AdiBroJi

I think we should all piss off the powerful from time to time.

[G 🐒 @G_MonkeyBaat]

"mil kar desh bhi banate hain aur body bhi" 😭😭😭
*refuses to serve eggs to children"

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Press conference mein yeh baat karte hain kya bolta hai bhai?

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Nothing is more important than the welfare and future of our youth!

We have decided to set up fast-track courts to ensure swift and stringent punishment for those involved in paper leaks. Have directed the concerned authorities and officials to take all necessary steps in this regard. This continues our series of steps for safeguarding the interests of students.

Those who try to harm the future of our youth will not be spared.

देश के युवाओं का हित और उनका भविष्य हमारी सर्वोच्च प्राथमिकता है।

पेपर लीक के सभी मामलों में दोषियों को जल्द से जल्द कठोर दंड देने के लिए, केस के त्वरित निस्तारण के लिए फास्ट ट्रैक कोर्ट्स का गठन किया जाएगा। इस संबंध में निर्देश दे दिए गए हैं कि संबंधित विभाग आवश्यक कार्रवाई सुनिश्चित करें।

विद्यार्थियों के हितों को सुरक्षित करने के लिए, सरकार द्वारा लिए जा रहे निर्णयों की श्रृंखला में ये एक महत्वपूर्ण कदम है।

युवाओं के भविष्य के साथ खिलवाड़ करने वाले किसी भी व्यक्ति को बख्शा नहीं जाएगा।

[Amitabh Bachchan @SrBachchan]

T 970 - Pained and horrified to see what unfolds in Delhi .. peaceful protest being met with tear gas and water canons !!

[Gulshan Pahuja @GulshanPahujaJR]

Hi , I am Gulshan Pahuja

Fighting for Judicial Reforms for last 14 years

Delhi High Court has convicted me for contempt of Court and sentenced me to 6 months in Prison

My only mistake is to seek accountability, transparency, swift justice from Indian Judiciary

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Toh khud footpath pe sona bhai tweet kya kar raha hai

[Manas Muduli @manas_muduli]

No AC can give this comfort.

A man taking afternoon nap under trees at Rajmahal Square, Bhubaneswar.

Fallen yellow gulmohar flowers all around :)

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Love this tweet but as someone who uses GPT a lot, this piece of writing is heavily GPTed. Nonetheless, i love the point of this tweet

[Preeti Choudhry @PreetiChoudhry]

My exit poll! As I leave #Bengal, it would be a disservice not to say this: I have come to deeply admire the way women inhabit space here. There is a quiet, almost subconscious elevation of women as independent beings . something that stands in stark contrast to the entrenched misogyny that still finds resonance across much of northern India. Perhaps it stems from a cultural understanding of shakti. A form of empowerment that manifests here in ways both subtle and profound, unlike anywhere else in the country, even in the south.
Any woman journalist who has covered political rallies across India will recognize the difference immediately. Other states, a crowd is not just a logistical challenge, it carries risk. the inevitability of wandering hands, the violation masked by chaos. Here, the crowds are no less dense, the air no less heavy with sweat and alcohol—but the hands, for the most part, do not grope. Men step aside to make way. When contact happens, as it inevitably does in chaos, there is visible embarrassment rather than entitlement. What you encounter is not chivalry, but something far rarer: equality. And equality feels far more meaningful. Was never a fan of chivalry in any case :) 
There is more. Women politicians across party lines campaign with a striking freedom, aggressive, sharp, unapologetically irreverent, often using what would elsewhere be labelled as ‘masculine’ rhetoric. In most states, such behaviour would invite judgment, even censure. Here, it is met with acceptance,  applause. What feels liberating to an outsider is, in Bengal, simply normal. What we frame as empowerment  here is a cultural undercurrent.
I have covered four elections in this state, and each time I have returned with the same sense of awe. Bengal, meanwhile, ambles on with a certain bemusement, as if unaware of what sets it apart. But it is a big deal. And perhaps the most remarkable part is that Bengal does not think so.
Governments will come and go. One can only hope that this constant endures, not just how Bengal sees its women, but how, in many ways, it doesn’t. ♥️♥️♥️

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

When Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, a Columbia professor of South Calcuttan Rarhi Brahmin ethnicity famously asked, "Can the subaltern speak?", there was no internet or generative artificial intelligence. The Calcutta anglophile had a standard path - South Point or Patha Bhaban, followed by Bryn Mawr, Jadavpur or St. Stephens, then a short, unfinished M.Phil stint at JNU, and then the Oxfords, the Cambridges, the Sorbonnes, and the Ivy leagues awaited.

Do this well, and sinecure jobs in policy and media awaited you. You could sip your Cuba Libre at the India Habitat Centre, and pontificate on how the subalterns could never speak. Your uncle from NDTV, Hindustan Times or your dad's protege at Prasar Bharati would invite you to thought leader summits and solicit think pieces about how to ameliorate rural life via holistic mother-tongue education. You could even get a Rajya Sabha seat if you were eloquent enough.

South Bombay, South Delhi, South Calcutta - the elites from these three towns would play the annual triwizards tournament, with new-age libertarian South Bangalore knocking on heaven's door - demanding a place in this rarefied policy thindi walk.

Professor Gayatri Spivak did not envision a Lifeofpujaa in her Derridaesque deconstructivist smorgasbord. In her time, rural subalterns could only speak in Satyajit Ray masterpieces or Mrinal Sen film noirs. Neither did she envision an Otherwarya - a Tamil Brahmin elite ho was less of a Rajagopalachari and more an Iyer-Mitra. Subalterns in her world were accessories for art filmmakers to secure government-sponsored Junkets to Cannes and Venice. Not instagrammers entering brand partnerships with FMCGs. And the "aantels" would stick to the pages of Frontline and the Economic & Political Weekly, and not write unfiltered screeds on Instagram.

Social media and generative AI have upended the Spivakian simulacrum - it is no longer the Baudrillardesque ecosystem it once was. The privileged Otherwarya is no cocktail sipper at 4S - she likes her Noon Wines and Chin Lung, and her venom is like methanol-laced hooch from Tirunelveli. And, the subaltern claps back. Lifeofpujaa is no longer the docile Devi in Satyajit Ray's Devi - she is now the kickass Shakti Shetty in Rohit Shetty's Singham Returns.

Exit Satyajit "Nyaakachondi" Ray. Enter Aditya "Dhuran" Dhar

So can the subaltern speak? The answer is a YES. A resounding YES.

[Anura Kumara Dissanayake @anuradisanayake]

No civilian should die in wars. Our approach is that every life is as precious as our own. We jealously guard our non-aligned policy while ensuring that humanitarian values and the saving of lives remain our top priority.

What the world urgently needs today is peace. There is a real risk of a severe global economic crisis, and entire societies are facing serious and complex challenges.

We call upon all parties to demonstrate a firm commitment to peace. As a state, Sri Lanka stands ready to support every step toward ending hostilities. All our actions are aimed at saving lives and ensuring that humanity prevails.

[Maheshwer Peri @maheshperi]

When I see public humiliation on a regular basis by Trump of India’s Prime Minister, I am reminded of an incident when the Silent Dr.MMS dealt with when he was the PM.

In 2013, Indian diplomat Devyani Khobragade was publicly arrested in the United States. She was even handcuffed and even strip searched. India faced a moment of national humiliation. There was outrage within India. Many expected statements and condemnation but what followed was a lesson in quiet but firm leadership.

Prime Minister Dr. Manmohan Singh did not shout nor give any statements. No laser eyes. No verbal diarrhoea. India acted firmly and decisively. Special privileges extended to US diplomats in India were withdrawn. The US embassy security cover was withdrawn. They were on their own. The issue was escalated at the highest diplomatic levels. Most importantly, India ensured full diplomatic immunity to Devyani by moving her to India’s UN mission, thus making her outside the reach of US Law enforcement.

The message to the US was clear. India will be polite, but decisive. They were silent but actions spoke. We did not submit ourselves. There was no chest thumping. No statements. Only action. It was dignity, reciprocity, and statecraft.

A confident nation asserts itself not through hugs and chest thumping but by statecraft.

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Am I the only one who finds it a bit weird when people make things about themselves?

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

While the world justly celebrates Zohran Mamdani, great to see his parents — the great film maker Mira Nair and the renowned scholar Prof Mehmood Mamdani — join him on the stage.
Here’s recalling a meeting with them in May this year and thanking them for the good sanskara they’ve passed on to the young Zohran.

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Be perfectly fine for the first two days and then cry for the rest of your life

[k.fr @agreatchaos]

as a man what do you after losing your girl of 10 years

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

@gautambhatia88 Interested!!

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

I think movies that dwell on moral philosophies like Dark Knight (Batman - believes in the goodness of humans vs Joker - bets on the immoral chaos of humans) are lost on GenZ also because they don't like being told what is the right thing to do. They hate being preached.

[Brendan Hodges @metaplexmovies]

THE DARK KNIGHT becoming less beloved by a segment of film fans, especially Gen Z and younger, is utterly incomprehensible to the typical millennial mind. When it released in IMAX in ‘08, most of us thought we saw God. It’s an interesting indicator of changing tastes over time.

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

I love this dude but he will write (or probably has written) an ad that will feature Wadhera and then be all friendly with him in the sets

[vishal dayama @VishalDayama]

what a fucking shit innings wadhera embarrassing

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Brother you are employing them you can give chutti to them, I suppose

[Dilip Kumar @kmr_dilip]

It’’s May 1st. Labour Day in India.
The house help came. The cook showed up. The apartment security gaurd & housekeeping staff is on duty. Only me and my laptop class friends taking a break to “celebrate labour.”

Irony is now a public holiday.

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

A lot of people need to know this that this is a good delivery for any batter of any level. This is a universal "weakness". The ball is angling into your body at 150 Kmh and leaves you at the last moment, giving you 0.4 seconds to react. Universal weakness.

[Pankaj⚡ @161_at_perth]

Travis Head mostly goes numb against this type of deliveries which ends in 3rd or 4th stump. Hope our bowlers exploit this weakness of him in BGT.
#ENGvAUS

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

This seems like a Karol Bagh baby shower

[ANI @ANI]

#WATCH | Uttar Pradesh: BJP MP and candidate from Mathura, Hema Malini celebrated her victory after winning from the Mathura Lok Sabha constituency. (04.06)

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Biggest gigachad alpha male right now

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

पुरानी पोस्ट, सोचा फिर शेयर कर दूँ!

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Me making hairstyles after putting shampoo on my hair

[Nature is Amazing ☘️ @AMAZlNGNATURE]

The coast of New Zealand has very strong winds, so the trees here have learned to grow sideways.

[AdiBroJi @batolewala]

Abhi yahi bachcha jab bada hoga toh apna bachcha ka kaan pelega ki humlog ko kabhi dhang se padhaya nahi gaya yeh sab conspiracy hai chalo WhatsApp se padhai karo

[Ghar Ke Kalesh @gharkekalesh]

This ain't cool~