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31 Dec

It was August 23, 1965 when the unthinkable happened in Calcutta. The State govt. announced a blanket ban on production of chhena based sweets like rosogolla and sandesh. For the sweet loving Calcuttan, it was a gut punch like no other (1/n)

West Bengal's CM Prafulla Chandra Sen, a veteran Gandhian, came on the local station of AIR and explained the need for this drastic measure. West Bengal's milk production was 3 ounces per capita vs. 17 ounces/capita in Punjab, he said (2/n)

With the Indian currency in a precarious position, importing milk powder was not feasible for the state. Sen stated that milk thus had to go to priority sector first - children and mothers - than for pleasure items (3/n)

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30 Dec

Thread: Once upon a time in Nepal, Hindu deities such as Goddess Durga, Lord Krishna, Lord Shiva and others were invoked to promote a marijuana shop before it was criminalized in 1973 (1/n)

Located in a beautiful valley deep in the Himalayas, Kathmandu was a hippie magnet in Nepal during the late '60s and early '70s and cannabis was the centre of attraction (2/n)

Freak Street is a small street located south of Kathmandu Durbar Square, which was the epicentre of the hippie trail of the 1960s and 1970s, drawing locals and western tourists to numerous legal hashish shops (3/n)

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29 Dec

A thread on the origin of the Indian Institute of Technology:
It started in 1946 with a committee headed by Sardar Sir Joginder Singh, a member of the Viceroy's Executive Council (1/n)

The committee had met to consider the creation of higher technical institutions "for post-World War II industrial development of India". On the recommendation from this group, a 22-member committee was set up under the aegis of Nalini Ranjan Sarkar (2/n)

One of the prime movers behind this was Dr Bidhan Chandra Roy. In its interim report, the Sarkar Committee recommended the establishment of higher technical institutions in India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (3/n)

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28 Dec

The Indian "Mona Lisa" - a thread on the famous Kishangarh paintings:
The miniature style of painting in India is believed to have originated during the rule of the Buddhist Pala Kings of eastern India (9-10th century CE) (1/n)

This school of art deteriorated in the coming centuries, before witnessing a revival during the late Sultanate period and flourished during the Mughal era. Even after the Mughal dynasty went into decline, the miniature style continued to evolve (2/n)

Rajputana, a land with close ties with the Mughal rulers, became the new epicenter of miniature painting and Kishangarh, a small princely state in the Ajmer area was where the style reached its pinnacle (3/n)

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27 Dec

Archbishop Desmond Tutu, one of the foremost figures of the Anti-Apartheid movement in South Africa, breathed his last yesterday. We pay tribute to him by taking a lookback at ten of his iconic quotes (1/n)

"If you are neutral in situations of injustice, you have chosen the side of the oppressor. If an elephant has its foot on the tail of a mouse, and you say that you are neutral, the mouse will not appreciate your neutrality." (2/n)

"My father always used to say, 'Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument.' Good sense does not always lie with the loudest shouters, nor can we say that a large, unruly crowd is always the best arbiter of what is right." (3/n)

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27 Dec

The story of the Maverick from Mandovi: a thread on Angelo da Fonseca - Born in 1902 in Santo Estevao, the smallest island on the Mandovi, Angelo da Fonseca was clearly not cut out for the usual (Pic Source: Biblioteca Nacional de Portugal) (1/n)

As a young man, he enrolled at Grant's Medical College to study medicine but soon realized his calling lay elsewhere. He left Grant's & enrolled at J.J. School of Art. But his hopes were soon dashed (2/n)

The regimentation restricted his creative mind. He detested the overt Western influence in the teaching methods. Once more, he quit and this time, moved to Santiniketan determined to learn from the best, Abanindranath Tagore (3/n)

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