Avijit Dutt

@Sydusm And then spending Rs.1.5 cr per day of taxpayer’s money to glorify this mediocrity while reducing my glorious many splendoured country of diversity; to a uniform one dimensional destination of hatred and divisive politics. Sacrificing our global leadership for a personality cult!

What happens when an uneducated buffoon is made to rule a country. A man who wants to portray expertise in every field when he has none. The benchmarks of quality are lowered to match his calibre. Domain experts start acting dumb so he comes across as knowledgeable. Slowly everything degrades towards mediocrity. From the school syllabus to the scientific temper, all suffer. This is not hypothetical. This is what happens when leadership has no calibre but unlimited authority. Everything around it shrinks to fit. Out of fear, not reverence. It collects like-minded mediocrity around itself. Look at Indian cinema. For decades, parallel cinema held its ground. Shyam Benegal, Govind Nihalani, Mrinal Sen made films that challenged, disturbed and lingered. Today, the biggest blockbusters are propaganda dressed as entertainment. Mythology repackaged as history. Critics who raise questions are trolled into silence. The industry does not make what is brave, it makes what is safe. What is approved. The audience is not being entertained. It is being brainwashed and managed. Music followed. India produced classical musicians of global stature. Ravi Shankar made the world stop and listen. Today the charts are ruled by remixes of old songs because originality requires courage and courage requires freedom. When the political climate rewards conformity, art becomes a mirror of power, not a window beyond it. The youth are being fed vulgar DJ songs that hit at other faiths and are declared hits at the charts. The country gyrates mindlessly. Sports reveals the most rot. A country of 145 crore cannot qualify for a football World Cup. Cricket is worshipped not because India is great at sport but because cricket became a vehicle for nationalism. Wins are political capital. Losses are buried without a whimper. What was done with women wrestlers is no secret. Neither are the conditions of national sports academies. Architecture told the same story without words. India has a legacy of extraordinary monuments. Temples, stepwells, mosques, churches, forts. The sheer geometric intelligence of Jantar Mantar, the Mughal intricacies, the Lutyen's glory. The Taj. Compare that to the new parliament building that resembles a corporate monolith. A Central Vista that bulldozed history to build bureaucratic vanity. Grand in scale, empty in soul. Built not to inspire but to impress. Look at the street poles, the railings, the new railway stations... all an eyesore. Poorly designed not just in aesthetics but also in functionality. New expensive buildings leaking and flooding in one shower. And then the syllabus. History is being rewritten not to correct it but to corrupt it. Chapters dropped, context removed, questions discouraged. A generation is being educated into ignorance. Science is finding itself in competition with mythology in classrooms. When the leader cannot distinguish between the two, the system starts to collapse. Because everyone wants to keep him happy. This is the real cost of incompetent leadership, not just the expense of marketing it daily. It is not just bad policy. It is the slow lowering of every bar in every field until the nation forgets what excellence once felt like. Real knowledge is looked down upon as an elitist scar. The tragedy is not that the buffoon does not know better. The tragedy is that an entire system pretends he does. Mediocrity does not arrive with a warning. It arrives with a fake degree, a hundred costumes, a fifty car cavalcade and a bloated chest. Everyone claps.

@virsanghvi Responses will vary from whataboutery to blindness but it’s just the natural fallout of leaders pushing for electoral victory, regardless

Sharp Edge: There was a time when people in power had some shame. They wanted to be seen as neutral & honourable The refusal of Gyanesh Kumar the CEC to even bother to be seen as impartial is a symbol of the brazenness in our system. When was the last time you heard of a minister resigning on moral grounds ? Honour & morality have disappeared even from some high constitutional offices theprint.in/opinion/sharp-… via @theprintindia

@TheIncNews Yes i agree

Om Birla is “The Worst Lok Sabha Speaker in Indian History. ○ Yes, I agree ○ No, I disagree Follow and share your opinion clearly.

@ManrajM7 1. Disaster

RANK PRIME MINISTER MODI'S 3rd TERM 10 EXCELLENT 9 GREAT 8 VERY GOOD 7 GOOD 6 OKAY 5 AVERAGE 4 POOR 3 BAD 2 TERRIBLE 1 DISASTER

@savedemocracyI 00%

आप सबको चुनाव आयोग पर कितना भरोसा है ? 1- 00%. 2- 25%. 3- 75%. 4- 99%. कृपया सभी लोग अपना जवाब जरूर दें।

@hvgoenka They are too terrified to be amongst the people

Seeing President Macron running on the streets of Mumbai, two things stand out: 1. No visible convoy, minimal security, just blending into the city and doing his thing. 2. The fitness level. Leadership needs stamina as public life is demanding. And think of our politicians 🙈!

@pbhushan1 Wish for it to happen here at the soonest

This Will also happen in India one day

@SaketGokhale Pathetic display of poor taste! Shames us

ONLY Modi thinks littering a city with illegal hoardings of his photo is a “special welcome” This doesn’t happen in any other country when a foreign leader is visiting. It’s tacky, defaces a city, & ruins the aesthetic. VERY embarrassing but that’s how Modi likes it.

@Umm_e_meerann @SUNILGUPTA_SUGU Wrong religion unfortunately in our country which was not always so divided

What's his crime? 🤔 Nono, he is not a murderer nor a rapist; his fault is he is an Indian Muslim who protests silently in honor and love of Mohammed PBUH. #iLoveMuhammadﷺ

@SUNILGUPTA_SUGU @BCCI @Sundarwashi5 @vijaylokapally @shekharluthra Billionaires coming to play around when it suits them

“Lack of motivation”? Who are they to decide? Aren’t they employed by ⁦@BCCI⁩? every other team’s members play domestic games. ⁦@Sundarwashi5⁩ played #ranjitrophy & was the only one to perform. #coincidence? no. ⁦⁦@vijaylokapally⁩ ⁦@shekharluthra⁩ ⁦

@arvindgunasekar @paranjoygt As for the final lap to the formation of Government, waiting with bated breath. Congratulations Thak, it's contributions from people like you which has made this possible

With ECI making public absolute number of votes polled / constituency, now it’s for the political parties to collect Form 17 data booth wise / constituency and compare it with the absolute numbers made public by the poll body. ECI could have published the absolute number of votes polled right away, still surprising why were they resisting till date. Public pressure worked, ECI has put out the number of votes polled, now it’s on the political parties to match the data with theirs.

@karmanomad Lovely! Thanks Nirmal

Beautiful video clip from the waterhole count.

@prakashraaj Make believe and make them believe, while the country slides down

Where are we heading..…. #justasking

@t_d_h_nair If they are really serious then stop the student loans. RS. 68000 crore can be saved every year. Use it for poverty alleviation or invest in Singapore, you know the students will come back as will our investment

This latest saga over Khalistan adds to the ongoing disaster in Manipur, China’s ingress in Ladakh and the mishandling of Kashmir, joining Modi’s list of spectacular failures. The façade is gone. Gandhi is not there. Only Godse is visible. caravanmagazine.in/politics/modi-…

@sampitroda Shame

So Sad to see gandhi's image reduced in size . What is the purpose to repeat Gandhi's quote with oversize image of Modi? Have some sense pls. What are we trying to accomplish ?

@Paul_Koshy @TrishaBShetty Each one of us has to ask these questions

Bravo @TrishaBShetty That punch landed straight on the nose. Awesome 👍

@BhavikaKapoor5 @varunpurohit4 And that too is not honoured, states have to beg for the dues and not be paid. The poor left bereft while our tax money is used for the Emperor’s worship.

@MahuaMoitra @ombirlakota Unashamed Modi-fied ethics borrowed from Mein Kampf

Kudos to the IIS & the Jindal initiative. Have always believed CSR can magnify efforts by Companies joining hands. AM your move now!

Jindal reaches out to Mahindra for sports alliance toi.in/qA2Usa/a24gk via @timesofindia