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Bharathi Anand retweeted
Digital sovereignty needs infrastructure and skills.
@RBI’s new data centre and cybersecurity training institute in Bhubaneswar are a welcome investment in both.🇮🇳
Bharathi Anand retweeted
Glorious days of TN.
Still don't understand why TN Govt can't make Anna University , the strongest Technological Innovations Hub, pump in pvt investments to create world class labs , drive Innovations from State
Anna University should have strong alumni connect (am sure it must be having) who can support the university (not only for funding but to lend their expertise too) to make AU real World Class University
Bharathi Anand retweeted
I have done BA. Bachelor of Arts.
Someone said I don’t understand technology.
Umesh Bhai promptly came to my defence. Told the person that I understand technology better than many others because I am an engineer by education.
I don’t know Umesh Bhai. We don’t even follow each other.
The other person backed off 😂
This Dussehra, I wish all of you supporters like Umesh Bhai, who don’t even know you but defend you in times of need ❤️
Bharathi Anand retweeted
During the Mandal agitation, I was trainee sub-editor with Jansatta, the Hindi daily of the Indian Express Group.
Young people were on the streets in almost every town. Then Rajiv Goswami attempted self-immolation in Delhi. The images shocked the country, and it triggered a series of similar incidents across North India.
My job was to compile the reports coming in and place them. I was young, excited by the pace of events, and felt I was witnessing history from inside a newsroom.
Then one day, a young girl who had set herself on fire in Chandigarh was admitted to PGI with fatal burns. Before she died, she asked her mother whether her photograph had appeared in the newspapers.
That question shook me.
Until then, I had thought we were simply reporting a tragedy unfolding outside. For the first time, I wondered whether we were only recording it or, in some way, becoming a part of it. That thought brought a sense of guilt I had never associated with journalism before.
As a trainee I hardly had any say in editorial decisions. But the question stayed with me: where does reporting end, and where does responsibility begin?
Something I wrote a few years ago
When I started out as a journalist with Times Now, I remember an air hostess had been killed by her boyfriend and he later committed suicide. My office wanted me to get her parents' reaction, and I said no.
But soon, work compulsions made me another kind of journalist. I would compulsively dig out details of crimes. Though my intention was always to get the culprit booked, the means to achieve that goal were questionable.
After around 6 years in Times Now, I covered a big case in Bangalore. A man with considerable influence was accused of raping his daughter. Though the police knew where he was, they could not arrest him. Many of us were following the story like crazy. As we dug out detail after detail about the case, there was also an element of competition amongst reporters on who will nail the guy with 'hard facts'.
Two prominent newspapers then got the child's medical record, I too did. It became the big headline.
I called the man's wife (the complainant) and told her that she can be relieved now as the medical report was out and there was no way her husband could escape.
Her reply is still etched in my brain.
She asked me."What use is it of, Dhanya? Why should the world know what exactly happened to her? And there is Google. Google will never allow my child to forget that her vagina and anus were injured."
And then it struck me. In our pursuit to make sure culprits are caught, we forget the victim, the survivor or their family.
Why should we know the sordid details of a crime? Why should we know who did exactly what?
Does the fact that a 7 year old was sexually assaulted and killed by a neighbour not outrage you? Why should you or I know HOW he assaulted her?
Yes, some cases get more highlighted than others. It depends on the place, time and the news cycle, unfortunately.
But let's not be vultures for details. All of us.
Bharathi Anand retweeted
भाजपा ने राज्यों के अपने प्रभारी और सह प्रभारी की सूची जारी की। राम माधव उत्तराखंड, स्मृति ईरानी हरियाणा, जय पांडा महाराष्ट्र के प्रभारी बने।
Bharathi Anand retweeted
I was in IIT Madras in the 80s, and it was very caste-conscious.
However, your caste changed every year.
From JEE to Branch to GPA to Future.
But never about your birth.
Watch.
Bharathi Anand retweeted
Be very careful before sending money in response to online medical appeals. In this case, a man claimed his minor sister needed eye treatment, shared fake medical documents and collected over ₹1.5 lakh.
The fraud came to light after @itsmesabita and @IndiaCares_2020 team checked directly with the hospital and alerted people.
Please don’t donate merely because a story is emotional or the documents look genuine. Ask questions and verify before sending money.
India Cares has always verified requests before supporting them. Now the team is also spotting suspicious appeals and warning others.
Helping the needy matters. Protecting good-hearted people from scammers matters too.
Our team verified the medical documents shared in support of this request directly with the eye centre. The centre has confirmed that there is no patient named Srishti Rathore registered or undergoing treatment at any of their centres. They further confirmed that the registration number mentioned in the documents belongs to a different patient. The centre has confirmed that the documents shared in support of this fund request are fake.
#IndiaCares
Bharathi Anand retweeted
The Election Commission of India is under fire like never before.
The SIR has struck 13 crore names off draft rolls, putting the EC at the centre of intense public debate over its role in deciding who gets to vote — and who doesn’t.
HOWEVER, what nobody knew: through that same period, some of the sharpest questions were being asked from inside.
Out today, after months of work. Our #ExpressInvestigation 🧵
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Bharathi Anand retweeted
The national rollout of the SIR has been under the supervision of all three Election Commissioners. But two of them, Sukhbir Singh Sandhu and Vivek Joshi, have formally objected, on record, at least 14 times over the last 10 months — four times on a single day — to decisions taken and orders issued, they say, without their knowledge.
Read the #ExpressInvestigation here:
shorturl.at/zyY1A
Bharathi Anand retweeted
This IIT Bombay row is getting out of hand. The kid should not have cheated. Once caught, he should have faced the consequences bravely. His death was due to his own mental weakness and issues. Blaming the IIT Director is wrong. India, please 🙏 grow up.
Bharathi Anand retweeted
Neem Karoli Baba reminds us that hardship can also become a path of purification. Instead of seeing every difficulty as punishment, we can allow it to cleanse, deepen and transform us from within.
#NeemKaroli #Karma #bhakti #devotion #hanumanji
Bharathi Anand retweeted
It may sound harsh, but in a way, Jamui reflects a large part of our society. Put a helpless, defenceless couple in a similar situation, and far too many perverts living among us would behave the same way.
Nirbhaya and the many similar crimes since then are not merely isolated incidents. They tell us something about the society that we have created.
And we all know this is not about this government or that government. It is about our society. It is about us.
Nirbhaya was not the first. Jamui will not be the last. That’s the unfortunate reality.
#Jamui
Bharathi Anand retweeted
That night, I turned off every light in the house. Then I walked back downstairs, switched the little kitchen light on, and left it there. For my mother. For my brother. And for everyone who once walked through that kitchen and made it feel like home. Now, every night before I sleep, 1 leave that light on. Not because I expect anyone to come back, but because sometimes, love needs a small light to remember where home is.
But for years, I kept thinking about the last thing he said to me. He told me the house looked beautiful from the road because our kitchen light was always on. So I kept it on. Not because I was waiting for him. Because I wanted one part of this house to remember him. Some people leave the world, but they don't have to leave every little place where they were loved." I sat at the kitchen table for a long time.
Bharathi Anand retweeted
We should start openly criticizing this optics-driven politics by any leader, regardless of the party to which he or she belongs. They should realize that mere sweet talk is not going to work anymore. Questions should be raised on every possible forum.
Tagging journos who understand #Bihar. They may be able to suggest a way forward and speak up to save millions from this crisis. I have been hearing about this problem ever since I was in school in the 1980s. #floods
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Bharathi Anand retweeted
*!! ॐ साई राम !!*
*श्री साईबाबा संस्थान विश्वस्त व्यवस्था,शिर्डी*
*!! ॐ Sai Ram !!*
*Shri Saibaba Sansthan Trust, Shirdi*
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*आरती :-शिर्डी माझे पंढरपुर*
*सोमवार १४ सप्टेंबर २०२६*
*Aarti :-Shirdi Majhe Pandharpur*
*Monday 14 September 2026*
Bharathi Anand retweeted
🙏गणपती बाप्पा मोरया 🌺मंगलमूर्ती मोरया 🙏१४/०९/२०२६
🙏Ganapati Bappa Moraya 🌺 Mangalmurti Moraya 🙏 14/09/2026
Bharathi Anand retweeted
Kaspersky Highlights AI-Powered Cyber Risks for India’s Financial Sector at BFSI Workshop
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