Raja

0. Writing Beyond Names, Thinking Beyond Identities | Jurisprudence & Justice | Initiated, The Nalanda | Advocate, Supreme Court of India

[Raja @Rajaisnude]

The Taj Mahal of Indian Democracy

Birthday greetings to Shri L. K. Advani ji—a towering monument to India’s parliamentary journey. His visit to Jinnah’s mausoleum in Karachi in 2005 remains, to me, an expression of statesmanship: an Indian leader confident enough in his own nation’s sovereignty to honour another nation’s history. Patriotism can carry the wounds of Partition and still extend a hand of respect across the border. Advani ji’s gesture deserves remembrance for that courage and dignity. Wishing him health, peace and affection on his birthday. @_LKAdvani @narendramodi @IIASShimla

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Today, 8th November, is a landmark day. Respected L.K. Advani Ji enters his hundredth year. On this special occasion, my greetings to him.

I’ve written an article in which I’ve highlighted his everlasting contribution to India.

I have recalled his journey, be it experiencing the horrors of Partition and rebuilding life from scratch, strengthening the Jana Sangh and building the BJP, standing up for democracy during the Emergency, leading the Somnath to Ayodhya Rath Yatra or serving the nation in government.

Have also written about other aspects of Advani Ji - the voracious reader, his love for culture and cinema, a prolific writer and more.

English - https://t.co/tc77ZVhRdo

हिंदी - https://t.co/t0JSavOopX

[President of India @rashtrapatibhvn]

किसी एक संस्था के अकेले के प्रयासों से स्वच्छता के लक्ष्यों को प्राप्त नहीं किया जा सकता है। इसके लिए हर नागरिक, हर घर, हर समुदाय और हर शहर की सहभागिता आवश्यक है।

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

"Science is not everything, but science is very beautiful."

- Robert Oppenheimer

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

In his 1924 PhD thesis, Louis de Broglie proposed that particles can exhibit wave-like properties, a concept known as wave-particle duality. This was a fundamental shift in how particles such as electrons were understood.

[Raja @Rajaisnude]

हम अब कुछ देर चुप रहें
और सुने हम क्या नहीं कहते

आँखें भी बंद कर लें
और देखें हम क्या नहीं देखते

क्या हम कुछ देख और सुन सकेंगे!
: विनोद कुमार शुक्ल

[Martin @martinmrmar]

If you have studied this entire book, or currently studying purely for personal enjoyment.... I want your honest thoughts .. I have seen this book reviews before by Math Sorcerer who loves Serge Lang books.. was thinking of getting one😎

[Yogi Adityanath @myogiadityanath]

जिन लोगों ने अपने भ्रष्ट कारनामों से पूरे सिस्टम को प्रदूषित किया, उनको कोई बोलता नहीं।

अगर पब्लिक एक दिन आतिशबाजी कर ले तो प्रदूषण हो गया...

हुआ है तो समाप्त भी हो जाएगा, कोई समस्या नहीं है...

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Prayagraj, Uttar Pradesh | Dhiraj Kumar Srivastava, former OSD to CPP chairperson Sonia Gandhi, says, "I have seen Sonia Gandhi as a politician, as a human being, as an administrator. I think it is not possible to describe her core values in words...A misconception, a misperception was created in public that Manmohan Singh was a puppet, that the government was actually run by Sonia Gandhi. I have witnessed both terms (of the UPA Govt) from close quarters. I remember very clearly how when anyone came to her with any input about the Government, she used to clearly say that it was not her job to do and that we should let Manmohan Singh run the Government..."

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

We, by our arts may be called the grandsons of God.

-- Leonardo da Vinci

[Samajwadi Party @samajwadiparty]

"कोई बचा हुआ सरसों का तेल अपने परिवार के लिए ले जा रहे हैं तो उन्हें अपमानित किया जा रहा है।"

- माननीय राष्ट्रीय अध्यक्ष श्री अखिलेश यादव जी

[Prof Rakesh Sinha @RakeshSinha01]

ॐ श्री चित्रगुप्ताय नमः।

[Ratan acharya @ratanac81230688]

कांग्रेस के 10 नेताओं ने सोनिया जी की सबसे अधिक मदद की उनका किताब में सोनिया जी ने जिक्र किया..।

1 – अर्जुन सिंह – पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री
2 – प्रियरंजन दास मुशी – पूर्व मंत्री
3 – माधव राव सिंधया – पूर्व मंत्री
4 – एके एंटोनी – पूर्व मुख्यमंत्री
5 – प्रणब मुखर्जी – पूर्व राष्ट्रपति
6 – अंबिका सोनी – पूर्व मंत्री
7 – अहमद पटेल – पूर्व सचिव
8 – मोहसिना किदवई – पूर्व मंत्री
9 – शैलजा – पूर्व मंत्री
10 – ऑस्कर फर्नाडिज – पूर्व मंत्री

अर्जुन सिंह मध्य प्रदेश के मुख्यमंत्री रहे, उनको सोनिया गांधी ने उनकी बात नहीं मानने का पछतावा किया..।

प्रियरंजन दास मुशी सोनिया गांधी जी के पहले लोकसभा के कार्यकाल में सदन में हेल्प करते थे..।

प्रणब मुखर्जी 10 साल की सरकार में सबसे बड़े पदों पर रहे देश के राष्ट्रपति बनाए गए लेकिन उनको प्रधानमंत्री नहीं बनने की कसक हमेशा रही...।

अहमद पटेल को जब राजनीतिक सचिव नियुक्त किया उसके बाद से लो प्रोफाइल रहे ओर आजीवन जीवन के अंतिम समय तक राजनीतिक सचिव थे....।

[Raja @Rajaisnude]

Remembering Maulana Abul Kalam Azad SIR on his birth anniversary—and the thirty pages of India Wins Freedom withheld until 1988. SIR, controversial autobiographies seem an old Congress tradition!

Now, a question for Penguin regarding Sonia Gandhi Ma’am’s memoir: have any passages been withheld and, if so, at whose request?

What a great paradox of autobiography: one person tells their story, but who decides what the public may read—the author, the State, or a multinational corporation?

https://t.co/bc4S0ORAMV

[Physics In History @PhysInHistory]

“Teachers who make physics class boring are criminals”

- Prof. Walter Lewin

[Milton Friedman Daily @MiltonFriedmanW]

Former Fed chairman Alan Greenspan on Milton Friedman:

“There are very few people over the generations who have ideas that are sufficiently original to materially alter the direction of civilization.”

“Milton is one of those very few people.”

[Jyotiraditya M. Scindia @JM_Scindia]

My heartiest birthday greetings to the Hon’ble Chief Minister of Nagaland, Shri @Neiphiu_Rio Ji.

Praying for your good health, long life and continued success in your dedicated service to the nation.

[C. Raja Mohan @MohanCRaja]

On Trump’s peace push in Ukraine: can the diverging interests of Europe, Ukraine and Russia be bridged?

[Albert Einstein @AlbertEinstein]

"The most beautiful thing to be found anywhere is a face radiant with joy." - Albert Einstein

[Phil Hoyeck @PAHoyeck]

Read about the lives of the Great Heroes for moral and historical edification.

[D. Raja @ComradeDRaja]

There is a common link between youth unrest across Asia, Africa and Europe. It is not a a mysterious foreign agency. It is the failure of neoliberal capitalism to improve living standards for the majority of the world’s population. 

The RSS and BJP have failed to read the ground and grossly miscalculated the cascading effects of their failures on students and youth, particularly GenZ and the generations that will follow. that.
The same mobile phones once used by the BJP to circulate falsehoods through WhatsApp have become instruments of political activism, documentation and fact-checking.

Myself and CPI NC Member Vivek Sharma (@vivekopinion) write in TheWire

[Raja @Rajaisnude]

Q.128. SIR Prashant Bhushan, can an honest autobiography become political suicide in a culture that rewards manufactured greatness? You acknowledge that you have not yet read Belonging, yet anticipate an “unputdownable” book and a “political earthquake”. If the verdict precedes the reading, what remains for independent criticism?

SIR Shahid Amin’s “Gandhi as Mahatma” examines how miracle stories circulated through the nationalist newspaper Swadesh around Mahatma Gandhi’s February 1921 visit to Gorakhpur—including stories of extraordinary harvests and supernatural punishment. These were accounts of popular belief, not established miracles; peasants also interpreted Gandhi through their own aspirations and acted beyond Congress leaders’ instructions. Popular faith cannot simply be dismissed as chamchagiri. But the history invites a question: when do journalists, authors and political organisations help people think, and when do they turn admiration into unquestionable authority?

Is today’s Chamcha Yug different from the political dependence SIR Kanshi Ram challenged in The Chamcha Age? Is the soul of reading a book independent judgment—or reverence for its subject? Remembering SIR Shanti Bhushan as a towering legal figure whose doors were open to mass movements, should greatness be measured by celebratory narratives or by the space one creates for dissent?

Ma’am Sonia Gandhi’s bereavements and extraordinary political journey deserve humane, serious consideration. Should that consideration not also include scrutiny of power, responsibility and uncomfortable omissions? Must a memoir establish its honesty—or does an extraordinary life entitle it to an extraordinary verdict before the first page is read? @pbhushan1

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Though I haven’t yet read Sonia Gandhi’s personal memoir “Belonging”, yet; I can imagine that it must be unputdownable & a more gripping story that any novel can be.
What an absolutely remarkable life!
An Italian marrying the son of an Indian PM. Then seeing the emergency and Mrs Gandhi going out of power. Then seeing her going to jail and her remarkable political comeback. Then seeing her assassination & her dying in her arms!
Then seeing her husband become the PM in the biggest political landslide ever. Then watching him lose the election & then being brutally assassinated. Then as she watched the Congress party disintegrate, she reluctantly took the reins of the party & led to its revival & return to power. She abdicated her natural claim to be the PM in favour of Manmohan Singh. Yet she shepherded 5 remarkable pro people laws (The RTI Act; NREGA; The food security Act; the Forest Rights Act; The new land Acquisition Act), through her National Advisory Council. Then finally watched the Congress party humiliated & the rise to power of Modi/Shah who brought in their own brand of communal fascism. All through this, she was subjected to the worst kind of abuse & name calling.
There is little doubt that this personal memoir will cause a political earthquake in India!