Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍

Collector & District Magistrate, Angul | Sometime Lawyer & Quizzer | Tweets on History, Food, Languages, Aviation and Architecture | Occasional brainrot

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@ShoaibDaniyal Hmm. As an Odia speaker, I find Assamese easier to decipher, atleast in Roman text. The spoken language is a different matter.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

Not surprising actually. Assamese and Odia show more affinity to each other than to Bangla.

[Sagir Ahmed สกิรอาห์เมด @SagirAhmed98]

Chatgpt detects written Assamese as Bengali (obviously because of the script) but spoken Assamese as Odia!

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@himganj153 Looks like the real deal!

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@rwac48 @slmehra Luckily for the SEAC, he stayed far away in Kandy and left the actual planning and fighting to Bill Slim and his boys

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

A little known nugget is that the original Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station was located bang in the middle of what is now the Delhi Golf Club, close to the villages of Ghiaspur and Azimganj. When New Delhi was built, the railway line was shifted to its present location

[Bharati Chaturvedi @Bharati09]

The one club that ought to be taken over is the Delhi Golf Club.

A massive patch of artificially maintained, water-guzzling green that has zero ecological value. Serving a 1000 or so people who play a slow sport that is exclusionist.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

Such amounts are impossible for humans to wrap their heads around. If one were to count it manually 24*7 using 100 dollar notes, it would take 111 years. Even the fastest counting machine would take 5 years. A bundle of the same would reach 400 km into the atmosphere..

[Melo ⭒ @wyomelo]

As of today, Elon Musk is worth $351 Billion

[Collector and District Magistrate, Angul @angul_dm]

Angul takes a leap in agri-export with the successful export of 20 quintals of naturally matured Amrapalli mangoes to Italy. Facilitated by ORMAS-supported FPO through farmer mobilization, procurement, sorting, and grading support.
@CMO_Odisha
@IPR_Odisha

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

While the electric fan experiment didn't work out, a massive oil flame used to be lit on top of the India Gate dome on important occasions for many years. With the increasing lighting around the area and the staining caused by the oil, this was later abandoned

[Iqtibas اقتباس @iqtibaas88]

The January 1931 issue of The Architectural Review studied New Delhi,the new capital of India which was to be opened in Feb. 1931.
Here it mentions the original plan for the All-India Memorial Arch (India Gate) to emit memorial smoke from its top, by means of gas & electric fans.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@gauravsabnis The word itself is very interesting. According to Tulpule's Old Marathi Dictionary, it appears in Rukmini Swayamvara from the 13th century and is a derivative of the Persian Rusvat (same origin as Rishwat?). This makes it among the oldest Perso-Arabic borrowings in Marathi.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

Such a fantastic amalgamation of Indic and Greco Roman influences. The toga held over one arm and the toned abs are Classical Rome but there is a dhoti underneath and the hair has flowing curls like a Kushan Buddha..

[blackhumor @blackym25]

Gandhara-style stone Bodhisattva standing statue
3th-4th century

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

There have been a total of three incidents where a plane coming in to land at Sahar Airport has ended up landing at the much smaller Juhu airfield by mistake.

[Mumbai Heritage @mumbaiheritage]

Juhu from 3,000 feet.
The Arabian Sea, the old Centaur Hotel plot, JW Marriott, airport runway edges, and even the hidden Juhu Lake all visible in a single frame.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

The Indo Surinamese or the Hindoestanen are unique amongst the Caribbean Indians in preserving their native languages. Awadhi and Bhojpuri or a mix of the two, is still their lingua franca. Even their music Baithak Gaana retains a lot more Indian influence than the usual Chutney

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

The Indian diaspora is a living bridge of the India-Netherlands partnership. Our decision to extend OCI Card eligibility for the Surinamese Hindustani community from the fourth generation to the sixth generation has been enthusiastically received by the diaspora in the Netherlands!

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

5 projects each semester in @NALSAR_Official. Each of 3000 words. Mostly all original! 😅

[Lo @lolo_tho]

I was told by a 22yr old today that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without AI.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

The 1857 War of Independence happened AFTER the introduction of Railways and Telegraph in India. The British in Delhi could warn their compatriots in Punjab and Calcutta the very same day when the Meerut rebels expelled them from the city..

[Ramin Nasibov @RaminNasibov]

What historical fact sounds fake but is true?

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@sifarchand Always noticed Sunil Gavaskar pronounce it as Mammad.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@srinibash_samal @manas_muduli Oh are they still in the Collectorate premises?

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

This one spent many years in the courtyard of the Sub Collector's residence at Jajpur along with a couple of magnificent Buddhas. Jajpur was lucky in having Sri MM Chakravarti as SDO who did some pioneering work in the discovery of Ratnagiri and documenting the numerous finds

[Yadu @Yaduvam]

Statue of Goddess Chamunda in Jajpur, Odisha, 1870s.

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

@manas_muduli Yes. The one I posted is probably stored. I don't think it is on public display. The photo was taken by James Fergusson in the 1870s.

[Raza Kazmi @RazaKazmi17]

India’s forests are also forests of memory. Hidden within them are forlorn graves, weathered memorials, old bungalows & stories lost to time.

This piece for @htTweets traces the stories of two foresters from another era through forgotten memorials hidden in the woods.

A short🧵

[Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ @abdaal]

Generally not a fan of brutalist architecture, but Kahn and Doshi's work at IIMA is magnificent.