Raga Times

India's nature is 1.4 billion imaginations. Supporter of UPA. My favourite speech of Rahul Gandhi-

[Raga Times @RagaTimes]

One of the biggest critique against @RahulGandhi is that he has done 'nothing' in his political trajectory.

I wish to dispel it today.
A thread : 35 tweets.

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala: Mani Shankar Aiyar says, "Can you imagine what is the condition of a party which raises a rowdy like KC Venugopal to the level of Sardar Patel, to Rahul Gandhi? That is all I need to say as an answer."

[Korah Abraham @thekorahabraham]

I don’t think the senior leadership of the Congress has fully understood the depth of their victory in Kerala. If they believe this mandate was purely a vote for Congress, they are making a serious mistake. This election was driven more by disappointment against the incumbent government.

What we’ve seen over the past week is mocking the mandate given by the people. And if the leadership thinks this can be brushed aside with “this is how Congress has always functioned since the days of Indira Gandhi, Karunakaran or Antony,” they are misreading the moment completely.

Times have changed. Political climate has changed. Public patience has changed. People are watching everything in real time now and they are far less forgiving.

[Raga Times @RagaTimes]

@eth_njan Thank you for remembering me, how are you? 😊

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Chennai, Tamil Nadu: On Congress's decision to support TVK, Congress MP Karti Chidambaram says, "The Congress party has decided to support a government headed by the TVK..."

He says, "TVK has got 108 seats. The people of Tamil Nadu want a formation to be headed by the TVK. It's now incumbent upon the TVK to put together a workable majority, and they have reached out to the Congress party formally. It has been discussed in all appropriate forums of the party, and unanimously, the Congress party has decided to support a government headed by the TVK because we believe that the people of Tamil Nadu want a change, but they also want a change which is headed by the TVK, but is also a secular formation. I think the people of Tamil Nadu are very clear that they want a secular formation. So we are only aiding and assisting the TVK to put together a secular and stable government in Tamil Nadu..."

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

Mrs Dikshit loved Delhi, went to college in Delhi & was a v good CM. @ArvindKejriwal defamed her, made disgusting allegations against her & broke her heart just for winning Delhi. The city suffered his governance & is now suffering BJP’s where it is treated as an orphan. Delhi is the poorer.

[Kapil Komireddi @kapskom]

He had twelve years to lift India. He squandered that time lying to Indians, destroying institutions, erecting a personality cult, enriching his cronies, and deploying hate to divide and subdivide Indians. May today’s defeat be the beginning of his swift political end.

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

Proud of my old newspaper, @the_hindu, take a bow @nambath, the only paper to have the correct headline for what transpired in parliament yesterday. All other newspapers seem to have bought the government’s spin that the ‘opposition defeated women’s reservation’!

[Easy Rider @Koushik_laribee]

We have the Mahatma’s marksheet, but Modiji’s marksheet is a matter of state secrecy.

[Himanshu @hims_negi]

I am surprised nobody discussed Salim Ghouse's portrayal of Lord Ram from Bharat Ek Khoj.
He was equally brilliant as Krishna.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

My friend and I organised the 1st proper quiz in our school.

Our principal - the legendary Vibha Parthasarathi - opposed the idea of quizzes.

She said, quizzing fills the mind with superficial trivia, displacing depth.

As I've grown older, I've begun to agree with her.

[Kapil Komireddi @kapskom]

Narendra Modi’s career should have ended in Gujarat in 2002. India is enduring the consequences of Vajpayee’s failure to rise to the moment.

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | An open letter to Shashi Tharoor on moral amnesia, and more

Mani Shankar Aiyar✍️

https://t.co/a9W5U1OGLj

[Arjun @arjundsage1]

Sri lanka 🇱🇰 a tiny island nation has more balls than India ruled by two treacherous cowards from Gujarat

[Sanket @sankulyaa]

Ahmad Musavi was an Shia scholar born near Lucknow. In 1830, to escape the British rule, he left India & finally settled in a village called Khomeyn in Iran.

His grandson - Ayatollah Khomeini, used Hindi as a pen name to indicate his Indian connection. #Iran

[HindolSengupta @HindolSengupta]

Indian cities continue to embarrass the country. There was some hope in Jaipur. Now UNESCO is threatening take away the world heritage tag (granted in 2019) from the city seeing how dirty, badly planned, corrupt it has become. Unbelievable. We are experts at destroying heritage.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

Chabahar.

Not just an Iranian port. India’s ₹14,000 crore investment. Our ONLY land-bypass of Pakistan to reach Afghanistan & Central Asia. Decades of strategic patience. Signed. Built. Operational.

Bombed, by the same country Modi flew to Jerusalem to embrace 72 hours ago.

And our PM is still silent.

This isn’t just a foreign policy failure. This is a direct attack on Indian national interest; enabled by Indian endorsement.

When a PM’s photo-op costs a nation its strategic infrastructure, that’s not diplomacy. That’s dereliction.

History will not forget. But voters shouldn’t wait for history.

[rathin roy @EmergingRoy]

Long time since we had a govt interested in the slave trade

[Swati Chaturvedi @bainjal]

I love Delhi particularly Lutyens Delhi because I grew up there. Went to school & college while living there. Which is why I am heartbroken at the way Modi & that tacky third rate architect Bimal Patel have wrecked the LBZ. The kind of airless garbage Gujarati marriage halls that Patel has built as far as I know sans any competitive bidding it might have been better if he had razed it. Modi will be remembered as a barbarian who destroyed New Delhi