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[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk about ISKCON and Akshaya Patra.

The claim that 'no one ever had issues' is simply untrue.

ISKCON's meals have been fought over for more than a decade.

In Karnataka, the Right to Food campaign and the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan formally wrote to the government in 2018 asking it to terminate the Akshaya Patra midday meal contract, arguing the organisation was imposing its religious beliefs on children.

Akshaya Patra refused to add onion and garlic despite a state directive, and threatened to pull out of its contract.

Children there complained the food was bland and ate less of it.

So here goes the tasty meal argument for a toss.

It goes further...

A 2015 CAG report found that 187 samples of ISKCON-prepared meals failed to meet prescribed standards, with negative feedback from 75% of children and teachers, and that less foodgrain was served than required.

In Andhra Pradesh, the foundation openly defied a National Institute of Nutrition directive making eggs mandatory.

And in Chandigarh, the education department found ISKCON's no-onion-no-garlic food unpalatable and did not award it the contract at all.

In Odisha, the state had to quietly arrange for schools to source and boil eggs separately just to work around the ban.

So the objection is not new and not invented for Bengal. The same fight has run in Karnataka, Andhra, Odisha, Chandigarh, for years.

But why is it louder in Bengal?

Two reasons.

First, Bengal is one of the most non-vegetarian states in India, where fish and egg are not optional extras but the core of how people eat.

Second, this is a brand new government removing an egg that was already being served.

You notice a thing more when it is taken away from you than when it was never offered. That is not propaganda. That is people defending food that was already on their children's plates.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

The sequence:

1️⃣ Modi govt passes SHANTI Bill (Dec 2025); breaks 63 years of state-only nuclear law, opens sector to private players

2️⃣ Adani forms “Adani Atomic Energy Ltd” (Feb 2026); literally within WEEKS

3️⃣ Maharashtra signs ₹1.5 lakh crore nuclear MoU with Adani Power (May 2026)

4️⃣ Adani announces 10 GW nuclear plan at AGM (Jun 2026)

Meanwhile, India sits on 25% of the world’s entire thorium reserves. Thorium is safer, produces far less waste, can’t easily be weaponised, and we OWN it. No imports needed.

Under SHANTI, thorium mining stays with the government. Uranium based reactor operations go to… private players.

So the model is: India supplies the fuel from its sovereign reserves. Adani runs the plant. Adani bills the nation.

Congress MP Jairam Ramesh said it best in Parliament: indigenous scientific capacity is being sidelined for private capital.

This isn’t energy security.

This is energy outsourcing, to one man, after rewriting a 63 year old law to make it possible.

Call it what it is. 📌

[Ella Frei @EllaFrei17]

My name is Ella, I'm 17 years old.
I do long jump. I play volleyball. I go to school in New Richmond, Wisconsin.
When my school allowed a biological male into the girls' restroom without telling parents —
I went to the school board.
With my name attached.
In my own town.
I got bullied for it. Harassed online. Even some of my own teachers came after me.
I'm still here.
Because here's what I know:
The net in women's volleyball is set nearly a foot lower for a reason.
A biological male can hit a ball across that net at force that could seriously injure a girl.
And in track — all it takes is three biological males entering the girls' category
and not a single girl in this state stands on a podium.
I didn't speak up because it was easy.
I spoke up because somebody had to.
The Supreme Court is about to answer the question every girl in America is asking.
We're ready.
@JenniferSey
@xx_xyathletics

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

In the egg-in-midday-meal debate, the most insensitive comments I’ve seen so far:

“There is no malnutrition in 🇮🇳 .”
“They can eat egg at home.”
“Protein intake isn’t the government’s job.”

I served on a school committee where 10-11-year-olds chewed gutkha to suppress hunger.

[M K Venu @mkvenu1]

Imagine if the ancient Padmanabhaswamy temple with 1300 tonnes of gold inventory (worth Rs 20 lakh crore )contributed by Cholas and Pandyas were to be administered by a highly corrupt and politically controlled trust like that of Ayodhya Ram Temple! I shudder to think of this prospect.

[Gk @Ggk_here_]

He is Public TV's Ranganna.

He took a class, in his trademark style, to BJP MP Tejasvi Surya and other BJP leaders who are blaming the Congress government over a few students missing their NEET exams.

He asked, "Where were you, Tejasvi Surya, when the NEET paper leak happened? Did you visit the families of students who died by suicide after the leak? Did you condemn it? What kind of youth leader are you?"

This video is creating a sensation across Karnataka. 🔥

[Matt Van Swol @mattvanswol]

Cute theory, let's play it out.

A monkey hoards a trillion bananas. The troop, enraged, beats him to death. They gather around the pile to feast at last.

But... oh wait, there is no pile.

It turns out the "bananas" were shares in a banana-launching company the dead monkey founded.

The shares were worth a trillion because he was alive to run it.

Now he is dead and the stock is worth $0.

The retarded monkeys have clubbed their way into a recession.

But it gets worse.

Half the "bananas" were tied up in a rocket that supplies bananas to monkeys on the far mountain who had no bananas at all.

Another chunk was tied up in a little satellite dish that beamed banana coordinates to the troop after a flood took out their trees.

So now they realized they beat to death the only monkey who knew how the dish worked.

So the monkeys sit there.

No bananas.
No rockets.
No coordinates to get more banananas.

Just a dead body and a powerful sense of fairness as they all now became infinitely poorer.

OH

And somewhere a smaller monkey watches the whole thing and quietly decides he will never build anything in front of these animals again.

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

🚨 Massive controversy erupt in Wadala (East) ahead of #MumbaiMonsoon.

While private contractors were paid crores for mechanical drain cleaning, residents of LBS Nagar & Korba Salt Pans caught them using child laborers to manually haul toxic garbage out of deep nullahs with zero protective equipment.

​This isn't just a scam; it’s a criminal violation of child rights. Strict action needed NOW! 🚨

​#MumbaiNews #BMC #ChildExploitation @mybmc @CPMumbaiPolice @NCPCR

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM]

Priorities of Godhi Media

[Priyank Kharge / ಪ್ರಿಯಾಂಕ್ ಖರ್ಗೆ @PriyankKharge]

4,000 EVMs conveniently destroyed in mystery fire at Kolkata Government building.

One has to admire the consistency of these remarkable coincidences.

The fire reportedly started on the third floor of the ten-storey building and, somehow bypassing the fourth, fifth and sixth floors, reached the eighth and ninth floors where the EVMs were stored.

Every shred of potential evidence relating to the Bengal election manipulation now disappeared.

Master conspirators like the BJP+ECI would know better than anyone: the surest way to avoid scrutiny is to ensure there is nothing left to scrutinise.

[Shruti @heyshrutimishra]

Elon just created 4,400 millionaires in a single day.

400 of them are now worth over $100 million.

These aren't VCs. They're SpaceX employees, and the list includes welders, technicians, and cafeteria staff, because for two decades the company paid every level of the workforce in stock instead of higher salaries.

Juan Hernandez immigrated from Mexico and took a $28 an hour contractor welding job in 2015. He says he didn't even know what SpaceX was. The company gave him a $10,000 equity grant and let him buy more shares through payroll deductions. That stake is now worth $880,000.

Trevor Hise's parents wanted him to take a stable job at General Electric. He picked SpaceX instead, stayed 12 years, and accumulated over 100,000 shares. At the $135 listing price that's $13.5 million. He's 37 and semiretired. His words: "The magnitude of this has been ridiculous."

The most telling detail came before the listing. Over 100 employees quietly banded together and negotiated a group wealth management deal covering up to $5 billion, because none of them had ever needed a wealth manager before.

Software IPOs have minted millionaires for 30 years. This is the first one where the money went to the factory floor.

[🇮🇳 Saurabh @JunkePolitical]

A must-watch video for everyone ❤️

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

"A 17-year-old kid who is not even eligible to get voting ink on his finger, has pointed a finger at the whole education system."

Classy satire from Shekhar Suman! Especially this section, where he lauds the GenZ boys who exposed CBSE.

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

ABHINAY SIR IS NOT LETTING THE SYSTEM BREATHE 🔥

ANCHOR: CBSE revaluation portal is still under maintenance. Students are stuck. What is this system?

ABHINAY SIR 🎯: We talk about Digital India, Vishwaguru and Viksit Bharat, but our exam system is still showing “under maintenance”.

ANCHOR: Where is the real problem?

ABHINAY SIR ⚡️: The problem is priority. If the Education Minister keeps handling elections, then who will handle education?

ANCHOR: But what is wrong with using Air Force for NEET papers?

ABHINAY SIR 🔥: In 10 years, 89 papers have leaked. If every exam needs Air Force and Army, then who will protect the country?

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Anjana messed with the wrong people.

She targeted YouTube educators.

Now they are targeting her pawpaw.

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

A Complete Fake Show.

[SamSays @samjawed65]

The theatre of the privileged: can’t cook, can’t clean, can’t manage kids, can’t drive, can’t walk the dog… and now apparently can’t carry shopping bags either.

The availability of cheap labor in India has created an entire class of adults without basic life skills.

[Frontier Indica @frontierindica]

The Indian salaried class has been methodically stripped of every single inflation hedge available to it, one budget at a time.

You tried crypto. They slapped a 30% flat tax on gains, allowed no set-off of losses, and added 1% TDS on transfers.

You tried equities. Budget 2024 raised STCG from 15% to 20%, raised LTCG from 10% to 12.5%, increased STT on F&O, and also killed indexation for most other long-term capital gains.

You thought fine, I’ll diversify some savings abroad through LRS. They put 20% TCS on remittances above 10 lakhs for investments abroad.

You tried Sovereign Gold Bonds, because surely a government-issued, government-backed gold hedge would be the one clean instrument they would not mess with. Then Budget 2026 came along and removed the capital gains exemption for secondary market buyers.

And now the final insult.

The Prime Minister has publicly asked you to avoid buying physical gold for a year in the “national interest,” because gold imports use foreign exchange.

So let me get this straight. A middle class wagie earning in depreciating rupees, watching FD rates hover around 6.5% while real life inflation keeps eating his purchasing power, has now been told:

Crypto is taxed like a vice.

Equities are more expensive to hold and exit.

Foreign diversification gets hit with TCS.

SGBs are being wound down and tax-narrowed.

Buying physical gold is now unpatriotic.

Basically, every single exit from rupee depreciation has been systematically curtailed. You are expected to hold your savings in instruments the government controls, at returns the government sets, for a currency the government is rapidly inflating away.

Does this sound like Amrit Kaal to you?

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

With elections done, PM Modi urges citizens to cut fuel use, avoid foreign travel.
PM to leave for 7-day trip to UAE, Sweden, Netherlands, Norway and Italy on Friday.
https://t.co/HpjbhsgzMS

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

The humble home of BJP leader C. R. Patil, who served as a police constable in Gujarat for 14 years before entering politics.

Don’t stress over how a constable-turned-politician owns a place like this. Just be grateful you don’t live in Pakistan or Bangladesh. :)