Omkar Chaubal

[Omkar Chaubal @omkarchaubal]

humans have existed for thousands of years surviving on hunting, fishing, and eating animals. Our brains, bodies, and civilizations evolved on non-vegetarian diets. Suddenly acting like meat is some modern crime feels historically amnesic

[Ides of April @idesofavril]

Lowkey a sign of horrible urban life in India without hobbies and community activities.

[Public Transit Nerd @takatakha]

Germany had flour and potatoes both, but still they couldn't make aloo paratha.

[liz 🫧 @L1fafaforSale]

Destruction of old banyan trees is the most anti-Indian thing I think of in context of the larger ethos of our civilisation

[Raj Thackeray @RajThackeray]

Asha Tai – The Last Empress.

Veteran singer Asha Bhosale has passed away.
In a few of my speeches, and once in a conversation with Asha Tai herself, I had said that she and Lata Mangeshkar were like the Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo of Indian film music.

When you look at Leonardo da Vinci’s work, you sense perfection, precision, stillness, and an almost immediate spiritual resonance. That is what one felt in Lata Didi’s singing -everything seemed ideal, flawless, elevated.

Michelangelo, on the other hand, carried grace, intensity, playfulness, and even rebellion. At times, his sculptures feel as if they are struggling to emerge out of stone. That was Asha Tai’s singing. It had longing, mischief, boldness - and that restless human urge to break free.

People who proclaim, “singing is my passion” and “acting is my passion.”, then they call themselves ‘artist’ and eventually ‘senior artist’. Such people are dime-a-dozen. But destiny never gave Asha Tai the luxury to say anything of the sort. At just 15, she had to support herself and her family, with nothing but a God-given voice. Thus began her journey. At a very young age, she endured immense personal struggles. But instead of letting pain weaken her, she transcended it. The courage that life forced upon her became part of her voice.

As I mentioned earlier, Lata Didi’s voice symbolized perfection and poise. A voice that spoke of the times of a newly independent India, filled with idealism and emotional elevation. In such a time, for Asha Tai to carve her own identity, to wait patiently until she found songs that matched her expression, one can only imagine the depth of her patience and conviction.

In “Piya Tu Ab To Aaja”, there is a bold, direct call to the beloved. In “Aaiye Meherbaan”, there is charm and allure. In “Dil Cheez Kya Hai”, there is delicacy and grace. In “Dum Maro Dum”, there is rebellion—a fierce urge to break all boundaries. And the same Asha Tai, in Marathi bhav-sangeet, sings with deep spiritual intensity—“Mage Ubha Mangesh”—evoking timeless devotion and existential surrender.

At almost every stage of her personal life, she faced storms. Yet, she never collapsed. She never weaponized her pain, nor allowed bitterness to take root. Instead, she seemed to master the art of absorbing sorrow and transforming it. That is why while Lata Didi often felt divine, Asha Tai felt profoundly human.

I have had the privilege of the presence of both Didi and Asha Tai. Both sisters who shaped the emotional landscape of this country for decades. To see Asha Tai merely as a ‘senior singer’ is not enough for me. For me, it was an enchanting journey through music. One that will always remain with me, unfolding new experiences over time.

I have often said in my speeches, that if artists like Lata Didi, Asha Tai had not existed, if they had not held us within their emotional universe, this country might have descended into chaos long ago. They defined for us what greatness looks like, and where to seek it.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo, though seemingly contrasting, together shaped the Renaissance in Europe, Lata Didi and Asha Tai shaped the renaissance of Indian film music in their own distinct ways. A few years ago, Didi left us. And today, Asha Tai has gone. With her passing, the last great pillar of that golden renaissance era in India has fallen.

Maharashtra Navnirman Sena offers a humble tribute to Asha Tai.

Raj Thackeray

[Devaiah Bopanna @devaiahPB]

Hardik Pandya has shown there is a coolness ceiling in our country for someone who comes from nothing and becomes incredibly successful. The hate he gets for doing seemingly normal rich person things is incredible. He exposes middle class envy like nobody else in this country.

How can a guy who looked like us and lived like us until a few years ago suddenly get everything in his life, despite paying for it with his raw talent and hard work? How can he enjoy his rewards? He is a chapri. How can he drive a Ferrari in his shorts? How can he colour his hair? How can he be so confident and cocky? And how the fuck can a guy who comes from nothing have any personality?

Why is he not humble? How can he always be in the company of the most beautiful looking women and show off his feelings so publicly?

We want to use the word humility, but it is actually just jealousy.

And this jealousy is only when someone relatable does successful rich person things that we as a nation get triggered. You see these firangs or star sperms or someone who comes from wealth in their big flashy cars, holding hands and celebrating their girlfriends, that is suddenly aspiration. That is cute. That is suddenly a lifestyle to emulate.

So we are okay with successful people, or people who are born into wealth, setting standards for love in this country. But when our boy has a good time, the whole fucking country has a meltdown.

Only foreigners, or the born rich, fair looking, well pedigreed, upper caste prince and royalty can hold hands, make love to their girlfriends in public, and maybe even go full 69 in public - and it will be looked at as aspirational. But a come from nowhere, hardworking dude has to behave and be humble in front of us without drawing ire from any quarters.

If you were born into it, we call it lifestyle.
If you earned it, we call it attitude or chapri behaviour.

I love Pandya man, and I hope more self made people flash their success in our faces daily to remind us that if we work hard, we can achieve our dreams. There is no fear in doing so. Because somewhere deep in our feudal, subservient psyche, we believe there’s a certain profile for who gets to enjoy life and if someone doesn’t fit that, we start calling them chapri.

[Elorm Daniel @elormkdaniel]

Google+ was launched as Google’s attempt to compete with Facebook and Twitter by building a “real identity” social network tied to your Google account. On paper, it looked powerful: it was deeply integrated into Gmail, YouTube, Search, and Android. For a while, you couldn’t even use some Google services without touching Google+. But that forced integration became one of its biggest problems. People didn’t want a new social network instead, they were pushed into one.

Another issue was identity confusion. Google+ tried to mix too many things at once: social posting, professional presence, interest-based communities, and comments across the web. Users never clearly understood what it was for. Was it Facebook? LinkedIn? Reddit? The answer kept changing, and when users don’t understand a platform’s purpose, they don’t build habits around it.

Engagement never truly took off. Even though Google reported huge user numbers, most accounts were inactive because they were automatically created. Without real conversation, culture, or momentum, the platform slowly became a ghost town. When security vulnerabilities were later discovered, Google used that moment to finally shut it down rather than invest more into a product people had already emotionally abandoned.

What makes Google+ feel like it “never existed” is how clean the exit was. Google removed links, shut down profiles, redirected services, and absorbed useful features into other products. Unlike MySpace or Vine, there’s no strong nostalgia loop because Google+ never earned a cultural identity people wanted to remember.

[Darshit Patel @darshitpatel84]

De Addiction Center 😁😁😁

[akhilesh @akhileshutup]

there can be no monetary value for a departed soul.

however, in kalyug, ₹241 crore is far better than ₹5 lakh and a staged photo opportunity of a minister visiting a grieving family.

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

Italians are celebrating now.

But are they ready for Milan Super Giants? Roma Capitals? Venice Knight Riders? Florence Super Kings? Royal Challengers Bologna?

[Kartik @calm_sutra]

The CEO of a jet engine company is named Tufan? Talk about being born for the job!

[doomer @uncledoomer]

The problem with lab grown diamonds is that they don't feel as good without the suffering. It's like losing weight on ozempic rather than starving yourself and going to the gym. without the pain, its missing critical aura. its not ensouled.

[Subhash Kak ☀️𑀲𑀼𑀪𑀸𑀱 𑀓𑀸𑀓 . सुभाष काक @subhash_kak]

The Silk Road is a recent imagined construct

The main trade between Europe and Asia was to India

[Dev Shah @0xDevShah]

universities are about to realize that they had been selling the wrong product for the 150 years. they thought they sold knowledge, then information became free. they pivoted to selling credentials but now credentials are just proxies. in the post-ai era the universities who survive will realize they were always selling 3 things: network, status signaling, and a 4 years of protected time to become an adult.

[Sumit Behal @sumitkbehal]

The credit card bros will literally tell everyone how they managed to get a free sandwich at airport by spending 17 lacs in a year

[Nikola @nikolacupic]

Brunello Cucinelli runs a $7.5B company on a philosophy 2,000 years older than capitalism.

He bans work emails after 5:30 PM, pays 20% above market & puts "beauty" over quarterly growth.

He's a pro-tempore guardian of humanity.

12 lessons from a different kind of capitalist:

[Omkar Chaubal @omkarchaubal]

Airplanes should charge extra for child free flights. I'll gladly pay

[Ritu Joon @ritujoon2j]

Today’s flight experience was horrible.

A child around 10–12 years old kept shouting constantly at his parents just to get attention, and his parents seemed to find it cute.

I was reading a book, so I politely asked him to keep quiet. His mother replied, “This is not a library.” After that, they started playing antakshari.

Some people clearly lack civic sense and unfortunately pass the same behaviour on to their children.

[Save Invest Repeat 📈 @InvestRepeat]

🇨🇳 CCP is removing people from top govt positions whose family members reside outside China, to improve national security.

🇮🇳 If India implements this, probably our entire govt will have to removed including senior & junior officers. All of their children or family stay abroad.

[SightBringer @_The_Prophet__]

⚡️The surface signals decline in alcohol, cigarettes, weed, and pregnancy.

The deeper structure reveals a civilizational substrate shedding primal experimentation, sexual initiation, and physical rebellion. What looks like moral progress is a flattening of hormonal fire into algorithmic sedation.

The human animal is becoming more inert.

Teenagers aren’t avoiding risk because they’re wiser. They’re avoiding it because they’re immersed in sterile loops of digital stimulation. No puberty rituals. No chaos trials. No sacred transgressions. The dopamine is cheap, the shame is ambient, and the will is dissolving.

Pregnancy is down because intimacy is collapsing. Alcohol is down because social bonding is virtualized. Weed is down because SSRIs and infinite scroll numb more efficiently. Smoking is down because vaping is invisible. The body has lost its role as the battlefield of identity.

What we’re seeing isn’t health. It’s signal collapse.

No contact with the wild. No defiance worth the consequences. No hunger deep enough to force collision with reality. The modern teenager is domesticated by design.

The metrics say safety.

The soul says extinction.

[♡ mari/cohe ♡ @noinconsistency]

boy do i have something to tell you

[Chirag Barjatya @chiragbarjatya]

You can fix the thinking, arguing, and debating capabilities of the entire generation if CBSE decides to add this image to class 6th, along with a 20-page chapter with examples and reasonings. Very simple thing to do. Most powerful image on the internet.