Such rubbish. We are supposed to believe a hit job by an extremely stupid journalist who does not know the difference between a process and final decision, the editors who compromised their ethics for this hit job and not believe a sworn affidavit filed in the Supreme Court by a constitutional authority! Such arrogance and stupidity boggles the mind that such ‘journalist’ could keep lying. @JethmalaniM@Iyervval
Wow sung so beautifully by Israelis the Hindu slokha “Hanuman Chalisa” recited in Hebrew at Telaviv beach! It was in honour of our Indian pilot Captain Sumit who saved the Jewish lives on FlyDubai flight after he recited this powerful mantra! Jai Shree Ram Jai Hanuman 🕉️🙏🇮🇳🇮🇱
You should visit India. The Alps are making you senile. For water and sanitation, there are already local municipalities and Panchayat Samitis. For electricity, India is already electrified. For public safety, there is police in every state. Last we checked, India runs by its Constitution, and the Naxals haven't overthrown the Indian state—which seems to be your pet project, funded by your euro- communist sponsors. @TVMohandasPai@ARanganathan72@rishibagree@Mrsinha
Kanwal Sibal is right. A former CEC sitting in London and calling India’s SIR a “scam” to Dhruv Rathee deserves to be called out.
Abhisar Sharma, Ajit Anjum & the rest of the ecosystem can only respond with personal abuse and sycophancy for anyone who questions their narrative.
More power to @KanwalSibal.
RT if you stand with Kanwal Sibbal
Congratulations to Sukhbir Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar for their selection as Election Commissioners. Both have brilliant records. Wish them good luck in discharging tough responsibility.
Hitting below the belt is unbecoming of a former CEC. Disagreement is legitimate; personal insinuations are not. The abrogation of Article 370 is a matter of pride and a national achievement. Constitutional dignity must prevail over political rancour.
If you agree with some of the points, why does the author’s identity matter? Arguments stand or fall on merit, not on who makes them. Unless, of course, the real problem is that you cannot refute the arguments but would still like to cast suspicion on the person making them, perhaps even goad them into revealing their identity. Criticising Islamism and advocating reform within Islam hardly comes without serious consequences. Anonymity can be a matter of safety, not a lack of credibility. If you agree with the arguments, engage with them. If you disagree, refute them. What purpose does questioning the author’s identity serve, other than distracting from the substance of what is being said?
Aren’t you a liberal secularist, @irfhabib? So, why didn’t you rage when Sharjeel Imam said that Mahatma Gandhi was the greatest fascist of the 20th century, and when he accused Nehru of myth making about the existence of Indian Nation?
I invite you to write a rejoinder to my article. I know you can’t afford exposing yourself. Write a critique of Sharjeel, and let the world know that you have the intellectual honesty to do that.
Forget about my pen-name. It sounds like a pen-name, doesn’t it?
My writing doesn’t draw its worth from my name’s resemblance to someone else’s.
India signs FTAs with UK, Australia, NZ. EU is already done. Canada next. US deal will fall like a ripe apple in the trade lap next. Once you have surrounded the new Rome with so much friendship, brotherhood and commerce, it becomes a fait accompli at some point. Already Tel Aviv, Tokyo and Canberra are looking at their options in 2030s and are narrowing in on New Delhi.
WHO DESTROYED FRANCE? 🇫🇷
Yes. EVERYONE did.
1. Emmanuel Macron, a man who thinks he's Jupiter but governs like a McKinsey intern who accidentally became emperor. He promised a French Renaissance and delivered a complete disaster. His solution to every catastrophe is another speech about the future of Europe.
2. The ENA Elite, Sciences Po, and the Grandes Écoles, the world's most sophisticated factories for producing highly educated incompetence. They can explain the collapse of French industry in seventeen PowerPoint presentations without ever having entered a factory. They invented a system where the same people run the state, destroy it, and then get promoted to investigate what went wrong.
3. François Hollande, the socialist who declared war on finance and then appointed Emmanuel Macron economy minister. His presidency was so spectacularly mediocre that even his own party eventually pretended not to know him. He managed to make political paralysis look like an exhausting full-time occupation.
4. Jacques Chirac, who promised reform, encountered a demonstration, and immediately discovered the virtues of doing absolutely nothing. He spent twelve years as president shaking hands with farmers while the national debt continued its agricultural expansion. His greatest political achievement was making immobility look presidential.
5. François Mitterrand, who tried socialism in 1981, and discovered economic reality in 1983. He nationalized companies, reversed course, and built a pyramid at the Louvre. Appropriate architecture for a president who occasionally treated the French economy like a pharaoh's burial chamber.
6. The Socialist Left, which believes money grows on government decrees. Their economic model consists of taxing the rich, subsidizing the poor, employing the middle class in public administration, and borrowing whatever remains. When the money runs out, they accuse arithmetic of being fascist.
7. The French Trade Unions, which defend public services by making sure nobody can use them. They stop trains to save the railways, close schools to defend education, and block refineries to protect purchasing power. Their greatest contribution to French productivity is ensuring that nobody produces anything without their permission.
8. The French Right, which has spent forty years promising to reduce public expenditure, reform the state, restore authority, and liberate the economy. Then it wins an election, appoints seventeen ministers, creates four administrative agencies, and discovers that cutting public expenditure might upset somebody. French conservatives defend free enterprise in speeches and administrative regulation in practice. They want a smaller state, provided nobody removes their subsidies, pensions, privileges, public contracts, or favorite government department. Their economic program was essentially socialism with better tailoring.
9. The French Boomers, who inherited affordable housing, expanding industries, and economic growth, then converted everything into pensions and real estate. They bought apartments for the price of a used Peugeot and now explain to young people that homeownership requires sacrifice. They spent their youth demanding revolution and their retirement demanding that absolutely nothing change.
10. Pétain and Vichy, who responded to the greatest military humiliation in modern French history by deciding that collaboration with the occupier was an excellent national recovery strategy. France had already lost the war. Pétain somehow found a way to make losing considerably more embarrassing.
11. The French Generals of 1940, who built the Maginot Line and apparently forgot to tell the Germans they were supposed to attack it. They prepared brilliantly for the First World War, only to discover that the enemy had inconveniently arrived in the Second.
12. The Republican Idealists, who believe France isn't a country but a philosophical concept. Other nations build institutions. France proclaims Values. When schools fail, they organize republican ceremonies. When public order collapses, they deliver speeches about citizenship. When reality contradicts their principles, reality is clearly insufficiently republican.
13. Saint-Simon, Fourier, Cabet, and the French Utopian Socialists, who looked at humanity and decided the problem was insufficient central planning. Fourier imagined communities organized around human passions. Saint-Simon dreamed of society directed by enlightened productive elites. Their descendants now occupy French ministries, designing national happiness through administrative circulars. Two centuries later, the happiness is still missing, but the paperwork is magnificent.
14. The French Revolution, which promised Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity, then introduced mass executions, revolutionary tribunals, civil war, and political terror. The revolutionaries liberated France from monarchy, discovered that citizens disagreed about liberty, and began executing one another. France has spent two centuries celebrating this as the birth of political enlightenment. Apparently, mass killing becomes progressive when accompanied by the correct slogans.
15. The Enlightenment, Libertinism, and the Marquis de Sade, who began by liberating humanity from superstition and ended by demonstrating that intellectual sophistication is no guarantee against moral insanity. Voltaire mocked religious authority, Rousseau dreamed of remaking society, and Sade turned transgression into an entire literary industry. Their descendants now believe that every inherited institution is oppressive and every new social experiment is automatically progress.
16. The English, who spent centuries sabotaging French ambitions, financing France's enemies, and preventing French domination of Europe. The Hundred Years' War was essentially a prolonged British property dispute conducted on French territory. Every time France attempted to become a continental superpower, England appeared with a navy, a coalition, and a remarkably enthusiastic willingness to pay somebody else to fight.
17. The Habsburgs, who surrounded France with territories acquired through marriage, inheritance, and a family tree resembling a biological experiment conducted without ethical supervision. They conquered half of Europe through weddings while French kings bankrupted themselves trying to escape the encirclement. The Habsburgs invented geopolitical domination through matrimonial administration.
18. The English, Again, because centuries of warfare were apparently insufficient. After defeating Napoleon, they conquered global commerce, international finance, and eventually the English language conquered French business. Today, French executives speak English to other French executives in Paris. England finally conquered France without deploying a single soldier.
19. The Romans, who conquered Gaul, introduced taxation, centralized administration, and the idea that provincial populations should be governed by distant officials convinced of their intellectual superiority. Two thousand years later, Paris continues to administer France like a Roman governor collecting taxes from barbarians. Rome collapsed. French bureaucracy survived. Live like Rome, die like Rome.
20. Darth Vader, the ultimate French technocrat. He believed every problem could be solved through centralization, intimidation, and an enormous publicly funded megaproject. His Death Star was essentially the French Ministry of Finance equipped with a superlaser. It cost a fortune, concentrated all power in one place, and exploded because nobody listened to the engineers.
21. Saruman and Sauron, the spiritual ancestors of French industrial planning and European centralization. Saruman wanted to replace forests with factories. Sauron wanted to unite the continent under one supreme administrative authority. Both believed that enough central planning could overcome reality. Both were eventually defeated by small provincial creatures who refused to follow instructions.
22. Satan, who has reportedly retired from corrupting France because the competition has become unbearable. He spent centuries encouraging pride, vanity, envy, and destructive political passions, only to discover that French politicians could produce the same results without supernatural assistance. He applied for a position at the Ministry of Finance but was rejected for insufficient administrative experience.
And the French people?
They have spent more than two centuries overthrowing kings, emperors, republics, governments, and presidents, convinced that the next political arrangement would finally solve everything.
They have tried absolute monarchy, constitutional monarchy, revolutionary dictatorship, empire, parliamentary republics, presidential republicanism, socialism, liberalism, conservatism, and technocracy.
Every generation announces that France needs a revolution.
Every revolution promises to put an end to the failures of the previous regime.
And every new regime eventually discovers that it has inherited THE FRENCH.
The best thing you can read today. Exposes western media and parachute journalists (alleged journalists, really) who write about India without knowing a damn thing. And the expats who as @wadhwa says are quick to lecture India but don’t have to live with the consequences of the prescriptions they offer and who can’t tolerate the fact that India has changed without consulting them because they still live in an India that is very different from the India that exists today.
During the emergency we organised a reception for Shanti Bhushan in the Congress grounds in Teynampet in Chennai. We all celebrated him for fighting for Rajnarayan and Indira
See how he became utterly corrupt later
The father and son Bhushan duo grabbed with BJP govt support 4.7 acres of Tea garden to set up a high class education business but that attempt failed as Govt resumed possession
Two points.
They shamelessly got land from their ideological enemy BJP
Had they retained it, the land would be worth Rs 35 cr today
But they were more lucky with Mayavati largesse than with BJP largesse
See here
They for 20000 sq meter land allotted by Mayavati in Noida for defending her in Noida land scam
They paid for that land Rs 3cr. Today's it is worth believe it
Rs 1300-1400 cr
They also evaded stamp duty of Rs 1.35 cr while buying land in Allahabad Civil lines. The court directed them to pay it
Prashant Bhushan who has got this illgotten wealth is the man fighting for democracy and against Corruption
What a shame? How shameless he is ?
Read on for more details
The public and legal controversies surrounding Shanti Bhushan and Prashant Bhushan involve specific land transactions and legal actions that became subjects of intense political and legal scrutiny, particularly during their involvement with the anti-corruption movement (India Against Corruption).
1. Land and Property Controversies
• The Palampur Tea Garden Land Case (Himachal Pradesh):
In 2010, the Kumud Bhushan Education Society (a trust run by the Bhushan family) was granted permission by the then-BJP government to purchase 4.66 hectares of tea garden land in Palampur for setting up an educational institution.
Political opponents later alleged that the land was acquired at highly discounted prices. Under Section 118 of the Himachal Pradesh Tenancy and Land Reforms Act, land-use for tea gardens cannot easily be modified.
In September 2014, following a probe initiated under the Congress state administration, the local administration ordered the vesting of the land and its buildings back to the state government, citing a failure to utilize the land for its designated educational purpose within the stipulated timeframe.
Noida Farmhouse Allotments (Uttar Pradesh):
In 2011, it emerged that Shanti Bhushan and his other son, Jayant Bhushan, were allotted two 10,000-square-meter plots of land in Noida by the Mayawati-led Uttar Pradesh government under a discretionary farmhouse development scheme in 2009. Critics flagged a potential conflict of interest, noting that Jayant Bhushan had been appearing as a lawyer against the Mayawati government in a high-profile local park case. The Bhushans maintained that the application followed standard regulations and denied any wrongdoing.
Indian Express reported on 14.12.2011 that the CAG audit found rules were flouted for allotment of 20000 sq meter land to Bhushans and excheque lost Rs 145.8 cr
They paid a subsidised price of Rs 3 cr for the land.
In Today's value AI says the loss to the exchequer represents atleast Rs https://t.co/HFSkbAcczH
• Allahabad Property Stamp Duty Case:
In 2011, civil authorities in Allahabad ruled that Shanti Bhushan had evaded ₹1.35 crore in stamp duty during his purchase of a historical property in Civil Lines, Allahabad.
The Assistant Stamp Commissioner ordered him to pay the outstanding duty along with a monetary penalty. Shanti Bhushan contested the ruling, labeling it a legally flawed order driven by political pressure.
Since the jhola chhaap IT cell warriors of the BJP are silently watching the attacks on Sanjeev Sanyal, let me put a few things into perspective.
1/12 🧵 How is India reshaping its economic trajectory for the coming decade? One of the key architects of this shift is Sanjeev Sanyal (@sanjeevsanyal). From heavy capital expenditure (CapEx) and maritime industrialisation to micro-level process reforms and a sweeping legal overhaul, his policy vision is helping reshape India's growth engine. 👇