hemant pandey

From mumbai to manipur. life has been fun so far. All tweets are in personal capacity. Nothing official about it. RETWEETS are not endorsment

[Ramesh Venkatraman @rameshvenkatram]

SAHASRANAMA OF VISHNU: 704 of 1,000: SŪRASENAḤ (शूरसेन:)
https://t.co/jWQz52eZsf

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

No, I wouldn't. Funds are not India's problem anymore. The time for pitying our own country is long gone. I know this is a country that skipped a meal, responding to an appeal from then-Prime Minister Lal Bahadur Shastri. However, this is also the country that built the Param supercomputer and a cryogenic engine when these technologies were denied by the West. But it was a Third World India back then. In the last two instances, nobody asked for crowdfunding even though we were still a basket case.

Appealing for crowdfunding a project looks very bad on us.

[News18 @CNNnews18]

#BreakingNews | Bangladesh power struggle: Amid clash over humanitarian corridor to Rakhine, Bangladesh government recalls envoy to Myanmar

@KamalikaSengupt shares more details

#Bangladesh #BangladeshGovernment | @JamwalNews18

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

He is a HERO.

And he should be treated like one.

We support Vikram Misri!

#IndiaPakistanWar2025

[IAS Association @IASassociation]

The IAS Association stands in solidarity with Shri Vikram Misri, Foreign Secretary, & his family.
Unwarranted personal attacks on civil servants performing their duties with integrity are deeply regrettable.
We reaffirm our commitment to uphold the dignity of public service.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Pakistan's Lie Exposed

RT MAX 🔥

[Amrullah Saleh @AmrullahSaleh2]

Operation Sindoor vs. Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos

Some of the firsts

One :
Realizing the stalemated status or irrelevance of the UNSC, India didn’t seek to request sympathy from the five of the 1945. Operation Sindoor clearly demonstrated a strong sense of self-confidence and real strategic autonomy and sovereignty.

Two:
For the first time, India shredded the notion that terrorists are separate from terrorist backers and thus targeted both. The notion that certain powerful rogue officers of Pakistani State authorize terrorist attacks was also shredded. This is a new paradigm. Another type of deniability must be invented.

Third:
There was a battle going and a war being planned. In the midst of the battle, Pakistan negotiated for a loan from the IMF, which surprisingly approved it. It matters because most likely Pakistan isn’t fit enough to finance a war but has capabilities to engage in battles. A war can't be won with IMF loans anyway.

Fourth:
The strategic patience and cultural restraint have a limit. That limit was tested on April 22 by the Lashkar Teyba terrorists. Perhaps they wanted what followed. They didn’t benefit from their adventure though. Perhaps they wanted to humiliate India publicly. They seem to be mentally stuck in 2008.

Fifth:
Size matters. Every inch of Pakistan was under reach. I always thought the Nur Khan airbase was the best defended base of Pakistan. It isn’t. The grarrison town of Rawilpindi as the heart of Pakistan’s military and its best-known airbase was hit.

Sixth:
Pakistan lost the monopoly over Islamic Fatwa. The Indian ulema presented a fatwa of their own to their own government. Thus, the religious dimension always exploited by Pakistan to earn sympathy from the Muslim Ummah evaporated. Deoband is located in India by the way.

Seventh:
Keeping secrets in a democratic society is next to impossible, but very little leaked out of India, which shows enormous skills in adhering to principles of operational silence and public unity to assist in safeguarding of secrets.

Note: I have seen very little or no visuals from Operation Bunyan Ul Marsoos to comment on. Seemingly, it never took off the way it was propagated. The ceasefire saved Pakistan’s skin. Pakistan military leadership has made statements and claims over their own achievements, but the Indian skies remained open, flights weren’t cancelled, and I haven’t seen visuals of missiles landing in Delhi or Amritsar.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Last night, Pakistani launched missile and drone attacks on multiple Indian cities, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, and Bhuj.

Imagine an attack on this scale, yet our common citizens didn’t even realise it happened. Why? Because unlike Pakistan, we have a functional defence system that shot down everything they launched. And today, we retaliated, with precision. They couldn’t intercept a thing.

We don’t appreciate and thank our Armed Forces’ capabilities enough!

[Mir Yar Baloch @miryar_baloch]

A possible announcement soon should be done as the collapse of the terrorist Pakistan is near.

We have claimed our independence and we request India to allow Balochistan's official office, and embassy in Delhi.

We also ask the United Nations to recognise the independence of the Democratic Republic of Balochistan and call a meeting of all UN members to lend your support for recognition.

There must be a release of billions of funds for currency, and passport printing.

We also urge the UN to immediately send it's peace keeping missions in Balochistan and ask Pakistan's occupational army to vacate the territories , air space and sea of Balochistan and leave all the weapons, and property in Balochistan.

All non-Baloch personnel in the army, frontier corps, police, military intelligence, ISI , and civil administration must leave Balochistan immediately.

The control of Balochistan will soon be handed over to the new government of independent Balochistan state and a transitional conclusive interim government will soon be announced. Representation of Baloch women in the cabinet is the fulfilment of commitment to our nation.

The state ceremony of the independence government of Balochistan will take place soon. We invite the head of the states of our friendly countries to witness the national parade and bless us.

#FreeUnitedBalochistan.

[SriGuru Rohit Arya @SGRohitArya]

Manoj Kumar was part of a now almost extinct species, the superstar actor director. Today the only person who manages that well is Prithviraj and about him the less said the better. But there was a time from the mid 60s to 1980 when Manoj Kumar could not put a foot wrong. He had no polished aesthetic but did he know the audience. He also knew how to use the Hindi film song like few others. Super hit after super hit came in sequence. When he came to Mumbai he wanted to secure his future with three lakhs, one for himself two for his parents. Such were the times when that was actually a feasible desire. He began as a chocolate boy hero, with minimal acting talent but a strong nose for scripts that would work. He was almost always sidelined by the heroines in his early days but he knew that commercial viability was key and he did not mind. It was with Shaheed the first of a long list of movies that glamorised Bhagat Singh that changed the game. The movie had sublime songs, a patriotic to the point of jingoism narrative, and it struck a deep chord in a people disillusioned with the Nehruvian age and the 1962 disaster. From then one he would do mostly Desh Bhakti movies and his character was named Bharat. Hence the nickname Mr Bharat. He was what we would call a Sanghi ling before it was cool. He would never touch his heroines henceforth though in his day he did his share of stalking as love songs also. One peculiar aspect o his movies was that one song was reserved for Mahendra Kapoor and rest would be sung by Mukesh. Manoj had a terrific ear and they are some of the top songs of the golden age of Hindi cinema songs. So talented was he in this business of song placement for pacing in a movie that after a viewing of Don he told director Chandra Baron to insert a song at one point which became Amitabhs legendary Khaike Pan Bnaraswala…The hits came marching in, Purab our Paschim, Beimaan, Pechan, Shor, Sanyassi, the gigantic Roti Kapada air Makaan, in my view the best masala movie of all time, and Dus Numberi. It culminated in Kranti 1980 which was the biggest hit of his life. His acting consisted of hiding his face behind his hands and mumbling like Dilip Kumar but he was golden at the time and even though everybody laughed the movies kept minting money.

And then the gods deserted him. It was as though as switch was turned off or a plug pulled and all his talent drained out. He began to make one stinker after other and he was allowed to do so because of his past record. But Movies like Clerk are a hilarious abomination and there is another one where a female doctor performs a life saving operation in the light provided by a fire which is fed by the clothes stripped off one by one of another girl! MK had this weird manner of depicting sex on screen putting in one of the most horrific rape sequences ever shown in Roti Kapada aur Makaan and his ‘creative’ use of a lathi and then the shaft of a bullock cart to film Hema Malini in Kranti in the song Lui shamasha has to be seen to be disbelieved. He was also accused by Moushumi Chatterjee of sexually harassing her and he never denied it. He was also supposed to be a terrible bully on set. His reputation as a genius successful filmmaker hushed it all up. It seems he had a serious accident during the making of Kranti got addicted to painkillers and then alcohol to numb the pain, which bloated him out considerably, You can see the difference in Kranti, he is like two different people, and everything came crashing down. He made many embarrassing public appearances when sloshed and soon became a recluse. He came out of solitude to take panga with Farah Khan for mocking him in Om Shanti Om but in general he was done.

Manok Kumar’s legacy is that he created an entire genre singlehandedly, the patriotic social commentary masala movie. Purab aur Paschim, Beiman, Shor,Sanyassi Roti Kapda aur Makaan represent something unique as a form which nobody else has never quite managed to emulate. Manoj Kumar was a deeply flawed hugely talented man who entertained hundreds of millions and made them think. There are worse legacies. Though he had drunk the secular kool aid he was unapologetically Hindu in his movies and that was a remarkable thing even for that time. For that he deserves our respect. In one of his movies he is accused of being uneducated and he asks if a person who knows the Gita, the Puranas, the ithihasas and the shashtras is uneducated, then what is ignorance for them? Not one movie would dare put in a scene like that today. The flawed man has departed at 87. The art remains.

Addendum… You can read my analysis of Roti Kapada ur Makaan here… https://t.co/zCFKkAeXR1
#manoj_kumarhh

[SriGuru Rohit Arya @SGRohitArya]

I am halfway thru the final video testimony of Atul Subash and have had to pause viewing for sanity reasons. What is so horrifying to me is to watch a man with no game and no comprehension of intersexual dynamics attempt to make sense of the world which is cruelly maltreating him. He is completely an Old Set of Books man. Study hard, have good character, land a good job and then you get a happy married life. He was also completely out of shape and balding, none of which helps in retaining attraction in today's time. He had no chance to begin with.

Atul was an extraordinarily meticulous person and had he applied that discipline to his health and well being, he may still have been with us. Unfortunately his dehati longhouse upbringing left him only with provider game as an intersexual strategy and the legal system weaponized even that against him. He specifically mentions he won't allow his money to be used against him any more.

India is completely failing its young men when it comes to gender dynamics. Most of all Hindu families. This pathetic ignorance of the marital law and changed social realities won't do. We have to grasp the nettle and teach our boys what is what. Not brainwash them with outdated parameters of sanskaar which are a reprehensible mix of Abrahamic ideas of sin and MKG's lunatic beliefs about sexuality. None of this is dharmic in anyway. We are failing our young men in calamitous ways.

[taslima nasreen @taslimanasreen]

Defying threats and attacks from communal extremist armed militant groups, a grand rally was held at the Mahimaganj College grounds in Rangpur as per the prior announcement, with the presence of thousands of Hindus, under the banner of the Bangladesh United Sanatani Awakening Alliance, to demand their raised eight-point agenda.

[Mike Tyson @MikeTyson]

This is one of those situations when you lost but still won. I’m grateful for last night. No regrets to get in ring one last time.

I almost died in June. Had 8 blood transfusions. Lost half my blood and 25lbs in hospital and had to fight to get healthy to fight so I won.

To have my children see me stand toe to toe and finish 8 rounds with a talented fighter half my age in front of a packed Dallas Cowboy stadium is an experience that no man has the right to ask for. Thank you 🙏

#PaulTyson

[hemant pandey @hemantp83]

@TrumpUpdateHQ Thank you

[taslima nasreen @taslimanasreen]

Sanatan Jagaran Mancha organised a massive rally in Chittagong , Bangladesh yesterday, calling for minority rights and security.

[hemant pandey @hemantp83]

Malice is a real thing better be prepared than perish