Elon, you've officially run out of arguments. Now every Indian who disagrees with you is "Ambani's shill."
Nobody said Starlink is too strong. Nobody's scared of your competition. India's problem is you. A Pentagon contractor building Trump's Golden Dome wants to run internet over Indian soil, and he throws a tantrum every time someone asks who holds the off switch.
Ambani's de facto monopoly?
You SIGNED A DEAL with that monopoly in March 2025 to sell Starlink in India. You didn't have a problem with Ambani when he was your reseller.
You only discovered his monopoly when Jio announced its own satellites.
And let's talk about hypocrisy.
Tesla's biggest factory is in Shanghai. Starlink is banned in China. Have you ever called Xi Jinping a monopolist?
Called Chinese critics shills? Written a sarcastic letter to Prime Minister Xi?
No.
Because Beijing would shut your factory by Monday. India can't, so India gets the insults.
now the math your own fans keep posting starlink could add 100–200 million Indian homes. Starlink is approved for 600 Gbps over India. Split across 100 million homes, that's 6 kilobits per second each. Your revolution is slower than a 1998 dial-up modem. 🤡
If it's too expensive, no one will buy it.
Your own India website showed ₹8,600 a month. A Jio plan costs ₹349. Indians already ran the numbers.
Five days of meltdown. Crime against India. Prime Minister Ambani. collages. And now shills.
The richest man on earth, crying on his own app because a sovereign country wants a security check.
Sit down, elon. Finish the paperwork. India isn't a tesla shareholder you can bully on X.
Elon Musk says oligarchs are blocking Starlink in India. Let me tell you what is really stopping it, and why India is right.
Starlink already has its Indian licence. It got the telecom licence in June 2025, space regulator approval in July 2025, and trial spectrum in September 2025.
What is pending is security clearance and FDI approval. Jio and OneWeb are waiting on the same rules. Nobody gets a shortcut.
And India has good reasons to be careful.
In November 2024, Indian agencies caught a boat near the Andaman Islands carrying around 6,000 kg of meth, the biggest drug haul in our history. The smugglers reportedly used a Starlink device to navigate. Police had to write to Starlink asking who bought it.
In December 2024, the Army seized a Starlink-like device along with weapons during a raid in Manipur. Musk said Starlink beams were turned off over India. A few weeks later, The Guardian reported that Starlink was working in parts of Manipur during internet shutdowns, with devices smuggled in from Myanmar.
In 2022 Ukraine, a country at war, asked Musk to extend Starlink coverage to Crimea for an attack on Russia's navy. He said no. One private businessman decided what a nation at war could do.
That is exactly why India is asking for three things. Indian data stays in India. Our agencies can legally monitor traffic, like with every telecom company. And the government can switch off service in a specific area during an emergency.
China doesn't allow Starlink at all and is building its own satellite networks. South Africa asked for local ownership like every other operator there, and Musk called it racism.
Even in America, the standard Starlink plan costs around 120 dollars a month, while normal fiber is 55 to 80 dollars and much faster. It works best where cable doesn't reach.
India needs satellite internet in its villages. Starlink is welcome. On India's terms, like everyone else.
This is not about oligarchs. It is about who holds the off switch to our internet.
I was specifically asked for my reaction to this video.
This is the first account I've actually heard in English, not from reading a transcript.
First of all, many of you may not know this, but I am an honor graduate of the United States Army Anti-Terrorism course. As such, I have some expertise in this area.
What I can tell you is that somewhere along the line, there was a security failure and a failure to use imagination. To defeat the terrorists before they strike, you have to train yourself to think as they do. You have to become devious in your thinking, and you have to imagine how you would do something like this. Obviously, the co-pilot has spent time thinking about it and may or may not have had help planning it.
However, putting that aside, I wanted to say that this pilot is an absolute hero.
He reminds me of something I learned when I went to Recruit Training for the United States Marine Corps long ago, in 1983: You must always push yourself mentally, physically, spiritually, and emotionally further than you think you can go. You have to go beyond your limits to go to the next level to succeed. That, obviously, has been this man's mindset throughout his life. That mindset pushed him to make that last effort to open that cockpit door.
Without it, this would have been a tragedy.
The most telling thing, for me, is that he does not consider himself a hero. That, to me, shows how much humility he has, which is the hallmark of a true hero.
This may be the most incredible detail of the entire story.
Reuters has reported that the pilot who was stabbed aboard FlyDubai Flight FZ 1073 manually released the lock on the cockpit door while he was lying on the floor.
That pilot’s name is Captain Smit Machchhar.
FOX: “The wounded pilot, listen to this, covered with blood and lying on the floor, had clicked open the release of the cockpit door.”
“A second set of pilots on board who were due to replace the first pair, landed the plane.”
“A pilot who had just been stabbed, had the wherewithal to open that cockpit door. This man can be described as none other than a hero.”
That decision allowed the replacement pilots to reach the cockpit and take control of the aircraft.
His heroic actions likely saved the the lives of every passenger on board.
Had this man not found the courage to fight back after being repeatedly attacked with an axe capable of cutting through metal—while bleeding profusely—and had the presence mind to trigger the hijack/emergency code, initiate the emergency response and open the cockpit door to allow passengers to assist him, the aircraft’s subsequent dive could have had catastrophic consequences.
Had that aircraft not been recovered, the geopolitical consequences for the Middle East could have been profound and potentially irreversible.
Sometimes history turns on the courage, resilience and presence of mind of one person.
Yes. One Indian man.
Manusriti : Yatra Naari Pujyante Vasante Tatra Devta ("Where women are honored, the deities (divinity) are pleased and reside there; but where they are not honored, all noble actions yield no reward.")
But this is Anti Women.
Lets look at Bible and Quran for that matter.
BIBLE:
1. Timothy 2:11–12: "Let a woman learn in silence with full submission. I permit no woman to teach or to have authority over a man; she is to keep silent.
2. Corinthians 14:34–35: "Women should remain silent in the churches. They are not allowed to speak, but must be in submission, as the law says."
3 Ephesians 5:22: "Wives, be subject to your husbands as you are to the Lord," a sentiment echoed in Colossians 3:18.
4 Corinthians 11:8–9 “Neither was the man created for the woman; but the woman for the man.”
5 Genesis 3:16: As part of the consequence after eating the forbidden fruit, God tells the woman, "Your desire shall be for your husband, and he shall rule over you."
6. Leviticus 15:19–30: Details ritual uncleanness associated with natural biological functions like menstruation, treating the state as contaminating to surrounding objects and people.
QURAN
1. Men are caretaker of women. Men have been provisioned by Allah over women. A righteous woman would be one who is devoutly obedient and, when alone, protective of what Allah has entrusted them with. And if you sense ill-conduct from your women, advise them ˹first˺, if they persist, do not share their beds, but if they still persist, then discipline them.
what that means: Men are superior, women need to take orders from them and if they don't then men has the right to decipline women.
2. Surah Al-Baqarah verse 223: Your wives are like farmland for you. Approach them as you please.
Meaning : Your wives are you farmland and you can do whatever you feel like doing with her. This is happening in a society where we talk about Marital rape,
3. Surah Al Nisa verse 24: All married women (muhsanat) are forbidden to you except those women whom your right hands have come to possess (as a result of war).
Meaning: Win girls from war and use them as you please.
4. Surah Al-Baqarah verse 282: And call to witness, from among your men, two witnesses. And if two men be not (at hand) then a man and two women, of such as ye approve as witnesses, so that if the one erreth (through forgetfulness) the other will remember.
Meaning : Weightage of a Man's testimony is twice than the weightage of a woman.
How many Christians read and believe in Bible? 100%
How many Muslims read or Believe in Quran? 100%
How many Hindus read or believe in Manusmriti? 1%
But what is problematic? MANUSMRITI ofcourse.
Rani Ahilyabai Holkar- the brave daughter of Bharat who was a torchbearer of Sanatana dharma with her renovation of hundreds of temples destroyed by the Mlechhas.
She was also a forerunner of the social reform movement, welfare of women and restoration of several ancient crafts of Bharat including the maheshwari weaving tradition.
On her punyatithi today, let's honour her with her picture on all our social media handles.
Koti koti naman to her.
Great news for Temple Devotees!
In 2024, I had challenged G.O. No. 336 issued by the then DMK Government authorizing a shopping complex to be built right in of the Eastern Raja Gopuram of Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple - utilizing Rs. 6.40 Crores of Temple Funds. I and Shri Allikuttai Radhakrishnan had challenged the said G.O. through separate PILs.
The Hon'ble Division Bench was pleased to stay the construction right in the beginning. After coming to power TVK Government through Hon'ble Minister @RameshOffcl announced the withdrawal of the approvals given to many shopping complex projects announced earlier. Recently, TVK Govt represented in the Court regarding the withdrawal of earlier offensive G.O. 336 of 2023 through G.O. No. 58 dated 19.06.2026.
Today the Hon'ble Judges Justice Shri G. Jayachandran and Justice Shri E. Manoharan, hearing this matter, directed the Commissioner of @tnhrcedept and the District Collector of Tiruvannamalai to coordinate with the Public Works Department (PWD) to return the Rs.9.40 Crores deposited with PWD - back to Sri Arunachaleswarar Temple with any interest applicable.
Once again Hon'ble Madras High Court has come to protect Hindu temples, their funds and properties.
This is a phenomenal development where an illegal proposal was not only stayed and subsequently withdrawn - but the temple funds involved also ordered to be returned.
Om Arunachala! அண்ணாமலையாருக்கு அரோஹரா !
A powerful reminder - Adivasis are an integral and inseparable part of Sanatan Sanskriti 🕉️🚩
16 Baiga Adivasis from Madhya Pradesh, who recently returned to their original faith, are proudly participating in 151-km Bol Bam Kanwar Yatra to Bhoramdeo Temple.
Faith, heritage and roots-Sanatan connects us all.
I want to share what I consider as an illustrative incident for today's Gen.
Last Friday when I was about to disembark from the flight in Chennai from Delhi a passenger from the other side of isle introduced himself as Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan and as a follower of my comments and writings.
When I asked about him he said he was a plastic surgeon in UK for 30 years and is back in Chennai to look after his nonagenarian parents. With that our conversation ended as we disembarked
But what he said -- he came back to look after his aged parents -- made me reach out to him. Yesterday I could trace him with the scrappy details I had got and spoke to him today. He practices as a plastic surgeon in Chennai and is a consultant in Apollo. His father Dr Venkatrasami was a famous plastic surgeon who established a surgery set up in Stanley Hospital in Chennai which is near industrial area where workers lose limbs in accidents calling for surgeries. A block in Stanley is named after Dr Venkatrasami.
Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan himself had a roaring pratice in UK. But the call of his duty to his aged parents made him give up that to come back to India two years back
I thought it is my duty as a journalist to inform the public about illustrative sons like him who value their moral relational obligations more than their personal career
It is those who like Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan sustain intergenerational dharmic responsibilities that keeps our relation based society functional. We are not and can never be a contract based society. According to SBI economic research 84% of parents live with their children in India. This culturally inherited social and emotional security is irreplaceable by state law or courts in our country.
I feel proud of sons like Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan who stand by the basic dharma of Matru Devo Bhava Pitru Devo Bhava
My salutes him and urge the young Indians to inbibe this irreplaceable cultural virtue exemplified by Dr Venkat Ramakrishnan
"Sitting in a free country, hurling abuses at the PM on mic, uploading those vidoes is proof that democracy is very much alive"- He brilliantly busts the propaganda that PM Modi ji is a dictator.
Its 1.45 am and i cant sleep bec of severe acidity. I have ulcers. And the last time my ulcers threatened to burst i had to be hospitalized & guess what @icicilombard refused to cover my hospitization cost - bec i hadnt declared my ulcers at the time of taking the policy. But i didnt have ulcers at the time of taking the policy and now they are asking for doctors certificates to confirm i didnt have ulcers at the time of taking the policy. Next they will insist on the car number that kills u in advance so ur family can make a claim. Shame on this @ICICILombard . Am so disgusted. I no longer care abt the refund - i will expose the fraud in their operations