the man with a fountain pen

godless ape

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

On 25 June 1975, the prime minister Indira Gandhi declared Emergency. The subsequent months have come to be referred to as one of the darkest moments of Indian democracy—the period saw disturbing censures of the press, an excessive control over the government and the judiciary, and the implementation of policies such as a draconian family-planning scheme launched by Sanjay Gandhi, Indira’s younger son.

In their 1977 book For Reasons of State: Delhi Under Emergency, the civil-rights activist and writer John Dayal and the journalist Ajoy Bose recounted the travails of the common citizens during the Emergency. Dayal and Bose report on arbitrary arrests and detention, demolition of houses, and the forced sterilisation campaign that resulted in the deaths of thousands. The book has now been republished. The authors write in the introduction to the 2018 edition that “the time has come once again to recall the assault on the democratic rights of people more than four decades ago.”

To read an excerpt of the book. read here: https://t.co/NVBgjDGwC7

[Liberal & Atheist Abhilasha 🌈‏ @LibAbhilasha]

Any counter comments anyone?

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

@RSP7_ @Pxxdressi Either retire as a Hero or play long enough to become Robaldo

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

@Portfolio_Bull Who's watching / subscribing to their content ? They've just monetised your secjually deprived / deranged society.

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

My column: India’s defense institutions continue to operate as though the principal threat to Indian democracy comes from its own military rather than from the increasingly complex security challenges emerging beyond its borders.

As a result, the civilian bureaucracy remains the principal gatekeeper of major defense decisions, strategic planning, procurement and budgetary authority. https://t.co/qABjGpN0Cd

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

Italian marines mercilessly killed our fishermen. If Madam is so 'patriotic' can she tell us in which jail are the marines lodged in?

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

As 20.yo went to India Against Corruption in 2011 ; thought Godhra Uncle is unlike others.

15 years later , uncle is narcissistic fascist with a complex of 11 yo Japanese school girl.

He's UPA+Bigotry on steroids.

Hope genZ could read his bullshit what my generation could not

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

@ajay43 @dhruv_rathee So are you and a glorious one uncle

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

Why they've not been lathicharged yet?
Sus Much

#imacockroach

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Joe Jacobsen, the deputy director of the Foundation for Aviation Safety, told @rachelchitra that the data the report by the Aircraft Accident Investigation Bureau, an agency overseen by India’s ministry of civil aviation, omitted were precisely the bits needed to determine whether the aircraft itself was in distress before the cockpit conversation.

“It doesn’t even cover the basics,” Jacobsen said. “There is no meaningful presentation of engine spool-down sequencing, no engine N1/N2 progression tables, no reconstruction of electrical-bus behaviour, no timing for when the RAT began supplying electrical power, what triggered it—just the hydraulic power timestamp. And no explanation of why independent systems like the aft EAFR failed.”

Read how Boeing and Air India’s role in India’s deadliest aviation disaster is being covered up, in our latest issue: https://t.co/WdkPLHMQ24

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

@Ahlawat2012 In which recent conflict (post covid) land forces has shown any decisive / penetrative edge. Uncles are still in 70s. We'll made point Ally sir

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

A nerve-wrecking multi-layered psychological chiller that turns 'be careful what you wish for' into pure skin-crawling dread.
Inde Navarette (Nikki) will stay with you long after closing credits.

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

@sidhant_sarthak Good job Young Man !

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

CBSE has systematically rewritten its rulebook to favor Coempt Eduteck.

check out the blog.

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

The worst part about 30s is pretending & enacting that ' the numb nut you germinated outta privilege and curated into your sense of accomplishment, is so cute '

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

99% of 1% Indians will never interact with reality !

Please put your kids in govt schools

When your father is on death bed , take him to Govt Hospital

Please make your wife/mother/ sister travel in public transport at night

You don't know you are bigot with IQ of a momo

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

Manipur is closer than Norway !

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

It is a complex emotion to fathom how statistically dumb an average person is on generic topics and the cunt can vote and procreate.

Melody Hahaha Modi ji bhi na

[the man with a fountain pen @gustakkh]

Impecable https://t.co/pYyhycFaEU

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Eight reasons China made it

1) Flattened social hierarchies
2) Pushed gender equality
3) Never allowed the West any control
4) Pushed education & nutrition for all
5) Locked religion behind private doors
6) Set national S&T goals and achieved it
7) Played the West's game against the West itself
8) Kept the top corporates under the State's boot.

1, 2, 4 and 5 transformed the society.
5 further made society rational & progressive.
3 and 7 kept it sovereign.
6 prepared it for 21st century.
8 allowed for common prosperity & not naked loot.

Despite its authoritarianism and surveillance state character, it did a lot for the common Chinese citizen (bar a few groups like rural elderly etc.) and miraculously escaped the poverty trap.

Very difficult, though desirable, for many other nations to even copy bits and pieces of this playbook.
#China #Prosperity #Playbook