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[Rum-யா @bee_writes]

#ISRO #EOS01 #PSLVC49 launch vehicle visible from Chennai

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Once you visit random cities in China and come back to Indian streets, you realize how much you’ve been scammed by your local MLAs, MPs, IAS and the whole system.

[JB @93Yorker]

GEMS OF INDIAN YOUTH 🤡

Made him resign Asking him to
because he Resign because
couldn’t stop. he stop student
Cheating from cheating

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

Of all the videos of the Nepal flooding that I have seen so far, this one might be the worst.

These people had no chance.
🙏🙏🙏

[Brick Suit @Brick_Suit]

This skateboard trick may never be eclipsed.

Danny León, a Spanish Olympic skateboarder, set up this shot and landed it during today's eclipse in Spain.

Perfect planning!

[Lord Immy Kant @KantInEastt]

Imagine a random city in Sri Lanka running with old Tata and Ashok Leyland buses from India and still mogging the best cities of India, with clean air & dirt free roads. It’s all in the mindset and leadership.

[Shiv Aroor @ShivAroor]

Final image on my show tonight—this drone footage over the Indian Ocean of a grieving mother bottlenose dolphin refusing to let go of the dead body her newborn calf. Sorrow & yearning are not unique to humans.

Rest well, baby 🐬💔

[aether @bluewdrift]

every time you hesitate, someone less talented takes your spot. the world rewards audacity, not potential, confidence over cowardice

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

A few days ago, this video went viral, showing speed breakers on NH-25. People naturally assumed that locals had installed them, because who else would? After all, speed breakers are illegal on highways.

Today, NHAI issued a "clarification" that they only had installed them at the "request" (read: political lobbying or pressure) of a local public representative, and that these are not speed breakers but rumble strips. Lol!

The way these people think the aam janta of this country has no brains of their own is unbelievable!

[Aravind @aravind]

I got this as a strong hunch and want to warn:

The DS will blatantly and visibly use social media in the war against India. It will also at the same time use social media to incite Indians to call for a "Ban" on social media.

If India doesn't do the ban, it will escalate like this - restricting even PM Modi to incite more. The idea is to incite so much that India takes the step of a ban. And that's their plan.

As a sudden ban can be used to spread protests, anarchy, and violence. And storming of institutions calling it Gen-Z revolution.

We have seen this playbook before. In BD and Nepal. India must tread carefully here. Knee-jerk reactions and blanket bans can be weaponized. There will definitely be some people who may file cases in courts asking for such a ban.

They are already spreading rumors that India is going to do it and inciting the young via social media. Keeping this in mind, hope @PMOIndia analyzes this angle with experts, takes the right decision, and keeps ministries in loop.

It will take just one judge to pass some order, and one official from a ministry to do something drastic, and that can be misused by the DS to incite young India into anarchy again.

[Raja Muneeb @RajaMuneeb]

After covering the protests at Jantar Mantar for three consecutive days I can honestly say that journalists who covered the protests had real nerves of steel. The kind of abuses, misogyny, filthy slogans, threats, assault, hostility and sheer bullying and heckling that we all faced was of unprecedented level testing out patience and resolve to the very limits. Kudos to all for standing up and doing the job.

[Christina Buttons @buttonslives]

Yes. They’ve been doing it for a long time, but now more people than ever are going to therapy.

When I was 19, back in 2008, I got a new therapist who introduced me to the idea that abuse could also be “emotional” or “psychological,” not just physical or sexual, and convinced me that my parents were abusive. We didn’t speak again until 2013, five years later, when my mom was diagnosed with cancer.

We’re very close now, but I can’t get that time back with them, nor can I undo the bad decisions I made while trying to navigate young adulthood on my own.

Now I’m very critical of trauma narratives. The concept creep of “trauma” and “abuse” has expanded those terms so much that any flaws or mistakes on your parents’ part are increasingly recast as forms of harm that cause irreparable damage, making them an easy scapegoat for any dissatisfaction you have in your life.

[Soumya here 🌻 @here_soumya]

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[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Forget Sonam Wangchuk. Forget Abhijeet Dipke. Forget the CJP.

Did the exam papers leak? Yes.
Do they leak frequently? Yes.
Did many students commit suicide? Yes.
Do papers leak for other exams as well? Also yes.

The Government seems to suggest that a successful re-exam was undertaken, and the criminals have been punished - so what’s the problem?

The problem is that it doesn’t stop the next paper leak.

Putting some low level criminals behind bars and throwing money at the families of the dead isn’t the permanent solution. How many senior administrators and bureaucrats have faced the wrath of the law in the last 10 years?

It’s a post-facto reaction after the leaks have already taken lives.

Exam paper leaks in India are not confined to one state, one government, or one type of exam. In fact, the situation is even worse in State exams.

The attitude, by-and-large, seems to be, jaisa chal raha hai chalne do..

We’ll pick up a few people here and there, give away some money, do a re-exam and move on to the next cycle. Itna toh kiya, aur kya chahiye?

But the students have gotten restless. They are fed up. You see it in TV interviews after every exam that gets cancelled at the last moment. Police recruitment. Teacher recruitment. State Govt recruitment. Again and again. Year after year. Too many students have all hopes pinned on these various exams. It is their ticket out of poverty, to make a life for themselves and their families.

Why should they just “get on with it”?

Another line of argument seems to be that there were more paper leaks in the Congress era. And that this government has done better than its predecessors. And so people need to be ‘sensible’ about this issue.

Ok, but why should that be relevant to a 20-year old today?

She didn’t live in the Congress era. She is living and studying in 2026.

It is an argument that would perhaps resonate with millennials and older folks who have lived through both regimes. But the very young don’t have that old reference (and it’s a good thing) - they have the reference of social media.

This is a social media native generation, they don’t consume traditional TV or news. Social media gives them access to what the world is like, right on their screen, 24X7. And they will increasingly ask - why can’t we have the good things that the world has?

If Ethiopia can have decent roads, why can’t India?
If Sri Lanka can be clean, why can’t India?
If Vietnam can conduct exams well, why can’t India?

And this restlessness expresses aspiration.

To demand more. To want better. To want it quickly.

Chalta Hai.. is not going to cut it anymore.

Take the counterfactual - if there was no hue and cry, do you believe anything would change? There would be another paper leak somewhere in another month. Another series of suicides. Another round of compensation.

It may very well happen even now, but the students have expressed their rage and fury- that it can’t be business as usual.

“Chalta hai” is the defining attitude of India.

Road after road after road has potholes.. but chal raha hai.
Exam after exam after exam gets cancelled.. but chal raha hai.
Kachra on every street, highway, station… but chal raha hai.
Corruption in every other government service.. but chal raha hai.

The young (thankfully) don’t carry the baggage of the past. The older you get, the more cynical you become - that this is how the system is, and how things will always work. But the young, with their (hopeful) naivety, at least have the ability to dream of a different tomorrow.

In my early 20s, I wore the Anna cap and went around the area sloganeering with a bunch of other young people during the IAC movement. Nothing came out of it, and in hindsight I felt stupid for having supported any of those people. But the sentiment that it came out of - the frustration with rampant corruption - that was genuine.

As I’m sure, the sentiment is genuine with thousands of students who have been part of these protests.

I hope your movement has a more fruitful end than the one I supported.

PS: Is this movement foreign funded? Are there other forces involved? I will let people with far more experience than me on security and intelligence matters to comment on that. But I will say this - the issue has been genuine, and it has resonance among the public. Grifters will always find a way to latch on to popular issues and try to hijack it. We must not lose sight of solving for the core sentiment.

[Zucker Doctor @DoctorLFC]

Millennials are now sandwiched between a generation that believes everything they read on WhatsApp and a generation that believes everything they see on Instagram.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

I saw sound bites from students. They are in their teens and have yet to understand real life.

If a huge number of people march towards Parliament, the seat of the country's power, how can the police take any chances? They know anti social elements would inevitably infiltrate such protests.

Yet students expect the police force to be compassionate. They need to come to terms with reality.

The government should have dismissed Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan long ago and come out with a clear proposal on how it plans to conduct exams in the future without leaks and in a transparent manner.

This government has become so accustomed to absolute power that it has turned insensitive even to the genuine problems of students.

Parents and elders in students families have only chosen governments that pander to their social prejudices and biases. We get what we prioritise.

I don’t know what the solution is when the government refuses to be receptive to the public, other than to say that in the future we should choose policymakers who are receptive, engage in dialogue with citizens, and whose primary focus is on education, healthcare, employment, and quality of life - instead of widening society’s fault lines.

[Sandhya Ravishankar @sandhyaravishan]

Let me tell you a kutty story. During the Vijayanagara empire, kings gave great importance to temples. Archaks or pujaris, people who sang and danced there, musicians, people who cleaned the temple, got flowers and ghee and provisions for the preparation of the temple prasadam.

These people's livelihoods revolved around the temple and in order to ensure that they were taken care of and also to ensure the financial independence of the temple, kings gave inams (literally means gifts) of land parcels to people associated with the temple.

This was so that some revenue could go to the temple to sustain all these expenses. And also to ensure that those serving the deity were well taken care of financially.

But if one stopped working at the temple, the rights over land would go back to the temple. And the next person who served at the temple would enjoy the revenue from these lands.

These lands were not meant for commercial purposes. And they were not permanent occupancy rights like a patta.

The TVK govt has given away these exact same lands to people who have no right to it. We don't know how many are still serving the temple. We don't know how many purecommerciale establishments are there.

It is as if you've leased your property to a tenant and he/she decides it is their own property. Would you agree? Same logic.

Inam lands also belong to the temple. Temple lands belong to all of us. This is a brazen attack on our temple lands and we must oppose it.

Today it is Karur, tomorrow it will be all other districts. Instead of retrieving temple property from encroachers and squatters, the govt is enabling more illegal squatting.

Tomorrow they will come to your house. Will you keep quiet?

[trramesh @trramesh]

Just as the entire true population of temple worshipping Hindus in Tamil Nadu are shocked by the betrayal by @tnhrcedept - - under @CMOTamilnadu Shri Joseph Vijay’s Government — in the matter of 3084 acres of lands - attached to 4 temples -

I am told fresh proceedings are afoot by TN Government to “release” another 4000+ acres in favour of encroachers again in and around Tiruppur District.

What is quite surprising is the Minister for @tnhrcedept - Shri @RameshOffcl is SILENT all along. Have these moves been made against his wishes or has he been told to keep quiet?

Is it this TVK Government’s policy to strip temples out of their land holdings?
@tskrishnan @sumanthraman @TWS_Bharat @indiccollective

[trramesh @trramesh]

Major Act of treachery against Temples by the TVK Government after coming to power.

3085 acres of lands belonging to 4 temples and worth more than ₹25,000 Crores in and around Karur are being handed over to the encroachers by the @tnhrcedept

Shameless ACT of betraying Hindu Temples by TVK.

This atrocity was not carried out even DMK
@CMOTamilnadu @RameshOffcl

[Anuradha Tiwari @talk2anuradha]

People get fined for overspeeding, wrong parking, no seatbelt and many other violations.

But no government official is ever punished for robbing citizens of their basic dignity on the road.

[Shilpa Godbole @godbole_shilpa]

Working parents don't drop off their toddlers at daycare for recreation.
They do it because they have jobs to keep and bills to pay.

BTW This isn’t a small time daycare. This is the daycare for Capgemini employees. If parents can't trust a reputed daycare with their toddlers, where exactly are they supposed to turn?

In an ideal world the dignity, care, well being of those who can’t speak for themselves should never be compromised. But here we are.