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[Rocanrolero mundialista ⚽️🌎 @Chavoruc0nD]

Telémaco ayudando a Odiseo para recuperar Ítaca:

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

[Sharmila Regebait 🍉 @anyataylorgoy]

dharmendra pradhan kutte resign karde teri wajah se mera screen time 27 ghante ho chuka hai

[Kamal Haasan @ikamalhaasan]

We should have listened when one child cried.

Instead, we waited until far too many of our children died.

A system where coaching replaces learning, anxiety replaces curiosity, and criminality replaces merit is rotten.

A nation has failed when its children are met with barricades and batons instead of answers.

@Wangchuk66, the nation will need your conscience for the journey ahead. Please end your fast.

To the children of India: You are the best of us. You have done your duty. It is now time for the country to do its duty by you. May your dreams forever be bigger than our failures.

@cockroachisback #CJPProtest

[jolad rotti @jolad_rotti]

Perhaps Gen Z has finally found its long-elusive third space - in protest sites

[豪雪 @diesel0212]

The Veiled Monarch
#ELDENRING

[Shridhar V @iimcomic]

Celebrities giving their statements:

Education is very good. Students also very important. Exams are crucial. Youth is country’s future. I can relate, I was also youth & did college. Govt also good. Everybody great. Have dialogue. Just sort it out fast & go watch my movie soon.

[Panda @Panda_Broski]

AIR 1🗿>>>>

[Richard of the secular realm @LatFilosof]

Me reading philosopher A: ”yeah this makes total sense”

Me reading philosopher B absolutely ripping A to shreds: ”wow I can’t believe A is such an idiot”

Me reading A again: ”yeah this makes total sense”.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Man I love Republic TV. You have to keep up ❤️

[radha yadav @radhameena147]

Frustrated NDTV reporter forgot to switch off the mic on Marya Shakil's show and said “Pahle kahenge update do.. update do.. fir fake news chalwa ke kahenge fake kyu diya”

By the time he realized it was too late. 🥲

[r. @innocentguyxr]

the guy in the white shirt is literally her cameraman. bjp it cell is spreading this video everywhere. that's how fake narratives are manufactured.

[Andrew J. Salazar @AndrewJ626]

Watched THE ODYSSEY at the Chinese Theater and some people actually clapped and cheered when they successful opened the gates of Troy

[erin chack @ErinChack]

Do you ever close the messages app when the other person is typing to give them privacy

[Jacksparrow @Madhan_070]

Odysseus and his gang on every island

[Honest Cricket Lover @Honest_Cric_fan]

Wow Delhi Police Wow
Wow Modi Wow

Is there any humanity left at all?

[ज़िद्दी नागरिक @ZiddiNaagrik]

🚨 JANTAR MANTAR UPDATE

A BJP supporter brought a HIT bottle and tried to spray it near the protesters. When the police were confronted about how he was allowed to bring that bottle, the only answer was, “Will you tell me the law?”

This is the arrogance of @DelhiPolice.

@DCPNewDelhi, even a common man has the right to remind you of the law when you fail to adhere to it.

[Shivi @pewpewshivi]

Are they aiming at the students of this country ???

[Anirudh @saah_trah]

Police officers were vandalising their own vehicles to delegitimise the protest. Manufactured chaos. The lengths your own countrymen will go to ruin your future. This is the country they ask you to be proud of. Shameful.