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[Sumant @sumants]

I am trying to reclaim my handwriting. But I am lazy and indisciplined about practice and need to be tricked into it. So, I have a proposal.

[Nida Fatima Momin @nidamominn]

Instagram is restricting @reporters_co ‘s investigation.

@TweetSumedha and @VenkateshNSS

[Qasim Rashid, Esq. @QasimRashid]

This piece is for men. Every time I write about how men systemically abuse women, my DMs explode with “Not All Men” complaints.

But a new study goes one step further, and demonstrates that empirically, statistically, and factually, it literally is all men. And the data is horrifying. https://t.co/HJiAOabPPi

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

What is a proof? Everything but Aadhaar. But then why does the state even demand it? Surveillance. Not Evidence.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Just to give you context, New York City, which has half the population of Mumbai AND 25 different subway lines has a fleet of 5800 buses & growing.

Desi Infracels bring up NYC to justify random environment destroying projects but never bring up this disparity.

[A Selvaraj @Crime_Selvaraj]

ANIMAL WELFARE ACTIVIST HACKED TO DEATH OVER FIRECRACKER DISPUTE IN THIRUVOTTIYUR

A 34-year-old animal welfare activist was hacked to death following an argument over bursting firecrackers on a public road in Thiruvottiyur, on Monday night. Police arrested three men, including the prime accused, in connection with the murder.
The deceased, Pavithran of Kaladipet, had worked as a pharmaceutical sales representative and was currently unemployed. He was known for feeding stray dogs and taking injured animals to veterinary hospitals for treatment.

Police said Pavithran was riding his motorcycle along Vanniyar Street to meet a friend on West Mada Street when he came across Balaji, a resident, and his friends bursting firecrackers on the road. Some crackers landed on Pavithran, following which he stopped and questioned them for recklessly bursting crackers.

An argument broke out, during which Pavithran slapped one of Balaji's friends. Enraged by this, Balaji took out a knife and stabbed him. Pavithran abandoned his motorcycle and attempted to escape, but Balaji chased and hacked him to death.

Thiruvottiyur police registered a murder case and arrested Balaji, Surya, 27, and Kishore, 28. Madan, 27, another friend of Balaji, sustained injuries to their hands while attempting to intervene and was admitted to Govt Stanley Hospital.

Police said preliminary investigations revealed that Balaji, Surya and Kishore had criminal cases, including those related to ganja sales, assault and attempted murder.

#CrimeSelvaraj #Chennai #ChennaiPolice #ChennaiUpdates #Thiruvottiyur #Murder #AnimalActivist #CrackerBurstingRow #Crackers #DiwaliMurder

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

I have a hypothesis that the high number of study abroad trips to Europe taken by US college students over recent decades have played a big role in making Socialism palatable to younger voters. They see socialism means fast cheap public transit more than it means gulags.

[ಎಲ್ ಕೆ ಅತೀಕ್ L K Atheeq @lkatheeq]

Let me put the issue in perspective @dp_satish

1. Karnataka’s Road Transport Corporations (RTCs), though among the best in the country, have been facing commercial challenges long before the launch of Shakti scheme. Therefore, blaming free travel for women under Shakti for the problems of RTCs is not borne out by facts.

2. In fact, Shakti has resulted in much needed assured cash flow of about Rs 5600 crores per year to the four RTCs. In turn, the RTCs are experiencing better capacity utilisation for the same operational cost, thus the cost per kiolmeter (CPKM) actually reduces.

3. The problems of RTCs have longer history. More than 3/4th of the total cost of RTCs consists of 2 items: fuel & staff. (79.8 % of KSRTC cost, 73.8 % of BMTC cost, 83.3 % of NWKRTC cost and 80.6 % of KKRTC cost is fuel & staff). The cost of these two items has been rising and the fares have not risen over the years. Between 2014 and 2025 the BMTC fares were not increased. Between 2020 and 2025 the fares of KSRTC and other RTCs were not increased.

4. Whereas the diesel prices have increased by about 64% between 2014 & 2026 and 53% between 2020 & 2026. Similarly, staff salaries have risen over the years. When 75% of your cost is fuel and staff and those rise every year, how are the RTCs supposed to make ends meet without fare revision or govt subsidy? You either revise the fares or the state subsidises the RTCs by giving grants. The later method is not sustainable, given the other social policy commitments of the Government. The third alternative is for the RTCs to increase their non-fare revenues. This has been recommended by the M R Sreenivasa Murthy committee a long ago, but not much progress has been achieved.

5. The Government must invest more in public transport as it carries enormous positive externalities. Though over the years investment in RTCs like buying more new buses has come down, since 2023 the Government has introduced / committed to introduce 6034 new buses. In addition, the Government of Karnataka has agreed to deploy 4500 e-buses on GCC under PM-e Drive for BMTC.

6. Of course, the RTCs have been asking for higher reimbursement under Shakti. Government has also been short releasing under student free bus pass schemes. These issues need to be settled in favour of RTCs.

7. To conclude, Shakti is not the problem but a solution. However, this scheme needs to be combined with reasonable reimbursement of the costs and more investment in new buses. With the introduction of smart card the issue of short reimbursement, if any, can be settled.

8. Karnataka’s RTCs are among the few public transport companies in the country that do well. We need to make them perform even better.

Happy Deepavali to all!!

[Vikram Sathaye @vikramsathaye]

My respect for Social Reformers of past has grown in multiples . It must have been so tough for them to convince society against Sati, Child marriage and women exploitation. We can’t convince people to stop firecrackers for their own lungs . Salute to them🫡

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

I used to consider the attempts by the previous DMK government with their awareness campaigns in schools and publicity about timing windows and pollution as mostly useless. But with the TVK completely dispensing with all of it I can see how much good it WAS doing in the past.

[Shankar Prakash @PhSoCr]

He deleted the post while I was drafting this reply. Screenshot attached, my response thread below...

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

There's an eerie similarity between Indians acting obnoxiously abroad and Indians insisting on bursting firecrackers.

It is a statement of class supremacy.

Both the groups (might even be overlapping) are essentially saying we have money, we don't care if it inconveniences others.

[Rabbi Jeff @RabbiJeffx]

It's quite scary that once Israelis decide they like a particular country as tourists, they start taking it over and treating its native residents as invaders.

[JayPrashanth @JayPrashanth]

This is getting more ridiculous by the day.

Even a 6 year-old, well maintained car with a valid PUC cannot be driven on Noida roads now.

But crackers? No ban!

@CarToq

https://t.co/ncf14eyW3W

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

Unable to manage fridges let alone addressing grievances of its people, French government is shifting blame for its failures onto others.

Yes, Iran is powerful. But unlike France, we do not exercise power via support for massacres in Gaza or bombings of schools and hospitals.

[Derenic Byrd @DerenicByrd]

Do white people understand that “they too” can go back to wherever the fuck they came from?

[Rants&Roasts @Sydusm]

Cancer cure will be found.

But not for this.

[Madhu Menon @madmanweb]

A reminder that 90% of all screenshots of chats, emails, and texts on this hellsite are fake and made up for generating engagement so blue tick accounts can get paid. It's trivial to create it now so everyone does.

[TheAwkwardZone @Thingzabuong]

This entire thread is fiction. And @ManiYogini herself admits it:
“you won't find any evidence of this". Exactly. Because she made it all up.

Let’s fact check her:

1. 3 Bungalows Lie:
The 3 Lutyens bungalows were NEVER for Maino family. They were:
10 Janpath — Sonia Gandhi (Congress President)
12 Tughlaq Lane — Rahul Gandhi (as MP)
35 Lodhi Estate — Priyanka Gandhi (as SPG protectee since 1997)
Show ONE allotment letter, ONE Directorate of Estates record for Paola Maino / Anushka / Nadia. There is none. Zero. Because it never happened.

2. "Fled in 2014" Lie:
No one fled. Paola Maino NEVER lived in Delhi. She lived her entire life in Orbassano, Italy. She died there on 27 Aug 2022 at 90. Her daughters Anushka & Nadia lived with her in Italy.
Proof: Deccan Herald, 16 June 2011 — “Sonia is in Orbassano visiting her ailing mother Paola Maino who lives with her other two daughters."
How does a family "flee" from a place they never lived in?

3. "Rahul never went to Italy before 2014" Lie:
Flat lie. Same June 2011 report headline: “Sonia in Italy to see ailing mom, Rahul in Europe."
Rahul was travelling abroad throughout UPA rule. You invented a pattern that doesn't exist.

4. Quattrocchi Lie:
Quattrocchi did NOT live in a govt bungalow. He had his OWN house in New Friends Colony, Delhi. CBI told court his house was where Gandhi kids stayed during PM's foreign trips.
And he did NOT flee in 2014. He fled on 29-30 July 1993 — 21 years BEFORE Modi, right after his name surfaced in Bofors, when Rao was PM.

5. Antique Smuggling Lie:
This is Subramanian Swamy's 2002 petition. Delhi HC in May 2002 asked Centre to check ownership of shops Ganapati & Etnica in Italy.
Result after 23 years? No chargesheet. No conviction. No link to Sonia's sister. Nothing.
The REAL, proven antique smuggling network was Subhash Kapoor — arrested in US, 2622 artifacts seized, extradited. Not one Kapoor artifact linked to Maino family.
You are recycling a 23-year-old dead allegation as fresh "proof".

So let's call this what it is:
WhatsApp fiction from Sanghi University, cooked up to malign the impeccable reputation of Sonia Gandhi — a woman who took Indian citizenship in 1983, stayed in India after her husband was assassinated when she could have gone back to Italy, and led Congress for 19 years without a single conviction against her.

This is gutter propaganda.
Delete this garbage and apologise.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Like Swachh Bharat has been a success...
The way pollution is being handled is an example of the failure of India as a country, from the executive, to the state governments, to the courts.
We are increasing looking like a doomed republic tbh. governance collapsing everywhere.

[Kajol Srinivasan @LOLrakshak]

The CPCB has capped their AQI monitors at 500. This is a missed opportunity to add to the festivities. Imagine if the monitors could celebrate each climb of 100 with a loud bang and explosion of starburst rockets. Various areas could compete with each other. Bets could be placed.