Pratik Pandya

The Revenue Guy! Chelsea FC for life!! Music is my Aeroplane!!!

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

Dharmendra Pradhan's son
is studying in America, so did Nirmala's and Jyotiraditya.

Piyush Goyal's son is studying in Singapore, Anurag Thakur's son is studying in Canada.

S. Jaishankar's son is studying in the UK & even Smriti Irani (who hardly studied) sent son to study there.

Nishikant Dubey's son studied in Scotland

So why would these people bother about NEET paper leak
or CBSE scam or communal distortion of history by NCERT?

Or care about your children getting pushed around in trains and buses or even committing suicide?

Government of Hypocrites from Top to Bottom!!

[Devendra Fadnavis @Dev_Fadnavis]

This petrol price hike is unprecedented and unacceptable. Congress ka haat aam admi k saath nahi to aam admi ke jeb me aur gale par.

[Nachiket Deshpande @nachiket1982]

How pathetic is the law and order in Pune!
@PuneCityPolice get these criminals to justice.
@PuneCityTraffic how many more incidents do you need, to act on vehicles without licence plates? This is a serious security risk. This guy here clearly has no plate on his vehicle, watching mobile videos while riding.
How are u going to trace him, by that apology of a face?
@DGPMaharashtra @CMOMaharashtra hope you'll see this - not as an assault on a lady, but as a slap on your face.

[Saral Patel @SaralPatel]

Instead of apologising to that woman and the common people of Mumbai, BJP leader Girish Mahajan is blaming her.

“Road block to hoga, takleef to hogi.”

What a shameless party the BJP is — blaming citizens for showing their genuine anger after being inconvenienced by their drama protest.

[Open Letter @openletteryt]

taxpayers looking at list of freebies in every election 🫣

[Anubhav Gupta @anubhavgupta_ji]

Dear "The People Of India",

Imagine paying 30% taxes on means around 3 Lakhs on every 10 Lakhs.

I swear, I never saw politics so fucked up, the way BJP is doing.

The country is cooked.
Even a donkey is better.

[Un-Lucky  @Luckyytweets]

i don’t recognise my team anymore…

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

Our government has become the middle class's biggest enemy.
They divert all our taxes either to buy votes by distributing freebies or by offering sweetheart deals to their crony capitalists.
Do you agree?

[Pratik Pandya @YallaChelsea]

@SHUBH_DRYFRUITS 17

[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.

[Ankit Sawant @SatanAtWink]

Even with all this bombing in UAE it’s far more safer than India. Total casualty in UAE is just 1 today

Yesterday, in Mumbai a cab driver died because a 40 ton weight dropped on his car crushing him.

You can make all the jokes on them, but the real joke is on us.

[ابوالشمقمق 🇰🇼 @m69mf]

اللهم أحفظ لنا عمان ❣️

سلطنة عُمان يجب أن تُدرّس في علم النفس والسلوكيات ، هي ليست "سلطنة" بالاسم فقط ، بل "نمط حياة" ..

لايوجد لديها أي مشاكل مع أحد، لا مع روسيا، ولا أمريكا، ولا الهند، ولا باكستان، ولا إيران، ولا غيرهم ..

ومع ذلك، فإن مفتي السلطنة لا يتوانى عن التعبير بوضوح عن موقفه الرافض والشجاع لما يقوم به "أبناء القرده" مع إخواننا في غزه العزه ، دون مواربة أو مجاملة تدخل أي مسجد لاتعرف هل الذي بجانبك أباضي أم شافعي أم حنبلي أو شيعي تربو على التسامح الديني ..

لا تفتعل مشاكل مع أحد، لا ترفع صوتها على أحد، لا تهدد أحدًا، ولا تتدخل فيما لا يعنيها ..

عُمان تملك من الأموال ما يكفي، ولكنها لا تلهث خلف البهرجة ولا تقيم ناطحات سحاب، فـ"النطح" في عُمان يُعتبر عيبًا وصخبًا لا حاجة له ، فهي دولة تنام بعد صلاة العشاء دولة لا تملك أغنية شهيرة، ولا فيلماً ناجحاً، ولا بطولة رياضية كبيرة ولا حتى رالي للسيارات ، بل حتى لم تُسجّل فيها زلازل من فضل الله ، ولا خلافات حدودية ..

هل رأيت سلطنة عُمان يومًا طرفًا في نزاع؟
هل رأيت مواطن عمانيًا يفتعل مشكلة مع أحد ؟
هل سبق و رأيت بحياتك مواطنً عُمانيًا معارض ويشتم بلده ؟

إن الإنس��ن يأخذ حظه من اسمه، ويبدو أن سلطنة عُمان قد نالت حظها من اسمها… فهي فعلاً السلطنه "المتسلطنة" بالخير والمحبه والتسامح
اللهم أحفظ عمان وسلطانها
يارب العالمين وأغفر لعبدك
قابوس بن سعيد وأسكنه فسيح جناتك أنك على كل شي قدير 🤲

#سلطنة_عمان 🇴🇲

[Ejlaluna @ejlaluna]

@gothburz **EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ THIS**

What an incredible, moving post

God bless you for your efforts

https://t.co/IUmFfYD5fq

[Peter Girnus 🦅 @gothburz]

I am a diplomatic aide in the Sultanate of Oman's Ministry of Foreign Affairs.

My job is logistics. When two countries that cannot speak to each other need to speak to each other, I book the rooms. I prepare the briefing materials. I make sure the water glasses are the right distance apart. You would be surprised how much of diplomacy is water glasses. Too close and it feels informal. Too far and it feels like a tribunal. I have a chart.

We had a very good month.

Since January, Oman has been mediating indirect talks between the United States and Iran on Iran's nuclear program. The talks were held in Muscat and in Geneva. The Americans would sit in one room. The Iranians would sit in another room. I would walk between them. My Fitbit says I averaged fourteen thousand steps on negotiation days. The hallway between the two rooms at the Royal Opera House conference center is forty-seven meters. I walked it two hundred and twelve times in February. This is good for my cardiovascular health. It was less good for my knees. Both are in the service of peace.

By mid-February, we had something.

Iran agreed to zero stockpiling of enriched uranium. Not reduced stockpiling. Zero. They agreed to down-blend existing stockpiles to the lowest possible level. They agreed to convert them into irreversible fuel. They agreed to full IAEA verification with potential US inspector access. They agreed, in the Foreign Minister's phrase, to "never, ever" possess nuclear material for a bomb. I have worked in diplomacy for seven years. I have never seen a country agree to this many things this quickly. I made a spreadsheet of the concessions. It had fourteen rows. I color-coded it. Green for confirmed. Yellow for pending. By February 21 the spreadsheet was entirely green. I printed it. It is on my desk in Muscat. It is still green.

That phrase took eleven days. "Never, ever." The Iranians initially offered "not seek to." The Americans wanted "will not under any circumstances." We landed on "never, ever" at 2:14 AM on a Tuesday in Muscat. I typed the final version myself. I used Times New Roman because Geneva prefers it. The document was fourteen pages. I was proud of every comma.

Here is what they said, in the order they said it.

February 24: "We have a once-in-a-generation opportunity." — The Foreign Minister, private briefing to Gulf Cooperation Council ambassadors. I prepared the slide deck. Slide 14 was the implementation timeline. Slide 15 was the signing ceremony logistics. I had reserved the Palais des Nations in Geneva, Room XX. It seats four hundred. We discussed pen brands for the signing. The Iranians preferred Montblanc. The Americans had no preference. I ordered twelve Montblanc Meisterstucks at six hundred and thirty dollars each. They arrive on Tuesday.

February 27, 8:30 AM EST: "The deal is within our reach." — The Foreign Minister, CBS Face the Nation. He sat across from Margaret Brennan. He said broad political terms could be agreed "tomorrow" with ninety days for technical implementation in Vienna. He said, and I wrote this line for the briefing card he carried in his breast pocket: "If we just allow diplomacy the space it needs." He praised the American envoys by name. Steve Witkoff. Jared Kushner. He said both had been constructive.

I watched from the Four Seasons Georgetown. The minibar had cashews. I ate the cashews. They were nineteen dollars. The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten. But it was a good morning and we were within our reach.

February 27, 2:00 PM EST: Meeting with Vice President Vance, Washington. The Foreign Minister presented our progress. Zero stockpiling. Full verification. Irreversible conversion. "Never, ever." The Vice President used the word "encouraging." His aide took notes on an iPad. The aide did not make eye contact for the last nine minutes of the meeting. I noticed this. Noticing things is the only part of my job that is not water glasses.

February 27, 4:00 PM EST: "Not happy with the pace." — President Trump, to reporters.

Not happy with the pace.

We had achieved zero stockpiling. Full IAEA verification. Irreversible fuel conversion. Inspector access. And the phrase "never, ever," which took eleven days and cost me two hundred and twelve trips down a forty-seven-meter hallway.

Every American president since Carter has failed to get Iran to agree to this. Forty-five years.

Not happy with the pace.

February 27, 9:47 PM EST: The Foreign Minister's flight departs Dulles for Muscat. I am in the seat behind him. He is reviewing Slide 14 on his laptop. The implementation timeline. Vienna technical sessions. The signing ceremony. The pens.

I fall asleep over the Atlantic. I dream about water glasses.

February 28, 6:00 AM GST: I wake up to push notifications.

February 28: "The United States has begun major combat operations in Iran." — President Trump.

Operation Epic Fury. Coordinated airstrikes. The United States and Israel. Tehran. Isfahan. Qom. Karaj. Kermanshah. Nuclear facilities. IRGC bases. Sites near the Supreme Leader's office. Israel called their half Operation Roaring Lion. Someone in both governments spent time choosing these names. Epic Fury. Roaring Lion. I spent eleven days on "never, ever." They spent it on branding. The President said Iran had "rejected American calls to halt its nuclear weapons production."

Rejected.

Iran had agreed to zero stockpiling. Iran had agreed to full verification. Iran had agreed to "never, ever." Iran had agreed to everything in a fourteen-page document that I typed in Times New Roman.

The President said they rejected it.

I do not know which document the President was reading. I know which one I typed.

February 28, 18:45 UTC: Iran internet connectivity: four percent. — NetBlocks, confirmed by Cloudflare. Ninety-six percent of a country went dark. You cannot negotiate with a country at four percent connectivity. You cannot negotiate with a country that is being struck. You cannot negotiate. This is not a political opinion. This is a logistics assessment.

February 28: The governor of Minab reported forty girls killed at an elementary school.

I do not have logistics for that. There is no slide for that. The water glass chart does not cover that.

February 28: Lockheed Martin: up. Northrop Grumman: up. RTX: up. Dow futures: down six hundred and twenty-two points. Gold: five thousand two hundred and ninety-six dollars. An analyst at AInvest published a note titled "Iran Strikes: Tactical Plays." The note recommended positions in oil, defense stocks, and gold.

The most expensive cashew I have ever eaten was nineteen dollars. The most expensive pen I have ever ordered was six hundred and thirty dollars. The math suggests I have been working in the wrong industry. Defense stocks do not require water glasses. Defense stocks do not require eleven days. Defense stocks require one morning.

February 28: Israel closed its airspace and its schools. Iran launched retaliatory missiles toward US bases in the Gulf. The Supreme Leader promised a "crushing response." Israel's defense minister declared a permanent state of emergency. Everyone is using words I recognize in an order I do not. I recognize "permanent." I recognize "emergency." I do not recognize them next to each other. In diplomacy, nothing is permanent and everything is an emergency. In war it is the reverse.

February 28: The Foreign Minister has not made a public statement.

The briefing card is still in his breast pocket. It still says "within our reach."

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

This is getting bizarre.

BJP has completely turned the Lok Sabha into North Korea style leadership.

Congress MP Shashi Tharoor was speaking, Kiren Rijiju wanted to interrupt

Speaker just shut Tharoor’s mic and changed the camera angle.

RIP DEMOCRACY

[Pratik Pandya @YallaChelsea]

@R_vohra @mayank_kmr @rahooljt I will be travelling with family and infants in a bit, can you please share if it’s open now and is the alternate route shown on google maps safe to travel with families

[Pratik Pandya @YallaChelsea]

@Mumbai2PuneEway Is this way suggested by google safe to travel with family

[Pratik Pandya @YallaChelsea]

@SoumyenduBagch4 @CMOMaharashtra @DGPMaharashtra @NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari We’re travelling with family towards mumbai , is it safe to leave from pune now?

[Pratik Pandya @YallaChelsea]

@SoumyenduBagch4 @CMOMaharashtra @DGPMaharashtra @NHAI_Official @nitin_gadkari Did it improve?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Making India stop importing Russian oil (40% of our total oil imports) while committing us to buying half a trillion worth of American products; imposing 18% tariffs on Indian goods while at the same time having 0% tariffs on American goods, is a great trade deal. For America.