Keerthi Narayan

[Potatoman, oneday celebrator @batatalal]

Tata sons ceo to search committee : Koi Subramaniam-gubramanyam lao yaar.
Search committee: sir Subramaniam to nahin mila, lekin…

[kishore k swamy 🇮🇳 @sansbarrier]

Great. Now tasmac goes online. All you need to do is click into the website https://t.co/IOrq0veCbM and once you prove you are above age of 21. You can book your liquor and pick it up from the shop of your choice.

You can even buy it online for somebody living in other parts of Tn and they can pick it up. Reduces the option of fleecing extra money.

[Naveen Patnaik @Naveen_Odisha]

I am deeply anguished to know that the legendary colour of the Indian hockey team’s jersey has been changed to saffron. The iconic shade of blue of the Indian hockey team is not just a colour. It is an emotion associated with the nation’s sporting heritage.

For decades, this colour united us in hope, in victory, in defeat and in the pursuit of sporting excellence. We have cried, laughed, celebrated and stood proudly with our men and women in blue. Wearing the blue jersey our teams have won Olympic medals with the national anthem playing on the world stage. #Blue is derived from the blue chakra in our national flag. It is a symbol of our national pride and identity. The colour blue belongs to every Indian.

When the national hockey teams were struggling for sponsors, #Odisha created history by being the first and only state to support our national teams and our beloved game. Every Odia across the globe was proud of the state’s gift to national hockey. After 41 long years, our men’s team won an Olympic medal. Just because the government changed in Odisha, it should not change our national team colours. This is petty politics of the worst kind.

Our blue jersey is to us what the iconic stripes are to Argentina and the yellow jersey is to Brazil. It is etched in our collective memory. Any change in this colour, is a crass attempt to erase our priceless sporting legacy. National symbols are meant to unite us not divide.

I am given to understand that this step was taken under pressure from the BJP Government in Odisha. Those in authority may deny it, but the fact is that for the last two years, everybody in Odisha has seen the obsession of this government with changing colours of buildings, buses and even bridges. It is the only work that is happening in Odisha today. But now the same government has changed the colours of our national team. I strongly condemn this attempt by BJP Odisha to politicise a national game like hockey. It has deeply hurt the sentiments of lakhs of sports lovers across the country and the pride with which Odisha has supported the national hockey.

#Hockey
#MenInBlue
#WomenInBlue

[Srivatsan Venkatesan @storcube]

Attn: @CMOTamilnadu @CTR_Nirmalkumar

Chennai. Last night. It rained for a while. Power went off. It came back at 9 AM.

Twelve hours.

I called the section office. I called the AE. Multiple times. Nobody picked up. No SMS. No estimated restoration time. No update. Just a family sitting in the dark waiting for someone to answer a phone.

I want to be clear about what I am not saying. I am not saying it should never fail. Rain happens. Transformers fail. Feeders trip. Things break.

What I am saying is this. Twelve hours with no information and no human being on the other end of a phone line is not a weather event. It is an sytem failure.

In all the years I have lived here, twelve hours in the dark meant a cyclone. It meant the whole of Chennai was under water and you did not expect anyone to come. Last night it meant a few hours of rain on an ordinary Wednesday.

That is the part that should worry all of us. Not the outage. The lowering of the bar for what causes one.

For two decades we priced electricity below what it costs to deliver, and we funded the gap with debt instead of honesty. Every government did it. DMK did it. AIADMK did it. Both sides called it welfare and both sides knew what it was. The bill did not disappear. It just moved. It is now sitting inside forty-year-old distribution transformers in Chennai that give up the moment it rains.

A transformer does not know which party signed the subsidy order. It only knows whether it was maintained.

So, CM @CMOTamilnadu, this is what I want to put in front of you.

Yesterday you rode the metro. You bought your own ticket. You sat in the Operations Control Centre and asked how train movements are monitored. You stood on the Kathipara bridge at 101 feet and asked about construction methodology. You ran the driverless line yourself before signing off on it. That is genuinely hands-on and I do not say that lightly.

But the metro is the upgrade. Electricity is the floor.

A city can survive a delayed metro corridor. It cannot survive an unreliable grid. Every single thing you are building sits on top of power. The hospital. The school. The IT corridor you want investors in. The small shop with a fridge. The woman on a home oxygen concentrator in Pallikaranai. The kid writing exams next.

Nobody is going to ride a driverless train home to a house with no power.

Last night the metro had a Chief Minister in its control room. The distribution network had a phone that rang out.

I am not asking you to come to my street. I am asking whether electricity distribution gets treated as what it actually is, which is the primary public service in this state, not the department nobody wants to hold.

And here is the specific thing I want an answer on.

When your government explains last night, there are only two answers available.

The first one is the one we have heard for fifteen years. A transformer fault. A localised issue. A few streets, not the whole division. Heavy rain. Teams were deployed. Supply has been restored. Every government has given us that answer, and every government meant it, and nothing changed.

The second answer is harder to say out loud. That the distribution network in this city was starved of investment for more than a decade because nobody wanted to price power honestly. That the failure is structural, it was built deliberately, and it will take money and political pain to undo. And here is the plan and the timeline.

The first answer is management. The second one is reform.

I have no doubt about your intent. None. I think you actually want to fix this.

But intent is not a system. And the system is bigger than any one person in it.

Ninety days of good intentions cannot outrun twenty years of compounding. The only thing that beats compounding is a mechanism. So I am asking for mechanisms, not assurances. Three of them. None of them cost political capital.

Every government inherits a broken system and promises to fix it. Then the political cost of fixing it turns out to be higher than the political cost of managing it. So they manage it, and hand it to the next one. That is the machine. That is how a state with our tax base ends up with a grid that fails on a wet Wednesday.

You came in saying you would break that machine.

So which answer are we getting? The transformer fault, or the truth?

One more thing.

We grew up knowing Chennai as one of India's four metros. Today, be honest about where we stand. Delhi, Mumbai, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune all pulling ahead. Chennai is sliding.

Quality of life is not metro rail selfies. It is roads that do not flood in October. It is power that stays on when it rains. It is a phone that gets answered at midnight.

We are chasing ribbon-cutting infrastructure while the basics rot. And here is what keeps me up. Last night was light rain in July. The real rains hit in three months. If this is what a Wednesday drizzle does to the grid, what happens in November?

Is last night the teaser for what Chennai should expect when the northeast monsoon actually arrives?

I am not asking as someone who votes for or against you. I am asking as someone in Chennai who sat in the dark for twelve hours and could not get anyone on the phone.

@TANGEDCO_Offcl

[William Dalrymple @DalrympleWill]

Tragically, this is no surprise. Goa & the Manali Himalayas are full of damaged kids, ex-IDF conscripts, high as kites, trying to live with the horrors they have been ordered to commit & find ways to justify things they've done which they know deep down to be profoundly wrong

[Karthik Balachandran @karthik2k2]

If the govt can pull this off, it will be a masterstroke.

Some people oppose this for difficulty in ensuring safety/quality. Others question the calories and proteins, as if all that counts can be counted. A few ask about vegetarian students (as a veg myself, I don't think there are many veg students in govt schools).

I think Biryani s perception quotient far exceeds nutritional value. For many, it's not a food - it's an emotion. A feel good, quasi-luxury food. A plate of happiness.

In the distant past, Tamilnadu was so poor that giving free food attracted kids to school. Today we are no longer poor. Consequently govt has to give something that is perceived as "special". A food that, even for one day, makes the poor feel well off. That's where Biryani comes in.

A protein bar / double egg/ even fried meat can't match that.

I am pretty sure the past governments might have considered this Biryani idea and dropped it.

CM Vijay is attempting what few have ever dared to. The odds are stacked. The logistics are scary hard. If he succeeds, hundreds of thousands of kids will love him. More than they already do.

[Arunraaj TVK @arunraajkg]

தென்னிந்தியாவின் முதல் பெண் மருத்துவர்...

சென்னை மாகாணத்தின் முதல் பெண் சட்டமன்ற உறுப்பினர்...

குழந்தைத் திருமண சட்டங்களுக்கான குரல் கொடுத்தவர்...

தேவதாசி ஒடுக்குமுறையில் இருந்து பெண்களை மீட்டெடுத்த சிங்கப்பெண்...

1954-இல் அடையாறு புற்றுநோய் நிறுவனத்தை (Adyar Cancer Institute) அமைத்த மருத்துவ தாய்...

இந்திய அரசால் 'பத்ம பூஷண்' விருது வழங்கி கௌரவிக்கப்பட்ட டாக்டர் முத்துலட்சுமி ரெட்டி அவர்களின் 141 ஆவது பிறந்தநாளில் பெருமையுடன் வணங்குகிறோம்.

மாபெரும் மருத்துவர் அம்மாவின் பிறந்த நாள் தமிழ்நாட்டின் மருத்துவமனைகள் தினமாகவும் கடைபிடிக்கப்படுகிறது.

நூற்றாண்டுகள் கடந்தும் நிலைத்து நிற்கும் டாக்டர் முத்துலட்சுமி ரெட்டி அவர்களின் சாதனைகள்!

@HM_TamilNadu

#HospitalDay | #Dr_Muthulakshmi | #TamilNaduPride | #ArunraajTVK

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Someone part of the administrative machinery had a chat with me. I thought this was worth sharing, hence this post.

This is interesting and highlights the competitive intensity among states.

MotiveLink of South Korea has signed an MoU with the Tamil Nadu government today.

MotiveLink would manufacture advanced electric vehicle components for global markets from Tamil Nadu.

MotiveLink has also proposed to the state that it would act as an anchor investor and bring more South Korean companies in coils, PCBs, magnetics, housings and plastics to Tamil Nadu.

MotiveLink is further strengthening the EV ecosystem of our state.

Now comes the interesting part.

Both Tamil Nadu and Andhra Pradesh have been pursuing MotiveLink.

Tamil Nadu Industries Minister Keerthana met the company when she went to Seoul.

When Nara Lokesh went to South Korea recently, he too met the company.

Both the states have been very strongly pitching.

MotiveLink has decided to come to Tamil Nadu and also act as an anchor investor to bring more companies from South Korea.

I've repeatedly said the whole narrative that investments meant for Tamil Nadu are going to Andhra Pradesh is absolutely false. I've provided data, details and facts. Both states are competing healthily for investments.

Even a TDP MP in Parliament said yesterday that investments meant for Tamil Nadu are going to Andhra Pradesh. This narrative is not based on facts.

MotiveLink is proof that both states competed and our state got it today.

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Now boarding -- #KhajurahoAirport into top customer-ranking slot, without any flights. The airport in the #MadhyaPradesh town - recently ranked India's top airport in the Airports Authority of India's latest Customer Satisfaction Index (CSI) - has produced a surprising result: it has no commercial flights operating during July and Aug.

More details 🔗https://t.co/D3p1EkaPWA

News beyond the headlines — on the TOI App 👉 https://t.co/ogFaRsUKyn

[Gurjot Ahluwalia @gurjota]

GenZ making a lot of people eat humble pie today.

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

Cockroach Janta Party withdraws its nationwide agitation with immediate effect

All demands of the Cockroach Janta Party have been accepted by the government:

1. Maximum possible compensation for families of NEET paper leak-related suicides

2. All FIRs by Central govt and NDA-ruled states will be withdrawn, and no action will be taken against anyone involved in these protests in the future.

3. CJP’s 5-point exam reform charter will be considered by the govt and the CJP will meet with the govt to discuss these reforms further.

[Sucheta Dalal @suchetadalal]

I admit it: I underestimated Gen Z. Seeing these viral clips, I’m blown away not just by your bravery, but by your humor, biting wit, and profound grasp of what’s at stake. It’s a wake-up call the world desperately needed. Please take care and stay safe—this is your fight, for your future.👏👏👏

[Shiva🧘 @Dagam_offl]

Good explanation By Abhijit

Just like in Software Company

Okkadiki PIP/Pink slip iste
Team lo unnodiki ucha paddattu

Idi kuda

[Income Tax, Tamil Nadu & Puducherry @tn_incometax]

Under the guidance of office of Pr.CCIT, TN&P, a Mock Fire Rescue and Firefighting Drill was organised by the Residents' Welfare Association of Nandhavanam for the residents of the Central Revenue Quarters, Anna Nagar, Chennai, in association with the Tamil Nadu Fire and Rescue Services. (1/2)

[Sumanth Raman @sumanthraman]

If it happens successfully this will be a huge blow to corruption and will earn tremendous goodwill for the TVK Govt. Registration Dept is one of the most corrupt across States.

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

> Work 10-12 hours daily
> Pay 30% tax on salary
> Pay 30–50% tax to buy car
> Pay tax on car insurance
> Pay road tax
> Pay tax on ethanol-blended fuel

After paying all this, cars worth lakhs are floating in sewage, gutter water.

Now will pay ₹15–20k in repairs. Shameful !

[fresh👑 @OfficialBFresh]

39 years later🥹

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

I love the fact that Erling Haaland made sure his mother's name Braut was on his World Cup jersey as well. Gry Marita Braut was a champion heptathlete and the inspiration for his fitness and diet routines!

[menaka doshi @menakadoshi]

Why does a country that gave the world the concept of zero now invest so little in creating new knowledge? There is no shortage of explanations.

Chief Economic Adviser V. Anantha Nageswaran has pointed to colonial deindustrialization, decades of protectionism, premature financialization and policy uncertainty. Industrialist Naushad Forbes argues the deeper problem is insufficient competition, which has reduced the pressure on companies to innovate.

Ajai Chowdhry, co-founder of HCL Infosystems, tells me it’s because India has failed to become a product nation.

“When you design and make products in India, that’s when you will see R&D happen. In service businesses, people don’t invest in deep research,” said Chowdhry, who now serves as chairman of the National Quantum Mission.

Lessons From India’s Big Antibiotic Breakthrough 👇

https://t.co/c4K9Wtmh2S

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

This was too depressing to watch!

Two college girls were electrocuted after rainwater under Nerul's LP Bridge became electrified due to a short circuit.

These politicians are living lavishly while ordinary people are left to die.