Shayan Ghosh

Retweeter of posts on beauty, ecology, and occasionally, technology.

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@Satvik_Pen Unfortunately, some things can't improve once gone. Like hills, once quarried away and cut down.

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@JanhaviNilekani People are unnecessarily rude when they disagree with your point.

But there is genuine anger that this fear of low trf is being spread by those who don't have to face the existential struggles of living in such a highly populated resource starved country. Seems insensitive.

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@shrutammegopaya In resource-scarce India, that still makes sense. In the richest country in the world, that's a terrible message.

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@racistbilbo @dandelion1900 It's the British Raj that disallowed native Britons from owning property in India. This was to prevent the emergence of a rooted class of colonists who might want to secede from Britain, as had happened in the American colonies.

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@VEDANJANAM If you break a hill for profit, you're not a Hindu. And no amount of rituals, pilgrimages or right-wing politics on your part will change the fact that you're a mleccha in all but name. Your ancestor in spirit is not Bharadvaja Rishi but Bakhtiyar Khilji.

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Very cool TIL.

Bhagavati -> Pakavati/Pakoti -> Pagoda

[အနော်ရထာ @Siradhvaja]

The Buddhist structures known as "Pagoda-s" do indeed refer to structures derivative of the Stupa and associated with Buddhism as a religion.

However the word itself is a 16th c. Portuguese borrowal of Malayalam/Tamil pakōti/pakavati (referring to shrines for Bhagavatī)...

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@halleyji The prevailing model of vikas is incredibly short-sighted. Permanently destroying million year old mountains to make buildings that will be demolished in a few decades is a very bad trade, even from a vikas perspective. Low value addition economic activity for a very high price.

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@guy_herbert @pranesh Not just comedians. Anyone with a sense of humor often says exaggerated untruths or irreverent things about themselves. Not necessarily crass, but things that would land them in trouble if taken literally. Which is why hounding people on stupid loosetalk is dangerously Stalinist.

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@karolkarpinski @ShinMarginalScr As far as I remember (i.e. don't quote me on this), CPI(M) was the China aligned party, in contrast to CPI, which was USSR-aligned. Wonder if there was a difference in their professed views on industrialization due to this.

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@Shrabonti Excellent point.

[Pranesh Prakash @pranesh]

"Destroying a rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal." – E.O. Wilson

[Soviet Visuals @sovietvisuals]

"For friendship of peoples, for peaceful cooperation!" USSR-India friendship poster, 1956.

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@MaliniP It is. A declining population- at India's current level- is only a bad thing if you consider people to primarily be inputs into the economic machinery, and not sentient human beings.

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@fintech_shark Thank you!
https://t.co/WgqHZcf0Ua

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The ideal population of the Republic of India is 250 million, and of the Subcontinent, it is 300 million. This is a hill I'm willing to die on.

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@ClimbhiKc Just as the population explosion fear was overblown when we were growing up, so is the population implosion. We just pick up whatever is the latest fad in Western thinking circles and apply it mindlessly here in India.

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Lovely film

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@HindolSengupta This is absolutely spot on. As woolly headed as it sounds, India needs more morality, broadly defined. Without an increase in the civic consciousness of people, no amount of changing the laws will make an overall positive difference.

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@Bharati09 This seems to be the fate of most iconic Delhi markets- South Ex, Jor Bagh, the emporiums on Baba Kharag Singh Marg... sad because even 15 years ago, these places seemed to be thriving. I guess everyone prefers to shop in the comfort of AC malls nowadays?

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@Blackdrug_ @patangaha It's also about the quality of the institution. Most high ranking colleges and universities have left leaning students, irrespective of the stream of study.