Devyani

Previously with @weareseen_ @MirrorNow

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

@TimesNow Please delete this sensationalist, shameless use of AI to milk a tragedy.

[Happymon Jacob @HappymonJacob]

Whether you support the Gen-Z protests or not, condoning sexually explicit abuse is wrong.

Women using it doesn't make it empowering, funny, or legitimate.

If male protesters targeted female leaders with the same language, would we tolerate it?

Abuse isn't political critique. It must be called out everywhere.

[Narundar @NarundarM]

Dharmendra Pradhan would soon answer every question. He's just waiting for the questions to be leaked.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

Standup sets next. Then drawing room conversations. Nanny state

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

Ever since the Satluj debate began, I’ve been thinking about an article the lawyer KTS Tulsi wrote. Tulsi recalled asking a father why he’d refused to identify his own son’s murderer in court. The father said: “I have another son.”

The killer walked free.

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

Jaswant Singh Khalra might have been a human rights activist slain for blowing the whistle on a massive campaign of extrajudicial killing by India.

To cast him as a secular nationalist opposed to violence, as the key guest on this TV show does, is flat-out dishonest.

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

I worked in Punjab as a journalist during the peak of militancy. Later in my career, I headed the Punjab Cell in the CBI, which had, in its past, investigated cases of fake encounters as well as the assassination of Sardar Beant Singh.

Those experiences gave me a rare opportunity to see both sides of that tragic period. They taught me that any honest account of those years must acknowledge both sides of the story.

And that is exactly my concern with Satluj: not what it shows, but what it leaves out. It tells only half the truth; the other half is left unsaid, deliberately, and with a purpose.

The film decontextualizes Jaswant Singh Khalra and the human rights debate from the Pakistan-backed, brutal Khalistani insurgency. This omission is neither an innocent creative choice nor an inadvertent one. And, in my view, the intent behind such a selective portrayal should matter to every Indian.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

In UP's Muzaffarnagar, at least 12 bonded labourers were freed from a paper plate manufacturing unit. Narrating their ordeal, labourers claimed they were tortured using fan belt whip and spear. Roti made of cattle feed and salt was served in the meal. Rottweiler was stationed as gaurds to ensure none of labourers flee from captivity. Main accused Ankit Baliyan is still on the run.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

I was using Fable to improve security for my apps and when it suddenly stopped working. It's only on twitter that I found out that it has been stopped for people who are not US nationals, by the US government. Here's how I'm seeing this:

1. Fable comes with security safeguards to prevent misuse, and can be used to plug security loopholes. I've seen it identify and plug security issues in my apps. The US government refusing to let non-US nationals protect themselves is deeply problematic in an interconnected internet world, especially when these issues will impact US customers of foreign apps and websites. It doesn't make sense. This hurts everyone by making all systems vulnerable.

2. Yesterday Anthropic announced a partnership with TCS in India as a commercial deal. Today Fable is banned for Indians. During the AI summit they had announced a partnership with Infosys. The fact is that these are just commercial deals but the Indian companies have no strategic leverage here. Both companies run critical systems in India: Infosys runs finnacle. TCS runs passport sewa etc, all with critical personal data at stake. They had zero access to Project Glasswing when it launched to secure systems with Mythos, while some US companies got access. This proves that for Anthropic, Indian partnerships are just about the money. To call such partnerships strategic is hogwash. I think Anthropics leadership and policy teams in India have much to answer for. I would request @nishikant_dubey to take up this bipartisan issue up in the standing committee on IT since MEITY is quite toothless.

3. We've seen this story play out before: in President Trump's last term, the US govt momentarily stopped Android security updates for China. Today China has its own Huawei OS. Where is IndusOS? We need to adopt open source tech because geopolitics is increasingly win-lose, and the win-win era is behind us. It's sad but this is where we are today. We need to invest in research, and building a culture that supports research. The Atal Tinkering Labs are a great starting point and we need to build on this, at a university level. Allow universities to monetize research and professors and students to start companies with university support. Let professors consult. Build a marketplace that rewards innovation and expertise.

4. CERT-IN, RBI and other agencies holding meetings regarding mythos was farcical. Its proof that our cybersecurity agencies are out of their depth, and doing a checkbox exercise to show the PM that they're doing something when they can't, because this is about Zero Day vulnerabilities, not predictable cybersecurity issues. We need a cybersecurity strategy overhaul. Basically fire bureaucratic-mindset people doing farcical compliance at CERT-IN and get technocrats with actual cybersecurity understanding. Hire for competence, not loyalty. Hire for competence not badges (definitely not the clueless famous IIT professor we know who does committe hopping).

5. Time to start ignoring Nandan Nilekani's ignorant comments on what India should do in AI. We need to focus on hardware, start working on small language models and get people who know AI to drive policy. As history has shown us, Vishal Sikka was right, Narayan Murthy and Nandan Nilekani were not. We have a long way to go. The AI Summit was great for increasing diffusion, and we need more of that, but not just that. The IndiaAI mission needs to speed up and become a mission critical project.

Cc @narendramodi. Hire better people please. Choose open source. Build a long term strategy.

[Cyrus Janssen @thecyrusjanssen]

An Iranian man left this comment on my YouTube channel. This is without a doubt the single best explanation of the reality facing Iranian people today👇

"As an Iranian, I can tell you the situation is no longer just political—it's existential. We are trapped between two collapsing structures: one internal, one external. On one hand, we face a deeply dysfunctional government, led by the Supreme Leader and the Islamic Republic’s unelected institutions.

Decades of economic mismanagement, suppression of dissent, and brutal ideological control have alienated multiple generations. No one believes in reform anymore—because every attempt has either been co-opted or crushed. But here's the paradox: We are also terrified of regime collapse—because we've watched the aftermath of Western intervention in countries like Iraq, Libya, Syria, and Afghanistan. Each was promised freedom; each descended into chaos, civil war, or foreign occupation.

So no, we don't trust the U.S. or Israel. Not because we support our regime—but because we know how imperial powers treat ‘liberated’ nations in the Middle East.

Freedom, in their language, often means vacuum, fire, and permanent instability. Right now, many Iranians live with three truths at once: The Islamic Republic is morally and politically bankrupt. The alternatives offered by foreign actors are not liberation—they’re collapse.

A bad government is survivable. No government is not. We are not silent because we agree. We are cautious because we’ve learned—too well—what happens when superpowers decide to "help." In a sentence: Iran is a nation held hostage by its own regime, but haunted by the fate of its neighbors. We are stuck in a house we hate, surrounded by fires we fear more."

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

देश के सबसे साफ शहर में गंदा पानी पीने से 10 से ज्यादा लोगों की मौत हो चुकी है जिस शख्स पर लोगों को साफ पानी पिलाने का जिम्मा है वो सवालों को फोकट बता रहे हैं हमारे सवालों को "घंटे" में उड़ा रहे हैं @manishdekoder @GargiRawat @Abhinav_Pan @sanket

[ian bremmer @ianbremmer]

“the past year has been tough for all of us, but don't worry because next year will be even worse."

- italy pm giorgia meloni

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

We must, must leave Delhi.

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

Probably the most insightful story you’ve read on the crisis..

Orders for Pahalgam satellite images from US firm peaked two months before attack

Soumya Pillai @soumya_pillai with #ThePrintExclusive

https://t.co/HEninbHyer

[PIB Fact Check @PIBFactCheck]

Drone Attack in Jalandhar⁉️

This drone strike video from #Jalandhar is widely circulating on social media

#PIBFactCheck

* This is an unrelated video of a farm fire. The video has the time 7:39 PM, while the drone attack began later.

* Do not share this video. See the clarification from DC, Jalandhar below👇

🔗 https://t.co/Grb0hRQfoc

[Sadanand Dhume @dhume]

You may think that with the whole world paying attention to Pakistan the army may ask the terrorists it has long nurtured to lie low for a bit. You may think it would at least tell uniformed soldiers not to pray alongside a U.S.-designated global terrorist. You would be mistaken.

[John B. Holbein @JohnHolbein1]

timeless

[Devyani @Devyani1593]

Hello twitter!
I have written a small poem, ‘‘Can You Hold Me?’’
If you have a minute, please stop by and give it a read.
Also, care to share your thoughts ?

https://t.co/3VsZpRBuZg

[Devyani @Devyani1593]

Hello people of X !
Now that I am less scared of you, I am going to promote my work with mediocre brazenness.
Wrote a tiny poem : When The Light Is Perfect.
Read when you have the time! It will only take you a minute. 🌸

https://t.co/uGRbhWHq96