Lakshay

You saw something interesting just now?

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@RobMirlach Ah my bad - just followed
Thanks

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Wait till markets realise that government reported inflation is above these yields and we are still in negative real yield environment. 5.1% is still not enough

No one will go Paul Volcker on this

You don’t own enough #gold or #silver

You think you do

@davidbateman

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@wavemindset RIA license number?

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@GoldSilverHQ India comes in much ahead if its unofficial/retail gold & silver is taken in account

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@IndianGems_ Jokes write themselves

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@FabulasGuy @narendramodi BKC Pro Max

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@LorenzoBolsa XCabs - I like the sound of it

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@KnightsVibe I was at his test debut innings at kotla
You’ll be remembered

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@E20Party E20

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@E20Party #E20 we deserve clean petrol - air pollution is next

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@rajnathsingh @narendramodi Mere papa kehte hai - kabhi kabhi na chup rehna sahi rehta hai - nai samajh rahe tum

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Education - Pradhan
Petrol - Gadkari/Puri
Pollution - Nadda
I&B - Vaishnav

All - M/S

#cockroach #CJP

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded��. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

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Anyone willing to start a conversation on pollution issue? #cjp #cockroach

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@sachin_rt Finally getting balls to come out and face the tough conditions
This is not an opener like attitude
But anyway
Welcome

[Dharmesh Ba @dharmeshba]

Then bill us in INR.

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@InvestorOfJAMMU India deserves to get a discount to EM multiples
This is BS

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@ravish_journo magsaysay worthy post - love you sud ji

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