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[Night Watch @NightWatch_7]

I bow to my Star, my provider and only God, THE SUN

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

An Open Letter to the Jantar Mantar protestors:

My dear young friends,

I address you today not as a politician or an MP, but as someone deeply troubled by what is happening to your generation of young Indians.

This is personal for me. I was born to a middle-class family: my father was a salaried newspaper employee, my mother a homemaker, with three children to educate on one income. For a family like ours, merit was not a slogan. Scholarships, fair examinations, honest results — these were the only way one salary could carry three children's dreams.

I went to school in Mumbai and Kolkata, to college here in Delhi, topped the University and earned admission into IIM — and chose instead to follow my passion for international affairs, in America, on a scholarship. Nothing was inherited; everything was earned by hard work and yes, Exams.

So I know that a fair, merit-based system is the only ladder for young people from lower and middle-income families to climb up. When that ladder is broken — papers leaked, examinations cancelled, trust destroyed — the children of the rich and powerful do not suffer. They have other ladders. It is your dreams, and your families' sacrifices (and tragically, in some homes, young lives themselves) that are betrayed.

To the young people gathered at Jantar Mantar, and those raising your voices peacefully across India: this country hears you. Your anger is not indiscipline — it is the anguish of a generation that did everything right and was still betrayed . You are not alone.

And to the millions of young Indians watching quietly: your generation is not a problem to be managed. You are the answer to India's future. Do not lose hope. This ladder will be rebuilt — by you, and by every Indian who stands with you.

To Shri Sonam Wangchuk-ji, my heartfelt appeal: please end your fast. You have awakened the conscience of the nation; that is what a fast is meant to do. India needs your voice for the long road ahead.

With Parliament in session again from Monday, we will have an opportunity to raise the students’ issues in the highest forum of our democracy. That’s where the problem should be addressed, not by fasting unto death. Please heed my plea.

And finally, to the Government: I respectfully urge you to reach out and engage in the dialogue our democracy owes its young citizens. That is not weakness; that is statesmanship.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Day 17 of Sonam Sir’s Hunger-Strike.

He has started losing muscle mass and is in immense pain. Like everyone else, I begged him to end his fast.

He calmly replied, “Don’t ask me to end my fast. Ask the govt why they won’t even have a dialogue.”

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

This interview of Nitin Gadkari is Rahul Gandhi Arnab moment of BJP.

Man looked completely clueless, question was something else but kept answering about some else. Imagine If even 50% of our mainstream media starts questioning our ministers like this..

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The silence of mainstream media on Sonam Wangchuk’s hunger-strike will never be forgiven.

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

'I have lost muscle along with fat. My bones are beginning to show, but I still feel energetic': Sonam Wangchuk stated his hunger stabilized after thirteen days of fasting at Jantar Mantar. He asserted his constitutional right to peaceful protest should not be violated by authorities.
Wangchuk has been on an indefinite fast at Jantar Mantar in support of the Cockroach Janta Party's (CJP) protest, which is demanding the resignation of union education minister Dharmendra Pradhan over alleged examination irregularities. The agitation entered its 21st day on Friday.
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[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

MORNING : ED raids Shekhar Suman’s show Shekhar Tonite’s producer.

EVENING : Shekhar Suman rips apart BJP even brutally instead of being scared.

Absolute Cinema 🍿🤣

[Rafa Nadal @RafaelNadal]

Honoured and grateful for @TheEmmys nomination for RAFA.

This documentary tells a very personal part of my journey, and none of it would have been possible without everyone who was part of it.

Thank you to the National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences, to @netflix, Skydance, and to the entire team behind this project. This nomination belongs to all of you 👏🏻

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

I'm not sure about Modi ji because he never takes direct questions from press but apart from him all the key Modi ministers are arrogant while answering public queries. Even for genuine concerns like Ethanol, FII exit, high taxes, rupees weakness, paper leak etc their answers always have a tone like "we don't know what you're complaining, I'm in power, I will do, whatever I want".

If not for incompetence, this Govt should be thrown out purely because of arrogance of its ministers.

[Night Watch @NightWatch_7]

@Wimbledon @rogerfederer ♥️♥️♥️🔥

[Wimbledon @Wimbledon]

Welcome back to The Championships, @rogerfederer

#Wimbledon

[​𝐥𝐲𝐫𝐚 @sunnkssdseraph]

People who have travelled a lot tend to judge less. Not because they became nicer, but because they ve seen too many versions of what's "normal." In one country, it's normal to eat with your hands. In another, it's normal to stay quiet at the table. In third, it's normal to hug a stranger. When you've seen 30 different versions of "the right way," you stop believing yours is the only one. Travel doesn't just teach geography. It teaches tolerance

[Rahul Raj @x_rahulraj]

If an Olympics of corruption is conducted, MP will win most of the awards.

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

It's more than 12 years in power and these people couldn't fix a simple IRCTC and EPFO website but look at acting in front of camera, he made a call to deliver a new website in 30 days.

If it was so easy, what you were waiting for? Bas nautanki karwa lo inse.

[NBS Tennis @NBSTennis]

At 36 years old, Roger Federer did this in 2017:
🎾 2 Grand Slams
🎾 3 Masters 1000 titles
🎾 2 ATP 500 titles

[Red Devil 🎾 @wey_know]

“Federer can play from the baseline and when he has to, he can also come to the net more often than other players. I don't think Nadal or Djokovic would have been so successful in the era of serve and volley but Federer could have played.” - Boris Becker.

Federer’s versatility makes him an all-era and all-court player. He did not just adapt to different courts, he adapted to history itself, standing as the definitive bridge between the classical and modern eras of tennis.

[US Open Tennis @usopen]

See Roger Federer return to New York in this once-in-a-lifetime event.

Read more: https://t.co/y0xG2SQLA4

[chacha monk @oldschoolmonk]

Absolutely hate this babu culture in India. It's as if these babus are untouchable by the law. They get caught in corruption cases, get reinstated, and nothing really happens. People can't even vote them out of power. Sometimes it feels like the British never left.

[Nalini Unagar @NalinisKitchen]

Dear @NarendraModi,

Is it really necessary to reappoint the same IAS or IPS officers who have previously been caught in bribery or corruption cases? Can't we suspend them permanently? Just throw them out of the system. No post, not even a small job. Transfers are just a way to fool the public.

But today, an officer caught taking a bribe is suspended for some time and then given a powerful position again, where they can do the same thing all over again.

If a thief is caught, we don't hand him the keys and ask him to guard the house.

Just because the court cannot prove them guilty does not mean they are innocent. They know how to play the legal system.

Corruption is so common that even ordinary people face demands for bribes in government offices. Instead of giving the same officers another chance again and again, why not promote honest officers?

I know it.
You know it.
People know it.

[Col Sanjay Pande @ColSanjayPande]

Can we have a NATIONAL FOORPATH AUTHORITY OF INDIA (NFAI)?

A Mr Gadkari type minister.

Covering Gram Panchayat upwards to NCR?

I AM SICK. There is no place in India except Lutyens Delhi where you can just get up in the morning and take a walk.