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Siddhartha Verma
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Civil Servant-@IRTSassociation Patriot, Commonwealth Scholar Alumni @Cambridge_Uni @EmmaCambridge धर्मो रक्षति रक्षितः Views personal
Apr 1, 2023 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Why #VandeBharatExpress is a bigger reform than we all think (🧵Thread) -

Today, PM @NarendraModi will flag off the 11th #VandeBharatExpress train service between New Delhi & Bhopal. We all remember the 1st Varanasi- New Delhi Vande Bharat launch in Feb, 2019 (which happened… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… A bit of history-
After independence, India started using Swiss developed ICF rail coaches from 1955. For many decades until the 90s, coach technology was not upgraded. ICF coaches were heavier, slower and less safe. Accidents over IR saw huge casualties.
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Aug 14, 2022 • 13 tweets • 2 min read
16 August, 1946- Direct Action Day or the Great Calcutta Killings. On Partition Horrors Remembrance Day, let's not forget the genocide perpetrated by Muslim league exactly one year before independence to force partition on religious lines upon the people of India. (Thread) In 1940, Lahore Session of the Muslim League, the resolution to create Pakistan was passed. In the next few years, the demand gained popularity in some sections. 1946, Cabinet Mission was constituted by the British in which many included Congress and ML participated.
Aug 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
On 14th August, Saturn will be in opposition which means it will be closest (824 million miles) & brightest from earth. Saturn or Shani was of great interest to ancient Hindu astronomers like Aryabhatta, Latadeva, Varahamihira & Brahmagupta (Thread)

(Pic:Cassini Huygens probe) Image Saturn or Shani appears in several hindu astronomical texts such as 'Aryabhatiya' by Aryabhatta, 'Romaka Siddhanta', 'Pancha Siddhantika' by Varahamihira, 'Khandakhadyaka' by Brahmagupta. (contd.) Image
Jul 26, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
On #KargilVijayDiwas, let's look at the destructive ideas of Chaudhry Rahmat Ali- one of the earliest to coin the acronym 'Pakistan'. In this thread, I assert that 2 nation theory was not just a religious division but a denial of India's nationhood,civilisation & ancient culture In 1933, Rahmat Ali wrote a pamphlet 'Now or Never' addressed to the Round Table Conference asserting that India was never a home of one single nation or having one common history. It was created for the first time by British. Sounds similar to ideas of some people, doesn't it?