Veena Venkatesan

Lecturer at Karnavat Classes

[Lee Kuan Yimby @LeeKuanYimby]

I was just in Mumbai, and I have to give them credit for the progress they’re making on infrastructure. The new Aqua Line metro is phenomenal. But the amount of work India still has to do on basic cleanliness and sanitation and it is hard to understand until you see it yourself. Would love for more westerners to go just to understand how wealthy they are, but that's a different point.

Mumbai is completely surrounded by water, yet there are almost no places where people can actually enjoy the water. The beaches are filled with trash, the water is badly contaminated, and almost nobody swims, even when it’s brutally hot outside. Walking on the beach is just mud and trash meeting filthy water on the horizon.

There are much poorer places around the world where people can still use the beaches. This is not just about money. India has gone decades without adequate trash collection, sewage treatment, or enforcement for a population of more than a billion people. At this point, the scale of the problem feels almost impossible, and the oceans around the world are paying the price for Indias garbage output as well.

I like the direction Modi is taking the country, but India needs to treat cleanup like a national emergency. Stop with the small campaigns and organize a full scale blitz.

Offer unemployed people paid work picking up trash, clearing drains and waterways, cleaning beaches, and maintaining public spaces. Give them proper equipment and supervision. Then build the collection and waste processing systems needed to stop everything from becoming filthy again a week later.

India has shown that it can build metros, airports, highways, and digital infrastructure. Clean streets and usable water should be treated as infrastructure too.

Mumbai should have one of the greatest waterfronts in the world. Instead, it's has basically an irrelevant feature of the city and feels surrendered to sewage and garbage.

[Mumbai Rains @rushikesh_agre_]

Dear Mumbaikars,

As Mumbai is witnessing below normal #MumbaiRains so far and water stocks remaining under pressure, please follow these 8 simple steps 👇

1. Fix leaking taps and pipelines immediately.
2. Avoid washing vehicles with running water. Use a bucket instead of a hose for cleaning.
3. Turn off taps while brushing or shaving.
4. Reuse RO purifier wastewater wherever possible.
5. Avoid unnecessary pressure washing of compounds and pavements.
6. Ensure overhead tanks do not overflow.
7. Report major leakages in your locality to BMC & respective authorities.
8. Encourage rainwater harvesting in housing societies.

The monsoon is expected to strengthen soon but until then please use water responsibly. Every drop saved today will matter tomorrow💧

Let's do our bit.

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

Why is the West not curious on the great Indian 🇮🇳 civilization?

This week Prime Minister Narendra Modi visited Norway. The government rolled out the red carpet. King Harald invited for lunch. All bigwigs of Norwegian business turned up. This is of course as it should be at such a historic visit.

Rather different was media. No curiosity, no real attempt to understand India. When the third most powerful man in the world visits Norway, you may expect some real interest? An attempt to understand the world’s third largest economy, a global green leader, one of the world’s brightest civilizations??

It’s not that Norway is overrun with visit at this level. Last Indian top visit was Indira Gandhi in 1983. Last Chinese president visit was 1996, last American president was 2009.

Here are some taste bits from Norwegian media:

* Aftenposten the largest newspaper printed a caricature of Modi as a snake charmer, many found it racist and derogatory. The accompanying article (written by an otherwise brilliant journalist) described Modi as a “slightly annoying man” and simply showcased that India is not high on the papers reading lists.

* Norsk rikskringkasting (NRK), the state broadcaster, explained “why prime minister Støre is clearing his desk to receive Modi”. From everyone outside Norway I got exactly the opposite question: Why did Modi use his valuable time in such a small and insignificant place?

* Dagsavisen, a left of center daily, sent a young journalist to throw questions after Modi - claiming that India is 157 on a global democracy ranking. When a ranking is so contrary to common sense - why doesnt she ask those who created the ranking why they spread such nonsense?

I am not aware of one Norwegian journalist closely following India. NOT ONE! How can the public learn more?

Unless you believe democracy only fits a handful of small, homogenous, ultra rich western nations, India is the miracle of democracy. The large, complex, lingustically and religiously diverse nation with many poor people - which has etablished a vibrant democracy and is much less violent than Europe or America.

India can in fact make a claim to be the worlds most homegrown and impressive democracy.

We are entering the Asian century. Unless we Europeans become more curious - to civiliazation, history, politics and economy in the Global South - we will become the big losers of history.

[Erik Solheim @ErikSolheim]

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy!

During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape.

May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy?

Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process?

In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people?

The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings.

It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world.

Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges.

Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy?

India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

[Raghunath Mashelkar @rameshmashelkar]

Breaking news!

Dr Soumya Swaminathan @doctorsoumya has been elected as FRS, Fellow of Royal Society, one of the highest global hours that a scientist can receive.
@royalsociety

With her father Bharat Ratna Prof Swaminathan also being elected as FRS, this is the first daughter-father FRS duo from India.

Also she is the second Indian woman scientist being elected in 365 years history of Royal Society, the first being Prof Gagandeep Kang.

Very proud moment for Indian Science & indeed for us Indians.

Heartiest congratulations dear Soumya!

@PMOIndia @DrJitendraSingh @PrinSciAdvOff @CSIR_IND @ICMRDELHI @IndiaDST @DBTIndia @PuneIntCentre

[Sachin Tendulkar @sachin_rt]

What made Shreyas Iyer’s catch so special was not just the athleticism, but the awareness behind it.

He had to judge the speed of the ball, the height, where the boundary rope was, how close he was to stepping on it, and get his jump absolutely perfect.

Then, while still in the air, he caught the ball and released it to a teammate before landing, all the while knowing exactly where that fielder was positioned.

To process all of that in a split second takes unbelievable awareness, timing, fitness, and composure.

@ShreyasIyer15 got everything spot on. One of the best catches I’ve ever seen live!

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

If you have the Monday blues, listen to this for 4 minutes and am sure you’ll smile and feel better! Enjoy the genius of RD and Asha! Pure magic!😃⭐️👍

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Cricket gyaan: I saw Sachin Tendulkar at 14 and thought I would never see another prodigious teen talent quite like him. Vaibhav Suryavanshi is potentially just as special, in his case with a white ball for now. Just another level of batting skill. 🤩👍

[Latha Venkatesh @latha_venkatesh]

From this budget India will shift from targeting fiscal deficit to targeting debt-to-GDP. Here’s a quick explainer on what this means…just to prepare you for the coming budget
https://t.co/q9VqKXpyHV

[Mohini Maheshwari @mohinimaheshwa]

On the night of May 20, 2025, a little girl in a faded pink frock fell asleep on her mother’s lap at Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus. Her parents, simple people from Solapur, had come to Mumbai for her father’s treatment. They were exhausted. Just for a moment, the mother closed her eyes.

When she opened them, her daughter was gone.

Six months.
Six months of walking from police station to police station.
Six months of showing the same crumpled photograph to strangers on trains, in slums, in orphanages.
Six months of the father not sleeping, the mother not eating, both of them growing hollow-eyed, whispering the same name into the dark: “Aarohi… Aarohi…”

In Varanasi, a thousand kilometres away, a tiny girl with no memory of her real name was learning to call herself “Kashi.” She had been found crying near the railway tracks in June, barefoot and terrified. The orphanage gave her food, a bed, and a new name. She smiled easily, because children always do, but sometimes at night she clutched the edge of her blanket and asked for “Aai” — Marathi for mother — and no one understood.

Back in Mumbai, the police refused to close the file. They printed posters with Aarohi’s face, stuck them on every platform from Lokmanya Tilak Terminus to Bhusawal to Varanasi Cantt. They ran newspaper ads, knocked on doors, begged journalists for help. Six months is a long time for hope to stay alive, but some officers carried her photograph in their shirt pockets like it was their own child.

Then, on November 13, a local reporter in Varanasi saw the poster. Something clicked. He had seen a girl who spoke Marathi words in her sleep. He made a phone call.

The next morning, a Mumbai Police inspector sat in front of a laptop in Varanasi and opened a video call. On the screen appeared a little girl in a pink frock — the same colour she was wearing the day she vanished. The mother, standing behind the officer in Mumbai, saw her daughter and collapsed without a sound. The father just kept repeating, “That’s my Aarohi… that’s my baby…”

They flew her back on Children’s Day — November 14.

When the plane landed, the entire Mumbai Crime Branch was waiting. They had bought her balloons and a new frock, sky blue this time. But the moment the little girl stepped out and saw the sea of khaki uniforms, she did something no one expected.

She ran.

Not away — toward them.

Tiny legs pumping, arms outstretched, she threw herself at the nearest officer and laughed — the purest, clearest laugh that had been missing from the world for half a year. The officer, a tough man who had seen everything, felt his eyes burn. He lifted her high, and she wrapped her arms around his neck like he was family.

Her parents were crying too hard to walk. So the policemen carried their daughter to them.

The mother touched her face again and again, as if checking she was real. The father fell to his knees and pressed his forehead to his child’s tiny feet, sobbing words no one could understand except God.

And the little girl? She just kept smiling, looking from her parents to the officers and back again, completely unaware that she had turned an entire police station into a sobbing, laughing, praying family.

Six months of darkness ended in one hug.

Aarohi is home now.
The kidnapper is still out there, but that is tomorrow’s fight.

Today, a mother is singing lullabies again.
Today, a father is smiling in his sleep.
And somewhere in Mumbai, there are policemen who will never forget the weight of a four-year-old girl in their arms — the weight of an entire life returned.

Sometimes the uniform doesn’t just catch thieves.
Sometimes it carries lost children all the way back to their mothers’ hearts.

[The Kaipullai @thekaipullai]

Happened to see the trailer of 120 Bahadur by Farhan Akhtar.

The movie brings the brave story of Major Shaitan Singh Bhati and the 123 Soldiers of the Kumaon Regiment, who fought till the last man and the last bullet against 3000+ Chinese soldiers, in the Battle of Rezang La

The trailer was amazing, and it sent me to do some reading.

At first, I was inspired. Then I stumbled upon a sad story that made me question the very character of us as a nation.

But some history first.

The 1962 War between India and China was independent India's first reality check of international relations. It all started with the India - China border, which was always a contentious one. Both didn't agree with each other on its definition.

Our then PM who used to think that his personal charisma was enough as a diplomatic tool and thought fancy terms like Panchsheel and Speaking Good English in UN was enough to counter Chinese aggression, he embarked on what he called the "Forward Policy"

It was a fancy term for sending unprepared soldiers to dispersed positions on mountain tops which were 18000 ft above sea level. And to make things worse, we sent them with inadequate clothing, equipment, weapons, intelligence and an absolute lack of strategy.

The Chinese predictably took advantage of this cluelessness and attacked us.

Initially they raked up victory after victory in Arunachal Pradesh and Ladakh. They even captured Tawang. They thought this war would be a walkover and trained their eyes on Ladakh.

They thought capturing Ladakh would be easy.

Unfortunately, they didn't account for Major Singh and his 123 men from the Kumaon Regiment.

On 18th Nov 1962, they came to an isolated place in Ladakh called Rezang La. It was the last point between them and another place called Chushul, which was the gateway to Ladakh.

Lulled into a false sense of confidence and expecting an easy victory, 3000 Chinese soldiers thought all they had to do was walk in and they would capture Rezang la.

But Major Singh and his men had other ideas.

On that day, they decided to show the Chinese what a Great wall actually looked like.

At 18,000 feet above sea level, in temperatures which were 20 to 30 degrees below zero, Major Singh and his men, using Machine Guns and mortars repelled wave after wave of Chinese invaders.

At times, when they ran out of ammo, they resorted to brutal hand to hand fighting to throw the Chinese back.

For 6-8 hours, Major Singh and his men sent hundreds of Chinese to the Chinese version of Valhalla. They fought with such incredible daring and bravery that they gave a serious inferiority complex to the Spartans of Thermopylae.

Unfortunately, the Chinese had too many soldiers, and eventually they surrounded Major Singh and his men.

Of his 123 men, 114 men, including Maj Singh made the ultimate sacrifice for the country. Most of them died, with their weapons in hand and facing toward the enemy. It was a performance that made Gods weep.

The performance of Major Singh and his men shocked the Chinese. This was the fiercest resistance they had faced till that point in the war.

Realizing things aren't going to be easy for them anymore, three days later, they declared a unilateral ceasefire and withdrew.

For his Supreme Sacrifice and his bravery that would make Lord Narasimha himself proud, Major Bhati was awarded the Param Vir Chakra posthumously.

His brave exploits had not only moved India. It had made an impact on the Chinese and the Americans as well. So much so, that they still teach about him and his men in the PLA War College and West Point, on how to defend.

But this post is not about his brave saga. I am sure Farhan Akhtar would tell it better than me.

This post is about what his family faced at the hands of our heartless and rapacious bureaucracy and our impotent judiciary, after his heroic sacrifice.

As a wife of a fallen hero, Major Singh's widow Sugan Kunwari was eligible for 60% of Major Singh's salary as pension. But for some reason, she was only given 30%.

The Govt as gratuity gave Rs 4000 to her in 1963, and given what Major Singh had done, they bloody well had to. But the govt babudom being govt babudom, they recovered it from her pension in 1964.

The Indian babu who actually passed this order was like "You could be a war hero and might have repelled the Chinese and all, but you can't repel our rules and regulations"

Then the Indian govt "liberalized" the pension rules in 1972, but Sugan Kunwari continued receiving the pension under the old scheme till, I kid you not, 1996.

Add to that, she was supposed to get a gratuity of Rs 9500 as per the new rules. She didn't get that as well.

I guess maybe some memo granting her the pension, got blocked in some file on a random table in South Block.

To claim his rightful money, the family of Major Singh filed a case in the Armed forces Tribunal - Jaipur in 1996, for the arrears between 1972 and 1995 and the revised gratuity.

They didn't even ask for retrospective implementation of pension rules since 1962, because unlike the rotten scoundrels of our bureaucracy, they were honest people. And this was the money that was rightfully theirs.

Ideally speaking, the day someone finds out that a hero like Major Singh was wronged, every authority, every official, every armed force guy would move heaven and earth to right that wrong.

As a war hero, we think his files would have been processed in record time and within 24 hours, the family of Major Singh would have received the shortfall with interest, and an apology note from the seniormost army general of the area, right?

Wrong

The case my friends, 30 years later, is still going on.

Major Singh's widow, unfortunately passed away in 2015 without a verdict and was still receiving the old pension.

His son continued the case, but he has not been heard since 2016, as there was apparently no judge at the Armed forces tribunal in Jaipur.

As of 2021, when there are last traces of this case, it was still going on.

If the family of a war hero, who gave his life for the nation, a Param Vir Chakra awardee, someone whose bust the govt inaugurated in the national war memorial in all pomp and glory, and someone who is a hero to us all, is treated like this by our babudom, then what chance do we stand?

There is a line in the song based on this war which says "Kar Chale hum fida jaano, ab tumhare hawale watan saathiyon"

Major Singh gave his life so that we could have our country and our tomorrow. Have we justified his sacrifice?

I don't think we have.

The nation which forgets is real heroes, is doomed to live with false useless ones.

I think we should all be ashamed of ourselves.

P:S: Considering the difference, I don't think the total amount would be more than Rs 10 Lakhs, including interest.

This is the bribe money that a corrupt clerk collects before lunch time. Or a corrupt judge throws out in a raid.

And we strung Major Singh's family for this, for over 30 years now.

[Shekar Iyer @SHEKARSUSHEEL]

Happy Birthday Amit 🎉
He was as good in sensitive emotional roles as he was in action movies. So he was a big Favourite with film makers like Hrishikesh Mukherjee, Basu Chatterjee. Amitabh is the first Indian actor to be paid over Rs 1 crore in remuneration for films.
Contd..

[Nandita V @nandita_venky]

PM @narendramodi has announced introducing next-gen #GST reforms in his i-day address. I do hope it includes doing away the high rates on assistive devices for the disabled. Putting high tax on walking, seeing & hearing is regressive! @GST_Council @FinMinIndia

[Sunita Sayammagaru 🇮🇳🇬🇧 @drsunita02]

Dear Indian #MedTwitter and all those people who follow the Liver Doc.

Liver doc who thinks he is the only messiah of EBM (Evidence Based Medcine) and criticizes all other therapies including yoga and meditation as Pseudoscience, shouldn't be working in a hospital that has religious affiliations and supports religious healing. There is perhaps nothing wrong if religious healing works for a patient, but hum kare tho pseudoscience and aap kare tho EBM??? Hypocrisy much.

Now, there are so many young doctors/residents/interns who blindly follow Liver doc. I want to ask you all a few hard hitting questions. Think and reflect.

1) Do you know how research is conducted?

2) Can you with 100% guarantee tell me that all research that is published out there has been conducted ethically?

3) Can you with 100% guarantee tell me that all the research that is conducted and published is not pharma driven?

4) I guess you are already aware how some papers have author names on them. They are "ghost" authors. Everyone wants publications. They is so much of "you scratch my back and I shall scratch your back" in academia. Some of these authors don't even know ABC of the study their name is mentioned in.

5) Young Indian docs, I think you are already aware of how one can pay money and get their names onto some research papers, that research which was never ever conducted, a dummy research! Ask your seniors, your professors if this isn't true.

Anyway, you all are already aware of how your thesis is done in 3rd year. Most of it is copy paste. Similarly, there is other research that is completely fictitious too.

6) If above such type of useless research gets published, and if doctors/ people derive Evidence from it, then how does it become Evidence Based Medicine????

Lots of articles are written about poor quality research. A simple Google search will bring it up. Read them.

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There are lots of good researchers out there, even from.India, who have done excellent research. They know and we know who they are. Kudos to them.

But bad eggs are there everywhere too.

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7) How many of Indian doctors work and earn only by seeing patients alone and not at all involved by the freebies and "activities" gifted by the pharma guys??

8) I think Indian #MedTwitter is already aware of how some doctors earn a lot just by pharma affiliations alone.

By the way, why do pharma guys give freebies to doctors?? There is that overt and subtle coercion that their drugs should be prescribed whether it is necessary or not.
Oh, by the way, UK had removed all such sort of pharma driven activities when I was working there. Hence, we could happily prescribe generic medicines there.

9) I think Indian #MedTwitter is already aware that not all Modern medicine hospitals and not all Modern medicine doctors are pure and without any blemishes. They have done mistakes and harmed patients.

Case in point, just 2 days back an Anaesthiology resident , going by the handle of Dr. She writes about the incompetency of a Modern Med doc who runs a 4 story hospital in Bengaluru, and how it lead to the unfortunate death of her brother in law who was in his early 30s and how helpless she was.

Many many more examples such as this. You all #MedTwitter are aware of the ills of what ails Modern medicine.

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But there are thousands of good doctors too, who treat patients ethically and morally.

But bad eggs are everywhere too.

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So, if Modern medicine and it's doctors are itself not spotless clean, what gives us the right to shoot and blast other alternative therapies??

I think, we should clean up the muck in our house first, before trying to clean the muck in others' homes.

Are you guys so insecure that you will lose out your patients to alternative therapies??

Why should you be so insecure? Afterall, you all Modern medicine docs have been shouting from the rooftops these last few days that other therapies are Pseudoscience.

If you have 100% belief in your own knowledge, your own speciality and your skill, then you will have that QUIET confidence that your patients will not go anywhere else.

Think like a patient. If you are a patient, and you are getting better under one Modern Medicine doctor, why the hell will you go to some other alternative therapy?? It doesn't make sense, does it.

All patients want to become better. They don't care how they become better. They just want to get better.

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Have you young Indian #MedTwitter thought why people flock to Alternative therapies? Whether the alternative therapies work or not isn't the discussion here, patients flock to them because those doctors give time to patients. They take a detailed history and show empathy. Half of patients' problems get better by this itself - "doctor as a placebo".

How much time are you or your seniors giving your patients?? 2 minutes? 5 minutes? It's a joke. Most of Modern medicine doctors don't even listen to patient's and they write a huge list of medicines.

How do I know all this? I am also from the same pool as you and I have eyes
ears and I observe. I also have 4 elderly people in my home whom I take for regular check-ups for their complex problems. I have never ever told the treating doctor in the beginning that I am a doctor myself. So, I get to see them, their work as a layperson.

There were some snobbish specialists and superspecialists. But there were some wonderful doctors too, under whom we are still continuing.

So good doctors are definitely there but bad eggs are there in our field too.

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Now coming to the other part. Yes, some/quite a few alternative therapies don't work.

Yes, Modern Medicine is definitely life saving for the acute complications like vascular complications, MI, strokes, cancers, surgical problems, fevers, ICU admissions etc etc etc, but there is still so much which Modern medicine hasn't been able to cure, and which Modern Medcine still doesn't have the answers for. Then, how can we be snobbish and proud???

What are we proud about? The more one practices, the more one realizes that Medicine is not black and white, medicine is grey. And no two patients behave/become better similarly. There are so many variables in treating/healing a patient.

When we ourselves don't have answers to some of our patients' problems, how can you be so sure that Alternative therapies don't have the solutions to it. Have you studied their books?

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I am not supporting Alternative therapies or therapists. All, I am saying is that we don't have the right to crucify someone when we ourselves are at fault too.

Yes, by all means voice about the harm alternative therapies have done to patients. I do have some patients who have been harmed by alternative therapists too. But don't be calm about the harm that Modern medicine is doing too.

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Bottomline:
Keep your minds open. What ultimately a good doctor wants is for his patients to improve.

If you genuinely wish well for your patients, you will have an open mind. You will think out of the box, rather than being a one track pony. You will think why your particular one patient didn't become better. You will try to dig out the root cause and you yourself will go to any lengths to make the patient better.

Patient is watching you. He is aware of the help you are giving him. And if you can't make him better despite your best efforts, and if you are honest about the same, he will infact appreciate your honesty. Afterall they are also human beings just like you and I.

#MedTwitter

[Mangalam Maloo @blitzkreigm]

Wonderful explanation of the Middle-East Crisis, its roots, the reasons and the global support to each side along with the undertones of a Cold War, by @latha_venkatesh

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Mr Trump’s post is disappointing for India in four important ways: First, it implies a false equivalence between the victim and the perpetrator, and seemingly overlooks the US’ own past unwavering stance against Pakistan’s well-documented links to cross-border terrorism. Second, it offers Pakistan a negotiating framework which it certainly has not earned. India will never negotiate with a terrorist gun pointed at its head. Third, it “internationalises” the Kashmir dispute, an obvious objective of the terrorists. India rejects the idea of a dispute and sees the problem as an internal affair of India’s. India has never requested, not is likely to seek, any foreign country’s mediation over its problems with Pakistan. And fourth, it “re-hyphenates” India and Pakistan in the global imagination. For decades now, world leaders had been encouraged not to club their visits to India with visits to Pakistan, and starting with President Clinton in 2000, no US President had done so. This is a major backward step.

[THE SKIN DOCTOR @theskindoctor13]

Last night, Pakistani launched missile and drone attacks on multiple Indian cities, including Awantipura, Srinagar, Jammu, Pathankot, Amritsar, Kapurthala, Jalandhar, Ludhiana, Bhatinda, Chandigarh, and Bhuj.

Imagine an attack on this scale, yet our common citizens didn’t even realise it happened. Why? Because unlike Pakistan, we have a functional defence system that shot down everything they launched. And today, we retaliated, with precision. They couldn’t intercept a thing.

We don’t appreciate and thank our Armed Forces’ capabilities enough!

[Ministry of Defence, Government of India @SpokespersonMoD]

India has launched #OperationSindoor, a precise and restrained response to the barbaric #PahalgamTerrorAttack that claimed 26 lives, including one Nepali citizen. Focused strikes were carried out on nine #terrorist infrastructure sites in Pakistan and Pakistan-occupied Jammu and Kashmir, targeting the roots of cross-border terror planning. Importantly, no Pakistani military facilities were hit, reflecting India’s calibrated and non-escalatory approach. This operation underscores India’s resolve to hold perpetrators accountable while avoiding unnecessary provocation. A detailed briefing on the operation will follow later today.

Read more: https://t.co/GYMCS01A46

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@DefenceMinIndia
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@PIB_India

[Nandita V @nandita_venky]

Watch this @France24_en @FRANCE24 video on India's battle against TB featuring me, @lancelot_pinto and Dr Camilla Rodrigues from Hinduja Hospital.
#WorldTBDay @TerezaKasaeva
@TbDivision @doctorsoumya

https://t.co/dhaOnTj9mq

[Manish Bothra🇮🇳 @MoneyMystery]

Mr. Hiranandani..one of the Top most builders.
Listen what he says.