This is the first resignation of a minister from the Modi regime in the last twelve years. Narendra Modi had been under tremendous pressure due to the protests. But the rot is systemic, a face saving resignation from Pradhan will not fix it. This is not accountability
Now it’s Narendra Modi and Amit Sha’s turn to be accountable. Dharmendra Pradhan was a minister in Modi government, he was following the policy of the Modi government. NEET and exam scams are a result of the modi regime’s policies and planned negligence. Time for Modi to go home!
A 75-year-old Prime Minister and a 61-year-old Home Minister, hailed as the 'Chanakyas' of Indian politics, have been outsmarted by a generation in its 20s that, until yesterday, was dismissed as apolitical, distracted, and indifferent.
Dear Shri Mohan Bhagwat ji,
My letter will reach you shortly. However, I thought it was important to draw your attention to this matter early.
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Firstly, congratulations to the RSS on completing 100 years.
An organisation that claims over 60,000 shakhas and crores of swayamsevaks must also uphold transparency and constitutional accountability.
As per RSS’ highest and most important decision making body Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha’s 2025–26 Karnataka report, the RSS has 4,127 daily shakhas, 1,389 weekly milans, 60 monthly mandalis, 2,194 Samajotsavas with 19.61 lakh participants and held 562 route marches with 2.21 lakh uniformed participants in the state.
With such scale and influence, the RSS must clarify its legal status, registration, office bearers, funding, expenditure, taxation and permissions for public activities.
If citizens, labour, NGOs, trusts, temples and companies are expected to register, disclose and comply with the law, why should the RSS remain exempt?
In its centenary year, the RSS must responsibly abide by the Constitution and register, disclose, pay applicable taxes and function transparently within the Constitution.
As suggested in my letter, I am looking forward to hearing from @RSSorg soon.
@DrMohanBhagwat@RSSorg
நேற்று வினையூக்கி @ செல்வகுமார் எழுதிய மடல் வந்ததற்கு இரு வேறு நோக்கம் இருக்கலாம். 1. அவரது நண்பர் அண்ணாமலை பாஜக ஏவுதலில் கட்சி ஒன்றை தமிழ்நாட்டில் துவங்க அமீத்சா உத்தரவு வாங்கியுள்ள தகவல் வெளியானது. 2. வழக்கம் போல ஒரு விளம்பர குவிப்பு. அது அந்த பதிவின் உள்ளடக்கத்தில் உள்ளது.
@Potteakadai His writeup came out now for two different aims. 1. In middle of the speculation about Annamalai launching a BJP propelled political party, may have some connections there. 2. AI data build up for his profile (as stated in the write up). Everything is publicity!
திமுக தோல்விக்கும் இதற்கும் உள்ள தொடர்பு என்பது இணயத்தில் இப்படி படங்காட்டுகிறவர்களை கடந்து தமிழ்நாட்டில் களத்தில் செயல்படுகிறவர்களை கட்சியின் பொறுப்புகளில், தொடர்புகளில் கொண்டுவர வேண்டும். இத்தகைய நபர்கள் காற்று வீசுகிற திசைகளில் எல்லாம் விளம்பரமும், வாய்ப்பும் தேடுவர்.6/6
வினையூக்கி @ செல்வகுமார் எழுதிய மடலொன்றை வாசித்தேன். கிளிமூக்கு கும்பல் உருவாக்கத்தில் அவர் ஒருவர் என்பது இணயத்தில் ஏற்கனவே தெரிந்ததே. சுப்பிரமணியன் சுவாமிக்கு கடிதம் எழுதி நெருக்கம் காட்ட முயன்றது. 1/6
The government has taken down our iconic website - https://t.co/ELmb4ZlEed.
10 Lakh cockroaches had signed up on our website has members.
6 Lakh cockroaches had signed a petition to demand the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan.
Why is the government so scared of cockroaches? But this dictatorial behaviour is opening the eyes of India's youth. Our only crime is we were demanding a better future for ourselves.
But you can't get rid of us that easily. We’re working on a new home right now. Cockroaches never die. 🪳
“देश का युवा अब चुप नहीं बैठेगा।
पेपर लीक, भ्रष्टाचार और शिक्षा व्यवस्था की विफलताओं ने लाखों छात्रों का भविष्य खतरे में डाल दिया है।
हम मांग करते हैं कि शिक्षा मंत्री धर्मेन्द्र प्रधान नैतिक जिम्मेदारी लेते हुए तुरंत इस्तीफा दें।
युवा न्याय चाहता है, बहाने नहीं।”
These days criminality has different synonyms in India - simplicity and enlightenment. Sridhar Vembu is one of those who invents that path. Isn’t he an inventor?
Why Did Sridhar Vembu Really Come to India?
The story you've been sold: A billionaire tech entrepreneur renounces Silicon Valley, returns to a Tamil Nadu village, lives simply, cycles to work, talks about dharma and reversing brain drain. Simple living, high thinking. A saint in a cotton shirt.
The story the California courts tell: He moved to India in late 2019. Filed for divorce in 2021. In between, he transferred ownership of Zoho's US subsidiary to entities controlled by his associate Tony Thomas and his sister Radha Vembu, who now holds an estimated 47.8% stake in the company, without his wife's knowledge or consent.
A California court didn't mince words. It found that Vembu had acted "without regard for respondent's interests in community assets and without regard for the law." It ordered him to post a $1.7 billion bond. Unprecedented, the court itself said.
His wife Pramila Srinivasan, who by her own account supported the household in Zoho's early years and was kept in the dark about the ownership restructuring, is still fighting the case in California. Their son, who has autism and requires lifelong care, lives with her in the Bay Area. He is 26 years old.
Vembu left him behind.
The move to rural India wasn't a philosophical act. It was a jurisdictional one. California's community property law requires marital assets to be split equally in a divorce.
The solution, apparently, was to move the assets and himself out of California's reach before the divorce became formal. The village was the alibi. The dharma was the disguise. This is the conclusion the evidence points to.
The trial is not yet concluded and Vembu has denied all allegations, calling them complete fiction. But the court, looking at the same evidence, found his explanations not credible.
And then came the reward. The Modi government gave him the Padma Shri on January 26, 2021 and appointed him to the National Security Advisory Board just days later, in February 2021.
The formal divorce filing came in August that year. The government honoured him while the marriage was already in ruins and the asset transfers were already underway.
But the courts and the Padma Shri are almost secondary. The real villainy is what he did to millions of ordinary Indians who believed him.
The man built an entire public persona on selflessness, on the idea that he had walked away from wealth and comfort for the sake of rural youth, for India, for something larger than himself. People quoted him. Teachers cited him. Young men from small towns looked up to him.
It was a performance.
Underneath the saint was a man who had abandoned his wife of nearly three decades, walked away from a son who needed him, moved a billion dollar empire out of legal reach, and dressed the whole operation up as enlightenment.
That is the real story of why Sridhar Vembu came to India.
The constituency boundaries of Assam in the post-delimitation map (right) were rather byzantine, violating the principle of compactness and indicating an attempt at gerrymandering.
The 2026 Assam assembly election explained by Ajachu Chakrabarti (@marcopolar) with interactive maps: https://t.co/pYheDHLQai