Dillip retweeted
This is Arjun 2.0
They’ll spend the next 20 years trying to solve the problem of weight vs protection/capabilities
In the end they’ll declare Zorawar a failure and close the entire thing down after some token orders
What does it take to build an Indian light tank for the world's highest battlefields, and why is the Zorawar's induction facing challenges?
✈️ Episode 60
🔗 Watch now: youtu.be/4ci6SYVAyKk
On Episode 60 of #CtrlAltDefence, Shiv Aroor and Vishnu Som speak to Lieutenant General Karanbir Singh Brar (Retd.) about the origins of India's Zorawar light tank, the operational lessons from the 2020 India-China standoff in Ladakh, and the challenges of developing and inducting indigenous armoured platforms.
🚀 How the 2020 Ladakh standoff triggered the push for a light tank
⛰️ Why the Zorawar was designed for high-altitude warfare
⚙️ The thinking behind its 25-tonne weight, mobility and amphibious capability
🛡️ The debate over armour protection and the proposed induction of 59 tanks
🇮🇳 Make in India: Why the Zorawar is a milestone for indigenous tank development
⚔️ What went wrong with the Arjun tank programme, and the lessons for future projects
🤖 Drones, AI and network-centric warfare: How modern battlefields are changing
🎯 Why tanks remain critical to capturing and holding territory
Watch Episode 60 of #CtrlAltDefence.
Dillip retweeted
The decision to detain Dhruv Rathee will affect the elections in Bangladesh, Pakistan and Turkey.
Dillip retweeted
Unserious bunch that needs to be called out. You cannot record a gazillion podcasts talking about "stronger institutions" etc. and then proceed to engage in stupid election denialism and calling your democratically elected leader "taanashah". Regardless of what you think of him, "Taanashah" is just in bad taste. Just does not bode well.
No serious country would not crackdown at least in some capacity and just let people walk upto and storm the national capital to sidestep democratic processes to get what they want. No two ways about this.
Delhi Police @DelhiPolice and Taanashah would do well to remember the words of Rahat Indori.
Jo Aaj Sahibe Mansad Hai Kal Nahi Honge
Kiraydaar Hai Zaati Makaan Thodi Hai
Sab Ka Khoon Hai Shaamil Yahan Ki Mitti Main
Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindustaan Thodi Hai
जो आज साहिबे-मसनद हैं कल नहीं होंगे,
किराएदार हैं, ज़ाती मकान थोड़ी है।
सभी का ख़ून है शामिल यहाँ की मिट्टी में,
किसी के बाप का हिन्दुस्तान थोड़ी है।
Dillip retweeted
ムスリム
「日本人を妻に迎え、純日本人を消滅させよう」
「日本には宗教がないから我々が優位に立つ」
「新しい日本の名前は"ジャパン・カーン"だ！」
↑排外主義とか言って大騒ぎしてる奴らバカじゃねぇの？自国では日本乗っ取る計画の話してるじゃねぇかよ。
全てをモスクを今すぐぶち壊せ！
Dillip retweeted
Americans are more likely to say immigration is good than bad for the country, 68% to 27%.
Restrictionists pretend to represent the popular will. But they don't! They threaten both our economy and culture.
We just need to defeat a hateful minority. richardhanania.com/p/are-imm…
Dillip retweeted
The Hindu Legal Fund will be providing legal assistance to the 4 Hindus arrested by Delhi Police.
Leave no man behind.
Via the Hindu Legal Fund, we will extend our legal assistance to all three individuals.
@UnSubtleDesi @RahulDewanV2 @Ramesh_hjs @hindufund_
#HinduLegalFund #HinduFund
Dillip retweeted
The Hittites trained their chariot horses from a manual that counts the laps in Indic numbers, and its author was a Mitanni named Kikkuli.
The numbers are aika, tera, panza, satta and nava, meaning one, three, five, seven and nine, and the Mitanni kings bore Indian names such as Tushratta, “he whose chariot charges”.
Around 1380 BC (conventional chronology) one of them, Shattiwaza, swore a treaty with the Hittite king Suppiluliuma, calling Mitra, Varuna, Indra and the Nasatya twins as witnesses, the same gods the Rig Veda praises.
The rulers were descendents of migrants who left when the river dried up around 1900 BC.
For over a thousand years, the Sarasvati was the central river of the largest civilisation on earth. The Rig Veda names her seventy-two times. Of the well over 3,000 villages, towns and cities of the Indus-Sarasvati civilisation, most stood on or near the Sarasvati. Her estuary in the Rann of Kutch fed ports trading with Sumer, Arabia and East Africa.
Around 1900 BC she ran dry.
The conventional account says the cities declined, their people scattered into villages, and civilisation was later brought in from the steppe. That account leaves out the river, and it leaves out where several million people went next.
Northwest India sits where the Indian plate pushes into Asia. Earthquakes moved the rivers. The Yamuna turned east to the Ganges and the Sutlej west to the Indus, and with her tributaries gone the Sarasvati failed. At Harappa the drains were no longer cleared. At Mohenjo-daro families buried their gold under the floor and never came back for it.
Most of the people went east, to the Ganges plain, which inherited the Sarasvati’s sanctity. Others crossed to Sri Lanka. A third group went west via the trade route to the Gulf, and within a few generations rulers with Vedic names held thrones across the Near East. The Kassites ruled Babylon for over five hundred years, and their first known king was called Gandash. Around 1380 BC a Mitanni king in northern Syria swore a treaty by Mitra, Varuna and Indra.
Later Western scholars decided the river was a myth and named the civilisation after the Indus instead. Satellites have since traced her bed from the Himalayas to the sea.
Ancient texts that do not fit a biased, artificial model should be more readily believed.
Link to the full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.
Dillip retweeted
By being so shamelessly transparent, Elon Musk and Donald Trump have shown what the West has always been beneath layers of duplicity and sweet-talk.
Deep down, they’re ruthless colonizers who start by expressing a desire to “help” the poor but in reality intend to fully exploit.
Dillip retweeted
Drug traffickers Parampreet Singh, Ranvir Singh and Amandeep Singh Multani sentenced to 10 years in prison had the codeword "Khalistan" for drug handoffs revealed when an undercover DEA officer posed as a buyer in Brampton.
justice.gov/usao-edca/pr/dav…
Dillip retweeted
Where does Indian hate come from? If you see it all over your timeline, you may be confused why a group that commits no crime, pays taxes and works in productive professions causes so much controversy.
The truth is ugly, as I explain here. richardhanania.com/p/indians…
Dillip retweeted
Thus fraud 👇destroyed Indian carpet industry based out of Bahdohi… in name of child labour.. He single handedly killed the carpet industry of India centred around Kashi (Badhohi) in name of child labour.. Traditional work done on Sarees, carpets killed and now Chinese and Persians filled that space. This bugger got a Nobel../1
12 वर्ष पहले आज के ही दिन मेरे नोबेल शांति पुरस्कार की घोषणा हुई थी।
उस दिन मैं अपने ऑफिस में कंप्यूटर पर अलग अलग वेबसाइटों पर जर्मनी के लिए सबसे सस्ता टिकट ढूँढ रहा था।
तभी दिल्ली के एक पत्रकार का फ़ोन आया। वह ख़ुशी के मारे लगभग चीखते हुए बोले ,'कैलाश जी, नोबेल प्राइज, नाबेल प्राइज।' अति उत्साह और जल्दबाज़ी में वे यह नहीं बोल पाए कि प्राइस किसे मिला है।
मैंने सोचा कि जिस किसी के पुरस्कार की घोषणा हुई है, उनके बारे में वे मुझसे कोई बाईट चाहते हैं। मैंने उनका फ़ोन होल्ड करके गूगल पर वह नाम ढूँढना शुरू किया, ताकि ठीक से अपना बाईट दे सकूँ। लेकिन तब तक वहाँ कोई जानकारी नहीं आई थी।
कुछ ही क्षणों में ऑफिस के कई साथी ख़ुशी के मारे पागल हुए मुझसे आकर लिपट गए। तब मैंने जाना कि वह हादसा तो मेरे साथ हुआ है। हालांकि मुझे तब भी विश्वास नहीं हो रहा था।
आख़िर नोबेल शांति पुरस्कार के इतिहास में पहली बार दुनिया के सबसे शोषित और पीड़ित बच्चों को सम्मानित किया गया था, भले ही मेरे माध्यम से सही।
मैं आज भी अपने सभी साथियों ,सहयोगियों, अनगिनत बच्चों और उनके माता पिताओं के प्रति बेहद कृतज्ञ महसूस करता हूँ।
Dillip retweeted
Last CJP protest marched on Parliament without permission, caused police violence to control & then things got out of hand.
Will @srajagopalan guarantee there will be no such escalation? Will she control mobs?
Thinly veiled attempt to pull down democratically elected Govt.
Last time I checked the constitution guarantees the right to movement and free assembly. And the reports are all of people detained while assembling peacefully. No weapons or riot gear etc. The last time someone cracked down like this on peaceful assembly was during the Emergency. These are dictatorial and unconstitutional actions irrespective of which side of the political spectrum you belong to.
Dillip retweeted
B@sturd child of Razakars, who formed an alliance with Jamaat in Bangladesh and facilitated mass killings of Hindus, has come out in support of CJP and JNU type jholachhaps
STATEMENT OF SOLIDARITY WITH THE YOUTH OF INDIA
Dhaka, Bangladesh | 10 October 2026
To the youth and democratic forces of India,
We stand in firm solidarity with the young people of India demanding electoral accountability and defending their democratic rights. Recent detentions of peaceful protesters, organizers, and journalists in New Delhi, alongside internet suspensions and restrictions at Jantar Mantar, directly threaten fundamental freedoms. Concerns regarding electoral integrity and institutional independence require transparent answers, not barricades and censorship.
This struggle is not yours alone. From Dhaka, we stand with you as friends bound by a common demand for accountable power, democratic institutions, and human dignity.
We know this struggle intimately, because we have lived it. In July 2024, our student led movement against recruitment quotas transformed into a nationwide uprising against 15 years of authoritarian rule. The state responded with live ammunition. The United Nations later estimated that as many as 1,400 people were killed during the uprising and its suppression. We deeply remember and honor the solidarity shown by Indian students, writers, and independent voices during our uprising.
We recognize India's rich traditions of democratic resistance. The women of Shaheen Bagh defended equal citizenship through a Delhi winter, while generations of students at JNU and Jadavpur University have sustained organised dissent. These remain invaluable democratic inheritances. Today, we once again see the courage of young Indian women on the streets. In Bangladesh, women were also at the forefront of the July Revolution; their courage and sacrifices helped secure our victory.
Hindutva majoritarianism, fascism, and every form of religious supremacy must not define the future of South Asia. We reject authoritarianism, communal hatred, and political intolerance in India just as we reject them in Bangladesh. Our shared future must rest on communal harmony and social justice, irrespective of religion, caste, gender, or class. No society is truly democratic while minorities live in fear, dissent is criminalized, and citizenship is conditional on identity.
We call upon Indian authorities to respect the right to peaceful assembly, disclose the whereabouts and legal grounds for detaining protest organizers, immediately release those held for exercising their rights, and ensure journalists can report without intimidation or equipment seizure.
Today, many young leaders have been unjustly detained. Sharjeel Imam and Umar Khalid continue to be kept behind bars for years without trial. We regard all of India's young protesters and prisoners of conscience as comrades. Their courage inspires young people across South Asia.
Our struggles are interconnected, extending to unresolved issues of border killings, water sharing, environmental protection, and national sovereignty. We seek a South Asia where nations treat each other as equals, governments remain accountable, and sovereignty is never an excuse for domination.
To the democratic people of India: from Dhaka, and from the unfinished democratic aspirations of our July generation, we stand with you. Stand firm, protect one another, reject communal hatred, and refuse to surrender the future of South Asia to fascism and division.
Inqilab Zindabad.
Dillip retweeted
Modi maybe in power but he has not challenged this foundational magnet. #core1 however is still the top.
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root lies in one of the foundations of "India" - the judiciary which is maintaining the Tamilnadu exception as a "magnet" or a "tug boat" moving the entire nation. That is the "transformative document" vision. That is why this is #core3 -- the third most important root.