Balaji R

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

रहिमन भारतवर्ष में, बाइक धीरे चलाईं।
ना जानै केहि रूप में, सरकारी गड्ढा मिलि जाई।।

Junagadh municipality dug up the road for civic work but failed to restore it properly, leaving a deep pothole. Came rain, pothole disappeared under water and dhappa! This biker suffered serious injuries. Four more accidents at the same spot the same day.

[Parimal @Fintech03]

This is 1 of the best 100% fictional & full of comedy piece, I have read in recent times. De casually throws in the phrase "Underage Siya at 20," which is factually, legally & logically absurd in India, where the legal age of majority & criminal liability is 18.

In Nyaya Sutras, Akshapada Gautama lists several types of logical fallacies used by sophisticated sophists to win debates using deception. 2 of them apply perfectly to Shobhaa De here:

A. Chhala (Quibbling/Trivialization) - De spends multiple paragraphs hyper-focusing on the victim's hair patch, calling it the "main motive" & writing flippant remarks like, "Come on, Siya… look at Anupam Kher!" De is trivializing a brutal crime into a shallow page-3 gossip column, trying to lower the moral weight of the act to match the superficiality of her narrative.

B. Viruddha/Savyabhicara Hetvabhasa (Contradictory/Irregular Reason) - De attributes the murder to deeper “fascinating subtexts” of class, coercion, privilege versus attraction, agency & “denied choice,” nodding to Gen Z sympathy for Siya as a trapped young woman. This reasoning is contradictory (viruddha)/erratic (savyabhicara): it directly undermines itself because a 20 yr old adult who can orchestrate multiple premeditated murder plots, divert ₹1 crore & bypass every legal/non-violent option demonstrates full criminal agency & convenience, not helplessness.

Shobhaa De’s column is a classic piece of Sophistry using flowery language, political deflections (bringing up the Ram Mandir & Modi out of nowhere) & superficial gossip to mask a terrifying moral reality.

When people try to find a "faultline" in the system to justify a 20 yr old adult's choices, they are engaging in moral cowardice. You do not look at a pilot who intentionally crashes a plane into a mountain 4x & write a column complaining about the airline's catering service. The pilot was an adult who owned the controls.

[BALA @erbmjha]

India set up a fully functional field hospital in earthquake-hit Venezuela, thousands of kilometres away, simply to help those in need.

This won’t dominate timelines or rack up 50 million views. But let there be one racist post targeting Indians, and it spreads like wildfire.

Humanitarian work rarely goes viral. Hate almost always does.

[INDIAN ARMY FACT CHECK @MythbusterXX]

🚨 Spot the Synthetic

❌ Propaganda accounts are amplifying a misleading video by “Rajiv”, who claims to be a serving Indian Army officer, making serious allegations of sexual assault and misconduct against senior Indian Army officers.

✅ Fact: The video is a #SyntheticallyGeneratedInformation and created using AI voice modulation. The other important details like dress of the individual, incorrect usage of Indian Army ranks, using fictional stories etc all point towards a Pak sponsored propaganda.

🎯 Disinformation Pattern of Pak-based propaganda accounts like @TheFidato: AI generated video → sensational allegation → target senior army officers → social media amplification → anti-Army narrative.

⚠️ Verify before you amplify.

#IndianArmy
#FactCheck
@adgpi
@NorthernComd_IA
@GoI_MeitY

[Balaji R @dosacorner]

@NihalSarin @chesscom Many congrats

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

All these media bytes and news clippings are from 2025, just after Operation Sindoor.
Today, Pappu's toilet cleaners are outraging that the government hid the news of our soldiers' martyrdom during the operation.
They're still pushing this lie despite multiple fact-checks.

[Amaruvi Devanathan @amaruvi]

A hindu school in Vellore district, the only one catering to tribal children, was asked to pay Rs 12 lakhs for CBSE NoC. School had to take help from an editor of a tamil weekly and got that reduced to Rs 5 lakhs. Later school decided otherwise be with State Board. Paid Rs 3 lacs

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

The DMK ecosystem is attacking me that the school issue I reported was a lie I concocted to help the TVK government. Let me state the facts.

We run two rural schools, both free NIOS schools under the Kalaivani Kalvi Maiyam umbrella, one in rural Tenkasi and the other in rural Theni.

The Theni school was originally started and run by a retired IPS officer, a honest and upright man. He built very nice facilities but had to shut down his CBSE school because the state government demanded too much money to issue the NOC. He told me that as a honest retired officer he did not have the money to pay and they would not issue the NOC otherwise.

He urged us to take over his trust so we could run our free NIOS school in the premises. That is how we started our NIOS school in Theni.

Unlike in Tenkasi, where I live, the Theni school faced occasional harassment from the DMK government because we did not have a state government registration, so we tried getting state government approval again (this time for the state board) and that of course would also cost money. So it was in a limbo.

Meanwhile in Tenkasi we wanted to build new school facilities (we were operating in make-shift facilities, the ones that came in frequent photos) and we applied for DTCP approval to construct the new buildings. Everyone who knows DTCP in our state knows what kind of corruption happened there under the DMK.

We waited patiently for DTCP approval for the new school buildings but the approval never came as long as the DMK was in power. The approval came automatically once the government changed.

It is this DTCP approval that I posted about in X. I want to once again appreciate the refreshing change.

Not only did the approvals come, government people told us not to pay money to anyone for any approvals. I have to appreciate this in public, having endured what we had endured before.

This is the "lie" that DMK wants to attack me on.

I do not need their certificate on my character.
They can examine their conscience and ask why a technology nerd like me who is mostly immersed in code would post these.

If they think I would back down by their vile personal attacks because I am a Brahmin or TVK Stooge or Sanghi or whatever, I will tell them this: unlike you dynasts I grew up with nothing. I studied in Tamil medium schools. I know how to live on nothing. I have dedicated the remainder of my life to make Bharat self reliant in technology while reviving our rural areas, the soul of our eternal sanatana civilization.

I will not be intimidated by their attacks. I am unafraid of death, why would I be afraid of the mere DMK?

And if they had any conscience they can return the money they looted (they know there they keep it) and then they can attack my character.

I will now go back to optimizing the code of our compiler!

[Vineetha Govindasamy @VineethaGov]

Leading a CBSE school for close to 10 years has shown me just how painful it can be to deal with the government machinery.

There are days when you come very close to giving up; not because running a school is difficult, but because you're exhausted from constantly having to give. Even greed should have a ceiling. There has to be a point where they should just live & let live.

Every approval (fire, safety, kitchen, hostel, or any other clearance) seems to come with an expectation of money. Every government meeting happening in the proximity of our school, we are not requested but demanded to provide money, school vans, staff, and other resources.

An example: the FIDE Chess Olympiad in Chennai in 2022. We were instructed to provide a couple of our school vans for advertisement. Huge posters featuring our Chief Minister and the Chess Olympiad branding were put up on our SCHOOL vehicles. A month after the event, when we requested that they be removed, we were told either to leave them as they were or remove them at our own expense (which was not cheap).

What disturbed me even more was hearing government officials openly say that corruption has always existed in TN, but under the current government, they no longer have to hide it or fear getting caught. Those words came from their own mouths.

I'm neither for nor against any political party. But when you endure one blow after another for years, it's only natural to feel relieved, and even celebrate, when the wind changes direction & you finally sense the possibility of a fresh breeze.

[The Modern Himachal @themodernhp]

Breaking the queue, cutting into traffic while others patiently follow their lane and then arguing with those who are simply following the rules.

📍 Shimla | Tootikandi Bypass

[Pratyush Kumar @pratykumar]

Big day for all of us at Sarvam.

I want to start by thanking my team for shouldering this mission with immense belief, urgency, and care.

Reflecting on the last few years of the founding journey, my conviction has only deepened:
- AI will be far more consequential than most of us realize even today
- The value loops of this new world cannot be owned by a couple of companies
- Country of India scale cannot rent intelligence. We have to build it ourselves

We are going to push hard across every layer of the company, but the thing that excites me most right now is our shot at building frontier-class AI systems from India. We are assembling the team, the compute, and the deployment engine to make this happen.

I also want to thank our new investors. HCLTech’s partnership opens joint opportunities to bring our research and platform to many of HCLTech’s clients - this is also a unique template to bring together India’s strengths. BVP brings to the team the rare combination of being at the forefront of India's biggest tech shifts for the past two decades while globally having partnered with category defining enterprise AI companies.

Onwards

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

This has to be one of the greatest parliamentary speeches of all time..... The silence says everything....

[Kevin Pietersen🦏 @KP24]

Huge congratulations to @narendramodi on your historic tenure as PM. It is a remarkable reflection of how you have reshaped India into a global powerhouse. Having visited India for 23 years, every trip excited me and shows me just how much the country continues to transform and thrive. 🙏🏻

[Mr Sinha @Mrsinha]

Listen to former Nagaland Chief Minister S. C. Jamir, who once served as Parliamentary Secretary to Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru, as he explains the difference between Nehru and PM Modi.

"Panditji was a philosopher, Modi ji is a practical man."

Jamir highlights PM Modi's direct approach, accessibility, focus on the Northeast, economic reforms, and progress in the Naga peace process, calling the scale of development in the region unprecedented.

#LongestServingElectedPMModi

[Ram Gopal Varma @RGVzoomin]

Apart from giving India , it’s biggest female SUPER STAR #Sridevi , #BharathiRaja blended Satyajit Ray 's realism, Mukherjee’s characters and Chaterjee’s sense of situational comedies in a tremendously rooted cinema of all genres to connect all classes of audiences irrespective of their languages ..A True Auteur 🙏🙏🙏

[தோழர் ஆதி @ThozharAadhi]

Rest in peace #Bharathiraja - The finest Craftsman of Tamil cinema!! 💔🫡

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

India’s birth rate has fallen below replacement.

Among those most educated, India’s birth rate fell below replacement many years ago.

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

CJP member assaults a doctor at UP’s Mau Government Hospital.

He reportedly said, “I’m a member of the Cockroach Janata Party. Help us overthrow the government!”

When the doctor refused, saying a hospital isn’t a political arena, the man allegedly slapped him, tore his shirt, and vandalized the facility.

Arson and Hooliganism starts with the alleged propaganda movement?

[Balaji R @dosacorner]

@RahulGandhi Talking of inheritance, How do I inherit a different surname such as Gandhi? How did Indra Gandhi manage to do it? On what basis are you continuing it?

[Tajinder Bagga @TajinderBagga]

Saurav Das who was against Ram Mandir in Ayodhya Is now spokesperson of Cockroach Janta Party.