Have decided to post @OGSaffron's tweets as often as I can. They won't be as timely/spontaneous/frequent as OG's, of course. The positivity that he splashed across twitter skies must continue. Each of tweets will be credited.#OGSaffron

In 1965, the team of the acclaimed film Shakespeare-Wallah traveled to the prestigious Berlin International Film Festival in Germany for its screening and competition. Shashi Kapoor, Felicity Kendal, Madhur Jaffrey, and Soumitra Chatterjee represented the film. The festival became a proud milestone for Indian cinema when Madhur Jaffrey won the Silver Bear for Best Actress, earning international recognition and bringing great honor to India’s film industry.

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Loneliness and loss of home - These two emotions can never be understood unless you have suffered it yourself. You cannot sympathize, you cannot empathize, you cannot identify. Loneliness corrodes you from inside and loss of home makes you vulnerable even if you buy 5 houses each one bigger and better than the previous.

India throws away over 7 million tonnes of textile waste every year, not because people don't care but because they don’t know how to dispose of it. Two engineers saw this gap and built NoKasa, an app where you can book a pickup. An agent comes to your home, grades your clothes on the spot, and sends cashback via UPI immediately. They've already kept 1 lakh garments out of landfills. Such a good innovation to keep cities clean.

Ancient India holds a completely mind-blowing, hardly-known conceptual connection to small sample statistics problem: estimating a massive population from a microscopic sample. It is recorded in the Vana Parva of the Mahabharata, through a highly advanced mathematical concept known as Akṣa-Hṛdaya (The Heart of the Dice/Numbers). In the epic, King Nala loses his entire kingdom in a rigged game of dice because he lacks the cognitive framework to understand probability & patterns. He goes into exile, loses his identity & ends up working as a humble charioteer named Bāhuka for King Rituparna of Ayodhya. Rituparna was not just a king; he was a master of Akṣa-Hṛdaya, which ancient texts describe as a secret system that allowed a person to immediately compute vast numbers & understand the mathematics of gambling. 1 day, as Nala is driving Rituparna’s chariot through a dense forest, they pass a massive, sprawling Vibhitaka tree (the Terminalia bellerica, ironically the very tree whose nuts were dried & used as dice in ancient India). Rituparna looks at the bursting, chaotic canopy of leaves & fruits & makes a casual boast to Nala: "Look at this tree, Bāhuka. Not all of its leaves & fruits are visible to the eye. But I can tell you that on this tree, there are exactly 50 million leaves & 2095 fruits." Nala is stunned & deeply skeptical. He stops the chariot & says, "O King, you are making a claim about things that are hidden from view. I am going to chop down this tree, count every single leaf & verify if your words are true." Nala literally spends hours cutting the branches & counting. When the final tally matches Rituparna's calculation down to the last single digit, Nala falls at his feet & begs to learn the secret. How did King Rituparna do this? Mainstream mythological retellings treat this as a magical mantra/a divine superpower. But in reality, Rituparna was executing the world's oldest recorded example of Estimation by Sampling. Rituparna could not see 50 million leaves. He did not have time to count them. Instead, he took a tiny sample of a single branch, counted the density of leaves on that specific layout, calculated the total volumetric area of the tree's canopy & multiplied the sample weight against the whole. The text notes that the moment Nala absorbs the mathematics of sampling & probability into his consciousness, the demon Kali (the personification of chaos, ignorance & bad luck) is literally vomited out of Nala’s body. In ancient Indian thought, mastering the mathematical relationship b/w a tiny sample & the grand universe was the ultimate spiritual tool to destroy chaos & regain control over destiny. 🙏🙏

x.com/Fintech03/status/20659… fascinating in-depth review of probability in ancient India by Prof. CK Raju ckraju.net/papers/Probabilit…

Friends, please check it out #NoAryans I had a wonderful discussion with @Pallavi_Aus @TheAusToday -No Race Aryan -Founders Zone for non-African genetic history- Make C and Female M in India 73KYA -Advanced Metal Age (Neo, Chalco, Bronze)- prehistoric golden era- our foundational era- only continuity from then onwards; no replacement

His name is Ranjitsinh Disale. He wanted to be an engineer. When that did not work out, his father suggested he train as a teacher instead. In 2009, he was posted to a government primary school in Paritewadi, a small village in Solapur district, Maharashtra. The school was a crumbling building wedged between two storerooms, one of which had been used as a cattle shed. What he found there troubled him. Girls were being married off young instead of being sent to class. Attendance was poor. The textbooks were written in a language many of the children, who spoke Kannada at home, could not properly read. He decided to fix all of it, starting with the books. He learned the children’s mother tongue and rewrote their textbooks in a language they could actually understand. Then he did something no one in India was doing at the time. He printed unique QR codes inside the textbooks, allowing students with access to a phone to scan a page and instantly access audio poems, video lessons and practice questions. A village school in Solapur had built a digital classroom out of paper and printed squares. The results changed the village. Girls’ attendance reached nearly one hundred percent. Teenage marriages in the area stopped. His QR code idea worked so well that the Maharashtra government adopted it across the state. The following year, the national education body embedded QR codes in textbooks across the country. In 2020, Ranjitsinh Disale won the Global Teacher Prize. He was chosen from more than twelve thousand nominations across roughly one hundred and forty countries and was the only Indian in the top ten. The award carried one million dollars, around seven crore rupees. Then he did something no winner had ever done before. He announced that he would give away half the prize money, dividing it equally among the other nine finalists so that their work could continue as well. He said teachers are the real change makers. He meant all of them, not just himself. A man who became a teacher only because engineering did not work out changed how an entire country learns, and then gave half his fortune to the people he had competed against. Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

Did you know that the East India Company literally hired fake scholars to rewrite the history of India? These fake historical narratives are still taught in the Indian school curriculum.

I am surprised that an Indian (judging from your name) doesn't mention that Bob Monroe's experiences and their 'mind-blowing' implications were experienced by Indian Rishis since 1000s of yrs. Or have you been cut off from your tradition? Many Indians are cut off unfortunately. "You are not the body" is basic knowledge for Hindus and out of body experience can happen spontaneously. It happened to me, too.

Co-founder of @Wikipedia, @lsanger agrees that bias exists on the platform in an exclusive discussion on HAF’s Wikipedia page vandalism on @ndtv.

"No European country has been attacked with Indian Weapons... So Keep that in Mind"...!!! I think Europe was not expecting that answer from Minister @DrSJaishankar 👏

When influential scholars shape generations, should we take their claims at face value? @ManognaSastry critically examines academic voices and the narratives that have shaped public discourse, asking whether the evidence supports widely accepted claims. •Ten Heads of Ravana: tenheadsofravana.com @RajivMessage @IFIMessage @Banyantree_org #tenheadsofravana 🎥 Watch now👇

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We printed this in our wedding leaflet. Serves as a good (albeit weird) toast, too.

#addaaroma2026 on Instagram “Come have dinner with me… at a stranger’s house.” 👀 Welcome to Adda & Aroma Pune’s most intimate supper club. 🍽️ Strangers walk in… family walks out. Hosted by Debashish Chakravarty where every dish tells a story.

Banned for being "vulgar." Reclaimed on the big screen. But what is she actually doing? Indian classical dance uses a complex vocabulary of hand gestures called mudras. She isn't just dancing; she is speaking. A masterpiece of storytelling that survived erasure. #Indian #Bharatnatyam

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ISLAM is only 1416 years old. But "Qutub Minar's" Iron pillar is 1600 years old. They themselves say that Iron pillar pre-dates Qutub Minar, then how can it be "Qutub Minar's" Iron pillar? This is how these propaganda historians spread falsehood. Muslims have the "Time machine" too. They can go in past & do things. Its a shame that "Dhruv Stambha" is falsely attributed to Muslim invaders. Why @ncert does not teach true history? Why this open propaganda against Hindus?

A rock carved image of Hanuman ji that i witnessed yesterday morning at the Swamimalai trekking path in Yelagiri, TN.