Deepak Lal
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Deepak Lal
@dplal
love of the mountains , reading and cooking and motorcycling riding
شامل ہوئے Mayıs 2012
684 فالونگ101 فالوورز
Anyone who opposes the Nicobar project is a direct enemy of India's strategic & national interests.
Period!
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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@SeaSkipper @RahulGandhi So perhaps the real question should be put to the Govt . Rather than dissing the LoP .
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I am a Naval Veteran and Merchant Navy officer, and this is why I think @RahulGandhi is wrong on Great Nicobar.
From an Indian national interest standpoint, Great Nicobar is not a “scam”; it is a strategic port located astride one of the most critical maritime chokepoints on earth, close to the Strait of Malacca, where a huge share of global trade moves every day. India cannot afford to treat Great Nicobar as a sentimental issue when it is a rare natural asset for maritime power, deterrence, and economic security.
Yes, Great Nicobar is ecologically sensitive. India respects that. But national strategy is about balancing environmental safeguards with long-term security, logistics, and sovereignty. The current project is designed around an international container transshipment terminal, a dual-use airport, power infrastructure, and a planned township -all of which strengthen Indian Navy’s ability to monitor international sea lanes, improve military response times, and reduce commercial dependence on foreign transshipment hubs.
To dismiss this as “destruction dressed in development’s language” is politically convenient, but strategically shallow. This kind of language suits our adversaries rather than us. India’s maritime future cannot be secured by empty slogans. It will be secured by developing ports, airfields, logistics nodes, surveillance, and persistent military presence in the Indo-Pacific. That is exactly why Great Nicobar matters.
The real question is not whether development should happen, but how to execute strategic development responsibly while protecting our National interest. We can and should demand strict environmental compliance, tribal safeguards, and transparent implementation not reject a project that strengthens India’s maritime security simply because it is complex and uncomfortable.
Great Nicobar is not just an island. It is a test of whether India can step up to its destined role as a great maritime power or remain trapped in slogan politics.
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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@SeaSkipper @RahulGandhi The govt of the day should answer and table this on Parliament:The real question should be answered transparentlyv and not the usual clak and dagger which is the govt wont.
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@Jhunjhunuwala_ Any thoughts on environmental issues . It is the largest mangrove ecosystem on the planet .
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India is planning to develop Great Nicobar Island into a hub comparable to Singapore.
The project carries immense strategic and economic significance.
And that’s exactly why anti-India forces are desperate to block it, they know how powerful it will be at the gates of the Malacca Strait.
And it's for you to Judge, what Gandhi family dynast is doing here.
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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@darab_farooqui Sounds familiar, abandon wife , create persona , fool everyone and climbs to the top on the backs of fools and hero worship :)
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Why Did Sridhar Vembu Really Come to India?
The story you've been sold: A billionaire tech entrepreneur renounces Silicon Valley, returns to a Tamil Nadu village, lives simply, cycles to work, talks about dharma and reversing brain drain. Simple living, high thinking. A saint in a cotton shirt.
The story the California courts tell: He moved to India in late 2019. Filed for divorce in 2021. In between, he transferred ownership of Zoho's US subsidiary to entities controlled by his associate Tony Thomas and his sister Radha Vembu, who now holds an estimated 47.8% stake in the company, without his wife's knowledge or consent.
A California court didn't mince words. It found that Vembu had acted "without regard for respondent's interests in community assets and without regard for the law." It ordered him to post a $1.7 billion bond. Unprecedented, the court itself said.
His wife Pramila Srinivasan, who by her own account supported the household in Zoho's early years and was kept in the dark about the ownership restructuring, is still fighting the case in California. Their son, who has autism and requires lifelong care, lives with her in the Bay Area. He is 26 years old.
Vembu left him behind.
The move to rural India wasn't a philosophical act. It was a jurisdictional one. California's community property law requires marital assets to be split equally in a divorce.
The solution, apparently, was to move the assets and himself out of California's reach before the divorce became formal. The village was the alibi. The dharma was the disguise. This is the conclusion the evidence points to.
The trial is not yet concluded and Vembu has denied all allegations, calling them complete fiction. But the court, looking at the same evidence, found his explanations not credible.
And then came the reward. The Modi government gave him the Padma Shri on January 26, 2021 and appointed him to the National Security Advisory Board just days later, in February 2021.
The formal divorce filing came in August that year. The government honoured him while the marriage was already in ruins and the asset transfers were already underway.
But the courts and the Padma Shri are almost secondary. The real villainy is what he did to millions of ordinary Indians who believed him.
The man built an entire public persona on selflessness, on the idea that he had walked away from wealth and comfort for the sake of rural youth, for India, for something larger than himself. People quoted him. Teachers cited him. Young men from small towns looked up to him.
It was a performance.
Underneath the saint was a man who had abandoned his wife of nearly three decades, walked away from a son who needed him, moved a billion dollar empire out of legal reach, and dressed the whole operation up as enlightenment.
That is the real story of why Sridhar Vembu came to India.
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@Schandillia Beg to disagree , as a society we have become more toxic . The rest are all accepted . But the anger, intolerance all have increased. One can argue that these were latent and this administration just gave voice . Perhaps
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You wake up.
You go to work.
You get your salary.
You party on weekends.
You vacation with family.
You celebrate your festivals.
You shop occasionally…sometimes a lot, sometimes not so much.
This was our life before Modi.
This is our life with Modi.
And this will be our life after Modi.
Nothing changes.
Things are more expensive this year than the last. But things will also be more expensive next year than this. And were more expensive last year than the one before. Year, decade, however you slice it.
Modi or whoever, is only an ego boost for those who outsourced their personality to their favorite political figure, not an iota more.
You vote, you don’t vote, your life doesn’t care. It will still be the same where rubber meets the road. Unless you’re one of those ladlas who actually stands to gain cold hard cash just for existing.
But even then, once a precedent sets, ladlas stand to gain anyway. And the precedent was set long ago. That the formula works is no secret knowledge confined to BJP.
This country will continue to run with or without your vote. Whoever lives in the PMO, your life will continue to be as fun or as miserable as it always was.
Nothing will change.
For the most part.
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“महिला आरक्षण के लिए कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ूँगा
नारी शक्ति विकसित भारत का अंग है”- प्रधानमंत्री मोदी
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@AbhishBanerj @smilesalotlady_ And Modiji as well , Stalin etc sab ka time jaega
Eesti
Some day TMC will lose Bengal
Could be 2026, 2031, 2036 ...
Sure to happen in a democracy
Even 20 yrs later, Lalu's rule is remembered as nightmare in Bihar.
Look at legacy of Lalu, or Jyoti Basu ... remembered as nightmares
Same will happen to Mamata one day
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@VoiceOfDisabled @soumyajitt @BJP4India @bjd_odisha @INCOdisha @MishraKedar1 @Rubenbanerjee @AmiyaPandav @adityanag2002 @heitibhaina You will get what you vote for :)
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BJP came to power in Odisha waving the banner of “Odia Asmita,” accusing BJD of serving Tamil interests and enriching Tamil companies. Yet today, the same BJP brazenly sacrifices our local vendors to benefit Gujarati firms.
Earlier, lab equipment tenders were floated at the college level, giving local suppliers a fair chance. Now, from the smallest to the biggest contracts, this government seems keen on handing everything to Gujarati companies.
And sadly, all this is being shamelessly done in the name of “protecting Odisha’s interest” and “upholding Odia pride.”
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@mvmeet Would be great if you break these amendments by PM including Modiji
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Do you know how many times has the Constitution been Changed ?
Nehru 16 times
Indira. 31 times
Rajiv. 11 times
Sonia ( MMS) 6 times
If the dynasty does,
It is need of the country
but when other party does,
It is murder of the democracy
and insult to Ambedkar ji
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@ihailmyindia You mean to say that you were other people who did not follow Modiji blindly . That is hard to digest .
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When I was with my office colleagues, they finished their drinks & casually threw the cans on the road. I kept mine with me coz I was searching for a dustbin. They started laughing and mocking me & one of them said, “Oh, she is Modi supporter doing Swachh Bharat.”
Imagine being so conditioned that basic civic sense like not littering is seen as a political thing. I had many responses in mind then, but one thing was clear, the same people who litter everywhere would later blame Modi for the filth.
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@ZiviiBloom BJP bought it's way to 200 seats .winning , there is a difference
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From NDTV 2012 😂
Entire panel with Prannoy Roy laughing at the idea that BJP could ever win 200 seats..
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@ARanganathan72 Ha ha and you thought you were immune . The animal that has been created devours anyone who steps out of line . Now face what you were always a part of,and to some extent created .
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@SushantBSinha The panic when Modiji calvacade was in Punjab , the terrorist attacks just before elections, then using those attacks to ask for votes , the women MP will atack Modiji if he comes to Parliament.chalo theek hai
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कभी चुनाव के वक्त ट्रंप पर गोली चल जाती है
कभी गिरती पॉपुलैरिटी और ईरान युद्ध पर संसद की सहमति लेने के बस कुछ दिन पहले गोली चल जाती है
दोनों बार ट्रम्प बच जाते हैं और माहौल बन जाता है कि अमेरिका के लिए अच्छा सोच/कर रहे इसलिए उनको मारने का प्रयास हो रहा है।
सब इत्तेफाक है? गजबे है।
वैसे ट्रम्प पहले अपने देश को सेफ कर लें उसके बाद दुनिया भर के देशों में घुस घुसकर दुनिया को सेफ करने का बीड़ा उठायें तो बेहतर रहेगा।
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@impragatis And what if the mobile is RSS and BJP . If anything the last 10 years has proven the mins can be from either side and only fools will hide behind , 'og there is only side mob'
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You can proudly criticize RSS and Bajrang Dal until one day a mob comes in front of your door, screaming for your heads.
-J Sai deepak
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If you could say one Word to Raghav Chadha, what would it be?
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@FltLtAnoopVerma Didn't expect anything else from you ? Thoughts on defense NFU ? Since you are ostensible ex defense :)
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My Analysis of West Bengal
1. West Bengal jumps from 82% to 92% in voter turnout out
2. Muslims generally vote in mass so this entire extra vote share come from Hindu Votes most probably who weren’t coming out earlier
3. Plus these are the people who were earlier stopped from voting coz of fear of law & order so most of them are anti Mamata voters
In 2021
1. Total 6 Cr people voted in West Bengal while the total electorate was 7.6 Cr
2. TMC got 2.9 Cr votes out of 6 Cr which is 48% & got 215 seats
3. BJP got 2.3 Cr votes out of 6 Cr which is 38% & got just 77 seats
4. Difference between BJP & TMC was 60 lacs votes & 10%
5. The total electorate was 7.6 Cr
Now
1. SIR has deleted 90 lacs illegal votes due to duplication, deaths & pure illegal
2. Total electorate this time is around becomes 7 Cr
3. Given that 80% of the effect of SIR goes to TMC, it should get 70 lacs less votes than last year means 2.2 Cr votes. This means TMC will be dropped to 35-37-% vote share
4. Given that 80% of incremental voting from 82 to 92 goes to BJP means BJP will get additional 20 lacs votes means BJP will come close to 2.5 Cr votes. This will be 42% vote share
5. Add 2% each from the other party vote share drop to both parties. Means TMC will stop at 39% & BJP will jump to 44%
6. Add 2% Anti Incumbency votes to BJP & reduce that 2% from TMC. Means TMC will settle for 37% & BJP will jump to 46%
Now with this maths
1. TMC will get 37% of 6.44 Cr (92% of total electorate) means 2.4 Cr votes
2. BJP will get 46% of 6.44 Cr means 2.96 Cr votes
BJP is touching 190 seats if the same trend goes for Phase 2 as well
Hindus should push their boundaries further & come out in larger numbers for phase 2 as well
One more point, knowing Mamata is losing big time, security forces should further step up their strength for phase 2 as goons will try to run reckless now
Nutshell, Mamata is packing up. Draconian TMC is packing up
Jai Hind 🇮🇳
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@AshokShrivasta6 So a photo of Modiji with a camera in hand from another boat , is just coincidence?
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कल रोड शो के बाद प्रधानमंत्री नरेन्द्र मोदी अचानक कोलकाता में ही रुक गए और आज सुबह बिना किसी पूर्व निर्धारित कार्यक्रम के उन्होंने मां गंगा के दर्शन किए, नौका विहार किया और नाविकों के साथ चर्चा की।
झालमुडी खाने की तस्वीरों के बाद यह तस्वीरें मोदी विरोधियों को कई दिनों तक दर्द देती रहेंगी।
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@KalyanBalu7 @RShivshankar Are you sure :) kya andh log hai ... Itna tho kiya Modi ne , Ram Madhav khud bol raha hai
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@RShivshankar America is hypenating India & Pakistan.
They see Pakistan dancing to their tune and also want India to do the same as it doing during Congress regime.
With Modi Sarkaar this is not happening and Trump is frustrated and loosing his cool.
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Ram Madhav replies to a question : “Where Is India Not Doing Enough?”
•"India agreed to stop buying oil from Iran.
•We agreed to stop buying oil from Russia despite so much criticism from our opposition.
•India agreed to a 50% tariff without saying too much.
•So where exactly is India not doing enough to work with America?"
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