Important: So @ECISVEEP stays ‘silent’, doesn’t respond to Cong demand to reconsider Meenakshi Natarajan nomination for Rajya Sabha from MP when all the available evidence suggests that prima facie this was hardly a case which required a nomination rejection. At the very least, one would have expected clarity from a top constitutional body. Meanwhile, all 3 BJP candidates declared unopposed. Matter will now be heard in SC only tomorrow and expect ‘tareek pe tareek’ and a prolonged hearing. Yet another nail in the coffin of an institution one looked upto as a neutral umpire. 🙏
पंडित जवाहरलाल नेहरू यांना फाळणीने जखमी झालेला, आर्थिकदृष्ट्या उद्ध्वस्त, भूकमारी आणि दारिद्र्याने ग्रस्त देश मिळाला होता.
इंग्रजांनी २०० वर्षांत देशाची कशी लूट केली याची तक्रार करत बसण्याऐवजी त्यांनी आधुनिक भारताच्या उभारणीचा मार्ग निवडला. विज्ञाननिष्ठ विचार, लोकशाही संस्था, सार्वजनिक क्षेत्रातील उद्योग, धरणे, आयआयटीसारख्या ��ैक्षणिक संस्था आणि संशोधन केंद्रांच्या माध्यमातून भारताला विकासाच्या नव्या वाटेवर नेण्याचा प्रयत्न केला.
आजचा भारत ज्या औद्योगिक, वैज्ञानिक आणि लोकशाही पायावर उभा आहे, त्या पायाची जडणघडण स्वातंत्र्यानंतरच्या पहिल्या काही दशकांत झाली होती. इतिहासाशी हिशेब मांडण्यापेक्षा भविष्य घडवण्यावर भर देणे, हीच नेहरूंच्या नेतृत्वाची मोठी ओळख होती.
BREAKING : After a possible TMC merger into Congress, Rohit Pawar also hinted at a probable NCP merger
“TMC Chief and NCP Chief are considering the proposal. Merger is definitely possible, at the right time.”
Mark my words, United Congress with old heavyweights will completely destroy BJP in 2029 🔥
"I am Sayoni Ghosh, not some Chaddha that will become a Chaddi Sanghi and join BJP"
Today she is ready to join the rebel camp supporting the BJP 😂
Man !! The lady is more hypocrite than Modi himself !!
Rejection of nomination forms;
Coercion for withdrawal of the forms;
En masse defection of the elected candidates;
Uncontested elections due to withdrawals and rejections;
Are acceptable in a Society which doesn’t Care for its Democracy.
India, under Modi Regime, is not even pretending to be a functional Democracy.
Because, if it remains as one, Modi and Shah will be openly tried for all the Crimes and Constitutional trespassing.
It’s Ok my Dear Countrymen. It’s Ok❗️
The rejection of Ms. #MeenakshiNatarajan Ji’s Rajya Sabha nomination is a blatant assault on democratic principles. I strongly condemn the BJP’s apparent conspiracy in Madhya Pradesh to subvert the democratic process and deny fair political representation. #Democracy cannot flourish when #constitutional norms are sacrificed for partisan interests. Such actions weaken public faith in our institutions and must be unequivocally condemned.
@INCIndia@INCKerala
🚨Axar Patel picks Gujarat's vada pav over Mumbai's 😭❤️
Axar joked that Mumbai's famous vada pav is just a vada placed inside a pav, while Gujarat's version is properly cooked on a pan with masala, chutneys, garlic, butter and even cheese.
According to Axar, that's what makes Gujarat's vada pav taste even better. 😂❤️
Lance Naik Meenatchi Sundaram A (34 Rashtriya Rifles )
Took a bullet on his face and shoulder
Killed the hardcore terrorist even after sustaining severe injuries ensuring the mission success
Kirti Chakra felt proud today
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
His name is Siju David.
In the hills above Kodaikanal in Tamil Nadu, there is a cave system tourists call the Guna Caves. Locals call one part of it the Devil’s Kitchen.
It is a series of deep, narrow pits hidden between rocks. According to police records, at least thirteen people who fell into them had died. Some accounts put the number even higher.
Nobody who fell in had ever come out alive.
In 2006, Siju David, known to his friends as Kuttan, travelled there from Manjummel near Kochi with a group of childhood friends.
One of them was a young man named Subhash, who worked at a fabrication unit.
While crossing a crevice, Subhash slipped and fell into one of the pits. He dropped roughly eighty feet into the darkness.
His friends could not see him. For a while, they could not even hear him.
They ran for help. According to later accounts, the police were of little assistance, and when rescue personnel arrived, no one was willing to be lowered into the pit.
Everyone knew what the Devil’s Kitchen had done to the people who went in before.
Siju volunteered.
A rope was tied around him and he was lowered into the pit, not knowing whether it would even reach the bottom.
He later said he could not imagine going home without his friend.
At the bottom, he found Subhash alive but injured. He secured him, and both men were pulled back to the surface.
Subhash is the only person known to have fallen into the Guna Caves and survived.
For years, almost no one outside their town knew the story. Siju returned to an ordinary life.
The incident only became widely known in 2024 after a film was made about it.
He was not a rescuer. He was not trained. He had no equipment.
He simply refused to leave his friend in the dark.
Follow for stories India deserves to remember.
[Siju David (left) and Subhash Chandran]
She gave up her job, her marriage,
and her dreams... just to become a mother to her brother ♥️🙏
एक बहन का प्यार... जो माँ से रत्ती भर भी कम नहीं होता। ❤️
51 साल की शीतल... और 48 साल का उनका भाई अश्विन...
एक ऐसा अटूट रिश्ता, जिसे देखकर आँखें भर आएँगी। 🥹
जब सिर से माँ-बाप का साया उठा,
तो इस बहन ने एक पल भी अपने ब���रे में नहीं सोचा।
उसने अपने सुनहरे सपने छोड़ दिए...
अपनी अच्छी-खासी नौकरी कुर्बान कर दी...
और कभी शादी न करने का फैसला कर लिया...
सिर्फ इसलिए, ताकि उसका भाई कभी खुद को अकेला न समझे।
वो बहन से, अपने भाई की माँ बन गई।
आज के दौर में जहाँ लोग अपनों को भूल जाते हैं,
वहाँ शीतल ने अपना पूरा जीवन भाई की सेवा में समर्पित कर दिया।
यह महज़ एक फर्ज़ नहीं...
यह वो निस्वार्थ मोहब्बत है, जो इस दुनिया को खूबसूरत बनाती है। 🌸
सलाम है ऐसी बहन के त्याग और उसकी ममता को। 🙏✨
You probably have no idea who Salim Kumar is, but every Indian should read all about him today.
Salim Kumar was a Malayalam actor who passed away on Saturday night in Kochi at the age of 56. If you don't watch Malayalam cinema, strap in because his story is one of the most remarkable careers Indian cinema has produced, and it deserves to travel beyond Kerala.
He came from nothing. Born in North Paravur, a small town in Ernakulam, into a family that struggled with money. Government school. Graduated from Maharajas College.
So, no film connections, no family wealth, no shortcuts.
He started as a mimicry artist with Kalabhavan, a performance troupe in Kochi that has been the launchpad for dozens of Malayalam actors. Stage shows, comedy routines, television spots.
He was funny in a way that was impossible to ignore, the kind of performer who could make a room laugh in an instant.
His first film was Ishtamanu Nooru Vattam in 1997, a small role nobody remembers. For years he played supporting parts & background comedy.
Then the 2000s happened. His role as Mattancherry Mammathu in Satyameva Jayathe gave him his first real recognition, and after that the comedy roles started coming fast.
Pulival Kalyanam. Thuruppugulan. Kunjikkoonan. Marykkundoru Kunjaadu. If you grew up in Kerala in the 2000s, his face was in half the films you watched. He became the comedian audiences showed up for, the one whose scenes people replayed and quoted at family gatherings.
What separated him from most comedians was precision. He did not rely on volume or slapstick. He used his face, his body, his pauses.
He could get a laugh from the way he blinked. Directors started writing characters specifically for him, because they knew he would take whatever was on the page and make it three times funnier than they imagined.
For over a decade, he was the biggest comic face in Malayalam cinema.
Then came 2010 and a film called Adaminte Makan Abu.
A quiet, small-budget film directed by Salim Ahamed. The story follows an aging Muslim couple in a Kerala village whose only dream in life is to go on Hajj, the pilgrimage to Mecca.
They save every rupee. Things keep falling apart. The film is about their dignity, their patience, and their faith through one disappointment after another.
Salim Kumar played Abu. The man who owns nothing except his wife and his belief, and holds onto both with everything he has.
There is no comedy in the role. No punchlines, no funny faces, no playing to the gallery. It is the complete opposite of everything audiences had ever seen him do.
The entire performance is built on stillness, restraint, and pain carried quietly behind the eyes.
He won the National Film Award for Best Actor for it. That is the highest acting honour in Indian cinema. The film was also selected as India's official entry for the Best Foreign Language Film at the Academy Awards (Oscars) that year.
In one role, Salim Kumar went from "the funny guy from Malayalam films" to one of the most respected actors in Indian cinema.
He simply disappeared so completely into a character that you forgot you were watching a comedian at all.
He followed it with more serious work. Achanurangatha Veedu, which won him the Kerala State Award. Traffic, still considered one of the finest ensemble films in Malayalam cinema. Perumazhakkalam.
Each time, he proved the National Award was not a fluke. The man had range that most actors who only do drama cannot match.
Unfortunately, Salim Kumar suffered from liver cirrhosis, a condition he said was hereditary in his family and not related to alcohol. His brother had the same illness. He underwent a liver transplant a few years ago. He tried naturopathy. He talked about all of it openly, without shame, without self-pity.
He kept working between treatments. He kept being funny. He kept showing up, even when his body was failing him.
He was also fearlessly outspoken about politics and social issues, which in any film industry can cost you work. He did not care. He said what he believed and lived with the consequences.
He passed away Saturday night at a hospital in Kochi. He was 56. The Kerala government bore the funeral expenses and gave him police honours.
The Chief Minister paid homage personally. Mammootty, one of the biggest names in Indian cinema, mourned him publicly. Thousands of people lined up at the North Paravur Town Hall on Sunday to say goodbye.
350 films in three decades. A National Award for Best Actor. An Oscar entry. A career that started from mimicry stages and ended at the very top of Indian cinema.
The reason most of India does not know his name is because Malayalam cinema, despite being one of the best film industries in the country, still does not get the national attention it deserves.
Actors like Salim Kumar live and work in a language bubble, and their stories rarely cross over the way a Bollywood career would.
This is a loss for everyone who never got to watch him. A man who came from poverty, made millions laugh, then proved he could make them cry just as hard, and fought his own hardest battle with utmost dignity.
If you watch one film after reading this, make it Adaminte Makan Abu. It is a masterpiece.
In what is rarely seen in politics today, 2 people have shown that all is not lost in terms of loyalty, grace and promises.
The newly sworn in chief minister of Karnataka Shri @DKShivakumar ji has shown unwavering loyalty to his party.
Unlike the cowards who ran away from our Party in 2022, for fear or greed, this man faced the central agencies of the dictatorial union regime, and yet remained in the @INCIndia .
Then after winning the elections, served his state patiently as the DCM and today has been sworn in as Chief Minister today.
His courage, his graceful and patient leadership has to be congratulated.
The same now goes for former CM, Shri @siddaramaiah ji, who served as the CM, with a good support from MLAs and very very gracefully stepped aside to make way for DK ji without any hesitation or dirty politics unlike many of today’s politicians.
There are many who can’t live without power and go to any dirty extent to remain stuck to it. Cowards and greedy politicians, like the ones who ran away from our party in 2022, break trust, break parties, break human decency and limits of shame.
This grace, gratitude, courage and loyalty is rare.
It has shone through the last 15 days of politics in Karnataka and is something for politicians across the board to learn from.
No gaddari, only grace!