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@bismil_prasad All said and done, a bare minimum question for you. Why Rs. 1000 a year rent, and why so much of debt?

Delhi Gymkhana Club, is a 113-year-old cultural landmark in Lutyens’ Delhi. It's takeover isn’t governance — it’s the crass erasure of history & sophistication by those who value raw power over heritage & refinement. Cultural vandalism from philistines.

@HelleLyngSvends Actually most of the Indians do not give the Cockroach Janata Party a damn. This is a moment initiated by good for nothing Anarchists.

Reading about the Cockroach Janta Party. What would you say the movement tells us about India?

Not cool. You can dislike a Prime Minister, disagree with a government, protest, debate and vote differently. That’s democracy. But reducing the office of India’s Prime Minister, the man, the office, and what he represents abroad, to a joke on foreign soil -doesn’t feel like the right thing or dissent - to me. It diminishes him, the institution, and ultimately, us.

India's peak power demand reached 271 GW this week. Most youngsters are not realising how this country is providing power for such a demand! Not sure how many remember. In July 2012, ~ 62 crore people went without power for 13.5 hours! Peak demand in 2012 was 135 GW only.

🚨 HUGE! Supreme Court raises a big question on reservation: — "Why are children of IAS officers and economically advanced families still seeking QUOTA benefits?"🤯 The Court observed that once parents attain a certain Social & economic position by availing RESERVATION, their children should NO LONGER need it. It said social mobility achieved through quotas must eventually take families OUT of the reservation system. Strong push to revisit the Creamy Layer concept and prevent perpetual reservation.

Soutik Biswas is a LEGEND! He writes negative articles against 🇮🇳 India for 23 years! We analyzed what he REALLY writes for the British government mouthpiece: the BBC 📰180 ARTICLES about INDIA for the last 3 years (5 per month!) 🔴 89% Negative 🟡 6% Neutral 🟢 5% Positive

This palatial house in Murshidabad belongs to arrested Kolkata DCP and TMC’s blue-eyed Shantanu Sinha Biswas. He also has a two-storey house on upscale Fern Road, Ballygunge. Salary of deputy commissioner of police, Kolkata, is approx Rs 1.5 lakh a month.

So this is what the so-called “world’s freest press” looks like? Norway’s largest newspaper Aftenposten publishes a cartoon portraying PM Modi as a snake charmer during his Oslo visit, alongside the line “a clever and slightly annoying man.” 🇮🇳 Imagine the outrage if an Asian or Indian newspaper caricatured a Western leader using colonial stereotypes like this. Disrespecting the democratically elected PM of 1.4 billion people and hiding behind “press freedom” is not journalistic superiority. It only exposes the hypocrisy and prejudice within sections of Western media.

Each year upto 52 scientists from Commonwealth countries are nominated to FRS. After 78 years of Independence, our scientists should be striving for Nobel Prize. Mashelkar’s tweet is more a marketing exercise. @PMOIndia @DrJitendraSingh @PrinSciAdvOff @CSIR_IND

Mr. Erik Solheim summed it up so well.

In defense of Indian 🇮🇳 democracy! During Prime Minister Narendra Modi most successful visit to Norway a minor incident happened. A Norwegian journalist demanded that the prime minister starts holding press conferences. She claimed that Indian democracy is in bad shape. May be its time to pause? May be its time to be a bit curious to the world’s largest democracy? Two weeks ago five Indian states and territories held elections. The turn out in the battlefield state of West Bengal was 94%. In the last local election in Norway it was 62%, in many European local elections turn out is below 50%. Can voting in massive numbers be a signal Indians trust their democratic process? In the same election BJP won big in Assam and West Bengal. It lost even bigger in Kerala and Tamil Nadu. Can this diversity be a signal that Indian democracy is reflecting the will of the people? The journalist referred to a democracy ranking putting India at 157 in the world, behind many dictatorships and deeply troubled states. When a ranking is so obviously contrary to common sense, why not ask critical questions to those making the ranking rather than demand that leaders shall comment on nonsense? I recommend Salvatore Babones book “Dharma democracy”. The book debunks convincingly the flawed methodology of these rankings. It was referred to a ranking claiming it’s very dangerous to be a journalist in India. Reality is that it is more dangerous to be journalist in the US and far more dangerous in the vast majority of other nations in the world. Let’s be real. India is not perfect. Of course there are incidents. India has a population the size of North America, South America and Europe combined. But India is much more peaceful than Europe or the Americas. That’s remarkable - given the ethnic, language and religious diversity of India and the many development challenges. Unless we consider democracy a form of government only suited for some very small, peaceful and homogeneous Western European nations, may be we should commend Indian democracy? India is the only major former UK colony which became and has remained a democracy. Its sometimes claimed that the Brits taught India democracy. If that was the case why isn’t Myanmar or Pakistan or the Gulf kingdoms democracies??? Reality is that Indian democracy is both homegrown and extraordinary successful.

Hey @HelleLyngSvends, you want to know what is press freedom in India. If you want I can share you with a list of Indian journalists (you may find them of your ilk) who earn their living by badmouthing Mr. Narendra Modi 24x7. By the way we just noticed that your prime minister ignored the Indian journalist Suhasini Hyder who tried to ask him a question. Too much for press freedom in Norway, I guess.

Had a great conversation with @BBCHindi. Thank you for giving me the oppurtunity to explain what happened Monday and why it happened.

@HelleLyngSvends What Human rights violations are you assuming?

My colleague and I asked questions tonight both on why we should trust India given the human violations rights, and also about the visit. I tried multiple times to get them to be specific on human rights, but I was unsuccessful. The representatives talked about India’s effort during Covid & also yoga, among other things. My colleague has the videos so I will try to publish tomorrow.

@dhruv_rathee Keep whining.

Modi deserves to be humiliated everywhere he goes. He has not given a single press conference in 12 years since he became the Prime Minister. He fails to fulfill the basic transparency and accountability requirements of being a leader. I would like to encourage foreign journalists from other European countries to ask him questions wherever they see him, just like @HelleLyngSvends did. Embarrass him so much that he is forced to show some accountability in front of people. You will be doing great service for India’s progress.

ମା' କୁ ବୁଝିବା ପାଇଁ ୬୦ ମିନିଟ୍ ଲାଗିଥାଏ, କିନ୍ତୁ ବାପାଙ୍କୁ ବୁଝିବା ପାଇଁ ୬୦ ବର୍ଷ ଲାଗିଯାଏ ତଥାପି ବାପାଙ୍କୁ ବୁଝି ହୁଏନି... #ବାପାବି_ମହାନ 🙏

1987. A room in New Delhi is thick with the smell of old files & cold tea. The United States has just delivered a stinging slap to the face of the Indian Republic. They have officially refused to sell India the 'Cray X-MP' Supercomputer, the most powerful machine on Earth, claiming that India would use it for nuclear weapons. The American officials mockingly suggest that India does not even have the electricity to keep such a machine running. In the middle of this national humiliation, a young, soft-spoken engineer named Vijay Bhatkar is asked by then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi: "Can we build our own?" Bhatkar does not hesitate. He looks at the No of the West & says: "We will not just build it; we will build it faster than you can ship it." The Americans did not just stop at refusing the sale; they actively lobbied other nations to ensure India remained digitally blind. They believed that w/o their Logic Gates, India would remain a 3rd world backwater. Bhatkar realized he could not replicate the Single-Processor behemoth of the Cray. Instead, he turned to Parallel Processing. He decided to stitch together 1000s of low-cost, off-the-shelf microprocessors. It was like building a giant's brain out of the neurons of ants. In 1991, while the West was still celebrating its monopoly, Bhatkar unveiled the PARAM 8000. It was not just a computer; it was a Gigaflop monster. To prove the PARAM was real, Bhatkar ran a standard global benchmark test. The results were sent to an international conference in Zurich. The PARAM 8000 was ranked as the 2nd most powerful supercomputer in the world, behind only the American machines. But there was a twist: the PARAM cost a fraction of the Cray, performed better in tropical heat, & was built in just 3 years. When the PARAM 8000 was 1st turned on, the team did not have a high-tech cooling system like the Americans. They used industrial-grade desert coolers & adjusted the airflow manually. It was the ultimate Jugaad that defeated the most sophisticated tech embargo in history. A major US newspaper ran a story with the headline: "Denied supercomputer, Angry India does it!" The ghost of the Native Engineer had officially entered the silicon temple. Vijay Bhatkar’s history is the story of how India became the IT Capital of the world. Bhatkar founded the Centre for Development of Advanced Computing (C-DAC). He did not just build a machine; he built an ecosystem. Every software engineer in India today stands on the shoulders of the man who proved we did not need the West's permission to compute. Bhatkar was the 1 who realized that if computers only spoke English, 90% of India would be left behind. He led the development of GIST (Graphics & Intelligence Based Script Technology), allowing computers to work in Indian languages. He gave the Machine a local tongue. Today, Bhatkar is a Padma Bhushan awardee, but he lives a life of deep spirituality & simplicity. He vanished from the corporate headlines to become a philosopher of the digital age. The West thought they could freeze India’s future by withholding a single machine. They forgot that the Indian mind does not need a 'Cray' to think; it only needs a 'No' to ignite. Forget building a supercomputer; Bhatkar built a mirror, & for the 1st time, the West had to look into it & see that the primitive colony had become the master of the code.

@sardesairajdeep @vdsatheesan @pinarayivijayan Probably, this is the culture elsewhere other than in Bengal. And only Mamata has to blame herself for this.

INTERESTING: good to see incoming Kerala CM @vdsatheesan pay respect to outgoing CM @pinarayivijayan at his home. Something we need to see more of in our politics, not less. May the Kerala model in this respect spread across an increasingly polarised India!

To make a fair argument, I think a minister cannot do much if someone (not appointed by ministry) responsible for keeping the papers secured, leaks the question him/herself. As per the newspapers, allegedly a retired Chemistry lecturer, who himself was part of the question setting, leaked the questions out of greed. There are serious protocols for maintaining the confidentiality and if the person responsible for maintaining the confidentiality leaks the info, it is difficult to deal. I hope the proposed Computerized tests from next year will help in addressing a hell lot of problem that this paper based exam is creating. I feel so bad for the students who have to toil hard to write the exam and then face such uncertainties. #neet2026cancelled #neetreform

High time for @narendramodi ji to remove him. Earlier the better. He has brought enough disrepute to the Govt and Ministry

@AmiyaPandav @DhanadaKanta This is not due to fuel crisis. This is due to the irresponsibility of the driver/hospital for not checking whether the ambulance has enough fuel. No filling stations are shortage of fuel at the moment. The price has gone up by 3 rs which many may not like. @abandopa

A patient couldn't reach the hospital and died inside the Ambulance today as it ran out of fuel on the kathajodi bridge of Cuttack. Fuel crisis has emerged as a biggest challenge for the people of Odisha these days ! Govt.is in deep sleep.. @DhanadaKanta @Ayaskant_Das @prasannamohanty

@manas_muduli wow!

Odisha Adarsha Vidyalaya once again delivers outstanding results! 👏 Great to see govt school students from the hinterlands of Odisha shining in the CBSE Class XII Board Examinations. > OAV Science Topper: Priyadarshini Behera of OAV Dhobatota, Kandhamal - 97.6% > OAV Commerce Topper: Disha Saha of OAV Sanmouda, Mayurbhanj - 96.8% These achievements reflect the immense talent present across every corner of Odisha. Proud moment for OAVs and the state!