LeftyCricketer

Dreamer....

[LeftyCricketer @LeftyCricketer9]

@kinshuk4 @susantananda3 Get some real information from the bureaucrat who was leading @MumbaiMetro3. Don’t fall for propaganda - https://t.co/YilMwX6E9t

[Sheela Bhatt शीला भट्ट @sheela2010]

Depressing view on Indian Economy👇🏾

[LeftyCricketer @LeftyCricketer9]

@theswapnilsri @USAmbIndia Don’t think this helps US-India business relationship cc: @USChamber

[Arvind Gupta @buzzindelhi]

Handpicked and parachuted into the parliament via RS. Current allegiance is to MamtaDi due to that huge favour!! Time will tell where the road leads…
Just for reference :: Her word is as good as the tweet below.

[Nistula Hebbar @nistula]

So so tragic……

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Apples and custard apples logic👇. If freebies are productivity-enhancing, then it is so irrespective of fiscal space. If anythng, a state cutting down on capex to fund freebies while remaining within FRBM limits is likely taking a 2x hit on productivity..

[Mech_Engg. @Mech_Engg_04]

@BCCI Finally BCCI cared for Siraj, otherwise blud used to be dragged even against Zimbabwe for test. But replacement is Prasidh 😂🤣😭. You can't be real for this. There are plenty of other options to go with. Hussain, Rashik, could have tried them. Any why not Bhuvi if Prasidh.

[Sagnik Patra @SagnikP14945445]

@BCCI Wait our pace bowling attack now has Arshdeep , prasidh , harshit and prince along with Nitish and Shivam , damn our batting has to carry hard all the 8 matches in Eng+Ire

[LeftyCricketer @LeftyCricketer9]

@BCCI Prasidh is a useless T20 bowler 🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️🤦🏽‍♂️. Should have picked Bhuvi

[LeftyCricketer @LeftyCricketer9]

🚨 SHOCKING EXPOSE! 😂 You won't BELIEVE this — our "elite" babus happily drowning in filthy file mountains, smashed metal cupboards, deadly wires dangling from ceilings, disgusting corridors, revolting bathrooms, and constant leaks! This is exactly why Indian governance has been a TOTAL NIGHTMARE for DECADES! 😱

[LeftyCricketer @LeftyCricketer9]

@mufaddal_vohra Stupid move to get Prasidh @imAagarkar @BCCI instead of @BhuviOfficial

[Nikhil Mehra @TweetinderKaul]

As row over beef in tiffin spreads, 5 schoolboys in Assam’s Goalpara face expulsion today. This should never be considered an offence. It should be resolvable with simple education rather than the might of the state.
https://t.co/q2W5PBiybm

[कुशल मेहरा @kushal_mehra]

Because from 1980s playing footsie with Khalistanis has been an actual Canadian state apparatus strategy to apparently "deal" with India. I do not know how it helped Canada because India wiped the Khalistani menace out. Canadians cannot keep denying the reality. The truth is the entire intelligence apparatus in Canada used the Khalistanis. Now deal with the mess created by the state apparatus. India deals with the issue in its own way no matter how imperfect it is. But they deal with it. Canada keeps pretending they know nothing. For the record the Air India bombing families still wait for justice.

[Rajat Pandit @IamRajat_Pandit]

22 people perished in the #HauzRaniTragedy!

Was the cook responsible for the blatant criminal negligence & rampant corruption that allowed the place to flourish?

#AbjectAccountability

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: So @narendramodi ji completes 12 years in power today, a rare feat in today's uncertain times. Tomorrow he completes 4399 days in power consecutively which is the longest unbroken tenure of an elected Indian PM if you discount Nehru's 1947-52 period as an 'interim' government. Since this govt is obsessed with Jawaharlal's legacy, this is one record they will be especially proud of. NOTE: it is wrong to say that Nehru lacked an electoral mandate before 1952 because his government derived its legitimacy from the Constituent Assembly that was constituted in 1946. So maybe to settle the debate conclusively Mr Modi will have to stay on as PM till 2031 at least!🙏🏻😉

[Somnath Mukherjee @somnath1978]

Lt Col Israar Khan, 10 Guards - first battalion to be poured into the meat-grinder in Golden Temple. 30% of his troops were sikhs, the v first platoon going inside the complex led by a sikh, Capt Jasbir Raina.

Shoddily planned, but didnt lack courage and idealism, those guys..

[Amar Jit Singh IFS(Retd)🇮🇳 @AmarJit_IFS]

Anecdote: Once during my posting in Vancouver, I visited a radio station for a live talk show. After the show, the owner met me and introduced a middle-aged couple. The man,who introduced himself as a Sarpanch in a Punjab village before coming to Canada, said they weren’t getting Indian passports because of being refugees there. When I enquired the reason for seeking asylum, he said they were being harassed in Punjab. Strangely, he claimed the harassment years after the terrorism was wiped out. Hence they migrated to Canada and got the asylum, he said.He couldn’t give satisfactory answer when I asked for the police case details etc, if any. I further asked why they chose to migrate thousands of miles away when they could have shifted to some other state in India itself. Finally, he almost admitted that they wanted to migrate and no excuse other than concocting the false case of atrocities would have helped them obtain asylum. I said what I had to say to them on their defaming own country making fictitious accusations for selfish interests as it was like abusing own mother. Before leaving from there, I told them clearly that they shouldn’t expect any out-of-turn favour and would get the service as per existing rules only. The message was clear.
JaiHind🇮🇳

[Angad Singh @zone5aviation]

Time & urgency factors are often ignored or deprioritised in debates about Indian defence, period.

We wouldn’t be here otherwise.

[Indrajit @Lotus_indrajit]

Bro, we love you,

but stop this nonsense.

Colonies weren’t profitable ?

Britain didn’t stay in India for nearly 200 years out of kindness. They came for wealth.

They drained enormous amounts of wealth, crippled industries like textiles, imposed heavy taxes, and shipped India’s resources abroad while building up Britain’s own economy

Millions died in famines under British rule, including the Bengal Famine. Hundreds of unarmed Indians were gunned down at the Jallianwala Bagh Massacre. Freedom fighters were jailed, tortured, exiled, and executed. Many people also faced pressure to abandon their traditions, culture, and beliefs under colonial policies and institutions

Lancashire’s mills got rich. Indian weavers got ruined

So yeah, pretending the British Empire didn’t profit from India is pure revisionist history.

The loot was real

The exploitation was real

The suffering was real

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.

And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.

Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”

But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.

India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.

So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.

[Priyanka Chaturvedi🇮🇳 @priyankac19]

PM Modi appealed to the country to follow austerity measures & avoid foreign trips but here we have Law Ministry sponsoring a badminton tournament in London! With a huge contingent of judiciary members in attendance. Will Hon. PM pull up the Law Minister? https://t.co/E7b09NQ0YP