I'm 63 now. When I go up & Chitragupt asks me what is the one think you have regret for, I'll have to say I just couldn't smoke what Pappu smokes.
He might send me back, so can any good samaritan tell me what he smokes?
Spare us the lecture on “regime change is normal in a democracy.”
You know exactly what the phrase means when Prashant Bhushan and AISA’s Neha Bora use it while invoking Bangladesh’s Gen Z street movement that toppled a government outside the electoral calendar. That is not “oppose, expose and depose through elections.” That is a deliberate attempt to normalise extra-constitutional pressure, street veto and manufactured unrest.
If it is only about elections, why the hurry? Why the Bangladesh template? Why frame protests against the Election Commission as a “fight for regime change”?In a real democracy, governments change when voters decide at the ballot box, not when a handful of activists and opposition leaders decide the system is “dictatorial” the moment they keep losing. You yourself have used the phrase in purely electoral contexts before. The difference is context, and this context reeks of anarchy-shopping.
The BJP is not “apoplectic with feigned rage.” We are simply refusing to pretend that “regime change” + Bangladesh reference = routine parliamentary opposition. India is not Bangladesh. Our institutions, our voters and our Constitution will decide the next government in 2029, not street theatrics dressed up as high principle.
Do your job in Parliament and on the campaign trail. Stop trying to import instability and then gaslight the country about dictionary definitions.
While Congress in Karnataka is busy giving a character certificate to terrorist Umar Khalid, Gujarat has built dedicated bus lanes in its capital.
Oh Dictator Mudi, what have you done? 🥺
₹15 for 8 km in an AC bus with a dedicated lane. What a dictatorship 🥵
Thank you🙏🏻, Gyanesh Kumar, for your great service in conducting free and fair elections without any intimidation or rigging. As a result, West Bengal’s Hindus are celebrating Durga Puja in a grand manner without any fear of criminal party goondas.
Viraj Joshi.
He is at ease singing in Marathi, Hindi & Kannada.
Following the illustrious footsteps of his grandfather Bharat Ratna Pt. Bhimsen Joshi.
Today Sutturu Swamiji visited to check on the health condition of Uttaradi Math Swamiji who had met with car accident few days before. Nice to see a Lingayata Parampara swamiji visiting Madhwa Parampara swamiji, may this inter relationship with all Hindu Samaj continue.🙂🙏
A boy said he went to Kalyan railway station in Maharashtra to drop his family off for their train. The train was originally scheduled to leave at 12 noon, but later they were told it would arrive at 2 PM.
He had bought a platform ticket and waited with his family. However, the train kept getting delayed. Around 5 PM, when he was helping his family board the train and was about to leave, a TTE stopped him and asked for his platform ticket.
He showed the ticket, but the TTE told him that a platform ticket is valid only for 2 hours. Since more than 2 hours had passed, he was fined ₹500.
The boy then raised a simple question: if the train was delayed for several hours because of the railway, why should the passenger be held responsible for staying at the station?
He had purchased a valid platform ticket and was only there to drop his family.
If the delay was caused by the railway, shouldn’t there be some consideration for passengers and their families who are forced to wait longer?
It raises a genuine question about whether passengers should be fined when they remain at the station because of a railway delay.
Clips of Former Attorney General Mukul Rohatgi’s interview to me where he explains why the ‘impeach Gyanesh Kumar’ call is a waste of time, are viralling.
Here’s the full interview:
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Cashless health insurance is legally sanctioned house arrest.
The doctor officially discharges you at 9 AM. You are fully recovered, your bags are packed and your family is ready to take you home.
Then the hospital administration steps in: "Sir, the insurance TPA approval is pending. Please remain seated in your room until we receive the final payment."
You then spend the next 8 to 12 hours held hostage in a ₹15,000-a-day hospital room.
You are no longer a patient but you are collateral. The hospital doesn't trust the insurance company to actually pay, the insurer is deliberately stalling to find a typo in your medical history to reject the claim and you are stuck in the middle of a corporate standoff.
We live in a country where UPI settles transactions in 300 milliseconds and automated trading algorithms move crores in a microsecond.
The system is designed to exhaust you. They want you so frustrated and desperate to go home that the next time you get sick, you just pay the cash upfront and file for a reimbursement which they will conveniently reject 45 days later citing "insufficient documentation."
If my policy is active and the hospital is in-network, the final discharge should be an instant and automated API settlement. Man I paid insurance company for this service.
Until we force insurers to adopt automated clearing, stop calling it a cashless facility.
Call it what it actually is: an extortion racket with a waiting room.