"The baseline that connects these instances is not the vulgarity it delivers. Comedy has always contained elements of vulgarity, and it should, to continue challenging modern social values and what is considered unacceptable. Here, the object of scrutiny is the normalisation of violence, coercion, humiliation, and prejudice that is made the raw material to illicit humour." - Mandar Prakhar writes. thetryst.in/opinion/humour-v…

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।

“The Congress Party’s role as many of you have stated, is to unite all of you together with love and affection.” My speech to the INDIA Alliance leadership on 8th June. youtube.com/watch?v=EorzeIgd…

Remember history. Manmohan showed more guts and self respect. I bet Modi will not act tough on USA killing so many Indian sailors in Iran War BUT he will melt like butter when he meets Trump on the sidelines of G 7 soon — even though Trump is kicking India every week for last 18 months.

Brilliant examples u gave today ! What a stark contrast

Contrary to PM @narendramodi’s (& the @BJP4India Govt’s) tepid reaction at the killings of Indian sailors, PM Manmohan Singh (& UPA Govt) acted decisively when Italian sailors killed Kerala’s fisherfolk & when US Govt arrested an Indian diplomat. See on @ThePublicIndia today.

Statement issued by the Foreign Affairs Department, @INCIndia on the targeting of Indian sailors in West Asia. We stand with the bereaved and condemn the illegal attacks on Indians.

UPA सरकार की राजीव गांधी ग्रामीण LPG वितरण योजना के अंतर्गत भी अति गरीब परिवारों को साल के 9 सिलेंडर दिए जाते थे, मगर, राहुल गांधी जी ने अपनी सरकार और तत्कालीन प्रधानमंत्री मनमोहन सिंह जी से 12 सिलेंडर प्रतिवर्ष की मांग की थी। अब मोदी सरकार गरीब महिलाओं को 9 की जगह साल के सिर्फ़ 4 सब्सिडी वाले गैस सिलेंडर देगी। गरीबों को आखिरी बूंद तक निचोड़ लेने की मोदी सरकार की रणनीति देखिए - सिलेंडर के दाम बढ़ाओ और फिर सब्सिडी भी छीन लो। ये फर्क है राहुल गांधी जी की सोच और मोदी जी की सोच में, राहुल जी चाहते हैं कि गरीबों की जिंदगी जो भी चीज़ बेहतर बना सकती है, वो सब उन्हें दे दिया जाए। मोदी जी चाहते हैं कि गरीबों से जो हो सके छीन लिया जाए, बस अरबपतियों का फायदा न रुकने पाए।

"you can't find a more secular person than Subhash Bose and Bhagat Singh." Prof Aditya Mukherjee on the appropriation of freedom fighters by the RSS. Full interview: youtu.be/SzPzzMu6lr8?si=0l3H…

Corporate success requires both profitability and genuine purpose. @sutapaban, one of India’s foremost voices on responsible business, explains how companies can shift from performative gestures to concrete action in our new book, The Business of Business Is Not Just Business. Watch Now: youtu.be/dUufRT35SSk

"...majority communalism can easily masquerade as nationalism. That is what they are trying to do." — Prof. Aditya Mukherjee Watch the full interview: youtu.be/SzPzzMu6lr8?si=x49c…

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NSUI and Indian Youth Congress have done more than 50 protests across the country on NEET and CBSE issues in the last one month. 12 May 2026 – NSUI, New Delhi: Protested outside Shastri Bhawan after the cancellation of NEET-UG 2026 over paper leak. 13 May 2026 – NSUI, New Delhi: Continued demonstrations against alleged failures in conducting NEET-UG fairly. Protesters demanded a transparent investigation and reforms in the examination system. 16 May 2026 – NSUI, NTA Headquarters, New Delhi: Organized the “NTA Halla Bol” protest over the alleged NEET paper leak. NSUI and IYC demanded disciplinary action against NTA officials and safeguards to protect future examinations. 17th May 2026 till date – NSUI and IYC state units: Nearly all state units, organized protests, demonstrations, and campaigns against the NEET and CBSE controversy, calling for Pradhan’s resignation 31 May 2026 – NSUI, Bhopal: Participated in a large protest over the NEET paper leak issue, demanding accountability from the government and the resignation of Union Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan. 1 June 2026 – NSUI, Bhubaneswar: Held a torch march toward the residence of Dharmendra Pradhan, demanding his resignation over the handling of the NEET controversy. 2 June 2026 – NSUI and IYC, New Delhi: Continued protests over COEMPT scam and Pradhan’s resignation 3 June 2026 - Indian Youth Congress, Nagpur: Youth Congress activists joined protests over alleged CBSE and NEET irregularities and paper leak LOP Rahul Gandhi has raised the NEET and CBSE issues the maximum. Demanding Pradhan’s resignation and exposing COEMPT scam. He also met several delegations of CBSE and NEET students and also Sarthak. LOP also activated the NSUI and IYC of the party to hold countrywide protests.

No amount of time with you would have been enough. Forever loved. Forever missed.

"…from the very inception, the RSS was anti-Congress and they were willing to join hands with the British. When the biggest movement (the Quit India Movement) happened, the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha were collaborating with the British. They were also collaborating with the Muslim League to form government." — Prof. Aditya Mukherjee Watch the full interview: youtu.be/SzPzzMu6lr8?si=x49c…

Basically yet another thing that will have to be completely redone once there’s a new Govt! Truly, India’s lost decade. Thanks @BJP4India.

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There is a memory I carry with me from my years as a civil servant. It has never left me.... Back then, I had just been transferred as Collector to Mangalore, a city then shadowed by communal violence and a menacing sand mafia. Before I left, word came that the Chief Minister wished to see me personally. It was unusual. Collectors don't typically get called in. I walked into his chamber with a knot in my stomach. He looked at me, that familiar, unreadable face. Steady. Unhurried. "Banri…" he said. (Come in.) "Nimage ondhe kelasa… alli ennum communal aaga baradhu." (You have only one job there. No communal incident should happen.) That was it. No preamble. No politics. No performance. Just a Chief Minister, alone with a young IAS officer, telling him exactly what mattered. In that single sentence lived an entire philosophy of governance. one rooted not in optics, but in the protection of ordinary people from extraordinary hatred. Fifteen days later, Mangalore erupted. Two communal murders, two communities, one city on edge. He called me again. Just as directly. "DC... Do what is required. Take anyone into custody, even our party people. Don't bother. But stop this within a day." To a young collector, those words were everything. They were permission. They were protection. They were political will at its most honest. I have known the contrast too. Under a different dispensation, in a similar crisis, the instruction from the top was the opposite. Do nothing strongly. Let things fester. …That silence said everything about who governs for whom. Siddaramaiah Ji was never that kind of leader. He carried government finances in his fingertips and social justice in his spine. He refused to tour places that reeked of feudalism. He spoke plainly, governed sharply, and stood on the side of the last person in the room. If there was one political figure I have genuinely admired, from the stage and up close, it has been him. His legacy is not in the schemes he launched or the budgets he read. It is in the kind of Chief Minister he chose to be when no one was watching. . On that quiet phone call. In the way he asked a nervous young officer to go out and keep the peace. And now, as he steps back with the same quiet dignity with which he always led, I find myself moved. He has handled this transition with the grace of someone who always knew that principles outlast positions. Siddaramaiah Ji....long life, good health, and please keep guiding us. The Congress, and this country, still needs the kind of moral clarity only you carry so naturally.

A few weeks back I had spoken at the Launch of the book “The Business of Business is (not) just business : How Behavioural Tools Can Drive Real Change” written by @sutapaban published by Harper Collins. The session was moderated by Safi Rizvi and Sutapa and I were panelist’s. I was reminded of this when I just saw a piece in The Print about it theprint.in/pageturner/excer… The book is full of insights about how knowledge of human behaviour gives insights that can influence and drive businesses and business strategy. In my chapter in this book I discuss how observation of my colleagues’ behaviour provided the germ of the idea of naukri.com One other gem that Sutapa spoke about at the launch was that it has been proven that males display alpha behaviour on the trading floor and end up taking excessive risk and therefore lose money precisely because they are men and have excessive testosterone. Female traders don’t exhibit the same behaviour. She implies that trading and investing firms should hire more females. A book worth reading and thinking about. amzn.in/d/0eOSKn51 Disclosure - Sutapa and I are Colleagues on the Eternal board. She chairs the Audit Committee. @zomato @letsblinkit @deepigoyal @albinder @akshant_g @InfoEdgeVC @kitty_agar

In June 1954, two legendary Indians were touring the USSR for entirely different reasons - the brilliant scientist and statistician P.C. Mahalanobis, and the prominent writer and filmmaker K.A. Abbas. Wherever Mahalanobis went, he was amused by the constant, reverent references to Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru. Attending a Sunday church service in Leningrad, he observed, "Some of the women were so overcome to speak of India and Nehru that they began to cry softly - tears came to their eyes in an upsurge of feeling." ​Meanwhile, in a completely different part of the country, Abbas was touring with his Soviet writer friends. When they stopped in a small town for lunch, one of his comrades raised a glass, "To Nehru-the most important man in the world today." To Abbas's utter surprise, everyone in that small luncheon, including the waiters and waitresses, instantly joined in the toast. ​That was the sheer popularity and charisma of Jawaharlal Nehru. He didn't need to burn millions hiring PR agencies to stage manage his image like the politicians of today. He left us on this very day in 1964, perhaps broken by the aftermath of the Sino-Indian War but he was a giant of a man. If our democracy still functions even at a fraction of its potential today, it is because his years in office laid the foundational stepping stones. #Nehru Ref : Planning Democracy - Nikhil Menon Pic : The Hindu