The President has assented to the #VandeMataram Amendment, passed without discussion in Parliament, which requires the singing of the National Song in full at the start and ending of any official function, in addition to the National Anthem.
As one who greatly respects both, and can sing the first two stanzas of the former (but not the other four, which were never required till now) as well as the entire anthem, i would like to point to just one practical consideration our zealots appear to have overlooked: human nature.
"Jana Gana Mana" requires audiences to stand respectfully and focus their attention for a reasonable 52 seconds. The National Song in full takes 3 minutes and 10 seconds. Tamil Nadu has just decided that both will be preceded by the State Song in Tamil for another 2 minutes. Do we really expect audiences to stand still and respectfully for six minutes before and after every function, a total of 12 extra minutes? Can respect and patience be legislated?
I fear that the intent of the Bill, to promote greater respect for the National Song , will not be achieved, but its opposite may well be....
@amazon@amazonIN@JeffBezos@ajassy
Crook sellers on platform working with corrupt people in amazon india. Cheating customers by sending less items than advertised. CS is not listening to complaints.
Amazon was such a great company.
@amazon@amazonIN@JeffBezos@ajassy
Crook sellers on platform working with corrupt people in amazon india. Cheating customers by sending less items than advertised. CS is not listening to complaints.
Amazon was such a great company.
@amazon@amazonIN@JeffBezos@ajassy
Crook sellers on platform working with corrupt people in amazon india. Cheating customers by sending less items than advertised. CS is not listening to complaints.
Amazon was such a great company.
लोकतंत्र के इतिहास में आपने कभी देखा है कि सत्ता पक्ष के सांसद बाहर खड़े होकर प्रदर्शन कर रहे हैं?
पिछले कई संसद सत्रों से यही चल रहा है। सरकार संसद नहीं चलने दे रही है। नरेंद्र मोदी कमजोर और कायर प्रधानमंत्री हैं।
The Prime Minister takes credit for every achievement of this nation. In the last 10 years, 152 question papers have leaked, yet there has not been a single conviction. If the Prime Minister is responsible for every achievement, then he is also responsible for what is happening today.
: Congress General Secretary & MP Smt. @PriyankaGandhi ji
China has gained more from the Iran war than from any crisis in three decades.
Beijing has paid costs for this war. But measured against the damage to America’s goals, alliances and credibility, China has come out ahead.
My take:
@iamrakeshbansal Every DDA flat has been altered. Kahan pe rehta hai.. kis duniya mein rehtee ho..
Delhi wale sab kabja karlete hai.. illegal contruction ke experts hai...
A few weeks ago, the RBI gave local banks the green light to offer NRIs up to 7% interest on dollar deposits. Those same deposits paid around 3-4% until then.
When the banking system suddenly starts paying a steep premium to get its hands on foreign currency, it's a sign that something is wrong.🧵👇
Richard Nixon's brutal truth on happiness that hits harder in 2026:
"The unhappiest people in the world are those in the watering places—south coast of France, Newport, Palm Springs, Palm Beach—parties every night, golf every afternoon, bridge, too much drinking, too much talking, too little thinking. Retired, no purpose."
He saw it decades ago: Endless leisure without struggle isn't paradise—it's a slow death of meaning.
"What makes life mean something is purpose, a goal, the battle, the struggle—even if you don't win it."
In an age of quiet quitting, early retirement dreams, and infinite scrolling... Nixon reminds us: The fight is what keeps the soul alive.
What keeps you in the "battle" right now—even when it's exhausting?
Starbucks spends $400 million a year on software. Yesterday they announced they're moving off IBM and Microsoft to build their own custom systems in-house.
IBM dropped 3% and Salesforce dropped 4% on the news.
And honestly this is, unequivocally, the biggest signal I've seen since OpenAI and Anthropic launched their consulting arms back in Q1. The largest companies in the world are done paying for software that half fits how they work.
We saw this coming about a year ago. Moved everything we build off Airtable and low-code tools and went fully custom. Already paying off, and it's only going to compound from here.
This is the opportunity right now.
You get all of a company's data into one system. You build out a single operating system for the entire business. You cut out bad, redundant processes. Then you layer AI on top of it, under the correct processes.
That's the core of AI consulting. Helping companies actually operate better.
There are a lot of fly-by-night offerings circulating right now when it comes to Ai Services.
For example, 'second brains'.
Throwing scattered data into a second brain while the processes underneath stay broken does nothing. The companies who will absolutely destroy their competition over the next 5 years are rebuilding how they work from the ground up.
Starbucks is showing you what other companies will be doing over the next several years.
Your job is to position yourself to facilitate that process for as many companies as you can.