Siddharth Dave

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Always curious. Always.

[Brendan Samek @brendan_samek]

Everyone in Toronto should get on a Toronto island ferry at night.

It's impossible not to believe in this country when you look at what we've built.

[Kunal Kapoor @kapoorkkunal]

The West didn't just build institutions. It built fandom around them.

NASA hoodies. Air Force jackets.

Great seeing ISRO and Indian forces merch on the shelves, and soon in my wardrobe :)

A confident country doesn't just celebrate its institutions, it turns them into culture.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

The 1978 Ranga-Billa case involved the brutal kidnapping and murder of teenage siblings Geeta and Sanjay Chopra in Delhi by career criminals Kuljeet Singh (Ranga) and Jasbir Singh (Billa).

The horrific crime shocked the nation, leading to a massive manhunt and the swift conviction of both killers, who were ultimately hanged in 1982.

The investigation was led by Inspector VP Gupta of the Delhi Police, with SI Ram Chander serving on the team. A bystander, who had tried to save the children, and later helped the police identify the killers by providing their descriptions was Babulal. The journalist who covered the case was Prabha Dutt.

Amazon Prime's series Raakh, which is based on this incident, replaces Inspector VP Gupta with SI Jayprakash Jatav, explicitly portrayed as a Dalit officer navigating institutional bias. Furthermore, SI Ram Chander is replaced by SI Javed Murtaza, Babulal by Saleem, and Prabha Dutt by Nisar, while a lazy hawaldar character named Mishra has been added to the narrative.

This isn't creative liberty. Creative liberty is meant to enhance a story, not distort historical facts to fit a specific ideological agenda. Another stark reminder of how easily history can be rewritten in plain sight under the convenient guise of creative freedom.

[Aishwarya @AishwaryaBaddie]

Indian culture is Goated fr

[Aishwarya @AishwaryaBaddie]

Indian culture and Indian beauty 💅🏻

[Manuscripts & Inscriptions Digitization Foundation @midf_org]

Something most people don't know:

India holds the largest written record of any civilisation.
1 crore manuscripts. 3 lakh inscriptions in stone.

We gave the world zero. Wrote down surgery and calculus centuries before the West did.

Today, less than 1% can be read or searched. The rest is quietly turning to dust.

In the age of AI, knowledge a machine can't read is knowledge the world will never use.

MIDF is working to change that.

Help us keep India's memory alive. Donate below

[Parimal @Fintech03]

A cartoon being circulated on X says Indians should thank the British because James Prinsep deciphered the Brahmi script & helped recover our history. :))

Do you know before he became a so-called expert on our ancient scripts, Prinsep’s primary day job was serving as the Assay Master (chief metallurgist & currency controller) at the Banaras & Calcutta Mints. He was not an academic; he was an economic agent sent to fundamentally alter India's wealth distribution system.

Until the 1830s, India had a beautifully diverse, highly resilient decentralized currency system. Local kingdoms, merchant guilds & regional mints issued their own silver and gold coins. Local money-changers (Shroffs) evaluated coins based on pure metal weight. James Prinsep was the literal architect who destroyed this system.

Using his position as Assay Master, Prinsep spent yrs systematically studying the purity of native Indian coins. He did not do this out of cultural curiosity, he did it to calculate how the East India Company could completely monopolize India's money supply.

His efforts directly culminated in the Coinage Act of 1835: The Elimination of Indian Heritage: Prinsep spearheaded the policy that completely banned all local Indian regional coins & traditional designs. He personally oversaw the design of the new, uniform colonial Silver Rupee. He forced the removal of traditional Indian symbols, replacing them with the cold, imperial face of British King William IV.

What makes this a financial "thug" operation is how the transition was enforced on ordinary Indians. By passing laws that declared traditional regional currencies invalid for tax payments, the British forced Indian merchants, farmers & citizens to bring their centuries-old ancestral coins to Prinsep's mints. Under Prinsep's direct technical supervision, the British mints engaged in massive institutional exploitation:

- They took the pure, high-quality silver coins of Indian states.
- They melted them down in giant cauldrons.
- They charged the native Indians a heavy seigniorage (a minting fee/tax) just to exchange their own ancestral silver for the new British currency.

This artificial bottleneck triggered a massive shortage of circulating cash in rural India, causing local economies to crash while systematically vacuuming pure silver out of Indian hands & placing it directly under East India Company control. It was 1 of the largest state-sanctioned currency manipulation schemes in world history.

But what is often sold to us is the idea that Prinsep was a polymath who single-handedly deciphered our ancient scripts. Ask the same people who Rathnapala was & you are likely to be met with complete silence. :(

[Royal Singh 🦁 @Royalsinghz3]

This is the India, that the world doesn't want you to see

Reposts so the world sees !

[Aravind @aravind]

This is a big win for India in the last decade.

But even with all such positives, there's an attempt at psyops by foreign seeded narrative using local politicians & account farms that India's environment is at threat.

So it can be used to program the public to fight India's strategic Andaman Nicobar port and military base development.

Public should not fall for it. Remember they are the same forces and it is same playbook adopted in Kenya to evict Adani from doing a project and capture it later.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

In our ancient texts, when the rishis mapped the internal enemies of human consciousness (Shadripu), they listed things like lust (Kama), anger (Krodha) & greed (Lobha). But the ultimate, most subtle virus they identified was Matsarya (मात्सर्य).

Modern dictionaries loosely translate Matsarya as jealousy. In Sankhya philosophy, Matsarya is much more sinister. It is defined as the inability to bear the presence/happiness/rise of another being. It is the pain our ego feels simply because someone else exists & is being noticed.

X is a platform designed entirely to trigger Matsarya. Every time an individual posts a success/an opinion/a moment of spotlight, it lands directly on the feeds of 1000s of others whose minds are in a state of Asat (restlessness).

The ego cannot process the other person's space, so it immediately weaponizes Krodha (anger) as a self-defense mechanism to pull them down. The hatred on X is nothing but millions of bruised egos experiencing Matsarya simultaneously in a digital public square.

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

One of the most powerful symbols of India’s unbroken civilizational continuity!

Discovered at Mohenjo-daro in undivided India this steatite seal, about 4,300-year-old, shows a seated figure in yogic posture (widely seen as Shiva-Pashupati) seated in Mulabandhasana, surrounded by animals.

While ancient sites may lie across modern borders, India remains the living custodian of this heritage. The yogic posture, Shaivite symbolism, and spiritual ethos seen in the Pashupati Seal continue to thrive in India’s temples, daily worship of Shiva, yogic traditions, and cultural life even today.

From the Vedic period to contemporary Bharat, this civilizational thread has remained alive and unbroken — deeply embedded in our philosophy, rituals, and collective consciousness.🇮🇳

#PashupatiSeal #IndusSaraswatiCivilization #LivingIndianHeritage

[CNBC @CNBC]

Jeff Bezos: "If I do my job right, the value to society and civilization from my for-profit companies will be much, much larger than the good that I do with my charitable giving."

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

Imagine your boss doubled your pay tomorrow. Henry Ford did exactly that to his factory workers on January 5, 1914. The New York Times' financial editor walked into his newsroom and asked if Ford had lost his mind. It built the American middle class.

Before Ford's announcement, the auto industry paid roughly $2.34 a day for nine hours of work. Ford bumped his minimum to $5 for an eight-hour shift. More than double the pay for one less hour of work, and no factory in America had ever paid that kind of money for unskilled labor.

Twelve thousand people showed up at the Ford factory gates the following week, sleeping outside in a January blizzard. Fire hoses came out to push the crowds back. Ford had to announce that only people who had lived in Detroit for six months would be hired.

Two years later, Ford's profits had doubled. Before the raise, he had been losing nearly four workers a year for every single job on his factory floor. After, he was losing barely any. Output per worker rose 40 to 70 percent. In 1914 alone, Ford sold 308,000 Model Ts, more cars than every other carmaker put together.

A Model T in 1908 cost the average American 18 months of pay. By 1925, it cost 4 months. The car got faster to build too: twelve hours per car dropped to 93 minutes. By 1918, half the cars on American roads were Model Ts. Fifteen million rolled off the line over 19 years.

Then in 1926, Ford did it again. On May 1st, he gave his workers a five-day, 40-hour week, with no cut in pay. Other manufacturers were forced to match, and the two-day American weekend spread across the country. Twelve years later, federal law made it official.

Henry Ford was generous with his own money too. He gave away about a third of his income every year, well above the 5 percent that rich Americans typically gave back then. He also put about $14 million into building the Henry Ford Hospital in Detroit, which is still one of the city's largest today. The Ford Foundation, set up in 1936, was originally a way to avoid taxes and keep his family in control of the company.

The foundation got huge later, but only because Ford Motor Company stock kept rising. Even his charity money came from the business.

Ford's personal giving helped a few thousand patients at his hospital. The $5 day, the cheap Model T, and the weekend reached hundreds of millions of working families over the next hundred years. Almost everything that became normal "middle class life" in America, a steady paycheck, the weekend off, a car in the driveway, came from choices Ford made to win in business.

Bezos has a point. Ford's wages, his car, and his weekend did more for the average American family than every check Ford himself wrote to charity.

[Economic Times @EconomicTimes]

India's Afcons emerges as successful bidder to construct railway line in Europe

https://t.co/nThl0IvXxh

[With Love Bihar @WithLoveBihar]

🚨SOS Alert 🚨

Deepak's wife Sushma and his two children Anaya and Pradyumna are missing.

They boarded Karnataka Express, train no 12627 to New Delhi from Bengaluru but never reached.

Please help in finding them.

Contact: Deepak – 8930189467 / 7078872866

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

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[Siddharth Dave @whatisstartup]

@varrock Water

[Mona Shandilya @RoseTint4]

This is our India!

What makes this video special that it’s made by a Kannadiga!

[Swathi Bellam @BellamSwathi]

Hinduphobia has gone to different level in US today with SNL doing this Satanic cults skit today with Lady Gaga and using plenty of hindu imagery gods and chants
They also use lot of dead religious symbols but how can they use hinduism followed by 100 Crore people and they depict it as a religion of Satan
Imagine if they had used just 1 name from religion of peace
They would end up in pieces