AR Rahman in his prime produced good pop music. But to transcend into classical, he would have had to conjure magic like this. 🧵 (1/5)

On the left is Nikhil Ravishankar. He went to school in New Zealand, worked all his life in NZ. Yet in 2025 when he was appointed CEO of Air New Zealand, the wave of online racism directed at him became such a tsunami that the country's 3 leading media outlets, the New Zealand Herald, 1News and Radio New Zealand, had to shut down their comments section. The sheer volume of racist comments made it impossible for moderators to do their job. It was like half the population of New Zealand had decided to be racist on Ravishankar. On the right is Air India’s current CEO - New Zealander Campbell Wilson whose appointment in 2022 attracted no such backlash in India. Wilson hails from Christchurch, arguably the most racist city in New Zealand.

Biker Bro - 1 Hyderbad RTC bus - 0 I plan to do this sometime, absolutely frustrated with the people coming in wrong direction

Indians were so repulsed by Europeans that they would wash their heads and eyes after merely seeing them. Indians described Europeans as vile, abominable, very dirty, and lacking basic manners. When you look at Europe's savage history, you realize they weren't wrong.

It is incredibly frustrating to watch celebrity chefs & pop-history influencers look directly into a camera & confidently state, "Did you know our favorite South Indian staple, the Idli, actually came from Indonesia?" This entire narrative is a colossal house of cards. It is a classic case of academic confirmation bias that transformed into viral disinformation. When an entire nation is taught to believe that they could not even figure out how to steam w/o foreign intervention, we have to look at the raw data to puncture the bubble. Almost every single article/tweet/celebrity chef video claiming that the idli is Indonesian can be traced back to exactly 1 source: a single speculative paragraph written by the late food historian K.T. Achaya in his 1994 book, Indian Food: A Historical Companion. Achaya theorized that between 800-1200 CE, Indonesian kings traveling to India brought royal chefs who introduced a fermented, steamed dish called "Kedli." Yrs after this book was published, investigative food journalists (such as Janaki Lenin) & linguistic researchers actually went to Indonesia to look for this legendary precursor. The word "Kedli" does not exist in any Indonesian language/dialect/historical dictionary. There is no historical record/recipe/anthropological trace of an ancient Indonesian dish called "Kedli." Achaya completely misread/manufactured the term based on a loose phonetic guess, yet it became an accepted "fact" because no 1 bothered to check the data. The claim that India did not have idlis until the 12th century is thoroughly obliterated by our own ancient libraries. The evolution of the idli is meticulously recorded in indigenous Indian encyclopedias & literature centuries before Achaya’s timeline: - 920 CE (Vaddaradhane): A classical Kannada text by the Jain monk Shivakotiacharya explicitly details a dish called Iddalige. It was a staple food item offered to Jain ascetics. - 1025 CE (Lokopakara): The earliest available Kannada encyclopedia, written by Chavundaraya II, gives a literal recipe for it: soaking split black gram (Urad Dal) in buttermilk, grinding it into a fine paste, mixing it with spices & the clear water of curd. - 1130 CE (Manasollasa): The Western Chalukya King Someshvara III wrote a monumental Sanskrit encyclopedia detailing royal cuisine. He explicitly gives the recipe for Iddarikā describing how the urad dal cakes are prepared & cooked. When skeptics are confronted with these ancient texts, they quickly shift the goalposts. They argue: Okay, fine, India had Iddalige, but it was just made of Urad Dal. It did not use rice/long fermentation/steaming... those techniques came from Indonesia! This is textually & technologically false. Critics often cite the 7th-century Chinese traveler Xuanzang, who claimed India did not use steaming vessels. But we do not need a specialized metallic Chinese steam-cooker to steam food. For millennia, Indians practiced Kopotapaka & basket-steaming, tying a thin muslin cloth over a standard clay pot (Kunda) filled with boiling water, placing the batter on top & covering it with a lid. In fact, the Kanchipuram Idli is still steamed in traditional bamboo baskets lined with Mandhara leaves. To say India did not understand fermentation until the 12th century is a historical joke. India is the cradle of complex biomaterial fermentation. The Rigveda & Ayurvedic Samhitas from 1000s of yrs ago are packed with advanced formulas for fermenting grains, herbs & dairy to create Asavas, Arishtas, Kanji & Dahi (Curd). The natural wild bacteria (Leuconostoc mesenteroides) required to leaven idli batter live natively on the husks of black gram found right here in the subcontinent. Why do celebrity chefs keep repeating this lie? Because of a deeply ingrained post-colonial inferiority complex that dominates modern food media. There is a structural bias that assumes any advanced, scientific culinary technique, like molecular leavening/pasteurization/specialized steaming must have been imported to India from somewhere else. It sounds edgy, counter-intuitive & intellectual for a chef to tell an Indian audience that their national breakfast is not actually theirs. The idli is a native, organic, ground-up evolutionary masterpiece of South Indian kitchen science. It evolved naturally from the lentil-based Iddalige of the 9th century into the perfectly balanced rice & lentil fluffy wonder we eat today. The next time a chef tries to tell you the idli is from Indonesia, ask them to show you the recipe for "Kedli." Watch how fast they fold.

This is pretty damning if accurate. Any comment, @elonmusk or @nikitabier? That's a serious question, not an accusation or allegation. I truly would like to know your thoughts. I think everyone on X would. Thank you.

Lance Naik Meenatchi Sundaram A (34 Rashtriya Rifles ) Took a bullet on his face and shoulder Killed the hardcore terrorist even after sustaining severe injuries ensuring the mission success Kirti Chakra felt proud today Jai Hind 🇮🇳

DW just appointed its new studio head for New Delhi. Wondering why Western media coverage of India always feels suspiciously identical? Just check their follower list. It’s amazing how much 'unbiased journalism' is just the same echo chamber validating itself.

AI poisoning is a thing. Gemini basically confessed that whenever my name comes up, it uses fallacious arguments.

The "CJP suppoter" Arfa is interviewing here is actually OpIndia undercover agent 😭 The full story below as recounted by the agent herself

Table showing Christian (Protestant) Missionary Societies in India— the year work began, stations, missionaries, local preachers, schools, pupils, Indian Christians, and communicants. Source: Indian Missionary Directory, London & New York, 1886. It just shows how many Christian missionaries and the societies invested in evangelical activities in India and actively promoted Christianity, mostly with the support of the British Indian administration. Besides being derided in history for promoting an alien faith and converting many innocent Indians, their activities also brought in the social reform movement to get rid of the social evils within Hindu society and protect the faith. The only positive effects of the Christian missionary societies were Education: They set up schools across the country, democratizing access to education, which laid the groundwork for modern academic institutions. Linguistic Development: To spread the gospel, missionaries translated religious texts into numerous Indian vernaculars and developed the first dictionaries and printed texts in languages like Bengali, Hindi, and Tamil. Besides the above, they also laid the foundation of a modern social service system in India as well as establishment of a healthcare system. But it must be said that the missionaries used these to promote the evangelical activities. #Christianity #India #history

In the 1st video, the lady interrupting CJI Suryakant is not a student but a Professor of Geography and anti-India activist, Kalpana Wilson. She is daughter of Amrit Wilson whose OCI was cancelled by GoI few months ago. She is ideologically aligned to India's CPI(ML). She has a daughter, Ananya Wilson-Bhattacharya with CPI(ML)'s Dipankar Bhattacharya. She is a separatist, supporter of Umar Khalid and Maoist Stan Swamy. She and her mother were in the fore-front spreading hatred against Hindus during Leicester riots of 2022. Read more about her here - stophinduhate.org/hindu-hate…

France24’s focus on the Cockroach Janta Party is extremely interesting. I believe their journalists were present at Jantar Mantar today too. I have a little hitherto untold story about their anti-India and anti-Modi propaganda is. The story is from 2023 and a UNESCO event. In 2023, a UNESCO event was meant to be held in Paris. Its focus was the safety of women journalists. I was invited as a speaker. A preliminary discussion was held (this is after my tickets were booked) with a France24 journalist for “onboarding” - this was at the organisers behest. During the discussion, this France24 journalist from Turkey asked me how I had been persecuted. I spoke extensively about my West Bengal experience. She asked me if I held Modi responsible. I told her that I was persecuted by Mamata Banerjee, an opposition leader. I told her about the rampant violence in India by Islamists and how, while a Samuel Patty becomes international news, a Kanhaiya Lal doesn’t. We spoke about the UNESCO report “chilling” and I told her how it’s not representative of India or women journalists. Not only does it not mention India, but it focuses on a handful of women journalists, not the unnamed, unseen hundreds. Throughout the conversation, she repeatedly wanted me to blame Modi. I didn’t. Throughout the conversation she asked me about how violence had increased after Modi came to power. I asked her how Modi could be held responsible for violence by those radical elements who opposed him and wanted to break India up. I was told by @rahulroushan that I erred. I shouldn’t have been so forthcoming at the outset, but at the event itself. He was right. The event was supposedly cancelled. I was informed informally by some ppl in the know that the France24 journalist and Muslim organisations had rallied to get me uninvited. Since that wasn’t possible without it turning into a PR nightmare, they cancelled the event. It’s truly easy to become an international face. Just abuse modi. That’s precisely what this is about. And this experience is how I know just how spineless people like Saurav Das are. They sold their country for 15 seconds of fame and money.

No one understood a composer's vision faster, and no one poured more focus into a song than SPB. Celebrating the life, friendship, and the unmatched achievement of 50,000 songs. Happy Birthday, SPB.

For years, major institutions have framed India and Hindus through the lens of nationalism, extremism, and suspicion. But what we've uncovered on @Wikipedia raises a deeper question: who gets to write the public record? Our investigation found that a small cluster of anonymous editors controlled more than 80% of the @HinduAmerican page. Among the findings: Blatant Conflict of Interest: The editors aggressively shaping HAF’s page were the exact same people controlling the Wikipedia profiles of HAF's legal adversaries and academic critics. Inserting False FARA Allegations: Editors laundered complaints from HAF's opponents into "facts," using demands for a DOJ investigation to falsely brand HAF as a foreign agent Administrative Silencing: An admin with supreme platform permissions deleted quotes from HAF's leadership, stripping the organization of its right to reply to allegations. Over four years (2021-2025), editors systematically erased HAF’s identity as an American civil rights group, transforming its Wikipedia page into a heavily curated dossier of accusations. Our report from @npovmedia documents how it happened. 👇

The remarks made by Nivedita Menon in an interview to @thewire_in are a grave insult to countless women who have come forward with complaints involving concealment of identity, coercion, religious pressure, forced conversion and abuse after conversion-nikah To suggest that such concerns can be explained away by claiming that Muslim men are simply "more attractive" to Hindu women is a shocking trivialisation of women's testimonies, police investigations, and judicial observations in numerous cases across the country Just last month, a Hindu woman from a Scheduled Caste community filed an FIR in national capital Delhi against history-sheeter illegal arms supplier Fahim Langda, accusing him of kidnapping, rape, forced conversion and criminal intimidation We, Sewa Nyaya Utthan Foundation, assisted the survivor in pursuing legal action and continue to support her rehabilitation The insensitivity of these remarks becomes even more glaring when one considers the plight of Hindu and other minority women in Pakistan and Bangladesh, where cases of abduction, forced conversion, and coerced marriages have repeatedly surfaced, contributing to fear, insecurity, and exodus of minority communities Equally troubling is the attempt to explain away the asymmetry in interfaith relationships through claims about attractiveness. Such arguments ignore documented instances where Hindu men have faced threats, violence and murders for marrying Muslim women We strongly condemn these remarks and call upon @NCWIndia to take cognisance of statements that trivialise the lived experiences of survivors and undermine the efforts by women who have approached law enforcement and the courts seeking justice We are prepared to appear before the commission or any other competent authority with case records, FIRs, survivor testimonies, court orders and other documentary evidence that directly contradict such irresponsible assertions.

இசையால் நம்மையெல்லாம் ஆட்கொண்டிருக்கும் கலைத்தாயின் தவப்புதல்வர், இசைஞானி திரு. @ilaiyaraaja அவர்களுக்கு, இனிய பிறந்தநாள் நல்வாழ்த்துக்களைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்வதில் மகிழ்ச்சி அடைகிறேன். ஐம்பது ஆண்டுகளாக, வயது, இனம், மொழி, நாடு என எல்லைகள் கடந்து பல நூற்றாண்டுகள் நிலைத்திருக்கும் நல்லிசையை வழங்கி, பல கோடி மனங்களின் அனைத்து உணர்வுகளுக்கும் அருமருந்தாக விளங்கும் எங்கள் ராஜாதிராஜன் திரு @ilaiyaraaja அவர்கள், நூறாண்டுகளுக்கும் மேல் நலமுடன் வாழ இறைவனை வேண்டிக் கொள்கிறேன்.

Annamalai. Honest cop, sincere politician. If he were from any place other than TN or AP, the two states where BJP is the weakest, he’d be doing well in politics. Feel sorry for him and for BJP. Perhaps a party with a local flavor is the way to go. Jana Sena & Pawan Kayan in AP are a good example. I wish Annamalai well in his next venture.

If a senior lawyer-MP is so “ashamed” of living in India today, he should register that shame properly. Resign from the Rajya Sabha. Because shame cannot be selective. Where was this 'national shame' in 2021, when Bengal saw brutal post-poll violence, when people were chased, killed, assaulted, displaced, and women were raped? Where was this 'shame' when a BJP supporter was chased and killed in front of his own mother? Where was the 'shame' when the Sandeskhali rape case happened? Where was the 'shame' when the RG Kar rape case happened? Where was this 'shame' when you appeared in Calcutta High Court to oppose these victims and resisted CBI transfer of the case? Where was this constitutional anguish when the Calcutta High Court had to order a CBI probe into murder, rape and crimes against women because victims were crying for justice? But of course an egg attack on a TMC leader suddenly shakes the soul of democracy. But the blood, tears and terror of ordinary Bengal victims from 2021 did not produce the same moral thunder. If you are ashamed of India, resign from the parliament. If not, spare us the theatre.

Oho!!! Looks like @PadmajaJoshi is in “no prisoners” mode. Absolutely brutal takedown here

Just because there are a few terrorist organizations like Lashkar-e-Taiba, Jaish-e-Mohammed, Hizbul Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Mujahideen, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami, Indian Mujahideen, Students Islamic Movement of India, Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan, Afghan Taliban, Haqqani Network, Lashkar-e-Jhangvi, Sipah-e-Sahaba Pakistan, Tehreek-e-Nafaz-e-Shariat-e-Mohammadi, Jamaat-ul-Ahrar, Al-Badr, Al-Umar Mujahideen, Jamiat-ul-Mujahideen, Tehreek-ul-Mujahideen, Ansar Ghazwat-ul-Hind, Islamic State Jammu and Kashmir, Al-Qaeda in the Indian Subcontinent, Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Ansarullah Bangla Team, Harkat-ul-Jihad al-Islami Bangladesh, Neo-Jamaat-ul-Mujahideen Bangladesh, Islamic State, Al-Qaeda, Al-Qaeda in the Arabian Peninsula, Al-Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, Al-Shabaab, Boko Haram, Islamic State West Africa Province, Islamic State Khorasan Province, Islamic State Sinai Province, Islamic State Central Africa Province, Islamic State East Asia, Jama'at Nusrat al-Islam wal-Muslimin, Ansar Dine, Katibat Macina, Al-Mourabitoun, Ansar al-Sharia, Ansar Bayt al-Maqdis, Abu Sayyaf, Jemaah Islamiyah, Jemaah Ansharut Daulah, Mujahidin Indonesia Timur, Kumpulan Mujahidin Malaysia, Ansar al-Islam, Ansar al-Sunna, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, Khorasan Group, Jund al-Aqsa, Abdullah Azzam Brigades, Fatah al-Islam, Islamic Army of Aden-Abyan, Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, Islamic Jihad Union, East Turkestan Islamic Movement, Turkistan Islamic Party, Caucasus Emirate, Riyad-us-Saliheen Brigade of Martyrs, Islamic International Peacekeeping Brigade, Ajnad al-Kavkaz, Armed Islamic Group, Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat, Libyan Islamic Fighting Group, Moroccan Islamic Combatant Group, Egyptian Islamic Jihad, Takfir wal-Hijra, Bangsamoro Islamic Freedom Fighters, Maute Group, Khalifa Islamiyah Mindanao, Movement for Unity and Jihad in West Africa, Ansaru, Jundallah, and Jaish ul-Adl, it doesn't mean Muslims need any reform or introspection.