Prateek Rastogi

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

We are definitely the only country in the world where people die in stampedes so often and still no corrective change ever happens.

Puja pandals, Kumbh mela, or even railway stations - this mass-murder technique funded by government and administrative apathy, covered-up by a criminally pliable news media, and accepted by a tired, oppressed public is a wonder possible only in the greatest civilisation on the planet.

Prayers for the departed souls in the Kolkata tragedy. Sadly that’s all most leaders will also do and move on.

[Harmeet Kaur K 🇮🇳 @iamharmeetK]

Just see closely.. the police officer whispered something in the ear's of this RSS goon and then he ran towards camera to shut down his gundagardi being caught in camera

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Dear Indians,

If there's one thing you do today, make it this.

Find the man in the brown shirt, who is beating a child in this video.

Make him famous. 😡

[Narundar @NarundarM]

Forget the public’s votes.

Even 2 out of 3 Election Commissioners' votes got stolen.

[Ritika Chopra @RitikaChopra__]

Yesterday, @IndianExpress reported an unprecedented rupture inside the Election Commission: TWO of its three members objecting on record, 14 times in 10 months, to decisions taken without their knowledge.

Today, the second part of our investigation looks at the concern Election Commissioners Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi flagged most often: Who really controls our electoral rolls?

We followed that question to Goa, where we found something deeply concerning.

Stay with me....
(1/14) 🧵

[Sann @san_x_m]

In 1986 a young forest officer did something nobody else ever managed.

He arrested Veerappan.

Veerappan escaped. 5 years later he sent the officer a message. He said he was ready to surrender, but only to him, and only if he came alone and unarmed.

He went.

His name was Pandillapalli Srinivas.

He was an officer of the Indian Forest Service in Karnataka, posted in the forests on the border with Tamil Nadu. Those forests belonged, in practice, to one man.

Veerappan was wanted for killing about 200 elephants for their ivory and smuggling around 10,000 tonnes of sandalwood. He had killed forest officers and policemen. The villages around the forest protected him, some out of fear and some because nobody from the government had ever done anything for them.

Srinivas decided that was the real problem.

So instead of only hunting Veerappan, he went into the villages. He built roads. He brought drinking water to tribal settlements. He started a mobile dispensary. He built more than 40 houses for homeless families, paying for them out of his own salary. He talked more than 100 of Veerappan's men into giving up and coming back to ordinary life.

He built a temple in Gopinatham, Veerappan's own village.

He was the first officer those villagers had ever trusted.

On 9th November 1991 a wireless message reached him. Veerappan wanted to surrender. The condition was that Srinivas must come personally, without guards, without a weapon, with a few villagers Veerappan had named.

Other officers warned him not to go. Veerappan's own brother had come to him, told him Veerappan had given up his gun, and convinced him it was real.

Srinivas believed people could change. He had watched more than 100 of them do it.

The next morning, 10th November 1991, he walked into the forest near Gopinatham.

He was shot. Then his head was cut off. It was never found.

He was 37.

In January 1992 India gave him the Kirti Chakra, the second highest award for bravery in peacetime. His mother went to receive it.

Veerappan was finally killed by the police in 2004, 13 years later.

The villagers of Gopinatham still pray every day at the temple Srinivas built for them. The forest department restored the jeep he used to drive, and keeps it in a museum at Kollegal.

He tried to end Veerappan's power by giving the people around him a reason to trust someone else.

Veerappan understood that was more dangerous to him than any gun.

[Sann @san_x_m]

In 2002 a woman living inside one of the most powerful religious organisations in north India wrote an anonymous letter.

She said the man at the top was raping his female followers.

Every big newspaper refused to print it. A man who ran a small evening paper in Sirsa printed it.

His name was Ram Chander Chhatrapati.

He was 53. His paper was called Poora Sach, which means the whole truth. It was a local Hindi evening daily, a few pages, in the same town as the headquarters of Dera Sacha Sauda.

The head of that Dera was Gurmeet Ram Rahim Singh. He had millions of followers. Politicians visited him before elections.

On 31st May 2002, Poora Sach published the letter.

The threats started almost immediately. He kept publishing.

On 23rd October 2002 he ran another report on the sexual exploitation of women at the Dera.

The next evening, 24th October, 2 men came to his house on a scooter and shot him 4 times from close range.

He died of his injuries on 21st November, in a hospital in Delhi. Most national newspapers barely noticed.

His son Anshul was a young man. He went to court and asked for the case to be taken away from the local police and given to the CBI. The High Court agreed.

Then came 16 years.

In August 2017 Ram Rahim was convicted of raping 2 of his followers and sentenced to 20 years. His followers rioted across Haryana and Punjab. People died.

In January 2019, a special CBI court in Panchkula convicted Ram Rahim and 3 others of Chhatrapati's murder and sentenced them all to life. His former driver had testified that he heard Ram Rahim order it.

Anshul said afterwards that they had been waiting 16 or 17 years, and that they had suffered a great deal because the man they were fighting was so powerful.

That should have been the end. It was not.

On 7th March 2026, the Punjab and Haryana High Court acquitted Ram Rahim in the murder case. It upheld the life sentences of the 3 other men, including the man who fired the shots.

So the people who pulled the trigger are guilty. The court did not find it proved who sent them.

Ram Rahim is still in prison, serving his sentence for rape.

Anshul has taken the case to the Supreme Court. In August 2026 the court issued notice to Ram Rahim.

He has been fighting it since he was a young man. He is still fighting it.

His father printed one letter that nobody else would touch. Everything that happened to Ram Rahim afterwards began with that page.

[Gurgaon LIVE! @gurgaon_live]

In 2026, if we have to hide our places in the national capital from BRICS dignitaries and foreign media, it speaks volumes about the city's governance.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Have known Dev since our college days. He is truly a gem of a person- calm, composed, and not easily provoked. While I understand the frustrations with the media house he works for, there is no justification whatsoever for attempting to mob-lynch a journalist. An unruly crowd will only damage the credibility of the movement. @Cockroachisback
@abhijeet_dipke

[Saurabh @sauravyadav1133]

समदीश ने कल पत्रकारिता भी की है जागरुक नागरिक होने का धर्म भी निभाया है...

[Pooja @POOJA_VOF]

मैं तो इसे मजाकिया समझी ये तो बहुत सीरियस आदमी निकला !

वाह समधीश भाई !

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

. @DCPNewDelhi @DelhiPolice आपने चुन चुन कर ऐसे वहशी लोगों को उतारा था? छोटे से बच्चे को थप्पड़? और बीजेपी नेता कह रहे हैं...बाहर से लोग थे?

[Satish Acharya @satishacharya]

Who are these 'lathiveers' without uniform, who were beating students? If they are policemen, the police dept should reveal identity.
If they're not, they should be identified too and the nation should know who authorised them.

[News Pinch @TheNewspinch]

वो चिल्लाकर झूठ को सच बताएँगे,आप शांति से सच पहुंचा देना.
हिंसा का वीडियो सबसे पहले हमने दिखाया,हमारा ही वीडियो सब लगा रहे हैं,मगर वो सिर्फ हिंसा दिखा रहे हैं,शांतिपूर्ण प्रदर्शन को तो वो सुबह से नहीं दिखा रहे.

हमारी क्षमता कम हो सकती है,मगर आपकी नहीं. पहुंचा दीजिए इस सच को घर-घर तक.

थोड़ी देर में विस्तृत रिपोर्ट, न्यूज़ पिंच के YouTube पर

@Abhinav_Pan @Saurabh_Pinch @vinay_sultan

[Amit Kumar Sindhi @AMIT_GUJJU]

YouTuber Samdish Bhatia was also present at the CJP protest and the Sansad march today.

He was standing among the protesters when the police moved in, and he appeared to be hit with a couple of lathi blows on his backside.

He's usually seen laughing and joking, but after those lathi blows, he looked furious and was clearly fuming. 😭😹👇

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

एक देशव्यापी परीक्षा के पेपर लीक होने पर किसी भी लिहाज वाले इंसान को ख़ुद ही इस्तीफ़ा देना चाहिए था। यहाँ बच्चे दुख में मर गए, महीनों से गुहार चल रही कि दफ़ा हो।

ऐसी क्या ख़ानदानी संपत्ति माँग ली कि बच्चों पे लाठी-गोली चला रहे हो? जिस जनता ने कुर्सी दी है वही कह रही कि उतर जाओ।

[Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee]

Lesson for Narendra Modi:

Kisi ko itna bhi mat darao ki sara darr khatam ho jaye

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

Modern life has tricked us into thinking travel is good.

It's kind of barbaric for the body.

Last time I went to Asia we measured my biomarkers.

The data was bad…

+ 9 days for blood glucose stability
+ 9 days to re-entrain my circadian rhythm
+ 18 days for sleep architecture recovery

The research:
+ people who travel constantly for work (3+ wks a month) have measurably more anxiety, depression, and drinking problems than people who don’t
+ repeated jet lag is linked to memory-region shrinkage in flight crews
+ your immune system takes a hit. Dry cabin air dries out mucous membranes that block infection which can leave you more exposed to getting sick

This is intuitive because the body runs on a clock. Biological processes kicked off by another, with sleep + sun running the show.

Cabin altitude is ~7,000 ft. Hypoxia alone disrupts cortisol and suppresses nocturnal melatonin for hours after you land. Cabin humidity drops as low as 5% (drier than the Sahara).

If you’re budgeting your international trips: I’d suggest no more than once every 3 months. Evidence shows you need ~1 day per time zone to re-entrain, and east is worse than west.

Once Kate gets back she’s starting the female protocol. This also means she can’t travel internationally for at least a few months while we collect baseline measurement.

The body understands time zone changes as trauma.

I hope that this is my last international trip for a very long time.

[Abhishek Kothari 🇮🇳 @kothariabhishek]

#Whatsappforward

🚨 Cost of Living in India: 2010 vs 2026

1 Litre Amul Milk: ₹22 (2010) → ₹70 (2026) = +200%
1 Kg Rice (standard): ₹20 (2010) → ₹56 (2026) = +180%
1 Litre Petrol (Delhi): ₹47.93 (2010) → ₹98.64 (2026) = +106%
1 Kg Onion (avg): ₹13 (2010) → ₹40 (2026) = +208%
Mumbai 1BHK rent (suburb): ₹10,000 (2010) → ₹32,000 (2026) = +220%
Movie Ticket (multiplex): ₹120 (2010) → ₹350 (2026) = +192%
Monthly Grocery Bill: ₹3,500 (2010) → ₹10,000 (2026) = +186%
Private School fees/year: ₹40,000 (2010) → ₹1,80,000 (2026) = +350%
Hospital Consultation fee: ₹150 (2010) → ₹900 (2026) = +500%

But one thing got Cheaper:
Mobile data: ₹250/GB (2012) → ₹12/GB (2026) = 95% cheaper ✅

*₹100 in 2010 = ₹38 worth of purchasing power in 2026.*

Your money lost 62% of its value in 16 years.

Source: MoSPI CPI data | RBI historical prices | Numbeo India May 2026 | PPAC fuel data

[Krishna Kant @kkjourno]

इस वीरतापूर्ण क्रूरता को प्रणाम कीजिए

यूपी के मथुरा में एक दारोगा जी एक बित्ता भर के बच्चे को चोरी के आरोप में कॉलर पकड़कर खसीटे लिए जा रहे थे।

आशीष श्रीवास्तव नाम के एक युवक ने दारोगा जी को टोक दिया कि साहेब बच्चे को इस तरह क्यों खींचकर ले जा रहे हो?

दरोगा जी आहत हो गए। युवक को बलभर थपड़ियाया। उसे भी खींचते हुए चौकी ले गए और जमकर पिटाई की।

जिस देश में नेता दिन भर 'जिंदा गाड़ देंगे', 'उल्टा टांग देंगे', 'खाल खींच लेंगे' जैसी भाषा बोलते हों, वहां एक दारोगा से आप इससे ज्यादा की उम्मीद क्या कर सकते हैं?

कुएं में ही भांग पड़ी है। एक लोटा पानी निकालकर छान लेने से कुछ नहीं होगा। कुआं साफ करना होगा। वरना आज ये बच्चे हैं। कल आपके बच्चे होंगे। आज आशीष है, कल आप होंगे।

वीडियो & सूचना - @JtrahulSaini