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[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

@PalPress24 The collective soul of the world cannot take this for much longer. No amount of positive action can be enough to undo the damage Israel is causing. It's hard to think that they will ever be able to redeem themselves.

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

Is Wangchuk really as naive as he portrays himself to be? Their narrative that there are no options, nobody in politics worth allying with is such a lame response... What's their game I wonder? https://t.co/KAOA0QV338

[Tarun Gautam @TARUNspeakss]

Real face of Delhi Police

That student first joined hands, then began to take the hits. When Delhi policeman realised that body hits are not working, he hit him right in the face with the rod.

Guy dropped unconscious the very next moment. MP Renuka Chowdhury and others came for his rescue.

And CJI doesn’t have time for this

[Harshdeep Rapal @harshdeeprapal]

Hearing out Gen Z.

My father's caretaker is a 24 year old guy. Hails from Kanpur. He has done BSc Nursing and we have hired him through an agency that provides elder-care professionals at home.

Spends 12 hours at our home (8 am to 8 pm), rarely takes a leave. A very diligent guy, soft-spoken, well-read (keeps reading books from my collection) and speaks pretty fluent English.

On the morning of 20th July, he calls up and says he is not feeling well. On 21st he came, was limping a bit. Did not share what happened.

Yesterday he shared with dad that he told a lie. On 20th he had gone to Jantar-Mantar for supporting the students' protest and was hit by the police truncheon during lathi-charge. While running, lost his shoe and twisted his ankle.

Last night when I went home and was having dinner, dad told me about this. Today morning when he came I talked to him and realized what 'generation(al) gap' means.

While talking to him I realized, he was 9-10 when Anna Andolan happened. He was 10-11 when Arvind Kejriwal became the CM for the first time. He was 11-12 when BJP formed the government in 2014. The NEET aspirants are even younger than him. They were toddlers 12 years ago.

Some of the things we have lived through, are alien to him. All he has seen since he started experiencing the world is the current government and Modi as the PM. So for him, everything that he and his generation is been through in last 7-8 years since he 'grew up' - the responsibility lies with the current government.

He mentioned that there are 1000s of youngsters who have travelled from as far as Lucknow and Varanasi for these protests.

Again on being asked why? Why did he and his friends join the protest? Why these students have come so far to join the protests?

NEET exam leak was the last thing on his mind. The reasons he gave were - everything becoming expensive and unaffordable, no job opportunities, government's and police's high-headedness, corruption everywhere - and then went on to mention falling bridges, broken roads, no footpaths, stray dogs and cattle all around and dumps of garbage everywhere. He called ethanol-blending a scam.

I felt he was just waiting to burst out everything that's piled up in his mind. Glad that heard him out.

Then I realized that there are millions like him and these protests are not just about the NEET exam leak. These are the piled up frustrations finding a way out.

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

Good to see Major General Rajpal Punia of Mechanised Infantry, Yudh Seva Medal, who led an Indian Army contingent in Sierra Leone against great odds, stepping out to support the youngsters in Delhi.
Well done sir.

[Brigadier Hardeep Singh Sohi,Shaurya Chakra (R) @Hardisohi]

These two Junior Commissioned Officers have more moral courage and spine than some prominent Senior Veterans who eat and sleep on X.

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

A good friend in Delhi tells me that gurudwaras and mosques are opening their doors for students to take shelter, to rest. Which doesn't surprise me.

I also learned that temples are shutting their doors -- which, sadly, also does not surprise me

[Dhruv Rathee Satire @DhruvRatheNx]

"वर्दी सत्ता की नहीं, संविधान की होती है।"

आर्मी ऑफिसर के बीवी ने वर्दी का क्या धर्म ओर क्या फ़र्ज़ होता है ये खूबसूरत तरीके से समझाया

"आपके कंधों के सितारे ताकत नहीं, जिम्मेदारी का प्रतीक हैं। अशोक चिन्ह याद दिलाता है कि आपकी निष्ठा किसी सरकार से नहीं, संविधान और देश की जनता से है।

लाठी आवाज़ दबाने के लिए नहीं, कानून की रक्षा के लिए है। वर्दी का सम्मान उसके कपड़े से नहीं, उसे पहनने वाले के चरित्र से होता है।

वर्दी का धर्म: सेवा, संयम और संविधान।" 🇮🇳

[Scharada Dubey @scharada_d]

Looks like the Sangh won't find easy recruitment even in the families of their own leaders and members. #Inquilab

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

Completely agree. And I must add that he does everything with humour... Something andhbhakts and the low intelligence leaders of the BJP just do not get. They are incapable of laughing at themselves. Wish he was our PM.

[Sincere Dibya @TheSincereDude]

12 years of surveillance. Pegasus on his phone. IB, RAW, fake spies planted around him.

And still, not a single scandal. Not one.

They attacked his father, mother, grandmother, great-grandfather.

Dug up every ancestor. Fabricated stories. Ran a funded, coordinated smear machine for over a decade.

And the man? He just kept smiling.

No bitterness. No abuse. No revenge.

That’s not weakness, that’s a strength most politicians can’t even spell.

In a jungle full of wolves, Rahul is the only one who never became one.

That’s why. ❤️

[Parimal @Fintech03]

1 man found 3 yellow grains in the mud & spent 5 yrs protecting them from wild pigs. A trader named the result after his favorite watch brand to prove its quality, while a university stole the seeds to claim the credit. He fed millions, but worked as a daily wage laborer on his own soil. Discover the Ghost Farmer behind India's favorite thin rice.

While the world was looking at high-tech labs for the next green revolution, a school dropout named Dadaji Ramaji Khobragade was standing in his small 1.5 acre plot in Nanded, Maharashtra. While harvesting his usual Patel 3 rice, Dadaji noticed 3 yellow-seeded spikes (lomb) that looked different. Most farmers would have ignored them as impurities.

Dadaji picked those 3 spikes & stored them in a simple plastic bag. For the next 5 yrs, he painstakingly bred them in a tiny patch, protecting them from wild pigs with a fence of thorny bushes. He created a variety that was thinner, smelled better, & yielded 80% more than the conventional seeds.

Dadaji did not have a marketing team/a brand name. In 1990, a large landowner bought 150 kg of these seeds & sold the harvest to a local trader. At that time, HMT Watches were the ultimate symbol of Gold Standard & Reliability in India. The trader, who had recently bought a new HMT watch & was obsessed with it, decided to call the rice HMT Rice simply to signal that this rice was as High Quality as the watch.

The name stuck so hard that people today think HMT Rice was developed by the govt corporation (Hindustan Machine Tools), but the company had absolutely nothing to do with it!

In 1994, the Punjabrao Krishi Vidyapeeth (PKV), an agricultural university, approached Dadaji. They took 5 kg of his seeds under the pretext of experimenting. A few yrs later, the university released a new"variety called PKV-HMT. They claimed Dadaji’s original seeds were impure & that they had purified them.

They took the credit, the patents, & the glory. For yrs, the man who actually did the 5 yrs of backbreaking research was left working as a daily wage laborer on other people’s farms just to feed his family.

Dadaji Khobragade lived in poverty for decades while HMT Rice became a multi-crore industry across Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, & Chhattisgarh. It was only much later that the National Innovation Foundation (NIF) stepped in. They proved that the university’s new rice was genetically identical to Dadaji’s.

In 2010, Forbes magazine named him 1 of the most powerful Rural Entrepreneurs, & he finally received a National Award. But by then, he had already sold his own land to pay for his son’s medical treatment. Next time you eat a bowl of thin, aromatic HMT rice, remember it is not the product of a sanitized government lab. It is the result of a man who looked at three tiny yellow grains in the mud & saw a future that the PhDs missed.

The HMT in the rice does not stand for Hindustan Machine Tools; it stands for the Honesty of a Marginalized Toiler. Dadaji Khobragade proved that you do not need a degree to be a scientist; you just need an eye that can see the extraordinary in the ordinary.

A trader's love for a wristwatch gave the rice its name, but a farmer’s love for his land gave the rice its soul. 1 became a brand; the other remained a Ghost in his own fields.

[James Tate @JamesTate121]

*BRITISH WRITER PENS THE BEST DESCRIPTION OF TRUMP*
Someone asked "Why do some British people not like Donald Trump?" Nate White, an articulate and witty writer from England wrote the following response:
A few things spring to mind. Trump lacks certain qualities which the British traditionally esteem. For instance, he has no class, no charm, no coolness, no credibility, no compassion, no wit, no warmth, no wisdom, no subtlety, no sensitivity, no self-awareness, no humility, no honour and no grace – all qualities, funnily enough, with which his predecessor Mr. Obama was generously blessed.
So for us, the stark contrast does rather throw Trump's limitations into embarrassingly sharp relief.
Plus, we like a laugh. And while Trump may be laughable, he has never once said anything wry, witty or even faintly amusing – not once, ever.
I don't say that rhetorically, I mean it quite literally: not once, not ever. And that fact is particularly disturbing to the British sensibility – for us, to lack humour is almost inhuman.
But with Trump, it's a fact. He doesn't even seem to understand what a joke is – his idea of a joke is a crass comment, an illiterate insult, a casual act of cruelty. Trump is a troll. And like all trolls, he is never funny and he never laughs; he only crows or jeers.
And scarily, he doesn't just talk in crude, witless insults – he actually thinks in them. His mind is a simple bot-like algorithm of petty prejudices and knee-jerk nastiness. There is never any under-layer of irony, complexity, nuance or depth. It's all surface.
Some Americans might see this as refreshingly upfront. Well, we don't. We see it as having no inner world, no soul. And in Britain we traditionally side with David, not Goliath. All our heroes are plucky underdogs: Robin Hood, Dick Whittington, Oliver Twist. Trump is neither plucky, nor an underdog. He is the exact opposite of that. He's not even a spoiled rich-boy, or a greedy fat-cat. He's more a fat white slug. A Jabba the Hutt of privilege.
And worse, he is that most unforgivable of all things to the British: a bully. That is, except when he is among bullies; then he suddenly transforms into a snivelling sidekick instead.
There are unspoken rules to this stuff – the Queensberry rules of basic decency – and he breaks them all. He punches downwards – which a gentleman should, would, could never do – and every blow he aims is below the belt. He particularly likes to kick the vulnerable or voiceless or female – and he kicks them when they are down. So the fact that a significant minority – perhaps a third – of Americans look at what he does, listen to what he says, and then think 'Yeah, he seems like my kind of guy' is a matter of some confusion and no little distress to British people, given that:
• Americans are supposed to be nicer than us, and most are.
• You don't need a particularly keen eye for detail to spot a few flaws in the man.
This last point is what especially confuses and dismays British people, and many other people too; his faults seem pretty bloody hard to miss.
After all, it's impossible to read a single tweet, or hear him speak a sentence or two, without staring deep into the abyss. He turns being artless into an art form; he is a Picasso of pettiness; a Shakespeare of shit. His faults are fractal: even his flaws have flaws, and so on ad infinitum. God knows there have always been stupid people in the world, and plenty of nasty people too. But rarely has stupidity been so nasty, or nastiness so stupid. He makes Nixon look trustworthy and George W look smart. In fact, if Frankenstein decided to make a monster assembled entirely from human flaws – he would make a Trump.

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

@PeynsaertBill @SupriyaShrinate You've captured the brutality of the endless horrors that are being inflicted on the gentle people of Gaza so well. How does a soul cope with this level of suffering? No mercy for Israel. #eraseisrael #IsraelisGenocidalEntity

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

Are there any organisations devoted to protecting lesser wildlife such as jungle cats, civets, iguanas, etc?

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

I feel deeply traumatised every time I see roadkill. Today was an exceptionally traumatising day because not only did I find roadkill, it was a dead jungle cat. Its habitat is non-existent. Only builders get priority in @nammabengalur

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

Saw a dead jungle cat on the road today. Not an ordinary cat. Not sure if this is a protected species. Maybe an autopsy needs to be ordered? May have kittens nearby. Location: Sampigehalli Bengaluru North @aranya_kfd @WCGIndia

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

So true. Her words sound as empty as her soul. Only further proof that there are no heroes in Hollywood or Bollywood... Only wooden people.

[Abhishek Baxi @baxiabhishek]

Savdhan rahein, satark rahein.

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

How is such a little girl a "threat to Israel"? How can they not show some mercy to such a small child and thousands more like her? There is no punishment harsh enough for this brutality. #StoptheGenocideNow https://t.co/wTBT6dRcFx

[Shivani Bail @shivibail]

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