Avi Ananya

Dad.

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Do you know why they want Gyanesh Kumar to 'resign'?

Why not 'remove' him - if he has done wrong.

That is the process driven and constitutional way.

Because it would require numbers in both houses of Parliament that they don't have.

Okay, so why don't they present evidence of 'vote chori' and 'EVM hacking' to the Supreme Court?

The Supreme Court has powers to invalidate election results in certain cases.

Because there is no such evidence.

All the 'evidence' and 'bombastic claims' are only for TV cameras and social media, to get people agitated.

Which is why they are mobilizing crowds as a gun to the head, and saying - resign or there will be anarchy and violence in the national capital.

There is a simple word to understand this - blackmail.

It should not be tolerated.

The country should respond to it in the harshest manner possible.

Do whatever it takes.

People who can't win elections through legitimate means don't get to enter through the backdoor with the use of violence.

[Avi Ananya @aviananya]

@the2ndfloorguy @AinaInterface Do one in Delhi/NCR.

[Avi Ananya @aviananya]

@DeanTTraining Recipe please

[jonathan selvaraj @jon_selvaraj]

Sawan Barwal didn't have a flag to hold after winning 🥈 in the men's marathon- first medal for 🇮🇳 in nearly half a century- at the Asia's Games in Nagoya. No official showed up on race morning since no one believed he had a chance to make history. https://t.co/SQRp5WHb56

[Divya Kukreti @div_yahan]

Some of the amazing essays I read on Substack recently. The last one is my fav⚡

[Ryan Voutilainen 🇨🇦🇫🇮 @RyanVoutilainen]

New Equal Earth map just dropped. Countries now depicted with their true relative size.

[Thomas Sowell Quotes @ThomasSowell]

Thomas Sowell explains how the Indian government got everything wrong.

[Clint Warren-Davey @Clint_Davey1]

POV: you've just got home from school in 2001.

[Handre @Handre]

Rome handed out free grain to 40,000 citizens in 73 BC. By 46 BC, Julius Caesar found 320,000 people lining up for their monthly ration. That eight-fold expansion happened in under three decades, and it shows you how welfare states actually grow.

No Roman senator stood up and announced a plan to addict a third of the city to government bread. It happened incrementally, through political competition. Each magistrate who wanted votes expanded eligibility. Each expansion normalized the next one. The citizen who once considered the dole shameful eventually expected it, then demanded it, then organized politically to protect it.

This is the core mechanism free market thinkers have identified across every era: once you create a transfer program, you create a constituency for that program. Recipients vote. Administrators build careers. Grain merchants who supply the state develop a stake in keeping the contracts flowing. The political economy locks in.

Caesar, to his credit, actually cut the rolls back to 150,000 through verification audits. It was one of his more economically coherent moves, though the Senate still murdered him. His successors quietly let the numbers climb again.

What did the dole require? Massive grain imports from Sicily, Sardinia, and Egypt, organized through state logistics at state expense, funded by taxation and conquest. When the conquest revenue dried up, the obligation remained. Rome had written a check against future military success, and future military success eventually failed to arrive.

The lesson is not complicated. Distribute a benefit and you distribute dependency. Distribute dependency and you distribute political power to whoever controls the distribution. The grain dole didn't weaken Rome overnight, but it made every subsequent reform politically impossible.

[Johan Jessen @johanjessen]

Always light touch. Avoid gripping too tight. Sense the pull. Your intuition is correct.

[Dhiraj @IndustrlPolicy]

Missed this ORF article by Antara earlier but I have to say she is the best China analysts from India and tracks internal Chinese debates really well. Just as the shift in mobile phone supply chains caused unease in Chinese strategic circles
https://t.co/oMgnGUmghu

[Yash Bhardwaj @ybhrdwj]

I made a website that plays bangers from indian barbershops

before you became fancy and started visiting salons. you once went to a 'saloon'. ₹20 haircuts. simple hairstyles with music that could fix your soul.

https://t.co/j3E8VfwiUU

[하루 @i_like_ai0]

이번 『스파이더맨: 브랜드 뉴 데이』가 걸작이라 평가받는 이유

스파이더맨 원작 커버를 다 재현해놔서
덕후들을 미치게 만들었음

일반 관객은 그냥 액션이 멋있다고 느끼지만
진짜 팬들은 그 순간
원작에 대한 존중과 애정을 동시에 느꼈다고..

[akhivae @akhivae]

Street in Patna by Charles D'Oyly (1781 - 1845)

[The Lowy Institute @LowyInstitute]

Twenty years of praising India is not a China strategy | Stephanie Campbell https://t.co/fNbbTmnbsz

[Some Bullshit Groyper @RamblingGroyper]

This is probably the most interesting thing I’ve seen on the Odyssey so far

[しのもりつかさ @sinomoritsukasa]

フランス熱波報道見てて思ったんですけどもしかしてあいつらエアコンなくても生きていける超ヌルゲーのチート環境で生きてきた分際で俺らアジア人に省エネがどうとか脱炭素がどうとかご高説垂れてたってコト！？
許せねえ　滅んでほしい

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Karl’s Dad was cool