Aritra Chatterjee

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

My lecture in Kolkata on "Vikasit Bengal" - and why we need to reclaim the traditional Bengali spirit of entrepreneurship, innovation and risk-taking:

https://t.co/cdIk1u87vU

[Kanchan Gupta 🇮🇳 @KanchanGupta]

Hello @sardesairajdeep stop this malicious disinformation campaign about SIR and voting right.

For all your highfalutin bunk and pompous windbaggery, voting is NOT a Constitutional Right but a Statutory Right. Do your homework and find out the difference.

What SIR documentation stressed you out? No documents are required during the initial door-to-door enumeration or verification phase. You only need to return the pre-printed Enumeration Form and details from the 2002 electoral roll (for self or parents/grandparents) to your Booth Level Officer.

If your details cannot be matched with the 2002 records and you are asked to provide supporting documents for verification, you can submit ONE of the following self-attested documents:
•Birth Certificate issued by a competent authority
•Passport
•Matriculation or Educational Certificate issued by a recognized board or university
•Government or PSU ID / Pension Payment Order issued to regular employees or pensioners
•Permanent Residence Certificate (PRC) or State Authority-issued domicile proof
•OBC / SC / ST or any caste certificate issued by a competent authority
•Land or house allotment certificate issued by the government
•Family Register prepared by state or local authorities
•Aadhaar Card (subject to Election Commission guidelines).

How difficult is that?

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

No matter what you do, there will always be a dissident and the media will find him/her.....

[Rahul Shivshankar @RShivshankar]

NOT THE "VICTIM" BUT "AGGRESSOR" AND "ARRESTED" SENA CORPORATOR HOSPITALISED!!!
This is how the "system" works to protect the powerful. Mhatre will recover in hospital being attended by those he beat up. The case will go into cold storage. The corporator will stay on no price paid. The SENA will say due process is being followed!

[Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳 @Aabhas24]

“Did we get Haldighati winner wrong for 450 years?”

It is commonly accepted that Akbar won the Battle of Haldighati. But did Maharana Pratap win the war? A fresh reading of the 450-year-old battle amid US President Donald Trump's repeated claims that the US won the war against Iran.

My latest for @IndiaToday https://t.co/ERd70BUAta

[Arun Bothra 🇮🇳 @arunbothra]

In my career, I have interacted with many hardened criminals and murder accused. Most of them show some sign of regret, grief, or emotional conflict, particularly where the victim is innocent.

What is striking in this case is the chilling absence of any such emotion. The allegations speak of a crime planned and executed in cold blood, followed by the conduct that is equally cold and remorseless.
#SiyaGoyal

[Gargi #Decolonization 🇮🇳 @gargiuvacha]

Dussehra had just ended and Diwali was approaching when, one day, a group of young men and women who looked like they belonged to an NGO visited our college.

They asked the students a few questions, but one particular question left the entire college silent. No one could think of an answer. The whole campus fell quiet.

They asked:

“If Diwali is celebrated as the festival marking Lord Rama’s return to Ayodhya after his 14 years of exile, then why do people perform Lakshmi Puja on Diwali? Why don’t they worship Lord Rama instead?”

The college suddenly fell silent. Back then, there was no social media or smartphones to instantly search for answers. No one knew the answer.

Just then, breaking the silence, one of our own students raised his hand.

When invited to speak, he replied:

“Diwali is connected with two Yugas—the Satya Yuga and the Treta Yuga.”

“In the Satya Yuga, Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the Samudra Manthana (Churning of the Ocean) on this very day. Therefore, Lakshmi Puja is performed.”

“Lord Rama also returned to Ayodhya on this very day during the Treta Yuga. The people of Ayodhya welcomed Him by lighting countless lamps. That is why the festival is called Deepavali—the Festival of Lights.”

“So this festival has two dimensions:

Lakshmi Puja is associated with the Satya Yuga.
Deepavali is associated with Lord Rama’s return during the Treta Yuga and the lighting of lamps.”

After hearing this answer, silence once again filled the hall because no one could refute it—not even the team of young people who had come to question us.

Then the entire college erupted into applause.

A newspaper even interviewed me.

In those days, getting interviewed by a newspaper was considered a matter of great pride.

Years later, I came to know that the group of youngsters who had visited our college had been sent by people whom today’s terminology would describe as “liberals” (leftists).

According to the author, this group would visit colleges and ask students questions like:

“If Diwali is connected to Lord Rama, then why is Lakshmi worshipped on Diwali?”

The author claims their objective was to create confusion among students.

However, after receiving our answer, that group reportedly disappeared.

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Another question was also asked, and it may still be asked today:

What is the relationship between Goddess Lakshmi and Lord Ganesha? Why are they worshipped together during Diwali?

The explanation given is as follows:

When Goddess Lakshmi emerged from the Ocean of Milk during Samudra Manthana and married Lord Vishnu, she became the goddess of wealth and prosperity.

She appointed Kubera as the custodian of the treasury so that wealth could be distributed.

However, Kubera developed a possessive nature. Instead of distributing wealth, he merely guarded it.

Lakshmi became distressed because her devotees were not receiving her blessings in the form of prosperity.

She approached Lord Vishnu with her concern.

Lord Vishnu advised her:

“Appoint someone else to oversee the distribution.”

Lakshmi replied:

“Kubera is my devoted devotee. I do not wish to hurt him.”

Lord Vishnu then suggested that she make use of Lord Ganesha’s immense wisdom.

Lakshmi therefore assigned the duties as follows:

Kubera would continue guarding the treasury.
Lord Ganesha would distribute wealth among deserving devotees.

Lord Ganesha agreed, but on one condition:

“Whoever I recommend should receive your blessings, and you should not oppose my choices.”

Lakshmi accepted.

From that day onward, according to this narrative, Lord Ganesha began removing obstacles from people’s lives and opening the doors of prosperity for them, while Kubera remained only the guardian of the treasury.

Impressed by Ganesha’s generous wisdom, Lakshmi requested her Manasa Putra (mind-born son) Ganesha to remain with her whenever she was not accompanied by Lord Vishnu.

During Diwali, Lakshmi Puja is performed on Kartik Amavasya.

According to the narrative,

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Hunters in Alaska found a whale with a harpoon fired more than a century earlier.

Bowhead whales are the longest-living mammals on Earth, some survive more than two centuries. But in 2007, hunters in Alaska uncovered proof of just how long these giants endure.

Inside a whale’s flesh, researchers discovered fragments of a 19th-century exploding harpoon, the kind used when New Bedford, Massachusetts was the whaling capital of the world. The weapon dated to between 1885 and 1895. The whale had been alive with it embedded in its body for more than a hundred years, making it at least 115 years old.

Bowheads (Balaena mysticetus) were once nearly driven to extinction by commercial whaling. By 1921, only a few thousand were left. Today, thanks to protections, their population has rebounded to somewhere between 10,000 and 23,000. Subsistence hunts by Inuit communities in Alaska, who have depended on these whales for millennia, continue under long-held traditions, and it was during one such hunt that the historic harpoon was found.

Scientists confirm the whales’ ages in another way: through their eyes. The proteins in a whale’s eye lens slowly change shape over time, like a molecular clock. By measuring those changes, researchers estimate bowheads can live more than 200 years, surviving Arctic winters, shifting sea ice, and even century-old wounds.

The whale with the harpoon is gone now, but its story lingers as proof of resilience, and a reminder of how long life can last in the icy waters of the Arctic.

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

🧤 2025/26 was full of spectacular goalkeeping 😳

Best save here? ⛔

@QatarAirways | #LetsFly

[UEFA Champions League @ChampionsLeague]

Incredible 2025/26 assists 🅰️

Which was the best? 🤔

@lays_football | #UCLassists

[indianhistorypics @IndiaHistorypic]

1966 :: Veer Savarkar Passes Away

PM Indira Gandhi Describes Savarkar as a Great Figure of Contemporary India Whose Name Is a Byword For Daring and Patriotism

President Radha Krishnan and VP Zakir Hussain Also Pay Tributes

[Shekhar Gupta @ShekharGupta]

To understand the Pooja Singh’s emotion and the enormity of her 1.93m jump we must track the (regrettable) durability of Indian national women’s high jump record record…

In 22 years it has moved only by 2 centimetres. Bobby Aloysius with 1.91 metres in 2004 and Sahana Kumari 1.92 in 2012…

This is still way below the Asian record of 2.0m by a Kazakh jumper…but she hasn’t repeated it since 2021..

At 19, Pooja, from a poor family in Haryana, has the time. And this fame will ensure she gets the best coaching and gets to compete at elite level…

[Ashok Khemka @AshokKhemka_IAS]

Terminating the lease of Delhi Gymkhana Club is a bold move by government. The club sits on prime public land worth over ₹10,000 crores. Predictably, the entrenched elite will resist. The real question is: will Modi government stand firm, or eventually yield to elite pressure?

[Aritra Chatterjee @aritra9029]

@sagarikaghose @BJP4India Look who's talking

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

ফলতার জনগণ তাঁদের মত জানিয়েছেন! গণতন্ত্র জিতেছে এবং ভীতিপ্রদর্শন পরাজিত হয়েছে।

অভূতপূর্ব ব্যবধানে ফলতায় জেতার জন্যে শ্রী দেবাংশু পান্ডাজিকে অভিনন্দন। বিজেপির প্রতি পশ্চিমবঙ্গের মানুষের অটল বিশ্বাসেরই চিহ্ন এটি। বিভিন্ন ক্ষেত্রে পশ্চিমবঙ্গ সরকারের ব্যতিক্রমী কাজ মানুষ দেখছেন এবং সেইজন্যেই আমাদের আবারো আশীর্বাদ করেছেন।

তাঁদের অসাধারণ কাজের জন্য পশ্চিমবঙ্গে বিজেপির সব কার্যকর্তাদের আমার অভিনন্দন। ভবিষ্যতেও আমরা পশ্চিমবঙ্গের উন্নয়নের লক্ষ্যে কাজ করে যাব।

@BJP4Bengal

[Aritra Chatterjee @aritra9029]

@theskindoctor13 @thekiranbedi @arunjaitley 😆😂

[Sanjeev Sanyal @sanjeevsanyal]

The amount of fake references in the works of "eminent" historians is mind boggling. Whole chapters are based on claims with no primary evidence but circular referencing to each other's writings.

[Himanta Biswa Sarma @himantabiswa]

This evening, I will inaugurate a new flyover in Guwahati named after Dr. Syama Prasad Mookerjee.

Some will ask why a flyover in Guwahati is being named after Dr. S.P Mookerjee?

The answer is a story that very few people know but one which everyone in Assam should know 🧵

[Election Commission of India @ECISVEEP]

All preparations are in place for the fresh poll in 144-Falta AC on 21 May

Polling parties are proceeding to their respective polling stations with EVMs, VVPATs and other election materials

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Thank you for the gift