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21 Nov, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Now Toronto goes into lockdown.......

edition.cnn.com/world/live-new…
......but France may be past the 2nd wave peak

france24.com/en/france/2020…
Meanwhile Germany, which had ducked the worst in the 1st wave, is in danger of becoming the new hotspot in the second wave. It saw 23k new cases in 24 hrs, same as France, but the numbers are still rising

businessworld.in/article/Number…
But with 200k new cases a day, US is in a league of its own. Scald for population it would be 800k/day in India.

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20 Nov
In memory of my father's cousin, Shyamal Dev Goswami, who was awarded the Mahavir Chakra for showing exemplary courage while directing artillery fire against invading Chinese troops during the Battle of Chusul Nov 1962
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5 Nov
Major reform announced for the ITeS/BPO industry. Here is the notification on the radical liberalization of regulations for the sector. Mark my words, this will create millions of jobs in next 5 years 1/n pib.gov.in/PressReleasePa…
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28 Oct
This is a fundamental fallacy. History is a complex adaptive system that is not deterministic. 50k of the "brightest" minds cannot predict the new "normal" as there is no such thing 1/n
After the event, some of these 50k "experts" will be correct and these will be hailed as great prophets. However, we have no way to ex ante know which ones. 2/n
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21 Oct
The worship of Durga (and Shakti more generally) is very old in Bengal. Excavations at Chandraketugarh, just north of Kolkata, have revealed several representations from circa 200 BC, except the weapons appear like a halo behind her head, not in her hands. 1/n
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11 Oct
This is the location of Bholachang village, very close to Tripura capital Agartala (but now in Bangladesh) where the Hindustan Republican Association was formed in 1923 by Sachin Sanyal, Pratul Ganguly & NM Sen. 1/n
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3 Oct
Certain lobbies have invested heavily in presenting a deliberately tilted view of India in the international media. This is nothing new. A good illustration is the active management of US media 1940-42 by the British to justify continued colonial occupation of India. 1/n
Prior to Pearl Harbor, powerful elements in the US political establishment demanded Indian independence as a condition for supporting Britain. The British then invested heavily in manipulation of the media and the intellectual class 2/n
One interesting strategy was " track 2" diplomacy where pro British intellectuals (including some Indians) would be sent on think tank lecture tours in US. 3/n
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