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Ravi Shankar's (@etteth) Column | The #CJP is perhaps the most intriguing political phenomenon to emerge from India’s rhetoric- and religion-obsessed campuses for one simple reason: it isn’t, for now at least, a political movement.
It is not an Opposition echo chamber where the pet peeve is that the BJP has captured every institution. This distillation of rebellion is based on the correct assumption that examinations are personal to every family.
The paper leaks are the theft of every student’s future, every parent’s dream: years taken from a young person’s life by a cabal that stole the questions even before the exam bell rang.
However, history counsels caution in the field of political kinetics. Bangladesh and Nepal have had their youth fighting corruption and winning.
Movements succeed only when they reflect public anxiety; one broad enough to survive the establishment’s inevitable attempts to capture, dilute or ridicule them.
To arrive at a workable solution, a combination of a consensus on the problem, and a unanimous action plan is a must. Every generation inherits its predecessor’s political clichés.
Gen Z is returning the envelope unopened. Because, words like socialism and secularism do not relate to Indian youth. Jobs do. So does the freedom of choice of what to eat, wear, and say.
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#CockroachJantaParty @abhijeet_dipke @Cockroachisback @CJPComms
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How a civilisation fell centuries ago: : The rise of the Church in Ancient Rome created an alternative power structure that accumulated immense wealth and competed with the Emperor for the loyalty of the citizens.
Jun 12
Britains Prime Minister says “Muslims are the face of modern day Britain. Islam is a religion of peace”
What’s your response to him ??
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Why do you want to know? Isn’t India ahem, the fastest growing economy? And blame Election Commission now.
Jun 12
A year after the tragedy.. we still don’t know why the Air India plane crashed.
No final report
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Jun 10
‘They used dogs’: New Al Jazeera film exposes Israel’s use of rape in jails
And Hamas used microwave ovens flip.it/NAS8ZO
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‘Disgusted To Be Indian’: Indian Family Creates Chaos In Thailand
Impose blanket ban on indian travel groups of 4 and families for a year. Violators of civic laws must be fined $1000 per person or 6 months in jail @prdthailand @MFAThai flip.it/71u9C8
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I’d order some more.
Jun 9
🤔 Honest question:
If a Muslim family sitting next to you at a restaurant politely asked you not to eat a particular food out of respect for their religious beliefs, how would you respond?
Some people would accommodate the request as a courtesy.
Others would say that in a public restaurant, everyone should be free to order what they choose.
Would you honor the request?
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👎 NO
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Saw sign outside gymkhana club, “beware of gyanesh.”
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Rajya Sabha Pick Meenakshi Natarajan's Nomination Junked, Congress Protests, holds dharna outside the election commission office.
Cong says Natarajan had received a show-cause notice from the court, and it was not necessary to mention it in the affidavit.
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Kate, kick some sense into this baldy
Jun 9
Prince William says “The Muslim community showed the world that the religion of Islam is the religion of peace and understanding”
What’s your response to him ??
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Gives me a bad throat.
Jun 9
I have been smoking Trichinopoly cigars for years.
Like most cigar enthusiasts, I’ve enjoyed some of the finest cigars from Cuba, Nicaragua and the Dominican Republic. My humidor has seen its fair share of celebrated names.
Yet recently, something surprised me.
A few friends who are serious cigar smokers had never even heard of Trichinopoly.
That genuinely shocked me.
Here was a cigar they had travelled halfway across the world to find alternatives to, without realising that one of India’s own cigar traditions had been quietly surviving for generations.
These cigars have been hand-rolled in Trichy for decades. Long before branding agencies, social media and luxury marketing, they had built a reputation that travelled across the British Empire. So admired were they that they became closely associated with Winston Churchill himself.
And yet many Indian cigar lovers can name every major Cuban brand but know little about Trichinopoly.
That says less about the cigar and more about us.
India doesn’t suffer from a lack of craftsmanship. We suffer from collective amnesia.
We have forgotten how much of what the world admires was once made, grown, distilled, woven, forged and rolled here.
As someone who genuinely loves cigars, this isn’t nationalism talking. It’s appreciation.
When a product has history, character, craftsmanship and has stood the test of time, it deserves to be celebrated.
Today wasn’t just about lighting a cigar.
It was a reminder that some of India’s finest stories are not waiting to be written.
They are waiting to be remembered.
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Ravi Shankar retweeted
Ravi Shankar's (@etteth) Column | To view the former British clubs of Delhi and Bombay, polo grounds and racecourses, only through the arithmetic of land values therefore signifies historical myopia.
They are reminders that a nation can emerge from subjugation without becoming captive to resentment.
India’s civilisational ethos has rarely been rooted in vindictiveness. It owns a philosophy expansive enough to accommodate diversity, excellence, tradition, and modernity simultaneously.
There is a vital difference between ownership and possession.
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Ravi Shankar retweeted
#OPINION | Elders may consider generations Y and Z to be more entitled or irresponsible. But they are leaning on the immediacy of experience amid heightened economic and social challenges. They are also more engaged with politics, social equity and environmental issues, writes Geetha Ravichandran.
@santwana99 @etteth @PrabhuChawla @TNIEMagazine
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Ravi Shankar retweeted
From palace corridors to forest sanctuaries, India’s royal heiresses are rewriting inheritance as a practice of care, not power.
@santwana99 @etteth @PrabhuChawla @TNIEMagazine
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Might be a problem. Modi doesn’t back down
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Cockroach Janta Party threatens to launch a nationwide stir if Dharmendra Pradhan does not resign or PM Modi does not dismiss him within seven days, reports Manisha Mondal @manishamondal25 for ThePrint
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A marvellous review by Ravi Shankar @etteth in the @NewIndianXpress of my book #TheSageWhoReimaginedHinduism, my study of #SreeNarayanaGuru — who really deserves to be better known outside Kerala! I hope the review will prompt some of you to read the book….!
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