Curfews in France: restoring order ✅
Barricades in Delhi: fascism ❌
Western democracy lecturers and their frustrated Indian cheerleaders really do make a cosy little hypocrisy club.
My take:
Dear @elonmusk ,
Indians largely liked you. They admire intelligent, self-made individuals who speak with substance. For years, you came across as a brilliant mind. Lately, however, your arrogance has begun to overshadow your intellect, making you look increasingly foolish.
Your apparent lack of understanding of India, its people and the way the country functions suggests that you are remarkably poorly informed. You can certainly do better than Trump.
Bureaucratic delays deserve scrutiny. But suggesting that India is governed by oligarchs simply because Starlink faces regulatory hurdles is arrogance masquerading as an argument.
India is a sovereign democracy, not a market to be bullied into submission. You respected China’s rules; India deserves no less.
Ask your CIA friends. In 1998, India stood firm despite American sanctions following Pokhran. Those sanctions were eventually lifted. If geopolitical pressure couldn’t bend India’s strategic choices, a billionaire’s public tantrums certainly won’t.
Indians are patient, but patience should never be mistaken for weakness. Complete the process, compete on merit and let consumers decide. Our love for India 🇮🇳 is no less than your love for America 🇺🇸.
Tesla should have taught you one thing: Global fame does not guarantee success in India. Respect the market before expecting it to respect your product.
My salute to the Indian pilot Captain Smit Machchhar for his extraordinary bravery.
Despite being stabbed and seriously injured, he fought back, resisted, opened the cockpit door, and enabled passengers and crew to overpower the attacker — preventing a catastrophic mid-air disaster.
He saved the lives of 174 people, including Israeli citizens and other nationals.
I wish Captain Machchhar a speedy and full recovery.
He is a true hero.
Oracle fired 12,000 of its Indian workforce and is expected to sack more.
Another reminder of how fragile stability is in the private sector. One secures employment, income begins to flow, long-term plans take shape, home, car, loans, EMIs. And then, a single decision by the corporate to “rationalize” or “downsize,” and everything collapses overnight.
Unless you quickly re-enter the job market, fixed liabilities don’t pause; they compound stress and can upend an otherwise steady life.
While you earn, you must pay taxes. The moment you lose your job, you’re on your own. In fact, you even have to pay tax on the severance also.
Maybe it’s time to introduce reforms, such as mandating severance pay ranging from three months to one year based on an employee’s tenure, as is the norm in the West; allowing EMI pauses for a 3-6 months; and providing a time-bound monthly allowance from the govt for involuntary job losses.
If Ladla/Ladlis can get free money, free ration, free water, and electricity, without paying any income tax, why not support a worker who has been paying taxes and contributing?
MARCH 14, 2001 - AUSTRALIA FAILED TO GET A SINGLE WICKET IN EDEN GARDENS 🤯
VVS Laxman - 275*
Rahul Dravid - 155*
India scored 335 runs in a single day - One of the most historic days in Indian Test history. 🇮🇳
Abuse me all you want, but Yogi should not pay for the Centre’s blunders. Don’t scapegoat the one CM who has actually tried to impose order on a chronically misgoverned state.
Yogi is among the rare CMs running a large, complex state toward development, with no appeasement, no reckless freebie culture, and zero tolerance toward extremism and organised crime. While other states proudly market cash doles and monthly handouts as “development models,” even the so-called DMK development model runs Ladli Behna–type cash schemes, yet UP has resisted that temptation so far. What the future holds, I don’t know. Pressure politics exists, especially if Akhilesh starts dangling promises, but till now, UP has held the line.
Yes, democracy forces you to perform a few symbolic rituals you may personally dislike. That’s the price of electoral politics. But symbolism is not governance, and optics are not law and order.
If Yogi goes and Akhilesh returns, UP regresses straight back ten years: an era where the state bent before Azam Khan, Mukhtar Ansari, and Atiq Ahmed were power centres, organised crime thrived, police stations were ornamental, and appeasement was state policy. Don't let it happen.
World’s oldest civilization, the only one to survive unbroken since Bronze Age, shone in full glory last night.
A testament to over four millennia of resilience against invasions, suppression, and the tides of history, while retaining its sacred wisdom, rituals, and traditions.
The stampede broke out at 7 :45 pm in Karur and within 4½ hours, Joseph Vijay was back at his home in Chennai, 390 km away. So, while families of victims were reeling in shock, Vijay had rushed home, tucked safely into comfort.
Most likely, he slept peacefully, even if the PR team says he's in shock, surrounded by family and staff, who would have soothed him as if he were the victim.
And the so-called “fans”? They were the ones lying on the ground, gasping for air, being trampled, or waiting in hospital corridors. That’s always the place reserved for the cattle class, to bleed, to die, to mourn, while the superstar you worship can't even stay 24 hours with them.
Yet tomorrow you’ll again throng his rallies, risk your life for a glimpse, and call it devotion. When will you finally understand that in this equation, your life is expendable, his image is not?
You buy insurance thinking your wife & kids are safe. Reality? They might not get a single rupee.
Unless you use this 150 year old law that makes the payout 100% untouchable
One final appeal!
Requesting Shri @narendramodi, if blood and water cannot flow together, lets not allow cricket to suggest they can. Stop India from playing Pakistan in the Asia Cup.
Your annual reminder that satya, ahinsa, satyagrah had no role in Britain’s decision to free India. The real reasons:
1. WWII left Britain bankrupt, owing huge debts, making colonial administration too costly.
2. That debt was mostly from the US, which opposed old-style imperialism via the Atlantic Charter (1941) and pressured the UK to decolonize.
3. The Labour Party came to power in 1945 in the UK. It was openly anti-imperialist, seeing the empire as a burden and focusing on building the welfare state instead of maintaining colonial rule.
4. The western world was seeing a rise of anti-colonial sentiments. WWII’s rhetoric of freedom and democracy clashed with imperial rule; colonialism was increasingly seen as hypocritical and illegitimate globally.
5. The United Nations came into existence, and its 1945 Charter encouraged self-government; Britain faced international scrutiny and moral pressure to grant independence.
6. The rise of armed nationalist movements in colonies like India and Palestine made governance costly and unstable. The British army was overstretched, under-equipped, and war-weary, unable to manage widespread armed insurgencies.
As a result, Britain freed over 60 colonies after WWII, usually based on their economic value and the resources needed to control them. Only one of these had satya, ahinsa, satyagrah. If that really worked, India would have been free decades earlier; Gandhi had been waving that banner for years, and the British didn’t budge until they were broke and exhausted.
So the idea that dedi hame aazadi bina khadag bina dhaal is is simply not true.
I think cricket lovers in England will be entitled to ask if the pitches are becoming too slow and taking some life out of the game. Each country must have pitches that create distinct challenges and I hope England go back to pitches with a bit more grass and seam and carry