Punnu Halwai

Cartoonist, Illustrator, Animator

[Punnu Halwai @PunnuHalwai]

@houseofuday_ Fantastic

[u^day @houseofuday_]

Hanuman in Lanka | RAMAYANA

[Dr Rajesh Patil @DrRajeshPatil20]

@DesiLord_ You want to say 2014 elections under UPA and all Gujarat elections under UPA from 2004-14 were not fair?
Why did Sonia and her EC converter Navin Chawal rig elections to make Modi win.

[Sanjay Dixit ಸಂಜಯ್ ದೀಕ್ಷಿತ್ संजय दीक्षित @Sanjay_Dixit]

He had given 8% lead to TMC in a similar pre-poll survey. SP Ahead in Avadh is most improbable, unless his Avadh also comprises Mainpuri Etawa area.

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

PM Modi’s humane gesture in Mysuru.
MODI ALWAYS THE "PRADHAN SEWAK".
In the PM's rally at Mysuru today, 70year old Prema K, a BJP Karyakarta from Nanjanagudu in Karnatak was feeling uncomfortable and was about to faint.
PM Modi attended to her personally and told his doctor also to take care of her.

[Shefali Vaidya. 🇮🇳 @ShefVaidya]

Gems of Indian judiciary!

[Amana Begam Ansari @Amana_Ansari]

As a Pasmanda Muslim who grew up in a small village called Mangalpur in Varanasi (Kashi), my memories of Diwali are very different from the arguments I see on social media today.

My village was predominantly Pasmanda Muslim, with two mosques serving the entire village. On one side was an Ambedkar village, where Dalit families lived, and on the other side were settlements of different Hindu communities and castes. We all had our own religious identities, traditions and ways of life, but we also shared the same neighbourhood and many everyday experiences.

I remember that almost every Muslim family in my village would cook puri and suran ki sabzi on Diwali. And to be fair, I never even questioned why. It was simply something we did. Only much later, when I became curious and started reading about it, did I discover that preparing these dishes around Diwali was an old tradition in parts of North India.
My column this week in ThePrintIndia

[Lt Gen P R Shankar (R) @palepurshankar]

I have been reading Rahul Bedi's articles on defence affairs from over 10 years .
He writes from complete lack of knowledge and a hidden AI chip on his shoulder which is perpetually in hallucination.
You are quoting him.
Ek hi Thaili ki Chatte Batte?
Oh BTW....I was one of the most vocal critics of the Agnipath...

[Radharamn Das राधारमण दास @RadharamnDas]

A madrasa student uses a lighter to set fire to a hanging dupatta at a Hindu-owned clothing shop named **Krishna Clothes** in Merut.

Sab ke sab saale suar ki aulaad hai. Jihadi kutte...

Imagine the horror of a shopkeeper watching his livelihood being put at risk by an act of deliberate mischief.

[संवैधानिक डकैत @Shivam_h9]

Last time you alleged phone tapping but you ran away the moment agencies asked you to submit the evidences.

This time shall be no different, Why don’t you change the script?

[Sensei Kraken Zero @YearOfTheKraken]

Why is a journalist from Norway so invested in seeing Rahul Gandhi as Prime Minister?

Something feels fishy here.

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

After being formally coronated as Maharaja in 1801, Ranjit Singh turned his attention towards expansion of the empire.

Amritsar was captured in 1802 from the Bhangi Sikhs, while Qasur was captured from the Afghans in 1807, where a young Hari Singh Nalwa who would later be his most trusted General, led the mission.

Dewan Mokham Chand, one of Ranjit Singh’s trusted generals, played a crucial role in the Battle of Attock against the Afghans.

Attock was a strategically important fort, guarding the Indus crossing and serving as a gateway between Punjab and the Afghan territories.

In 1813, he led the Sikh forces against the Afghans under Fateh Khan Barakzai, with Dost Mohammad Khan commanding an important contingent.

In an intense battle at Haidaru near Attock, Mokham Chand brought his artillery forward on an elephant and used it to break the Afghan cavalry charge, routing their forces. So significant was this victory that Lahore, Amritsar and Batala were illuminated for celebrations, reportedly for two months in Lahore.

Ranjit Singh’s first major attempt to capture Kashmir in 1814 failed due to difficult terrain, heavy rains and stiff Afghan resistance. However, he finally managed to conquer it in 1819, ending Afghan provincial rule there. Dewan Moti Ram was subsequently appointed Governor in 1820.

In between, Multan was conquered by Ranjit Singh in 1818 after repeated military expeditions. The capture of the city and the defeat of Nawab Muzaffar Khan brought a major commercial and strategic centre of southern Punjab under Sikh control.

And there was Hari Singh Nalwa a man whom the Afghans feared so much, it's believed that Afghan mothers would put their children to sleep with the words “Hari Ragla".

He was Ranjit Singh's sword arm leading the Sikh forces to victory over the Afghans in many battles, forcing the Afghan Governor Sultan Mohammed Khan to accept Ranjit Singh’s sovereignty over Peshawar and pay him a revenue of Rs 1 lakh per year. He also acquired Dera Ghazi Khan, Hazara and Mankera between the Jhelum and Indus from 1820-21.

Battle of Jamrud was the last major Afghan-Sikh confrontation, where Nalwa fought the Afghans till his last breath. While Nalwa died in the Battle of Jamrud, he ensured his spirited resistance, would make the Afghan forces retreat.

However his death was however a major blow to Ranjit Singh, as the empire was restricted till the Khyber, and could not expand more. Other famous generals were Zorawar Singh who conquered Ladakh, Baltistan, and went all the way up to Tibet.

At its height under Ranjit Singh, the Sikh Empire extended across much of Punjab, including Lahore, Multan and Peshawar, along with Kashmir and several Himalayan hill territories. Its western frontier reached Jamrud, at the entrance to the Khyber Pass. Under his Dogra feudatory Gulab Singh, the empire also expanded into Ladakh in 1834.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijitmajumder]

“We brought $1 billion from Pakistan. Our cadre carried out numerous attacks. We did the main planning [to topple Sheikh Hasina]. But now Tarique Rahman is enjoying the nectar of power.”
~ Bangladesh 🇧🇩 Jamaat emir Shafiqur Rahman.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

I’ve personally edited 120 of @ShashiTharoor’s column Worldview in my media company for over 10 years so I can guarantee he had nothing to do with this badly written book, “Belonging”, by Sonia Gandhi’s ghost writer except to help, eyes rolling in private, to propagate it.

[Parody Farrago Abdullah @abdullah_0mar]

I talked my friends who are in Seattle, Washington working in Microsoft.

They have been in the office for the last 12 hrs and couldn't find the Root cause of the Outlook issue. They are suspecting that some AI scripts went out of scope and did some patching without any logs and traces.

The engineer team that actually coded legacy outlook is not in the Organization and got impacted due recent layoff in the Microsoft.

With AI managing almost everything in the Microsoft, so higher management thought of reducing the workforce of Core engineering team.

The code of Outlook is so vague that only core engineer (no more in the org) knows about it and earlier they fixed these kinds of issues within 30 mins but now it has been more than 12 hrs and the new team is unable to FIX it.

[Samarth @Samarth02_]

Sir, aaj se Chhath Puja shuru ho gaya hai, toh main aapko gaali nahi de paunga.

Sorry for the inconvenience. 😭🙏🏻

[News Algebra @NewsAlgebraIND]

BIG BREAKING 🚨

West Bengal CM Suvendu Adhikari asks 12,000 fake rural housing beneficiaries from the previous TMC government to return the funds received.

He said 1,000 have already returned the money. Officials involved in the fraud will face action and a CID probe has been ordered.

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

See the arrogance of Pawan Khera while he is still in opposition

Imagine how he would talk if he was in power...

[Punnu Halwai @PunnuHalwai]

@RaveenKr @ragarwal @kjsingh2 KJ Singh wvwn questions our Army’s assertion that the Pakistanis targeted the Golden Temple suring Op Sindoor, don’t know which Army’s infantry he served in

[theZULU🇮🇳 @RaveenKr]

@kjsingh2 @ragarwal No this Agarwal opted for PMR! Incidentally his last posting prior to that was in MO Dte.
And post PMR amongst many others he has also authored several books on 1962 & 65 Wars for MOD & CLAWS.

Now GO figure!