Chaitee

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | How Maharashtra’s education policy excludes the underprivileged

As Maharashtra expands its Public-Private Partnership model and the cluster grouping of schools, children from poor, rural, and tribal communities bear the greatest burden of a changing public education system.

Rushikesh Arun Patil writes.

https://t.co/60UJLM1PiC

[Chaitee @Chaitee26]

My article in Frontline asks why India’s charitable organisations are increasingly being regulated as though they are threats rather than partners in public good. Charities often step in where the State falls short - in education, health, disability access, legal aid, livelihoods, environmental protection. Yet recent changes under income tax law, GST, and FCRA have created a regime where genuine organisations are forced to spend scarce time, money, and energy proving their legitimacy instead of doing their work.

The issue is not whether charities should be regulated. They should. But regulation must be proportionate, not reflexively suspicious.

The real question is deeper: is this merely bureaucratic overreach, or does it reflect a shift in the State’s relationship with welfare itself?

Full article in Frontline: https://t.co/sH5V7WDQWz

[Chaitee @Chaitee26]

This analysis articulates exactly what has troubled me about NEP 2020’s vocationalisation approach. There is a world of difference between teaching through productive work, as Nai Talim imagined, and treating vocational work as a separate track for children already marginalised by caste and class. NEP 2020 risks reinforcing caste hierarchy under the pretext of “skills development”. Education must expand possibilities, not pre-decide them.

https://t.co/73FjFIIxGe

@EduMinOfIndia @RahulGandhi

[Chaitee @Chaitee26]

“The fairy tale capitalism tells about itself - that wealth is earned through hard work and enterprise - is the greatest propaganda coup in human history.”

https://t.co/6CXcIWuYXj

[Chaitee @Chaitee26]

As we approach the end of the first quarter of the first financial year under the new Income Tax law, it feels like an appropriate time to ask: what exactly did we get?

Is this “ease of doing business”?

A new law was promised as “simplification”.

Naturally, one expected fewer disputes, clearer provisions, reduced compliance burden, and perhaps, in a moment of dangerous optimism, some accountability in tax administration.

Instead, we appear to have achieved the historic feat of changing the law without changing very much at all.

No major substantive reform.
No administrative accountability.
No structural reduction in uncertainty.

But yes, provisos and explanations have been promoted to sub-sections. One must acknowledge this bold and inexplicable legislative achievement. One that may now unsettle settled legal principles without adding any value at all.

So the taxpayer must now relearn the same law, litigate the same issues, and wait for courts to tell us whether the old meaning survives the new drafting.

This is not tax reform. This is a joke!

@nsitharaman @IncomeTaxIndia @FinMinIndia

[Amey Tirodkar @ameytirodkar]

Reading tweets praising BJP for immediately shifting it's poll machinery from WB to UP and Punjab.

To understand this propoganda, this constant electoral machinery need to be deciphered.

First, BJP have no shortage of money to keep doing this electioneering all the times.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Dharmendra Pradhan ji, you can attack me all you want but it won’t absolve you of your crimes. Nor will it stop me from demanding answers for 18.5 lakh children.

Why was the CBSE OSM contract handed to COEMPT - a company already mired in controversy under its old name, Globarena? On whose orders was it done? Why were no background checks done? What is the connection between COEMPT’s management and the Modi government?

Either you ran a background check and went ahead anyway - or you didn’t run one at all. Either way, you are complicit.

As for responsibility - if the PM cared, he should have sacked you long ago for ruining the futures of lakhs of students.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

When there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to fear.

What happens to India’s image when the world sees a compromised PM panic and run from a few questions?

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

कह दिया था - चुनाव के बाद महंगाई की गर्मी आएगी।

आज कमर्शियल गैस सिलेंडर ₹993 महंगा। एक ही दिन में सबसे बड़ी बढ़ोतरी। यह चुनावी बिल है।

फरवरी से अब तक: ₹1,380 की बढ़ोतरी - सिर्फ़ 3 महीनों में 81% का इज़ाफ़ा।

चायवाला, ढाबा, होटल, बेकरी, हलवाई - हर किसी की रसोई पर बोझ बढ़ा। और इसका असर आपकी थाली पर भी पड़ेगा।

पहला वार गैस पर, अगला वार पेट्रोल-डीज़ल पर।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

I travelled through Great Nicobar today.

These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow.

The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs.

The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away.

This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language.

So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime.

It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.

[Madhu Purnima Kishwar @madhukishwar]

This explains why I kept a safe distance from Modi from the time he assumed power in May 2014. I did not even go to gift him a copy of my book on him. Just sent an unsigned copy through his favourite bureaucrat Bharat Lal!
The names of women who were made MPs and ministers by Modi due to intimacy with him were being whispered loudly enough within Sanghi power networks right at the outset. That is why I took precautions very early on.
The names of those like Hardeep Puri who provided him special services while he was Gujarat CM were also being shared in hushed tones as soon as Hardeep and Jaishankar were included in the Cabinet!
In 2014, when I went for lectures to America, there too tales of his aiyyashi were doing the rounds.
Appointment of 12th pass Smriti Irani as Education Minister had given credence to other scandals, till then hidden from public view.
The scandal involving Mansi Soni had already reached the Supreme Court.
Someone close to Modi gave me a whole set of papers submitted in the Supreme Court by the incarcerated IAS officer who too was having a rollicking time with Soni.
In addition, people from Gujarat, including some of those close to Modi, shared with me disgusting stories of his sickly dalliances with women while he was Gujarat CM.
And earlier while he was pracharak and BJP office bearer!
Hearing those stories, I became so averse to his presence that I avoided even those functions, including marriage receptions, where Modi was likely to show up!
So traumatized I was by the gory accounts that I actually sank into deep depression in 2014 which deeply impacted my health. Went for 21 days to an Ayurvedic healing centre in Coimbatore in 2015 in the hope of recovering from multiple shocks.
I remember when I shared my grief at the reports I was hearing with a very senior RSS intellectual, he shrugged it off saying, "why are you so shocked? Why should his personal life bother any of us?"
The appointment of #pornpeddler Amit Malviya as BJP's Social
Media incharge was yet another proof of the inclinations of the top bosses of BJP!
I might have overlooked his predatory sexual conduct, if he had done well on other fronts.
But his aggressive peddling of genocidal vaccines and brazen attempts at crushing Hindu samaj and demonizing Hindu dharma, his outrageous patronage of Bheemtas and Meemtas to launch lethal attacks on Hindus, his slavish conduct vis a vis the Globalist Mafia, his devilish conduct in persecuting Hindus during the Kathua Kand (described in detail in my book The Girl From Kathua, A Sacrificial Victim of GhazwaE Hind) and much else, made me realize in the first term itself that we are saddled with a Satanic ruler, a CIA plant who has been put in power to wreck India, and decimate Hindus!
Modi's personality disorders have convinced me that we should pay far more attention to sexual corruption of our leaders.
Those who are compromised on this front very easily succumb to blackmail by enemies of Bharat, than those who are financially corrupt!
Will soon provide proof of how he is being blackmailed from day one.
Hence the vulgar 56 inchiya boasts!

[Chaitee @Chaitee26]

@RahulGandhi Even Sri Lanka showed more spine. Our Prime Minister, as always, chose silence…

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

The world has entered a volatile phase. Stormy seas lie ahead.

India’s oil supplies are under threat, with more than 40% of our imports transiting the Strait of Hormuz. The situation is even worse for LPG and LNG.

The conflict has reached our backyard, with an Iranian warship sunk in the Indian Ocean. Yet the Prime Minister has said nothing.

At a moment like this, we need a steady hand at the wheel.

Instead, India has a compromised PM who has surrendered our strategic autonomy.

[Alon Mizrahi @alon_mizrahi]

Iran firing at Israel nonstop (millions have spent the last 24 hours mostly in shelters, and the economy will be at a complete standstill for the foreseeable future), and is applying a clear tactic of saturating Israeli air defences and triggering an interceptor crises. If I'm reading them right, their initial response is designed to remove the immediate threat from US assets in the region, which they have been doing brilliantly, and, simultaneously, exhausting Israeli and Western air defences, which will compel the US and Israel to ask for a ceasefire.

And there's the global economy front with the stoppage of West Asia gas and oil flow.

But this is only the opening phase, and, as always with Iran, great methodicity is carefully applied. No missile is fired spontaneously. Every action is taken for a desired outcome, as part of a rigorously laid out plan.

They are picking apart Israel's infrastructure and economy. In 10 days, the country will begin to crack. Maybe even sooner.

We are not seeing Iran's achievements, but they are there. They have prepared for this, and the assassination of Khamenei makes the choices they face absolutely clear. They will not stop.

[Priyanka Gandhi Vadra @priyankagandhi]

The targetted assassination of the leadership of a sovereign nation by the so called leaders of the democratic world and the killing of multitudes of innocent people is despicable and deserves strong condemnation, no matter what the proclaimed reason for it is.

It is tragic that multiple nations have now been dragged into conflict.

The world needs peace not more unnecessary wars. Those in charge of it would do well to remember Mahatma Gandhi’s words: An eye for an eye makes the whole world blind.

I do hope that having genuflected before the Prime Minister of Israel and President Trump, our Prime Minister makes every effort to bring all Indian citizens in the affected countries back home to safety.

[Mahua Moitra @MahuaMoitra]

Hahhah. Seriously @narendramodi? He’s brought nothing but disgrace & shame to India. And btw @POTUS dictates India’s energy policies. Not the arrogant Hard Poorie.