Ded Zeppelin

A hyperactive, attention-deficit, certified nerd.

[Ded Zeppelin @wit_monger]

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[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

For the last 15 years, I've always had one dream and desire which was to make Indian history interesting for everyone.

In that time period, I have tried writing blogs, long-form posts, stories and threads, to do exactly that.

Some worked, most didn't. But with every post, I always had this nagging question.

Why is Indian history always taught with a tunnel vision. Why is it so fragmented?

Why do we always learn things from the perspective of one empire, kingdom, king or invader.

Why do we never see an all India view of history?

I mean most of us struggle if we are ever are asked this question

1. What was the true extent of the Mughal Empire at its peak?
2. Who were the Cholas' contemporaries in North India?
3. While Muhammad Ghori was fighting the Second Battle of Tarain, who ruled Thanjavur?
4. While Harsha ruled Kannauj, who ruled Assam?

I have always wished there was a simple way to see the political map of India for any year in Indian history.

I have always wished there be a place where

1. One Could Select any year and instantly see who ruled every part of the Indian subcontinent.
2. One could Discover the important events that happened in that year
3. One could select a time period, say 1700 - 1947, and see how the Indian subcontinent evolved in that period.
4. How did one tiny red dot in West Bengal, from a tiny red dot in Europe, somehow came to rule an entire subcontinent of 400 million people,

For years, that idea remained just an idea and a dream because

1. I didn't know how to build a website.
2. I couldn't afford to hire someone who could.

Then Claude Came along.

Thanks to generous support and heavy lifting by Claude, over the last few months, that 15-year-old idea is slowly transforming into a reality.

And today, it has reached a position, where I'm excited to share with all of you, the first sneak peek of https://t.co/6ph2s9Zzl9

It is my attempt to create an interactive historical atlas of India that lets you travel through time and explore the political history of the subcontinent, one year at a time.

This is my attempt to make history interactive and fun.

I'd love to hear what you think.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

I always thought why the cultural right has historically lost ground despite having truth on its side. IMO, the Right & Center have suffered from a self-imposed handicap: let us call this "Yudhishthira Paradox"

They bring the rules of a Dharmayuddha (righteous war) to a street fight, while the Left plays by the rules of absolute, asymmetric annihilation. The Left does not want to win a debate; they want to destroy your livelihood, cancel your credentials, dox your family & completely wipe you out from public life.

In the Mahabharata, the Kauravas systematically broke every single rule of traditional Dharma. They tried to poison Bhima, burn the Pandavas alive in the house of lac, publicly disrobe a queen & trick them in a rigged game of dice.

When the war started, Yudhishthira initially wanted to stick to chivalrous, rule-bound warfare (Prakasha-Yuddha). But Bhagavan Shri Krishna explicitly rejected this naive approach. Krishna introduced Kuta-Yuddha: strategic, asymmetric warfare where the rules of the enemy are turned against them to ensure their absolute elimination.

When the enemy has already abandoned Dharma, sticking to abstract moral superiority is not virtue; it is suicide.

Acharya Chanakya, the master of statecraft in the Arthashastra, devoted entire chapters to Kantaka-Shodhana, which literally translates to the "clearing of thorns" from society.

The biggest mistake the modern Right makes is confusing Dharma with Western pacifism/weak sentimentalism. "If they abuse me, I will be polite, because my culture teaches tolerance."

Our culture teaches Kshatradharma. Dharma comes from the root word Dhri (to sustain). Anything that destroys the balance of truth & survival of society is Adharma. Allowing a toxic, malicious bully to destroy your life, family & heritage while you sit back & claim moral superiority is actually Adharma because you are enabling evil to win.

As Rishi Vishwamitra taught Sri Rama & as Samarth Ramdas taught Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj: Evil must be met with overwhelming, decisive force.

The Left operates on the rules of Saul Alinsky’s Rules for Radicals: "Freeze the target, personalize it & polarize it." They attack the person, not the argument. When you are fighting for Dharma in the intellectual space, your goal should not be to get a "good job" certificate from the Leftist elites. Your goal must be the complete, data-driven & structural dismantling of their fraudulent narrative.

As the Rig Veda (10.84.2) says in the Manyu Suktam:

अग्निरिव मन्यो तविषितः सहस्व सेनानीर्नः सहुरे हूतेधि |
हत्वाय शत्रून वि भजस्व वेद ओजो मिमानो वि मर्धोनुदस्व ||

Flashing like fire, be thou, O conquering Manyu, invoked, O Victor, as our army's leader. Slay thou our foes, distribute their possessions: show forth thy vigour, scatter those who hate us.

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

There's a reason why the Congress party is absolutely obsessed with the "Youth Vote". More specially, the votes of people who are under 30 years of age.

Most of it has to do with the fact that they have given up on winning over the votes of people who have any lasting memory of what UPA rule looked like.

[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

[Shubham Singh @NewSharifInTown]

I went through 3 very detailed pieces on Ederson by @htomufc, @Silvakn0ws, and u/gultaam1007 on reddit, here's a quick summary:

Some things all three agree on:

🟢 Physicality and Work-Rate - robust, high-intensity "engine" who never stops running. Physically strong and can easily ride contact against physical opponents.

🟠 Safe, Uninventive Passing - he's a safety-first passer. Good at circulating possession but doesn't have the x-factor to consistently break lines (not close to Casemiro)

🔴Struggles Under High Pressure: Not press resistant. He can have loose touches and sometimes lose the ball due to a lack of scanning.

🟢 Exceptional Availability and Durability: He's ever-present. Only missed 10 games through injuries.

Some other stuff:

🟠 Aerial ability: He's decent. Not as good as Casemiro. Can do a job, but we have to see how the ability translates into PL.

🟠Ball Carrying: Some numbers could look good, but are a little deceptive. He isn't really a great progressive carrier. Just decent at it. He's actually better at making runs into the final third than running with the ball.

🟢 Good anticipation and reading of the game: He reads the game very well and can "sniff and snuff out threat" seconds before it develops.

🟢 Shooting and late box runs: His shooting is good, and he could benefit from shooting more (a bit like Tonali in that regard). His USP is his making late, crashing runs into the box to score, particularly headers (he could be like Mctominay in that regard).

[sphinx @protosphinx]

They drop this news right as market opens. Then right as market closes they drop the ‘deal is in sight’ news. Like clockwork.

In awe of all the corruption right in public sight. And every major account faithfully follows the same cycle. Every week.

[Shubham Singh @NewSharifInTown]

@CFCms3 115 breaches by one club

[Ministry of Culture @MinOfCultureGoI]

This 4,500-year-old terracotta dice from the Indus-Saraswati Civilization is a powerful reminder of India’s living heritage. Dicing is also mentioned as a popular game in Rig and Atharva Vedas (two of the four sacred Vedic scriptures).

From symbols and craftsmanship to rituals, yogic practices, and collective memory, numerous elements of ancient Indian civilization continue to thrive in the daily social and religious life of Indian society across regions and communities.

Civilizational inheritance is not just about geography or ruins, it is defined by living customs, symbols, rituals, and unbroken cultural consciousness. India is the enduring living continuity of the Indus-Saraswati Civilization.

#IndusSaraswatiCivilization #AncientIndianHeritage

[Parimal @Fintech03]

This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke.

Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects.
When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart.

​If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance:

असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l
हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll

Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory.

This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence.

Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context:

अश‍िक्ष‍ितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l
श‍िक्ष‍ितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll

If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased!

Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists.

She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.

[Sandeep Parekh @SandeepParekh]

The post combines one valid intuition with several economic fallacies. Here is what is wrong with it. 🧵

[Karthik Reddy @bykarthikreddy]

- 9 FTAs with 38 countries in less than a decade
- India AI Mission, 1000s of GPUs being built.
- Modi Govt has approved $18 billion under semiconductor projects.
- India reached 50% non-fossil installed electricity capacity five years ahead of its 2030 target
- 44.5 GW of renewable capacity added in 2025 alone, a record.

The recent 5 nation tour PM Modi's complete focus was on green hydrogen, deep tech, semiconductor, energy security, maritime and critical minerals collaboration.

The problem is, you hate to read beyond media's TRP friendly content.

[Andrej Karpathy @karpathy]

Personal update: I've joined Anthropic. I think the next few years at the frontier of LLMs will be especially formative. I am very excited to join the team here and get back to R&D. I remain deeply passionate about education and plan to resume my work on it in time.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

United, always ❤️

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Flash: Netherlands will hand over the 11th-century Anaimangalam Chola Copper Plates to India during PM Modi’s visit. The 21-plate set records Rajaraja I’s grant to a Buddhist vihara at Nagapattinam & has been at Leiden University for over 300 years.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

This is totally false.

Not an iota of truth in this.

There is no question of putting such restrictions on foreign travel.

We remain committed to improving ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and ‘Ease of Living’ for our people.

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

I’ve rarely seen a bigger bunch of whiners than us Indians right now.
The Prime Minister announced basic austerity steps because of the global oil and gas crisis triggered by the war in Iran. Countries worldwide are responding sensibly: raising fuel prices, shifting to four-day work weeks, shortening school hours, even ramping up coal production. And a lot more.
None of this is their fault, but they’re doing what needs to be done to tide over the crisis and stand up to a bully called Trump.
Here in India? Supposedly mature people are throwing tantrums on TV and social media about working from home, missing weekend trips to Dubai, or not being able to fill up their tanks freely, or schools going online, or not being able to buy gold.
Some are even threatening to buy extra fuel just to spite the government.🤦‍♂️
Others are hectoring the Prime Minister to fly Economy on his global visits or attend these events online. Yeah, see, they told him. And just won for themselves a weekend trip in Timbuctoo.
And it’s not like the Prime Minister said we are on the verge of a crisis. We have oil and gas for 60 days and tankers are already on their way.
But, does that help?
Nope, We moan and whine like he asked us to give up our cars, food and holidays. Like he asked us to stop breathing. They think paying taxes entitles them to do that.
In case you hadn’t noticed there’s a war out there and it’s cutting off essential supplies to the world. When will supposedly enlightened Indians understand that this is a crisis not of our doing?
We had two options. Get on our knees and fellate a megalomaniacal bully like Pakistan is doing. Or stand up to him. And yes, when we do that, we’re bound to get bruised.
The upwardly mobile middle class Indian is just fucking spoilt.
Seriously, some of them should be airdropped into Iran or Lebanon to get an idea of what those guys are up against every day.

[Ramdoot Restores @RamdootRestores]

This 150-year-old Vav is still alive. And the proof we uncovered today will leave you speechless.

When our team stepped into the darkness for Phase 3, we expected to find buried history. But what we captured on camera changes everything.

[Manchester United @ManUtd]

Goalscorer.
Assist provider.
Award winner.

Presenting @TheOfficialFWA Footballer of the Year for 2025/26: @B_Fernandes8! 🏆❤️

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Boosting India’s infrastructure, furthering economic growth!

The Cabinet’s approval for railways projects covering 19 Districts across Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Karnataka, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana will enhance connectivity and improve operational efficiency. It will improve access to key tourism sites across the nation as well.

https://t.co/NHdZpXOe0s

[Raj Malhotra @Rajmalhotrachd]

Dear Yogendra Yadavji @_YogendraYadav, your recent piece asking the Opposition to "rewire the machine" makes for incredibly gripping prose.

But when we strip away the elegant, fatalistic victimhood, your core arguments collapse under the sheer weight of their own glaring contradictions.

Let’s do a thorough, unsparing forensic audit of these claims,
shall we? 🧵👇