Pranav Kumar

IIM, DCE Alum.

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

@flipkartsupport Sent. Pls get it resolved

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

@Flipkart your Marq customer service is hopeless. I called customer service 5 times for problem in AC just 1 month after purchase but every time they say technician will visit in 48 hours. No visit till now. This is blatant harassment. @jagograhakjago @_Kalyan_K

[Aditya Raj Kaul @AdityaRajKaul]

Extremely Rare Red Sprites Spotted Flashing Over Tibet. They are caused by high levels of electrical activity and form in the upper atmosphere during powerful thunderstorms.

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

Vaibhav Sooryavanshi’s bat swing has been outstanding. What’s even more remarkable is how beautifully he clears his front foot to create room for balls aimed at his legs. This freedom allows him to play the way he does.

That innings was nothing short of spectacular!

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

Rahul Gandhi slams Modi for hiking oil prices to "loot" the public.
PERHAPS THE REAL QUESTION SHOULD BE NOT WEATHER FUEL WAS TAXED HEAVILY BUT WHETHER THE RETURNS JUSTIFY THE BURDEN ON CONSUMERS.
1. Let's look at Delhi. The buildup of petrol price in Delhi shows that there are four components - price charged to dealers by OMCs (cost + freight multiplied by exchange rate + margins if any), excise duty charged by central govt., dealer commission charged by petrol pump owners and VAT charged by state governments. In Jan 2014 (under UPA) price charged to dealers accounted for 67% of the total pump price, excise duty 13%, dealer commission 3% and VAT 17%.
2. Now look at May 2026. You'll note that the build up of petrol prices (price charged to Dealers by OMC + Excise + pump owners commission + VAT) is strikingly same as UPA years.

3. Let's look at where the monies realised from excise went.
From May 2014 (under NDA) to July 2019, the NDA increased excise duty on petrol to keep the prices constant and did not pass on the benefit of crude oil price reduction to consumers, instead using these funds for funding welfare schemes and capex.
4. As you can see from table below spend on CAPEX has increased 250% since UPA.
5. GOI has spent Rs. 65.5 lakh crore on capex in last 12 years and another Rs. 23.3 lakh crore on pet schemes of PM Modi like Ujjwala, Awas Yojana, Jal Jivan, Kisan Nidhi, Ayushman etc while continuing old schemes like NREGA and Gram Sadak Yojana. Together GOI has spent Rs. 88.8 lakh crore on these schemes and capex in the last 12 years.
6. Of this Rs 88.8 lakh crore a whopping 34% or Rs. 30.4 lakh crore has been funded by excise duty on fuel collections.
7. To a lesser extent excise also helped OMCs in India to maintain healthy balance sheets. Remember that NDA inherited distressed OMCs and repaid to them Rs 3.23 lakh crore in UPA-era oil bonds,
8. This shows that the policy of GOI to collect excise duty improved state capacity and fiscal resources.
9. NET, NET A GOOD THING.

[Sai Deepak J @jsaideepak]

1. Just got off a call with @UnSubtleDesi. I couldn't be happier for her and both of us couldn't help but discuss the harrowing days of post poll violence in West Bengal in 2021. So I am going to share what happened five years ago just so ppl know what happened. #WestBengal2026.

[Kapil Mishra @KapilMishra_IND]

मै अमित शाह हूं......बंगाल से टीएमसी को उखाड़ फेंकने आया हूं ...... दिसंबर 2014 को कोलकाता की एक रैली की एक क्लिप। @AmitShah

[Nupur J Sharma @UnSubtleDesi]

Tomorrow will either spell either retribution or doom for Hindus of Bengal.

As I anxiously wait, I pray for retribution. I pray for civilisational revival. I pray for the end of modern Mughals. I pray that every drop of Hindu blood, every tear, every painful scream is answered for. I pray for the dawn of a new era. I pray for the soul of Bengal to be saved.

Most of all, I pray for revenge. I pray for TMC’s end. I pray they cry in agony, in defeat, in pain and in unbridled pain.

I pray they’re banished to the depths of hell.

I pray for revenge, nay, I pray for vengeance.

I pray for glory to Lord Ram.

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

@muglikar_ 172

[AdityaVarma @AdityaVarma45_]

Video of 9 years old Vaibhav Suryavanshi during the lockdown.

It's all about the Hardwork & Passion. 🔥

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

Good watch

[Anand Ranganathan @ARanganathan72]

I was ordered by @Lenskart_com to cut my shikha and remove my tilak. When I refused to do so, I was fired. - Zeel Soghasia

This is blatant discrimination and bigotry that goes beyond adhering to some internal memo. Mr Soghasia must be recalled and reinstated. @peyushbansal

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

@gurgaonpolice @cmohry Every night between 11:30 pm to 12:15 am, a miscreant with loud noise bullet rams through residential lane of prime Ardee city sec 52 (gate 1) and creates hooliganism. This is unbearable.request action. Sharing video captured.

[Pranav Kumar @PranavdceKumar]

@gurgaonpolice @police_haryana every night between 11:30 to 12:15 am, a miscreant with modified bike (loud noise) runs through residential lane of ardee city, sec 52 (gate no 1 to straight road inside). Bike has no number plate. This is harassment. Video below. Pls take action

[Rudy Havenstein, Senior Markets Commentator. @RudyHavenstein]

Oh boy.

[Rajinikanth @rajinikanth]

What a film … #Dhurandhar2‌ !!! Aditya Dhar 🫡 box office -ka baap !!! Many congratulations to Ranveer and the entire cast and crew. A must watch film for every indian. Jai hind 🇮🇳
@AdityaDharFilms
@RanveerOfficial

[Laura Loomer @LauraLoomer]

.@sardesairajdeep you attacked me today during my panel at the @indiatoday Conclave, and you accused me of “racism” and “Islamophobia” for speaking the truth about Islam.

How can you accuse me of being racist when 10 days ago, you had no problem allowing for Islamic jihadist and Muslim Brotherhood mouthpiece @mehdirhasan to come on your show even though he has referred to non-Muslims as “animals and cattle”?

Here is the video of Mehdi Hasan calling non-Muslims animals and cattle. 👇🏻

Do you think Hindus are Kaffir like Mehdi does?

@sardesairajdeep, It appears to me that you are an Islamic sympathizer. Even worse, Mehdi previously said he wants to see more planes crash in America.

Did you ambush him and ask him to apologize for calling for acts of Islamic terrorism with planes in America? Or do you only raise your voice at women, the same way Muslim men speak to women?

Why did you allow this jihadi who has been condemned by the Trump administration for supporting jihad to come on your show?

Double standard! It’s time for you to stop siding with those who wish to kill you in the name of Islam.

Also, I’m not going to take advice from a man who has been begging @ZohranKMamdani the Jihadi Ugandan to come on his show. Mamdani is a communist.

Are you a communist?

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Revenge in Middle Eastern cultures (both Sunni and Shiite) is deeply embedded. By assassinating Iran’s supreme leader, Trump and Netanyahu have made their regime-change military mission more complicated and challenging.

Ayatollah Khamenei’s killing has created a volatile moment that taps directly into Shiite concepts of martyrdom and resistance. In Shiite political culture, the killing of a supreme leader by foreign forces is immediately filtered through the Ashura narrative — the martyrdom of Imam Hussein at Karbala. What might otherwise have been a leadership decapitation is thus recast as sacred sacrifice.

By declaring 40 days of national mourning and framing Khamenei’s death as shahadat (martyrdom), the regime invokes the principle of mazloumiat — the virtue of being the oppressed party. Mourning becomes mobilization. The blood of the martyr demands justice. Tehran is seeking to transform public grief into a binding “blood debt.” Dissent can now be branded complicity with the killers of the supreme leader.

This dynamic complicates any hope of rapid regime collapse. Rather than weakening the system, decapitation risks militarizing it. After Khamenei’s death, Iran could drift toward a more explicit military theocracy.

Regime change depends on delegitimizing the ruling order in the eyes of its own people. But by unleashing the revenge factor, Trump and Netanyahu have shortsightedly handed Tehran a unifying grievance powerful enough to override internal fractures. Instead of accelerating collapse, the strike risks consolidating the regime.

The outcome in Iran, however, will ultimately hinge on which force proves stronger: the regime’s weaponization of martyrdom or the public’s exhaustion of ideological rule.