Rohith

மனிதம் தாண்டி புனிதம் இல்லை இதயம் தாண்டி இறைவன் இல்லை ✨

[silly guy @holedonor]

VERY obsessed with the video of him being found

[Nihal @behalnihal]

how it feels to be extremely self aware but still repeat the same self destructive patterns

[Quinn The GM @quinnthegm]

"Game of Thrones Season 8 acted as a conclusion to the incredibly popular adaptation and aired in 2019."

"…That's it? As a Game of Thrones fan and ASOIAF reader, that's the breadth of your opinion on the ending of Game of Thrones?"

[DUNE @dunemovie]

Secure your path, seal your fate. Tickets are on sale now for Dune Insiders in all IMAX and premium large format screenings. Get yours now: https://t.co/IRn1Ta5mtp

[suki 🪷 cr: adwd @skoopaaa]

TAKE ME HOME 😭😭😭

[⊹ @bforesuns]

walkuationship

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Modi ji, look at what your NTA has just done.

UGC-NET exams for Sociology, English and Commerce were held between 22 and 30 June. Nearly two months later, NTA has cancelled all three because it set faulty papers and repeated old questions.

Thousands of candidates who prepared for years, filled forms, paid the fees, travelled to distant centres, must now do it all again in September. NTA makes the mistake but the student serves the sentence.

I said this in Kota, in Dehradun, in Prayagraj, and I will keep saying it - this is no longer an education system. It is an extraction machine. It takes your money, your years, your mental health, and your confidence and returns nothing. Not even a job.

NTA still won’t answer the real question - were these papers leaked before the exam?

Just like every other arm of the Modi government, NTA never says it’s their fault. Just like every other compromised paper, I am absolutely sure there will be no accountability.

Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation was the first step, not the last. NTA’s leadership must be held accountable too.

To every student sitting this exam again in September - you are not the problem. PM Modi built a system that cannot run an exam and then blames the students who take it. Your years are being stolen and we will not stop until PM Modi answers for it.

[Sudhir Srinivasan @sudhirsrinivasn]

Mannnnyyy thoughts on #VishwanathandSons (possible spoilers)
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Things happen in Vishwanath & Sons. Lots of things, in fact, but you never learn about their weight. A young woman subjects her body to pregnancy just so she can fund her education. Later, almost on a whim, she decides to give up this hard-earned education. Meanwhile, a man who seems perfectly content being single is rather quickly persuaded to get himself a child. These are momentous choices with profound ramifications, and yet, we are never truly allowed to understand their emotional significance, the marks they leave on the interior lives of these characters.

The premise itself is great: opposites attract (in age, energy level, personality type...). But I’d have especially liked to understand what it all means for Maddy (Mamitha Baiju, who I thought was great, as always). What does it mean for her to have moved on from the baby she carried, only to later be introduced to him again? What does it mean to be referred to as his 'mother', even before she's processed what this reunion means?

Initially, she seems almost detached, too cool to be true, but you can tell there's a maturity about her too (notice how she goes quiet after an important character dies). Mamitha's committed performance means that I kept getting the feeling there was more going on inside Maddy than the film let on. But unfortunately, her emotional weather seems to shift according to the needs of the film. Is her detachment self-preservation? Is it practicality? Is there buried affection? Regret? Does she truly see herself as this child’s mother at any point? Does she feel guilty about not doing so (like when she mentions in passing that she wants to stay more for Sanju than the child)? We don’t really know. And for a character who gets as much time in the film, Maddy, I thought, deserved more interest from the film.

I think one issue is that Vishwanath & Sons seems in a real hurry, and doesn't seem to trust its moments enough to stay with them. In fact, I remember feeling this right from the beginning. There’s a tiny scene in which Sanju (Suriya) walks into a bedroom and takes away a box of chocolates from his supposedly sugar-addicted mother, Mrs Nirmala (Radhika). It’s nothing, really. Just a small mother-son moment. But even here, there are too many angles, too many cuts, too much coverage, resulting in the needless visual fragmentation of a moment that could have been allowed to breathe. It ruined the immersion for me.

I feel like this restlessness isn’t merely visual in this film. It’s emotional too. You can see that whenever Vishwanath & Sons forgets about being a “family entertainer” and shows genuine interest in its people, it threatens to truly come alive. There’s that lovely passing line from Maddy when someone asks which side of the family she’s from: “Naan baby side.” I laughed. Or that solemn stretch after the death of an important character, when Sanju seems to turn into a little boy again. For a few seconds, I saw flashes of the vulnerable Suriya from films like Vaaranam Aayiram and Nandha... I saw the boy behind the man.

It’s especially affecting because Sanju, perhaps on account of his professional reputation, seems to have spent a lifetime walking around suppressing emotion. Maddy even refers to this quality in a conversation with Mrs. Nirmala. But then, the film rushes on. In a way, Sanju’s emotional reluctance is very much like the film's too, both uncomfortable with staying with a feeling.

Some of the comedy really gets in the way. Mrs Nirmala throwing her footwear at a worker, for instance. Or Sanju finally meeting this young woman who has 'rented her womb' to fund her education, only for the film to make her quip, “Enna touch pannaama pregnant aakinadhu needhaane?” You can tell that this is less Maddy saying it and more the writer trying to be clever with the situation. On paper, the women appear to be complex and strong: Maddy, Mrs Nirmala, Anjali (Raveena Tandon). And yet, save for the warmth between Maddy and Mrs Nirmala, largely thanks to two terrific actors, these women seem to operate far below their potential, stepping forward as and when required to satisfy the needs of the film.

Take the central romance itself, for instance. The film is keen to establish Sanju as a noble man who refuses to get involved with Maddy because she’s “too young”. Right, fair enough. But I wondered: wouldn’t Maddy have doubts at all? All right, perhaps her all-consuming attraction to him has something to do with losing her parents early? Perhaps she sees in this much older man a sense of security, an authority figure, a promise of stability she's never had? Perhaps that’s why that line about “responsibility” affects her as deeply as it does? But the film barely pauses to ask: is this attraction enough to give up the education for which she went through a pregnancy? Maybe it is, but can we feel it with her?

I think Vishwanath & Sons might have found compelling answers to these questions if it weren’t so unquestioningly obedient to the requirements of a commercial template. Hence the songs that struggle to organically exist (the wedding song, in particular). Hence fights that feel forced into the screenplay: first, a pervy restaurant owner; later, a vulgar rowdy with a strange enthusiasm for birthday celebrations. When it's time for a fight sequence, a stranger conveniently walks in, courting trouble.

All of this is especially frustrating because there are great ideas everywhere. There’s even a beautiful passing detail about Sanju’s stepsister hating him as a child because Sanju, through no real fault of his own, became the source of her pain. In fact, inadvertent hurt seems to be a bit of a theme in this film. The choice of Sanju’s father ends up devastating Sanju. Sanju’s decision to remain single breaks his mother. People keep hurting each other in this film without necessarily intending to. There’s a whole film in there.

But Vishwanath & Sons isn’t focussed enough, isn’t emotionally curious enough, to really investigate these patterns. Instead, we get a thoroughly needless detour to Anjali’s father’s house. Or should I say Sanju’s stepmother’s father’s house? You see the problem? Instead of spending time navigating this complex family tree, I’d rather know more about Maddy.

And perhaps that’s ultimately the problem: the film keeps doing a little more than it needs to. That whole interview sequence, designed to establish Sanju’s generosity through the story of a driver (George Maryan) and his son, seems complete, but then, a stranger in the broadcast room calls his mother because he’s supposedly moved. Later, that idea of Sanju calling himself from his mother’s phone works beautifully for a brief moment, but then, the phone gets switched off, just so we get an extremely obvious metaphor that's more thought than feeling. That idea of Sanju fulfilling his mother’s unfinished wish by handing jewellery over to his stepsister is lovely too, but then, we see the jewellery boxes plastered with 'Meghana' labels, just so it becomes more obvious.

Again and again, Vishwanath & Sons seems afraid that we might miss the point. Again and again, the film chooses width when it would have been better off going for depth.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Villagers have repeatedly complained about the school principal’s alcoholism, but senior authorities have taken no action.

If the principal is not removed by Tuesday, I will join the villagers in protest.

The school also has just two teachers for five classrooms. These issues cannot be ignored.

Limbala village, Hingoli district (15/08/2026)

[Priya Purohit @Priyaa_Purohit]

Modi looks clueless while teleprompter goes down live...🤣🤣

Vishwaguru ! 🤡

[Katie @KayTeeeOh]

To be known is to be loved

[Congress @INCIndia]

उत्तराखंड में एक बहादुर बेटी ने CM पुष्कर सिंह धामी के सामने खड़े होकर BJP सरकार के भ्रष्टाचार की पोल खोल दी।

बच्ची ने बताया 👇

मैंने ताईक्वांडो में नेशनल लेवल पर गोल्ड मेडल जीता था, लेकिन मैं इंटरनेशनल खेलने नहीं जा सकी, क्योंकि मुझसे 1.5 लाख रुपए की घूस मांगी गई।

CM धामी ने ये सुनते ही बच्ची से कहा- "अच्छा, बैठ जाओ.. कोई बात नहीं"

इसके बाद इस कार्यक्रम का Live सरकार के हर प्लेटफॉर्म से ��िलीट कर दिया गया, इसमें CM और BJP का सोशल मीडिया शामिल है।

BJP सरकार में घूसखोरी और घपलेबाजी युवाओं के सपनों को रौंद रही है।

और शिकायत करने पर खुद मुख्यमंत्री इस भ्रष्टाचार को दबाने में लगे हैं।

शर्म आनी चाहिए!

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

It does not matter what JCD Prabhakar’s personal beliefs are. That’s in his house. He holds a constitutional post.

Even Indian women have suffered in countries that deny abortion rights for women. Remember Savita Halappanavar?

The TVK govt has to explain itself. Why did its MLA go for this event?

[Neha @neha_aisa]

RSS-BJP goons throw ink at me and around 20 other women in Ranchi, Jharkhand!

For them ink is a tool to try to shame others, we will write the future with ink!

[Suresh Chandra @SureshChandraa]

#DareDevil - #AjithKumar #ShaliniAjithkumar #BraveHeartsProduction @Adhikravi @anirudhofficial @SureshChandraa @AbinandhanR @editorvijay @supremesundar #Subbhunaarayan @itsanuvardhan @kayoas13 @valentino_suren @Donechannel1 @AbdulNassarOffl @AMBANINSK
#AK64

[Suresh Chandra @SureshChandraa]

#AK64 5:41 PM

[Rahul Gandhi @RahulGandhi]

Nothing is more painful than seeing a parent grieve their child.

Behind every young life lost is a family carrying pain that will never leave them - and serious questions about a broken education system.

Leaked papers. Cancelled exams. Years of preparation destroyed overnight. Our students are told to work honestly in a system that is not honest with them.

And the Prime Minister has the audacity to speak of “forgiving” students.

He has not met a single grieving parent. He has not sat with a single student whose future was stolen by a leaked paper.

India’s students do not need his forgiveness. They are owed his apology.

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Remember the truck full of stones that appeared near the CJP protest site in Jantar Mantar?

@ImAvdheshkumar traced the vehicle with its registration number. It was not a stray truck: the Delhi Police had seized it four days earlier
https://t.co/weHmvyvYb0

[gulvinder @rebelliousdogra]

I gave them all her details. Sorry friends. Sorry Yalina 🙏

[Ashutosh Ranka @AshutoshRanka]

Dear @JPNadda @DrJitendraSingh ji,

We are observing a complete breach of the agreement regarding no police action against the protestors. Hundreds of students have been arrested in Bihar and Bengal, and hundreds are being surveilled/harrassed in Delhi and other states. Multiple reports are emerging in Delhi around detention of volunteers supporting protestors with logistics.

We demand that all the FIRs against the protestors be immediately withdrawn, students be released and no future FIRs be filed (in line with our agreement) by Delhi police / Central investigative agencies / Police in BJP-allied states, FAILING WHICH WE WILL BE FORCED TO SIT ON PROTEST AGAIN.

We also demand that the written agreement around legal cases be shared with us by tomorrow, the aligned timelines with the Government of India.