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Mar 8

On #WomensDay2023, not a single tweet from any woman among 1.3 bn people India who thought it was worthy to pay respect to the 1 man who fought with the British machinery to
1) Sponsor & be the 1st signatory on the Widow remarriage Act
2) Build 59 schools in 1 year in #Bengal

(2/n) and 29 schools exclusively for women when women were banned from attending schools
3) 7 of these schools were English medium when women of India were banned from attending English medium schools
4) Hitkari Sabha (1868)- Asia's 1st #NGO specially set up to empower women....

(5/n) and make them independent and self sufficient
5) Set up India's first English Medium College - #BethuneCollege that set the tone for ALL women colleges in India
6) Proposed setting up of #CalcuttaUniversity that could be the 1st University in India producing some of....

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@GhostedOU812

Mar 8

@Twitter

@Twitter can be such a great accoutre to discuss so many important social imperatives yet we squabble over the most abhorrent issues. For example #DigitalInclusion. Today there are close to 1 bn people with #disabilities globally. How many of those are in India? We don't (1/2)

@RahulGandhi

(2/n) know because we have been so frigin busy with discussing Modis suit or @RahulGandhi s trip to #CambridgeUniversity we ran the last census in 2011. Tax payers are paying truck load of money to sponsor a government department called The Department of Empowerment of Persons..

@MahuaMoitra

(3/n) With Disabilities. I am thinking why the bastions of morality & righteousness like @MahuaMoitra @ShefVaidya @derekobrienmp @RanaAyyub @BDUTT @RShivshankar @fayedsouza @UnSubtleDesi @ARanganathan72 @sagarikaghose @sardesairajdeep @KarunaGopal1 et al never discuss how we can

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@GhostedOU812

Feb 28

@rahulbh12

@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)

@rahulbh12

@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..........

@rahulbh12

@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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@GhostedOU812

Feb 28

What's common between India's greatest scientists - CV Raman, Acharya Prafulla Chandra Roy, Megnad Saha, Acharya Jagadish Chandra Bose, Satyendranath Bose, P.C Mahalonobis et al. They went to #CalcuttaUniversity. Who proposed setting up India's first autonomous University?..(1/2)

(2/n) #RajaJoykrishnaMukherjee. Way before #NobelPrize was envisoned in early 1900s, in the mid 1800 this very man had expressed his interest to set up a global award in Physics, Chemistry, Biology, Mathematics & Philosophy. It was called Joykrishna Gold award and the 1st.....

(3/n) recipient was Sir James Jeans, the father of #British #Cosmology. Although the vision of this award was set by Joykrishna Mukherjee, it was actually made operational much later by his son #RajaPearyMohanMukherjee. Joykrishna in the mid 1800s envisioned that India should...

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@GhostedOU812

Feb 9

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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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