On 1 June 2025, Ukraine’s secret agency SBU carried out one of the nastiest drone attacks deep inside Russian territory.

Ukraine says its $2000 worth drones have struck losses of $7 Billion to Russia & took out 34% of Russian cruise missile carriers.

How did they do it?

1/ Head of SBU, Vasyl Malyuk oversaw Mission Spider Web and it took 1 year 6 months and 9 days to execute it. Ukraine kept patience.

Malyuk as chief of SBU is credited with exposure of 300+ Russian agents in Ukrainian govt setups.

Task was tough. It had to be cost effective.

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If you do not know about Devendra Sharma, you need to read this.

One of the most dangerous serial killers of India. Looked like a typical man who would offer you his food in railway journey.

125+ illegal kidney transplants, 50-100+ murders, several fraud, robbery charges.

1/ Devendra Sharma completed his BAMS & started as an Ayurveda practitioner.

In early 1990s, he was conned by someone with promise of gas agency in Jaipur & he lost ₹11 lacs. After that, he was steered towards crime.

He started small frauds here & there.

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Yesterday, Sikkim & India celebrated 50th anniversary of its merger with Indian Union.

Before that, it enjoyed special relations under its monarchy with India.

But, it all changed when an American married the king of Sikkim & led the eventual end of 300+ years old kingdom.

1/ Hope Cooke, an American citizen, married Palden Thondup Namgyal in 1963. Namgyal met her in Darjeeling when she was on a summer trip to India in 1959.

The wedding was covered by world media as she was one of the first Americans to marry in a royal house.

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After current exchanges and India’s exposure of Pakistan’s vulnerability, we are practically sitting on a time b*mb.

Too many things will change in near future of Indo-Pak conflict.

Pak will shift its focus on new doctrine (which is actually the old one before Zia ul Haq).

1/ In any case of aggression or terror attack. Pak saw what India will do. The response is different from anything we did in last 78 years.

We struck sites deep inside Pak. Attacked air bases. Targeted air defence, radars. Sent drones to check their capabilities.

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All experts worldwide today will agree off camera that Akash Defence system worked better than Iron Dome.

So, let me pay a little tribute to the man behind it and some other patriotic Indians who made it possible.

Save the 🧵 for times when you are in doubt about duty.

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Dr Prahlada Ramarao, a scientist with DRDO from Karnataka came from humble beginnings. Did engineering & had a job letter with BEL.

But, his mother sent him to study further at IISc Bangalore. While studying there he got job letter from VSSC, Thiruvananthapuram.

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I was wondering why Bangladeshis enter India in such a large number. Other people do not do it. Nepalis even go back after few years.

So, I tried to understand the mindset & conditioning of Bangladeshis behind this.

The reason is way older than we think.

1/ In 1905, Bengal was partitioned by the British. From 1905-1911, East Bengal province was virtually under the hands of Muslims.

It was a huge province. Here dark green & light green areas are East Bengal.

This East Bengal province gave the idea of Pakistan to Muslim League.

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There were 3 Civil Engineers of India who gave upper hand to India in control of Punjab waters in 1947.

If these 3 engineers were not there during partition of India, there was no Indian control on rivers.

Read how these technical patriotic men changed the history.

1/ Indian partition was being decided upon in early 1947.

Then Radcliffe came to India to make the line.

Indian luck was there that engineers AN Khosla, Sarup Singh were employed in Punjab irrigation works and Kanwar Sen was employed in Bikaner state water department.

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Indus River wasn’t the only issue between India & Pakistan. Remember East Pakistan too.

In 1961, India began construction of Farakka Barrage. World’s longest barrage with 109 gates. Massive structure to divert water from the Ganges.

India was diverting water to Hooghly.

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This forced Pakistan & later Bangladesh to sign Ganga Water Treaty.

This treaty will tell what type of fools Pakistanis are.

How water is divided here is funny.

If river has limited water, then 50-50, if slightly more water, India will take bigger share.

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In 1980s, my Tau ji and his friends went to Jammu & Kashmir. They thought they will also do some sightseeing in beautiful state.

So, they entered J&K early morning and their bus was stopped somewhere by 3 heavily armed men. Maybe driver was into it and he deliberately took them from that route.

1/ These armed men first segregated men & women. Asked them to come out of bus one by one. Checked ID cards. There were many who came specifically for some exam. These terrorists hit some of them & abused.

They saw ID cards of my tau ji & his friends. These were 5 friends. The terrorists found out these 5 boys are from Ajmer. They were made to stand separately.

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Chalo aaj ek baat batata hoon isi par jo koi book ya article me nahi milegi. Read it carefully.

In 1971, India captured 93,000 soldiers of Pakistan Army in Bangladesh Liberation War.

Most of the officers in these soldiers had direct link with the roots of British Indian Army. Someone’s father served, someone just joined in 1940s and went to Pakistan. Still remembered their commanding officers. Their Hindu & Sikh batchmates.

1/ So, in 1971 war, Indian Army treated Pak soldiers according to all conventions. Almost all officers of Pak Army got special treatment in India as POW due to their direct old linkages.

Someone’s father called to their Indian counterpart and requested. Some General here remembered their old Muslim General or friend and got to know his son is in 93,000. Treated him like a son here due to old memories and nostalgia.

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Mount Abu.

A hill station which became “Kashmir Issue” of Rajasthan and Gujarat.

Once Sardar Patel did a historical injustice by cutting it from Rajasthan & gave it to Gujarat.

Rajasthani leaders fought a political battle to get it back.

Why & how all this happened? 🧵

1/ After independence, Rajasthani princely started merging with India.

Border of Bombay state of India touched borders of Rajasthan states.

Sirohi, a princely state with Mount Abu hill station was at the border. Sardar Patel merged this with Bombay instead of Rajputana.

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Swachh Bharat Mission, launched by PM Modi was the first defining moment I started to understand dehat mentality.

How dehatis have fundamental differences with people who are trying hard to make our country developed.

How? 🧵

1/ So, my grandfather left the village in his youth. Still had strong ties there. He had a huge family. In our village houses, we always had toilets. Perhaps, many brothers, nephews in government jobs helped in change of attitudes.

They worked in cities, lived in quarters with toilets, so they made toilets in village houses too.

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The biggest threat to Independent India’s integrity did not come from some leader of J&K or Tamil Nadu. It also did not come from some Naxal or Communist.

It came from a Naga leader called AZ Phizo. Even before Indian independence, he started campaigning for independent Nagaland in 1946.

After independence, he met Nehru thrice & could not reach any understanding.

1/ India (according to Nagas) had no relation with Nagaland. Indians were as aliens to them as the Martians.

Nagas were frustrated by Indian ignorance of the Naga society & were scared of huge Indian population which could completely alter the fabric of Nagaland.

Divided in 15 major tribes, Nagas had their own struggles and wars between tribes since many centuries.

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Seeing posts about XL condoms since yesterday. So, sharing something important about it.

Men have to understand condoms. It’s their duty.

Most condoms sold as XL or even XXL are fake. Companies play ego game.

Then what are real XL condoms? Some of you need them too!

1/ Condoms have 2 parts. Length & width. Length is manageable even with a wrong sized condom.

It is the width where you need to find your thing.

Normal condoms are 53-55 mm in width. In Asia, they are 50-53 mm.

Above 55 mm we have 55-57 mm size. That is XL.

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-Trigger warning-

These 5 criminals are monsters caught in 2022.

In Dhariyawad of Pratapgarh district in Rajasthan, police caught some tribal men in a loot case.

Their phones shocked the police. Multiple videos of gang r@pes, most with the minors.

7 men were caught.

1/ This gang had 2 real brothers Deepak & Pushkar & had daughters too.

The gang members worked normal jobs in day, used to get drunk in nights & set up an ambush on highways.

Women on bikes were targets. They used to follow the bike, beat the man, & drag the woman to forest.

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Meet Triloki Nath Kaul, one of the most famous Indian diplomats.

In 1954, he was sent to China for Indo-China border settlement and fate of Tibet.

This guy got honey trapped by a Chinese woman there. He had a wife & kids in India.

1/ Shamelessly, he asked permission to marry that Chinese woman.

Not only that, he also had the audacity to ask for 2 months leave for his honeymoon with that woman.

All that WHILE SUCH IMPORTANT INDO-CHINA TALKS WERE GOING ON.

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Why BJP has a consolidated Hindu vote bank? Why they are winning elections after elections?

It all started on 25 September 1990. A lot of people here do not have this context. So, just sharing how Ram Rath Yatra of Advani changed BJP, India, Hindus, and politics forever.

1/ In 1989-90, RSS realised that the time has come to start a movement for Ayodhya temple.
RSS thinkers were concerned that Congress can pick the issue.

Why Congress would? It is laughable some would think in present times.

So, let me tell you why Congress could.

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Few days back, I watched this movie Shatranj Ke Khilari as YouTube recommended and it never recommends a movie to me.

Nice Historical sattire. Based on a short story by Premchand.

Sharing the plot, context, and what I liked about this movie. 🧵

1/ 2 nobles of Awadh kingdom, Mirza Sajjad Ali (Sanjeev Kumar) and Mir Roshan Ali (Saeed Jaffrey) are great friends who love to play chess.

They are lazy, ignore their wives, and chess is their life. They think chess makes them smarter than anyone else.

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For a good part of my life, I have wondered why British chose Ajmer in Rajasthan to reside and make a large white settlement.

The reasons I looked for varied from climate to military but nothing made complete sense.

Recently, I found out the real reason accidentally. 🧵

1/ First, I want to clarify that White settlers in India were not living everywhere and anywhere. Railway towns did take them to more places, but they were work stations more than the natural habitat.

In Ajmer, they invested a lot. Made Mayo college, a whole new Railway city, factories, tens of hospitals, hundreds of churches, hundreds of missionary schools, public buildings, water reservoirs, and kept 2 Regiments of army here.

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A funny incident from life of Indira Gandhi as an example that her security was never taken seriously by the responsible people. 🧵

This is from a visit to US in 1983 she completed and was returning to India.

1/ PM Indira took her seat in her special plane but still the plane did not move. She observed from the window that boxes after boxes were being loaded in cargo of her plane.
It took almost half an hour after she took her seat & she was not happy about it.

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A brilliant triple-murder case solved by Kerala Police after 19 years using AI tools.

Probably the first of its kind in India. 🧵

A big lesson to police forces of India and beyond.

1/ 19 years ago in 2006, Ranjini and her newborn twins were found dead in her house. She was stabbed & her babies had their throats slit.

Ranjini was an unwed mother living separately away from her neighbours & family. One “Anil Kumar” convinced her to do so.

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