Yogitha

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@HPSupport are you there?

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@HP @HPSupport @HPIndia i had bought hp laptop from Amazon 10 months back. It's malfunctioning since the beginning. Need to return it as it's under warranty. Please guide the process to return this laptop

[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Over the past many years, I have taken a personal stand in support of the NEET examination, arguing that it brought uniformity in student selection across the country and gave students from underprivileged backgrounds a real shot at pursuing their dream of medical education. In the last 5 years, the NEET UG question paper has leaked thrice. Imagine the amount of pressure that it puts on students, who had to go through the examination process yet another time when the system that was supposed to bring in uniformity was failing. Yet there was no accountability, and I believe strongly that it was that moment that brought in a shift in the minds of the students to take to the streets to cry their hearts out.

Protest is a fundamental right in a Democracy. The pertinent question, however, is this: why did the BJP-led Central Government take so long to initiate a dialogue with the protestors? Why was meaningful engagement delayed until the protest had escalated to a flashpoint? What kept you waiting?

The students and the people who are leading them also have a responsibility here. It is natural that when a protest stays on for weeks, people with vested interests will take the stage to air views that are either completely irrelevant to the initial demands of the protests or would try to completely hijack it to serve their agenda. If you remain silent and let these people with vested interests further their agenda, then you are deviating from your core objectives. Please do not let it happen!

I urge the BJP-led Central Government to engage in meaningful dialogue, uphold transparency, and take swift, appropriate action to address the concerns at hand. The strength of any nation lies in the confidence its youth place in its institutions. If our students lose faith in the fairness and credibility of our education system, we are jeopardising the future of our nation.

[Nick Collins @nickcollins1953]

Mesopotamia was never the cradle of civilisation. India was.

I spent forty years in international shipping, not academia. When I began researching the history of maritime trade, I had no orthodoxy to defend. I followed the evidence, and it kept arriving in the same place: the Indian subcontinent.

Nineteenth century archaeologists dug in Mesopotamia because the climate preserved artefacts, the biblical sources pointed them there, and the Ottomans allowed the excavations. That is the entire basis for the myth of Mesopotamia as "the cradle of civilisation."

Nobody applied the same rigour to India. Mohenjo-daro was not discovered until 1922. By then the narrative had already hardened.

What was actually there was the largest civilisation of the ancient world. Three hundred cities. Fifty thousand people in each, by 2600 BC. Two thirds of them stood on the banks of the Sarasvati, the central and greatest of the seven rivers described in the Rig Veda, flowing down from the Himalayas before the river vanished entirely by 1900 BC. The Vedic kings claimed territory stretching "sea to sea," from Afghanistan to Maharashtra, some 1.5 million square miles, against Egypt's 13,000. A dock at Lothal built to handle thirty ships of sixty tons, unmatched in Europe for four thousand years. When it was first excavated, it was recorded as a bathing pool.

When the scale became impossible to dismiss, the theory was not corrected. It was replaced with a story of pale-skinned nomads from the steppe who supposedly arrived around 1500 BC and brought civilisation with them. There is no evidence. The chronology doesn't work. The Vedas describe no invasion.

In 2019 a Harvard-led genetic study revived the claim, and the press reported it as confirmation. It was not. The same study found the builders of these cities were indigenous. The Sarasvati river that the Rig Veda described had already dried up before these newcomers arrived. What the study also found is that a small group of men, arriving after the Sarasvati had already dried up, interbred with the existing population and left a genetic signature. That is all.

So, where they chose to dig was mostly an accident of climate and access. The Aryan invasion theory was constructed because an Indian civilisation that owed nothing to Caucasians was a fact the late nineteenth century could not accommodate.

Link to full Substack essay with sources in the comments below.

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@AmazonHelp Your team did share some id of the ticket raised. Even then, no response from @MyGate_com . Please remove those mygate products from Amazon so that we don't have to waste time in waiting for installation

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@MyGate_com @AmazonHelp pathetic after sales by you both. I bought mygate lock from Amazon. Till date, nobody is sent for installation.

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@AmazonHelp @MyGate_com @shreyansdaga If nobody is responding today, i will be forced to go to the consumer forum.

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@AmazonHelp @MyGate_com @shreyansdaga my gate lock bought from Amazon is lying unused coz your company is too lazy to send the technician. I want to return it.

[Kasturi @KasthuriShankar]

This is Jitu Munda. He is a 55 year old tribal man in Odisha.
After his sister died, Jitu approached Odisha Grameen Bank to withdraw
Rs 20000 from her account.

The bank told him to bring the account holder. He told them she was dead.
They didn't help him. They asked him for proof. But they didn't help him get any paperwork. They didn't explain the procedure to that poor simple tribal man. They didn't send someone with him to help get the paperwork.

Two months of running around later, a frustrated Jitu dug up his sister's corpse and took it to the bank. As proof.

Now the bank staff is scrambling to get everything done for Jitu Munda. Not because they are dutiful good people, but because the bad press is hurting them.
This is a Grameen bank. Meant for the simpler section of society. Meant to help. Meant to impart a sense of value and participation among its customers. Staff are probably locals.

Why are we like this?

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Manjunath Shanmugam.

He was an IIM Lucknow graduate.

He got a job with Indian Oil Corporation as a sales officer.

His territory was Uttar Pradesh.

He found that petrol pump dealers were adulterating fuel and cheating customers.

He reported it. He sealed the pumps.

On November 19 2005 a petrol pump owner shot him dead outside his office.

He was 27 years old.

The killers were convicted. Sentenced to life imprisonment.

His parents did not get compensation for 15 years.

His college created the Manjunath Shanmugam Trust in his name to fight corruption.

Some men die because they refused to look the other way.

India forgets them too quickly.

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@JioCare I have sent the msg. Please disconnect the JioFiber

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@JioCare i need to close JioFiber connection. Please guide

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@UberIN_Support Please check my message

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@Uber_India @Uber_Support Hello, kindly help get my money back. Driver made me pay twice for the trip.

[anand mahindra @anandmahindra]

I must confess that until recently I had never heard of Phool Dei, a spring festival that was celebrated yesterday in the villages of Uttarakhand.

Children gather fresh flowers from the hills and go from house to house placing them on doorsteps, offering a blessing for the household:

“Phool Dei, Chhamma Dei,
Deni Dwar, Bhar Bhakar…” roughly wishing the home prosperity.

In return they receive sweets.

It reminded me a little of Halloween in the U.S., where children go door to door saying “trick or treat.” But what a lovely contrast. Here the children arrive not threatening a prank, or asking first, but giving first. Flowers.

In an age when we speak so much about environmental consciousness, this graceful celebration of spring and nature deserves to be far more widely known.

Just as Holi travelled across India and the world, perhaps Phool Dei should too.

For me, the children of Uttarakhand are my #MondayMotivation

[Dhananjay Yadav @imDhananjay]

Just wanted to update everyone, our devices have been recovered.

Huge thanks to Delhi Police for the super fast response and support.

Truly grateful for all the messages, help, and encouragement we’ve received over the last two days, it means a lot to me🙏.

[Dhananjay Yadav @imDhananjay]

Day 1 of the AI Impact Summit turned to be a pain for us.

I came genuinely excited, it was the first time the summit was being hosted in India, and I wanted to show up personally to support the ecosystem and the government’s push.

But what happened next was shocking.

At 12 noon, security personnel arrived to sanitise and cordon off the area ahead of the visit by PM Modi visit at 2pm.

I explained that we’re building India’s first patented AI wearable at NeoSapien and requested a chance to showcase it.

One officer told others to let me stay, and they left.

Then another group came and ordered us to leave immediately. Seemed like there was lack of co-ordination between the security itself.

I asked: “Should we take our wearables?”

They said, others are leaving even laptops behind, security will take care.

Trusting them, I left. Hoping that the wearables will be safe, and If I am lucky, it might catch the eye of PM Modi.

Gates were closed from 12–6pm. Much much longer than expected.

Later we found out that our wearables were stolen.

Think about this: We paid for flights, accommodation, logistics and even the booth. Only to see our wearables disappear inside a high-security zone.

If only security and official entourage had access, how did this happen?

This is extremely disappointing.

[MAHARATHI @MahaRathii]

This video is viral across India today 🔥

“Mash… ❤️ these are my two legs,” he says — calmly, without anger.

And then comes the line that Kerala’s red ecosystem wants buried: “This was done by communist red extremists.”

Watch closely…Sudha Murty, sitting beside him, instinctively covers her ears.
Because this is not a slogan. This is not a debate. This is the sound of Red Terror in Kerala.

Sometimes, truth doesn’t need slogans.
A single moment says everything.

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@varundubey I have DM ed you my phone number. Please have a look.

[Yogitha @dns_tweets]

@varundubey sir, had a pleasant experience with my consultation at the super health hospital, kmngla. But i was made to pay consultation fee though i had bought VIP Pass by then. I wasn't told about this feature by your team when i booked the appointment a day before