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Feb 18 • 3 tweets • 2 min read
1. just got home from a #FrugalIndian lunch. The @Olacabs driver was super chatty. Turns out he was from Amethi & when I asked him about Rahul he used a peculiar UP term “woh to Bimund tha”. He immediately diverted the subject to @smritiirani and told me what a brilliant MP she
2. and went on a long monologue listing out everything she’d done. Surprisingly the journey took 45 minutes instead of the normal 15. I’m convinced he took a longer route just so he could prolong the conversation and talk about Smriti. The only other person he seemed to know was
3. Someone called Kaushik Basu. Apparently he rides this ola every week. He keeps asking the driver questions, but never listens to the answers, instead both asking and answering himself. So this ola driver asks me “sir aap bhi bangali lagte ho par aap kaise logon ko sunte ho”

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1 I hope people are watching and appreciating what @PMOIndia has done with Sri Lanka? Allowing them to stew in a self made Chinese debt trap? This is excellent policy. Let me explain why: Sri Lanka was trying to play India off against China. It was smart, but for india it
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1n All this talk of “security breach” is fine, but let’s see how badly the PM’s own security detail botched up consistently shall we? Watch this video first
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