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@BCNagesh_bjp has lost his reelection campaign. It's a relief. Why? Watch this documentary by @DeutscheWelle: & read this thread to appreciate implications were Nagesh back in power.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle As a core member of @BJP4India & @RSSorg, & more particularly as the Education Minister of Karnataka under @BSBommai as @CMofKarnataka, Nagesh piloted one of the most devastating attacks on history, culture & literature in the state.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka He aggressively manipulated school texts and forced kids to read RSS trash. He was essentially pushing to place several books that are found in a bookstore next to my office. Image
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka Nagesh did not burn books. But if he was reelected, he just might have thought of that too. Given the path he was on, one of the steps that would follow would have been to purge books that did not fit into the frameworks of RSS, just as the SA did in Nazi Germany.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka In this documentary by @DeutscheWelle we see how the ancient idea of book burning was employed in 1933 by students & law professors servile to #Hitler & #Nazi s to attack the very idea of innate diversities of human thought & expression, which eventually led to the…
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka …destruction....

of..... art, cultures, of German democracy itself & eventually resulted in the #Holocaust, destruction of Europe, millions of deaths, millions more miseries across the world.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka What happened in Germany in 1933 is kind of similar to what is happening in India now. Where one is attacked for supporting liberal art, theatre & literature, or becoz of what you wear (Nagesh is the #Hijab-ban man), what you eat, who you love & what you believe in.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @DKShivakumar @INCIndia After what was really terrible and divisive governance by @BJPKarnataka over the past few years, they have a huge responsibility to rebuild democratic, secular, liberal values of Karnataka which were attacked and dismembered. These need to be reclaimed & restored.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @DKShivakumar @INCIndia @BJPKarnataka There is too much to be done to ensure India moves forward on the basis of truth, honesty, equality & fraternity guaranteeing equitable progress & sustainability, & away from hatred, bigotry & fakery which has consumed this nation over the past several years.
@BCNagesh_bjp @DeutscheWelle @BJP4India @RSSorg @BSBommai @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @DKShivakumar @INCIndia @BJPKarnataka As the documentary implores, it is a time to be alert and do something, anything, right. I hope Karnataka will not lose the opportunity it has now to take steps to transform India back to a country that promotes peace & fraternity of all with all.

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An enriching not so early morning outing at Sarakki lake, south Bangalore.

Go see the lake teeming with spot billed pelicans, cormorants, purple moorhen, little grebe, painted storks, egrets, pond heron, fish, fishers and walkers!
If only the walking path (not natural to the lake) was gently sloping into the water, the lake would have been teeming with more wild birds - particularly dozens of species of waders. (Shores potentially support about 70% of bird life)
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Now everyone must use this order and ensure every village, talluk, ward, city and district protects, rehabilitates and governs lakes and Raja kaluves as commons, based on traditional knowledge and wisdom and new scientific understanding of wetlands, and thus secure our lives…
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