Tolstoy

Textile Entrepreneur, rationalist, against bigotry and fundamentalism. #NUFC ultra and #yellove army

[🍉Brunesh (MUFC FAMILY) @__MrLonely___]

Enakku enamo ivangalam dha normal people, nammalam dha weird ones nu thonudhu…

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

Supreme Court hears plea seeking directions to make pharmaceutical companies liable for giving freebies to doctors as incentive to prescribe drugs.

Bench: Justices Vikram Nath and Sandeep Mehta

[JioHotstar Tamil @JioHotstartam]

We set out to find Papa… but can Ali and Baba uncover the mystery of 40 ghosts?

Hotstar Specials: Ali Baba aur 40 Bhoot, streaming 11th September onwards only on #JioHotstar.

[Nimish Dubey @nimishdubey]

The manner in which SC Garg refuses to get provoked by the anchor and continues answering gently and politely, stating facts, without ever resorting to name calling…
This is so so so INDIAN.
This quiet, courteous culture than rests on knowledge and respect.

[Souvik Roy Chowdhury @souvikrc]

The relentless digs at Eddie Howe, the manager who gave us our first major trophy in more than half a century. Turned this Club around. Took us to two Champions League and one more Cup final.

The times are absurd. People like these, ungrateful.

#nufc

[The Madras Magpies @madrasmagpies]

Enna da table kku adila irundhu ellam update kodukura 🧐

[Richy @RichySouthern]

Really impressive interview from David Hopkinson. It clears up a lot of questions and gives us a much better understanding of where we are as a club, why certain decisions have been made and where we’re trying to get to.

The hardest part to read was Eddie not being in a good place. I’m pleased David is still checking in on him.

We shouldn’t forget what Eddie gave this football club. He poured everything into it, and if it reached the point where it was affecting his health, it only reinforces just how selfless and committed he was to Newcastle. He deserves nothing but gratitude and I hope he returns to football stronger.

[Sky Sports Premier League @SkySportsPL]

Eddie Howe calls time on his tenure at St James' Park, describing the Newcastle job as the 'privilege of a lifetime' 💬👔

[Squawka @Squawka]

In 2021, he took over a Newcastle side that were 19th with five points from their opening 11 games, and finished 11th that campaign.

In 2023, he secured the Magpies Champions League football for the first time in 20 years with a 4th place finish and did it again in 2024/25, when they finished 5th.

In 2025, he won the club's first major trophy in 70 years. 🏆

Eddie Howe leaves after 4 1/2 years in charge.

[TheLiverDoc™ @theliverdoc]

Bhaijaan, forget the Padma award. I'll be content and happy if your children get an education, learn critical thinking, never become like you, but become rationalists and agnosts or atheists... so that we don't have more of you zombies dragging this country to hell in the future.

[Alan Shearer @alanshearer]

Thanks Eddie. You gave us this day 🖤🤍

[Counter Narrative @EraOfNewIndia]

If content creation is growing faster than manufacturing jobs, something is off. An economy can’t sustain itself by everyone filming their day.

[Richardson Wilson @sine_lege]

If you’ve ever read the news in your life before Vijay entered politics, you would’ve known that it has ALWAYS been the practice for the Legislature party head to meet their legislators and discuss strategy before every session of the Assembly.

Unlike TVK, other parties actually do work. So they have to prepare for the session. Some MLAs will suggest topics to be raised, there will be a debate and the leader will take a call on whether to raise the topic. The LoP may also hand out specific assignments to some MLA’s to research and speak on a particular Bill the government is planning to table.

Same with the parliamentary party. This is also the practice in AIADMK, Congress, BJP and all serious political parties.

TVK MLAs only have to worry about what BGM to add to their reels. So a legislature party meeting is not required for that party.

[r @bekhayalime]

As Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh presented proof against Pakistan at the United Nations, exposing and isolating them. The Chief Minister of the state resigned. Under Narendra Modi, no one knows how RDX entered Pulwama, terrorists fled Pahalgam, and yet he released Dhurandhar to mask his failure

[M.K.Stalin @mkstalin]

தொடரும் காவல் மரணங்கள். முதலமைச்சர் வாயைத் திறப்பது எப்போது?

எதிர்க்கட்சியாக இருக்கும் போது, “Sorry சொன்னால் போதுமா?” என என்னைப் பார்த்து வீராவேசமாக கேட்டவர், முதலமைச்சரானதும் அதைக் கூட செய்யத் துணிவின்றி எங்கு ஒளிந்துகொண்டிருக்கிறார்?

Accountability, Apology – முதலமைச்சருக்குப் பிடிக்காத வார்த்தைகளின் பட்டியலில் இருக்கிறதா?

உயிரிழந்தவர்களின் குடும்பத்தினருக்கு ஆறுதல் சொல்லக் கூட மனமிரங்காத படுபாதக த.வெ.க. அரசுக்கு வன்மையான கண்டனங்கள்!

#OpenYourMouthCMSir!

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

[Udhay @Udhaystalin]

தூத்துக்குடியில் விசாரணைக்கு அழைத்துச் செல்லப்பட்ட அருணாச்சலம் என்னும் இளைஞர், காவலர்களின் தாக்குதலுக்கு ஆளாகி மரணமடைந்து இருப்பது வேதனை அளிக்கிறது.

போலீஸ் தனக்கு இழைத்த அநீதியை தனது இறுதி நிமிடங்களில் அருணாச்சலமே எடுத்துச் சொன்னதைப் பார்க்கும் போது நெஞ்சம் கலங்குகிறது.

காவல் மரணங்களின் போது துறைக்குப் பொறுப்பு வகிக்கும் முதல் அமைச்சர், கடும் நடவடிக்கைகளை எடுக்காமல் மவுனம் காப்பதால், இத்தகைய சம்பவங்கள் தொடர்ந்து கொண்டே இருக்கிறது.

மகனை இழந்து கண்ணீர் வடிக்கும் அருணாச்சலத்தின் குடும்பத்துக்கு, திரைப்படத்தைப் பார்த்துக் கண்ணீர் வடித்துக் கொண்டிருக்கும் இந்த ஆட்சியாளர்கள் என்ன பதில் வைத்து இருக்கிறார்கள்?

#Custodialdeath

[Nordnomad @arcot2arctic]

தமிழ்நாட்டில் ஏன் CBSE ரிசல்ட் குறித்து ஒரு பிரச்சினையும் இல்லை, நீட் மறுதேர்வு குறித்து ஒரு பிரச்சினையும் இல்லை.

வேற எதுக்கு தான் பிரச்சினை?

ஜனநாயகன் படத்துக்கு A certificate கொடுத்துட்டாங்களாம், குழந்தைகளுடன் போயி பார்க்க முடியாதுன்னு பிரச்சினை பண்ணிட்டு இருக்காங்க.

[Ben Spratt @bensprattjourn]

Six players have moved clubs at the end of the season in which they were the PFA Players’ Player of the Year. Three of those six joined Barcelona or Real Madrid. Only one joined a club in the second division. Saved Newcastle once, then did it again for good measure 👑