Voice of Goa @OriginalGoan

@ShashiTharoor @NandanNilekani @netflix “Stimulating thoughts” - the stock phrase of all mediocrities. Shashi’s latest assay to impress the easily impressed, mistaking an ability to compose pedestrian sentences in mleccha bhasha for “thoughts.”

@TheGreatAshB @odisha_tourism And turn the last few sanctuaries left in the country into another raucous zoo? Why? Can’t you let some places just be, free of the tourist hordes?

@dhume I agree with you for once. If intellectual capacity and merit were the deciding factors, how would you ever have got the gig you now have?

@kaushikcbasu Intellectual brilliance is beyond your reach. But you could try acquiring good nature and moral integrity.

This was the second time it happened. One way of solving this is, set up an automatic acknowledgement response that emails the donor right away. In this day and age this is not hard to do. You must make it EASY for donors, not make them jump through hoops. Contacting you over WhatsApp, this that, people have lives to lead. This ought to be a one-shot transaction.

@ShrinivasDempo Baba, what is this "service" you refer to? The loot from all these years? The utter fecklessness of Goa's industrial leaders, genuflecting like this before worthless politicians.

Truly risible. Some putz praises a rambling jumble of words strung together by a washed out 'journalist' and the lady "thanks" him. This is the quality of India's cream of the commentariat. Tavleen-ji, your parents should have demanded a refund on fees from wherever they sent you to misspend your youth.

@dhume @kapskom Dhumo, do you agree with this garbage?

This is the classic reflex of an unserious mind. Someone who has absorbed and imitates the conceits of contemporary Western feminism without subjecting them to independent thought. Modi specifically mentioned betiyan because daughters have traditionally occupied a special place in the Indian moral imagination. Beti Bachao itself rests on the recognition that daughters deserve particular care and protection, not because they are inferior, but because they are cherished. There is a distinction between equal moral worth and identical social expectations. Many societies, including India, have historically expected women to exercise particular forms of restraint, just as they have expected men to exercise particular forms of courage, sacrifice and protection. Our itihasa is replete with women in whom strength, intelligence and beauty were joined with feminine grace and modesty. Throughout history, women have also been the principal carriers and transmitters of civilisational values. To reduce Modi's video clip to a contest between men & women is the mark of the imbecile. Where did you get this poisonous idea that men and women must be identical in order to be equal in worth? Rhetorical question. Cc: @RajeevSrinivasa @MumukshuSavitri

@KanwalSibal All true. But why feel offended & outraged? If India and Indians want to be thought of as a big power, they should stop being nettled by minor objects. The attitude ought to be: we don’t give a sh!t to what you say or think about us. China plays that game well.

@MainakM1234 @ihailmyindia Because of linguistic evolution. Old Norse and Sanskrit are part of the same larger family. The two words are cognates, going back to a common root. If you don’t know something, the remedy is to find out and learn. Not exhibit your ignorance.

@suryakane @ananthkrishnan The Indian incoherence and eagerness to please was on display yesterday when they elevated a nobody-woman to someone worthy of a response. This is why nobody fears India, unlike China. Why can’t India field better spokespeople?

@aravind @Duflee_baja Why does India have these putzes? You need someone who can think quickly on his feet. A one sentence dismissal of that woman was all that was needed. Instead these fellas looked so eager to “explain.” This is why Pakistan walked away with a PR victory following Op Sindoor.

@IndiainSeattle @AmbVMKwatra @shawnchitnis This was a wasted opportunity. No mention of the mango’s history or how deeply it is embedded within Indian civilization. Is it too much to expect Indian diplomats to learn a little about a topic before going on foreign television?

He doesn't and you don't either. The absence of women in a single diplomatic photograph does not demonstrate the “end of meritocracy." Statecraft at that level is often dominated by institutional pipelines, age cohorts, and geopolitical power structures rather than demographic representativeness. Furthermore, both countries do in fact have highly accomplished women in senior economic, diplomatic, and scientific positions, even if they were not present in that room. I was embarrassed for you and your infantile post.

Indian vegetarian cuisine is of immense antiquity: original, extraordinarily diverse, delicious, and, when properly prepared, nutritious and healthy. What this washed-out ambassadorial schoolboy howler betrays above all is a failure of imagination. Also a striking ignorance of his own civilisational history. I am glad the Indian state still retains alignment with the vegetarian ethos consonant with the principle of ahimsa.

@GitaGopinath Here is an Indian woman, intelligent & accomplished, doing her utmost to efface her own civilisational identity instead of wearing it with confidence. To wit: the Indian saree, the most elegant feminine garment ever conceived. Gita, you need not flee your inheritance.

Shrinivas-bab & Pallavi (@bibidempo) If this is truly your view of agriculture, it is puzzling that you have devoted so much of your resources to yet more apartments and hotels on Goan soil instead of helping preserve and expand Goa’s steadily shrinking agricultural footprint. When the Portuguese arrived in Goa, they destroyed every single one of the numerous temples that once dotted our coast. You could have used some of your land to make a symbolic civilisational statement by building a temple on the coast that Goans could look upon with pride. Our temples are not merely religious structures. They are community anchors where seva, cultural continuity, and social life are nurtured. That would not only have been a dharmic act, but something that would have meaningfully sealed your legacy. Instead, what remains to show for it now? Yet another hotel.

Like many Indians who have recently discovered the word “carbs,” your understanding here is half-baked. Nutritional discourse reduced to counting protein grams is adolescent thinking. The unhealthy turn in Indian eating habits of the middle class and above is tied far more to ultra-processed foods, restaurant culture, delivery apps, sugar overload, sedentary living, chronic stress, and collapsing physical activity. Traditional home-cooked Indian meals - rice or millets, dal, vegetables, curd, buttermilk, legumes, fermented foods, nuts, spices - sustained large populations for centuries, including people performing physically demanding labour. No one sat with spreadsheets counting protein grams because health is not reducible to a single macronutrient. It is the outcome of multiple interacting factors: diet quality, activity levels, sleep, metabolic health, stress, sunlight, community, and lifestyle. Traditional Indian systems also incorporated walking, physical labour, yoga, pranayama, seasonal eating, and moderation. Those matter a great deal. Meanwhile, a population with extremely high protein intake such as the USA is hardly a shining example of metabolic health. It is drowning in obesity, diabetes, anxiety, cardiovascular disease, and ultra-processed consumption. Thanks, but no thanks. I'll stick to dal & paneer. Now go home to mommy and ask her to educate you. If you return with another low-resolution response, you will be blocked.

Historianunkil @SudsG5

3 months ago

@OriginalGoan @indian_yaksha @aadilbrar @Nishant52635675 I know you mean well but even someone eating 100 gm cooked urad dal + 100 gm paneer daily (very few do this) will only get 7-9 gm protein from the dal and 20-21 g from paneer along with 23-25 gm carbs total. That's assuming it's just steamed and eaten. Add oils, ghee etc and

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