The Elephant Whisperers triumphs at the #AcademyAwards - Kartiki Gonsalves and Guneet Monga win the Oscar for Best Documentary Short Subject - the first ever for an Indian Production at the #Oscars.
Overwhelmed by the flurry of revelations on the Adani Group's Total Gas operations? Looking for facts in an ocean of fake news cloaked in hyperpatriotism & conspiracy theories?
Here's a thread to help...
27 Feb 2010: Gautam Adani's brother, Rajesh Adani was arrested for alleged duties evasion on naphtha imports in Goa. He had been arrested around 5 years earlier for fraud in diamond trading too. dnaindia.com/india/report-m…
01 Nov 2012: The Adani Group faced numerous challenges over violations of rules in the Tadoba tiger reserve & Mundra, threatening the Great Barrier Reef in Australia, etc., all of which vanished after 2014. rediff.com/business/slide…
Record job loss, inflation & cronyism are no excuses not to say #HappyBdayModiji.
Since I'm jobless, here's a thread of videos to entertain Narendrabhai & other jobless folk...
Modi the Mathematician figured out where the 2ab in (a+b)² comes from. You see, no one had taught him that (a+b) * (a+b) inherently produces it.
So he spent his entire sojourn in some Himalayan cave to come up with this explanation...
#ClimateEmergency activists have long despaired of human society acting with any urgency on the issue. Modi the Modifier brilliantly figured out that the way to tackle a global problem is to completely redefine it. The climate hasn't changed, it is humans who are getting older...
As for the RSS and the Hindu Mahasabha, the flag-bearers of Hindutva pre-Independence: What were they doing while the Indian National Congress was repeatedly agitating for freedom?
When INC demanded independence in 1939...
When INC launched the Quit India Movement in 1942...
#SriLankaProtests illustrate results when bigoted policy intersects economic incompetence.
Bodu Bala Sena appropriated non-violent Buddhism to fuel majoritarianism in #SriLanka. Various Hindutva elements appropriate syncretic Hinduism to drive supremacist nationalism in India...
The Rajapaksa clan patronized the BBS.
#GotabayaRajapaksa inaugurated their "Buddhist Leadership Academy" in 2013, saying it's of "timely importance” & "they are engaged in a nationally important task & should not be feared or doubted by anyone"... colombotelegraph.com/index.php/gota…
The monks who lead the BBS have been accused of hate speech, instigating riots, leading vigilante attacks.
Hey @ShekharGupta, you claim that WHO estimate of India's #COVID fatalities is based on zero data, just modeling.
After sifting all data compiled in this 🧵, provided by journalists who took their vocation seriously including in @ThePrintIndia, give us your undercount estimate..
Source:ICMR, May 2020 study
ICMR's Case Count Estimate: 64.68 Lakhs (based on 0.73% of population infected in 700 villages & urban areas)
India's official Case Count: 00.86 Lakhs
Discrepancy: 75.21x @abantika77 reports for @ShekharGupta's @ThePrintIndia theprint.in/health/india-m…
It was reported later, for instance here by @ScienceTales, that Bhargava, Head of ICMR, ordered researchers to omit high infection counts from 10 metros in the May sero study. telegraphindia.com/india/how-covi…
While Modi & sycophants devote themselves to guarding 56 inches, China intrudes kilometres deep into India, almost at will & with no consequences. Just a few incidents reported in Indian media (many of whom are complicit in the 56" protection plan)... ⬇️ #BorderKhatreMeHai