Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳

Communications specialist, social-observer, voracious reader, part-time mother & wannabe teacher

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Nothing shocks anymore- it’s all par-course now, no sanctity. Executive-judiciary-legislature sab ek hain. Citizen Ram bharose

[Rohit Parulekar @RohitP_liberty]

Almost all critics who are criticising the money spent for the UK tour of judiciary, are forgetting a much larger and serious issue.

When the top judiciary travel with the very politicians against whose excesses they are expected to protect the citizens, how can one hope for an unbiased handling of cases between private individuals vs Govt?

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Indeed. Persepolis was a rare gem #rip

[Indranath Mukherjee @indranath]

A sad day.

[Ravi Prakash Official @raviprakash_rtv]

THIS IS A REMARKABLE MOMENT IN THE CBSE OSM CONTROVERSY !!!

Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak , one of the students who raised questions about the OSM evaluation process and tendering system, has now arrived at the Parliament House Annexe to present his findings before the Parliamentary Standing Committee on Education.

What started as students questioning blurred scans, mismatched answer sheets and evaluation irregularities has now officially reached Parliament.

Over the past few days, Sarthak and other students dug through public multiple documents, tender clauses and evaluation records while demanding answers from institutions far more powerful than themselves.

Whether anyone agrees with every allegation or not, one thing is undeniable that an investigation led by multiple students has forced a national conversation on transparency, accountability and the future of students in India.

@dpradhanbjp @cbseindia29 @EduMinOfIndia

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@sandeep_PT @harsh8848 Standard Boomer talk- jo uchit samjho woh karo advise in a war like scenario or accepting medal from the aggressor a day before is indicator of ability to handle! While someone with sane mind, clarity of thought & exposure to state-craft from childhood is inept. Insanity.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@PriaINC Boomers, GenX- not coping. Have reaped the benefits of previous lot for themselves & offspring/s now worried about Sanatan Dharma, religious pride & such things. Retirement sorted more or less- why bother with future 😞

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Best one yet for the day 👇🏽

[Amey Tirodkar @ameytirodkar]

A large part of Indian Mass Media has become a Barrier between Indian Masses and the Truth.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Yeah- instances of fire in critical buildings have drastically gone up

[Traveling Salesman @TriflingAlesman]

If you want to measure how much of a joke this country has become, try to enlist all the reported incidents of fires in critical government buildings at centre or in BJP rules states just as critical scams were in media glare since 2014.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@iramsubramanian Same was said during COVID & everything that happened around it- they won a landslide. Else ECI, EVM always there.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@AartiTikoo Disagree on last 40 years, liberalisation opened up opportunities with gave middle class like us solid careers & openings- a whole generation & segment dreamt, worked & achieved. 2014 onwards, it was all gradually undone & now crumbling 😢

[Amit @HappyGuy07]

Indian media should die in shame, two kids Sarthak and Nisagra(17-18 years old) are exposing entire Indian govt and its failed system!!

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Why shld CUET be left behind

[Atishi @AtishiAAP]

First NEET, then CBSE, now CUET…

Today CUET has been delayed due to a ‘technical issue’. Lakhs of students were to take the exam in all parts of India today and after waiting for hours, such notices have been put up outside all centres.

Remarkable incompetence @dpradhanbjp!

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Way back in 2019, I reported extensively about the Globarena Intermediate marks fiasco in Telangana.
In fact, I had run a major campaign on my media company Mojo TV. We were the first TV channel up pick the story too.

23 students died by suicide, I spoke with all their families and it was truly heartbreaking.

I remember one particular case where a single mother who worked as a farm labour was very proud of her bright daughter. The entire village came to support her education, everyone pitched in with books, commute and all expenses. When the Globarena marks mess up happened, she cried the whole night. Her mother told her it is okay, and she can go for reevaluation or write the exam again, morning the mother wakes up to see her daughter hanging in the middle of the house.

I had demanded blacklisting Globarena, arresting the officials. But I guess companies like Globarena are pests that never die, they just transform into something bigger and dangerous and come back to haunt.

Globarena now has become Coempt Edu Teck that messed-up the CBSE evaluation.

Globarena in 2019 messed up results of 9.74 lakh students in Telangana. Out of this total, approximately 3.8 lakh students failed. 23 suicides were reported. Back then too Globarena failed to provide the answer sheets.

After all this, Globarena transforms into Coempt Edu Teck, messes up the future of 18.5 lakh CBSE students across the country.

It is almost like they got rewarded for bad behaviour.

The officials who were giving approvals for CBSE just 74 days prior knew the history of Coempt Edu Teck. They knew the company is incompetent, but still decided to go ahead and give them the tender.

Yes, the Globarena/ Coempt Edu Teck guys are fabulous at landing tenders. The names and associations of Coempt Edu Teck board now seem to run pretty deep in the highest offices.

Unless the rot is burnt right from the root level, this won’t stop. All board members, directors, CEO, investors, government employees that tweaked the system to ensure Coempt Edu Teck got the contract should be dragged to the courts & never should be allowed near any business again.

But in this country that is so much in love with corruption, I doubt if this will ever change. Coempt Edu Teck may soon get the tender for all exams across the country.

PS: To all the students, one exam is not the end. Kudos to your fight. Keep fighting, never ever give up.

And if you are feeling low, speak with friends and family or reach out to any helplines.

Roshni Helpline, Telangana
[phone]

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@itssynecdoche Don’t forget, avoid going out in peak hours, offer a glass of water etc. Such Amulya pearls of wisdom not heard anywhere else, ever!

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@_TheLieLamaa Is this some sort of an epidemic now? Breaking into dance in public spaces- baffling, WHY! ?

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@phystro @garvit_sethii If not, EC, EVM always there mitron

[Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳 @mshahi0024]

India was projected as the next global investment powerhouse around 2015-16.

By 2026, it has vanished from the Top 15 investment destinations altogether.

From “VishGuru” dreams to investors quietly walking away, this is the real story behind the propaganda and fake growth.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

Has any single minister EVER taken responsibility & resigned since 2014? A single one, ever? Pulwama, Pahalgam, Vyapam, Cough syrup, COVID deaths, Hathras, NEET, CBSE ……..

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@patralekha2011 WHY? What do they gain by doing this tamasha- what is the high they get? Genuine question 🤔 😮

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

@RoshanKrRaii & focused on what citizens shld do. Not a word about what’s happening at govt, institutional level.

[Sayantani M Roy 🇮🇳 @Sayroy]

JOURNALISM

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

#ExpressInvestigation 🔍 | A 1-km road stretch in #Delhi can hold nearly 145 kg of dust. But the system meant to clean it is failing at almost every level.

The Indian Express tracked Delhi’s mechanical road sweepers for over 300 days, analysing 18 million GPS data points.

The investigation found that Delhi has just 95 sweeping machines — more than 80% short of the 505 recommended to control road dust.

Even this limited fleet is not being fully used. In #summer, when road dust is at its worst, only 25 routes were active on a typical day. By March, that number fell to just 15.

The deployment is uneven too, with machines concentrated more in VIP-heavy and better-funded zones, while outer areas get far less coverage.

Sanitation workers walk up to 30 km a night beside slow-moving machines, often without specialised protective gear.

And after collection, the dust is often dumped uncovered at open sites, where it can rise again.

Experts say sweepers are only a temporary fix. The real solution lies in end-to-end road paving.

Read in detail👇🏽
https://t.co/ej1JwHWaTk

Express investigation by: Sophiya Mathew, Drishti Jain, Kaunain Sheriff M
Produced and edited by: Prachi (@mujheykuchnahiaata)
Script and voiceover: @shameenalauddin