“World-famous” where? At the UN? In the US? India? At least, Bharat? No mate, you were just world-famous in your own head, that is all.
Lose that melancholic Bahadur Shah Zafar long white beard and whatever illusions you may have had about how you are being seen around the world
Only he who lived by the camera now seems to stand exposed, to be judged by it. No one needs to say the obvious anymore.
He who lived by the camera is now upstaged by the camera.
Before the cameras, there is now only fire, cremation ground fire.
He grasps for his handy tools perhaps. The apparatus of State broadcasting and digital management services. The Twitter followers. The sheer numbers.
The illusion of the social. The narcotic of narcissism. The myth of the messiah.
Movie stars and megalomaniacs. All must fall one day when that camera turns away, and all that is left is the voice inside the head, the whisper inside the heart.
And what will that heart say when one is truly alone? Will it still maintain that the lie was actually the truth?
A scathing piece by Vamsee Juluri.
He was one of the biggest Modi supporters till few months ago. theprint.in/opinion/what-w…
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The real number of Covid deaths in India will never come out - a thread.
According to Gujarati daily Divya Bhaskar, 65,085 more deaths were registered in the state this year from March 1 to May 10 in comparison with the same period last year. (1/-)
Official Covid death numbers of the state are only 4.218 people.
As per the latest estimates, Gujarat's population is 7.1 crores with a density of population of 308/km². According to the National Family Health Survey 2019-20, 95.7% of the urban population and 91.6% of (2/-)
the rural population of the state registered deaths in the family with civil authorities. i.e., 93% of deaths in Gujarat are registered.
Even though the state's public health infrastructure in rural areas is in pathetic condition, it is better in urban areas. (3/-)
BJP IT cell circulated 14 unrelated and old instances, many from other states, as part of post-poll violence in Bengal
This shows the organised fake news peddling of the ruling party of India and its desperation to create communal tension in the state. @AltNews debunked all (1/-)
1. The Parliamentary Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare report submitted on November 25 last year clearly predicted a second wave and highlighted shortages of medical oxygen and hospital beds.
The govt slept over that report for 5 long months newslaundry.com/2021/04/28/mps…
2. The report said: "spikes in Covid cases are still being seen in affected regions and India is yet to reach its peak. India must also be prepared to combat a possible second wave of Corona..." and "inadequate healthcare spending with no focused budget for Covid”
3. It said “The committee is of the view that Districts and States with poor public health sectors need to be identified on priority and provided the required infrastructure for tracing, testing and treatment by providing the required financial aid.”
Nothing happened
This government never intended to discharge what millions of us regard as its duties. It simply took the pandemic as an extremely useful tool gifted to it by the gods to further its agenda — to stifle dissent, to topple Opposition state governments, to ‘win’ elections. (1/n)
In any democracy worth the name, just one of these two botch-ups — the demonetization fiasco and the floundering response to Chinese aggression and the ensuing cover-up — would have led to the fall of a government. (2/n)
Even as Modi's ‘brand expansion’ has grown to mind-boggling levels, his promises have crashed and burned. Under this regime, corruption has been rocketed into another dimension, so much so that the word itself becomes inadequate to describe it (3/n)
“In a pandemic vaccines are a public good . Public goods should be paid through pooled resources by the government. That’s what’s happening around the world." (1/n) ft.com/content/617aeb…
By giving a free hand to manufacturers to determine the price is a situation which puts everybody at a disadvantage. (2/n)
The government is making states compete with the private sector on a differential pricing basis. The younger rich can go and buy vaccines from the private sector and the poor lose out. (3/n)
Thread on important revelations of @Mediapart
expose 3 on Rafale 36 deal. 1. Sushen Gupta accessed the details of the bench marking price of Rafale deal calculated by the INT and complete revised proposal submitted by the EADS consortium from MoD. mediapart.fr/en/journal/int…
2. one of the spread sheet (dated 20 January 2016) Enforcement Directorate recovered shows that Sushen Gupta suggested an overall deal value of 7.87 billion euros - the exact amount Dassault proposed and Indian govt accepted, overruling the benchmark price decided by experts.
3. Dev Mohan Gupta's sons Sushen and Sushant are on good terms with (then) BJP Chief Amit Shah, (then) Finance minister Arun Jaitley and (then) IAF Chief Arup Raha.