This whole Messi tour to India is the cringiest thing I have seen this country participate in a long time.
There is no serious Football match, where we get to see Messi’s real skill. Everyone using Messi as a prop, as a shiny thing, to project their own importance. Their level of access. Be it Ed Sheeran. Coldplay. Or any new placeholder. It’s a naked display of our corruption, our sycophancy, our slavery, our politics. A real black pill for all the believers of new India.
For once, I agree with @Swapan55!
Rolling out an “unwelcome mat“ at our airport immigration counters to deport foreign scholars and academics because of trivial visa violations is doing us far more damage — as a country, a culture and an internationally-credible nation — than any number of negative articles in foreign academic journals could ever accomplish.
Official India needs to grow a thicker skin, a broader mind & a bigger heart.
Kayastha weddings are tough.
There are no businessmen/entrepreneurs. If you are one, it’s assumed that you couldn’t go to a good college/or crack a govt exam. If you are a working-professional everybody tries to figure which company you work for and what designation. Someone whispers behind a gold rimmed specs guy, wearing a suit “bahut high post pe hai”
Numerous other relatives come to the suit guy, with their young college going young kids, to ask for his number. “Thoda guidance de dijiye” He issues empty promises, while poking the Dahi Kebab in his quarter plate with a toothpick. “Arey Boss, Jeejaji ko chutney do yaar” The aspirant dad polishes. “Aajkal toh AI ka zamaana hai” Jeejaji updates the wide-eyed family.
Meanwhile the business guy has plucked him off from the group & is taking updates about a truck unloading at his warehouse from his subordinates on his mobile with a folder cover.
Shri @nitin_gadkari,
You don't give direct answers to direct questions, instead, you deflect with lines like “mere against hitjob hai” or “paid propaganda hai” to media channels.
Again asking a few direct questions. If you can answer these satisfactorily, directly, through media, or even via your influencer campaigns, promise I won’t raise E20 petrol issue again.
1. Why fast-track E20? The original plan was to implement E20 by 2030. That timeline made sense because, by then, most vehicles on Indian roads would be E20-compliant. Accelerating it so quickly is like launching 6G services when no 6G phones exist yet. This is not like polio eradication, where early achievement deserves praise. There was no pressing reason to push it ahead of schedule. Even NITI Aayog had reservations about rushing it.
2. You said there’s no car damage due to ethanol blending “world over.” That’s because other countries match fuels with compatible vehicles. Brazil rolled out E20–30 only after most vehicles became compliant and still offered E0–E10 for older ones. E20 cars on E20 are safe; non-E20 cars, which form the majority in India, are not. India is probably the only country that created this mismatch. If E-20 doesn't damage the non-compliant cars, like you claim, why is there even need for E-20 complaint cars then?
3. Why hasn’t fuel price reduced as you promised? Instead, mileage has gone down, so people are paying more for the same distance.
To summarise, we have no issue with E20 itself, only with how it was implemented. Please answer these questions. And no, saying “we did it for the benefit of farmers” is not an answer. If you want to help farmers, do it through your budget, people are already paying enough taxes for that, don’t cut into ordinary citizens’ pockets or damage their vehicles. "To become self reliant fast" is also not an answer. In that case, non compatible vehicles given E5-10 option would not have stopped you from becoming self-reliant. If you can’t answer, at least don’t call us paid propagandists. You are one of the most powerful ministers; if you truly believe this is a paid hit job, then investigate and prove it. Who’s stopping you?
He's Chhotu Lal Sharma, SDM, Pratapgarh, Rajasthan.
When the petrol pump employees didn’t serve him first, he politely reminded them with, “Oye! SDM hoon main yahan ka. Tereko dikh nahi raha gaadi lagi hai.” The arrogant staff, instead of paying due respect with a salute, argued back, so the SDM respectfully slapped them.
But the high-headed employees dared to slap him back, despite knowing that an SDM is a God-bestowed blessing upon them. Chhotu Lal, maintaining his calm, again politely remarked, “SDM par haath uthata hai, teri behan ko…”
Subsequently, police arrived and served justice by arresting the three petrol pump employees.
When the video went viral, the SDM’s wife explained that he wasn’t angry because of the delay in petrol but because the pump staff winked at her and said, “Kya maal lag rahi hai.” Although there’s no CCTV evidence supporting the SDM’s wife’s claim, well, she’s the SDM’s wife, so if she says it, it must be true.
I am deeply saddened by the loss of civilian lives in the recent Pakistani aerial strikes on Afghanistan. A tragedy that claimed the lives of women, children, and aspiring young cricketers who dreamed of representing their nation on the world stage.
It is absolutely immoral and barbaric to target civilian infrastructure. These unjust and unlawful actions represent a grave violation of human rights and must not go unnoticed.
In light of the precious innocent souls lost, I welcome the ACB’s decision of withdrawing from upcoming fixtures against Pakistan. I stand with our people at this difficult time, our national dignity must come before all else.
I need to go back home this Diwali.
Flight tickets that used to cost around ₹4.5k are now ₹13.5k.
You can’t even get train tickets, tatkal gets sold out in just 3 minutes.
If I decide to go by bike or car for these 2000 kilometres, road conditions in India are terrible.
This is Modi’s new India where common people can’t even celebrate Diwali at their home.
Pathetic
NH46, NH30, NH19, NH49...
Every day you wake up, a new NH is in the news for construction quality issues, and that too usually within months of being built. Shri @nitin_gadkari, please give petrol a break from ethanol and sort out your dept first.
This recognition of the struggle of all Venezuelans is a boost to conclude our task: to conquer Freedom.
We are on the threshold of victory and today, more than ever, we count on President Trump, the people of the United States, the peoples of Latin America, and the democratic nations of the world as our principal allies to achieve Freedom and democracy.
I dedicate this prize to the suffering people of Venezuela and to President Trump for his decisive support of our cause!
Thank you Sir, for your faith in us🙏
I dedicate this moment to our hard working engineers who have toiled hard in Zoho for over 20 years.
They all stayed in India and worked all these years because they believed. Their faith is vindicated. Jai Hind, Jai Bharat🙏
A lot of crying over this. People at home declaring the PM has disrespected the Armed forces. The same guys will cry we lose the information warfare. He gave complete operational freedom to them, to bomb everything they could. We should not leave any opportunity to humiliate the enemy. You are gaining zero by being morally upright in the Trumpian time of opportunism.