Sandeep Anand 🇮🇳 @Isay_Chaps

Lying disgraceful SY Quraishi should have been asked how he changed the rules of voter roll inclusion and exclusion while he was CEC — he made it easy for Bangladeshi Muslims to enrol; he made it virtually impossible to delete their names once enrolled. He rose on merit? 😳😂🤣😂

Pervaiz Alam @pervaizalam

3 days ago

How Mr Gyanesh Kumar Was Appointed The Chief Election Commissioner? “He was not even found fit for the Additional Secretary panel. Later he was also found unfit for the Secretary panel.” In a wide-ranging interview with me for the London Vārta podcast, former Chief Election

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@iamnarendranath मिश्रा जी आपको बहुत बहुत बधाई. मालकिन आ गईं

You are on a rampage against the CEC. It seems to be personal. What scores you want to settle is your business. But don’t reach and propagate definitive judgments of your own when the issue is before the SC. You are damaging your own reputation. I am not trolling you. I am exposing your surprising choice to defame India’s electoral system. You should be more responsible. India has given you great opportunities in life and prestige. Be grateful. @DrSYQuraishi

Dr. S.Y. Quraishi @DrSYQuraishi

a day ago

@KanwalSibal I have been trolled by two rupee trolls for years. Should I feel privileged to be trolled by a former Foreign Secretary?

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Sharjeel Imam's interview and writings have reinforced the unsaid reality about our constitution and India - India is a secular nation not because the Constitution says so but because Hindus are inherently secular.

Congratulations to Sukhbir Sandhu and Gyanesh Kumar for their selection as Election Commissioners. Both have brilliant records. Wish them good luck in discharging tough responsibility.

There is a very different energy in Bihar right now, and I felt it strongly on this visit. For perhaps the first time in years, political gossip and competitive exams no longer seemed to dominate every tea-stall conversation. People were talking about homes, cars, businesses, lifestyle, investments and where the next opportunity would come from. That may sound trivial elsewhere. In Bihar, it is not. This was, for a very long period of Indian history, one of the richest and most consequential regions of the subcontinent. The poverty and humiliation of the last 70-80 years are the anomaly, not the civilisational default. Somewhere inside every Bihari, I think that older memory survives. And this time, it felt like it was beginning to wake up. A generation spent leaving Bihar to work elsewhere, often doing the hardest jobs for the least respect. That has taken a toll. Millennials are increasingly putting money back into their hometowns, while Gen Z seems far less willing to accept that success automatically requires a one-way ticket out of the state. The opportunities are still nowhere near enough. But the mindset has changed before the economy has fully caught up. That matters. Patna itself looks dramatically different. JP Ganga Path, the so-called Marine Drive, looks so futuristic in parts that it feels AI-generated. Atal Path cuts through the city cleanly and efficiently. Defenders and BMW i7s no longer look like alien objects on Patna roads. Even traffic surprised me. Cars that once crawled through chaos are now moving at ridiculous speeds, and at multiple crossings I saw people stopping at red lights despite no traffic policeman standing there. For Bihar, that is not a small behavioural change. That is civilisation. Then came the highways. I did roughly 500 kilometres from Patna to Kaimur and back, leaving around 5 AM and returning by 6 PM. I could almost count the potholes on one hand. That sentence would have sounded like satire twenty years ago. The social change was even more striking during Durga Puja. Women were everywhere, moving around freely, late into the evening, without that old visible anxiety of constantly looking over their shoulders. Police deployment was heavy, but what struck me was how little it seemed to matter. Men were mostly doing what normal men at a Puja should be doing: moving from pandal to pandal, bowing before the deity, collecting prasad and getting on with their lives. Again, this should be completely ordinary. In Bihar, the fact that it now feels ordinary is extraordinary. Then there is commerce. While scouting for a warehouse in Bihta, a local builder showed me the new warehousing clusters coming up around the area, including facilities linked to companies such as Amazon and Blinkit. Big companies do not invest in nostalgia. They invest where they expect consumption, logistics and purchasing power to grow. And that is why I think Bihar is much closer to a serious breakout than most Indians realise. Governance has improved, infrastructure has improved, law and order has improved, but the biggest change is psychological. Biharis seem tired of being treated as labour for somebody else’s growth story. At the current pace of urbanisation and capital returning home, I genuinely think the reclamation is less than a decade away. And when Bihar finally arrives, I suspect a lot of people who have spent decades laughing at it will discover something uncomfortable. They were laughing at a sleeping giant.

The more you read #Sharjeel Imam's interview, the more you realize how diabolical is the whole thought process. He basically wants to open up the 1946-47 debate because he thinks Muslims in India did not get a good deal unlike Pakistan and Bangladesh where they got their own country. - The reason he eulogizes Jinnah because like Jinnah he's also seeking 'better' deal for Muslims in India. - Like Jinnah he also considers Muslims as a separate, distinct identity because of their religion. - This is what Jinnah had said and this is exactly what he is saying: "Musalmans [Muslims] are a nation according to any definition of a nation, and they must have their homelands, their territory, and their State." - He rejects any structure which will require Muslims to subsume their identity under the larger Indian identity. - As I said earlier, he thinks of India as nothing more than as an economic resource and Muslims need to be given a 'fair' share of this resource (where he'll define what is fair). - This thinking stems from a thought process which considers Muslims are rightful heir of Mughals and British should've basically handed India to them when they left. - All the BS about 'Ganga-Jamuni' tehzeeb and secularism is anathema to his thought process. - And since he knows that he/Muslims cannot force partition of India like 1947, he calling for restructring of the Constitution and the very framework which governs political India. - For Hindus, India that is Bharat is a civilizational state while for Sharjeel Imam, it is nothing but a conquered territory and Muslims need better terms to exploit this territory even as they live their lives under Sharia.

ONE OF THE GREATEST EVER COMMENTARY ON THIS DAY 3 YEARS AGO.

𝙃𝙚𝙖𝙧𝙩𝙛𝙚𝙡𝙩 𝙂𝙧𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙩𝙪𝙙𝙚 𝙏𝙤 𝙁𝙤𝙧𝙢𝙚𝙧 𝘾𝙀𝘾 𝙈𝙧. 𝙎.𝙔. 𝙌𝙪𝙧𝙖𝙞𝙨𝙝𝙞 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝙥𝙧𝙤𝙫𝙞𝙣𝙜 𝙩𝙝𝙖𝙩 𝙣𝙤 𝙖𝙢𝙤𝙪𝙣𝙩 𝙤𝙛 𝙚𝙙𝙪𝙘𝙖𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣 𝙘𝙖𝙣 𝙘𝙝𝙖𝙣𝙜𝙚 𝙩𝙝𝙚 𝙞𝙣𝙣𝙖𝙩𝙚 𝙝𝙖𝙩𝙧𝙚𝙙 𝙤𝙛 𝙖𝙣 𝙄𝙨𝙡𝙖𝙢𝙞𝙨𝙩 𝙛𝙤𝙧 𝘽𝙝𝙖𝙧𝙖𝙩.

@wokeflix What a man! Speaks volumes about the way he has been brought up. God bless you Mr Ambani.

I've never seen him talk nonsense. You can't make shit up 24/7/365. Anant is real.

Mini Razdan @mini_razdan10

3 days ago

This is heart warming. …. I was not aware of it …. 🥰

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@desh_bhkt You sing better her Ma'am

Pity, a former CEC bad mouthing India to a London based journalist, formerly with BBC. Speaks for itself.

Pervaiz Alam @pervaizalam

3 days ago

The SIR is a Scam! Former CEC S.Y. Quraishi calls the ongoing Special Intensive Revision of electoral rolls “nothing less than a fiasco” and “a scam” driven by “complete bad intention.” Speaking in a wide-ranging interview recorded for the London Vārta with me in London, Mr

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God took away Lata Mangeshkar from us but gave Shri Amruta Fadnavis Ji

क्या ये बात सत्य है? @ashutosh83B

क्या तर्क हीन बात कर रहा है। पूरा पागल हो चुका है

ravish kumar @ravish_journo

4 days ago

अगर यही सवाल जेन ज़ी के साथ भजन क्लबिंग कर रहे प्रधानमंत्री मोदी से पूछ दिया जाए कि आपकी उम्र क्या है? क्या आप जेन ज़ी है? तो सवाल सुन कर एस पी जी का वह जवान झोले से खंजड़ी निकाल कर देता या वापस रख लेता? अदालतों को चिंता होनी चाहिए कि कब तक बिना बात के लोगों को जेल में रखा जाएगा?

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@iamnarendranath मोदी जी की गलती गिना देते, आपके followers खुश हो जाते

@ravish_journo Chutiya आदमी है तू dalle

दिल्ली में कांग्रेस की 1 नवंबर को रैली है...इस रैली में विपक्षी गठबंधन की सभी पार्टियां हिस्सा लेंगी...इसी को लेकर और कांग्रेस की मंशा क्या है इस पर पंकज प्रसून शानदार विश्लेषण किया है...आप सुनिए... #congres #protest #1november

Call me old fashioned but I don’t like players names and numbers on their back in Test Cricket