Arjun

Sticking feathers up your butt doesn’t make you a chicken.
Be real.

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@LiveLawIndia It's that we've normalised turning dopamine into an industry.

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@TimesNow Indian politics has a habit of making confident people look very silly a year later.

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@INCKerala The internet has reached the stage where every currency movement is either economic genius or economic collapse.

Nothing in between.

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@sidhant "We have no problem with India" and "we understand why India is concerned" are not quite the same thing.

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@narendramodi India's biggest advantage in Nepal was never money or politics. It was familiarity.

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@ThePrintIndia @QundeelSamah The damage is usually done long before the truth catches up.

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@LiveLawIndia A passport is proof of citizenship, not proof that your parents get along.

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@narendramodi The air quality index is probably the only opposition that wins every election.

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@narendramodi The real test isn't the announcement. It's whether people in smaller cities actually see cheaper and more reliable connectivity over the next few years.

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@gankitca Governments come and go. Country remains.

Political differences are normal, but respect for the nation should never be up for debate.

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@Sputnik_India People see a Russia-India headline. The real story might be the eastern coast.

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@sidhant @VDoraiswami If you'd shown someone this picture 5 years ago, they'd probably have laughed.

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@shivaniwrites Urban growth is usually discussed through skylines, expressways and investment numbers.

But beneath that story is another one:

What happens when a city expands faster than its planning systems can keep up?

That's the question at the heart of this piece.

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"How can we be illegal? We have done the registry?"

That question led me to write "The Illegal City Beneath Lucknow" a reported feature on illegal colonies, land regulation, and the thousands of families trapped between conflicting government systems.

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#Lucknow

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@shivaniwrites The deeper problem-
A property may be registered through one process, taxed through another, and later face objections from a planning authority operating under a different set of rules.

The citizen assumes approval means security.

Often, it doesn't.

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@shivaniwrites One of the most surprising things I found while researching this-

Many families living in these colonies are not squatters or recent encroachers.

They have registries.
They pay taxes.
They have electricity connections.
Yet the legal status of their homes remains uncertain.

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@shivaniwrites The more I researched Lucknow's illegal colonies, the less this looked like a land dispute and the more it looked like a governance problem.

I've put together some of the key findings in a longer post:

https://t.co/FWCzEKtk9U

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@MorningBrew from awkward silences to monitored ones — evolution

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@thematrixwizard mastery of clown is the final form of monk

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@thematrixwizard bro i changed my frequency and now my fridge is talking to me about taxes