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[Veena @veenavenugopal]

99.97% haircut for Zee’s Subhash Chandra

[Punit Pania @Punit_Pania]

At what point do we stop calling it scams and start calling it treason?

[शिक्षित बेरोज़गार @kaul_vivek]

NCLT clears Subhash Chandra's ₹6.5 cr payout against ₹22,006 cr claims

Now, my dear, try defaulting on even a basic personal loan EMI and see how the banking system unleashes itself on you.

‘Garib lehron par pehren bithaye jaate hain samundaron ki talashi koi nahi leta.’ – Waseem Barelvi

My book Bad Money starts with the following paragraphs.

John Maynard Keynes, an oft-quoted but less-read economist, who lived in the first half of the twentieth century, is said to have remarked: ‘If you owe your bank a hundred pounds, you have a problem. But if you owe your bank a million pounds, it has.’

The Economist, which likes to call itself a newspaper, but is actually a magazine, a few years ago came up with the modern-day version of what Keynes had said: ‘If you owe your bank a billion pounds everybody has a problem [emphasis added].’

PS: What's with trying to recover Rs 6.5 crore?

https://t.co/iecnMeRqzA

[Punit Pania @Punit_Pania]

You may still feel like you are living in a country or society but we are actually living in the midst of the largest strip mining operation in history.

[James Martin, SJ @JamesMartinSJ]

Let us now praise holy women.

Like millions of others, I found myself surprisingly sad over the death of Dolly Parton. Of course, like those same millions of people, I was a huge fan of this woman with an outsized musical talent. She was a regular voice on the radio from my earliest years; I vividly remember eating Wheaties as a 13-year-old on a school morning and hearing her plaintive cri de coeur, “Jolene,” on the pink Bakelite radio that sat on our kitchen counter.

Dolly was a fixture in pop culture through my teenage years with tuneful hits like “I Will Always Love You” and “Here You Come Again” in the 1970s. A few years later, “9 to 5" summed up a whole era of office work when I was working in an office myself.

Her voice spoke, or sang, for itself; but growing up, I was only dimly aware of her prodigious writing talent: she was the composer of 3,000 songs, many of them covered by other artists. And I always enjoyed her sunny disposition and, especially, her confidently pushing back against people who would reduce her to a cartoon.

But only later in life did I became aware of her tremendous charity and big heart: giving away thousands of books to children in need (and “babies”: I love the idea of giving a baby a book); offering countless acts of charity to residents in Sevier County, Tennessee, her hometown; quietly helping a struggling singer or artist or writer or anyone; and being an early supporter of the LGBTQ community, when that could prove deeply unpopular.

The universal mourning may come from that last quality, which you could call charity or compassion, but you could also call holiness. When you read even cursorily about her life, what becomes obvious is a Christian faith that led to a lifetime of kindness and charity, often behind the scenes. This helps to explain the great sadness that greeted her death.

And it reminded me of someone else.

Think of how often we read about Jesus in the Gospels being pursued by crowds. Early in the Gospel of Mark, we read that Jesus’s “fame” spread throughout Galilee, with crowds waiting at his door in Capernaum. It’s not just the healing that people wanted; it was the innate desire to be near holiness: to be near compassion, near acceptance, basically, near love. Holiness calls to us, because it’s a quality of the divine and is one way that God draws us closer.

We saw in Dolly Parton something more than talent, something more than wit and something more than even charity; we saw holiness. Thank you, Dolly, for teaching me about the Christian life. And may you rest in peace with the God you loved and served so well.

[Veena @veenavenugopal]

Nothing irritates me more than random people’s opinions about how other people should raise their kids

[Nick Timiraos @NickTimiraos]

Stanley Druckenmiller renders an unfavorable opinion of Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent's use of buybacks to defend against higher yields in a market that is functioning normally.

"I have spent five decades trading on a simple premise: Markets aggregate information no committee possesses, and prices are how that information reaches decision makers. The long-term Treasury yield is the most important price in the world. It is also the only fiscal disciplinarian the U.S. has left."

"Every basis point of artificial yield suppression is a subsidy to procrastination."

"Return buybacks to their stated purpose: small, scheduled, off-the-run liquidity operations announced at quarterly refundings, never off-cycle responses to yield levels. Term out the debt honestly and pay the price the market sets."

"If the 30-year must trade at 5.5% to clear, that isn’t a crisis. It is an invoice. Then do the only thing that durably lowers long-term yields: address the primary deficit."

https://t.co/Xe8Vi38WiI

[Veena @veenavenugopal]

What a great country for women. Today’s edition.

[ابراهيم ناجي Ibrahim Naji @Ibrahym22Nagi]

A video shows the King of Morocco drunk in a street in France.

The West installed Zionist kings and rulers in Arab and Islamic countries to be protectors of Israel against their own people.

[Asma @asmatasleem13]

Doval’s statement has now been hit with Community Notes.

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

Was asked to go to Azerbaijan for a lecture . I declined (they yuugely upped their offer, not understanding my ethics, thinking it would make a difference).

I will not set foot in Azerbaijan with Reuben Vardanyan jailed there.

[कुंभकरण @_kumbhkaran]

Btw Vivek Doval, son of Ajit Doval is a British citizen..

Nation first guys, nation first!!

[POL @CptoneP]

Ravi Kishan reinforces Hinduism by wearing a rs 2 lakh GG Supreme briefcase madu up of bovine leather prepared from genuine calf skin.

A true sanatani and savior of religion 👏

[Nassim Nicholas Taleb @nntaleb]

I declined an invitation to lecture in Morocco. I will wait for a regime change before setting foot in that country.

[SirKazam {blu tik} @SirKazamJeevi]

Doval is lecturing the youth of India to embrace nationalism!

Same Doval couldn’t teach his own son to embrace nationalism. His own son gave up Indian citizenship.

Hypocrisy ki seema hoti hai ya nahi?

[James Kennedy @JamesKennedyUK]

What just happened in Ceuta was an orchestrated power move against Spain using migrants as a weapon. Young, unemployed Moroccan men lured by social media groups with promises of a new life and literally bussed to the border and ushed across by Moroccan authorities, were met only by an array of cameras awaiting them. Almost all returned home the next day. We are in a new era of warfare where the new weapons of geopolitical power-plays are ai, disinformation, deepfakes, troll farms and the poor - and Spain just got sent a message.

All the world is a stage.

[🍉 @DelhiIsNotFar]

Neha Bora thinks Dipke is not AAP like because he says 'Jai Bheem' and doesn't do Hindu-Muslim.

How naive can one be to get carried away by some surface pretence by an AAPiya.

Dipke has himself admitted in his interviews that he was and is an AAP person.

His hiding on a truck and enjoying his life while students are being hunted by police are dead giveaways of how fake he is.

Totally done with Neha Bora. She believes in camaraderie with AAP. So be it.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Genuine question: what was CJP's logic behind engaging with the Godi media?

Especially after having established that you don't need these channels for your outreach.

They've spent the last month defaming students. The protestors have heckled their reporters.

Why would you share a platform with the anchors and legitimise them?

[Kenneth Roth @KenRoth]

Why would Israel want its ally Morocco to control Ceuta as opposed to its critic Spain? One reason may be that Ceuta is the closest point in Africa to Europe, sitting astride the Strait of Gibraltar, meaning that Spain currently controls both sides of the strait. The Strait of Gibraltar is only 8 miles across, as opposed to the Strait of Hormuz, which is 21 miles. If Iran can control the Strait of Hormuz, Spain could easily control the Strait of Gibraltar and potentially block Israeli access to the Atlantic. https://t.co/S0OVb2Lnls

[The Shah of Blah 🌈 @mrgnk]

@Tukaram_IndIAS Mr. Mundhe, what gives you the right to decide what foods are good or bad for children to eat and what food can be sold near schools?
You're doing great work with getting kitchens cleaned up, but this is ridiculous over reach by you.