Souvik Bhattacharya

Heritage Blogger | Storyteller ~ Wanderer in a border less world. Tweets mostly on Calcutta.

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to.

Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba.

It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with.

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@satyanewshi @Jayati_M93 Kono chance ache fairly result declare howar? All trends, no winner till now

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@satyanewshi Very confusing as expected

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@KhelaHobePart2 No counting agents. Only PSU/Central Govt employees?

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@_TheEnigmous Congratulations and keep up the good work!

[Neelanjan Sircar @NeelanjanSircar]

As people freak out over turnout rates in West Bengal, my piece w @beejoshi today in @htTweets to help us make sense of anti-incumbency and mobilization.

Ground presence vs. paramilitary presence and its implications...

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

In 1940s Calcutta (now Kolkata), as Japanese air raids rattled the city, a group of musicians travelled by horse carriage to a recording studio, dodging sirens.
Read on. ⁦@arkamusic27⁩ https://t.co/R7hLCcO2fV

[Tathagata Neogi (He/Him/Dr) @ArchaeoNomad]

On 30th April 1908, revolutionaries Khudiram Bose and Prafulla Chaki set Muzaffarpur alight by hurling a bomb to kill Magistrate Douglas Kingsford. The plot failed, and it led to the suicide of Prafulla Chaki and arrest of Khudiram. Bal Gangadhar Tilak voiced his support for the plot and was also arrested on 3rd July 1908. This added force to an already surging #FreedomMovement in #Calcutta. On 26th July, Bipin Chandra Pal addressed a large gathering at College Square protesting against the Tilak's imprisonment.

That day, there was a #football match at the #Dalhosusie Football Club ground, where Dalhousie played against #MohunBagan. The Muzaffarpur incident, Tilak's arrest and Pal's fiery speech earlier that day at College Square reflected in the football ground, where a match between an #English team and a #Indian team was seen as a proxy theatre for the #FreedomMovement. Here's a report of what happened that day at the football match.

Source: British Newspaper Archives

[Tathagata Neogi (He/Him/Dr) @ArchaeoNomad]

This photograph is of the restored early 18th-century Imambara from Rajnagar in #Birbhum.

#Rajnagar today is a small, unassuming village in western Birbhum, close to the #Jharkhand border. However a thriving regional Pathan kingdom existed there since the 1600s.

The Shia rulers of Rajnagar had created an affluent regional capital with rich cultural traditions and an elaborate court culture, especially in the 1700s.

During the rule of Asadullah Khan, Rajnagar developed a very close connection with Murshidabad, emulating the court etiquette and fineries of this new capital city of Bengal province.

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@carvalho_mike @rajivmehta19 Is this route from China (Tibet) ?

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@News18Kerala @grok can you translate this news to English?

[shoaib daniyal @ShoaibDaniyal]

lacs of people live out their lives in calcutta without realising just how beautiful the city's eastern wetlands are, especially during the monsoons

luckily most of the best bits are only accessible on foot/by bicycle

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@satyanewshi

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

Subhabrata Sen from Kolkata becomes 1st Indian scientist to win Royal Society of Chemistry’s Perkin Prize.

https://t.co/zoWijeRuG6

[Sr.Sinha @AdhirSinha]

ক্রিকেটার, সিনেমা আর্টিস্ট হলে কতো মানুষ চোখের জলে ভাসিয়ে দিতো।এই মৃত্যু একটা জাতিকে, সাংস্কৃতিগতভাবে কত দারিদ্র্য তা সকলের অগোচরেই বুঝিয়ে দেয়। কী নিদারুণ নিঃসঙ্গতা! নিঃশব্দেই চলে গেলেন প্রফুল্ল রায়। গড়িয়া শ্মশানে শেষ যাত্রায় সাহিত্যিক। লেখা: দেবব্রত ব্যানার্জী ছবি: Emanul

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Personal story 🧵

Recently I was in Pune for a short trip visiting parents. Had sprained ankle, wanted to ice it. But their fridge didn't have enough ice.

Went on dad's Activa to nearby medical store to get a gel pack. Next door is a barber shop. A dude was outside. /1

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@courtinglaw This will not be an easy way forward.. putting all speculations of de-escalation to rest.

[Souvik Bhattacharya @BrandSouvik]

@swatiatrest Indeed. Who should we follow for facts?