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Consultant: Hospitality & Brand. Social Liberal. Agnostic. Favorite phrase: Last man standing! বাঙালি। Ideologically Nehruvian. Politically unaffiliated.
Mar 5 4 tweets 1 min read
Madam @tavleen_singh, it wasn't even elementary math. You know that. The problem with you is that you're desperate to be accepted in WhatsApp University. That, coupled with your visceral hatred for Sonia Gandhi (evidence in quoted tweet), makes you blabber nonsense.
Coming to
+ the question of clean water & sanitation (sounding like a broken record), what was India's situation in 1947? You should know. After all, you weren't born post 2014. And you're a "journalist" as well.
India's GDP in '47 was $227 bn (90 international dollar).
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Jun 30, 2023 24 tweets 8 min read
The image is from 30th June, 1986.
That was the day, when the historic Mizo Peace Accord was signed.
Now tell me what's odd in this photo?
The then PM Rajiv Gandhi, instrumental in pushing through this Accord, is missing from the frame. Odd? Let's go back to the 80s.
Contd. But first, some background.
Officially, the Mizoram Conflict started from 1966. But its genesis was much older.
The Mizo people were incorporated to the British rule since the 1870 as a retaliation of the Mizo people invading the British territory. After India gained
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Jun 25, 2023 21 tweets 7 min read
#RSS AND EMERGENCY. A long🧵.
Come 25th June. BJP+ RSS and their band of acolytes make it a point to remind us of the horrors of the #Emergency.
Emergency was wrong. INC has accepted it in no uncertain terms & has paid a price. But we need to examine what exactly was
+ the role of @RSSorg during that period. Was it at the forefront of the struggle against #Emergency_In_1975, as it is made out to be? Or was there more to it?
Let us examine.
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Jun 23, 2023 7 tweets 2 min read
EXCERPTS FROM THE DIARY OF A TELEPROMPTER.
21st June:
10:43 EST. OMG! OMG! OMG! This is huuge. He is going to do a Presser. That's news in itself. But the bigger news is.... I'm going to be a part of it!! How rad is that?!? Haan? This is a first.
I'm filled with excitement.
+ 14:57 EST. The IT guys are here. Now they'll start tinkering with me. This is the bad part. Where they feed me with so much garbage.
18:30 EST. Time for a dress rehearsal. He is here. And he's sweating. Just for a rehearsal.
They've set the other part of me so far away. All
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Jun 5, 2023 17 tweets 3 min read
Excerpts from the diary of a technocrat-politician.

Day 0.
19:25 PM. Horrific news coming in from an Eastern state. Massive accident involving an iconic train, a goods train & another train. Details still sketchy. But casualties feared to be very high. Should leave for ground
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19:40 PM. Instructed them to setup a situation room in the nearest junction. Will monitor the rescue operations from there.

20:07 PM. Got a call from the Big Leader's office. With instructions to not reach before midnight. And announce my arrival via social
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Jun 3, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
2 arguments have come up from the RW ecosystem, to counter crisis.
#WrestlersProtest. Put @MrsGandhi's argument in the corporate context.
Imagine, you're a bright woman. The management spots potential. Sponsors your skill development programs. You perform. You get bonus & Image promotion. But the moment you accept these, you basically surrender your right to say "No" or resist advances from sexual predators.
That's what you were implying, right @MrsGandhi?
Now, let's come to the #TrainAccident. According to #MeToo accused @Suhelseth, the
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Jun 3, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
Here's #ToolKit of the RW ecosystem....on how to cause distraction and diversion from the main issue.
1. Whataboutery.
There's an accident today. In India. Let's talk about accidents in US. In India in 2004. Normally started lower down the chain.
+ ImageImage 2. Conspiracy theories. Wilder they are, the better. This is where the big ones get involved. They slip in the tried and tested "Hindu x Muslim" narrative.
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Jun 3, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
Let's see who's the vulture who preys over the dead.
#Pulwama.
Let's put aside that he was busy shooting. The main opposition declared "no politics over tragedy".
And the vulture swooped in, asking for votes in the name of martyrs.
+ Image Not for the first time. He was there, right in front of the Taj, addressing the press, as #MumbaiAttack was unfolding behind him. There's more.
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May 26, 2023 9 tweets 13 min read
#NaakamiKe9Saal
9 years of disaster. There are so many instances, that it would be tough to pick just 9.
Here's my list.
1. #Demonetisation. That one stroke of stupidity that literally broke the nation's back. ImageImageImage #NaakamiKe9Saal
2. #Pulwama
Still remains a mystery, how a vehicle loaded with explosives could move around, undetected, in J&k, one of the most militarised regions in the world. What was more shameful than this was how BJP used this tragedy for electoral gains.
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