Chaithra Jayanth

This is where I sound smart.

[Aravind @aravind]

I'm telling this again: My hunch is Air India & Indigo are being run down by the GLISCO-DS using insiders and other sabotage.

It's time India takes action. First step must be to make sure the CEO and board are Indian patriots. Not foreigners and Indians with foreign interests.

At a time when India's aviation sector must be growing and Indian carriers becoming top international carriers bringing revenue to India, we are seeing the reverse happening.

So this rout of AI doesn't seem organic. There's no way a company like TATA can't run an airline in partnership with Singapore Airlines to at least do as well as an Ethihad or Malaysian, if not Emirates and Qatar.

This is unacceptable.

[Aravind @aravind]

This is a big win for India in the last decade.

But even with all such positives, there's an attempt at psyops by foreign seeded narrative using local politicians & account farms that India's environment is at threat.

So it can be used to program the public to fight India's strategic Andaman Nicobar port and military base development.

Public should not fall for it. Remember they are the same forces and it is same playbook adopted in Kenya to evict Adani from doing a project and capture it later.

[Aravind @aravind]

Peaceful rural life in India. Tourists must visit such areas of India, like this in the foothill of Himalayas. Indian railways connect well, people are very kind, stays are so cheap and cultured, you can still get internet, even 5G, unlike the US or EU.

[ChristinMathewPhilip @ChristinMP_]

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[Imtiaz Mahmood @ImtiazMadmood]

The "Pompeii Lakshmi" is a 2,000-year-old Indian ivory murti that traveled thousands of miles along maritime spice routes, only to be trapped in volcanic ash in Italy. The statues discovery proves ancient Roman and Indian economies were interconnected.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

One of the great ironies of India is that we worship our rivers, yet rarely trust the water that flows into our homes.

Which is why Puri’s transformation fascinated me. An entire city where people can apparently drink straight from the tap.

And this change didn’t take decades. It happened over just a few years because political leadership, administrative execution and community participation all moved in sync.

A key part of the story is the role played by the ‘Jal Sathis’ local women who became guardians of the city’s water quality and helped build public trust in the system.

My #MondayMotivation this week comes from leaders & participative citizens who proved that governance can genuinely improve the quality of everyday life

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Bengaluru: State of roads around ORR! 😔

Taxpayers pay road tax, fuel tax, tolls and GST just to drive through craters filled with dirty water.

[Aravind @aravind]

I think the millions and millions of Gen-Z followers of this movement from Kansas, Palestine, Pakistan, Ivory Coast, Malaysia etc couldn't join the protests. Because they were just phones in farms that failed to instigate the Gen-Z organically in India. DS has once again failed.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

ANNAMALAI MAY HAVE FAILED TO WIN THE BJP A SEAT IN 2024, BUT HIS GREATEST SUCCESS MIGHT YET BE ORGANISATIONAL.
What is the message that the BJP can glean from the Annamalai saga.
1. Don't Trade Long-term Ideological Space For Short-term Electoral Gain:
The BJP has spent a decade painstakingly creating a distinct nationalist political space in Tamil Nadu. Its vote share has risen from near irrelevance in state politics. Yet, in 2026, it traded its USP for an alliance with the AIADMK, putting immediate electoral gains above ideological purity. The Assembly election results prove that Annamalai was right in cautioning that voters would punish the BJP for yoking itself to a political culture of factionalism and corruption that serves no public interest. The first lesson for the BJP from Annamalai's politics is that growth cannot come from inheriting someone else's social base.
2. Sanatana: A Bridge, Not A Boundary:
Annamalai's entry into the BJP coincided with the party’s more assertive defence of Sanatana Dharma. In Tamil Nadu, sections of Dravidian politics had demonised any attempt at celebrating the grandeur of Hindu civilisation. The genius of Annamalai is that he recognised that the BJP's challenge goes beyond civilisational reclamation. Annamalai was successful in avoiding making BJP appear culturally exclusive. The emergence of a class of new Tamil voters, as demonstrated by the Assembly poll result in 2026, vindicates Annamalai. These new voters appear receptive to a broad, aspirational message that may yet be rooted in traditional ideological camps.
3. Tamil Nadu Needs A Son Of The Soil With A Youth Connect:
Tamil Nadu's electorate increasingly rewards leaders who embody local aspirations. Annamalai's appeal is that he is a first-generation political leader, a former IPS officer, and a relatively young face. The BJP in the future will require being led by a locally rooted leadership capable of connecting with aspirational young voters, entrepreneurs, professionals, and first-time electors.
4. Ideological Seeding Precedes Electoral Harvest:
The BJP is up against the same challenge it poses to other parties at the national level and in other states. Tamil Nadu's politics has long been shaped by an ideology: Dravidianism. The roots of this ideology run deep and cannot be weeded out in a single election cycle. Annamalai showed the BJP that it will need to put in the hard yards to sow its own ideology. Annamalai achieved some success through yatra politics, grassroots outreach, and sustained, almost face-to-face messaging. The current crop of the BJP’s top Tamil Nadu officials lacks that staying power.
5. Build Cadre Before Chasing The Chair:
Which brings us to the last point. The BJP's strongest state-level successes, from Gujarat, Odisha, Tripura, Haryana, and Assam, were preceded by years of organisational expansion. Annamalai may have failed to win the BJP a seat in 2024, but his greatest success might yet be organisational. Under him, the BJP appeared energised, with new blood flocking to it, and that too with a sense of purpose. As the axiom goes, purpose is the lifeblood of all parties, the single greatest ingredient for future victories. What is the BJP's purpose in Tamil Nadu? If BJP can answer that question with conviction in a post-Annamalai future, it will have won half the battle.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

Big benefits of walking and Metro. Bengaluru should be a walking city ⁦@CMofKarnataka⁩ @DKShivakumar ⁦@GBAChiefComm⁩ ⁦@GBA_office⁩ ⁦@rk_misra⁩

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

This is how ketchup is being made inside a factory.

@fssaiindia, who is checking hygiene, ingredients, licensing & safety standards before this reaches burgers and sandwiches?

Food safety cannot be limited to paperwork and raids after viral videos.

[Aravind @aravind]

This one paper by BIT Jharkhand graduate, Indian origin lead researcher Ashish Vaswani (@ashVaswani) and co has helped add $10 trillion to the world's market capitalization. That's 150x Jharkhand's GDP and 2.5x India's GDP. Let that sink in.

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Starting tomorrow, Supreme court of India is on a six-week summer vacation and will be operating at just 19% of its capacity. There are 53 million cases pending in Indian courts - 93,143 of them are pending in the Supreme Court.

A judge can go on a vacation, a judiciary cannot.

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Mahadevpura after one rain looks less like Bengaluru and more like a failed Venice demo.

Roads turn into canals, traffic turns into a punishment.

Citizens pay taxes for roads, not seasonal swimming lanes. 🙏

[Deepak Bopanna @dpkBopanna]

All superheroes don't wear capes, some wear uniforms.
Amid heavy rains in Bengaluru last night, a differently-abled youth was struggling to cross a road with gushing water. Police Constable Anil stepped in, stopped traffic and then carried him across to safety.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

The crimes of the Catholic Church. @Pontifex should apologise to the konkanies for these brutal crimes. @ShefVaidya

[Radharamn Das राधारमण दास @RadharamnDas]

River of blood. This is what Bakrid celebrations leave behind. Millions of animals are killed in a gruesome manner, and PETA is on holiday today.

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

Even before the case, we must challenge the sheer audacity of a White woman in the US telling the Indian Ministry of Culture that she knows what Indian culture better than them is staggering. Can any Indian ever get away directing something like this towards America? This happens

[The Dossier @thedossier_in]

In his celebrated historical work Kitab al-Yamini, Abu Nasr Muhammad ibn Muhammad al Jabbarul-Utbi, who served as the secretary to Mahmud of Ghazni, provides a vivid and detailed account of the conquest of Thaneshwar (present-day Thanesar in Haryana). Al-Utbi writes: ‘The blood of the infidels flowed so copiously that the stream was discoloured, not withstanding its purity, and people were unable to drink it… The victory was gained by God’s grace, who has established Islam for ever as the best of religions, notwithstanding that idolaters revolt against it… Praise be to God, the protector of the world, for the honour he bestows upon Islām and Musulmans.’

What does this quote do? At least, for me, it celebrates the killing of the infidels, a religion, its God and Muslims for a victory. History is not merely a collection of dates, dynasties, and battles. It is the collective memory of a civilization—its triumphs, its wounds, its moments of glory, and its deepest traumas. Some chapters inspire pride; others demand solemn reflection. Among the most painful and transformative periods in the history of Bharat is the long era of Islamic invasions.

By Akanksha Singh Raghuvanshi (@singhhakanksha_)

https://t.co/iD3aMq9OvH

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

12 years ago Peta held a rally in India asking Muslims to turn Vegan at Eid. Their activists were thrashed so badly they might have been lynched had cops not intervened. Peta never held a rally on Eid ever again.

All the sermonising is reserved exclusively for Hindu festivals.