Dr. Chennapragada (She/Her)
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Started @AdaptedSportsIn | #ASIChats | తెలుగు | Loves languages♥️ABBA♥️ | Disability & Safe Sport Researcher 🇮🇳 PhD (Texas, USA) | Sports4All #PioneerProud
Congratulations to Dr. SriPadmini Chennapragada (@Jussri) on earning her Doctor of Philosophy in Kinesiology - Adapted Physical Activity! #PioneerProud @TWUpres @twushpk
I respectfully urge your immediate intervention regarding Para 108 (page 88) of the Finance Bill 2026, which proposes to withdraw the long-standing income tax exemption on disability pension for Armed Forces personnel who superannuated, completed their service tenure, or retired otherwise. This proposed amendment has caused profound pain and distress among disabled veterans across the country. No nation should tax the disability compensation of soldiers who were injured in the line of duty while serving their country. In India, disability pension, including War Injury Pension, has remained tax-exempt since 1922. This was never regarded as a mere financial concession. It has always stood as a solemn expression of national gratitude and a moral acknowledgment of the permanent sacrifice made by those injured in service of the Nation. A disability sustained during military service does not cease at retirement. The pain, restricted mobility, psychological trauma, and lifelong consequences remain unchanged whether a soldier is invalided out early or continues to serve until superannuation. In fact, those who continue to serve despite disability demonstrate exceptional resilience, commitment, and devotion to duty. To tax them simply because they endured and completed their tenure sends a deeply unjust message: that perseverance in service is to be penalized, not honored. The amendment creates an artificial, arbitrary, and discriminatory distinction between two equally disabled classes of veterans: those invalided out and those who completed service. Both suffered disabilities attributable to or aggravated by military service. Both bear those injuries for life. There is no moral, logical, or equitable basis to exempt one category while taxing the other. Disabled veterans include officers, JCOs, and soldiers who have suffered limb loss, spinal injuries, gunshot wounds, blast trauma, frostbite, paralysis, loss of hearing, loss of sight, and other irreversible service-related conditions. Many served in war and war-like situations, high-altitude deployments, counter-insurgency operations, and counter-terror missions under extreme physical and psychological stress. These disabilities are not incidental. They are the direct consequence of duty performed in defense of the Nation. Service-related disability often affects career progression due to low medical categorization, reducing promotion opportunities and long-term earning capacity. After retirement, disabled veterans frequently face greater difficulty in securing employment than their able-bodied counterparts. Taxing the disability element of their pension would therefore be not only unjust in principle, but cruel in impact. If concerns exist regarding misuse in isolated cases, such instances should be addressed through targeted administrative scrutiny. Genuine disabled veterans must not be made to suffer because of procedural exceptions. This exemption was granted in recognition of permanent injury and sacrifice. It is not a discretionary favor, and it must not be treated as a conditional privilege. This issue has caused serious anguish across the 32-lakh-strong veteran and pensioner community. At a time when the Armed Forces continue to face manpower shortages, such a measure risks weakening trust in the State’s commitment to those who serve, suffer, and sacrifice for the country. I therefore earnestly request that the proposed amendment to Schedule III under Para 108 (page 88) of the Finance Bill 2026 be withdrawn, so that the tax exemption on disability pension continues without discrimination for all disabled Armed Forces personnel. This is not merely a matter of taxation. It is a matter of justice, dignity, honor, and the Nation’s enduring covenant with its soldiers. #KeepDisabiltyPensionTaxFree !! @timesofindia @EconomicTimes @htTweets @TimesNow @NewsAlgebraIND @FinancialTimes @ZeeNews @ZeeNewsEnglish @Network18 @IndiaToday @HtMed @vineetjaintimes @aimaindia @STARINDIAUPUK @ndtv @ndtvfeed @the_hindu @IndianExpress @BDUTT @gauravsawant @timesofindia @htTweets @thetribunechd @bsdhanoa @IndianExpress @VoteTDP @nppbihar1 @JANATADALUNITED @LokJanshakti @PChidambaram_IN @ManishTewari @ShashiTharoor @rajnathsingh @asadowaisi @RajeevRC_X @RSSorg @ombirlakota @rashtrapatibhvn @PMOIndia @nsitharamanoffc @RuchiSinghTalks @ShivAroor @AIADMKOfficial @Shivsenaofc @ainrc @MahuaMoitra
Went to a nice Pan Asian restaurant in Indiranagar, Bangalore for lunch with Mrs Boss yesterday. A group of about 12+ women from well-to-do families were having a birthday party. Schoolmates & friends from La Martinere, Lovedale, et al. Turned that place into a fish market. What should've been a nice lunch became an ordeal. So, literacy has nothing to do with public behaviour.
If you want to understand H-1B abuse, stop looking at the visa. Look at OPT, CPT, and the schools feeding the pipeline. Here’s what almost no one wants to talk about: • A majority of documented abuse over the last 15 years did not start with H-1B • It started with OPT and Day 1 CPT • And it flows through a small cluster of universities that function as visa mills These schools aren’t foreign. They’re American-run. Yet in many cases, 80–90% of their graduate programs are composed of students from a handful of countries, funneled in through aggressive overseas recruiting networks. Swipe 👇 The screenshots show how this pipeline actually operates. The pattern looks like this: 1.Recruit students abroad through agents 2.Enroll them in low-visibility programs 3.Grant CPT immediately or near-immediately 4.Place them into consulting firms, body shops, or gig work 5.Cycle them into H-1B later That’s not “high-skill immigration.” That’s a labor pipeline. And yes, there are syndicates involved: • Overseas recruiters • University partners • Consulting firms • And former immigration insiders who know how to keep paperwork technically compliant This is why focusing only on H-1B misses the point. By the time the H-1B shows up, the damage is already done. If Congress wants to fix abuse, the solution isn’t louder slogans. It’s scrutiny upstream. OPT. CPT. University accountability. That’s where the system actually breaks. @StephenM @USCISJoe @DonaldJTrumpJr @SenEricSchmitt @RepGosar @HarmeetKDhillon @RonDeSantis
Nothing stops the beautiful game! ⚽️ Saw some kids in Kerala playing with a ball made of trash. Their enthusiasm was so inspiring that I had to drop off a couple of real footballs for them. Keep kicking, this addiction is the best medicine for life. #KeralaFootball #BeautifulGame #Passion
I’m happy to have sparked a healthy debate & thank your for your respectful responses. Stay tuned as I voice my opinions on the pleasures/pressures of privilege - that u all have been talking about. Don’t forget to check out my images ! It has very important facts that will help you make the right comments. And for all those sound employers out there - let’s work together to get more women into the workforce 🙏🧿❤️
Honoured with the Ramoji Excellence Award in Journalism, Sri Jaideep Hardikar continues to inspire with fearless storytelling, sharp insight, and an unwavering commitment to truth. A voice that strengthens democracy.
“படித்தவர்கள் உள்ள வளர்ந்த மாநிலம்தானே நாம்... ஒரு நடிகரை பார்க்க கோயில், சர்ச், மசூதி, மின்மாற்றி மேலயெல்லாமா ஏறுவீங்க? தயவுசெஞ்சு பாதுகாப்பு இல்லனா எந்த கூட்டமா இருந்தாலும் வெளிய வந்துடுங்க. டிவி, யூ-ட்யூப்ல உங்க தலைவனை பார்த்துக்கலாம். உங்க குடும்பத்துக்கு நீங்க மட்டும்தான் இருக்கீங்க. பாஜக கூட்டமாவே இருந்தாலும், பாதுகாப்பு இல்லனா வராதீங்க...” - மனம் நொந்து வேதனையோடு வேண்டுகோள் வைத்த தமிழ்நாடு பாஜக-வின் முன்னாள் தலைவர் அண்ணாமலை! #Karur | #KarurTragedy | #TVKCampaign | #Annamalai | #BJP
