I have decided to do a thread on why EVM hacking is not possible at scale. I have no expectation of changing conspiracy theorist beliefs.

This thread is for those people who are genuinely looking for answers. (1/n) The EVMs used to have a control and ballot unit. The balloting unit has buttons that will transfer the information to the control unit, where the votes are recorded.

Since there are concerns raised from many corners, the EC has introduced a VVPAT system. (2/n)

Dear @TVMohandasPai,

Hope you are doing well. You are right when you say that Nehru pushed for socialism and not capitalism.

India was under imperialism for 200 years (highest form of capitalism) and the result was widespread inequality in Indian society back then. (1/n)

https://twitter.com/TVMohandasPai/status/1724403675937013770

It was not just Nehru, the whole political spectrum was against foreign capital back then through which India was colonized. It was quite natural.

You can blame Nehru for it. But he had a vision to begin with on how to achieve the economic goals and he worked towards it. (2/n)

Arvind vs Arvind: Who is right?

Arvind Subramaniam, first CEA of Modi Govt, published a paper "India’s GDP Mis-estimation: Likelihood, Magnitudes, Mechanisms, and Implications" in 2019.

Arvind Panagariya, first Vice-Chairman of Niti Aayog countered it last week like below (1/n) To assess who's correct about GDP, let's examine sector-specific growth outside of GDP.

Check industry reports, trade data, industry associations, and government reports for insights on sectors like car and steel production.

This data can help validate their predictions (2/n)

▪️ If Adani shares are overvalued by 85%, how much is the Indian stock market overvalued?

▪️ What keeps the bubble going?

▪️ Should you stay invested?

Long thread Warning! I hope it will be worth it.

(1/n) How can we estimate the size of the bubble?

BSE Sensex averaged 20,120 in FY 2013-14. NIFTY-50 averaged at 6009. In Dec-2022, Sensex hit an all-time high of 63,583 and NIFTY hit 18,887.

Sensex rose by 3.16x times and NIFTY by 3.14x in 8 years. What's wrong with this?

(2/n)

There are several misleading claims about the Bangalore-Mysore expressway. One is the distance between is reduced to 118km from 142 km.

This appeared in several online media and I spotted it in a leading Malayalam Newspaper @ManoramaDaily. (1/n) Fact #1. The distance between the two cities didn't reduce. It is still 143 km (went up by 1 km).

Fact #2. The 118km is the distance covered by the new expressway.

Next time. Even Nitin Gadkari claims that the time between the cities has reduced from 3 hours to 75 mins. (2/n)

I did some voice analysis of @RahulGandhi a couple of years ago.

I always felt that only a handful of RaGa's speeches resonate with me and while others are very difficult to listen to.

So, I did a frequency spectrum analysis using my limited knowledge of the subject. (1/13) Human ears can detect and listen to frequencies in the range of 20Hz - 20Khz theoretically.

The tool that I used creates a frequency spectrum from an audio clip. I used two clips, the first from a rally at Jaipur, and the Project Shakti launch video (2/13)

Why organic farming using organic fertilizers is a bad idea for Govts to pursue?

This thread is to logically prove what @ShashiTharoor told the other day.

A human body is made of these elements found in nature of which Carbon(C), Hydrogen(H) and Oxygen(O) forms the bulk. (1/14) 65.1 kg of a human being weighing 70kg, is made up of Carbon, Hydrogen and Oxygen (CHO).

The person also holds 2.1 Kg Nitrogen, 1.05 Kg Calcium, 840g Phosphorous and so on. (2/14)

How much money did UPA and NDA Govts make out of Petrol and Diesel?

Back in 2014, an average Indian family used to pay ₹10,000 in taxes on fuel. In 2021, the same family is contributing ₹25,000 every year as taxed on Fuel.

(1/4) Before 2014, state governments used to make around 40% more than Central Govt. Now under Modi is making nearly double (92%) of state Govt revenues.

(2/4)

I filed an RTI with @BPCLimited seeking information about their land holdings across the country.

They chose not to answer by citing Section 7(9) of RTI Act, saying if there are no ready records available, and they are not liable to create, collate information and so on (1/9) The CPIO used the term "The area of landholdings of BPCL in different parts of India is VOLUMINOUS". This means that there is a lot of land spread across the country.

This throws some interesting questions. (2/9)

GROUND REPORT: Today a friend and I set out on a mission to map the vacant commercial spaces in Koramangala, Bengaluru.

Koramangala is the Manhattan of Bengaluru. This is where most tech start-ups like Flipkart took birth.

We tagged 132 establishments as you see below. (1/12) Koramangala is a posh residential/commercial suburb of Bengaluru.

This is where billionaires like @NandanNilekani, @kris_sg, @_sachinbansal, Binny Bansal and @kiranshaw lives.

Unicorns Infosys, Biocon, Flipkart and many more were started here. (2/12)

timesnownews.com/business-econo…

Dear All,

There is plenty of content on social media which can shed light & expose the true nature of the current ruling dispensation.

While there is no dearth of content, it is scattered all over.

youtube.com/channel/UC3dS6…

(1/4) So, we have created a channel that is intended to be a repository of such videos, a one-stop-shop reference channel of sorts, for convenience.

This will ensure that you don't have to scramble for a video all over the internet when you need to use it to some end.

(2/4)

Who owns Republic TV?

How much money are they making?

SARG Media Holding owns 80.77% of Republic TV and 16.38% by @rajeevmp through his Asianet News.

Others are recent investors from West Bengal. Republic TV was planning to launch in Bengali early this year.

(1/10) Who owns SARG Media?

You'll find a variety of names from Doctors like Ramankanta Panda, Cricketers like Niranjan Shah, Actors like Boman Irani.

There are others who represent industrial groups like TVS, Den Networks, Mahindra, SRF, investment bankers and equity funds.

(2/10)

BJP 💓 Chinese Communist Party - Ek Prem Kadha

A short thread on the love story!

On 2018 Independence Day, while Modi was addressing the nation, BJP's Ram Madhav was in Beijing with Song Tao, Minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.
(1/9) A year back, in 2017, he met the Guo Yezhou, Vice-minister of the International Department of the CPC Central Committee.

What was this meeting really about Mr. @rammadhavbjp? You owe us an explanation.

(2/9)

Who owns Patanjali?

At first sight, Acharya Balakrishna owns 98.54% of Patanjali, the 10,000 Cr FMCG company.

Wait, there is more to it. Let's look at the shareholding of these six companies.

(1/6) You might have guessed it. They are also owned mostly by Balakrishna.

Swami Muktanand is Ramdev's and Balakrishna's buddy at Patanjali Yogpeeth.

Ram Bharat is Baba Ramdev's brother, who is also the director of most of these companies along with Balakrishna.

(2/6)

Pakistan was nearly one-third of India on Independence. Today it is only one-fourth of India.

Who achieved this?

Congress!

What is BJP's contribution?

NOTHING

(1/16) Congress Governments added 337,239 km² of land to India in 54 years. And broke Pakistan into two pieces.

Pakistan lost 14.8% of their land in this period.

Let's talk about some history.

(2/16)

Who owns PayTM?

(1/4) Is the relation between Ali Baba and
@Paytm
just limited to investor-investee? Doesn't look like.

PayTM uses Alibaba's AliPay's technology and Alicloud for deployment. (2/4)

bizztor.com/paytm-enters-i…

Whenever China has an internal crisis, it turns its attention to a convenient target, India.

China did the same in 1962, it is repeating it now.

The widely-believed narrative is that Nehru's Forward Policy led to the war.

That's not the truth! Then, what's the truth?

(1/n) Bertil Lintner is a Swedish journalist and author who dedicated 40 years of his career on South East Asian affairs and a leading expert in the field.

In his book "China's India War", he examines what compelled China to attack India in 1962.

Listen to him with @maya206

(2/n)

"Every criminal leave behind a trace"

Let me debunk Arnab Goswami's latest story about the attack on him. He made a few mistakes.

1. He told, they were driving parallel, then stopped, and took a u-turn.

2. Started hitting his window. I assume that the car was stationary. (1/5) 3. Now, they are opposite to each other with the pillion rider next to Arnab banging his window pane. So far no ink throwing.

4. Now take a look at the way ink was thrown. Some from the side, but some from the front windshield, in the direction behind the biker. (2/5)

NH SCAM EXPOSÉ:

Dec-17: NHAI invites bids for 4-laning a 42-Km stretch in Telengana, est ₹1,050.63 Cr

Mar-18: Adani Transports born

Mar-19: Adani Tr granted bid @ ₹1,356.90 Cr

Oct-19: HG Infra granted project from Adani Tr for ₹950.79 Cr

Neat profit of ₹406.11 Cr! (1/4) Stretch: NH-363 from Mancherial to Repallewada, design length 42.000 km in Telangana

Estimated cost: ₹ 1,050.63 crore

(2/4)

Where do you see India in 2020?

A short fact check thread for the various pipe dreams Shri. @narendramodi & Co. has set and failed miserably. (1/9)

#Jumla2020

https://twitter.com/narendramodi_in/status/385395534736801793?s=20

Claim: By 2020 no untreated sewage to be disposed in Ganga

Fact: NGT slams authorities for inability to stop sewage discharge 18-Dec-2019 (2/9)

business-standard.com/article/pti-st…

https://twitter.com/narendramodi_in/status/756520629084516352?s=20

I tried to tag and map the number of speed-breakers / road-humps inside Electronic City Phase-1 & 2 township.

I could spot 80 speed-breakers within 17.9 km, i.e., 4.5 humps/km. This analysis is to root cause the high traffic snarls in EC Phase-1.

(1/21) Some context: Electronic City(EC) is an Industrial Township in Bengaluru, housing 158 companies including India's largest IT companies Infosys, Wipro, TCS and Tech Mahindra.

More than 1 lakh people work here.

(2/21)