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2 years

Two ancient Ambassadors !! 😊

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The young Muslim woman in the video circulated by @zoo_bear wore a hijab, yes, but to me, as a woman, what is relevant to the current debate is that she came to college driving her own two-wheeler, independently, and with her head held high. There was no sign of regression there

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Our #50WordEdit on the Hijab-saffron scarf controversy

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👇🏽 The Harris sisters, Kamala Devi and Maya Lakshmi, on a visit to her grandparents’ home in Besant Nagar, Chennai. #KamalaHarris ,back row at left,in an undated family photo. Next to her, from left,her grandmother Rajam,grandfather P.V. Gopalan and sister, Maya Harris. 🙏 @weareji

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I pray for thee my country. 😢

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My father just as he joined the Army in 1941. He made me what I am. My #AbbaJaan

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@AdvAshutoshBJP In Kerala, at my wedding in Guruvayoor temple in 1975, I wore an off-white saree . Brides in Kerala have traditionally worn off-white and not red. Every part of our wonderfully diverse country has its own beautiful customs in tune with our history and geography.

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All the perfumes of Davos cannot mask the foul odour of caste prejudice, backwardness,hubris, and thuggery that stain our democracy. But when do we listen and learn? We are self-delusional if we think we’ve arrived at the global high table.

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7 years

What sort of thugs would attack schoolchildren? And this a day after the PM spoke at Davos on our centuries old tradition of tolerance and harmony.

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Many assume that #Kashmir is frozen in time and space.Article 370 was no talisman that guarded the state from evil.Situations evolve. Circumstances change.The fabric of the nation has been torn in Kashmir over the years.This cannot be a standstill scenario.The nation is supreme.

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Watching @shahfaesal defending his statement that @ImranKhanPTI should be nominated for #NobelPeacePrize on @BDUTT show. He went into such contortions to defend himself. Pathetic. My advice to this intelligent young man: weigh your words.Unscripted terrain is treacherous.

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I feel more and more that His Holiness the 14th Dalai Lama should be given the Bharat Ratna. He deserves it for his service to humanity, his compassion, courage, and his abiding faith in democracy and fundamental freedoms, all values that our Republic upholds. #Tibet #India

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Politics in India today has descended deeper than it has ever gone before. Even the dead are not spared. It’s not how high you can go but how low. What a travesty. Lies and hubris. Is this our daily bread? Weep, India, weep.

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What is India’s strategy on Afghanistan? Am sure we realise the HUGE implications of what a Taliban driven by Rawalpindi calling the shots in Afghanistan means for us. As it is, with two hostile neighbours our situation is BAD.

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The book is finally here! #TheFracturedHimalaya

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My book hits the stands soon.

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The Fractured Himalaya: How the Past Shadows the Present in India-China Relations | Hoover Institution

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#Rihanna , where have you gone?

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4 years

Horrific first-hand accounts in this new BBC report on Xinjiang. It’s never easy reading these stories but this one is particularly grim

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Ram, our India above everything.

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5 years

A straight question: what do you think of shutting down an entire state and detaining former Chief Ministers before taking a fateful decision that affects that state and its peoples? What if it was our Karnataka next and not their Kashmir now?

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The scenes of the bloody attack at JNU tonight suggest a wilful, calculated, and deliberate abdication of democracy and civilised debate in open favour of mob rule and thuggery. No law-abiding society can license such behaviour- our conscience as a nation - where is it?

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Asifa’s eyes haunt me.What depths are we stooping to? Where is our moral compass? Cannot let this rot spread. For the sake of Mother India. Let us be firm about bringing the perpetrators of this crime to justice. Let us show we are a law-abiding, law-enforcing country. @PMOIndia

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7 years

#Asifa another Nirbhaya: We need collective disobedience against rape in India - If these cases don’t shake the conscience of this nation what will? Is beti bachao just a slogan? When will we become intolerant to crimes against women? India has failed me.

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The core of what Naseeruddin Shah was saying was not so much about the fate of his children or about lives of cows versus humans but about the impunity with which the mob defies the rule-of-law. And how that’s where the greatest danger to an India united resides. Douse this.

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#Balakot Not an act of war but a counter attack in self-defence by India.

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I wish our former Prime Minister and a voice of sagacity, scholarship, humanism and moderation, the Hon’ble Dr. Manmohan Singh a speedy recovery.

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The western front is not a TV studio anchored by those who are unqualified to dictate strategy and are unconscionable flame throwers. Our political leaders should not take the nation’s temperature-readings from the seizure-like screaming on some media.

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I am against the physical attack & intimidation experienced by Arnab Goswami. My mind’s picture of him is the young fledgling reporter who used to attend my briefings in 2001-02when I was JS (XP), MEA. But how he metamorphosised into the fiendish Robespierre he is today beats me.

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If I read China’s actions correctly, she is more than ready to burn all boats with India and is just waiting for us to make “strategic miscalculations” (her words) before doing so.

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Five decades ago when we assisted the birth of #Bangladesh in response to a grassroots people’s movement (despite the blatant opposition of both China and the United States), in a glorious exercise of our strategic autonomy we came out on the right side of history. Today, as we

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The precious,invaluable documents at National Archives of India are the nation’s patrimony.We hold them in trust for future generations. I trust they stay secure,accounted for with meticulous care.Scholars in India & the world need reassurance on this count. #CentralVistaProject

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I think this is totally unnecessary and sounds so off. @rahulkanwal Why are we politicising the forces like this? What firman is ruling the waves on this ? I’ve always admired you as a journalist but you disappoint.

Rahul Kanwal

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5 years

Younger officers who were on board INS Viraat are confirming that naval exercise was planned in a way that Rajiv Gandhi could take a vacation in Lakshwadeep. However, senior officers of the time are strongly denying the suggestion. Young officers say they were told to hush up.

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When Russia began its military offensive in Ukraine, I expressed opposition to Moscow’s actions. Some weeks down the line,am growing extremely disillusioned with the assumed righteousness of the western response & echoes of post 9/11 rhetoric about “either you’re with us or not”

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I condemn bigotry in any religion, but the #Sabarimala issue is in a different category. The comparison with Vaikom is unwarranted. Sabarimala temple was founded on a sacred legend prescribing that only women of non-childbearing age could worship there. #ReadytoWait makes sense.

Ramachandra Guha

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6 years

90 years ago, in Vaikom, brave Hindus fought for equal rights in temples for Dalits. Now, in Sabarimala, bigoted Hindus fight to discriminate against women. That is why I say Kerala has regressed and Hinduism has regressed.

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I wonder how many of our vainglorious TV anchors/those who are screaming for blood on the India-China bdr have read the histories of 1962.

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"Years ago, anthropologist Margaret Mead was asked by a student what she considered to be the first sign of civilization in a culture. The student expected Mead to talk about fishhooks or clay pots or grinding stones. But no. Mead said that the first sign of civilization in an

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I was 13 years old when #JawaharlalNehru died. I remember the day as if it was yesterday. The pall of gloom. The people of India - as I saw it through a child’s eyes - felt they had lost a parent. One of the twentieth century’s greatest statesmen.A true visionary. And a democrat.

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I “came of age” in the early sixties &can assure you that we, from Nair families in Malabar, were told from the outset that young women of reproductive age could not undertake a #Sabarimala pilgrimage. It was a custom we respected/did not question. Even with a western education.

Rupa Subramanya

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6 years

@NMenonRao @ShashiTharoor Without taking sides, I've yet to hear a convincing explanation from those who claim this is tradition, when pre-1972 or so, women were allowed into the temple. How far do you go in defining tradition? This tradition seems to be a recent provenance.

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These all-consuming pictures of burning funeral pyres. Of the young lives snatched from us. George Floyd’s dying words “I can’t breathe” are echoing through this space - the context is different no doubt but the cries of the dying are the same. Helplessness. India weeps.

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Canada has an extremely spotty and very, very poor record on the whole issue of Khalistanis in Canada. The support these lawless elements have received under the cover of what is called freedom of expression and democratic rights of citizens has enabled the pursuit of a

Brahma Chellaney

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1 year

Canada and India are friends, not foes. But Trudeau, with his political alliance with Sikh radicals in Canada, has brought bilateral ties with India under increasing strain. After being chastised by Modi during his recent New Delhi visit for being soft on Sikh terrorists, Trudeau

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That is an outright LIE. I am from Malappuram and my family has owned land there for over a hundred years. You are spreading hate.

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We talk of Russian intervention in Ukraine as analogous to US/Western intervention in Iraq, Libya, Afghanistan etc.The human suffering and regional instability unleashed by those wars continues to this day. But all those wrongs do not make one giant right for Putin.

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The official #PLA statement on the tragic #Galwan face-off is worth scrutiny: it refers to the Galwan Valley as being “on the China-Indian border” and that the Indian Army “crossed” the #LAC and “violated their commitments”. 1/n

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A power like India should address the threat from terror groups like JeM quietly, ruthlessly and purposefully. The chest-thumping, blame-mongering cacophony playing out now takes us nowhere. 👎

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I don’t see why Indians who are fully vaccinated against COVID and have certification to that effect, should not be able to travel to other countries that have currently imposed a ban on Indians entering, to be with family.

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Not at all.”When you disturb the beliefs of worshippers, you violate a space beyond reasoning” as aptly put by @ShashiTharoor As a Hindu Indian & Malayali woman I’m deeply disturbed by conflation of arguments citing Vaikom or abolition of sati 2 argue case for entry. #Sabarimala

Ramachandra Guha

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6 years

This is a deeply disappointing piece by @ShashiTharoor ; if Narayana Guru or Mahatma Gandhi had thought or acted like the Congressmen of today, Dalits in Kerala would still be excluded from temples:

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China’s infamous block in regard to #MasoodAzhar listing is utterly unfortunate & regrettable.But it’s not the end of the world.The struggle to eliminate terror much larger.We must be prepared for long haul.But no carte blanche for China.Turn up the heat. You asked for it, guys.

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So glad that Minister MJ Akbar has resigned his post. His continuation was untenable and indefensible. A big shoutout to all the brave women journalists who called him out for his alleged, sickening and exploitative behaviour towards them. #Metoo #LetTheWomenBeHeard

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We have gone to great lengths to be dispassionate about the war in Ukraine and Russia’s role, careful not to take sides. But how can we explain President Putin’s war on the territory of Ukraine? Whatever the ‘provocation of Russia by the West’,nothing justifies armed aggression.

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Male bastions must be breached. But at #Sabarimala ,the deity #ayyappan personifies a masculine identity defined by celibacy, a deeply-entrenched principle that anchors the temple.The pilgrimage is about male-purification, self-control, abstinence. Why erode these foundations?

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My daughter-in-law’s 102-year old grandfather got the first dose of his #COVIDVaccination in #Bengaluru today.

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We are not done and dusted with our border crisis with China. No time for self congratulation. The echo chamber may provide comfort but there’s a cold harsh reality of a broken relationship that lies outside. And a complete erosion of trust.

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I hope the Government is already preparing for day 22 after the 21-day #lockdown is over.We cannot have people celebrating on the streets like after the #JantaCurfewMarch22 .That would be a disaster.Every aspect has to be foreseen, calibrated and planned down to the last detail.

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We are in self-imposed isolation in our apartment in Bengaluru and intend to stay that way indefinitely until the situation improves which may take weeks. It’s 12:42 am and in the same building there’s a loud party going on - of people not taking #CoronavirusOutbreak seriously.

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To this day I remain against the western/US interventions in Iraq, Libya and Syria, and the impact of these actions. Tragedies of unimaginable scale. These countries have not recovered. Similarly, I am concerned about Russian intervention in Ukraine.

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The face of this young child is the face of Gandhiji himself weeping inconsolably that brother should fight brother in our beloved land.

Imtiyaz Hussain

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Son of a riot victim in New Delhi. It’s neither a win for Hindus nor Muslims but a loss of India.Soul of India is bruised. Shameful when foreigners remind us to follow Mahatma Gandhi’s teaching.Instead every citizen of this country should have been an ambassador of Ghandism.

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This happened in July 1962.

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For all those in the autumn of their lives, as Winter approaches: “Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities have no doubt crept in; forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely. And with

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I do wish @TheEconomist would stop lecturing India. We are not the poor and huddled masses waiting for a good shepherd.

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Modi "should abandon the flawed leadership style that caused the mess." @TheEconomist on #DeMonetisation . Ouch!

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On May 21, 1991 at Sriperumbudur in Tamil Nadu, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated by an LTTE suicide bomber. He died because he did not support separatism and had crossed swords with the LTTE. He was martyred in the cause of a united Sri Lanka. End of story.

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I think he’s basically saying that at this moment neither side can be said to be in the area that saw the action on Monday night.All Quiet on the Western Front.The bloodshed happened,our men were martyred, we fought bravely,taught the enemy a lesson & the area is now clear.

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Why is the PM contradicting the MEA after the MEA contradicted his own party colleague? Is it a game of “guess who’s telling the truth”?

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Second dose of vaccine done.

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Dark days. How?How?Whatever the scale of the disaster,we need not have come to this pass.This is the taste of hell.Friends speak of the terrible experience of being struck down by the virus and beg to keep them in my prayers.Grief. Is there a place called hope?Pl tell me there is

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And then ? She will still roam the prairie?

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PM @narendramodi speaks to News 24 again. Says, “I will never be able to forgive #SadhviPragya .” #ModiOnNews24 @amit_jurno @news24tvchannel

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#MeAt20 in 1971. Had just received my B.A degree at the Convocation of #BangaloreUniversity . An Age of Innocence. Could hardly imagine where my dreams would take me. And what a journey it would be.

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Yes. The churlishness I see on some media channels will not work for our good and it jeopardises #Abhinandan . How stupid can we get. Immature small minds.

Vikram Chandra

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I think it is time to show some grace. Whatever the rationale, this was a good step by the Pakistani Prime Minister, and we should acknowledge that. Otherwise we sound churlish in the eyes of the world.

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Why is #WangYi coming to India? Some thoughts in this thread: The Chinese have a confirmed propensity for such choreographed diplomatic maneuvers- that is their style and habitual mode of transacting foreign relations. Secondly, they see an opening, a scope for new alignments 1/

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"How many deaths does it take ‘til he knows, that too many people have died?”

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Stop. Mass Gatherings.

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Teacher, teacher, can I ask a question? Why not seek a career in government? While I agree that taking the UPSC exam multiple times may take away from an individual’s best years, seeking a career in public service does NOT embody a poverty of aspirations. Government work is

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A piece about #SanjeevSanyal 's 'let-them-eat-cake' moment of an elite economist. "Poverty of aspiration" is an easy out, displays a poverty of imagination.

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Analyzing PM’s statement of yesterday: Government has taken realistic view of constraints emanating from asymmetry of power with China . It is also reading the Chinese reaction to J&K reorganization more seriously than before and trying to calm situation along LAC/staunch Galwan

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The #IndiaChina border is 3488 km long, not the LAC. The India-China border as India defines it extends eastward from the India-Afghanistan-China trijunction far west of the Karakoram pass to the India-Myanmar-China trijunction in the Eastern Sector.1/n

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“I have at last been reading Nehru, now at this hour when his stock is at an all-time low. And I have yet another embarrassing confession to make: He’s wonderful”. Learning to Love Nehru

Opinion | Learning to Love Nehru (Published 2018)

I used to think India’s first prime minister was embarrassingly westernized. Now I see that he was one of our great thinkers.

www.nytimes.com

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Agree. Prejudgement is contraindicated. Some news channels are already playing judge, jury, executioner.

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Writing off @YogiBJP is easiest thing to do. Give him a chance. See what he does. And judge him for his work as UP CM.

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I read Chinese actions in #Ladakh as a significant trespass across the #LAC aimed at gaining tactical advantage and strategic depth in certain vantage points along the LAC as for 1/n

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3 years

At the much loved #BlossomBook House in Bangalore just now!

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A young friend just said this to me: "Beef gets more attention in our country than rape". Sad, but true.

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Guy at airport security yesterday asked me if I was from Bollywood. Must say I was totally amused but quite flattered.. Had to dissuade him saying I was ex-External Affairs. Droll.

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Dear PM : how can you distort history ? For the sake of the children of this glorious land, please rise above this.

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Yes,Nehru insulted Gen Thimayya by first sending him to Korea after the armistice to command the UN peacekeeping force.And then further the insult by making him Army Chief!And then not allowing to him to resign!As for Cariappa,Nehru sent him as High Commissioner after retirement.

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Sarah Fatima, IPS is the Assistant Commissioner of Police, Bangalore (East). Listen to her. #Covid19India

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4 years

#PriyaRamani is a profile in courage. Saludos.

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5 years

Esther Duflo is such a brilliant star. And at 46, so young, too. Why is the Indian media just referring to her as “the wife” like some character in a soapy TV serial? #NobelEconomicsPrize

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We are Indians. Not Hindus, not Muslims, not whatever religious or linguistic or ethnic or caste denomination we are. We are sons and daughters of that Bhoomi. The sum is greater than all the parts. We, the people.

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Not saying this because I’m a proud Mallu but will Delhi learn from the on-ground example Kerala’s setting? @PMOIndia @vijayanpinarayi PM gave good advice but do we need #thalibajao ?Need science,need medicine,need adequate critical care,testing,contact tracing, self-discipline.

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8 years

In the family. #IWearHandloom My granddaughter too!

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4 years

Nirupama Menon Rao: We had a system that worked well for decades. In Galwan, structure came apart

Rao: We had a system that worked well for decades. In Galwan, structure came apart

Former foreign secretary warns of the pitfalls on the road ahead

www.telegraphindia.com

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9 years

News of Civil Services Examination results brought back memories of my entry into the I.F.S in 1973.. http://t.co/IgRI7B3yi6

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We are Indians, whatever religious or linguistic or ethnic or caste denomination we are. We are sons and daughters of this Bhoomi. The sum is greater than all the parts. We, the people. Divisions and Partitions are not what we are about. I hold these thoughts dear.

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@d_jaishankar “Warm and fuzzy”?Don’t mistake us for Paddington Bear,please.But that apart,on an average,UK citizens know very little or even nothing,of the troubled history of British colonialism in India. At ground level, hv occasionally seen hostility to Indians. So warmth &fuzziness,really?

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4 years

There’s a bad moon rising on #IndiaChina relations. (End of thread).

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6 years

Advancing “theories” and attributions as to who was responsible for the #bombings in #SriLanka today, by sections of the #media including here in India, is utterly wrong and hugely irresponsible. Do not light more fires when the need of the hour is calm.

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4 years

Chinese always present themselves as injured party &blame opposite side for the consequences.A dark hour like this with all the blood that has been shed is such a dreadful tragedy. Efforts made for normalization since 1976 have come to nought.

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No, Ms. Sharma.I was born into a man’s world and in the autumn of my life it is still a man’s world. In a man’s world, women are patronized, barely tolerated, dominated, or just mansplained to.I say open the universe much more for women.Beam us up, world.We need a ticket to ride.

ThePrintIndia

@ThePrintIndia

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Steel secretary Aruna Sharma has written to Ministry of Women and Child Development, against women-centric laws to prevent misuse by women who are "modern day dacoits," reports @DhingraSanya

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Time had come for this substantive decision by the Govt. of India on #Kashmir . Continuation of status quo was untenable.The Pak-supported insurgency since 1990 had demonstrated that.But triumphalism is not in order.I want Kashmiris to prosper,and most importantly,live in peace.

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8 years

Have always worn it since my college days. #IWearHandloom

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3 years

‘The water in Afghanistan must boil at the right temperature’: Zia-ul-Haq, 1979. Masterchef Pakistan can cook.

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Spoken with such passion and complete integrity. Shyam Saran is one of our finest. “It is sad to see that now foreign policy, too, has fallen victim to very narrow and cynical jousting in domestic politics.” The myopia of 20/20 hindsight - The Hindu

The myopia of 20/20 hindsight

Judging history through the prism of the present can be very damaging to foreign policy formulation

www.thehindu.com

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50 years ago today. New recruits to the #IndianForeignService . The batch of 1973. These 50 years taught us a great deal of life-lessons and gave us a ringside view of momentous global changes and challenges. Participatory roles too! A glorious five decades which I wouldn’t

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4 years

R.I.P. #IrrfanKhan . May the angels guide you to your rest.

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3 years

Russia’s is an imperial overreach as I see it in Ukraine today. It must stop this madness. The global order is being upended. All because of the flawed hubris of a leader who has let down what has always been a great nation, Russia.

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“Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!” he said. Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. “ substitute 600 with 20

Sushant Singh

@SushantSin

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Denial is no longer a river in Egypt. It is a valley in Ladakh.

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Voted. For inclusiveness, for One India and One Karnataka. For humanism. For the only truth which is our Constitution, for rapid development and against corruption. One hopes and prays. We must not give up.

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My opinion piece just published : How India and Pakistan can step back from the brink of war - The Washington Post

Opinion | How India and Pakistan can step back from the brink of war

Sweating for peace is better than bleeding in war.

www.washingtonpost.com

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#ayyappan is a celibate god. Not being around women is integral to who he is. Celibacy is the single identifying marker of the god. It is much more than symbolic. That’s why his male devotees abstain from sex with women for over a month before pilgrimage.

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@NMenonRao

6 years

#Sabarimala Reading Madhavi Menon @AshokaUniv “A History of Desire in India”. The chapter on #ayyappan is most educative and should be read by all those who know very little on the subject & are yet floating opinions.

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We cannot withdraw into a helpless huddle. Our consulates have closed (will we ever reopen them? My hunch is perhaps, never).All that we did in Afghanistan for 20 years is in jeopardy. Wish we had publicly expressed our deep reservations and opposition to the US withdrawal.

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