Shirish Jk 🐦‍🔥

[Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳 @Aabhas24]

Was Babur's sultanate a parasite on a prosperous civilisation?

In my third instalment on the Timurid (wrongly called Mughal) series for @IndiaToday, I present a case about how Indians became economically deprived under their rule?

“If India was already one of the world's richest civilisations when Babur arrived in 1526. Five hundred years later, the question isn't about imperial splendour during the Timurid rule of Hindustan, but whether they extracted more wealth than they created.”

Read, share and debate. https://t.co/QLMufgRcST

[Hyderabad Traffic Police @HYDTP]

#HYDTPweBringAwareness
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Use only standard lights approved for your vehicle and avoid high beams in city limits. A small act of responsibility can save lives. 🌃🚘
#RoadSafety #DriveResponsible #HighBeamSafety #LEDAwareness #NightDriving #HyderabadTraffic

[Amit Malviya @amitmalviya]

The attempt to portray Vande Mataram as exclusionary or unconstitutional is intellectually dishonest and historically selective.

First, legally and constitutionally, Vande Mataram enjoys an honoured place in India’s national life. The Constituent Assembly did not reject it. On 24 January 1950, the Assembly adopted Jana Gana Mana as the National Anthem while explicitly according Vande Mataram equal respect and status as the National Song because of its historic role in India’s freedom struggle. To suggest that India’s constitutional founders “rejected” Vande Mataram is factually incorrect.

Second, the argument that Vande Mataram is merely an ode to a goddess deliberately ignores the civilisational context of Bharat. Across Indian traditions, the motherland has long been personified as “Bharat Mata”, not as a sectarian deity, but as a cultural and emotional expression of devotion to the nation. Nations across the world employ symbolism, allegory, and personification. Britannia represents Britain, Marianne represents France, Mother Russia represents Russia. India’s cultural symbolism cannot be selectively delegitimised simply because it emerges from Indic civilisation.

Third, reducing Rishi Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay to caricatures about his alleged views while ignoring the historical role of Vande Mataram is an exercise in ideological revisionism. The song became the rallying cry of India’s anti-colonial movement. Countless freedom fighters marched to the gallows chanting Vande Mataram. Revolutionaries, reformers, and patriots across regions embraced it as a symbol of resistance against British rule. Its emotional power in the national movement cannot be erased by retrospective ideological filters.

Fourth, invoking the Preamble and Article 1 to deny the legitimacy of civilisational nationalism misunderstands India itself. The Constitution begins with “We, the People” because sovereignty resides in the people, not because India must become culturally rootless or severed from its ancient civilisational identity. The phrase “India, that is Bharat” itself acknowledges continuity between the modern republic and an older civilisational consciousness. Constitutional nationalism and civilisational identity are complementary, not contradictory.

Fifth, the rejection of amendments invoking God or goddess in the Constituent Assembly affirmed that the Indian State would not establish an official religion. It did not require India to abandon its civilisational ethos, cultural memory, or spiritual vocabulary. Secularism in India was never meant to mean hostility toward indigenous traditions or the erasure of majority cultural symbols from public life.

Finally, the claim that “religion ≠ nation” is a false binary in the Indian context. India is not a theocratic state, nor does nationalism here depend on adherence to any one faith. But India is undeniably a civilisation shaped by millennia of Indic thought, traditions, symbols, and philosophies. Respecting Vande Mataram does not make India less constitutional, less democratic, or less inclusive. It simply acknowledges the cultural soul that animated the freedom struggle and continues to inspire millions.

India belongs equally to all its citizens. But India’s civilisational heritage also belongs equally to all its citizens and Vande Mataram is an inseparable part of that heritage.

[Smita Deshmukh🇮🇳 @smitadeshmukh]

Seven women cops in disguise attended a meeting at TCS BPO, Nashik to expose the massive sexual abuse and conversion racket. Female officers posed as staff to catch predators red-handed. 9 FIRs have been filed involving horrific abuse of women aged 18-25.
​The accused and charges:
Tausif Attar and Danish Sheikh: Accused of sexual assault under false promise of marriage & religious coercion.
Raza Memon and Shahrukh Qureshi: Allegedly involved in stalking, surveillance, and group harassment.
Shafi Sheikh and Asif Ansari: Charged with physical molestation and lewd conduct. Nida Khan (HR): Arrested for failing to act on complaints and violating POSH guidelines.
​
The victims were allegedly forced to perform namaz and eat non-veg against their religious beliefs. The management and HR reportedly abetted the abuse instead of protecting employees.
A Special Investigation Team (SIT) is now probing a potential larger racket to find who are funding the accused.
​Nashik Police are urging more victims to come forward.
WhatsApp: [phone]

[KTR @KTRBRS]

It is absolutely deplorable that members of the Youth Congress chose the AI Impact Summit 2026 as a venue for petty political theatrics

Using such a global platform for protests will project our great nation India in a poor light internationally

While difference of opinion is natural in a democracy, understanding where and how to protest is very important

There is a time and place for political dissent, and an international summit is certainly not one of them

And the irony is hard to miss: Youth Congress guys staged the protest precisely when their own party’s Chief Minister, Revanth Reddy, was addressing the same AI Summit

[Viktor @desishitposterr]

FUCK YOU @NetflixIndia

NAME AND SHAME THESE FUCKERS.

@SanjeevSanskrit @swati_gs @GemsOfBollywood

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

A Catholic from Mangalore, who represented Muzaffarpur in Bihar 4 times, an anti nuke activist who presided over Pokhran 2, a pacifist who went on to become one of the best Defense Ministers ever.

Jayanti of George Fernandes, one of my favorite political leaders, true maverick, rebel, who had a remarkable life, and spent his last years in isolation, cut off from the world.

[Mohandas Pai @TVMohandasPai]

You are very very wrong. Every business must serve its local customers in a language they understand. This is not the British Raj again. This is a service business. Learning say 200 words to converse is difficult?nobody is asking anyone to read and write but converse, learn a few words to show respect to your customers. They are customers not your captives or subjects. Thus arrogance is very very wrong.

[Shirish Jk 🐦‍🔥 @JkShirish]

@KiaInd @KiaSonet Any plans for introducing telescopic steering in the Sonet? That would make it an undisputed choice in the segment. Only Kylaq and i20 have reach adjustment currently.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

#Breaking | Waqf 'loot' attempt in Hyderabad

- 300 acres of land 'claimed' by Waqf.

- Future of 50,000 residents under threat.

'We’ve been here in Boduppal for decades. All of a sudden, in 2018, they claimed that this land belongs to the Waqf Board...'- A man tells ＠YakkatiSowmith

@DEKAMEGHNA with details.

[KTR @KTRBRS]

This is brazen green murder by destroying 400 acres of precious lung space in western Hyderabad

You can hear the peacocks crying for help as the bulldozers and JCBs of the Congress Govt rummage

If you don’t speak up now, it’s on you Mr @RahulGandhi

#SaveHCUBioDiversity

[Subodh Kumar @subodhsingh_]

I am a BJP supporter but if nothing is done for the middle class in the budget this time, then next time I will press NOTA instead of voting for BJP.

#stockmarket #budget

[C.R.Kesavan @crkesavan]

It is indeed ironic that a Congress President is writing to PM @narendramodi ji about traditions & the funeral place becoming the sacrosanct venue for a memorial. One should remind Kharge ji how the Congress led UPA Govt never built a memorial in Delhi for former PM Narasimha Rao ji, who passed away in 2004. The Congress never built a memorial for him in the 10 years they were in power from 2004-2014. It was only PM Modi ji in 2015 who instituted a memorial for Narasimha Rao ji and honoured him posthumously in 2024 with the Bharat Ratna. Media advisor to Manmohan ji, Sanjaya Baru claimed in his book that the Congress did not want Rao’s cremation to take place in Delhi, but rather in Hyderabad, and that he had been approached to convey this to Rao’s children. The cremation did take place in Hyderabad, with Rao’s body not even laid in state at the All India Congress Committee’s headquarters. The historical sins of the unprincipled Congress will never be forgotten nor forgiven by our nation.

[Rashid Khan @rashidkhan_19]

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[KTR @KTRBRS]

Revanth Reddy!

For a man caught with Rs 50 lakh bribe, everything will seem like a conspiracy!

Farmers protesting against your son-in-law’s pharma company will be a conspiracy!

Farmers not bowing down to your brother’s threats is a conspiracy!

Two people talking on the phone is a conspiracy!

People posting their woes on social media is a conspiracy!

To stand with poor tribal farmers is a conspiracy!

After waiting for your appointment for NINE long months, after facing all your threats, if they revolt - it is of course a conspiracy!

If I question against the midnight raids on poor farmer families, illegal arrest & torture - it is definitely a conspiracy!

Because you live in fear! Every single breathing moment of your life, you live in fear!

Arrest me!
I will walk into the prison with my head held high for standing by the farmers of Telangana!

For becoming voice of the voiceless!

Jai Telangana

#PowerOfTruth
#ForMyFarmers

[Shirish Jk 🐦‍🔥 @JkShirish]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary

[True Indology @TrueIndology]

Not Gandhi. Not Nehru.

Hindu King Krishnaraja Wadiyar was the pioneer of India's development.

He pushed India towards modern development.

The prosperity of Bangalore's software sector and lives of millions today is indebted to his vision.

A thread about the forgotten hero 🧵

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

One of the important characters in Veer Savarkar's life was Madan Lal Dhingra,a hero who actually deserves a biopic of his own.

Hailing from Amritsar, the sixth born of the city’s Civil Surgeon, two of his brothers were doctors, while two other were barristers. Coming from a well to do and influential family, Dhingra, could have settled into a life of luxury and comfort.

[Shirish Jk 🐦‍🔥 @JkShirish]

@royalenfield @YouTube Put a "symmetrical" dual-pod instrument cluster in Hunter and Meteor 350 (à la Thunderbird, Interceptor). It's a timeless style and will greatly enhance the look, and increase the sales of those 2 models.