Prem Banker

Software developer | football enthusiast
I love my girlfriend Kendra ❤️

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

Dont be like this guy.
Put this dude against any of these 3 and I bet he gets his ass whooped in less than a minute.

Guys like this bitch are extremely dangerous and play a huge role in normalizing misogyny and are the lowest of the scum.

[Sahil Lavingia @shl]

Airbnb should have been called localhost

[Vini Jr. @vinijr]

Eu farei 10x se for preciso. Eles não estão preparados.

[Cozy Gamer Gimp @GrumpyCatterman]

What actual discrimination looks like. Ugly people get shafted worse than any ethnic group but rarely get any consideration.

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@mymoodmusic Honestly I was expecting it to be underwhelming but I really love the songs. I was quite vague with the prompt and it still gave amazing recommendations 🔥

[Women Posting W's @womenpostingws]

From being water cannoned by police to winning an Olympic medal

Vinesh Phogat of India makes history by beating the undefeated (for 81 matches) world champion in wrestling, assuring her an Olympic medal

Last year, she was one of the wrestlers leading a protest against the WFI president, who has a rape charge against him

This will be her first Olympic medal and it's one that is well deserved ❤️

[May 🇲🇦ⵣ @clkbae_]

FUCK MARCO REUS AND FUCK EVERYBODY. WE‘RE BEINGING IT HOME FOR TONI KROOS.

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@cloutastral Saving this for when I get a job🥲

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@socialepfo My EPF claim got rejected and the following reasons were given.
1) FPF CONT NOT DEDUCTED FROM DATE OF JOINING TO DATE OF LEAVING PLEASE CLARIFY 2) WAITING PERIOD OF 2 MONTHS NOT COMPLETED

Pls explain reason 1 and i left company last june so reason 2 dont make sense

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@nfr_podcast

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@Bohemian3108 @youtubemusic Got Vampire as well🫡

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@manasjsaloi Saving this. Shall be useful one day ! :)

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

@daglihet @Swiggy Gotta be someone from manek chowk

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

I've been bumping this album non-stop. Raydar is a masterpiece 🤌

[SK⚡️ @raptalksk]

JID dropped ‘The Forever Story’ 1 year ago today. his best work to me and easily one of the most captivating & brilliant albums we’ve gotten so far this decade

[Prem Banker @BankerPrem]

Just filed my and my sister's ITR through Quicko and I must say, it was a BREEZE. Dad was super impressed about how I had all the information already prefilled. Shoutout to the team @HowToQuicko 🫡

[Ray Hudson @RayHudson]

I`m crying 🇦🇷 tears the size of pineapple chunks here!!!Stupendously magesteeeerial,team performance by Arg-en-TINA!! & #Messi??? bringing him to a football match is like bringing a machine gun to a knife fight! gonna be some serious loving going on in Buenos Aires tonight🥰

[ESPN FC @ESPNFC]

Richarlison moved Fred so that Neymar can sit in the middle of the team portrait 😂📸

[LakeShowYo @LakeShowYo]

Drake & 21 Savage

[Hozier's Vocals @hoziersvocalss]

Hozier singing Swan Upon Leda