ANI coverage of PM Modi's foreign trips.. Step 1 PM says bye bye to everyone in India while boarding a plane. No sounds. Cinematic music and shots. Step 2 Watches Indian dance music programme of women abroad. Make sure there are white people performing too. Look serious and interested Step 3 Ask NRIs to say how much they love Modiji and how fortunate they are to see their bhagwaan from motherland who has done so much development in India. Step 4 Make sure no one hears him speak. EVER.Never show the press asking him questions. Mute videos. Edit. Edit. Edit. The End.

Indian elites want western aesthetics without western value systems. Farmers' markets but no farmers. European-style parks and skateboarding arenas but restricted to residents of their gated communities. Western style protests but against Trump, not Modi. Rap music but with lyrics that have no angst about caste. Pride parade but with the KJo/Orry aesthetic. You don't get a Paris or New York like this. You only get a Hiranandani or DLF.

How Nations Earn Respect Because of power differentials, asymmetry is inherent in international negotiations. The parties are rarely equal in economic or military strength. Yet history shows that the stronger side does not necessarily prevail, whether on the battlefield or at the negotiating table. Outcomes between nations often depend less on material capabilities than on leadership, political will, national resilience, strategy and tactics. In 1962, China, by launching a surprise war against an unprepared India, inflicted a humiliating defeat on an economically and militarily stronger adversary. More recently, the world’s most powerful military, the United States, has struggled to achieve decisive results against a much weaker Iran. In 1999, China was no match for American power. Yet after the U.S. bombing of the Chinese Embassy in Belgrade, which killed three Chinese nationals, Washington was compelled to pay $32.5 million in compensation for the damage and for those killed or wounded. The U.S. also issued repeated apologies for the bombing, with President Bill Clinton personally apologizing to help defuse the crisis. In 1971, defying U.S. military pressure and nuclear blackmail, a relatively weak India helped Bangladesh secure independence in a swift 13-day military campaign that produced the largest number of prisoners of war (POWs) since the end of World War II. The operation succeeded despite President Nixon’s deployment of a nuclear-capable naval task force off the southern tip of India. In 1998, an economically vulnerable India brushed aside U.S. sanctions threats and conducted a series of underground nuclear tests, declaring itself a nuclear-weapons state. The decision reflected a willingness to bear costs in pursuit of national objectives and ultimately became a defining moment in India's rise and strategic transformation. In 2026, by contrast, an India widely regarded as a rising power but seemingly lacking comparable political resolve responded fecklessly to the killing of three unarmed Indian merchant mariners by the U.S. Navy, demanding neither an American apology nor compensation for the victims’ families. These episodes differed in circumstance and scale, but they shared a common lesson: nations earn respect not merely through economic or military power, but through leadership, resolve and a willingness to defend their interests. Respect is earned, not bestowed. Power alone does not command respect; leadership and resolve do. Without them, even a rising power may find itself unable to defend its interests, uphold its dignity or secure justice for its own citizens.

THIS 18-YEAR-OLD DID NOT BLINK 🔥 RAJDEEP: CBSE says TCS quoted around ₹951 crore, Coempt Edutech around ₹384 crore. Lowest bidder wins, so rules were followed. SARTHAK 🎯: My question is not whether CBSE followed the rules. My question is why CBSE changed the rules. RAJDEEP: People say you are batting for the opposition. SARTHAK 🔥: In a democracy, opposition parties are pressure groups. If someone supports me, I am thankful. If someone ignores me, I do not care.

Time for a strict law: No elected minister can send their children to study abroad or in elite private schools. All of them MUST send their kids to Indian Government schools and colleges. Only when their own children study in the same system will they fix it. The coaching mafia will die on its own. If they can’t put their kids through the same struggle, how can they lead the nation? Hypocrisy must end. Real education reform starts now.#NEETScam #DharmendraPradhanMustResign #EducationReform #IndiaFirst #NoMoreHypocrisyTag your MP. Share until it reaches the PMO. @SauravDassss

Education is the ONLY honest route available to Indians to improve their economic status. Exams are life & death situations for millions. The casual zamindar style attitude displayed by the PM is his lowest moment in his 12 year rule.

PM Modi's #MannKiBaat came & went without a mention of the NEET, CBSE & CUET mess. Let's not pretend this is beneath the Prime Minister's attention. We have seen the full communication apparatus mobilised over far smaller matters. Photo ops, speeches, tweets & inaugurations for projects of purely local significance. When millions of students are affected, however, the country is expected to accept silence. Strange priorities for a nation that calls its youth its greatest asset.

Vedant Srivastava - 17 yrs old Took to social media and exposed discrepancies in CBSE's OSM marking system. Nisarga Adhikary- 19 yrs old Hacked CBSE website and informed them (and us) that it is vulnerable and can be hacked. Sarthak Sidhant- 17 yrs old Exposed how CBSE bent rules to award the OSM tender to COEMPT. These 3 kids need to be lauded. They have given us a glimmer of hope. They have shown us, not all is lost. We still have a future to salvage.

A Middle Class Tax Paying Citizen visits a local Honda Showroom to Buy a 110 CC Honda Activa Standard Model. Their First Vehicle. He has already paid proper Income Tax and only then gets Salary. He gets a quotation of ₹97456 extra for Accessories. He asks for Breakup. He sees that the Basic Price of the Vehicle is only ₹66337. GST (18%) comes to ₹11940 (9% to State & 9% to Central) Then Road Tax Registration Smart Card etc comes to ₹13279. Insurance is ₹5000 ₹900 GST. So basically he pays ₹66337 to Honda & ₹26089 in the form of GST & Road Tax & other charges. For accessories, he has to pay additionally ₹4000 to ₹5000 which also includes GST. He closes his eyes and imagines the Road on which they will be riding in the Monsoon which will come now. He imagines riding on the roads filled with water logging. He knows that the roads are not upto the mark. He wishes his Road Tax was fully utilized on High Quality Pothole Free Roads. He feels bad for paying Road Tax for Roads which have potholes in the city. He knows that his Health will go down. But he has no choice. He cannot take a Car because he would be stuck for hours in a jam. He feels that he has paid Income Tax, but has to pay 18% GST for a basic 2 wheeler. He has to pay 18% GST on Vehicle Insurance. On Accessories. Then he looks at his family. He sees the joy on their faces as they purchase their first vehicle. He takes his phone out. He makes the payment using Digital India UPI & takes the vehicle home !!! His family is happy. He goes to work next day. Story of Middle Class. #FI

If Shekhar Suman can speak up against Modi Govt's criminal failures so boldly on his tonight show, why aren't other celebrities speaking up?

This 17 year old from Jharkhand did more journalism sitting at his home than the entire Indian Media combined did in 12 years. This is inspiring stuff, Sarthak may have fixed CBSE forever. Legendary stuff, Must Watch 👏

CBSE’s May 2025 tender required answer sheets to be scanned with automatic robotic scanners, spines preserved, at a minimum of 300 DPI. The tender re-issued in August quietly removed all of it. “Scanners” became generic. Resolution dropped to 200 DPI. Now we know what that meant in practice. It has been exposed that COEMPT scanned the answer sheets using mobile phones. The blurred copies, the missing pages, the unscanned books - they are not “errors.” They are the predictable outcome of a contract written to fit a vendor. This is fraud. And every child whose marks were wrongly evaluated is a victim of it. This morning, the Prime Minister had time to speak about mangoes. He has not had time to speak about 18.5 lakh children whose answer sheets were scanned with phones. Dharmendra Pradhan ji still sits in office. Modi ji’s silence is no longer indifference. It is complicity.

For me, my first most bullish ( from a country, not a stock market sense) moment was when Rajiv Gandhi became PM. I was entering the IT industry, in HCL, and over the next few months & years, the induction of top tech pros like Pitroda, Bhatkar ( CDOT, CDAC) etc, made me super enthused about India's tech future. At HCL, we felt it every day. Our small car, bikes, IT services, sectors were born, nurtured under him. I was young but I felt an energy in the country. His speech at the US Congress '85: " I have a dream..." was goose pimples stuff. And what a looker! What a visionary. Our tech course would have been better and higher in tech had he become PM again. It was a loss India & India's Tech never really recovered from.

An Indian engineer at Meta gets the layoff email at 11pm Bangalore time. His wife is on H-4. His kid is in 3rd grade in Seattle. His Bellevue apartment lease has 8 months left. His H-1B clock just started ticking — 60 days. Meta's stock went up on the news. Zuck called it becoming more efficient. This is what AI transformation actually looks like for 2 lakh Indians abroad. Ai impact on Indians abroad is highest

Will a Mutual Fund CEO now accept that ( she derisively called my screen shot article " click bait" then ) what I wrote 16 months ago about SIP flows providing easy exit liquidity to F2s, and thereby, creating a macro disaster - was correct and prescient? We are now Fragile One, in a full blown FX crisis, primarily because of this , et al. Ab to, even a broker is saying exactly the same thing, now. It's perfectly okay to disagree with a perspective. But being derisive about it BECAUSE of your own enlightened self interest over the nation 's interest... ( BTW, I don't give a r@# s a#&s whether SIPs increase or decrease. I gain or lose nothing from it. I just analyse and predict based on what the tea leaves show me. Apna koi swaarth nahi)

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on the anniversary of his tragic death. He was one of the warmest, most decent human beings to become Prime Minister of India. With him, what you saw was what you got; there was no deviousness, no subterfuge & certainly, no megalomania. When he made mistakes he admitted it. When he felt he had been unfair to people he apologised. And despite growing up in a political family he never let the cynicism that characterises Indian politics get to him. We often forget that he may have been the first Indian PM to have ever held a regular job, to have paid income tax and PF. This gave him an understanding of how salaried people in India lived & how the system was tilted against them. During his time taxes were lowered,the stock market boomed and India prepared for the digital age. He went too soon. If he had lived he would have returned to power sooner rather than later. By the time he died, he had learned from the early mistakes that his inexperience led him to make & was ideally placed to lead India into the 21 st Century and to forge a society that had no room for divisiveness & hatred. As even his critics will concede, he was at heart a unifier, signing accords in Punjab, Assam & Mizoram, ending conflicts and building a better India.

RT @DrShauryaGarg: My parents, who refused to listen to me, ended up going to Kedarnath and it turned into one of the worst experiences of…

A Norwegian neuroscientist spent 20 years proving that the act of writing by hand changes the human brain in ways typing physically cannot, and almost nobody outside her field has read the paper. Her name is Audrey van der Meer. She runs a brain research lab in Trondheim, and the paper that closed the argument was published in 2024 in a journal called Frontiers in Psychology. The finding is brutal enough that it should have changed every classroom on Earth. The experiment was simple. She recruited 36 university students and put each one in a cap with 256 sensors pressed against their scalp to record brain activity. Words flashed on a screen one at a time. Sometimes the students wrote the word by hand on a touchscreen using a digital pen, and sometimes they typed the same word on a keyboard. Every neural response was recorded for the full five seconds the word stayed on screen. Then her team looked at the part of the data most researchers had ignored for years, which is how different parts of the brain were communicating with each other during the task. When the students wrote by hand, the brain lit up everywhere at once. The regions responsible for memory, sensory integration, and the encoding of new information were all firing together in a coordinated pattern that spread across the entire cortex. The whole network was awake and connected. When the same students typed the same word, that pattern collapsed almost completely. Most of the brain went quiet, and the connections between regions that had been alive seconds earlier were nowhere to be found on the EEG. Same word, same brain, same person, and two completely different neurological events. The reason turned out to be something nobody had really paid attention to before her work. Writing by hand is not one motion but a sequence of thousands of tiny micro-movements coordinated with your eyes in real time, where each letter is a different shape that requires the brain to solve a slightly different spatial problem. Your fingers, wrist, vision, and the parts of your brain that track position in space are all working together to produce one letter, then the next, then the next. Typing throws all of that away. Every key on a keyboard requires the exact same finger motion regardless of which letter you are pressing, which means the brain has almost nothing to integrate and almost no problem to solve. Van der Meer said it plainly in her interviews. Pressing the same key with the same finger over and over does not stimulate the brain in any meaningful way, and she pointed out something that should scare every parent who handed their kid an iPad. Children who learn to read and write on tablets often cannot tell letters like b and d apart, because they have never physically felt with their bodies what it takes to actually produce those letters on a page. A decade before her, two researchers at Princeton ran the same fight using a completely different method and ended up at the same answer. Pam Mueller and Daniel Oppenheimer tested 327 students across three experiments, where half took notes on laptops with the internet disabled and half took notes by hand, before testing everyone on what they actually understood from the lectures they had watched. The handwriting group won by a wide margin on every question that required real understanding rather than surface recall. The reason was hiding in the transcripts of what the two groups had actually written down. The laptop students typed almost word for word, capturing more total content but processing almost none of it as they went, while the handwriting students physically could not write fast enough to transcribe a lecture in real time, which forced them to listen carefully, decide what actually mattered, and put it in their own words on the page. That single act of choosing what to keep was the learning itself, and the keyboard had quietly skipped the choosing and skipped the learning along with it. Two studies. Two countries. Same answer. Handwriting makes the brain work. Typing lets it coast. Every note you have ever typed instead of written went into your brain through a thinner pipe. Every meeting, every book highlight, every idea you captured on your phone instead of on paper was processed at half depth. You did not forget those things because your memory is bad. You forgot them because typing never woke the part of the brain that would have made them stick. The fix is the thing your grandmother already knew. Pick up a pen. Write the thing down. The slower road is the faster one.

This comedian will be arrested soon or a few “ Karyalartas” will vandalise the stage he performs at. Such are the times we are living in. Enjoy the satire before this is taken down.

This is brutal.😭😭 @GauravGcomic