A.

Liberal but not in the mainstream way.

[A. @mostlydying]

Jon Snow isn't the only one who knows nothing.

[Akshay Saini @akshaymarch7]

Thank you so much for your resignation, Pradhan ji.
It takes a lot of courage to make such a bold decision.

The students who were protesting against you do not have a personal problem with you. The protests were the result of multiple failures in the education system that they witnessed under your supervision, which ultimately led to this situation.

Stepping down does not make you small; in fact, it is an act of bravery.

I wish you the best for whatever you do next. 🙏

Your decision has restored my faith in democracy!

Jai Hind 🇮🇳

[A. @mostlydying]

@lovethve She's my bias and I love her but even I have to admit sometimes her performance is a bit too contained or exaggerated.

[A. @mostlydying]

@BuchiBabuSana Next time, don't have a female lead if you're going to give them such degrading characters. It's high time you directors and story writers sit together and kill your patriarchal mindset. The telugu audience wants female leads that are decent. No perversion.

[N. Ram @nramind]

The National Testing Agency (NTA) is worse than a national disgrace: given its repeated, egregious failure to root out corruption and fraud in the conduct of common entrance examinations, it is a clear and present danger to the well-being, especially the mental health, of millions of young men and women. As The Hindu’s editorial comments: “It would be a crime to allow the NTA to continue with its inept conduct of common entrance exams…NEET [National Eligibility-cum-Entrance Test] was introduced as a measure to bring into play a single, standardised, and transparent entrance exam for medical admissions. But the transparency that it has so far shown is of an entirely different kind: leaks and breaches of confidentiality.” https://t.co/GIbzXp91RM

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Look at this map.

Nagpur 45°. Ahmedabad 44°. Prayagraj 43°. Delhi 42°. The entire country is a single dark red mass. This is not a heatwave. This is a country that was told its forests were fine.

And this is April. Not May. Not June. The hottest months have not even arrived yet.

The past few days have been hell. So I did what I always do when something bothers me. I went looking for answers.

What I found was a policy con job that has been running for over two decades.

But before I explain what happened, let's clear some definitions.

A garden is not a forest. An orchard is not a forest. A plantation is not a forest.

A forest is a living system. Soil, water, fungi, insects, birds, mammals, decades of accumulated complexity, specific to its land and climate. It cannot be designed. It cannot be harvested. It regulates water, cools land, shelters hundreds of species. It takes decades to become what it is.

You can plant a forest. But it will take decades to become one.

In 2001, India's forests were disappearing. The Indian state, led by the Vajpayee government, faced a choice. Protect what remained, or change what the numbers said.

It chose the numbers.

The Forest Survey of India quietly changed the definition of what a forest means. Any land with 10% tree canopy cover and more than one hectare in area was now a forest. Your mango orchard. A coconut plantation in Tamil Nadu. A tea garden in Assam. Lodhi Garden in Delhi.

All forests, on paper.

The FSI will tell you that 10% canopy cover follows international norms. The FAO also uses 10% as its threshold. But the FAO's definition comes with a crucial exclusion that India's FSI quietly dropped. 

The FAO explicitly states that fruit tree plantations, oil palm plantations, olive orchards, and agroforestry systems are not forests. The World Bank says the same. India adopted the number but discarded the exclusion. 

It took the cover of international legitimacy while gutting the standard that gave it meaning.

The government will also tell you this was never hidden. That it was publicly stated in every report, disclosed in Parliament. That is technically true. But a disclosure buried in a technical government document is not transparency. It is the appearance of transparency. 

I did not know any of this until I went looking. Neither do most Indians whose forests, whose land, whose air this directly concerns. The con is not in what was hidden from experts. It is in what was never explained to the people it was done to.

This is not a technicality. This is the con.

It was a trick as old as power itself. If you cannot fix the problem, fix the measurement.

For ten years after 2001, Congress governed India. Two terms, two environment ministers, including Jairam Ramesh, one of the more serious ones. They saw the numbers. They knew what the numbers meant.

They did nothing.

Because the lie was convenient. India looked good in international climate negotiations. The fiction of a greening India served everyone in power, so everyone in power kept it. Congress did not create this lie. It simply chose, year after year, to live inside it.

The BJP is different.

When they returned to power in 2014, they came with something Congress never had. An absolute majority, and no coalition compulsions. They did not merely inherit the lie. They built on it. And in 2023, they legislated it.

The Forest Conservation Amendment Act of 2023 removed legal protection from "deemed forests." Forests that existed outside the official definition but were ecologically real. 

Forests that Adivasi communities had lived in and depended on for generations. Forests that cooled land, held water, sheltered species. They were not on the right list. Since the amendment, forest destruction on Adivasi land has accelerated. 

The people who knew these forests best, who had protected them longest, now watch them being cleared. Legally.

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[A. @mostlydying]

@pranavmahajan Citizens, systems, politician's.

[Shantanu Gupta @shantanug_]

How British stole indian traditional mango motif (ambi, kairi motif) and started mass producing it in a city called Paisley in Scotland and now globally it’s known as Paisley Motif with no attribution to Bharat.

[dijucee⁷ is seeing bts in india 2027 @rmvsjk]

the way western brands keep stealing from indian culture and pretending it’s their ‘creative vision’ is actually pathetic and #those people spent years calling indian things ‘weird’ and ‘too ethnic’ but the moment a western brand sells it suddenly it’s luxury.

[Mehwish @MyWishIsUs]

Another reason why we say, india is not for beginners 💀

[The Juggernaut @thejuggernaut]

Jhumkas are apparently “Western details” now 👀

@snigdhasur explains

[Rujuta Diwekar @RujutaDiwekar]

No matter how large a democracy we are, what our GDP or per capita income, if our city has to close down to welcome a foreign dignitary, we are just 3rd world.

#Mumbai

[Pushpendra Singh @pushpendrakum]

We need civic sense summit instead of AI summit.

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

To,
The Prime Minister’s Office,
All Chief Ministers,
And All Responsible Authorities of India.

I am writing this open letter with deep pain and anger. Again and again, our country faces terrible incidents where innocent people lose their lives. Bridges collapse, roads are full of dangerous potholes, trains meet accidents, fires break out, and public places become unsafe. Every time, families are destroyed in seconds.

These are not just accidents. Many times, these tragedies happen because of government failure, poor maintenance, corruption, and negligence. When safety is ignored, people pay the price with their lives.

What hurts even more is what happens after. Authorities give speeches, promise inquiries, and then hand over a small compensation of 2 lakh or 5 lakh. This is not justice. This is an insult to the families who have lost their loved ones forever.

How can a human life be valued so cheaply?

The government has huge funds. Thousands of crores are spent on advertisements, and marketing. But when a citizen dies because of unsafe roads, weak bridges, or railway failures, the family is given only a few lakhs. This feels like humiliation, not support.

I request you strongly to understand that money can never replace a life. But proper compensation is necessary to show accountability and seriousness. If a death happens due to government responsibility, compensation should be at least 1 to 2 crores. Only then will the system feel the weight of its failure.

Along with this, we need real action. Officials and contractors responsible must be punished. Safety audits must be honest. Public money must be used for protection, not publicity.

Indian citizens are not numbers. They are not files to be closed with small cheques. The first duty of any government is to protect its people. When it fails, it must take full responsibility.

This letter is written with respect, but also with firmness. The people of India deserve safety, dignity, and justice.

Respectfully,
Nalini Unagar

[Indian Aesthetics @IndianAesthetik]

when india says slow fashion, they mean it.

[Raghav Chadha @raghav_chadha]

Biggest Health Crisis in India 🚨
FOOD ADULTERATION - खाने में मिलावट

👉Urea in Milk
👉Oxytocin in Vegetables
👉Caustic Soda in Paneer
👉Brick powder in Spices
👉 Yellow dye in Honey
👉 Steroids in Poultry
👉 Detergent in ice cream

We all are consuming slow poison!

Raised this serious issue in Parliament today. Watch my intervention.

[Deepika Narayan Bhardwaj @DeepikaBhardwaj]

When Nirbhaya case happened in India, the entire western media ran month long stories dissing this country, its laws, our courts, projecting India as the most unsafe place for women

Hardly the same outrage over #EpsteinFiles & just so many powerful men who did even worse with hundreds of minor girls & boys

With such damning allegations as I read against Donald Trump, any leader in India would have been stripped off of whatever position

Unfortunately even our national media isn't talking at all about it. Just some social media chatter. That's it.

[Woody @woodyVSworld]

Seeing all these celebrities give political speeches at the Grammys tonight reminded me of this

[ghatak @Neetivaan]

My humble request to the Government of India will be to force the billionaires in the country to invest in in-house R&D.

Put a full stop on white labelled business (especially in defence), give them a tax concession but please arm twist them for indigenous R&D.

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Every citizen of India should have equal access to government schemes, without any caste-based discrimination.

Equality before the law should mean equality in opportunities, benefits, and dignity for all citizens.

#BudgetSession2026

[𝓔𝓶 ♡ @emkenobi]

I want to throw up after reading those files. I cannot believe these people are still alive and walking amongst us with zero consequences. I am so angry. Those poor children. BABIES. I cannot accept a reality where no justice is given for these victims.

When will these people be arrested? We have the names. There’s witness statements. Why is the public not outside the White House right now demanding something be done? When will action be taken? I’m sick with anger and sadness for these victims. I cannot imagine going through that.