Excy Hansda

Architectural Historian of Modern India | PhD student @livuni | AHRC @NWC_DTP Scholar | @commschols Scholar '20 @EdinburghUni | Architecture '19 @iitroorkee

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Royal Palm House, Kew
...A Lovely Day at Kew

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Some photographs of the restoration of the Palm House, Kew Gardens

Source: National Archives, Kew

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Walk in the Kew Gardens

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Finding out about the Royal Palm House, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew...

Source: National Archives, Kew

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@jatpat164 Mine too

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My recent fieldwork experience- Navigating Archival Fieldwork in Mumbai: Challenges, Opportunities, and Positionality

Have a read!

https://t.co/We9z7czoLT

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'Bombay's modernism was driven by the middle class, not elites'

@Sabineameer and @excy_hansda, UK-based scholars specialising in architecture, write

#ThePrintOpinion

https://t.co/L93QyrGUBB

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Summers in Leuven are the best days!

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"What did the Manmohan Singh Govt do after the 26/11 Mumbai Attacks?"

This is a question which several Bhakts are asking on Twitter as they rejoice in their jingoism marred with fake news peddled in the Godi Media.

Well here is what the Manmohan Singh Govt actually did.....

- Right during the attack the NSG was deployed
- Not a single of those terrorists were spared
- All of them were dug out of their holes, trapped and killed
- Ajmal Kasab was arrested and sent to trial
- A clear link of his terrorist activities was established which was used to isolate Pakistan internationally and push them in a corner.
- He was then hanged
- No, he was not given Biryani feasts, that was a lie which has by now been busted.
- Each and every of those terrorists were killed
- The Govt took responsibility of the lapse of security
- The CM of Maharashtra resigned
- The HM of Maharashtra resigned
- The Union Minister of Home Affairs resigned
- The Govt held itself accountable to the people of India

What Manmohan Singh Govt did not do:

- It did not go into a muscle flexing hypernationalist mode
- It did not invite Pakistan to come on our soil and do a joint investigation of the terrorist attack
- It did not let any of the terrorists escape and then used the Media to focus on internal communal hatemongering
- It did not target the entire community of Indian Muslims for something that they had no hand in
- It did not make war claims against Pakistan and put the entire Nation in a crazed bloodthirsty mode.
- It did not go into a jingoistic frenzy leading the nation into what can end up in a nuclear catastrophe.

Do you know why they didn't go all "War Crazy" because they have actually fought wars.....they know the price the nation has to pay to go into war and the devastation that happens and the the way a war sets back a nation by decades.

Many of you have not even witnessed a war, much less been affected by it. Neither have I.

But let me tell you this......an actual war is nothing like PUBG.

You don't get respawned in a different location to fight again and again till you are bored and then switch off your console.

People actually die

Soldiers die

Innocents who have not signed up for a war die.

Homes are destroyed.

Livelihoods are destroyed.

It is easy for a pot bellied unkil to sit in his living room and shout "Bharat Mata Ki Jai" while sipping on his chilled Gau Mutra and demanding "War War War".

But before you do that, take a pause, talk to the Army Wives who have lost their husbands, talk to the Mothers who have lost their sons.

They will all tell you that they were proud of their family members losing their lives to defend the country.....but ask them if they want a war or if war is a solution and most of them will give you a straight "NO".

It is easy for people like you, who have never been near a contested border to "enjoy" a war on the media.

But if ever a bomb shell drops near your house, you will crap in your pants.

Disclaimer: Meanwhile all the attacks by us on Islamabad, Karachi made by the Godi Media last night stand cancelled. If you are done with phase 1 of your jingoism you can now go back to your offices and discuss this war with enthusiasm during your lunch hours or at home, safely, if the evenings with your wives.

Courtesy - Darshan Mondkar

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Horrible experience in TJS Rajdhani. The train hasn't even started, & about 15 passengers started having mehendi ritual with loud songs and claps, blocking the gallery-not even letting the staff do their job. When would we ever learn some civic sense?
@RailwaySeva
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Disgusting. Just purely disgusting.
What shameless, spineless, heartless goons are running this BJP handle?

To politicise a terror attack, that too when YOUR GOVERNMENT IS IN POWER AND TO MAKE IT A HINDU-MUSLIM ISSUE? I've had enough.

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Sharing few thoughts on how does it feel to be a first-gen academic in the UK….

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@jatpat164 tabyat kharab hai teri.. so rha hai abhi tak tu bistar pe!!

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Humbled to be part of the 65th anniversary of the Commonwealth Scholarships at the Lancaster House #CSC65 #CommonwealthChangeLeaders

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Check my latest blog on "Choosing a University for your PhD Study?"
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Few places left!

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Had an inspirational few days at @ShepherdsDene Writing Retreat organized by True North & @NWC_DTP
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what a place!!!

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@jatpat164 Modern something: boy waits for a reply #datinglife