Karan Dalvi

Pol-sci student | History buff | Rationalist | Opinionated | Epigrammatic Humour | Comics and Crime fiction | Amateur Vocalist and Tabla player | Tripper

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

22nd August: #TheDayInHistory

#OnThisDay in the year 1919, Chhtrapati Rajarshi #ShahuMaharaj issued the following order...

"All officers in the state revenue, judicial or general department must treat the untouchables who have entered the state services with kindness and equality. If any state officer has any objection to treat the untouchables according to the above order, he will have to give notice of resignation within six weeks from the receipt of this order and resign his post. He will be entitled to no pension. His highness expects every subject of his should be treated like a human being and not like a beast. His highness wishes and hopes that they will follow in the foot steps of the missionaries, the railway authorities and government officials... “

[Krishna Yadav @Control_Krishna]

Who is writing his speeches?

He is blatantly manipulating the data to fool his Andbhakts into believing he has pulled off a miracle.

The Claim: “In 2009–10, only 1.5 lakh electric vehicles were sold in India, compared to 25 lakh in 2025–26.”

Fact 1: Global EV sales were only around 6,000 units in 2009 and 12,500 units in 2010 worldwide. (Source: International Energy Agency)

Fact 2: NITI Aayog’s own reports show that even in 2016, India’s EV sales stood at just 50,000 units, mostly e-rickshaws.

Fact 3: Official VAHAN portal data proves that registered EV sales in India didn't cross the 1-lakh mark until 2021–22.

You cannot compare an era when the technology barely existed globally to today's mass commercialization and falsely claim it as a miracle.

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

Remembering the Father of the India's Space Program Dr #VikramSarabhai on his birth anniversary. He was a great institution builder & a creator & cultivator of institutions. He was a rare combination of a scientist, an innovator, industrialist & a Visionary.

VC: @isro

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

"Adivasis ( Tribals ) are the original inhabitants of the country, they have their own laws and they manage their areas better than the mainstream democracy..." ~ Dr #BabasahebAmbedkar

Greetings on #WorldTribalDay

[Suraj Kumar Bauddh @SurajKrBauddh]

Reading an excellent research paper by Dr @arvind_kumar__ on the demand for SC status for Dalit Muslims and Dalit Christians.

A must-read for SCs and anyone interested in constitutional and policy debates.
https://t.co/MxndciJ0kk

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

Remembering the great poet & author of India's National Anthem, Gurudev #RabindranathTagore on his death anniversary. As a humanist, universalist, internationalist, he denounced the British Raj & advocated independence. He was the second after #SwamiVivekananda who addressed the World Parliament of Religions for twice in the year 1929 & 1937.

Pic: Tagore in Japan in 1916.

[Pragnya Gupta @GuptaPragnya]

95 years of hard-earned autonomy. Now under the scanner, this time the ISI

The Indian Statistical Institute (founded 1931 by P.C. Mahalanobis) is not just another campus. It is one of India’s rare institutions that was built on scientific independence, not bureaucratic control. The ISI Act of 1959 recognised it as an Institution of National Importance while preserving its society-based, faculty-driven character.

The new Indian Statistical Institute Bill, 2026 proposes to scrap that framework. It converts ISI into a statutory body corporate, replaces the representative Council with a government-appointed Board of Governors, and significantly curtails the role of the Academic Council. Faculty and the Institute’s own statutory bodies have publicly said this was done with zero meaningful consultation with them.

The government’s pitch is “modernisation” and alignment with IIT/IIM-style governance. Critics inside ISI argue the opposite: it concentrates power, reduces elected academic voice, and opens the door to external interference in academic decisions. They also note that the 4th Review Committee (Mashelkar) did not recommend repealing the 1959 Act or abolishing the Society structure.

This is not an abstract governance debate. Institutions that produce independent data, rigorous statistical research, and critical inquiry need structural insulation from short-term political or bureaucratic priorities. Once that insulation is thinned, it is hard to restore.
Academic freedom is not a slogan. It is the operating condition of any serious research institute. ISI faculty are right to raise the alarm.

Parliament should insist on genuine consultation with the Institute’s own bodies before rewriting a 95-year-old model that actually worked. Another Premier Institute being Saffronised and being brought under RSS Siege.

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

Remembering the Revolutionary Lion (Krantisinh) #NanaPatil on his birth anniversary. He had established a parallel govt in the Satara dist known as ‘Patri Sarkar’. According to the British,he was an explosive orator. After independence, he became a Member of Parliament for the Communist Party of India.

Pic: Nana Patil with Karmavir Bhaurao Patil

[Prakash Ambedkar @Prksh_Ambedkar]

लोकशाहीर अण्णा भाऊ साठे जयंतीनिमित्त विनम्र अभिवादन!

"ही पृथ्वी शेष नागाच्या मस्तकावर तरलेली नाही, तर कष्टकरी, श्रमिक आणि बहुजनांच्या तळहातावर तरलेली आहे," हा विचार आपल्या साहित्य, शाहिरी आणि संघर्षातून जनमानसात रुजवणारे लोकशाहीर अण्णा भाऊ साठे हे सामाजिक परिवर्तनाचे महा�� योद्धे होते.

त्यांनी आपल्या लेखणीतून आणि कलाकृतीतून वंचित, शोषित आणि कष्टकरी समाजाचे जीवन वास्तव जगासमोर मांडले. समता, सामाजिक न्याय, मानवी स्वातंत्र्य आणि स्वाभिमानाचा संदेश देणारे त्यांचे कार्य आजही प्रेरणादायी आहे.

लोकशाहीर अण्णा भाऊ साठे यांच्या जयंतीनिमित्त त्यांना विनम्र अभिवादन! त्यांच्या विचारांचा वारसा जपत समतामूलक, न्याय्य आणि मानवतावादी समाज घडविण्याचा संकल्प करूय���..!

#अण्णा_भाऊ_साठे

[Sann @san_x_m]

Everyone remembers the attack on the Mumbai railway station on 26/11, the gunmen walking the platforms, more than fifty people killed. Almost nobody remembers the announcer whose voice sent hundreds of strangers running the other way while the bullets were still flying.

His name is Vishnu Dattaram Zende.

On the night of 26 November 2008, he was on duty in the announcer's cabin at Chhatrapati Shivaji Terminus, a raised glass room looking out over the platforms. It was near the end of his shift when he heard a loud blast and gunfire, and saw people running.

Two terrorists had walked into the busiest station in the country and begun shooting everyone in sight. At that station alone, they would kill more than fifty people.

From his cabin he could see the whole layout, and he understood something fast. Local trains were still pulling in, each one about to pour hundreds of passengers straight onto the platforms where the gunmen were standing.

He had a microphone that reached every platform. He decided to use it, even though it meant staying exactly where he was, in full view, instead of hiding.

He began making announcements, over and over, in Hindi and Marathi, telling people not to come to the main concourse, telling them to leave by the rear exits, warning them away from the guns.

Hundreds of people changed direction because of that voice and walked out of the station instead of into the bullets.

The terrorists worked out where the announcements were coming from. They came and stood almost directly below his cabin. One of them fired up toward him. He kept low, waited, and when he could, went back to the microphone.

He was an ordinary railway announcer on an ordinary shift. He had no weapon and no protection, just a mic and a clear view of what was coming. He stayed at his post and used the one tool he had to push strangers out of the path of the killers.

The men with the rifles are the names everyone remembers from that station. The voice that quietly saved hundreds of the people they came to kill belonged to Vishnu Zende.

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

Remembering a great social reformer and writer #AnnabhauSathe on his birth anniversary.

Anna Bhau could not attend school education, but he wrote 35 novels in Marathi. Among these "Fakira" is his masterpiece published in 1959. Besides novels he wrote short stories, a play, a travelogue on Russia, twelve screenplay and ballads. He wrote directly from his own experience in life, and his novels celebrate the fighting spirit in their characters who work against all odds in life.

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

Remembering the great historian #DamodarKosambi on his birth anniversary. Of all the social evils in the society during the ancient period in India, Damodar gave special emphasis on fighting the caste system. In fact, he mentioned this in his book, The Culture and Civilization of Ancient India, where he said that the foundation of Indian society, seen in its rural part, is caste.

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

31st July #TheDayInHistory

#OTD in 1937, Dr #BabaSahebAmnedkar visited Dhule (Maharashtra) in connection with some court work. During this visit Shri Punaji Lalingkar arranged a meeting of the Depressed Classes at Gajanan Theatre,Dhule, #DrAmabedkar used this meeting to advice to spread of education among Dalits & to start their own schools. Taking inspiration from his mentors advice Shri Lalingkar formed "Paschim Khandesh Dalit Shikshan Prasarak Mandal" an educationl institution at #Dhule in June 1939. He also established a hostel at Nandurbar for Dalit Students.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

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[Prakash Ambedkar @Prksh_Ambedkar]

VBA stands for abolishing NEET, decentralising our education system, a comprehensive caste census, and securing reservations in the private sector.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Paid my respects to Chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj and Babasaheb Ambedkar upon arriving in my hometown.

[Bezwada Wilson @BezwadaWilson]

Why Government hiding 261 sewer and septic tank deaths ?593 persons were killed in Sewer & septic tanks, from January 2021 till date, but the Government has reported only 332 sewer and septic tank deaths to Parliament, this injustice can't be tolerated . #stopkillingus

[The Caravan @thecaravanindia]

Archives | Surya Kant faces allegations of grave misconduct. In 2012, a real-estate agent accused the judge of having participated in illegal property dealings involving undervaluation and cash transactions worth several crores. In 2017, a prisoner in Punjab filed a complaint listing eight cases heard by Kant, and alleged that the judge had accepted bribes to grant bail in these. Though these complaints have been sitting with the collegium for over six years, Kant remained a judge at the Punjab and Haryana High Court till October 2018, when he was appointed the chief justice of Himachal Pradesh High Court. The collegium recommended his name for the post even though the questions arising from the complaint had not been resolved, and according to a former Supreme Court judge, it will do so again—this time, for elevation to the apex court.

Read the entire report by Atul Dev: https://t.co/XaLUHj5o6k

[Dayanand Kamble @dayakamPR]

28th July #TheDayInHistory

#OnThisDay in the year 1928, Dr #BabaSahebAmbedkar spoke on maternity leave facilities to women workers. As a member of the Legislative Council of Bombay, #DrAmbedkar supported a bill granting paid maternity leave to women working in factories.

Dr Ambedkar held the view that since the employer was reaping profits through women’s toil, he must financially support them, at least partly while they are on maternity leave. Babasaheb exhibited both class & gender consciousness as he drew attention to the economic and productive dimension of childbearing of working-class women.

[Navneet @navneetsiingh]

Everyone said Abhijit was doing it for personal gain.

- Yet he spent more than two months fighting for students,

- Protested in the heat of summer.

& Now he has left India without taking anything in return.

Some people truly serve without expecting anything in return.

He is A pure diamond. @abhijeet_dipke

Love you, Abhijit Sir