If the situation in the Middle East were a Sacred Games episode, and everyone was Ganesh Gaitonde.
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I don't take extreme stands usually. On Modi I did. Now I do on @SamsungIndia for:
a) poor product quality; and
b) swindling in name of service

I bought a side-by-side 692L Samsung fridge in Feb'23. It worked well till 17/4. What ensued was an unbelievable service experience. I logged a call early AM on 18/4 with Samsung. I was assured a technician will call ASAP and try to come same day. To be safe, I also logged a job with @urbancompany_UC (OOW fridge), with 1pm being the earliest slot. UC technician came first, checked compressor, seemed OK.

2/n

A ❓ here on Twitter prompted a thought around the phenomenon where (generally speaking) the more capable people dither more than the less capable; how confidence plagues the less able.

Dunning-Kruger effect, yes I know. But what leads to this effect is a deeper ❓

Short 🧵: The 🧵 is on 3 magnificent books on metacognition ('thinking about thinking') each about:
- what systems we use to think;
- how to step back and reconsider; and
- a need for skepticism when the world is out to con us all the time and when we are always out to con ourselves.
2/9

I think this covers it; have I missed any type? 🤔 Here's 1 more category; 1 that hasn't voted BJP but enabled it - the voter who out of spite for Congress while despising BJP votes ideologically for losing candidates/NOTA knowing the vote is being wasted, thus enabling BJP's win in 1st past post.

Forgivable in 2014; not in 2019

What is happening in Lakshadweep is heart-wrenching and a clear indication that Modi is taking a wrecking ball through EVERYTHING.

Here's a short history of the guy given the charge of wrecking #Lakshadweep, Praful Khoda Patel.

#SaveLakshadweep

https://twitter.com/nramind/status/1397439517372477441

Prior to Amit Shah's arrest Modi inducted 4 ministers and Praful Patel received eight of Amit Shah's ten portfolios, including Home.

He lost the 2012 Gujarat Legislative Assembly election. After Modi became PM, Patel became Administrator of Daman, Diu, and Dadra & Nagar Haveli.

HDI NOT FDI!

Something akin to Sonia Gandhi's NAC, lampooned as the "kitchen cabinet" is what we need to undo the damage of the last several years. The "jholawalas" like Jean Dreze and Aruna Roy drove a development agenda that focused on the poor, not the billionaires.

🧵1/n NAC came out with a Communal Violence Bill. The Bill was intended to prevent acts of violence, or incitement to violence directed at people by virtue of their membership to any “group”.

Bill branded communal by media and a "bid to woo minorities".