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[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@major_pawan Proud to share the same title and surname as him...if I am correct, he must also be from Tirunelveli, TN...just a guess...

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@san_x_m I am from the very same institute....VIT, although not an IIT, is also a very prestigious university...infra and faculty are top notch... nevertheless, this is an inspiring story....

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@TulsiGabbard Wishing him a speedy recovery! Hare Krishna!

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Arati Saha.

She was born in 1940 in Calcutta. Her mother died when she was two years old. Her father served in the armed forces and was rarely home, so she was raised by her grandmother in North Kolkata.

At four years old, her uncle took her to Champatala Ghat for a bath. She refused to leave the water.

Her father enrolled her at the Hatkhola Swimming Club, where coach Sachin Nag spotted her talent and took her under his wing.

In July 1952, she stood at the edge of the pool at the Helsinki Summer Olympics. She was 11 years old, the youngest Indian Olympian in history and one of only four women in the entire Indian contingent.

In 1959, she decided to cross the English Channel, 42 miles of freezing, choppy water often called the Mount Everest of swimming.

She was 18 years old and had almost no money. A West Bengal government grant of Rs 11,000 helped fund the attempt.

Her first attempt on August 27 failed. She swam for more than 16 hours and came within five miles of the English coast before a powerful current forced her back.

She did not go home.

On September 29 1959, she entered the water again. She swam for 16 hours and 20 minutes before reaching the English coast, and the first thing she did was hoist the Indian flag.

She was 19 years old. She had become the first Asian woman to cross the English Channel.

In 1960, she became the first Indian sportswoman to receive the Padma Shri.

Arati Saha died in 1994 at the age of 53. Five years later, India issued a postage stamp in her memory.

Most Indians have never heard her name.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Vikas Manhas @37VManhas]

Meet NAIK SHATRUGHAN SINGH who is lone survivor of the 1 BIHAR platoon led by MAJOR M SARVANAN on May 29, 1999.

Hit thrice it took him 10 days to crawl back to base and tell what happened at Jabar post in #KargilWar.

Later decorated with Vir Chakra, he retired as an HONORARY CAPTAIN.

MATA RANI keeps blessing him.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Leila Seth.

She was born on October 20 1930 in Lucknow. She grew up during the partition years.

She was married at 22 and followed her husband Prem to London while he completed his studies.

She was 27 years old and pregnant when she decided to study law.

She enrolled at the Inns of Court. In 1958 she topped the bar examination, finishing first among all candidates from England and Wales.

A London newspaper ran her photograph with the headline referring to her as “Mother in Law.”

She had given birth months before the exam.

She was the first Indian woman to top the London Bar exam.

She came back to India and built a legal career in Patna for ten years.

In 1978 she became the first woman judge of the Delhi High Court.

In 1991 she became Chief Justice of the Himachal Pradesh High Court, the first woman to hold that position in any High Court in independent India.

She served on the 15th Law Commission of India from 1997 to 2000.

Her work during that period led directly to the Hindu Succession Amendment Act of 2005, which gave Hindu daughters equal rights to ancestral property for the first time in Indian law.

After the Nirbhaya gang rape in December 2012 she was appointed to the Justice JS Verma Committee, which recommended the sweeping changes to sexual assault laws that followed.

Her son is the novelist Vikram Seth.

She died on May 5 2017. She was 86 years old.

She had pledged to donate her organs and her family held no funeral. A prayer meeting was held in her honour instead.

She topped the bar exam in England while pregnant. She became the first woman Chief Justice of an Indian High Court.

She helped give daughters the right to inherit ancestral property. She helped rewrite India’s rape laws.

Most Indians know her son’s book. Almost none know her story.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Bodhisattva🍁 @bodhi3attva]

Wikipedia page of @abhijeet_dipke's Cockroach Janta Party is being managed by Salim Bin Yousuf from Pakistan and jolielover (username) from the USA.

Most of the other contributors are also from either Pakistan, Bangladesh or United States.

[Sami Nathaniel @NathanielSami]

She can barely speak english at a high school level.!!!

[Amit Kumar Sindhi @AMIT_GUJJU]

Joseph Vijay’s government has already taken 4 U-turns in just 5 days 😭😹

1 - Appointed his astrologer as OSD, then reversed the decision within 24 hours under opposition pressure.

2 - Stayed silent when Udhayanidhi Stalin made controversial remarks on Sanatana Dharma, but now his own minister Atharva Arjuna says those comments were wrong.

3 - His party claimed they would not take support from any NDA ally, but later took support from 25 AIADMK MLAs.

4 - Promised ₹2500 for women, but now even the existing ₹1000 scheme is being “restructured” and delayed. 😭

Vijay Joseph is just the Arvind Kejriwal of Tamil Nadu 😹

[STAR Boy TARUN @Starboy2079]

Mulayam Singh Yadav said boys make mistakes and you cannot hang them for rape.
Akhilesh did not disown it.
Gayatri Prajapati raped a woman for years with police protection while serving as a Cabinet minister.
Akhilesh did not remove him.

The SP government saw a documented surge in crimes against women from 2012 to 2017. Badaun happened. Unnao happened. Women who filed complaints were harassed. Accused with the right connections walked.

Akhilesh built none of the women's safety infrastructure Yogi has built. Not one significant fast-track court. Not one zero tolerance policy that was actually implemented.

And now he arrives in Ghazipur, where the accused was arrested in 24 hours, where senior officials personally visited the family, where fast-track court commitment was given, and he lectures this government about women's safety.

The contrast is not just hypocrisy. It is a confession. Everything he criticizes Yogi for not doing is something he actually failed to do himself for five years.

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

Exactly....especially the entitled lot of Gen Z...

There should be a law against this!

[Sonal Kalra 🇮🇳 @sonalkalra]

Zara sochiye…

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Facing an imposing supreme court bench, Senior Advocate @jsaideepak takes us on an incredible journey in constitutional law to bolster his case for overturning Sabarimala judgment. He is fighting ferociously for dharma, armed with nothing but his intellect.

Watch, and be amazed:

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@ajaykraina Looks like a tiger violated a leopard😂

Shikari Shambhu was dressed better!

[Levina🇮🇳 @LevinaNeythiri]

🔴A story that makes Pakistan 🇵🇰Army go green in its face:

The Indian 🇮🇳 Army pays its final respects to the man who helped make Operation Sarp Vinash (2003) a resounding success.

👉 Tahir Fazal was part of a group of brave Indians who took the battle directly to the terrorist camps at an altitude of 12,000 feet.

He fought shoulder to shoulder with the Indian Army and Jammu & Kashmir Police to eliminate terrorists.

In total, 80 terrorists were eliminated and 95 hideouts were busted‼️

In the early 2000s, Pakistani Lashkar terrorists were brutally killing innocents and harassing women in the Hill Kaka area.
One of the victims was Tahir Fazal’s elder brother.

Heartbroken and determined, Tahir Fazal and a few others like him left their jobs in the Middle East to fight Pakistan-backed terrorists.

These men were recruited as SPOs (Special Police Officers).
Tahir Fazal was part of Special Group III‼️

Following a brief but intensive training in weapons and explosives, they were attached to an elite operation group consisting of 9 #SpecialForces (SF) commandos and J&K Police personnel.
Together, they successfully destroyed the "snake" network.
Operation Sarp Vinash turned out to be a massive success.

Tahir Fazal passed away on 23 April 2026.
Amar Rahe! 🇮🇳

[Vikas Manhas @37VManhas]

Join me in wishing COLONEL @Thapar77Thapar
14 JAK RIF

father of
LIEUTENANT VIJAYANT THAPAR
VrC
2 RAJ RIF #IndianArmy

happy birthday.
MATA RANI Keep blessing you always.
Happy birthday Uncle, it’s a blessing to know you.
#FreedomisnotFree a few pay #CostofWar.

[Ravi 'Anantapuri' @ravianantapuri]

Former Indian cricketer Anil Kumble and his wife Chethana Kumble are seen promoting the beauty of Sanskrit by speaking it fluently in this video.

It’s inspiring to see a sporting icon use his influence to highlight the richness of one of the world’s oldest languages. Wonderful!

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@peyushbansal needs a reality check...You, my friend, are in India and 80% of the people you make money off are HINDUS...either you behave yourself or alternatively we reach you to behave...you choose...Hindumesia will no longer be tolerated.
@ShefVaidya @anujdhar @GeneralBakshi

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

I was ordered by @Lenskart_com to cut my shikha and remove my tilak. When I refused to do so, I was fired. - Zeel Soghasia

This is blatant discrimination and bigotry that goes beyond adhering to some internal memo. Mr Soghasia must be recalled and reinstated. @peyushbansal

[Col AJ🇮🇳 @ajaykraina]

Our pre-independence era politicians didn't even support the Naval Uprising of 1946. Young sailors were abandoned and more than 300 lives were lost while all those given the titles like Mahatma, Chacha etc decided to look away.
Shameful!

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

BIG: The Egyptian Embassy has clarified that the document circulating online is not Riniki Bhuyan Sharma’s passport, but a forged one with her name and photo pasted on it.

It has stated that Pawan Khera’s claim about the Egyptian passport of the Assam CM’s wife is false.

[TheIndicLibrary @theindiclibrary]

@Sam0kayy Absolutely 😁