Amar Kumar Modi

[Tamal Saha @Tamal0401]

Nandan Yadav - will anyone ask for his religion today? He has no right to wear that tilak or use the saffron. Just wanna ask @bihar_police - he is shot in an encounter and yet he managed to get a saffron scarf to cover his face - how? In an encounter situation that scarf stayed in place? Plz don’t tell us he was wearing it already before the encounter - if so, how did you recognise that it was Nandan? Post encounter, didn’t u open the scarf to check if he was Nandan? And if so - why and who would drape that scarf around him in such perfection? He has no right to use saffron for any kind of shield! Also - where are the bulldozers?

[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

@IEhindi @saurabhtop Kitna sundar episode hai !!! Aise hi aur chahiye . Sochne pe majboor kare. Charcha chahiye, chikhna chillana nahi.

[S G @Sukrit_G]

@IndiaToday Why not PM CARES here ???

[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

@sisupalagarha https://t.co/Lg8MYVFgBA

[Pankaj Sabnani @pankajsabnani]

Staying alive in India is an extreme sport

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

Before we get into making a safe examination system, @NandanNilekani must examine the need for any entrance exam. Most exams are territorial power centres and business opportunities.

Take for example CUET. It is the most unnecessary examination Imposed on the hapless Delhi students that made the CBSE scores useless and killed school education. This was done to neutralise the AAP investment in government schools a waste. These kids cannot afford private coaching and a state topper is also denied a seat.

Similarly, NEET is useless for those who want to join a private medical college. The price differential (5 lacs and 1.5 crores) is so huge that at rank 30,000 all government colleges close their admission while even at rank 13 lac, private colleges are unable to fill seats. Private colleges are reserved for the rich 1% of India. If you indeed fighting against reservation and for meritocracy, shouldn’t you include this?

The TET, even JEE advanced, UGC NET etc can be modified to make it a test for those who don’t cross a certain level of education.

We must reduce the entrance exams. We must reduce the number of students who should take the exam. Increase the eligibility. For Ex: Make 80% in boards a qualification to get into all India institutions like AIIIMS, IITs etc. Make school education mandatory. Punish those in dummy schools. Hedge. De-risk. Spread.

Make sure that a 3 hour exam doesn’t become the life altering exam. It will reduce stress. Reduce suicides. The business of entrance exams has to be reformed before we reform the conduct of such exams.

[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

@richaanirudh @richaanirudh Sincere respect for those ground reporters who have to endure all this (irrespective of whether they believe in it or not); for it is a matter of survival for them.

But for those star prime time anchors and their Owners , only two words :

DHIKKAR HAI !!!

[Priya Ranjan Sahu @spriyaranjan1]

@chitraaum एक बार जंतर मंतर घूम के आजाओ पता लग जायेगा भारत का नौजवान आप के पत्रकारिता के बारे में क्या सोचते हे।

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

I think facts and your show in the same sentence, makes a really bad sentence 😆

[Bimalendu Pradhan | RERA vs Fine Print @bpradhanodisha]

Saw this advertisement today by a Bhubaneswar based builder. I could not stop myself from writing about the mindset behind it.⬇️

"The lawyer, the mechanic and the doctor share two things the builder doesn't. They deliver the service before collecting the fee. And a regulator can strike them off for negligence.

The builder collects crores in advance, on a brochure and a promise, then delivers late, incomplete, or without an Occupancy Certificate. No profession tops the consumer complaint charts the way real estate does.

"Only the real estate developer wishes you to get rich"? No. He wishes you rich enough to pay the already inflated booking amount. After that, the buyer pays EMI and rent together for years while the "wish" stays under construction. The only person reliably getting rich in this arrangement is the one who wrote this ad.

Mocking three accountable professions to flatter the one industry built on advance money and delayed delivery is deplorable.

This builder has forgotten that lawyers, mechanics and doctors are his customers too. Or perhaps this is an honest confession of how he sees the home buyers whose money keeps him in business."

NOTE: I have deliberately withheld the builder's name. This is not about one firm. It is about a mentality, and this sort of mentality is an industry wide disease.

@CREDAINational @credaibbsr @CredaiOdisha @OdishaRera

[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

@Anurag_Dwary Chalo koi toh sahi information de raha hai warna zyadatar media views batorne aur sensationalize karne ke chakkar main tathya chodkar baaki sab kuch batate hain.

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[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

The middle class pays like a developed country, but lives through infrastructure that can’t survive a few hours of rain. That’s the real tax burden.

[Ajay Kamath @ajay43]

If a corporator thinks it’s okay to beat up a doctor, then the next time there’s a pothole in a road in his area, is it okay to beat him?
Asking for several friends

[Naresh @TopDriverIndia]

If @CapgeminiIndia doesn’t reinstate her with a promotion, and hardship bonus, and punish the day care operator then it’s just a 3rd rate body shop company.

CEO SanjayChalke you can’t sit this out man. You gotta take a stance.

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

द टेलीग्राफ के पूर्व संपादक आर. राजगोपाल की आपबीती:

मार्च 2026 में कोलकाता की बालीगंज विधानसभा सीट की वोटर लिस्ट से मेरा नाम हटा दिया गया। वजह यह बताई गई कि विशेष गहन पुनरीक्षण (SIR) के दौरान न तो मेरा और न ही मेरे दिवंगत पिता का नाम 2002 की वोटर लिस्ट में मिला।

मेरे पिता गांधीवादी थे, प्रोफेसर रहे और केरल में गांधी स्मारक निधि के राज्य सचिव भी थे। उनका 2016 में निधन हो गया। आज तक समझ नहीं आया कि इतने जिम्मेदार मतदाता का नाम वोटर लिस्ट में कैसे नहीं था।

पश्चिम बंगाल के करीब 27 लाख लोगों की तरह मेरा नाम भी "तार्किक गड़बड़ियों" का हवाला देकर हटा दिया गया। मैंने अपनी 10वीं की मार्कशीट भी जमा कर दी, लेकिन फिर भी कोई वजह नहीं बताई गई। अब मेरी अपील सुप्रीम कोर्ट के निर्देश पर बने एक ट्रिब्यूनल में लंबित है। इसी वजह से मैं हाल का चुनाव भी नहीं लड़... बल्कि वोट भी नहीं डाल सका।

इससे भी बड़ी परेशानी मेरे पासपोर्ट रिन्यूअल में आई।

19 मार्च 2026 को मैंने बायोमेट्रिक की सारी प्रक्रिया पूरी कर ली थी, लेकिन पुलिस वेरिफिकेशन इसलिए पास नहीं हुआ क्योंकि मेरा नाम वोटर लिस्ट में नहीं है। मैंने कई दूसरे दस्तावेज़ भी दिए, लेकिन कहा गया कि वे पर्याप्त नहीं हैं।

आज, 27 जून 2026, मेरे बायोमेट्रिक हुए पूरे 100 दिन हो चुके हैं। पिछले हफ्ते पासपोर्ट कार्यालय ने मुझे आधिकारिक तौर पर बताया कि कोलकाता पुलिस ने मेरे खिलाफ प्रतिकूल रिपोर्ट भेजी है, क्योंकि मेरा नाम वोटर लिस्ट से हटा दिया गया है।

मुझे तुरंत रीजनल पासपोर्ट ऑफिस आने को कहा गया, लेकिन जब मैंने अपॉइंटमेंट मांगी तो तारीख 17 जुलाई 2026 की मिली।

इसी बीच मेरी बेटी, जो कैलिफोर्निया में पत्रकार है, की 17 अप्रैल को सैन फ्रांसिस्को में शादी हो गई। मेरे पास 10 साल का वैध अमेरिकी वीज़ा होने के बावजूद मैं सिर्फ इसलिए अपनी बेटी की शादी में नहीं जा सका क्योंकि मेरा पासपोर्ट रिन्यू नहीं हुआ था।

आज हालत यह है कि मैं खुद को एक तरह की नागरिक अनिश्चितता में पाता हूं। हाल ही में सरकार ने भी कहा था कि पासपोर्ट नागरिकता का सबूत नहीं है।

अब मेरा ज़्यादातर समय पुराने पारिवारिक रिकॉर्ड और दशकों पुराने दस्तावेज़ जुटाने में निकल रहा है।

हर सुबह उठकर मैं सबसे पहले अपनी वोटर लिस्ट वाली अपील और पासपोर्ट का स्टेटस देखता हूं। फिर उस कॉलेज को लिखता हूं जहां मेरी मां 1965 में पढ़ाती थीं और उस स्कूल को भी जहां से उन्होंने 1959 में पढ़ाई पूरी की थी, ताकि कोई ऐसा रिकॉर्ड मिल जाए जिससे साबित हो सके कि वे इस देश में थीं। स्कूल ने मदद की, लेकिन कॉलेज ने नहीं।

इसी तरह मैं केरल के पुराने सामाजिक कार्यकर्ताओं से भी संपर्क करता हूं और उनसे मेरे पिता की अवैध शराब और सांप्रदायिकता के खिलाफ चलाए गए अभियानों की कोई फोटो या अखबार की कटिंग मांगता हूं।

कुछ करीबी दोस्तों और सार्वजनिक जीवन के लोगों ने मेरी मदद की है। लेकिन मुझे नहीं पता कि किसी मीडिया संस्थान या पत्रकार संगठन ने मेरे मामले में कोई दिलचस्पी दिखाई।

एक वरिष्ठ पत्रकार ने मुझसे कहा कि यह सिर्फ मेरी कहानी नहीं है। सदियों से करोड़ों भारतीय रोज़ इसी तरह की अस्वीकृति और सरकारी परेशानियों का सामना करते आए हैं। मैं उनकी इस बात से सहमत हूं।

मेरा मकसद खुद को पीड़ित दिखाना नहीं है। मैं सिर्फ यह बताना चाहता हूं कि अगर एक ऐसा व्यक्ति, जिसने पूरी जिंदगी पत्रकारिता की और एक जाना-माना अखबार संपादित किया, उसे भी इतनी मुश्किलों का सामना करना पड़ सकता है, तो सोचिए समाज के सबसे कमजोर लोगों पर क्या बीतती होगी।

क्या मैंने किसी अखबार से इस बारे में बात की? नहीं। क्योंकि मैं नहीं चाहता था कि यह सिर्फ मेरी निजी कहानी बनकर रह जाए।

क्या संपादकों और पत्रकारों को मेरे मामले की जानकारी है? बिल्कुल है, कई लोगों को है। और अगर किसी को नहीं है, तो फिर उन्हें पत्रकारिता में नहीं होना चाहिए।

लेकिन इस पूरे मामले पर अखबारों की चुप्पी ने मेरे उस शक को और मजबूत कर दिया है कि तथाकथित मुख्यधारा की पत्रकारिता का अब आम लोगों की जिंदगी से बहुत कम लेना-देना रह गया है।

अब मैं कोई अखबार पढ़ता नहीं हूं। बस कभी-कभी सरसरी निगाह से देख लेता हूं, लेकिन उसमें ऐसा कुछ नहीं मिलता जो मुझे पढ़ने के लिए मजबूर करे।

[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

@IndianExpress More power to you Sir @mazoomdaar 💪

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[Yashovardhan Jha Azad @yashoazad]

If passport means no citizenship, Aadhar is for picking up freebies only and voting card simply indicates purification by SIR - then what are we all? Between the courts, lawyers, ECI and experts we could be Zombies from Mars. Then shall we put citizenship chips in all new born babies from now on? Why are things so complicated in India? To be or not to be is a fundamental question. Another SC constitutional bench 9 members may be to tell us breathing is our fundamental right.
We are 90 years behind

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

There's one phrase from well-meaning, educated Indians that I've come to genuinely detest:

"Don't politicize it."

"Ispe politics nahin honi chahiye."

What does that even mean?

In a democracy, almost everything that touches a citizen's life is political.

Your education. Your healthcare. Your salary, your taxes, your savings. The roads you drive on, the bridges you cross, the safety you take for granted. Your job, your pension, the price of the food on your table. Your life. Everything.

All of it is decided by power: who holds it, who answers to it, who gets ignored by it.

This is what politics is. Not a dirty word. Not bad manners to be avoided in polite company.

It is simply the process by which a society decides who gets what. What is right, and what needs to get done.

So when someone tells me "don't politicize it," what they're really saying is: don't ask who's accountable. Don't follow the money. Don't think too hard. Be stupid.

But the real question is this. When did we Indians lose our agency?

When did asking a question of those in power become bad manners?

When did "let's not get political" become the mark of a sensible, balanced person, instead of what it actually is, a quiet surrender?

And most of this happened in the last decade or so.

I remember Arnab Goswami doing exactly this on Times Now, shutting people down with "don't politicize it." I remember, Arun Jetley doing it to his political opponents.

The prime-time shout-down format scared a whole country to treat a hard question as a nuisance.

Along the way, we were taught that staying out of it is the mature thing.

That the educated, respectable position is to float above the mess.

That getting worked up about policy, about accountability, about who decided what and why, is somehow beneath us.

But in reality, "don't politicize it" is a cowardly position. It means you have surrendered your agency.

When did cowardice become etiquette?

What we mistake for maturity is propaganda working at the highest level.

Indians were conditioned to confuse silence for wisdom and disengagement for sophistication.

A citizen who won't ask uncomfortable questions isn't being civil. He's being convenient, and invisible. Convenient for whoever benefits from him looking away.

And the moment I push back, which I often do, watch them retreat. "Oh, I didn't mean it like that," without a trace of embarrassment.

So, my dear people: everything is political. Everything was political. Everything will be political.

Because politics is power, and power influences everything. Pretending otherwise doesn't make you neutral. It makes you easy to govern. It makes you sheep.

[Neelesh Misra @neeleshmisra]

I find a very disturbing trend among doctors in Lucknow (don’t know about other cities) that has been normalised for years.
When you go for consultations, there are many patients already sitting in the room, waiting for their turn. When they talk to one patient about their case, everyone is listening in, and their most private details are public for everyone to hear.
This is a violation of basic courtesy. Doctors, please urgently reconsider this. Please do not do this. I am sitting right now in a doctor’s clinic for my daughter and cringing while I have to hear the personal details of every patient while we wait.

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[Amar Kumar Modi @Amar_Kumar_Modi]

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