At Pune’s “Chhatron Ki Goonj” programme, a woman reportedly made an emotional appeal...
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
At Pune’s “Chhatron Ki Goonj” programme, a woman reportedly made an emotional appeal for help with the educational expenses of her five children, including two daughters pursuing medicine. Her distress deserves empathy, not ridicule—but it also raises a larger political question. Maharashtra already offers substantial tuition-fee support for eligible female students, while education loans are available through the banking system. If Congress genuinely wants to champion students, why stop at emotional stage interactions? Many educational institutions are controlled by politicians and trusts associated with different parties. Could they not offer scholarships, fee waivers and transparent assistance to genuinely needy students? Political events, packed auditoriums and viral clips can amplify grievances, but they cannot substitute for workable solutions. The real test of student politics is not how effectively leaders showcase hardship, but how effectively they help remove it.
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Sanjay Raut reportedly travelled all the way to Morgaon near Baramati for a Ramraksha recitation programme. Naturally, one wondered whether the Shiv Sena (UBT) leader had spent the intervening weeks memorising the celebrated Sanskrit stotra and would personally recite it. Television visuals, however, offered a rather amusing picture: someone else was reciting Ramraksha while Raut simply stood among the gathering, apparently listening! There is absolutely no rule that every politician must know Sanskrit, the Gita or Ramraksha by heart. The comedy begins only when political publicity creates expectations of “pathan” while the leader apparently contributes little beyond his presence. Perhaps organisers need a small linguistic correction next time: if the leader is going merely to listen, advertise “Ramraksha Shravan,” not “Ramraksha Pathan.” It might save everyone some unnecessary amusement!
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Gen-Z generally refers to people born from the late 1990s through the early 2010s, though the exact cut-off varies by source. That makes the growing fashion of speaking on behalf of an entire generation rather amusing when some self-proclaimed Gen-Z leaders may not even fall within the definition they invoke. If Abhijit Dipke and Ashutosh Ranka are indeed above the relevant age cut-off, an obvious question follows: on what basis do they claim to represent Gen-Z? Leadership, of course, need not be restricted by age; a 40-year-old can legitimately champion the concerns of 20-year-olds. But then intellectual consistency demands that one stop mocking older generations merely for their age. You cannot simultaneously declare age irrelevant for your own leadership and use it to dismiss everyone else. Gen-Z is a demographic category—not a political throne with self-appointed occupants!
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
A rather hilarious story from Karnataka is doing the rounds. A prospective groom apparently had everything matrimonial advertisements dream of—an annual income of ₹40 lakh, a spacious house, a well-educated family and seemingly no obvious red flags. Yet the young woman reportedly rejected the proposal for one extraordinary reason: his social-media bio proudly declared him a die-hard Rahul Gandhi supporter! Apparently, the gentleman has been cursing Rahul ever since—not for losing elections, not for political speeches, but for allegedly costing him a bride! Politics has clearly entered a dangerous new territory. Earlier, families checked caste, horoscope, education, salary and family background before marriage. Now perhaps matrimonial negotiations require one additional document: your social-media political history! Poor Rahul Gandhi—critics already blame him for Congress’s electoral troubles; now someone may accuse him of breaking marriages he never even knew were being arranged!
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🖋️ *From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane*
Some Congress supporters may have hoped that Shehzad Poonawalla’s departure from the BJP would provide them with a brand-new shoulder from which to fire at Narendra Modi and his former party. Unfortunately for them, the shoulder seems to have developed a mind of its own! Leaving a political party does not automatically mean uninstalling one’s ideology and downloading the opposition’s software overnight. Poonawalla may now disagree with the BJP on certain matters, but that hardly guarantees a daily supply of anti-Modi ammunition. And if he continues attacking Rahul Gandhi, Congress may discover that the gun pointed at the BJP has somehow rotated 180 degrees! Politics certainly creates strange expectations: “He has left our enemy, therefore he must become our friend.” Sorry, gentlemen—political resignations come with no exchange offer, cashback, or ideological home delivery
From The Desk of Abhijeet Rane,
Some Congress supporters may have hoped that Shehzad Poonawalla’s departure from the BJP would provide them with a brand-new shoulder from which to fire at Narendra Modi and his former party. Unfortunately for them, the shoulder seems to have developed a mind of its own! Leaving a political party does not automatically mean uninstalling one’s ideology and downloading the opposition’s software overnight. Poonawalla may now disagree with the BJP on certain matters, but that hardly guarantees a daily supply of anti-Modi ammunition. And if he continues attacking Rahul Gandhi, Congress may discover that the gun pointed at the BJP has somehow rotated 180 degrees! Politics certainly creates strange expectations: “He has left our enemy, therefore he must become our friend.” Sorry, gentlemen—political resignations come with no exchange offer, cashback, or ideological home delivery!
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