Amit Agrawal

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[Amit Agrawal @whyyamit]

1. Gaddi jaandi ae chhalanga mardi, Mainu yaad aaye mere yaar di.
Truckers are like nutrition carrying blood in the veins of any nation. They keep nation alive & their stories are worth telling. Loved the concept & execution of the most novel travelogues written in recent times.

[Muthukrishnan Dhandapani @dmuthuk]

Lee Kuan Yew did not wipe corruption out of the human heart. He made it rare, dangerous, and shameful at every level that mattered. That is different from a magic clean society. It is a system.

He started with himself. When well wishers sent gifts after he took office, he refused them. A gift, he said, is how the rot begins. Ministers and civil servants were put under the same rule. Accept a present and you pay its value or it is taken and sold.

He gave the graft agency real teeth. The Corrupt Practices Investigation Bureau could look at anyone, including a minister. If a prime minister blocked a probe, the director could go to the President.

Living far above your salary could itself be used as evidence. The law was written so the officers hunting graft had more power than the people they were hunting.

He paid honest people enough to stay honest. Cheap officials steal. Able people were given serious pay so they did not need a suitcase from a contractor. Then he still punished those who took money.

He changed the public story. Schools, campaigns, and newspapers treated the bribe as a stain, not as cleverness. In many countries the big thief is admired. In Singapore he was meant to be ruined.

He also built dull, strict systems. Every file, tender, and audit had to be in order. Civil servants were expected to refuse a bad request, even from someone powerful.

Watching only works if the leader is ready to act against his own team. Lee Kuan Yew was ready.

What he did not do is preach only. He combined example, pay, law, fear, and disgrace. Remove any one of those and the system weakens.

Corruption never really dies. It waits for a weak year and a friend who is too big to touch.

Singapore stayed clean because the men at the top were willing to punish their own. That is the part most countries refuse to do.

[Mathews J. Nedumpara @NedumparaJ]

Abolish the Collegium. Advertise vacancies for judges and invite applications. Select judges on the basis of merit, as is done for the IAS, IPS, etc. Abolish the designation of Senior Advocate. Abolish PILs, except as representative proceedings.

Livestream court proceedings, preserve the recordings, and make them accessible to litigants, lawyers, and the public. Abolish contempt of court.

On these issues, as well as the other objectives of the NLC, I extend my unstinted support to Mehamood Pracha and his Andolan. I must hasten to add that my support is issue-based and has nothing to do with political affiliations.

Mathews J. Nedumpara

[Ajay Rotti @ajayrotti]

Two of the most corrupt places in my experience:

1. Sub Registrar
2. RTO

Mind numbingly difficult to get things done without an agent and/or money.

[Hamza Lakdawala @hamzamlakdawala]

The BCI is about to discover that the only demographic capable of being an even bigger pain in the butt than lawyers is, in fact, law students.

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

Modi from the Red Fort in his lacklustre and faltering speech claims the replacement of the IPC with the BNS as a spectacular achievement which according to him has made the penal law citizen centric. Now anpadh bhakts would never know that it’s a monumental exercise in cut and paste and renumbering! However lawyers and judges curse him daily and most refer to the corresponding old IPC/CrPC/IEA provisions 😂😂😂

[Stress Judicata @apurv_shaurya]

BCI has done something so horrendous that the Students, Senior Lawyers, Members of BCI, the CJP, ABVP and even the CJI are condemning it.

Truly brought the country and the legal fraternity together.

[T. Prashant Reddy @Preddy85]

There used to be a time when Gopal Subramaniam used to be the Chairperson of the Bar Council. What a fall to have this Misra as the chairperson for the last 12 years. A refection of the times.

[Arun Arora @Arun2981]

2011- 12 waali feeling aa rahi hai

Corruption news everywhere

Crumbling infrastructure

Economy stagnant

Protests

Arrogant govt

Censorship

Governance failure

PM / HM out of action

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

Oh so Prashant Kishore with one MLA seat should make Bankipur Bangalore

While BJP with triple engine govt in Bihar continues to make it Chutiya.

[Sansiddh Jain @sansiddh]

I just realised something crazy.

India's GDP was $700B in 2004, and it reached $2.1T by 2014. 3x in 10 years. It's been 12 years since then and our GDP is $3.9T. 3x toh choro, we've not even been able to 2x our GDP in 10 years LOLLL.

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

Bankipur is like Gujarat of Bihar.

If BJP can lose Bankipur, it can lose any seat in Bihar. The era of giving party ticket to a random clown in Hindi heartland and asking people to vote in name of Modi is officially over.

[Sidharth Luthra @Luthra_Sidharth]

Unemployment is visible. Waiting is not. And with looming fears of the impact of AI on jobs, an entire generation is spending its youth preparing for examinations whose dates shift, results stall and appointments remain uncertain. If the opportunity passes, it is not merely a job they have lost. It is time. And noone can ever give that back.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

I might as well post this again. Things are just becoming worse.

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Want to know what corruption looks like!

A stretch of the Lucknow-Agra Expressway was built by PNC infratech. In 2018, UP Government awarded a bonus of ₹58 crores to PNC infratech, a company owned by brother of BJP Rajya Sabha MP Naveen Jain, for its early completion. Within 6 months of awarding the bonus, an SUV plunged into a 50-foot-deep ditch after a service road of the expressway caved in. Same company was awarded contact to construct to the Lucknow-Kanpur Expressway.

https://t.co/ffybpPB11c

[Sidharth @Cloudwatch199]

10–20% reservation to uplift historically disadvantaged communities is one thing.

But when nearly 75% of seats are reserved and only 25% is left for open competition, stop calling it “upliftment.”

It’s institutionalized exclusion.

You don’t build equality by making merit the exception instead of the rule. You weaken competition, discourage excellence, and hold India back in the global race.

That’s not social justice.

That’s discrimination by design.

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

India can fix most of its bureaucratic problems if the government implements just three laws:

1. No guaranteed salary or lifetime job security for government employees until their assigned work is completed.

2. Immediate termination of any government employee if they are caught engaging in corruption.

3. Time-bound public services, if a government employee fails to complete a citizen’s work within the fixed deadline, a penalty should be deducted from their salary.

[Abhishek Singhvi @DrAMSinghvi]

Khajuraho Airport has reportedly been ranked India’s best airport for customer satisfaction… despite having no flights.

Perhaps the secret to perfect governance is simple: no service, no complaints; no passengers, only satisfaction.

If only public policy worked that way.

[Pankaj Pachauri @PankajPachauri]

The CBI probe was ordered by Dr Manmohan Singh himself.
“Let the truth be known to everyone”, he said after giving orders. Some of us in the PMO were worried about the negative headlines next morning.
But his wisdom - and integrity- has stood the test of time.

All those who reviled and blamed him should apologise to his family.

[Chanakya @ChanakyaShah]

Dainik Bhaskar journalist went undercover as a laborer in a flour mill in UP and exposed a rotten system that's playing with people's health.

Operators in mills across Agra, Firozabad are mixing stone powder from Rajasthan into atta, increasing their earnings by 70–80 paise per kg i.e. 7k-8k extra per day. These adulterated flour, sold under brands like Maharaja Bhog Atta, is even reaching school mid-day meals. These calcium carbonate can clog intestines and damage the liver and kidneys.

Being in the D2C industry, I'm aware of many brands who do these kinds of things just to save margins and make more money. We keep calling them out, but this looks much bigger.

Government and FSSAI need to act and take control. Consumer health should never be compromised for profit.

[Prashant Shokeen @PrashantShokee7]

This protest will also mark the beginning of the end of mainstream media. Nobody was dependent on TV for coverage of this protest.

Phones in hand, the GenZ have blasted through Modi’s media control.