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[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

Right to vote in great peril: Justice Rohinton Nariman flags executive interference in Election Commission

[Indranil Roy @Indrani1_Roy]

Okay. I going to bite the bullet and write it here.

A lot of friends ask me to talk to their high school kids to "motivate" and "direct". The kids love our conversations, but some of my friends don't.

Let me write it here and you be the judge!

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

The Great Circle of Crude

Somewhere in the Urals, a barrel of oil is loaded onto a tanker. It has no idea it is about to become the most morally flexible object on earth.

It sails to Jamnagar, where India buys it at a "friendship discount". India calls this strategic autonomy. The West calls it funding the war. The barrel calls it Tuesday.

At the refinery, the crude is heated, cracked and distilled, and something miraculous happens. The Russian molecules leave, and Indian diesel emerges. Nothing about the chemistry has changed, but the paperwork has undergone a spiritual rebirth. It is the only known process that turns sanctions into margins.

Europe now steps in. In the morning, it sanctions Russian oil. By lunch, it fills its tanks with Indian diesel. At dinner, it lectures India on values. Europe does not buy Russian oil. It buys Russian oil that has been to finishing school.

America is furious that India buys Russian crude and slaps on tariffs to show it. It then quietly carries on importing Russian enriched uranium, because principles are like fuel: best refined before use.

Now comes the masterstroke. Ukraine needs diesel to resist Russia, so it buys Indian diesel with money given to it by Europe. India then pays Russia for the next barrel. So European taxpayers fund Ukraine, which pays India, which pays Russia, which funds the missiles that make Ukraine ask Europe for more money. It is the first war in history with a subscription model.

Russia, meanwhile, earns money from the fuel powering the trucks that resist its own army. It is the only belligerent to have outsourced both its revenue and its opposition's logistics to the same refinery.

Final ledger:
Russia: paid for the war, by the war
Ukraine: fighting Russia on Russian fuel, bought with European money
Europe: morally clean, operationally Indian fuelled
America: outraged, selectively
India: charging a refining margin on everyone's hypocrisy
The barrel: has travelled more than most diplomats, and achieved more

The money circles the globe like a vessel on DP (Dynamic Positioning) holding station: burning enormous energy, going nowhere, and everyone on the bridge insists it is under control.

[Srihari Karanth @sriharikaranth]

ಕನ್ನಡ ದೇಶದೋಳ್ ❤️

[Vrinda Grover @vrindagrover]

It is a matter of record that the Hon'ble Supreme Court did not uphold the rights and freedoms of citizens of this country when the govt declared Emergency. The ADM Jabalpur judgment remains a permanent reminder of how the highest court abandoned its constitutional mandate.
History is again recording how the court is silent and refusing to hold the govt or the police accountable for crushing freedoms of citizens. Democratic peaceful protests are being brutally suppressed in the capital at Jantar Mantar. People are out on the streets to ensure their right tovote.
Just one humble submission to constitutional courts from a mere lawyer, please don't express regret a few decades later. This is not a mistake, nor an inadvertent error, it's a considered decision.

[MG 🇮🇳 @mgnayak5]

Must Watch, please don't Skip.

[Saganism @Saganismm]

“The many sorrows of our recent history suggest that we humans have a learning disability.”

― Carl Sagan

[Literature @Literatureomar]

Some

[Voices of Liberty @FreedomVoL]

“Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.”

— Thomas Paine

[Samantha Rose Hill @Samantharhill]

"If people cannot write well, they cannot think well, and if they cannot think well, others will do their thinking for them."

― George Orwell

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"Remember that it all began without a proximate trigger. Nobody had proven or even claimed that India’s voter rolls were damaged beyond repair and needed to be fixed with this blunt and violent instrument requiring voters to prove their authenticity through ancestry. This is a gratuitous exercise in which a hammer has been taken to our voter lists just as casually as it was taken to our currency a decade ago."

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

James Clear on having high standards:

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

How learning actually happens:

[Jesse Cohen @JesseCohenInv]

I come back to this video once in a while..

[🍂 @Lovandfear]

— Marcus Aurelius

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

A reminder from The Subtle Art of Not Giving a F*ck by Mark Manson:

“Happiness comes from solving problems. The keyword here is "solving." If you're avoiding your problems or feel like you don't have any problems, then you're going to make yourself miserable. If you feel like you have problems that you can't solve, you will likewise make yourself miserable. The secret sauce is in the solving of the problems, not in not having problems in the first place. To be happy we need something to solve. Happiness is therefore a form of action; it's an activity.”

[AFRICAN & BLACK HISTORY @AfricanArchives]

"we can disagree and still love each other, unless your disagreement is rooted in my oppression and denial of my humanity and right to exist"

—James Baldwin

[Reads with Ravi @readswithravi]

I’m in love with this sentence:

“The degree to which a person can grow is directly proportional to the amount of truth they can accept about themselves without running away.”