"What is the cost of lies? It's not that we'll mistake them for the truth. The real danger is that if we hear enough lies, then we no longer recognize the truth at all." - Valery Legasov
If you are only going to read one thing today. Make it this brilliant read on Lionel Messi from the brilliant @GuillemBalague - a pleasure to even play a small part in putting it together https://t.co/yPGRtsMS9h
An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:
My dear young friends,
I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.
This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.
I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.
So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.
To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.
And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.
To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.
With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.
And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.
This interview of Nitin Gadkari is Rahul Gandhi Arnab moment of BJP.
Man looked completely clueless, question was something else but kept answering about some else. Imagine If even 50% of our mainstream media starts questioning our ministers like this..
Lots of people have posted this extraordinary image of Lionel Messi without any credit to the photographer. Someone has even edited the credit out, which is just pathetic. It was taken by Julian Finney.
How less of we think a life is.
This is the fourth video of someone dying by electrocution in rains logged water.
And we don't even react viscerally.
It doesn't even anger us.
Its routine.
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𝐅𝐢𝐫𝐨𝐳𝐚𝐛𝐚𝐝 𝐦𝐚𝐧 𝐰���𝐨 𝐤𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐞𝐝 𝟏𝟖-𝐦𝐨𝐧𝐭𝐡-𝐨𝐥𝐝 𝐭𝐨 𝐦𝐚𝐫𝐫𝐲 𝐡𝐢𝐬 𝐦𝐨𝐭𝐡��𝐫 𝐠𝐞𝐭𝐬 𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐭𝐡 𝐩𝐞𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐭𝐲
Just 40 days after the incident, the court sentenced Viraj to death, holding him guilty of murdering the toddler, whom he allegedly viewed as an obstacle to marrying the child's mother.
Read more: https://t.co/C13VTxhUPK
“I will **** your mother outside.”
With audio, here’s the FULL transcript of the language used by Shinde Sena Corporator Ramesh Mhatre and his goons at the KDMC Hospital on Monday.
True worth of ‘laadki bahin’ to Shinde Sena.
9 year old Amaira was constantly Bulliyng in school.
Amyra told her parents, teachers multiple times.
But the school took no action.
1-12-2025, after Bulliyng for the last time,
Amaira jump€d from 4th floor & End€d her life.
till date, no action has been taken, 0 Arrest.
Es la estupidez más grande pensar que Messi nació con un don y se rascó los 🥚 tomando mate mientras Cristiano entrenaba. Messi tiene tanta disciplina como Ronaldo, por eso siempre llegó primero a los entrenamientos, mejoró en los tiros libres, pulió su alimentación y sigue siendo importante a los 39 años. Además, "Messi espera que el juego venga hacia él y no sale a conquistarlo" es de una idiotez épica, ni voy a explayarme, solamente hay que ver el gol contra Getafe. Finalmente, habla como si Messi no tuviera hambre cuando es el futbolista con más títulos de la historia del deporte, incluyendo el Mundial, ese que el hambriento Cristiano todavía no ganó. Burrazo de época Chicharito