Babu Paul

Live and let live.

[Manasa Manjunath @ManeeManjunath]

I wonder if it’s shamelessness or arrogance or apathy to call the efforts of a man, who has bungled up two big exams and caused anxiety & worse among millions of kids, ‘commendable’. In any case, the tone deafness of this post is nauseating. Shame on you!

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Meet Tejasvi Surya.

He has been serving as a Member of Parliament in the Lok Sabha from the BJP, representing the Bangalore South constituency since 2019.

Now, let's examine the works carried out during his tenure through the lens of Central Govt's MPLADS website.

A Thread🧵

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@bigmediafan @Tejasvi_Surya Party IT cell coolies are a scourge on earth - Aren’t they paying you your dues, sad to hear about your Frustration.

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@Observer3023 @Tejasvi_Surya We all know which party has the maximum MLA’s in Bangalore Urban district, and then he should start questioning them first

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

That’s what he is elected for and he is part of the Governance and should take equal responsibility for the degradation of quality of life and look at his constituency as well, hate politicians who manipulate situation for furthering their political agenda expecting us to take thier words for gospel truth

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@hvgoenka @hvgoenka is this your first trip to Mumbai and first time you ever travelled in a plane with Windows?

[Mr IG @MrIsguru]

Mr. Child Surya!

I totally condemn today’s problems faced by students due to the Congress rally at Palace Grounds.

I request @DKShivakumar @INCKarnataka to take action to provide education opportunities for students who missed the exam.

You spineless MP, for two months you didn’t even condemn the NEET failure and paper leak, nor post about the students who lost their lives.

But today you are posting this for political points.

Shame on you, man!

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@blsanthosh @INCIndia @blsanthosh please SIT down. Take accountability and fix the corruption, remove the education minister and then Try at least to SPEAK TRUTH and LOGIC if that ever existed for you

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@Chellaney @Chellaney hope we were led with courage and keeping in mind the interest of 1.5 Billion people but rather we are taken back by the leaders to serve the interests of few pseudo national businesss. SAD

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@ShashiTharoor @narendramodi @ShashiTharoor why discrediting your own experience and reading of Indian politics, you did have a fairly better understanding. Are you doing this for BROWNY POINTS and validation from people who have brought disrepute to our country over and over again?

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Frankly, I find it extraordinary that a statement about protecting Indian civilian sailors is being twisted into a partisan political controversy.

Three Indians lost their lives. My remarks were about the safety of our citizens and the principle that civilian seafarers should never be targets of military action. If some people are more interested in scoring political points than addressing that concern, that says more about them than it does about me.

Concern for Indian lives should unite us, not divide us.

@INCIndia

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@narendramodi @G7 I think the most important thing that we need to focus is not the prosperous planet, but first the 900 million Indians who need to move to middle and upper middle class. Preach daily about science and innovation that about religion

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@TVMohandasPai The emperor of hate mongers is the one and only @TVMohandasPai . Shameless audacity and vile callouts, wonder how he ever was a HR Head and pity those people who crossed his path

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@navikakumar @navikakumar What you do is travesty of Journalism…

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@VishnuNDTV @VishnuNDTV what A Disgraceful FALL and you think people are fools who will believe your vile and immoral justification of fellow INDIANS. Grow a spine and show some respect for your profession and SOME PATRIOTISM than pleasing your masters

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

Just thinking aloud. No claims made.

This is a Time Magazine Cover from 2011. I reposted @RahulSeeker's tweet yesterday.

I have not been able to stop thinking about this cover.

15 years ago, the world was watching two countries and genuinely could not decide which one would lead the future.

One of them does now. The other has spent the last decade and a half fighting over whose god is bigger.

I am writing this as a common citizen who grew up in this country, who continues to believe in what it is capable of, and who finds it genuinely dificult to explain the drastic economic downturn in these past years through poor governance alone.

India in 2011 was a country that had grown at consistently high rates for two decades, had a young demographic profile, and was positioned as a genuine superpower in the making.

We were leading the IT revolution at a time when the world had just figured out that technology was the new currency of power. An Indian spotted abroad was asked one common question: "Do you work in IT?"

It wasn't a stereotype so much as a signal. The world had noticed. It had clocked which direction we were moving in, and it had started to take us seriously. We weren't just a large country anymore. We were a country with momentum. And momentum, in geopolitics, is the most threatening thing of all.

And then there was the one thing that makes powerful nations genuinely nervous. India is an independent nuclear power. Not a dependent state. Not a country whose arsenal exists because someone else permitted it. Ours. On our terms. Answering to nobody.

A large, young, fast-growing, technologically ambitious, independently nuclear nation with a democratic mandate and a civilisational confidence. That is not a country you want going fully unchecked.

Putting on my tin foil hat, here is the thought I cannot entirely shake: that what has happened to India over the last many years is not simply the consequence of bad governance, corruption, or misfortune. (That of course, is a very real issue laughing in our faces every single day)

That some portion of it has been engineered, or at minimum exploited, by actors with a strategic interest in ensuring that India never becomes what it was projected to become.

There are powers that have done this before. They don't need to invade a country. They just need to find a wound in it and not let it heal - through tools of debt, dependency, tariffs, and narratives shaped by controlled media or manipulated social media algorithms. And then stay out of the way while it consumes itself.

"Just keep the wound open", as they say.

Mismanagement of a population's growth trajectory, and its basic needs which is this consistent and directional, feels almost scripted.

Let me also say - the fractures in Indian society are not new. Religious tension, caste hierarchy, linguistic division: these have existed for centuries. No government manufactured them from scratch.

A country whose population has been allowed to be preoccupied with questions of communal identity, whose minorities are economically anxious and politically marginalised, and whose civil society is increasingly reluctant to speak plainly, is a country whose productive capacity is diminished.

A nation fighting itself cannot look outward with coherence.

They couldn't tame the dragon. So they slowly fed the elephant poisoned food. Enough to keep it from breaking its own shackles. Enough for it to be grateful to be fed. The elephant didn't die. That was never the plan. A dead elephant attracts attention. It is still standing - tall above others, swaying, looking busy, occasionally making noise, hoping to get better, some day.

Someone needed only one new superpower to emerge. Not two. Someone did not want a second China.

And someone got exactly what they needed.

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@DelhiDjinn @dmuthuk Interesting take, just not Muthu, almost 70% of the country are in this trance and for some like Muthu, it’s wearing off and back to the REALITY

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@dmuthuk We need to ensure this is 200% implemented….But nothing ever goes beyond the Twitter feeds…ACT

[Babu Paul @babupaul]

@TVMohandasPai @PiyushGoyal @HyundaiIndia @SamsungIndia @LGUS @AshwiniVaishnaw @PIB_MeitY @TVMohandasPai, OMG are you OK Pai? Haven’t you figured how to blame this on Congress, Nehru, Rahul, Hindu Muslim, The Congress rule in Karnataka and your favorite Soros… This is really UNFAIR. How many Pandora’s Box to be still opened?