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ट्विटरजीवी | Rational Nationalist

[Harshdeep Rapal @harshdeeprapal]

Hearing out Gen Z.

My father's caretaker is a 24 year old guy. Hails from Kanpur. He has done BSc Nursing and we have hired him through an agency that provides elder-care professionals at home.

Spends 12 hours at our home (8 am to 8 pm), rarely takes a leave. A very diligent guy, soft-spoken, well-read (keeps reading books from my collection) and speaks pretty fluent English.

On the morning of 20th July, he calls up and says he is not feeling well. On 21st he came, was limping a bit. Did not share what happened.

Yesterday he shared with dad that he told a lie. On 20th he had gone to Jantar-Mantar for supporting the students' protest and was hit by the police truncheon during lathi-charge. While running, lost his shoe and twisted his ankle.

Last night when I went home and was having dinner, dad told me about this. Today morning when he came I talked to him and realized what 'generation(al) gap' means.

While talking to him I realized, he was 9-10 when Anna Andolan happened. He was 10-11 when Arvind Kejriwal became the CM for the first time. He was 11-12 when BJP formed the government in 2014. The NEET aspirants are even younger than him. They were toddlers 12 years ago.

Some of the things we have lived through, are alien to him. All he has seen since he started experiencing the world is the current government and Modi as the PM. So for him, everything that he and his generation is been through in last 7-8 years since he 'grew up' - the responsibility lies with the current government.

He mentioned that there are 1000s of youngsters who have travelled from as far as Lucknow and Varanasi for these protests.

Again on being asked why? Why did he and his friends join the protest? Why these students have come so far to join the protests?

NEET exam leak was the last thing on his mind. The reasons he gave were - everything becoming expensive and unaffordable, no job opportunities, government's and police's high-headedness, corruption everywhere - and then went on to mention falling bridges, broken roads, no footpaths, stray dogs and cattle all around and dumps of garbage everywhere. He called ethanol-blending a scam.

I felt he was just waiting to burst out everything that's piled up in his mind. Glad that heard him out.

Then I realized that there are millions like him and these protests are not just about the NEET exam leak. These are the piled up frustrations finding a way out.

[S Gurumurthy @sgurumurthy]

My speech at Vivekananda International Foundation today starting from Gokhale Vs Gandhi on street protests and how it evolved post freedom on the golden rule of Non Violence. Only 3 agitations Bihar AASU & Anna Hazare were non violent from the agitators side. JP made it a condition

[Office Of Vijay Patel @VijayGajeraO]

Highly Important.

I have been able to infiltrate a planned TOOLKIT, and it's extremely shocking to see the detailed planning and information about helpers.

I request you all to share it maximum.
Let's start to expose.👇

[National Testing Agency @NTA_Exams]

Regarding claims about Shri Avaneesh Srivastava (App No. 260411198880, Roll No. 2001805051) and his NEET (UG) 2026 OMR answer sheet:

NTA has verified the record.

The genuine OMR of the candidate is on file. It was also emailed to him at the registered e-mail address during the OMR Response Key challenge window. It bears the candidate’s correct name (Avaneesh Srivastava), the name of his father (Mukesh Kumar) and the name of his mother (Rekha Kumari), his signature and thumb impression, and the signatures of the invigilators.

The image being circulated is not an OMR sheet issued by NTA. The identity inserted into that image ("Ajeet Singh, son of Shri Lakhan Singh and Smt. Reena Singh") does not correspond to any candidate registered for NEET (UG) 2026. No candidate by that name and parentage exists in the NEET (UG) 2026 database.

The image is a digitally regenerated version of the candidate’s own genuine OMR sheet. The identity fields have been overwritten, and the printed portion of the sheet has been regenerated by AI or OCR-based tools, producing visible errors on portions of the genuine OMR sheet and cannot be altered by any candidate with a pen.

The candidate’s own OMR sheet on record has been correctly evaluated. The score of 337 marks is verified and stands as declared.

Creating or circulating a forged OMR answer sheet is an offence under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.

More details on the Public Notice dated 20 July 2026: https://t.co/ehHaUsaoU6

[National Testing Agency @NTA_Exams]

Regarding claims by Ms. Pratibha Trivedi (App No. 260412140662) about her NEET (UG) 2026 OMR answer sheet:

NTA has verified the record.

The genuine OMR of the candidate is with NTA. It was also emailed to her at the registered e-mail address during the OMR Response Key challenge window.

The image being circulated is a digitally altered version of the genuine OMR sheet. It is not, however, the sheet held on record with NTA and has been significantly altered digitally

The score of 38 marks is verified and stands as declared.

Creating or circulating a forged OMR answer sheet is an offence under the Public Examinations (Prevention of Unfair Means) Act, 2024.

More details on the Public Notice dated 20 July 2026: https://t.co/ehHaUsaoU6

[Swarajya @SwarajyaMag]

Some NEET candidates, who did badly, used AI to forge their answer sheets, turning a score of 95 into 522.

Then they took the fakes to protest sites and TV studios and called it a scam by the NTA (National Testing Agency).

A student fails, fabricates proof of a cover-up, and is treated as a whistleblower before anyone checks the document.

Parents go along with it. News channels air a crying student holding a sheet of paper without verifying a thing.

And the honest aspirant pays for it. When fake complaints flood the system, the real grievances get buried under the noise.

@BBTheorist in @SwarajyaMag on what the NEET forgery says about the normalisation of deceit in Indian society.

https://t.co/LNvxP2asmB

[Iceland Cricket @icelandcricket]

Harry Brook ready to lead England in all three formats. That's nightclubs, beaches, and police stations.

[Shwetank @shwetankbhushan]

A Masterclass in Congress-Brand "Morality"
A Thread - 🧵

Whenever there’s a political conundrum, the fragrance of "Morality" suddenly wafts from the Congress camp. It’s a peculiar scent, usually inserted where the sun doesn't shine.

Time for a blast from the past: The Great Jharkhand Heist of 2005.

[आशुतोष सिंह @jairajputana89]

BJP should demand speakership for their lone MLA . He will be most non partisan man as all side equally hate him .
He will run house impartially. Also keeps arithmetic of both sides equal also .

[Siddharth Nayak @sportslawyerIND]

Even these are only fragments of what truly unfolded on the ground, especially across suburban and rural Bengal during the post poll violence. What followed was not just legal work. It was the beginning of a massive road ahead, a ticking time bomb, a relentless race against time.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

Cong has found a new toolkit to forge documents and doctor videos just prior to elections to influence voters.

This is done at the behest of Rahul Gandhi and the investigation will unravel all details on this nexus.

@republic

[Buggy Human @SridharanAnand]

This horror is what was defeated yesterday.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

[iMac_too @iMac_too]

Excellent interpretation of the Bengal verdict by Assam CM

[Dibakar Dutta (দিবাকর দত্ত) @dibakardutta_]

There is one news story that I will never forget in this lifetime. It is about a man named Avijit Sarkar.

He was the first person to be killed by the TMC after winning the 2021 West Bengal Vidhan Sabha election.

Minutes before his gruesome murder, Avijit Sarkar took to Facebook to narrate that he had been surrounded by a mob of TMC workers.

He did not know what was written in his destiny on that fateful night. Look at the date - 2nd May 2021.

This was the last time Avijit posted on Facebook.

In the following weeks, TMC workers killed a dozen more people as part of a coordinated wave of political violence.

But the story of Avijit Sarkar never left my mind.

Avijit was holding a puppy in his hand and narrating his ordeal. At that point, he did not know that he would be killed.

I was tasked to translate his dying testimony from Bangla to English so that non-Bengalis can know his story.

Bangla is my mother tongue, and every word he spoke captivated the anxiety that a man experiences when his life is in danger.

While writing the news report, I broke down several times because I knew what happened after the video ended. It was a traumatic experience.

Death has always been a triggering subject for me. The fact that I was new to this industry and that I was already suffering from mental health issues made it worse.

It has been 5 years since that incident. Tears have dried up, but not the rage that continues to stir inside me.

This is why I have taken a pledge. As long as I am alive, I will make sure that the story of Avijit lives on.

I will leave you with something I wrote in my diary back then -

"Ek din bichar hobe. Ek din sasti hobe, adalat e na hole rastai" ( One day, there will be justice. One day, the perpetrators will be punished, either in court or on the road).

[Prof. Shamika Ravi @ShamikaRavi]

12 years back, Bihar was significantly poorer than West Bengal in both rural and urban areas. Today, rural Bihar has overtaken rural West Bengal in terms of household consumption. And urban areas have nearly converged. #KnowIndia

[AKB @AKB18dec]

@SonyLIV @SamsungIndia dear team,
SonyLiv app is not loading on my qled qn85f TV.
Here are the measures I have already taken:
* Resetting the TV (both soft & hard), smarthub
* Uninstalling and reinstalling the Sony LIV app
* Clearing the app's data and cache
Please help

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

Let’s not forget that the argument given in favour of legalising teen sex is - men in “interfaith relationships” are treated like criminals

We know what it is all about

[Swati Goel Sharma @swati_gs]

From 12 Nov, Supreme Court is going to hold non-stop hearings on proposal by Indira Jaising to legally allow teens to have sex

@sewanyaya has waged a war against it. Our research report has become basis of 11 counter petitions in Supreme Court including one by @UdayMahurkar, @SanjeevSanskrit and me filed through @Vishnu_Jain1

We will nip any attempts to normalise sexualisation of children in the bud

To know more about this civilisational campaign: https://t.co/j5iATInvrM