Sagar Tanksali

Aaah, well!!
My pronouns: Evil Overlord/Eviler Overlord. Also, Cranfield MBA.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@DivaJain2 And how did it pan out for them? Did tax rate cuts act as catalyst for economic and industrial resurgence or, did the latter lead to lower tax rates? I guess rate cuts led to economic vibrancy which then led to overall improvement. Please correct me if I'm wrong.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@YearOfTheKraken Would you rather they throw boiled eggs? I don't understand this bias against raw eggs!

[Parimal @Fintech03]

This is Audrey's pinned tweet. It is hilariously ironic that Audrey quotes Nilakantha Dikshita’s Kalividambanam (Verse 1). She clearly missed the joke.

Nilakantha was satirizing fake scholars who do not know their subjects.
When he wrote 'Na boddhavyam, na sravyam... jhatiti prativaktavyam,' he was mocking charlatans who refuse to understand the subject, refuse to listen to opposing evidence & just scream immediate replies to look smart.

​If she had actually read the very next verse in Nilakantha’s text (Verse 2), she would have realized she was walking into a trap. Nilakantha goes on to list the 5 ways these fake scholars try to win an argument when they lack substance:

असंभ्रमो विलज्जत्वम् अवज्ञा प्रतिवादिनि l
हासो राज्ञः स्तवश्चेति पञ्चैते जयहेतवः ll

Remaining unbothered, sheer shamelessness, showing utter contempt for the opponent, mocking them & praising the ruling powers (the King)... these 5 are their keys to victory.

This is the exact operational playbook of modern ideological historians when cornered by hard evidence.

Let me further quote the verse 3 also to get the full context:

अश‍िक्ष‍ितेषु वक्तव्यं सभ्येषु महता कलिना l
श‍िक्ष‍ितेषु तु वक्तव्यं मध्यस्थोऽयं विमत्सरः ll

If the judge is uneducated, just shout loudly to win. If the judge is smart, immediately accuse him of being biased!

Whenever an Indian scholar/community group exposes a factual error in her work using hard data, the response is rarely a factual counter-argument. Instead, she immediately claims she is being harassed/attacked by nationalists.

She & others use institutional victimhood as a shield to completely avoid answering legitimate, evidence-based academic critiques.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

By calling the politicians 'cowardly', you're giving them a fig leaf - thin, but a fig leaf, nevertheless. Cowardice is an instinct, after all, not a deliberate action.
I would say they are complicit, if not active perps!
BTW, I'm not a British subject. Still, my blood boils whenever I am forced to imagine what all those unfortunate girls went through! Abomination!

[IndiaToday @IndiaToday]

The CIA, the T-72, and the Delhi Gymkhana Club - a Cold War tale | Writes @SandeepUnnithan
#Delhi #GymkhanaClub
https://t.co/3G9eid0sK6

[Sameer Kasture @sameer_kasture]

Post Gandhi's murder, freedom fighter Dr. Narayan Savarkar was dragged from home, the 1st mob lynching in free India & died due to stone pelting & heavy bleeding. 6000-8000 Brahmin men, women (tortured & raped), children were killed brutally. ZERO punished.

Today is his Jayanti.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

No one even thinks of the #Pakistan prime minister #ShahbazSharif, leave alone talk about him 😂

[Barak Ravid @BarakRavid]

🚨Trump on Truth Social: Negotiations with the Islamic Republic of Iran are proceeding nicely! It will only be a Great Deal for all or, no Deal at all — Back to the Battlefront and shooting, but bigger and stronger than ever before — And nobody wants that! During my discussions on Saturday with President Mohammed bin Salman Al Saud, of Saudi Arabia, Mohammed bin Zayed Al Nahyan, of The United Arab Emirates, Emir Tamim bin Hamad bin Khalifa Al Thani, Prime Minister Mohammed bin Abdulrahman bin Jassim bin Jaber Al Thani, and Minister Ali al-Thawadi, of Qatar, Field Marshal Syed Asim Munir Ahmed Shah, of Pakistan, President Recep Tayyip Erdoğan, of Türkiye, President Abdel Fattah El-Sisi, of Egypt, King Abdullah II, of Jordan, and King Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, of Bahrain, I stated that, after all the work done by the United States to try and pull this very complex puzzle together,  it should be mandatory that all of these Countries, at a minimum, simultaneously, sign onto the Abraham Accords. Those Countries discussed are Saudi Arabia, The United Arab Emirates (already a Member!), Qatar, Pakistan, Türkiye, Egypt, Jordan, and Bahrain (already a Member!). It may be possible that one or two have a reason for not doing so, and that will be accepted, but most should be ready, willing, and able to make this Settlement with Iran a far more Historic Event than it would, otherwise, be. The Abraham Accords have proven to be, for the Countries involved (The United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Morocco, Sudan, and Kazakhstan), a Financial, Economic, and Social BOOM, even during this time of Conflict and War, with the current Members never even suggesting leaving, or taking so much as even a pause. The reason for this is that the Abraham Accords have been great for them, and will be even better for everybody, and bring true Power, Strength, and Peace to the Middle East for the first time in 5,000 years. It will be a Document respected like no other that has ever been signed, anywhere in the World. Its level of Importance and Prestige will be unparalleled! It should start with the immediate signing by Saudi Arabia and Qatar, and everybody else should follow suit. If they don’t, they should not be part of this Deal in that it shows bad intention. In speaking to numerous of the Great Leaders mentioned above, they would be honored, as soon as our Document is signed, to have the Islamic Republic of Iran as part of the Abraham Accords. Wow, now that would be something special! This will be the most important Deal that any of these Great, but always in Conflict Countries, will ever sign. Nothing in the past, or in the future, will surpass it. Therefore, I am mandatorily requesting that all Countries immediately sign the Abraham Accords, and that, if Iran signs its Agreement with me, as President of the United States of America, it would be an Honor to have them also be part of this unparalleled World Coalition. The Middle East would be United, Powerful, and Economically Strong, like perhaps no other area, anywhere in the World! By copy of this TRUTH, I am asking my Representatives to begin, and successfully complete, the process of signing these Countries into the already Historic Abraham Accords. Thank you for your attention to this matter!DONALD J. TRUMPPRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

Unless it's photoshopped, this image was captured under a blazing sun - a minimum of 40 degrees C, perhaps even higher!
Monument to eternal love and all is fine but, at that temperature more atavistic instincts become active; survival, for example. I won't be surprised if @marcorubio remarks a few year later that he was happy to come out of this photo op alive.

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

#InPics | #US Secretary of State #MarcoRubio and his wife Jeanette D Rubio visit the iconic #TajMahal in #Agra, #UttarPradesh

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

The 4 on the left are #J7, the two dark ones in three fever seem to be from the #Flanker family which #PAF does not operate. Then, the two at the right seem like swing wing (variable geometry) birds which again PAF does not operate. In fact, apart from legacy #MiG23, #MiG27 and #SU24, there are no variable geometry birds lefty inn the fighter world - certainly no Western ones! Intriguing!

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@the_hindu, @frontline_india can never go behind a paywall. That'll kill their online readership.
No one will pay to read this 👇excreta willingly. That's why the publication is free. That also means, it's running on foreign funds because it isn't making profits!

[Frontline @frontline_india]

NEW | The Assembly election in Bengal suggests India is moving from a flawed democracy towards a Russian-style managed democracy, where elections are increasingly engineered to favour the ruling party.

Debasish Roy Chowdhury (@Planet_Deb) ✍️
https://t.co/nyAvH2PTmf

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@Srinivasan114 @OpIndia_com @dibakardutta_ True!

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

Let me guess: AQI will improve?

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Commercial vehicle drivers in #Delhi-#NCR launched a three-day strike demanding fare hikes due to soaring fuel costs. Unions cite financial struggles, urging immediate government action on taxi and auto fares.

Know more 🔗 https://t.co/yPiFePefOF

#AutoUnion #Delhi #NCR #Taxi #Delhi

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@HelleLyngSvends
Why should you (Norway) trust India?!
That's a q that should be directed at your govt, not the Indian #PMOIndia.
Your govt has signed deals with India, clearly not without due diligence!
Norway is free to not trust India and the latter doesn't give a rat's A.
As for press freedom index, India (excluding #RahulGandhi and his caucus), are not bothered with subjective indices. We have far bigger issues to handle - for example, how to eradicate leftism.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

Whatever Pakistan does is aimed at countering India. I mean every single thing. Its relations with China, the USA and San Marino (assuming they know such a country exists), are with the intention of furthering their #GazwaEHind (look it up) goal.
You are making the mistake of assuming Pakistan is a normal country interested in doing good to its citizenry. It exists only to destroy India. #AsimMunir will sell his mom if that gets him one MM closer to his goal. Everything is chessboard for him - not that he's any good at chess!

[Sann @san_x_m]

His name was Rajan.

He was a final year engineering student at the Regional Engineering College in Calicut, Kerala. His father, T V Eachara Varier, was a Hindi professor at the Government Arts and Science College in the same city.

On the morning of March 1 1976 the police came to the college campus and took Rajan away.

India was under Emergency. Civil liberties were suspended. Courts had effectively turned away.

His father found out the next day from the college principal.

He went to every police station in the district. No one admitted to having his son.

He met the Home Minister of Kerala, K Karunakaran, directly.

He sent petitions to the Home Secretary of the Government of Kerala three times. Not a single reply or acknowledgement came.

He wrote to the President of India and the Home Minister of the central government, with copies to every Member of Parliament from Kerala.

Nothing.

What Eachara Varier did not know at the time was that his son had been taken to an illegal police interrogation camp at Kakkayam.

He was tortured.

A practice called uruttal was used, where a heavy wooden log is rolled over the body of the victim.

Rajan died from his injuries. His body was disposed of by the police and was never found.

When the Emergency ended in 1977 Eachara Varier filed a habeas corpus petition in the Kerala High Court.

It was the first such petition filed in Kerala after the Emergency.

He did it without legal training, without political backing, without money.

He had spent everything searching for his son.

The court case slowly unravelled the truth.

It forced K Karunakaran to resign as Chief Minister of Kerala in 1978 when the adverse judgment came.

Rajan’s mother became mentally unstable from the grief. She died in 2000 still not knowing where her son was.

Eachara Varier wrote his memoir, Memories of a Father, which won the Kerala Sahitya Akademi Award in 2004.

In its final lines he wrote, “I don’t close the door. Let the rain lash inside and drench me. Let at least my invisible son know that his father never shut the door.”

He died on April 13 2006. He never found his son’s body.

Rajan was picked up from his college campus on a March morning in 1976. He was never seen again.

Repost this. Some stories must not be allowed to disappear.

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

Roasting Josaph Vijay after Becoming Chief Minister https://t.co/cpvUxbvgsd via @YouTube

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

@RajThackeray yes. Manian Singh never asked people to not travel abroad. That's mostly because just a minuscule number actually traveled abroad anyway!

[Deccan Herald @DeccanHerald]

Manmohan Singh never asked citizens to stop travelling abroad, Raj Thackeray slams PM Modi's austerity appeal https://t.co/hlNDlMJVy0

[Sagar Tanksali @tsagar]

Farmers should avoid chemical fertilizers. Sure, sounds nice. However, here's a cautionery tale.
A few years ago, a charlatan named #VandanaShiva convinced the then govt of #SriLanka that they can sustain their farming without a grain of chemical fertilizers. The govt banned import of chem fert. Farm output dropped drastically and the country became bankrupt. The govt was toppled and the heads fled the country. @narendramodi @PMOIndia

[Kritik Jain @KritikCommunity]

Nation Building Also Happens Through Everyday Choices 🇮🇳

Hon’ble PM Narendra Modi Ji’s appeal in Hyderabad was not just about responding to global uncertainty.
It was a reminder that national resilience is built collectively through the daily decisions made by millions of citizens.

At a time when the world is facing economic disruptions, supply chain instability, inflationary pressures and geopolitical conflicts, India’s strength will depend not only on policy, but also on public participation.

Some key appeals made by the Prime Minister:

• Reduce petrol and diesel consumption by using metros, public transport, car-pooling and railways wherever possible

• Increase adoption of electric mobility and energy-efficient practices

• Revive practical measures like work-from-home, virtual meetings and online conferences where feasible

• Support India’s foreign exchange stability by prioritising domestic tourism, reducing unnecessary imports and choosing Made-in-India products

• Encourage healthier and economically sustainable habits, including reducing excess edible oil consumption

• Appeal to farmers to reduce chemical fertiliser usage, move towards natural farming and adopt solar-powered irrigation systems

The larger message is important.

Every litre of fuel saved, every locally manufactured product purchased, every import reduced and every conscious economic decision contributes to strengthening India’s long-term resilience.

India has overcome challenges before through discipline, participation and collective effort.

National strength is built through the everyday choices of its people🇮🇳

@narendramodi @BJP4India @NitinNabin @AmitShah #india #appeal