Frnds
800 metres away from PM's residence there was a VVIP wedding on 11th March. The Guestlist was full of VVIPs starting with PM Modi,Rajnath Sing, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, FM Sitharaman & CMs from BJP-ruled states.
It was the wedding of Navika Kumar's son.
Stay here frnz. ☺1/12
In 1988 Times Group Hindi Newspaper NavBharat Times Editor Surendra Pratap Singh's wedding was attended by Chief Ministers from 7 states and many Central Ministers. It was highly criticized then. Anand Swaroop Verma in his Book "Patrakarita ka Andha Yug" wrote about this. 2/12
It was the view of the majority of the Journalist fraternity during then that against those your pen is expected to move if you make a sweet relationship with them, your loyalty towards your profession is no more trustworthy.
11th March wedding of Navika Kumar's son Siddhant in GymKhana Club. Other than BJP Mins Shehzad Punawala, Anand Rangnath, the owner of TimesGroup Vinit & Samir Jain, Rajat Sarma India Tv were present.
No @INCIndia or any other party leadrs were present.
Plz stay frndz. 4/12
With this Navika has established her Leadership in the elite or the Lutyen lobby class she often joked in past years.
It is a significant thing that she didn't care to hide her close bonding with the Ruling Govt. Maybe as all these are normalised these days. 5/12
In 2019 in an interview, Navika Kumar: Even today I'm hungry for news. That hunger is understood by a survey of Newslaundry where it has been found Jan22 to June22
Her 123 nos debates
Communal 45
Anti-Opp 36
Pro BJP 10
Others 32
That interview link.👇6/12 samachar4media.com/interviews-new…
2009 Neera Radia tape. Barkha Dutt still suffers from that leakage of 5000 talks betwn Politicians/Corporates/Journalists. 6-8 journalists were caught & Navika Kumar was among them. Surprised?☺
In that tape Neera Radia told Navika to not share information wid Arun Jetley. 7/12
Nothing to be surprised as Navika Kumar Had a strong relationship Respect/Guide/Mentor with Arun Jetley whom she used to call everyday Morning. She said that herself in 2019 after Arun Jetley's Demise. 🙂 8/12
Neera Radia Tape changed lives of Barkha Datt, Vir Sanghvi but strangely Navika hardly faced 2 wks suspension from studio. She was not even a big name like 2day. Again 2022 Nupur Sharma's row in her show resulted heavily for Nupur but Navika remained untouched.
Stay frnz🙏9/12
After Arnab Goswami left it is not R Shivsankar but Navika who took charge. Despite only 20% representation of Females in TV media hats off to Navika made it. It fastened from2020 #SSR case when she targeted Rhea Chakraborty insanely. Remember this Ekta Kapoor style Entry? 10/12
She is the boss of @TimesNow it can be understood well the rival Republic Group 2021 filed a defamation case Against Navika only.
But her devotion to Ruling made it easy to cross all obligations. In Jan24 when #HindenburgReport revealed she kept bashing @INCIndia 11/12
Finally
She is only a part of a machine built by whom u know well.
Endng this thread with the lines of Raj Kamal Jha, the Editor of Indian Express 6yrs ago who said this after PM's speech. Plz listen frndz.🙏
"Criticism from the Govt is a Badge of Honour"
Then in his early 30s, a PM Rural Development Fellow, already extensively worked for improvement of Gadchiroli Adivasi livelihood.
Today After 7 yrs in jail, No Trial, now in alarmingly failing health condition has appealed for bail again.
Mahesh Raut - arrested in 2018. 🧵1/15
From a OBC Kunbi household in Chandrapur Dist, Maharashtra Mahesh was young when his father (police officer) died & he was raised by his mother.
After graduation he got a job of Govt Teacher posting in Goa but dropped this job to complete his masters from TISS (2009-2011). 2/15
After completing Masters he won the prestigious PMRDF (2012-14) Fellowship. He took the fellowship only in condition to be placed in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.
Gadchiroli sprawls 14000 sq km over dense forests, mountains & rivers & several Adivasi community incl Madia Gond. 3/15
Great institutions always celebrate their past students, even after a century they were nurtured there.
This is about Pt. Jawaharlal Nehru - The first Prime Minister of India.🇮🇳
(Not any FAKE DEGREE HOLDER who fears expose & so hide his certificate 🙃). 🧵1/11
Nehru the 3rd son to Motilal but was the 1st to survive, so mother Swarup Rani despite poor health never let him put of sight.
Anand Bhavan of nearly 40 family members & 100s of servants followed two diff lifestyles.
Nehru's first teacher+friend was also an employee. 2/11
Regarding two living styles there were two kitchens - the Western, staffed by Muslim & Goan Christian cooks, supervised by butler Asgar Ali and Motilal's personal attendant Bhola - children's fab.
Another kitchen was of the women members with Hindu cooks & servants. 3/11
A Moment of Turu Love between Father of Sanghi India - Modiji and Father of Zionist Israel - Netanyahuji captured in a phutu.
So does this mean unlike his ideological forefathers, Modiji doesn't support Hitler & Nazism? 🤔
Or.....is there more to the story? 😏🧵1/7
To find it rewind back to days when Modiji was just the Father of Guj.
As soon as Modiji took full control over state in 2005 Gujarat Board introduced a new social sciences textbook - Class IX glorified Nazism while erasing the Holocaust.
Pic: Modi at RSS camp - 01/01/2006. 2/7
The textbook hailed Hitler as a patriotic soldier who led ‘revenge for Versailles’ & described Nazism as “co-ordination of nationalism and socialism.”
Chapter one titled 'Present Currents of World History' claimed “Hitler led Germans towards ardent nationalism.” 🧵3/7
Sp. Intensive Revision (SIR) of electoral rolls in Bihar, the poorest state of 7.89 Cr voters. Set to start nationwide
@_YogendraYadav calls it VoteBandi after NoteBandi (demonitization) & deshbandi (lockdown) & many Columns have already been written. Decoding here now.🧵1/19
After CEC Gyanesh Kumar had assumed his office on 19 Feb marking his 100 day in Office on 29/05/25 Elec Com. launched 21 new initiatives spanning procedural reforms, training programmes & stakeholder engagement.
Sound familiar? ☺️
But there was no mention of (SIR) then. 2/19
It was also informed The EC has also facilitated 4719 meetings across the country with participation from over 28K political party representatives.
EC also held consultations in New Delhi with national party leaders with more meetings planned after the current byelections. 3/19
Even in death Sardar Patel — the Iron Man of India wasn't spared by the vile nexus of Lies.
Here the truth they desperately want to bury.🧵
5 Dec, he already knew the end is close. That night Maniben heard Sardar repeating Nazir's line -
"Zindagi ka yeh Tamasha Chand Roz." 1/13
Dec 8 when Doctor BC Roy checked Sardar's health he asked Doctor 'Rehna hai ke Jaun?'(Living or going?)
When the Doctor countered he replied through Kabir's lines :
"Man Laago mero yaar fakiri mein" ( My heart longs for renunciation).
The Time came - 9.37am, 15 Dec 1950. 2/13
Dahyabhai bathed his father & dressed him in a dhoti and kurta, then gently placed on his bed.
He was covered with a shroud woven from yarn he himself had spun in 1940 ; the cloth was brought by Manibehn in hopes of getting a kurta stitched for him.