#JustSaying On this platform, I express my views on few topics. Current affairs, a mix of politics and economics, humor, birding and tech.
What I look for is handles, who write well, not abusive. There are times when I ignore or not able to view and respond to tweets because of the sheer volume of info that needs to be processed.
Number of followers is not a criterion at all. There are handles that I follow just for learning - it could be about a subject that I want to be aware of but I know nothing about, it could be the way one communicates and so on.
There are times when some handles write pure trash, which is when I respond especially if it concerns my country and my defence services. These are non negotiable and will not accept nonsense and putrid stuff. Will call the bluff.
I have earned some good friends, whose views may be divergent from mine. Doesn't matter. We can agree to disagree. After all diversity is the spice of life. Hence, would not only respect them, but defend them to their right of expression.
Only criteria- they should be for India and especially not enemies from within for India. Some handles who come to my mind who write well, respond well, are 👇. My request ➡️ learn from them.
I would like to share a write up by my friend Balachandran's old FB post. This is a translated work and the translation is just outstanding and Bala has a way with words as one realized while reading the post.
The following text is from a work by Vallathol Narayana Menon, one of Malayalam's Maha Kavis (Great Poets) who was himself part of the famous Triumvirate of modern Malayalam poetry along with Kumaran Asan and Ulloor Parameswara Iyer.
The whole poem is called Oushadha Apaharanam (Oushadha means medicine and apaharanam means the same as apaharan or stealing)
#Thread - My gratitude to @rupamurthy1 for originally narrating it. It is her narrative which am privileged to share.
The king of Mysore, Krishna Raja Wodeyar IV and Sir M. Vishweswariah were in a pensive mood. They had reached a dead-end.
The proposed KRS dam was 6 months away from completion and they had run out of money. Just 8 months ago, the king had mortgaged his family jewels to king of Benaras (now called Varanasi – the oldest inhabited city in the world).
The queen has given her favourite necklaces and family heirlooms for the project. But eventually, that too ran out in mounting labour and construction costs.
Got drawn into Birding as a hobby about 3 to 4 years back. Since then I have been observed close to 200 species - mostly in M.P., some in Assam and few in Bhutan. #birds teach us the virtues of patience, ability to not just see, but actually observe the minute differences.
Birds within a species are different due to various reasons. It could be plumage - the colour of the plumage changes when they breed for e.g. Or for that matter the toes colour could be different. Sometimes, one identifies based on the colour of the beak and the toes combined!
Then there are birds of prey - Eagles, Ospreys, Kites, Kestrels, Buzzards. They look very similar from distance but then as we start observing them, we start noticing the minor differences.
The Late Lal Bahadur Shastri, was also born on Oct. 2, in the year 1904 ( does anyone remember any centenery celebrations ??). However, he seems to have been given one of the shortest shrifts.
Born in the year 1904 in Mughalsarai, United Provinces, British India as Lal Bahadur Srivastava.
His father Sharada Prasad was a poor school teacher, who later became a clerk in the Revenue Office at Allahabad.
When Lal Bahadur was three months old, he slipped out of his mother's arms into a cowherd's basket at the ghats of the Ganges.
The cowherd, who had no children, took the child as a gift from God and took him home.
There is a factory in Northern Minnesota which makes the Tickle Me Elmo toys. The toy laughs when you tickle it under the arms.
This is a true story about a new employee Lena who was hired at The Tickle Me Elmo factory, after she clocks in for her first day on the job promptly at 8:00 am
That same day at 8:45 am, there is a knock at the Personnel Manager's door. The Foreman throws open the door and begins to rant about the new Employee.
He complains that she is incredibly slow and the whole line is backing up, putting the entire production line behind schedule.
#AirlineTicketRefund
I hope that the SC delivers a stinging verdict against the GoI, especially @MoCA_GoI@DGCAIndia for its dubious stand on refund on cancellation of tickets booked prior to lockdown. Utterly pathetic ministry which probably is cosying upto the Airlines lobby.
Civil Aviation ministry forgets that it is not independent of a large stakeholders - the voters.