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Interested in technology, cultures & civilizations, history, politics, foreign policy and economics.

यतो धर्मस्ततो कृष्णः यतो कृष्णः ततो जयः।

[S @avisarga]

So he decided India is no longer a democracy based on the opinion of 25 "experts". Really? 25? My building's Resident Welfare Association has more people bro.

[Bastian Herre @bbherre]

@KS1729 Thank you for engaging with my article. The classification is based on the survey responses of the country experts of the Varieties of Democracy-project, who are mostly Indian nationals or residents. You can read more in this article: https://t.co/L5eSI8MayX

[Rupak @RupakChatto]

Che Guevara is the Tipu Sultan of communist mythology: enormously inflated in retrospect, high on revolutionary symbolism and low on actual achievement. His record was marked by military failure, economic misjudgment and a propensity for romantic revolutionary theatre. He was so useless that Fidel Castro ultimately packed him off to pursue revolution elsewhere—ending in Bolivia, where his campaign collapsed and he was captured and killed.

The legend is far larger than the record.

[Puyangan Adiyan @Puyangan5]

Kerala Muslims can import the hijab dress from Arabia, inarguably the ugliest invention of humankind which wraps up women in a tent and completely alien to Kerala culture.

Kerala Christians can import the European customs of Christmas tree and Santa Claus which really has nothing to do with Christianity. It is purely a European pagan festival assimilated into Christianity.

But God forbid, Kerala Hindus take inspiration from fellow Hindus - with whom We share an organic cultural and spiritual bond stretching across millennia - and celebrate a festival of our ever lovable Vinayaka, that's is an RSS conspiracy and communal.

Nice belt treatment required for these sc**b** to set them right. You vermin will learn to love and respect Hindu assertion. Our time has come.

[S @avisarga]

@cvkrishnan @SudsG5 Yes, only a r3t@*d, sans the academic rigor.

[Anurag @Jhunjhunuwala_]

An average day of humiliation for Indians under Congress.

[Historianunkil @SudsG5]

Mao hated India, he hated Indians. Mao's China waged war on us overtly and seized Indian land. It waged war covertly as well.

Yet these assholes get away with glazing him.

Does ANY OTHER country tolerate such open gadari?

The day they sided with CHINA in the 1962 war, Nehru (lol) should have declared them an illegal, seditious organisation and banned them, jailed their leaders but we cultivated this poison within our bosom!

[S @avisarga]

A friend of mine was planning on joining Meta's content team and applied for it. One of the questions in the screening test was "How would you rank the following content flags in the order of action priority: 1) self-harm 2) hate speech 3) incitement of violence/terrorism." The obvious answer is 3, 1, 2, purely from the intent and harm radius perspective. But no, the interviewer brought up the response during the call and said their "values don't align" because they want to primarily "make the platform safe for all". And this was a team from Singapore, not the West. Calling it a hivemind is a gross understatement.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

"Kya Karoge Superpower banke, dusre ko Maroge"

Imagine a person who wants you to smuggle semiconductors instead of making them and says Economic superpower dream is useless, was our RBI governor

Modi's Vishwaguru aspiration is 1000 times better than these defeatist morons who deliberately wants our country to be mediocre

[Rupak @RupakChatto]

Alarmist headline. Past members have had SFI/CPI/INC/NSUI affiliation.

This is actually a very balanced panel and headed by my good friend Sandeep Shastri, who is neither BJP nor RW, but a solid academic.

A truly representative panel.

[S @avisarga]

Lmao. Even the family's pets know the disaster that was UPA's decade of decay. The pomeranian here sneakily inserted Vajpayee's growth numbers to pad the utter failures of his second daddy's mummy and her mute robot.

[S @avisarga]

Lmao. Even the family's pets know the disaster that was UPA's decade of decay. The pomeranian here sneakily inserted Vajpayee's growth numbers to pad the utter failures of his second daddy's mummy and her mute robot.

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

If you go back to 2013, and ask, "How much of India's infrastructure was built after 2001?", this is the chart you'd get. Perfectly normal for a nation that nearly tripled its GDP in 10 years between 2004-14.

[Muji Singh Rangi @mujifren]

In 2019, Nobody in this country could have predicted COVID, Russia War, Iran War and its impact

Still we are only 4 years behind target, and will become 3rd largest economy by 2029

Whereas, Congress in 2013 had predicted we will reach that position in 2044 and this was without COVID and any major crisis

With COVID the revised Congress timeline would have been 2100 AD

[Chanakya @ChanakyaShah]

Dainik Bhaskar journalist went undercover as a laborer in a flour mill in UP and exposed a rotten system that's playing with people's health.

Operators in mills across Agra, Firozabad are mixing stone powder from Rajasthan into atta, increasing their earnings by 70–80 paise per kg i.e. 7k-8k extra per day. These adulterated flour, sold under brands like Maharaja Bhog Atta, is even reaching school mid-day meals. These calcium carbonate can clog intestines and damage the liver and kidneys.

Being in the D2C industry, I'm aware of many brands who do these kinds of things just to save margins and make more money. We keep calling them out, but this looks much bigger.

Government and FSSAI need to act and take control. Consumer health should never be compromised for profit.

[S @avisarga]

We are on the same page, then. I agree that they should provide these details. But when it comes to *foreign* social media companies vs the government, I'll demand accountability from them first. But then it might still fall on deaf ears. In a way, I guess it's a good thing that the government is getting a taste of its own medicine.

[S @avisarga]

Also, aren't you the guy who bats for net neutrality? Who was the first corporation who tried to get preferential treatment with their https://t.co/gXszescHii scheme? Isn't asking the govt to make them stay in their lane not asking for accountability from both parties? Also, why do you activist bros get touchy about "accountability from the government" on every single issue? It's almost as if that's the only thing you know and everything looks like a nail to that hammer. Different issue, different party, different demand for accountability. How hard is it to wrap your head around that? And I'm the fool here? Sure, Jan.

[S @avisarga]

From foreign companies, that have a known track record of meddling with elections internal functioning of other countries and even their own. The transparency from the government or lack thereof can be dealt with in elections, provided they are not muddied by these private companies. It's funny how you call others fools but get your undies in a bunch when demanding accountability from megacorporations.

[S @avisarga]

Yo, @PMOIndia, @HMOIndia, @InfoSecAwa, @GoI_MeitY, pay some attention.

[S @avisarga]

Good. Govt should not accept the phony "technical issue" excuse anymore. It should ask for in-depth specifics: all the detailed logs pertaining to the event, the exact lines of code which misbehaved and why, the entries in the database that caused the "issue", etc. And these should be available to the public under RTI.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

Meta's PM post removal explanation not reasonable, deeper discussions needed, issue far from settled: Govt sources to PTI.

[S @avisarga]

@btarunr Yes, and "technical issue" shouldn't be an acceptable excuse anymore.
https://t.co/TOkry9sdTD

[S @avisarga]

Good. Govt should not accept the phony "technical issue" excuse anymore. It should ask for in-depth specifics: all the detailed logs pertaining to the event, the exact lines of code which misbehaved and why, the entries in the database that caused the "issue", etc. And these should be available to the public under RTI.

[Ajeet Bharti @ajeetbharti]

यही चूतियापा मेरी समझ से बाहर है! यह वही बात हुई कि मैंने एक मिनट में 50 थप्पड़ खा लिए, हिला भी नहीं, रिकॉर्ड बन गया है!

तुम्हारे सबसे बड़े नेता को तीन नल्लों ने रात के बारह बजे वीडियो बनाने पर विवश कर दिया और तुम उसके व्यू गिन रहे हो? यह कोई उपलब्धि नहीं है! यह एक संख्या है जिसका कोई विशेष अर्थ नहीं है।

ईश्वर इन मूर्खों को सद्बुद्धि दे! Genius has its limits, idiocy has none.

[S @avisarga]

@SonuSood 15 crore se hoga? 5 crore youth discount, please?