Garima Sharma

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Let me tell you something very cool about this video.

Look at Rahul Gandhi's straight dive in the first few seconds. An effortless, elegant dive.

Now let me make a point. First, it shows he knows how to swim well. The kind of swimming where you could actually save someone else's life.

Now a point more political in nature.

It also shows the man developed other skill sets in life. He has a rounded personality. A politician with other skills, other life skills.

The mark of a life that was curious, enterprising, but above all a life that was looking to grow and challenge itself.

Now look at the top BJP politicians. We've seen them in Ganga snan. Pudgy, fat, out of shape. If they slip, they'll need someone like Rahul Gandhi to save them.

We've seen Modi float like an inflated tube, clumsy, trying to look comfortable in water and failing. These are not men who ever pushed their bodies, minds or souls or much else.

Now you may ask what this has to do with governance. Maybe nothing. Maybe everything.

I prefer politicians with additional life skills. Skills that tell me you challenged yourself in life.

The whole BJP top brass looks like it has spent its life sitting on benches and khatiyas in RSS shakhas.

These people may be good at winning elections, which they are.

But governance is a different ball game. It's art more than science.

It needs people who are innovative, intuitive, imaginative. But above all, people who challenge themselves.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

सार्थक, अपने सिद्धांतों पर अडिग रहो।

#TenderInvestigator

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Savarkar started receiving ₹60 a month stipend from the British government on 1 August 1929. He kept receiving it till 1937.

In this same period, Chandrashekhar Azad died fighting in February 1931.

Bhagat Singh was hanged in March 1931. The stipend kept coming.

Now here is the thing. Savarkar was not a Gandhian. He didn't believe in non-violence or quiet suffering. His entire claimed identity was built on armed, violent revolution.

He, as they Sanghis say, allegedly inspired a generation of young men to pick up guns against the British.

Those young men were killed by the British. And he kept on collecting his British paycheck.

And the title "Veer" that precedes his name in every BJP speech, every government textbook, every Hindutva WhatsApp forward.

Nobody gave him that title. No movement conferred it. No contemporary bestowed it, Like Bose called Gandhi ji Rashtrapita in 1944.

Savarkar gave it to himself.

Which is, honestly, the most honest summary of a Hindutva Icon.

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

मोदी जी ने कल जनता से त्याग मांगे - सोना मत ख़रीदो, विदेश मत जाओ, पेट्रोल कम जलाओ, खाद और खाने का तेल कम करो, मेट्रो में चलो, घर से काम करो।

ये उपदेश नहीं - ये नाकामी के सबूत हैं।

12 साल में देश को इस मुक़ाम पर ला दिया है कि जनता को बताना पड़ रहा है - क्या ख़रीदे, क्या न ख़रीदे, कहां जाए, कहां न जाए। हर बार ज़िम्मेदारी जनता पर डाल देते हैं ताकि ख़ुद जवाबदेही से बच निकलें।

देश चलाना अब Compromised PM के बस की बात नहीं।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

वोट चोरी से कभी सीटें चुराई जाती हैं, कभी पूरी सरकार।

लोकसभा के 240 BJP सांसदों में से, मोटे तौर पर हर छठा सांसद वोट चोरी से जीता है। पहचानना मुश्किल नहीं - क्या उन्हें BJP की भाषा में “घुसपैठिए” कहें?

और हरियाणा? वहाँ तो पूरी सरकार ही “घुसपैठिया” है।

जो संस्थाएँ अपनी जेब में रखते हैं, जो मतदाता सूचियों और चुनावी प्रक्रिया को तोड़-मरोड़ देते हैं - वो ख़ुद “remote controlled” हैं।

उन्हें असली डर सच्चाई का है। क्योंकि निष्पक्ष चुनाव हो जाएँ, तो आज ये 140 के पास भी नहीं जीत सकते।

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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[Lilyallly❤️🇬🇧 @lilyally98]

We’re raised to believe the man “carries the bloodline” because of his last name.
But biologically, that’s not how it works.

Mitochondrial DNA the part of you that powers every cell is passed only from your mother, unchanged, generation after generation and only a female can pass it forward.

So while names shift and change,
the only lineage that truly never breaks is a woman.

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Rahul Gandhi wants to Debate on :

- Pollution
- Vote Chori
- Rising Inflation
- Unemployment
- Crowded Trains
- Collapsing Bridges
- Rupee Falling

Modi Wants to Debate on :
- Vande Mataram
- Nehru
- Mughal

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Jinnah spoke Gujarati & English. He did not speak much Urdu. Suhrawardhy was Bengali and English. Do not know about how fluent he was. Urdu is the language in which Ghalib, Momin, Premchand (as Nawab Rai) wrote. Urdu and Hindi are both Hindustani languages, with identical nouns and pronouns, written in two scripts, Perso-Arabian and Devnagari. Even Punjabi is written in two scripts Perso-Arabian and Gurmukhi. Konkani is written in Devnagri, Roman and Kannada scripts. A language has no religion.

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Women shouldn’t be expected to give up their surnames after marriage. In fact, it makes far more sense for children to carry their mother’s surname.

A father contributes 50% of the genetic material, but 100% of the pregnancy, risk, labour, birth, and early survival of the child comes from the mother’s body. Her health, her blood, her organs, her hormones, her literal life on the line. If anyone’s legacy deserves to be carried forward, it is the person who creates, grows, births, and often raises the child. A husband’s surname isn’t inherently more “family” than a wife’s. It’s just a patriarchal custom that treats men as lineage and women as vessels. We don’t have to keep repeating it.

[Congress @INCIndia]

Modi Hai To Mumkin Hai

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

Air pollution is NOT a Delhi issue

Kejriwal couldn’t solve it, neither can Rekha Gupta because area wise, Delhi is less than 2% of North India.

- Stubble burning is happening in Punjab, Haryana, Uttar Pradesh, Madhya Pradesh
- Coal power plants are operating, violating international standards in all these states
- Industries in all these states, all around Delhi are causing air pollution because Central Govt failed to enforce rules.
- Construction sites are violating norms everywhere.
- Vehicular pollution is coming from cars and old trucks which don’t follow the latest standards.

The only solution is to implement solutions at a central level. The prime minister and the environment minister need to meet with all CMs of these states and take action on all these points.

But what are they doing? Nothing.

They are absolutely silent.

The anger of the people should be directed at Narendra Modi, he is the biggest culprit here.

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

Hello @BiharPoliceCGRC, when will this pedophile Shashi Bhushan Upadhyay be arrested?

[Sanitary Panels @sanitarypanels]

🙃

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Mr. Modi, when you allow the exclusion of women journalists from a public forum, you are telling every woman in India that you are too weak to stand up for them.

In our country, women have the right to equal participation in every space. Your silence in the face of such discrimination exposes the emptiness of your slogans on Nari Shakti.

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

Shameful & shocking!
When a journalist asked about death of 16 children due to cough syrup, MP CM Mohan Yadav arrogantly replied “It’s over, talk about today.”
Such insensitivity towards children’s deaths reflects the BJP’s trademark arrogance: zero accountability, zero empathy!

[Amock_ @Amockx2022]

Train accidents : Railway Minister didn't resign

Paper leak : Education Minister didn't resign

Manipur voilence : Chief Minister didn't resign*

Kids dîed due to syrup : Health Minister didn't resign

00% accountability || 100% propaganda 🤡

How can people still vote BJP?

[Ranting gola @therantinggola]

This man’s photo should have been on all the TV news by now but that doesn’t happen anymore.

He’s Rajendra Shukla, Health Minister and Deputy CM of MP where 20 kids died after consuming cough syrup.

But no media will Call it negligence or seek his resignation. That’s only for congress ruled states, right?

[Team Saath Official🤝 @TeamSaath]

If National Embarrassment had a face!

[Mohit Chauhan @mohitlaws]

If your streets are waterlogged and broken,

This is where all your hard-earned tax money is going.

This narcissistic man left no space for news in the newspaper & turned it into his PR booklet.