Raman Sehgal رمن سہگل

[Raman Sehgal رمن سہگل @ramansehgal]

@anandmahindra 💯

Don't ever.. EVER... mess with their Maa-Pyos & siblings either 💪🇮🇳
Unsolicited advice to all greedy politicians/corporate houses.

#farmersprotest #KisanMajdoorEktaZindabaad #FarmersProtest2024 #FarmersProtest2 #Battle4MSP
#Justice4LakhimpurFarmers #isupportfarmers

[Alok Sharma @Aloksharmaaicc]

When Nehru became PM, India had nothing, we were struggling for food, our budget was only ₹500 Cr

Still he built ISRO, IITs, IIMs & the entire India from scratch

There can never be second Nehru

— Major Gen CS Dhawan 🫡🔥

[Boris Becker @TheBorisBecker]

Word

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Irony just died again. The cleanest man in Indian politics did not need an SC certificate of his integrity. Instead it is those who sought to implicate him in these charges who ought to be thoroughly ashamed of themselves.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

Just heard Nirmala Sitharaman explain one of the benefits of the NEET leak and retest.
I would like to apologize for my shallow complaints as I now understand the deep ways in which government makes citizens become better.

[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

[Desi Lord @DesiLord_]

This is so inspiring to watch. ❤

This girl has been helping students at Jantar Mantar from last few days by distributing Food and Water bottles.

Today this uncle came and gave his National Badminton Medal to her to appreciate her. 💟

[Joy @Joydas]

Go watch the press conference of Rahul Gandhi. There are too many gems and great replies but this is my favourite

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

The education budget has halved under Modi and the meager amounts have also gone towards Hindutva propaganda in textbooks and syllabus. It is not about Pradhan, the destruction of modern education is Modi's personal project since 2014.

[Damn. @Theonenameddamn]

Guys, do you know what the biggest downgrade in world history is? Imagine a man who studies Economics at the University of Cambridge. He then goes on to earn a PhD from the University of Oxford. After that, he becomes a professor at Delhi University. He serves as the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India and also as the Chief Economic Advisor. He later becomes the Finance Minister of India for five years and then serves as the Prime Minister of the country for ten years.And then he's replaced by a an uneducated person. I don't know which country this is about, but if you ask me, that's the biggest downgrade in world history. The biggest downgrade.

[sunetra choudhury @sunetrac]

When systems fail, individual heroes rise. These are people who rescued people and administered CPR in the hauz rani fire . (L to R) Amir Khan, Mohd Shoaib, Wasim Raja and Mohd Afzal

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Actually am quite pleasantly surprised that all these teenagers and their parents were okay to appear in this video. That’s the kind of grit a lot of people haven’t shown. The simple act of speaking up

[Aditya Goswami @AdityaGoswami_]

Rahul Gandhi wished me on my birthday and even conveyed his condolences on hearing about my brother’s demise yesterday while no one from BJP even bothered to reach out. This clearly reflects his character, upbringing and culture.

~Captain Amarinder Singh, Former CM

[Former Congresswoman Marjorie Taylor Greene🇺🇸 @FmrRepMTG]

Imagine murdering countless innocent people in a foreign country and expecting them to be grateful you freed them from their government.

[Joy Bhattacharjya @joybhattacharj]

"He died as the victim of his own principles, the principle of non-violence. He died because in time of disorder and general irritation in his country, he refused armed protection for himself.
It was his unshakable belief that the use of force is an evil in itself, that therefore it must be avoided by those who are striving for supreme justice to his belief. With his belief in his heart and mind, he has led a great nation on to its liberation. He has demonstrated that a powerful human following can be assembled not only through the cunning game of the usual political manoeuvres and trickery but through the cogent example of a morally superior conduct of life.
The admiration for Mahatma Gandhi in all countries of the world rests on that recognition."
Albert Einstein

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

‘India should worry about Tariffs later and start worrying about Pollution first , it has far greater impact on India than any tariff’ : Gita Gopinathan, IMF

Kalli Purie of India Today had no answer, She didn’t know how to defend Modi.

Must Watch.
https://t.co/GC2P2r7Fmr

[Angana Chakrabarti @AnganaCk]

Who funds the BJP in Northeast India?

Over several months, I analysed the BJP’s donations from Assam, Arunachal Pradesh, Manipur & Tripura, tender databases and financial records of companies. A clear pattern emerged.

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@reporters_co

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

Now that the Chetwode Credo has been removed from its original place in the Army Chief’s office, what better day than the IMA POP to remind the Army Brass what Field Marshal Chetwode said to the first batch of Cadets of IMA at Dehradun on Dec 10, 1932:
“May I urge you to remember that politics do not, and cannot, find any place in Army life.
An Army can have no politics.
It is the paid servant of the people, and is at the disposal of the Government of the day, whatever may be the political complexion of that Government.
Once there is any suspicion that an Army, or any part of it, is biased politically, from that moment the Army has lost the hill confidence of the nation who pays for it.
It is no longer impartial, and that way lies chaos and civil war”.

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

From the undercount of COVID-19 deaths to the only leader in a Democracy who never faced a Press Conference and his pet media - A must watch breakdown by Prof. P Sainath. 🎥

[Raman Sehgal رمن سہگل @ramansehgal]

@Longevity_EDU Cookbook

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

Scoop: BJP made repeated attempts to delete nearly 80,000 Muslim voters in one Bihar constituency.

ECI has not acted against those trying to manipulate the voter list.

Investigation by my colleagues at @reporters_co, @ayushikar1998 and @Vishnun30

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https://t.co/Hu59G7vCEC