In 2023, the University of Madras hiked the PhD thesis submission fee from ₹100 to ₹25,000 for full-time scholars. I asked under RTI who approved it.
It took three years, two appeals and REPEATED DIRECTIONS from the State Information Commission to get an answer. Here is what that answer exposes. #MadrasUniversity 1/9
నేనె ఈ ఉర్వినెల్ల శాశించవలదె
నేనె ఐశ్వర్యమెల్ల సాధించవలదె
నేనె మన బంధుహితులకు ఘనతలన్ని కట్టతెచ్చిన ఘనకీర్తి కొట్టవలదె...
That SVR introduction. Na Bhotho, Na Bhavishyath ! But the GOAT scene follows after that, when Subhadra devi holds the bow!
అఖిల రాక్షస మంత్ర తంత్ర అతిశయముననుచు,
శ్రీ కృష్ణ సోదరి నగుదునేని,
దివ్య శస్త్రాస్త్ర మహిమల తేజరిల్లు,
అనఘ అర్జును పత్నినే యగుదునేని 🔥🔥
This parody will never go out of style. It will return every Holi and Diwali, and every other Hindu occasion when the LeLis try to send the community on a guilt trip!
Listen to Tavleen Singh exposing Sonia Gandhi and the Lavasa smart city project, promoted by industrialist Ajit Gulabchand.
How many opportunities for India’s progress were lost during Congress regime And who was accountable?
Kochi Mercedes Benz Crash: Kerala Court refuses to cancel the bail granted to the 17-year-old accused in the case.
The court dismissed the appeals preferred by the State as well as the victim's family.
Your sleepy town produced the Bhatkal brothers - Riyaz, Iqbal, and Yasin - formed the core leadership of the Indian Mujahideen, orchestrating urban serial blasts across India from 2006 to 2013. Following Yasin’s 2013 arrest and NIA crackdowns, the terror network was neutralised.
I promised to investigate judicial corruption and impropriety
Here is the first part
Kashmir hotels, a Dubai-based businessman called Sahul Agarwal, and Justice Sanjay Kishan Kaul: What lies behind a web of commercial deals and payments
https://t.co/rkx6aunwnt
@HYDTP@Ferrari_Monk@CYBTRAFFIC According to Section 177 of the Motor Vehicles Act, general rule violations carry a penalty of ₹100 to ₹200 for the first offense, which increases to ₹500 for any second or subsequent offense.
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There is a Telugu movie where Brahmanandam celebrates festivals on random unrelated days and gets thrashed by neighbours for his inanities.
https://t.co/jc88TWAf5I
At the end of the day, even @priyankagandhi knows that her grandfather's name will bring in the Gandhi connect and maybe, a few votes.
It's a different matter that Feroze Gandhi was thrown out of the Nehru household, but his last name was usurped by the Nehru dynasty.
Now, Rehan Vadra drops his father's name - and adds on his grandfather's name and great grandfather's second name.
Wonder what happened to the ghar jamai Robert Vadra? Is history repeating itself, a la Feroze Gandhi?
Fake name. Secret meetings. Compromising videos. Blackmail followed by sudden gifts and affection.
@swati_gs breaks down the exact pattern predators use to trap girls and cut them off from their families.
India is probably the only country where a govt babu, whose department was directly responsible for mixing of water and sewage that resulted in the death of 30 innocent citizens, not only will not be punished but actually promoted, but the CEO of a private company, who doesn't have direct control over a factory where 2 workers tragically died, will be arrested immediately and sent to trial
An Indian eye-surgery book vanished from China. Korea kept part of it.
The operation was cataract couching: a needle goes in beside the white of the eye and pushes the clouded lens out of the way. The Sushruta Samhita describes the Indian procedure.
By the Tang dynasty it was in Chinese medicine, taught under the name of one book, the Longshu pusa yanlun, "Bodhisattva Nagarjuna's eye treatise".
In 752 Wang Tao's Waitai miyao already quotes an older Indian treatise on the eye.
Then the trail breaks. The original Longshu book was not handed down in China. A large part of it was copied into Korea's great medical compendium Uibang yuchwi, compiled under King Sejong in 1445.
It has 8 sections and 30 eye diseases. It names heat and wind as main causes. It says the cataract forms when poison and heat gather in the brain and the eye's "oil" runs down over the pupil.
And it gives the golden-needle method step by step, to be done only when the film has hardened "like white jade".
Korean scholars Kim and Kang call it a record of Indian medical ideas already lost in China.
An operation travelled from India to China. The Chinese copies of the book were lost. A Korean encyclopedia kept the text. 🙏🙏
Sources: Wang Tao, Waitai miyao (752); Yi fang lei ju vol. 64 (Joseon); Kim & Kang, Korean J. Med. Hist. 22(1), 2013; Deshpande, Bull. SOAS (1999)
Photo 1: Cataract couching in India (painting, undated). Wellcome Library, London, CC BY 4.0
Photo 2: Uibang yuchwi, volume 201 cover (Joseon, 1477 per Commons). Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons