varanasi Signature Bridge!

6 vehicular lanes highway

4 rail lines

It will relieve pressure on a permanently congested corridor! More modern infrastructure for Varanasi 👏

[do'o kappa @viprabuddhi]

Child marriage is one of the main reasons for Muslim TFR being higher in India

DW went to Tripura and found police under BJP is arresting Kanglus for pimping their underage daughters to rich Arab men under guise of "marriages" 🧕

[Krzysztof Szczawinski 🇵🇱 @Kristof_Poland]

Największy szwindel w historii świata.

Nic dziwnego, że starcza na paru "ekspertów" – małych i dużych.

[Kiran Kumar S @KiranKS]

Did you know?

The mighty Narmada River is approximately 16,00,00,000 years old!!
This is the oldest major river in India.

Narmada would have seen dinosaurs roaming its banks. Remember, Himalayas formed only 6,00,00,000 years ago, so Ganga is much younger than Narmada.

[Trishul Warrior @Trishulwarrior]

Mansi Dixit, a 19-year-old aspiring model from Rajasthan, had been living in Mumbai for a few months. One day, a photographer named Syed Muzammil invited her for a photoshoot. During the shoot, Muzammil attempted to touch Mansi inappropriately. Mansi resisted. For Muzammil, a refusal from a 'Kafir' girl was an insult. Moreover, as a Brahmin, Mansi was a prime target for 'Love Jihad'. Enraged, Muzammil struck Mansi on the head with a stool. He then strangled her and raped her corpse.

He tried to dispose of her body by stuffing it into a suitcase but was caught that very day.

His family claimed in court that he suffered from mental health issues and should be released. On social media, Islamic groups mocked Mansi, cast aspersions on her character, and described Muzammil as a man who had enslaved her—much like the narrative being spun in the TCS case.

At the same time, 'Love Jihad' is dismissed as mere propaganda.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

"Master, you have the golden scalpel technique. Why not open my eyes?"

A famous Chinese poet wrote this line to an Indian Brahmin monk. He was going blind. He knew who could save his sight, and it was not a Chinese doctor.

The poet was Liu Yuxi of the Tang dynasty. The poem is called "Zeng yanyi Poluomen seng", "To the Brahmin monk, an eye doctor".

The golden scalpel (jinpi shu) is cataract couching, a surgery that Tang records connect with Indian medicine.

Indian eye medicine was already inside the Tang imperial system. An Indian eye text, the "Tianzhu jing lun yan", is quoted in the Waitai miyao, a medical compilation from 752 CE.

A "Treatise on the Eyes" attributed to Nagarjuna circulated in Tang China. A Bulletin of SOAS paper traces Sui and Tang eye surgery to Indian surgical ideas.

The poem does not say whether the operation took place.

Sources: Liu Yuxi, "Zeng yanyi Poluomen seng" (Liu Yuxi ji jianzheng, 1989); "Ophthalmic surgery: a chapter in the history of Sino-Indian medical contacts", Bulletin of SOAS; Wang Tao, Waitai miyao (752)

OAS traces Sui and Tang eye surgery in China to Indian surgical ideas.

So a great Chinese poet, going blind, asked an Indian monk-physician for help in a poem. The poem does not say whether the operation happened or worked.

P.S. The monk is unnamed and "Brahmin monk" is a translation.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

December 1987, deep in the Agasthyamalai hills of the Western Ghats.

A team of scientists on an ethnobotanical expedition was collapsing. Hours of brutal terrain had left them exhausted, but their Kani tribal guides kept walking, fresh as the morning.

The scientists noticed the guides constantly munching small black fruits.

Offered a few, the exhausted scientists felt, in their own words, immediately full of energy.

What is that plant? they asked.

The guides fell silent.

Among the Kani, medicinal knowledge belongs only to the Plathi, the tribe's hereditary physicians, and sharing it with outsiders was forbidden.

It took, the team admitted, a great deal of pressure before the guides relented and led them to the plant.

Its Kani name: arogyapacha - "green health and vitality".

For generations, the Kani had eaten it to walk for days without food and still do hard physical work.

The expedition's leader, Dr Palpu Pushpangadan, published the 1st scientific report in 1988.

Lab studies later backed the tribal claim: the fruit showed adaptogenic and anti-fatigue activity, boosted immune cells in test animals, and in one study fully protected 60% of mice from an aggressive tumour.

A formulation built on it, "Jeevani", passed toxicology and clinical studies, and has been in use since 1996.

The knowledge was not taken for free. The research institute signed a benefit-sharing agreement with the Kani: the tribe receives a share of the drug's revenue.

It was one of the world's 1st benefit-sharing agreements for indigenous knowledge, and it became a model cited by the WIPO and the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity.

A forest tribe guarded a fruit for generations. Science confirmed what the Plathi already knew. And then, for the 1st time, the law said the tribe must be paid - the follow-through was imperfect, but the precedent stuck

P.S. "Adaptogenic" means a substance that helps the body resist physical stress and fatigue. Most of the lab findings come from animal studies at one institute, promising, and consistent with the tribal claim, though not a clinical guarantee.

[Alan Watson @DietHeartNews]

In 1794, Catherine the Great of Russia ordered the construction of the city and port of Odessa. In 2014, neo-Nazi thugs bussed from Kiev clubbed Donbas Russians in Odessa who were protesting the February coup in Kiev. They were chased into the Trade Unions House and burned alive.

Installed by Victoria Nuland, it was the interim government, led by unelected Oleksandr Turchynov, who ordered the Odessa attack and started the Donbas civil war. The Russian protestors were defending their children, their families, their communities, their culture and language.

The West orchestrated this war in 2014. Now, 12 years later, the warlord Zelensky is a threat to world peace. The US neocons, the Kiev regime, and the European “Coalition of the Willing” are not defending democracy in #Ukraine. Like Hitler, they are fighting to kill off the Russian people and dismember the Russian state.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

The West orchestrated the Ukraine war from the outset. I am tired of the propaganda that they are fighting for democracy when neither Zelensky stands for election or Ursula in the EU no less Kaja Kallas and they refused to honor the peace deal to allow the Donbas to vote.

[Ikkyu Sojun @ConciousLabRat]

The war is over. Russia won.

Not the fairy-tale version sold for years, but the one measured in production, attrition, and will.

The West burned its single-shot military and a generation of Ukrainian men trying to preserve an empire that was already evaporating.

What the world looks like now?

American primacy is a memory.

NATO is a paper alliance that cannot field a serious army.

The EU is a monetary and political husk.

Europe is deindustrialized, demilitarized, and already turning on itself.

Russia is the most battle-hardened military on the planet and will dictate terms.

China, Iran, and the Global South no longer operate under the old rules.

Vanishingly few in the West are prepared for this.

The made up war continues on television. Reality does not.

The empire is notably fragile. This represents the core reality.

[STAR Boy TARUN @Starboy2079]

On October 13, Mumbai decides the future of its 84-year-old Terminal 1.

The problem: audits say T1 can't safely handle modern loads. Rebuilding it as a 20 MPPA terminal means moving ~5M domestic flyers to T2, and ~30% of international departures (265 weekly flights) to Navi Mumbai so T2 doesn't overload.

Airlines are resisting, citing a "deadlock" and demanding more safety reports, despite fee discounts, UDF offsets and direct Atal Setu access. For years they said Mumbai lacked capacity. Now a second airport exists.
Their stated concern is passengers. The real stake is grandfathered peak slots.

The solution: approve the shift. Heathrow, Tokyo and New York run multi-airport systems. Mumbai can too.

Rebuild T1.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

In 1322 the King of England marched 20,000 men into Scotland and was defeated by an empty field. His entire army found one cow.

Edward II wanted to finish what his father had started. He crossed the border that August with the largest force England had raised in years, expecting to live off the rich farmland of Lothian on the way to Edinburgh.

Robert the Bruce did not fight him. He simply left, and took the country's food with him.

That was possible because of what the Scots lived on. Their wealth was cattle, and cattle can walk. The order went out and every beast south of the Forth was driven north into the hills. What grain there was went too, or was burned.

The English marched for days through a silent landscape. The foragers came back with nothing. At a place called Tranent they finally found a single animal, a lame cow that had been left behind because she could not keep up.

The Earl of Surrey looked at her and said it was the dearest beef he had ever seen. It had cost, he reckoned, a thousand pounds and more.

Within three weeks the army was starving and sick. It turned for home. Bruce came down out of the hills behind it and very nearly captured the King himself in Yorkshire.

Six years later England recognised Scotland as an independent kingdom.

There is a lesson in that cow. You can burn a wheat field and starve the people who planted it. A nation that keeps its food on four legs just walks it out of reach and waits for you to get hungry.

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Catherine II, the Great of Russia, ordered the founding and construction of the city of Odessa, where in 2014, the Neo-Nazi Ukrainians were openly killing Russians on the streets, chased them into the Trade Unions House, and burned them alive.

That began this separatist movement, and it was the interim government installed by Victoria Nuland et al, who attacked the Donbas and started the civil war on the instructions of the Neocons.

[Chenthil @jcrajan00]

We keep throwing PLI schemes at manufacturing and ignoring the plumbing underneath. Banks here have to park 18% of deposits in government bonds, among the highest such ratios anywhere. That's money that never reaches a factory floor. Amitabh Kant's point lands with me: trim that ratio and you free up lakhs of crores for actual lending. PLI gets the press conference. Credit cost is the quiet thing strangling the small manufacturer, and nobody wants to touch it.

[Rina Lu🇷🇺 @rinalu_]

Finland pretends it was just a small country that Stalin decided to swallow. Then you read the 1939 negotiations and find a Soviet offer of twice as much land, rejected by Helsinki, over a border 32 kilometers from Leningrad.

That distance matters when discussing the Winter War. In 1939, Moscow feared that Finnish territory could become a route for an attack on one of the Soviet Union’s largest cities.

Before the war, the USSR proposed moving the border on the Karelian Isthmus and leasing Hanko for a naval base. Stalin didn’t ask for it all for free: in return for the territorial concessions, he offered Finland roughly twice as much land in Soviet Karelia, plus payment for the lease. Finland rejected the proposed settlement, with Hanko being a major sticking point.

And Helsinki was not making that decision in a vacuum. Britain was encouraging Finland to hold its ground.

Finland was Hitler's ally, but later they came up with a “drifting log” theory that portrayed Finland’s cooperation with Nazi Germany as something forced upon it by circumstances. Today, Finland has classified documents about this matter until the year 9999. Nothing to see there, guys.

[Bécquer 🇪🇸✒🔡 @GustavoAdolf_]

En los años 70, el griego 🇬🇷 Stamatis Moraitis vivía en Estados Unidos 🇺🇸 cuando los médicos le diagnosticaron cáncer de pulmón en etapa terminal. El pronóstico era devastador: de 6 a 9 meses de vida.
En lugar de someterse a costosos tratamientos agresivos, pensó en algo más pragmático: los funerales en EE.UU. eran carísimos, mientras que en su tierra natal, la pequeña isla de Icaria (Grecia), sería gratis, así que regresó a su pueblo para pasar sus últimos días.
Pero al llegar, no se acostó a esperar la muerte. Cambió su estilo de vida por completo:
Cultivó su propio huerto, comió verduras frescas, aceite de oliva, pan casero y cero ultraprocesados. Caminó por colinas, recogió uvas y trabajó la tierra bajo el sol del Mar Egeo. Bebía vino artesanal sin químicos, rodeado de amigos, risas y cero estrés.
Pasaron los meses y no murió. Y pasaron los años... y las décadas.
Años más tarde, regresó a EE.UU. para buscar a los médicos que le dieron el diagnóstico terminal. Todos habían muerto.
Stamatis Moraitis murió en 2013 a los 98 años (aunque él aseguraba tener 102). La causa no fue el cáncer, sino la vejez. Su caso se convirtió en uno de los grandes símbolos de las "Zonas Azules" (Icaria), demostrando que la paz, la buena alimentación, la comunidad y el movimiento diario son la mejor medicina.

[Tushar Gupta @Tushar15]

Another map of Delhi with the three new protest sites marked. For the use of journalists, podcast economists, and commentators who think Lutyens' Delhi is Delhi and Burari is 'far away' from Central Delhi.

Again, saying this. Not about protest, but a blockade in Central Delhi.

[Spetsnaℤ 007 🇷🇺 @Alex_Oloyede2]

🇩🇪🇷🇺 German opposition parties are calling for the removal of sanctions on the import of Russian oil.

"If the US can, we can, we need diesel"

The cracks are beginning to show, within time, nations would realise their energy security is more important than defending Ukraine.