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13 Apr, 3 tweets, 2 min read
Never forget Udham Singh, who avenged the #JallianwalaBagh massacre by killing O'Dwyer in London in 1940. He would be hanged from the same gallows at Pentonville jail where his hero Madanlal Dhingra had been hanged 1/n
Udham Singh killed O'Dwyer at 10 Caxton Hall. I visited it a few years ago and placed some flowers in his memory..... and then sang Vande Mataram, the full version, in his honour. 2/n

#NeverForget
London newspaper coverage of the event.....3/n

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I am glad that Africa too is waking up to its systematic depiction as a place that needs to be "saved" by the West through some overt/covert colonization. Always remember that the East India Company's brutalities in India was justified by "left-liberals" from JS Mill to Marx
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Early 20th century Bengalis were strongly inspired by Shivaji's resistance to foreign rule. Aurobindo ends an imaginary conversation between Shivaji & Jai Singh thus:

"I undermined an empire and it has not been rebuilt. I created a nation and it has not yet perished."

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Rabindranath Tagore too wrote a poem celebrating Chhatrapati #Shivaji 's resistance to the Mughals.

The first stanza of the poem reads thus:
Similarly Swami Vivekananda was a great admirer of Shivaji and considered him among greatest kings of India. 3/n
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27 Jan
Even as we roll out the vaccines worldwide, Covid19 is putting up a tough rearguard. Everyone knows about dire situation in US, but second wave in Canada is killing 167/day & death rate is still rising (population adjusted, that is equivalent to 6k+ deaths/day for India). 1/n
Several SE Asian countries had so far managed to keep the pandemic under control, but Indonesia & Malaysia have seen very big jumps in recent weeks (although still not in European levels of infection) 2/n
The most unexpected is the sharp increase in UAE where vaccination is progressing well. With 3.6k new cases/day, it is Asia's hotspot on per capita basis (India equivalent would be 4.9 lakh/day). 3/n
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Dear @yonex please look at the quality of you AS 2 shuttles. I ran through 6 in one hour. If they cannot stand a smash from a middle aged economist, what happens when a pro hits it? Below is after just 3 rallies 1/n
One tube of imported Yonex shuttles costs 2k and will not last 2 hours of play. The Decathklon FSC390 is not as smooth but lasts longer and half the price. Cannot find any high end locally made ones 2/n
Incidentally, the Decathlon ones are also made in China. Wonder what happened to good quality ones from Ludhiana? I found only very poor quality ones in Delhi shops 3/n
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9 Jan
Covid19 is genuinely unpredictable. It will spare a country/region and then suddenly reappear in full rage. For almost a year it seemed that East & SE Asia had controlled it, but now Japan is witnessing spiralling numbers 1/n Image
If you are trying to correlate this spike to temperature/winter, note that same spike is happening in Malaysia that is near the equator and barely sees any seasonal variation. Indonesia is also seeing an acceleration 2/n ImageImage
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