Ritvik Jain

Tech Enthusiast. Movie Buff. Engineer at Heart

[Lutyens Media @LutyensMediaIN]

40 दिनों में 71 बार पैसा निकाला गया है.नेशनल हेराल्ड मामले में तो नकदी का लेन-देन ही नहीं हुआ है लेकिन उस पर ED लगा दी. लेकिन इस मामले में जहां खुलेआम पैसे का लेन-देन किया जा रहा है, तब ED कहां है?

- दिग्विजय सिंह

[The DeshBhakt 🇮🇳 @TheDeshBhakt]

Is it possible to kill the same man twice?
Govt of India just proved that it can be done.
Jaswant Khalra was encountered for the second time in 2026.
Probably one of our most disturbing episodes - not just because we had to revisit one of the darkest chapters of Punjab's history - but also because we had to face the harsh reality of why a panic-stricken Modi Govt wanted to block this movie so bad.... (even three decades after what happened to Khalra)
Still - this movie gives us hope - there are people who still want to challenge the darkness.... kudos to @HoneyTrehan @diljitdosanjh @ZEE5India for standing on the right side of history.
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▶️- https://t.co/3wANuQxk6j

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

"In total, 37 defendants – including two defendants who ran their global criminal syndicates while imprisoned in India – are charged across three indictments unsealed today."

[Manish Sisodia @msisodia]

मोदी जी! अब ये भी बताइए… ये कौन?

करोड़ों बच्चों की किताबों की सप्लाई में घपला करने पर जिस कंपनी को NCERT ने ब्लैकलिस्ट किया, उसी के खिलाफ़ कोर्ट में एक सरकारी वकील तक नहीं खड़ा किया गया।

10 करोड़ के टर्नओवर वाली कंपनी को ₹121 करोड़ का टेंडर दे दिया गया। किसके कहने पर?
और जब करोड़ों बच्चों को किताबें नहीं मिलीं तो कोर्ट में कंपनी के ख़िलाफ़ वकील ना खड़ा करके पिछले दरवाज़े से कंपनी की मदद की गई।

बच्चों की पढ़ाई से खिलवाड़ करने वाली सरकार का मुखिया कौन?

और उस भ्रष्टाचारी पार्टी का अध्यक्ष कौन?

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

DELHI’S BIGGEST MARKET TURNS INTO A DRAIN IN ONE RAIN 🚨

Sadar Bazaar gives thousands of crores to the government. One strong rain, and traders are left standing in knee-deep water.

SHARAD 😠: Should Delhi’s biggest market look like this?

LOCAL 💥: Yes, exactly like this. “Jaisa raja, vaisi praja.”

Sharad Sharma went to report on shifting fears, but the rain exposed the real issue: broken drainage, flooded roads, frozen traffic and helpless traders.

[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta @paranjoygt]

THE TAKE
Mumbai Chases Vanity Projects While Basic Infrastructure Kills
By Govindraj Ethiraj
Residents of Bandra, a bustling Mumbai suburb, are currently fighting a rear-guard action to save a local football ground from being paved over for a new convention center.
The proposition defies economic logic: world-class convention facilities already exist a mere five kilometers away in the Bandra Kurla Complex (BKC).
Why civic authorities are so eager to pour more concrete over scarce urban open space is a mystery. Or given the track record of local governance, perhaps it isn’t.
This local skirmish over a patch of dirt is a microcosm of a much larger crisis in India’s financial capital.
Monsoon Exposes Civic Neglect
As the monsoon season arrives, predictably intense, though somehow always treated as a surprise by city officials, Mumbai is once again buckling under the weight of misplaced priorities.
The daily news reads like a grim ledger of civic failure.
Trees, their roots suffocated by improperly poured tar and concrete or left unpruned by municipal workers, are collapsing and killing pedestrians and some, like a student last week, inside a school van.
Even more perilous are the city's manholes. To manage excessive flooding, officials routinely leave sewer and storm-drain portals open.
Last week, yet another citizen fell to his death in an unprotected manhole.
It is highly likely the victim was walking on the street because a safe, walkable pavement simply did not exist, a standard feature of Mumbai's inner-city layout.
This tragedy echoes the high-profile 2017 death of Dr Deepak Amrapurkar, a prominent gastroenterologist who slipped into a drain after abandoning his stranded car to walk home.
Following Dr Amrapurkar’s death, the Bombay High Court mandated protective grills over the city's vast network of drains.
Yet, the bureaucratic gears grind so slowly that the victim who perished last week died while this very installation drive was still sluggishly underway.
Thieves apparently love these cast-iron manhole covers.
That a city styling itself as a 21st-century economic hub cannot innovate a tamper-proof drain cover is a staggering indictment of its administrative capacity.
The absurdity of the situation was perfectly captured in a recent viral video: a municipal supervisor tumbled into an open drainage chamber while the city’s mayor was in the very same frame, ostensibly inspecting flood preparedness.
The Illusion Of Progress
The contrast between the city's aspirations and its reality is jarring.
The same newspapers reporting these preventable infrastructural fatalities also carry splashy advertisements for new expressways across the country, which reliably develop potholes and cracks within months of their ribbon-cuttings.
Mumbai’s current showcase project is the Coastal Road on the city’s south-western rim and being extended northwards.
Soon to be adorned with corporate-sponsored parks, the operational part of the road is a grand, multi-billion-dollar engineering feat.
Yet, the Coastal Road cannot compensate for the decay within.
The deeper one travels into the city, the more the illusion gives way.
Visitors arriving at the airport expecting the gleaming promise of India’s economic engine are instead greeted by fluttering blue tarpaulins, perpetual construction debris, and deafening, gridlocked traffic.
The incessant honking alone is a recognised public health hazard, yet one entirely ignored by behavioral interventions in the city.
Rapid urbanisation strains any municipal government. It is entirely expected that civic authorities will struggle to keep pace with a booming population.
But in its haste to erect shiny new monuments to progress, like unnecessary Government-owned convention centers, Mumbai’s civic leadership appears to be struggling with its most basic duties.
Allowing rampant, unchecked construction when the existing grid is failing is not a sign of progress; it is a recipe for urban misery.
True progress is not defined by vanity projects. It is defined by clean streets, functioning drainage, and safe public spaces.
A simple, radical place for Mumbai’s leaders to start?
Build and maintain walkable pavements in the inner city.
That would signal a genuine commitment to public welfare and safety that no splashy coastal highway can ever match.

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

BJP in a classic attempt at both-sideism here. #Satluj

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

इतनी बड़ी कारों के मालिक क्यों नहीं बोल पा रहे? उनकी कार में खरोंच लग जाए तो उतर कर ठेले वाले से पैसा माँगने लग जाते हैं। यहाँ मैकेनिक राज़ बता रहा है कि सौ से अधिक फ़्यूल पंप बदले गए हैं।

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

This is barbaric. Couldn't they have just transferred him?

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

मेरे ख्याल से इस मामले की जाँच राम मंदिर ट्रस्ट को सौंपी जानी चाहिए । केवल ट्रस्ट ही पैसा बरामद करा सकता है।

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

पर पारदर्शी जाँच कौन करेगा? कोई बचा भी है?

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

राज है इनका भाई। चाहें तो कानून बनवा दें कि इस देश में इन पर सवाल करने पर जेल हो सकती है। धर्म के नाम पर जो मन में आए कीजिए।

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

Mr. @prasoonjoshi_

Can you please enlighten us on why 127 cuts were recommended for the film Panjab '95?

The same film, now renamed ‘Satluj’, has been taken down from an OTT platform in less than two days. The CBFC has no jurisdiction over OTT platforms or international releases.

Panjab '95 tells the story of Jaswant Singh Khalra, a man who exposed documented human rights abuses and paid for it with his life. If a film based on documented facts cannot be seen by Indian audiences, then the public deserves to know why.

This sends a very direct message to filmmakers and production companies: if you're paying homage to a great personality from a minority community, you'll have to face the CBFC.

Journalists should be asking the people running this censor board some hard questions. Why are some politically insensitive films able to pass with ease while others spend years in limbo?

A red carpet for Kashmir Files, Bengal Files, and Kerala Story. Roses for Dhurandar 1 & 2, a fictional documentary/explainer for the unthinkable and the unexplainable.

How does it feel to feast on four years of a director's career?

In Nehru's India, this would have been litigated in court. If filmmakers cannot tell the stories of people who stood up for justice without years of obstruction, what kind of cinema are we encouraging them to make?

Jaswant Singh Khalra Abducted again,
This time by the CBFC

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

जो सवाल करेगा, उसे ऐसे ही फँसाया जाएगा !

[ASHUTOSH MISHRA @JournoAshutosh]

“भगवान लक्ष्मण” को नहीं चाहिए इथेनाल पेट्रोल!
रामानंद सागर की 'रामायण' (1987) में 'लक्ष्मण' का अमर किरदार निभाने वाले सुनील लाहिड़ी ने E20 पेट्रोल को लेकर सरकार से अनुरोध किया है कि ये फैसला जबरदस्ती पब्लिक के ऊपर न थोपा जाए बल्कि उन्हें नॉर्मल पेट्रोल और E20 के लिए च्वाइस देनी चाहिए।

[K C Venugopal @kcvenugopalmp]

The VHP’s letter attacking opposition leaders in the Ram Temple theft case is a classic case of the pot calling the kettle black.

The same VHP that had in the past faced allegations by the Nirmohi Akhara of a ₹1,400 crore Ram Mandir scam is demanding that Opposition leaders who questioned the alleged loot be interrogated. The demand is as absurd as it is shameless. Having itself come under the scanner, the VHP has neither the moral authority nor the credibility to point fingers at the Opposition.

Afterall,
- Temple Trust was set up by PM Modi
- Trust General Secretary - Champat Rai, VHP Vice President and RSS Pracharak
- Trust Chairman - Principal Secretary to the Prime Minister of India, awarded Padma Bushan by the BJP
- Central and State Government - BJP-ruled

Then, how are Priyanka ji, Akhilesh ji or other opposition leaders even relevant to this matter?

The truth is that the VHP and the Sangh Parivar stand completely discredited. The controversial Ram Temple movement has long been dogged by allegations of Chanda Chori, and the latest reports have once again exposed that these self-proclaimed ‘saviors’ of Hindus have nothing to do with religion or Lord Ram. They only exploit devotees' faith and misuse Lord Ram's name for political and financial gain.

If the VHP is genuinely concerned about the sanctity of the Ram Mandir, why has it not demanded action against those within its own ranks who ran this mega-racket?

Why is it silent on the BJP leadership that claimed full credit for the temple's construction but is now conspicuously absent when the Trust appointed by them is itself under scrutiny?

Having been cornered by serious questions and left red-faced, they are now trying to create a spectacle, feign innocence, twist facts, intimidate critics and divert attention so that their own moral rot and ethical bankruptcy is not exposed.

We reiterate our demand for an independent, Supreme Court-monitored probe. The current SIT is no more than an elaborate mechanism to protect the plunderers of Ram Mandir.

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

Former officer who worked as Home Secretary is saying that in December 2024 he got to know that his donated Golden ‘Ramcharit Manas’ worth ₹5 crore is not at the temple.

Then he complaint to everyone including RSS chief Mohan Bhagwat and Nripendra Mishra but everyone said only Champat Rai can do something.

Ram Mandir fund theft is not that small as Godi media is trying to show.

[Amitabh Dubey @dubeyamitabh]

Champat Rai stepped down as secretary general of the Shri Ram Janmabhoomi Teerth Kshetra Trust amid the Chanda Chori controversy. His replacement? Bajrang Lal Bagra, who was removed as NALCO CMD after the CVC refused to clear him two alleged scams.

Is the scandal-hit trust just swapping one tainted record for another?

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

दोनों ही बातें सही हैं। दोनों को श्रेय मिलना चाहिए।

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

ये कौन सा पाप है? महापाप के अलावा?