Kaustav Ray

My blood is not red. It's tricolour. Proud Indian

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@business Nice to know employees serve their employers in death as in life. Good headline. Nice subbing

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@tehseenp @DelhiPolice Nothing will happen. Your understanding with BJP will ensure that. You are a Congressman in name only. Your views coincide with the Sangh

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@ANI First time in my life I would agree with Adhir Chowdhury. Had @INCIndia existed on the ground in West Bengal @BJP4India would never have been able to capture power using EVM capturing, SIR and other dirty tricks. @MamataOfficial should reunite with @INCIndia to save Bengal

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@Politicx2029 No. Congress will not accept Mamata Banerjee back. She did not leave Congress. Instead, she was expelled. Congress would not accept her due to the recent baggage of anti-incumbency associated with her term as West Bengal CM. Congress would prefer to srart with a clean slate

[vir sanghvi @virsanghvi]

Remembering Rajiv Gandhi on the anniversary of his tragic death.
He was one of the warmest, most decent human beings to become Prime Minister of India. With him, what you saw was what you got; there was no deviousness, no subterfuge & certainly, no megalomania.
When he made mistakes he admitted it. When he felt he had been unfair to people he apologised. And despite growing up in a political family he never let the cynicism that characterises Indian politics get to him.
We often forget that he may have been the first Indian PM to have ever held a regular job, to have paid income tax and PF. This gave him an understanding of how salaried people in India lived & how the system was tilted against them. During his time taxes were lowered,the stock
market boomed and India prepared for the digital age.
He went too soon. If he had lived he would have returned to power sooner rather than later. By the time he died, he had learned from the early mistakes that his inexperience led him to make & was ideally placed to lead India into the 21 st Century and to forge a society
that had no room for divisiveness & hatred. As even his critics will concede, he was at heart a unifier, signing accords in Punjab, Assam & Mizoram, ending conflicts and building a better India.

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@virsanghvi @RURALINDIA Gone too soon. His loss was a huge setback not just to @INCIndia but to India. He was actually the person who laid the foundation for the IT boom that India experienced in the 1990s. As rightly said, he was a unifier as evidenced by the 'Mile sur mera tumhara' campaign. Om Shanti

[Anant Gupta @AnantGuptaAG]

I've spent over a month in Bengal covering the election and its aftermath 🧵

My last story was about the odd case of Rajarhat New Town. Both BJP and Trinamool claim that officials manipulated the results in this seat.

The Election Commission's response? 👇

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@Sydusm Did they ever have it in the first place? That is the question

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@Aakar__Patel @IndianTechGuide Why watch epl when we have isl?

[𝓼𝓪𝓷𝓴𝓪𝓻 @yansan]

A friend once warned him, "Go if you must! But the Bengalis won't let you survive there."
​Vistasp’s reply was simple,"If they don’t let me stay, I’ll come back."
​Back then, Vistasp, the son of a Parsi teacher in Bombay surprised everyone with his decision to move to Calcutta. He had a wife and children in Bombay and a respectable income. There was no guarantee he’d find work that paid nearly as well in Calcutta. But his friends and family knew him too well.
​They remembered how, shortly after his matriculation, Vistasp ran away to Pune in search of work. He spent his days job hunting and his nights on railway platforms. After being chased away by the police, he sought shelter at Kirkee station, sleeping on wooden benches to the "lullaby" of a mosquito symphony. He eventually found a job washing horses at a military camp, but he didn’t stay away for long. Reflecting on it, Vistasp once wittily remarked, "...eventually, I returned home, just like all frustrated young men do."
​When he finally reached Calcutta, the "Vistasp" shortened to just "V." Paired with his surname, he filled the city with music as V. Balsara. He often used a two-fingered "Victory" sign as a silent shorthand for his name.
​He arrived in Calcutta in late May 1954, carrying nothing but a shirt and trousers wrapped in paper and exactly three rupees in his pocket. Staying at a Parsi guest house on Bow Street, he had no plan. He decided to find Pandit Jnan Prakash Ghosh and headed to the radio office. Ghosh wasn't there, but a kind gentleman directed him to the National Orchestra, where Ghosh was busy with rehearsals for a recording the next day. The group practically forced Vistasp onto the piano stool. That moment marked the beginning of V. Balsara’s journey in Bengali music.
​Once, Hemanta Mukherjee jokingly gave his dear friend a bit of a "jail scare." While arranging music, Balsara was startled to hear he might end up behind bars. During a Rabindra Sangeet recording, Hemanta noticed a slight deviation from the notation and scolded him: "Hey, play exactly what’s in the notes. This is Tagore's music. If you play something else, Visva Bharati will send you to jail!" Fear of "jail" kept Balsara away from Tagore’s compositions for a long time, though later, those very songs became his greatest solace.
​His life was marked by incredible discipline and quiet strength. When his eldest son passed away at just eleven years old, Balsara showed up at the studio exactly on time right after the funeral rites. Even on the day his wife passed away, he didn't cancel his scheduled performance. Instead, he dedicated "Purano Shei Diner Kotha" to his lifelong companion.
​Vistasp Ardeshir Balsara gave up formal education after failing his 2nd year college exams, pivoting entirely toward his obsession with instrumental music. He was fascinated by the sounds he could coax out of glass, bottles, metal, and stone. By collecting various empty bottles, he created the "Bottlephone," followed by the "Glassophone," "Steelophone," and "Bellophone."
​In his memoirs, he wrote, "Since childhood, my head was buzzing with ideas. I was always thinking of ways to pull new sounds out of a harmonium." This relentless curiosity eventually made him the undisputed emperor of instrumental music.
​On this day in 2005, this true gentleman, who loved Bengal and its people deeply, passed away.
Tributes... 🙏🙏🙏

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Congress' 10 sins since 2004

1. No active link with supporters and followers
2. Tolerating nonsense of its own leaders at all levels
3. Lack of interest in building the organisation from grassroots
4. No interest at all in solid propaganda and marketing
5. Deserting own Party's glorious history
6. No strategic sense about the imminent threats
7. Not changing with time, esp. post-2016; still using 1990s methods and leadership styles
8. No professionalism in running the party, using loose NGO style informalities; Rahul Priyanka don't attend office; rely on delegation without results
9. Totally self-absorbed, arrogant leadership lot
10. No grand vision for the Republic, only reactive tactical moves.

#IndianPolitics #LoP #PoliticalAnalysis

[All India Trinamool Congress @AITCofficial]

On April 30th, Digha will witness the inauguration of the newly-built, majestic Jagannath Temple.

Join us, as Bengal welcomes Lord Jagannath to the shores of Digha!

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@AskPerplexity Can @INCIndia win the 2029 Parliamentary elections?

[PoliticsVideoChannel @politvidchannel]

BREAKING: Epstein victim says there are Tape of Donald Trump having sex with 'many girls' recorded by Jeffrey Epstein.

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@tehseenp Is Soros putra worse than Musk putra? No word on Elon Musk's blatant interference in effecting regime change across nations?

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@Ei_Samay I am an active subscriber of Ei Samay. Since November 4 the site is not refreshing and I am unable to read the daily paper. I have tried logging out and also deleting the internet cache. Please resolve the issue asap. Thanks

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[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

@darab_farooqui July 2013

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@elonmuskADO Yes

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

That is not how Swami Vivekananda would have meditated. You cannot be a Yogi if you have so much hatred within you. You have lowered the level of discourse beyond imagination. Manmohan Singh was right about you. You continue with your fake meditation

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

The Q4 GDP growth data for 2023-24 shows robust momentum in our economy which is poised to further accelerate. Thanks to the hardworking people of our country, 8.2% growth for the year 2023-24 exemplifies that India continues to be the fastest growing major economy globally. As I’ve said, this is just a trailer of things to come..

[Kaustav Ray @kaustavray]

Do you remember when you joined X? I do! #MyXAnniversary