2022: Shraddha Walkar butchered by her boyfriend Aftab Poonawala, pieces scattered.
2025-26: Court permits him to skip hearings due to dental appointment, mental health check & now to take MA Sociology exam.
Gems of our judiciary 🙏🏽
Anytime, Arfa.
You have spent years telling your audience that Muslim women in India are oppressed, discriminated against, and denied dignity. Then you travel to Iran, where women have truly risked their lives protesting compulsory hijab, and suddenly you tell us you dress exactly the way you dress in India.
Quite the plot twist.
And then came the interviews. If Iranian women are truly so free to speak, why did every single woman you approached refuse to be interviewed on camera? Maybe it is not their freedom but your credibility, or the lack thereof, that is the issue.
You literally dismissed the struggles of Iranian women as #WesternPropaganda.
But despite your narration, the footage had a funny habit of telling its own story.
High IQ employees apply these steps immediately:
Step 1: Pause
Say nothing for 3–4 seconds. Just look at them calmly and let the silence settle in. That pause matters. It forces the room to register what just happened and makes the behavior feel as inappropriate as it is. People often continue disrespect only when others rush to smooth it over.
Step 2: Correct the volume
Respond in a calm, steady voice:
“I can hear you perfectly well. There is no need to raise your voice to make your point.”
This does two things. First, it shows composure. Second, it makes it clear that the issue is not the work—it is their behavior.
Step 3: Walk out
End the interaction professionally:
“I’m going to step out until we can speak like professionals. Let me know when you’re ready to continue.”
Then leave. Do not stay in the room and absorb further humiliation. Walking away is not weakness. It is boundary-setting.
I taught JEE physics for years. That paper breaks strong kids in three hours.
This exam is five hours of theory and five hours of lab work, and these five did close to perfect scores on it.
Let me tell you what actually happened.
The International Physics Olympiad is the world championship of school physics. It was the 56th edition. Held in Bucaramanga, Colombia, from July 5 to 12.
381 students. More than 85 countries. Every one of them the best physics student their country could find.
India sent five kids.
All five came back with gold.
Their names are Kanishk Jain from Pune. Riddhesh Anant Bendale from Indore. Rishit Garg from Dwarka in Delhi. Shresth Suraiya from Mumbai. Svarit Joshi from Ahmedabad.
We know a hundred cricketers by their nickname and not one of these boys. :)
That clean sweep put India at joint World Number One. Tied with China, Russia, Kazakhstan, South Korea and Taiwan.
Those are countries that pour serious money and national pride into science education. We are standing level with them.
Now here is what the exam actually was.
Two papers. Each five hours long.
The theory paper had three problems. One on the thermodynamics of paramagnetic cooling. One on the photoionisation of ozone. One on the dynamics of electron positron pairs.
The experimental paper was another five hours in a lab, working through heat transfer and thermodynamic processes in fluids.
That means you get given equipment you have never seen, and you have to design your own experiment, take your own readings, handle the errors, and reach a real answer.
Not multiple choice. No shortcuts. No pattern recognition. You either understand physics or you sit there for five hours.
HBCSE says the Indian students were near perfect on theory and excellent on the practical too.
Now, this was India's 27th appearance at the IPhO.
Across all those years, about 44 percent of Indian students have won gold, 41 percent silver, 10 percent bronze.
In the last ten years, every single Indian student has come home with a medal. 62 percent gold, 38 percent silver.
Not one kid has gone and come back empty handed in a decade.
Five golds in one year has happened only twice. This year, and in 2018.
So who built this.
The programme is run by HBCSE, the Homi Bhabha Centre for Science Education. It sits under TIFR, which sits under the Department of Atomic Energy.
They run the whole funnel. A national exam, then a national olympiad, then a brutal selection and training camp, and out of everyone in the country, five kids get on a plane.
The team was led by Professor Anwesh Mazumdar of HBCSE-TIFR and Dr Leena Joshi from St Xavier's College, Mumbai.
The scientific observers were Professor Ananda Dasgupta from IISER Kolkata and Nisha Kelkar from Gogate-Joglekar College in Ratnagiri.
Yes. Ratnagiri. A college in a small coastal town in Maharashtra.
This is public education doing something the private coaching industry could never do on its own.
The coaching industry is very good at one thing. Teaching you to solve a known problem fast.
That is what JEE and NEET reward, and I say that with love because I was part of that world.
But an olympiad paper does not have a known type. There is no shortcut chapter. There is no formula sheet that saves you. You have to sit with a problem you have never seen and think.
That is a completely different muscle. And a government funded centre has been quietly building it in Indian teenagers for 27 years.
So yes, be proud. Loudly.
HBCSE also shared that around 64 percent of India's olympiad medallists go on to do a PhD.
But only about 32 percent of medallists end up settling in India.
I do not say that to spoil the moment. These kids owe the country nothing. They earned every option they have.
But it should tell us something. We are excellent at finding this talent. We are excellent at training it. We are still not great at giving it somewhere worth staying.
Congratulations Kanishk, Riddhesh, Rishit, Shresth and Svarit. This is one of the best things an Indian did this year and most of the country will never hear about it.
राजनीतिक स्वांग के बहुरूपिया अभिनेता, तथाकथित नई राजनीति के स्वघोषित किंतु असफल प्रणेता, दिल्ली के पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री श्री अरविन्द केजरीवाल जी को अपने परिवार के सदस्यों को अनावश्यक रूप से राजनीतिक विमर्श में घसीटने की पुरानी आदत है। अब वे दिल्ली में रविवार को सुंदरकांड पाठ और हस्ताक्षर अभियान के माध्यम से अयोध्या स्थित श्रीराम मंदिर के विषय पर अपनी चिरपरिचित, अविश्वसनीय व छलपूर्ण राजनीतिक शैली का प्रदर्शन कर भारत की सनातन संस्कृति को बदनाम करने की साजिश रच रहे हैं।
ये वही केजरीवाल जी हैं जिन्होंने कभी कहा था कि उनकी नानी नहीं चाहती थीं कि वे उस मंदिर में जाएँ, जिसे उन्होंने तथाकथित रूप से मस्जिद बताया था (जबकि न्यायालय ने उसे सदैव एक विवादित ढांचा माना था), आज जब वे स्वयं श्रीरामलला के दर्शन कर चुके हैं, तो उन्होंने केवल अपनी राजनीति ही नहीं बदली,
बल्कि कहावत का अर्थ भी बदल दिया।
कहावत है "नानी याद आना",
किंतु इन्होंने तो "नानी भुलाए जाना" ही चरितार्थ कर दिया।
किन्तु भारत की सनातन संस्कृति, हमारी परंपरा और पंचतंत्र की शिक्षाएँ सदैव यह विवेक प्रदान करती रही हैं कि वास्तविक श्रद्धा और अवसरवादी आडंबर में अंतर कैसे पहचाना जाए।
इस देश की धर्मपरायण, जागरूक और विवेकशील जनता भली-भाँति जानती है कि कौन सच्चा 'असली भगत' है और कौन केवल 'बगुला भगत'।
Apparently the incest, throwing children off the walls of Troy, Trojan women taken as war trophies doesn’t disturb her. Neither does late Iron Age armour in a Bronze Age setting. Only Indians defending their country disturbs this quack.
In 3 decades of Govt Service, I have been assaulted around 15 times on duty, just like the drs in the video are. Every single time, I have given a complaint to the Dean,RMO & the local Inspector of Police in writing. How many goons hv been prosecuted- ZERO.
Why was this politician atleast arrested? Coz, the incident was caught on CCTV and the victim was both a female & Dalit Dr. Does anyone talk abt the male Dr, who was also assaulted? No.
Violence to settle things is the norm , rather than the exception in India- one of the most primitive/brutal societies in the world. Believe me, every single day there is an assault on a Tamilnadu Govt Dr, posted in this or that WhatsApp grp. How many r prosecuted? To my knowledge, none.
Once I was assaulted with bleeding injuries on duty at a local GH, walked up to the police outpost and with blood dripping from my body on the complaint paper, gave a written complaint addressed to the Police Inspector. Later, the case also came to court. Nurses & wardboys testified as witnesses. I identified the assailants & weapons in court.
The judge who sat in the case was an honest upright lady. I was then treating her father. I cd see that she was determined that justice be delivered. What happened? Ultimately the case was dismissed. The honest Inspector later met me & was fuming. "Sir, what can I do? In TN, everything is politicised. Our (honest) DC has received calls from 3 ministers. The APP has received 'calls'. All the witnesses who testified for u, later turned hostile. Their families have been threatened with death. Sometimes, I feel like resigning sir. There is no justice in Tamilnadu." Remember that was an Inspector of Police speaking.
If you are a medical student/intern/ resident, get your degrees & get the f*** out of this thankless country. I have a hundred more incidents to relate.