HOST: You had a good college, a good job and a comfortable path. Why public life?
Ashutosh Ranka: At McKinsey, I worked on a UP government health project. We went village to village in suit boot, thinking we were changing things.
HOST: What changed?
Ashutosh Ranka: One sarpanch said, people like you come, give gyaan and leave. Come back after 5 years and nothing will change. If you really want to help, get my health centre opened.
HOST: Is that the turning point?
Ashutosh Ranka: Yes. My bubble broke. I could keep pretending I was changing the world, or get on the ground and get my hands dirty. I quit the job and entered public life.
Nobody runs a langar to trend.
No branding, no photos, no donor list on the wall. Just a hall, a floor, and whoever walks in.
500 years and it still works better than most funded programs I've seen.
PM didn’t talk about compensation for families who lost their children after the NEET paper leak.
He didn’t talk about the police brutality unleashed on young Indians demanding accountability.
He didn’t talk about Gen alpha protesting for better school infrastructure and facilities in different parts of country.
Glad I missed the speech.
SAMDISH SHOWS THE REALITY OF GOVERNMENT SCHOOLS IN RURAL INDIA 🚨
SAMDISH: Are there many schools here with only one teacher?
TEACHER 🧾: Yes. One teacher runs the whole school, and still government reports, surveys and duties keep coming.
SAMDISH: What kind of children study here?
TEACHER 💔: Most are from poor families. Parents leave for Patna, Allahabad or Chennai for labour. Many children live alone, cook alone and still come to school.
SAMDISH: What do teachers do when children stop coming?
TEACHER 🕯️: We send other children to call them. If they still do not come, we go ourselves to find them in fields or forests.
SAMDISH: So this is more than teaching?
TEACHER 🫡: Much more. The salary is low, but when a child from here becomes something, that happiness keeps us going.
The same Media which is asking Abhijeet Dipke why he isn’t going to Jharkhand never had the guts to ask Narendra Modi why he doesn’t go to Manipur during the conflict
Ghar ka kaam karne wali ladki se puchenge, “Kitni padhi ho?” Aur padhi-likhi ladki se puchenge, “Ghar ka kaam aata hai ya nahi?”
Women are expected to prove themselves at every step, while men are simply expected to exist. This society is built in a way that only serves to oppress women.
HANDS OFF our Jantar Mantar!
Before trying to take away our protest site, tell us if you will designate the India Gate where we can exercise our fundamental right to peacefully protest. You took away the India Gate. We will not tolerate taking away of OUR Jantar Mantar too!
Imagine being a powerful adult and using your voice to call students protesting against paper leaks ‘garbage’, ‘gutter’ and ‘too ugly to be homemakers’. When you cannot address the issue, you attack the morality, looks and womanhood of those seeking accountability. This isn’t cultural sophistication or a political argument. It’s bullying. Disgustingly so.
Since today morning all my Andhbhakt Uncle friends on different WhatsApp groups sending videos on Deep State, Chinese and Pakistani funding of this students protest 😁😁 So cute. They still dont know what hit them.
Deep State and foreign funding?? As Kamra once said - Yeh students ka udhaari hain canteen mein 😁
Cockroach Janta Party withdraws its nationwide agitation with immediate effect
All demands of the Cockroach Janta Party have been accepted by the government:
1. Maximum possible compensation for families of NEET paper leak-related suicides
2. All FIRs by Central govt and NDA-ruled states will be withdrawn, and no action will be taken against anyone involved in these protests in the future.
3. CJP’s 5-point exam reform charter will be considered by the govt and the CJP will meet with the govt to discuss these reforms further.
It’s quite something that men are more offended by a woman having a period publicly than a woman getting raped or murdered by a man. Look at the reactions. The pattern is extremely consistent. Heavy bleeding during high-intensity endurance sport is either denied (“periods don’t bleed like that”), sexualised (“amı patlamış” translating loosely into “her privates have exploded”), or declared a public hygiene violation that should have ended her race. As if women don’t survive after giving birth vaginally. Men really have no idea what women go through every month from as young at 9 years old till they’re beyond 40.
“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.
Just for a second entertain the possibility, that this generation is able to visualise a country…that my dumbass generation and the one above us forgot. We idealistically thought of it, and forgot it quick. Distracted by life and prosperity. Maybe it’s because they’ve grown up documenting and broadcasting their entire life. So they’ve had a good look at themselves during formative years. Assessed their values, albeit to showcase them. Which we weren’t able to do. So they are possibly more sure of themselves at this age, which seems completely alien to us. It’s possible.