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Reputation is the pillar on which public life stands. The law recognises this. It provides clear, established mechanisms in form of civil defamation actions, criminal defamation , and the right to reply.
The expectation is simple: if the claim is false or reckless, you sue. You put the publisher to proof. You force the issue into the open under rules of evidence.
But there is another strategy as well. Incase you know that the allegations are true and you cannot withstand that cross-examination, that the questions will not collapse the allegation but will establish its core as fact, then the rational choice is silence.
You do not issue a denial.
You do not file the suit.
You wait for the news cycle to move on and in the evening of your life you publish a self-serving autobiography where you gloss over every uncomfortable aspect of your life.
That silence is not dignity. It is risk management. It protects the speaker from further exposure under oath. It converts a potentially catastrophic legal proceeding into a manageable media controversy that can be endured, ignored, or later reframed in your autobiography.
The public is left with the original publication standing unrebutted in the only forum that actually mattered; the courtroom; because the person best placed to rebut it calculated that doing so would make the damage permanent.
Sonia Gandhi chose that silence. The choice itself is evidence of the interest it served.
When the available legal tools are left unused by someone whose entire public standing depends on reputation, the inference is not charitable. It is the inference the law itself invites when a party with the means and motive to sue declines to do so.
I will in the coming days tweet each one of the 22 articles I wrote then in the New Indian Express (which had the guts to carry them) to bring back to the public domain today the true and uncomfortable facts which will reveal the real Sonia which her book is calculated to conceal. Her book is only about what she wants to tell about her. But the truth she wouldn't tell but which the Indian public and the present gen must know will come out in my tweets
My ariticles were written when Sonia was at the peak of her power and authority. She neither challenged it personally nor did the congress
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Sorry it must read
Sonia Gandhi's autobiography is unlike Mahatma Gandhi's. She will not tell like Gandhi the darker side of her life
Sonia Gandhi's autobiography like Mahatma Gandhi's. She will not tell like Gandhi the darker side of her life
Those who read book must read this tweet also.
At a time when a crusader.against corruption is advertising Sonia Gandhi's book I think it is necessary to recall my articles in 2009 and 2012 openly charging Sonia with having secret billions abroad
This was when she was the mightiest in the country 2004-14
I took her on and challenges her with articles after articles in the New Indian Express questioning her loyalty to the country and also her honesty and charging her with holding secret billions abroad in two articles in 2009 and 2012
Neither Sonia nor the Congress would respond or sue me
When Sonia Gandhi told her party workers in Mangalore on April 27, 2009 that "the Congress was taking steps to address the issue of untaxed Indian money in Swiss banks". I challenged her with this article in the New Indian Express
16 May 2012 titled
"Who will probe first family’s billions?"
The article opened ...
Mrs Antonia Maino (aka Sonia) Gandhi has finally broken her silence on the Indian slush money abroad. She told her party workers in Mangalore on April 27, 2009 that "the Congress was taking steps to address the issue of untaxed Indian money in Swiss banks".
Schweizer Illustrierte, in its November 11, 1991 issue exposed Rajiv Gandhi (bottom row, second from right) among 14 politicians from developing nations
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Mrs Antonia Maino (aka Sonia) Gandhi has finally broken her silence on the Indian slush money abroad. She told her party workers in Mangalore on April 27, 2009 that "the Congress was taking steps to address the issue of untaxed Indian money in Swiss banks".
The delayed response of the first family of the Congress party, troubled by the issue from the word go, is understandable.
But, the Swiss money has already become an electoral issue. That is what has finally forced the family to speak so that the party is not any further seen as being in denial and cynical about the Indian slush funds abroad. It is the family's silence, and the party's denial, that turned the issue into an election agenda.
Shorn of the allegations normal in election time, all that L K Advani had said on March 29 was this: 'Mr Prime Minister, vigorously take up the issue of Swiss type secret banking and tax havens in the G20 meeting of April 2'.
Had the PM told Advani that that was precisely what he was intending to do, that would have been the end of the BJP effort to make an issue of it. A Congress party, unburdened by its first family's anxieties, would have done precisely that, particularly when elections are round the corner. But neither the PM nor the party officials would dare do that. Why? Read on for the underlying drives.
The first family has other, perhaps bigger, reasons to worry, apart from about the Bofors slush money. Two more stunning exposures — but not as well-known as the Bofors scam — make the first family a target for investigation on slush money. Now on to the heart of the story which has three limbs.
First: $2.2 billions in Rajiv's secret accounts, says Swiss magazine
The shocking exposure came from Switzerland itself. The most popular magazine of Switzerland, Schweizer Illustrierte, [dated November 11, 1991] did an expose of 14 politicians of developing nations who, it said, had stashed their bribes in Swiss banks. The title of the expose in German read “Fluchgelder — Die Schweizer Konten der Dictatoren”. In English it meant, “Curse of money — The Swiss bank accounts of the Dictators”. Rajiv Gandhi figured in the expose as one with slush funds in secret accounts. Schweizer Illustrierte is not some rag. It is the Number One Swiss magazine and sells some 2,10,000 copies. Its readership is 9,18,000 — some 15 per cent of Swiss adults. The magazine had mentioned specific amounts in secret Swiss accounts of different leaders with their pictures alongside.
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Addressed session on Police Reforms: The Road Ahead orgd under @IHCDelhi Connect series. With Justice Poonam Bamba as Chief Guest, the panel included @singh_prakash , Ex DGP, fmr LG Kiran Bedi & Dr @mediasurya , former Chairman, @prasarbharati.
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प्रधानमंत्री श्री @narendramodi जी को जन्मदिन की हार्दिक बधाई और शुभकामनाएं। विगत 25 वर्षों में मुख्यमंत्री और प्रधानमंत्री के कार्यकाल में आपने सुशासन के अनेक नए प्रतिमान स्थापित किए हैं तथा समावेशी विकास को अभूतपूर्व गति एवं नई दिशा प्रदान की है। सांस्कृतिक गौरव की भावना के साथ आधुनिक प्रगति के मार्ग पर चलते हुए हमारे देशवासी, विरासत और विकास के समन्वय को साकार कर रहे हैं। मैं ईश्वर से आपके उत्तम स्वास्थ्य एवं दीर्घायु की प्रार्थना करती हूं, ताकि आप जन-सेवा और राष्ट्र-निर्माण के अपने अभियान को निरंतर आगे बढ़ाते रहें।
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On the auspicious occasion of Ganesh Chaturthi, I extend my heartfelt greetings and best wishes to all Indians living in the country and abroad.
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He named the restaurant after a woman who wasn't his wife, wasn't his mother, and wasn't related to him.
In the mid-1930s, a teenager from the Tanjore district of Tamil Nadu arrived in Singapore.
Murugiah Rajoo found work as a shop assistant at a vegetarian restaurant on Serangoon Road, and the owner's wife, a woman named Komala, took care of the young Murugiah like a son.
He never forgot.
More than a decade later, in 1947, the owner decided to return to India.
Friends persuaded Murugiah to buy the restaurant.
He used what he had saved over the years, supplemented by borrowed money, and renamed it Komala Vilas, after the woman who had shown him kindness when he was a teenager far from home. "Vilas" means home.
The business has traced an unbroken family legacy back to 1947. Seventy-nine years.
Murugiah served what he knew from his roots: South Indian vegetarian cuisine from the Tanjore tradition, including dosai, idli, vadai, thali meals, and strong South Indian coffee. Following Tanjore custom!
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"Dearest SG sir. I know you will love to see this. A treasure ❤️ " I was delighted to receive this message from the great grand son of Thamizh Grandfather U Ve Swaminatha Iyer. He had attached the letter written by Kappalottiya Thanizhan Va U Chidambaram Pillai. See how dignified and respectful the language and handwriting are. Thanks Deepak Swaminathan for starting my day with a great gift
"அன்பிற்குரிய SG ஐயா, இதைப் பார்ப்பதை நீங்கள் மிகவும் விரும்புவீர்கள் என்று எனக்குத் தெரியும். இது ஒரு பொக்கிஷம் ❤️" - 'தமிழ் தாத்தா' உ.வே. சாமிநாத ஐயர் அவர்களின் கொள்ளுப் பேரனிடமிருந்து இந்தச் செய்தியைப் பெற்றதில் நான் மிகுந்த மகிழ்ச்சியடைந்தேன். 'கப்பலோட்டிய தமிழன்' வ.உ. சிதம்பரனார் எழுதிய கடிதம் ஒன்றை அவர் அதனுடன் இணைத்திருந்தார். அந்தக் கடிதத்தின் மொழியும் கையெழுத்தும் எவ்வளவு கண்ணியமாகவும் மரியாதையுடனும் உள்ளன என்று பாருங்கள். ஒரு சிறந்த பரிசோடு என் நாளைத் தொடங்கியதற்கு தீபக் சுவாமிநாதன் அவர்களுக்கு நன்றி.
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I had posted this tweet paying my homage to Vivekananda Kendra President Balakrishnan ji who breathed his last at 12.05 am on 27th morning. Just hours before a devotee of Mata Amritanandamayi recorded him on video. This is that 6 minute video
This is the transcript of his wish hours before he attained the feet of the divine
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We want the entire creation to continue to be happy.
They are to be preferred whatever is there. So, nations' wealth and rich culture, it will retain. That is one.
Second thing is, we must understand that if we have to do something to the nation, we have to see that we protect the environment and ecology, because they all come part of the whole creation.
Nothing is left uninterlinked. Everything is interlinked. That is the beauty of this creation. The creation is that everything is interlinked. This is what our Sanatana Dharma says. The whole thing, the creation is all, nothing but interlinking of one with another.
So, because of the interlink, it gives strength to each and everything. So it will not die. When one link is unlinked, another link supports it. So Sanatana Dharma is like that. So, that is why we have to see that this Sanatana Dharma is protected by various service activities to the people. The poor, the poor and the fallen people. That is what is needed.
There are, you see in our society today, there are many ups and downs. There are many people who are living very high level. They are doing, they are living high level. There are people who are living very low level, living.
So that should not be there. There must be some gratification. It should be that everybody is supported by something. That is very important. This is what is required.
But that is not happening in the country. Exploitation has become a big issue today. Everything is exploited by one force on another. Another force on another. The exploitation has become a way of life.
That is to be changed. So, these are the important things that came to my mind. Let us see.
Amrita Ashram is doing a fantastic work. They did work for the whole global well-being. Let all sections of society benefit from its direction. There should be institutions which should give direction to many people. How to deal? How to deal with others? How to cooperate with others? How to help others? How to support others? These are all very important matters.
You must continue to do some very good activities throughout. Every day, the night, you should be able to activate your mind and find out what we have done from morning to evening. The whole day, what service, what good things we have done. Everything we have done, that is very important. Assessment of days, activities, that is very important to me.
These are some of the points which came to my mind. But this, this is not everything. There are many other things you can also do. That we can do it. Anything which you can do it. Anything which will benefit others, that is all. That is all. Namaste.
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A must listen video for every parent, teacher and every one interested in building and maintaining social capital public and social order which alone sustains the India as nation and economy
I will explain why good parenting mentoring and building social character values distinct from individual virtue which is the basis of social capital is needed
Financial capital and intellectual capital belong to the individual who has it.
Social capital is social discipline which belongs to the society. We call it dharma in India. That is what has sustained our nation
West never recognised social capital till Robert Putnam and Francis Fukuyama spoke about it in 1990s
Social capital is rooted in relation based society.
A pure contract based society can't build or maintain social capital.
Fukuyama says family is the first institution that socialises a child into a responsible person
It is the first unit of social capital
Next is neighbourhood. Third is educational domain. Next is elder-younger interface. It keeps expanding. No individual is individual. Everyone is integral to the whole
Let me say what the basic unit of social capital, the family does in India. Just a few examples
Over 84% of present generation takes care of the elders
96-97% of physically disabled are taken care of by families
98-99 % of mentally disabled are taken care of by families
85-90% students are provided higher education by families
Can any state or institutional mechanism supplant it.
No
Good parenting and mentoring is inevitable. Family and society must align and work together
Let us discuss....
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She is a child. The family that nurtured her, the society which sees such children growing up before its eyes should be deeply ashamed
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Now you read what Mahatma Gandhi said in his Hind Swaraj in 1909 (which he held as unalterable till his demise) about theerth yatras which he said constituted the unity and integration of India
In Chapter IX ("The Condition of India: Railways") of Hind Swaraj (1909), Mahatma Gandhi directly addresses the idea of sacred pilgrimages (including the Dham sites across the cardinal directions) as the foundational basis of India's national integration:
"Our leading men traveled throughout India either on foot or in bullock-carts. What do you think could have been the intention of those farseeing ancestors of ours who established Setubandha (Rameshwar) in the South, Jagannath in the East and Hardwar in the North as places of pilgrimage? You will admit they were no fools. They knew that worship of God could have been performed just as well at home. They taught us that those whose hearts were aglow with righteousness had the Ganga in their own homes.
But they saw that India was one undivided land so made by nature. They, therefore, argued that it must be one nation. Arguing so, they established holy places in various parts of India, and fired the people with an idea of nationality in a manner unknown in other parts of the world."
The real Gen Z of India contuinue that millennial tradition of yatras which keeps India United from Bottom Upwards.
The fake and anarchic Gen Z which is partying in 5 star hotels is destroying the foundational unity of India Gandhiji celebrated
These are the guys the lutyen media projects as Gen Z revolutionaries. Shame on both. This is a small 5star culture fringe Gen Z. See who are the real Gen Z who are 30-35% of Indian population. See
AI data collection shows
50% of 600+ million at Khumbmela last year
Annually....
40-45% of 72 million Kasi Viswanath
70% of 30-60 million Kanwar,
59% of Rishikesh,
45-50% of 5 million Chardham/Kedarnath,
50-55% of 10 million Vaishnodevi,
35-40% of 24 million Tirupati,
40-45% of 4-5 lac Amarnath,
60-65% Manimahesh (Himachal)
35-40% 1.2 to 1.5 million Pandarpur Wari,
40-45% of 10-15 million Sabarimala,
35-40% 1.2 to 1.5 million Puri Rat
Yatris are Gen Z
In comparison Jantar Mantar CJP agitation
Jantar mantar complex can accommodate only 1000
The total who visited the spot in a day was 3000
It rose to 15000 when Sonam Wangchuk began to fast
On the day of March to parliament the crowd was 50000
The people who were present to celebrate Dharmendra pradhan resignation was in thousands
The number of Gen Z idealists projected by the Lutyen media doing undignified dancing and celebrating in 5 star hotel in the video below comfirmed by Grok is maximum 50
These are the ultimate Gen Z revolutionaries
The real Gen Z India is responsible pious family oriented, working, taking care of parents brothers sisters and others.
They are skilled Indians ranging from farmera to carpenters to Masons to IT and other high end professionals
AI says
Chardham: half of all pilgrims trekking to Kedarnath, Badrinath, Gangotri, and Yamunotri under the age of 30.
Vaishoidevi: Gen Z pilgrims frequently view the journeyint the 12-kilometer trek from Katra to the Bhawan (altitude ~5,200 ft) as a spiritual quest and a high-endurance physical challenge
Pandarpur: College students and young IT professionals from Pune, Mumbai, and Nashik regularly join specific legs of the 200+ km foot march. The focus here is on community walking (dindis), folk culture (abhangs), and spiritual heritage rather than rapid travel.
Varanasi, Ayodhya & Kedarnath: Studies on spiritual travel ("shrinecations") show that young solo travellers—particularly Gen Z—are leading domestic spiritual trips.
Most important: 40.7% of all solo female spiritual travelers in India belong to Gen Z.
Key Behavioral Trends Identified in Gen Z Spiritual Travel
Short-Notice Travel & Digital Mobility: Gen Z travel data shows that over 23% of spiritual travel bookings are made within 4 hours of departure, reflecting spontaneous, mobile-first trip planning.
Gender Shifts: While male participants still make up the majority (~65–69%) in heavy walking or trekking yatras like Kanwar and Sabarimala, solo female Gen Z spiritual travel has grown rapidly in destinations with established infrastructure like Tirupati, Varanasi, Rishikesh, and Vaishno Devi.
This is India's Gen Z?
Or the CJP anarchists?
Draw your own conclusions
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Eid ul-Adha greetings! May this occasion deepen the spirit of brotherhood and happiness in our society. Praying for everyone’s success and good health.
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Different parts of India are witnessing soaring temperatures and the challenges that come with it. This heat is harsh on all of us and I urge you all to take as many precautions as possible. Please stay hydrated, keep water with you when stepping out. Offer a glass of water to others. In weather like this, such kindness goes a long way.
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Attended the Padma Awards ceremony today. The ceremony was filled with pride, gratitude and inspiration as distinguished personalities from diverse fields were honoured for their exceptional contributions to society and our nation.
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Parishram he safalta ki kunji hai (hard work is the key to success), says Italian PM Meloni speaking in Hindi, while standing next to Indian PM Modi – at Ullensaker, Norge
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A Special Strategic Partnership that will not only benefit our nations but also the entire humanity!
The outcomes from my Italy visit will ensure more investment linkages, better trade opportunities, closer cultural linkages and more.
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Concluding a very productive visit to Italy. My discussions with Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni covered a wide range of sectors. A key outcome of the visit was our decision to elevate India-Italy ties to a Special Strategic Partnership, which will add new momentum to our cooperation in the years to come.
I thank Prime Minister Meloni, the Government of Italy and the wonderful people of Italy for their friendship.
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Participated in the 3rd India-Nordic Summit in Oslo, which reflected the growing depth and dynamism of India’s partnership with the Nordic region.
Our discussions focused on several aspects, including sustainability, innovation, clean energy, emerging technologies and strengthening cooperation for a peaceful and prosperous future.
India and the Nordic countries are united by shared democratic values, trust and a common commitment towards human-centric development.
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I am very grateful to the Indian community in Italy for the warm welcome in Rome last evening.
Their deep affection for India and commitment towards strengthening India-Italy ties are truly commendable. The Indian diaspora continues to make our nation proud across the world.
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A glimpse of Kashi in Rome!
Mr. Giampaolo Tomassetti, an Italian painter, presented his work on Varanasi. His passion for Indian culture goes back over four decades. In the 1980’s he started as an illustrator for books on Vedic culture. From 2008 to 2013 he worked on 23 large paintings relating to the Mahabharat.
































