A 15-year-old dream has come true today. I started a PhD with the dream of creating a system that chants any Sanskrit shloka perfectly.
And here I am opening sourcing 𝐕𝐚𝐠𝐝𝐡𝐞𝐧𝐮 - 𝐀 𝐯ṛ𝐭𝐭𝐚 (𝐦𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐫) 𝐚𝐰𝐚𝐫𝐞 ś𝐥𝐨𝐤𝐚-𝐭𝐨-𝐜𝐡𝐚𝐧𝐭 𝐭𝐞𝐱𝐭-𝐭𝐨-𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐞𝐜𝐡 (TTS) 𝐬𝐲𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐦 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐒𝐚𝐧𝐬𝐤𝐫𝐢𝐭. This is the world's first vrutta-aware, open-source TTS for Sanskrit Chanting.
For decades, the standard critique against the Indian Knowledge System (IKS) was: "Where is the empirical data? Where are the peer-reviewed papers? It is all just mythology."
Now, when institutes like the IITs, IISc, & AIIMS are setting up dedicated research wings to rigorously test, validate & document these ancient sciences using modern, empirical protocols, the critics have panicked. They have switched from demanding proof to screaming "pseudoscience!" & "the brand is gone!"
For centuries, Western medicine dismissed the idea that the mind could heal the body as superstition. Today, neuroplasticity & the placebo effect are multi-billion-dollar fields of peer-reviewed research.
If a modern scientist discovers something new, it is called a "breakthrough." If an IKS researcher uses modern tools to prove that ancient Indians already knew that exact concept 1000s of years ago, it is called "pseudoscience."
In 2015, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Tu Youyou for discovering Artemisinin (an anti-malarial drug) by looking into ancient Chinese medical texts. Similarly, India’s Ayush research ministries & global pharmacological bodies are finding peer-reviewed validation for compounds like Curcumin (Turmeric) & Ashwagandha for their anti-inflammatory & neuroprotective properties.
Why do these people have a problem with India documenting its own heritage?
If China can globally brand Traditional Chinese Medicine & the West can capitalize on indigenous knowledge, We have every right to scientifically document our own Itihasa & knowledge systems. Demanding peer-reviewed papers for decades & then throwing a tantrum when India actually starts producing them, shows intellectual dishonesty, not a love for science.
Be proud that we are witnessing the renaissance of Bhartiya knowledge. It is a long journey, but Satya always outlasts ideological noise.
Well done, IITs...Proud to be an alum.
"... The school system was not designed to make us free or intelligent..."
What @ankitatIIMA has been telling about current education system.
Interesting explanation.
@ankitatIIMA New type of war - The Climate War.
I remember an old movie in which asuras were tampering with climate causing floods or dought. This reminds me of that movie. Can't recall the name of the movie though.
Novak Djokovic just said being bored is the most creative state a child can be in.
His son is 10 and his daughter is 7.
He says when his son told him he was bored after a morning of ping pong, kayaking, and soccer, he sat him down for a conversation most parents avoid.
"It's okay to be bored sometimes. When you're bored, it doesn't mean that you have to instantly take a book or a screen. You need to also learn how to be with your thoughts."
Djokovic says boredom is when creativity finally shows up, and it's also when everything you have been suppressing through your phone comes to the surface.
Most parents are protecting their kids from the only state that grows them.
— Novak Djokavic (@DjokerNole) on Jay Shetty's (@jayshetty) podcast
Why Congress Ecosystem Hate Gopal Patha (Explained)
When I first wrote about Direct Action Day and Gopal Patha in 2021, many people were surprised. They said they had never heard of either before and they were right
Because his name was completely erased from history books
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@AnoopKaippalli While you were posting about double stack freight trains, India just conducted a trial run of the triple stack freight train successfully at the Western Dedicated Freight Corridor (WDFC). A major achievement 🙌
🇺🇸 US: Diesel
🇨🇦 Canada: Diesel
🇦🇺 Australia: Diesel
Major economies run double-stack freight trains, but they still rely on diesel because standard electric lines can't clear two-story trains.
But instead of settling, India custom-built a 7.5-meter high-rise grid. Today, India is the FIRST and ONLY country on Earth running double-stack containers on pure electric power. This is the scale of transformation happening under the Modi govt.
INDIAN NATIONAL ANTHEM IN SPAIN 🇮🇳🥹
The Indian Racer Kush Maini wins the FIA Formula 2 Sprint Race in the Barcelona, Spain
ABSOLUTELY INCREDIBLE BY KUSH 🙌
Remembering the brave heroes who fought against all odds at 18,000 feet so that the nation could sleep in peace. Their courage, sacrifice, and devotion to duty will never be forgotten.
Salute to the martyrs of Kargil. Their legacy lives on in every heartbeat of the nation.
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
“He has anchored Indias perception of itself in a worldview rooted in Indian heritage, not western secularism.”
What is wrong with this? Why should India divorce itself from its own heritage and define itself by yardsticks that have no civilisational basis in India?
There has been no conflict between temporal and ecclesiastical power in India, as in the West.
Interestingly, the Enlightenment in the West has “pagan” Greek roots.
Hindu civilisation is inherently secular.
The secularism debate in India is political, rooted in the partition of the country on the basis of religion and the political need to integrate the Indian Muslims in an independent India.
Western ideas of secularism have been artificially planted in India and have created political, social and religious dissensions in our country.
The burden of being “secular” in India should be shared equally by all religious communities. But is it the case?
European and US societies have deep Christian roots. Europe defines its roots as Judeo-Christian. It has powerful Christian lobbies that exert influence in their societies as well as colour the European world view.
The Evangelists in the US, the global power of the Catholic church, the religious activities of the Presbyterians- and all have been active in conversions in India- call into question “western secularism”.
Western societies have an understanding of Abrahamic religions but cannot intellectually and politically connect with Hinduism and hence the obsession with the caste system, cow worship and perceived social ills.
More can be said.
Erik Solheim may mean well but the phrase “Hindu nationalism” is a wrong term that distorts reality and carries a negative connotation.
India wants to be India, defined by its own civilisation and not western idioms.
Congratulations to our PM @narendramodi on becoming the longest serving PM ever in our history. As our PM he is the most successful PM who has had the largest positive impact on all Indians. We look forward to a greater future
These five Gentlemen have ruthlessly dismantled centuries of deception, distortion, and venom unleashed against Hindus by the entrenched Leftist and Islamist propaganda machinery.
Repost if you agree!
@ARanganathan72@jsaideepak@sanjeevsanyal@Vishnu_Jain1@vikramsampath
The Reserve Bank of India was established in 1935. But Mysore already had its own state bank, built by a king who understood finance before the nation did.
Maharaja Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV founded the Mysore State Bank, giving the people of Mysore access to formal banking when most Indians had no connection to organized financial systems.
They were entirely dependent on moneylenders who charged impossible interest rates and kept generations in debt.
By creating a state bank, he broke that cycle. He gave farmers, traders, and ordinary citizens a safe place to deposit money, access credit at fair terms, and participate in a formal economy.
The Mysore State Bank eventually merged into the State Bank of India and became part of what is today one of India's largest public sector banks.
On his 142nd Jayanti, every person who has ever had a bank account in Karnataka owes a debt to this vision.
#NalwadiKrishnarajaWadiyar #MysoreStateBank #RajarshiJayanti #MysoreLegacy #June4 #Banking
ಅನೇಕ ರಾಜರು ಅರಮನೆಗಳನ್ನು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿದರು. ಮಹಾರಾಜ ನಾಲ್ವಡಿ ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಒಡೆಯರ್ ಅವರು ರೈತರಿಗಾಗಿ ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು ನಿರ್ಮಿಸಿದರು.
ಕೃಷ್ಣರಾಜ ಸಾಗರ (ಕೆಆರ್ಎಸ್) ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟನ್ನು ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಳಿಸಲು ಹಣವಿಲ್ಲದಿದ್ದಾಗ, ಅವರು ಯೋಜನೆಯನ್ನು ಬೆಂಬಲಿಸಲು ತಮ್ಮ ಸ್ವಂತ ರಾಜಮನೆತನದ ಆಸ್ತಿಗಳನ್ನು ದಾನ ಮಾಡಿದರು.
ಕೆಆರ್ಎಸ್ ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟು 1924 ರಲ್ಲಿ ಪೂರ್ಣಗೊಂಡಿತು ಮತ್ತು ಆ ಸಮಯದಲ್ಲಿ ಏಷ್ಯಾದ ಅತಿದೊಡ್ಡ ಅಣೆಕಟ್ಟುಗಳಲ್ಲಿ ಒಂದಾಗಿತ್ತು.
ಇಂದಿಗೂ, ಇದು ಮಂಡ್ಯ, ಮೈಸೂರು ಮತ್ತು ಕಾವೇರಿ ಜಲಾನಯನ ಪ್ರದೇಶದ ಅನೇಕ ಭಾಗಗಳಲ್ಲಿನ ಹೊಲಗಳಿಗೆ ನೀರನ್ನು ಒದಗಿಸುತ್ತದೆ. ಇದು ಸಾವಿರಾರು ರೈತ ಕುಟುಂಬಗಳಿಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡುತ್ತದೆ.
ಇದು ಕೇವಲ ಆಡಳಿತವಲ್ಲ. ಇದು ಜನರಿಗೆ ನಿಜವಾದ ಸಮರ್ಪಣೆಯಾಗಿತ್ತು.
ಅವರ 142 ನೇ ಜಯಂತಿಯಂದು, ಕರ್ನಾಟಕದ ರೈತರ ಏಳಿಗೆಗೆ ಸಹಾಯ ಮಾಡಿದ ರಾಜರ್ಷಿಯನ್ನು ನಾವು ಸ್ಮರಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ ಮತ್ತು ವಂದಿಸುತ್ತೇವೆ.
Most kings built palaces for themselves. He built a dam for his farmers.
When funding for the Krishnaraja Sagara Dam fell short, Maharaja Nalwadi Krishnaraja Wadiyar IV did something no ordinary ruler would do. He pledged his own royal family assets to complete the project.
Built in 1924, KRS was Asia's largest dam at the time. Today it still irrigates the sugarcane and paddy fields of Mandya, Mysore, and the entire Cauvery basin, feeding families whose grandparents weren't even born when this king chose them over his own wealth.
That's not administration. That's devotion.
On his 142nd Jayanti, the farmers of Karnataka bow to the king who gave everything so their fields could bloom.
#NalwadiKrishnarajaWadiyar #KRSDam #RajarshiJayanti #MysoreLegacy #June4 #KrishnarajaSagara
Just finished reading @RajivMessage & Vijaya Viswanathan ji’s short yet mind blowing book Varna, Jati and Caste. A true eye opener. I wish this short yet riveting read reaches every household busting myths . @PadhegaIndia_ Thank you for a smooth delivery.