Kaha hai 'RW' waale jinhone isko major reform bola? Sabke definitions hee hiley huey hai. Thoda sochte toh galatiya dikhti. Aur muh ki naa khaate.
Principles toh 'access' paane ke liye girvi rakh diye. Ab bhugto unke bhi taaney jo kabhi tumko ek corporator tak chunke nahi dete.
It is easy to predict the line the party & govt will take on this. They will *still* manage a win out of this (yup Ripley's Believe it or not).
Mar 12, 2020 • 14 tweets • 5 min read
Shiv Jayanti per tithi today 🙏🏻
Jai Bhavani
Jai Shivaji #Fort thread on this occasion. Forts remain the best connection to the legacy of our Raje.
Jan 26, 2020 • 15 tweets • 6 min read
This Hampi trip had another agenda. To document a specific Hanuman ji Mudra that @TheSignOfFive has been tracking for quite a few yrs now (I have a few MH contributions too in that set of hers 😄).
It's amazing how much one can find in Hampi if you seek it. Read on.
This one with Shendur is on Malayavant Parvat. Apparently the place where Rama & Lakshmana spent a rainy season when they came to Kishkindha😄
This temple has THE MOST BEAUTIFUL idols of Ram-Sita-Lakshman-Hanuman. It's the highest Hill in the area, it doubles as a sunset pt 😄
Sep 17, 2019 • 37 tweets • 10 min read
#HyderabadLiberationDay#MarathwadaMuktiSangramDin Thread on how Ganapati Celebrations, Nizam's follies, Razakar terror, common people's bravery, deft political manoeuvres, armed resistance, daring attempts, rapid 'police' action #OperationPolo led to Sept 17th, 1948.
When Lokmanya Tilak gave the call for Sarvajanik Ganapati celebrations in 1893, one of the first few people to answer his call outside MH were from Hyderabad..! In 1894, the Marathi speaking population of Hyd started Public celebrations of Ganapati at 2 locations.
May 16, 2019 • 14 tweets • 6 min read
1000yr old Palasnath temple. It gets submerged in Ujani dam backwaters for most of the year. Insanely beautiful 😍
Up close 😍
Feb 25, 2019 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
Thread on Indian Railways initiative. @PiyushGoyal ji spoke of a Rail Drishti app. Like his stint in the Power ministry, with dashboards in real-time to track the ministry initiatives, his new stint in Railways brings to us Rail Drishti. Here's the site - raildrishti.cris.org.in/raildrishti/da…
The site opens with a dashboard listing numbers & their growth y-o-y. With a rai line map on the right. A small gears symbol on the right opens up a tab where one can toggle the buttons to highlight different station categories onto the map. I toggled NSG 3 for e.g
