Joydev Chakraborty

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

BIG BREAKING 🚨

Nearly 6 years after the attack on JP Nadda’s convoy in West Bengal, the main accused, Imran Hassan Molla, has finally been arrested.

Molla, a former Youth TMC president from Najra village, was picked up by Usthi Police near Deula.

Local reports describe him as an extortionist and history-sheeter who built his influence through intimidation and illegal arms, allegedly enjoying the patronage of TMC and Magrahat West MLA Shamim Ahmed.

On 10 December 2020, JP Nadda’s convoy was attacked with stones, bricks and rods while he was travelling to a rally in Diamond Harbour.

TMC immunity for criminals gone!

[The Bong Head @TheBongHead]

Another Bengali youth cleaning tears apart the anti chhat puja gang of bengal.

Valid points against their made up stories of bengal cult-ure being destroyed by religious puja of biharis in Bengal, (or garba of gujaratis).

But park street xmas is real bengali culture for them.

[banwari Maheshwari @banwariMaheshw1]

राधिका खेड़ा ने कांग्रेसी दरबारी पत्रकार आशुतोष को कर दिया बेनकाब!

महिला नेत्री से बदतमीज़ी, आशुतोष को पड़ी भारी! एंड तक देखें वीडियो!

महिला नेत्री ने जब खोले पूर्व आपिए के राज, तो तिलमिला उठा और करने लगा बदतमीज़ी!

देखिए कैसे लाइव डिबेट में सच्चाई सुनकर मछली की तरह छटपटा गए आशुतोष!

राधिका खेड़ा ने खुलासा करते हुए कहा—

"मैं उस बात से भली-भाँति वाकिफ़ हूँ कि जब ये आम आदमी पार्टी में थे, तब ये कम्युनिकेशन डिपार्टमेंट में रणदीप सुरजेवाला से पीछे के दरवाज़े से छुपकर मिलने आते थे, और उसकी मैं गवाह हूँ। इसलिए समझ आता है।

आम आदमी पार्टी में रहते हुए कांग्रेस और AAP एक-दूसरे की दुश्मन थीं। तो अब पीछे के दरवाज़े से क्यों आते थे? छुपकर? सामने से आते ना। डरपोक और कायर पीछे के दरवाज़े से आते हैं।"

गज़ब बेइज़्ज़ती है!

#RadhikaKhera #Ashutosh #RandeepSurjewala #AAP #LiveDebate
#Congress
@Radhika_Khera

[Jai Anant Dehadrai @jai_a_dehadrai]

An absolute must-read.

Kanchan Da (@KanchanGupta) recounts, from firsthand experience, how the Gandhis and their courtiers sought to punish those who refused to bend before “the Family.”

His account is a reminder of a particularly embarrassing feature of our political culture, the extraordinary ecosystem of sycophancy that has sustained the Gandhi dynasty for generations.

I have always found the Gandhi durbar and its assorted courtiers rather fascinating. Many of the old retainers are still around, displaying the same embarrassing obsequiousness that once passed for political sophistication among the khan market set.

I am reminded of one particularly obnoxious former “political editor” of a major national daily, who appeared to spend considerably more time on television defending the Gandhis than in his newsroom practising journalism.

His loyalty to the Family was so complete that the distinction between independent political commentary and partisan advocacy had practically disappeared.

But the real tragedy of the Gandhi family is what decades of such servility have done to the Gandhis themselves.

When generations of courtiers repeatedly tell a family that it possesses some divine entitlement to govern India, it is hardly surprising that its members eventually begin to believe it.

They were raised not merely to expect political power, but to regard it almost as a hereditary possession. Electoral defeat, therefore, becomes an affront to their supposed station in life rather than an ordinary democratic verdict.

Consider Rahul Gandhi.

His recent allegation that the Prime Minister is personally surveilling his phone is symptomatic of a larger tendency to interpret political opposition through the prism of personal persecution.

There is something profoundly unfortunate about a man who has spent his entire life surrounded by privilege, deference and inherited political influence, yet seems perpetually convinced that he is the victim of some grand conspiracy.

Rahul Gandhi’s greatest disadvantage may well be the environment in which he was raised. A lifetime of being told that he was destined for greatness appears to have left him remarkably ill-equipped to confront the possibility that the Indian electorate owes him absolutely nothing.

India is a republic, not a family estate. Political authority is earned through public confidence, not inherited through the Gandhi surname.

And this brings us to Narendra Modi.

I suspect the Gandhis’ extraordinary personal hatred towards Modi has less to do with ideological differences than with something far more fundamental.

Modi has demolished the central mythology upon which the Gandhi durbar was constructed: that the Family occupies a special, permanent and naturally superior position in Indian political life.

A man who emerged from outside their privileged social and political universe has repeatedly defeated them at the ballot box, displaced them from the centre of national politics, and demonstrated that the Indian voter is perfectly capable of imagining a future without the Gandhis at its helm or for that matter even in the opposition.

For a dynasty accustomed to being treated as the natural custodian of India’s political destiny, this must be an almost unbearable psychological reversal.

And the courtiers, having spent decades reassuring their patrons of their exceptionalism, are equally incapable of accepting the new reality.

The Gandhis’ problem is not that Narendra Modi refuses to acknowledge their supposed entitlement to rule India.

It is that the Indian electorate increasingly refuses to acknowledge it either.

That is the fundamental difference between a democracy and a durbar.

In a democracy, the people choose their rulers. In a durbar, the courtiers convince the rulers that they have been chosen by destiny.

The Gandhis would do well to remember which of the two India actually is.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

After FIR, BJP MP Kangana Ranaut Targets Sonia Gandhi Again

- Kangana Ranaut's fresh post targets Sonia Gandhi

- Kangana shares old photos, questions Sonia Gandhi's early Satellite Centre Visit

- Raises questions over Vikram Sarabhai's death

- 'Sarabhai mysteriously died two years later'

[BJP West Bengal @BJP4Bengal]

Chandannagar Creates History This Jagadhatri Puja 2026!
Experience the city's FIRST-EVER 3D Laser & Projection Mapping Show at Rakshit Ghat Gate, a grand tribute to Maa Jagadhatri, the Tricolour and our true heroes!

[Subham. @subhsays]

The hate for Mamata and her party in Bengali society is so much,

That MAMATA FILE CHOR song won't be old anytime soon.

Last night,in a Bijoya Sammilani - Youths once again danced their hearts out in MAMATA EKTA FILE chor song.

Unreal hatred for PISHI BHAIPO.

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

I must thank @ARanganathan72 for flagging my sacking at the behest of a Lutyens clerk merely because I was not deferential to his boss. So this is how this and other near-sackings happened in my otherwise vanilla life.

It was an extremely distressing experience to get sacked in 1995 from The Pioneer where I was Associate Editor because the then Editor (economist Ashok Mitra famously described him as a ‘handout Editor’) needed to suck up to Sonia Gandhi. No less distressing was the reality of being left without a roof and phone (rented / owned by The Pioneer’s then owners, the Thapars) with a family in tow — we were literally out in streets with nowhere to go. All this happened after Vinod Mehta resigned in protest against pressure from Thapar House to be ‘nice’ to Sharad Pawar to whom the ‘Bombay Club’ was beholden.

That was not my first or last experience of running into trouble with Sonia Gandhi and her factotums. I had published a photograph of Rajiv and Sonia in The Statesman’s popular weekend section (The Saturday Statesman) which I edited, shot during their visit to Mizoram in 1986. Sonia was in a Lacoste tee and the couple looked remarkably striking. Those were still Camelot days of Prince Charming.

It was a measure of the then Government’s illicit and undeclared reach that they had access to The Saturday Statesman, which was printed in Kolkata and shipped to Delhi on Thursday-Friday, before its distribution on Saturday. HY Sharada Prasad, Press Advisor to Rajiv Gandhi, called CR Irani, MD of The Statesman, and rained fire and brimstone on him for daring to publish a ‘private photo of Madam.’

Sharada Prasad demanded that The Saturday Statesman with the Rajiv-Sonia photo should not be distributed and all copies must be destroyed. Irani, who was then struggling to get the rebuilding plans for The Statesman’s Delhi office at CP approved, worked out a deal that there would be an ‘apology’ in the main paper and The Saturday Statesman would be distributed. Irani asked me to draft the apology and run it in Saturday morning’s paper.

On that occasion Swapan, also at The Statesman, stood like a rock by me — I remain grateful to him. He also drafted the ‘apology’ for me — Swapan’s nib-breaking, tongue-twisting, brain-wracking English impressed Sharada Prasad but little did he realise it was actually a non-apology.

The story of my encounters with the Nehru Dynasty is one of several episodes. In 2012 the Sonia Gandhi-led UPA regime invoked the draconian anti-Freedom of Expression, anti-liberty, anti-Constitution Section 66A (drafted and implemented by Kapil Sibal with great fervour to prevent, prosecute and punish any criticism of Sonia Gandhi and silence all critical Speech in India) against me, instructing ISPs to block my Twitter handle. The handles of several other journalists and regime critics were also blocked.

The sinister charges against me, never registered formally but only informally conveyed, made me feel like Trotsky in Stalin’s court. Better counsel by way of domestic and global criticism of this attempt to choke voices prevailed and the block order was quietly buried after a hearing in a dark room with a single electric bulb hanging from the ceiling, very reminiscent of the interrogation chambers of Mussolini’s secret police OVRA.

I was later told the Gestapo-style hearing was the brainchild of then Home Secretary RK Singh whose fetid imagination had also birthed the hideous nomenclature ‘Saffron Terror’. He who later floated into NDA and has now floated out again.

@kushanmitra

[Payal Bhayana 🇮🇳 @payalbhayana]

Yeh kya hai?

[Kreately.in @KreatelyMedia]

Last 5 mins

Watch it in loop

😎

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

Remembering today a man who pretended to be liberal, kind, and tolerant, but banned books, censored films, jailed editors, cancelled dissent, and brought in constitutional amendments that curbed our freedom of speech and expression forever.

Remembering Dictator Jawaharlal Nehru.

[Subham. @subhsays]

WB CM Suvendu Adhikari honored the mastermindSridhar Das - legend who took lights of Chandannagar to the world.

He is known as Edison of Chandernagore

Hope he gets PADMA AWARD soon.

Meanwhile commie scums,Dalal Bazar are shouting BJP ignored light artists of Chandannagar 🤡

[Tushar Gupta @Tushar15]

Narendra Modi is Tony Stark. His surveillance powers supersede those of the CIA, MI6, Mossad, RAW, and every other intelligence agency in the world. Someday, he'll hack Rahul Gandhi's iPhone, and it'll transform into Optimus Prime to hack the EVMs.

[Maithili @Kaleshini]

She is not Muslim

She is Bhagyashree Tarke

This is her character ‘Salma Deewani’ in Deccan Hindi..

[Abhijit Iyer-Mitra @Iyervval]

All the things Sonia cried for
• Babri Masjid
• Batla House
• Post Godhra riots

All the things Sonia DID NOT cry for
• 1980 Mandai massacre
• Sikh pogroms
• Bhopal gas tragedy
• Kanishka bombing
• 87 Jaffna massacres
• series of bus and train massacres in Punjab
• Kashmiri Pandit ethnic cleansing
• Kashmiri pandit massacres 89-14
• Bombay train bombings
• Brahmaputra train massacre
• 1998 Coimbatore bombings
• Kargil war
• Parliament attack
• Godhra train burning
• 2005 Delhi blasts
• 2006 Varanasi blasts
• Mumbai train blasts
• 2008 Jaipur blasts
• 2008-9 Assam blasts
• 26/11 Mumbai attacks
• Dantewada attack
• Pahalgam massacre

You get the picture right?

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

On November 1, 1984, a bloodthirsty mob of 4000 attacked Gurdwara Rakab Ganj in Delhi. Two Sikhs, father and son, were burnt alive. Mr Suri, a journalist, witnessed the mob. He told the Commission the mob was instigated, controlled, and led by one man.

That man was Kamal Nath.

[ᴅᴇᴀᴅ ᴋɪʟʟᴇʀ @ReignOfBateman]

Samay Raina and Ashish Solanki absolutely roasting Krushna Abhishek and it is actually so funny 😭

• Samay and Ashish are literally just sitting there brutally roasting Krushna to his face and the banter is honestly top tier.

• The craziest part though is Samay just casually dropping on camera that this is officially the last shot for India's Got Latent.

• People in the comments are completely losing it because nobody expected him to just casually announce the show wrapping up in the middle of a random joke session.

The fact that he chose to confirm the end of Latent while just messing around with these guys is such a classic Samay move man. 💀

[BhikuMhatre @MumbaichaDon]

Just look at face of Piddi Sanjay Jha when .@ARanganathan72 & .@RShivshankar give him reality check on "Press Freedom" under CONgress Govts.

[Midnight Prince @MidnightPrinceu]

😭🔥 Samay Raina vs Krushna Abhishek!

Samay absolutely DESTROYED Huma Qureshi with his savage roast on Toxic 😂

Huma was left completely SPEECHLESS! 😭

Comedy level MAX! 💀 Latent

[Megh Updates 🚨™ @MeghUpdates]

Salman Khan drops the trailer of #Maatrubhumi, based on the Galwan clash. And honestly, this looks absolutely phenomenal. Goosebumps guaranteed on December 4! 🇮🇳🔥

Really glad that @BeingSalmanKhan chose to bring this story to the big screen.

Forget the VFX, cinematic liberties or minor inaccuracies. The bigger picture matters. Stories like these NEED to be told.

What our brave soldiers endured that night is beyond what any screenwriter could ever imagine. The brutality of that clash and the extraordinary courage displayed by our jawans deserve to be remembered.

Their sacrifice was not just an act of bravery; it was a reminder of what our soldiers endure to protect India's borders and our freedom.

Every Indian, especially the generations growing up today, deserves to know this story.

Some sacrifices must never be forgotten. Some stories must never go untold. 🇮🇳