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His name is Govind Jaiswal. He was born in Varanasi, Uttar Pradesh. His father, Narayan, had once owned 35 rickshaws. Then his wife fell gravely ill. Narayan sold 20 of them to pay for her treatment. She died in 1995. He sold 14 more to send Govind to Delhi to prepare for UPSC. By the time Govind reached Delhi, his father was down to one rickshaw, which he pulled himself every day. The family lived in a single room near the railway station in Varanasi. Electricity was unreliable. Govind had studied at a government school and a modest college in the city. When he was 11 years old, he went to play at a wealthy friend’s house. He was insulted and thrown out because his father was a rickshaw puller. An older friend explained to him how the world works and told him that unless his circumstances changed, he could expect this treatment his entire life. That day, he decided he would become an IAS officer. In Delhi, he taught mathematics to junior students to earn money. On some days, he skipped meals to save what little he had. He studied in public libraries. He prepared entirely in Hindi medium. He told himself he could not afford a second attempt. His father had sold everything. There was no plan B. In 2006, Govind Jaiswal cleared the UPSC Civil Services Examination in his first attempt. He was 22 years old. All India Rank 48. The first thing he did with his first salary was pay for his father’s medical treatment for a leg injury sustained from years of pulling rickshaws. He said this, “Anyone who understands my circumstances will know I had no other option. I chose the only path I was left with. I worked hard on my studies.” Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

EVERYBODY had this as their wallpaper once this was so iconic omfg

Shhhhh, did you hear that? It's the sound of millions of women laughing at this ridiculous dude 🤣🤣🤣🤣. Please, by all means create the artificial womb & have all the artificial womb babies your misogynistic heart desires.........and leave women alone.

@wtfahhh0 your mother should not have had you either. Earth would have been a better place

Dear girls, if you can't give your kids a good life then please stop reproducing

@agustdeeznuts7 i don't get the context but unless there is a tamil song i like whose lyrics i want to learn, why would i learn tamil? (unless they're living in Tamil nadu, in which case they absolutely should)

Some armys will learn Korean lyrics but not Tamil . I said what I said .. it’s pissing off seeing armys saying “we are a diverse country” yes but if tannies can learn a bit Spanish who tf are you to not learn a bit of Tamil!?

a lot of the american people complaining about ai data centers have quieted down after they found out they cancelled over half the data centers being built since they're building them in India instead, they know very well it's not their issue anymore and they couldn't care less

“ . . . decomposed carcass of an adult tiger with its nails and teeth missing was found at Sacordem village,” There's clearly atleast some amount of poaching involved in the case. Ridiculous excuses by the administration.

Wife: “Can you put your phone down for one minute?” Husband: “I’m listening.” Wife: “You didn’t even hear what I said.” Husband: “Why are you always starting problems?” So she stopped interrupting his scrolling. Stopped telling him about her day. Stopped mentioning the small things that used to make them feel close. The funny customer at work. The song that reminded her of him. The way she cried in the car for ten minutes before coming inside because she didn’t know how to explain how lonely marriage had started to feel. Months later… He notices she laughs more with strangers than with him. Husband: “You used to tell me everything.” Wife: “I tried.” Husband: “Then why did you stop?” Wife: “Because talking to someone who barely looks up eventually starts to feel the same as talking to yourself.”

Dear Modiji You lectured us yesterday to save fuel, carpool and embrace austerity. But here’s how your lecture worked in reality incase you are not aware. Mumbai–Vadodara Indigo flight 6E 618 was scheduled to land in Vadodara at around 9 pm. The flight has now been diverted to Ahmedabad because Vadodara airport has been shut for commercial operations till your (PM Modi’s) special aircraft takes off for Delhi. After burning extra fuel to divert, the aircraft hovered over Ahmedabad for several minutes awaiting landing clearance — wasting even more fuel. Passengers suffered delays and inconvenience, all for one VIP movement. Yours. Sir, you claim that you don't believe in VIP culture. Right now, entire Vadodara airport stands disrupted, commercial flights affected, aviation fuel burnt unnecessarily — but we are told to tighten belts and save petrol. Austerity for citizens. Privilege for PM? Tomorrow another lecture on fuel efficiency? Spare us, Sir. #NarendraModi #Indigo #Fuel #Vadodara @narendramodi @RamMNK @IndiGo6E @virsanghvi @srinivasiyc @rohinisingh @tvkvijayhq @ravish_journo

ModiJi thinks every office employee already has the option to WFH, but we are so passionate about work that we willingly travel to office enjoying the smart cities he has built for us.

If given the choice, many people would choose WFH over going to the office any day, especially in this heat, traffic, pollution, and the daily struggle of even getting a cab on time. This is even more true in cities like Bangalore, Hyderabad, Pune, etc. But because the suggestion is coming from a political party or more precisely from PM Modi, suddenly there’s so much “sacrifice”, “anti-work”, and outrage narrative being peddled online. Ironically, the same influencers and YouTubers who comfortably monetize content while sitting at home will gaslight white-collar employees, people who would genuinely love WFH, just because the suggestion came from Modi. That’s when you realize a lot of internet political discourse isn’t about principles at all, it’s just tribalism and team politics.

Male rappers be like “rape, domestic violence and femicide is so cool 😍”

@KimNFB77 @spinneroftales_ there are literally fanfiction about monsters, anime characters, and football stars. these are just stories and are fun to read. stop being such a kill joy

@spinneroftales_ I wish a lot of the fans would chill on the boyfriend fantasy because it makes a lot of us look terrible. I just love them for their amazing souls. Of course they’re good looking but I just want them to be genuinely happy.

????? I don’t even want BTS to be my boyfriend. They’re just silly dorks who love music and whom I want to be besties with

@spinneroftales_ Username “schizomentality” That’s all you need to know

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Eight years into studying whales, Nan Hauser believed she understood their size and strength. Then one afternoon off Rarotonga she felt a pressure she had never felt before — a 40‑ton humpback whale pressing its head against her body and lifting her toward the surface. At first she thought the animal was playing too roughly. She tried to push away, but the whale kept tucking her under its pectoral fin. For seven and a half minutes the great creature nudged and nudged, even raising her clear of the water on its flipper. Only when she glimpsed a second silhouette did she understand. The “whale” moving side to side was actually an 18‑foot tiger shark, arched in attack posture. In that instant the humpback positioned her on its head and raced toward her boat, shielding her with its massive body. Within ten minutes she was safely back on deck, shaking with shock and gratitude. Hauser, a lifelong marine biologist, had never experienced anything like it. “I felt love, concern and care from the whale,” she told The Guardian. She had spent her career filming these animals quietly, believing the best way to understand them was to let them be. Now one seemed to understand her vulnerability and acted. Scientists note that humpbacks have been documented interfering when predators attack other species, behaviour some call “mobbing”. Whether the whale’s act was true altruism or an instinct honed by eons of kin‑selected behaviour, Hauser felt the encounter as a deliberate choice. The story didn’t end there. A year later Hauser was back in the Cook Islands when a familiar tail surfaced. She recognised the whale by the notches on its fluke and the scar on its head. As she slid into the water the whale approached, looked her in the eye and extended its giant fin. She rubbed its face and began to cry. The whale lingered near her boat for twenty minutes before swimming away. There is no moral to pin on a whale’s fin, no proof that a giant mammal meant to save a human. There is only a moment when a life hung between a predator and a protector and something ancient stirred. Perhaps this is what happens when we spend enough time listening rather than dominating: another being may recognise us as kin. In a world where we often assume only humans are capable of compassion, a humpback whale carrying a scientist to safety suggests the ocean itself may be watching over us.

Instead of urging the commoners to prefer WFH, what’s stopping the PM of India to direct all the corporates to allow WFH, for their employees. Apparently, the PM asking the employees to WFH makes no sense when he’s not doing the needful that can facilitate it. I’m afraid, every single thing about this man is spurious. Absolute waste of three successive terms #PMModi

🐱 I believe that there are armys outside the stadium as much as there are inside... is there a bigger stadium in Mexico? 🐱 There is? 🐱 Then it looks like the next we come here, we gotta have our concert there!