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I am the elementary penguin singing Hare Krishna.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

We're terribly mistaken if we equate being a Smart City only with improved digital presence of the city administration. #Pune

[Supra | スープラ @supurasensei]

When I tell people I'm from India, I usually get one of three reactions.

The first is usually something along the lines of "Oh, I'd really like to visit someday" with zero or close to zero enthusiasm. It's palpable. You know they're full of shit. They know that you know. They've seen the videos. They've seen the memes. No one particularly wants to spend their time and money flying to a giant, garbage-lined obstacle course where they might get sick, scammed or much, much worse.

"Oh, cool," I say, also without enthusiasm. The subject changes.

The second kind of reaction, less common these days, is much more sincere. "Ooh, I am dying to visit! In fact, I was planning to go sometime next year!" they exclaim. I then do the honourable thing which is to dissuade them from doing the cursed Golden Triangle (Delhi, Agra, Jaipur) and steering them gently towards Kerala, Sikkim, and Ladakh instead. "Look at this!" I exclaim, showing them the best that Google Images has to offer, while assuring them that the Taj Mahal is indeed wonderful, but probably not wonderful enough to warrant a trip to the hellhole that is Agra ("Trust me, it looks better in pictures," I lie, for an extremely good cause).

The third kind of reaction is the one I appreciate the most.

"I'm from India."

"Oh, cool. Which part?"

"Mumbai. Or, well, Bombay."

"Cool. I love Indian food."

"Yeah? I can recommend a few restaurants if you'd like."

"Oh yeah! Absolutely!" (pulls out phone)

Fin.

[Akshay D @akkiman]

Fact checked every row of this table, kept what's true, corrected what's inflated, and added what it left out ... things like road deaths, debt, rupee, suicides, sewage. Green = real gains.
Red = real setbacks.
Sources at the bottom.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

Rivals S2E6!
Lady Baddingham deserves an award!

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

So I saw this group of youngsters - late teens. Early morning around 7 AM. All dressed and making dance reels. Summer vacation. All normalised by the main content creator!

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A Brahmin student being called a 'Pakistani' by Modi Bhakts shocked and rightfully hurt many people across ideological lines, including several from the Right Wing itself. Because suddenly, people realised how dehumanising that label is.
But for years now, countless Indian Muslims especially those who speak up or question the government or criticise the PM are casually branded 'Pakistanis' or 'Bangladeshis' or a 'Rohingya'.
Our loyalty is questioned, our identity is regularly mocked, our citizenship treated as conditional.
And the society has normalised it so much that most people don’t even react anymore.
An insult that rightfully outraged people when used against a Brahmin student is thrown at Muslims every single day without guilt or an outrage, or without any consequences. No Indian should have to constantly prove they belong to their own country.
All thanks to the Media and the Politicians for Normalising this Hate against Indian Muslims.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

I think he meant

[Indian Tech & Infra @IndianTechGuide]

🚨 Maharashtra’s economy is set to surpass Singapore and UAE in 2-3 years, says CM Devendra Fadnavis.

[Supra | スープラ @supurasensei]

Indians cannot 'introspect' until they get off their damn high horses.

The last decade or so of chest-thumping has rotted people's minds. Being told that they are one of the largest economies on Earth by GDP or 'Vishwaguru' has promoted a mass-delusion that, coupled with arrogance, has metastised into something extremely ugly.

This mass-delusion appears to be something like "not only has India arrived, but we have apparently earned the right to look down on others not doing as well as us".

We turn a blind eye to garbage piling up on our streets, failing institutions, worsening ecological damage, and deteriorating public behaviour and image to celebrate expressways, metros, and bullet trains that most will use occasionally at best (when completed; often, we're simply celebrating the prospect of something happening).

Talking heads on our poisonous news channels have the audacity to dismiss smaller economies as "basket cases" or being "plagued with troubles". Semi-literate boomers receive these quotes on WhatsApp and regurgitate them.

What happens then? Turns out the countries we're "beating hollow", despite their troubles, provide a better quality of life for their citizens. They lead lives of dignity. As a result, to some extent, there is a sense of public decorum that is rare in India.

While Indians live in their la la land, their boorish behaviour, uncouthness, and entitlement has not gone unnoticed. And thus, the so-called 'basket cases' have decided to put us in our places. A country we feel comfortable reducing to a hub for sex work, has decided that it will no longer entertain our delusions.

The difference: despite their challenges, they care about their citizens. They believe in doing the work before awarding themselves titles. We don't, and thus we're paying the price.

[Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis]

This petrol price hike is unprecedented and unacceptable. Congress ka haat aam admi k saath nahi to aam admi ke jeb me aur gale par.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

@supurasensei “nahi ji ram dega ji”

[TUSHAR KHARE 🇮🇳 @TUSHARKHARE14]

महाराष्ट्रात काँग्रेसचे १४ खासदार
शिवसेना उबाठा ९ खासदार
राष्ट्रवादी शरद पवार ८ खासदार

एकूण ३१ खासदार आहेत

देशात NEET, पेट्रोल,डिझेल,महागाई, भ्रष्टाचार, धार्मिक तुष्टीकरण, महिला सुरक्षा, पर्यावरण ऱ्हास, वृक्षतोड,न्याय व्यवस्था इतके रणकंदन माजले असताना ही ३१ बांडगुळे कुठे आहेत?

[Sakshi Narula @mssakshinarula]

I find it so disappointing that even the most educated people see a politician being questioned by the member of the press as disrespectful and humiliating and then speak of democracy. He doesn't automatically deserve respect everywhere he goes. Just like Trump doesn't. Your actions decide whether people respect you or not. The PM's chair and office has been disrespected by the man himself on several ocassions. The office has been diminished by him internationally now that we, a country of 1.4 billion people take instructions from Trump and the man refuses to be accountable or empathetic one diaster after another. We are not a functioning democracy anymore, in case you missed that part.

[Akshay D @akkiman]

@GaurieD This isn't about her questions. It's that in 12 yrs he hasn't faced a single open presser something every PM before him did
So you can grade her on curries and yoga all you like; it doesn't answer why the man simply won't face the press.
A journalist dodging that is embarassing.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

@akkiman This man / creators of his image have such a deep-rooted inferiority complex. He’s doing everything he can to be “similar” to earlier PMs without actually improving governance. Very WhatsApp uncle energy.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

I will never understand this hero worship! Is it a daddy complex? A person all uncles want to be - got married, now out of it, paid vacations, surgeries / make up, one way dialogues, weird photoshoots, religious PR? For women? What’s the appeal? Patriarchal Stockholm Syndrome?

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

You've seen Propaganda News agency sharing photos videos of Maharashtra CM travelling in Economy class and in Two wheeler in line with PM @narendramodi's appeal amid the west asia conflict.
Now watch this video taken yesterday (17th may) by a normal citizen of CM @Dev_Fadnavis and his cavalcade travelling in Pune.

[Akshay D @akkiman]

You didn't absorb the shock.
You pre collected money.
From us.
For years.

Calling that decisive leadership is like a pickpocket returning your wallet and asking for a tip.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

@back2thevibe @_amitbehere Apart from these, Deool.

[Kdroid @KdProQuo]

@abhijitkadle Gummies are widely available now. I thought it comes under Ayush ministry or they have found some loophole.

[Akshay D @akkiman]

Somewhere between Cooch Behar and Kanyakumari, with a quick stop at the Strait of Hormuz, there's a country called India that needs governing.
Not campaigning. Governing. Different verb.

[Soumyotonoy Das @Som_DH1]

@rishibagree Have some shame, andhbhakt. You’re equating Modi with Swami Vivekananda? Swamiji faced hunger, insults, and struggle daily. Modi lives like a king at taxpayers expense. Comparing the two is an insult to history and to Swamiji’s sacrifice.