Rithwik Shinkar

Passionate for bringing about a change!

[Rithwik Shinkar @rithwik_shinkar]

Give me a few years, I've got some big plans!

[Pratik S Patil @Liberal_India1]

महाराष्ट्रातील कंत्राटदारांची हजारो कोटींची बिले थकीत आहेत.

कामे करून घेतली, पण पैसे देताना सरकारकडे उत्तर नाही!

कंत्राटदारांच्या या गंभीर प्रश्नावर राहुल गांधींनी त्यांची भेट घेऊन थकीत बिलांचा मुद्दा पुन्हा ऐरणीवर आणला आहे.

[Vidit Gujrathi @viditchess]

We won the Silver🥈medal at the Chess Olympiad 2026!

We hoped for Gold, but happy with the achievement, as we gave it all & at the end that’s what matters.

Proud of the boys for fighting hard in each and every single game. ♥️🇮🇳

[Krishna Tupe @krishna_tupe]

A new Polity teacher is in the market.

Nicely explained.
#UPSC

[Peri Peri @moreofprish]

men and their obsession to beat google maps timing

[Anand Mangnale @FightAnand]

Chronology. Because @AmitShah loves a good chronology.
American citizen @Matt_VanDyke was caught illegally in India after an arms training in Myanmar.
@NIA_India accused him of terrorist charges. The plan was to swap him for Nikhil Gupta quietly. (The chap who was caught in attempt to kill Pannun in US.)
@USAmbIndia meets Foreign secretary.
So NIA does not chargesheet him under UAPA. NIA court grants default bail. Passports returned He is allowed to leave for 1 month 😂

So swap got cancelled. Did India atleast get assurance that the US Nikhil Gupta case is handled lightly or the evidence of the massive Fck up involving RAW & Doval isn’t made public? Atleast that?

Did Modi get something out of it? Or just again bending to US will.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

India the Perennial Soft State

The decision to let American covert operative Matthew VanDyke and six Ukrainian drone specialists quietly leave India is more than an isolated legal reversal. It belongs to a long and uncomfortable tradition in which New Delhi invokes its tough criminal laws and then retreats when geopolitical pressure builds up.

VanDyke, a veteran of covert wars in the Middle East and Ukraine, was arrested in March alongside six military-trained Ukrainian partners. According to Indian court filings, the group belonged to a larger international network that smuggled drones into India before routing them onward to Myanmar. The National Investigation Agency initially invoked the Unlawful Activities (Prevention) Act, India’s premier anti-terrorism statute.

Then came the dramatic climbdown. After U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio personally raised VanDyke’s detention with New Delhi, the NIA dropped the UAPA charges. VanDyke and all six Ukrainians have now been released on bail and permitted to return home.

The episode recalls a familiar pattern. From the Bhopal gas disaster and the Purulia arms-drop affair to the Enrica Lexie Italian-marines case and Ottavio Quattrocchi’s escape in the Bofors scandal, India has repeatedly seen high-profile criminal proceedings against foreign nationals or entities diluted, abandoned or rendered inconsequential under diplomatic or strategic pressure.

Different cases, different Indian governments, but the same question endures: What makes India such a soft state that it so often fails to enforce accountability when powerful foreign interests are involved?

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

A swaggering bully: By giving Xi Jinping a king's welcome, Trump validates his critics' charge that he appeases dictators, including America's adversaries, while bullying America's friends. He prizes dominance, treating leaders he sees as weak with aggression and extracting concessions from them. Yet he shows respect to a country willing to pay him in the same coin.

[GT Atas @GodstimeAtas]

Xi Jinping is the only world leader who was personally received by Donald Trump. It made me understand why Nicolo Machiavelli said "It's better to be feared than to be loved".

[Nikhil Kamath @nikhilkamathcio]

The test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function.” — F. Scott Fitzgerald

The internet increasingly rewards the angrier, louder side, the more certain-sounding side, often the stupider side.

Maybe intelligence is being able to understand why the other side believes what it believes.

Introducing WTF: Discourse.

Two opposing ideas. Two people who actually believe them. No winner. Just the strongest version of both arguments.

You decide what you believe.

[The Math Flow @TheMathFlow]

Solving a Rubik's Cube with graph theory.

[Nishanth M @NishanthNature]

Mangaloreans since independence did everything right. They built an airport, ports, roads, hospitals, universities & businesses for Mlore city that could compete with any big city. But they started to make mistakes after 1992. That is they began to vote for BJP!

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

नंदीग्राम उपचुनाव के लिए कांग्रेस उम्मीदवार मिलन प्रधान की गिरफ्तारी कोई संयोग नहीं, राजनीतिक प्रतिशोध है - लोकतंत्र की हत्या है।

BJP का निष्पक्ष चुनाव में भरोसा ही नहीं - इसलिए कभी वोट चोरी, कभी सरकार चोरी और कभी पार्टी चोरी से सत्ता बचाना चाहती है।

वो चुनाव नहीं लड़ना चाहते, चुनावी मुकाबला ही खत्म कर देना चाहते हैं।

कांग्रेस न डरेगी, न झुकेगी।
हम लड़ेंगे भी, जीतेंगे भी।

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

पहले शिवसेना, फिर NCP और अब तृणमूल कांग्रेस।

हर बार एक ही पैटर्न - BJP और चुनाव आयोग मिलकर एक पार्टी को तोड़ते हैं। फिर उसका चुनाव चिन्ह छीन लिया जाता है।

जब पूरी की पूरी पार्टी चोरी हो सकती है, तो करोड़ों भारतीयों के वोट चोरी होना भी हैरानी की बात नहीं।

वोट चोरी। सरकार चोरी। अब पार्टी चोरी - ये हमारे लोकतांत्रिक पतन के प्रतीक बन गए हैं।

ECI की संवैधानिक ज़िम्मेदारी जनादेश की रक्षा करना है - मगर उल्टा वो उन ताकतों की मदद कर रहा है, जो जनता के फैसले को ही पलट देते हैं।

यह लड़ाई सिर्फ़ ममता बनर्जी जी की नहीं है। यह हर राजनीतिक दल, हर मतदाता की लड़ाई है जो स्वतंत्र और निष्पक्ष चुनाव चाहता है।

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

True.

[The Cinéprism @TheCineprism]

Happy Birthday Anurag Kashyap

[Azad Singh Rathore @AzadBarmer]

The 80’s vibe is back!

[Rashmi Puranik @Marathi_rash]

काँग्रेस विधिमंडळ नेते विजय वडेट्टीवार यांनी युवक काँग्रेस अध्यक्ष शिवराज मोरे यांची नागपुरात रुग्णालयात जाऊन भेट घेतली...झालेल्या मारहाणीबाबत विचारपूस केली! #काँग्रेस

[Tai Lopez @tailopez]

Marcus Aurelius was right, the moment you are disturbed by insult or pleased by praise, you are still a slave.

[Pratik S Patil @Liberal_India1]

पुणेकर पुणेकर.... आहेत कुठे पुणेकर??

बाबा कल्याणी- भारत Forge चि स्थापना
राहुल बजाज- बजाज ऑटो चि पुण्यात स्थापना
पूनावाला- Resources अणि मोठी नामांकित कंपनी पुण्यात उभारली
अनु आगा - Thermax चि पुण्यात स्थापना

प्रमोद चौधरी- Praj Industry पुण्यात सुरू केली

हे सगळे मूळचे पुणेकर नाहीत..

सुरेश कलमाडी ज्यानी पुण्यावर अक्षरशः राज केले ते मूळचे पुणेकर नाहीत

MIT चि स्थापना करणारे कराड पुणेकर नाहीत

भारती विद्यापीठ चे पतंगराव कदम पुणेकर नाहीत

पुष्कळ नावे सांगता येतील. अशी माणसं ज्यानी पुण्याच्या लौकिकात अणि समृद्धी मध्ये मोलाचा वाटा उचलला...

लोकमान्य टिळक देखील रत्नागिरीतील पण गणेश उत्सव त्यांनी पुण्यात सुरू केला....

असो... समजलं तर ठीक....

[Saurabh Bharadwaj @Saurabh_MLAgk]

Unbelievable

Raghav Chaddha might lose his Rajya Sabha because his vote got deleted in SIR.

And @IndianExpress reporter got a tip-off that Raghav Chadha’s name was being added in the back date in Delhi’s voter list.

When Indian Express asked this from ECI officials , this back channel process was immediately halted.

However , Mr Raj Kamal Jha, the editor of Indian Express used his veto to drop this main part of the story. This was a major allegation that it was being tried that his name gets added into voter list in the back date. And it’s a crime to do manipulation in sacrosanct voter list.

Mr @rajkamaljha Is this not a shame for the legacy of newspaper like Indian Express ?