𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐞𝐚𝐬𝐞: 𝐏𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜 𝐀𝐩𝐨𝐥𝐨𝐠𝐲
The National Council of Educational Research and Training [NCERT] has recently published a social science textbook, “Exploring Society: India and Beyond," Grade 8 (Part II), which contained Chapter IV titled “The Role of Judiciary in our Society."
The Director and Members of NCERT hereby tender an unconditional and unqualified apology for the said Chapter IV. The entire book has been withdrawn and is not available.
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𝐖𝐞 𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐥𝐲 𝐫𝐞𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐭 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐢𝐧𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐯𝐞𝐧𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐞 𝐜𝐚𝐮𝐬𝐞𝐝 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐚𝐩𝐩𝐫𝐞𝐜𝐢𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐧𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐨𝐟 𝐚𝐥𝐥 𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐤𝐞𝐡𝐨𝐥𝐝𝐞𝐫𝐬.
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The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.
A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.
A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.
These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.
The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.
A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.
#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe
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@ladynationalist For people who are saying "what's wrong in feeding?"... Apart from obvious rabies(1 day window, certain death however small the transmission rate) reason, this behaviourally affects them. They group up and become violent to others esp when you remove the purpose of finding food.
Some people who don't aware of history think that Chittorgarh Jauhar is the first and only jauhar of India but that's not true.
1. Jauhar of Sindh ( 712CE) led by Queen Ladi , wife of King Dahir Sen of Sindh during the invasion of Muhammad bin Qasim, the first Islamic invader , who invaded India .
2. Jauhar of Birsinnghapur, Bengal (1226 CE) , during the invasion of Ghiyasuddin Iwaz Shah.
3. Jauhar of Gwalior (1232CE) , during the invasion of Shamsuddin Iltutmish.
4. First jauhar of Jaisalmer (1299CE) , during the invasion of Allauddin Khilji, 24,000 women committed jauhar.
5. Jauhar of Ranthambore (1301 CE) , during the invasion of Allauddin Khilji, jauhar led by Queen Ranga Devi.
6. First jauhar of Chittorgarh (1303CE) , during the invasion of Allauddin Khilji, jauhar led by Queen Padmavati/ Padmini along with 16,000 women.
7. Jauhar of Siwana ( 1308 CE) , invaded by Allauddin Khilji.
8. Jauhar of Jalore (1311CE) , invaded by emperor of Khilji dynasty, jauhar led by Queens Jaitalde and Kamalade.
9. Second jauhar of Jaisalmer (1326 CE) , invaded by Muhammad bin Tughlaq.
10. Jauhar of Kampili, Karnataka ( 1327CE) , invaded by Muhammad bin Tughlaq.
11. Jauhar of Bhatner (1398CE) , invaded by Islamic invader Timur.
12 . Jauhar of Gagron Fort (1423CE) , invaded by Islamic invader Hoshang Shah.
13. Jauhar of Chanderi (1528CE) , invaded by Mughal emperor Babur, jauhar led by Queen Manimala along with 1600 women.
14. First jauhar of Raisen (1532CE) , invaded by Bahadur Shah, jauhar led by Queen Durgavati along with 700 women.
15. Second jauhar of Chittorgarh (1535CE) , invaded by Bahadur Shah, jauhar led by Queen Karnavati along with 13,000 women.
16. Second jauhar of Raisen (1543CE) , invaded by Sher Shah Suri.
17. Third jauhar of Chittorgarh (1568CE) , invaded by Mughal emperor Akbar, jauhar led by Queen Phool Kanwar.
18. Jauhar of Bundelkhand ( 1634CE) , invaded by Mughal emperor Aurangzeb. And many more
अब सरकार दलितों के लिए एक्सक्लूसिव कॉलेज खोल रही है, हमारे पैसों से!
उत्तर प्रदेश के चार सरकारी मेडिकल कॉलेज- अम्बेडकर नगर, जालौन, कन्नौज और सहारनपुर- में 2026-27 की सीट मैट्रिक्स फिर वही पुरानी व्यवस्था पर जारी हुई है।
प्रत्येक कॉलेज की 85 राज्य कोटा सीटों में: एससी: 62 सीटें (लगभग 73%), एसटी: 5 सीटें (लगभग 6%), ओबीसी: 11 सीटें (लगभग 13%), अनारक्षित/जनरल: सिर्फ 7 सीटें (लगभग 8%) हैं, यानी कुल आरक्षण लगभग 92% हो गया है।
सरकार की धूर्तता देखिए कि इन्होंने ये चार कॉलेज एससी स्पेशल कंपोनेंट प्लान (एससीपी) के तहत बनवाए थे। यानी अब खुल्लमखुल्ला जाति के आधार पर केवल दलितों के लिए कॉलेज तो बन रहे हैं, पर हर नए कॉलेज में 60% सीटें आरक्षित रहेंगी! @myogiadityanath या @narendramodi जब चार कॉलेज दलितों के लिए बनवाते हैं, तो चार केवल अनारक्षित के लिए बनवा लेते!
सरकार का तर्क यही है कि चूँकि फंड एससी कल्याण के लिए था, इसलिए यहाँ सामान्य 21%+2%+27% फॉर्मूला लागू नहीं होता। अगस्त 2025 में इलाहाबाद हाईकोर्ट की लखनऊ बेंच ने 2010-2015 के उन शासनादेशों को रद्द कर दिया था जो 50% की सीमा पार करते थे।
कोर्ट ने साफ कहा था कि इंदिरा साहनी फैसले और यूपी आरक्षण अधिनियम 2006 के मुताबिक सामान्य फॉर्मूला लागू हो। सरकार ने विशेष अपील दाखिल की और 2026 की काउंसलिंग में पुरानी 62-5-11-7 व्यवस्था ही जारी रखी। मामला सुप्रीम कोर्ट में भी लंबित है।
Judging Jauhar through a cushioned, 21st-century ideological lens is historical illiteracy wrapped in cheap academic posturing.
If Jauhar were just an invention of Hindu patriarchy or misogyny, where was it during the centuries of internal battles between Hindu kings? It didn't exist, because they fought with a certain honor that included not targeting non-combatants, including women, in any way. Jauhar emerged exclusively as a response to medieval Islamic invasions, where war wasn't just about territory, but systemic mass rape, forced conversion, and selling women off like livestock in foreign slave markets.
Feminists like Swara Bhasker preach about autonomy and choice, completely ignoring the reality of the situation. When foreign armies breached the fort, women didn't have a choice between death and living. Their only two options were a quick, self-inflicted death, or death after years of violent sexual abuse, physical torture, and horrific enslavement until their bodies gave out.
Condemning those women for burning themselves while ignoring the barbarians who drove them into the fire is pathetic victim-blaming. Jauhar was a tragedy, but the absolute onus belongs entirely on the invaders who forced that reality upon them.
भाजपा दीर्घकाल से एक मेरिट विरोधी पार्टी रही है! हर स्तर पर आरक्षण का समर्थन करती रही है। प्राइवेट में आरक्षण के लिए लम्बे समय से दलील दे रही है। मुसलमानों को ओबीसी में हर जगह घुसा रखा है। न्यूनतम मार्क्स का क्राइटेरिया इन्होंने ही हटाया।
और यह जान लीजिए कि राहुल गाँधी विपक्ष में रहते हुए, भाजपा से प्राइवेट में आरक्षण 2028 में ही करवा लेगा। कास्ट सेंसस पर इनकी सहमति केवल और केवल उसी बकलोली के लिए है।
कास्ट सेंसस में कोई री-चेक नहीं है। हमने पढ़ा है कि किसी जगह जैन समाज के लोगों की जातियों के कॉलम में ‘ओबीसी’ लिखा जा रहा है। ऐसे घटिया आँकड़ों के साथ भाजपा सामान्य वर्ग की पीठ में पुनः तलवार मारेगी ही।
इनमें आज तक यह साहस नहीं हुआ है कि ये UGC पर दो शब्द ढंग से बोल सकें। ये पतितों की तरह, ‘स्टे तो लग गया न’ बोल कर काम चला रहे हैं। अबे पापियों, तुम्हारा स्टैंड क्या है इस पर, वो तो बताओ। कोर्ट में तो हम गए तब स्टे मिला, तुमने घंटा दिया?
अतः, जो भी आपको यह चूरन बाँट रहा है कि सोचो, फलाना आ जाएगा, तो उसको बोलिए कि फलाना जो सोच रहा है, वो भाजपा पहले ही कर चुकी है।
Indian roads don’t break because contractors are corrupt.
They break because the system rewards them for breaking.
Every monsoon, your road caves in and everyone blames the contractor.
Wrong villain.
A road that lasts 10 years is a contractor who eats once.
A road that breaks every 2 years is a contractor who eats five times.
Same tender, same officer, same MLA, same cut.
The system doesn’t want durable roads.
It wants repeatable roads.
Until we start tendering for a 10 year performance warranty instead of a 2 year construction contract, your suspension will keep paying for someone’s second flat.
Your physical game library is more than a collection of discs. It holds years of memories and stories worth preserving. Starting next week, XBOX Insiders can unlock a digital entitlement for supported physical games. We’ll start with thousands of titles and add more as we can.
Let me show you the hypocrisy of Ambedkar then...
Yes, Ambedkar burnt MANUSMRITI in his initial days. WHAT AMBEDKAR SAID in the later half of his life about the scripture?
Ambedkar’s Speech to the Constituent Assembly (24th Feb 1949): “Among the 137 Smritis, Yajnavalkya & Manu are of a higher standard. Manu states daughters have a right to 1/4th of inheritance.” (Manusmriti Chapter 9, Shloka 117) “All brothers must give 1/4th of their share to sisters. Those who don’t are fallen.”
स्वेभ्योंशेभ्यस्तु कन्याभ्य: प्रदद्युर्भ्रातर: पृथक। स्वात्स्वादंशाच्चतुःभागं पतिता: स्युरदित्सव:॥
Ambedkar lamented how custom overruled law. He believed if the Privy Council hadn’t prioritised custom, Manusmriti’s provisions for women’s inheritance rights would’ve empowered daughters long ago. (Writings & Speeches, Vol 14, p255)
Siddharth College Speech (11th Jan 1950): “I used Manusmriti for caste determination, Parashara Smriti for divorce, Brihaspati Smriti for women’s rights, and Manusmriti for inheritance rights.” (Collected Speeches, Vol. 8, pp. 17-18)
Parliament Speech (6th Feb 1951): “Sociologically, Buddhists, Jains, Sikhs are Hindus.”
Rajaram Theater Speech (25th Dec 1952): “My bill’s critics claim it abandons Hindu scriptures. I challenge them to find a clause unsupported by Manusmriti. Women’s property should go to daughters after death, just as brothers inherit the father’s.” (Source: Janata, 3rd Jan 1953).
The Left knows exactly what it is doing, strategically weaponising selective quotes from the Manusmriti to push the Right into a defensive, apologetic posture. And the Right often falls into the trap rushing to declare, “We don’t keep the Manusmriti,” “Hindus don’t read it,” or “We don’t follow it,” as if disowning a text will silence the criticism. It won’t.
The moment you disown the Smritis, the goalposts simply move from the Manusmriti to the Ramcharitmanas, from the Ramcharitmanas to the Ramayana, then to the Mahabharata, and from one scripture to another. There will always be another text, another verse, another selective quotation.
When your core voters are disillusioned with you, the last thing, the absolute last thing, you should do is shame them.
This is Ajay Alok, BJP's national spokesperson. Today, he made a video criticizing, in a condescending tone, those GCs expressing anger with the BJP. If he was told by the party to do it, God help the party. And if he did it on his own initiative, thinking he would get noticed by the high command by attacking GCs despite being a GC himself, thereby getting better positions, then the party must show him the door to control the damage he has done.
The funny part is that he joined the BJP only in 2023. Before that, he was in the LJP, BSP, and JDU, and now he is preaching faith in the party to GCs.
What is even more ironic is that both of his children are US citizens. They will not be affected by the reservation politics here, and yet he is gaslighting GCs who are speaking out against reservation. In his follow-up tweets, he even called those GCs disgruntled with the BJP "nasli bewafa."
No sir, you are completely wrong here.
This is precisely how civilisations surrender their intellectual inheritance: first you are told a text is irrelevant, then that defending it is regressive, and finally that the respectable thing to do is quietly abandon it.
Today it is Manusmriti. Tomorrow someone will drag a few verses out of the Ramcharitmanas and tell us Tulsidas has accumulated too much historical baggage to be defended. The day after that, someone will cherry-pick passages from the Vedas and demand that we distance ourselves from them as well.
Where exactly does this logic stop?
The Corpus Juris Civilis, compiled under Emperor Justinian I in the sixth century, belongs to a world radically different from modern Europe. Nobody argues that every provision in it should govern twenty-first-century society. Yet Roman law remains an object of serious study across universities because it is part of the intellectual ancestry of modern legal systems.
Civilised societies do not preserve old texts because they agree with every sentence in them. They preserve them because they refuse to become historical orphans.
I am not arguing that every injunction in Manusmriti must become law today. I am arguing against this astonishing proposition that once political activists have successfully demonised an ancient Indian work, Hindus themselves should concede the battlefield and announce: “Fine, this book is irrelevant anyway.”
Absolutely not.
Our Manishis produced an enormous civilisational corpus. Vedas, Upanishads, Dharmashastras, Itihasas, Puranas, philosophical schools, commentaries and countless other works. They should be read, preserved, debated, contextualised, criticised where necessary, and defended against dishonest caricature.
We cannot allow our relationship with our own intellectual heritage to be dictated by whoever shouts the loudest against it.
If its popular image has been constructed through selective quotations, polemics, mistranslations or political campaigns, then challenging that image is exactly what scholarship is supposed to do. History is not a public-relations verdict that becomes permanently binding once enough activists repeat it.
A civilisation that becomes embarrassed by its books every time someone attacks them will eventually be left with no books worth defending and no civilisation worth inheriting.
Irrespective of whether you agree or disagree with @ajeetbharti ; it is our duty to stand by him.
We have figured out the govt is 'match fixing' with certain groups who were "allowed to protest;" they did not face FIRs when they beat up Delhi Police, two Union Ministers went on thier knees and made this group a star & then the same group members were "conveniently attacked" in Rajasthan on the very day GC students & youngsters were protesting at Jantar Mantar Delhi to divert attention from the RHA andolan.
Those who did violence againt our cops faced no charges, but Ajeet Bharati has an FIR!
Are we Fools! It is our duty to stand up to this bullying !