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[Rayaaaan @rayyanspeaks]

TN politics starter pack: Hate DMK → Explore everyone → End up defending DMK.

[Karthick Ramasamy @karthickmr]

Whatever the causes behind the DMK’s defeat in Tamil Nadu, and whatever role the party’s first family may have played in creating public resentment, I still continue to regard M K Stalin as one of the few real statesmen left in Indian politics.

In Indian politics, defeat usually produces denial, arrogance, silence or revenge. Rarely humility. That is why Stalin’s response after the election stood out so sharply.

Kerala Chief Minister Pinarayi Vijayan, after the shocking electoral collapse of the Left in Kerala, has not even cared to release a simple two-line Facebook post consoling emotionally shattered cadres and followers. Thousands of ordinary CPM workers who defended the party for years were left directionless after the verdict. Silence became the political response.

Mamata Banerjee, after suffering humiliation in Bengal in another phase of her political journey, publicly declared she would not resign. Across India, leaders often treat electoral defeat as temporary inconvenience or conspiracy. Very few acknowledge the emotional investment of ordinary workers.

But Stalin chose another path altogether.

The very next day after counting, despite losing even his own constituency Kolathur to an electoral novice from Vijay’s TVK, Stalin went back to the locality. No anger. No drama. No blame game. He walked among the people and thanked them for standing with him for decades. Videos from the locality showed emotionally overwhelmed party workers crying openly. Many held his hands. Some could not control their tears. Stalin attempted to console them instead.

That moment mattered politically because it reflected something increasingly absent in Indian politics. Democratic culture.

Today I saw The Times of India Chennai edition carrying his interaction where Stalin said he would not disturb Vijay for the next six months if the latter forms the government. He said he was not interested in creating instability in Tamil Nadu. He said people should not be dragged into another election. He expressed hope that the new government would continue welfare schemes while implementing TVK’s manifesto promises. Only after six months, he said, would the DMK begin constructive criticism as Opposition.

That is not weakness. That is political maturity.

To AIADMK leaders who mocked the DMK after the defeat, Stalin simply responded that the DMK would sit in the Opposition. Nothing hysterical. Nothing desperate. Just clarity.

One must remember that the DMK is not an ordinary electoral machine. It is one of the most ideologically rooted Dravidian movements in modern India. The party survived dismissals, Emergency-era repression, corruption allegations, splits, the deaths of towering leaders, and repeated electoral destruction. After MGR’s rise many predicted the end of the DMK. After Jayalalithaa’s dominance many wrote its obituary again. Yet the party returned each time because its social foundations remained intact.

Stalin himself spent years under the shadow of Karunanidhi. Critics mocked him as politically weak and lacking charisma. But over time he rebuilt the party structure patiently. He strengthened welfare politics. He sharpened the DMK’s secular positioning at a time when majoritarian nationalism was rising aggressively across India. He defended federalism. He consistently articulated Tamil identity without slipping into separatist rhetoric. During NEET protests, language debates, governor-state confrontations and questions of social justice, Stalin gave ideological direction to the Dravidian discourse.

That political foundation has not disappeared because of one electoral defeat.

What collapsed this time was electoral arithmetic. In a multiparty democracy, perception often defeats ideology. Celebrity appeal overtakes organisational depth. Anger accumulates silently against incumbents. Welfare fatigue sets in. Internal contradictions within ruling families create resentment. Every dominant party eventually faces this cycle.

[Kootathil Oruthi @KootathilOruthi]

It really boils my blood to see the number of stories from the ppl I know proudly saying 'i am going to vote for tvk' 🤡

[Sruthi @Sruthi_nnk]

and I’ll happily remain one of those folks 😌✨

[Sairam Krishnan @_sairamkrishnan]

This is most probably bait, but I will bite.

Chennai is a romantic's dream. The early mornings by the sea, the coffee in hotels your grandfathers ate at, all those celluloid fantasies that were literally the songs your father sang for your mother, the sultry, sexy afternoons, and the evenings that seem a respite from life itself. Add an Illayaraja tune to any picture of Chennai, and it becomes a frame filled with yearning.

Hate all you want, India's first modern city, and still probably the most liveable metro we have, is its own thing. More than a place, more than a business centre. For Tamils - whatever kind, Indian, Sri Lankan, Malaysian - it is our centre of gravity, a kind of home.

So leave it alone if you don't get it. We belong to it, and it definitely belongs to us.

[Dr. Ghungroo सेठानी @rukmaniiiiiii]

Woman are pushed to marry early because they know the older they get the more they learn about men and the less likely they are to actually want one.

[skeleton @ThinkingBone]

don't like the ghibli trend. idk man. something about a particular artist's meticulously crafted style being turned into a mass-market on-demand commodity. it doesn't sit right.

is this how it's gonna be from now on? anything good in the world being taken for parts to make slop?

[Srikanth Miryala @miryalasrikanth]

For all the NEET PG winners, some gyan from me.

1. You will learn medicine by doing it, the days of spoon feeding and teaching are over.

2. You will have to make a cumulative study period of minimum three hours a day during all three years and case based study helps you the best instead of reading a textbook from beginning to end.

3. Communication and documentation is the key. Practice telling the patient what you are thinking and what you are going to do. The same will help to explain it to colleagues and seniors for handover.

4. Remember that autonomy of the patient is paramount. You want to do all good for the patient but he wants to choose something alternative which is not the best, it’s okay. You will have to come out of God’s complex.

5. Learning interesting cases is good but hardly you will see them ongoing in your career, focus on learning the common and its variants.

6. Read more journals, try to interpret results your own way than accepting the discussion.

7. Professors have wisdom and senior postgraduates have knowledge. Do not fear to talk to your professor and ask questions. They like to teach the interested.

8. Always look for opportunity. Offer doing a procedure, interview, seminar, paperwork etc.

9. There are lot of things that you don’t get to learn as a post graduate- interpersonal skills, financial management, establishing a private practice, working in a corporate setting, independently or as a team etc. You will need to observe and pick these things. Attending conferences will help you to connect with people and learn different perspectives.

10. Look for the rapid changes in your branch of medicine and as a whole in health care. You will need to hone new skills ongoing. Choose one aspect of your branch and try to master it.

11. Both physical and mental health take a hit during post graduation. Always eat and go to work. Never skip meals. Eat healthy. Do not eat samosas after the seminar. Try to sleep on time when you are not on duty. Steal some time for brief exercise.

12. Buy new clothes- all cotton, comfort, and light colours, wear proper fitting foot wear. By the end of the day you walk a lot and sweat a lot. These will help you. Carry a bag with a water bottle and all your physical examination equipment and a book of clinical methods and handbook of treatments. Do not keep chocolates. Keep bananas or oranges. Coffees make you restless at the end of the day.

13. Be courteous to your colleagues, you will need to work along with them for the next three years, they can make your time hell or heaven. Be accommodative to roster changes, exchanges, additional hours. The favour will return.

14. When you are sick, you are sick even if it is outpatient day or theatre day. Inform your senior resident and take leave. You neither get better by working with sickness not your patient gets better.

15. Leaves are your entitlement. You are bound to take leaves to recuperate. So is your pay. You will need to escalate if there is delay in your monthly stipend/salary.

16. Talk to the patients. Talk to them in their language, not medical jargon. Break it into simple sentences. If you are working interstate learn the local language as quickly as you can. It keeps dementia away.

17. Post graduation should not stop other life events or milestones. Life is parallel not sequential. Get into relationship, married or become a parent. Spouse is the best support in times of crisis - thesis submission, exam preparation and viva.

18. Work on your thesis from the beginning. Be honest in doing it. When you look back there was one thing you did all by yourself.

19. Teach your juniors, interns, medical students and nursing students. It’s the best way to learn medicine.

20. Stand to challenge. Do not crib. Identify abuse, raise voice. Learn to protect yourself. Identify safe space in every hospital. Be active in leadership. Post graduation is a wonderful experience, make the most of it.

All the best.

[Vaani ✨ @depressedsoul_0]

If you are emotionally attached to your religion, caste or political leaning to the point that justice & equality become secondary considerations, then your education is useless, your exposure is useless.
If you can't reason beyond petty sentiments, you're a liability to mankind.

[Aditya Gupta @DrAditya2935]

Reminds me of a famous saying

What do you call a person who passed in bottom half of a medical school?

Answer - A doctor.

[Aditya Gupta @DrAditya2935]

Then people ask me why I say oldies have destroyed this profession.
If he is going to judge a person with a AIR 5000 as lower tertile and pass such derogatory remarks - imagine how he must be on rounds.
Sir also has habit of medical jousting
Alag hi delulu world hai oldies ka.

[பவிரக்‌ஷா @paviraksha]

Malayalis should feel very happy that a women collective is relentlessly and tirelessly voicing out against rape culture and is committed to ensure work place safety. All we have in TN is major powe centres effortlessly destroying women who try to do this.

[Aparna @chhuti_is]

This.

[k @krownnist]

“false rape cases are ruining men’s lives” my brother in christ even real rape cases aren’t ruining men’s lives

[Aditya Gupta @DrAditya2935]

We doctors should stop stop justyifjng our salaries.
Doctors should be highly paid.
Period.
The duty if healthcare is not of doctors but Government.
If you can’t visit a govt hospital due to queue/poor hygiene etc etc
Question govt.
not the doctor who is private citizen.

[Sadh @docpotatos]

@realsiff 😂😂😂 go on pls leave us alone