Former Resident Editor, The Hindu, Andhra Pradesh, commentator on political, social and environmental issues. RTs do not imply endorsements.
Hyderabad, India
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Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Sonia Gandhi's just released memoirs has achieved a major first : it is being debated vigorously by many on media platforms even before fully reading the book. You can call it a page by page or chapter by chapter debate as people rush through it. Even before reading it many have tweeted the book cover pic saying they are about to start reading it! No other book has received such attention in recent memory. This can be any authors'/publisher's dream. Noisy TV debates have already politicised the book when much of it is her personal journey from meeting Rajiv Gandhi abroad to becoming part of the larger Gandhi family. What is not in the book is a more intense subject of debate that what is. All this ensures that the book doesn't need any marketing at all! In a sense marketing is totally crowdsourced.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Amit Shah 🤡
I got a visa to India and was supposed to leave this morning to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. I had been invited as a panelist and speaker on the future of media and press freedom.
But «orders from above» in the Ministry of Home Affairs have cancelled my visa.
Here is my message for @AmitShah
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
How pathetic and shameless it is to use a fake educational certificate while holding one of the highest constitutional positions.
Indonesia's vice president resigns over high school certificate that was ruled invalid bbc.in/4ArRMW5
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
SO CRPF COMMANDERS HAVE FOUND CRPF WOMEN CONSTABLES TO DANCE AROUND RAJA BABU AND THAT TOO IN UNIFORM😡🤬
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
This Deepawali greeting from Prime Minister Anwar Ibrahim of Malaysia, is a master class in how to include oneself in a minority culture without being condescending or judgmental. It is a celebration of diversity.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Was going through the comment section of @iam_juhi's post on Diwali in 2013. Not one abuse. Nobody trolled her for expressing her views. Imagine the attack by the right wing ecosystem had she tweeted the same thing in New India.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
The right wing who burst firecrackers with a vengeance, take great pleasure in doing everything possible to kill those who advise against firecrackers, even if they kill themselves & their own in the process! Despicable!
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
He made the women officers dance for him?
Is this for real?
What is going on here? Unreal.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Hmmm! Can all of them show their doctorate degrees/documents? I’m sure not like… you know who.
20 World Leaders with Doctoral Degrees 🎓
1. 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping – Law
2. 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin – Economics
3. 🇮🇳 Manmohan Singh – Economics
4. 🇵🇱 Karol Nawrocki – History
5. 🇳🇬 Goodluck Jonathan – Zoology
6. 🇩🇪 Angela Merkel – Quantum Chemistry
7. 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez – Economics
8. 🇮🇩 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – Agricultural Economics
9. 🇮🇷 Hassan Rouhani – Constitutional Law
10. 🇮🇹 Mario Draghi – Economics
11. 🇬🇷 Lucas Papademos – Economics
12. 🇲🇽 Ernesto Zedillo – Economics
13. 🇨🇱 Ricardo Lagos – Economics
14. 🇯🇵 Yukio Hatoyama – Engineering
15. 🇻🇳 Nguyen Phu Trong – Political Science
16. 🇨🇦 Mark Carney – Economics
17. 🇲🇽 Claudia Sheinbaum – Energy Engineering
18. 🇪🇹 Abiy Ahmed – Peace and Security Studies
19. 🇬🇭 John Atta Mills – Law
20. 🇨🇦 William Lyon Mackenzie King – Political Economy
📊 Source: University Biographies, Official Profiles, Academic Records.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Today marks the 10th anniversary of NaMo's DeMo, a Tughlaqian adventure that resulted in the most comprehensive debauchery of a national currency anywhere in the world. Every single one of its "aims" has proven to be baseless, as was pointed out then. Enduring national shame
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
$75,000 a month for lobbying.
Another $150,000 a month for access to Washington.
And even Trump's congratulatory post on @X to Narendra Modi which Modi gleefully responded and the whole BJP 's ecosystem including "certain news anchors" labelled it Vishwaguru moment, appears in a lobbying firm's filings.
According to disclosed US lobbying records:
▪️ The Indian Embassy hired Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000 per month. Its filings list Trump's social media message congratulating Modi.
▪️ Another lobbying arrangement, worth $150,000 per month, involved strategic counsel, government relations and contacts with senior US officials.
▪️The disclosed engagements included calls involving senior White House and US administration officials.
The questions are very simple-
▪️The Modi government spending $225,000 a month on American lobbying firms, but what exactly are Indian taxpayers receiving in return?
▪️ What's the need of a paid congratulatory social media post from the US President ?
indianexpress.com/article/in…
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Ustad Bismillah Khan holds the rare distinction of having been honoured with all three Padma awards - Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan - as well as the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Yet, even this extraordinary legacy could not save his ancestral house in Varanasi from being bulldozed.
Bismillah Sahab’s house was never just a house. It was a living piece of our national heritage, a repository of memories and a part of our shared cultural inheritance.
The walls that held history and deserved to be preserved as a national treasure have instead been reduced to rubble.
Ustad Bismillah Khan gave India a musical legacy that will endure for generations. His home deserved to be treated with the same reverence.
A hundred salutations to Bismillah Sahab. To the BJP, shame.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
India’s economy is showing deep cracks. Youth unemployment is shocking high, pollution is enveloping north India, net FDI inflow into the country is close to zero. India’s youth is losing hope. We need the courage to admit to the shortfalls & use the ample talent in the country to design policy.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
How India’s Gautam Adani became so rich? That’s the BBC question in its programme.
Gautam Adani’s businesses span almost every part of life in India and includes a close relationship with the country's Prime Minister Modi.
Good Bad Billionaire examine the extent of Adani's influence. Watch the full episode on YouTube 📺: youtu.be/KeD3ww3iLT4
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Heavy rains have flooded tents in Gaza, while Israeli settlers have seized homes in Jericho and Israeli forces raided a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Hegazy has the latest.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
STING OPERATION AGAINST THE WITCH-HUNT OPERATIONS OF LG LADAKH...
For raising my voice for the youth of the nation and the well-being of border areas like Ladakh & Arunachal, I'm being continuously witch-hunted and defamed & our schools being harrassed in every possible way by the LG Administration in Ladakh.
But this Sting Operation by our lawyers establishes that the LG Administration is directly involved in illegal smear campaigns (& much more).
Much more has come to us from the Raj-Niwas/ Lok-Niwas but we're releasing just some excepts for now.
I tried v much to avoid this, thinking it may damage the nation's dignity & morale & hence I first shared the material with the Chief of IB for Intervention, but unfortunately after few exchanges he too stopped responding... So with a heavy heart I am sharing this with the nation as we must stop the LG from playing like an infant in the ecologically & strategically sensitive border regions of India.
@rashtrapatibhvn @PMOIndia @narendramodi @AmitShah @RahulGandhi
