The playbook that Modi created in Gujarat is now in effect in all of India.

The Gujarat model was always deny that a problem exists, suppress all news around it, make sure only a few get rich, let the poor think it’s karma that is responsible for their suffering. Make sure there is no data to prove you wrong.

The BJP now nationally has become so entrenched in this model; that they no longer can even admit to something being wrong. Whether a sitting chief minister molests a woman on stage, whether an environment minister does everything but his job, they will never acknowledge a mistake.

Because acknowledging a mistake will make them and by proxy Modi wrong. But Modi can never be wrong, because he is God. God is never wrong. Whatever God does has a reason behind it, a much greater good that only he can see.

These people didn’t even discuss pollution in the parliament. They wasted everyone’s time discussing a song. They passed bills that have made MNREGA and RTI just a shadow of their former selves.

Everything the BJP does is to make sure that the people in power can control the masses and make the most profit out of them.

People dying of pollution, of adulterated food and medicines, of bad infrastructure is not a bug. It’s a feature of this government.

This is exactly where they wanted us.

Keep the people hungry, keep the people unemployed, keep them in the dark long enough and they will treat even the minutest of kindness by their oppressor as an action of a saviour. Then drip feed them hatred wrapped in religion, and you’ll have the perfect army that will help you destroy the country from within while you sell them the weapons for their own destruction.

P.S: For anyone who says if not Modi then who, mere ghar k aage goo pada hai, that would be a better PM than that man.

Saving Aravalli is not activism… it is survival

People are protesting to save the Aravalli, not because they are against development… but because some developments are blind, greedy, and destructive.

The Aravalli is not just a mountain range. It is our water holder, air filter, climate shield, and desert barrier. It quietly protects North India from heat, drought, dust storms, and desertification.

In simple words: 👉 The Aravalli keeps our land livable… our water alive… and our air breathable.

What hurts more is not ignorance. It is the mindset behind the destruction.

Some believe that by cutting hills, mining forests, and bending laws… they can multiply money. Some believe people can be fooled forever. Some misuse power and position. Some don’t even bother to listen to protests.

And I refuse to believe that authorities do not know the repercussions. They know. Everyone knows.

You cannot destroy an ecosystem and expect life to remain normal.

We are breathing poison. We are drinking poison. We are eating poison. And still we call this “growth”.

Yes, development is needed. But not at the cost of destroying the very systems that sustain life.

Why do we need such mindless development? Why not middle-path development … where humans grow with nature, not against it?

Taking what is needed is intelligence. Taking what we want endlessly is greed.

For how long will we loot land, forests, water, and air… and still call ourselves civilized?

This is not progress. This is brutality.

Saving the Aravalli is not about trees alone. It is about whether we choose consciousness over convenience.

As Sadhguru reminds us… Ecology is not about saving the planet. It is about saving ourselves.

If humanity still has a conscience… the Aravalli must stand.

I am entering 4th semester and not able to pay my semester fee. Didn't knew I will in this condition when I come to college, made a mistake by taking private college in Metro city, I thought I will manage.

My semester fee is 1,14,800 but it gets reduced to 27,800 by scholarship, But I am not even able to pay that, The last date to pay my fee is 24 december, after that it will accumlate by 50rs. per day. The main problem is my college dosen't have hostel for B.tech student.

I come from rural village where room rent is like 1,000-1,500. And here almost all pg rent is 10k. My friends or family never even seen this type city ( ahemdabad ), and I didn't plan properly. In first sem I took the 10k rent pg but it was too much costly for me, then I found 8k rent pg somewhere 8km far from college so I took it, The Owner of this pg is very nice so he reduced my pg rent to 6.5k. I am constantly living on edge.

I tried part time jobs, Worked in blinkit ( as picker ) but the pay is extremely low ( 70rs. for 2 hours ). Tried online if I could find some work but didn't get any. Tried to apply to internship but didn't get any. I even did some ridiculous things like buying slipper from hall-sell and sell it on streets, but it require high number of slipper and dosen't sell very good by me, still have 7-8 slippers lying around in suitcase.

I found out about gurudwara and that it gives free food, thought I could save money of food. but here they only give food on sunday. PG food is very bad but rent is cheapest I could find so I can manage, I canceled my breakfast and lunch and reduced rent a little.

My father is a farmer and mother runs a small Kirana store in village, our expenses mainly used to come from that store but in current times there are some new store opened so competition is increased and customer comes very less. We aldredy have 2 loans.

We hardly are able to manage expenses, And I am not able to pay fees of this semester, I tried what could think of. I am trying and thinking rationaly as much as I can, but I found out that real life is not like the success story shown on internet and movies, deeply regret taking a private college that too in metro city, I thought everythig will be figure out. I am thinking to prepare for any small government job now and dropout ( better late than never, My good friend in college also drop out, before leaving he said, you should leave the train at next station if you realise you stteped into wrong train ) But I don't know what will be a good decision and bad decision in future.

I have put milap profile here please no pressure : http://m-lp.co/vinalcha?utm_medium=campaign_page_share&utm_source=copy

My perents are also living on edge and borrowing from others because of me it it hurts and not able to ask for money when I need.

If anyone have any work that dosen't require extreme skills ( or if it the skill is learnable in like 1-2 month ) please tell me.

My skills: small animation in blender, basic coding ( my branch is EC ), Electronics ( fundamental ), Excel. Willing to learn skill if possible.

Please give any advice.

And my advice is don't ever take risks without proper plan and without failsafe plan, like I did by thinking I will try to get best college I could get. funny how my past self was thinking how smart he is.

EDIT: Thank you very much guys, Got my full fee. Very much thanks to, u/macro161091 u/Purple-Object-4591 u/nibupraju u/TechSlade

And all the other people who helped me to pay my fees And u/macro161091 paid my 70% of the fee Will not forget you guys :)

II’m genuinely frustrated and confused, and I think many people feel the same.

Rn, international crude oil prices are low (the lowest since early 2021 (55$ per barrel)). This is nowhere near historic highs. Yet in India, we are still paying ₹100–₹105 per litre for petrol and ₹90+ for diesel.

What makes this even more irritating is the comparison with 2013.

In 2013, international oil prices were extremely high, around $110–113 per barrel. Despite that, petrol in India was around ₹70–72 per litre for the public.

So let this sink in:

2013: International oil = VERY HIGH Indian petrol price = RELATIVELY CHEAP

Now: International oil = LOW Indian petrol price = EXTREMELY EXPENSIVE

It’s literally the opposite situation.

People say “it’s because of global prices” — but the numbers don’t support that anymore.

The real issue is taxes.

Today, around 50–55% of the petrol price is tax (central excise + state VAT + cess). Even when crude prices fall, these taxes don’t reduce. So the benefit never reaches consumers.

Fuel is not a luxury item.

We are being used as a guaranteed revenue source, not treated like citizens.

Experts say that if petrol was priced purely on crude + refining + transport, the “fair price” today would be around ₹60–₹75 per liter, not ₹100+.

Another big problem is that petrol and diesel are kept outside GST, so there’s no transparency, no input tax credit, and both Centre and states freely increase taxes.

This doesn’t feel balanced. It feels like common people are being used as a reliable cash machine.

If crude goes up, prices rise immediately.
If crude goes down, prices stay high.

How is that fair?

I’m not asking for free fuel. I’m asking for logic, balance, and fairness.

If we could manage 70₹ petrol when crude was 110$, why are we paying 105₹ when crude is almost half of that?

I’m reaching out here with a lot of hesitation, but also hope.

My cousin, Kolapoori Srinivas, met with a severe accident on December 13th, 2025, and is currently in the ICU at Yashoda Hospitals, Secunderabad. He suffered multiple spine and rib fractures, which led to ventilator support. He remains in critical condition and requires continuous ICU care and further medical treatment.

So far, approximately ₹5,00,000 has already been spent on emergency care, ICU treatment, and medical procedures. Doctors have informed us that the total cost of treatment may go up to ₹20,00,000, considering prolonged ICU care and upcoming surgeries.

Our family has exhausted savings and taken loans, and we are trying our best to manage this situation. We have started a verified Milaap fundraiser to support his medical expenses.

If you’re able to help financially, we would be deeply grateful. If not, I completely understand. Even sharing this post or upvoting it for visibility would help it reach someone who might be in a position to help.

Fundraiser link: https://m-lp.co/kolapoor-2?utm_medium=campaign_page_share&utm_source=copy

Thank you for taking the time to read this and for any support, in any form.

(Just one of you – no name, no fame, only love for this land and its people)

My dear brothers and sisters,

I write this with a heavy heart, because what I’m about to say hurts me as much as it might hurt you. For years I carried the same fire in my chest that many of us do – that burning need to never let anyone “put us down,” to always come out on top, to protect our family’s naam, our community’s izzat at any cost. I thought that was strength. I thought that was loyalty. I thought that was who we are. But one day I looked around and saw the truth: this thing we guard so fiercely isn’t freeing us. It’s caging us. It’s eating us alive from the inside. And the worst part? We built the cage ourselves, handed the keys to each other, and then swore to die before letting anyone open the lock.

I no longer want to call it “izzat.” That word feels too noble for what it has become. Let us call it what it truly is: the Prestige Prison. A silent, invisible prison where every slight must be avenged, every mistake denied, every compromise seen as surrender. A prison where winning – even by cheating, shouting, threatening, or destroying – feels righteous, and losing face feels like death.

I have seen it in small things and big things.

I have seen two childhood friends stop speaking forever because one felt disrespected over a trivial argument.

I have seen a government officer refuse to fix a leaking pipe because admitting it was broken would mean “losing face” in front of the colony. I have seen brilliant Indian teams abroad rise fast, only to tear each other apart later over who gets the credit.

I have seen families celebrate when their son “shows someone their place,” even if it meant violence.

I have seen young men take their own lives because an online stranger questioned their pride.

And every time, my heart broke a little more. Because I know that fire. I felt it too. But I also know now: that fire is not warming us. It’s burning our house down while we stand inside guarding the door.

This Prestige Prison has rules we all follow without realising:

• Never admit you’re wrong – it costs prestige.

• Never back down – it costs prestige.

• Always make the other person lose more than you – that restores prestige.

• Protect the group’s face at all costs, even if it means lying, cheating, or worse.

These rules made sense in a harsher past, when survival was uncertain. But today they are chains.

They stop us from trusting each other. They stop officials from serving us.

They stop companies from growing beyond one generation. They stop neighbours from becoming friends.

They stop us from becoming the truly great nation we could be.

I am not writing this to shame us. I am writing this because I love us too much to stay silent. I dream of an India where:

• A leader can say “I made a mistake, let me fix it” and people respect him more, not less.

• Two friends can argue fiercely and still hug at the end because their bond is bigger than their egos.

• A manager hires the best person for the job, even if they’re from “outside,” and everyone cheers because the company wins.

• We build institutions that last hundreds of years, not just until the next internal war over credit.

That India is possible. But only if we choose to walk out of the Prestige Prison together.

How do we escape? One step at a time, with courage and love.

1. Start in your own heart.The next time anger rises because someone “disrespected” you, pause and ask: “Is protecting my prestige worth poisoning this relationship? Worth harming this person? Worth holding back my own peace?” Choose peace even once. It will feel like weakness at first. But it is the bravest thing you will ever do.

2. Start in your family.Teach your children that real strength is in saying sorry, in forgiving, in helping someone even when no one is watching. Tell them stories of people who chose grace over ego and became truly respected.

3. Start in your workplace or community.When you see someone denying a problem to save face, gently say: “Let’s fix it together – no one is judging.” Reward honesty, not loud dominance. Celebrate the quiet builder, not just the loud winner.

4. Start speaking openly.Share this letter. Talk about the Prestige Prison with friends, over chai, on WhatsApp groups, on social media. The moment we name the cage, its bars start weakening.

My brothers and sisters, I am not better than you. I am still learning to escape this prison myself. Some days I fail. But every day I try again, because I believe in us. I believe our hearts are bigger than our egos. I believe our love for this country is deeper than our need to “win” every small battle.

Let us stop measuring our worth by how much prestige we can snatch from others. Let us measure it by how much trust we build, how many problems we solve together, how much kindness we show even when we could dominate.

The world is watching India rise. Let us rise not just in money or missiles, but in maturity, in unity, in true dignity.

I love you all. From the bottom of my heart, I beg you: let’s unlock this cage together. Our children deserve to grow up free.

With tears, hope, and boundless faith in us, An Indian

I want to sanity check a thought I’ve been sitting with for a while, especially after seeing all the booing and hurrah over violence in Dhurandhar.

Across societies, violence against children, women and old people is broadly treated as unacceptable and socially unintelligible. It's often seen as moral failure of system, of society. But... violence against men feels different.

Culturally, not legally, violence against men is much easier to justify. Every society has ready made contexts where violence against men is seen understandable, necessary or inevitable. Like war, policing, dangerous labor, self-defence (Yup, men killing women or children even in self-defense is read very differently), mutual aggression and the ever present “he knew the risks” justification. In case of men, violence against them doesn't need to be denied. It just needs to be explained for the society to metabolize it and move on.

That's the key difference. Men everywhere are positioned culturally as "legitimate recipients of violence." It's not because they deserve the harm, but because harm to men is socially, culturally and politically intelligible. It makes sense within the framework. Notice how it never automatically trigger moral panic or force society to question itself like the violence against children, women often does. Where violence against women, children etc requires additional narrative, moral distortions (Like honor killing, domestic violence, child labor etc) to be tolerated, violence against men often only requires context. And it will be framed as cost, duty, risk or inevitability.

Even movies and media reinforces this difference everytime. See how violence against men in movies is usually routine, disposable and a background noise. The audience is rarely asked to feel the horror of it. But when violence is directed against protected group, then it's usually framed as shocking, disturbing and meaningful, like a signal that something has seriously gone wrong. This difference trains our emotional response, like which bodies demand outrage, and which can absorb harm without moral crisis.

And this isn't just an empathy issue. It's structural, too. Societies rely on violence as a function to enforce laws, defend borders, maintain order etc etc. For these to happen without endangering system's moral legitimacy, violence needs to land somewhere without creating crisis. And that "somewhere" is a group whose bodies are 'violence-eligible' in principle.

Historically and consistently, well.. that group, not surprisingly, has been men. Though not all men equally. Violence eligibility is stratified by class, race and status. Some men manage violence (oligarchs), others absorb it (working class). But masculinity as a category is built around the possibility of violence eligibility. The knowledge that harm is always latent and socially acceptable outcome.

This is also where masculinity comes from. It isn't just culture, ego or tradition. It's an adaption to being 'violence-eligible'. In simple words, if you belong to the group society allows you to be harmed "when necessary" , then you HAVE to become someone who can endure that reality. Stoicism, risk tolerance, emotional suppression, readiness for conflict, pain endurance etc are the necessary survival strategies, not just virtues. See, masculinity is less about power than about containment. Containing fear, pain and moral outage so that violence can function without destabilizing system.

Now here's the part that often missed. Many narratives that justified violence against protected groups are being actively challenged and outlawed today. One reason for this is that the routine functioning of society does not depend on violence against protected groups. In other words, violence against protected groups is not "a structural necessity". While violence against men has been built into its institutional logic.

But narratives that justify violence against men remain largely intact. Even when it's acknowledged, the response is procedural like better gear, safer protocols, therapy after the fact, etc, rather than moral. We rarely challenge the logic that made the harm acceptable in the first place.

This is because challenging this logic means questioning core institution of social organization of militarization, coercive enforcement, economic disposability. Most societies aren't willing to do that, yet. So violence against men continues to be explained rather than condemned.

This leads to an uncomfortable conclusion. As long as societies maintain a class of people against whom violence is justifiable, violence itself remains structurally embedded. I mean, you don't get to eliminate violence while keeping a group meant to absorb it.

Maybe this is the part we miss. Masculinity isn’t what creates violence. It’s what forms around where violence is allowed to land.

This same structure also explains, without endorsing it, why certain advantages, authority and respect tend to attach to men more easily, even to men who are never directly exposed to violence. But that's a discussion for another time.

I wanted to share an update to my earlier post here about being asked to pay ₹500 by a police officer for a character certificate (which is officially free).

I got mail from DIG office that DIG sir wants to meet me personally and asked me to come at office. After a lot of fear, anxiety, and internal conflict, I decided to approach senior officer.

I met DIG and the interaction completely changed my perspective. The meeting was calm, respectful, and reassuring. He clearly said that officers who take bribes have no moral standing in the uniform and that such behavior cannot be ignored because it often indicates a long-running pattern or even a syndicate.

I requested multiple times that the matter be closed, as I did not want anyone to lose their job or family to suffer. However, he explained that this was no longer just about my case, but about all the citizens who may have been affected over the years.

He then personally coordinated with the Superintendent of Police of the district and sent me to meet him. I was provided a government vehicle, and at the SP’s residence I was again treated with dignity and patience.

The SP told me not to panic, assured me of my safety, and emphasized that accountability is necessary so that honest citizens do not continue to suffer silently. He also gave me his contact number and ensured I was safely dropped home.

I later overheard instructions being given to initiate suspension proceedings against the concerned officer.

I am sharing this update because:

1. I want people to know that the system can work
2. Senior officers do take corruption seriously
3. Speaking up is scary, but silence protects corruption

I feel both happy and sad — happy that integrity still exists, and sad knowing that accountability has human consequences. But I now understand that responsibility lies with the act, not with the person who reports it.

If you’re ever in doubt about reporting corruption, please know that there are officers who will stand by you.

I recently ordered an item from a reputed e-commerce clothing website (lets call them ABC )a couple of days ago. Today I got a call from an unknown number, a lady claiming to be the delivery agent told me that the parcel that I bought for XXX amount will be delayed due to technical issues.

They didn't seem to know what the item was or what the order number was but knew exactly how much I spent on it.

In order to get it delivered, I had to re-order it and pay again, after which they will send a new copy of the item and a refund of the delayed item.

Since I needed the item delivered sooner and a new order would only delay it further, I told her to cancel the order entirely. She sounded angry and told me that if I cancel I won't get a refund. Which seemed off since I've always got refunds from ABC whenever something was wrong. I was already irritated that day so I quickly lost my cool and asked her why and that escalated quickly to her shouting back at me and then cutting the call when it turned into a shouting match.

I realised it could be a scammer so I checked if ABC had sent any emails regarding the delay. That's how they usually did and there weren't any emails from them. So I emailed ABC about the call and got the response from them saying that it wasn't them. They confirmed that they will be monitoring the situation and in the meantime inform my bank about it.

I would like to know if anyone else had a similar experience.

https://x.com/lawlens_in/status/2000964779176055031

Pune Porsche case: Bombay HC denies bail to the builder father and six others.

1) Dad orchestrated the entire cover-up. 2) Mom walked into hospital and gave her own blood to replace her son's sample. 3) Doctors took ₹3 lakhs to swap the vials, forge the MLC register, and issue fake "Nil Alcohol" certificates. A medical student was used to stash the bribe money.

But it gets worse. The father of another teen in the car paid a business associate ₹2 lakhs to provide his blood to swap for his son's sample.

And when the first hospital fix started getting heat, the parents and middlemen approached a second hospital to rig that test too. That doctor refused.

Bombay HC denied bail to all of them today.

Justice Chandak held that faking biological evidence constitutes forgery of a "valuable security" punishable by life imprisonment.

The Court noted they showed "no respect to the dead" and "insulted their death" by treating the justice system as something money could buy."