Sathyanarayanan Visweswaran

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

Brilliant response. Congrats Sanjeev. @sanjeevsanyal https://t.co/uxgWpDejJW

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

"If economy is growing at 7.8% why is the PM asking us not to travel abroad, not to buy gold, not to have foreign weddings etc"

Let me explain: East Asian nations (Japan, Taiwan, South Korea and later China) all went through a phase of rapid GDP growth combined with the need to conserve foreign exchange. Here is why that happens.

1. Our economy is growing at a good rate but we still have an import dependence, in both energy and in technology. In fact, the faster the economy grows, the greater the need for both energy and technology inputs.

2. To balance that import dependence, we have to export more and our exports are surging. However, even our exports need advanced technological inputs (precision machines, materials, CPUs, GPUs, advanced software etc) that we need to import today.

3. Catching up in all of these areas takes time, often measured in decades. We have made a good start but we need time.

Look at how long it took East Asia to catch up with the West. Their economies were growing rapidly even as they worked hard to conserve foreign exchange.

That is exactly what our government is trying to do.

Once we gain competence in all the advanced technlogies, and achieve energy independence through renewable energy that we develop the technology for, we would no longer need to conserve foreign exchange.

The situation is similar to a fast growing company that needs capital to grow. So it has to conserve capital to invest in growth. Our nation needs to conserve foreign exchange likewise.

[Saumya Hemant Mishra @SaumyaHemant]

When the Manusmriti existed, Savitri chose Satyavan against her parents wishes. When the Manusmriti existed, Sita chose Rama through a swayamvara. When the Manusmriti existed, Gargi contributed to the Vedic intellectual tradition while Apala and Ghosha composed hymns in the Rig Veda. When the Manusmriti existed, Bharati, the wife of Mandana Mishra, presided over the famous shastrartha between her husband and Adi Shankaracharya and had the intellectual authority to judge the debate. Shankaracharya himself engaged in debate with Bharati and acknowledged her scholarship.

When the Manusmriti existed, women could learn, debate, compose, govern and fight.

Ahilyabai Holkar became one of India’s most admired rulers. Jijabai raised Shivaji and played a profound role in shaping the man who established Hindavi Swarajya. Rani Lakshmibai learned the art of warfare and fought the British on the battlefield. Women were also known as Brahmavadinis, women devoted to the pursuit and teaching of knowledge.

Kings were not always the sole authority in matters of governance; queens and royal women often participated in affairs of the state. When the Manusmriti existed, women such as Mirabai could choose their spiritual path and figures like Ravidas were revered across social and political hierarchies.

And when the Constitution of India was being framed, 15 women entered the Constituent Assembly without any provision of reservation including women from diverse and historically disadvantaged backgrounds.

India’s history is far more complex than the convenient claim that women had no agency, voice, intellect or power before modern constitutional reforms. Read history in its entirety before rewriting it.

#Manusmriti #IndianHistory #Women

[The Sanātanī @_TheSanatani]

How the Kaṭha Upanishad Explains the Body, Mind and Self… 😱

The Kaṭha Upanishad presents one of the clearest maps of human existence through its famous chariot analogy. It explains that the body, senses, mind, intellect, and Self are not the same... they perform completely different roles.

> The body is the chariot. It is the physical vehicle through which the individual moves and acts in the world.

> The senses are the horses. Sight, hearing, taste, smell, and touch constantly move toward their respective objects and experiences.

> The mind (Manas) is the reins. It receives sensory impulses and determines where attention moves. An uncontrolled mind allows the senses to pull the individual in countless directions.

> The intellect (Buddhi) is the charioteer. Its function is discrimination... the ability to judge, understand, and determine the proper direction of life.

> But none of these is the true master. The Upanishad identifies the Ātman as the lord of the chariot—the conscious Self for whose journey the entire system exists.

> When Buddhi lacks wisdom and Manas is uncontrolled, the senses behave like untrained horses. Desire and impulse begin determining the direction of life.

But when the intellect possesses right understanding, the mind is disciplined, and the senses are controlled, the seeker can reach the highest goal... the realization of the Self.

The body is your vehicle.
The senses provide movement.
The mind holds the reins.
The intellect chooses the direction.

But the Ātman... Is the one for whom the entire journey exists.

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[Upamanyu Acharya @upamanyuacharya]

India will never produce an NVIDIA, and it has nothing to do with talent. R&D is the purest form of investment, and the central bank has spent decades making investment the dumbest thing you can do with a rupee.

I've been surfing the semiconductor wave for a while now, reading 10-Ks for fun. Spent last month in the Bay Area and the gap between India and the US is not a gap; it's a different universe. Conversations about agentic AI and the next decade of hardware, with my boomer relatives Waymo-ing around SF and self-driving home on Tesla FSD like it's normal. Nobody there thinks any of this is remarkable; they already live in the future.

NVIDIA spends nearly twice as much on R&D as every listed company in India combined. Silicon Motion, the world's leading maker of NAND flash controllers and around since 1995, ploughs 29.7% of revenue back into R&D. Micron runs 10.2%, NVIDIA 9.9%, on revenue bases that dwarf anything we have. India Inc? 0.85% of turnover, and half our listed companies report zero R&D at all.

The easy move is to lambast our promoters and the dhandomaxxing capitalist class, or the foreign MNCs running India as a glorified offshoring unit, or the babus who fund nothing useful. Satisfying. But Wrong. The reason no rational Indian founder pours money into frontier R&D is that there is genuinely no payoff at the end of it. Why?

1. R&D compounds, and compounding punishes laggards. At the edge of science a 1-2% gain is a moat; Intel spent 20+ years performing impossible physics every 24 months because Moore's Law was the business model, and that consistency makes them one of the goated companies of all time even after they got mogged recently. NVIDIA lives the same way today: invent at the limit or cease to exist. If you're 50% behind, no quantum of innovation closes that. You never touch the high end. You stay a mass-market producer of things that already exist. India is precisely there.

2. The supply side is the real thesis, and it's monetary. Two decades of high inflation, high money-printing, high nominal rates. That regime subsidises consumption and taxes patience. R&D is the longest-duration, highest-variance bet on the board; it is the first thing a 8% risk-free rate kills. Frontier R&D only ever gets funded two ways: a psychopathically risk-tolerant capitalist with cheap capital, or a state with Stalin-grade control. The USSR took agrarian peasants to the first man in space in 20 years; China built its own version. India has neither the state capacity, the political will, nor the balance sheet to do that. So nobody does it.

Talent was never the bottleneck. Capital structure was. If you want a SpaceX or a TSMC born here, you need an environment where a conglomerate can deploy $10B and sleep at night: a low-rate regime that makes long-duration investment rational, IP and patent courts that actually function, and policy that doesn't get rewritten every 2-3 years on a minister's whim. Stability is the input. Innovation is the output.

Bay Area versus Bombay, we are several universes apart, and you cannot print your way across that distance; you can only compound your way there, and we've spent years optimising for the opposite. The gap won't be bridged. With luck, it narrows.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

As a Hindu, I believe the entire Universe is the manifestation of the Divine. All of it - the river, the tree, the snake, the stone, the earthworm, the cow, the monkey, the elephant - all of it is divine manifestation. That belief is not Demonic, it is not Satanic, that is the path to living in harmony with nature and with other human beings.

Arrogant, intolerant monotheism - see the video below - that goes around labeling reverence for all of nature as "demonic" and "satanic"- that belief is what makes men do evil.

History supplies ample evidence. Hindus did not run crusades. Hindus did not burn witches at the stake. Hindus did not invade nations and enslave people in the name of bringing "Civilization" and "God" to "pagans".

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

With the resignation of Justice Yashwant Verma, here’s a replug of my zero hour intervention on accountability in judiciary

[GemsOfINDOLOGY @GemsOfINDOLOGY]

Everyone remembers the trains.

Nobody reads what the British wrote about us before laying those tracks.

Zoom in. Then defend it.

[Prashanth Prakash @prashanthp]

Bengaluru is still ahead, but the playbook for urban growth is evolving rapidly.
Curious how founders and builders are seeing this shift on the ground.

Read the full WeAreCity 2026 data report here: https://t.co/JJgcJ6g9QU

@MBPatil @PriyankKharge @GoyalMalini @UnboxingBlr

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Unfortunately, AI deepfakes and fabricated content are destabilizing open societies.

Watermarking and clear source standards are increasingly necessary.

We must also be more vigilant about child safety.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Well, bank loans do not go bad immediately. They will take 3-6 years before they show up in the books. Now do the math on when the banking decisions were taken that led to NPAs. Works in reverse as well. The decisions taken in 2017-19 are now showing up in the data. I assumed that this was a good faith question.

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

Joined government as Principal Economic Advisor in Feb 2017. It is now nine years! The bank NPA issue was the very first policy problem handed to me by then Finance Minister late Arun Jaitley-ji. Yesterday saw this image from latest Economic Survey: NNPA is now down to 0.5% - seemed like an impossible goal at that time. Cannot believe it!!

[Dr. Vikram Sampath, FRHistS @vikramsampath]

Couldn't agree more ...@sanjeevsanyal & the entire team of @INSVKaundinya are completely worthy of all state honours including the Padma, for this rare feat !

[Nabaarun Barooah @BarooahNabaarun]

Some men read history.
Some men write history.
Some men create history.

@sanjeevsanyal just did all three.

[Jugeshinder Robbie Singh @jugeshinder]

When you remember how great your civilization was... you stop accepting mediocrity
INSV Kaundinya just pulled off something epic. No engine. No metal fasteners. Just ancient Indian stitching tech from 5th-century Ajanta Caves paintings.
16 crew. 18 days: Wind power across the Arabian Sea.
Left Porbandar Dec 29, 2025 → arrived Muscat Jan 14, 2026 with a massive water salute welcome.
This isn't nostalgia. It's proof India had world-class seafaring tech 1,500+ years ago—long before anyone else claimed it.
Every successful voyage like this wakes up the nation:
We built empires on innovation, craftsmanship & bold exploration. This is the spark for India's renaissance by 2047.
Ancient genius + modern ambition = unstoppable.
Kaundinya just reminded 1.4B people: We were once the greatest maritime power on Earth.
Time to become it again.
@sanjeevsanyal @ARanganathan72

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

Remember the “historians” who were claiming Sanjeev Sanyal wasn’t a “true historian”. Guess what? He’s achieved practical proof, that none of these clowns have ever gotten close to. These “historians” don’t have the training to even read an archeological site report leave alone sail a ship.

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

CONgress & Lefti$ts glorified INVADER Mughals & PM .@narendramodi Ji destroyed their AGENDA with 1 symbolic move.

INSV Kaundinya (recreation of 5th century Bharatiya ship using ancient stitching technique) given water salute as it completes its voyage from Gujarat's Porbandar to Oman's Muscat. It departed from Gujarat's Porbandar on 29 Dec 2025.

NOTE- MUGHALS DIDN'T EVEN EXIST IN 5TH CENTURY. उन के तो अंडे भी नहीं फूटे थे!

BHARAT EXISTED BEFORE MUGHALS. BHARAT HAD IT'S OWN CULTURE, HISTORY & ENGINEERING. Mughals were the losers who only refurbished Bharat's rich art.

Modi Ji destroyed Nehru backed Fake Historians with this one symbolic move.

Pls take this post to everyone you know to make all realise FACTS!

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

In a sacred grove in the inland forests of Goa, there is an ancient shrine to Nau Devi - the goddess of ocean voyages. We went there today to seek her blessings for our stitched ship project

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

I, on behalf of the crew, would like thank Nau Devi for the safe arrival of INSV Kaundinya in Muscat on the auspicious day of Makara Sankranti.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | INSV Kaundinya given water salute as it completes its voyage from Gujarat's Porbandar to Oman's Muscat

INSV Kaundinya is a recreation of a 5th century Indian ship using the ancient stitching technique. The ship departed from Gujarat's Porbandar on 29th December 2025