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[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

There’s a particular kind of fear that only a parent knows. The fear that comes watching your child choose a life you can’t quite protect them.

Vinayak is an engineer by education. He was in product, good at his job, well liked and adding value. Everything about it looked right from where I stood: Security, salary, work place etc.

But he felt that he didn’t fit. Not as a complaint but a quiet truth. He didn’t like the closed spaces, the stillness and the daily routine.

On a family holiday, he took to deep sea diving. He went back again, to the same diving site. He learnt. He trained. And he started interning with them and helping tourists. He would check the oxygen cylinders, give demos, instructions. And he soon got certification as a deep sea diving instructor.

And one fine day, he announced that he is quitting from his corporate life. He went abroad and learnt more. And more. And more. He trained. Got every certification - On diving, surviving etc.

He is now a deep sea diving instructor, working in Indonesia. He earls less than half the pay, carries cylinders, spends long hours underwater, lives without the comforts I spent a career trying to provide. No AC room. Not even a wash basin in his room. No safety net.

He is happy. Underwater, undercompensated, and, by every real measure, more himself than he ever was in that office.

My fear hasn’t fully gone. I don’t think it’s meant to. He didn’t need me to protect him from this choice. He needed me to trust that he knew himself better than I did. That’s the harder thing to learn, as a parent: sometimes love means stepping back and letting someone be honest, brave and trusted.

I am proud. He had the courage that I didn’t have. He gave up comforts and chose what his heart said. He trained. Learnt. He was happy to be a subordinate than be the promoters son. He chose the difficult path. The not so treaded path. He is happy. And I am proud.

Happy birthday Vinayak.

[John Hewko @JohnHewko]

At #Rotary26, Valarie Wafer and Mike McGovern outlined the final push to #EndPolio, focused on efforts in Pakistan, Afghanistan, and Nigeria powered by frontline vaccinators, surveillance, and global @Rotary partnerships working together to reach zero cases.

[Sanket Upadhyay @sanket]

Speak to hardcore BJP & RSS supporters and they too are looking at this unprecedented opposition MP loot with scepticism. This may lead to short term gain. But won’t work well in 2029. Turncoat election success rates are incredibly poor. Plus these move make govts unpopular.

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@sardesairajdeep @suchetadalal @rautsanjay61 And who heard this being told?

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@kkstau Hilarious but Tau ne kaha hai toh sach bhi hoga is vyangya mein.

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@sardesairajdeep Everytime someone is telling you self incriminating confessions. Ye kaise karte ho saabji?

[John Hewko @JohnHewko]

The excitement is already building for next year's convention, #Rotary27 in Barcelona.

Today’s glimpse is a reminder that @Rotary conventions are about more than where we meet, they’re about the connections we build and the inspiration we bring home. See you in España!
#Rotary26

[BVP RAJU @BVPRAJU]

@ShashiTharoor Let us continue with the thought experiment, so your proposal supports that I increase my Salary and reduce my driver's. Isn't that what will happen if we follow the Constitutional mandate?

[John Hewko @JohnHewko]

Today at #Rotary26, I shared an unexpected source of inspiration: bubble tea.

It spread around the world not because of a marketing campaign, but because one person handed it to another and said, "Try this."

There's a lesson there for @Rotary. 1/3 🧵

[BVP RAJU @BVPRAJU]

@MeritvsQuota Why are you invading the privacy of a girl? She is not in public life.

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@upamanyuacharya Add the personal costs of a business failure India vs US and the story is complete.

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@virsanghvi Sir, most arguments being presented remind me of Deewar, Amitabh saying, Jao Jaake uska sign leke aao...etc. There cant be a public utility argument at all. Only a legal argument of occupancy etc.

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@saket71 @kamleshksingh @AamAadmiParty There is a documentary called " The Great Hack" which is precisely on how this phenomenon of disenchantment is triggered by Social Media and used to influence election results.

[BVP RAJU @BVPRAJU]

@TheLallantop If you do not shut him down on your show, no one else gets to make a point and viewers may shut off. Only those clips where some participant is criticising him or some viewer is trolling him, seems to be the only purpose he serves.

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@kkstau Kullu- Khan Sanghatan?

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@DivaJain2 In PPP terms no appreciable change in the last decade. This graph from IMF.

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@TheNaveena @sridala They have already been felled.

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@PraveenBaddam1 Is it available anywhere on YouTube?

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@mat30185 @politicalbaaba Lol. I honestly don't care who wins UP. Anyway wallow in your own hate and adhominem attack. Enjoy. I wish you well.

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@mat30185 @politicalbaaba Since you are not part of a bhakt mandali Acheck for Capex Spending difference, as a % age of GDP, the math of additional collection will be clear. A straight jump from 1.7% of GDP in 2014 to 3.4% of GDP in 2025.

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@mat30185 @politicalbaaba The point was about off budget hiding of liabilities but I can see you skirted that issue.