Kumar

PROCESS IS PUNISHMENT: in 2019, Prannoy and Radhika Roy were stopped from leaving the country in what was an act of pure harassment and vendetta as detailed in my 2024 election book. It’s taken another 7 years and an iconic media company taken over for the Look Out Notice against them to be quashed. Bananaistan?!😡

@madversity But by that yardstick was it wrong to ban South African players during the apartheid period?

#SunilGavaskar doesn't get it. You cannot equate individual civilians with their countries or governments. #AbrarAhmad being hired for #TheHundred in UK by #IPL's Sunrisers is a private business decision. You cannot deny a Pakistani cricketer opportunity for what his government does anymore than you can stop watching a Hollywood movie because of what the Trump Administration does in Iran or Venezuela.

The issue is not whether India should be “for” or “against” Israel, the United States, Iran, or the Gulf states in some emotional or ideological sense. The issue is whether any of these relationships, as they are currently conducted, advance India’s long-term interests without narrowing India’s strategic autonomy. India’s strength has always lain in balance — in keeping multiple relationships alive at once, in speaking across divides, and in refusing to let any one partnership become a trap. That is not weakness. It is the essence of serious statecraft for a country of India’s scale, geography, and civilizational depth. What has changed in recent years is the tone of the domestic discourse. There is a marked tendency to see Israel less as a partner than an object of admiration, even envy — a symbol of unapologetic force, swift retaliation, and the fantasy of unencumbered power. Much of the media has climbed aboard this train, cheering Israel less as a state with which India has specific interests than as a projection of their own ideological desires. That is where the danger lies. Admiration for Israeli military prowess is not strategy. It is emotional substitution. India is not Israel. Our geography is different, our scale is different, our society is different, and our vulnerabilities are different. We cannot afford to inherit another country’s siege mentality as if it were our own doctrine. The real test for India is not whether it can applaud force. It is whether it can preserve room for manoeuvre, protect its energy and maritime interests, maintain credibility across West Asia, and keep its own voice. A country like India should not suffer from “Israel envy”. It should have the confidence to be itself. I am sure it can.

This reminds me of the guy in my class in 9th standard. We had an Economics exam and one question was: "Can you describe a mixed economy?" And his entire answer was: "Yes."

On Sunday afternoon, my colleague @deshkar_ankita called from a government hospital in Nagpur. This was not going to be just another accident brief.... 19 workers were dead. SIXTEEEN of them were women. #Thread (1/8)

NOWHERE IS SAFE here in Mumbai, A 35 year old driver was crushed to death as a metal structure fell on his car due to the negligence of a trailer driver. The trailer driver is at large, Wadala police book 4 in this matter. #Mumbai #accident

The WASHING MACHINE is alive and well. 🙏

Hahahaha... the joke is firmly on us, the sheep people of India, giving unlimited powers to BJP to do whatever it wants while also amassing crores and crores of rupees in its coffers. We, the dolts.

So many cases of hit-and-run. Mostly teenagers driving expensive cars under influence of alcohol + new-money. Yet another symptom of the soft-oligarchy we’ve turned into that rich kids can kill for fun and get away because the politicians/courts are in their (Papa’s) pockets.

My column in @ttindia on how, in politics and in law, in symbol and in substance, in word and in deed, India is becoming ever more like Pakistan, except that here it is Hindus, and not Muslims, who rule over fellow citizens who are of other faiths: telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-hind…

The UGLY SIDE OF ‘NEW’ INDIA. THIS. 😡😡😡😡😡

#TheInterview by @kthaparoffice: @Ram_Guha on why India is becoming a Hindu Pakistan; he calls it "medieval barbarism" Watch: youtube.com/watch?v=8ZoOqW…

A Chief Minister is shown as shooting Muslims. I want to ask the country what we Muslims should do to live with dignity in our country. What should we do to not feel 2nd class? I urge @rashtrapatibhvn, the Supreme Court & @PMOIndia to say and do something.

This is straight up hate speech. Beyond vile. Is the Supreme Court sleeping?

Ramachandra Guha on the likely endpoint of India’s majoritarian direction: telegraphindia.com/opinion/a-hind…

@ramkid The same way they’d order Britannia Petit Beurre from their neighbourhood grocery store?

Did the bright sparks who named their building Chez Nous think about how residents would tell their address to a plumber?

.@TheEconomist on cults of personality up and down the hierarchy in Indian politics: "A visitor to India will encounter Mr Modi’s face more often in one day in Delhi than Xi Jinping’s in a month in Beijing." economist.com/asia/2025/12/3…

I'm right now in Himachal Pradesh in a smallish village called Cheog. Yesterday I went for a a hike up a nearby mountain, a bit difficult for a city-person like me. 1.5 hours of huffing and puffing later, I reached this pretty forest patch. What I found stunning is that in the middle of the forest -- off this trekking path -- there are beer cans, wrappers & chips packets just littered around. a) how the hell did so much trash get up here. b) why do people dump their shit in the forests like this? c) Why don't tourists just CARRY their trash and dump it back in the hotels/homestays they stay in? d) how the hell do we fix this chomu habit of Indians littering LITERALLY EVERYWHERE?! I'm so triggered and sad. Please. Someone tell me if this is actually a fixable problem or are we just supposed to live with this garbage behavior now?

This is truly what the Modi years will be remembered best for: It gave confidence to lumpen youth to walk into spaces, vandalise, threaten at will, while spouting hate and paranoia. This is in the capital, New Delhi.

'India wasn’t always like this. Things have never been as bad as they are today' Vir Sanghvi @virsanghvi writes #SharpEdge #ThePrintOpinion theprint.in/opinion/sharp-…