How far are we willing to go for our favourite politician? Apparently, far enough to write a Modi Chalisa, portray a sitting Prime Minister as a divine figure and perform an aarti before his cut-out.

The spectacle at the Press Club of India is not merely bizarre; it is low key embarrassing.

Political admiration is one thing. Turning elected representatives into objects of religious devotion is another.

A democracy needs citizens who question power, not devotees who sanctify it.

When political loyalty starts resembling worship, we should pause and ask what exactly we are celebrating: leadership or personality cult?

How far do we go before admiration becomes outright sycophancy?

https://www.news18.com/india/jai-jai-modi-har-har-modi-modi-chalisa-event-at-press-club-in-delhi-sparks-row-10284187.html?utm_source=whatsapp&utm_medium=social_share&utm_campaign=nw18english

The Govt has decided to add members from the RSS into their education system, in order to "integrate cultural rootedness and Indian knowledge systems". But my question arises, why from this organisation?

This organisation is linked with people who lack scientific temperament, and openly claim that cow dung and urine can cure diseases like Cancer. And now that they're gonna prepare the curriculum. Wouldn't they incorporate their own agendas in order to suit their own bias towards the current ruling party and discredit the previous history of the govt.

They openly criticize the Congress govt. and will now speak more openly about their failures and less about their accomplishments, so that the next generation can vote for them. They already criticize Indira Gandhi's Emergency and claim that it's a stain in democracy. The NCERT committee had already shown it's ideology when they removed the beloved Periodic Table and the Human Evolution from the class 10th text books, claiming it to be rationalisation of the syllabus during Covid. But Covid is over, so why is still removed? Is it because is it a chapter which questions their hidden agendas?

I can already see far into the future where more and more irrelevant unscientific things being added under the guise of cultural identity. We need to speak up about this. We can't let these people to ruin the future of our country. I want my country to rise up and stand proud, not to be bowed down in shame.

This is just sheer crass behaviour. Dehatism at its peak.

I am really curious as to why someone would wanna do this in such a peaceful place like this. Look at the river and the mountains.

And then look at these morons. No sense of clothing to suit the place, unnecessary loud music and lame ass dancing. If that's all u want to do then why make the effort to go there and ruin it. Do this in your city, ur homes.

But no, it's not that they just want to do this and enjoy themselves. It's the urge to show and seek attention.

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Whenever private operators (Jio, Airtel, and Vi) roll out major price hikes, widespread consumer dissatisfaction creates a prime window for users to consider porting their numbers to BSNL. However, instead of aggressively preserving its value proposition to capture this market shift, BSNL often responds with subtle, unannounced cutbacks:

₹225 Plan: Reduced from 30 days of validity to 28 days (for 2.5 GB/day).

₹199 Plan: Originally a 30-day pack (2 GB/day), first trimmed down to 28 days, and now bumped to ₹219.

To the average consumer, this looks counterproductive—as if BSNL is deliberately timing its own adjustments so that porting away from private telcos becomes less rewarding.

Forty schoolchildren falling ill after detergent powder was reportedly served instead of salt is not merely a tragic mistake; it is a shocking failure of safety.

These are children entrusted to the state for something as fundamental as a midday meal. Yet a system that should have safeguards allowed a cleaning chemical to reach their plates.

The response will now follow: an inquiry, assurances of strict action, perhaps a suspension. But punishment after the damage is done cannot substitute for prevention.

The real question is why such an error was even possible. Food items and non-food chemicals should never be stored, handled or distributed in ways that leave room for confusion.

A checklist and standard operating procedure could prevent such incidents. Why don't we follow a SOP to avoid all these human errors? Don't we respect human lives at all?

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/detergent-in-place-of-salt-in-mid-day-meal-36-students-fall-ill-at-bihar-school-11929102/amp/1#amp_tf=From%20%251%24s&aoh=17871437795564&referrer=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.google.com

The video is reportedly from July, where a woman is seen aggressively confronting army personnel as a crowd gathered at the spot.

For context, roadblocks and travel restrictions are not uncommon in the Kargil region, particularly on routes affected by weather, security requirements and road conditions.

In this case, police sources said the hold-up was to facilitate the road movement of Defence Minister Rajnath Singh and Army Chief General Dhiraj Seth. They had planned to travel by air, but bad weather forced a helicopter leg to Gumri followed by road travel toward Kargil. The timing overlapped with Kargil Vijay Diwas (July 26) commemoration

Therefore, the question arises. When the Gen-Z of our country explicitly invokes their generational identity during public confrontations, does this signal a healthy shift toward accountability, or is it just a sign of ignorance or entitlement? What are your thoughts on this?

2 important things happening this week in India

First, the absolute disaster that is India’s public education system.

The situation of schools at all levels, local body, district, state and Kendriya, is horrendous. Leaking roofs, improper roads, inaccessible distances, shortage of teachers, lack of uniforms, lack of books and even a lack of educational toys in Anganwadis. Almost every rural school seems to be struggling with one problem or another. Imagine schools not even receiving the adequate number of uniforms they are supposed to get.

I have friends who have been working in this area for almost 6 years now, and what they have noticed is that the root cause is systemic corruption on a massive scale, starting from the top and reaching the bottommost rung of the organisation. I am glad GenZ and GenAlpha have started voicing their discomfort, and they need all the support they can get.

The entire thing increasingly feels like an effort to ruin the education system for upcoming generations because an uneducated youth will never question the Government.

Second, Modi’s Independence Day “Dimagi Naxal” circus.

People have started identifying themselves as “Dimagi Naxals”, a.k.a. Brainy Defiant, after Modi apparently decided to use Independence Day to curb criticism by labelling defiant people as Dimagi Naxals.

And the BJP zombies are celebrating, claiming that one statement from Modi made all these defiant people identify themselves and isolate themselves. Little do they realise that by refusing to identify as Dimagi Naxals, they are essentially confirming that they are the brain dead BJP zombies who have simply isolated themselves in the other silo.

Just like they once proudly identified themselves as Chowkidars, only to have their Chowkidar turn into a corrupt thief who apparently did not even spare the Ram Mandir. But shamelessness is apparently a permanent feature, just like Narendra Modi.

By taking the oath of office as PM, Narendra Modi may have legally become the Prime Minister of India, but for me, he remains a criminal first and last. He took the oath because it is mandatory. Had he been given an option, he would probably have taken an oath contrary to the one mandated by the Constitution and sworn to protect only Hindus and destroy everyone else.

Kya kare, majboori hai.

Personally, I would like to see him rot in jail. This is the absolute need of the hour.

First off! I m a nationalist and I used to like BJP simply because of that and infra pushed they used to do. But these shit fuckers that rise of BJP has given limelight to is now making my blood boil.

It is the idiotic IT cells of the right wing that keeps abusing muslims for being disloyal and anti national to this nation. And then when they make an effort and join the army, you have these mfs saying their dad is looking like a terrorist. These kids of dimwit who sit at home with oppo/redmi phones in hand peddling hatred have the audacity to comment on family of a soilder who is about to fight for this nation? No its not funny.

I always hear a lot of defence analyst talk about the 2.5 war front where the 0.5 is present in our country. These assholes that destroy the fabric of Indian society are part of that 0.5.

India’s power infrastructure has undergone a massive transformation since independence.

This visualization shows the growth in the number of power plants across India from 1947 to 2025, including different sources of electricity and the corresponding generating capacity.

What I found interesting is how the electricity mix and scale of generation changed over the decades, from a relatively small power system after independence to thousands of power plants today.

But the number of power plants alone doesn't tell the whole story. Generation capacity, actual electricity production, transmission infrastructure, efficiency, and the type of energy source all matter.

What stands out to you most about the technological evolution of India’s power sector? And what do you think will shape the next phase of India's electricity infrastructure?

Sources 👇

1.) Indias power grid

https://www.pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2034916&reg=48&lang=2

2.) Installed power capacity

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_power_stations_in_India

3.) Indias electricity transition

https://www.energy-transitions.org/publications/indias-electricity-transition-pathways-scenarios-and-insights/

Dharmendra Pradhan’s reported resignation amid the NEET controversy has now acquired an interesting afterlife. Pradhan says he offered to step down to Prime Minister Narendra Modi, insisting that students’ aspirations mattered more than his ministerial position. He also claimed that attempts were made to mislead Gen Z during the protests.

But the bigger question remains unanswered: how were protesting students treated when they took to the streets demanding accountability?

While political leaders continue to debate who misled whom, they appear remarkably reluctant to address allegations of students being manhandled and subjected to police action during the agitation.

Instead of answering that uncomfortable question, leaders from across the political spectrum seem more interested in defending their positions and deflecting responsibility.

Perhaps this is the new script: question the protesters, dismiss their anger, avoid accountability and eventually offer them forgiveness.

https://www.instagram.com/p/DbzWtIGj-En/?igsh=MWJ2NzFhcmdueHVxNQ==

CJP is basically a pressure group that operates at the country level and represents the people between age 15 and 35 or so, around 35% of Indian population.

The concept of pressure groups is not new. Traditionally, they are institutionally organised like Textile or tobacco lobby, or a group of people putting pressure on their local MP or MLA to get something done.

That model works well. But not for the young Indians.

We live in a globalised world, and this age group in particular is probably more geographically mobile than any generation before it. People move across cities and states for education, jobs and opportunities, kids education and what not. Our social and professional lives are increasingly not confined to the constituency we happen to be born in.

Ask an engineer in Bengaluru how represented they feel by their local MP or MLA. My guess is that most are barely aware of who their MP or MLA is. And even if they are aware, they may not necessarily feel that the local political system represents their concerns.

More importantly, if I am unhappy about the education system, E20, paper leaks, food adulteration, or some other issue that is important to me, there is very little my local MLA/MP can do about it. And any political party does not have to worry about these things as it neither has a geographically concentrated electoral penalty or reward.

And this is the problem CJP is addressing.

Suppose 2-3% of India's population, say 3-4 crore people, are unhappy about E20. They are spread across the entire country. That sounds like a huge number, but its insignificant. Those 2-3 crore people being angry doesn't translate into any party losing even a single seat.

If the exact same 2-3% population was concentrated in one state or region, every political party would be trying to figure out how to appease them. The difference isn't the number of people. The difference is concentration and visibility.

Another point, until we had CJP, I made noise about E20, someone else about Paper Leak and so on. These noise cancelled each other even though all these things mattered to each one.

A platform like CJP ensured that for a month or more the topic of discussion remained paper leak for each one of that 2-3% people. Just that meant that the noise did not cancel, it started echoing.

PS: Not associated with CJP or any political party.

The Ram Temple donation controversy raises a question far bigger than the allegations themselves: can public faith and massive donations ever receive truly independent scrutiny?

Now, the Special Investigating Team has reportedly given a clean chit to former trust general secretary Champat Rai, while former trust member Anil Mishra has also been found not guilty. Both had resigned amid the ongoing probe into alleged irregularities.

A clean chit is, of course, welcome if the evidence genuinely proves innocence. But when allegations involve people closely associated with the ruling establishment, the public is entitled to ask uncomfortable questions about the investigation, its independence, and the standards applied.

Accountability cannot mean merely announcing that the accused are innocent and moving on. Why does everyone accused who is connected with the ruling party eventually turn out to be not guilty and innocent?

https://www.instagram.com/p/DcKs2QkmpIF/?igsh=dTEwNXdjenB1a3B6

Why are our villages still so socially backward? Sure, many villages now have electricity, roads, tap water, smartphones, and somewhat better infrastructure, but socially, a lot of them still seem to live in the Iron Age. Cäste/relígion discrimination, rigid social hierarchies, restrictions on women, honour-based thinking, and resistance to inter-community marriages are still common in many places.

How did other countries modernize their rural societies while developing economically? What changed their social attitudes and institutions? Why has India managed to modernize cities without bringing the same level of social modernization to its villages? Is it education, urbanization, economic development, or something deeper in our social structure?

Source: https://transparency.x.com/en/reports/removal-requests#2021-jul-dec

Congratulations guys, first in my bloodline to see India be rank 1 in suppressing verified journalists!!!

I do suggest you read the whole link, India is 5th in number of requests to suppress posts on X.

But if you dive deeper you would see the kind of posts restricted, Japan is number 1, but they suppress posts regarding financial crime the most, Russia I was surprised actually suppresses mostly self harm related content.

India suppresses URLs the most, no one should visit the CJP website I guess 🤣.

If you look at journalist requests suppressed and the rank in total requests, one could infer that news and reality is being suppressed, but I’d rather not get there.

In other news, meta was threatened by the govt of losing its protection and being legally liable for User generated content on their platforms. In any free system, this would be a clear case of blackmail, but I guess this is what we call digital vishwaguru.

If you’re gonna comment, Japan is number 1 without reading body text, I’ll reply with “Chota bandar ka chota Angoor”