Many friends in #MaharashtraPolitics were upset and angry with our #MOTN projections in @IndiaToday just a month back. Todays results should make them understand the simple yet powerful arithmetic of electoral equations. @rahulkanwal @sahiljoshii In Kasba Peth: BJP won this seat by polling 43% in 2014 assembly election when everyone contested separately. Today they polled 45% yet lost the seat. Reason: the 2014 opposition was scattered but their combined vote was almost 50%. Today Congress polled 52% and won this seat.

Some #Shiromani of top order are questioning me "Why have you asked "Rest of India" on what do they feel about 370 and how can they tell what the situation is in J7K?". Well, that precisely has been the problem. You just don't consider "Rest of India" as a stakeholder in J&K. First: who exactly supports the Valley separatists in "rest of India"? Answer is: nobody. Though the core issue of Valley separatists is "unfinished business of partition" or their Islamic identity, even the Muslims across India do NOT sympathize with them. Forget the rest.

One of the few things that occupied my mind during this crisis is the impact on mental health due to the stress and grief that Covid has put us through. While there would be Doctors and Gurus giving all the Gyaan, there is just a small possible effort that all of us can try... Just make a list of 30 most important people in your life; friends, family members, teachers, colleagues and even people playing small but important supporting role in our day today lives. And as a checklist, just #Call2Check their wellbeing. Just #OnePersonADay.

पच्चीस सालों के अपने कैरियर में दो चीज़ें न तो भूला हूं, न ही कभी भूलूंगा :

१. चाहे कितनी भी सफलता मिले, अपने से पहले के सीनियर प्रोफेशनल की हमेशा इज्जत करते रहना।

२. और अपने बाद जो आए उनका हौसला बढ़ाते रहना, उनकी सफलताओं की खुले दिल से तारीफ करना। उनसे भी सीखने की कोशिश रहना । अब इन दोनों बातों को आप संस्कार कहें, मनस्थिति कहें, चाहे परिस्थिति कहें । लेकिन ये बातें मेरे अंदर तक घर की हुई है । मुझसे बड़े, हमउम्र और छोटे; चाहे मुझे चाहने वाले हो या मुझसे नफ़रत करने वाले, मेरी चाहे हज़ार दूसरी गलतियां गिना दें, पर इन दोनों मुद्दों पर हामी भरेंगे ।

Globally the Centrist-Middle-Of-The-Line public was always so well accommodated within the Liberal camp. Used to be the natural and normal phenomenon just a few years back. Something has strangely changed changed that dynamics turning it upside down the world over. This all started when the policies of Globalization started getting local resistance due to extremely local reasons, particularly in Europe, giving rise to far-right leaders. They were ridiculed by liberals for obvious reasons. But somehow the economic issues remained relevant.

काफी समय से अपने बनारस को दुबारा समझने कि कोशिश कर रहा हूं । अक्सर ये काम अग्रज पंडित जी करते कराते रहते हैं ।आज सुबह सब उन्होंने केदार नाथ सिंह की अद्भुत पंक्तियां भेजी:

*बनारस में बसतं कैसे आता है* *बनारस में बसतं कैसे आता है*

इस शहर में वसंत
अचानक आता है
और जब आता है तो मैंने देखा है
लहरतारा या मडुवाडीह की तरफ़ से
उठता है धूल का एक बवंडर
और इस महान पुराने शहर की जीभ
किरकिराने लगती है

जो है वह सुगबुगाता है
जो नहीं है वह फेंकने लगता है पचखिया..

India gave liberals an exemplary modest RW called Atalji. They abused and disrespect him
then.

LKA followed and they started saying Atalji was moderate.

It took NaMo for them to start respecting LKA. Now with Shah in, will find NaMo a moderate. Yogi and Sadhvi are in line. There is a pattern to whenever the Indian RW offered it's most accommodating appreciative faces, only to be humiliated by the Lutyens ecosystem.

The common man has been observing their every step and reaction. Every humiliation forced another deep rooted mandate. One by one.

येती जी , कौन जात हो ?? येती से ग़लती हो जाती है ..

Your first assertion is absolutely correct. It was the brutal misuse of caste system (which was never supposed to be by birth to start with) for centuries which pushed a major section of Hindu society to bottom of the pyramid. Yes, that shameful past was fodder to conversion.

https://twitter.com/tashreefi/status/1109752116946628610

We need truth to be told for reconciliation. Without that we will never be at peace with ourselves. There are three truths that are to be reconciled in the same order, one after the other. The atrocities on Shurdra in Caste Sysytem by upper caste is the first truth to start with.

So basically as on today, if you are earning Rs 62500 or less per month, you need not pay any Income Tax. As per the @CvoterIndia OB Tracker data for year 2018, only about 21% Indians Households have more than 20K per month earning, a group we modestly call "Middle Class".

https://twitter.com/coolfrnds4u/status/1091271841602101249

Just did a rough calculation, and going by the tracker data, 16% out of this 21% Middle Class was declared 'Tax-Free' today. Which calculated to approx 74% of tax paying Middle Class getting cleared out from paying any tax whatsoever. That is 3 out of 4 Middle Class Indians.