@Saritanitharwal @AskAnshul That's a fair point. But it doesn't hold if the same minister presides over one shitshow after another
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Karthik Gopalan
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@AskAnshul If every institutional failure automatically requires a minister’s resignation, then every government in India’s history would have collapsed long ago.
The real measure of accountability isn’t resignation after a crisis it’s whether the crisis is fixed and prevented
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1) NEET UG 2026 paper leak.
2) CBSE OSM flaws.
3) CUET-UG glitch.
4) One-sided UGC equity regulations.
Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan cannot keep distancing himself from every failure that occurs under institutions reporting to the Ministry of Education.
When exam papers are leaked, when technical glitches disrupt exams, when evaluation reforms trigger widespread concerns, and when one-sided regulations are pushed, the problem is no longer isolated incidents. It becomes a question of governance.
The Ministry of Education cannot keep treating every failure as a standalone event. At some point, a pattern demands scrutiny.
Why are millions of students repeatedly asked to place their future in systems that continue to face questions over transparency, preparedness, and accountability?
Why are reforms implemented first and defended later, instead of being thoroughly tested, audited, and stress-tested before affecting an entire generation?
The National Testing Agency (NTA) was established to make examinations more efficient, credible, and fair. Yet every major failure and lapse further weakens students' trust in the system.
A Govt that asks its youth to compete relentlessly must first guarantee them a system they can trust completely.
Students are expected to face the consequences of every mistake they make. Why should the Education Minister be any different? If accountability means anything, Dharmendra Pradhan should resign.
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@BagchiAsh @_MiteshGandhi A dingleberry of RaGa calling someone "idiot" 🤣 irony just shot itself!
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NEET paper leak, CBSE exam results, Currency devaluation, Inflation fuelled by Energy crisis, India's isolation on the global stage... But of course it's an opportune moment for a cricket writer to produce a political piece about an opposition politician.
It's all about the timing idiot!
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Has Ramachandra Guha, the author of notable works on cricket, written anything on how brilliant Jay Shah is as an administrator? It may be time for him to do so.
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@Puyangan5 If they were capable of such nuance, they wouldn't be Congress supporters. Surely you haven't forgotten how vile the RaGa brigade is!
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Can Cong supporters stop saying stupid things like middle class voted for BJP, they deserve to suffer?
The CSDS 2024 post poll survey shows NDA got only a similar level of VS from middle class/rich as they did from the poor.
Nearly half of middle class voted for INDI
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@clashreport In next aggression by india. Indian economic strategic assets will be targeted to destroy there economy list is already created..it includes indian jamnagar refinery.ambani antilla house building ..Mumbai stock exchange building ..JP Morgan on lease building in Powai Mumbai .etc
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Pakistan's Rocket Force Commander Lt Gen Nauman Zakaria on India:
I'll share the first two words of the mission given to my army by the government of Pakistan: 'Deter war.'
The primary mission of the Pakistan military is to deter war.
We'll do what we have done always.
We did it last Feb 27, last year, for everybody to watch.
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@Puyangan5 She has a far greater problem: inability to listen to anyone else without delegitimizing their concern
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The big directional calls in response to crises came from Modi. These were politically risky calls (fiscal prudence and capex over populist handouts) and he was spot-on. NS had little role in this.
As an administrator, NS has been pathetic. She doesn't have any first principles
Harsh Gupta Madhusudan@harshmadhusudan
Nirmala Sitharaman has been one of the best finance ministers in Indian history. Nobody has gone through so many crises one-after-one since 1991. Let us also remember the major decisions and political capital is anyway the PMO's, just like they were during the MMS-PVNR era also.
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It was mid-2022. The country was still shaking off COVID. Nobody quite knew if the worst was behind us. And the political mood everywhere was the same, a kind of resigned certainty. "Waste of time, brother. Ram Mandir opens in early 2024. Elections in April. It is going to be a sweep."
Back then, I had just been made in charge of the war room for the Karnataka Assembly elections. I was wondering where we would find the courage, the technique, the language to push back against a narrative that had been years n the making.
That was when I 1st heard he had decided to walk.
Across the entire length and breadth of this country. On foo
My first thought, honestly, was, not a great idea!
His close advisers said the same. Too cumbersome. Too dangerous. Someone even proposed a hybrid-walk some of it, take vehicles for the rest. He refused every suggestion. He had one belief: that truth, when it moves on foot and looks people in the eye, will communicate what no war room ever can.
I want to tell you about one day during that walk.
Through some logistical error, the camp was erected around four kilometres ahead of the designated end point. It was hot. It was humid. The yatris who had arrived earlier were already resting.
When he reached the camp and realised what had happened, he didn't say a word. He turned back and kept walking. 4 kms. No one is ahead of him. No crowd. No cameras making a moment of it. Just a man, a road, and a principle he refused to compromise on even when no one was watching.
That image has never left me.
Now, Prof Ramachandra Guha has been writing about Rahul Gandhi's shortcomings with remarkable dedication for years. Pages and pages. Column after column. From someone who claims to be disillusioned, the output is almost impressive in its volume.
If he is truly irrelevant, truly finished, truly a lost cause, someone should ask Mr Guha why he cannot stop writing about him.
Mr Guha once wrote seriously about what it means to be an honest intellectual in a democracy. Noam Chomsky made a point that cuts close to home here, the most dangerous intellectual is not the one on anyone's payroll, but the one who arrives, through apparently careful analysis, at exactly the conclusion those in power find most convenient.
We are 10 years into something serious in ths country. Institutions that should be independent are not. Newsrooms that once asked hard questions now ask different ones. Dissent is treated as disruption.
Many of the people now writing sharp pieces about RG's leadership once wrote sharp pieces about exactly this machinery. They were right then. The question worth asking is, what changed?!
Let me be plain about what this moment actually is for us.
This is not an election cycle. This is a war b/w two visions of what this country is and who it belongs to.
One vision believes this country is for everybody. That its diversity is not a problem to be managed but a truth to be celebrated. The other operates on fear & hierarchy, with a precision and discipline that Mr Guha, from his comfortable cocoon, seems to find more analytically interesting than morally troubling.
Mr Guha can remain on his pedestal of privilege. That is his right.
But millions of people who have no such luxury, who live with the consequences of this moment every single day, have already made their judgement. They are following the one person they know will never leave their side. The one person they know will fight this till the end.
Not because he is perfect. Not because he wins every battle. But because he is the one person who walks kilometres when no one is watching.
History will record ths moment. It will record who stood where when the fire was visible & the smoke was being diagnosed. It will record who had the courage to walk & who had the comfort to write. It will record the millions who followed a man into uncertainty because they trusted his spine more than they feared the road ahead.
Truth does not need a column!
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@Just1597400 @athreya49 All the more reason to start. It's been 12 years, the "long time" argument can't last for eternity
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@kalyanasc A more pertinent question is, why has "your milieu" not made space for people who have legit criticism of RaGa? But that's far too hard to contemplate, isn't it? 🤣
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Very true, but why has our milieu not made space for his critics, for people who called him out? Our own gatekeepers have backed him to the hilt. They are the enemies of critical discourse.
Subir Sinha@PoMoGandhi
Go back to 2014-15, Guha had a lot of praise for Modi, along with Shekhar Gupta: self-made man, great orator, not from elite circles of the metros etc. Ram is a good ecological historian and writes well on cricket but as a political commentator he is a disaster, and has been.
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@Aunindyo2023 Never held any responsibility, though he could have. Never been accountable in wielding power. Received everything on a platter, without any notion of deserving. But, sure, checks most of the boxes. 🤣
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Rahul Gandhi causes great discomfort to the English-speaking liberals of India.
While he checks most of the boxes, the problem is his consistent opposition to neoliberal economic policies and to Big Business.
India’s liberals – convinced for 40 years of the virtues of Ayn Rand-type libertarianism – sense a spectre of communism behind Rahul’s pronouncements.
That’s what gives them dyspepsia.
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@Nolanpayne23 @Aunindyo2023 I hope the conspiracy theories stop before we get there, but, at this point, who knows!
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@kgb4pl @Aunindyo2023 So sir, tell me what do u think about rcb winning the ipl is it somehow related to the bjp government rigging it all for kohli😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲
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For those hard of English, please copy-paste this post into ChatGPT and ask it to explain it to you
Aunindyo Chakravarty@Aunindyo2023
If the Congress really had an alternative to the Gandhis, what stopped others in the party from splitting it, electing a new leader, and staking claim to be the real Congress? After all, Indira Gandhi did it in 1969 and emerged as the real leader.
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@kgb4pl @jsensarma @Akshay_VAK Recently a company was given 30 yr contract in Bengaluru for waste collection. I leave it up to you what will be the outcome of said contract
We need better processes and many more systems built up from scratch to ensure quality and completeness of delivery
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Need to scan couple of million papers in short time. Then no use for those scanners.
So guess what any L1 bidder without a long term contract will do. Use phones.
(Same with personnel. How will u get so many trustworthy people in a burst. So end up with unreliable help)
datavorous@datavorous_
"duplex scanners" they said. i wonder which scanner allows you to scan accessories nearby.. amazing ain't it? not a black swan incident, sampled 2944 pages randomly, and all had similar features. phone cameras? you say? the tender(s) said something different.
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@catale7a Don't you tire of all the larping, the lying, the deflection? Girebaan mein jhaank kabhi
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@sagorika_s You are opening up the playbook of his bread and butter. Have some pity. He's just a low-grade scoundrel trying his luck
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The gall to talk down to the people whose religion is being dissected to purposefully demean and call a social media retaliation to lies an “attack”? Requires intellectual cowardice and it always ends up with appeal to authority and circular citation.
David Miano@DrDavidMiano
Well, even I have been attacked by Hindutva ideologues for the last 6 years. Now imagine if someone has experienced this hatred for a lot longer, as Dr. Truschke has. I might react in much the same way. Regarding her portrayal of Muslim rulers, I have to ask you, which seems more ideologically-motivated: 1) saying a Muslim ruler probably was not as evil as the legends say, or 2) saying that the legends of a Muslim ruler being the epitome of evil must be true, because I hate Muslims?
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@manickamtagore Particularly if they are Grade A bastards like yourselves
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This is Congress.
This is Rahul Gandhi.
When an alliance partner faces a storm,
we don’t step aside ,
we step forward.
We stand with them.
#AbhishekBanerjee
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@DrDavidMiano @thar_ol Congratulations, David! It must be so liberating to be this dumb!
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@thar_ol You asked me what I believe. Then I told you. Then you demanded I prove it. You’re the arrogant one.
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The Harappan civilization spanned what is now Pakistan and northwest India, and instead of discussing history in a reasonable manner, this platform is loaded with people arguing over whether the biggest or best part is in one country or the other. Low IQ stuff. Did the adults all go to Bluesky?
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@Plebeian42 Do you think Gaurav Pandhi has a single original thought? Or the ability to write a cogent paragraph? 🤣
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The writer undermines his own thesis by vomiting AI slop at us. Please don't do this. Please. If you don't care enough about the piece to write it yourself, then please don't write it.
A human wrote something; a human should respond to it.
PS: I'm not making it about politics; I'm just exhausted of AI slop.
Gaurav Pandhi@GauravPandhi
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@s_karkala @Aunindyo2023 Because, if such a person emerges, he will be harassed to the point of leaving. When Tharoor stands for president, Kharge will be propped up. Or are you going to claim that no such propping up happened?
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@Aunindyo2023 Right now the reality is, no Gandhi's means no a Congress party. Gandhi's are binding force of present Congress. And there is no charismatic pan India leader who can challenge the Congress now.
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If the Congress really had an alternative to the Gandhis, what stopped others in the party from splitting it, electing a new leader, and staking claim to be the real Congress?
After all, Indira Gandhi did it in 1969 and emerged as the real leader.
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@Aunindyo2023 @Niirbhay Tell why, na? They control the purse strings.
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@Niirbhay That’s precisely the point. The idea that the Congress can continue as a national party without the Gandhis is pure naïveté.
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@IAmSudhirMishra For a person who purportedly cares for the country, the original post should be a cause of concern for you. You seem almost gleeful in running Guha down 🤣 ye hain hamare intellectuals
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There ! Finally someone said it . And why didn’t they appoint Ram Guha as as their chief advisor
Aunindyo Chakravarty@Aunindyo2023
If the Congress really had an alternative to the Gandhis, what stopped others in the party from splitting it, electing a new leader, and staking claim to be the real Congress? After all, Indira Gandhi did it in 1969 and emerged as the real leader.
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