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[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

Where have I seen this dress before I wonder….

[Arnab Ray @greatbong]

There goes the electric grid and the environment https://t.co/LaZzCH0DtM

[Rajendra B. Aklekar @rajtoday]

How Central Railway is killing India's legacy at the UNESCO. Every General Manager and railway bureaucrat of @Central_Railway has been either putting up plaques in their names on walls or making painful alterations to the World Heritage building of Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj Terminus (CSMT) as if it is their private property. Blood boils at the sight of such thoughtless actions.

The latest is a new "officers toilet" created with shocking alterations and irreversible damage.

The newly opened vigilance department office on the ground floor of the Mumbai CSMT has been inaugurated with a metal plaque bearing the name of the outgoing General Manager — hammered right into the walls of the UNESCO World Heritage Site. This is not the first time: his predecessor too had left behind a similar mark.

While setting up this, irreversible changes have also been done to the iconic World Heritage building with the old and historic mezzanine floor and the spiral staircase demolished and removed, broken down by gas cutters and the entire chamber upgraded with central air-conditioning. 

A new toilet for ‘officers’ has been built where there was none above the underground storage chamber, carrying out significant alterations to the heritage façade of the building. These are all permanent damages to the building.

Another outgoing GM has hammered the plaque of his name next to Steven's original plaque in the name of restoration. An earnest appeal to the @PMOIndia to appoint third party guardians to monitor the building and save it in time to avoid embarrassment on the international platform. Save the Mumbai CSMT building from railway babus. 

There needs to be some external sturdy monitoring mechanism to avoid all this. Right now, it’s all in the family syndrome at Mumbai CSMT HQ by its keepers.

Amid advancements and progress, will @AshwiniVaishnaw and his team @RavneetBittu & @VSOMANNA_BJP wake up and take charge of the heritage legacy as well and show some action? @RailMinIndia @MinOfCultureGoI @rashtrapatibhvn @ASIGoI @INTACHIndia @IndiaatUNESCO @UNESCO @GM_CRly

Read complete details of the damage and slow death of a heritage icon here at the click and make it viral: https://t.co/7ccN5EfT1j

[Nikhil Rokadiya @NikhilRokdiya]

After some days-

Public will be busy in 4 june!and after 1-2 months this case will be treated same as that case of jessica treated! like “Car automatically killed those people its not fault of anyone so just destroy the car and leave both persons free”

The Great Indian System 😢and System works only for Rich and VIPs and treat common poor man as “Gandi nali ka keeda”!

can you change it sir @narendramodi @RahulGandhi

[True Indology @TrueIndology]

Recently, Dhruv Rathee @dhruv_rathee has published a video titled 'Aurangzeb and Modi'.

The entire video is full of factual blunders, false equivalences and downright fraudulent claims. Its purpose is Hindu holocaust denial.

The following is the gist of his video :

1) Shivaji Maharaj was 'Secular' like Congress. He worshiped Sufis and had Muslims in his army.

2) Modi=Aurangzeb.

3) Aurangzeb did not have any religious fanaticism, but simply used religion for his purpose.

4) There was no Hindu Muslim conflict in India before the advent of Hindutva, BJP, Godi Media and 'whatsapp university'.

5) Hindus were never oppressed by Muslims. Hindus were never enslaved by Muslims. Hindus and Muslims lived together in perfect harmony until the advent of Hindutva, BJP, Godi Media and 'Whatsapp university'.

This thread is a fact check

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https://t.co/VeJFEIASiZ

[Anuj Gurwara @AnujGurwara]

RANT - after watching this distressing video and the ones of that illegal structure falling on people.

Read at your own risk.

India has - more than ever before - become a nation where only those with access to wealth and power are able to lead comfortable lives within the bubbles they construct for themselves.

Everyone else is a statistic and a temporary headline in the event of a tragedy.

Every common person is only racing from birth to death, navigating through one obstacle after another.

For most people, death can literally happen any time - bad roads, flooding, unsafe electrical poles, fights in the neighbourhood, road rage, animals loose in the streets, contaminated foods, botched medical practices, unauthorised structures falling on their heads, broken infrastructure crashing down during or after construction - or just mobs baying for your blood because you are different.

Regulations are a joke. There is no value for human life. The infrastructure and ecosystem is not designed for those without privilege.

Worse still, the overburdened justice system is not reliable.

The era of leaders is over. Politicians have taken over from the mafia. Most who get into politics don’t do so to serve the masses. They do so to get away from them and elevate themselves above the commoners.

Politics is the most profitable taxpayer funded, tax-free business there is.

Movie stars live in ivory towers right in the middle of a garbage dump. Some of them make more money than most Hollywood actors but live less than 1/10th of their lifestyles when in India.

Surrounded by security, assistants and servants - politicians, celebrities and the 1% secure their own bubbles by hook or crook, evade taxes, exploit every legal & financial loophole and avoid accountability.

Yet, we worship them and place them on a pedestal because we want access to the power they hold.

Because we want to be able to know someone when we are in a police station, a hospital or in court. We want to use a reference to get admission, get a job or just get pension.

The collective self esteem of a billion people is at an all time low and being lowered still to suit the political ambition of a few hundred people desperately holding on to power.

The rich won’t protest societal injustice because they can escape into their bubbles whenever needed and pay their way into convenience.

The middle class doesn’t have the time to protest because they’ve been pushed into being on survival mode all day every day. Time lost is money lost.

The poor can’t protest beyond a point because hunger is real and the above two classes won’t allow them to.

Our children are growing up in an environment of corrupted education and contaminated nutrition. Their physical and intellectual growth is stunted when compared to developed countries.

India’s children swing between malnourishment and obesity. An entire generation ahead will feel the effects of of this sheer neglect of childhood.

We don’t care about our young and our elderly. Women are not safe anywhere. Our teenagers are hooked up to dopamine all day - youth in cities, towns and villages are addicted to porn, violent games and on the hunt for get-rich-quick schemes. I blame the system that doesn’t empower them otherwise.

We are squeezed dry to pay direct and indirect taxes, endlessly waiting for our lives to upgrade a little bit.

Buying a vehicle or a home now is literally a process of extracting blood money. Most of India is one medical bill away from poverty.

We haven’t lost count of human tragedies and disasters. We will queue up in the thousands on bridges and hillsides to offer our prayers to the Gods who look on silently at the destruction our own fellow humans have caused in their name.

This post will be forgotten in a few hours too. You and I will both get busy because life goes on and we must move forward with it.

Let’s get back to election gossip, IPL and Orry. Let’s forget about all this. For just one more day.

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[Ankur Saraf @ankursaraf10]

@gauravsabnis Indian languages are actively thought of as lower class (or lower caste as an analogy). Part of the speak at school, office and every official place in English only syndrome.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

If you've
lived in Bangalore a decade but still barely speak Kannada,
lived in Madras a decade but still barely speak Tamil
lived in Pune a decade but still barely speak Marathi
lived in Hyderabad a decade but still barely speak Telugu,

Who hurt you? How even can this be?

[Ankur Saraf @ankursaraf10]

@richapintoi @myBESTBus Bus number ?

[Patrick Campbell @Patticus]

10 years ago today @aaronsw took his own life after overly aggressive prosecution.

He invented internet infrastructure.

He defeated the greatest threat the Internet had ever seen.

And you probably don't know who he is.

You should.

Here’s his story 🧵

[Ankur Saraf @ankursaraf10]

@titanwatches Don't buy mechanical watches from @titanwatches . Their movement can be faulty and their technicians are not trained to repair well. You will keep visiting their branch every few weeks.

[Ankur Saraf @ankursaraf10]

@titanwatches Never buy a Titan Mechanical watch. The movement is of poor quality. No reliable service centres. They don't take it back and don't know how to make it good. Warranty is an eyewash. It's a company for cheap watches ONLY.

[The Hindu @the_hindu]

In most Indian metropolises, lakes, forests and parks are disappearing. But in boomtown #Hyderabad, rocks are vanishing. All of them might be gone soon, if realtors have their way. | @serish writes
https://t.co/IN15UgQlRK

[Vijay Patel @vijaygajera]

Super Exclusive and Extremely Important Thread

Today I will show you how leftists, Islamists, so-called journalists, and their foreign partners are very well connected since years and how they do the planning!

To understand clearly, I have written this thread in two parts!

[Sarosh @saroshlodhi]

@AUThackeray @CMOMaharashtra @OfficeofUT

Another tiger was injured in road-hit on Nagpur-Pench highway.

https://t.co/aSl9yzfP4d

Below is my observation why these accidents are more on MH side and extremely rare on the MP side of the same stretch.

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[Monica Verma @TrulyMonica]

Nupur made the statement two weeks ago.

Violent protests across India took place today.

Nupur’s words are just an excuse. There is a new anti-India Toolkit!

[LawBeat @LawBeatInd]

Millions of worshippers of lord Guruvayurappan are residing all over the country, donations to the deity cannot be utilized countrywide: Kerala High Court
#kerala #Temple #donations

[Shambhav Sharma @shambhav15]

“PK is an important film that shows mirror to society”

“A mature society must tolerate Munawar Faruqui and Vir Das’ jokes on deities”

“What is the need to make statements about Islam and The Prophet on TV?”

All 3 statements given by Upholders of democracy

[Monica Verma @TrulyMonica]

Marathi Actress Ketaki Chitale yesterday spent her 15th day in Jail for merely sharing a Facebook post against Sharad Pawar

This hasn’t got any attention because it doesn’t suit the “Modi is Fascist” narrative.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

Sending secretary-level officers on punishment postings to two key border regions, Ladakh and Arunachal, shows not only a lack of respect for the brave people there, but also lays bare the Indian bureaucracy's neo-colonial mindset. This is more outrageous than the scandal itself.