Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳

Ex-Blogger, movie, theater, kdrama lover & bibliophile :) Member of @Crashlandedonkdramas podcast
Opinions all mine, no association with my organisation/podcast

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Look at the arrogant language of the BJP President - seeking greater political accountability for a BJP-led fiasco is 'negative politics', it seems. There would come one day when such anti-Indian, anti-people leaders will be made to eat their own words till they cry. They would be punished by the same Gods that they deem to represent (falsely).

[AF Post @AFpost]

India’s fertility rate has fallen below replacement for the first time in the country’s history, declining from a TFR of 2.3 to 1.9 in just a decade.

Delhi’s fertility rate now sits at 1.2, lower than Finland’s.

Follow: @AFpost

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

The link between the Rajesh Exports and the Adani Group, read the full 272 page show cause notice sent by the DRI in 2009: https://t.co/iNB5NafQPC

[Debashis Basu @Moneylifers]

My first tweet on #RajeshExports was in 2014. The suspicion started much earlier. There is something called a smell test. It decades to develop - if you keep your ears and eyes open.

@suchetadalal @BalakrishnanR

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

@iamankitpande Is there any fundraiser to compensate for his loss?

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

Adults and investigators and elected representatives have given up on their responsibilities so the kids have to do this themselves to protect their future and yet being called "anti-national". If they take to streets, people say you should only study. Which system has fucked up.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I was trolled endlessly by people online, some even called me anti-national" —This is the trouble when the country, in a deranged trance, shows allegiance to a person and a political party, forgetting that the actual country is beyond and far bigger than that individual and party.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I was trolled endlessly by people online, some even called me anti-national" —This is the trouble when the country, in a deranged trance, shows allegiance to a person and a political party, forgetting that the actual country is beyond and far bigger than that individual and party.

[m rajshekhar @mrajshekhar]

Also the firm which won Modi Sarkar's PLI for making rechargeable batteries (for EVs and Grid Storage), folks. (https://t.co/5QP3IVGDcW)

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

Book 76. Stories of the True by Jeyamohan. 12 stories (actually some of them are novellas) rooted in Indianness about true lives, emotion evoking and exploration of aram. Very well written.

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

Perfect day to start a new thread of books read in 2026! 🎉 Book 1. Bear with me, Amma - Memoirs of MT Vasudevan Nair. It only skimmed the surface of my curiosity for this writer. I didn't quite like the translation and that did get in way wee bit in my enjoying the book.

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

Book 75. Murder on the Leviathan by Boris Akunin. A second hand bookstore find and a delightful Pastiche. Set up in France, a Russian detective and an India connection. You get all the perspective except the detective's; interesting storytelling device.

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

An enumerator from Rajasthan told The Hindu on condition of anonymity, “In the mobile app, if we enter that a household has a tin roof, we are asked by our superiors to change it to concrete. Are we supposed to lie? Similarly, if the house does not have a toilet and occupants are defecating in the open, we are told to check if there is a toilet nearby, even that of a neighbour or a relative, which they may be using occasionally or even a public urinal. Then the entry can be changed from ‘open defecation’ to having access to a toilet.”

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

भोपाल में बरकतुल्लाह विश्वविद्यालय का नाम वाग्देवी भोजपाल विश्वविद्यालय करने का प्रस्ताव कार्य परिषद की बैठक में पास हुआ है,बस जानकारी के लिये मौलाना बरकतुल्लाह भोपाली भारत की पहली निर्वासित सरकार के प्रधानमंत्री थे 8 भाषाओं के जानकार निर्भीक पत्रकार, प्रभावशाली वक्ता, और प्रखर राष्ट्रवादी

[Deccan Herald @DeccanHerald]

India under Modi has gone from ‘fragile five’ to ‘vulnerable one’ https://t.co/702G4lksL6

[Ashutosh Nandan @BiharKaVoice]

You Understand The Chronology 👇

• CBI raids NDTV
✅Adani buys NDTV

• CCI raids Ambuja Cement
✅Adani buys Ambuja Cement

• ED raids GVK
✅Adani gets GVK Mumbai airport

• Income Tax raids Quint
✅Adani buys Quint

• IT raids Nellore Krishnapatnam Port
✅Adani buys Krishnapatnam Port

Now Adani Ji will get Vedanta too at a discount 🤗

Soo Nationalistic

[Subramanian Swamy @Swamy39]

India’s declining economy. Since year 2020 it has been losing strength. A collapse this year in October may happen if strict economic reforms are not introduced. Modi is clueless and Finance Ministry is bewildered. Our Nation may soon be seen internationally as being led of economist clowns. Time for our patriotic scholars to suggest the way out.

[Shubh @kadaipaneeeer]

I don’t understand why people are blaming our almighty PM Modi and his government for paper leaks, exam scams, unemployment, inflation, stagnant wages, or collapsing public trust in institutions. These are microscopic issues. A few million students losing faith in the examination system is obviously less important than another 4K drone shot of a highway inauguration.

It’s not like an entire generation is spending years preparing for competitive exams only to discover that merit is competing against corruption. It’s not like recruitment delays have become so normal that people age out of eligibility while waiting for results. It’s not like every few months another exam controversy emerges and the response is always outrage, hashtags, committee formation, and then collective amnesia.

And surely people are mistaken when they point out that accountability in this country seems to flow only downward. A student caught cheating becomes national news. An official failure affecting lakhs of students becomes a technical glitch. A citizen asking questions becomes anti-national. A politician avoiding questions becomes a statesman.

The opposition is blamed for problems when it is weak. The opposition is blamed for problems when it is strong. Previous governments are blamed after one year, five years, ten years, and apparently even after fifteen years. At this rate, if Delhi gets rain tomorrow, someone will find a way to connect it to Nehru.

The real genius is not governance. The real genius is narrative management. Convince people that asking questions is disloyalty. Convince them that criticism helps the enemy. Convince them that demanding accountability during failures is somehow more dangerous than the failures themselves.

Unemployment? Look at nationalism.

Paper leaks? Look at Pakistan.

Inflation? Look at GDP.

Institutional decline? Look at the stock market.

Public frustration? Look at a viral reel of PM giving melody to meloni.

Everything is a distraction from something else. Every question must be answered with another question. Every criticism must be met with outrage rather than explanation.

The saddest part is that citizens have started expecting so little that functioning institutions are now considered a luxury. Students don’t ask for excellence anymore; they ask for an exam that isn’t leaked. Job seekers don’t ask for opportunity anymore; they ask for a recruitment process that actually finishes. People don’t ask for transparency anymore; they ask for basic honesty.

But yes, the real problem is definitely the people complaining. Not the leaks. Not the failures. Not the lack of accountability. Not the culture where image matters more than performance.

Because when a government spends more time protecting its reputation than fixing its mistakes, criticism becomes inevitable. And when citizens are repeatedly told to stay silent and be grateful, frustration doesn’t disappear, it accumulates & eventually explodes.

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

😂

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Major action by Modi govt
Big action by Modi govt.

Saw several tweets like this. This is for the CBSE chairman being shunted out. What about the Education Minister?

Will the govt take no action?

When I was working for a national channel, (before 2013), for weeks they would campaign to make a minister resign over a scam or controversy.

Today, big action is limited to bureaucrats and officers

[Ram Subramanian @iramsubramanian]

It takes special talent to take a fertile economy like India and make it as barren as it is right now. Narendra Modi is no ordinary human being, true.

[Poonam Sharma 🇮🇳 @_alps]

Went on a long walk in hope of watching the "blue moon". However, clouds didn't let up in the city.