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When Rs 2,840,000,000—i.e. Rs 284 crore—is seized from one businessman’s house in the country’s biggest ever tax haul, can there be any confusion on who he is, and whose money it is? In “No.1 state” #UttarPradesh, anything is possible. A thread. #PiyushJain #ShikharPanMasala
2️⃣ Prime minister @narendramodi and UP chief minister @myogiadityanath blithely insinuate that the businessman #PiyushJain was a Samajwadi Party man—and that he was hoarding the cash for SP, the BJP’s arch rival, for use in the upcoming state election. #ShikharPanMasala 
3️⃣ To be fair, when news of the raids in #Kanpur and #Kannauj was leaked on the night of December 24, Hindi newspapers @amarujala and @DainikBhaskar were quick to link #PiyushJain with ‘Samajwadi Itr’, a perfume developed for SP. Surprisingly, @JagranNews was more circumspect.
1/ If you wish you could capture the scent of wet earth into a bottle, #Kannauj in #Uttar Pradesh made that possible a long time ago.
Sometime in the past, the perfumers of ancient Kannauj created a scent that would capture the fragrance of earth when first touched by the rains.
Sometime in the past, the perfumers of ancient Kannauj created a scent that would capture the fragrance of earth when first touched by the rains.
2/ Extracted from parched clay and distilled with ancient techniques, it is today known as mitti attar – Earth’s perfume. It is also called itr-e-khaki.
3/ Mitti attar is made even today in Kannauj’s traditional perfumeries, where sinewy craftsmen tend to fires under ageing copper cauldrons or degs. The distillation process, called deg bhapka, is painstakingly slow and long, with no trace of industrial machinery or modernity.
