Milestone Achieved ✅ Speaking at #TEDx was such an overwhelming experience for me, given watching #TEDtalks since my college days. It was a dream to be able to take to the stage of TEDx 🙏🏻 #Grateful

Two LGBT rights activists, @CitizenAnkit and @YuvalDavid, standing on the Tel Aviv beach where the most amazing and inspiring LGBT Pride march just happened, hundreds of thousands strong—and even supported and protected by the Israeli government. We speak about something the hypocritical and performative “Queer for Palestine” crowd refuses to admit : where exactly in Gaza or the West Bank could any LGBT ever happen? #TelAvivPride #LGBTQ #IStandWithIsrael

nationalist homosexuals are sexy

Carried the Indian flag through the Tel Aviv Pride Parade today and was met with so much warmth and curiosity from Israelis about India. Moments like this remind me why India-Israel friendship matters, not just at the level of governments, but person to person, heart to heart. Israel continues to be one of India’s most genuine friends in West Asia, and this relationship deserves to grow stronger. 🇮🇳 🇮🇱 🏳️‍🌈 #TelAvivPride #IndiaIsrael #PeopleToPeople @TelAviv @IsraelinIndia @israelinMumbai @Israel

Spent the morning listening to @Jonathan_Elk on Lebanon and global geopolitics, the kind of talk most analysts dance around for twenty minutes. A refreshing change from the usual conference circuit, both politically and otherwise. He’s the kind of voice that doesn’t fit anyone’s comfortable narrative. Lebanese-born, Gay, Christian, and an unapologetic defender of Israel. Stories like his remind you that belonging is rarely a straight line (pun very intended).

🇮🇱 The measure of a human being is not what they do when life is comfortable. This week I met Israel’s Deputy Foreign Minister @SharrenHaskel inside a bunker, on a day when her country was being attacked. Her first question to every delegate in the room: how can we help your community? That is not politics. That’s something closer to grace. 🏳️‍🌈 She wanted to know how Israel could support LGBTQ people and human rights around the world, even while her own people spent the early morning in shelters. 🇮🇱🇮🇳 I told her India and Israel understand each other at a level that goes beyond treaties and statements. The shared experience of cross-border terrorism is something Indians understand without needing much explanation. The meeting was in a situation room inside a bunker. The conversation was anything but bunker mentality. Thank you @IsraelMFA for making this possible.

राम नाम मनि दीप धरु, जीह देहरी द्वार। तुलसी भीतर बाहेरहुँ, जौं चाहसि उजियार॥ Chanted the holy name of Krushna at the holy site in the holy land 🙏🏻 📍 Western Wall, Jerusalem

Hindu In Jerusalem 🙏🏻

Dinner in Jerusalem ❤️

🇮🇱 My First time in a shelter, but Israelis have made resilience look like second nature. #WokeUplikeThis

When sleep and excitement are together 🌸 The land of Abraham is calling ✈️

🇺🇳 UN Charter is 80 years old this year. It was built on the specific horror of what came before it. The generation that built it is gone. The generation inheriting it has no visceral memory of what its absence costs. That generational gap is not abstract. It’s a vulnerability.

🇮🇳 The “values-free India” critique is lazy analysis. Strategic autonomy is not moral vacancy. India might be the most values-consistent major power right now. The US has abandoned multilateralism under Trump. China weaponises norms. Europe moralises without capacity. India’s values - strategic autonomy, civilizational pluralism and Global South solidarity are ones it actually practices. Are they the right values? Debate that. But “values-free”? That’s the laziest read of Indian foreign policy available.

🇮🇳 Fifteen countries. Twelve Western. Two East Asian democracies. And India. The only nation on this list with no alliance treaty, no collective defence obligation, no Article 5 to invoke. Just strategic weight too large to ignore.

It’s Pride month so I gifted myself Grindr Unlimited! 🏳️‍🌈😃🎀

Quick takes: — Deal closing this month? Yes. — Hormuz returning to pre-crisis status? No. The diplomacy and the strait are running on separate clocks.

🇵🇰 Pakistan claiming the Indus Valley Civilization is like a guy disowning his parents for decades, changing his entire identity to impress the other neighbors, and then showing up demanding inheritance rights. 😭 Most Mature Harappan sites are in India anyway but somehow the people desperate to be seen as ‘sons of Arabia’ suddenly become hardcore Indus enthusiasts when civilizational prestige is involved.

“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.”

🇮🇳🏳️‍⚧️ Breaking barriers, saving lives: Transgender volunteers in Kolhapur step into disaster response timesofindia.indiatimes.com/…