Here is a premier public university of India threatening its students and faculty that being at Jantar Mantar could seriously impact their “academic progress and professional opportunities”!
The same University that is fighting a legal battle to hide the identity of its most illustrious student!
“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.
A friend of mine (slightly older squash buddy) recently faced an issue where BMC drain water got into their drinking and common water pipeline. His entire family was hospitalised and of course several people in his building. Mind you, this is a high rice fancy expensive Powai lake facing society where the houses must be 5-6 cr + if not more. He was feeling throughly disgusted with the system and kept saying what's even the point of living in this country, why am I paying so much taxes, I should just try to leave. Incidentally, that same friend is a hardcore Modi supporter.
Yesterday that same friend was having an argument with me regarding the protests. There were the usual anti-national CIA deepstate angles thrown by him, but I kept getting back to the demand of resignation of Pradhan and how it that a wrong demand? To which his notion was what'll be obtained from removing him. I tried to explain to him that it's all about accountability. If one is held accountable, then it creates an impact on others. Even if you want BJP to stay in power, at least there should be some accountability to ensure you do your job well. At least there should be a thought before screwing up or colluding with corrupt officers. I tried to even remind that wouldn't he want some accountability from the official incharge of the screw up in his building. At this point he got little thoughtful but ofcourse after a minute of 'that's a different thing' he was back to his usual stance.
But it shows me a fascinating thing. That the well-off Modi supporter would rather leave the country than think of changing things or improving the country. They have more or less accepted that things are bad and have placed that on the people themselves. Earlier most of the rich believed in making a silo around them so that country's issues don't bother them, but now that the issues are so much that it's managed to seep through those silos, they'd happily leave the country than even think of casting an aspersion on their beloved leader. Fascinating.
Some of India’s biggest “superstars” have shown their feet of clay. Issuing generic statements like “all children are good, may there be peace on earth” blah blah. They aren’t able to call out the police brutality against young people, let alone come and stand with them in this fight.
Frustrated NDTV reporter forgot to switch off the mic on Marya Shakil's show and said “Pahle kahenge update do.. update do.. fir fake news chalwa ke kahenge fake kyu diya”
By the time he realized it was too late. 🥲
You are the one who has harmed the future of our youth the most.
You allowed and encouraged the total capture and destruction of our education system - and protected every person responsible for it.
The students’ demands are clear:
1. Sack Dharmendra Pradhan.
2. Apologise to the students.
3. Take action against those who assaulted them.
आपने ही हमारे युवाओं के भविष्य को सबसे ज़्यादा नुकसान पहुंचाया है।
आपने न सिर्फ हमारी education system पर पूरा कब्ज़ा होने और उसे बर्बाद होने दिया, उसे बढ़ावा भी दिया - और इसके ज़िम्मेदार हर व्यक्ति को संरक्षण दिया।
छात्रों की मांगें साफ़ हैं:
1. धर्मेंद्र प्रधान को पद से हटाएं।
2. छात्रों से माफ़ी मांगे।
3. छात्रों के साथ हिंसा करने वालों के ख़िलाफ़ कार्रवाई करें।
Sad that a father lost his son untimely. But do you send your condolences based on the net worth of the individuals? You don't even say a single word when people die due the criminal negligence of your Chief Ministers.
Children aged 6 months to 10 years died in Indore and you didn't even ask a minister to take moral responsibility.
1,800+ days in jail without trial. Bail is the rule as per Supreme Court, but not people like Umar Khalid.
Umar Khalid has never given a hate speech. He's always talked about unity.
Don’t shout at me but batting these days is way easier than 20/25 years ago! Probably twice as hard back then!
Waqar, Shoaib, Akram, Mushtaq, Kumble, Srinath, Harbhajan, Donald, Pollock, Klusener, Gough, McGrath, Lee, Warne, Gillespie, Bond, Vettori, Cairns, Vaas, Murali, Curtley, Courtney and the list could go on and on…
I’ve named 22 above. Please name me 10 modern day bowlers that can compare to the names above?
If Indians showed even 10% of the outrage they had for Ranveer toward the deadly railway station stampede, the country wouldn’t be stuck with crumbling roads, corrupt politicians, and a complete lack of accountability.