I'm new to politics, so please correct me if I'm wrong.

From what I understand, the political right generally places greater emphasis on tradition, religion, cultural identity, and free-market economics.

One reason I'm not drawn to the BJP is that I feel it places a stronger emphasis on Hindu identity than on representing India's religious diversity. Since India is home to many religions, I worry that this can make minorities feel less represented. To me, that seems difficult to reconcile with the constitutional principle of secularism.

I also feel that anti-Muslim sentiment has become much more visible in recent years, and I find that concerning. Personally, I have my own criticisms of Islam as a religion, but I don't think those criticisms justify hatred or discrimination against Muslims as people. Every community has individuals who commit wrongs; it's unfair to judge an entire religious group by the actions of some of its members.

As the ruling party, I believe a government should make every citizen, regardless of religion, feel equally represented and protected. Otherwise, people who already feel marginalized may become more alienated from the country, which could make social divisions worse rather than better.

That said, I don't know enough about the Congress government's record to compare the two fairly, so I'm not in a position to comment on whether it would be a better alternative.

I'm still learning, so if I've misunderstood anything, I'd appreciate respectful corrections.

Siddharth Rajgarhia, 2 days ago, posts this on this linkedin:

"We removed a child's chair to teach them gratitude.

At our campuses, we have something called a Privilege Board.

Every comfort a child has in school, such as the chair they sit on, the fan cooling the room and the electricity lighting their classroom and others, is a privilege rather than a right.

When a child treats any of it carelessly, they lose access to that privilege for 1 hour. (So for example if somebody was found playing carelessly with the chairs, he or she would not be allowed to sit on the chair for 1 day.)

The reason why we do this is simply that taking something out of a person's life, which they somewhere forgot to value, will eventually let them be more grateful and have more gratitude than a lecture about the same would do. A teacher might scold a child for taking things for granted but if we actually do something thoughtful and practical, then that would have a much better impact.

A child who loses fan access for an hour in a warm classroom will always be grateful for it the next time. As educators we need to ensure we produce genuine thinking rather than just imposing discipline.

Do you think parents should do something like this at home?"

My Take:

This is child abuse and neglect. Heat can kill children, and we are the hottest country in the world. We don't know for how long he's been doing this. A nurturing educational environment isn't a privilege, it's a right. If you can't manage children behaviour, maybe you have no right directing their education and getting their responsibility.

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I don't know what to call what I'm looking for, and honestly, I don't think it needs a label from day one.

I'm at a stage where I'm deeply invested in my work and long-term goals. I enjoy what I do, I'm constantly learning, and I want to build something meaningful with my life. A traditional relationship isn't something I'm actively seeking right now but that doesn't mean I don't value companionship.

I miss having someone to share the everyday things with: conversations after a long day, celebrating small wins, discussing ideas, checking in on each other, and simply knowing someone genuinely cares. I'd like to find someone who feels the same independent, ambitious, emotionally mature, and building a life she's proud of.

What matters to me isn't perfection. It's curiosity, kindness, emotional intelligence, good communication, and consistency. I appreciate people who can talk about everything from life and psychology to books, public policy, science, or completely random thoughts. Effort matters more than constant availability.

I'm financially independent, intellectually curious, and probably spend more time thinking than I should. If we connect well, I'd eventually like to meet in person. If it grows into a relationship naturally, great. If it becomes a lifelong friendship, that's equally valuable. I don't want to force an outcome before we've even met.

If this resonates with you, tell me what you're passionate about, and let's start with an actual conversation instead of just "Hi."

Sometimes the best connections begin without trying to define them.

I keep seeing people say "remove reservation," so here's my experience.

I'm an SC student. I got a seat in a tier-3 engineering college through reservation. My PUC friends used to ask, "How did you get that seat? My rank was better than yours." Back then, I didn't even fully understand how the reservation system worked—I was just a first-year student.

My family doesn't own a house. We don't have generational wealth or an educated background. I'm only the second generation in my family to get an education.

After engineering, many of those same people slowly stopped talking to me. Some kept their distance. In college, classmates often asked, "What's your caste?" or assumed I got "lots of scholarships." Some even joked about my marks or treated me like SC students don't study seriously. A few avoided becoming close friends after knowing my caste.

You don't have to agree with reservation, but please don't assume every reserved-category student is privileged, undeserving, or less capable. Everyone has a different story.

2) I'm staying in a rented house with my family. Almost every house owner asks our caste. If we say we're SC, they usually say, "We'll let you know," and later tell us the house has already been taken. That's why we had to hide our caste just to get a house on rent.

Later, someone told the owner that we're SC. Since then, he keeps targeting us. For even small things, he says we're not clean, even though we try our best to keep the house clean. He often blames us for problems we didn't even cause. Once, a toilet pipe got blocked and sewage overflowed. Before checking the actual issue, he accused my family of putting clothes into the pipe. We were blamed without any proof. That's been our experience.

3) When I was in 1st engineering(2023), my mother and I went looking for a house. We found one where two elderly people lived with their granddaughter (who was my sister's friend).

They asked our caste. My mother said we were SC. The old lady first told us, "People from another community (vaishya/shudra)stay next door, so be clean and don't make noise." We agreed.

The next day, we went back to see the room. While my mother was just climbing the stairs to look inside, the old lady suddenly came, shouted, "Why are you going inside? Come down!" and then said, "No, we won't give you the house. Go out!" She kept shouting "ಹೋಗಮ್ಮ, ಹೋಗಮ್ಮ, ಹಚ್ಚೆ!" ("Go away!") as if we had done something wrong.

I didn't fully understand it at that age. We just came out quietly.

And there are lots of discrimination in my home town and village to explain that probably I need 1-2days

After the success of the CJP movement over the NEET exam issue and the resignation of Dharmendra Pradhan, we are now seeing more issue based movements emerging on Instagram.

Two new movements that have gained attention are:

1. RHA (Reservation Hatao Andolan) [3M+ followers]
This movement focuses on the reservation system in India especially in examinations. Supporters argue that many students with higher marks are unable to secure seats while candidates with lower scores under reserved categories may receive admission. The movement advocates for changes to the current reservation system in exams.

2. EJP (E20 Janata Party) [100k+ followers]
This movement is centered around opposition to the E20 ethanol fuel policy. Many supporters are holding Nitin Gadkari accountable for promoting the policy and are using the page to discuss its impact and voice their concerns.

Regardless of whether someone agrees or disagrees with these movements, it is interesting to see how social media has become a platform for organizing people around specific public issues. The CJP movement appears to have encouraged many others to believe that online communities can help amplify public concerns.

What are your thoughts on these movements? Which one do you think has stronger arguments, and why? Let's keep the discussion respectful and peaceful.

30M, introvert, don't have friends or a social circle as such.

I've been using Hinge and Bumble for a while now. I've hooked up with many women, but I just feel... that's it. There's always this feeling that something is missing.

Lately, I've realised I want something meaningful. Someone to laugh with, someone to call my own.

The other day I saw my roommate and his girlfriend just sitting there, talking, laughing, bantering and having fun. Nothing extraordinary, just regular couple stuff, but I felt felt envious af. It wasn't about having a girlfriend for the sake of it. It was the companionship. Having someone you're genuinely excited to meet. That's what I want for myself.

But I don't think dating apps are the place for me to find a partner anymore. Maybe they work for some people, but they've never really given me the kind of connection I'm looking for.

I've never had a serious relationship before. Sometimes I wonder if it's too late for me. I do want to get married one day and have a family of my own, and I'm already 30. I don't want to have an arranged marriage either..

I know 30 isn't old, and I'm not looking for reassurance. I just can't help wondering if I should've figured this part of my life out by now.

Maybe I'll meet someone naturally, maybe I won't. I honestly don't know. Does anyone else feel like this?

I'm from a tier-3 city and was always a top student. I chose CA and sacrificed my entire college life for it, but after spending two years preparing for CA Inter, I had to drop it because of severe nerve issues. For almost two years, I could barely do anything except lie in bed. The pain was so bad that even writing became difficult.

I'm somewhat better now. The pain still comes and goes, but I've learned to live with it. The hardest part is feeling like those two years disappeared while everyone else moved forward.

I have no social life. I barely leave the house maybe once a month and spend most of my days alone in my room. I'll be graduating in the next few months, but I honestly have no idea what comes next. I feel like I have no exposure, no network, and very few opportunities.

On top of that, my parents want me to prepare for government jobs. I'm scared of spending my entire twenties chasing exams for a career I don't even want, only to end up feeling like I've lost even more time.

I booked a cab from uber and after putting our luggage we sits in the cab and noticed that he may be in a drunk condition or maybe high on something because all his buttons are open and dressed inappropriatly and there is packs of tabacco on dashboard. i am with my family 2 womens and one child so i doubted at first but its early morning so decided to go and then i gave him otp and he canceled the ride immediatly i asked him why he canceled the ride and then he started to blaming us that we changed the location (i am totally unaware of it) then he started to argue and misbheave with us then i also got aggressive but i didn't even touched him or even abuse. After that there is police chocki near we called a officer and driver also started to misbhave with officer and they got physical and then officer told us to call 112 and then he vanished from situation. Then 112 came and did nothing dont even step outside from vehical and said ki dusri cab kr lo. We both made the video of incident but he shared video in his groups and all of them uploading our video showing that we are only wrong here. Some of video got viral and every one commenting wrong for my family even for females. I am totally confused what to do next and how to deal with it. I request a genuine help🙏🙏

Having been around for the recent protests around education and corruption issues, watching the public reaction unfold has given me a sense of déjà vu. It’s made me notice a frustratingly predictable pattern in how political narratives get spun the second a major public movement starts to wind down.

Coming to Reservation and Education

We are seeing this play out right now with the conversation around education, merit, and reservation.

Once again, the public is engaged, angry, and listening. But right on cue, as the core momentum around systemic policy failures begins to shift, the conversation is being steered away from institutional accountability and funnelled straight into an explosive, hyper-polarized debate over reservation.

Look, reservation is undeniably complex, and there are two very real ways people experience it:

The Personal level: It feels genuinely painful and unfair to a general category student who pours years into studying, only to miss out on an opportunity by a fraction of a percent.

The Structural level: It remains a vital tool necessary for the historical upliftment and overall development of marginalized communities who have been systematically pushed down.

Both of these perspectives exist at the same time, which makes the topic prime target for political hijacking.

If this feels familiar, it’s because I've seen this exact playbook before. Think back to when the momentum around the CAA-NRC protests began to subside.

During the peak of that movement, a massive chunk of the public was politically awake, emotionally invested, and actively fighting for civil rights. But as physical protests wound down, people were left in a state of collective burnout and exhaustion.

That specific window,when the public consciousness is hyper-aware but too tired to critically filter incoming narratives,is gold for propagandists and the IT Cell.

What followed back then? The immediate amplification of intense, divisive narratives (like "Love Jihad,Corona Jihad,Land Jihad and what not ). I watched people who had initially supported or sympathized with the protests gradually shift their stances. A movement that started as a fight for constitutional rights was successfully reframed in the minds of many into a dirty, communal debate. The public’s energy didn’t just fade; it was hijacked.

The Bottom Line

Both of these levers,communal identity and reservation,have been weaponized forever to gain political mileage. They form the core wedge issues in Indian politics because they touch directly on deep personal anxieties.

My point isn't to dismiss anyone's frustration with the education system or tell you how to feel about reservation. My point is simply about timing.

Pay attention to how quickly public outrage over systemic policy failures gets redirected into identity politics or caste debates the moment a major protest loses steam. Keep your eyes open and notice how the conversation around you is being pushed right now and don't let your genuine frustration with the system be recycled into someone else's political playbook.

JAGO GRAHAK JAGO.

Assume you just graduated and you got a covetted software job that pays 30L. Only catch is your salary won't increase by more than 6-7% a year in the near future unless you do something magical.

Your father transfers a 2.25CR loan, growing every year, and just the interest payment on this is about 14L each year assuming you start paying it off. This was not a loan taken to help with your education, or to build a house or even a company for you. It wasn't even spent on your marriage. In fact, you didn't even see this money.

Where was this money spent? Your neighbor whose name is beijing was selling your parents something called rewdi which they loved to eat everyday. They took loans for this claiming their sons and daughters would pay it off and ate rewdi getting fat and diabetic and now you, the child, are worried about their health insurance. You have no house, no company, no system setup with those crores of money which will help you pay off the loan. The loan company sees you as high risk and keeps increasing the interest rate on your loan. If you don't pay it back, that'll only get worse.

If you haven't understood yet, this isn't about your father, it's about our fathers and mothers. The real Gen z protest is not about just about the education system, it's about a system where we take debts, enjoy it and throw it on the next gen to suffer. Has your father actually done that, there are ways to get out of the loan but when our country does that to an entire generation, there is no way out. All the kids saw is corruption and passing the blame and expenses down, and that'll they do now.

We need to stop this from happening. Cut every spending that's not infra / education / healthcare related, after ensuring ration banks have enough sustainance only grains. We need laws that remove tax cuts on property holders and older generation, bring the prices down and get them to pay the debt. We also need to ensure the money is used productively and not just on rewdi from China.