आज नोवाक जोकोविच को रोता देख दुख हुआ। 24 ग्रैंड स्लैम जीत चुका ये खिलाड़ी US Open के अपने पहले मैच में महज आधे घंटे में थक गया, फिर भी लगभग 5 घंटे तक जूझता रहा। शरीर अब साथ नहीं दे रहा। लेकिन मन ये मानने को तैयार नहीं। मुकाबला पांच सेट तक चला। 2006 के बाद ये पहली बार हुआ है जब जोकोविच किसी ग्रैंड स्लैम में अपना पहला ही मैच हार गये।
Chennai based industrialists Ranvir Shah and Kiran Rao have stole several 100s of crores of idols from Hindu temples.
Still idols are being recovered from their properties.
I agree. From a GC perspective, fighting for the implementation of creamy layer within SC/ST reservations is largely pointless.
Yes, certain communities within SC/ST have exploited reservation to their advantage. But what does introducing creamy layer actually achieve? It would push out the more affluent SC/ST communities, but those seats would simply be filled by less represented communities within the same bracket. With a population of over 35 crore, a large section of which is poor and underrepresented, SC/ST communities will have adequate replacements for at least the next hundred years. The math is simple: not a single additional seat opens up for GC candidates. The numbers stay exactly the same.
Then there is the question of implementation. Creamy layer already exists for OBCs, and it is farcical. The threshold is 8 lakh per annum from non-salary and non-agricultural sources only. This means a Staff Engineer at Google earning 2 crore annually does not fall under creamy layer, because his non-salaried income is below 8 lakh. The policy has been deliberately structured so that nearly everyone is exempt. And this is before accounting for the income certificates, which are largely fraudulent documents anyway.
Finally, this is simply not our fight. Anyone who believes championing creamy layer will generate goodwill is mistaken. It will be seen as interference in their internal affairs, nothing more. VP Singh, himself a General Category politician, was instrumental in implementing the Mandal Commission and OBC reservations. When his government was collapsing, he expected OBC MPs to cross party lines and save him. He declared they would vote from conscience. They did not. His government fell. Generations of GC reformers poured genuine effort into their empowerment. The returns speak for themselves.
Save that energy. The real fight is for the complete removal of reservations. Reservations are inherently unjust, explicitly discriminatory, and anti-merit by design. That alone is justification enough.
Princeton Prof Arvind Narayanan: "My best rough estimate of the fraction of the scientific literature that’s wrong — flat-out wrong, you’d-be-nuts-to-rely-on-this wrong — is 80%"
Then there is a whole category of scientific literature "that is not even wrong" - useless, irrelevant would be better descriptions.
Why does it happen? The massive "over capacity" in research with too many PhDs being produced, and the "market pressure" for grants and publications in the academic world. I decided I would face the "market pressure" of real business instead!
As the popular Computer Science adage has it (originally from Richard Hamming, Turing Award winner): Newton may have stood on the shoulders of giants but in CS, we stand on each other's toes!
It was reported that after watching Satyajit Ray's "Pather Panchali" (1955) at the Cannes Film Festival, François Truffaut said, "I don't want to see a movie of peasants eating with their hands" and had stated that the movie was "Insipid". When Truffaut was asked about it in 1977, he retorted immediately & said,
“On the contrary, I wanted to see 'Pather Panchali' once again after it ended. I did struggle with its pace initially but realised it had to be that way because the film isn’t about poverty at all. It’s a coming-of-age work about children being introduced to the horrors and wonders of life.”
P.S: On this day, 71 years ago, "Pather Panchali" (1955) was released in India.
This is an old Muslim painting. It depicts Prophet Muhammad visiting hell during Miraj (night journey).
In hell, most inhabitants were women. There was a section of "shameless women" who did not cover their hair.
For this crime of inciting lust in men, women were hanged by their hair and burnt for eternity in hell.
Yes, I totally agree. The greatest feminist of all time.
PS: Do you cover your hair?
90 year old sister walks all the way to tie rakhi to her 85 & 78 year's old brothers. She brings 2 coconuts from the trees in her own home as gifts for her 2 brothers. ❤️
She is the true brand ambassador of #RakshaBandhan—not the Mulla-Marxist-Missionary-sponsored crook Kriti Sanon.
Boycott GIVA and give her something from brands that respect and celebrate Sanātana culture instead of being busy poisoning it.
This is perhaps the most emotional video on the internet. ❤️
Wishing you all a very Happy #RaksaBandan2026 ! 🙏
#जय_श्री_कृष्ण
#RaksaBandhan
#HappyRakshaBandhan
#रक्षाबंधन
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The calamity in Nepal is a wake-up call for us, as a nation, given the hyperactive infrastructure push of the Chinese in the Tibetan region. Today was an accident. Tomorrow, such accident possibilities could be weaponised. We need to start identifying pressure points. Agreed?
I am feeling deeply depressed today. The brutal annihilation of the entire Ganesh Chakraborty family is horrifying & yet, so far, not a single liberal, human-rights activist, or leftist has raised their voice in support of Hindus in Bangladesh.
His daughter was due to be married in just a few days. She was allegedly brutally raped, her eyes were gouged out, and acid was poured on her face. The sheer hatred and brutality directed against Hindus is deeply disturbing.
His wife too was raped and subjected to horrific torture. His 12-year-old son was forcibly circumcised. Ganesh himself was brutally killed.
Their only “crime” was that they were Hindus.
What makes this horror even more disturbing is the alleged treatment of the bodies after the killings—acid was reportedly poured over their faces before the bodies were dumped at the foot of the stairs.
The complete destruction of an entire Hindu family cannot simply be dismissed as an ordinary crime. If these reports are established, this would be a horrifying indictment of law and order, minority protection, and the failure of society to protect innocent human beings from communal violence.
Where are the voices that so loudly speak about human rights when the victims are Hindu?
Human rights cannot be selective. Outrage cannot depend on the religion of the victim. If you remain silent when an entire family is allegedly brutalised and killed because they are Hindu, that silence is not neutrality—it is hypocrisy.
#Bangladesh #Dhaka #Chittagong #Uttara #Dhanmondi #HumanRights #HinduLivesMatter #SaveBangladeshiHindus
Various media reports say that the police in Rangpur, Bangladesh, deliberately changed the motive of the Hindu family murder case.🚨🇧🇩
They also reported that the police Didn't investigate the case properly.
Victim’s relatives say the police aren’t arresting the real criminals.
This is not the exception. Most farmed fish are killed by suffocation while fully conscious.
Depending on the species, it takes between 10 minutes and five hours for the fish to lose consciousness.
Every day we kill over 250 million fish this way — including millions sold in the US and Europe.
The closest human experience is suffocation, which is rated in palliative care literature as one of the most distressing experiences a human can endure.
One day we'll wonder in horror at how we tolerated this for so long.
A temple worker at Sree Muchilottukavu in Karivellur (Kannur, Kerala) has alleged that he was removed from service because his daughter married a man from another caste. He has approached Malabar Devaswom Board. He worked at the temple for 17 years. “How can a father be removed because his daughter married outside the caste?”
https://t.co/Oev4XMyrIb
At Jagannath Temple, Puri, a servitor was barred because of his inter-caste marriage. Even worship and bhog were paused when he tried to enter. Here, the worker has not even done an inter-caste marriage himself but apparently his adult child has.
Tragicomic incidents: deeply tragic today, and hopefully comic or silly in retrospect a few decades from now. The fault is not in our stars.. some of the loudest supporters of temple freedom also turn out to be the strongest proponents of such discrimination and caste pride. Elsewhere, they are suddenly reminded of "merit". Reservations will go, they must go, but is our society ready today? Are these so-called traditions being upheld because there are quotas or they predate them? The answer is obvious. And most disturbingly, over and above any shallow politics, this is done in the name of Sanatana Dharma.
Eventually Palantir will come for the Indian market and 180 IQ babus eager for son/daughter internships and Green Card will push its cause.
Touching it with a barge pole will be suicide for the Indian state. Hopefully L1 will save us from its fangs.