Former Resident Editor, The Hindu, Andhra Pradesh, commentator on political, social and environmental issues. RTs do not imply endorsements.
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Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Hmmm! Can all of them show their doctorate degrees/documents? I’m sure not like… you know who.
20 World Leaders with Doctoral Degrees 🎓
1. 🇨🇳 Xi Jinping – Law
2. 🇷🇺 Vladimir Putin – Economics
3. 🇮🇳 Manmohan Singh – Economics
4. 🇵🇱 Karol Nawrocki – History
5. 🇳🇬 Goodluck Jonathan – Zoology
6. 🇩🇪 Angela Merkel – Quantum Chemistry
7. 🇪🇸 Pedro Sánchez – Economics
8. 🇮🇩 Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono – Agricultural Economics
9. 🇮🇷 Hassan Rouhani – Constitutional Law
10. 🇮🇹 Mario Draghi – Economics
11. 🇬🇷 Lucas Papademos – Economics
12. 🇲🇽 Ernesto Zedillo – Economics
13. 🇨🇱 Ricardo Lagos – Economics
14. 🇯🇵 Yukio Hatoyama – Engineering
15. 🇻🇳 Nguyen Phu Trong – Political Science
16. 🇨🇦 Mark Carney – Economics
17. 🇲🇽 Claudia Sheinbaum – Energy Engineering
18. 🇪🇹 Abiy Ahmed – Peace and Security Studies
19. 🇬🇭 John Atta Mills – Law
20. 🇨🇦 William Lyon Mackenzie King – Political Economy
📊 Source: University Biographies, Official Profiles, Academic Records.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Today marks the 10th anniversary of NaMo's DeMo, a Tughlaqian adventure that resulted in the most comprehensive debauchery of a national currency anywhere in the world. Every single one of its "aims" has proven to be baseless, as was pointed out then. Enduring national shame
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
$75,000 a month for lobbying.
Another $150,000 a month for access to Washington.
And even Trump's congratulatory post on @X to Narendra Modi which Modi gleefully responded and the whole BJP 's ecosystem including "certain news anchors" labelled it Vishwaguru moment, appears in a lobbying firm's filings.
According to disclosed US lobbying records:
▪️ The Indian Embassy hired Mercury Public Affairs for $75,000 per month. Its filings list Trump's social media message congratulating Modi.
▪️ Another lobbying arrangement, worth $150,000 per month, involved strategic counsel, government relations and contacts with senior US officials.
▪️The disclosed engagements included calls involving senior White House and US administration officials.
The questions are very simple-
▪️The Modi government spending $225,000 a month on American lobbying firms, but what exactly are Indian taxpayers receiving in return?
▪️ What's the need of a paid congratulatory social media post from the US President ?
indianexpress.com/article/in…
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Ustad Bismillah Khan holds the rare distinction of having been honoured with all three Padma awards - Padma Shri, Padma Bhushan and Padma Vibhushan - as well as the Bharat Ratna, India's highest civilian honour.
Yet, even this extraordinary legacy could not save his ancestral house in Varanasi from being bulldozed.
Bismillah Sahab’s house was never just a house. It was a living piece of our national heritage, a repository of memories and a part of our shared cultural inheritance.
The walls that held history and deserved to be preserved as a national treasure have instead been reduced to rubble.
Ustad Bismillah Khan gave India a musical legacy that will endure for generations. His home deserved to be treated with the same reverence.
A hundred salutations to Bismillah Sahab. To the BJP, shame.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
India’s economy is showing deep cracks. Youth unemployment is shocking high, pollution is enveloping north India, net FDI inflow into the country is close to zero. India’s youth is losing hope. We need the courage to admit to the shortfalls & use the ample talent in the country to design policy.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
How India’s Gautam Adani became so rich? That’s the BBC question in its programme.
Gautam Adani’s businesses span almost every part of life in India and includes a close relationship with the country's Prime Minister Modi.
Good Bad Billionaire examine the extent of Adani's influence. Watch the full episode on YouTube 📺: youtu.be/KeD3ww3iLT4
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Heavy rains have flooded tents in Gaza, while Israeli settlers have seized homes in Jericho and Israeli forces raided a Bedouin village in the occupied West Bank.
Al Jazeera’s Nour Hegazy has the latest.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
STING OPERATION AGAINST THE WITCH-HUNT OPERATIONS OF LG LADAKH...
For raising my voice for the youth of the nation and the well-being of border areas like Ladakh & Arunachal, I'm being continuously witch-hunted and defamed & our schools being harrassed in every possible way by the LG Administration in Ladakh.
But this Sting Operation by our lawyers establishes that the LG Administration is directly involved in illegal smear campaigns (& much more).
Much more has come to us from the Raj-Niwas/ Lok-Niwas but we're releasing just some excepts for now.
I tried v much to avoid this, thinking it may damage the nation's dignity & morale & hence I first shared the material with the Chief of IB for Intervention, but unfortunately after few exchanges he too stopped responding... So with a heavy heart I am sharing this with the nation as we must stop the LG from playing like an infant in the ecologically & strategically sensitive border regions of India.
@rashtrapatibhvn @PMOIndia @narendramodi @AmitShah @RahulGandhi
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Had a fun conversation with @rajshamani discussing econ principles, IMF, and life.
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Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Sound on please ! Hornbills are calling ! How many Great Hornbills are too many ! Surely never enough! A gathering like this is called a ‘congregation’, and what a stunning congregation this is ! Somewhere in in the Anamalai landscape in Tamil Nadu there is a precious stronghold for these iconic birds, whose future rests in the great old trees in the last remaining rainforests. These magical moments are captured by @dhanu_paran #GreatHornbills #Hornbills #wildlifeconservation #BirdsofIndia
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
Respectfully disagree with @rammadhav_ piece in IE today.
1. It was not a “leaked” video, it was on ITBP’s official YT channel, withdrawn later.
2. I don’t remember moratoriums on patrolling pre-2020. Buffer zones are a totally new concept, earlier India could patrol the “undemarcated” and “undefined” areas along LAC to assert territorial claim, now areas in Eastern Ladakh (Galwan, Finger area etc)are a no-go zone. Same playbook is repeating in Arunachal Pradesh.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
🚨MASSIVE BREAKING : Indian Express Just drop HYDROGEN BOMB on Surrender Modi🔥
(MUST Read & Share)
Modi Govt paid ₹1.4 crore a MONTH to Trump's own man to get Delhi's calls answered in Washington 🔥
→ India's Embassy in Washington hired Trump aide Jason Miller's lobbying firm in April 2025, days after the Pahalgam attack.
→ The fee: $150,000 a month. That's $1.8 million (around ₹17 crore) a year.
→ In April 2026, the contract was renewed for another year.
→ US filings now show the firm arranged 8 phone calls between the Indian side and top White House officials in May-June, including the Treasury Secretary and the US Trade Representative.
→ On June 23, the contract was terminated, after Miller joined the Trump administration himself as a "special government employee".
→ India had also hired a second Trump-linked lobbying firm at $75,000 a month.
→ And among the things that firm listed as its work: Trump's post greeting Modi on becoming India's longest serving PM.
Now connect the dots.
For 11 years we were told the world bows to Modi.
"Hug diplomacy." "Abki baar Trump sarkar." "Howdy Modi."
But when it came to actually talking to Trump's team, India was paying a Trump loyalist by the month to set up calls.
India's man in Washington was a Trump man.
And the day he joined Trump's government, he simply moved to the other side of the table.
Even a Trump post congratulating Modi was listed as part of a paid lobbying firm's work.
Bro, imagine...
You tell the whole mohalla you're best friends with the richest man in town.
Hugs, photos, rallies together.
Then one day the mohalla finds out you were paying his personal assistant every month just to get your calls through.
And the moment the assistant got a job in that rich man's house, he stopped working for you.
That's not friendship. That's a paid appointment.
That's not "Vishwaguru". That's a client paying for access.
Modi, if Trump is your "true friend", why did India need to pay his aide $150,000 a month?
Who decided to hand India's voice in Washington to a Trump loyalist?
Is the "hug" also on a monthly retainer? 🔥🔥🔥
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
This guy is incredible.
I've been in politics for a quarter century. It's hard to express how staggering it is to see a conversation like this on corporate US media. The Morning Joe panel gobsmacked by the directness of @AbdulElSayed's points.
(clip via @DropSiteNews)
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
I spent ten years building robots and optimization software in the US.
Moved back to India and watched people earning serious money make financial decisions from reels and forwarded messages.
Not because they are careless. Because nobody neutral was available to ask.
Venkateshwarlu.K retweeted
भोपाल में BJP की रैली का हाल: लोकल जनता गायब, तो भीड़ दिखाने के लिए बेचारे कॉलेज स्टूडेंट्स और कन्फ्यूज्ड अफ्रीकन युवाओं को बसों में भर लाए!
नड्डा जी और CM साहब की साख बचाने के लिए इंटरनेशनल स्तर का जुगाड़ लगाया गया है। 🤦♂️😂
#Bhopal #BJPExposed #MadhyaPradesh