Naveen Kumar

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[Naveen Kumar @freak_az0id]

@jal_kukdi The new generation has clearly failed to keep up with the narrative. Time for the veterans to take charge again! 🤣🔥

[Naveen Kumar @freak_az0id]

@jal_kukdi Mam, I’ve been following you and your husband since the 2013 days, when you were both super active on Twitter and played your part in building the 2014 Modi Wave. You’re absolutely right! We need the OG gang back in action.

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

What we are seeing right now is an attempt to mainstream the 'idea' of a regime change.

Little by little, every day.

No one is advocating violence openly.

Everyone is legally correct and morally ambiguous.

Neha Bora wears a One Piece t-shirt to the protest, which was the symbol of the Gen-Z protests in Nepal, that stormed government buildings. But haha it's just a shirt, why would you make more of it? Don't overreact.

She also claims she is inspired from the revolution in Bangladesh. No mentions of the Hindu massacres or houses of politicians being burnt. Her inspiration could just be the 'spirit of change', why would you assume more? Students all over the world just want better lives, duh!

Dhruv Rathee is only appealing to the conscience of the Army and Cops to do 'the right thing'. What is wrong about that? Shouldn't they do the right thing instead of 'following orders'? Orders can be wrong, you know.

Prashant Bhusan is clearly saying he wants a regime change. But it could also be through elections. Why would you assume it would be a violent overthrow? Did he say that?

Everyday you hear some or the other politician dog-whistle that the 'faisla' will happen on the 'streets' now. What faisla, they don't elaborate. What do they mean by streets? Violence? Or just pressure groups? Not clear.

The CEC is now being called 'Gyanu' in pop-culture. It's the Pappu-fication of a constitutional figure so people don't take him as seriously anymore. The CJI is politely (and impolitely) being called a 'sellout' or 'compromised' by different people to different degrees.

International media and reels have already joined the bandwagon of 130 million deleted voters. International audiences are being told that the Indian government has gone unhinged and there are 'big protests' against the government.

This is the setting of a stage.

To normalize the idea of a regime change, which is not through the ballot box.

Everything and everyone is compromised.

Are you just going to sit and watch, or do something about it?

Get angry now.

When the time is right, we will get to the 'doing' stage.

[Pravesh Biyani @pravesh]

did my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH at IIT Bombay and my PhD at IIT Delhi. I've been a professor for 14 years now. In 22 years of watching the IIT/IIIT system closely, I have never once witnessed a teacher discriminate against a student on the basis of caste.

During my https://t.co/zANOEvvHvH, most of us had no idea what caste our batchmates belonged to. Many of my close friends were SC/ST. We never discussed it. It never entered any conversation or decision. Not once. Our exposure to the humanities department was limited, though — the term "Brahmanical patriarchy" didn't even exist back then.

As a teacher, I don't ask a student's name before solving their doubt. Often I don't know their name at all — some of my classes have 300+ students. We treat them all the same. So does every colleague I know. So did every professor who taught me.

Social media has now filled vulnerable students' heads with a lot of manufactured grievance about caste discrimination that, in my experience, doesn't exist.

[JHOOTH KI GOONJ @jhoothkigoonj]

Our founder who created the Jhooth ki goonj website has been continuously threatened by Rahul Gandhi’s PR team.

She is just 20 years old. Let this tweet spread and tell everyone what kind of person Rahul Gandhi is.

[Subhi Vishwakarma @subhi_karma]

Students of Jharkhand on streets today

This is how youth in Bharat protest

Jharkhand is a reminder for those who thought Dehi Jantar Mantar represented Bharat's youth. No they did not!

These are youth of my Bharat, and I am proud of them.

Support them:

[Mohan Sinha 🇮🇳 @Mohansinha]

If getting wet in the rain was a prerogative to becoming PM, Raveena Tandon would have got there already.

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

It feels like someone has reopened the 2020 Delhi Riots playbook. Police cars being attacked and vandalised, even police men and women being pelted with stones and almost lynched.

Start with a street-corner protest. Add students. Add “democracy is dying.” Add foreign media. Add NGO outrage. Add opposition amplification. Add street confrontation. Then wait for one spark, one viral video, one death, one police action, one headline abroad.

That is how a so called 'protest' is converted into a destabilisation project.

And this reeks of the deep state playbook.

The old establishment understands one thing very clearly: if it cannot defeat Prime Minster Narendra Modi through elections, it must make India appear ungovernable between elections.

The moment a protest over exams becomes a march on Parliament, the moment the slogans move from reform to regime-change vocabulary, the moment familiar activists, Left networks, foreign media ecosystems and opposition parties begin speaking from the same script, India has every reason to ask:

Who is coordinating this escalation?

Why does every protest in Delhi follow the same choreography?

Why is the elected government always framed not as accountable, but illegitimate?

Why does every local grievance suddenly become an international campaign against Indian democracy?

We saw this during the CAA riots. We saw this during the farm agitation. We saw toolkits, foreign amplification, coordinated narratives, selective outrage and attempts to turn India’s capital into a permanent theatre of instability.

Now the same template appears to be back.

Because Delhi Riots of 2020 was not an accident, the court's recent ruling last week made it clear.

And someone clearly wants a sequel.

[Naimisha (ନୈମିଷା) 🇮🇳 @SpeakNaimisha]

In 2017, I was 17 years old when CBSE introduced the infamous no-rechecking policy. Like thousands of students, I felt we had been treated unfairly. So we did what democracy allows us to do-we protested. We mobilised students across the country, stood outside the CBSE Regional Office, and, at the same time, challenged the policy in the court. All thanks to @AcharyaPitamba1 uncle for fighting for us pro bono and dealing with our mental breakdown with patience.

We didn't choose the street or the courts. We chose both. Eventually, we won.

That movement taught me more about democracy than any civics textbook ever could.

Over the next few years, protests became a regular part of my life. I was detained multiple times. In fact, a significant part of my college life was spent in police detention during different protests. So when I speak about the right to protest, I don't speak as someone watching from the sidelines. I speak as someone who has exercised that right.

There was one principle, however, that we never compromised on: no politicians on our stage. Not because we hated politicians, but because we knew the moment they entered, the story would stop being about students and start being about them. We refused to become props in somebody else's script.

Which brings me to today.

Let me say this upfront: I have absolutely no problem with protests. In fact, public pressure is the lifeblood of a democracy. Without citizens demanding accountability, every government—past, present and future-would become complacent.

A hunger strike is a legitimate democratic tool. It creates moral pressure. But morality alone cannot run a constitutional republic.

If tomorrow I sat outside your house on an indefinite fast demanding that you vacate it because I claimed the land belonged to my ancestors, would you hand me the keys? Of course not. You would expect me to prove my claim before the law. That's because justice cannot be decided by who can generate the most moral pressure. Governments, too, have to function through institutions, evidence and due process.

Paper leaks are a disgrace. They destroy years of hard work. Students deserve justice. Governments deserve to be questioned. Public pressure is necessary.

But here's the question I keep coming back to: where was the attempt at dialogue before the escalation? Were genuine efforts made to engage with the Education Minister? Senior officials? Even the Prime Minister? Protest and dialogue are not opposites. Democracies need both.

And then comes the part that genuinely troubles me.

A student's movement slowly becomes a political stage.

Had BJP leaders walked onto the stage of a student protest in another state, I would have asked the same questions. My principles don't change with the colour of the party flag.

Knowing Sonam Wangchuk personally, I chose to stay silent for a while. Not because I agreed or disagreed, but because I wanted to observe. Politics in public movements isn't the problem. Most public movements have political consequences. The problem is pretending there's no politics while asking people to support it solely in the name of innocent students and anxious parents.

Then came the moment that made me pause.

When Kunal Kamra made remarks like, "Sita ke pati... Nita ke pati...", why did the organisers not stop him? Why was there no public distancing from those remarks? If the movement was about the NEET paper leak and education reforms, why allow the conversation to drift into religion or unrelated political commentary? Organisers don't just choose the agenda of a movement-they are also responsible for the language that is legitimised from its stage.

Democracy needs protests. It needs uncomfortable questions. It needs citizens willing to challenge power.

But democracy also needs intellectual honesty.

Create public pressure. Mobilise people. Hold governments accountable. Fight for students.

Just don't let a student's movement become a political spectacle while insisting it is above politics.

Because credibility is the most valuable asset any public movement has. Once that credibility is questioned, the movement risks losing sight of the very people it set out to represent.

https://t.co/TJTGlQIUMC

[Folksutra @folksutra]

A Civilization cannot be silenced forever.

Today, as the Hindu pride of Bengal reawakens - it recounts its struggles and glories in our tribute video.

Watch and share 🇮🇳❤️

[Psychodoctor @Psychodoctor06]

No matter how prepared you are,
the first punch unsettles you.

You can train.
You can visualize.
You can rehearse every possible scenario.

But the first hit still shocks the system.
Same with life.

The diagnosis.
The betrayal.
The loss.
The unexpected failure.

You think you are strong
until reality lands.

Resilience is learning how to stay in the ring
even after you get hit by the punches.

P.S: What are the punches that life has hit you with ?

#Wisdom

[David Collier @mishtal]

The UAE has cut funding for students who want to study in the UK. It is worried they will be radicalised on our campuses.

Let me say that again.

An Arab state will not send its kids to the UK because it is worried we will turn them into Islamic terrorists.

Let that sink in.

[Aviator Anil Chopra @Chopsyturvey]

Superbly articulated by Priyanka Joshi.

"The world doesn’t know what to do with India.
We don’t fit their neat little boxes. We’re not white.
We’re not monotheistic.
We’re not ex-colonizers or submissive ex-colonized.
We are something they can’t decode.

We are too many things at once—ancient and modern, spiritual and scientific, emotional and logical.
We believe in gods and particles, karma and quantum.
We’re chaos that somehow moves forward.
That bothers them.

Because we aren’t supposed to succeed.

We don’t speak with one voice. We speak in thousands.
Our system isn’t clean. It’s noisy. It debates. It screams. But it works—because we’ve lived through worse and survived.
When we rise, they frown.
When we achieve, they doubt.
Because they still see us the way they chose to see us long ago—untrained, uncouth, and scattered.

But we’ve always known how to turn our mess into movement.
They don’t get that a billion people don’t need a single script.
They fear our success because it didn’t come from their textbooks, their aid, or their approval.

We remember being ruled, but we were never truly conquered.
We adapted, absorbed, transformed—but never disappeared.
And that is unsettling for those who thought we would.

India rising doesn’t fit their world order.
Because we didn’t wait for permission.
We didn’t rise from imitation—we rose from memory, from contradiction, from sheer force of will.

And that’s why they don’t celebrate our rise.
They resist it.
Because it wasn’t supposed to happen.”

[Shesh Paul Vaid @spvaid]

Those who are trying to demoralize the Indian Armed Forces by calling for de-escalate and using hashtags like #SayNoToWar—remember their names and accounts. Once Pakistan is dealt with, we'll handle these liberals. This is a Dharma Yudh—we do not surrender to Adharma. It is a battle of right against wrong, of good against evil.

[H D Devegowda @H_D_Devegowda]

My letter to Prime Minister @narendramodi avaru on his leadership during #OperationSindhoor.
@PMOIndia

[Shubhangi Sharma @ItsShubhangi]

Pakistani information minister Ataullah Tarar just went up on Sky News. It didn’t go as planned. Incredible work by @SkyYaldaHakim 👏

[Aravind @aravind]

Self loathing, low self esteem, low IQ Indians can be programmed by propaganda, or thrown a few peanuts by the CCP to crap on their country while campaigning for China.

Let me show you this China shill's "civilized and clean" China:🧵

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

Rahul Gandhi is going from bad to worse. He has indulged in many activities that denigrate #India and are patently against the national interest. His attitude stems from the fact that he has been raised to believe that India is his to rule. During #UPA rule he thought nothing of coining the phrase #Hindu terror or of humiliating his own PM Dr. Manmohan Singh when he tore to shreds the latter’s #Lokpal ordinance. Dr. Singh was too imbued with gratitude to #Sonia for anointing him PM to protest. @narendramodi, on the other hand, has thrice become PM by dint of his own merit and charisma. For 10 years he has revealed monumental patience in dealing with #RahulGandhi in the face of his vicious personal attacks, his activities in concert with elements inimical to India’s rise as an economic and military power, and his contempt for Hindus and #SanatanDharma. Parliament, however, is a hallowed temple of democracy: its members should consider it an honour to be elected or nominated to it. For the last 10 years its proceedings have been marked by disruptions and walkouts. Now the govt’s business of the day is torpedoed by the opposition’s unruly demands for a debate of the opposition’s choosing in an inversion of prescribed procedure. Attempts by the Chairman of the RS (also the Hon’ble Vice President of the country) to adhere to the agenda of the day are met with threats of impeachment! Outside Parliament, the occasional opposition dharnas have given way to scaling Parliament’s walls and ugly violence.

But when the Lok Sabha LOP’s frustrations with being repeatedly bested both at the polls and in Parliamentary debates impels him to initiate a scuffle outside Parliament in the wake of Rajya Sabha LOP @kharge threatening in that House to incite violence, you know that the dynasty and all its courtiers - ill at ease with democratic processes - are making a run for anarchy. Isn’t this where the PM discards the velvet glove and opts for his iron fist, clenching with it the long arm of the law to bring the once closet but now revealed anarchists swiftly to book for ALL past and current infractions of the law?
#GoondaRahulGandhi

[Eminent Intellectual @total_woke_]

🚨 You will never celebrate Diwali again!

This Delhi girl's dog suffered during #Diwali and Hindustan Times posted about her nightmare. It's going viral. Foreign publications are picking it up. You Hindus should be ashamed of #DiwaliCelebration !

But wait a second ✋! 1/6

[Mahesh Jethmalani @JethmalaniM]

There was always something rotten in the State of #Mamata’s West Bengal. A neo Fascist party whose local leaders were no more than viciously violent Mafia bullies has for long unleashed a reign of plunder of state resources & patronage, unabashed extortion, forcible dislocation of the poor from their lands and the appropriation of these to their own use, political and communal mass murders and unspeakable gender violence including rape. If we thought that things couldn’t possibly get worse in the State the #TMC administration had a macabre surprise in store for us : the heart wrenching sadism of the #Abhaya episode. The hospital administration and police response has already been severely castigated by the Calcutta High Court and the investigation of the heinous crime transferred to the #CBI. Since #Abhaya constitutes the very acme of a crime of extreme depravity it behoves the CBI to provide a very expeditious intimation to a numbed Indian public to these questions: 1. What was the motive of the dastardly crime? 2. Who were its perpetrators and colluders?3. Who was responsible for what seems to be a highly probable cover up - 4. Who and/or what criminal activity qua the medical college was sought to be shielded ? 5. Who ordered the cover up?Providing the answers to these questions cannot seriously test the premier investigating agency of the country