Dinesh

28 y/o juggling b/w being an
Engineer
Writer
Podcaster 🎙️
Blogger
Film Buff &
Introvert 💯

A jack of many trades who's still exploring new fields. (A mess)

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

When I started a podcast to talk about the books I read, many people told me the same thing, which is;

"I want to read, but I don't have the time for it"

Fast fwd few months and I got my first job and then I realised the whole scenario.

Which made me do this....

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

https://t.co/qgXwi04f8p

Scribbled something

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

For the first time in my entire life am concerned about the price of apple products 😶‍🌫️ 🚶🏻

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

The UDF came to power projecting itself as pro-Left and committed to Nehruvian socialism. This very first Budget, however, marks the complete abandonment of that pretence. At a time when the BJP was aggressively pushing privatisation and dismantling the developmental role of the state across India, Kerala under the LDF stood as a beacon of hope and resistance.

The last two governments led by us, the LDF, showed that welfare, social justice and public investment can go hand in hand with economic growth and modern development. Kerala emerged as India's leading state across key human development indicators while also achieving remarkable economic and infrastructure growth.

This Budget takes a sharp U-turn away from that model. It embraces corporate interests over public initiatives that Kerala has long championed. Everything from critical minerals and coastal resources to healthcare and public assets is being opened up for private profiteering, while plan outlays are slashed and the institutions that drove Kerala's progress are weakened.

What the BJP has long sought to impose on Kerala, the UDF is now attempting to deliver. This is not merely a Budget; it is a roadmap for surrendering Kerala's natural resources, public institutions and developmental priorities to corporate interests. It replaces a people-centred model with the very neoliberal order that treats society as a marketplace and the state as its facilitator. The Left will resist this assault and continue to defend and strengthen the Kerala model.

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

@fusion89211 Indian people are some of the smartest, kindest people I know. The Indian government on the other hand...

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

@RaunaqMangottil The movie lacked an oomph factor. We are desensitised to the topic of extraterrestrials. Even though the movie pointed at how sick humanity is, it still felt meh. A disclosure might excite you once, but never twice or further.

[Telegram Messenger @telegram]

Over 300,000 people die of drowning each year. In order to protect society, it is now illegal to consume or possess water.

Your government is also considering banning solid food, as it presents a needless choking hazard.
You are not an adult.
You are a baby.
Eat the baby food.

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.

The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.

This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.

Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.

Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

The movie absolutely sounded like a personal statement from ASN , it could be my perspective alone because of that interview, but for everyone who had dreamt of, and at some point chose to give up... Am yet to figure out whether it was a slap or a hug!

[Raunaq Mangottil @RaunaqMangottil]

Way, way, WAY different from any other films that have romanticised cinema. Even Babylon which spoke about the pain of surviving in this field is ultimately a love letter to movies but this one is quite the opposite
Saying “i liked it” is too simple a way to describe my feeling towards it because it is not a simple film
In the cynicism of @abhinavsnayak there’s an odd motivation to…just keep going.
Bold, complex, dense, thought-provoking, nihilistic, REAL and unapologetically original

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

The sad thing to realise from this is, the budget speech may not have reached every individual, but this sensationalization definitely will and did.

[M.K.Stalin @mkstalin]

மாண்புமிகு தமிழ்நாடு முதலமைச்சராகப் பொறுப்பேற்றுள்ள தமிழக வெற்றிக் கழகத் தலைவர் திரு. @ActorVijay அவர்களுக்கு எனது மனப்பூர்வமான வாழ்த்துகளைத் தெரிவித்துக் கொள்கிறேன்.

பதவியேற்றதும் தாங்கள் கையெழுத்திட்டுள்ள அறிவிப்புகளையும் வரவேற்கிறேன்.

எடுத்த எடுப்பிலேயே அரசிடம் பணம் இல்லை எனப் பேச ஆரம்பிக்காதீங்க. அதெல்லாம் இருக்கு. மக்களுக்குக் கொடுக்க மனசும், ஆட்சித் திறமையும்தான் வேணும்.

ஐந்து ஆண்டுகளாக, கோவிட், வெள்ளம் போன்ற பல பிரச்சினைகளையும் ஒன்றிய பா.ஜ.க. அரசின் ஓரவஞ்சனையையும் சமாளிச்சுதான் நாங்க எண்ணற்ற மக்கள்நலத் திட்டங்களை நிறைவேற்றினோம்.

'ரூபாய் 10 லட்சம் கோடி கடனை வைத்துவிட்டு, கஜானாவைத் துடைத்து விட்டுச் சென்றுள்ளது கடந்த அரசு' - என்ற குற்றச்சாட்டை முதல் உரையிலேயே சொல்லி இருக்கீங்களே… அனுமதிக்கப்பட்ட வரம்புக்குட்பட்டே தமிழ்நாட்டின் கடன் அளவு இருக்கிறது.

தமிழ்நாடு அரசின் நிதிநிலை பற்றி கடந்த பிப்ரவரி மாத பட்ஜெட்லயே தெளிவா நாங்க சொல்லிட்டோம். அது உங்களுக்குத் தெரியாதா? அதுக்குப் பிறகுதான நீங்க பல வாக்குறுதிகளை மக்களுக்குக் கொடுத்தீங்க? உங்களுக்கு வாக்களித்த மக்களை மீண்டும் ஏமாற்றி திசைதிருப்பாதீங்க!

“நடைமுறைக்கு சாத்தியமானதை மட்டுமே வாக்குறுதிகளாக அளிக்கிறேன்” எனக் கூறி ஆட்சிக்கு வந்துள்ள நீங்கள் இப்போதுதான் அரசு நிர்வாகத்துக்குள் அடியெடுத்து வைக்கிறீர்கள். கூடிய விரைவில் மக்களுக்குக் கொடுத்த வாக்குறுதிகளை எப்படி நிறைவேற்றலாம் எனும் நுணுக்கங்களையும் எங்களைப் போலவே நீங்களும் நிச்சயம் கற்றுக்கொள்வீர்கள் என நான் நம்புகிறேன். வாக்களித்த மக்களோடு, நானும் அதையே எதிர்பார்க்கிறேன்.

தங்களின் ஆட்சியில் தமிழ்நாட்டின் வளர்ச்சிப் பயணம் தொடர மீண்டும் எனது வாழ்த்துகள்!

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

"Use the talents you possess, for the woods would be very silent if no birds sang except the best" - Best advice for a Sunday Morning 😁

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

Well that was one lazy attempt to fix an already butchered story
#strangerthingstalesfrom85

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

@Bank_on_Fi is Fi shutting down and moving to merge the accounts to Federal Bank ?

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

I loved #ProjectHailMary
But I really wish they hadn't skipped over some of the plot points. 🥹

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

Is first contact that exciting ? I'm of the opinion that it's just another way to satisfy man's greed masquerading as curiosity.

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

@RaunaqMangottil That was the only reason I was avoiding the trailer 😭 but Rockyyss soo cutee 🥹

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

The audacity of a certain group of people always used to surprise me, now I wonder whether that audacity was rooted in a superiority complex and not confidence. Either way I still hate'em.

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

you prefer going back to the times of owning your own data? It's not going to be that difficult to own a website and run it. At the least, it will make visits and interactions intentional and organic : 2/2

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

In the early internet era, individuals owned their identity on the internet. When that identity started to dissolve in social media and the so called 'Identity Providers', the internet has slowed turned out to be a place worse than the the real world it seems. How badly would 1/2

[Dinesh @dineshrn751]

Multiple reasons to hate a country and wish for its demise 🚶🏻But nah..