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@sivas.bsky.social

Programmer & Endurance Cyclist

[Sangeetha(RewriteYourStory) @saaiyer]

Jainsplaining human nutrition is like astrologers teaching astronomy.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Thank you for giving me an opportunity to talk about ISKCON and Akshaya Patra.

The claim that 'no one ever had issues' is simply untrue.

ISKCON's meals have been fought over for more than a decade.

In Karnataka, the Right to Food campaign and the Jan Swasthya Abhiyan formally wrote to the government in 2018 asking it to terminate the Akshaya Patra midday meal contract, arguing the organisation was imposing its religious beliefs on children.

Akshaya Patra refused to add onion and garlic despite a state directive, and threatened to pull out of its contract.

Children there complained the food was bland and ate less of it.

So here goes the tasty meal argument for a toss.

It goes further...

A 2015 CAG report found that 187 samples of ISKCON-prepared meals failed to meet prescribed standards, with negative feedback from 75% of children and teachers, and that less foodgrain was served than required.

In Andhra Pradesh, the foundation openly defied a National Institute of Nutrition directive making eggs mandatory.

And in Chandigarh, the education department found ISKCON's no-onion-no-garlic food unpalatable and did not award it the contract at all.

In Odisha, the state had to quietly arrange for schools to source and boil eggs separately just to work around the ban.

So the objection is not new and not invented for Bengal. The same fight has run in Karnataka, Andhra, Odisha, Chandigarh, for years.

But why is it louder in Bengal?

Two reasons.

First, Bengal is one of the most non-vegetarian states in India, where fish and egg are not optional extras but the core of how people eat.

Second, this is a brand new government removing an egg that was already being served.

You notice a thing more when it is taken away from you than when it was never offered. That is not propaganda. That is people defending food that was already on their children's plates.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

This is brilliant! 🔥

Inspired by Nitin Gadkari, dairy farmers in Jaipur have introduced M0, M50 and M100 milk.

M100 milk is best for health and can even be consumed by lactose intolerant people. Because it is pure water! 🤣

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Protein is expensive! Don't give it to the poors!

Also it's dead easy to segregate eggs. Whoever doesn't want the egg, can not eat the egg.

These people just want the poor to suffer. They genuinely derive joy from it.

[Saul Staniforth @SaulStaniforth]

"The hardest decision we had to make in completing this report was.. not to name the Palestinian children, whose deaths, injuries & suffering we describe.. we didn't name them because we feared the consequences for their families"

He means Israel would go after them too.

[Laura Elliott @TinyWriterLaura]

so go bankrupt already and save us all the environmental and social problems you’re creating

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

In any other country (even 3rd world like us, forget a country claiming to be a Vishwaguru), even a single such incident in a year would have caused massive uproar.

But for us, it’s probably 50th case in this year of being killed by the all-pervasive corruption-nexus of govt, IAS, and business.

Nothing will change and next time it would you be you or me or our families perishing in this hellhole created by cruel systems.

[waiting. @GreenOnionDuck]

As a software engineer I have to unfortunately inform you that if medicine was held to the standard of software engineering there would be mass death.

[Sabeer Bhatia @sabeer]

I’m sorry to say this, but the Government in India increasingly resembles institutionalized corruption. It’s tragic that this is happening in the world’s largest democracy. Even more troubling is that many good people seem to have become so accustomed to it that they no longer question it.

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

This Indian army officer who had served for two decades in the army and had retired to begin working with UN peacekeeping missions, was the first UN-associated international casualty from Gaza in May 2024. Natl media never mentions him anymore and PM got a medal from his killers.

[Mr IG @isvarguru]

Yappa surya 🤣🤣
@Tejasvi_Surya

[siva @sivas]

@lightroastguy Polar H10

[Arindam Paul @arindam___paul]

Been exactly a year since we launched water purifiers

We now have TDS data from tens of thousands of Atomberg water purifiers installed across the country

And we combined that with publicly available data from different government sources like central pollution control board, jal jeevan mission and central ground water board

And built a free tool where you can enter your pincode and check your water quality- TDS levels, TDS variance, chemicals present etc

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

If Jio can do this for you. Jio can do this for the police.

[Shaun King @shaunking]

The government of Lebanon just filed a formal complaint with the United Nations because Israel sprayed tens of thousands of pounds of poisonous cancer causing chemicals all over Lebanese farm lands.

If you still think this has ANYTHING to do with Hezbollah you're stupid.

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

🚨 BREAKING: Lebanon files UN Security Council complaint accusing I$rael of violating the Chemical Weapons Convention in the south

Lab tests from Aita al-Shaab, Naqoura, and Dhaira confirmed catastrophic levels of Glyphosate—a cancer-linked chemical—in agricultural soil.

Normal farming levels would show 0.5 to 2 mcg/g but tests on soil in South Lebanon show 22,750 mcg/g, 11,000 times above safe levels

It has been labeled by some as a deliberate war crime designed to permanently destroy arable border lands.

Here is our report from the scene filmed in February

[Saket Gokhale @SaketGokhale]

Digest this shocking number: ₹2,586 crore

THIS is the amount spent by the Modi govt's own ad agency promoting itself in just 5 and a half years through TV, radio, print, hoardings and digital.

I obtained the full break-up under RTI.

Here’s where ₹2,586 cr of public money went on Modi’s PR:

📺 TV + Radio = ₹936 cr
📰 Print = ₹796 cr
🛣️ Hoardings = ₹584 cr
📱 Digital and social media — ₹270 cr

And remember: this is ONLY ONE AGENCY. It excludes other ministries, PSUs and party ads. The real figure is far higher.

Not just that. The public money spent on Modi’s PR is also sharply accelerating:

👉 Digital ad spend: ₹14 cr (2020-21) increased to ₹131 cr (2025-26). Nearly 10x.

👉 Print: ₹338 cr in 2025-26 alone. That’s 4x compared to the previous year

Here's the part that should worry every taxpayer:

👉 I asked WHICH agencies received this ₹2,586 cr.

👉 CBC refused — citing "commercial confidence"

The govt will spend thousands of crores of public money on Modi’s PR but WILL HIDE who received the money.

Govt advertising is how Modi-Shah & BJP control the media.

When the reward for promoting Modi and BJP is ₹2,586 cr, are you surprised that our media is supremely compromised?

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

Rajnath Singh 🥲

[Josh Johnson @secondfret]

Meta HQ right now.

[Dan Qayyum @DanQayyum]

Being the most intellectually under-equipped person in a three-person photo that includes Donald Trump is no small feat.