# ![@Chris_Iwanek Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::884017340878389249.png) @Chris_Iwanek Krzysztof Iwanek

Krzysztof Iwanek posts on X about india, poland, nie, in the 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)  45.54% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  5.94% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  1.98% [stocks](/list/stocks)  1.98% [finance](/list/finance)  1.98% [currencies](/list/currencies)  1.98% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.98% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  0.99%

**Social topic influence**
[india](/topic/india) 31.68%, [poland](/topic/poland) 11.88%, [nie](/topic/nie) 9.9%, [in the](/topic/in-the) 9.9%, [china](/topic/china) 4.95%, [this is](/topic/this-is) 4.95%, [russia](/topic/russia) 4.95%, [tak](/topic/tak) 3.96%, [ai](/topic/ai) 3.96%, [the british](/topic/the-british) 3.96%

**Top accounts mentioned or mentioned by**
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**Top assets mentioned**
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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@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


"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


"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


"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/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023109506528595983)  2026-02-15T18:57Z 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/Chris_Iwanek/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


"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


"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


"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


"@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


"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


"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


"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


"@peteranthropos Eee. nie wiem:/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2023111122153590878)  2026-02-15T19:04Z 14.4K followers, [--] 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


"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


"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


"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


"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 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


"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


"The Polish town of Kielce has a cool thing: an abandoned quarry in the middle of the city. And it's so cold in Poland right now that water was poured over a rock there to create an icefall. Mountain climbers are using it for training"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2016416835961328087)  2026-01-28T07:43Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements


"@E_Wyciszkiewicz I don't think I would dare climb that rock even in the summer. Then again when one is young one thinks himself immortal"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2016469620492845402)  2026-01-28T11:13Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@Citizen_Kayy But according to this footnote 'jam' means not liquour but rather a 'cup' (and so I assume not necessarily a cup of wine)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2016890177088540680)  2026-01-29T15:04Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements


"The other one is the opposite of the first one. That way during each investigation each one of them would notice some aspects and overlook other ones and each one would come up with their own theories. Sometimes one would be right sometimes the other one sometimes neither"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017545499436265666)  2026-01-31T10:28Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"One of the methods of smuggling letters in 18th-century India was apparently to put them folded into bamboo sticks (walking sticks I guess). At least this is how Tipu Sultan sent letters to the ruler of Afghanistan in 1797"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017600712163602733)  2026-01-31T14:07Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Thus the commonality of those two methods was to roll the letter up as tightly as possible (envelopes were not used back then) and put it into a long thin object hoping no one would cut it open"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017602377092571408)  2026-01-31T14:14Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Source of the first reference: Ira Mukhoty "The Lion and the Lily" Source of the second reference: Kennaway Papers at Devon Heritage Center (the same is also quoted in Bayly's "Empire and Information" and Dalrymple's "Anarchy")"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017603100148678726)  2026-01-31T14:17Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@Citizen_Kayy The Lion and the Lily"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017620503268053314)  2026-01-31T15:26Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements


"In [----] the Indian PM paid respects at the Monte Cassino Memorial in Warsaw: that was where Polish and Indian soldiers fought side by side. And not just there. During the attack on Boloniathe 43rd Indian Lorried Infantry Brigade was briefly under a command of a Polish officer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017872703714189549)  2026-02-01T08:08Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements


"The attack on Bolonia took place in April [----] close to the end of the Italian campaign and WWII. Polish and Indian soldiers also fought side by side in the Po Valley. The officer under whose command the 43rd Indian Lorried Infantry Brigade served was Zygmunt Bohusz-Szyszko"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017877377309724980)  2026-02-01T08:27Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Another Polish-Indian military connection of the WWII period is that [--] Polish medics served in the British military hospitals in Asia: in India Burma and China"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017888489606418882)  2026-02-01T09:11Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"@peteranthropos Thanks I knew Poles fought at Tobruk but I admit I missed (or forgot) the fact that British Indian units also fought there"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2017900751125696674)  2026-02-01T10:00Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements


"@MichaelLoda I see you've got 'The High Road to China' on your shelf. Have you read yet It's great"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2019516273198334240)  2026-02-05T20:59Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"In 18-19th century the British had been dismantling not only the forces of Indian states and some of the states as such but also their intelligence apparatus. After the 3rd Anglo-Maratha War the British envoy to PuneElphinstone took control of the records of the Pune court"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2019750306939085134)  2026-02-06T12:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"The irony is that the Pune court records show that the Marathas were spying on Elphinstone all the time perhaps every hour but in the end he took over the records that contained the reports of Maratha spies on him. No idea if he had read them though"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2019750309807956320)  2026-02-06T12:29Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Another tidbit about the same records: a part of them which was taken over by the British was later kept in the Pune Alienation Office. But at least till [----] the office had no electricity 'owing to the fear of fire' that could destroy the documents"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2019750892363186661)  2026-02-06T12:31Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Source: Hand Book to the Records in the Alienation Office Poona (published 1933) Source of the information on the Marathas spying on Elphinstone: Selections from the Peshwa Daftar volume [--] edited by Sardesai"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/2019751455150805123)  2026-02-06T12:34Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"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/1168154062837170176)  2019-09-01T13:30Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Since today finally my country Poland will be connected by a direct flight to India. The first flight by LOT (Polish state airlines) departs today. Last time Warsaw and Delhi had a direct air connection was deep in 1990s"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1171861529525927936)  2019-09-11T19:02Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"When my older son (10 years) was returning from a jiujitsu camp recently (having been a week away from home) my wife called him to ask what kind of home food was he missing to cook it for his arrival: -Dal and chapatis - he said - followed by masala chai. (yes they're Polish)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1187331076835991553)  2019-10-24T11:32Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"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"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1194812939364192256)  2019-11-14T03:02Z 14.4K followers, [--] engagements


"India and Pakistan have two missiles that bear the same name. India purchased the Israeli Barak missile and retained its Hebrew name. Pakistan called one of its missiles Barq an Arabic word. But both barak and barq mean the same ('lightning') and come from the same Semitic root"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1234062757756010496)  2020-03-01T10:27Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Where can you read academic books on India online legally and for free I cover this in my new piece for @Diplomat_APAC. https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/india-e-ditions-where-can-you-read-books-on-india-online-for-free/ https://thediplomat.com/2020/04/india-e-ditions-where-can-you-read-books-on-india-online-for-free/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1256131748892737536)  2020-05-01T08:02Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"Indian hospitality - short story. Twice in my life I worked in the Indian Parliament Library. There is a restaurant inside but apart from this it is hard to even get snacks or tea nearby - it's New Delhi government area there are no restaurants dhabas or even stalls around"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1330150710890139652)  2020-11-21T14:06Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"In [----] I started an initiative to honour maharaja Digvijaysinhji who gave shelter to hundreds of Polish children during the Second World War. With the help of others the initiative led to the maharaja being given a posthumous state award by the Polish president in 2012"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1361201841187532803)  2021-02-15T06:33Z 14.4K followers, [---] engagements


"I turned [--] today. This year will also mark [--] years since I had become a student of Indology (at Warsaw University).This means I have already been learning about India for half of my life. And of course I will be learning for the rest of it and will still have so much too learn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1376723353453518851)  2021-03-30T02:30Z 14.4K followers, [----] engagements


"Pakistan: the only country in the world which defeated the US without fighting the US and while being a US ally"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1427325180934754304)  2021-08-16T17:43Z 14.4K followers, 26.7K 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


"I've just made my first meme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/Chris_Iwanek/status/1460457602731712516)  2021-11-16T04:00Z 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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


"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


".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


"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


"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

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