A genre when someone else is just as passionate as you are about getting what she wants.

RT @NMenonRao: What strikes me is not so much the original post by @suhasinih as the quality of the debate that follows. Almost immediately…

That one song from childhood— along with the video— remains stuck in my head. “Mile sur mera tumharaa, to sur bane hamaraa....” That India, that wish for integrity— all dead

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When you raid a store of goodwill your predecessors have left behind for you, it feels really great. As if a new era has opened. Until the store becomes empty and everyone realises that you created virtually nothing and was simply coasting along on the achievements of your predecessors. In foreign affairs, in economy, in institutional credibility. The crash that follows can be very hurting emotionally.

To praise the PM for chronological reasons, you have to thread a really small needle. One word out of place, and it doesn't work. "Longest continuously serving elected prime minister" is not the same as 'the longest serving prime minister' or even the 'longest serving elected prime minister' who are, respectively, Jawaharlal Nehru and Indira Gandhi. It is funny to see how many worthies have rushed in with congratulatory statements that are utterly baseless and untrue :)

It's great to see an Indian news agency following the kind of standardisation procedures adopted by McDonald's to ensure that a Big Mac in Nice, France tastes exactly the same as in Bratislava, Slovakia.

Living in 100% Amrit Kaal, driving 80% ethanol cars, breathing 60% polluted air, drinking 40% adulterated milk, in an education system with 20% credibility, to get killed with 0% dignity, by USA missiles, by mob lynchings, by a badly made bridge or a pothole, or just a stampede.

अमेरिकी हमलों में तीन भारतीय नाविकों की हत्या के चंद दिन बाद - न अफ़सोस, न माफ़ी। उल्टा, अमेरिका ने आदेश देना जारी रखा है। उनके शब्द पढ़िए: “अमेरिकी सेना के आदेश तुरंत मानें।” कोई उल्लंघन “बर्दाश्त नहीं किया जाएगा।” एक आज़ाद देश इस तरह की भाषा कभी नहीं सहेगा। लेकिन हमारे Compromised PM? चुप। एक आज्ञाकारी नौकर की तरह सुनते हैं, और आदेश मान लेते हैं। Compromised PM देश के सम्मान की रक्षा नहीं करेगा - क्योंकि जो देश का अपमान करते हैं, वो उन्हीं के वश में हैं।

MEA needs a less clichéd and more serious script for the PM's visits abroad, one where he engages with his hosts on substantive issues, rather than his own accompanying troupe and Indians settled abroad.

इंदिरा गांधी ने कहा था हिन्दुस्तान किसी से नहीं डरता, चाहे सातवां बेड़ा हो या सत्तरवां अमेरिका ने सेना वापस लेने का दबाव बनाया तो इंदिरा गांधी ने दो टूक शब्दों में कहा कोई देश भारत को आदेश देने का दुस्साहस न करे!

Update : People removed a Donald Trump poster from an auto rickshaw and urged auto drivers not to display US related symbols on their vehicles, reflecting rising public sentiment after 3 sailors were killer. The auto drivers are more courageous than Laal Aankh

Good Morning Shashi ! Now you have smelled coffee after the Kerala elections. When Modi surrendered under Trump's pressure, you gave him a free pass. When the opposition was demanding accountability on the trade deal & ceasefire, you chose to become Modi's brand ambassador around the globe. At times, you even persuaded others to remain silent under the garb of pseudo-patriotism. Now you are also speaking as a critic, should we try to shut you down for the sake of India's Global image?

No Return Address: Nehru Writes to Modi by A J Philip indiancurrents.org/article-n… #IndianCurrents

यह ख़बर कब आएगी कि NEET पेपर लीक की तरह प्रधानमंत्री राम मंदिर के चढ़ावे में डकैती के मामले को भी मॉनिटर कर रहे हैं। अभी तक FIR भी नहीं हुई। मीडिया की बेईमानी देखिए कि डकैती को चोरी लिख रहा है। इस देश में दो करोड़ तीन करोड़ अब ग़बन या डकैती नहीं है, चोरी है। ख़बर बड़ी न लगे क्या इसलिए गोदी मीडिया मौत की ख़बर को घायल लिखने लग जाएगा।

Jawaharlal #Nehru with his mother. Jawaharlal Nehru writes in his books about his mother, Swarup Rani Nehru, with deep tenderness, comparing her gentle, non-threatening presence to the formidable, authoritative figure of his father, Motilal Nehru. Nehru describes Swarup Rani as a delicate, beautiful woman who suffered from persistent ill health throughout most of her adult life. He also touches upon the cultural dynamics of their household. One of the most poignant narratives in Nehru's writings is how his fragile, traditional mother transformed when the family joined Mahatma Gandhi's non-cooperation movement. Despite her physical ailments, Swarup Rani did not stand in the way of her husband and son risking imprisonment; instead, she threw herself into the struggle. In An Autobiography, Nehru notes with immense pride how she braved police lathis (batons) during protests. In one incident during the Civil Disobedience movement, she was struck and injured by the police during a demonstration. Nehru writes about the agony of being locked away in prison while knowing his frail mother was on the streets facing state violence, yet he notes her absolute resilience.

One elephant dies, hundreds of prominent people post. Three Indians died, not a single one posts.

Pulao is not the safe, indigenous, satvik cousin of a foreign-sounding biryani. The renaming campaign ignores this fact. ✍️ Shubhra Chatterji newslaundry.com/2026/06/13/t…

I think about this every day. In the Netherlands, if a person dies alone, without any family or friends as mourners, a poet will be sent to write a poem and read it at the burial service. It's called the Lonely Funeral Project, and it's just humans being good humans.

Nobody should be a trillionaire in a world where people sleep hungry.