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Sumanth Raman

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Jun 17

#Queensland amusement park case verdict cd be a classic example of how a prosecution can collude to lose a case. No dispute at all that it is Govt land.Only issue is whether it belongs to HRCE or Revenue Dept.Eviction sought by HRCE quashed bcos they cd not prove it as their land

Why isn't Revenue Dept pressing its case for eviction? Dist. Collector rejected temple claim that the land was theirs. Also judgement says that Queensland offered to provide alternate land and Collector had inspected it. Contrast this with Sastra case where Govt says no

question of accepting alternate land. Two Departments of the same Govt. ostensibly "fight" with each other to allow an encroachment to continue. And shockingly Judgement says Govt is "considering" proposal of Queensland to provide alternate land. Most damning are these sentences

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Sumanth Raman

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May 30

On the #Karthikgopinath case the sculptor Padma Shri K V Munuswamy told me that HRCE often does not pay directly for the orders placed.They ask donors to do so on their behalf. For Siruvachur temple idols also he says that an advance was paid by devotees. He says devotees

also paid for the earlier works for the private temple which is nearing completion. He also said that the idols for the HRCE temples at #Siruvachur were being sculpted & work was going on in Villianur near Puducherry.He says he was approached by Karthik Gopinath who had told him

that funding would be through crowd sourcing &that 33 odd lakhs had been collected.Munuswamy says that work is in full swing and in a few months idols would be ready.He told me that HRCE is not directly paying for these idols.Karthik told him funds collected will be used to pay

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Sumanth Raman

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May 24

Thread on State Transport Corporations of Tamil Nadu.
1.TNSTC buses carried 2 crore passengers a day in 2010-11.That number dropped by 2019 before Covid to 1.4 crore.During Covid it dropped to around 75 lakh per day. Post Covid,buses carry 50-60% of numbers they did 10 yrs ago

2.Number of buses operated has remained more or less the same over last 7-8 years at around 20000 buses
3.Number of staff has remained almost the same over last decade at between 122,000 to 126000.
4.Bus fares in TN are lower than neighboring states despite hikes in 2011 & 2018

5.Accumulated debt of STCs is now >33000 crore. Interest payment is >Rs.1800 crore/year.
6.Employees per bus ratio is 6.3 against National average of 5.5. In AP & Karnataka it is below 5. This means there are at least 16,000 more employees than there should be for no.of buses

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Sumanth Raman

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May 21

A few weeks after the assassination of #RajivGandhi I got a call from the News Unit of DD Chennai asking for me to give the voice over for a tape that was being put together compiling the evidence.Since the evidence was confidential at that time,the dubbing would be done at night

For days together I would go to the studio post 10 pm. A DSP from the CBI team would join me along with one editor and a sound engineer. Painstakingly each piece of evidence would be given an exhibit number and the details of what it was, where it was found etc.wd be recorded

There were hundreds of such pieces of evidence and as the process continued it gave me an idea of the meticulous planning and sheer ruthlessness of the operation that killed Rajiv. Some of the photos were too gory to be published. Human remains shredded to bits was evidence too

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Sumanth Raman

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May 2

Lie 1:Students took oath in Sanskrit.NOT TRUE. It was in English
Lie 2:Oath taken on fire, Brahmin etc.NOT TRUE
Lie 3:Oath had in it stuff about not treating widows,growing beard etc.NOT TRUE
Lie 4:Central Govt said it is compulsory.NOT TRUE. It is optional #MaduraiMedicalCollege

The ability of the media to twist facts to suit a narrative is mind boggling. What oath the students took at Madurai is what should matter, not what all Charak wrote in the 2nd Century. I personally think that we should stick to the Hippocratic oath but that is just my opinion

But the students took an oath not too different from the Hippocratic oath, Now that the lies have been exposed they have latched on to the part about women patients not being examined alone without the presence of an attendant. This is widely practiced world over even today.

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Sumanth Raman

@sumanthraman

Apr 19

Dear Hindutva friends, a few points to ponder
1.Putting down Muslims is not going to make your lives better even by a tiny bit
2. By supporting intolerance&hate you are putting at risk your future and that of your children as no country which has persistent disharmony can thrive

3. It takes just one spark to burn down a forest. Do not think violence can be easily controlled or that it only happens to others.Most victims of communal violence are not those who indulge in violence themselves.
4.Those who feed you a steady drip of hate are better protected

They are guarded 24x7.
5.The unemployed youth who form a large part of these religious rallies are often hired or egged on to cause trouble or provoke.
6. There are crazies in all religions. They do not represent the faith. Ignore them. Do not give them the publicity they crave

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