The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.
We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.
The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.
He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.
Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.
Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.
We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.
It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.
Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.
This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.
I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.
If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.
I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?
And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.
I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!
🇺🇸 US: Diesel
🇨🇦 Canada: Diesel
🇦🇺 Australia: Diesel
Major economies run double-stack freight trains, but they still rely on diesel because standard electric lines can't clear two-story trains.
But instead of settling, India custom-built a 7.5-meter high-rise grid. Today, India is the FIRST and ONLY country on Earth running double-stack containers on pure electric power. This is the scale of transformation happening under the Modi govt.
Just finished "Shivayan" by @Anshulspiritual! 🕉️
Deeply researched yet incredibly simple to read. If you want a profound look into Mahadev's values without the complex jargon, this is a must-read! 📚✨
👉 https://t.co/wKKj9lrIPq
#LordShiva#shivayan#BookReview#mahadev
A 25-year-old housewife in Chennai earns ₹250/hour ($3) just by doing her normal housework.
She wears a phone on her head and records herself making coffee, cutting fruit, folding laundry.
These first-person videos get sent to AI companies training humanoid robots to handle real-world tasks. She shoots 90+ clips a day.
Her quote: "Who else will pay you ₹250/hour ($3) an hour just for doing housework?"
She's part of a growing gig economy in India where thousands are doing the same thing, filming everyday life to train the robots of tomorrow.
You probably have no idea who Salim Kumar is, but every Indian should read all about him today.
Salim Kumar was a Malayalam actor who passed away on Saturday night in Kochi at the age of 56. If you don't watch Malayalam cinema, strap in because his story is one of the most remarkable careers Indian cinema has produced, and it deserves to travel beyond Kerala.
He came from nothing. Born in North Paravur, a small town in Ernakulam, into a family that struggled with money. Government school. Graduated from Maharajas College.
So, no film connections, no family wealth, no shortcuts.
He started as a mimicry artist with Kalabhavan, a performance troupe in Kochi that has been the launchpad for dozens of Malayalam actors. Stage shows, comedy routines, television spots.
He was funny in a way that was impossible to ignore, the kind of performer who could make a room laugh in an instant.
His first film was Ishtamanu Nooru Vattam in 1997, a small role nobody remembers. For years he played supporting parts & background comedy.
Then the 2000s happened. His role as Mattancherry Mammathu in Satyameva Jayathe gave him his first real recognition, and after that the comedy roles started coming fast.
Pulival Kalyanam. Thuruppugulan. Kunjikkoonan. Marykkundoru Kunjaadu. If you grew up in Kerala in the 2000s, his face was in half the films you watched. He became the comedian audiences showed up for, the one whose scenes people replayed and quoted at family gatherings.
What separated him from most comedians was precision. He did not rely on volume or slapstick. He used his face, his body, his pauses.
He could get a laugh from the way he blinked. Directors started writing characters specifically for him, because they knew he would take whatever was on the page and make it three times funnier than they imagined.
For over a decade, he was the biggest comic face in Malayalam cinema.
Then came 2010 and a film called Adaminte Makan Abu.
A quiet, small-budget film directed by Salim Ahamed. The story follows an aging Muslim couple in a Kerala village whose only dream in life is to go on Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
They save every rupee. Things keep falling apart. The film is about their dignity, their patience, and their faith through one disappointment after another.
Salim Kumar played Abu. The man who owns nothing except his wife and his belief, and holds onto both with everything he has.
There is no comedy in the role. No punchlines, no funny faces, no playing to the gallery. It is the complete opposite of everything audiences had ever seen him do.
The entire performance is built on stillness, restraint, and pain carried quietly behind the eyes.
He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for it. That is the highest acting honour in Indian cinema. The film was also selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (Oscars) that year.
In one role, Salim Kumar went from "the funny guy from Malayalam films" to one of the most respected actors in Indian cinema.
He simply disappeared so completely into a character that you forgot you were watching a comedian at all.
He followed it with more serious work. Achanurangatha Veedu, which won him the Kerala State Award. Traffic, still considered one of the finest ensemble films in Malayalam cinema. Perumazhakkalam.
Each time, he proved the National Award was not a fluke. The man had range that most actors who only do drama cannot match.
Unfortunately, Salim Kumar suffered from liver cirrhosis, a condition he said was hereditary in his family and not related to alcohol. His brother had the same illness. He underwent a liver transplant a few years ago. He tried naturopathy. He talked about all of it openly, without shame, without self-pity.
He kept working between treatments. He kept being funny. He kept showing up, even when his body was failing him.
He was also fearlessly outspoken about politics and social issues, which in any film industry can cost you work. He did not care. He said what he believed and lived with the consequences.
He passed away Saturday night at a hospital in Kochi. He was 56. The Kerala government bore the funeral expenses and gave him police honours.
The Chief Minister paid homage personally. Mammootty, one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, mourned him publicly. Thousands of people lined up at the North Paravur Town Hall on Sunday to say goodbye.
350 films in three decades. A National Award for Best Actor. An Oscar entry. A career that started from mimicry stages and ended at the very top of Indian cinema.
The reason most of India does not know his name is because Malayalam cinema, despite being one of the best film industries in the country, still does not get the national attention it deserves.
Actors like Salim Kumar live and work in a language bubble, and their stories rarely cross over the way a Bollywood career would.
This is a loss for everyone who never got to watch him. A man who came from poverty, made millions laugh, then proved he could make them cry just as hard, and fought his own hardest battle with utmost dignity.
If you watch one film after reading this, make it Adaminte Makan Abu. It is a masterpiece.
I donated around 60 litres of breast milk to the government hospital in Hyderabad and Chennai during my first year of post partum!!
Why does it matter? Just 100ml of donor milk can feed a tiny 1kg baby for several days. This donation could potentially support dozens of infants in the NICU. Donating is safe, screened, and desperately needed. Many NICU babies don't have immediate access to their mother's own milk due to medical complications. Donor milk acts as a vital bridge, providing immunity and nutrition during those critical first days.
It serves as a bridge for mothers whose milk may be delayed due to stress, illness,malnutrition or premature birth.
Donor human milk is proven to significantly reduce the incidence of Necrotizing Enterocolitis (a life-threatening gut condition) in premature infants!!!
Check your local govt hospital to see how you can help! #MilkBank #SavingLives #MaternalHealth
This is totally false.
Not an iota of truth in this.
There is no question of putting such restrictions on foreign travel.
We remain committed to improving ‘Ease of Doing Business’ and ‘Ease of Living’ for our people.
HUGE 🚨 Supreme Court slams Sabarimala PIL & Indian Young Lawyers Association.
Justice Aravind Kumar : Who is your President?
IYLA : Naushad Ali
IYLA : Milord, we are not challenging the faith of Lord Ayyappa’s devotees, but upholding it
Justice Nagarathna 🔥🔥 : "Mind your buisness. How does a juristic body like yours have a belief? This is for an individual. You don't have a conscience"
CJI : Why have you filed this PIL at all? Are you the chief priest of the country?
SC : This PIL is a clear abuse of process of law.
Justice Nagarathna ⚡ : This is Paisa Interest Litigation. Does Young Lawyers Association have no other business?
CJI : Supreme Court should have thrown the association’s PIL into the dustbin.
A MUSLIM woman boarded KSRTC Superfast Premium bus in Kozhikode and thought the entire route should run according to her convenience. 😭😂
Madam wanted the bus to stop exactly where she wished. Crew said: “Superfast bus. No stop there.”
That’s when the cinema started. 🎬💀
Phone out. Video recording on.
Heavy English mode activated. 😂
“This guy is shooting me…” “Can you please stop the vehicle…” “I’m going to complain…” 🤦🏻♂️
Then bus reaches another place and she asks again: “You don’t even have a stop here?!” When told NO once again… Madam unlocked her final form — grabbed the emergency hammer and smashed the glass. 😬🔥
Meanwhile the KSRTC driver & conductor were sitting there absolutely chill: then bus Straight to the police station.😂
By now, she knows. The plan has failed.😭“Didn’t I ask you to stop here..?” 😂
And suddenly the attitude factory shut down. 💀
Result: ₹25,000 fine for Public property destroyed. Sent home with a lesson she won’t forget. ☺️
Public transport isn’t your private cab service Madam!!
-Last month, Australian Prime Minister, while addressing the nation, urged civilians to help conserve fuel.
-Thailand’s PM urged people to work from home amid fears of an energy crisis.
-Sri Lanka declared Wednesdays off as Asian countries tried to conserve fuel.
-The European Commission urged people to work from home, drive less, and fly less.
-Shops, restaurants, and cafés in Egypt were told to close early as part of temporary measures to combat soaring energy prices.
-Philippine President introduced a temporary 4-day work week in government offices due to the ongoing Middle East crisis and its impact.
Many other major countries have taken similar steps, their Public and opposition supported them.
PM @narendramodi urged citizens to reduce fuel consumption and adopt work from home where possible,
But @RahulGandhi and liberals are calling it a sign of a failed economy and compromised PM.🤡
God should never give any country such a clown opposition.🙏🙏
#TheBuckStopsHere with @PadmajaJoshi
Responding to Udhayanidhi Stalin's controversial remark, vedic scholar & author Dushyant Sridhar (@dushyanthsridar) quotes Dravidian ideology K Veeramani who stated that Sanatan Dharma is synonymous with Hinduism. Listen in.
The number of people without electricity by country.
Look what happened after 2016. Someone started fixing India for real. Many things at a time. Still some way to go. The lag of last 60 is that bad.
TVK supporters have a child-like enthusiasm in believing that, just like in movies, Vijay will clean up the system, fire incompetents, stop corruption, bring sweeping reforms, and turn Tamil Nadu into Singapore in no time.
Not happening, folks. Politics doesn’t work like a three-hour movie where one angry hero walks into the Secretariat, smashes tables, suspends corrupt officers, and fixes decades of institutional rot by the interval.
The system eventually absorbs everyone. Bureaucracy, caste equations, party pressures, coalition compulsions, lobbying networks, corruption ecosystems, unions, contractors, media management, and cadre appeasement, this machinery is far bigger than one celebrity with mass dialogues and fan clubs.
So keep your expectations low. I’ll be happy to be proven wrong, though.
Everyone was watching Bengal.
No one looked south.
Tamil Nadu.
A new party won 108 seats.
It was born 26 months ago.
From zero to government.
They called it a people’s revolution.
I called it something else.
I called it well funded.
I started digging.
The funding trail does not add up.
The international connections run deep.
Very deep.
There are networks involved.
Networks that IB and RAW know well.
This is not a rags-to-riches story.
This is something far more sinister.
I have been researching this for days.
What I found is not comfortable.
It is not a good news story for India.
A full expose is coming next week.
Every layer will be named.
Every money trail will be traced.
Every connection will be shown
Tamil Nadu is not done making news.
The real story has not started yet.
Watch this space.
For most of human history, women have had about 100 periods in their lifetimes. Today's women have over 400. A Chinese biologist named Hongmei Wang thinks that gap is part of why women run out of eggs decades earlier than they have to.
Wang is 52. She runs a lab at the Institute of Zoology in Beijing that studies the cellular machinery of fertility. Her idea is simple. Bleed four times a year instead of twelve, save eggs, extend the fertile window. Mouse data so far backs her up.
Before birth control, women were pregnant or breastfeeding through most of their fertile years, and both pause periods. About 100 cycles in a lifetime. Now, with later marriages, fewer kids, and longer lives, the number sits above 400. Each cycle uses up eggs. Run out, menopause starts.
That cycle hypothesis is one of three threads in her lab. The second was a 2024 paper in the journal Cell Discovery. Her team grew lab stem cells, named them M-cells, and injected them into the ovaries of old monkeys past their fertile years. Damage in the tissue healed. Hormones came back. One treated monkey gave birth to a healthy baby. They tried it on 63 women whose ovaries had quit decades early, a condition called premature ovarian failure. Four had healthy children. The team patented the technique and licensed it to a private firm.
The third project is in Barcelona. Wang is partnering with biologist Alfonso Martínez Arias to grow fake human embryos from stem cells. Almost every country bans growing real ones in a lab past 14 days. The window from day 14 to day 28 is when the body's basic blueprint forms, the layers that turn into brain and heart and bone. Almost everything we know about it comes from animals, because the human version has been off-limits in labs for decades. The fake embryos are how Wang plans to look inside.
She does not oversell any of it. "When we stop ovulation, we save more eggs, but we also stop the body from making estrogen, and that molecule is absolutely vital for health," she told El País. Years of low estrogen weaken bones and wear down the heart. She is still working out how to keep the eggs without paying that price.
The backdrop is China. Last year, the country had 7.92 million babies, a 17% drop and the lowest birth rate since 1949. The population shrank by 3.4 million people in a single year. Wang knows her work will not arrive in time to fix those numbers. But the girls born this decade may grow up with a reproductive clock no woman has ever had before.
A Bihar bride’s father arranged food for 100 wedding guests.
The groom’s side showed up with 200. 😂
The father, in his fury, mixed jamalgota (a powerful laxative) into the food.
What followed was absolute chaos. Grown men sprinting toward fields. Water bottles flying. Dhotis flapping in the wind. The entire baraat became a 100 metre dash nobody signed up for. 🏃💨
And the baraatis? They’ve collectively sworn off attending weddings for the foreseeable future.
Honestly, this is more common in India than we admit. You RSVP for 50 and 150 show up in silk sherwanis expecting a 5 course meal. One day, every angry father in law in waiting is going to take notes from Bihar.
The real wedding crashers got crashed. 💀
shouldve read the invitation card harder baraatis
#IndianWeddings #Bihar #Baraat #DesiProblems
Awkward moment at the KPCC meeting in Thiruvananthapuram as senior #Kerala#Congress leader Cherian Philip allegedly attempting to hug newly elected Kollam MLA Bindu Krishna even as she appeared uncomfortable and tried to move away. #Keralam
I am embarrassed even to share it. Watched together these speeches will create horrible revulsion for #Dravidanists!
Time to watch this video and understand what the voters of #Tamilnadu have eradicated.