Abhishek Asthana Bikau Bawasir. Basically he's telegraphing to Pfizer and Moderna that if he can get some money from them, he will flip sides. For people like him, the whole thing is that ke bhaiyya sabse bada rupaiyya.
For anyone who wrote their own science exams instead of outsourcing homework, it's obvious that at least as May '21 ends, mRNA vaccines are THE best of all avlbl. Data from multiple clinical trials AND 100+ million vaccinations is historically obvious. But sabse bada rupaiyya.
Asthana is selfish enough to keep his presence still on the vastly superior American Twitter and not very much on the vastly inferior Indian Koo.
But he is still shilling to oppose American mRNA vaccines which, out of 10.1 crore, had only 700 hospitalizations. 🤔🤔
These Asthana types are so much more dedicated to their indian corporate paymasters than their fellow indian citizens!
So apparently Abhishek Asthana has a soft spot for the name "Shweta Singh" 🤣🤣🤣.
Such transparent sockpuppetry. An account named "Shweta Singh" dedicated solely to counter me. 🤣🤣🤣
Haha, this is what bawasir Asthana wants to point you towards with his sockpuppetry. The hilarious thing is, I haven't taught "BT214" in 2 years. The code was changed to BT417 over a year ago. And that course was not offered in Spring 2021.
Abhishek is so bad even at being bad!
A review posted on May 19 2021 for BT214 which hasn't been offered at Stevens since 2019. 🤣🤣🤣
The funniest thing is Asthana is dumb enough to think he's hurting a tenured prof in a US university by hiring sockpuppets to tell fewer students to take his class. 🤣🤣🤣
Basically he went to my faculty page, which I haven't updated since the pandemic started. So BT214 appears on my page as a course. Not actually in Stevens records since 2019 cos it's now BT417. No real student would post a 214 review in May 2021. Only gobar sockpuppets.
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I know that's what they will come in wanting to do.
The nerdy historic govt wonk point I'm making is that Musk-Vivek will find even that privatization thing hard to pursue cos US govt has gotten that treatment for 40 years now!
At age 16, entering 10th standard, I was in fact extremely proficient at the English language. As well as all my friends who joined that coaching class with me.
Because scoring well in 10th Boards English had nothing to do with being good at English.
It was about exam hacking
I don't know how Maharashtra SSC English works now, but at least in my day, the state topper would get like 82 or something. They got 100 in math science but English, even crossing 70 was a big deal.
As as exam setter myself now, that makes no pedagogical sense. At all!
Doing lecture prep for Fall & adding this new story in the product development strategy session. Thought it would make a nice 🧵
Did you know that a lot of calculators & music equipment we have is the result of cigarettes not having filters during world war 2?
Fun story!
Cigarettes back then came like this. A fully white paper tube filled with tobacco that you lit at one end and smoked from the other.
This inevitably meant that you "wasted" some tobacco at the mouth end while throwing it away.
Tadao Kashiyo in WW2 Japan saw an opportunity!
During WW2, cigarettes that mostly came from Allied countries became very expensive in Japan. Especially American & British brands which were sold at a premium on the black market.
Tadao Kashiyo was an engineer who was into fabrication. He created a new product that sold itself.
There is NOTHING in US military remotely resembling Agnipath!
At the 18-22 age, the US military actually wants you to enlist for life if possible. And will happily keep you on for life if you serve honorably.
The short term stints are like Indian Short Service Commission.
So yeah, there exist options in the US military where you sign on for a short stint. And can be deployed. But they'll also send you to college for free.
My brother in law got an engineering degree from UC Riverside by enlisting in the Air Force for a few years. Then left.
Very interesting conversation with a gujarati bodega owner nearby.
"I support Modi but something is wrong in gujarat. There are more gujaratis taking the risky border routes in the last 2 years than the 20 years before, from my observation. And they all say, no jobs in gujarat"
"Until recent years, gujaratis wanting to move either came through family visa or arranged marriage or student visa or at the most, overstay tourist visa. But risking life and limb like this in such big numbers? Modi needs to pay attention to gujarat. It's in trouble."
"the family that froze to death on the Canadian border. They didn't have a bad life in gujarat by any means. So why risk your entire existence? Something is wrong, brother, something is very wrong."
"Wherever you go in this world, you will find a t̶e̶a̶ s̶t̶a̶l̶l̶ great school founded by a Malayalee."
K.T. Behanan was a brilliant Yale educated social scientist & Indian bureaucrat who landed in NYC with his doctor wife & 5 year old son.
Ran straight into systemic racism./1
The year was 1947 & Behanan, a Syrian Christian from Kerala's influential Kovoor clan was a 45 year old superstar in the Babu circles of the brand new India.
He accepted a position for India at the brand new UN, working on education policy with the Trustee Council.
Ironic.
He landed in a New York that was very different from now. "Separate but equal" was still the law.
Schools were openly & emphatically segregated. Brown v BoE was some years away.
By putting idealistic UN in Manhattan, America's mouth had written a check its ass couldn't cash.