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@venkat_fin9 @IncomeTaxIndia More imp question for @IncomeTaxIndia is the UNFAIRNESS of 234B and 234C. If a lumpsum amt is received in Mar, and taxpayer is unaware if it would be received or not, he still has to pay the interest for this. Its totally unfair to expect pymt of tax before income is recd.

Dear @IncomeTaxIndia, stop taking income tax even before salary is credited to my bank account. Who worked the whole month, you or me? Have some common sense. At the end of the year, if I owe taxes after expenses, I will pay them, just like corporates do. Why is the salaried middle class treated differently every single time? Stop this nonsense. Enough of squeezing honest taxpayers. @FinMinIndia @nsitharaman

In 1918, inside a dimly lit basement lab at the University of Calcutta, a young chemist was staring at a beaker of salt water. He did not have high-precision spectrographs/million-dollar grants from the Royal Society. He was working in a city choked by colonial taxes, using hand-blown glass tubes & flickering lanterns. His name was Jnan Chandra Ghosh. The greatest minds in Europe, including the legendary physical chemist Peter Debye, had spent decades trying to write a mathematical formula that could predict how strong electrolytes (salts) conduct electricity in a solution, & they had all failed. Ghosh sat down with a slate, threw out the existing European laws of thermodynamics, & introduced a radical new concept: The Anomaly of Strong Electrolytes. When he published his eqns, the absolute titans of global science: Max Planck, Walther Nernst, & Bragg were so stunned by the sheer accuracy of this unknown Bengali's math that they officially named the phenomenon 'The Ghosh Law/Theory'. But as the decades rolled on, European textbooks quietly repackaged his eqns, slapped Western names onto the formulas, & turned Jnan Chandra into a ghost. In the 1910s, a single batch at the University of Calcutta produced a terrifying concentration of genius. Jnan Chandra Ghosh, Meghnad Saha, & Satyendra Nath Bose (of the Bose-Einstein Condensate) were all classmates & roommates. They literally shared textbooks & lived on puffed rice (muri) because they were too poor to afford proper meals. During World War II, the global powers were desperate for oil. Nazi Germany was surviving purely because their scientists had figured out how to turn raw coal into synthetic liquid fuel (petrol) using the Fischer-Tropsch process. The exact chemical mechanism, however, was a heavily guarded military secret. Working out of the Indian Institute of Science (IISc) in Bangalore, Jnan Chandra Ghosh cracked the Nazi secret completely independently. He developed highly advanced, indigenous multi-component catalysts that could convert low-grade Indian coal into high-grade aviation fuel at a fraction of the cost. The British administration immediately classified his research during the war. They used his data to fuel allied aircraft, but when the war ended, the patents were subtly absorbed into international oil consortiums. Instead of being hailed as the man who gave India energy independence, his blueprints were filed away in govt archives to rot.3 Most people think the Indian Institutes of Technology (IITs) were designed by American/British consultants brought in by Nehru. In 1950, Nehru realized India needed an elite engineering nerve center. He did not call a foreign architect; he called Jnan Chandra Ghosh. Ghosh was the founding Director (1950-1954) of the Eastern Higher Technical Institute, which became IIT Kharagpur (India’s 1st IIT) in 1951. He was the man who literally walked through the old, abandoned Hijli Detention Camp (a former British prison for freedom fighters) & decided to build the 1st IIT on top of those exact prison grounds as a symbol of intellectual liberation. He designed the entire curriculum, set up the labs, & hired the 1st faculty. The moment IIT Kharagpur was running flawlessly, Ghosh packed his single suitcase, refused to take any lifetime pensions/administrative accolades, & quietly walked out to become the Vice-Chancellor of Calcutta University. He built the platform for India's entire modern tech boom, then vanished from its history. Jnan Chandra Ghosh is the ultimate ghost because he chose to be the scaffolding, never the monument. He fixed the math that mapped the stars for Saha, he engineered the catalysts that broke the Nazi fuel monopoly, & he literally built the very 1st IIT out of an old British prison camp. He sat in the same classrooms as Satyendra Nath Bose & shared food with Meghnad Saha, but while their names became immortal, Jnan Chandra chose to remain the invisible concrete beneath the structure of modern Indian science. Every time an IIT grad secures a million-dollar tech job today, they are standing on a stage built by a man who did not even leave his name on the curtain.

For those in the world who don’t know, the Chief Justice of India made a reference likening youngsters to cockroaches. This went viral and prompted @abhijeet_dipke to launch the Cockroach Janta Party (Cockroach People’s Party), a digital political movement which many now hope will actually become a proper political party. Within 24 hours or so they have crossed 20,000 members, have a political symbol and a manifesto in line with the ideals of the Indian Constitution. While this may have started out as a gag, it is now turning serious and people are already beginning to see a new political movement possibility driven by Gen Z. Watch this space. We are seeing the birth of a new political movement in India in the digital space with people declaring “I am a cockroach”, and “cockroach power”.

Another day, another ‘Ooh elephants don’t eat eggs/meat, but they’re strong and muscular’ BS.

@IndianGems_ Nothing he says can reverse the damage. In his original tweet, there was no mention of fake degrees. Now he is targetting Hon. PM. 😂

Modi asked you to eat less oil, skip gold, work from home. Sitharaman told you to eat out less and watch your expenses. BJP IT Cell told you “India is the fastest growing economy.” Meanwhile, Indian Express’s Udit Misra just filed the autopsy report: 🔴 Rupee: ₹86 → ₹96 in ONE year. Quietly. 🔴 Net FDI gone NEGATIVE; Indians building factories abroad because they don’t trust this government’s economy 🔴 BOTH current account AND capital account in deficit; simultaneously. First time. Ever. 🔴 Per capita income = ₹20,000/month. MOST Indians earn below even that. 🔴 Exports? Almost stagnant and flat; after 12 years of “make in India”, And Misra confirmed, the government KNEW this for 2 years. They hid it during elections. The call only came once votes were counted. This isn’t bad luck. This isn’t Iran. This isn’t Trump. This is what 12 years of suit-boot economics, crony capitalism, and GDP optics actually looks like underneath. Rahul Gandhi called it in July 2025: “Indian economy is DEAD.” The Indian Express just put the post-mortem report on the table. They didn’t mismanage the economy. They HID the mismanagement from you; until after you voted. That’s not incompetence. That’s a betrayal. 🇮🇳 💔

Why Norman Borlaug is the greatest human being who has ever stepped foot on earth in the last 100 years Invents things that saves lives instead of killing people Creates a new variety of Wheat in Mexico which resists all diseases like Rust Orchestrates a masterclass in international collaboration where he crosses his Mexican wheat variant with a Japanese variant to create the new Wolverine of Wheat which grows anywhere. Doesn't patent it and gives it away for free. Distributes his wheat seeds at no cost to both India and Pakistan right in the middle of the 1965 war. Works closely with India and doubles our Wheat output in 5 years In 1974, Ensures the second most populous country at that time became self sufficient in food. The same country which imported weed infested wheat just 10 years prior Then creates a new rice variant by crossing Indian and Japanese variants which doubles productivity Creates a maize variant for Africa, triples its output and saves 10 African countries from Famine. Is out on a field planting crops at 4 AM when he receives the news of his Nobel Prize. Saves a billion people from Starvation Saves entire nations from revolution. Reduces the area required for Cereal cultivation in the world by 66% Awarded USAs highest civilian award and our own Padma Vibhushan. (Should have been given the Bharat Ratna, but I digress) Saved 1/3 rd of Humanity from descending into chaos and madness What he did has been feeding a billion people daily for the last 50 years and will for the next 50. Doesn't it feel awkward that we shower epithets like God, Legend and GOAT on sportsmen and actors, when someone like Norman Borlaug exists

In the mid-1800s, while the British were busy building an empire of tax & steel, 1 man was building an empire of the mind from a house in Uttarpara. Babu Joykrishna Mukherjee (1808-88) was the Ghost Banker of the Indian Renaissance. He did not just give money; he played a high-stakes game of political blackmail. He realized that the British would not educate Indians out of kindness, they had to be bribed into it. While the colonial administration tried to keep modern science behind a paywall, Joykrishna was smuggling fortunes into the foundations of medical colleges, libraries, & schools ensuring that the 1st generation of Indian doctors did not just learn to heal, they learned to outthink their masters. In 1835, when the British opened the doors of the Calcutta Medical College, they expected to train subordinate assistants. The British wanted the CMC to be a small, controlled experiment. Joykrishna wanted it to be a powerhouse. When the CMC was in its infancy & struggling for resources, Joykrishna stepped in with massive capital. He was 1 of the primary private contributors who ensured the college did not fold under British budget cuts. He specifically funded beds & facilities at the Medical College Hospital, but with a condition: they had to be accessible to the common man, not just the elites. He was effectively buying medical sovereignty for the people of Bengal. The British East India Company was terrified of an educated Indian populace. In 1849, Joykrishna applied to establish a girl's school in Uttarpara. The British turned him down, fearing it would destabilize social norms. He did not argue. He pivoted & spent ₹85K, a staggering sum at the time to build the Uttarpara Public Library (1859). It was the 1st free, non-govt public library in India. This was not just a place for novels. It was a research hub. He donated his personal collection of 3000 books, magazines & other literary items. Joykrishna’s commitment to science & education was forged in the fire of personal humiliation. In 1858, at the height of his philanthropic career, the British imprisoned him on a fabricated charge of land fraud. They wanted to break his influence. While sitting in a jail cell, he did not beg for mercy. He spent his time planning more schools. By the time he was released, he had the blueprints for 30+ schools across Howrah & Hooghly. He used his criminal status as a badge of honor, proving that his mind belonged to India, even if his body was in a British cage. He understood that as long as the British controlled the medical colleges, Indian doctors would always be subordinate. His son, Peary Mohan Mukherjee, carried the torch, becoming 1 of the primary founders of the Carmichael Medical College (now R.G. Kar). This was the 1st non-govt medical college in Asia. It was funded by the Joykrishna wealth specifically to ensure that Indians could learn anatomy & surgery w/o being treated as 2nd class citizens by British profs. Again, when the British refused to let him build a girl's school, Joykrishna did not keep his money. He took ₹10K & forced it upon the Bethune School in Calcutta. He effectively bankrolled the education of the 1st female doctors in India, like Kadambini Ganguly, by ensuring the institution had the capital to survive British neglect. Joykrishna Mukherjee was the man who realized that you could not defeat a colonial power with a sword as easily as you could with a textbook. He was the Invisible Infra of Bengal. Every time an Indian doctor picks up a stethoscope/a researcher looks into a microscope, they are utilizing a freedom that was bought by a man who was jailed for his defiance & laughed at for his dreams. He is the Ghost of Uttarpara, the man who bought us the future. Special thanks to @BjornQuixote dada & his blog, which helped significantly during my research. Referencing it here as well: kpax72.blogspot.com/2021/05/the-un…

Gym selfies are temporary; cylinder-lifting strength is permanent.🤭🔥

@AmritHallan @ShivrattanDhil1 How come? Is it because of Operation Blue Star?

@ShivrattanDhil1 She shouldn't have mentioned Indira Gandhi. She shouldn't be used to exemplify women empowerment. She was a mafia don who completely criminalized Indian politics. The kid did the right thing.

Where are we heading as a society? This is exactly what happens when education is overshadowed by religious and political conditioning. A teacher at a DCM school in kotkapura Punjab was simply giving a lecture on women empowerment and mentioned Indira Gandhi as part of the discussion. Instead of understanding the context, a student reacted by calling her a killer and attacker, and the matter was unnecessarily escalated into a controversy with even a police complaint. This is not empowerment, not education, and definitely not progress. It is slowly pushing children towards becoming emotionally reactive, intolerant, and anti-social at a very young age. Parents and society need to understand that classrooms should remain places of learning, discussion, and open thinking not battlegrounds for ideological fights.

Crude was at 140$ a barrel in 2013 and Dr MMS didn’t act like the world was ending. Then why, with Brent Crude around 105, is Mr Modi acting like the apocalypse is here? There’s obviously been tremendous mismanagement over the last several years- it’s NOT the war!

His name was T.N. Seshan. He was born on December 15, 1932 in Thirunellai village, Palakkad, Kerala. His father was a court lawyer. He cleared the IAS in 1955 and spent the next 35 years moving through the machinery of the Indian government. In 1989, he became Cabinet Secretary, the highest position in the civil service. Then, in December 1990, he was appointed the 10th Chief Election Commissioner of India. Before Seshan, Indian elections were a spectacle. Booth capturing was common. Candidates spent without limits. Government machinery was deployed freely for the ruling party's campaigns. The Model Code of Conduct was treated as a joke. Seshan treated it as law. He postponed and cancelled elections when he found violations. He reviewed over 40,000 expenditure accounts and disqualified 14,000 candidates for filing false information. He introduced the Voter Photo Identity Card. He appointed election officials from outside the states going to the polls so they could not be pressured locally. He publicly named ministers he said were trying to influence voters and asked the Prime Minister to act. The government tried to clip his wings by appointing two additional Election Commissioners in 1993. Seshan challenged the move in the Supreme Court. He was once asked to define his role. He said, “I am not the Chief Election Commissioner of the Government of India. I am the Chief Election Commissioner of India.” He received the Ramon Magsaysay Award in 1996. He died on November 10, 2019 in Chennai at the age of 86. The Election Commission of India called him “the man who redefined the grammar of Indian elections.” Every time India votes peacefully, it is partly because one man refused to let anyone make a mockery of the ballot. Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

My grandma is 68 and finished this quilt yesterday. My always rude grandpa said it looks like “a mess of colors”, now she's upset but i said i would post it here and she would know how amazing her work is

@Gen90s_Rants @rishibagree Mostly bribe money saved by their parents since 2010s

@rishibagree Most of such GenZ come with generational wealth. 90s kids have only generational trauma.

Just saw a Gen Z guy order a Rs 700 cold coffee and casually drop a Rs 100 tip. Is this kind of spending the new normal these days, or just an exception?

@rishibagree His Dad must be in govt. Collecting bribes.

25,000 cockroaches have joined the party until now. This movement belongs to everyone who’s frustrated with the regime. Join the Cockroach Janta Party now: cockroachjantaparty.org

@CuteAaruhi4 Thank god that family is saved.

Today, I got a marriage proposal. The guy looked good, had a good job, and his family was also decent. But I rejected him because he was a Congress supporter. As a proud Nationalist Hindu, I can never accept someone who supports an anti-Hindu party. 🚩

@rakeshpsheth 2 reasons imo. 1)Low std of living for the families that traditionally work in temples-often having to plead with devotees for tips/dakshina etc-leading to poor self esteem, plus general demonization of UC by politicians. 2)Liberal incentives given by missionaries for converting.

A temple administrator from a deeply traditional family recently sent me his son’s resume for a job recommendation. The son had converted to Christianity. What disturbed me wasn’t the conversion itself. It was this, the family had spent years in temple sewa preserving rituals, sustaining continuity, keeping tradition alive. And somewhere along the line, the next generation quietly walked away. And the most uncomfortable part? This temple is in an NDA-ruled state governed by the very political establishment that speaks most loudly about Hindu resurgence and civilizational pride. Which means the problem is deeper than politics. When even the families serving our temples no longer feel rooted within the civilization they once sustained, something structural has broken. Not spiritual. Structural. Hindus need to ask themselves some very uncomfortable questions about what we have actually built and what we have merely performed. A long-form piece on this follows later this week. @trramesh @ReclaimTemples @RahulDewanV2 @Vishnu_Jain1

@DikenaClinton That baby understood Every Single Word.

This mom is melting hearts online after having a very serious conversation with her 2 week old baby.🥹❤️ Would you talk to your baby like this, or is baby talk unavoidable at that stage?

@MaleAssert70208 @ambani2_ Go tell Modi to stop the war, his frand Doland Trump started it.

@ambani2_ All the gyaanis in the comment behaving as if strait of hormuz is their fathers property. Go tell Iran to lift the blockade thats causing global energy prices to sky rocket since its their fathers property. Chutiyas of the highest order.

Once a legend said “Your qualification can’t decide your common sense”.