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10 Aug, 4 tweets, 3 min read
3 days after the election results, BJPs party president was in Bengal to meet the victims - but then this doesn’t matter to online warriors simply because it doesn’t suit the narrative they are promoting
Bengal is a case of violence being perpetrated on the party and party’s president was in Bengal 3 days after that; clearly party is retaliating also. At Govt level, govt’s representative in the state- Governor- is making daily noise but then what people want is - PM to spk 1/2
This obsession about hearing for words instead of making sense of the actions being taken is not a new thing in the behavioural pattern of online warriors- Bengal, at least since 1970s has always seen massive political violence in the form of retaliation by party in power…
It happened with Congis when power moved from Cong to left, happened with Mamata when it moved from Left to Mamata and is happening now with BJP as shift is happening. This is the nature of the state - folks need to read likes of @MukulKMishra to make sense of it- alas!

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10 Aug
Thanks to my views on several contentious topics,I have earned fee badges of honour & often face abuse as well from folks on our side. My fault is that I try to reason basis my understanding of working of govt, gained while working at CM office b/w 2017-21-as official/volunteer.
But for that working, I would have been same and had joined the chorus and outraging at the top of my voice on say Bengal or in a recent case of Ashwini Upadhya etc. However it is imp to document few things to prove that governance & politics is more than a game of arithmetic.
Let me add everything point by point to set the record straight.
1. Govt working: every Govt has to operate as per constitution & follow rules/established procedures that tend to become a law either by an act or by convention / practise. Another reality of Govt is Establishment!
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3 Aug
Often u must have heard an argument abt Modi Govt spending Rs 24,000 crs on minority scholarships to further the narrative that BJP and RSS are engaged in some sort of minority appeasement, being spread by the gang that hails Owaisi ally as most dharmic leader> Thread follows!
The genesis of this claim by the particular gang is this Dec 19 @SwarajyaMag report filed by @haryannvi swarajyamag.com/ideas/seculari… - what this gang never tells you is that the amt of Rs 24K crores was spent during 6 years on 26 schemes run by Minority affairs ministry
Here is spreadsheet from @SwarajyaMag report to set the matters straight. Rs 24,000 crores over 6 years makes is Rs 4000 cr per year on an average....big deal well...for this gang hell-bent on furthering their narrative it must be so..but reality is lot different- lets examnine
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3 Aug
How many of u remember taulayi kutayi of a Hockey umpire by Indian team in Dhaka in 1984 -if I’m not wrong it included Mervyn Fernandes, Joaquim Carvallaho and others
I remember watching 1982 Asiad match where Mullah brothers - Salimullah and Kalimullah along with Hasan Sardar played havoc with Indian defences :)
I think everyone of us who grew up in 80s were all essentially hockey fans as well- followed it with similar intensity as cricket -one match I still remember listening to was Champions trophy match with Germany when Pargat Singh last min brilliance helped Ind make it 5-5 from 2-5
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3 Aug
Great to see pahari ornaments from yesteryears make a comeback- proud of my younger sister who copied my late nani’s hansuli’s design taking my mother’s inputs for this.

She did same with out of fashion “gulband” design almost 15 yrs ago and then too she had copied my nani!
Gulband also made a great come back in last few years but pahari jewellers were deft at making some of the most amazing gulband in traditional pahari style!
Another pahari jewellery that is making a comeback is paunchi worn on wrists
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2 Aug
Dear @AgnesCallamard kudos to you for diversifying @amnesty into an IT surveillance company as well while doing all these campaigns. But this diversification of yours raises more unanswered Qns and doubts abt ur motivation!
Although the integrity of the supposed database claimed to have been the record of 50,000 telephone nos chosen for snooping by countries allegedly using NSO software - @AgnesCallamard you all have not said a word abt that
The association and collusion of @amnesty and motivated organisation like @citizenlab is established by the fact that they are loaning their employees to you for running Shane projects like #PegasusProject
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2 Aug
How an Indian - Aaswath Raman, a materials science and engineering professor at the University of California at Los Angeles, & co-founder of SkyCool Systems, is silently scripting a revolution in the field of airconditioning via radiative cooling! popsci.com/science/modern…
CENTURIES AGO, desert-dwelling peoples exploited radiative cooling to make ice. In the evenings, they insulated the walls of large bowls or pits, then poured in water. During the pitch-black night, heat escaped the liquid, and by morning, it was frozen solid.
Tilted toward the sun, the panels absorb almost none of the warmth beating down on them; they even launch some into space. After Grocery Outlet put panels on the roof of the 25K sqft building in late 19, energy use by the store’s refrigeration system dropped by 15%-$6K savings py
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