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[K.Annamalai @annamalai_k]

Over the past many years, I have taken a personal stand in support of the NEET examination, arguing that it brought uniformity in student selection across the country and gave students from underprivileged backgrounds a real shot at pursuing their dream of medical education. In the last 5 years, the NEET UG question paper has leaked thrice. Imagine the amount of pressure that it puts on students, who had to go through the examination process yet another time when the system that was supposed to bring in uniformity was failing. Yet there was no accountability, and I believe strongly that it was that moment that brought in a shift in the minds of the students to take to the streets to cry their hearts out.

Protest is a fundamental right in a Democracy. The pertinent question, however, is this: why did the BJP-led Central Government take so long to initiate a dialogue with the protestors? Why was meaningful engagement delayed until the protest had escalated to a flashpoint? What kept you waiting?

The students and the people who are leading them also have a responsibility here. It is natural that when a protest stays on for weeks, people with vested interests will take the stage to air views that are either completely irrelevant to the initial demands of the protests or would try to completely hijack it to serve their agenda. If you remain silent and let these people with vested interests further their agenda, then you are deviating from your core objectives. Please do not let it happen!

I urge the BJP-led Central Government to engage in meaningful dialogue, uphold transparency, and take swift, appropriate action to address the concerns at hand. The strength of any nation lies in the confidence its youth place in its institutions. If our students lose faith in the fairness and credibility of our education system, we are jeopardising the future of our nation.

[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.

[Sridhar Vembu @svembu]

Open letter to Indians in America.
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Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat:

Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way.

Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned.

You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict.

Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect.

Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself.

As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal.

Respectfully
Sridhar Vembu

[Harmless @HarmlessHQ]

Forget El Chapo.
Forget El Mencho.
Forget Pablo Escobar.

Donald Trump is the biggest gangster of the century. A political mafia.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

@ClownWorld This is the story of letting migrants into your country and giving them welfare.

[CaptSk @SMedia4]

By now @ChennaiRmc or Fairweather bloggers @praddy06 etc
have not been able to any substantial support to public
@PMOIndia doesen't realize that IMD is full of Armchair forecasters who have entrenched themselves in Metros and never worked in field.
Their understanding is limited to weather around Nungambakkam.
Have been in many countries . In Gulf weather forecast is accurate to the dot place and time. In Europe USA too. What ails Indian weather forecasting?
Babus sitting in Delhi and Chennai with mutual admiration, many not stepped out even for rain gauge measurement.
Wish to know how many in Chennai RMC have served in Pamban,Dhanushkodi,Andamans?
Beyond data and cliched commentary ,weather forecasting is also intuition. You need to live in weather and work with weather. Go to ocean remote labs spend a year, visit icy Himalayas remote deserts etc
It has become cushy ac room job scanning few pictures and positioning in front of TV cameras.
This is one issue @mkstalin must take up.
Excellence in weather forecasting as in a developed country.
@pmoindia needs to rotate Babus sitting for years in Metros and demand field work criterion for promotion.
At the moment in whole of India IMD is the riskless department job. They join, 9-5 routine, plenty of flab and live happily ever after.
Many lives lost to wrong forecast but no one Babu is accountable. They blame on Nature always as an alibi
@DrJitendraSingh
@Indiametdept

[Rohini Acharya @RohiniAcharya2]

I’m quitting politics and I’m disowning my family …
This is what Sanjay Yadav and Rameez had asked me to do …nd I’m taking all the blame’s

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Good governance has won.

Development has won.

Pro-people spirit has won.

Social justice has won.

Gratitude to each and every person of Bihar for blessing the NDA with a historical and unparalleled victory in the 2025 Vidhan Sabha elections. This mandate gives us renewed strength to serve the people and work for Bihar.

[priya @PriyankaSmile01]

எதுக்கு இந்த அற்ப பிண அரசியல் @arivalayam 🤡

[TheBlaze @theblaze]

Rest in Peace, Charlie 🙏

[Secretary of War Pete Hegseth @SecWar]

A prayer for Charlie Kirk and those who serve.

[Gad Saad @GadSaad]

@charliekirk11 I mourn you, Charlie. I don’t tear up often but I’ve shed tears for you. You live on in our hearts and minds. 🙏❤️♾️

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

We don’t yet know what motivated the person who shot and killed Charlie Kirk, but this kind of despicable violence has no place in our democracy. Michelle and I will be praying for Charlie’s family tonight, especially his wife Erika and their two young children.

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Its not only Charlie.

Theres a list.

Theyre coming for the rest of us.

[rzrshrp/whpsmrt @int3rrupt3d]

Bro… this gets under my skin and that’s rare.

It has me feeling some type of way.

More than anything else, it’s the lack of accountability.

Black people never hold themselves accountable for anything.

It’s always an excuse.

Mental health. Racism. Poverty. Whatever.

They’re experts at being victims.

[Konstantin Kisin @KonstantinKisin]

What Elon Musk is doing is genuinely heroic.

He will win no friends in politics and will be ostracised by the current administration. But he is totally right.

We (the entire Western world) simply cannot go on pretending our way of life is sustainable.

Historically, countries build up surpluses in peace time and then go into debt to fight wars. We are going into more and more debt during peace time.

Clever economists will tell you this is sustainable. It is not. And someone has to do something about it.

[KalaignarKarunanidhi @kalaignar89]

ஓர் அமைச்சரவையில் தவறு செய்த அமைச்சர்களே இத்தனை பேர் என்றால், அந்தக் கட்சியின் செயல்பாடு எத்தகையது? அந்தக் கட்சியை ஆட்சிக்கு வரவிடலாமா?

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

They really are importing voters

[The Analyzer (News Updates🗞️) @Indian_Analyzer]

Arnab hit the Bullseye. Supreme Court had no business forcing J&K ELECTIONS. Now Judges won’t answer when BULLETS fly?
~ What did polls achieve? Just unleashed political Turncoats who mourn Terrorists & question Tourism.

Govt was forced. Nation pays the price in #Pahalgam 💔

[Kanav Bali @Concussion__Sub]

“This one is for Orange Army”

- Abhishek Sharma flashes this paper while celebrating his maiden IPL century.