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Feb 28

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@rahulbh12 Thank you so much. I see the abuse hurled at Bengalis all the time. We bongs accept those hurls and reply with cheap unsubstantiated come backs. I am just trying to do my bit here telling stories about some phenomenal Bengalis who have been the architects of new #India .....(1/2)

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@rahulbh12 (2/n) and history has not been kind to them because they didn't flaunt their achievements. It's an open challenge to a billion people on Social Media. Find me one family in the last 800 years like the Mukherjee's of #Uttarpara.
1) #KrittivasOjha - Krittivas #Ramayan..........

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@rahulbh12 (3/n) 2) #MaaSharada - w/o #RamkrishnaParamanhsa
3) #NityanandaMahaprabhu - Considered incarnation of Balarama
4) #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee - co founder of @INCIndia with Hume. Check original manifesto for proof.
5) #SirAshutoshMukherjee
6)#RajaPearyMohanMukherjee
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Feb 9

@truecaller

I don't know what it is about Indians and their complete aloofness to #Privacy & #DataSecurity. 5 years back I used to get 1 spam call a day. Today I get 15-20. I have been asked to download @truecaller by 1 in 2 people that I know and could not stop laughing. Most folks (1/n)

(2/n) don't even know how #cookies & #consentmanagement works. Let's clarify a few things about Truecaller.
1) It's a firm registered in #Stockholm started by Nami Zarringhalam and Alan Mamedi. Mamedi is a Kurdish born in a refugee camp in northern Sweden, while Zarringhalam..

(3/n) is of Iranian descent. The apps biggest market in India because they how callous we are with our #PersonalIdentifiableData. Now let's understand how this app works. Even if you DO NOT consent to open up your address book, it can collect your entire personal data from a.....

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@GhostedOU812

Dec 10, 2022

This will be a #Burnol moment for many. I will give you proof that all the history we are taught in schools & colleges in pure junk. They were all written by a certain vested political class. We need to fix it now. This tweet is about who founded the great #CalcuttaUniversity +

@primrose

The 1st ever letter drafted towards establishing a state of the art University in India in lines of Oxford and Cambridge was drafted than none other than my GGGG grandfather #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee in 1846. @primrose, you wanted it, I got it. The entire proposal! Earlier I ++

(3/n) just published the first page of the handwritten proposal. Here is the entire letter and everything is available at #UttarparaJoykrishnaLibrary if you want evidence. So here's the sequence of events in the run upto establishing one of the best Universities in the world++

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@GhostedOU812

Dec 9, 2022

@prateepmisra

@prateepmisra @ProfMKay @TheWIPMan I think I am going to lose my job soon. The more I am reading my family history, the more addicted I am getting. I may need help with a job😉 #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee, way before @NobelPrize was envisioned, launched a Global Award in the (1/n)

(2/n) in the field of General Science, astro physics & space technology. With the help of Mahendralal Sarkar (with whom he co founded Indian Cultivation of Science he launched "Joykrishna Gold Award". A trophy made in gold was to be awarded to the top scientists in the world for

(3/n) their contribution to research in science and technology. Among the winners of this award was Sir James Jeans. Sir Jeans was one of the world's foremost thinkers in the area of quantum theory, the theory of radiation and stellar evolution ++

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@GhostedOU812

Dec 9, 2022

Since the capital of India moved from #Calcutta (Kolkata) to #Delhi, for some reason the hatred for Mukherjees became evident. I can guess why #RajaJoykrishna was wiped out, but why his younger cousin #SirAshutoshMukherjee? If you are a student of #Mathematics, have u ever (1/n)

(2/n) been taught "Mookerji Theorems"? While Raja Joykrishna Mukherjee was the architect of #CalcuttaUniversity (I will be publishing the complete proposal he gave to Cecil Beadon) the 3 biggest financial contributors were Sir Ashutosh, Taraknath Palit and eminent barrister++

(3/n) Rashbehari Ghose.
Trivia: There is a debate whether Rashbehari Avenue is named after Rashbehari Bose of Rashbehari Ghose. Their GGG Grandson is a good friend of mine and interestingly there is rift in the family over this. Bose was from his mother's side while Ghose.....

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@GhostedOU812

Dec 8, 2022

Close your eyes, get on the time machine and imagine the period between 24th August 1808 and 1900. Elder cousin brother #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee sets up 59 schools in 1 month in #Bengal, a record no has broken globally, sets up Indian Cultivation of Science & Calcutta (1/n)

(2/n) University that produced the greatest scholars in the world while younger brother #SirAshutoshMukherjee contribution in the field of #Mathematics led to his appointment as a Fellow of the Royal Astronomical Society and a Member of the Royal Society of Edinburgh in +++

(3/n) (at the age of 21), a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh, a Member of the Royal Asiatic Society and a Member of the Bedford Association for the Improvement of Geometrical Teaching in 1886, a Fellow of the London Physical Society in 1887+++

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