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अति दर्पे हता लङ्का, अति लोभे हतः नरः।

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@KunalGhoshAgain কুণালবাবু খারাপ ভাবে নেবেন না, তবে ব্যাপার টা আপনারাই শুরু করেছিলেন, মানে আপনি বলতে আপনার প্রাক্তন দল সর্বভারতীয় তৃণমূল কংগ্রেস এবং সেটা প্রশ্রয় দিয়েছিলেন মমতা ব্যানার্জি ।

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@MyAnandaBazar কি কাজ করবার চেষ্টা করেছিলেন যেটা ওখানে থেকে হচ্ছিল না?

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AIBOC — GS: Rupam Roy | President: R. Sekaran

AIBOA — GS: S. Nagarajan | President: A. Suresh

INBOC — GS: Prem Kumar Makker | President: R. K. Chatterjee

AIBEA — GS: C. H. Venkatachalam | President: B. S. Rambabu

NCBE — GS: L. Chandrasekhar | President: R. Balaji

BEFI — GS: Debasish Basu Chaudhury | President: S. S. Anil

INBEF — GS: O. P. Sharma | President: Dr. G. Sanjeeva Reddy

UFBU’S 14 TOP OFFICE-BEARERS MUST BE HELD ACCOUNTABLE. IF YOU HAVE LOST THE CONFIDENCE OF THE MEMBERS, THEN RESIGN. STEP ASIDE AND MAKE WAY FOR COMPETENT, ACCOUNTABLE AND MEMBER-DRIVEN LEADERSHIP.

NO MORE EXCUSES. NO MORE STATUS QUO. NO MORE LEADERSHIP WITHOUT ACCOUNTABILITY.

THE MEMBERS DESERVE BETTER. RESIGN AND LET NEW LEADERS EMERGE. @kmarkri @idesibanda @alashshukla @bankpediaa

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If AI becomes Super Intelligence, the rename is oddly honest. But changing the label won’t change the underlying risk, right? intelligence can scale faster than wisdom. @elonmusk

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Nina Miolane’s The Fifth Era of Science examines how AI is moving from assisting research toward generating hypotheses and discoveries. Yet human expertise remains essential for guiding, validating and regulating these systems. The future lies in humans acting as the handlers of AI-driven innovation, ensuring progress remains purposeful and responsible.

And there's an important philosophical point underneath the article:
AI may increasingly answer, “How can we solve this?” but humans will still have an important role in deciding “What is worth solving?”

https://t.co/EvRbupUOxJ

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@Neha_S_Patel Hall of Fame Delulu.

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Bihar really said: “You thought we peaked? Nah, new season dropped.” 😭

[Cockroaches of India @CJP_for_India]

शराब बंद प्रदेश बिहार में शराब की लूट,

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It’s Sunday, and thanks to UFBU, we’ve actually been granted the privilege of having a holiday.

A heartfelt thanks to UFBU for allowing us this rare luxury of spending a Sunday with our families. Apparently, even Sundays need a little union intervention these days. 😏😂
@kmarkri @alashshukla @bankpediaa @idesibanda

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This is deeply heartbreaking. Yet again, an unbearable level of pressure appears to have left a family devastated and helpless. Om Shanti. 🕯️

And after yet another suicide, the familiar explanation comes: “Couldn’t take the pressure.”

But perhaps that is precisely what they fail to understand, some pressure is simply unbearable. Behind every target, deadline and performance metric is a human being, with a family waiting for them to come home.

How many more tragedies before the pressure culture itself is questioned?

[Newton Bank Kumar @idesibanda]

Heartbreaking 💔: Indian Bank Chief Manager in Head Office, Chennai, Sh Kanishq Vajpayee committed su!cide today by jumping off the fourth floor of our Bank’s Head Office Building. RIP 🕯️

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@bankaffairs Maybe they’re decent at most things just not at leading an apex negotiating committee.

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@kmarkri I think taking leave won’t solve the problem whatsoever. Coming to the office dressed in black would show some form of protest, and that might actually work. Taking 12 days of leave out of a total CL entitlement of 12 days would neither be a decent nor a fruitful idea.

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Another Saturday, another workday, another masterclass in failure by UFBU leadership. 💀

TOP UFBU LEADERSHIP: RESIGN. TAKE RESPONSIBILITY.

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The Brazilian journalist witnessing Bengal’s CM’s megalomania in 4K. 💀

[Pedro Rocha @novaesrocha1]

🚨 O lado político do amistoso da Seleção Brasileira na Índia. O Governador do estado que trouxe o jogo colocou sua foto maior que a das estrelas da partida.
Segundo a imprensa local, partida custou entre quatro e cinco milhões de dólares ao governo.

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@alashshukla @IDBI_Bank @Vithal_AIIDBIOA All bankers need to strongly protest against this. This is not merely a meeting; it is a direct breach of the holiday we are entitled to. If we remain silent today, this will set a dangerous precedent and come back to us in a much more bitter way tomorrow. We must protest now.

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But at least he is trying whatever he can. We cannot stop doing something just because nobody will listen. Definitely, nobody does at first, but eventually, others start to notice and that’s how things develop for the greater good.

If you keep pouring water on a stone, nothing will happen on Day 1, Day 2, or even Day 100. But after a year, the change will be clearly visible.

That’s exactly how I saw this tweet. I admired him for tweeting every day to protest against rape culture. A protest can take any form.

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পথ আমারে সেই দেখাবে যে  আমারে চায় -
আমি অভয় মনে ছাড়ব তরী, এই শুধু মোর দায়।

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THIS IS HOW APEX-LEVEL NEGOTIATION IS DONE — NOT THROUGH FRIENDLY CHIT-CHAT OVER CHAI AND SAMOSAS.

RAILWAY AND OTHER TRADE UNIONS HAVE SHOWN WHAT STRONG, PROFESSIONAL NEGOTIATION LOOKS LIKE: STANDING FIRM FOR THEIR MEMBERS, NOT BENDING BEFORE THE ESTABLISHMENT.

UFBU LEADERS MUST TAKE NOTE. IF YOU CANNOT STAND FIRM BEFORE THE IBA OR DFS, YOU HAVE NO BUSINESS REPRESENTING BANKERS.

WE DEMAND THE RESIGNATION OF ALL SEVEN SIGNATORIES WHO TOOK THE DECISION TO DEFER THE STRIKE.

YOU HAVE LOST THE CONFIDENCE OF THE MEMBERS YOU CLAIM TO REPRESENT. STEP ASIDE.

LET THE UFBU BE REBUILT WITH NEW, COMPETENT AND ACCOUNTABLE LEADERS WHO WILL NEGOTIATE FOR BANKERS, NOT FOR THEIR OWN INTERESTS.
@kmarkri @bankpediaa @alashshukla @idesibanda

[Shiva Gopal Mishra @ShivaGopalMish1]

9 घंटे की ड्यूटी का प्रावधान है, तो लोको पायलटों से उससे ज्यादा ड्यूटी क्यों?

उत्तर रेलवे की GM-PNM बैठक में मैंने लोको पायलटों के लंबे ड्यूटी आवर्स का मुद्दा पूरी मजबूती से उठाया और रेलवे प्रशासन को स्पष्ट रूप से याद दिलाया कि ड्यूटी के 9 घंटे के निर्धारित प्रावधान का पालन होना चाहिए—इससे अधिक ड्यूटी नहीं ली जानी चाहिए।

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It is deeply unfortunate that, even today, some of Gandhiji’s own people, we Indians, speak of him as though he did not belong to us. Social media is filled with toxic forwards portraying Gandhi as responsible for Partition or branding him a “Muslim sympathiser.”

To me, Gandhiji represented the deepest values of Hinduism without making Hinduism a weapon against anyone. He stood for secularism, compassion and the belief that justice does not require hatred.

Today, non-violence is dismissed as cowardice or timidity. But Gandhi understood something profound: you cannot defeat a vastly superior military power merely by imitating its weapons. You need a weapon it cannot easily fight, a moral force capable of mobilising millions. For Gandhi, that weapon was non-violence.

India had barely become independent when Gandhiji was taken from us by bullets. Yet bullets could kill the man, not the idea.

And there is something deeply moving in the relationship between Gandhi and Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur. Gurudev, who addressed him as “Mahatma,” placed immense faith in his moral stature. He ultimately entrusted Gandhi with the stewardship of his beloved Visva-Bharati, his precious vision of an India and a world united by knowledge, culture and humanity.

That is the Gandhi I remember: not a saint beyond criticism, but a human being who devoted his life to a principle he believed could transform society and whose idea remains impossible to kill.

#GandhiJayanti

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Gurudev Rabindranath Thakur gave Gandhi the honorific “Mahatma,” meaning “Great Soul.”

#GandhiJayanti

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⚠️ ALERT: LONG READ AHEAD.

A HUMBLE REMINDER TO GARGA DA. IF WE REALLY WANT BENGAL TO FALL IN LOVE WITH BANGLA AGAIN

@GargaC da, if the intention is to instil a genuine love for Bangla and make the language a symbol of community pride in West Bengal, I believe we need to go much further than putting Bangla script on signboards. We need to make Bangla something people want to live, create and dream in.

That is certainly important. Bengali is the principal official language of the State under the West Bengal Official Language Act, 1961, with specific provisions for English and other languages in certain areas. But language survives not merely because it is displayed. It survives because people love it, use it, create through it and feel proud of it.

We Bengalis take immense pride in Kaviguru and Netaji. We invoke Bankim Babu, Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen with reverence. But an uncomfortable question remains: why are we so dependent on the greatness of yesterday?

Why should a Bengali child in an English-medium school grow up saying, “I cannot speak Bangla”?

Why do we still tolerate the stereotype that Bengalis are lyadkhor? And, more importantly, what are we doing to replace that stereotype with a contemporary culture of creativity, enterprise, scholarship and excellence?

Our history gives us reasons to be proud. Bengal developed a remarkable intellectual, literary, artistic and economic culture. Bankim Chandra transformed Bengali literature; Gurudev took Bengali literature to a global audience and received the 1913 Nobel Prize in Literature. Satyajit Ray, Ritwik Ghatak and Mrinal Sen showed what Bengali cinema could achieve.

But heritage cannot become a museum.

Gurudev did not merely defend Bangla. He made people fall in love with it.

He built institutions, created literature, composed music, experimented with education, organised cultural activities and carried Bengali thought beyond Bengal. Santiniketan itself became a living cultural experiment.

That is the model I would urge us to revisit.

I have rarely seen sustained Sahitya Sabha, Patho Natya, literary gatherings, public readings, children's Bengali festivals or contemporary cultural movements across Kolkata and Bengal on the scale that our heritage deserves.

We don't need hostility towards Hindi speakers or other communities to strengthen Bangla. People from different parts of India have been part of Bengal's social and economic life for generations. Their presence does not diminish Bengali identity.

Confidence in one's culture should not require contempt for another's.

If someone attempts to impose a language or culture upon us, we can oppose it firmly. But resistance need not always mean strikes, confrontation or anger. Sometimes the strongest resistance is to create something so compelling that people willingly embrace it.

Let us make Bengali literature exciting again. Bengali cinema ambitious again. Bengali theatre vibrant again. Bengali children's content irresistible again. Let businesses, universities, creators and young people make Bangla useful, modern and aspirational.

We can make Bengal fall in love with Bangla again.

And yes, I am saying this as a proud Bengali. Therefore, I believe it is also our responsibility, not merely our right, to make Bangla and Bengal great again.

Not the Trump way.

The Bengali way.

With culture. With creativity. With confidence. With substance.

Joy Bangla - not as a political badge, but as an expression of love for the language, the people and the culture.

P. S. - I first thought of writing this in Bangla. But I chose English so the thought could travel beyond our own linguistic circle. If we want the world to understand Bengal, sometimes we have to take our voice beyond Bengal too. @GargaC