#  @Chris_Iwanek Krzysztof Iwanek
Krzysztof Iwanek posts on X about india, nie, poland, war the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Social Influence
**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries) 48.21% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands) 8.93% [stocks](/list/stocks) 2.68% [finance](/list/finance) 2.68% [celebrities](/list/celebrities) 1.79% [social networks](/list/social-networks) 1.79% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations) 1.79% [currencies](/list/currencies) 1.79%
**Social topic influence**
[india](/topic/india) 35.71%, [nie](/topic/nie) #2591, [poland](/topic/poland) 11.61%, [war](/topic/war) 7.14%, [russia](/topic/russia) 6.25%, [west](/topic/west) 6.25%, [ai](/topic/ai) 5.36%, [ukraine](/topic/ukraine) 5.36%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 5.36%, [tak](/topic/tak) 4.46%
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Movies based on novels often have a more complex script more complex characters and better dialogue lines than movies not based on novels. I would prefer cinema to produce more adaptions of original novels instead of this endless stream of poor remakes/sequels/prequels. But. There were [--] books. We got [--] film. https://t.co/ontTsT9gUo There were [--] books. We got [--] film. https://t.co/ontTsT9gUo"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023055419669987376) 2026-02-15T15:22Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
".But as for this one I exceptionally enjoyed the movie (Master and Commander) more than Patrick O'Brian's first novel. It bored me; I struggled through the slow plot and the endless list of nautical terms. It was a good call for them to make one movie out of three novels"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023057128567849281) 2026-02-15T15:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Monika082014 Yeah cruise ships are one of the worst forms of tourism. And imagine that the next cruise ship we saw there the next day had some slogan about keeping the seas clean written on it"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022709913349165288) 2026-02-14T16:29Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wyparcie budek telefonicznych przez telefony komrkowe okazao si nieuniknione (stao si to i u nas). Ale w Indiach o tyle szkoda e budki te byy ich miejscowym produktem. Zamiast tego teraz dominuj tam chiskie i koreaskie telefony komrkowe. Nagwek z 2002👇"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023108757387878703) 2026-02-15T18:54Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I used to use STDs a lot when living in India. I've kept a photo of a random STD somewhere in Rajasthan taken in 2007"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023008666983747738) 2026-02-15T12:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Kiedy mieszkaem w Indiach [--] lata temu powszechne byy tam budki telefoniczne na kas fiskaln: STD/ICO/PCO. Wiele osb oczywicie nie miao telefonw zatem budki byy podstawowym rodkiem komunikacji. W [----] r. byo ich p miliona. Teraz zostao [--] tysicy"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023107837858402699) 2026-02-15T18:51Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"*wrci Pitroda opracowa indyjskie budki telefoniczne po powrocie z USA. Teraz za wymieraj. Co roku zamykane s ich tysice"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023109818404438138) 2026-02-15T18:59Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I have been invited to a debate on the India-EU FTA held today at the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. My sense is that India's image in Poland (and EU) has become much better over the past two decades and there's much more hope for cooperation with India"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2020866382733152415) 2026-02-09T14:24Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Surethere are some apprehensions about the FTA and many unknowns as the full text of the deal is not public yet. But there's much hope too. A LOT of stuff is going on in India-Poland relations this year. Both the Polish Prime Minister and President are to visit India this year"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2020866384624845090) 2026-02-09T14:24Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mareck1 I tak samo mam wraenie e jest wicej rozmw nie tylko o tym jak Indie si zmieniaj ale co to dla nas znaczy. Co moemy tam w zwizku z tym sprzeda Jak inwestowa Itd. W pewnych krgach te rozmowy syszaem od kiedy si Indiami interesowaem ale teraz sysz je szerzej"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2020981116971385191) 2026-02-09T22:00Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@MichaelLoda John Keay's history of India is very basic but well-written good for a start. I have not read Richard Eaton's 'India in the Persianate Era' yet it's on my list. He is a very established scholar so I would start with Keay and then move on to Eaton:)"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2021242027560595872) 2026-02-10T15:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Hey Grok is it true that AI took away my job and I can stay home today"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2021862745084404037) 2026-02-12T08:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I said goodbye to year [----] on the peak of Mount Olympus/Tahtali Dagi in Turkey"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022299649411821793) 2026-02-13T13:19Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As in this case when I twice asked Google for the DOI of my article. In each case Google AI review said that the DOI can't be found. Both times the very first result found in Google right underneath the AI review gave the correct answer - which countered what the AI claimed"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022318736363921522) 2026-02-13T14:35Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@peteranthropos Eee. nie wiem:/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023111122153590878) 2026-02-15T19:04Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Moe przynajmniej tego jednego dodatkowego zd zje zanim si synowie dobior. Ale najpierw we to czowieku wszystko usma"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022001357000167513) 2026-02-12T17:34Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Pierwszy raz robiem pczki na Tusty Czwartek. Korzystaem z przepisu z [--]. najpopularniejszej strony w Polsce: Ania Gotuje. Jest wietny. No to jutro faworki😋"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022029193710882989) 2026-02-12T19:25Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"AI has peaked Google AI review has FUNDAMENTALLY altered the time I need for Googling. How Well every time a Google AI review pops out I need to ignore it and scroll down past it to find the normal Google results. That scrolling wastes something like [--] second of my day"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022317799410892985) 2026-02-13T14:31Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"When you wake up in the morning in Flm a Norwegian town of several hundred people and see a giant cruise ship with several thousand passengers onboard looming over the town you begin to think about the downsides of mass tourism. But other than that I just loved Flm"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022690066519462285) 2026-02-14T15:11Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A [----] headline: "Things that make India proud: STD booths." There were over [---] [---] STD booths in India then. There are [--] [---] left. In an era of mobile phones the end of STDs was inevitable but kind of sad that an Indian product an STD was wiped out by foreign mobile phones"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022980161029959711) 2026-02-15T10:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@anwesh_satpathy I feel like the cinematic industry does not want to take risks anymore. Hey let's make Star Wars and destroy the death star for the third time because people liked it. They treat movies like Coca Cola: let's sell the same thing because people enjoy it. But movies are not cola"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023058615855427717) 2026-02-15T15:35Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@anwesh_satpathy But HBO proved with Game of Thrones that many viewers do want change. Instead of Disney-like remakes you can take a novel (and a one not very known outside the fantasy readers' circle) and turn it into one of the most popular shows in history. If only that was tried more often"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023059529068679392) 2026-02-15T15:39Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wow so now instead of repetitive dumb American action movies that have been looking like AI slop for decades we will have repetitive dumb action movies that actually are AI slop. Wow that changes. nothing for me. @FearedBuck AI just peaked. 🤯 If you didnt know this Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise fight was AI-generated youd swear it was a leaked scene from a $200M blockbuster. The realism is getting scary. We are months away from full-length AI movies that look indistinguishable from reality. #Viral #AI https://t.co/wYOkC658AP @FearedBuck AI just peaked. 🤯 If you didnt know this Brad Pitt vs. Tom"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2021911374201581641) 2026-02-12T11:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"No i wyszy i wyszy. To jest wyszy dobrze i ju wikszoci nie ma. Nie byem w stanie nawet zrobi zdjcia wszystkim [--]. Tak szybko jedlimy e zawsze byo tylko kilka jednoczenie"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022028586639929653) 2026-02-12T19:22Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"What is even the point of making an AI that compiles Google results in a worse manner than the one in which Google itself arranges its results I mean sure - sometimes Google AI review is capable of offering useful information"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022328321657430090) 2026-02-13T15:13Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
".But so far it's a roll of dice. It may as well give you absolute nonsense. Recently it gave me biographical information about me. 90% of it was wrong including my interests and where I work. So yeah I really skip it"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2022328410203414779) 2026-02-13T15:14Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"So yes I want them to make more novel adaptations. I want them to make sequels to the Master and Commander. But I do hope they will take a lot of liberty with the source material to make the plot progress quicker"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023057801501897091) 2026-02-15T15:32Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Na dodatek budki telefoniczne w Indiach byy dzieem Sama Pitrody: rzadkiego przykadu Indusa ktry robi karier w USA ale zdecydowa si wrci do ojczyzny (najpierw przyj obywatelstwo USA i straci indyjskie potem odrzuci amerykaskie i wrzuci do indyjskiego)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/2023109506528595983) 2026-02-15T18:57Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"There are people who try to monetise whatever is the current fasion in AI. Today they sell online courses on how to use ChatGPT to be a better trader. Tomorrow they'll try to sell a course on how to invest in crypto using Claude. In Hindi we could call them - - "
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023407336455581814) 2026-02-16T14:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Since [----] Pakistan was secretly supporting the Taliban. It is now laying the ground to do it openly I argue in my new text for @Diplomat_APAC. Pakistani politicians diluted the responsibility of the Taliban and questioned the mandate of Kabul government. https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/the-talibans-careful-cheerleaders-pakistans-statements-on-the-fall-of-kabul/ https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/the-talibans-careful-cheerleaders-pakistans-statements-on-the-fall-of-kabul/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1427410210591846401) 2021-08-16T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"BREAKING: I have just uncovered China's secret plan for massive investment in Central Asia AfPak and Iran. Worth [--] gazillion Australian dollars it is to consist of three separate economic belts only one of which will be shaped like [--]. Source: some geopolitcs expert on TT"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1433025348275429378) 2021-09-01T11:14Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"On Hindi Diwas a bunch of words that accidently sound somewhat similar in Hindi and Polish: - 'pani': 'water' in Hindi 'Madam' in Polish - 'pan': 'betel' in Hindi 'Sir' in Polish - 'pustak': 'book' in Hindi 'a brick with empty space inside it' in Polish"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1437662747190255616) 2021-09-14T06:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I've just made my first meme"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1460457602731712516) 2021-11-16T04:00Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"chunaavjeevi"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1461653003136610309) 2021-11-19T11:10Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Here is my ground-breaking commentary about events in Kazakhstan: I have not been there I do not know the Kazakh language I have not read anything about the country and I have no idea what will happen next so I will keep my mouth shut and not comment"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1478995240631611399) 2022-01-06T07:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Such things indeed happen on Indian and Nepali mountain roads. Yes it is usually not that extreme. But this shows why Indian and Nepali drivers should be paid more - and tipped better by tourists. Short thread with my private experience👇 The perfect [--] point turn https://t.co/bLzb1J1puU The perfect [--] point turn https://t.co/bLzb1J1puU"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1485285486776176642) 2022-01-23T16:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Highly deserved. Professor Byrski is a great Indologist fluent in both Sanskrit and Hindi with vast knowledge of Indian classical theatre (among others) the translator of Manusmriti and Kamasutra from Sanskrit to Polish. Polish national and Sanskrit scholar Maria Christopher Byrski honoured with Padma Shri By Indian Govt. He also served as Poland's envoy to India from [----] to [----]. Polish national and Sanskrit scholar Maria Christopher Byrski honoured with Padma Shri By Indian Govt. He also served as Poland's envoy to India from [----] to 1996"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1485994108959211526) 2022-01-25T15:12Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Also a person who did a lot for Indo-Polish relations: not only a former ambassador to India but also a person who worked to commemorate the late maharaja of Nawanagar for hosting Polish children during WWII"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1485995220634320904) 2022-01-25T15:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Just a sample of his scope of knowledge of Indian culture: I took both his Hindi and Sanskrit classes and in Hindi class we worked on a modern play Mr. Abhimanyu; in Sanskrit class we had to learn Shivatandavastotram by heart"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1485996373824753664) 2022-01-25T15:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Today on the occasion of Republic Day I received a letter of gratitude from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for my work on India. The letter was handed in to me by HE Nagma M. Mallick the Indian ambassador to Poland. On the occasion of our 73rd Republic Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to Mr. Krzysztof Iwaneka South Asia expert and the Head of the Asia Research Centre War Studies University Poland and conveyed his greetings.#AmritMahotsav @MEAIndia @PMOIndia @IndianDiplomacy https://t.co/BrP3t5uwSW On the occasion of our 73rd Republic Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1486365980687314952) 2022-01-26T15:50Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This text claims that Mein Kampf is used as a leadership textbook in some Indian business courses. Not only this is false but makes no sense. Author should read Mein Kampf first: it is bollocks a chaotic stream of thoughts useless as leadership textbook. https://www.ft.com/content/c16f05b8-31f2-434d-935f-da5fd151a758 https://www.ft.com/content/c16f05b8-31f2-434d-935f-da5fd151a758"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1487404239932563467) 2022-01-29T12:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"'Oh but Ukraine sold arms to Pakistan' Here is some data: in last two decades Ukraine sold more military hardware (in value) to India than to Pakistan. I am not among those saying New Delhi must pick a side. But singling out on social media for deals with is unfair. What are Ukraines top arms export destinations (2010-2020) [--]. China [--]. Russia [--]. Thailand [--]. Ethiopia [--]. India https://t.co/Zz3bicZuWp https://t.co/M8rowxLvdv What are Ukraines top arms export destinations (2010-2020) [--]. China [--]. Russia [--]. Thailand [--]. Ethiopia [--]. India https://t.co/Zz3bicZuWp https://t.co/M8rowxLvdv"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1497513618115600385) 2022-02-26T10:07Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Many may disagree but I am with @jamescrabtree on this. I agree with most of this text. It is a wrong approach to tell the Indian government what we want it to do. What we (the broader West should do) is to cooperate with India whenever both sides want it. Should the west play hardball with India over Ukraine Better to recognise Modi's security dilemmas re tighter Russia / China ties and help New Delhi reduce its arms imports as I argue in @NikkeiAsia. 1/ https://t.co/qveBBjSEDN Should the west play hardball with India over Ukraine Better to recognise Modi's security dilemmas re tighter"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498653560229314573) 2022-03-01T13:37Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I am trying to separate my private views from the foreign policy of the Indian government. As a Polish person I would like India to be on one side: in alliance with the West. But as a person following Indian foreign policy I know this is not what New Delhi wants"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498654065668022274) 2022-03-01T13:39Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Would I like India to condemn Russia Yes. Do I consider Russian actions as blatant invasion of Ukraine Yes. Would I like as much countries to support Ukraine Yes. But did we the West always support India when India needed it No"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498654603675582472) 2022-03-01T13:41Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Was the West clearly on India's side during India-Pakistan tensions No. Was the West clearly on India's side during India-China tensions No. So can we just simply say now: 'Hey India you must be on our side'"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498655105838723075) 2022-03-01T13:43Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The way forwards is to find areas of convergence not sermonize India on the aspects on whih disagree. Sermonizing will likely lead to reverse results. Let us just face it: West and India have a growing convergence of interests on China. They have no convergence on Russia"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498657832538886147) 2022-03-01T13:54Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As for Russia-India cooperation @jamescrabtree makes a good point: the only constructive approach is for the West to offer India more of the stuff which India is now getting from Russia. This is how we can influence India-Russia ties without sermonizing India"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498659332304551938) 2022-03-01T14:00Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Nine years ago @Adam_Burakowski and I wrote a history of India ('India. From colony to a power. 1857-2013') in Polish. Few years later he became the ambassador of Poland to India. Seeing how he is now engaged in - relations I am even more glad I had been his coauthor"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1498703183270625283) 2022-03-01T16:54Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Results so far: AAP: 40% TUM: 25% TU Disrespectful: 20% TU Intimate: 10% AAP but with ho not hain: 5%"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1501822466867580930) 2022-03-10T07:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A new survey has revealed which Indian dish is most popular in the West. 84% respondents voted for curry ninda"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1503750903639298052) 2022-03-15T15:12Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Sri_Mumbai Sermon ka tel:)"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1503760196417597440) 2022-03-15T15:49Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"India's neutrality on Russia's invasion of Ukraine divided Western commentators between the critics and defenders of India's position. I believe the first group can be called the normativists and the second - the realists. I summarise this debate here👇 https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/the-great-debate-over-indias-neutrality-in-the-ukraine-war/ https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/the-great-debate-over-indias-neutrality-in-the-ukraine-war/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1508831821630521354) 2022-03-29T15:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I gave an interview in Hindi to @umashankarsingh of NDTV: I spoke of the aid which is giving to and that I understand 's neutrality but I am kindly asking Indian viewers not to listen to Russian propaganda: war crimes in Ukraine are being commited by Russian army. : @Chris_Iwanek 👇 https://t.co/W3jbTi2cMR : @Chris_Iwanek 👇 https://t.co/W3jbTi2cMR"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1513595301088702471) 2022-04-11T19:10Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Phew that was quick. After [--] years of work my book on Vidya Bharati (RSS) schools in India is going to print. Titled 'Endless Siege. Education and Nationalism in Vidya Bharati schools' it should come out in May [----]. Publisher: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/endless-siege-9780192865564lang=en&cc=pw https://global.oup.com/academic/product/endless-siege-9780192865564lang=en&cc=pw"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1513919711876112392) 2022-04-12T16:39Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"In case it is of interest to someone: most of my texts for The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) which I am a regular contributor to are collected here👇 These are mostly my thoughts on Indian foreign policy and politics. https://thediplomat.com/authors/krzysztof-iwanek/ https://thediplomat.com/authors/krzysztof-iwanek/"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1516635268253507584) 2022-04-20T04:30Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I cannot stand Elon Musk buying Twitter. This is too much. I am leaving Twitter. Good night everyone and see you tomorrow"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1520786271731335168) 2022-05-01T15:24Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I wrote this four years ago: how Dumont got the caste system wrong how we Indologists had been treating his words like doctrine how it took academics like professor Guha to destroy Dumont's myths and how this is a lesson on how to write about India. https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/dumont-guha-and-the-danger-of-stereotyping-india/ https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/dumont-guha-and-the-danger-of-stereotyping-india/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1525465381963546624) 2022-05-14T13:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"'Poles in India 1942-1948' is a very interesting collection of texts on the Polish children that were hosted in India during the Second World War. More interestingly some of the authors who prepared this volume belonged to that group of children"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1673247912879353856) 2023-06-26T08:32Z 14.4K followers, 77.9K engagements
"Can we verify BJP's new claim that the Congress is funded by Soros No because nowadays parties in India do not have to reveal who funds them. This was a decision made by *checks notes*. the BJP government. (Also blaming Soros for everything is Antisemitic dogwhistle). The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat. https://t.co/AwDKxJpDHB The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat. https://t.co/AwDKxJpDHB"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1709850928214315120) 2023-10-05T08:40Z 14.4K followers, 131.1K engagements
"India's relations with three powers in one tweet: China - economically an important trade partner but strategically a rival; Russia - economically an insignificant trade partner but strategically a partner; US - economically and strategically an important partner"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1769696928013369563) 2024-03-18T12:06Z 14.4K followers, 34.5K engagements
"The US reaction to India's [----] nuclear tests was one of the low points of India-US relations. What is less known is that Japan acted against India too. And though Russia usually avoids criticism of India Yeltsin spoke against India too. Seema Sirohi 'Friends with Benefits'👇"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1775402424393445836) 2024-04-03T05:58Z 14.4K followers, 370.5K engagements
"In [----] the king of Nepal Jang Bahadur visited France. Due to the rules of ritual impurity the Nepali delegation refused to accept cooked food whenever they were at a party and only ate fruit. They also dined in separate chambers from their European hosts"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1779424696074715180) 2024-04-14T08:21Z 14.4K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Written in the early 18th century (before the British conquest of India even began) the Marathi treatise Adnyapatra warned that the Europeans weren't ordinary businessmen that they wanted to penetrate deep into India to extend their kingdoms. Everything turned out true"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1781202520724881721) 2024-04-19T06:05Z 14.4K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Thousands of Polish children were hosted in India during WWII. Most of them later left - one of the persons who stayed was Wanda Nowicka who married an Indian Mr. Kashikar. Their granddaughter is Apeksha Niranjan a Bharatanatyam dancer who will perform in Warsaw tomorrow"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1784138138484429300) 2024-04-27T08:30Z 14.4K followers, 16.4K engagements
"Z alem egnam Orodek Bada Azji (@osrodekazji) CBB AszWoj. Orodek ten stworzyem z zespoem od podstaw i wolabym ju eby mnie zwolniono ale eby przetrway instytucja i zesp. Dalej nie zgadzam si z t decyzj MON - potrzebujemy wicej wiedzy o Azji nie mniej"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1789312250454438225) 2024-05-11T15:10Z 14.4K followers, 87.3K engagements
"Dobra teraz ju chyba mog o tym publicznie napisa. Premier Indii Narendra Modi odwiedzi w przyszym tygodniu Polsk i Ukrain. To pierwsza wizyta premiera Indii w Polsce od lat [----]. https://theprint.in/diplomacy/modi-to-visit-poland-next-week-1st-indian-pm-to-do-so-post-1979-focus-on-defence-strategic-alignment/2221759/ https://theprint.in/diplomacy/modi-to-visit-poland-next-week-1st-indian-pm-to-do-so-post-1979-focus-on-defence-strategic-alignment/2221759/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1823375148314980494) 2024-08-13T15:04Z 14.4K followers, 56.5K engagements
"As the Prime Minister of India is landing in Poland a short thread on some of the interesting interactions between Poland and India throughout history. I frankly admit that being very busy today I am putting together a thread from my older tweets"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243367203979580) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Unlike countries like UK and France Poland never conquered territories in India in the early modern period. However there was an attempt in the 18th century when two Polish ships tried to entered the Bay of Bengal to open trade with India"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243369703739457) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 80.7K engagements
".only that those ships Neptun and Ko Polski turned out not the be even Polish but Austrians sailing under a Polish flag hoping this would allow them to bypass the British-Dutch monopoly. They failed: the ships were halted by the British and Dutch"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243372052631818) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 75.7K engagements
"The ships were turned backed and all that Poland got out of it was an international scandal. As for real Poles in early modern India there weren't many of them - usually mercenaries missionaries or travellers"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243374388760975) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 67K engagements
"There were more interactions in 19th-20th century. A Polish painter Stefan Norblin fled to India during the 2nd World War and painted the murals of the Umaid Bhavan palace in Jodhpur. Here is my old thread about it with a link to a documentary on this. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1168154062837170176 Today marks the 80th anniversary of German aggression on Poland which started the II World War. Link to India (and particularly Bombay and Jodhpur) In face of the attack some [---] Poles managed to escape to India through Romania Turkey and Iraq and then by the sea to Bombay."
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243376532050286) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 91.7K engagements
"A more known story from WWII were the Polish children let out of the Soviet Union after being exiled (=imprisoned) there by Moscow. Thousands of them found refuge in India: near Kolhapur and in Balachadi in Jamnagar. Today this history is a symbol of Poland-India friendship"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243379375788357) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 57.3K engagements
"If you want to read more about this the most exhaustive volume I know is this one - some of the authors are the very children who stayed in India during World War II (available in Polish too) https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1673247912879353856 'Poles in India 1942-1948' is a very interesting collection of texts on the Polish children that were hosted in India during the Second World War. More interestingly some of the authors who prepared this volume belonged to that group of children. https://t.co/Vs3PSHWj7Y https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1673247912879353856 'Poles in India 1942-1948'"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243381712011543) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 74.8K engagements
"Another connection: the original master plan of Chandigarh was prepared by a Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and an American one Albert Mayer. Here is my old thread about this: https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1194812939364192256 Connection between Chandigarh and Poland The original master plan of Chandigarh was prepared by a Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and an American one Albert Mayer. Nowicki died in a plane crash in [----] however when flying from Bombay to New York. https://t.co/4YQ75Ionk1 https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1194812939364192256 Connection between Chandigarh and Poland"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826243384257974443) 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 57.4K engagements
"Oh and did you know that a song from Bollywood movie Madhumati was based on a melody of a Polish folk song Here's (again.) my old thread about it. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1412762145108922372 On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in the movie Madhumati which starred Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala was based on a Polish song. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1412762145108922372 On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826245216921321706) 2024-08-21T13:09Z 14.4K followers, 50.3K engagements
"There was also a Polish Jew Maurycy Frydman who moved to India before IIWW got influenced by Ramana Maharishi and Krishnamurti converted to Hinduism became an associate of Gandhi and helped Gandhi prepare the constitution of the princely state of Aundh"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826251409064693966) 2024-08-21T13:34Z 14.4K followers, 33.4K engagements
"You probably heard of one of the founding fathers of ethnography Bronisaw Malinowski. When Malinowski sailed to begin his research in Australia and Oceania he took with himself a famous Polish writer and painter Witkacy. They stayed for a short time in India and Sri Lanka"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826252854585368684) 2024-08-21T13:39Z 14.4K followers, 30.8K engagements
"Witkacy later described his experiences of Sri Lanka and India in a quirky novel set in India A Farewell to Autumn. I wrote about this in this text for The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the-nonsense-of-witnessing-such-beauty-malinowskis-tryst-with-sri-lanka/ https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the-nonsense-of-witnessing-such-beauty-malinowskis-tryst-with-sri-lanka/"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826253199101329554) 2024-08-21T13:41Z 14.4K followers, 28.9K engagements
"A Bengali academic Hiranmoy Ghoshal was hired at Warsaw University before WWII. During the war he fled to India with his Polish wife where he worked at the Polish consulate in Bombay and helped the same Polish children. Then he returned to Poland and lived there till the end"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826259361163038907) 2024-08-21T14:05Z 14.4K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Ghoshal wrote several books about Poland in Bengali; he taught at the chair of Indology. One of the halls of Warsaw University Indology chair was named after him. After his death he was buried with honours at the Powzki cementary"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826259827125018937) 2024-08-21T14:07Z 14.4K followers, 24.6K engagements
"There is a stationery company in Hyderabad Kaybee. Its name carries in it a memory of a Polish woman who had established it - Kira Banasiska (Kaybee for her initials - KB) Kira Banasiska was the wife of the Polish consul in Bombay before and during the Second World War"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826262272802705584) 2024-08-21T14:17Z 14.4K followers, 22.5K engagements
".Kira Banasiska also helped the Polish children during WWII. But she and her husband decided to stay and became Indian citizens. They established a company Kaybee Equipments. Kira died in India but the company exists: I think it's called Kaybee School Equipment Manufacturing"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826263181058248901) 2024-08-21T14:20Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements
"There are quotes from Rigveda and the Upanishads engraved into the walls of the Warsaw University Library. They were selected by a Polish Sanskrit scholar Professor Joanna Jurewicz. Recently she was awarded an ICCR award for her work (mostly on Rigveda)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1826279370841059388) 2024-08-21T15:25Z 14.4K followers, 19.6K engagements
"A Polish professor Aleksandrowicz taught at Madras University in 1950s. He founded the Madras Law School there (a school of thought not an institution)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1826282821079707982) 2024-08-21T15:38Z 14.4K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Oh and did you know that Poland India - and South Korea - happen to share the date of their one national holiday August [--]. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1294529632113430528 August [--] happens to be the national day of [--] countries I lived in and to which my life is connected: Poland India and South Korea. Poland: Armed Forces Day and Assumption of Mary India: Independence Day Korea: National Liberation Day Wishing all three countries all the best. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1294529632113430528 August [--] happens to be the national day of [--] countries I lived in and to which my life is"
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1826284696726335551) 2024-08-21T15:46Z 14.4K followers, 23.2K engagements
"In Zakopane there is a mansion called Villa Atma. A musician Karol Szymanowski once lived there. The name is of course from Sanskrit. The name was chosen because in late 19th century/early 20th century there was a rising interest in the East (including India) in Europe"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826299006902776309) 2024-08-21T16:43Z 14.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"In the Communist era the Polish shipyard in Gdynia produced landing ships for the Indian navy. These were the Polnocny ('Northern' in Polish) ships - some were classified as Kumbhir-class in India. In India they served under names such as Shardul Sharabh Guldar Cheetah"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826312757878395248) 2024-08-21T17:37Z 14.4K followers, 16.9K engagements
"There were Polish smugglers operating in India in late 1980s. They would buy electronics in places like Singapore or Moscow and smuggle them into India (to go around the customs I guess). One of them wrote a book later in which he describes all this but I still haven't read it"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826318057075085492) 2024-08-21T17:58Z 14.4K followers, 15K engagements
"The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) a transliteration system uses the letter to transliterate the symbol. This letter is taken from Polish - it was chosen to represent because and represent very similar sounds"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826320692729512190) 2024-08-21T18:09Z 14.4K followers, 12.9K engagements
"I jeszcze to si stao na marginesie wizyty premiera Indii w Polsce. Wczoraj z tej okazji napisaem wtek zbierajcy rne ciekawe (mam nadziej) przypadki indyjsko-polskich interakcji na przestrzeni dziejw. Dzi rano ten wtek pochwali i poda dalej. premier Indii"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826678675896762852) 2024-08-22T17:51Z 14.4K followers, 133K engagements
"14 lat temu rozpoczem wraz z Centrum Studiw Polska-Azja w tym @RadekPyffel inicjatyw wzywajc wadze Warszawy by nazway imieniem maharady Nawanagaru skwer. Udao si - skwer na Ochocie nazwano imieniem Dobrego Maharady. Wczoraj zoy na nim kwiaty premier Indii. PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar Memorial in Warsaw Poland. The memorial honours the humanitarian efforts of Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja who provided shelter and care to homeless Polish children during World War II. https://t.co/uVfIYZu2Yx PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826693816386289960) 2024-08-22T18:51Z 14.4K followers, 16.8K engagements
"14 years I started an initiative with @RadekPyffel and the Poland-Asia Research Centre petitioning the Polish authorities to name a square in Warsaw after the Maharaja of Nawanagar. It succeeded. Now this square is part of relations: the PM of India paid his respects there. PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar Memorial in Warsaw Poland. The memorial honours the humanitarian efforts of Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja who provided shelter and care to homeless Polish children during World War II. https://t.co/uVfIYZu2Yx PM @narendramodi paid respects at the"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1826850012984164652) 2024-08-23T05:12Z 14.4K followers, 15.7K engagements
"W Polsce powstaa [--] () ksika o gospodarce wspczesnych Indii ale bardzo dobra. Autorem jest Sebastian Domalski (@SebastianD_PL) i jest on take. charg d'affaires naszej ambasady w Nowym Delhi. To midzy innymi on zajmowa si wizyt premiera Indii. Dziki Sebastianie"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1827041520102326298) 2024-08-23T17:53Z 14.4K followers, 17.5K engagements
"PAP ma w Azji. jednego korespondenta (w Chinach). W Indiach nie ma. Kiedy teraz premier Indii by w Warszawie nie mielimy korespondenta by ledzi reakcje na t wizyt w Indiach. O tych i innych aspektach polityki Polski wobec Azji rozmawiaem z red. @kwojcicka98 dla DGP.👇 MSZ i MON powinny duo wicej inwestowa w wiedz ktra pomoe nam zweryfikowa co polskie firmy maj szans ugra w krajach takich jak Indie. Teraz zaplecze eksperckie praktycznie u nas nie istnieje - mwi mi @Chris_Iwanek w wanej rozmowie dot. zainteresowania Azj. https://t.co/bbnzP30QFu MSZ i MON powinny duo wicej inwestowa w wiedz ktra"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1827397544386986395) 2024-08-24T17:28Z 14.4K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Mamy to Polski kebab o nazwie Polski Kebab w Kozhikode (Kalikat) w Kerali poudniowe Indie"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1853123323829326282) 2024-11-03T17:13Z 14.4K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Reactions in India towards the US tariffs on India are divided. Sonu Nigam suggests not to worry: "Tariff yah bhi to sach hai kuch bhi nahi." However Mohammad Rafi had once predicted this and suggested reciprocal action: "Tariff. Karu Kya Uski Jisne Tumhe Banaya""
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1907798115689644107) 2025-04-03T14:11Z 14.4K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Pracowaem w Seulu dwa i p roku. Na uczelni - w pracy biurowej bym pewnie tyle nie wytrzyma. Tak Korea jest bardziej rozwinita bezpieczniejsza zaawansowana ni Polska. Ale koszt spoeczny jest ogromny. Pracoholizm wszdzie pracujce starsze osoby przeciona modzie. W Korei do [--] godzin pracy a w Polsce mylimy o [--] dniach W Korei do [--] godzin pracy a w Polsce mylimy o [--] dniach"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915693725713318268) 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 597.8K engagements
"Studenci studiujcy po dwa kierunki tylko po to eby mie dwa dyplomy. No bo skoro wszyscy inni bd mie dyplom to ja musz mie dwa wic bardzo wiele osb robi dwa kierunki - nie z zainteresowania tylko eby mie mocniejsze papiery"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915693728397775125) 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 26K engagements
".A potem studenci przeywaj kad ocen z egzaminu bo pracodawca bdzie mia mas kandydatw z dwoma takimi samymi dyplomami wic bdzie porwnywa ich oceny z egzaminw na dyplomach (nie wiem czy to czste - ale na pewno studenci myl e to czste)"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915693730729693491) 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 23.8K engagements
".A potem i tak taka firma czsto dopiero przysposabia takiego wybranego kandydata do danego typu pracy a wic cay ten wycig - stresujce egzaminy na koniec liceum by dosta si na studia potem studia na dwch kierunkach - czsto okazuje si mie mae znaczenie"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915693732898259370) 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 22.8K engagements
"Kto uwaa e to przykady anegdotyczne niech sprawdzi np. jaki jest wskanik samobjstw modych w Republice Korei (jeden z najwyszych na wiecie) albo jak wyglda koreaska matura (suneung). Uczniowie yj w ogromnym stresie uwaajc e matura decyduje o caej ich karierze"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915694665791086785) 2025-04-25T09:09Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements
"Mona te sobie sprawdzi statystyczny czas powicany przez koreaskie dziecko na nauk. W Republice Korei powszechne jest e po szkole dziecko idzie na korepetycje do drugiej prywatnej szkoy (hagwonu). W efekcie uczy si czsto cay dzie"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915696202420490641) 2025-04-25T09:15Z 14.4K followers, 19.8K engagements
"To z przykadw mierzalnych. Z przykadw anegdotycznych: 1.Obok nas mieszkaa pani sama wychowujca [--] dzieci bo jej m pracowa. w tym samym miecie. Ale nie opacao'' mu si wraca do domu (czas przejazdu czas pracy) wic wynaj osobne mieszkanie bliej biura"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915696825656369608) 2025-04-25T09:18Z 14.4K followers, 18.5K engagements
"2.Studenci-mczyni nie do e robili po [--] kierunki to oczywicie musieli oba przerywa oba na obowizkow sub wojskow. Spytaem kiedy jednego czemu nie poszed od razu po liceum do wojska eby nie musia przerywa studiw. Jego odpowied: Bo liceum to byo pieko.""
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915697330247946455) 2025-04-25T09:20Z 14.4K followers, 17.1K engagements
"I dalej rozwin myl: Liceum byo tak stresujce e pocztek studiw (na [--] kierunkach) traktowa jak odstresowanie przed kolejnym stresem jakim bya przerwa studiw na sub wojskow. Liceum byo gorsze ni studia wanie dlatego e wisi nad nim presja matury"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915697687426453631) 2025-04-25T09:21Z 14.4K followers, 16.1K engagements
"I to wcale nie dziki temu systemowi edukacji Korea jest potg gospodarcz. Bo potem taki czebol nie musi mie za pracownika czowieka ktry jako dziecko po szkole uczy chodzi na lekcje gry na pianinie albo jako student zrobi drugi kierunek dla samego papieru"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915699022985130157) 2025-04-25T09:26Z 14.4K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Ale owszem na pewno pracoholizm w budowie tej potgi pomaga. Przy takim pracoholizmie pastwo jako gospodarka ma si dziki temu lepiej spoeczestwo jako organizm ma si gorzej. To nie byo dla mnie. Mogem zosta w Seulu nikt mnie nie zwalnia - sam wolaem wrci"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915700093686075801) 2025-04-25T09:31Z 14.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@Piechocinski Ale ja oceniam zjawisko nie Pask ocen tego zjawiska:) Z Paskiego tweeta mona byo zrozumie e jest Pan przeciw skracaniu u nas czasu pracy (ja jestem za). Ale moe le zrozumiaem i Paska opinia jest odwrotna. W kadym razie ja oceniaem system w Korei nie tweeta"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1915701347736846399) 2025-04-25T09:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Wtek zbierajcy: si stao2.dlaczego i si pewnie stanie. 1.Indie dzi w nocy zbombardoway kilka miejsc w Pakistanie. 2.W odpowiedzi na atak terrorystyczny w Indiach z zeszego tygodnia. 3.Pakistan odpowie.I-oby-na tym koniec. http://3.co http://1.co http://3.co http://1.co"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1919862386778943762) 2025-05-06T21:10Z 14.4K followers, 62.8K engagements
"On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in the movie Madhumati which starred Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala was based on a Polish song"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1412762145108922372) 2021-07-07T13:15Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I had a pleasure to be invited to a closed meeting with @SriSri Ravi Shankar ji yesterday. I thanked the guru for holding a meditation event in Warsaw for the sake of peace in Ukraine as the country continues to suffer from Russian invasion"
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1518447206944198656) 2022-04-25T04:30Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
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@Chris_Iwanek Krzysztof IwanekKrzysztof Iwanek posts on X about india, nie, poland, war the most. They currently have [------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [-----] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence countries 48.21% technology brands 8.93% stocks 2.68% finance 2.68% celebrities 1.79% social networks 1.79% travel destinations 1.79% currencies 1.79%
Social topic influence india 35.71%, nie #2591, poland 11.61%, war 7.14%, russia 6.25%, west 6.25%, ai 5.36%, ukraine 5.36%, in the 5.36%, tak 4.46%
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"Movies based on novels often have a more complex script more complex characters and better dialogue lines than movies not based on novels. I would prefer cinema to produce more adaptions of original novels instead of this endless stream of poor remakes/sequels/prequels. But. There were [--] books. We got [--] film. https://t.co/ontTsT9gUo There were [--] books. We got [--] film. https://t.co/ontTsT9gUo"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:22Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
".But as for this one I exceptionally enjoyed the movie (Master and Commander) more than Patrick O'Brian's first novel. It bored me; I struggled through the slow plot and the endless list of nautical terms. It was a good call for them to make one movie out of three novels"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@Monika082014 Yeah cruise ships are one of the worst forms of tourism. And imagine that the next cruise ship we saw there the next day had some slogan about keeping the seas clean written on it"
X Link 2026-02-14T16:29Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wyparcie budek telefonicznych przez telefony komrkowe okazao si nieuniknione (stao si to i u nas). Ale w Indiach o tyle szkoda e budki te byy ich miejscowym produktem. Zamiast tego teraz dominuj tam chiskie i koreaskie telefony komrkowe. Nagwek z 2002👇"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:54Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I used to use STDs a lot when living in India. I've kept a photo of a random STD somewhere in Rajasthan taken in 2007"
X Link 2026-02-15T12:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Kiedy mieszkaem w Indiach [--] lata temu powszechne byy tam budki telefoniczne na kas fiskaln: STD/ICO/PCO. Wiele osb oczywicie nie miao telefonw zatem budki byy podstawowym rodkiem komunikacji. W [----] r. byo ich p miliona. Teraz zostao [--] tysicy"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:51Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"*wrci Pitroda opracowa indyjskie budki telefoniczne po powrocie z USA. Teraz za wymieraj. Co roku zamykane s ich tysice"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:59Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I have been invited to a debate on the India-EU FTA held today at the Polish Ministry of Economic Development and Technology. My sense is that India's image in Poland (and EU) has become much better over the past two decades and there's much more hope for cooperation with India"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:24Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Surethere are some apprehensions about the FTA and many unknowns as the full text of the deal is not public yet. But there's much hope too. A LOT of stuff is going on in India-Poland relations this year. Both the Polish Prime Minister and President are to visit India this year"
X Link 2026-02-09T14:24Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@mareck1 I tak samo mam wraenie e jest wicej rozmw nie tylko o tym jak Indie si zmieniaj ale co to dla nas znaczy. Co moemy tam w zwizku z tym sprzeda Jak inwestowa Itd. W pewnych krgach te rozmowy syszaem od kiedy si Indiami interesowaem ale teraz sysz je szerzej"
X Link 2026-02-09T22:00Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"@MichaelLoda John Keay's history of India is very basic but well-written good for a start. I have not read Richard Eaton's 'India in the Persianate Era' yet it's on my list. He is a very established scholar so I would start with Keay and then move on to Eaton:)"
X Link 2026-02-10T15:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Hey Grok is it true that AI took away my job and I can stay home today"
X Link 2026-02-12T08:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I said goodbye to year [----] on the peak of Mount Olympus/Tahtali Dagi in Turkey"
X Link 2026-02-13T13:19Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As in this case when I twice asked Google for the DOI of my article. In each case Google AI review said that the DOI can't be found. Both times the very first result found in Google right underneath the AI review gave the correct answer - which countered what the AI claimed"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:35Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@peteranthropos Eee. nie wiem:/"
X Link 2026-02-15T19:04Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Moe przynajmniej tego jednego dodatkowego zd zje zanim si synowie dobior. Ale najpierw we to czowieku wszystko usma"
X Link 2026-02-12T17:34Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Pierwszy raz robiem pczki na Tusty Czwartek. Korzystaem z przepisu z [--]. najpopularniejszej strony w Polsce: Ania Gotuje. Jest wietny. No to jutro faworki😋"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:25Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"AI has peaked Google AI review has FUNDAMENTALLY altered the time I need for Googling. How Well every time a Google AI review pops out I need to ignore it and scroll down past it to find the normal Google results. That scrolling wastes something like [--] second of my day"
X Link 2026-02-13T14:31Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"When you wake up in the morning in Flm a Norwegian town of several hundred people and see a giant cruise ship with several thousand passengers onboard looming over the town you begin to think about the downsides of mass tourism. But other than that I just loved Flm"
X Link 2026-02-14T15:11Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A [----] headline: "Things that make India proud: STD booths." There were over [---] [---] STD booths in India then. There are [--] [---] left. In an era of mobile phones the end of STDs was inevitable but kind of sad that an Indian product an STD was wiped out by foreign mobile phones"
X Link 2026-02-15T10:23Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@anwesh_satpathy I feel like the cinematic industry does not want to take risks anymore. Hey let's make Star Wars and destroy the death star for the third time because people liked it. They treat movies like Coca Cola: let's sell the same thing because people enjoy it. But movies are not cola"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:35Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"@anwesh_satpathy But HBO proved with Game of Thrones that many viewers do want change. Instead of Disney-like remakes you can take a novel (and a one not very known outside the fantasy readers' circle) and turn it into one of the most popular shows in history. If only that was tried more often"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:39Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements
"Wow so now instead of repetitive dumb American action movies that have been looking like AI slop for decades we will have repetitive dumb action movies that actually are AI slop. Wow that changes. nothing for me. @FearedBuck AI just peaked. 🤯 If you didnt know this Brad Pitt vs. Tom Cruise fight was AI-generated youd swear it was a leaked scene from a $200M blockbuster. The realism is getting scary. We are months away from full-length AI movies that look indistinguishable from reality. #Viral #AI https://t.co/wYOkC658AP @FearedBuck AI just peaked. 🤯 If you didnt know this Brad Pitt vs. Tom"
X Link 2026-02-12T11:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"No i wyszy i wyszy. To jest wyszy dobrze i ju wikszoci nie ma. Nie byem w stanie nawet zrobi zdjcia wszystkim [--]. Tak szybko jedlimy e zawsze byo tylko kilka jednoczenie"
X Link 2026-02-12T19:22Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"What is even the point of making an AI that compiles Google results in a worse manner than the one in which Google itself arranges its results I mean sure - sometimes Google AI review is capable of offering useful information"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:13Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
".But so far it's a roll of dice. It may as well give you absolute nonsense. Recently it gave me biographical information about me. 90% of it was wrong including my interests and where I work. So yeah I really skip it"
X Link 2026-02-13T15:14Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"So yes I want them to make more novel adaptations. I want them to make sequels to the Master and Commander. But I do hope they will take a lot of liberty with the source material to make the plot progress quicker"
X Link 2026-02-15T15:32Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Na dodatek budki telefoniczne w Indiach byy dzieem Sama Pitrody: rzadkiego przykadu Indusa ktry robi karier w USA ale zdecydowa si wrci do ojczyzny (najpierw przyj obywatelstwo USA i straci indyjskie potem odrzuci amerykaskie i wrzuci do indyjskiego)"
X Link 2026-02-15T18:57Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"There are people who try to monetise whatever is the current fasion in AI. Today they sell online courses on how to use ChatGPT to be a better trader. Tomorrow they'll try to sell a course on how to invest in crypto using Claude. In Hindi we could call them - - "
X Link 2026-02-16T14:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Since [----] Pakistan was secretly supporting the Taliban. It is now laying the ground to do it openly I argue in my new text for @Diplomat_APAC. Pakistani politicians diluted the responsibility of the Taliban and questioned the mandate of Kabul government. https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/the-talibans-careful-cheerleaders-pakistans-statements-on-the-fall-of-kabul/ https://thediplomat.com/2021/08/the-talibans-careful-cheerleaders-pakistans-statements-on-the-fall-of-kabul/"
X Link 2021-08-16T23:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"BREAKING: I have just uncovered China's secret plan for massive investment in Central Asia AfPak and Iran. Worth [--] gazillion Australian dollars it is to consist of three separate economic belts only one of which will be shaped like [--]. Source: some geopolitcs expert on TT"
X Link 2021-09-01T11:14Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"On Hindi Diwas a bunch of words that accidently sound somewhat similar in Hindi and Polish: - 'pani': 'water' in Hindi 'Madam' in Polish - 'pan': 'betel' in Hindi 'Sir' in Polish - 'pustak': 'book' in Hindi 'a brick with empty space inside it' in Polish"
X Link 2021-09-14T06:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I've just made my first meme"
X Link 2021-11-16T04:00Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"chunaavjeevi"
X Link 2021-11-19T11:10Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Here is my ground-breaking commentary about events in Kazakhstan: I have not been there I do not know the Kazakh language I have not read anything about the country and I have no idea what will happen next so I will keep my mouth shut and not comment"
X Link 2022-01-06T07:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Such things indeed happen on Indian and Nepali mountain roads. Yes it is usually not that extreme. But this shows why Indian and Nepali drivers should be paid more - and tipped better by tourists. Short thread with my private experience👇 The perfect [--] point turn https://t.co/bLzb1J1puU The perfect [--] point turn https://t.co/bLzb1J1puU"
X Link 2022-01-23T16:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Highly deserved. Professor Byrski is a great Indologist fluent in both Sanskrit and Hindi with vast knowledge of Indian classical theatre (among others) the translator of Manusmriti and Kamasutra from Sanskrit to Polish. Polish national and Sanskrit scholar Maria Christopher Byrski honoured with Padma Shri By Indian Govt. He also served as Poland's envoy to India from [----] to [----]. Polish national and Sanskrit scholar Maria Christopher Byrski honoured with Padma Shri By Indian Govt. He also served as Poland's envoy to India from [----] to 1996"
X Link 2022-01-25T15:12Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Also a person who did a lot for Indo-Polish relations: not only a former ambassador to India but also a person who worked to commemorate the late maharaja of Nawanagar for hosting Polish children during WWII"
X Link 2022-01-25T15:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Just a sample of his scope of knowledge of Indian culture: I took both his Hindi and Sanskrit classes and in Hindi class we worked on a modern play Mr. Abhimanyu; in Sanskrit class we had to learn Shivatandavastotram by heart"
X Link 2022-01-25T15:21Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Today on the occasion of Republic Day I received a letter of gratitude from Prime Minister Narendra Modi for my work on India. The letter was handed in to me by HE Nagma M. Mallick the Indian ambassador to Poland. On the occasion of our 73rd Republic Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to Mr. Krzysztof Iwaneka South Asia expert and the Head of the Asia Research Centre War Studies University Poland and conveyed his greetings.#AmritMahotsav @MEAIndia @PMOIndia @IndianDiplomacy https://t.co/BrP3t5uwSW On the occasion of our 73rd Republic Day Prime Minister Narendra Modi has written to"
X Link 2022-01-26T15:50Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"This text claims that Mein Kampf is used as a leadership textbook in some Indian business courses. Not only this is false but makes no sense. Author should read Mein Kampf first: it is bollocks a chaotic stream of thoughts useless as leadership textbook. https://www.ft.com/content/c16f05b8-31f2-434d-935f-da5fd151a758 https://www.ft.com/content/c16f05b8-31f2-434d-935f-da5fd151a758"
X Link 2022-01-29T12:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"'Oh but Ukraine sold arms to Pakistan' Here is some data: in last two decades Ukraine sold more military hardware (in value) to India than to Pakistan. I am not among those saying New Delhi must pick a side. But singling out on social media for deals with is unfair. What are Ukraines top arms export destinations (2010-2020) [--]. China [--]. Russia [--]. Thailand [--]. Ethiopia [--]. India https://t.co/Zz3bicZuWp https://t.co/M8rowxLvdv What are Ukraines top arms export destinations (2010-2020) [--]. China [--]. Russia [--]. Thailand [--]. Ethiopia [--]. India https://t.co/Zz3bicZuWp https://t.co/M8rowxLvdv"
X Link 2022-02-26T10:07Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Many may disagree but I am with @jamescrabtree on this. I agree with most of this text. It is a wrong approach to tell the Indian government what we want it to do. What we (the broader West should do) is to cooperate with India whenever both sides want it. Should the west play hardball with India over Ukraine Better to recognise Modi's security dilemmas re tighter Russia / China ties and help New Delhi reduce its arms imports as I argue in @NikkeiAsia. 1/ https://t.co/qveBBjSEDN Should the west play hardball with India over Ukraine Better to recognise Modi's security dilemmas re tighter"
X Link 2022-03-01T13:37Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"I am trying to separate my private views from the foreign policy of the Indian government. As a Polish person I would like India to be on one side: in alliance with the West. But as a person following Indian foreign policy I know this is not what New Delhi wants"
X Link 2022-03-01T13:39Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Would I like India to condemn Russia Yes. Do I consider Russian actions as blatant invasion of Ukraine Yes. Would I like as much countries to support Ukraine Yes. But did we the West always support India when India needed it No"
X Link 2022-03-01T13:41Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Was the West clearly on India's side during India-Pakistan tensions No. Was the West clearly on India's side during India-China tensions No. So can we just simply say now: 'Hey India you must be on our side'"
X Link 2022-03-01T13:43Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"The way forwards is to find areas of convergence not sermonize India on the aspects on whih disagree. Sermonizing will likely lead to reverse results. Let us just face it: West and India have a growing convergence of interests on China. They have no convergence on Russia"
X Link 2022-03-01T13:54Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"As for Russia-India cooperation @jamescrabtree makes a good point: the only constructive approach is for the West to offer India more of the stuff which India is now getting from Russia. This is how we can influence India-Russia ties without sermonizing India"
X Link 2022-03-01T14:00Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Nine years ago @Adam_Burakowski and I wrote a history of India ('India. From colony to a power. 1857-2013') in Polish. Few years later he became the ambassador of Poland to India. Seeing how he is now engaged in - relations I am even more glad I had been his coauthor"
X Link 2022-03-01T16:54Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Results so far: AAP: 40% TUM: 25% TU Disrespectful: 20% TU Intimate: 10% AAP but with ho not hain: 5%"
X Link 2022-03-10T07:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"A new survey has revealed which Indian dish is most popular in the West. 84% respondents voted for curry ninda"
X Link 2022-03-15T15:12Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"@Sri_Mumbai Sermon ka tel:)"
X Link 2022-03-15T15:49Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"India's neutrality on Russia's invasion of Ukraine divided Western commentators between the critics and defenders of India's position. I believe the first group can be called the normativists and the second - the realists. I summarise this debate here👇 https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/the-great-debate-over-indias-neutrality-in-the-ukraine-war/ https://thediplomat.com/2022/03/the-great-debate-over-indias-neutrality-in-the-ukraine-war/"
X Link 2022-03-29T15:41Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I gave an interview in Hindi to @umashankarsingh of NDTV: I spoke of the aid which is giving to and that I understand 's neutrality but I am kindly asking Indian viewers not to listen to Russian propaganda: war crimes in Ukraine are being commited by Russian army. : @Chris_Iwanek 👇 https://t.co/W3jbTi2cMR : @Chris_Iwanek 👇 https://t.co/W3jbTi2cMR"
X Link 2022-04-11T19:10Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"Phew that was quick. After [--] years of work my book on Vidya Bharati (RSS) schools in India is going to print. Titled 'Endless Siege. Education and Nationalism in Vidya Bharati schools' it should come out in May [----]. Publisher: Oxford University Press. https://global.oup.com/academic/product/endless-siege-9780192865564lang=en&cc=pw https://global.oup.com/academic/product/endless-siege-9780192865564lang=en&cc=pw"
X Link 2022-04-12T16:39Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"In case it is of interest to someone: most of my texts for The Diplomat (@Diplomat_APAC) which I am a regular contributor to are collected here👇 These are mostly my thoughts on Indian foreign policy and politics. https://thediplomat.com/authors/krzysztof-iwanek/ https://thediplomat.com/authors/krzysztof-iwanek/"
X Link 2022-04-20T04:30Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I cannot stand Elon Musk buying Twitter. This is too much. I am leaving Twitter. Good night everyone and see you tomorrow"
X Link 2022-05-01T15:24Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I wrote this four years ago: how Dumont got the caste system wrong how we Indologists had been treating his words like doctrine how it took academics like professor Guha to destroy Dumont's myths and how this is a lesson on how to write about India. https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/dumont-guha-and-the-danger-of-stereotyping-india/ https://thediplomat.com/2018/03/dumont-guha-and-the-danger-of-stereotyping-india/"
X Link 2022-05-14T13:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"'Poles in India 1942-1948' is a very interesting collection of texts on the Polish children that were hosted in India during the Second World War. More interestingly some of the authors who prepared this volume belonged to that group of children"
X Link 2023-06-26T08:32Z 14.4K followers, 77.9K engagements
"Can we verify BJP's new claim that the Congress is funded by Soros No because nowadays parties in India do not have to reveal who funds them. This was a decision made by checks notes. the BJP government. (Also blaming Soros for everything is Antisemitic dogwhistle). The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat. https://t.co/AwDKxJpDHB The new age Ravan is here. He is Evil. Anti Dharma. Anti Ram. His aim is to destroy Bharat. https://t.co/AwDKxJpDHB"
X Link 2023-10-05T08:40Z 14.4K followers, 131.1K engagements
"India's relations with three powers in one tweet: China - economically an important trade partner but strategically a rival; Russia - economically an insignificant trade partner but strategically a partner; US - economically and strategically an important partner"
X Link 2024-03-18T12:06Z 14.4K followers, 34.5K engagements
"The US reaction to India's [----] nuclear tests was one of the low points of India-US relations. What is less known is that Japan acted against India too. And though Russia usually avoids criticism of India Yeltsin spoke against India too. Seema Sirohi 'Friends with Benefits'👇"
X Link 2024-04-03T05:58Z 14.4K followers, 370.5K engagements
"In [----] the king of Nepal Jang Bahadur visited France. Due to the rules of ritual impurity the Nepali delegation refused to accept cooked food whenever they were at a party and only ate fruit. They also dined in separate chambers from their European hosts"
X Link 2024-04-14T08:21Z 14.4K followers, 16.5K engagements
"Written in the early 18th century (before the British conquest of India even began) the Marathi treatise Adnyapatra warned that the Europeans weren't ordinary businessmen that they wanted to penetrate deep into India to extend their kingdoms. Everything turned out true"
X Link 2024-04-19T06:05Z 14.4K followers, 20.4K engagements
"Thousands of Polish children were hosted in India during WWII. Most of them later left - one of the persons who stayed was Wanda Nowicka who married an Indian Mr. Kashikar. Their granddaughter is Apeksha Niranjan a Bharatanatyam dancer who will perform in Warsaw tomorrow"
X Link 2024-04-27T08:30Z 14.4K followers, 16.4K engagements
"Z alem egnam Orodek Bada Azji (@osrodekazji) CBB AszWoj. Orodek ten stworzyem z zespoem od podstaw i wolabym ju eby mnie zwolniono ale eby przetrway instytucja i zesp. Dalej nie zgadzam si z t decyzj MON - potrzebujemy wicej wiedzy o Azji nie mniej"
X Link 2024-05-11T15:10Z 14.4K followers, 87.3K engagements
"Dobra teraz ju chyba mog o tym publicznie napisa. Premier Indii Narendra Modi odwiedzi w przyszym tygodniu Polsk i Ukrain. To pierwsza wizyta premiera Indii w Polsce od lat [----]. https://theprint.in/diplomacy/modi-to-visit-poland-next-week-1st-indian-pm-to-do-so-post-1979-focus-on-defence-strategic-alignment/2221759/ https://theprint.in/diplomacy/modi-to-visit-poland-next-week-1st-indian-pm-to-do-so-post-1979-focus-on-defence-strategic-alignment/2221759/"
X Link 2024-08-13T15:04Z 14.4K followers, 56.5K engagements
"As the Prime Minister of India is landing in Poland a short thread on some of the interesting interactions between Poland and India throughout history. I frankly admit that being very busy today I am putting together a thread from my older tweets"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 1.9M engagements
"Unlike countries like UK and France Poland never conquered territories in India in the early modern period. However there was an attempt in the 18th century when two Polish ships tried to entered the Bay of Bengal to open trade with India"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 80.7K engagements
".only that those ships Neptun and Ko Polski turned out not the be even Polish but Austrians sailing under a Polish flag hoping this would allow them to bypass the British-Dutch monopoly. They failed: the ships were halted by the British and Dutch"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 75.7K engagements
"The ships were turned backed and all that Poland got out of it was an international scandal. As for real Poles in early modern India there weren't many of them - usually mercenaries missionaries or travellers"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 67K engagements
"There were more interactions in 19th-20th century. A Polish painter Stefan Norblin fled to India during the 2nd World War and painted the murals of the Umaid Bhavan palace in Jodhpur. Here is my old thread about it with a link to a documentary on this. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1168154062837170176 Today marks the 80th anniversary of German aggression on Poland which started the II World War. Link to India (and particularly Bombay and Jodhpur) In face of the attack some [---] Poles managed to escape to India through Romania Turkey and Iraq and then by the sea to Bombay."
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 91.7K engagements
"A more known story from WWII were the Polish children let out of the Soviet Union after being exiled (=imprisoned) there by Moscow. Thousands of them found refuge in India: near Kolhapur and in Balachadi in Jamnagar. Today this history is a symbol of Poland-India friendship"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 57.3K engagements
"If you want to read more about this the most exhaustive volume I know is this one - some of the authors are the very children who stayed in India during World War II (available in Polish too) https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1673247912879353856 'Poles in India 1942-1948' is a very interesting collection of texts on the Polish children that were hosted in India during the Second World War. More interestingly some of the authors who prepared this volume belonged to that group of children. https://t.co/Vs3PSHWj7Y https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1673247912879353856 'Poles in India 1942-1948'"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 74.8K engagements
"Another connection: the original master plan of Chandigarh was prepared by a Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and an American one Albert Mayer. Here is my old thread about this: https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1194812939364192256 Connection between Chandigarh and Poland The original master plan of Chandigarh was prepared by a Polish architect Maciej Nowicki and an American one Albert Mayer. Nowicki died in a plane crash in [----] however when flying from Bombay to New York. https://t.co/4YQ75Ionk1 https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1194812939364192256 Connection between Chandigarh and Poland"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:02Z 14.4K followers, 57.4K engagements
"Oh and did you know that a song from Bollywood movie Madhumati was based on a melody of a Polish folk song Here's (again.) my old thread about it. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1412762145108922372 On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in the movie Madhumati which starred Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala was based on a Polish song. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1412762145108922372 On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:09Z 14.4K followers, 50.3K engagements
"There was also a Polish Jew Maurycy Frydman who moved to India before IIWW got influenced by Ramana Maharishi and Krishnamurti converted to Hinduism became an associate of Gandhi and helped Gandhi prepare the constitution of the princely state of Aundh"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:34Z 14.4K followers, 33.4K engagements
"You probably heard of one of the founding fathers of ethnography Bronisaw Malinowski. When Malinowski sailed to begin his research in Australia and Oceania he took with himself a famous Polish writer and painter Witkacy. They stayed for a short time in India and Sri Lanka"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:39Z 14.4K followers, 30.8K engagements
"Witkacy later described his experiences of Sri Lanka and India in a quirky novel set in India A Farewell to Autumn. I wrote about this in this text for The Diplomat. https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the-nonsense-of-witnessing-such-beauty-malinowskis-tryst-with-sri-lanka/ https://thediplomat.com/2017/10/the-nonsense-of-witnessing-such-beauty-malinowskis-tryst-with-sri-lanka/"
X Link 2024-08-21T13:41Z 14.4K followers, 28.9K engagements
"A Bengali academic Hiranmoy Ghoshal was hired at Warsaw University before WWII. During the war he fled to India with his Polish wife where he worked at the Polish consulate in Bombay and helped the same Polish children. Then he returned to Poland and lived there till the end"
X Link 2024-08-21T14:05Z 14.4K followers, 25.2K engagements
"Ghoshal wrote several books about Poland in Bengali; he taught at the chair of Indology. One of the halls of Warsaw University Indology chair was named after him. After his death he was buried with honours at the Powzki cementary"
X Link 2024-08-21T14:07Z 14.4K followers, 24.6K engagements
"There is a stationery company in Hyderabad Kaybee. Its name carries in it a memory of a Polish woman who had established it - Kira Banasiska (Kaybee for her initials - KB) Kira Banasiska was the wife of the Polish consul in Bombay before and during the Second World War"
X Link 2024-08-21T14:17Z 14.4K followers, 22.5K engagements
".Kira Banasiska also helped the Polish children during WWII. But she and her husband decided to stay and became Indian citizens. They established a company Kaybee Equipments. Kira died in India but the company exists: I think it's called Kaybee School Equipment Manufacturing"
X Link 2024-08-21T14:20Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements
"There are quotes from Rigveda and the Upanishads engraved into the walls of the Warsaw University Library. They were selected by a Polish Sanskrit scholar Professor Joanna Jurewicz. Recently she was awarded an ICCR award for her work (mostly on Rigveda)"
X Link 2024-08-21T15:25Z 14.4K followers, 19.6K engagements
"A Polish professor Aleksandrowicz taught at Madras University in 1950s. He founded the Madras Law School there (a school of thought not an institution)"
X Link 2024-08-21T15:38Z 14.4K followers, 17.2K engagements
"Oh and did you know that Poland India - and South Korea - happen to share the date of their one national holiday August [--]. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1294529632113430528 August [--] happens to be the national day of [--] countries I lived in and to which my life is connected: Poland India and South Korea. Poland: Armed Forces Day and Assumption of Mary India: Independence Day Korea: National Liberation Day Wishing all three countries all the best. https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1294529632113430528 August [--] happens to be the national day of [--] countries I lived in and to which my life is"
X Link 2024-08-21T15:46Z 14.4K followers, 23.2K engagements
"In Zakopane there is a mansion called Villa Atma. A musician Karol Szymanowski once lived there. The name is of course from Sanskrit. The name was chosen because in late 19th century/early 20th century there was a rising interest in the East (including India) in Europe"
X Link 2024-08-21T16:43Z 14.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"In the Communist era the Polish shipyard in Gdynia produced landing ships for the Indian navy. These were the Polnocny ('Northern' in Polish) ships - some were classified as Kumbhir-class in India. In India they served under names such as Shardul Sharabh Guldar Cheetah"
X Link 2024-08-21T17:37Z 14.4K followers, 16.9K engagements
"There were Polish smugglers operating in India in late 1980s. They would buy electronics in places like Singapore or Moscow and smuggle them into India (to go around the customs I guess). One of them wrote a book later in which he describes all this but I still haven't read it"
X Link 2024-08-21T17:58Z 14.4K followers, 15K engagements
"The International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration (IAST) a transliteration system uses the letter to transliterate the symbol. This letter is taken from Polish - it was chosen to represent because and represent very similar sounds"
X Link 2024-08-21T18:09Z 14.4K followers, 12.9K engagements
"I jeszcze to si stao na marginesie wizyty premiera Indii w Polsce. Wczoraj z tej okazji napisaem wtek zbierajcy rne ciekawe (mam nadziej) przypadki indyjsko-polskich interakcji na przestrzeni dziejw. Dzi rano ten wtek pochwali i poda dalej. premier Indii"
X Link 2024-08-22T17:51Z 14.4K followers, 133K engagements
"14 lat temu rozpoczem wraz z Centrum Studiw Polska-Azja w tym @RadekPyffel inicjatyw wzywajc wadze Warszawy by nazway imieniem maharady Nawanagaru skwer. Udao si - skwer na Ochocie nazwano imieniem Dobrego Maharady. Wczoraj zoy na nim kwiaty premier Indii. PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar Memorial in Warsaw Poland. The memorial honours the humanitarian efforts of Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja who provided shelter and care to homeless Polish children during World War II. https://t.co/uVfIYZu2Yx PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of"
X Link 2024-08-22T18:51Z 14.4K followers, 16.8K engagements
"14 years I started an initiative with @RadekPyffel and the Poland-Asia Research Centre petitioning the Polish authorities to name a square in Warsaw after the Maharaja of Nawanagar. It succeeded. Now this square is part of relations: the PM of India paid his respects there. PM @narendramodi paid respects at the Jam Saheb of Nawanagar Memorial in Warsaw Poland. The memorial honours the humanitarian efforts of Jam Saheb Digvijaysinhji Ranjitsinhji Jadeja who provided shelter and care to homeless Polish children during World War II. https://t.co/uVfIYZu2Yx PM @narendramodi paid respects at the"
X Link 2024-08-23T05:12Z 14.4K followers, 15.7K engagements
"W Polsce powstaa [--] () ksika o gospodarce wspczesnych Indii ale bardzo dobra. Autorem jest Sebastian Domalski (@SebastianD_PL) i jest on take. charg d'affaires naszej ambasady w Nowym Delhi. To midzy innymi on zajmowa si wizyt premiera Indii. Dziki Sebastianie"
X Link 2024-08-23T17:53Z 14.4K followers, 17.5K engagements
"PAP ma w Azji. jednego korespondenta (w Chinach). W Indiach nie ma. Kiedy teraz premier Indii by w Warszawie nie mielimy korespondenta by ledzi reakcje na t wizyt w Indiach. O tych i innych aspektach polityki Polski wobec Azji rozmawiaem z red. @kwojcicka98 dla DGP.👇 MSZ i MON powinny duo wicej inwestowa w wiedz ktra pomoe nam zweryfikowa co polskie firmy maj szans ugra w krajach takich jak Indie. Teraz zaplecze eksperckie praktycznie u nas nie istnieje - mwi mi @Chris_Iwanek w wanej rozmowie dot. zainteresowania Azj. https://t.co/bbnzP30QFu MSZ i MON powinny duo wicej inwestowa w wiedz ktra"
X Link 2024-08-24T17:28Z 14.4K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Mamy to Polski kebab o nazwie Polski Kebab w Kozhikode (Kalikat) w Kerali poudniowe Indie"
X Link 2024-11-03T17:13Z 14.4K followers, 26.2K engagements
"Reactions in India towards the US tariffs on India are divided. Sonu Nigam suggests not to worry: "Tariff yah bhi to sach hai kuch bhi nahi." However Mohammad Rafi had once predicted this and suggested reciprocal action: "Tariff. Karu Kya Uski Jisne Tumhe Banaya""
X Link 2025-04-03T14:11Z 14.4K followers, 11.7K engagements
"Pracowaem w Seulu dwa i p roku. Na uczelni - w pracy biurowej bym pewnie tyle nie wytrzyma. Tak Korea jest bardziej rozwinita bezpieczniejsza zaawansowana ni Polska. Ale koszt spoeczny jest ogromny. Pracoholizm wszdzie pracujce starsze osoby przeciona modzie. W Korei do [--] godzin pracy a w Polsce mylimy o [--] dniach W Korei do [--] godzin pracy a w Polsce mylimy o [--] dniach"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 597.8K engagements
"Studenci studiujcy po dwa kierunki tylko po to eby mie dwa dyplomy. No bo skoro wszyscy inni bd mie dyplom to ja musz mie dwa wic bardzo wiele osb robi dwa kierunki - nie z zainteresowania tylko eby mie mocniejsze papiery"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 26K engagements
".A potem studenci przeywaj kad ocen z egzaminu bo pracodawca bdzie mia mas kandydatw z dwoma takimi samymi dyplomami wic bdzie porwnywa ich oceny z egzaminw na dyplomach (nie wiem czy to czste - ale na pewno studenci myl e to czste)"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 23.8K engagements
".A potem i tak taka firma czsto dopiero przysposabia takiego wybranego kandydata do danego typu pracy a wic cay ten wycig - stresujce egzaminy na koniec liceum by dosta si na studia potem studia na dwch kierunkach - czsto okazuje si mie mae znaczenie"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:05Z 14.4K followers, 22.8K engagements
"Kto uwaa e to przykady anegdotyczne niech sprawdzi np. jaki jest wskanik samobjstw modych w Republice Korei (jeden z najwyszych na wiecie) albo jak wyglda koreaska matura (suneung). Uczniowie yj w ogromnym stresie uwaajc e matura decyduje o caej ich karierze"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:09Z 14.4K followers, 21.4K engagements
"Mona te sobie sprawdzi statystyczny czas powicany przez koreaskie dziecko na nauk. W Republice Korei powszechne jest e po szkole dziecko idzie na korepetycje do drugiej prywatnej szkoy (hagwonu). W efekcie uczy si czsto cay dzie"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:15Z 14.4K followers, 19.8K engagements
"To z przykadw mierzalnych. Z przykadw anegdotycznych: 1.Obok nas mieszkaa pani sama wychowujca [--] dzieci bo jej m pracowa. w tym samym miecie. Ale nie opacao'' mu si wraca do domu (czas przejazdu czas pracy) wic wynaj osobne mieszkanie bliej biura"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:18Z 14.4K followers, 18.5K engagements
"2.Studenci-mczyni nie do e robili po [--] kierunki to oczywicie musieli oba przerywa oba na obowizkow sub wojskow. Spytaem kiedy jednego czemu nie poszed od razu po liceum do wojska eby nie musia przerywa studiw. Jego odpowied: Bo liceum to byo pieko.""
X Link 2025-04-25T09:20Z 14.4K followers, 17.1K engagements
"I dalej rozwin myl: Liceum byo tak stresujce e pocztek studiw (na [--] kierunkach) traktowa jak odstresowanie przed kolejnym stresem jakim bya przerwa studiw na sub wojskow. Liceum byo gorsze ni studia wanie dlatego e wisi nad nim presja matury"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:21Z 14.4K followers, 16.1K engagements
"I to wcale nie dziki temu systemowi edukacji Korea jest potg gospodarcz. Bo potem taki czebol nie musi mie za pracownika czowieka ktry jako dziecko po szkole uczy chodzi na lekcje gry na pianinie albo jako student zrobi drugi kierunek dla samego papieru"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:26Z 14.4K followers, 16.3K engagements
"Ale owszem na pewno pracoholizm w budowie tej potgi pomaga. Przy takim pracoholizmie pastwo jako gospodarka ma si dziki temu lepiej spoeczestwo jako organizm ma si gorzej. To nie byo dla mnie. Mogem zosta w Seulu nikt mnie nie zwalnia - sam wolaem wrci"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:31Z 14.4K followers, 15.8K engagements
"@Piechocinski Ale ja oceniam zjawisko nie Pask ocen tego zjawiska:) Z Paskiego tweeta mona byo zrozumie e jest Pan przeciw skracaniu u nas czasu pracy (ja jestem za). Ale moe le zrozumiaem i Paska opinia jest odwrotna. W kadym razie ja oceniaem system w Korei nie tweeta"
X Link 2025-04-25T09:36Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
"Wtek zbierajcy: si stao2.dlaczego i si pewnie stanie. 1.Indie dzi w nocy zbombardoway kilka miejsc w Pakistanie. 2.W odpowiedzi na atak terrorystyczny w Indiach z zeszego tygodnia. 3.Pakistan odpowie.I-oby-na tym koniec. http://3.co http://1.co http://3.co http://1.co"
X Link 2025-05-06T21:10Z 14.4K followers, 62.8K engagements
"On hearing the sad news of the death of Dilip Kumar I take the liberty to bring out a little-known fact. One of the songs in the movie Madhumati which starred Dilip Kumar and Vyjayanthimala was based on a Polish song"
X Link 2021-07-07T13:15Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements
"I had a pleasure to be invited to a closed meeting with @SriSri Ravi Shankar ji yesterday. I thanked the guru for holding a meditation event in Warsaw for the sake of peace in Ukraine as the country continues to suffer from Russian invasion"
X Link 2022-04-25T04:30Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements
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