Tejas

Navigating thru complexity.

[The Directorate- Clandestine @Delta_SquadAnex]

SUPERB FULL SUPPORT TO @narendramodi

[manju 🇮🇳 @justtweettz]

The debate surrounding #Starlink in #India is not really about internet speeds, rural connectivity or even Elon Musk.

It is about #sovereignty
History teaches us that nations rarely lose strategic autonomy overnight. More often, dependence develops gradually through systems, networks and institutions that become too important to function without.

The #BritishEastIndiaCompany did not arrive in India as a conquering army. It arrived as a commercial enterprise promising trade, access to global markets and economic opportunity. Over time, commercial influence evolved into political leverage, strategic control and eventually colonial rule.

The world of the 21st century is different, but the underlying principle remains relevant.

Today, influence is exercised not only through territory and military power but through data, communications infrastructure, digital platforms, satellite networks and technological dependence.

This is where Starlink becomes a strategic question rather than merely a telecommunications project.

Supporters correctly point out that satellite internet can transform connectivity in remote regions, improve disaster response and bridge digital divides. These are real benefits.

However, strategic planners must also ask a different set of questions:
“Who controls the network?
Who ultimately decides where service is available?”

What happens during a geopolitical crisis?
Can a sovereign nation guarantee uninterrupted access if the infrastructure is owned, operated and controlled by a foreign private entity?

The Ukraine conflict offers a powerful example.
Reports revealed that Starlink services were restricted during a planned Ukrainian operation targeting Russian naval assets near Crimea. The result was that the operation could not proceed as intended because the communications network required for execution was unavailable.

Regardless of one’s views on the decision, the larger geopolitical lesson is clear:
A private company and its leadership possessed the ability to influence the operational options available to a sovereign state during an active conflict.

That reality should concern every serious strategic planner in the world.
The issue is not whether Elon Musk was right or wrong.

The issue is whether any nation should place critical national communications infrastructure in a position where ultimate operational control rests outside its sovereign authority.

For India, this question carries even greater significance.

India faces an increasingly contested security environment stretching from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean. #Communications resilience is not merely an economic requirement; it is a #nationalsecurity necessity.

This does not mean rejecting foreign technology.
India has benefited enormously from international investment, technology partnerships and global integration.

But integration should never become dependence.
The ideal outcome is not isolation but strategic balance: encouraging innovation while ensuring robust regulatory oversight, #dataprotection, local compliance requirements and #sovereigncontrol mechanisms.

The lesson of the #EastIndiaCompany is often misunderstood.
The danger was never trade itself.

The danger was allowing critical leverage to accumulate outside Indian control.

As technology becomes the new arena of geopolitical competition, nations must remember a simple principle:
Infrastructure creates dependence.
Dependence creates leverage.
Leverage creates influence.

And influence, if left unchecked, can eventually challenge sovereignty itself.

India was colonised once through commerce and influence.
The next challenge, if it ever comes, will not arrive on sailing ships.

It will arrive through networks, platforms, satellites and systems that become too important to question

That is why the Starlink debate is not merely abt connectivity.
It is about ensuring that 🇮🇳’s digital future remains firmly under Indian sovereign control #JaiHind

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[Nilika Ambedkar 2.0 @5000yearsofrape]

Pashu bali Enjoyer Bhallaldev vs Jain Sraman Baahubali.

Bhallaldev was wronged by Bahubali. Bhallaldev kept the dalit population in check. You live in our memories Bhallaldev💪you will never be forgotten

[Eagle @HodlEagle254]

@Delta_SquadAnex @GuMnAmIbAbA1945

[Sumit Mishra @ChadSumitMishra]

Pretty sure Indian women are responsible for this.

When you called everything traditional 'regressive' for 50 straight years, you left enough room for others to claim your heritage.

[HB @hbfetr]

I have said it many times - Femīnism at its core is a disease. It does not seek equal treatment.

It rather seeks preferential treatment where women have no accountability and men are responsible for everything.

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Russian president #VladimirPutin said sanctions threats against #India would "boomerang immediately", affriming that New Delhi has always been "guided by its national interests".

Details here 🔗https://t.co/masS0tDDfE

Catch every update on the TOI App 👉 https://t.co/EYjxlU7kcd

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

This afternoon, went to the L&T complex at Hazira. Witnessed some of their pioneering innovations across different sectors. The role played by L&T in furthering self-reliance in the defence sector is commendable.

@larsentoubro

[Kitten 🐈 @kitten_beloved]

Thinking about agents and agency

[Rewa @CopiumState]

The most underrated company of our country. The sheer range of things they build is insane.

[History इतिहास 🇺🇲🛕 🚀 @ShreeHistory]

Indian cattle, Indian mouse, Indian crow all consistently tell the OIT story.

Narmada is (Narman Da --literally giver of civilization)

Sanskrit is absolutely precise.

And Narmada has flown in that river basin for, if I remember correctly, 100,000 years!

Mother of humanity.

[Larsen & Toubro @larsentoubro]

L&T was privileged to host the Hon’ble Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi at the AM Naik Heavy Engineering Complex.

We are committed to playing our role in transforming the Prime Minister's vision of a Viksit Bharat into lasting national strength.

[morazla @morazla12]

My entire Twitter feed for the past two days.

[Jay @Indianslumdog]

Bud Wiser when you ask her to unblock her dad and block her rapist

[Abhinav🇮🇳 @abhinav_vats17]

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[Lalitāditya @LalitAditya1212]

It isn't a coincidence that:

- Sindh, Gandhara, Bengal etc were Buddhist dominated places; and

- these are Muslim majority now.

Sindh and Gandhara actually converted totally from Buddhism to Islam in 2-3 generations.

On the other hand, the nearby Kutch (bordering Sindh) had strong Hindu resistance. The adjacent Gujarat proper never converted even after Islamic rule.

Even after centuries of Islamic rule, the Gangetic heartland, Rajputana, the Deccan etc remained overwhelmingly Hindu.

This is why India retained a continuous civilizational thread; regions like Sindh and Gandhara lost theirs almost entirely.

[Atlas Press @realAtlasPress]

Leonardo da Vinci's greatest paragraph

[Navroop Singh @TheNavroopSingh]

When will Indian bureaucracy understand that education of your sons & daughters, your junkets in West is not important than India’s national interests. Dhandho Maxers over the decades have compromised India’s power of resistance. Brick by Brick Washington has infiltrated like termites eat a house walls from inside. This needs immediate treatment not band aids.

The US is out to destroy our economy, from H1B, IT Giants to Sucking Precious Capital away to Deny Technologies to sanction energy supply chains to abet Pakistan & to do coups in neighbourhood to imposing tariffs to trample Indian Export surpluses. The Post 1991 Era is of Globalisation is over !

Wake up Kumbhakaran ! See whats happening around us. Absolutely ridiculous grow some spine to stand up to national interests !

[The Directorate- Clandestine @Delta_SquadAnex]

From this understand terrorism is a tool to merely influence a countries foreign policy. Indian policy is influenced by Israel too much than ever..