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[Dr SHRADDHEY KATIYAR @Wegiveyouhealt1]

If Indian parents stopped financially supporting their children after graduation tomorrow, the streets would expose a crisis no government is prepared for.

Millions of young adults survive because their parents quietly fund their education, housing, food, healthcare, marriages and even unemployment.

Indian parents don’t just raise children.

They subsidise society.

Governments and society should acknowledge how much this invisible family support system actually holds India together.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

I didn’t like Dunkirk. Didn’t like Oppenheimer either. Aravind’s advice to a journalist would be to shoot a better movie on IMAX reels.

Aravind ji, I am a journalist. And whatever I write is not only my job as a journalist but also my dharma. You, or your ilk, can keep your cynicism to yourself.

If we don’t matter, don’t bother writing. I gave you answers to your arrogant, blackmailing and begging questions. You can’t defend, so you change the goalpost.

Define journalism and a journalist’s duty. We can talk from there.

[tenso @distributedkv]

you can never win against your haters and doubters if you’re not evil. being good will make you doubt and question everything. but if you’re evil, you will relentlessly execute on your evil plan. morality is just a spectrum.

[conduct|r @conductr_]

When they say: “Manipulate others to get what you want”

But Carl Jung said:
”Know all the theories, master all the techniques, but as you touch a human soul be just another human soul.”

damn.

[Nic Munoz @nic_munoz]

People don't understand Napoleon's insane work ethic. Napoleon had secretaries rotating shifts so that he could wake up in the middle of the night and start dictating. Napoleon would sleep 3-4 hours on campaign in 15-30 minute segments so he could always be giving orders. Napoleon would read for 12hrs+ on abstruse subjects in a single day. Napoleon would position cannons himself when he saw soldiers not manning them. You think you're working hard enough but you're not. When you study the greats of history you realize the true level of output that it takes to be known by posterity.

[The Ways of A Gentleman @Gentleman_Ways]

“Right is right even if no one is doing it; wrong is wrong even if everyone is doing it.”

-Saint Augustine

[Historic Vids @historyinmemes]

“A society that mocks virtue prepares its own collapse.”

- Plato

When a society begins to ridicule virtue, it weakens the moral foundation that allows it to endure. In The Republic, Plato emphasized that justice, honesty, and self-discipline are more than admirable qualities—they are essential principles that create trust and hold communities together.

When integrity becomes something to mock rather than respect, cynicism can take its place and social trust begins to disappear. As corruption and self-interest grow, the common good becomes secondary, leaving a society increasingly divided and vulnerable to decline from within.

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

"Nature does not punish the evil, it punishes the weak."

— Nietzsche

[Moral Philosophy @ML_Philosophy]

"A good man without strength is hoping that evil has mercy."

— Sun Tzu

[Elliot Daigneault @hrh_elliot]

Listening to the Quebec Election debate on Radio Canada

It’s basically 4 socialist parties promising

- More money for everyone (from where, who knows)

- A billion new doctors but private healthcare bad bad bad

- Trump also bad bad bad

- Yes Referendum/No referendum (but now a referendum is about Trump 🤔🤷🏼‍♀️)

- Carbon tax (carbon market) is sexy🖤

Then you have a 5th party that says:

- We’ll cut bureaucracy
- With the savings, we’ll cut taxes
- We’ll cut the carbon tax
- We’ll stop corporate subsidies
- We’ll reign in immigration

Guess which party Quebec hates the most?

[Zherka @ZherkaOfficial]

People hate the strong but submit to him; they love the weak but despise him.

—Dostoyevsky

[GOŁƊ @vidxn_]

The old proverb says a society grows great when old men plant trees whose shade they’ll never sit in.

These 70-year-olds in power chose to burn the forests instead.

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

Nature never punishes the evil. Nature punishes the weak because nature does not know morality, nature doesn't know what is right and what is wrong. And storms never choose victim based on morality. It punishes the weakness, not weakness of character, but weakness to adapt, to evolve, to endure it. Reality rewards resilience. Resilience that can we survive the condition which we have, can we survive the circumstances which are given to us, the person who is resilient enough, the person who is aware enough can actually move through their challenges. That is why nature rewards strength and nature will keep on punishing the weak unless and until that weak become strong. Because that is the only way of evolution. That is the only way of growing.

[Akshat Shrivastava @Akshat_World]

1) Billionaires in India will push the government to declare gold an unproductive asset.

2) Government will put some new type of tax on Gold: to move money from Gold into banks. Call it penalty tax.

3) This moves "savings" in Gold to bank deposits.

Banks take the money give to cronies to fund their adventures and sub-par products.

4) People holding gold in "virtual" format would pay some kind of holding/transaction/closing tax to accelerate this movement.

5) Example: SGB's were retrospectively taxed. The spot prices of virtual gold can be moved with government's policies.

If this is not done: more money will flow to Gold.
This creates a currency weakening problem:-

INR is already aggressively falling. With UPI's bad handling now: we have already given an indication to businesses "move towards cash".

This creates a natural flow to RE/Gold. This further weakens currency (people save in gold, not INR).

You'll benefit by either buying gold in physical gold (this prevents you against currency depreciation) or investing in foreign currencies (Eg. buying US Stocks).

Sooner you understand, the better it is.

[Béa Gonzalez (sophiacycles) @SophiaCycles]

It has become clear to me that aging itself does not bring wisdom. It often brings regression to childishness, dependency & bitterness over lost opportunities. Only those who are still intellectually, emotionally, spiritually growing inherit the richness of aging.~James Hollis

[Devaiah Bopanna @devaiahPB]

Suffering imaginary pain from the future is called anxiety. Enjoying imaginary success from the future is called manifestation. Some delusions have better branding.

[The Social Scientist @socially321]

I am currently re-reading the British Indian Army's handbooks on different castes, and I must admit, that their casual observations about social and personal behavior remain so accurate and practical even today.

​Of course, I can't describe them here (for Dehatocracy reasons), but the accuracy with which british officers described the peculiar traits of Brahmins, Rajputs, Jats, Gujjars, Pathans and Gurkhas is mind-boggling.

One can easily corroborate these claims in contemporary Hindi literature, as most of them find direct parallels in the stories of Premchand, Rahul Sankrityayan and others.

[🦢 @guloonnaa]

I finally understand what Machiavelli meant when he said, "Never play fair in a game where others cheat." It doesn't mean become evil. It means stop being naive. Stop bringing honesty to people who study manipulation, stop giving access to people who weaponize closeness, and stop expecting clean hands from people who already showed you they'll throw dirt.
Sometimes wisdom is not revenge.
Sometimes wisdom is learning the rules of the room before the room uses your goodness against you.

[The Fisherman | 🥩🇨🇱 @Thefishermanm]

O velho do bairro me disse: "Não se esqueça que a bússola foi inventada antes do relógio, porque a direção é mais importante que o tempo."

[Vivek Ranjan Agnihotri @vivekagnihotri]

Dear @scroll_in @tajmahalfoxtrot and @sharmasupriya, what kind of third-rate, malicious and deeply misogynistic journalism is this?

Pallavi Joshi is a four National Award-winning actor. She started acting at the age of four. She had already become one of India’s most recognised television stars at a time when many of the journalists writing this story weren’t even born.

I didn’t even know the P of production when Pallavi produced Arohan, a landmark work centred on women in the Indian Navy. She has produced and created more meaningful work than your collective reports ever will.

And yet, when you write about an accomplished, self-made woman, you choose to introduce her primarily as “the wife of filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri.”

Why?

Because apparently a woman’s own achievements are still not enough to establish her identity.

This is precisely how patriarchy works. Reduce a woman with decades of independent achievement to the man she happens to be married to.

Pallavi Joshi did not borrow her identity from anyone. She built it herself through four decades of acting, producing, television, cinema and an extraordinary body of work. She has never needed to compromise with mediocrity, fashion herself around a powerful surname, or seek validation through a husband.

If you cannot acknowledge an accomplished independent woman on her own terms and instead feel compelled to define her through her husband, then perhaps the problem isn’t Pallavi Joshi. Perhaps it is your own deeply patriarchal lens.

And @sharmasupriya, as someone who otherwise positions herself as a feminist, I am genuinely surprised that you would encourage, defend or allow such a headline merely for a few additional views. Feminism cannot be selective. It has to apply even when the woman in question is inconvenient to your narrative.

Here is what the headline could have said:

“Pallavi Joshi, four-time National Award-winning actor who played Kasturba in Shyam Benegal’s The Making of the Mahatma, revolutionised Indian television with some of its most successful shows, delivered a memorable antagonist in #TheKashmirFiles, championed human rights, produced meaningful cinema, and is a mother of two, also married to filmmaker Vivek Agnihotri.”

See the difference?

One headline tells you who she is.

The other tells you whose wife she is.

That difference is not journalism. It is patriarchy masquerading as journalism.