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Sep 5 8 tweets 2 min read
#BJPOnTheBackfoot
"The BJP was not prepared for the setback in Bihar, a crucial state where the Nitish Kumar-led JD(U) switched sides and joined hands with the Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD)."

indianexpress.com/article/politi…
"This sudden rhetoric and diatribe against AAP leaders can have only two reasons – you decide to make it stronger and more relevant to cut down the other opponent (in this case, the Congress in Himachal Pradesh and Gujarat) or you are desperate,”
"With Mamata Banerjee in West Bengal, Nitish Kumar in Bihar, K Chandrasekhar Rao and MK Stalin in the south, and Arvind Kejriwal in the north, the BJP has formidable competition from different regions."
States where @BJP4India will have a tough fight
"Tamil Nadu (39 seats) Kerala (20), Telangana (17), Andhra Pradesh (25), Bihar (40), Punjab (13), Odisha (21), and West Bengal (42) together have more than 200 seats. “The comfort zones have shrunk,”
"the silence of the top leadership on the recent order on the remission of the life sentences of 11 convicts in the Bilkis Bano gang-rape case (and the developments that followed) made them uneasy,"
“No genuine RSS leader or a member can justify it. In the ‘shakhas’, we grew up hearing the chivalry and bravery of Shivaji. We grew up hearing the stories that Shivaji never tolerated the dishonour of women."
"Women from captured territories were sent back with honour by him. No Hindu king revered in our legends disrespected women,” said a leader."

"This all happened immediately after Prime Minister Narendra Modi made a strong pitch for respect and empowerment of ‘Nari Shakti "

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Sep 7
#ATrueMuslimReformist
People glibly talk about men who are ahead of their times. But Hamid Dalwai was truly such a one. A fearless Muslim reformist who unfortunately died at the early age of 44. daijiworld.com/news/newsDispl…
Hamid Dalwai's name is unknown to most Hindus and most Muslims MAY NOT WANT to remember him.

"Born on September 29, 1932, in Mirjoli village of Ratnagiri district in Konkan, Maharashtra, he is most famous for the March that he organised without any political
backing for the rights of Muslim women, in 1966 on April 18 against the triple talaq, (oral pronunciation of divorce in Muslim Personal Laws banned in most Muslim majority countries except India till a recent Supreme Court ruling)."
Read 7 tweets
Sep 7
#CastelessSociety
 As she graduated from the University of Oxford with a master’s degree in Comparative Social Politics, Juhi Koré took to LinkedIn to write a note on her late maternal grandfather.

thebetterindia.com/296550/linkedi…
"her grandfather, who belonged to a lower-caste family in Maharashtra, had to fight for his right to study throughout his childhood."

Juhi’s grandfather made a deal with his parents that he would work on the farm from 3 am so he could make it to school for the second half of the
morning. Unfortunately, even after walking for nearly 1.5 hours every day, without even a good pair of shoes to wear, the young boy was not allowed to sit inside the classroom."

Despite all the bullying from his upper caste peers, discrimination from his upper caste teachers,
Read 6 tweets
Sep 6
#PreservingVeggies
IIT Guwahati is ready with an edible coating to help preserve veggies & fruits for longer duration.

“It can help preserve vegetables and fruits for as long as two months. s.
indianexpress.com/article/techno…
"For example, coating ripe tomatoes increased the shelf life of tomatoes by close to one month when compared to uncoated tomatoes, when stored under ambient temperature."
"it is difficult to keep strawberries fresh for more than 5 days. But with our coating, ripe strawberries can be preserved for more than 20 days,” Vimal Katiyar told indianexpress.com over email."
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Sep 5
"Indeed, while doing so Pakistan can also make it clear that it is doing so only for humanitarian reasons. That will be tantamount to implicitly claiming that its positions on the issues which divide the two countries remain the same."

ARE WE IMBECILES?

firstpost.com/opinion-news-e…
"However, such is the depth of animus, enormous egos and feudal mindsets of its ruling civil and military elites that they would let their people suffer and live in deprivation than ask India for supplies."

EVERYTHING EXCEPT ISLAM WHICH MAKES THEM HATE OUR GUTS.
SELF-DELUSION.
"Pakistan’s finance minister Miftah Ismail.He told the media on 29 August that Pakistan would consider importing vegetables & critically short food items from India because of the impact of the floods"

'WOULD CONSIDER'. HEAR THAT!!

AND WE STILL HAVE OUR OWN DELUSIVE IMBECILES🙄
Read 5 tweets
Aug 31
Another attempt by Terrorrist State Pakistan to pretend injured innocence.

For 1500 years all decenciesy have been reciprocated by pillage, murder, rape, conversion & destruction.

That is true, right down till yesterday.
deccanherald.com/international/…
No reason to be shames into extending generosity.

The viper will bite, the moment it gains strength and even when it is weak.

This is the time to strike, not stay one's hand.
"Despite THE GOODWILL THAT PAKISTAN HAS CONSISTENTLY EXHIBITED FIR SIX YEARS we don't see that being reciprocated by our friends across the border,"

This is the level of self-delusion🙄
Read 7 tweets
Aug 29
#JapanInIndia
Suzuki Motor Gujarat Electric Vehicle Battery Manufacturing Facility will be set up with around Rs 7,300 crore worth of investment to manufacture batteries for Electric Vehicles (EVs).
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/electric…
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Maruti Suzuki’s upcoming vehicle manufacturing facility in Kharkhoda, Haryana will have a manufacturing capacity will be 10 lakh vehicles annually.

The first phase of the project will be set up with an investment of over Rs 11,000 crore.
The facility’s vehicle manufacturing capacity will be Rs 10 lakh vehicles annually.

The first phase of the project will be set up with an investment of over Rs 11,000 crore.
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