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A day I had not dreamt of in my wildest dreams came true. Meeting face to face with @PMOIndia.@narendramodi and getting his blessings on my anniversary... The best anniversary gift ever!
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In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!
During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.
May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?
Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?
In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?
The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.
It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.
Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.
Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?
India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.
Message by H.E Shri Vinod K Jacob on transit visa to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.
@MEAIndia @IndianDiplomacy @bahdiplomatic
Had a productive telephone conversation with the King of Bahrain, His Majesty King Hamad Bin Isa Al Khalifa. India condemns the attacks on Bahrain and stands in solidarity with its people in this difficult hour. I thank him for the steadfast support extended to the Indian community in Bahrain.
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While India Was Poor, a Prime Minister Was Allegedly Rich in Switzerland
No Business. No Inheritance. No Explanation.
So Where Did 2.5 Billion Swiss Francs Come From?
A Swiss magazine once asked a question India was told never to ask.
In 1991, Schweizer Illustrierte, one of Switzerland’s largest weekly publications, released an exposé on secret Swiss wealth allegedly held by global power figures.
Fourteen names were published.
Among dictators and strongmen appeared one Indian face.
Rajiv Gandhi - India
Alleged amount: 2.5 billion Swiss francs
This was not an Indian allegation.
It was not an election speech.
It was printed in Switzerland, with a photograph.
So let’s ask plainly.
How does an Indian Prime Minister accumulate 2.5 billion Swiss francs?
No private business history.
No multinational ownership.
No declared overseas fortune.
No inheritance on that scale.
Money does not appear by virtue of office.
If the report was false, the response should have been immediate.
Why was the magazine never sued in Swiss courts?
Why no international demand for correction?
Why no public explanation?
Instead, silence.
Now understand the scale.
2.5 billion Swiss francs in 1991, adjusted only for inflation, is roughly ₹50,000 crore today.
That excludes interest.
That excludes compounding.
That excludes decades of financial growth.
Just inflation.
While Indians were told there was “no black money,” a European publication printed names Indian media avoided.
History isn’t just erased by force.
Sometimes it is buried by obedience.
So ask the question again without fear.
No business. No inheritance. No explanation.
Where did 2.5 billion Swiss francs come from?
60 year old man Jumped to his Death from Shivajinagar Court Building Over 27-Year-Old Pending Case.
27 year old case! A civil dispute that too. Imagine that. The man must have been 33 years old when the case was filed.
Imagine the frustration. 27 years of Lawyers fees, wastage of time, not being able to do anything about the land till the dispute is resolved, putting your life on hold, just because corrupt judges need to be paid their salary!
No one will cry over Namdev Jadhav. Maybe Justice Gavai would have callously told him to ask his Lord Vithoba to settle the case.
Indian judiciary is an institution from hell. Truly!
https://t.co/MKzqKPZ78H via @Pune Times Mirror
As a part of my mission to support Indian Entrepreneurs building Indian Solutions, I plan to put up one Solution which I receive from you all every Sunday.
Incidentally most solutions I have received are related to solving corruption, frauds & refunds etc. Yes, real solutions which we can use.
Here is the second email I received on this topic !!!
One request from me, before you read further, I want my audience to help by reposting this widely. It will help everyone !!! If you successfully read this post, then please comment with your thoughts or an emoji. It will be great. Let's support with one repost. It can help someone, we cannot even imagine !!
Subject: Tackling Corruption - Gems Of India !!!
Hello FI,
I'm Varun Mara, the creator of https://t.co/SWutuizICb. I really appreciate our recent interaction on Twitter regarding your call for an app to fight bribery and increase government accountability.
Your idea for a system where citizens can record interactions is exactly why I built Gems Of India. It's a live, community-driven platform designed to bring transparency by allowing citizens to rate and review government officials, from the village to the central level.
🇮🇳 https://t.co/SWutuizICb - is a community driven platform to rate and review government officials & politicians from village to central level.
The goal? To bring transparency, accountability & awareness about those who serve the nation.
- search for any politician, govt officer
- submit reviews on performance
- upload verified evidence or references
- explore top-rated & lowest-rated officials
- report corruption
This platform isn’t about hate, it’s about accountability.
Although creating such a platform should have been the government’s responsibility, they have avoided transparency and accountability by engaging in corruption themselves.
👉 Visit https://t.co/SWutuizICb
👉 Submit your review
👉 Help build a transparent India 🇮🇳
The code for https://t.co/SWutuizICb - a platform to rate and review public servants and politicians is now open source on GitHub!
Repo: https://t.co/Z3bgeiwVQs
Discord: https://t.co/OaL6rNs0PC
Some tasks where I’d love community help:
1. Scraping data from government websites to collect officials details accurately
2. Importing politicians and officials from Excel files.
3. Creating a public RTI data repository so reports can be shared openly
Thank you,
Varun
@varun_mara @gemsofindia_org
Today I went to fill diesel, but the pump staff refused, saying that all employees were angry and not in a mental state to work.
I asked why, and they said it was because of the shoe incident with the CJI. I suddenly remembered, yes, all Indians were angered by that, as the PM had announced on our behalf. I too was angry whole day. Some cool down quickly, others don’t. It’s only fair we give them time to cool off instead of complaining. I came back.
Anyway, I request that Oct 6 be declared Pradhanmantri National Anger Day, a public holiday, of course. Every year on this day, we’ll solemnly remember the shoe incident and get properly angry all over again. The police should patrol the streets to ensure full compliance; any citizen failing to be enraged must be booked immediately. No excuses. It’s the bare minimum we can do to protest against the attack on the dignity of our beloved CJI.

Projecting US as the greatest victim of india in trade . Dramatising. Fact is:
US deficit with China is $ 270b,
With EU $ 161 b, with Mexico $ 157b, with Vietnam $ 113.1b, with Taiwan $67.4b, with Japan $ 62.6b, with South Korea $ 60.2b, Canada 54.8b, Thailand $ 41.5b, India 41.5 b.
Usual untruth.

India- US trade in services was
about $83.4 billion, with U.S. services exports to India at $41.8 billion and U.S. $ 41.6b.
Total disaster?
India- US defence trade was virtually nil in2000. It has touched a total of almost $ 22 b in2024.
Why this whining?
The claim that we have offered to reduce our tariffs to nothing is true of some products but our redlines are firm.
Economical with truth and trading in falsities.
“Rana’s Flight Is Cleared. And India Isn’t Holding a Candle This Time.”
Once upon a time, in the corridors of ‘secular’ sainthood, they served cappuccino with conspiracy theories.
Somewhere between JNU and Geneva, a narrative was brewed — “The real threat is saffron.”
Not cross-border terror. Not the men who prayed with one eye on Mecca and another on Mumbai. No. They said your temple priest was the real ticking time bomb.
Meanwhile, Tahawwur Hussain Rana — soft-spoken, well-dressed — was busy signing fake Indian visas like greeting cards for terrorists.
He didn’t need a gun. He had a stapler.
He was the visa officer of jihad.
The HR head of Lashkar’s foreign desk.
The man who made sure David Headley reached Mumbai — not to attend a wedding, but to help plan a massacre.
And yet, for 15 years, Rana chilled in the land of “due process,” sipping American justice like diet Coke — light, fizzy, and completely useless.
Because back then, India was too ‘dignified’ to demand.
We wrote polite letters. Held peace summits. Lit candles like we were mourning a power cut, not a nation’s soul.
While we mourned, they mocked.
They told us to worry about Hindu terror.
That saffron was the new black.
That if you wore a tilak, you were one angry chant away from becoming a threat to national security.
The Lutyens crowd sold us bedtime stories where the villain always wore a janeu, and the hero held a press conference in a skullcap.
But real heroes don’t do press.
Tukaram Omble didn’t ask for a camera.
He didn’t have a bulletproof vest or a 5-star lawyer.
He had one thing: guts.
When Kasab spat bullets, Omble took them in his chest and still held on — bare hands, steel grip, no backup. He caught terror alive.
No “fact-finder” from The Wire ever wrote poetry for him.
No awards. No hashtags. Just the silence of a nation that was too polite to roar.
But now?
The silence is over.
Tahawwur Rana is finally boarding that plane to India. Not as a guest. But as a case file.
And this time, we’re not bringing candles. We’re bringing fire.
This isn’t just extradition. This is an obituary for the old India — the one that apologised for its rage and intellectualised its grief.
This is a slap across the face of every liberal peacenik who wanted us to hug the butcher and doubt the priest.
This is karma in khadi.
This is Bharat 2.0.
So welcome home, Mr. Rana.
We’ve got questions.
And you won’t need a lawyer — you’ll need a time machine.
Because the India you fooled is gone.
Tukaram Omble still stands.
And this time, the country stands with him.
To
The People of India,
Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation @mybmc
Respected Chief Minister of Maharashtra, Shri Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis
Hon. Prime Minister of India, Shri Narendra Modi @narendramodi
I am not an activist. I am not here to fight or tear anyone down. I am writing to you as a citizen of our country, a fellow Indian, with a basic yet fundamental right—the right to clean air.
Every day, I see people around me in Mumbai getting sicker. I feel it in my own body too. The air we breathe is no longer just air—it is harming our lungs, our hearts, and our future. We cannot ignore this any longer.
Today, I have a humble yet urgent plea to our Respected Chief Minister, our Honorable Prime Minister, and the Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation. Please reconsider the allocation of funds for something the city does not need right now.
Mumbai does not need a giant Ferris wheel. What we need—what we desperately need—is clean air.
I appeal to every citizen of India, to parents, educators, and school principals. You know absenteeism in schools is rising. You see children struggling with breathing issues, missing out on their education and their childhood. I appeal to doctors, who witness the growing number of patients with respiratory illnesses. Pediatricians, you know how many young children are suffering from asthma and lung infections caused by polluted air.
To personal trainers, athletes, and fitness enthusiasts—I ask you to pause and reflect. We encourage people to exercise, to run, to train for a healthier life. But what happens when they do this in toxic air? Are we truly helping them, or are we unknowingly harming them?
This is also a heartfelt appeal to nutritionists, doctors, wellness experts, and health influencers. You know that food and medicine alone cannot fix this. No superfood, no supplement, no treatment can undo the damage that breathing polluted air does to our bodies every single day.
And to celebrities, athletes, and people with influence—your voice matters. You have the power to bring attention to this crisis. Let us use our platforms not just for endorsements but for a cause that impacts every single Indian. Let us urge our leaders to focus on what we truly need as human beings.
We cannot afford to be mere bystanders anymore. This is not resilience. This is a slow surrender.
We have children and aging parents struggling to breathe. We have newborns taking their first breaths of air that should never enter fragile lungs. The future of our health does not depend on just more medicine, more nutrition, or more meditation. It depends on the basics—the right to clean air, clean water, and clean food.
I do not claim to have all the answers. But I do know this—the money allocated for a Ferris wheel could be used to clean the air in our city.
This is not about fighting. This is about uniting. Hatred and anger will not solve this crisis, but our collective voice, our unwavering plea for change, will.
To every parent watching their child suffer, to every citizen who wakes up to a smog-filled skyline—speak up. Our voice matters.
During the COVID-19 pandemic when the nation rallied for health and wellness, Hon. Prime Minister, your amazing Fit India Movement @FitIndiaOff nominated me as the Wellness and Lifestyle Champion. Today, I carry that responsibility forward. My humble plea is that we need clean air, not just for fitness, but for a healthier, stronger, and cleaner India.
Let us not wait for another crisis to act. We are with you. Let's act together now.
With humility, respect, urgency, and hope,
Luke Coutinho
#FitIndiaMovement #NewIndiaFitIndia #CleanAirForMumbai #AirQualityMatters #ActNow #bmcmumbai #bmc #india #MumbaiEye #FerrisWheel
Look at this!
Tens of millions of people are flocking to Prayagraj for the Kumbh Mela. The greatest human event on earth.
Such a vote for heart, spirit and faith in Humanity. ❤️❤️❤️
https://t.co/2DYQfzbMNC
TW : SUICIDE : BANGALORE
◾Atul Subhash, 34 year old
◾Got married in 2019
◾Driven to suicide by wife, in-laws, biased laws & system within 5 years
◾Left 1.5 hr suicide video, 40 page note
◾Wife demanded 3 Crores Alimony
◾Wife didn't let him even see the face of his child
◾Jaunpur Family Court Judge Rita Kaushik demanded 5 Lacs to settle case
◾He gave lacs to his wife to help her family but then got accused of dowry
◾His wife's father died of disease soon after his marriage but his wife got an FIR under sections of Murder slapped on his family claiming he died of shock because of demand of "dowry"
◾He had to attend 120 dates in last 2 years
◾ Family court judge passed order of 40,000 per month maintenance for a 2 year old child because he didn't pay her the bribe she had asked
◾He used to do household chores, got his wife job in @AccentureIndia , helped brother-in-law financially, spent lacs on birth of his child and got his death in return
◾This is not a suicide video, this is testimony of every married man in India facing false cases from his wife and a one sided battle in the courts
In the last words of Atul - I refuse to pay and I choose death because I don't want my money to be used against me by my opponents to torture me and my family
@BlrCityPolice WILL YOU GET THIS MAN ANY JUSTICE ?
Dowry is illegal and criminal but Alimony blackmailing is a legal right to even Capable women!
Majority men call out men who do horrible things but feminists defend #NikitaSinghania kind women who do horrible things with logic of how can only men do that?
Feminism 🤡
#MenToo
The whole of today was spent in studying the #AtulSubhash case and presenting it in the most fair and balanced way possible. Spoke with everyone possible for this story, even reached out to Nikita Singhania his wife who ignored calls and messages.
It was the biggest trending story in India.
But even after today, never forget that there are a hundred other Atuls out there. Harassed by the system, betrayed by women, misjudged by the society.
Make no mistake. This is not a one off
I see no reason to disbelieve this conversation, because it came as a dying man’s last communication before he committed suicide. Atul Subhash deserved better than a corrupt system and a greedy wife that drove him to suicide. Sadly, even now, neither the judge will lose her job, nor will the wife be punished, because our laws are SO one-sided!
Pleased to address the 20th IISS Manama Dialogue alongside FM Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani of 🇧🇭 and NSA Tomáš Pojar of 🇨🇿.
Spoke about the importance 🇮🇳 attaches to the Gulf and Mediterranean regions, and our commitment to boost economic, political, connectivity and security cooperation within, around and beyond the region.
@IISS_org #IISSMD24
Delighted to arrive in Manama this evening. Great to see my brother FM Dr Abdullatif bin Rashid Al Zayani.
Look forward to participating in the Manama Dialogue tomorrow. Confident that our High Joint Commission will be very productive.
🇮🇳 🇧🇭
Started the day by visiting the 200 year-old Shreenathji Temple in Manama.
A true symbol of the longstanding India - Bahrain friendship.
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The Yamuna in our national capital, ladies & gentlemen. What a proud sight in a country with global ambitions. This is the CAPITAL.
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