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There is a memory I carry with me from my years as a civil servant. It has never left me....
Back then, I had just been transferred as Collector to Mangalore, a city then shadowed by communal violence and a menacing sand mafia. Before I left, word came that the Chief Minister wished to see me personally. It was unusual. Collectors don't typically get called in. I walked into his chamber with a knot in my stomach.
He looked at me, that familiar, unreadable face. Steady. Unhurried.
"Banri…" he said. (Come in.)
"Nimage ondhe kelasa… alli ennum communal aaga baradhu."
(You have only one job there. No communal incident should happen.)
That was it. No preamble. No politics. No performance. Just a Chief Minister, alone with a young IAS officer, telling him exactly what mattered. In that single sentence lived an entire philosophy of governance. one rooted not in optics, but in the protection of ordinary people from extraordinary hatred.
Fifteen days later, Mangalore erupted. Two communal murders, two communities, one city on edge. He called me again. Just as directly.
"DC... Do what is required. Take anyone into custody, even our party people. Don't bother. But stop this within a day."
To a young collector, those words were everything. They were permission. They were protection. They were political will at its most honest.
I have known the contrast too. Under a different dispensation, in a similar crisis, the instruction from the top was the opposite. Do nothing strongly. Let things fester. …That silence said everything about who governs for whom.
Siddaramaiah Ji was never that kind of leader.
He carried government finances in his fingertips and social justice in his spine. He refused to tour places that reeked of feudalism. He spoke plainly, governed sharply, and stood on the side of the last person in the room.
If there was one political figure I have genuinely admired, from the stage and up close, it has been him. His legacy is not in the schemes he launched or the budgets he read. It is in the kind of Chief Minister he chose to be when no one was watching. . On that quiet phone call. In the way he asked a nervous young officer to go out and keep the peace.
And now, as he steps back with the same quiet dignity with which he always led, I find myself moved. He has handled this transition with the grace of someone who always knew that principles outlast positions.
Siddaramaiah Ji....long life, good health, and please keep guiding us. The Congress, and this country, still needs the kind of moral clarity only you carry so naturally.
There are 5 LIES in this dumb tweet
1. EVMs did not exist in 1946.
2. It’s called tampering, not tempering.
3. This was an election for Congress President, not PM.
4. There were no “votes” in this election, only nominations from Congress state committees
5. Sardar Patel withdrew on his own, at Gandhi’s request. There was no fraud.
I am a CBSE Class 12 student.
After receiving unexpectedly low marks in Physics, we applied for photocopies of my answer sheets through the CBSE reevaluation process.
Today we received the copies.
And I am shattered because the Physics answer sheet uploaded by CBSE is not mine
27 Lakh Voters were deleted in West Bengal.
These were not 'dead people' or 'bangladeshis'. These were real people who had already appealed to get their votes restored. The Supreme court could’ve delayed the West Bengal elections until the tribunals finished hearing the appeals of these voters. But they didn’t. Only around 1607 voters were restored in time by phase 2 of these elections. Almost every appeal that was heard turned out to be a wrongful deletion.
In any functional democracy, this would not count as a free and fair election where a large section of voters have lost their voting rights. I'm not saying that TMC would've won for sure if they were added back, maybe BJP would still win, but the question is about the fairness of these elections.
Free and fair elections are a spectrum. Ever since Delhi-Maharashtra-Bihar-Bengal, this needle has moved more and more towards being unfair. Each time somehow the opposition parties participate as usual in the electoral process thinking that they can still pull of a win despite the compromised EC, ED, CBI etc. and each time they have been proven wrong after 2024 Lok Sabha. The question is, at what point will they feel that the level of unfairness is so unfair that elections should be boycotted?
I personally feel TMC should have refused to participate in these elections until all those 27 lakh appeals were finished being heard.
Iran held a large funeral procession for 165 schoolgirls and school staff who were brutally slaughtered on Saturday in a horrific U.S.-Israeli strike on a girls school in the southern city of Minab.
Ayatollah Khamenei had visited Alipur, A village in Chikkaballapur district, Karnataka in 1986 to inaugurate a hospital built with assistance from the Iranian govt. Shias accounts for 99% of the population in Alipur.
Ayatollah Ali Khamenei!
Inna lillahi wa inna ilaihi rajeoon!
You lived life like a lion and embraced shahadah like a lion fighting the zionists & so called super powers.
A life spent perfect as a true follower of the Islam and Ahle Bait. Never bowed down to the oppressors.
True Kerala Story in 60 Seconds.
Ottapalam a small town in Palakkad, but what happened there is a masterclass in crisis management.
A moving bus caught fire & you can see a 60 second display of citizen bravery.
10th Second: The bus doors opened. People started coming out.
30th Second: A local bystander came Not with a phone to record a reel, but with a fire extinguisher.
35th Second: 3 to 4 more people with fire extinguisher.
50th Second: Every single soul is off the bus. Safe. Unharmed.
60th Second: The visible flames are dead.
And note
NOT A SINGLE PERSON WITH A MOBILE IN HAND.
The Kerala we present.
#KeralaStory
Union Minister @girirajsinghbjp shares 6 images of Nehru.
1st and 5th pics are AI generated.
The 2nd image is of Nehru with sister Vijaylakshmi Pandit ( The pic is when She welcomed her brother to the US in 1949)
The 3rd image is of Nehru’s sister Vijaylakshmi Pandit once again. This was when she was Ambassador of Russia.
4th image : Nehru is being given a kiss by his niece Nayantara Sehgal on his arrival at London airport in 1955. You can also see Sehgal’s mother, Vijaylakshmi Pandit who was the High Commissioner to UK at that time.
6th image : Prime Minister Nehru with Mrs. Simon, the wife of the British Deputy High Commissioner, on board the first BOAC flight in India.
Don't expect Pro-BJP News Agencies, like ANI to correct him or call him out for sharing misinformation. @smitaprakash is happy to amplify the BJP Minister's false claim.
Here is a Fact Check we did in 2017 when BJP IT cell head @amitmalviya had shared similar disinformation back then.
https://t.co/jKb6Ktljks
The current situation at Manikarnika Ghat: Local Intelligence Unit personnel deployed. They are monitoring media channels and their reporters speaking to locals. Well exposed by @Saurabh_Unmute bhai.
13 months & still smiling, still loving, still positive, still reading, still writing, Not angry, Not anxious, Not heartbroken.
Dr Umar Khalid is one of the most inspiring Indian for this generation.
Important: So NO BAIL to Umar Khaled says SC.. NO personal liberty under UAPA: this despite the fact that even the trial has not begun after more than 5 years. Meanwhile, rape and murder convict Ram Rahim has been given parole once again. Prior to his latest parole, VVIP convict Rahim has come out of prison 14 times since being convicted in 2017. Yeh hai India ka criminal justice system!😡