AV
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A new wave of targeting Muslims- not the paan vendor or street hawker this time, but the educated, skilled, employed. The aim is clear: make even the few who’ve secured jobs in this majoritarian system unemployable.


Everyone frothing at their mouths about the TCS Sexual harassment scandal have remained silent about the sexual harassment malaise in MNCs - as long as it suits them they will remain silent. The MOMENT they can spin this with a religious angle, suddenly everyone cares for the cause for justice of sexual harassment and protecting women. Ask those who are frothing at their mouths if they have all even honestly gone through the POSH workshop that is 'mandatory' (click, click, click, click, end) in their organizations, how many women have been kicked out or the workplace made so hostile - including women piling on to the "You got this onto yourself, you should be silent" and men accused of sexual harassment promoted - MNC ICC's are defunct. MEN go through sexual harassment at workplaces, mostly by other men, and these bros keep ranting homophobic jokes. These new drama artists wont ask the question that is necessary to be asked - Safety for all genders at the workplace. Many men with power are those who WILL abuse it - religion doesn't matter. The same lot that remained silent for convicted rapists like Ram Rahim getting parole, Asaram Bapu getting celeb treatment in temples are now saying they want to save Hindu women. Your temples became 'impure' the day Asaram Bapu and many such rapists stepped in to them - was a 'cleansing ritual' conducted or no?



Goodbye Dubai. You are officially dead.




Dubai intercepted an Iranian drone near the Burj Khalifa. Read that sentence again and understand what almost happened. The Burj Khalifa is 828 meters tall. It is the tallest structure ever built by human civilization. It contains 900 residences, a hotel, corporate offices, observation decks, and on any given day thousands of people from dozens of countries inside its walls. It is the architectural thesis statement of the entire Gulf development model: that human ambition can overcome geography, gravity, and the geopolitics of the neighborhood. Iran sent a drone toward it. The UAE intercepted it. No injuries. No damage. No impact. The system worked. But the Burj Khalifa was evacuated. Thousands of residents and guests walked down emergency stairwells from the tallest building on earth because an Iranian suicide drone was flying toward their tower and nobody could guarantee the interception would succeed until it did. One failure. One drone getting through. One Shahed-136 carrying a 40-kilogram warhead striking the glass facade of the tallest building on earth. The footage alone would have been the most consequential thirty seconds of video since September 11, 2001. Every government on earth knows this. Iran knows this. And Iran launched the drone anyway. The interception succeeded by whatever margin interceptions succeed by. Meters. Seconds. The distance between the drone’s trajectory and the point where the defensive missile reached it. That margin is the distance between a contained geopolitical crisis and the single most devastating symbolic attack on civilian infrastructure since the Twin Towers fell. Iran gambled that margin against the most recognizable building on the planet. It does not matter that the system worked. What matters is that it had to work. What matters is that 12,000 people who live and work inside that building now know that an Iranian drone was inbound toward their tower and their survival depended on a missile defense system performing flawlessly at the last possible second. That knowledge does not go away when the all-clear sounds. That knowledge follows them into every decision about whether to renew a lease, whether to keep an office, whether to raise children in a building that has now been a confirmed drone target. The Burj Khalifa was built to be the tallest. Tonight it became the largest target. The tallest structure on earth is also the most visible object on radar for a thousand kilometers in every direction. It cannot hide. It cannot move. It cannot be hardened. It can only be defended. And tonight defense meant intercepting a 50,000 dollar drone seconds before it reached a building worth 1.5 billion dollars containing thousands of human lives. Iran did not hit the Burj Khalifa. Iran did something that no amount of successful interceptions can undo. Iran made the world picture it. open.substack.com/pub/shanakaans…


Iran just fired missiles at five countries simultaneously. Here is what actually happened to each of them. Bahrain. Confirmed hit on the US Navy Fifth Fleet headquarters. Bahrain’s own state news agency reported the strike. No casualty figures released yet. This is the command center for every American naval operation in the Persian Gulf. It was struck. UAE. Multiple missiles intercepted by Emirati air defenses. One civilian killed in Abu Dhabi from falling debris. The UAE defense ministry confirmed the intercepts. The Emirates just absorbed an act of war on its sovereign territory from a country it shares a maritime border with. Qatar. Missile intercepted. Zero damage. The Qatari Interior Ministry confirmed. The same country Iran just attacked is the country that hosted Al Udeid for twenty years as a gesture of regional balance. That balance ended this morning. Kuwait. KUNA state news agency confirmed missiles were “dealt with” in Kuwaiti airspace. No reported damage. Kuwait, which stayed neutral through every Gulf crisis since 1991, just had Iranian ballistic missiles flying over its cities. Jordan. Two Iranian ballistic missiles shot down by Jordanian military. Confirmed by the Jordanian armed forces directly. Jordan intercepted Iranian missiles in June 2025 as well. That was in defense of Israel. This time Iran targeted Jordan itself. Saudi Arabia. Fars News claims strikes. No confirmation from any Saudi source. No Tier 1 or Tier 2 verification. Either it did not happen or Riyadh is not yet ready to say it did. Both possibilities carry enormous implications. Now understand what Iran just accomplished strategically. In attempting to retaliate against Israel and America, the IRGC fired missiles at six sovereign nations in a single morning. Not one of those nations attacked Iran. Bahrain did not bomb Tehran. The UAE did not launch strikes on Isfahan. Qatar hosted diplomatic back channels. Kuwait maintained neutrality for three decades. Jordan was mediating. Iran just converted every neutral and semi-neutral state in the Gulf into a potential co-belligerent. Every nation whose airspace was violated, whose civilians were killed, whose sovereignty was breached now has legal and political justification to join whatever coalition forms next. And the damage tells the real story. One civilian dead from debris. Intercepts across four countries. No confirmed destruction of any US military asset. No reported American casualties among 40,000 troops in theater. Iran fired at the entire Gulf and the Gulf caught almost everything. Compare this to what Israel did to Tehran this morning. Precision strikes on the IRGC Intelligence Directorate. Explosions near the Supreme Leader’s office. Three detonations in central Tehran confirmed by Iranian state media itself. One side hit what it aimed at. The other side hit one civilian with debris. This is the asymmetry that will define the next 72 hours. Iran demonstrated intent to strike everywhere and capability to hit almost nothing. The Gulf states demonstrated they can defend themselves. And now those states must decide whether the country that just fired ballistic missiles across their borders gets to do it again. They will not let it happen again. Watch for the joint statement. Watch for airspace coordination between Riyadh, Abu Dhabi, Manama, and Kuwait City. Watch for the coalition that Iran just built against itself with a single salvo. Iran did not retaliate against Israel this morning. Iran gave every country in the Middle East a reason to retaliate against Iran.














