Vikas Sharma

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

@the_psyche_lab Why not arranged marriage setup?

[Shashank Shekhar Jha @shashank_ssj]

One Standup show, two incidents.
One by a man, other by a woman.

Man is removed from his job,
but no action against woman.

National Commission for Women has summoned the man.

But, woman can’t be summoned because there is no Commission for Men.

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

Pranit More, Himanshu Jangda, Sejal - FIR REGISTERED ON ALL !!!

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

Yes yes, by not taking serious actions after NEET paper leak

[Rishi Bagree @rishibagree]

Modi is hijacking EVMs for the 2029 elections!!!

[Parimal @Fintech03]

It is incredibly frustrating to watch celebrity chefs & pop-history influencers look directly into a camera & confidently state, "Did you know our favorite South Indian staple, the Idli, actually came from Indonesia?" This entire narrative is a colossal house of cards. It is a classic case of academic confirmation bias that transformed into viral disinformation.

When an entire nation is taught to believe that they could not even figure out how to steam w/o foreign intervention, we have to look at the raw data to puncture the bubble.

Almost every single article/tweet/celebrity chef video claiming that the idli is Indonesian can be traced back to exactly 1 source: a single speculative paragraph written by the late food historian K.T. Achaya in his 1994 book, Indian Food: A Historical Companion. Achaya theorized that between 800-1200 CE, Indonesian kings traveling to India brought royal chefs who introduced a fermented, steamed dish called "Kedli."

Yrs after this book was published, investigative food journalists (such as Janaki Lenin) & linguistic researchers actually went to Indonesia to look for this legendary precursor. The word "Kedli" does not exist in any Indonesian language/dialect/historical dictionary. There is no historical record/recipe/anthropological trace of an ancient Indonesian dish called "Kedli." Achaya completely misread/manufactured the term based on a loose phonetic guess, yet it became an accepted "fact" because no 1 bothered to check the data.

The claim that India did not have idlis until the 12th century is thoroughly obliterated by our own ancient libraries. The evolution of the idli is meticulously recorded in indigenous Indian encyclopedias & literature centuries before Achaya’s timeline:

- 920 CE (Vaddaradhane): A classical Kannada text by the Jain monk Shivakotiacharya explicitly details a dish called Iddalige. It was a staple food item offered to Jain ascetics. - 1025 CE (Lokopakara): The earliest available Kannada encyclopedia, written by Chavundaraya II, gives a literal recipe for it: soaking split black gram (Urad Dal) in buttermilk, grinding it into a fine paste, mixing it with spices & the clear water of curd.
- 1130 CE (Manasollasa): The Western Chalukya King Someshvara III wrote a monumental Sanskrit encyclopedia detailing royal cuisine. He explicitly gives the recipe for Iddarikā describing how the urad dal cakes are prepared & cooked.

When skeptics are confronted with these ancient texts, they quickly shift the goalposts. They argue: Okay, fine, India had Iddalige, but it was just made of Urad Dal. It did not use rice/long fermentation/steaming... those techniques came from Indonesia! This is textually & technologically false.

Critics often cite the 7th-century Chinese traveler Xuanzang, who claimed India did not use steaming vessels. But we do not need a specialized metallic Chinese steam-cooker to steam food. For millennia, Indians practiced Kopotapaka & basket-steaming, tying a thin muslin cloth over a standard clay pot (Kunda) filled with boiling water, placing the batter on top & covering it with a lid. In fact, the Kanchipuram Idli is still steamed in traditional bamboo baskets lined with Mandhara leaves.

To say India did not understand fermentation until the 12th century is a historical joke. India is the cradle of complex biomaterial fermentation. The Rigveda & Ayurvedic Samhitas from 1000s of yrs ago are packed with advanced formulas for fermenting grains, herbs & dairy to create Asavas, Arishtas, Kanji & Dahi (Curd). The natural wild bacteria (Leuconostoc mesenteroides) required to leaven idli batter live natively on the husks of black gram found right here in the subcontinent.

Why do celebrity chefs keep repeating this lie? Because of a deeply ingrained post-colonial inferiority complex that dominates modern food media. There is a structural bias that assumes any advanced, scientific culinary technique, like molecular leavening/pasteurization/specialized steaming must have been imported to India from somewhere else. It sounds edgy, counter-intuitive & intellectual for a chef to tell an Indian audience that their national breakfast is not actually theirs.

The idli is a native, organic, ground-up evolutionary masterpiece of South Indian kitchen science. It evolved naturally from the lentil-based Iddalige of the 9th century into the perfectly balanced rice & lentil fluffy wonder we eat today. The next time a chef tries to tell you the idli is from Indonesia, ask them to show you the recipe for "Kedli." Watch how fast they fold.

[Stanly Johny @johnstanly]

Who attacked the vessel? Pirates?

[STAR Boy TARUN @Starboy2079]

China didn't win the Kenya's JK International Airport contract.

Congress did the groundwork, handled the publicity, attacked the Indian bidder and cleared the runway.

Thank you pappu party for working overtime for China!

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

@plot_twistttt River worship was never the issue, mixing industrial wastes, drainage water without proper treatment are the main reasons.

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

@Venckat_ Abbayi eyy kadu dalit amiy verey caste abbayi ni chesukunaa ee amount istharu gov nunchi. Gov implement chesindi caste free society ni establish cheyyali ani, ee mulla gallu money isthondi, hindu free nation cheyyali ani. Chala difference undi broo

[Sharan @sharankalyan424]

Amaravathi meedha hopes unnayi 👍👍👍

Eellu ila notiki vacchindhalla vaagadam manchide, inkaa baaga chestharu town planning Amaravathi ki !

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

@SiddharthKG7 It already started. Look at removal of cotton import restrictions.

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

Did we ever thought how that happened? Its all happened due to soft propaganda in our brains from various places like schools, media, movies. Below is example
https://t.co/sosHGRPtTi

[Soldier Boy* @soldierboy_23]

If any foreign woman wears a mangalsutra or applies sindoor, the same women will scream, 'You're stealing our culture, saar! We are the only ones allowed to.'

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

INDIAN DIPLOMACY ON TEST
3RD VESSEL WITH INDIANS ONBOARD STRUCK.
Towering plume of smoke rises out of the engine room of MT Jalveer.
Point:
INDIAN CASUALTIES IN GULF WAR ARE ALREADY NEARING U.S. CASUALTY FIGURES AND WE'RE NOT EVEN AT WAR!!!

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

@Neetivaan @Defencematrix1 Who is that officer

[ghatak @Neetivaan]

> More armour means more weight, forcing a redesign

> Requirements changed, timeline slipped because Army was not able to give GSQRs earlier

> Who caused the delay?

Yet, the Army portrays itself as some holy cow

(2/2)

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

Modi is supporting only ambani & adani 😭😭😂

[Normal Guy @Normal_2610]

When Tata Steel bought Corus for $12 billion in 2007, the financing came entirely from foreign banks, Indian banks were not allowed to fund corporate acquisitions.

That was the norm for decades, RBI changed it in February 2026, now allowing banks to finance up to 70% of acquisition value. SBI committing $1 billion alongside Citi, JPMorgan, and MUFG for Sun Pharma Organon deal is the first real test.

Indian banks sitting at the table where global M&A gets funded. Not watching, participating thanks to GOI

Sun Pharma is paying $11.75 billion for Organon, a company Merck spun off in 2021. The combined entity does $12.4 billion in revenue, enters the top 25 global pharma companies, becomes third largest in women's health, and seventh in biosimilars.

Five years ago Organon was a division inside an American giant. Now an Indian company is buying it whole. India pharma sector started by copying molecules. It is now buying the companies that made them.

That trajectory matters more than any single quarter FII data.

The quiet part of this story is not the deal itself. It is that Indian banks were barred from financing corporate acquisitions for decades.

Companies doing outbound M&A had to rely entirely on offshore lenders, foreign syndications, and private credit. RBI new acquisition finance directions issued in early 2026 close that gap.

Banks can now fund strategic acquisitions with proper caps and safeguards in place. When your own banking system can backstop your companies' global ambitions, you stop borrowing your way to relevance. The entire M&A math changes.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

The only silver lining in the CBSE fiasco. Congratulations, @ni5arga!

[Vikas Sharma @VikasSh_03]

Beautiful india
https://t.co/bBToM7ty8e

[Shuchiii..🦚 @Shuchiii141979]

This beautiful india doesn't fits on western poverty prone propaganda..

[Vasu Ericsson @VasuEricsson]

#MumbaiPolice