Thanks @lokeshbag67, for bringing up memories of MY FATHER, S. Thiraviam Nadar in your thread on Rajnikanth's trilingual movie 'Kaala', based on his life. Though @beemji found my father's story inspirational enough to make a movie on it, he clearly got greedy about the story 1/n This film happened because Rajnikanth wanted a real life classic movie made in the twilight of his career like #nayagan made by #ManiRatnam starring #KamalHaasan in Tamil/Telugu & #VinodKhanna in Hindi #Nayakan 2/n

@msisodia, son of a village school teacher, having received very modest education like more than 95% Indians, vowed to himself that if he ever got a chance to improve education system in the country, he would devote himself to it. As a journalist he was the first to answer 1/9 An anonymous ad by @ArvindKejriwal to start 'parivaratan',an NGO for social change. @SatyendarJain was a successful architect & had worked on major projects in the country & wanted to share his expertise.He decided to set aside a well established business to join Anna Andolan 2/9

My contribution to a cover story in The Week' on the #HarshadMehta scam in 1992, as a 22 year old, memory now revived by the #GautamAdani scam! This special edition had sold 30,000 extra copies. It made the careers of so many journalists who seriously investigated the scam 1/6 Unlike today, when journalists are speculating on Adani being "targeted", to emerge unscathed soon. 92 scam led to Mehta being treated like a criminal, investigated & arrested by CBI. 70+ offences, with over 600 civil suits, eventually killing him less than a decade later ! 2/6

A thread on ridiculous accusations used to beat up @AamAadmiParty by liberals/@INCIndia that @ArvindKejriwal is anti-Muslim!
For decades this country has been divided into Hindu, Muslims,Christians,Dalits,Adivasis,Rich & Poor, Urban/Rural. Never functioned as a single unit! 1/23 This kind of divide suits ALL parties, whether BJP, Congress, LEFT, TMC, SP, JDU. Never has any political party risen above corruption to address basic needs of the people. Babasaheb’s dream of rich & poor sharing the same school bench at govt cost remained only a dream 2/23

This is how godi media owing allegiance to @BJP4India & various YouTube channels owing allegiance to @INCIndia fool the viewers/readers with false news about @AamAadmiParty. Since AAP took charge in Delhi in Feb 2015,center took back almost all of powers of the state govt 1/14 Under the guise of it being a UT, granting all powers to the @LtGovDelhi to keep a check on AAP’s people friendly policies.
It was not until October 2018, that the SC returned most of the powers to the state government, still holding back Services, Land, besides the police. 2/14

The film’s narrative is set around the exodus of the 3 million Kashmiri Pandits from the Valley since January 1990, supposedly to highlight the plight of thousands of them “forced” to flee their hometowns and forced to live the life of a refugee since then
#KashmirFiles 1/18 The dangerous trend however is that the film, in line with the right wing Hindutva agenda, hopes to seek sympathy for the Pandits by demonizing the Kashmiri Muslim. #KashmirFiles 2/18

Truth be told, 99% of the journalists in the country, even the most well known ones, do not have the insight to understand what exactly @ArvindKejriwal is doing in Delhi, or what he intends to do in every state that has the courage to vote for AAP now 1/16 Experience, just by virtue of the number of years spent at your desk, does not always mean deep insights. It also means closed mind sets, honed to think in a particular, stuck up way.
@sardesairajdeep's interview with @ArvindKejriwal yesterday is one such prime example 2/16

India’s contingent increases in size every Olympics, but the medal tally unfortunately does not. So far we have won only 29 Olympic medals, from the 24 Olympics, (that’s almost a century) that we have participated in 1/16 This number is how many countries like the US and China, make it in just a couple of events in EVERY OLYMPICS.
One of the 29, one got added yesterday by 26 year old weightlifter Mirabai Chanu 2/16

To those who missed the heartfelt speech by Mahesh Savani, diamond trader, prominent patidar community leader, philanthropist, who has got 100's of poor couples get married, because it was in Gujrati, here is the translation in English 1/22 @Gopal_Italia @AAPGujarat Mahesh Savani , despite threats from BJP, opted to join AAP yesterday in the presence of Manish Sisodia. Though his joining speech was in Gujrati, it has garnered over 90,000 views and 17000 shares on his facebook page. 2/22
@AAPGujarat @Gopal_Italia

No one is safe, until everyone is safe !
The Indian COVID variant has arrived in the US as expected. In Folsom, California, one person, under 30, came back from India in mid-April, bringing the Indian variant of the COVID. He is now in ICU. And few others are infected 1/4 It is impacting kids, and most people in 30s/40s. Even those who have taken both vaccine shots. A spike in corona cases, especially in Indian community is expected 2/4

After the Supreme Leader felt insulted, BJP IT Cell and its army has been floating all type of misinformation campaign against AAP and Kejriwal in particular. Congress IT cell too has joined tge bandwagon.1/13 Well, understandable as they see AAP as a threat. The latest in the series of such campaigns is AAP is spending crores on advts. Should AAP cut down? Maybe. But is AAP a huge spender compared to many from BJP? Let's see. Let's take Ajay Bisht, the CM of Uttar Pradesh 2/13

Democracy is the biggest lie; only “mock” remains in the democracy. It has been violated by every other form like monarchy, oligarchy & dictatorship donning the cloak of “people’s will”, seizing the entire citizenry when the incumbent’s share was only 39% or like in Delhi 0% 1/12 If we want to course correct, we need to follow the example of some Scandinavian countries; politicians jobs have no fancy perks. If a candidate switches parties after elections, his seat remains with the winning party until the next election, an unalienable people’s verdict 2/12

The beauty of AAP in Delhi is that it treats ALL citizens as EQUALS. While the Congress kept the country divided between Hindus and Muslims, Rich & the Poor, AAP seeks to remove the divide. All their public welfare schemes are designed to benefit both the rich & poor EQUALLY. 1/8 This hurts the politics of both the Congress and the BJP, who think the only way to survival is to keep the country divided. The central government's decision to handover power from the elected chief minister to the Lieutenant Governor, who is not answerable to the citizens 2/8

AAP had a tough time in Delhi during their first term, when the Centre unable to digest it's defeat, did everything possible in it's powers to strangle and overthrow this government 1/16 Every effort was made through the dummy lieutenant governor to clamp down on all their progressive works, whether it was the mohalla clinics or CCTV cameras 2/16

There are millions of Ram bhakts in India, who have been good citizens & have been told by liberals all their lives that it's not ok to be a "proud" Hindu. It was easy for this lot to be fooled by the BJP into believing that they are a Hindu party & Congress is a Muslim party1/12 They do not necessarily share BJP's hate for Muslims to prove themselves to be a good Hindu.
These guys are therefore not comfortable being with Congress and now are no longer comfortable with BJP either. Arvind Kejriwal is fishing for this lot. 2/12

When a sensible man like Manish Sisodia, calls the budget that he is about to present as a "deshbhakti budget", without context, repeating the term "desh bhakti" at least a dozen times, as if on cue, without relevance, it does strike one as odd. 1/4 The congress supporters, with their tunnel vision of course had a field day painting AAP saffron. But it is so obvious that AAP Is readying itself to play on BJP's pitch, rewriting the rules, challenging the BJP to oppose AAP's notion of deshbhakti. 2/4

All that Arvind Kejriwal wants is a CHANCE. A SINGLE term to serve a FULL STATE.
All he wants is your vote, at present wasted on corrupt parties/politicians who have built their palaces on the strength of your vote &your taxes, promising you everything, giving you nothing 1/14 Arvind Kejriwal wants that ONE CHANCE to SERVE YOU, not himself and certainly not his family. 2/14