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Rahul Gandhi☪️........ Parody

On #WomensDay2023, not a single tweet from any woman among 1.3 bn people India who thought it was worthy to pay respect to the 1 man who fought with the British machinery to
1) Sponsor & be the 1st signatory on the Widow remarriage Act
2) Build 59 schools in 1 year in #Bengal

(2/n) and 29 schools exclusively for women when women were banned from attending schools
3) 7 of these schools were English medium when women of India were banned from attending English medium schools
4) Hitkari Sabha (1868)- Asia's 1st #NGO specially set up to empower women....

(5/n) and make them independent and self sufficient
5) Set up India's first English Medium College - #BethuneCollege that set the tone for ALL women colleges in India
6) Proposed setting up of #CalcuttaUniversity that could be the 1st University in India producing some of....

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Ancient History

@VisionHistory

#DoYouKnow Sudhir Kumar Sen, 19th century Bengali hero who introduced Bicycles to Indians?

India got its first bicycle in the 19th century.

According to historian David Arnold, around 35,000 bicycles were imported in India in 1910!

He started his first venture in 1909
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with a capital of Rs 400/- only. He imported bicycles & bicycle spare parts from Europe & sold them in India.

In order to encourage bicycle as a cheaper and convenient mode of transport, Sen began publishing a monthly magazine, Indian Cycle and Motor Journal, from 1917.

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He collaborated with the British cycle manufacturing establishment, Raleigh Bicycle Company.
In 1952, Sen Set up Sen-Raleigh bicycle manufacturing unit in Kanyapur, Asansol, #Bengal.
The vast modern factory with had the capacity to manufacture 2,00,000 cycles annually!

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@Rahul_Gandhi69

ALL RELIGIONS ARE EQUAL ?

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आप सूर्य की पूजा करते है, उनके लिए चांद की इबादत अहम है।
- आप सीधे तवे की रोटी खाते है, उनके लिए तवा उल्टा होना जरूरी है।
- आप झटका खाते हैं तो उन्हें हलाल ही चाहिए।
- गाय आपके लिए माता स्वरूप है, उन्हें सब कुछ छोड़ बस गाय ही खाना है

आप मूर्तिपूजक हैं तो उनके लिए बुतपरस्ती हराम है, उनका इरादा सारे बुत ध्वस्त करने का है।
- आप वराह स्वरूप की पूजा करते है, उनके में नाम लेना भी हराम है।
- हमारे यहां विवाह पवित्र रस्म है, 7 जन्मों का बंधन तो उनके यहां यह महज एक कॉन्ट्रैक्ट है।
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यहां नारी पूजा का स्थान है तो उधर स्त्री उपभोग की वस्तु याने कि माले गनीमत।
- आपके त्योहार रंग लगाकर होते है तो उनके खून बहाकर।
- आप सर्वधर्म समभाव में मानते है परंतु वह अपने वाले के अलावा किसी का सम्मान तो दूर उसके अस्तित्व को ही नकार देते हैं।
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Close your eyes, get on the time machine and imagine the period between 24th August 1808 and 1900. Elder cousin brother #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee sets up 59 schools in 1 month in #Bengal, a record no has broken globally, sets up Indian Cultivation of Science & Calcutta (1/n)

(2/n) University that produced the greatest scholars in the world while younger brother #SirAshutoshMukherjee contribution in the field of #Mathematics led to his appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in +++

(3/n) (at the age of 21), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Member of the Bedford Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching in 1886, a Fellow of the London Physical Society in 1887+++

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Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

It was initially young working population leaving #Kolkata, now it's the elderly. My in laws, like many, had it enough in #Kolkata after spending their entire lifetime left the city after ~ 74 yrs. Like many, they can't relate to the city & it's culture anymore. Couple of (1/n)

(2/n) developments in the past few years.
1) Security- My FIL was the President of one of the oldest Durga Puja Committee in Central Kolkata. He is well revered & well connected. Despite his local reputation, there was an attempted break in. Something unheard of in his hood.

@narendramodi

2) When he put his property up for sale he spoke & met 96 prospective buyers. 94 were Muslims while 2 Hindus. All 94 wanted to buy the property in cash. Now clearly @narendramodi #demonitization was a failed venture that put the country through misery for nothing. Moreover....

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@dhavalkulkarni

#ShivSena president #UddhavThackeray & #Maharashtra CM #EknathShinde have organised a show of strength on #Dusseshra. But, over 100 years ago, the festival was used to protest against the British & popularise swadeshi
#Savarkar #Tilak #Bengal #Dussehra2022 #Dashera #Maharashtra

This is also about the historical links between #Maharashtra and #Bengal & how people from #Maharashtra supported their Bengali brethren in their fight against the British colonialists

#Dussehra #Dussehra2022 #Dasara #Dasara2022 #LokmanyaTilak #VDSavarkar #Savarkar #swadeshi

It was on #Dussehra day in 1905 that #VinayakDamodarSavarkar, a student at the Fergusson College in #Pune, organized the 1st such bonfire of imported clothes with stalwarts like #LokmanyaTilak & #ShivramMahadevParanjape & a huge crowd in attendance

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सुशांत झा Sushant Jha

@jhasushant

Today is the Maha Ashtami(2nd oct 6:47 pm onwards to 3rd Oct 4.37pm) of Durga Puja and this is special day for devotees across India; especially in Mithila and Bengal but not limited to that area. (1)
#Mahaashtami

An auspicious day to seek blessings frm the Mother Goddess beleived to leave her maternal place for in-law's. In #Mithila & other part of #Bihar, the tradition of offering 'Khoincha'(खोंइछा भरना) is very important where married women pay offerings to the Goddess(2)
#Mahaashtami

'Khoinchha'(खोंइछा) in #Maithili means "Aanchal" with the offerings to a beloved person; be it daughter leaveing her father's house afte marrige or the Mother Goddess who is beleived to staying in her Mayaka till Saptami(7th day of the Puja). (3)
#Mahaashtami

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The Better India

@thebetterindia

Now in her 70s, veteran artist Reba Pal has been making Chalchitras for #DurgaPuja for the past 45-50 years. The fading artform of Chalchitras involves the creation of the circular canvas of paintings behind the Durga idol.

@horek_rokom

Popularly known as Durga Chal or devi chal, its history dates back at least 300 years. It is an extension of the Patachitra art form of #Bengal. Though a lot has been written and discussed about #Patachitra, Chalchitra somehow remains neglected.

Source: @horek_rokom

#Heritage #history #IndianCraft

Abhijit Majumder

@abhijitmajumder

While on #Gyanvapi, some facts on #Bengal temples.
* In Malda's Gour-Pandua, Sikandar Shah built Adina Masjid with riches, pillars, doors, arches of temples.
* In ancient Kotivarsha, Dinajpur, invaders built Sultan Pir's Dargah on a temple. Its 4 granite pillars still stand. 1/3

* Shah Ata's Dargah in Kotivarsha/Devikot, now in Dinajpur, stands on ruins of a Buddhist temple, with a Tara figurine on the doorway.
* Dargah of Zafar Khan Ghazi at Tribeni, Hooghly, #Bengal, stands on a Krishna temple, walls of which had Ramayan, Mahabharat sculptures. 2/3

Thought my fellow Bengalis, especially the brainwashed, deracinated wokes, could use this info. The source is Sita Ram Goel's 'Hindu Temples: What Happened To Them'.
The list of such wounds is long, very long. If we don't learn from our scars, we will bleed again. #Bengal 3/3

Dhaval Kulkarni (धवल कुलकर्णी) 🇮🇳

@dhavalkulkarni

Thread: Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj is a symbol of resistance towards tyrannical regimes. He was a rallying point for nationalists after the partition of Bengal in 1905. The 'Shivaji Utsav' tradition struck roots in Bengal in 1902

#ShivajiMaharaj #LokmanyaTilak #history

because of Sakharam Ganesh Deuskar. He was a Maharashtrian settled in Bengal. Deuskar taught in a school at Deoghar & was part of a revolutionary group set up by Rajnarayan Basu, the intellectual & grandfather of Aurobindo & Barindra Ghosh
#LokmanyaBalGangadharTilak

Deuskar was the first to write about #ChhatrapatiShivajiMaharaj & Peshwa Bajirao-I in Bengali, detailing their bravery & exploits. His 'Shivajir Mahatva' was republished as 'Shivajir Diksha' in 1904.

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On the 214th birth anniversary of #JoykrishnaMukherjee, a message for all Bengalis in & outside #Bengal from our family historian Debasish Mukherjee. He has authored 4 books on our family that are available at #JoykrishnaPublicLibrary & the government of #WestBengal has
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(2/n) assured us that these books will be made available at all major public libraries and school libraries across #Bengal. Let's hope they'll follow through. He is also the architect of world's largest genealogy chart having 4600 entity relationships mapped over 1100 years.

@ABHIJIT_LS

@BJP4Bengal

@BJP4Bengal @BJP4India will not win #Bengal for 2 reasons
1) It's a spineless party that respects the self interest of only a few core members. It gives jackshit about reviving #Bengal. They operate like modified pseudo dynasty
2) It doesn't even want to control #Bengal. (1/2)

(2/3) Given the state of #Bengal, BJP cannot possibly see any RoI in the CAPEX over the next 20 yrs. As a business class, they understand investments. Plus Didi plays well as a party in their #GameTheory based strategy. Now why does BJP gives a rats ass about Bengal? I'll give...

(3/4) 2 proof points
1) Which party with any sense of decency allows its members to get into a full blown street war at the house of its founding member on the day of #SyamaPrasadMookerjee s birth anniversary

https://twitter.com/GhostedOU812/status/1544953090121404416?t=aapG-MTtomVwL5Za1VX6SA&s=19

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Kanad Bandyopadhyay

@BKanad

@BSF_India

Till 1951 - 4 years after Partition of Indian Subcontinent : people from West #Bengal and East #Pakistan could travel across without any visas Possibly there was nothing like @BSF_India then . Agriculture , goods were exchanged , fields harvested Was it similar in West Pakistan?

@SatyaDharmaa

@SatyaDharmaa come to think of it why did this situation continue in the eastern part and not in the western part of the subcontinent ? What did the Bombay Club merchants and their mentors in England really achieve ? Ultimately British ran after Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose chased

Them and INA created the atmospherics in the minds of English / British to cut and run . Talk talk by Americans helped to accelerate the process .

But what happened post December 1971 ? People still travelled back and forth between #Bangladesh & West #Bengal But now with visas

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@AITCofficial

Despite my deep despise for the party & what it stands for, I am thankful to the @AITCofficial Councillor Mr. Tapas Mukherjee & 3x Ex MP & 2x MLA Mr. Santashri Chatterjee from @INCIndia to put your differences & pay homage to one of the greatest sons of #Bengal & #India (1/n)

(2/n) #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee on his 215th birth anniversary on 24th August. He single handedly put Hoogly District on the global map & is only the 2nd person in India after #SirAshutoshMukherjee who had the audacity to refuse to meet King Edward VII & the Queen. The...

(3/n) between the 2 was the Queen & King themselves traveled to meet Joykrishna Mukherjee at #Uttarpara. That's the power the man held. Anyone who has lived in #Uttarpara & Bally would have heard about the Crown Gate. That's the history of it. It's an open challenge to any...

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Abhijit Majumder

@abhijitmajumder

This is the business in which TMC leader Anubrata Mondal is accused of making hundreds, maybe thousands, of crores. This is a normal day at work in his enterprise. #cowsmuggling #Bengal

According to a 2016 estimate, about 3,000 cows stolen from across India are smuggled into #Bangladesh for slaughter EVERY DAY.
The cattle smuggling business is believed to be USD 500 million a year.
There is active connivance of BSF officials, Indian politicians and bureaucrats.

Cow vigilante killings have less to do with Hindutva than economic survival of small farmers.
Cattle thieves take away their last insurance in a bad year.
In 2017, for instance, #Bengal topped cow vigilante killings: 5 of 9. Farmers said they killed cow smugglers just to survive.

The discussion on #MaaKaali is so petty & so silly. No wonder we humans have not been able to evolve much from our primates. You idiots are trying to define & give form to someone who is infinite & formless. No wonder the civilisation is in the brink of destruction. Take a look..

(2/n) at the pond above. The earliest settlers in #Bengal were indigenous tribes belonging mostly to fishermen community. They prayed to nature in many forms. Then there were kings like Adi Sur & Sen Dynasty. They brought 5 Brahmins from Kannauj (UP) to perform yagnas....

(3/n) Ours was 1 such family. These Brahmins were given vast tracts of land to develop civilizations. These Brahmins became Zamindars and Rajas.
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The vedic ways were introduced. In those times Brahminical rituals and rites were...

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@BJP4Bengal

When Hindu Mahasabha & @BJP4Bengal guys get into street brawl at the house of #SyamaPrasadMukherjee on his birth anniversary doesn't really bode well for BJP in #Bengal. It's a not a weapon you can afford to hand over to your opponent. As SPMs family we are very very upset (1/2)

(2/2) with this childish behavior. It was not a political event. Keep your cheap politics to yourselves & your homes. Don't bring it to the hallowed halls of Sir Ashutosh Memorial Institute.

Understand the difference between "Deshnayak" & "Loknayak".

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@IndiaArtHistory

@IndiaArtHistory Great thread @IndiaArtHistory. While most of what you penned down is absolutely true, Bidhan Chandra Roy was a dick. Sorry! Here's he with my GG father Raja Bhupendranath Mukherjee at our House in #Uttarpara. If you really wish to know the history on #Bengal from 840 AD ..(1/2)

@IndiaArtHistory

@IndiaArtHistory (2/3) to its absolute downfall, suggest you read these blogs. Long reads but if you can read those in their entirety u will get the drift

Blog 2 of 4
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Blog 1 of 4
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@IndiaArtHistory

@IndiaArtHistory (3/3) Blog 4 of 4 - Rise of Left
kpax72.blogspot.com/2022/04/the-pr…

The Left came about because of the utter failure of @INCIndia very much in line of what we are seeing now. History repeats itself. In 1940s it was because of Gandhi-Nero now its because of Mano-Pappu. BC Roy is a cheat!