Dwarakanath MN

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[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

Yes.
I'm not sweet.
I'm that dash of bitterness which makes the taste of sweet much more valuable.
I'm honest. 😶

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

I'm having a different argument. You guys deserve that godi media title purely for that alag rishtey with congress.

BJP's supporters are also it's fiercest critics.

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

I will tell you a story about the late ahmed patel . Cong lost Gujarat polls , many blamed him . Many of the channels too … next day many met him at an event . We were wondering whether he would be angry / upset . But he smiled when he saw us - said “ naheen likhte toh acha hota” . I asked are you angry with us ? “ he said “ na . Mere liye aapke saath rishte jyada important hai . Ek story ke liye yeh rishte naheen badlunga”

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

@yaajushi या या, यू आर् रैट्।

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

Kiribati (written किरिबाति) is pronounced as किरि बास्।
San Jose (सान् जोस्) as सान् होसे
La Jolla as ला होय्या।

I'm perfectly fine with prashaanth for that french word🤣

[याजुषी @yaajushi]

The awkward moment when you actually read croissant as prashant and not notice until two lines later that there was a c instead of a p in that spelling, and that it ISN'T pronounced prashant for real.

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

Worth doing a post mortem over every *predilection,.. Which country is suffering due to west Asia crisis? And why is it not India yet?

Sure, let's skip this because we can't blame Modi anymore!

Next crisis, please!

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

Worth a listen to Raghuram Rajan here : why no country is immune to the West Asia crisis.

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

@adityajakki Only Tamils say Murugan is Tamil god? 🤔

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

I was fourteen, walking home from school in Paris with my French-American friend. Summer was around the corner and the heat was relentless.

‘You must be used to this heat,’ she said.

‘Not really,’ I replied. ‘We lived in the hills in India before we came to Paris.’

‘Hills? I didn’t know India had hills.’

‘We have the Himalayas,” I had replied. ‘The highest mountains in the world.’

She stopped dead.

‘You’ve got to be kidding! The highest mountains are in America.’

That expression of absolute certainty is etched into my memory even today.

Twenty years later, when I met her again in New York, I reminded her of that conversation. We couldn’t stop ourselves from laughing.

So anyway that afternoon we went home, and I opened my Philips Atlas and showed her the Himalayas.

‘You know,’ she said thoughtfully, ‘ I’d always wondered about that weird name. I just assumed it was some Native American name.’

A few weeks later, in geography class, while studying the Alps, our teacher announced they were the highest mountains in the world.

My newly enlightened friend proudly corrected her.

‘Actually, the Himalayas are.’

The teacher shot me a look that instantly identified the culprit behind this inconvenient fact.

Then, without missing a beat, she recovered.
‘Yes… but the Himalayas are the newest highest mountains. The Alps were the oldest highest mountains.’

Case closed.

At fourteen, I learnt one of life’s great lessons: The West doesn’t just write history, geography, science. It often decides it.

If something is ancient, extraordinary or foundational, somehow it must have originated in Europe or at the very least be explained through a European lens.

The Rig Veda became “Aryan.” A Middle Eastern Jew named Jesus acquired blond hair and blue eyes.
Even Panini, at one point, seemed to belong to everyone except India.

Now, apparently, Panini is Pakistani.

Progress, I suppose.
From ‘ that’s impossible’ to ‘it was ours all along.’

The script changes. The narrator doesn’t.

#SundayMusings

[Prof. Krishnamurthy V Subramanian @SubramanianKri]

Ian Botham (no, I will not call him “Sir”) says India’s financial dominance in cricket is a “problem” and the wealth should be “distributed more fairly.”
Let me get this straight.
Britain ruled India for nearly 200 years. Drained an estimated $45 trillion from the subcontinent. Engineered famines that killed millions. Systematically dismantled industries so Indian textiles couldn’t compete with Lancashire mills. Extracted timber, cotton, opium, indigo, and called it civilisation.
Not once did Botham’s Britain worry about “fair distribution.”
India then rebuilt itself from near-zero. Created the IPL, which is the most valuable cricket property on the planet. Built the audiences, the passion, the broadcast revenues that turned cricket from a colonial gentleman’s sport into a global business worth billions.
Every rupee India earns in cricket was built. Not extracted. Built.
Now that the money flows toward India rather than away from it, this man is suddenly concerned about equity.
And West Indies players choosing IPL contracts over Cricket West Indies? That’s called the market. The same free market Britain championed for two centuries when it worked in Britain’s favour.
Colonialism is the greatest redistribution story in history. It just went the wrong way.
India doesn’t owe cricket the world a rebate on its own success.
The hypocrisy isn’t subtle. It isn’t even dressed up well. It’s just bare, brazen, and entirely unsurprised by itself.
@virender_swag @virendersehwag @sachin_rt @imVkohli @GautamGambhir @BeefyBotham @MichaelVaughan

[Nandini @NBDwrites]

It was 2004, and I was at a dinner in Delhi’s Vasant Vihar.

Sonia’s government had just been sworn in, and for the first time in my adult life I understood what my grandfather had meant all those years ago, sitting there amongst that familiar set.

The most educated, privileged Indians, people who have enjoyed every opportunity this country could give them genuinely believed that only a European can govern, deliver, and lead; that only a Christian missionary institution can impart “real” education; that only a Mr Smith is incorruptible and only a Mrs Smith can truly serve the poor.

And to ease their own conscience, to pretend they still “connect” with the people of this land, they needed a Lalu Prasad.

Someone who confirmed, in the most convenient way, every prejudice and bias they carried about their own countrymen.

Which is why the rage, that impotent, unforgiving rage has burned for the past eleven years.

Because one man shattered every notion they and their collaborator forefathers held for two hundred years.

He broke their script, and they’ve never forgiven him for it.

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

Hard to teach that a straight line, or segment never exists. Space is always curved. Planar geometry means we are living an approximation! 😊

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Fun Q:

You start from Cubbon Park in Bangalore

-- Go 1000 km north

-- Then you go 1000 km west

-- Then you go 1000 km south

-- Then you go 1000 km east

Where are you now?

[Dwarakanath MN @dwarakiMN]

" ವಿಚಿತ್ರವಾದರೂ ಸತ್ಯ" 🤣

[Ananth Kumar @anantkkumar]

Someone's name is vichitra shetty😃

[Ajay Rotti @ajayrotti]

The RSS controversy and let me explain the concept of mutuality in taxation which Mr Ram Madhav refers to here a being rightly applicable to RSS.

Fun fact before I start... .Mutuality in taxation applies to clubs .. Landmark case the Bangalore Club case!! So before outrage about it applying to RSS... .remember it applies to Clubs first... Now read the thread....

1/N

[Aravind @aravind]

Italy is also a democracy like India. Millions don't like and didn't vote PM Meloni in Italy.

Yet, when Trump recently made a silly remark about Meloni "begging to take pics with him", the whole country, including opposition, have stood behind her.

Nobody is mocking her using Trump's comments. Nobody is saying she has made Italy look weak. None in Italy is taking the side of Trump mocking their PM for some silly political gratification.

[Manjunath KL 🇮🇳 @modimanju1]

My Dear Priyank Kharge Ji,

Pls clarify Are you speaking as an individual or as Karnataka's Home Minister ? If RSS has violated any law file the case & let the law decide.

End the rhetoric. Start the action.

Bring it on.

@rajeshpadmar @BJP4Karnataka @astitvam @frictionangel

[Abhishek @AbhishBanerj]

Fully agree with The Wire!

Nehru's term as PM should be counted from Sep 1946, when he was head of Interim Govt

Means when Nehru wrote this letter in Nov 1946, he was essentially PM

Here he says he feels relief that police murdered 400 Hindus in Bihar

Imagine horror of PM talking like this!

[Girish Bharadwaj @Girishvhp]

Mr. Priyank Kharge seems more interested in making headlines than discussing facts. The issue of Guru Dakshina and RSS taxation has already been examined through legal processes. If he has any new evidence, he should present it before the relevant authorities or the courts.

As a Home Minister, he has the authority to act if he believes any law has been violated, instead of turning the matter into a media spectacle for political gain.

Mr. Kharge often speaks about the Constitution and the rule of law. However, he had recommended the withdrawal of cases mob accused of attacking police personnel and Police Station in his own constituency "Chittapur". The withdrawal was stayed by the High Court after I filed a petition challenging it. The Constitution and the law must be applied consistently to everyone and should not be used selectively as tools for political convenience.

[Prakash Sesharaghavachar 🇮🇳 @sprakaashbjp]

@KapilSibal As a legal expert you should quote that law under which RSS needs to be registered. Don’t comment like a novice. It hurts your reputation

[J Gopikrishnan @jgopikrishnan70]

Does RSS have registration is an old question by Digvijaya Singh ... Priyank Kharge just rehashed the question.. Question is where to register and under which Act RSS to be registered??? There is an Income Tax exemption for RSS, terming its main income is thru Guru Dakshina... Political party has to be registered (if wanted to contest) under Representation of People's Act and Election Commission Rules .. NGOs have different registration like under FCRA, if foreign donation receiving, Charitable Organisations have another Act, some States have Charitable Society Act.... Let Priyank Kharge tell... Knowing the reality he just shoots questions ... And always Police approval need for annual route march of RSS... Some time Police objected and Court gave clearance for Root March ... Now Priyank Kharge is Home Minister of Karnataka. Will he block next route march of RSS in Karnataka?

[J Gopikrishnan @jgopikrishnan70]

Does RSS have registration is an old question by Digvijaya Singh ... Priyank Kharge just rehashed the question.. Question is where to register and under which Act RSS to be registered??? There is an Income Tax exemption for RSS, terming its main income is thru Guru Dakshina... Political party has to be registered (if wanted to contest) under Representation of People's Act and Election Commission Rules ..

NGOs have different registration like under FCRA, if foreign donation receiving, Charitable Organisations have another Act, some States have Charitable Society Act.... Let Priyank Kharge tell... Knowing the reality he just shoots questions ... And always Police approval need for annual route march of RSS... Some time Police objected and Court gave clearance for Root March ... Now Priyank Kharge is Home Minister of Karnataka. Will he block next route march of RSS in Karnataka? 😎

[Ajay Rotti @ajayrotti]

Praising Pakistan, Mocking Indian Govt AND supporting TMC. All in a single tweet. He deserves praise.

[Minhaz Merchant @MinhazMerchant]

There are three categories of critics who oppose the Great Nicobar Project that will give India a chokehold on the Malacca Strait through which China’s seaborne trade passes:
1) China
2) Rahul Gandhi
3) China-paid Indian journalists