Badrinarayanan V

Ramakrishna Hari, Vasudeva Hari! Vittal Vittal! गुरवे नमः। श्रीमते रमनुजाय नमः।

[Badrinarayanan V @batterypechu]

விட்டல் விட்டல் குருஜி

[Rajeev Mantri @RMantri]

Destination weddings as well as foreign travel offer far better value for money than traveling in India or holding events in India.

https://t.co/CcU0x5gqsF

Indian companies running hotels and airlines fleece customers, offer third rate service at sky high prices - other countries have better products and services because their business and credit ecosystems empower their entrepreneurs to deliver such products and services.

Let us not guilt trip Indians who deserve to spend their hard earned, tax paid money with the best ROI. Self flagellation is not a growth strategy.

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

Anantha sir was one of the few people who truly read the 2026 direction right. Replugging this important post for anyone who is serious about TN politics. Every word in here is unadulterated GOLD.
"Tamil Nadu is more about larger-than-life leaders than parties" he said this when TVK was just started.

It is absolute common knowledge in TN that ONLY personality-driven politics work here, but the problem here is who has the courage of conviction to act upon common knowledge?

ஆடுற மாட்டை ஆடிக் கறக்காம, தலைகீழாக அரசியல் தத்துவம் பேசித் தான் கறப்பேன்னு சொன்னா, மாடு உதை தான் குடுக்கும், ஓட்டுப் பால் குடுக்காது.

[Sarvapriya Sangwan @DrSarvapriya]

Read till the end: 

SpiceJet cancelled my Delhi to Srinagar flight (PNR: H8FKMY) today. It was at 11:15 am, and they informed me only at 9:20 am. I was taking my 60+ old parents to Kashmir for their anniversary. They travelled all the way from Rohtak, reached the airport on time, only to be told there’s no flight today. Their entire plan for the next 5 days is ruined.

When I tried to rebook for today, fares were already higher. And the moment I clicked “pay,” the price jumped another 40%. 

So, I booked for tomorrow, but it cost way more than the SpiceJet tickets I paid for. SpiceJet says they’ll refund the cancelled flight but what about the extra money I had to pay? What about hotels refusing refunds for the lost day? What about the taxi costs and the stress my old parents had to go through?

Just for my own curiosity, I tried cancelling the Indigo flight I booked for tomorrow. Guess what? They wanted more than ₹5,000 per ticket as cancellation fee, just 10 minutes after booking.

All this in the name of “base fare” and “fuel surcharge.” Base fare they’ll recover anyway by selling the seat at a higher price to someone else. And fuel surcharge? Is fuel price fluctuating every single minute?

Airlines and apps happily charge “convenience fees,” but when they ruin your plans, there’s no inconvenience fee for passengers. No cancellation fees for passengers. Just a cold “write mail to us.” You may get a voucher from their airline.

The staff at the counter have no power, yet they’re the ones who face all the anger. The real decision-makers sit on annual packages worth crores, but don’t lift a finger when it comes to fixing anything real.

FYI: At European airports, airlines are required to give a full refund and pay up to £600 to passengers when they cancel a flight. Even if it’s an Indian airline operating there, the same rule applies. These airlines pay compensation there, even for a flight delay. But what about Indian Janta? 

We’re not flying for free, we pay taxes on every single ticket we buy. GST, User development fees, airport charges and even for our security. 

Anyway, DGCA rules say 24 hours’ notice is required before cancelling. Why was this ignored? Staff claimed “technical fault” in the plane, but I doubt it. I want SpiceJet to share how many seats were actually booked for this flight. Was the flight only 30-40% full and cancelled for that reason? I didn’t see many passengers stranded there.

These airlines keep sinking and government keeps negotiating. Aviation minister, where are you? Ministers fight for cabinet seats, they take one, enjoy the power and go, but ordinary people keep suffering because of government’s policies. At least one minister has to set an example.

I want answers. And I want real compensation, not just vouchers or empty apologies.

@RamMNK @DGCAIndia @flyspicejet

[Randeep Sisodia @Randeep_Sisodia]

See how strong the Dravida ecosystem (DMK & ADMK) is in Tamil Nadu…

In order to malign Annamalai, they make a senior national BJP leader @VanathiBJP say a blatant lie in a Press conference that KA was invited and yet he did not come…

Accentuate it by having national press reiterate that brazen lie (below👇) and try to make Annamalai a villian in the eyes of PM @narendramodi and central BJP leadership…

After all, who is going to listen to the ‘TRUTH’ (that actually Annamalai wasn’t invited at all) by scores of unknown people like you and me shouting from the rooftops on social media!

Even @NainarBJP or TN BJP won’t issue a clarification that @annamalai_k wasn’t invited, so this fake rumour gets validated as ‘the’ truth.

Kindly open your eyes @AmitShah @NitinNabin and see the type of cheap games being played by your own party people and partners, forget DMK, against a committed karyakarta and most popular leader in TN, Annamalai, right in the heart of the election season…

In this scenario, when your tallest leader in TN is met with such grave injustice, I find it laughable when BJP central leaders claim that “NDA” will form govt in Tamil Nadu!

[Badrinarayanan V @batterypechu]

@Sairam_GopalanK Radhekrishna

[Krishnan @cvkrishnan]

I’ll vote ADMK if ADMK stands in my constituency. Will vote for BJP if BJP stands. Will vote PMK if PMK stands. Will vote for Tha Maa Kaa if it stands. Will vote for any party that stands on the NDA alliance.

[Venkatesh @SuccessProject_]

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[Mohan G @mohandreamer]

#திரெளபதி2 திரைப்படம் குறித்து, என் அன்பு மக்களிடம் என்னுடைய தாழ்மையான வேண்டுகோள் 🙏🙏🙏

[Omen Dubey @shadowdudeomen]

Something sad has happened in my family and i blame @narendramodi for it completely !

My elder sister's son who is in class 8th a mere 13-14 year old kid is being threatened to be put behind bars by his classmate's parents by SCST ACT !

yes you read it right !

1/n

[Hari / Pickyourtrail @HariPyt]

⚠️ Read before your Sri Lanka or Bali holiday! @SunOfGan @outofofficedaku do RT if you find this useful...

This post could save you or others USD 20–150 per person.

Indian Tourist arrivals into Sri Lanka are required to complete a ETA process. Similarly, other than the Indonesia VoA or e-visa (which is chargeable), you need to complete a e-CD (Indonesian Customs Declaration) for Bali. Both the ETA and e-CD are mandatory.

There are websites running paid Google ads that look official and help you fill these two, but here's what they don't tell you:

➡️ Both the processes are completely FREE
➡️ There isn't an EXPRESS/URGENT option of getting your Sri Lanka ETA

Yet, travellers are unknowingly charged hefty amounts in the name of "assistance", and thinking these are the official government websites.

And here's the irony... YOU still fill every single detail yourself. Same effort. Zero benefit. Only cost.

Many travellers realise this only after their credit card is charged. Cost is unclear, refund terms are unclear and their support is hard to reach.

I’m sharing a few screenshots below (without naming the websites) to show how they are designed to look official, the pricing is revealed late in the flow and how easy it is to get misled by words like "Express", "Guaranteed".

How to spot the real websites
✅ Always check the domain.
✅ Official government sites:
🇱🇰 Sri Lanka ETA > https://t.co/GC9WoYVYSM
🇮🇩 Bali e-Customs > https://t.co/A5aotd0EaR

🔎 Look for: Official government domains like https://t.co/qZ7KGOo7OZ or https://t.co/SozBh6axXb. Be cautious when a website asks for a payment under "service fee/assistance" for a Free process. A $158 charge for ETA process? 🤯🫨

Here are two Youtube videos on how to fill Sri Lanka ETA (https://t.co/7OrXK6oPkB) and the Bali e-Customs (https://t.co/7B3q9kIugH).

Share this post, it could help someone avoid an unnecessary expense before their holiday. Holidays are meant to be Sooper hit and not start on an unhappy tone... ✈️

[Tamil Labs 2.0 @labstamil]

Shakthi Thirumagan was watched on Hotstar. Only someone whose blood, skin and bones are full of Dravidam could have made such an ideologically committed film.

The bad guy is not just a bad guy, he is a TamBrahm supervillain named Abhyankar Swamy who speaks fluent English, quotes Sanskrit verses, does Yagna for 8 days with a budget of 1.5 crore, is openly casteist and speaks Tamil in Brahmin slang.

The good guy is not just a good guy. Kittu is an orphan born to a hill tribe, and is mentored by a goody-good humane artist who is a symbolic EVR. He is raised by "Dravidian" ideals, reads Bharathidasan, questions superstitions, quotes Thirukural, and is essentially an egalitarian Robinhood communist who speaks normal Tamil.

The likes of Abhyankar are compared to a fox (a common D trope used in their cartoons to denote Brahmins) and a dialogue states that the spit of this (Aryan) fox can poison this (Dravidian) land for thousands of years.
The antidote? The walking stick of the rational old man which can be used to not just lean on, but to "strike back" as well. Make of that what you will.

Great care has been taken on the names, surnames and getups. Shady minister is made to resemble our FM, whereas a Tamil superhacker boy who crashed Seattle's iPhone network is named "Pappu". The real Pappu is CBFC, perhaps some Kittu mediated for a proper censor certificate with no cuts.

Move over Vetrimaaran, Arun Prabhu has replaced you as the most brazen voice of Dravidawood.

[MRV @MRVChennai]

Strongly condemn the attempt to impeach justice #GrSwaminathan. Kindly RT.

[Harshit Singh @i_m_harshitsing]

Your morning walk can become the reason of your hospital walk.
You don't know when,where or how many will attack but U know that they will.
They won't give you the head start so U have to be ready all the time if U are stepping foot outside.
Be always ready for the fight humans.

[Savitri Mumukshu - सावित्री मुमुक्षु @MumukshuSavitri]

Sabeer, don’t venture into subjects that you know nothing about - you sound like a pompous fool.

Your claim that fireworks “arrived” in India with the Mughals is completely blown to pieces by evidence - fireworks were already blazing across the skies of India centuries before the Mughals. In 1442 CE, the Persian ambassador Abdur Razzak, was sent by Timurid ruler Shah Rukh, to visit the Vijayanagara Empire and recorded his travels in Matla-us-Sadain wa Majma-ul-Bahrain. He described the Mahanavami festival at Vijayanagara as a spectacle of pyrotechnic fireworks and regal illuminations. This is an irrefutable evidence that proves there were organized firework displays during festivals in India a century before the Mughals came to India.

Several decades later, Portuguese chronicler Domingo Paes (c. 1520 CE) witnessed the same grandeur at Hampi, writing of “many fiery rockets and different sorts of fires… castles that burn and fling out bombs and rockets.” That was 6 years before Babur. These firsthand accounts offer irrefutable proof that India’s mastery of fireworks and rocketry was already flourishing long before any Mughal atishbazi.

The Sanskrit scientific texts reinforce this with older evidence. The Śukranīti (written earlier than 4th c.) gives the exact proportions for gunpowder - 5 parts saltpetre, 1 part sulphur, 1 part charcoal. The ancient Rishi Vaiśampāyana referred to exploding smoke-balls used in war, which later commentators identify as gunpowder devices, while the Rājalakṣmīnārāyaṇa Śraya of the Atharvaṇa Rahasya uses the explosive blending of sulphur and charcoal as a metaphor for illumination through knowledge.

Linguistically, Sanskrit agnicūrṇa (“fire-powder”) and Tamil marundhu / Kannada maddu / Telugu mandu/ Malayalam marunnu are all ancient terms which show how the science of combustion with gunpowder was well known to Indians millennia ago. Plus with ancient expertise in saltpetre extraction, India clearly possessed both the materials and the know-how of explosive chemistry well before such knowledge reached the Islamic or Chinese worlds.

Dr. Gustav Oppert, in his study of the Nītisāra (3rd c.) noted that the Indian formula for gunpowder closely matches the one found in the Chinese Wujing Zongyao (1044 CE) which gives the first Chinese specific chemical formulas for gunpowder. This suggests that India’s formulation predates the Chinese recipe. Meanwhile, Chinese Taoist alchemists stumbled upon gunpowder accidentally while experimenting for the elixir of immortality - yet much of Taoist alchemy itself had absorbed Ayurvedic and Rasāyana Śāstra influences. The usage of mercury and cinnabar in Chinese alchemy (waidan) elixir recipes was directly derived from Indian metallurgical and rasāyana methods transmitted by Buddhist monks centuries earlier.

European historians like Johann Beckmann and M. Langlès have even acknowledged that the Arabs most likely obtained gunpowder from India, not vice versa.

The bottom line is that Hindus had both fireworks and gunpowder centuries before the Mughals even existed.
We had mastered the art of turning light, knowledge, and chemistry into joy through fireworks at our important Hindu festivals like Mahanavami and Deepavali. This was perfectly in sync with the tradition of Ulka Dāna as specified in the ancient Skanda Purāṇa. Ulka-dāna meant offering or holding blazing firebrands and fireworks to light the way for our Pitris (ancestors) to return to the heavenly realm during the time of Pitṛpakṣa, Mahalaya, and Dīpāvalī.

Next time you watch a Diwali firework pierce the night sky, remember - that blaze is way older than the Mughals, their empire or Islam, and far brighter than the darkness of your ignorance.

So cut the nauseating fake historical Gyaan already - this ain't Hotmail - outdated, overhyped, and permanently out of service.

[Dr. Srinath Karnati @karnati_srinath]

🚨When truth questions power, people receive legal threats and accounts get suspended.
🚨Once it was @StringReveals now it is @vijaygajera and many nationalist warriors are targeted similarly. Stand with voices that refuse to bow. #IStandWithTruth 🚩
#BoycottMalabarGold

[Badrinarayanan V @batterypechu]

Vittal Vittal!

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Thank you for your attention to this matter 🙏🏻

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

Sports and Politics should not mix Bro.

Russia is banned from all sporting events, due to Ukraine War.

South Africa was banned from sports due to it's Apartheid policies.

We Indians have every right not to watch matches involving Pakistan. Yeh bhaashan baaji kahin aur jaake karna.

#BoycottAsiaCup

[Lone Wolf Ratnakar @SadaaShree]

Today is death anniversary of Chinnaswami Subramania Bharathi, or better known as Mahakavi Bharatiyar, a writer, a revolutionary, a freedom fighter, a nationalist and thinker.

A polyglot fluent in Tamil, Sanskrit, Hindi, English, French, and Bengali, who used his writings to arouse a nationalist spirit.

[Badrinarayanan V @batterypechu]

Vittal Vittal!