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Trauma, Trouble, Tumult, Travesty... Making sense of Life!

[Col Pavan Nair @pavannair]

"Withdraw provisions weakening national oversight.
• Establish a legally binding roadmap to END ALL animal experimentation.
• End breeding and trading animals for laboratory research.
• Overhaul India's 66-year-old animal cruelty legislation.
• Replace absurdly inadequate penalties with meaningful punishments.
• Invest in organ-on-chip technology, human-cell models and animal-free scientific research.
• Recognise animals as sentient beings deserving protection, not objects for human exploitation."
Would add the use of AI. Do read through. @pricatttt1 @ranidharker @harlynn_12

[Caitlin Johnstone @caitoz]

If you believe your ideology is correct, then you have a moral obligation to make it look appealing. You have a responsibility to make it look cool and fun, and to not get caught saying cringey things on viral videos that repel normal people. If you actually think your political position would be a medicine for the sickness of our world, then it is your duty to promote that position while being as interesting, charismatic, and magnetic as possible so that more people will be drawn to it. To do otherwise would be a dereliction of a serious responsibility.

[Rituparna Chatterjee @MasalaBai]

Which civilised nation's leadership buldozes bookstalls? The answer is in who is likely to be challenged if people are educated and well read

[Rums @RumsWright]

@nilanjanaroy We also have this tradition in my mother’s family! The inner strength that the scripture bestows is beyond any other

[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

🚨 IMPORTANT

We have consulted Mr. Kapil Sibal. If Ashu and Saurav are not released by tomorrow, we will pursue legal action against all those who deliberately ensured that they continue to be in illegal custody especially when they have not committed nor charged with any offence.

The deliberate use of delaying tactics to keep them behind bars cannot go unchallenged. Those responsible will be held accountable.

[Nitin Sethi @nit_set]

FactChecked: ECI claimed SIR Was to Catch ‘Infiltrators’. Amit Shah said Rahul Gandhi is protecting infiltrators. But, the commission kept no record of 'foreigners during SIR.

@ayushikar1998 dug ECI's software, filed RTIs to investigate.

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[Rums @RumsWright]

If your government was solution oriented you wouldn’t have to beg students @GovtOfIndia_

[Ministry of Education @EduMinOfIndia]

POV: Can you offer a solution to a public issue? 😎💡

Ideas loading… ⚡
Innovation unlocked… 🔓
Impact incoming… 🚀

Ready to turn your ideas into action? Let’s go! 🔥

𝗦𝗘𝗩𝗔 𝗙𝗜𝗥𝗦𝗧 𝗜𝗡𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗔𝗧𝗜𝗢𝗡 𝗖𝗛𝗔𝗟𝗟𝗘𝗡𝗚𝗘

🎯 Spot It. Solve It. Scale It.
🇮🇳 Innovate for India!

#SFIC #SevaFirst #InnovationForIndia

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

A heartfelt message by a parent, K Sharad Haksar to Neha Bora.
“When I got married, I knew I wanted only one child. And in my heart, I hoped it would be a girl.
I was blessed with a daughter.
The first time I held her, I made her a silent promise. You will never have to share my time. You will never have to wait for my attention. Whatever I have, you will get all of it.
I had seen families with four or five children. Parents running from morning to night, and still some child was always left waiting. I also felt our country has too many people, and nature is paying for it. One child felt right. It felt responsible.
For years, I never questioned it.
Then this year, I saw Neha Bora.
She is 29, a PhD student at JNU, a theatre artist from Khatima, a small town in the hills of Uttarakhand. When the NEET paper leak happened, she sat down at Jantar Mantar for students she did not even know. Children who had studied for years. Parents who had spent their savings on coaching and still lost.
She did not eat for 23 days.
She was 66 kilos when she started. She lost more than 7. Near the end, doctors were taking her blood three or four times a day.
The night I read that, I could not sleep. I kept seeing my own daughter in her place. On a hot Delhi road. Thin. Tired. A doctor holding her wrist again. And I knew I would not be able to stand there and watch. I would have begged her to stop.
But Neha did not stop until the work was done. And when it was over, she said her body had forgotten how to eat. It had to learn again, like a baby. Even then, still weak, she went to Bihar to meet more than 600 students who had been arrested. She did not go home to rest. She went to the ones who had stood by her.
I am a dowser. Every day I work with energy. I have learned that anger is heavy. It burns out fast. Nobody can live on anger for 23 days without food. Only love can carry you that far.
Then I read that her father was in the Army, and the family kept moving from one posting to the next.
My wife's father was also in the Army. I never call him my father-in-law. To me, he is simply Papa. My wife studied in 13 schools. Thirteen first days. Thirteen times walking into a class where nobody knew her name. Thirteen goodbyes to friends she never saw again. Army children learn to smile, pack their bags and start again. Nobody asks them how much it hurts. I see that strength in my wife every day. I saw it in Neha too.
In Ranchi, a man threw ink on her face and called her anti-national. She said she had already faced pellets and lathis in Delhi. Ink would not scare her.
Ink washes off. In energy work, we say that what people throw at you only stays if you take it in. She seems to know this without ever holding a pendulum.
Her family did not agree with her. There were fights at home. But during the hunger strike, her mother came to Jantar Mantar.
I don't know what they said to each other. I don't need to. I am a parent. I know what a mother feels when she sees her child weak and thin on a road, and still standing. Every argument is forgotten in that moment. All that is left is: this is my child.
Neha said she has not spoken to her father yet.
I don't know him. But I am a father too, and I know how hard it is for men like us to say some things out loud. So if he cannot say it yet, let me say it for him, from Chennai.
Beta, we are proud of you. Now go and eat something properly.
Somewhere in all this, a thought came to me that I never expected. I wish I had one more daughter. One like Neha. This takes nothing away from my own daughter. She is my world. She always will be. But Neha made me ask myself a hard question. We spend our whole lives keeping our children safe and helping them get ahead. Do we ever teach them to look back at who is being left behind? And if one day they stand up for someone else, will we stand next to them as Neha's mother did? Or will we ask them to come home and stay quiet. Our job is to protect that light, even when it scares us.

[Rums @RumsWright]

@dhankar_r Your PM, unfortunately mine too! And you are turning out to be one as well

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

"People become repositories of knowledge; in Kashmir, elders often function as living dictionaries. This is why the anthology includes translator biographies and endnotes. A translation is shaped by whom the translator consults, where the translator comes from, and how a word circulates in a particular place.

Kashmiris encounter literature throughout life. There are songs associated with birth and death, grief and celebration, sewing and other forms of labor, marriage, devotion, and domestic life. Only a small proportion of people engage with Kashmiri literature chiefly through books."

https://t.co/WAO0KNR1bl

[Tukaram Mundhe @Tukaram_IndIAS]

The most expensive part of a hospital bill may never touch the hospital at all.

A patient admitted for care has no way of knowing whether the price on a medical consumable reflects its actual cost or a markup fixed long before it ever reached the ward. That gap in information is, at its core, a public health issue.

A survey of hospital consumables in Maharashtra found an IV infusion set with a trade price of ₹11.05 carrying a printed MRP of ₹325 ; a markup of 2,841%. A syringe procured at ₹6.75 carried an MRP of ₹57.20. A catheter procured at ₹29.41 carried an MRP of ₹310.

These are not elective purchases. Patients cannot compare prices, seek alternatives, or question a number printed on a box while receiving care and the MRP itself is often fixed upstream by manufacturers and distributors, disconnected from the trade price by a wide, unexplained margin. The result is a system where the party bearing the cost has the least information to evaluate it.

The regulatory gap is structural: scheduled medicines are capped under the Drugs (Prices Control) Order, 2013. Most medical devices and consumables are not leaving both the pricing and the information around it almost entirely unmonitored.

A review of these findings and clear guidelines on the permissible gap between trade procurement price and declared MRP have been recommended to the Department of Pharmaceuticals and the NPPA ; a step toward closing not just a pricing gap, but the information gap patients are left to bear alone.

#PublicHealth #GoodGovernance #Leadership #TukaramMundhe

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[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

This is called “Atmanirbhar Consumer Economy”.

This lad just killed the myth of India being the 6th largest economy because we pay for every government failure 😇

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

Muslims face persecution for quietly offering namaz in a corner.

Kanwariyas take over the entire region. Cause nuisance. Attack a school bus. Disturb public peace and property.

Yet, are showered with flower petals.

The naked majoritarianism is disgusting to watch

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

A recent NITI Aayog report said some 94,000 government schools were closed over the past decade, an average of 25 a day, contributing to a 2.26 crore decline in government school enrolment. The government schools’ share of total enrolment has fallen from 71% in 2005 to 49.24% in 2024-25.

✍️ G. Ramakrishnan

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[Catty @CatWomaniya]

Ladki thi, isliye FIR ki dhamki de kar maafi mangwai.

Rapist hota toh maala pehna ke kandhe par baitha lete.

[Vaishna Roy @vaishnaroy]

Govt: Who danced? Who drank cold coffee? Who used cuss words? Who wore what?
Gen Z: Reform education. Redo NTA. Ban pellet guns. Withdraw FIRs against protesting students.
It is obvious to the world who is serious here and who is behaving like a particularly dim ostrich.

[Nagendar Sharma @sharmanagendar]

At the peak of Nirbhaya protests in December 2012, then Chief Justice of India late Altamas Kabir and a sitting Supreme Court lady judge Gyan Sudha Misra had given rare public statements condemning the use of force against protestors and had supported the youth who had come out to register their anguish.
Late Justice Kabir had gone to the extent of saying that he wanted to join the protests, but his position prevented him from doing so.
Justice Misra had said she was breaking the judges self-imposed code of silence since rare situations demanded extraordinary responses.
Compare it to the current students agitation, not only has the Judiciary lowered its esteem in the eyes of the country's citizens by its judicial actions, but public utterances of lordships are irreparably damaging the institution.

[Rums @RumsWright]

No point of saying #easeofdoingbusiness if it doesn’t ease citizens lives. @GovtOfIndia_ @TransportofMAHA

[Rums @RumsWright]

@rtomumbaimh01 what’s the purpose of online portals Parivahan if your office still want all documents in paper. This country will never improve!

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

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