Devangshu Datta

Columnist, Editor. Interests = markets, science, history, chess, bridge, sex, religion & other high troll-quotient subjects. Writes. Researches.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

the reason barkatullah is being erased is that modi/rss want people to forget that there were people who did things other than apologise to the british raj.
https://t.co/oBjoyulI54

[Devangshu Datta @devangshudatta]

@MurraySuggests @JohnG3191438524 The 300-400 nukes that Israel officially does not have

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

@Rimurapa_ @Truegreta I freaking LOVE Terry Pratchett, sir. The reference alone is worth a follow. Thank you.

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

💔 "Nobody can take your freedom. I have lived in a dictatorship. There was a ban on everything! Was I less free in my mind? No, I wasn’t. Did I become a stupid person? No, I didn’t. Because no matter how much they looked at me, they could not get into my mind."
~ Marjane Satrapi

[Murray Rothbard @MurraySuggests]

The Iranian navy, which has been destroyed eight times, has apparently closed the Strait of Hormuz again, because the United States, for the seventh time, won the war that wasn’t a war, so now the United States has to open the Strait of Hormuz that was already open before the not-war began.

The not-war began because Iran had uranium that was totally, completely, beautifully obliterated, so they can’t build the nuclear bomb they weren’t building, which is why the United States had to start the not-war it definitely didn’t start.

Now the United States, which has nuclear weapons, is threatening to use nuclear weapons to stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons, because nuclear weapons are far too dangerous for countries with nuclear weapons to allow other countries to have.

If the United States saw the United States doing what the United States does in other countries, the United States would invade the United States to liberate the United States from the tyranny of the United States.

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

In West Bengal, those who have been excluded from the voter rolls—often for highly specious reasons, with an evident partisan bias—are especially vulnerable, since the expulsion of supposedly undocumented immigrants has been a salient part of the BJP agenda in the state for decades.

After examining the SABAR Institute’s data, @marcopolar found some troubling patterns that raise questions about the ECI’s impartiality during the SIR process in West Bengal.

Read the entire report in our June 2026 issue: https://t.co/4zNBay4sJX

[Steve Hanke @steve_hanke]

#IndiaWatch🇮🇳: India’s stock market was worth more than 2x Taiwan’s and 3.5x South Korea’s just 18 months ago.

Today, FT reports that both Taiwan and South Korea have OVERTAKEN India.

INDIA'S MISSED THE AI PARTY.

[Matthew Gross @HurricaneAddict]

I really don't think enough people fully comprehend the worlds that are about to collide here.

You already have people in geopolitical circles warning about the threat of famine based on surging prices / availability of fertilizer components, and you also have long-term weather modeling all converging on a worst case scenario for a building El Nino event, which will peak near the end of the year. These are two slow moving but entirely predictable disasters that when coupled together will each make the other orders of magnitude worse. (This will take months to fully unfold, but at this point, the die is cast.)

There's no event in our history books that combines the current global population with the impending fertilizer shortage and the strength of the El Nino that's coming. We are about to witness an unprecedented event that will push crops around the globe to their limit.

[VisionaryVoid @VisionaryVoid]

He Won India's First Gold. The Country Lost His Records.

In 1965, Murlikant Petkar was the Indian Army's national boxing champion. He asked his commanding officer for a reward: a holiday to Kashmir, a place he'd never seen.

He was sleeping in his bunker when Pakistani aircraft struck. Seven bullets hit him. An army vehicle ran over his legs in the chaos. Six bullets were surgically removed. The seventh remained in his spine. He was paralyzed from the waist down, confined to a wheelchair at INHS Aswini naval hospital in Bombay.

His physiotherapist put him in the water as part of rehabilitation. Petkar kept going. He competed at the 1968 Paralympics in Tel Aviv in table tennis. He changed disciplines to swimming, training every day. At the 1972 Paralympics in Heidelberg, Germany, he climbed out of lane three having set a world record in the heats, and then won the final. Time: 37.33 seconds in the 50-metre freestyle. No Indian had ever won an individual gold at the Olympics or the Paralympics. Now one had.

When Petkar flew home, not a single government official was at the airport. No reception. No acknowledgment. When India's Paralympic Committee was formally established, it began keeping records from 1984 onward. Petkar's gold, the one that came before any of them, simply was not entered. "We don't have any record of his medal," a committee official told the Hindustan Times in 2012. Four decades after Heidelberg, he was living on a Rs 4,000 monthly pension from the Maharashtra state government.

He swam the fastest 50 metres in the world with a bullet still lodged in his spine. His country's official records described him as if he had never entered the water.

[anuradha raman @raman_anuradha]

A first for graphic novelist Joe Sacco as Penguin pulls plug on his book on Muzaffarnagar riots. Not Palestine, not Balkans but Muzaffarnagar https://t.co/j43Um8gpIG

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

Meet Rajesh Mehta,

Owner of Rajesh Exports

Showed Rs 15.15 lakh crore revenue in 5 Years

LIC invested 2,000+ crores

No one flagged for 5 years

Today SEBI announced Rs 15.15 lakh crore revenue was fake

Rajesh share dropped 80%

LIC lost almost 1,600 crores of common people money.

Believe it or die but Corruption in India is almost at the highest level.

[Anurag Dwary @Anurag_Dwary]

भोपाल में बरकतुल्लाह विश्वविद्यालय का नाम वाग्देवी भोजपाल विश्वविद्यालय करने का प्रस्ताव कार्य परिषद की बैठक में पास हुआ है,बस जानकारी के लिये मौलाना बरकतुल्लाह भोपाली भारत की पहली निर्वासित सरकार के प्रधानमंत्री थे 8 भाषाओं के जानकार निर्भीक पत्रकार, प्रभावशाली वक्ता, और प्रखर राष्ट्रवादी

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

I checked latest RBI data on their site and found this.
1) Gold value reduced from 11.45 trillion rupees to 10.98 trillion rupees (from May 15 to May 22), a drop of 4%. Same in dollar terms also: ~4% drop.
2) If total gold stock is same, this is possible only if prices reduced in that ratio. In that week, prices were nearly steady (15-22 May 2026).
3) So if RBI did sell, it could mean roughly 20-30 T of gold. (variation depending on 22-carat or 24-carat).
[You can see here: https://t.co/xWZ6Nsoy5G]

(Kindly point any calculation error.)

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Big Action by Modi govt. Master stroke by Modi ji. Major action by Modi ji... Big Action by Modi ji via Godi media..

[Gaurav Tomar @Gaurav_tmr]

@ANI Incredible logic: Don’t build a secure portal, just threaten anyone who notices it’s broken. Rather than addressing their own negligence, they use intimidation to cover up their mistakes. This is the ultimate example of hiding incompetence behind power.
#CBSE
#I4C

[Cockroach is Back @Cockroachisback]

Cockroach Janta Party announces three spokespersons who will speak on behalf of the protest movement to the public and the media.

Investigative journalist Saurav Das will take on the role of Chief Spokesperson. Political researcher, author and filmmaker Vijeta Dahiya, and an alumnus of IIT Kanpur and the global management consulting firm McKinsey, Ashutosh Ranka, will also take on the role of Spokespersons along with Das. CJP is committed to changing the political discourse of India, and this will be led by a new generation of leaders.

@SauravDassss @VijetaDahiya @AshutoshRanka @CJPComms

[Saurav Das @SauravDassss]

🚨#Announcement

I am thrilled to join the Cockroach Janta Party as its Chief Spokesperson. There comes a moment when the young of a nation realise they are angry because they were promised a future, and then mocked, moralised, and treated as disposables for asking where that future went. That moment has arrived. And it is time we change that.

Ab hum bolenge.

Ab hum desh ka bhavishya khud likhenge!

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

Spare a little time in your fine-grained liberal debates for this too. Because without a fair vote, these leadership discussions are pretty pointless.

"The govt will now get the freedom to prepare voter lists according to its own wishes. A curated voter list,” he said.

[Indic Voices @IndicVoices]

Not Rashbehari Bose. Not Bagha Jatin. Not Surya Sen.

Kolkata will have 125 feet eyesore of Shyama Prasad Mukherjee.

Why not? He extended his support to the British empire to crush the 1942 Quit India Movement.

Here is the excerpt from the letter of this "great man".

"Anybody who, during the war, plans to stir up mass feelings, resulting in internal disturbances or insecurity, must be resisted...The administration of the province should be carried out in such a manner that, despite the Congress's best efforts, this movement will fail to take root...As one of your ministers, I am willing to offer you my wholehearted cooperation."

https://t.co/OLci4BONUz

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

💡Much of the mainstream reporting on the education crisis is (now) solid, thanks to three teenagers.

Imagine if those papers had covered misgovernance, the fuelling of hate politics, and election manipulation with the same rigour. India would have been in a far better place.