sources has said xi is actually doval in disguise
original xi is in amdavad
Sep 22, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
why bungalis tell like ‘omit sah’
and then panjabis is calling ‘mit sa’
Aug 18, 2022 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
- puri has no real agency (no min does)
- his text was unequivocal (on this subject of all things)
- mha dismissal made no ref to him
- his walk-back was perfunctory
wish political reporters (assuming any remain) could provide insight into what happened. this is not ordinary
ani reported same thing as puri a day before puri tweets (still up). story says ‘high level meeting’ and mha was in attendance. meaning puri tweeted out what someone higher up had approved. perhaps twitter pushback from loons made them change decision
2. laws criminalising hindu muslim marriage. burden of proof reversed. adult woman’s testimony insufficient. husband must prove no coercion. Conversions to Hinduism exempted
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Oct 20, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
good governance means never prepare before matartrok
from early 2015. modi wanted to cut the part of population receiving SUBSIDISED grain from 67% to 40%.
today 60% of indians — 800 million individuals — receive FREE grain because modinomics has finished this nation’s economy off
india is persecuting its minorities legally and through policy.
- 12 gauge shotguns firing birdshot into protestors are used only in kashmir. hundreds blinded, many dead
- zero chargesheets of murder, rape, torture, kidnap of kashmiris by armed forces ever been prosecuted 1/n
- as of 2019 muslims are only community whose divorce (a civil wrong) is criminalised
- also in 2019 india introduced discrimination in citizenship against muslims through caa
- beef lynching as category of violence didn’t exist before 2015. it began
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Jul 5, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
“Adani Group signed an MoU with the BJP Jharkhand government for a total investment of Rs 50,000 crore. “
Father Stan Swamy 1/n business-standard.com/article/econom…
The BJP in Jharkhand diluted two laws, the Chotanagpur Tenancy Act (Birsa Munda’s gift) and the Santhal Pargana Tenancy Act. The dilutions would it possible to give Adivasi land to industrialists.
The Adivasis rebelled.
Father Stan Swamy 2/n
May 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
May 3, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This should tell you all you need to know about Piyush’s oxygen express bombast. In two weeks (launched 20 April) they’ve delivered 1125 tons of oxygen. Delhi alone has a DAILY requirement of 900 tons of oxygen. aninews.in/news/national/…
“1125 MT of Liquid Medical Oxygen in 76 tankers to various states on 20 Oxygen express trains”
1 tanker = ~15 tons
Delhi alone needs 60 tankers a day. Remember that next time Piyush tweets shot of a train carrying 5 tankers. This isn’t going to cut it. Something else needed.
Mar 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
Thapar interviewed Shyam Saran (my fellow columnist at Business Standard). Saran was dismissive of Amnesty, but said Modi should be cautious with US/multilat bodies. Not sure he understands these bodies tell India what they do because of Amnesty and groups like it. For example…
The two Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights reports on Kashmir have 84 references to Amnesty reports. This is credibility. India can be dismissive but MEA doesn’t appear to know how the world works.
Watching farmer press conference. They’re targeting Reliance and Jio. Boycott of products. Laying out timetable for further protests on the street in Punjab, Haryana, UP, MP, Rajasthan.
Going to block Jaipur Delhi highway before the 12th.
Aug 3, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Short Schandillia on why Advani should be allowed to go to Ayodhya.
Babri finds no mention in JS/BJP manifesto from 1951-1984 though idols smuggled into mosque only months before Jana Sangh formed. Under Mookerjee JS won 3 seats, under Upadhyaya 14, BJP under Vajpayee 2.
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Advani was film reviewer for Organiser when made Delhi Councillor. Became minister through Rajya Sabha. Made BJP head in 1986. Sniffed opportunity in Babri.
Latched on to VHP movement to 1) Open mosque to Hindus 2) Let VHP lay bricks with Ram name (‘Shila’) next to mosque
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Jul 8, 2020 • 8 tweets • 4 min read
More reliable high frequency data on our economy is automobile, two wheeler and commercial vehicle sales. We can compare sales of a month to same month year to measure growth.
This is trend we have.
November 2019 compared to November 2018
2 wheelers down 14%
4 wheelers down 7%
December 2019 compared to December 2018
Two wheelers down 16%
Four wheelers down .1%
Jun 30, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
The Indian is attracted to charisma whether it is acetic (Gandhi), comic (Laloo) or heroic (Modi).
The intellectual (Ambedkar, Manmohan) is not appealing for this reason. It is a shallow nation.
Our god men know this and that is why they appear in costume.
Gandhi’s asceticism was meaningless without its display. He knew it and therefore made much of it. Was bright man.
Jun 24, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
Doing a short Schandillia
Amit was never given Cabinet rank for decade as home minister. Portfolio was always held by Modi himself. Six months after Godhra, two men with assault rifles murdered 30 at Ahmedabad’s Akshardham temple. Modi’s police investigated.
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In 2006, a POTA court sent down convictions. Headlines lauded effectiveness of the investigation.
"Mansuri was very well versed with Urdu and his vocabulary his vocabulary and fluency in the letter reflected that," handwriting expert JJ Patel said.
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Jun 23, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Doing a short Schandillia.
Golwalkar sensed that the RSS would get into trouble once the details of Gandhi’s assassination were out. He acted immediately. On the day of the killing, January 30, 1948, he sent telegrams to RSS branches suspending operations for 13 days.
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The same day he also telegrammed Nehru, Patel and Devdas Gandhi with a message of condolence: “shocked at this cruel fatal attack and tragic loss of greatest personality."
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Apr 1, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Italy had 1600 infected on March 1. Today it has 1 lakh.
India has 1600 on April 1. If we follow Italian trajectory and isolation (remember balcony singing last month) we will be at 1 lakh on April 30.
But Italy tests 250 times more than India
Most infected won’t be tested because they either don’t come under Govt testing protocol (foreign travel, close associate, symptoms) or will not feel ill enough. But they will continue to spread infection.
It’s possible our April 30 count may be many times higher than Italy’s
Mar 28, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
S Asia reporting much lower rate than ROW. Are desis special? No. But forwarding message sent by Bombay friend.
“I just spoke to a respiratory diseases specialist at Hinduja. He talked about two things:
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First, they had one case of a guy who came from abroad who was admitted there for respiratory issues for five days, with two days in ICU, before they discovered it was Covid. He was then shifted to Kasturba where he died a few days later.
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December 2019 compared to December 2018
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