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My 5000th tweet - Immortal lines of Ramdhari Singh.
क्षमा शोभती उस भुजंग को जिसके पास गरल हैं,
उसका क्या जो दंतहीन विषरहित विनीत सरल हैं.
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BIG BREAKING 🚨 NDA wins prestigious Gokul Milk Cooperative Election.
VOTES POLLED -
BJP+ : 16
CONG : 13
HUGE VICTORY FOR NDA !!
Congress can't revive nationally without reviving in Maharashtra.
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No state can afford freebies especially for particular section of the society.
States job is to collect taxes, provide security and governance.
Let ppl earn and spend themselves.
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अस्मिञ्जीवति वीरे तु हतमप्यहतं बलम् ।
हनूमत्युज्झितप्राणे जीवन्तोऽपि मृता वयम् ।।
If that brave Hanuman is surviving, the whole army even if destroyed, is unhurt. On the other hand, if Hanuman has given up his life, we are all dead, even though living.
~Valmiki Ramayana-6.74.22
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Requirement is for a full year! 3 nights is the bare minimum if one can’t kentrol for one year. And if I remember correctly, perhaps Mahabharata mentions several (12 or so) years in Shri Krishna’s marriage w/ Rukmini (so much for painting him as a lover boy).
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There’s another Hindu tradition. Of not consummating marriage until first marriage anniversary. That’s not prevalent now. Some families practice it for 12 days as symbolic for 12 months.
Nevertheless, if that practice would’ve been more widespread, you’d have done RR on that too
The concept of a honeymoon still makes sense to me, but who came up with this whole Suhaag Raat tradition?
In a country where arranged marriages are still common, how can we expect two people who barely know each other, sometimes haven't even met properly before the wedding, to suddenly have sex on the very first night?
Indian parents seriously need to rethink this mindset. You're practically sending your daughter to live with a stranger and expecting her to fulfil marital duties from day one. And if she refuses or says she's not comfortable, suddenly it's about the family's honour and the parents' reputation.
What kind of संस्कार is this, where a woman is expected to undress and get physically intimate with someone just because a wedding ceremony has taken place? Marriage is not consent, and a wedding night is not an obligation. A woman's comfort and choice should matter more than society's expectations.
-(Symbolic image for representation purposes only.)
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I would request @INCIndia & Rahul gandhi Sir's supporter to push & Promote this video more and more. Will help harden the resolve of middle aged people like us and our parents that when our parents were struggling to put food in stomachs of families, standing in 1km long ration lines, paying up to 94% Income tax & being forced to invest in govt bonds through compulsory deposit schemes devised by crook manmohan singh to drain away remaining money from their pockets, Waiting 3 years to get a scooter, waiting 10 years for a telephone & 5 years for a gas connection, this family was enjoying life… which has become accessible to majority of middle class in past 15 years.
Videos like this are essential to destroy congress
RaGa (1970 born) appears around 10 years old and they receive a phone call about Rajiv Gandhi leading in an election. It has to be 1981 Amethi bye-election that Rajiv fought because Sanjay Gandhi died a year earlier.
Menaka Gandhi, Sanjay's widow, can be seen in the video. The following year she walked out of Indira's house, and in the subsequent election in 1984, she fought against Rajiv Gandhi from Amethi but lost due to sympathy vote in wake of Indira's assassination.
The begging of that distance among the family members can also be seen in the video, apart from the privilege.
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There is so much to unpack from this video.
(1) First is of course the lifestyle of India's PM and her family.
- Most fauji kids will relate to the table manners. We all learnt it before we were allowed to partake food in the Officers Mess and parties.
- Its a British legacy.
- But the thing is that outside of fauj, such etiquette was found amongst the most elite of families and groups; the anglicised Indian elite and intelligenstia.
- And how can I forget the menu!
- Fruits, vegetables, toast and butter
(2) Second is the sorry state of Maneka Gandhi - its as if she doesn't even exist. Her presence is not even anknowledged.
- This being a propaganda film, she had to make a token presence.
- If you observe her actions, she's sitting there for the sake of the video. Even she doesn't want to be there.
- But even the cameraman knows not to focus on her.
(3) Rahul Baba - Typical active kid from a rich household.
- I looked up the musical instrument he's playing with. Its a CASIO VL-Tone VL-1. I'm pretty sure it was not easy to get in India those days.
(4) Priyanka Gandhi - The poor rich kid doesn't know what 1 Lakh means...after all, its in Hindi.
(5) Sonia Gandhi - She's the center of the attraction, the lady of the house who runs the show under the bening gaze of the matriarch.
- She's dressed in colorful western clothes, there's a bounce and vitality in her actions, she smiles, she talks and holds the fort.
- Daughter-in-Law who has her MIL's blessings!
- BTW, this dining table discussion where English is the main language is something which has started happening across wider India in last 10-years as youngsters and kids who benefited from 1991 liberalization attained good education and economic opportunities.
- All in all, the vibes are pretty similar to the Thakur or Zamindar of our yesteryear films who controlled the livelihood and fate of 000s of people. Expect that this has more English touch to it.
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A normal fasting glucose is often read as an all-clear for metabolic health, but it can stay in a reassuring range for years while insulin sensitivity is falling.
In the Whitehall II study, researchers followed 6,538 British civil servants without diabetes for a median of almost ten years. During that time, 505 developed type 2 diabetes, and the researchers reconstructed how their blood measures had changed over as many as 13 years before diagnosis.
In the people who went on to develop diabetes, insulin sensitivity fell steeply over the five years before diagnosis. Fasting glucose rose only slowly at first and then climbed sharply over the final three years, moving from just above the normal range to above the threshold used to diagnose diabetes. The pancreas's insulin output, estimated from blood tests, rose between four and three years before diagnosis, as if compensating, and then declined.
That pattern helps explain why glucose can look fine for a long time. As the body responds less to insulin, extra insulin can keep glucose in check, and fasting glucose tends to rise once that compensation starts to fail. A normal result is reassuring, but it does not rule out insulin resistance.
The study population was 71% male and 91% white, and it was an occupational cohort, so the pattern may unfold differently in other groups. The measures of insulin sensitivity and output were estimates rather than gold-standard tests. The study was also observational. It describes how these changes typically unfolded, but it did not test whether measuring insulin earlier improves outcomes.
Tabák et al., The Lancet, 2009.
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We asked GPT-6 Astra to edit Qwen3.5-0.8B weights to improve math.
It directly changed only 0.016% of weights, fixing 0.8B's reasoning loops & improving math up to 6x and even instruction following 3x, without gradients or training.
We call this Weight-Space Programming: frontier LLMs can now natively read/write neural network weights! 🧵
Blog: rikiyat.github.io/blog/weigh…
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
LLM was given weights explicitly as text in prompt and used code/forward passes (per authors' logs) to ablate Qwen looping direction, a known thinking-mode issue per model card. Primarily fixed repetition in that mode, not general 'natively' improving weights/math.
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Kaal Chiron काल्किरण retweeted
When country was drowned in debt, drought and selling children to merely survive, @RahulGandhi 's family, he included with @SrBachchan & family , were holidaying in Mauritius using India's aircraft carrier as a personal helipad and hotel
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Families were selling Children for Rs20 post a severe drought in orissa just to survive… Thank PVN, ABV and Narendra Modi for you not being sold to feed off rest of your family.
indiatoday.in/magazine/speci…
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To all those going aaah …so middle class, well this is how Majority of India lived and ate in 1981 when this video was shot..
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Only Maneka Gandhi is eating the Mango as most Indians do eat - with hands. No wonder Gora Sahibs and Italian threw her out of the house
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Maneka told The Indian Express she asked for two days. Her two-year-old son Varun had a fever, she said, and she had nowhere to go. Indira refused, according to Maneka. Mother and child spent the night in a hotel.
Here’s the ruthless part. When Rajiv stood for Sanjay’s seat, the family could celebrate continuity. When Sanjay’s widow stood on a stage with his supporters, she was treated as a threat. A political quarrel ended with a young mother packing up her sick child../6
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There’s a story about dog biscuits. In a secondhand account published years later, Maneka fed biscuits meant for Sonia’s dogs to her own, sparking a row. It’s a glimpse of how petty the quarrels reportedly got. The eviction came amid a much bigger fight.
The story that Sonia threatened to leave with Rajiv and the children if Maneka stayed has been told by maneka Gandhi. While hagiographers and Sonia's chamchas sing that she reportedly threatened to leave Rajiv if he entered politics..Do you see any hint of that here?../5
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Decades later, Rahul took his fight with Modi personal with chowkidar chor hai. But it was the voters of Amethi who turned Rahul out in 2019, just as the voters of Rae Bareli sent him back to Parliament in 2024. Both decisions were theirs to make.
I keep coming back to Maneka. A word to her would have changed the whole scene. Instead, what the camera leaves us with is a family celebrating as though Amethi had come back to them. From the other side of that table, what exactly was there to celebrate?../4
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In an India where so many families struggled to put food on the table, here was a camera close enough to watch the prime minister eat. Think about that privilege for a minute. Your family sits down for a meal, and someone considers it worth filming for history.
The table manners may remind you of the British Raj. The succession has the air of a Mughal court. One son dies, the party turns to the other, and the question of who represents Amethi becomes tangled up with who carries on the family line../3