#  @anikulkarni aniruddha g kulkarni
aniruddha g kulkarni posts on X about india, history, if you, ai the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash Into India in Quest for AI Supremacy/Lured by a big tech-savvy population Google and other giants are sinking tens of billions into the Indian market. https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremacy-a5d02f0emod=hp_lead_pos11 https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremacy-a5d02f0emod=hp_lead_pos11"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019275819030581544) 2026-02-05T05:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"".Maos victory he argues owed little to popular enthusiasm and even less to the intrinsic appeal of communist ideas. It was instead the product of foreign patronage and trigger-happy thugs. The CCP survived its early obscurity through discipline deception and coercion +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019992396742946953) 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
""He quotes a senior British police officer who calculates that [--] per cent of purchases of luxury watches are trade-based money laundering. It is far safer for a client to buy a [------] Richard Mille and hand it over to a criminal as payment than it is to deliver cash.+"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020500522260914214) 2026-02-08T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Note how close was West Germany associated with all this. all those ideas spread including to India too.".In Germany today where mainstream newspapers have likened kaffiyehs to Nazi garb +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020511751482028529) 2026-02-08T14:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Panipat_1761 Read Chh Sambhaji's quest to keep Mumbai&Konkan to Marathas against two leading sea powers of the day British navy and Siddi navy. That settled for me who Mumbai belonged to. Recently Amitav Ghosh said Mumbai became Mumbai bec Maratha chieftains fighting Brits in 18th&19th cent"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020705174000635985) 2026-02-09T03:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold (3276%) in INR has overtaken Nifty [---] (3165%) over period from Jan [--] [----] till Feb [--] [----]. Even if one includes dividends gold still is higher. All the pontification about equity now sounds a bit hollow esp after LTCG is practically gone. #gold #nifty500"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2021213511225888850) 2026-02-10T13:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@OnkarDake225 I wish Savarkar learned from Samarth how to reach masses in many parts of India how to use simple yet powerful language in everyday life how to create institutions like Sajjangad that remain vibrant for centuries"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2021878714259423479) 2026-02-12T09:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"".Did you go whoring much in your youth Tolstoy asks Chekhov." (TLS Feb [--] [----] Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky [----] Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images https://www.the-tls.com/literature-by-region/european-literature/reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-andreyev-maxim-gorky https://www.the-tls.com/literature-by-region/european-literature/reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-andreyev-maxim-gorky"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022210236208361501) 2026-02-13T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"so this too was Blitzed "During the Vietnam War heroin was so readily available in Indochina that a NY Times report claimed that between 10&15 per cent of lower-ranking enlisted men were addicted with some units reporting dependency rates above 50%" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022217226049532147) 2026-02-13T07:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Washington was fond of Don Quixote.smart guy "When the Constitutional Convention concluded on Sept. [--] [----] its president George Washington bought a four-volume edition of Don Quixote from a Philadelphia bookseller to bring home to Mount Vernon." https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-favorite-novels-founders-c54311be https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-favorite-novels-founders-c54311be"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022536723197288695) 2026-02-14T05:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Whale oil Crais writes helped create the modern world. As well as being used in soap and perfumes oils extracted from the blubber and head cavities of whales literally illuminated the urban-industrial world that capitalism was bringing into being. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022857427268333947) 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"so not only world thinks Indian listed companies will not be players in AI /semiconductors world thinks Indian companies will bleed because of AI.either stock market is wrong completely or our "world is flat" bubble has burst"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2021927624298365189) 2026-02-12T12:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"how many people know a single poem of Ms. Naidu today without googling it She is oft quoted person but she remains a big mystery to me. (Her daughter is even more so I think M.O. Mathai's book talks about her) - - ; https://t.co/AEUyMBA2CJ - - ; https://t.co/AEUyMBA2CJ"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022223655594602504) 2026-02-13T08:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Germanys surrender in May [----] Mr. McDougall asserts was the end of European history. Unable to sustain Europes balance of power themselves Europeans were reduced to dependency on one or the other global superpower. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mighty-continent-review-the-story-of-europe-894452c4 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mighty-continent-review-the-story-of-europe-894452c4"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022533992915059096) 2026-02-14T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".But if you dont already know the story of how the movies were made safe for the multiplexes in the 1970s this is as good a place as any to start. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-review-the-unlikely-titans-6f096c80 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-review-the-unlikely-titans-6f096c80"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022541791178924515) 2026-02-14T05:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In [----] it produced just over one billion lumen hours lighting factories schools and streets. Modernity itself or the Enlightenment a term gaining popularity at precisely the same time that whales were being hunted to near extinction depended on artificial light. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022857429890043920) 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".In its 19th-century heyday the hideous practice of whale slaughter helped create an industrial civilisation however flawed. A century later the slaughter was a barbarous ritual in a polluted and impoverished economy that was headed for collapse. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022857432561566176) 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Craiss exclusion of the larger history of the killing age is disappointing but hardly surprising. It is testimony to American intellectual introversion and the hegemony of progressive ideology. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022858731717857540) 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"At the other end of the political spectrum the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntingtons influential book The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) was ostensibly a study of global conflict in the post-Cold War era; +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022858734238863662) 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Though it records much that is horrendous The Killing Age will not disturb its readers unduly. Nothing in contemporary discourse is more reassuringly familiar or more strangely satisfying than a story of Western guilt +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022858739540447609) 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"for it testifies to the moral and intellectual superiority of those who tell and listen to it. Any narrative in which structural violence is confined to the West is mass-market comfort literature. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022858741792878966) 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The truth is that systematic killing is embedded in modernity itself as an inescapable concomitant of the project of building a new world but that is a story for which there is no market. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022858911263367287) 2026-02-15T02:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Kyc is a symptom of state's profound doubts about their own systems look how well pan and income tax have settled from beginning or passport. They started ckyc. It's a mess. They have issued [--] to me. KYC -- Our only reason for existence as citizen Govt & RBI has found excellent ways to keep all citizens busy: Do KYC / Re-KYC / Re-re KYC . You never know which account would be frozen when. I have realized apart from paying tax (if you earn) or getting doles (if you don't KYC -- Our only reason for existence as citizen Govt & RBI has found excellent ways to keep all citizens busy: Do KYC /"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022867964425540067) 2026-02-15T02:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PrasunNagar Shaka Samvat is our stuff across Deccan some of the most developed and cultured part of India"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022903322748010582) 2026-02-15T05:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"artist is M V Dhurandhar working for Ravi Varma Press.Shiva and Parvati in Procession (Shiv Parvati Vivah) c 1930"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022908526163792038) 2026-02-15T05:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Core_punekar c """
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022926836255383976) 2026-02-15T06:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gbosatyfe other than probably Bhavatu other 'mistakes' are really not it's just another way of writing nouns we make such 'mistakes' even today as we write WA messages in Roman script.certainly not substandard for me"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2022890206366699901) 2026-02-15T04:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MulaMutha considering his frail health later Panipat [----] huge unrest in family powerful satraps growing power of EIC it's hands down Madhavrao.he also kept in check Nana"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2023259705230135587) 2026-02-16T04:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@theawakenedboy @Levi_Nagawkar It's all for return the kind of affection they showed before WW2 is all gone.India is paying/will pay them interest/returns .what happened to affection between two nations that was visible when Tagore/Bose or even Ray were alive"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2023384056566780213) 2026-02-16T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now hes convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13cmod=hp_lead_pos8 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13cmod=hp_lead_pos8"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1989715932168819161) 2025-11-15T15:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"in all team games including test cricket/volleyball/ basketball even badminton&tennis except hockey/kabaddi we are pretty much below average our priorities are different idea of killing time are different we excel in WA X crappy Hindi filmstopping exams joining govt job INDIAN FOOTBALL IS TOTALLY DONE 😡 - Lost to Bangladesh for first time in [--] Years - India couldn't even make into Asia Cup (24 Teams) - India (136) couldn't even win a single game against any lower ranked sides in the Third Round Absolutely Disappointed https://t.co/GyquiiuTDK INDIAN FOOTBALL IS TOTALLY DONE 😡 - Lost to"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1990972087432081807) 2025-11-19T02:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Our lust for cars is enormous even though they have killed as many people as the first and second world wars combined and make our cities more dangerous polluted and ugly than they need be. This book shows how we can change the car-industrial complex https://www.amazon.in/Roadkill-Unveiling-True-Toxic-Relationship/dp/1394295995 https://www.amazon.in/Roadkill-Unveiling-True-Toxic-Relationship/dp/1394295995"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1991724485725286607) 2025-11-21T04:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"There was great Lotus that was rehashed as Excel. Even after [--] years there is no competition for EXCEL. Is there any Even after [--] years there is no competition for EXCEL. Is there any"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1992447942272368866) 2025-11-23T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1. During Gavaskar's entire career never heard even once coach's role in bad performance of a team. [--]. Indian players of today are probably not interested in test cricket. Yes you could drop them but they still may never get interested. So many things keep happening in larger soc"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1992992490081890696) 2025-11-24T16:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Our memory is very short look at the history of Indian cricket before [----] and after that things like ODI world cups of [----] and [----]. We lost to rookie NZ in [----] itself at Nagpur and then made sure that Hyderabad test was not completed to avoid white wash. In 1983-84 and '84-85 when India lost two Test series at home over [--] months they still put up a fight. Even the West Indies couldn't clean sweep India. This has to be lowest point of Indian Test cricket as unlike the early 19th century there is no shortage of resources/money. In 1983-84 and '84-85 when India lost two Test series at home"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1993655569539088592) 2025-11-26T12:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble/ Digital asset treasury craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market https://www.ft.com/content/53473a9f-e801-4280-a78b-8e6e00bcac78 https://www.ft.com/content/53473a9f-e801-4280-a78b-8e6e00bcac78"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1993670170129363428) 2025-11-26T13:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The only good solutions lie with Beijing. It could take action to overcome deflation in its own economy to remove structural barriers to domestic consumption to let its exchange rate appreciate and to halt the billions in subsidies and loans it directs towards industry. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1993671824761294851) 2025-11-26T13:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Were our founding fathers above personal favorites "the Godrej family in British India. Committed nationalists the Godrejs began manufacturing everyday goods like locks and safes at the turn of the 20th century and helped to finance the Indian independence movement.+"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1993675190031835277) 2025-11-26T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"They turned a big profit on the decline of the British Empire in the late 1940s when their early support for the future prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru helped them win a contract to make typewriters for the post-colonial bureaucracy." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/books/review/capitalism-sven-beckert.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/books/review/capitalism-sven-beckert.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1993675192544145579) 2025-11-26T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Although there have been few fanfares or commemorations this year sees an important anniversary. It is [----] years since the invention of our present system of counting the years the system according to which we are in [----]. https://www.the-tls.com/history/ancient-history/the-invention-of-the-modern-calendar-essay-robert-bartlett https://www.the-tls.com/history/ancient-history/the-invention-of-the-modern-calendar-essay-robert-bartlett"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1994256325648265671) 2025-11-28T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"we too owe our lives directly to Indian army who rescued us from ULFA terrorists in Upper Assam in Nov 1990.they carried us in gun mounted vehicle from Doom Dooma India's head office to Sookerating Air Force Station from where we were taken to Kolkata Grateful to Hon PM @narendramodi EAM @DrSJaishankar & the people of India for standing with Sri Lanka in these difficult days. Your support as during our economic crisis shows the true strength of our friendship. Thank you for being with us when it matters most. 🙏 Grateful to Hon PM @narendramodi EAM @DrSJaishankar & the people of India for"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1996038627055525903) 2025-12-03T02:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"therefore all the Maratha gold had already gone and settled in British territory prior to the fourth Maratha War (1817): and the gold had gone there because the Englishmen had a gun with a longer range and a more systematic judicial system. The Maratha government +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1996443101976731936) 2025-12-04T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"failed also in giving to its subjects the sufficient sense of protection by a systematic judicial system the lack of which shows inferior science." ("History Men: Jadunath Sarkar G.S. Sardesai Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India's Past" 2019)"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1996443105910985200) 2025-12-04T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@talk2anuradha @rvaidya2000 mostly it's because of real estate prices and rise in rents recently a good pharma shop had to change hands in front of our soc in Pune South because earlier guys could not afford the new rent rents have almost doubled in key locations around city since COVID"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1996500753712910485) 2025-12-04T08:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The plasticity of digital information is superseding earlier modes of expression&expertiseas printing press did scribe. We are deskilling&dumbing down on demoralizing diet of digital slop.This way of life will have hard stop when there is a power cut. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/blank-space-review-nothing-new-under-the-sun-8ef7a745 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/blank-space-review-nothing-new-under-the-sun-8ef7a745"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1997515676643397632) 2025-12-07T03:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"largely external pressure desperation and partly Rao wanted to get back to old coterie wanted a slightly fresh start (Singh was just following orders look at his track record as RBI governor just few years earlier sitting in Mumbai Pranab M was more influential) I have questions about [----] reforms [--]. How much of it was done under IMF/World Bank pressure [--]. Did Dr. Singh always support these policies or did he have an epiphany in [----] when he was [--] years old (a) If he always wanted these reforms why did he keep his mouth shut for I have questions about [----] reforms [--]. How much of it was done"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2002009608278405238) 2025-12-19T13:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DivaJain2 in [--] my father told us after BD creation that BD would be worse than PK if you read S Dalrymple's new book on partitions Burma was volatile for decades before partitionlost its way&went to junta.even in BD corrupt junta slightly friendly towards India is the best option"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2002244057494688223) 2025-12-20T05:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@sanjaymanjrekar linger in my mind and your mind - both above 60.but talk to youngsters they don't even mention test cricket not aware of its history largely don't know you as good batsman.this is the reality.sad to report just like ODI even 5-day is on its way out"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2002249401386054060) 2025-12-20T05:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Americas Seniors Are Overmedicated: One in six seniors enrolled in Medicares drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data finds https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/americas-seniors-are-overmedicated-f397bb1dmod=hp_lead_pos9 https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/americas-seniors-are-overmedicated-f397bb1dmod=hp_lead_pos9"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2003118475930472481) 2025-12-22T15:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the key to understand all that staged drama and comedy.it's to distract us from the the clock."Like the digital clock counting the national debt the meter on the Trump familys Presidential profits ticks ever faster." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2003300061405675975) 2025-12-23T03:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Chopsyturvey Has Tucker even heard of The Kailasa temple of Verul or Ibrahim Rouza of Vijapur"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2004897058906603814) 2025-12-27T12:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"perhaps we would be better prepared when manipulative politicians such as Putin Trump and Erdogan try to present themselves as victims to treat them with the contempt they merit. Too many people have been terrorised by fashion into a permanent state of guilt +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2005567626261798939) 2025-12-29T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"that forces them into a permanent state of compassion for individuals and institutions who dont need it or deserve it but milk it for all its worth. Enough is enough." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/i-suffer-therefore-i-am-pascal-bruckner-review/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/i-suffer-therefore-i-am-pascal-bruckner-review/"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2005567628455420138) 2025-12-29T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The S&P [---] is up [--] per cent this year undershooting the [--] per cent gain for the MSCI All Country World ex-US index by the widest margin since the global financial crisis in [----]. https://www.ft.com/content/10a8a099-5719-42ce-a2eb-edc3045a632f https://www.ft.com/content/10a8a099-5719-42ce-a2eb-edc3045a632f"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2005629394229068264) 2025-12-29T13:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ChanderBhatia01 struggling thru 60s&70s as college teacher buying losing LICmy father never became even owner of a flat till 80s but one thing he did right through is keep buying small gold for mother & keep it in her custody. Today after their deaths my sister is enjoying its sweet fruit"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2005636656259531013) 2025-12-29T13:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DivaJain2 turning Donald Jain for some time is a good idea.btw he can also call his favourite world leader King Charles III"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2006953534231900361) 2026-01-02T04:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"turning Donald Jain for some time is a good idea.btw he can also call his favourite world leader King Charles III Fasting vegetarian diet and Yoga can help. Perhaps he should call PM Modi. https://t.co/Z8jW1r8dUi Fasting vegetarian diet and Yoga can help. Perhaps he should call PM Modi. https://t.co/Z8jW1r8dUi"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2007263951030202462) 2026-01-03T01:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Amazon Meta and Microsoft are suddenly net debtors. Note too that many AI start-ups such as OpenAI Anthropic and Elon Musks xAI are lossmaking. Some AI companies are doing deals between themselves helping to inflate their valuations https://www.ft.com/content/7987310a-5c90-4976-b730-3559502006e2 https://www.ft.com/content/7987310a-5c90-4976-b730-3559502006e2"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2007633360404042206) 2026-01-04T02:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#TestCricket Real master batsman today is Steve Smith he is BIG [--] rest are reduced to record chasers compared to him.he reminds me of Brian Lara Tendulkar before [----] Sunil Gavaskar Greg Chappell VVS GRV"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2008454677793567179) 2026-01-06T08:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AnuSatheesh5 I remember Vaijayantimala was a regular and so many great Carnatic musicians it's an absolute delight listening to it Bhakti reaches you even if you don't understand every word"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2008815881342906773) 2026-01-07T08:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Reasons for LTCG/STCG were surely not just revenue. I suspect a lot of zhumla went on because that was tax free. Same is the case of dividend. I know how unlisted cos used dividends to avoid personal taxes.Notebandi I felt long ago was bec Pakis were printing our notes The way market is staying flat government will receive 20% of the STCG/LTCG this FY in comparison to what they have received in the last Financial Year. That is why Government brought STT. Whether you book profit or loss government is getting their part without any tension. The way market is staying flat government will receive"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2009464268161470708) 2026-01-09T03:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1 Taj Mahal - I would choose Kailash Temple@Verul & Ibrahim Roza@Vijayapura [--] Gandhi a faithful.in Ram [--] Bollywood - Mumbai based Hindi film industry before it went woke and cheap [--] Mughal cuisine- heavily influenced by the then existing culinary culture of India Dear X user [--]. The mughals r@ped and converted your ancestors not mine. Love them as much as you want. [--]. Despite you loving Mahatma Gandhi with all your heart your community never practices the core ideology of Gandhi non violence or ahinsa. Kindly remember to love https://t.co/Wn80kq8SJb Dear X user [--]. The mughals r@ped and"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2009526585825874188) 2026-01-09T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gs_2772 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=u8EvjC6uRz0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=u8EvjC6uRz0"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2012434991825735907) 2026-01-17T08:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Gen Xers and millennials are set to inherit $4.6 trillion in global real estate over the next [--] yearsand nearly $2.4 trillion of that property is in the U.S. according to a new report from brokerage Coldwell Banker Global Luxury. https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/trillions-in-real-estate-will-be-passed-down-to-gen-xers-and-millennials-6d18040c https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/trillions-in-real-estate-will-be-passed-down-to-gen-xers-and-millennials-6d18040c"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2012719324578889974) 2026-01-18T02:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs Study Finds. Research contradicts President Trumps claim that foreigners are footing the bill and could weaken his hand in the dispute over Greenland https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2emod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_3 https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2emod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_3"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2013442083487379818) 2026-01-20T02:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@total_woke_ true.why I miss people like Mrunal Gore is she kept pushing water problem (among other things) every single day of her working life regardless of who was ruling she was reluctant to rule too.I seldom see a person like her now in Mumbai or Pune or other big cities of MH"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2013804767592525856) 2026-01-21T02:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump admires James Polk who as president during the mid-1800s oversaw the largest expansion of U.S. territory in history and specifically requested his portrait for the Oval Office https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/why-an-emboldened-trump-set-his-sights-on-greenland-538c67b7mod=e2fb&utm_sf_cserv_ref=8304333127&utm_sf_post_ref=656176922 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/why-an-emboldened-trump-set-his-sights-on-greenland-538c67b7mod=e2fb&utm_sf_cserv_ref=8304333127&utm_sf_post_ref=656176922"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2013831643438698744) 2026-01-21T04:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@KirtanShahCFP the post is not complete without pondering further.US president can influence Russian/ Chinese behaviour.everything is on the table remember US participation in both world wars was not a done deal for a long time.&I can't forget this picture inspired by great James Gillray"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2013881631073833424) 2026-01-21T07:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Most serious entities in India now have NO meaningful customer support so sure that climate has changed on top of that it becomes obvious that senior citizenry is only for talking about them not for helping them. It's awful. Nothing will change this. Blaming Climate Change https://t.co/scDlt9l9LH Blaming Climate Change https://t.co/scDlt9l9LH"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2014157981076586800) 2026-01-22T02:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PrasunNagar @gs_2772 Stanley Kubrick F F Copolla Satyajit Ray Hitchcock John Ford Yasijiro Ozu Buster keaton Vijay Anand Orson Welles Billy Wilder Ingmar Bergman Woody Allen Martin Scorsese"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2014283306557431988) 2026-01-22T10:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gs_2772 @PrasunNagar He would be above Woody but just short of others on the list.Ozu and Ray and Goldie [--] golds no silver and bronze.tokyo story is poetry that I feel personally close to nothing like charulata and Indian masses are lucky that Goldie directed what they liked"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2014287441713336552) 2026-01-22T10:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Fifty-four percent of American adults read below a sixth-grade level. As Brooke Allen laments in Good Bones we are becoming a postliterate society. But shes not giving up on us without a fight. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/good-bones-review-prisoners-of-the-backlist-1b5dd45c https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/good-bones-review-prisoners-of-the-backlist-1b5dd45c"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2015274050025889832) 2026-01-25T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I don't know him at all except what I have read. But he is far cry from the director of the institution in early 1980s when I was there. Entire institution was a pincode of USA. Director was critical of India's even ancient temple architecture. Now looks like it's very different Hearty congratulations to the Director of IIT Madras Professor V. Kamakoti avl on being conferred the Padma Shri this year. Under Professor Kamakoti avls leadership IIT Madras has further consolidated its position as one of the nations premier institutions of excellence. https://t.co/zm4GD2UYBm Hearty congratulations"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2015617330760618396) 2026-01-26T02:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@jhendersonYT some times I felt : is it Augustus or was John Williams like this Or both It's such a wonderful book but I seriously doubt if Augustus was as philosophically retiring as he comes across.I love the book regardless.who was Augustus other than name of the month in any case"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2016048712947270101) 2026-01-27T07:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Tigers eh "Until recently Beijing was the master of stage-managed numbers reporting growth almost exactly on its [--] per cent target every quarter. Lately Jakarta has taken that dubious title reporting the worlds least volatile GDP growth." https://www.ft.com/content/4f076672-789b-4b8a-9784-c83d84573798 https://www.ft.com/content/4f076672-789b-4b8a-9784-c83d84573798"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/1970111258050662607) 2025-09-22T13:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If you live in the right postcode and have enough disposable income it now takes no effort to get what you want. You can recline on your chaise longue and have a single pear and a piece of Roquefort fetched by Ocado or Deliveroo. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2015282228943892882) 2026-01-25T04:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why does not he write a book NOW to counter each argument of Amitav Ghosh Shashi Tharoor William Dalrymple and others that have been put forth in the past decade or so. He also has to talk about all other damage caused by colonialism in the same book. Activists who present themselves as historians and blame colonialism for underdevelopment should look carefully at what happened in the first decades after independence. In country after country leaders wasted the economic assets inherited from the colonial period. Activists who present themselves as historians and blame colonialism for"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2015770908871585847) 2026-01-26T12:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"some times I felt : is it Augustus or was John Williams like this Or both It's such a wonderful book but I seriously doubt if Augustus was as philosophically retiring as he comes across.I love the book regardless.who was Augustus other than name of the month in any case The great pleasure of being a reader is that you really cant run out of things to read. Keep looking and youll find something you love from the first page. This is what read Augustus was like for me. The great pleasure of being a reader is that you really cant run out of things to read. Keep looking and youll find something"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2016723765200323065) 2026-01-29T04:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Xiaomi is going places.Amazing battery range customizable interiors and sleek softwareWSJ columnist fell in love with a Xiaomi SU7 Max after driving it for a few weeks. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/chinese-ev-test-drive-xiaomi-su7-c3e59282mod=hp_lead_pos8 https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/chinese-ev-test-drive-xiaomi-su7-c3e59282mod=hp_lead_pos8"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017096123446644984) 2026-01-30T04:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mddubey409 Very moving dear song since childhood.such early songs showed the world of rise of new sun on hndi music scene https://youtu.be/JBJkuAoQFJksi=hmxD4qJQ9dbIwBQG https://youtu.be/JBJkuAoQFJksi=hmxD4qJQ9dbIwBQG"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017282188954505502) 2026-01-30T17:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Radcliffe had been given six weeks to trace that gash through the map of British India. There will be roughly [--] million people with a grievance who will begin looking for me he said. I do not want them to find me"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017449793698824300) 2026-01-31T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"W.H. Auden would address this point in a caustic poem nearly two decades later: The next day he sailed for England where he quickly forgot / The case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not / Afraid as he told his Club that he might get shot. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/shattered-lands-review-the-pain-of-partition-989d0446 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/shattered-lands-review-the-pain-of-partition-989d0446"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017449796467101871) 2026-01-31T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The second diversion has to do with the limits of human desire. Aristotle insisted that material possession should properly be limited to the amount required to participate in a self-sufficient community. It is a very natural and ordinary thing"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017455829507793318) 2026-01-31T04:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Machiavelli countered to desire to acquire. The problem is that in a situation of low productivity the best way to acquire what one wants is to take it from someone else. For Machiavelli therefore politics is inseparable from war. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-rational-control-review-to-think-and-make-it-so-eed9ea81 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-rational-control-review-to-think-and-make-it-so-eed9ea81"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017455831420440699) 2026-01-31T04:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Creators with Eisners brand and staying power are rare. He believed very early on that comics would be one day regarded as literature with adult themes Ms. Gropper said. And he really was responsible for getting to that point. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/books/will-eisner-spirit-sale.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/books/will-eisner-spirit-sale.html"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017586773275381798) 2026-01-31T13:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@KasarPatil96 @mumbaitak also the house where one receives people who have come for consolation where the light in the name of deceased is lit cannot be kept closed esp when the person is so popular/well known/public representative.indeed I admired Parth Pawar for this gesture"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017592416266817581) 2026-01-31T13:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Where does the life end and the reputation begin Its doubtful that Augustus cared more for the wellbeing of the people than for their applause but he must have known that giving a certain impression was the surest way to secure that applause"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017594178147160379) 2026-01-31T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"And its all too tragically plausible who knows there may even be a lesson here that Nero more than anything . craved popularity yet ended up arousing . universal detestation. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/thomas-jones/lords-of-the-world https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/thomas-jones/lords-of-the-world"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2017594180437217356) 2026-01-31T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@wordsMahfil More than that. For last many years after likes of G Talwalkar it was led by urban naxal kind of thinking who rejected god traditions spirituality Golden Road history stopped reading earlier books.unaffordable Mumbai real estate made many of them corrupt"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2018375128732897635) 2026-02-02T17:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LifeDivine1008 Mahabharata in Sanskrit copy that is now gold standard all over the world is made at BORI Pune MH the institute that was supported by B G Tilak himself a great/very popular commentator on Geeta in Marathi the work that was read thoroughly"ed by Dr. B R Ambedkar"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2018514963590197258) 2026-02-03T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Mahabharata in Sanskrit copy that is now gold standard all over the world is made at BORI Pune MH the institute that was supported by B G Tilak himself a great/very popular commentator on Geeta in Marathi the work that was read thoroughly"ed by Dr. B R Ambedkar. Mahabharata has been translated into English by [--] Bengali scholars. Kisari Mohan Ganguli Manmatha Nath Dutt Prof Purushottama Lal. Bibek Debroy. Bibek Debroy commented that it's only Bengali scholars who translated the Mahabharata. Mahabharata has been translated into English by [--] Bengali scholars. Kisari Mohan Ganguli Manmatha"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2018515095220023504) 2026-02-03T02:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trumps Tariffs Arent Helping/ Levies on imports were supposed to bring back a golden age of U.S. manufacturing. They havent worked so far. https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-manufacturing-is-in-retreat-and-trumps-tariffs-arent-helping-d2af4316mod=hp_lead_pos2 https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-manufacturing-is-in-retreat-and-trumps-tariffs-arent-helping-d2af4316mod=hp_lead_pos2"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2018678166877876237) 2026-02-03T13:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"So Mughals were following them really."Getting and keeping the throne in the Ottoman Empire was no easy task. For a new sultan the most foolproof method of securing power was to kill all other claimants." https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/heads-will-roll-murder-and-ottoman-successionutm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=1a76a6fcb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fceec0de95-1a76a6fcb8-789910&mc_cid=1a76a6fcb8"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019403908385530020) 2026-02-05T13:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why don't they have plumber electrician carpenter nursing grooming school instead MBA of most universities except few: the most useless degree for degree obsessed Indian students. . . - MBA . @Dev_Fadnavis . . - MBA . @Dev_Fadnavis"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019639923482194131) 2026-02-06T05:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"while its nationalist opponents bled themselves dry resisting Japanese occupiers during the Second World War. Hyperinflation and administrative sclerosis didnt help the nationalist cause either. Communism in China Diktter insists was imposed not embraced. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019992399641248210) 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"His pages teem with arrests purges sieges starvation and fear; popular approval for Mao scarcely enters the frame. Again and again Moscow strides on stage as a malign impresario supplying advisers money and weapons. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019992402539544623) 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Violence not vision finished the job as Maos guerrillas emerged from the end of the Second World War as a modern army capable of grinding cities into submission. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2019992405462966431) 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"That is how we tend to think of life in the 1950s or even for younger people the 1980s. And in each case it is a profoundly false memory. Perhaps because what is now is by definition new and challenging the past must seem conservative by comparison. But its never true. +"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020005484108083577) 2026-02-07T05:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The more one digs into the reality of previous decades the clearer it is that they felt as fast-changing as any day we experience now." https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2026/01/the-interwar-years-were-as-bewildering-as-the-present https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2026/01/the-interwar-years-were-as-bewildering-as-the-present"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020005486356230505) 2026-02-07T05:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".The criminal can wear the watch or sell it. Rare watches often appreciate in value on the second-hand market. High-value designer handbags are popular for the same reasons." https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/everybody-loves-our-dollars-how-money-laundering-won-oliver-bullough-review-z3p2wbf03 https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/everybody-loves-our-dollars-how-money-laundering-won-oliver-bullough-review-z3p2wbf03"
[X Link](https://x.com/anikulkarni/status/2020500524752379915) 2026-02-08T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
Limited data mode. Full metrics available with subscription: lunarcrush.com/pricing
@anikulkarni aniruddha g kulkarnianiruddha g kulkarni posts on X about india, history, if you, ai the most. They currently have [---] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [---] engagements in the last [--] hours.
Social category influence finance 18% countries 16% travel destinations 5% celebrities 4% technology brands 3% stocks 2% currencies 1% automotive brands 1%
Social topic influence india 13%, history 7%, if you 5%, ai 4%, in the 4%, gold 3%, end of 3%, the most 3%, ray 3%, the first 3%
Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by @prasunnagar @gs2772 @theawakenedboy @divajain2 @panipat1761 @onkardake225 @corepunekar @gbosatyfe @mulamutha @levinagawkar @narendramodi @drsjaishankar @talk2anuradha @rvaidya2000 @sanjaymanjrekar @chopsyturvey @chanderbhatia01 @anusatheesh5 @verul @vijayapura
Top assets mentioned Alphabet Inc Class A (GOOGL) Microsoft Corp. (MSFT)
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours
"Why Big Tech Is Throwing Cash Into India in Quest for AI Supremacy/Lured by a big tech-savvy population Google and other giants are sinking tens of billions into the Indian market. https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremacy-a5d02f0emod=hp_lead_pos11 https://www.wsj.com/world/india/why-big-tech-is-throwing-cash-into-india-in-quest-for-ai-supremacy-a5d02f0emod=hp_lead_pos11"
X Link 2026-02-05T05:04Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"".Maos victory he argues owed little to popular enthusiasm and even less to the intrinsic appeal of communist ideas. It was instead the product of foreign patronage and trigger-happy thugs. The CCP survived its early obscurity through discipline deception and coercion +"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
""He quotes a senior British police officer who calculates that [--] per cent of purchases of luxury watches are trade-based money laundering. It is far safer for a client to buy a [------] Richard Mille and hand it over to a criminal as payment than it is to deliver cash.+"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Note how close was West Germany associated with all this. all those ideas spread including to India too.".In Germany today where mainstream newspapers have likened kaffiyehs to Nazi garb +"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Panipat_1761 Read Chh Sambhaji's quest to keep Mumbai&Konkan to Marathas against two leading sea powers of the day British navy and Siddi navy. That settled for me who Mumbai belonged to. Recently Amitav Ghosh said Mumbai became Mumbai bec Maratha chieftains fighting Brits in 18th&19th cent"
X Link 2026-02-09T03:43Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Gold (3276%) in INR has overtaken Nifty [---] (3165%) over period from Jan [--] [----] till Feb [--] [----]. Even if one includes dividends gold still is higher. All the pontification about equity now sounds a bit hollow esp after LTCG is practically gone. #gold #nifty500"
X Link 2026-02-10T13:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@OnkarDake225 I wish Savarkar learned from Samarth how to reach masses in many parts of India how to use simple yet powerful language in everyday life how to create institutions like Sajjangad that remain vibrant for centuries"
X Link 2026-02-12T09:27Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"".Did you go whoring much in your youth Tolstoy asks Chekhov." (TLS Feb [--] [----] Anton Chekhov and Maxim Gorky [----] Fine Art Images/Heritage Images/Getty Images https://www.the-tls.com/literature-by-region/european-literature/reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-andreyev-maxim-gorky https://www.the-tls.com/literature-by-region/european-literature/reminiscences-of-tolstoy-chekhov-andreyev-maxim-gorky"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"so this too was Blitzed "During the Vietnam War heroin was so readily available in Indochina that a NY Times report claimed that between 10&15 per cent of lower-ranking enlisted men were addicted with some units reporting dependency rates above 50%" https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n03/laleh-khalili/guns-money-and-opium"
X Link 2026-02-13T07:52Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Washington was fond of Don Quixote.smart guy "When the Constitutional Convention concluded on Sept. [--] [----] its president George Washington bought a four-volume edition of Don Quixote from a Philadelphia bookseller to bring home to Mount Vernon." https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-favorite-novels-founders-c54311be https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/five-best-favorite-novels-founders-c54311be"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Whale oil Crais writes helped create the modern world. As well as being used in soap and perfumes oils extracted from the blubber and head cavities of whales literally illuminated the urban-industrial world that capitalism was bringing into being. +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"so not only world thinks Indian listed companies will not be players in AI /semiconductors world thinks Indian companies will bleed because of AI.either stock market is wrong completely or our "world is flat" bubble has burst"
X Link 2026-02-12T12:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"how many people know a single poem of Ms. Naidu today without googling it She is oft quoted person but she remains a big mystery to me. (Her daughter is even more so I think M.O. Mathai's book talks about her) - - ; https://t.co/AEUyMBA2CJ - - ; https://t.co/AEUyMBA2CJ"
X Link 2026-02-13T08:17Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Germanys surrender in May [----] Mr. McDougall asserts was the end of European history. Unable to sustain Europes balance of power themselves Europeans were reduced to dependency on one or the other global superpower. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mighty-continent-review-the-story-of-europe-894452c4 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-mighty-continent-review-the-story-of-europe-894452c4"
X Link 2026-02-14T04:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".But if you dont already know the story of how the movies were made safe for the multiplexes in the 1970s this is as good a place as any to start. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-review-the-unlikely-titans-6f096c80 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-last-kings-of-hollywood-review-the-unlikely-titans-6f096c80"
X Link 2026-02-14T05:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"In [----] it produced just over one billion lumen hours lighting factories schools and streets. Modernity itself or the Enlightenment a term gaining popularity at precisely the same time that whales were being hunted to near extinction depended on artificial light. +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".In its 19th-century heyday the hideous practice of whale slaughter helped create an industrial civilisation however flawed. A century later the slaughter was a barbarous ritual in a polluted and impoverished economy that was headed for collapse. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Craiss exclusion of the larger history of the killing age is disappointing but hardly surprising. It is testimony to American intellectual introversion and the hegemony of progressive ideology. +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"At the other end of the political spectrum the Harvard political scientist Samuel Huntingtons influential book The Clash of Civilisations and the Remaking of World Order (1996) was ostensibly a study of global conflict in the post-Cold War era; +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Though it records much that is horrendous The Killing Age will not disturb its readers unduly. Nothing in contemporary discourse is more reassuringly familiar or more strangely satisfying than a story of Western guilt +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"for it testifies to the moral and intellectual superiority of those who tell and listen to it. Any narrative in which structural violence is confined to the West is mass-market comfort literature. +"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:21Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The truth is that systematic killing is embedded in modernity itself as an inescapable concomitant of the project of building a new world but that is a story for which there is no market. https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/2026/02/the-dark-side-of-the-enlightenment"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Kyc is a symptom of state's profound doubts about their own systems look how well pan and income tax have settled from beginning or passport. They started ckyc. It's a mess. They have issued [--] to me. KYC -- Our only reason for existence as citizen Govt & RBI has found excellent ways to keep all citizens busy: Do KYC / Re-KYC / Re-re KYC . You never know which account would be frozen when. I have realized apart from paying tax (if you earn) or getting doles (if you don't KYC -- Our only reason for existence as citizen Govt & RBI has found excellent ways to keep all citizens busy: Do KYC /"
X Link 2026-02-15T02:58Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PrasunNagar Shaka Samvat is our stuff across Deccan some of the most developed and cultured part of India"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:18Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"artist is M V Dhurandhar working for Ravi Varma Press.Shiva and Parvati in Procession (Shiv Parvati Vivah) c 1930"
X Link 2026-02-15T05:39Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@Core_punekar c """
X Link 2026-02-15T06:51Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@gbosatyfe other than probably Bhavatu other 'mistakes' are really not it's just another way of writing nouns we make such 'mistakes' even today as we write WA messages in Roman script.certainly not substandard for me"
X Link 2026-02-15T04:26Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@MulaMutha considering his frail health later Panipat [----] huge unrest in family powerful satraps growing power of EIC it's hands down Madhavrao.he also kept in check Nana"
X Link 2026-02-16T04:54Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@theawakenedboy @Levi_Nagawkar It's all for return the kind of affection they showed before WW2 is all gone.India is paying/will pay them interest/returns .what happened to affection between two nations that was visible when Tagore/Bose or even Ray were alive"
X Link 2026-02-16T13:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Yann LeCun invented many fundamental components of modern AI. Now hes convinced most in his field have been led astray by the siren song of large language models. https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13cmod=hp_lead_pos8 https://www.wsj.com/tech/ai/yann-lecun-ai-meta-0058b13cmod=hp_lead_pos8"
X Link 2025-11-15T15:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"in all team games including test cricket/volleyball/ basketball even badminton&tennis except hockey/kabaddi we are pretty much below average our priorities are different idea of killing time are different we excel in WA X crappy Hindi filmstopping exams joining govt job INDIAN FOOTBALL IS TOTALLY DONE 😡 - Lost to Bangladesh for first time in [--] Years - India couldn't even make into Asia Cup (24 Teams) - India (136) couldn't even win a single game against any lower ranked sides in the Third Round Absolutely Disappointed https://t.co/GyquiiuTDK INDIAN FOOTBALL IS TOTALLY DONE 😡 - Lost to"
X Link 2025-11-19T02:35Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Our lust for cars is enormous even though they have killed as many people as the first and second world wars combined and make our cities more dangerous polluted and ugly than they need be. This book shows how we can change the car-industrial complex https://www.amazon.in/Roadkill-Unveiling-True-Toxic-Relationship/dp/1394295995 https://www.amazon.in/Roadkill-Unveiling-True-Toxic-Relationship/dp/1394295995"
X Link 2025-11-21T04:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"There was great Lotus that was rehashed as Excel. Even after [--] years there is no competition for EXCEL. Is there any Even after [--] years there is no competition for EXCEL. Is there any"
X Link 2025-11-23T04:19Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1. During Gavaskar's entire career never heard even once coach's role in bad performance of a team. [--]. Indian players of today are probably not interested in test cricket. Yes you could drop them but they still may never get interested. So many things keep happening in larger soc"
X Link 2025-11-24T16:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Our memory is very short look at the history of Indian cricket before [----] and after that things like ODI world cups of [----] and [----]. We lost to rookie NZ in [----] itself at Nagpur and then made sure that Hyderabad test was not completed to avoid white wash. In 1983-84 and '84-85 when India lost two Test series at home over [--] months they still put up a fight. Even the West Indies couldn't clean sweep India. This has to be lowest point of Indian Test cricket as unlike the early 19th century there is no shortage of resources/money. In 1983-84 and '84-85 when India lost two Test series at home"
X Link 2025-11-26T12:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Crypto hoarders dump tokens as shares tumble/ Digital asset treasury craze sours amid $1tn rout in cryptocurrency market https://www.ft.com/content/53473a9f-e801-4280-a78b-8e6e00bcac78 https://www.ft.com/content/53473a9f-e801-4280-a78b-8e6e00bcac78"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The only good solutions lie with Beijing. It could take action to overcome deflation in its own economy to remove structural barriers to domestic consumption to let its exchange rate appreciate and to halt the billions in subsidies and loans it directs towards industry. +"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:22Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Were our founding fathers above personal favorites "the Godrej family in British India. Committed nationalists the Godrejs began manufacturing everyday goods like locks and safes at the turn of the 20th century and helped to finance the Indian independence movement.+"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"They turned a big profit on the decline of the British Empire in the late 1940s when their early support for the future prime minister Jawaharlal Nehru helped them win a contract to make typewriters for the post-colonial bureaucracy." https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/books/review/capitalism-sven-beckert.html https://www.nytimes.com/2025/11/26/books/review/capitalism-sven-beckert.html"
X Link 2025-11-26T13:36Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Although there have been few fanfares or commemorations this year sees an important anniversary. It is [----] years since the invention of our present system of counting the years the system according to which we are in [----]. https://www.the-tls.com/history/ancient-history/the-invention-of-the-modern-calendar-essay-robert-bartlett https://www.the-tls.com/history/ancient-history/the-invention-of-the-modern-calendar-essay-robert-bartlett"
X Link 2025-11-28T04:05Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"we too owe our lives directly to Indian army who rescued us from ULFA terrorists in Upper Assam in Nov 1990.they carried us in gun mounted vehicle from Doom Dooma India's head office to Sookerating Air Force Station from where we were taken to Kolkata Grateful to Hon PM @narendramodi EAM @DrSJaishankar & the people of India for standing with Sri Lanka in these difficult days. Your support as during our economic crisis shows the true strength of our friendship. Thank you for being with us when it matters most. 🙏 Grateful to Hon PM @narendramodi EAM @DrSJaishankar & the people of India for"
X Link 2025-12-03T02:07Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"therefore all the Maratha gold had already gone and settled in British territory prior to the fourth Maratha War (1817): and the gold had gone there because the Englishmen had a gun with a longer range and a more systematic judicial system. The Maratha government +"
X Link 2025-12-04T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"failed also in giving to its subjects the sufficient sense of protection by a systematic judicial system the lack of which shows inferior science." ("History Men: Jadunath Sarkar G.S. Sardesai Raghubir Sinh and Their Quest for India's Past" 2019)"
X Link 2025-12-04T04:55Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@talk2anuradha @rvaidya2000 mostly it's because of real estate prices and rise in rents recently a good pharma shop had to change hands in front of our soc in Pune South because earlier guys could not afford the new rent rents have almost doubled in key locations around city since COVID"
X Link 2025-12-04T08:44Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The plasticity of digital information is superseding earlier modes of expression&expertiseas printing press did scribe. We are deskilling&dumbing down on demoralizing diet of digital slop.This way of life will have hard stop when there is a power cut. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/blank-space-review-nothing-new-under-the-sun-8ef7a745 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/blank-space-review-nothing-new-under-the-sun-8ef7a745"
X Link 2025-12-07T03:57Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"largely external pressure desperation and partly Rao wanted to get back to old coterie wanted a slightly fresh start (Singh was just following orders look at his track record as RBI governor just few years earlier sitting in Mumbai Pranab M was more influential) I have questions about [----] reforms [--]. How much of it was done under IMF/World Bank pressure [--]. Did Dr. Singh always support these policies or did he have an epiphany in [----] when he was [--] years old (a) If he always wanted these reforms why did he keep his mouth shut for I have questions about [----] reforms [--]. How much of it was done"
X Link 2025-12-19T13:34Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@DivaJain2 in [--] my father told us after BD creation that BD would be worse than PK if you read S Dalrymple's new book on partitions Burma was volatile for decades before partitionlost its way&went to junta.even in BD corrupt junta slightly friendly towards India is the best option"
X Link 2025-12-20T05:05Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"@sanjaymanjrekar linger in my mind and your mind - both above 60.but talk to youngsters they don't even mention test cricket not aware of its history largely don't know you as good batsman.this is the reality.sad to report just like ODI even 5-day is on its way out"
X Link 2025-12-20T05:27Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Americas Seniors Are Overmedicated: One in six seniors enrolled in Medicares drug benefit were prescribed eight or more medications at the same time Wall Street Journal analysis of Medicare data finds https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/americas-seniors-are-overmedicated-f397bb1dmod=hp_lead_pos9 https://www.wsj.com/health/healthcare/americas-seniors-are-overmedicated-f397bb1dmod=hp_lead_pos9"
X Link 2025-12-22T15:00Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"This is the key to understand all that staged drama and comedy.it's to distract us from the the clock."Like the digital clock counting the national debt the meter on the Trump familys Presidential profits ticks ever faster." https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2025/08/18/the-number"
X Link 2025-12-23T03:02Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@Chopsyturvey Has Tucker even heard of The Kailasa temple of Verul or Ibrahim Rouza of Vijapur"
X Link 2025-12-27T12:48Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"perhaps we would be better prepared when manipulative politicians such as Putin Trump and Erdogan try to present themselves as victims to treat them with the contempt they merit. Too many people have been terrorised by fashion into a permanent state of guilt +"
X Link 2025-12-29T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"that forces them into a permanent state of compassion for individuals and institutions who dont need it or deserve it but milk it for all its worth. Enough is enough." https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/i-suffer-therefore-i-am-pascal-bruckner-review/ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/books/non-fiction/i-suffer-therefore-i-am-pascal-bruckner-review/"
X Link 2025-12-29T09:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The S&P [---] is up [--] per cent this year undershooting the [--] per cent gain for the MSCI All Country World ex-US index by the widest margin since the global financial crisis in [----]. https://www.ft.com/content/10a8a099-5719-42ce-a2eb-edc3045a632f https://www.ft.com/content/10a8a099-5719-42ce-a2eb-edc3045a632f"
X Link 2025-12-29T13:18Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@ChanderBhatia01 struggling thru 60s&70s as college teacher buying losing LICmy father never became even owner of a flat till 80s but one thing he did right through is keep buying small gold for mother & keep it in her custody. Today after their deaths my sister is enjoying its sweet fruit"
X Link 2025-12-29T13:46Z [---] followers, [----] engagements
"@DivaJain2 turning Donald Jain for some time is a good idea.btw he can also call his favourite world leader King Charles III"
X Link 2026-01-02T04:59Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"turning Donald Jain for some time is a good idea.btw he can also call his favourite world leader King Charles III Fasting vegetarian diet and Yoga can help. Perhaps he should call PM Modi. https://t.co/Z8jW1r8dUi Fasting vegetarian diet and Yoga can help. Perhaps he should call PM Modi. https://t.co/Z8jW1r8dUi"
X Link 2026-01-03T01:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Amazon Meta and Microsoft are suddenly net debtors. Note too that many AI start-ups such as OpenAI Anthropic and Elon Musks xAI are lossmaking. Some AI companies are doing deals between themselves helping to inflate their valuations https://www.ft.com/content/7987310a-5c90-4976-b730-3559502006e2 https://www.ft.com/content/7987310a-5c90-4976-b730-3559502006e2"
X Link 2026-01-04T02:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"#TestCricket Real master batsman today is Steve Smith he is BIG [--] rest are reduced to record chasers compared to him.he reminds me of Brian Lara Tendulkar before [----] Sunil Gavaskar Greg Chappell VVS GRV"
X Link 2026-01-06T08:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@AnuSatheesh5 I remember Vaijayantimala was a regular and so many great Carnatic musicians it's an absolute delight listening to it Bhakti reaches you even if you don't understand every word"
X Link 2026-01-07T08:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Reasons for LTCG/STCG were surely not just revenue. I suspect a lot of zhumla went on because that was tax free. Same is the case of dividend. I know how unlisted cos used dividends to avoid personal taxes.Notebandi I felt long ago was bec Pakis were printing our notes The way market is staying flat government will receive 20% of the STCG/LTCG this FY in comparison to what they have received in the last Financial Year. That is why Government brought STT. Whether you book profit or loss government is getting their part without any tension. The way market is staying flat government will receive"
X Link 2026-01-09T03:16Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"1 Taj Mahal - I would choose Kailash Temple@Verul & Ibrahim Roza@Vijayapura [--] Gandhi a faithful.in Ram [--] Bollywood - Mumbai based Hindi film industry before it went woke and cheap [--] Mughal cuisine- heavily influenced by the then existing culinary culture of India Dear X user [--]. The mughals r@ped and converted your ancestors not mine. Love them as much as you want. [--]. Despite you loving Mahatma Gandhi with all your heart your community never practices the core ideology of Gandhi non violence or ahinsa. Kindly remember to love https://t.co/Wn80kq8SJb Dear X user [--]. The mughals r@ped and"
X Link 2026-01-09T07:24Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gs_2772 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=u8EvjC6uRz0 https://www.youtube.com/watchv=u8EvjC6uRz0"
X Link 2026-01-17T08:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Gen Xers and millennials are set to inherit $4.6 trillion in global real estate over the next [--] yearsand nearly $2.4 trillion of that property is in the U.S. according to a new report from brokerage Coldwell Banker Global Luxury. https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/trillions-in-real-estate-will-be-passed-down-to-gen-xers-and-millennials-6d18040c https://www.wsj.com/real-estate/luxury-homes/trillions-in-real-estate-will-be-passed-down-to-gen-xers-and-millennials-6d18040c"
X Link 2026-01-18T02:50Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Americans Are the Ones Paying for Tariffs Study Finds. Research contradicts President Trumps claim that foreigners are footing the bill and could weaken his hand in the dispute over Greenland https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2emod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_3 https://www.wsj.com/economy/trade/americans-are-the-ones-paying-for-tariffs-study-finds-e254ed2emod=WSJ_home_mediumtopper_pos_3"
X Link 2026-01-20T02:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@total_woke_ true.why I miss people like Mrunal Gore is she kept pushing water problem (among other things) every single day of her working life regardless of who was ruling she was reluctant to rule too.I seldom see a person like her now in Mumbai or Pune or other big cities of MH"
X Link 2026-01-21T02:44Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Trump admires James Polk who as president during the mid-1800s oversaw the largest expansion of U.S. territory in history and specifically requested his portrait for the Oval Office https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/why-an-emboldened-trump-set-his-sights-on-greenland-538c67b7mod=e2fb&utm_sf_cserv_ref=8304333127&utm_sf_post_ref=656176922 https://www.wsj.com/politics/policy/why-an-emboldened-trump-set-his-sights-on-greenland-538c67b7mod=e2fb&utm_sf_cserv_ref=8304333127&utm_sf_post_ref=656176922"
X Link 2026-01-21T04:30Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@KirtanShahCFP the post is not complete without pondering further.US president can influence Russian/ Chinese behaviour.everything is on the table remember US participation in both world wars was not a done deal for a long time.&I can't forget this picture inspired by great James Gillray"
X Link 2026-01-21T07:49Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Most serious entities in India now have NO meaningful customer support so sure that climate has changed on top of that it becomes obvious that senior citizenry is only for talking about them not for helping them. It's awful. Nothing will change this. Blaming Climate Change https://t.co/scDlt9l9LH Blaming Climate Change https://t.co/scDlt9l9LH"
X Link 2026-01-22T02:07Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@PrasunNagar @gs_2772 Stanley Kubrick F F Copolla Satyajit Ray Hitchcock John Ford Yasijiro Ozu Buster keaton Vijay Anand Orson Welles Billy Wilder Ingmar Bergman Woody Allen Martin Scorsese"
X Link 2026-01-22T10:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@gs_2772 @PrasunNagar He would be above Woody but just short of others on the list.Ozu and Ray and Goldie [--] golds no silver and bronze.tokyo story is poetry that I feel personally close to nothing like charulata and Indian masses are lucky that Goldie directed what they liked"
X Link 2026-01-22T10:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Fifty-four percent of American adults read below a sixth-grade level. As Brooke Allen laments in Good Bones we are becoming a postliterate society. But shes not giving up on us without a fight. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/good-bones-review-prisoners-of-the-backlist-1b5dd45c https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/good-bones-review-prisoners-of-the-backlist-1b5dd45c"
X Link 2026-01-25T04:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"I don't know him at all except what I have read. But he is far cry from the director of the institution in early 1980s when I was there. Entire institution was a pincode of USA. Director was critical of India's even ancient temple architecture. Now looks like it's very different Hearty congratulations to the Director of IIT Madras Professor V. Kamakoti avl on being conferred the Padma Shri this year. Under Professor Kamakoti avls leadership IIT Madras has further consolidated its position as one of the nations premier institutions of excellence. https://t.co/zm4GD2UYBm Hearty congratulations"
X Link 2026-01-26T02:46Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@jhendersonYT some times I felt : is it Augustus or was John Williams like this Or both It's such a wonderful book but I seriously doubt if Augustus was as philosophically retiring as he comes across.I love the book regardless.who was Augustus other than name of the month in any case"
X Link 2026-01-27T07:20Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Tigers eh "Until recently Beijing was the master of stage-managed numbers reporting growth almost exactly on its [--] per cent target every quarter. Lately Jakarta has taken that dubious title reporting the worlds least volatile GDP growth." https://www.ft.com/content/4f076672-789b-4b8a-9784-c83d84573798 https://www.ft.com/content/4f076672-789b-4b8a-9784-c83d84573798"
X Link 2025-09-22T13:01Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"If you live in the right postcode and have enough disposable income it now takes no effort to get what you want. You can recline on your chaise longue and have a single pear and a piece of Roquefort fetched by Ocado or Deliveroo. +"
X Link 2026-01-25T04:35Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why does not he write a book NOW to counter each argument of Amitav Ghosh Shashi Tharoor William Dalrymple and others that have been put forth in the past decade or so. He also has to talk about all other damage caused by colonialism in the same book. Activists who present themselves as historians and blame colonialism for underdevelopment should look carefully at what happened in the first decades after independence. In country after country leaders wasted the economic assets inherited from the colonial period. Activists who present themselves as historians and blame colonialism for"
X Link 2026-01-26T12:56Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"some times I felt : is it Augustus or was John Williams like this Or both It's such a wonderful book but I seriously doubt if Augustus was as philosophically retiring as he comes across.I love the book regardless.who was Augustus other than name of the month in any case The great pleasure of being a reader is that you really cant run out of things to read. Keep looking and youll find something you love from the first page. This is what read Augustus was like for me. The great pleasure of being a reader is that you really cant run out of things to read. Keep looking and youll find something"
X Link 2026-01-29T04:03Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Xiaomi is going places.Amazing battery range customizable interiors and sleek softwareWSJ columnist fell in love with a Xiaomi SU7 Max after driving it for a few weeks. https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/chinese-ev-test-drive-xiaomi-su7-c3e59282mod=hp_lead_pos8 https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/chinese-ev-test-drive-xiaomi-su7-c3e59282mod=hp_lead_pos8"
X Link 2026-01-30T04:42Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@mddubey409 Very moving dear song since childhood.such early songs showed the world of rise of new sun on hndi music scene https://youtu.be/JBJkuAoQFJksi=hmxD4qJQ9dbIwBQG https://youtu.be/JBJkuAoQFJksi=hmxD4qJQ9dbIwBQG"
X Link 2026-01-30T17:02Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Radcliffe had been given six weeks to trace that gash through the map of British India. There will be roughly [--] million people with a grievance who will begin looking for me he said. I do not want them to find me"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"W.H. Auden would address this point in a caustic poem nearly two decades later: The next day he sailed for England where he quickly forgot / The case as a good lawyer must. Return he would not / Afraid as he told his Club that he might get shot. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/shattered-lands-review-the-pain-of-partition-989d0446 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/shattered-lands-review-the-pain-of-partition-989d0446"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:08Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The second diversion has to do with the limits of human desire. Aristotle insisted that material possession should properly be limited to the amount required to participate in a self-sufficient community. It is a very natural and ordinary thing"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Machiavelli countered to desire to acquire. The problem is that in a situation of low productivity the best way to acquire what one wants is to take it from someone else. For Machiavelli therefore politics is inseparable from war. https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-rational-control-review-to-think-and-make-it-so-eed9ea81 https://www.wsj.com/arts-culture/books/the-rise-and-fall-of-rational-control-review-to-think-and-make-it-so-eed9ea81"
X Link 2026-01-31T04:32Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Creators with Eisners brand and staying power are rare. He believed very early on that comics would be one day regarded as literature with adult themes Ms. Gropper said. And he really was responsible for getting to that point. https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/books/will-eisner-spirit-sale.html https://www.nytimes.com/2026/01/29/books/will-eisner-spirit-sale.html"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:12Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@KasarPatil96 @mumbaitak also the house where one receives people who have come for consolation where the light in the name of deceased is lit cannot be kept closed esp when the person is so popular/well known/public representative.indeed I admired Parth Pawar for this gesture"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:34Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Where does the life end and the reputation begin Its doubtful that Augustus cared more for the wellbeing of the people than for their applause but he must have known that giving a certain impression was the surest way to secure that applause"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"And its all too tragically plausible who knows there may even be a lesson here that Nero more than anything . craved popularity yet ended up arousing . universal detestation. https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/thomas-jones/lords-of-the-world https://www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v48/n02/thomas-jones/lords-of-the-world"
X Link 2026-01-31T13:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@wordsMahfil More than that. For last many years after likes of G Talwalkar it was led by urban naxal kind of thinking who rejected god traditions spirituality Golden Road history stopped reading earlier books.unaffordable Mumbai real estate made many of them corrupt"
X Link 2026-02-02T17:25Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"@LifeDivine1008 Mahabharata in Sanskrit copy that is now gold standard all over the world is made at BORI Pune MH the institute that was supported by B G Tilak himself a great/very popular commentator on Geeta in Marathi the work that was read thoroughly"ed by Dr. B R Ambedkar"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:40Z [---] followers, [---] engagements
"Mahabharata in Sanskrit copy that is now gold standard all over the world is made at BORI Pune MH the institute that was supported by B G Tilak himself a great/very popular commentator on Geeta in Marathi the work that was read thoroughly"ed by Dr. B R Ambedkar. Mahabharata has been translated into English by [--] Bengali scholars. Kisari Mohan Ganguli Manmatha Nath Dutt Prof Purushottama Lal. Bibek Debroy. Bibek Debroy commented that it's only Bengali scholars who translated the Mahabharata. Mahabharata has been translated into English by [--] Bengali scholars. Kisari Mohan Ganguli Manmatha"
X Link 2026-02-03T02:41Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"U.S. Manufacturing Is in Retreat and Trumps Tariffs Arent Helping/ Levies on imports were supposed to bring back a golden age of U.S. manufacturing. They havent worked so far. https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-manufacturing-is-in-retreat-and-trumps-tariffs-arent-helping-d2af4316mod=hp_lead_pos2 https://www.wsj.com/economy/u-s-manufacturing-is-in-retreat-and-trumps-tariffs-arent-helping-d2af4316mod=hp_lead_pos2"
X Link 2026-02-03T13:29Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"So Mughals were following them really."Getting and keeping the throne in the Ottoman Empire was no easy task. For a new sultan the most foolproof method of securing power was to kill all other claimants." https://www.historytoday.com/archive/feature/heads-will-roll-murder-and-ottoman-successionutm_source=Newsletter&utm_campaign=1a76a6fcb8-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2017_09_20_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_fceec0de95-1a76a6fcb8-789910&mc_cid=1a76a6fcb8"
X Link 2026-02-05T13:33Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Why don't they have plumber electrician carpenter nursing grooming school instead MBA of most universities except few: the most useless degree for degree obsessed Indian students. . . - MBA . @Dev_Fadnavis . . - MBA . @Dev_Fadnavis"
X Link 2026-02-06T05:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"while its nationalist opponents bled themselves dry resisting Japanese occupiers during the Second World War. Hyperinflation and administrative sclerosis didnt help the nationalist cause either. Communism in China Diktter insists was imposed not embraced. +"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"His pages teem with arrests purges sieges starvation and fear; popular approval for Mao scarcely enters the frame. Again and again Moscow strides on stage as a malign impresario supplying advisers money and weapons. +"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"Violence not vision finished the job as Maos guerrillas emerged from the end of the Second World War as a modern army capable of grinding cities into submission. +"
X Link 2026-02-07T04:31Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"That is how we tend to think of life in the 1950s or even for younger people the 1980s. And in each case it is a profoundly false memory. Perhaps because what is now is by definition new and challenging the past must seem conservative by comparison. But its never true. +"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
"The more one digs into the reality of previous decades the clearer it is that they felt as fast-changing as any day we experience now." https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2026/01/the-interwar-years-were-as-bewildering-as-the-present https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/books/book-of-the-day/2026/01/the-interwar-years-were-as-bewildering-as-the-present"
X Link 2026-02-07T05:23Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
".The criminal can wear the watch or sell it. Rare watches often appreciate in value on the second-hand market. High-value designer handbags are popular for the same reasons." https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/everybody-loves-our-dollars-how-money-laundering-won-oliver-bullough-review-z3p2wbf03 https://www.thetimes.com/culture/books/article/everybody-loves-our-dollars-how-money-laundering-won-oliver-bullough-review-z3p2wbf03"
X Link 2026-02-08T14:10Z [---] followers, [--] engagements
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