I was with Hindutva since age 11. It all started with Ram Janma Bhoomi. The BJP is the political vehicle for some of us. It is a means to an end. Not an end in itself. But it still is a worthwhile means to that end in my assessment.
We have seen so many BJP losses that looking at this turn of events right now does not even bother me personally. It drives me to fix things. I get scared even thinking about Congress coming back. I'll focus on that. You do Twitter/Instagram revolutions.
Chacha Choudhary wants an NAC-like body that he heads for the rest of his life, and a puppet PM like Manmohan Singh
Ganna Seth wants to be PM
That's the crux
and that will never happen as long as Modi ji decide to stay as PM
Kuch bhi… I receive threats too. Almost everyday. Simply because my point of view doesn’t suit a section of people.
Stop celebrating as if democracy has suddenly been restored!
What you really miss is not democracy.. you miss monopoly. You miss ur narratives, your cultural approval.
Kyon @SauravDassss ? Bolti bandh kyon hui @ARanganathan72 ka sawaal sunn ke? Saanp soong gaya?
It was a simple question: Did you ask @ArvindKejriwal for Harjyot Singh’s resignation in the same manner as you asked Nadda for Pradhan’s?
Selectivity exposed
On this auspicious day of Ashada Ekadashi, I am very happy to announce the launch of my humble attempt to make history interesting.
https://t.co/SGfD2ebBpO
The idea is actually very very simple
You go to the site, select a year, and It will show you who ruled which part of India at that point in time.
Sky News Anchor @SkyYaldaHakim tried to act like a bully but got a superb dose from @gauravbhatiabjp
Action must be taken against Preeti Chaudhary of India Today for relentlessly spreading fake news on pellet gun usage.
cc @AmitShah ji
Do you remember Hijab wearing Muskan Khan at a college in Mandya, Karnataka. She was lauded as face of Resistance against Saffron clad boys. In this video, we can see rowdies heckling two girls who support Modi. These two brave girls were undeterred in the face of constant bullying. But hypocrites won’t speak for them.
Farewell to a Visionary: Thank You, Dharmendra Pradhan
Every public office is temporary, but the impact of meaningful work endures.
Read the full Farewell note https://t.co/2w5joNwByw
Arjun took a प्रतिज्ञा against Jayadrath. Time was running out
Shri Krishna created an illusion of sunset
Jayadrath came out, and Arjun did what he does best
But Shri Krishna warned Arjun that Jayadrath's head shouldn't fall on ground but father lap
https://t.co/VkKq4lRibB
The reason Gen Z is no different from any other set of humans is:
1. They may not believe in the fake WhatsApp forwards that their parents’ generation has fallen for. They believe in fake Instagram videos that their favourite creators post daily.
2. They do not watch the bikau godi media channels which peddle the BJP narrative day in day out. They watch the equally bika hua YouTubers and Instagrammers that peddle the Congress agenda. I am a YouTuber, and I know how bika hua this entire system is. So for fucks sake, spare everyone the moral lessons.
3. The politics of hate that their parents swear by, the kids don’t believe in it. These fuckers are hateful like any other group. There is literally no survey that shows otherwise.
They are ill-informed and overopinionated. They are just in another echo chamber.
The resignation isn't the end of the story. It's the move that changes the game.
By conceding CJP's stated non-negotiable demand, the government has fundamentally altered the strategic incentives for every stakeholder.
Let’s score it coldly across every stakeholder.
Government (BJP/Modi):
✅ Pro: Precise containment. CJP itself declared Pradhan’s resignation the single non-negotiable demand. By delivering exactly that, the Centre has removed the movement's central bargaining chip. The daily costs - Jantar Mantar optics, stalled Parliament, youth rage are now contained. They can legitimately state: “We listened. The core demand is met. The government can now credibly argue that the immediate accountability demand has been met and the next phase should be institutional reform. Any further escalation now shifts the burden onto the protesters.
❌ Con: A template has been set. Hold the government to gunpoint through sustained, calculated street pressure and they will bend. Future agitations now have a proven playbook. The earlier hardline (“no question of resignation”) now looks like empty posturing. Root NTA/exam-mafia issues remain untouched — only the face changed.
Public / Students :
✅ Pro: Visible accountability delivered. A Cabinet minister paid the price for the chaos that wrecked futures and triggered suicides. Catharsis is real.
❌ Con: Still symbolic. One resignation does not fix the machine. Unless examination governance changes, students may simply face the same risks under a different minister.
CJP & the protest ecosystem:
✅ Pro: Historic scalp. A youth-led movement forced a Union minister out. “Cockroaches won” is permanent political capital and a genuine victory.
❌ Con: The core demand has been met. Their own non-negotiable threshold is fulfilled. If they now move the goalposts, invent new red lines, or keep escalating, they risk looking opportunistic rather than student-centric. Public sympathy that was laser-focused on “sack Pradhan” can flip fast: “You got what you asked for. Why are the kids still on the streets instead of studying?” Sustaining momentum after goal attainment is the real test — and history shows most movements lose steam here.
Congress, AAP & wider Opposition:
✅ Pro: Narrative validation. They can claim the street forced the Centre’s hand. Easy talking points.
❌ Con: Shallow. They own none of the structural credit. BJP can reframe this as responsive governance, not opposition success. Without a real reform agenda, scalp-hunting alone ages poorly.
International interests (Deep-state / regime-change attempts):
✅ Pro: Clear strategic failure for external pressure tactics. Despite sustained street optics and youth branded mobilisation, only a mid-tier minister fell. The core power structure (PM + ruling machinery) remains completely intact and can now claim democratic responsiveness. The episode actually exposes the limits of low cost regime change playbooks against a large, electorally resilient, nationalist government. Domestic narrative of “external interference” can now be leveraged to consolidate support.
❌ Con: Residual narrative damage. Global media and certain Western networks still harvest the optics of “youth forced a resignation” to keep alive the broader story of institutional fragility and “authoritarian drift.” That soft-power drip continues even if the operational goal (meaningful destabilisation) failed.
Bottom line:
The resignation resets the game's equilibrium & deflates the core mobilisation. CJP got its trophy and bragging rights. Students got emotional closure. Time will tell if the system gets a fundamental overhaul.
The next move belongs to CJP. If CJP treats the resignation as closure and pivots to constructive pressure on reforms, they keep legitimacy. If they treat it as an invitation to keep shifting goalposts, they hand the government the moral high ground.
Watch the next 90 days - not the victory speeches.
Frameworks applied:
• Sequential Game Theory (credible commitment & incentive shifts)
• Bargaining Theory (reservation value and concession dynamics)
• Schelling's Theory of Strategic Commitment
• Repeated Games (future protest incentives)
• Social Movement Goal-Attainment Theory
• Reputation Effects in Political Strategy
Sorry GenZ,
But my generation did better.
Your Rahul Gandhi campaign is backed by decades of royal privilege. By generations of loyalists embedded in media and power circles, both in India and across the world
What my gen achieved with Modi was incredible
We had no support. Everyone mocked us. The establishment media called us illiterates and fools.
The internet had bare minimum impact back then. Most of us had no idea how to express ourselves anyway.
But I remember we found ways. We went to Rediff message boards and wrote "Modi." There was the comments section on Firstpost, on Times of India.
The more we got banned or ignored, the more times we came at it. We would helplessly repeat claims that Rajdeep Sardesai or Yogendra Yadav are "biased"
I know that makes you laugh. Back in the day, folks like Rajdeep and Yogendra were considered neutral thinkers on politics. We had to go around debunking this!
By 2013, Facebook was there. It was a bit of fresh air, and we did what we could. We spoke against Sonia Gandhi any chance we got, anywhere.
I will end with an anecdote.
My college alumni group at the time was full of hardcore Sonia Gandhi supporters. I got banned for a few months, then went silent.
Some time in Apr 2014, after I had been silent for a while, someone in my college alumni group posted mockingly about me. Where is that one Modi supporter, they asked?
I replied that I had been in the ICU for almost 2 months with a life threatening illness, undergoing operation after operation.
At this, the reply came: Ha! There is no Modi wave, but he seems to have bulldozed your health.
The guy who said that wasn't banned.
This kid is literally becoming a nightmare for left Liberals 🔥
He is EXPOSING CJP Protest left right and centre with deep research 🔥
Liberals tried to silence him by copyright strike but now he’s ROASTING them at 10x speed.
More power to him 🙌🔥
Go to your parents & lawyer girl - stop playing victim & farming engagements. You will land up in more trouble if you try to make false accusations against @MumbaiPolice
Instead of calling cops non serious, you should have been serious about your future
There is a reason Tihar returnee Arvind Kejriwal has chosen to back this protest in the name of students.
Having lost credibility on governance and accountability, he now seeks political relevance by appropriating student concerns and turning them into a confrontation.
If he is truly serious about fixing education, he should begin where he actually has the authority to act. He should sack Punjab’s Education Minister and appoint Sonam Wangchuk to the post instead. That would be a concrete step, not political theatre.
Rajdeep.
Ashutosh Ranka has written long form articles for The Print & The Wire, that describe him as the "national spokesperson for the Aam Aadmi Party."
It is interesting you would leave out that detail while doing this glorious profile of the young man.
I guess it's too much to expect journalism from journalists these days.