@mybmc@AshwiniBhide Garbage piles up on JVLR just a few metres before Aarey station (towards Jogeshwari).This is a daily affair no one clears the garbage in time and it is left unattended on most days.puc taken at 10 am
Nothing exists in vacuum.The anarchists have learnt their lessons after Delhi Pogrom and JNU protests. They saw law of the land came after criminals in both cases. They want to avoid that this time. Hence this demand of blanket immunity for all protesters including those who indulged in arson and vandalism.
Now that protests are over few points
People need to stop with this: ‘Gen Z’ are some strange entity that world hasn’t known. All generations have been ‘gen z’ of their times. When you have no responsibilities and you are not a provider, that is when you are Gen Z. We have all been there. Emergency/JP movement was Gen Z of their time, Mandal was Gen Z of their time, Nirbhaya, IAC- all these movements are fueled by kids who have nothing to lose. Which is invariably students. There is nothing more courageous or extraordinary about this bunch. When Rajiv Goswami immolated himself in Delhi University, he was Gen Z of his time. That was courage in that era. When students filled jails in JP movement, that was courage in that era. If these movements have taught us anything, it is that protests succeed only in optics. Real change happens in corridors of parliament and govt offices. Slowly, surely and only when it becomes a ballot issue. I challenge CJP to make one aspect of education reform a ballot issue. - Quality of elementary education in govt schools, coaching mafia, reservations - just pick one and make it a ballot issue. Then we will talk about courage.
Shri Dharmendra Pradhan is one of the finest public servants I know. He cares deeply about the youth of this nation, and particularly about rural students. We have had many discussions on how to better skill our rural youth.
I am sad to see him resign. He has put the nation above self, and my respect for him is even greater now.
Thank you for your service Pradhan-ji, please keep fighting the good fight 🙏
@annamalai_k@annamalai_k I always felt that you were a great leader and were the only hope for BJP to turnaround in TN.But now I see your personal ambition coming through in ur recent posts .Pls shed the pretense if this is about your ambition.What u achieved was due to inst support of BJP
@cricinfo@BCCI is responsible for this mess.Sacking a world cup winning captain was an absolute disaster.@surya_14kumar had an incredible record as a captain.Even when he stepped in for Rohit on overseas tour he never lost a series.Even when key players were rested he never lost a series
Thanks Sridhar for recalling the Swadeshi movement of 1990s against globalisation when we were abused as Neanderthal economist taking the country backward. Now AI says that Indian Swadeshi movement was the only global alternative narrative to globalisation then. @svembu
To understand the depth and breadth of what Prime Minister Modi has achieved, we must remember what he inherited.
The Congress Party had a disastrous flirtation with Soviet style socialism (and the word "socialist" is still there in our Constitution, thanks to Indira Gandhi). With the Soviet collapse, India faced bankruptcy and the Congress switched to the Washington consensus, Davos-style globalism. To be fair to them, it looked reasonable in 1991, and people like me supported it, but far deeper thinkers like Gurumurthy saw that Davos globalism also as a dead-end. It met its end in the Global Financial Crisis 2008-9.
Modi's Swadeshi philosophy has achieved the balance of building up our capability while also earning the respect of the world. Like all great transformations, it takes time.
My prayers for his good health because so much work lies ahead 🙏
@ShivAroor Yet again another reminder of how wrong BJP miscalculated TN.BJP should chart and independent path in TN.Narrative and a leader is available in form of https://t.co/pBoPeIoBc7 Modi is himself very popular.But they should have the patience for change to take place
@AnanthAyyasamy Quite perturbed at reading this post and have deep respect for the work you did.But I guess it was a very big behaviour change that was expected of people who fr yrs have voted for money .I wd say play by current rules and win.Change can only come when ur in power @svembu