Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳 engagement report

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• Jun 24, 2026355x their median

  Passport is a travel document, not document of citizenship, say MEA officials

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• Jun 30, 202665x their median

  Breaking: "I was in China and the Indian Ambassador there told me that a generation of trust has been lost by President Trump. If we don't speak the truth about the damage this President has done..we are not living in reality," says US Congressman Ro Khanna at the USISPF summit https://t.co/8L467pKsN0

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• Jul 19, 202659x their median

  Christopher Nolan's The Odyssey may be the most pro-Western civilization film Hollywood has made in decades - not because it flatters the Greeks, but because it understands civilization as a moral achievement rather than an ethnic possession. The identitarian far-left and far-right share a premise: that the Western canon is ethnic property. One side condemns it on that basis; the other guards it on the same basis. Nolan refuses the premise, populating Homer's world with various identities while treating the story with absolute seriousness. That’s not a repudiation of the canon but evidence of its triumph: Homer can be inhabited by, and speak to, anyone. The film’s deepest commitment is to individual moral agency. Odysseus cannot hide behind Greece, military orders, or victory. His choices are his own, and so is his guilt. No collective cause dissolves individual moral responsibility; his final heroism lies not in conquest, but atonement. That principle extends to hospitality: treat the stranger as you would wish to be treated. When the Greeks violate it, they become the barbarians they fear. Penelope's devastating realization - "You're the people from the sea" - underscores that the enemies of civilization are sometimes its self-appointed defenders, exempting themselves from the principles they claim to uphold. This is Western civilization at its best - not an ethnicity or a triumphalist myth, but a tradition built around the dignity of the individual, moral responsibility, and atonement. And a civilization strong enough to preserve stories that judge its own heroes remains a civilization worth defending.

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• Jun 22, 202626x their median

  China and India are partners rather than competitors, China FM Wang Yi tells NSA Ajit Doval at Delhi meet China readout https://t.co/732PQ2X0Ha

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• Jul 5, 202618x their median

  Mahua was banned under British colonial rule and spent generations in the shadows. Now, a new wave of Indian distillers is reviving the heritage spirit, bringing centuries of tradition to a global audience. https://t.co/lMZkO7pneL https://t.co/gP8JjEKc46

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• Jul 28, 202616x their median

  How China protects the Gaokao- it’s college entrance exams (13M+ students): - Papers printed in ultra-secure facilities under 24/7 surveillance - Armoured, GPS-tracked transport - Facial recognition & biometric verification - AI cameras, drones & signal jammers to stop cheating - Cities reduce traffic, halt construction & reroute flights to ensure silence 🇮🇳 It would be a good idea for our new Education Minister @JoshiPralhad to study this model for our NEET/JEE exams. We have to treat our national exams as national security events. And secure the chain end-to-end with biometric access, AI surveillance, live tracking, and airtight accountability.

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• Nov 18, 202212x their median

  When the first Rajdhani Express was introduced between Howrah and New Delhi in 1969, there were only three stoppages at Gomoh, Mughalsarai (now DDU) and Kanpur, completing the 1450 km distance in a record time of 17 hours 20 minutes. #IndianRailways https://t.co/vsPPUK3KvS

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• Jun 19, 202612x their median

  I grew up on Bangalore’s Brunton Cross Road. I still live on the same road. When I first came here as a 15-year-old beginning college in 1966, it was one of the most beautiful streets in the city. Tree-lined, shaded, peaceful. Bungalows stood amid gardens. There were pavements one could actually walk on. It was a residential neighbourhood, not a traffic corridor. Today, almost every bungalow has disappeared, replaced by apartment blocks. The gardens are gone. The road has become a two-way thoroughfare carrying a relentless stream of vehicles. What was once a neighbourhood has become an artery. The photographs below tell the rest of the story. Broken pavements. Open drains. Excavated roads. Construction debris left strewn about. Garbage accumulating around work sites. Hazardous walkways. Traffic forced through improvised bottlenecks. Senior citizens pick their way through rubble simply to cross the street. For more than a year, the authorities have ostensibly been repairing the road and drainage infrastructure. Yet the result has been months of disruption, chaos and inconvenience with little visible evidence of systematic planning or timely execution. The issue is not that roads need repair. Every city requires maintenance. The issue is how it is done. Why are roads dug up and left exposed for weeks and months? Why are drains left uncovered? Why are pedestrians treated as an afterthought? Why are debris allowed to remain on public land? Why are traffic diversions so poorly managed? Why is there no visible sense of sequencing, coordination or accountability? These are not problems of poverty. They are problems of governance. India’s urban crisis is often discussed in terms of infrastructure deficits, but what I see outside my own front gate is something more basic: a deficit of civic management. We build flyovers, metro lines and technology parks, yet struggle to maintain a pavement. We speak of becoming a developed country, yet tolerate public spaces that would be unacceptable in much poorer societies. This is why comments from outsiders such as Peter Thiel, however provocative, sometimes strike a nerve. When he describes India as “messed-up”, many of us instinctively object. Yet standing on Brunton Cross Road amid broken concrete, open trenches and unregulated traffic, one cannot entirely dismiss the criticism. The uncomfortable truth is that our cities often function despite the system rather than because of it. What is especially frustrating is that the solutions are neither revolutionary nor prohibitively expensive. Road projects should be coordinated and completed within fixed timelines. Pavements should be continuous, safe and accessible. Residential roads should be protected from becoming uncontrolled traffic corridors. Traffic rules should be enforced. Construction waste should be removed immediately. Public infrastructure should be maintained before it collapses rather than repaired after it does. Most importantly, citizens should not have to negotiate danger merely to walk down their own street. The decline of roads like Brunton Cross Road is not simply about nostalgia for a vanished Bangalore. Cities change. Growth is inevitable. But growth without planning produces disorder. Development without civic discipline produces dysfunction. A city is not measured only by the value of its real estate, the number of its startups, or the sophistication of its technology sector. It is measured by the quality of everyday life it offers its residents. Bangalore still possesses extraordinary strengths: talent, enterprise, creativity, greenery and a climate most cities would envy. What it increasingly lacks is the orderly civic management that allows those strengths to flourish. Looking at these scenes outside my home, I cannot help but wonder: when did we begin to accept disorder as normal? And more importantly, when will we decide that we deserve better? #Bengaluru #UrbanIndia #CityPlanning

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• Aug 3, 202611x their median

  The Czech President wore shorts, grabbed a camera and walked the Hungarian Grand Prix like any fan. Viral instantly. Imagine PM Modi serving tea at a roadside stall for 10 minutes. That’s the kind of unscripted authenticity Gen Z connects with. https://t.co/UK84zLtsaM

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• Jun 23, 202610x their median

  “Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand. “Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too. To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.” — John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man

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