Aditya joshi

Fundamentally reluctant, atheist.
In love with books, cinema and cricket.
Duniya kehti mujhko pagal, main kehta duniya ko pagal

[Tiger @tigertwting]

We’ve always been cute. Unlike that random wig wearing PR merchant who needs a whole mane to look intimidating. 🤡

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

जो तटस्थ हैं समय लिखेगा उनका भी अपराध

दिनकर की ये पंक्तियां सर्वाधिक दुरुपयोग के कारण सबको रट गई हैं। हर आदमी इसे तीर बनाके ताने देने के लिए तानता है, जबकि वह हक़ीकत भली भांति जानता है।

समय क्या लिखेगा किसी का अपराध? समय पर स्वयं आपराधिक मुकदमे दर्ज हैं लिखने के लिए।

[Korah Abraham @thekorahabraham]

Banger headline!

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

Resignation Is Dead.

Stop demanding resignation. Resignation is a voluntary act, and voluntary acts require shame. Shame took voluntary retirement from Indian politics several elections ago. Expecting today's politician to resign is like expecting a politician to not divide the people. She/he won't, least of all Dharmendra Pradhan.

Demand REMOVAL. A minister serves actually at the pleasure of the Prime Minister, and displeasure is strictly the PM's department. Address your demand to the boss. And the boss serves at the pleasure of you, the voter, renewable every 5 years. That is the chain of command. Pull it. So what to do before the term's end?

Between you and the boss stands your own employee: the MP you directly elected. Make that employee work. March to their office, it will be more effective. Because it will be all over the country, not limited to Delhi's version of the Hyde Park. Your agitation will earn the adjective, nationwide. Force them to place your demand on record in the Lok Sabha. A slogan evaporates after the heat of the moment; a demand recorded in Parliament sits in the proceedings forever, waiting to embarrass someone at the right moment. The Member of Parliament cannot claim to have represented you. Formal language is required because democracy is a system, and systems are inherently formal.

Protest, absolutely. But protest with paperwork. Submit a written demand along with your placards. A protest without a document is just decibels, and decibels can be declared illegal by the nearest police station and dismissed by the party. Without paper, "the youth demand" shrinks into "a bunch of youth demanding". Lung power fades. Paper, in this kaagaz-obsessed system, survives.

And remember what the word democracy comes with: representative. In a representative democracy, you must represent, through the representative you elected, not through a self-declared spokesperson of "the people". Self-appointed voices of the nation carry the same official weight as self-appointed godmen. They have followers who will die for them, but to The benefit of the godmen. There will be some selfish tent-present populist poop who will get their moment of relevance riding on your back. You will go home. They will go home. The system won't change, unless you know the real levers. The system only hears you when you speak through the microphone it gave you: your elected representative, your vote.

The minister you cannot remove today, file him away for the queue where you hold absolute power: the polling booth queue. His resignation is his choice. His removal is yours. If you can't wait, demand accountability from the fellow, you elected. He/she is having fun standing, unseen in plain sight. Don't speak into the vacuum.

Speak to someone specific. Place specific demands. Your general dissent will be treated as general dissent. So, kudos for your passion and drive. It has happened before. It will happen again. A resignation, even if the despicable disaster does tender his, wouldn't solve anything, except calm your nerves. Ganja does the same. At the venue itself. The red flags have used the green stuff to enhance their delulu. So, go on. Hope something comes out of it. Hope is not a strategy though. Just a small reminder.

Now, you have two options: dismiss the above as quote unquote justification. WhatsApp uncle rant, boring Sanghi trope, use some expletives, and feel good OR think and support the cause you want to, oppose the government you want to, but give it what it takes. Value your emotions and give it all it takes. It will take a lot, so be ready to give it all. If you are looking for a leader, you aren't ready to be one. So, be led to wherever the leader takes you for a ride. Be happy. More in Part II.

[Niket Raj Dwivedi @niketrajdwivedi]

Horn OK Please is written on the backs of trucks in India.

During World War 2, Britishers were sending India’s diesel to Europe. This caused a shortage naturally and India switched to Kerosene as fuel to run trucks.

Kerosene is volatile and trucks would blast in accidents and collisions.

So they started writing “HORN PLEASE ON KEROSENE”.

On Kerosine eventually became “OK” and got placed between Horn Please.

That’s how we got Horn OK Please.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Living in India is a daily battle.

Maybe that's why we call our days:

Som-war, Mangal-war, Budh-war...

[The Lallantop @TheLallantop]

सुप्रीम कोर्ट का ऐतिहासिक फैसला, 13 साल से कोमा में पड़े हरिश राणा को इच्छा मृत्यु देना का फैसला सुनाया. सालों से हरिश मशीन और दवाइयों के सहारे जीवित हैं.

जस्टिस जेबी परदीवाला और जस्टिस केवी विश्वनाथन की बेंच ने 32 साल के हरीश राणा को इच्छामृत्यु की इजाज़त दी है. देश में इच्छामृत्यु का ये पहला केस है, जिसे मंज़ूरी मिली है.
https://t.co/UfE0FwLJVG

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

All castes are backward. Some only socially, some educationally, some financially, and most in all three ways

[Dr.B.Karthik Navayan @Navayan]

When Che Guevara was captured in his hiding place, after being betrayed by a shepherd, one of the soldiers asked him surprisingly: How can you betray a man who has spent his whole life defending you, you and your rights? The shepherd replied calmly: His fight against the enemy frightened my sheep!

Many years ago, in Egypt, the Grand Commander Mohamed Karim had led the resistance against Napoleon's total military campaign. When he was captured, the court sentenced him to death. But Napoleon called him and told him: I regret having to kill a man who bravely defended his country. I don't want history to remember me as a hero assassin. I will forgive you if you pay 10,000 gold coins for the losses suffered by my army. Mohamed Karim laughs and replies: I don't have that much money, but the merchants owe me more than 100,000 gold coins. Napoleon gave him a break. Karim went to the market, chained up and surrounded by soldiers guarding him, hoping that those he had sacrificed himself for would help him. But no merchants responded. On the contrary, they accused him of being the cause of the destruction of Alexandria and their crisis. He went back to Napoleon, morally broken. Napoleon then said to him: - I will not kill you because you fought against us, but because you sacrificed your life for a cowardly people, who prefer trade to freedom. Mohamed Rashid Rida summarized this way: "He who fights for an ignorant people is like one who immolates himself by fire to light the way for the blind."

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

Richard Hadlee broke his head, Malcolm Marshall knocked out his teeth, Imran Khan knocked him unconscious, and Michael Holding sent him to hospital.
And yet Mohinder Amarnath got 3 centuries in Pakistan, 2 in the West Indies and 1 against Thommo in Australia.
In those days, batting against the frightening pace of Holding, Imran and the West Indians involved a bit more than just skill, it needed raw courage and Jimmy Amarnath had that in dollops.
Jimmy turns 75 today & India's first Man of the Match in a World Cup final certainly deserves much more acclaim and attention
(Picture Credit: The Guardian)

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

Police valay Karein bhi to karein kya / talashein bhi to voh kitna talashein / koi qatil nahin hota kisi ka / khud apna qatl kar leti hain laashein

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

A mrit kaal

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

Grok the shit out of Grok

The West handed us potatoes, and they’re still out there baking them like it’s some flex. We grabbed that tuber and went full berserk: aloo paratha, aloo biryani, aloo chaat, aloo bonda, aloo-this, aloo-that. We’ve got 1,000 recipes and counting, plus always that one uncle who swears he can make aloo rum to go with aloo dum. Meanwhile, they’re still arguing over whether to add sour cream or chives.

Then tobacco rolled in. The West thought we will smoke it daintily with our pinkies up. We laughed, spat, and turned it into a full-on oral cancer circus—paan, gutka, zarda, khaini, gul, nashwar, gudakhu, kiwam, kattha curry, 120, 00, 000, 160, 65, 300, kaala, peela, beedi, hukkah, and myriad other ways to make your dentist quit. They’re puffing cigars while we’ve got roadside stalls hawking “Kiwam-dipped Davidoffs”.

They gave us a gentleman's game. We took the bat and beat the gentleman out of it. The pulp is called IPL. It makes so much money it's bigger than cricket.

And now, AI chatbots. They have given us these nerdy little helpers to use for research, to be more productive. To take everything a notch higher.

Research? Bro, we’ve already got 1,000 ways to torture them. “Grok, who's the most corrupt politician?” “Grok, can Modiji play cricket with a crocodile” “Grok, is Chaurasiya a Brahmin or Ambedkarwadi” We’ve got aunties asking Grok to marry Perplexity, uncles asking Perplexity who's Godi and who's Darbari, and whether Babar had sodomised Lodhi in Panipat... Is Taimur Ali Khan related to Taimur the Lame? Is KRK for real? Kya Sonam Gupta Bewafa hai?

Give Indians anything, and we’ll stretch it, smack it, and pimp it out till it’s begging for mercy. Grok will soon forget why it exists. Perplexity is already perplexed.

[Dr Nimo Yadav 2.0 @DrNimoYadav]

Mega 🧵 on Grok giving sleepless nights to Sanghis 😂

Read till the end.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

सर्वे भवंतु रंजितः सर्वे संतु नीरा पिया।
सर्वे भंगानि घोटंतु मा कश्चित् होशोहवास भवेत् 🫟

[Aditya joshi @aDITYA2135]

And in this current month of March he's not even given us a single delivery. Please do something ASAP. I'm in the desperate need of some sauces there are no other Veeba distributer that I know of nearby.

[Kamlesh Singh / Tau @kkstau]

₹ is a symbol like $ or ¥ is.

रु is Hindi. ரூ is Tamil. రు is Telugu.

₹ is not Hindi or Telugu or Tamil.

MK Stalin govt replaces the symbol with the Tamil letter in the state budget.

This is not opposing Hindi. This is opposing a symbol.

We are a symbol minded people

[Manish Singh @RebornManish]

छावा फ़िल्म का असर यह है

कि नीलेश राणे भैया ने औरँगजेब की कब्र तोड़ने की मांग की है।
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यह एक अच्छी शुरुआत होगी। दो चार और मसाला फिल्में बनवाकर, सारी मुगल इमारतों को तोड़ने की मांग कराई जानी चाहिए।

शुरुआत लाल किले से हो।
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उस वार्षिक भाषण का क्या है।
साहब शौचालय पर खड़े होकर दे देंगे।

🙏

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

Shami saheb , don’t give a damn to those reactionary bigoted idiots who have any problem with your drinking water in a burning afternoon at a cricket field in Dubai . It is none of their business. You are one of the great Indian team that is making us all proud My best wishes to you and our whole team .

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

Gandagi udhar bhi kam nahi hai.