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Kannan Gopinathan

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4 Feb

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ECI @ECISVEEP & @SpokespersonECI thinks that not responding to the concerns raised is the best way to deal with EVM-VVPAT vulnerabilities.

But please take a look at this video. It has 5 mn+ views. Questions are reaching far and wide.

And your silence too

@ECISVEEP

Let me tell you this @ECISVEEP. I will not be writing anymore letters seeking reply to the questions raised. Or be going to the court.

I will be taking these questions to public at large to tell my half of the story. Your silence will tell the other half.

@ECISVEEP

Hahaha.. So @ECISVEEP, @SpokespersonECI did something very interesting in response to this tweet in the morning.

Sir, address the questions raised instead of going on a tangential.

Is the EVM-VVPAT connected to an external device or not?

A very simple question!!?

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Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

3 Feb

“You see a case of domestic violence.

Now if you too are violent at home, you’ll say it is domestic, hence private.

But if you’re confident of own conduct, you’ll say it is violence & hence public.”

My UPSC interview answer in 2011 on whether India should comment on Sri Lanka.

Then they asked but isn’t it our principle to not interfere in the internal matters of other countries?

I replied that principle can come from a position of weakness or a position of strength.

First one is from position of weakness while the second from position of strength.

Then they asked me if we comment on SL, will it not allow others to comment on us?

I answered that as a country we have grown to a stage where if we do human rights violation, our Govt should be more worried about our own institutions & organizations than any external comments.

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Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

2 Feb

Personal update:

After Galwan Valley incident, out of shame at lack of in-depth understanding of China, its past & designs, I started learning Mandarin Chinese.

Finished all freely/cheaply available courses in Coursera & Udemy in the last 6 months. At around HSK level 5 now.

Have been studying it like a small kid. Waking up at 5:30 every day, spending 5-6 hours a day writing and reading, finishing one notebook after the other, using different colors for hanzi, pinyin and English.

One aspect of the learning was to become able to read and understand economic, military and diplomatic articles in mandarin. Finding good sources itself took sometime. But totally worth it.

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Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

1 Feb

Indiscriminate sale of PSUs is not just about sale of national assets, but also an over-smart way to side-step reservation and social justice.

Not making a blanket case for or against privatisation. But the clandestine way in which social justice component of public recruitment is taken away, lateral entries, single vacancy advt & indiscriminate sale of PSUs is something that needs to be out in the open & discussed.

A simple question to ask the Govt in parliament would be

1. Recruitment breakup of the PSUs over the last 10-20 years and current vacancy breakup.

2. Whether the Govt can promise that a similar pattern in recruitment is going to be kept after privatisation of the said PSUs.

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Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

22 Jan

Today, petrol price is ~₹90 when crude is ~$56.

In 2013, petrol price was ~₹80 even when crude was ~$100.

If opposition can pick one petrol pump in a city & give 'UPA era discount' to people filling petrol there, it may demonstrate how much this Govt is squeezing them.

@jamewils

PS: The insane increase in central excise duty via @jamewils

@tradingeco

PPS: How personal income tax rates have also increased during the same time via @tradingeco.

The squeeze is real. Like a dhritarashtra aalinganam.

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Kannan Gopinathan

@naukarshah

22 Jan

COVID: More than 85% of respondents lost their jobs or saw their income decreased. - MOTN

Should have been the headline.

Not whether respondents are still happy in an abusive relationship with the PM. 1/n

More percentage of people in Italy find their Govt did a good job. More people in Japan find their Govt did a bad job than in Italy or in India. And if we compare actual impact of Covid on these countries, we will realise how far disconnected it is from these ratings. 2/n

Whether you are happy with Govt is an irrelevant question as long as people don’t connect own hardships to failures of Govt.

If 85% lost job/income & still consider Govt performance good, it is evident that these two are in two unrelated planes. Zero expectations from Govt. 3/n

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