Roomani Srivastava

Public Health Dentist | PhD Scholar @iitbombay Digital Health | Data Driven Health Policy Making | Research Associate (Data Science) @aiims_newdelhi

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

I have compiled multiple clips from a programme on Subramanian Swamy's YouTube channel featuring Gitanjali Angmo — co-founder of the Himalayan Institute of Alternatives, Ladakh. In it, she calls for removing "secular" from the Constitution, wants Sanskrit as the national language, endorses the Ram Mandir and a "Hindu Rashtra" and rejects the Aryan Invasion Theory.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

This couple is full of so many red flags. A protest which even mainstream media failed to make it about religion, they are.

[Roomani Srivastava @DrRoomani]

To all those arguments during COVID on these same Social Media platforms. To standing my ground! 🇮🇳
Jai Hind

[Rahul Fernandes @newspaperwallah]

For 12 years, they stayed secular and liberal. They didn’t succumb to propaganda or the greed for fame and power. And they did so while feeling increasingly alone. Everyone knows such people in their social circles, and they deserve to be celebrated now.

[Rahul Fernandes @newspaperwallah]

For 12 years, they stayed secular and liberal. They didn’t succumb to propaganda or the greed for fame and power. And they did so while feeling increasingly alone. Everyone knows such people in their social circles, and they deserve to be celebrated now.

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

This is pure gold

The nation must watch!

[Roomani Srivastava @DrRoomani]

Not being very human are we now!

[Salman Khan @BeingSalmanKhan]

The students are at top priority, educationally n security-wise, so they need not worry and have their parents worried for them. The Honorable Prime Minister has tweeted, and I am sure that he will take strict action against all those people who are responsible for this leak. So students, plz go back to your parents n homes.

Sonam, it's done, bro. Don't extend this. Keep the spirit for another day if there be a need, which I doubt, n eat something. If u want, will send u food from home.

[Shashi Learns @ShashiLearns]

THE DICTATOR'S POSITION IS NOW IN DANGER.

IF YOU CAN'T WRITE, JUST RETWEET.

LONG LIVE THE REVOLUTION.

[Prashant Pundir @kafkasbluebug]

this is peak class solidarity. if she is taking measures for the environment, it is because she has the privilege to do so. and there is absolutely no environmental justice without class consciousness. if she is the UN Environment Programme (UNEP) Goodwill Ambassador for India, then it is non-negotiable to understand the intersectionality of class and caste for environmental justice. nobody is attacking the child. but "standing up" to a working-class delivery boy and feeling proud is bullshit, especially when he has nothing to do with the plastic.

and honestly, actors are not gods. if you want to find excuses to not speak up, then do that. activists and students and regular citizens of this country face far worse consequences for speaking up and do not have the privilege actors have to go silent or deal with it financially.

[Roomani Srivastava @DrRoomani]

@Arjun5chaudhary Darwin

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”

[Roomani Srivastava @DrRoomani]

@hicasamadim 72

[Roomani Srivastava @DrRoomani]

@VEDANTSHRIV17 Beta itna himmat kiye ho toh thoda aur ... Track down every account that harassed you and file cyber harassment cases. Set and example. God bless you brothers. All the best. Keep shining!

[VEDANT @VEDANTSHRIV17]

I am a CBSE Class 12 student.

After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process.

Today we received the copies.

And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

I never thought I would have to write this, but I am not a foreign spy of any sort, sent out by any foreign government.

My work is journalism, primarily in Norway now.

[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta @paranjoygt]

To my mind, this Bengal election is a litmus test of whether we have fallen below the minimum threshold of electoral integrity, whether electoral democracy has any future at all. I cannot get into numbers, but all the credible information that I have been able to gather so far points to a comfortable lead for the TMC, more than enough to make up for the SIR damage. If despite this the ECI manages to conjure a victory for BJP, this has to be the result of an electoral fraud. Such an (unlikely, despite what exit polls say) event must get the entire opposition to come together and ask if there is any point of contesting any more elections under these circumstances. — Yogendra Yadav

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

A content creator reveals that government PR reached out to her even before the news of LPG price hike broke, asking her to justify the price hike by comparing it with other countries

[Bookworm Bookstore, Blr @bookworm_Kris]

A message to all our esteemed patrons and well wishers from Krishna.

[Kia @xevekiah]

So you’re basically admitting that men’s greatest fear is being treated the way they’ve treated women for centuries? Interesting. I thought being a stay-at-home mom was “easy,” “not real work,” and something “anyone can do.” But suddenly when it’s a man cooking and raising kids, it’s dystopia? Oh. Lord. 😂

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: as predicted and expected, prices of 19 kg Commercial cylinder has been increased by Rs 993 from today. A 19 Kg cylinder will cost Rs 3071.50 in Delhi from today. No change in domestic cylinder prices. Elections over, exit poll drama done, reality strikes! 🙏

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Why Did Sridhar Vembu Really Come to India?

The story you've been sold: A billionaire tech entrepreneur renounces Silicon Valley, returns to a Tamil Nadu village, lives simply, cycles to work, talks about dharma and reversing brain drain. Simple living, high thinking. A saint in a cotton shirt.

The story the California courts tell: He moved to India in late 2019. Filed for divorce in 2021. In between, he transferred ownership of Zoho's US subsidiary to entities controlled by his associate Tony Thomas and his sister Radha Vembu, who now holds an estimated 47.8% stake in the company, without his wife's knowledge or consent.

A California court didn't mince words. It found that Vembu had acted "without regard for respondent's interests in community assets and without regard for the law." It ordered him to post a $1.7 billion bond. Unprecedented, the court itself said.

His wife Pramila Srinivasan, who by her own account supported the household in Zoho's early years and was kept in the dark about the ownership restructuring, is still fighting the case in California. Their son, who has autism and requires lifelong care, lives with her in the Bay Area. He is 26 years old.

Vembu left him behind.

The move to rural India wasn't a philosophical act. It was a jurisdictional one. California's community property law requires marital assets to be split equally in a divorce.

The solution, apparently, was to move the assets and himself out of California's reach before the divorce became formal. The village was the alibi. The dharma was the disguise. This is the conclusion the evidence points to.

The trial is not yet concluded and Vembu has denied all allegations, calling them complete fiction. But the court, looking at the same evidence, found his explanations not credible.

And then came the reward. The Modi government gave him the Padma Shri on January 26, 2021 and appointed him to the National Security Advisory Board just days later, in February 2021.

The formal divorce filing came in August that year. The government honoured him while the marriage was already in ruins and the asset transfers were already underway.

But the courts and the Padma Shri are almost secondary. The real villainy is what he did to millions of ordinary Indians who believed him.

The man built an entire public persona on selflessness, on the idea that he had walked away from wealth and comfort for the sake of rural youth, for India, for something larger than himself. People quoted him. Teachers cited him. Young men from small towns looked up to him.

It was a performance.

Underneath the saint was a man who had abandoned his wife of nearly three decades, walked away from a son who needed him, moved a billion dollar empire out of legal reach, and dressed the whole operation up as enlightenment.

That is the real story of why Sridhar Vembu came to India.