Optionality is not strategy. A state that declines to take a position is not exercising strategic autonomy. It is performing it, and performance without commitment generates no alliances, no dependent states, no clients who owe their security to India.
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The BJP is now a party more socialist than the socialist parties it has defeated in past elections.
Everything and anything to get into and then stay in power. 😆
All unemployed youth in Bengal will receive ₹3,000 in their bank accounts on the first of every month.
We will provide ₹21,000 to every pregnant mother for the care of her child.
The BJP government will implement 33% reservation in government jobs, and from 1 June, all women will get free bus travel.
The BJP government will increase the PM-Kisan Samman Nidhi from ₹6,000 to ₹9,000.
- Shri @AmitShah
#BanglarMoneSudhuiBJP
Pancreatic cancer mRNA vaccine shows lasting results in an early trial. Scientists caution that more research is needed, but nearly all of the patients who responded to the personalized vaccine are still alive six years later.
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#Breaking
CBI says if Arvind Kejriwal's argument that J Swarana Kanta Sharma should recuse from the Excise policy case because her children are on Central government's panel is accepted, all judges whose relatives are on the government panel would be disqualified from hearing cases related to such governments/political leaders.
@AamAadmiParty@CBIHeadquarters@ArvindKejriwal
What happens when an uneducated buffoon is made to rule a country. A man who wants to portray expertise in every field when he has none.
The benchmarks of quality are lowered to match his calibre. Domain experts start acting dumb so he comes across as knowledgeable. Slowly everything degrades towards mediocrity.
From the school syllabus to the scientific temper, all suffer. This is not hypothetical. This is what happens when leadership has no calibre but unlimited authority. Everything around it shrinks to fit. Out of fear, not reverence. It collects like-minded mediocrity around itself.
Look at Indian cinema. For decades, parallel cinema held its ground. Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Mrinal Sen made films that challenged, disturbed and lingered. Today, the biggest blockbusters are propaganda dressed as entertainment. Mythology repackaged as history. Critics who raise questions are trolled into silence. The industry does not make what is brave, it makes what is safe. What is approved. The audience is not being entertained. It is being brainwashed and managed.
Music followed. India produced classical musicians of global stature. Ravi Shankar made the world stop and listen. Today the charts are ruled by remixes of old songs because originality requires courage and courage requires freedom. When the political climate rewards conformity, art becomes a mirror of power, not a window beyond it. The youth are being fed vulgar DJ songs that hit at other faiths and are declared hits at the charts. The country gyrates mindlessly.
Sports reveals the most rot. A country of 145 crore cannot qualify for a football World Cup. Cricket is worshipped not because India is great at sport but because cricket became a vehicle for nationalism. Wins are political capital. Losses are buried without a whimper. What was done with women wrestlers is no secret. Neither are the conditions of national sports academies.
Architecture told the same story without words. India has a legacy of extraordinary monuments. Temples, stepwells, mosques, churches, forts. The sheer geometric intelligence of Jantar Mantar, the Mughal intricacies, the Lutyen's glory. The Taj. Compare that to the new parliament building that resembles a corporate monolith. A Central Vista that bulldozed history to build bureaucratic vanity. Grand in scale, empty in soul. Built not to inspire but to impress. Look at the street poles, the railings, the new railway stations... all an eyesore. Poorly designed not just in aesthetics but also in functionality. New expensive buildings leaking and flooding in one shower.
And then the syllabus. History is being rewritten not to correct it but to corrupt it. Chapters dropped, context removed, questions discouraged. A generation is being educated into ignorance. Science is finding itself in competition with mythology in classrooms. When the leader cannot distinguish between the two, the system starts to collapse. Because everyone wants to keep him happy.
This is the real cost of incompetent leadership, not just the expense of marketing it daily. It is not just bad policy. It is the slow lowering of every bar in every field until the nation forgets what excellence once felt like. Real knowledge is looked down upon as an elitist scar. The tragedy is not that the buffoon does not know better. The tragedy is that an entire system pretends he does.
Mediocrity does not arrive with a warning. It arrives with a fake degree, a hundred costumes, a fifty car cavalcade and a bloated chest.
Everyone claps.
I have a great deal of sympathy for the Saudi foreign ministry bureaucrats who will be spending their weekend figuring out how to respond to this insult.
Socrates in 460 BC: “The unexamined life is not worth living.”
Marcus Aurelius in 150 CE: “You have power over your mind—not outside events.”
Augustine of Hippo in 400 CE: “Do not go outside; return into yourself. In the inward man dwells the truth.”
Marc Andreessen in 2026:
Pete Hegseth says we will shortly have complete & total air superiority in Iran. We are very close now. Once that happens it’s just a question of how many leaders is Iran willing to let us wipe out before they beg for peace & let us pick their new leader:
Violence has spilt onto King Street after two men were removed from a gentlemen’s club in Melbourne.
One of the men threw a chair which appeared to be aimed at security, hitting his friend instead. Get the full story on 7NEWS at 6pm. @paul_dowsley
On Gabriel Batistuta’s birthday, a reminder of when he broke the speed of light at Old Trafford.
Clive Tyldesley’s disbelief in the commentary box sums up the absurdity of the strike.
Batigol. You magnificent beast.
James Earl Jones warming up Mufasa’s roar during The Lion King bloopers and outtakes.
Animator Tony Fucile steps back in to perform Mufasa’s movements.