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Indian. Ex-AF. Exploring the world. Trashing commies and political party slaves. Honoured not to be followed by any party leader. China is evil. Having fun.
Mar 31, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
We Hindus are not obliged to copy other religions. Singing or dancing in a temple is not for an audience or for entertainment. It is worship of the deity. If one professes belief in the deity, one is free to offer his or her prayers in the form of singing and dancing to the deity Temples are not tourist spots, nor are they amusement parks, nor are they stadiums for public performances. It is the domain of the deity, Today you may want your singing, and tomorrow a 'multi-religious" audience? Govts will happily agree, and even have tickets like cinema halls
Mar 19, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Interesting story, Of Lakshadweep. Pak had its eye on these islands immediately after the partition. PM of Pak, Liaquat Ali Khan, realised that a Muslim majority region had been excluded from Pakistan and that he had a chance to take control of it. Sardar Patel came to know about it and took immediate action. He sent a message to the Mudaliar brothers - Arcot Ramasamy and Arcot Lakshmanaswami Mudaliar to convey the Collector of Travancore to instruct the police officials to go to Lakshadweep with whatever arms they had.
Oct 7, 2021 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Trivia! During the Crimean War in 1853, Chef Alexis Soyer visited field kitchens to discover undercooked meat being served to soldiers. Soyer trained the British Army’s first regimental chefs and introduced the portable Soyer stove. The British army used it for the next 100 years Indian Railways would have not been so extant during the British time but for the Crimean War.
Bessemer's process to make steel quickly was accepted by Napolean III to make artillery shells for the war. And went on to become the dominant process for a 100 years, for steel making
Jun 21, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Inter-religious marriage between a Hindu and others - Hindu law applicable to the child, only if the child was brought up as a Hindu.
Under Muslim law, if one of the parent is a Muslim, then the child is presumed to be a Muslim. No need to prove as required by Hindu law. Indian law and constitution is not exactly Hindu friendly at all.
Jun 1, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Reservations and cancellation of career defining exams such as the class 12 exam will hit non-minority, non-reservation hard working students badly. The grind starts at least two years in advance. JEE or NEET. 10-14 hours study every single day. Exams such as these are markers. Merit students are the biggest losers.
Jan 23, 2021 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The communists destroyed the industries in WB. A compilation of anecdotes from many online sources. 1. At WB, there were 179 strikes and 49 incidents of lockout in factories in 1965, in 1970, the comparative figures were 678 and 128.
Jan 14, 2021 • 5 tweets • 3 min read
In 2017, the NCERT had announced that they were reviewing textbooks, and had invited comments.

Had sampled the Class VII history book (Our Pasts - II) and had sent the following comments. The idea here is to show that each chapter had so many unanswered questions. From Chapter - I, Tracing changes through a thousand years.

Amir Khusrau is taken as a knowledgable source about Sanskrit, and the term 'Hindustan' is used as a prop to elicit secular reactions.
Aug 31, 2020 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
IK Gujral, a card carrying communist during his college days had strong ties with the Soviet Union later.

This goat bearded skunk stopped RAW's covert activities in 1997. May he rot in hell. Then you had the urine drinking Gandhian, Morarji Desai.

1977, Op Kahuta. A RAW agent got a hair sample from a saloon in Kahuta where Pak scientists went for haircuts. Tests revealed the hair had signs of high radiation and bomb-grade uranium.
Apr 18, 2020 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
The NDA govt led by ABV had taken over the office in Mar 1998. A month later, exactly 22 years ago, Chinese patrols intruded into Arunachal Pradesh.

The PLA Chief Gen Fu Quanyou was visiting India in May '98. Just a few days before his visit, Pak had test fired its IRBM Ghauri. India's Raksha Mantri was the redoubtable Late George Fernandes. After Pak's test firing of Ghauri, he had famously declared that China was the mother of Ghauri and he raised the threat of a Chinese encirclement of India .
Mar 19, 2020 • 22 tweets • 6 min read
The bubonic plague, trade routes and the industrial revolution, and the emergence of new world order.

Given this historical context, would the chinese virus pandemic lay the foundation for significant changes?

Excerpts from a variety of sources - scientific papers mostly. 1. Marco Polo through Asia along the Silk Road between 1271 and 1295.

He had undertaken voyages from Venice across the Mediterranean Sea, overland through Persia and Central Asia to the court of Kublai Khan, grandson of Genghis Khan and founder of the Yuan dynasty.
Mar 18, 2020 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
The tale of the 5th #WuhanVirus case at Telangana.

1. A group of Indonesians arrived in New Delhi on Feb 22nd.

2. After staying for a few days a Delhi, they took a train to Karimnagar, about 170 km from Hyderabad to attend what is called an ‘ijtema’. 3. Wiki says that an 'Ijtema' is a two or three day congregation. The immediate concern of TJ is the moral reform of individuals and purification of the self, often described, as ‘making Muslims true Muslims’:
Mar 14, 2020 • 12 tweets • 2 min read
So many lapses here. Mohammed Hussain Siddiqui, a religious leader from Kalburgi, Karnataka - India's first victim to #WuhanVirus. Piecing the story from different news reports. 1. 76 yr old Siddiqui returned from Mecca on Feb 29th, landed at Bengaluru airport and proceeded to Kalburgi, 500 km away. This man had a history of hypertension and asthma.
Jan 15, 2020 • 12 tweets • 3 min read
The treachery of Indian communists over the last 80 years.

1. In 1942, the CPI passed a resolution in favour of the creation of Pakistan. It endorsed the formation of Pakistan as a front against British colonialism. 2. The resolution was based on a thesis propagated by the party leader, Gangadhar Adhikari. He propounded a thesis that India was an agglomeration of 17 nationalities - PAthan, Balochi, Punjabi Muslim, Sikh, Bihari etc.
Nov 23, 2019 • 20 tweets • 5 min read
Would like to have a short thread on Acharya JC Bose and his contribution to semiconductors. He was a man 60 years ahead of his time. In 1864, Maxwell predicted the existence of electromagnetic waves, and said that they travel at the speed of light. Hertz proved their existence in 1887.

The lyrical beauty of Maxwell's equations! These were reformulated in the form we see today by Oliver Heaviside.
Apr 23, 2019 • 12 tweets • 7 min read
1984 General Elections. Those days national parties used to be given 30 minutes on Doordarshan to convey their election manifesto. ABV's telecast advertised by @BJP4India. A small 3"x 2" box in the middle pages of the @IndianExpress In 1984, @INCIndia called out the opposition as united by greed and not a common ideology. Said "Give ideology a hand". Now, what is #Mahaghatbandhan dear @RahulGandhi? A common greed platform.
Apr 2, 2019 • 51 tweets • 28 min read
"Congress will create a new Ministry of Industry, Services and Employment"
More government, more corruption, more scamming. What say @INCIndia @INCIndia "We will create 10 lakh seva mitra positions across the country"
Bribing your party workers @INCIndia? You want your cadres to be the brokers in your corruption chain?
Jan 23, 2019 • 13 tweets • 4 min read
Some fun facts about the 22nd CPIM Politbureau ...

1. The average age of these people is about 69 years. Oh yeah! these people will sprint from the front. 2. You thought families are limited to the Cong. Wrong. The sprightly Karats - Prakash and Brinda are both members of this gang. Husband and wife - together in the Politbureau. Cheers.
Jan 5, 2019 • 16 tweets • 6 min read
Taking off from @alok_bhatt's observations. @RahulGandhi visited the US in Sep 2017. He interacted with at least three "think tanks":
1. Berggrunen Institute
2. The Atlantic Council
3. The Heritage Foundation 1. "The scope of foreign financing for American think tanks is difficult to determine. But since 2011, at least 64 foreign governments, state-controlled entities or government officials have contributed to a group of 28 major US-based research orgs" says nytimes.com/2014/09/07/us/…
Jul 5, 2018 • 8 tweets • 3 min read
Reminiscing my electrical engg education.
Silicon valley was not built by computer boffins. It was built by electrical engineers. Oh yeah! William Shockley and Fredrick Terman. As a Prof at the Stanford, Terman was instrumental in creation of the Silicon Valley in 1951. Fredrick Emmons Terman who wrote the wonderful book, "Electronic and Radio Engineering".
Mostly focused on the vacuum tube technology. But parts of it, such as the Class C amplifiers stuff was pretty good.
Jun 15, 2018 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
A Friday tale. A story of how two brave Hindu girls avenged their father's death and killed the "first citizen" of Pakistan. A tale from Chachnama, an authentic history of Sindh, probably analogous to Kalhana's Rajataringini, which gives the history of Kashmir When the barbarian, Mohammed bin Qasim attacked Sindh in 712 CE, Raja Dahir was ruling the region. Raja Dahir was killed in Raor. As it was the practice among the Arabian barbarians, they took the Raja's daughters Suriya and Preemal as 'war booty'.