@dkarthikTOI Showing off the CM's picture inside the temple, no matter how popular he is, is just wrong. TVK members should behave themselves in public. If not, they'll end up making the party look bad.
Annamalai’s “We The Leaders” membership drive reportedly covered nearly 1,000 locations today but appears to have added only around 5,000 new members. If these numbers are accurate, it raises serious questions about the movement’s grassroots strength and public traction.
It also brings up another question: were the impressive figures showcased on the first day of the membership drive an organic response, or were they amplified to maintain a perception of momentum and popularity?
Political branding can create an image, but sustained public participation is what ultimately reveals the ground reality.
Just as we're going towards computer based NEET next year we should also conduct the exam at-least 20 times a year.
- The MCAT in the US is held 30 times a year.
- A student can give it 3 shots in a year.
- And upto max 7 attempts is allowed.
Exams, due process etc is very important BUT we've got to systematically reduce the hype/single point failure aspect to students.
https://t.co/stT3VvdqTS
India produces boys by the crores - they have degrees, and a smartphone in every palm, even gig jobs if not formal jobs.
But it has stopped actively forming them into adults of respectable standing in society.
A whole generation is credentialed, employed, and even sending money home. But nobody anywhere is telling them how to actually become an adult.
Industrialising societies typically gave a more structured way into adulthood for its boys
- apprenticeships, union lodges, night school, and working men's club
- India's own version too had the guru's household and the akhara
But India's own institutions have been dismantled across the colonial and post-Independence century, replaced by nothing of equal weight.
- and India is getting into gig economy types before entirely industrialising
Instead we have:
-coaching mills. 15 lakh engineering grads a year, only a fourth employable
-gig platforms with millions of workers. They're supervised by software, men are isolated by design.
- worse. they have smartphones pulling them into gambling, reels etc
The bill we pay: marriage, a household, owning property - all of it has been deferred into late thirties. Delayed adulthood has several second order effects.
Forming responsible adults out of boys and girls is a project in itself that needs elders, institutions and rituals to mark the transition. We have so few of these for our kids today.
Swarajya essay here 👇
https://t.co/RM3qCAMK55
Why is this patriot missing from the pages of our history?
Seth Ramdas Gudwala was one of the greatest financiers and revolutionaries of the 1857 War of Independence, yet his name remains largely forgotten.
Born into a wealthy Agarwal family in Delhi, Ramdas Gudwala was among the richest men in North India. A prominent banker and businessman, his wealth was the subject of popular legends. It was said that he possessed immense treasures of gold, silver, pearls, and diamonds.
When the flames of revolution reached Delhi in 1857, thousands of Indian soldiers gathered to fight the British. However, feeding, clothing, and paying such a force became a major challenge.
At this critical moment, Seth Ramdas Gudwala stepped forward.
He placed his enormous fortune at the service of the nation, providing food, clothing, grain, animals, supplies, and financial support for the revolutionary forces. He also helped organize intelligence networks and communication channels across North India, connecting revolutionaries, rulers, and military camps.
His activities became a nightmare for the British administration.
Determined to crush the resistance, the British eventually recaptured Delhi. Seth Ramdas Gudwala was arrested and subjected to unimaginable brutality.
According to accounts, he was tied to a post and attacked by hunting dogs before being publicly executed in Chandni Chowk as a warning to others.
Historian Tara Chand, in his work History of the Freedom Movement, described Seth Ramdas Gudwala as one of the wealthiest men in North India, whose vast resources were dedicated to the cause of freedom.
Yet today, few Indians know his name.
The story of Seth Ramdas Gudwala reminds us that India’s freedom struggle was not fought only by soldiers on the battlefield, but also by courageous patriots who sacrificed their wealth, influence, and ultimately their lives for the motherland.
How many more such forgotten heroes are still waiting to be remembered?
Marvel of a Lakhimpur Kheri Police.
> Gold worth of 1cr was kept in an evidence room "Malkhana" in a dowry case as an evidence from 2007
> Accused got acquitted and asked for their gold
> Court ordered police to return the gold
> Police said some Gold melted due to rain and some were looted by monkeys when it was kept on the police station roof to dry.
> Court didn't buy this story and asked to file an FIR.
> Police filed FIR on two constables who were already dead.
> Case closed
> So, where did Gold worth 1 crore go ?
Police reforms are very much necessary.
In China, children born out of wedlock and not claimed by their parents are transported in this manner - in cages.
China firewall saves their PR from their dehaat savagery
Chinese society is basically one dystopian nightmare 🇨🇳
> Here are a bunch of desperate parents dancing on livestream to earn money for their children suffering from cancer
> Despite the state subsidizing 40% of the bill, they're still too short on money to afford medication
> Netizens throw money at these anguished parents while watching them dance like zoo animals
> Most of these parents have issues like joint pains themselves but push their body beyond limits hoping to save their children
> They know it's utterly humiliating, but they have no other option to choose
> Often enough, these children are their sole offspring too. So when a child dies, it ends lineage of two entire families
C: SCMP
🇩🇰 He’s a Danish colleague. He got himself into the same mess I did 🤷♂️ Eight police officers came for him because he spoke out against the prime minister...
At least my door stayed intact.
@AgentSaffron Among brahmins also Life in India is incredibly atomistic and lonely. only the shudras are clannish and stick together. I ve never seen more than 10 people at a Brahmins cremation but atleast 1000 turn up even for a shudra criminal or rickshaw driver burial
இந்த ரீல்ஸ் கலெக்டர், திருவள்ளூர் மாவட்ட ஆட்சியராக இருந்தபோது, ஒற்றை எழுத்து ரியல் ஸ்டேட் நிறுவனத்துக்காக, நூற்றுக்கணக்கான நஞ்சை நிலங்களை புஞ்சையாக மாற்றி பல கோடிகளை சம்பாதித்தது குறித்து விசாரணை நடத்தினால் பல உண்மைகள் வெளிவரும்.
இந்த நில மாற்றங்கள், அத்தனையும் பரந்தூரில் விமான நிலையம் வரும் என்ற நினைப்பில் ஒற்றை எழுத்து நிறுவனத்துக்காக நடந்த அவசர பரிவர்த்தனைகள்.
யார் பரிந்துரையில் இவர் திருவள்ளூருக்கு நியமிக்கப்பட்டார், என்பதையும் விசாரியுங்கள்.
@CMOTamilnadu
Let us stop using such references as blue and white collars. Every job has equal dignity, social value, economic productivity and opportunity creation potential. By making demeaning references, we tend to stigmatise professions and most importantly end up "othering" Self employment.
Wages and income for vocations will rise when demand exceeds supply and when economic value of professional time rises supported by rising productivity. Surely, thats a respectful thing.