Dhaval Ved @veddhaval - Twitter Profile

23 days ago

@NewsAlgebraIND Make whole new website because captcha is not working. 🤦‍♂️ What next? Uproot and re-lay railway tracks because train got delayed !?

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Raj Thackeray

@RajThackeray

about 2 months ago

Jai Maharashtra, Two days ago, Prime Minister Narendra Modi appealed to Indians to adopt austerity. Reduce gold purchases, avoid unnecessary foreign travel, consume less petrol and diesel, shift to electric vehicles, and embrace work-from-home practices. Why? Because gold and crude oil are imported, and they drain precious foreign exchange reserves. And with the Iran conflict escalating, global crude prices have surged sharply. Fair enough. But the Prime Minister and senior leaders continue to travel across the country with massive convoys, roadshows, helicopters, flower showers, and extravagant political campaigns. Will the prime minister admit that ‘such political excesses were our mistake, and all of us including me, will not repeat it’? Why should the common man suffer for your mistakes? Is austerity meant only for the citizen and never for the political class? Crude oil today is hovering around 90–100 dollars per barrel. But this is not the first time the world has seen such prices. During the 2008 financial crisis, during the Arab Spring of 2011–12, and the 2013–14 phase (when the BJP itself aggressively attacked the UPA over fuel prices) and again during the OPEC production cuts in 2022–23, crude prices had similarly touched these levels. During 3-4 such periods Dr. Manmohan Singh was the Prime Minister. Narendra Modi himself held the position once. Dr. Manmohan Singh did not ask citizens to stop travelling abroad. Narendra Modi himself did not make such appeals earlier either. So why now? When global crude prices had fallen to nearly 60–65 dollars per barrel, Indian citizens were still paying extremely high prices for petrol and diesel because of heavy taxation. The government earned lakhs of crores through fuel taxes. Where did that money go? The Prime Minister once mocked the “freebie culture.” Yet elections - from Maharashtra to Bihar to West Bengal - are increasingly fought and won through precisely such populist giveaways. In Maharashtra, the ‘Ladki Bahin’ scheme has put tremendous strain on state finances. Instead of genuinely empowering women through jobs, education, and safety, governments distribute temporary cash benefits while inflation silently takes back much of that money. If the economic situation is indeed serious, will the Prime Minister openly ask all political parties to stop competitive populism? The PM now asks citizens to reduce fuel consumption. Fine. But why did this wisdom not emerge during massive election campaigns involving thousands of vehicles, endless roadshows, and the transport of lakhs of supporters across states like West Bengal, Assam, Tamil Nadu, and Kerala? That itself would have burnt crores of liters of petrol and diesel. This didn’t occur to you when massive money power was wielded to gain votes there? Citizens are also being advised to avoid foreign travel. But how many Indians can afford international travel today? Even the middle class that can afford it is living under constant job insecurity. Students wish to study abroad because India has not invested deeply enough in higher education over the last decade, nor created enough confidence in domestic institutions. All you seem to be interested in is imposition of Hindi. Meanwhile, foreign institutional investors have been steadily pulling money out of Indian markets. Estimates suggest that nearly ₹1.5 lakh crore has exited over the past few months. The Prime Minister and his Chief Ministers travel to colder climates to cement investment deals. But if they are making those deals with Indian companies, why even go to Switzerland for it? The Prime Minister himself is embarking on another multi-country foreign tour beginning May 15. First cancel these travels and then preach austerity.

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Rants&Roasts

@Sydusm

about 2 months ago

India is on a new quest. And it feels like progress. The industrialist who once built something real, who actually understood risk and reward, has figured out a simpler way to exist. And grow. Bow early, smile at the right rallies, donate handsomely, show up when called, cheer for the visionary and your empire stays intact. Loans get cleared. Defaults are forgiven and forgotten. Rivals develop strange problems. It costs nothing except a small tradeoff of intelligence. The bureaucrat who once believed that merit was the only ladder has found a much faster one. You don't need to perform. You don't need to deliver. You take the fast elevator. Be available, aligned, and enthusiastic about the right things at the right time. For the right wing. The posting comes. The seniority follows. Hardly anyone makes a noise. All good. The young man who was promised jobs and received nothing has found that there is work after all. Break something for the right people and there will be no case against you. Do it with enough noise and there might even be a future in it. A party ticket - who knows. Vandalism has indeed become a career option for a generation that was given no other. The professor who spent a lifetime building arguments has learned that silence is the safer course. No controversy means no phone calls at night, no transfer orders, no sudden reviews of funding. The institution breathes easier. So does the pension and post retirement placements. The judge has learned that certain verdicts age better than others. Retirement is long and post retirement life can be very comfortable if you were quietly useful to the right people at the right moments. Nothing dramatic. Just a lean here, a delay there, a particular reading of a particular clause, a few biased verdicts. Everyone is running the same calculation. How much intelligence can I surrender and what exactly do I get for it. And the answer keeps coming back favourable. So the experiment continues, station by station, person by person, institution by institution. This is not decay in the way we usually mean it. Decay suggests something unintended, beyond control. This is more deliberate than that. Everyone chose this. Everyone is still choosing it every single morning. India is not falling. India is on a very specific journey, one where the destination is absolute idiocy and the remarkable thing is how many rewards there are along the way. At every stop someone gets something. A contract, a posting, a verdict, a tenure, a ticket, a bail, an RS seat, a possibility to enter the washing machine. And so nobody gets off. The journey continues. And the distance from intelligence keeps growing, and it feels, to most people who are watching from the sidelines, like progress.

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Dhruv Rathee

@dhruv_rathee

2 months ago

Let me just say one thing here - I care more about India’s progress than ENTIRE BJP combined. One day you will realize this and regret supporting the wrong side. And, just to remind you, if I really cared about money, I would have joined BJP and ironically people like you would be licking my boots if that had happened.

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2 months ago

A PROTEST IS PROTESTED. WHEN POLITICS BLOCKS ROADS, PUBLIC PATIENCE SNAPS. A Worli commuter, stuck in a traffic jam for over an hour, storms into BJP-led Mahayuti’s Mahila Jan Akrosh rally furious over missing her child’s pickup. The protest, targeting opposition over Women’s Reservation, brought roads to a standstill. She confronts organisers, calls out Minister Girish Mahajan, demands rallies be moved off public roads.

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