Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳
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Nirupama Menon Rao 🇮🇳
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Army daughter|Diplomat|Cartophile|Author:The Fractured Himalaya; Rain Rising| Founder The South Asian Symphony Orchestra |nirupamamenonrao.substack.com
- The young Muslim woman in the video circulated by @zoo_bear wore a hijab, yes, but to me, as a woman, what is relevant to the current debate is that she came to college driving her own two-wheeler, independently, and with her head held high. There was no sign of regression there
- 👇🏽 The Harris sisters, Kamala Devi and Maya Lakshmi, on a visit to her grandparents’ home in Besant Nagar, Chennai. #KamalaHarris,back row at left,in an undated family photo. Next to her, from left,her grandmother Rajam,grandfather P.V. Gopalan and sister, Maya Harris. 🙏@weareji
- At an airport in Kerala today , a toilet attendant told me quietly: “Madam, they don’t even flush after use.” She keeps the toilets clean with grace and dignity, yet so few even say thank you. We’re quick to salute the flag, but slow to respect the floor beneath it. Civic sense
- I pray for thee my country. 😢
- Replying to @AdvAshutoshBJPIn Kerala, at my wedding in Guruvayoor temple in 1975, I wore an off-white saree . Brides in Kerala have traditionally worn off-white and not red. Every part of our wonderfully diverse country has its own beautiful customs in tune with our history and geography.
- All the perfumes of Davos cannot mask the foul odour of caste prejudice, backwardness,hubris, and thuggery that stain our democracy. But when do we listen and learn? We are self-delusional if we think we’ve arrived at the global high table.What sort of thugs would attack schoolchildren? And this a day after the PM spoke at Davos on our centuries old tradition of tolerance and harmony. ndtv.com/gurgaon-news/h…
- Many assume that #Kashmir is frozen in time and space.Article 370 was no talisman that guarded the state from evil.Situations evolve. Circumstances change.The fabric of the nation has been torn in Kashmir over the years.This cannot be a standstill scenario.The nation is supreme.
- Watching @shahfaesal defending his statement that @ImranKhanPTI should be nominated for #NobelPeacePrize on @BDUTT show. He went into such contortions to defend himself. Pathetic. My advice to this intelligent young man: weigh your words.Unscripted terrain is treacherous.
- Politics in India today has descended deeper than it has ever gone before. Even the dead are not spared. It’s not how high you can go but how low. What a travesty. Lies and hubris. Is this our daily bread? Weep, India, weep.
- What is India’s strategy on Afghanistan? Am sure we realise the HUGE implications of what a Taliban driven by Rawalpindi calling the shots in Afghanistan means for us. As it is, with two hostile neighbours our situation is BAD.
