Mayank Srivastava

Recruiter for Agile organisations.
Agnostic atheist.
Progressive thinker.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@GargiRawat - I'm sure you agree that some words and phrases carry a certain weight and need to be used carefully. Yes "regime change" can simply mean "government change", but when the phrase is often used almost as a substitute for coups in modern contexts, it needs to be avoided.

And even if we accept this phrasing, can you at least elucidate your thoughts on what Neha Bora said recently - about finding Bangladesh's recent govt. overthrow inspirational?
Even if she wants a change in government, how can she consider Nepal and Bangladesh inspirations, instead of the hundreds of other countries that change their govt through the ballot box?

Does it not, at the very least, indicate that she is OK with a violent revolution to overthrow governments?

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

"They centre the common citizen" 🤦‍♂️
She is a COMMUNIST.
She fully knows the history of communism; what it led to across the world for the last 100 years - dictatorships after dictatorships that committed genocides against their own common citizens.
And despite knowing that, she is a communist.

So please... its better that such people stay away from the centre as much as possible.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

This was the same person who forcefully pulled a reporter along with a few of her cohorts and told her, "chal main tujhe nanga karti hoon"... before some people rescued the reporter.

This was the same person who congratulated Bangladesh on their coup and told that the coup will inspire Indians like her.

This is the same person who considers Sharjeel Imam as her inspiration; the same guy who is on camera asking for the chicken neck of India to be broken off.

This is the same person who is lamenting about the conditions of detention while championing an ideology - Communism - that gives rise to dictatorships without fail.

Stop being dense.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@MahuaMoitra Yes. People desperately wanted the TMC regime....sorry the TMC dictatorship, to change as well.
But still that regime change happened on the ballot box, not because a few thousand people protested for it on a street.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@JhaSanjay A 'has been' political party that has lost elections after elections and been kicked out by its own people is getting a tummy upset because people don't want a grotesque product of nepotism as their leader.

This is the height of both desperation and stupidity

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@pbhushan1 Trespassing is the offence. Not 'walking with a national flag'.

People like you who have Bangladesh style regime change in their wet dreams, will consider Kasab as just someone who was walking the streets of Mumbai.

Fuck off!

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@RepJayapal @RepMcGovern Please get your own house in order.
We don't need American interference in India.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@ClumsyCatdf9h @keshavbedi Yes. Thank you too. Happy to engage 🙂

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

Identitarianism will remain a reality of this country forever. And I am nobody to propose a solution for it 🙂

We already know that there is no other country in the world like India. As a society, we are divided along the lines of religion, caste, creed, language, food, and so much more. And these divisions are starker when you go to small towns and villages.
To carve out and sustain a national identity despite so many divisions is an achievement on its own!

And no amount of education can replace the mindsets that are built at home. If your family is identitarian, you will likely build that identitarian mindset.

But if democracy boosts this, it doesn't mean taking away democracy 🙂
One thing which I really wished India could adopt is a mandatory defence conscription for every citizen. Because that helps you see yourself more as an Indian rather than your caste / creed / religion etc.
However, while small countries like Israel and Singapore can do that, in a country with our population, it's not possible.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

Communism doesn't work. Period.

As far as "basic socialism" is concerned, what you actually mean is tax-payer funded social welfare, and if you look around you, it's everywhere in India!
We have heavily subsidised food grains for the poor, massive public education infrastructure, govt hospitals throughout India, PM Kisan Yojana, govt. funded medical insurance (Ayushman Bharat), Jan Aushadhi for 50-80% subsidised medicines, subsidised housing for the poor, Ujjwala for subsidised LPG, MGNREGA, Nal se Jal scheme and on and on and on.

The middle, upper middle and rich classes crib about the fact that they don't get anything from the govt despite paying high taxes.
But ask the lower middle class or poor and they will tell you how much benefits they get from our taxes.

In fact, the current govt has added a lot of social welfare schemes in the last 12 years and will continue to do so, because it fetches them votes.

The main reasons why these schemes still fall short of fulfilling our total needs are:
1. Less than 3% of the population pays Direct taxes. So there will always be less money for the govt. to implement such schemes. (Indirect taxes alone are not sufficient)
2. Corruption, especially with middlemen, that has persisted since day 1 in this country
3. Population, especially amongst those who take benefits of these schemes, that keeps growing at crazy levels.

The reason this govt has won 3 consecutive terms is because they've tried to ensure that these social benefits & subsidies actually reach those who need them (...it's not perfect, but they've been better at it than many previous govts...) and they've added a significant number of new social schemes in their tenure.
Because the beneficiaries are the majority of voters.

As far as monopolies and duopolies go, that's the harsh reality of capitalism. Every company has expansionist aspirations (if you build one, you would too).
I have thoughts about that too, but maybe I will share in a different tweet. This is already too long.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

Wow... let me get this straight. The meaning of Communism changes by country?? 😀
You losers will say anything to defend the failed ideology, won't you? 🤦‍♂️

But I'll bite.

Yes, Bhagat Singh was a communist. But he was martyred before he could see the destruction and genocides that communist dictatorships wreaked on their own people. Had he seen it, he would have disavowed communism.
What's your excuse??

And let's talk about that "communism in India".
There was one prominent state in India which was ruled by communists post Independence for 34 years - West Bengal.

What were the hallmarks of this communist rule?
1. WB went from contributing 25% of the total industrial output of the country to just 8% by the end of their disastrous regime!!! GDP share went from ~11% to ~6%
2. Factories got shut down due to non-stop union baazi, and being non-productive became a culture in Bengal!
3. Calcutta, one of the 4 metros of the country, got overtaken by Pune, Bangalore, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, and later even Bhubaneswar and Gurgaon because no company was willing to invest in that cesspool ruled by the communists. Kolkata got relegated to Tier C level status and remained a metro only in name.
4. And finally, despite all this, Communists continued to rule for 34 years with an iron grip, because they unleashed their gundaraj on the people as well as their elections.

Let's not even talk about Kerala because this communist state relies heavily on the capitalism of the Gulf, and tourism.

Finally, let's talk about what communism did to India as a whole.

License raj, heavily state-controlled economy, massive controls over private enterprise, severe import restrictions, high tariffs and an enormous public sector.

What did all of it do??
We almost reached bankruptcy!!! Forex levels could only stock 3 weeks of imports.

So what did we do? We had no choice but to embrace capitalism and liberalise our economy.
That set the stage for our turn around.

You are delusional of you still champion communism in 2026!

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@_amitbehere https://t.co/H5HiWED1Xs

Ek kaam kar. Pehle apni gaand mein se AAP, CJP ke chutiyon ka lauda thoda sa side karke jagah banaa.
Uske baad apna opinion usi jagah mein ghusaa le.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

What do you think about the order asking actor Imran Khan to leave India?
Although I can immediately think of some funny Bhaag DK Bose memes 😀, but I don't like this order.

Yes, I also know that OCI card holders have legal ramifications for participating in protests, and the govt. has a legal right to ask him to leave... but I still do not like it.

Had an OCI participated in, say, the protests for Nirbhaya, I would have welcomed his / her participation.

Just because I don't agree with these latest protests, doesn't mean I should ask an OCI protester to leave the country, right? Especially, when he / she is not provoking any violence or disruption.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

"You can call it a dictatorship, but fascism is literally far right ideology"
Abe to chooze, why the hell would you want to champion an ideology that results in dictatorships, just like fascism??
I thought the likes of Neha Bora were fighting for democracy. If that's the case, why is she (and you) fighting for an ideology that suppresses democracy?

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

Yes, I know the meaning of fascism. I know the meaning of communism too.

Different dictionary definitions don't change the fact that communism in governance has produced brutal, oppressive dictatorships with the same authoritarian characteristics that are associated with fascism.

Lenin, Stalin and Mao didn't need to call themselves fascists to crush dissent, eliminate opposition and establish authoritarian dictatorships.

Learn the political reality of communism before calling others morons 🙂

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@Iyervval In the deluded mind of a communist, every atrocity they commit is for the greater good of the society.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@ShivAroor Dude, she is a communist.
A communist, by definition, and by the innumerable examples we have seen throughout history, is anti-democratic.
And despite what they claim all time, communists don't really hate fascism. They just want to be the fascists themselves.

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

You have reclaimed the streets??
Excuse me??

Your protesters don't even want to move from Jantar Mantar to Burari because they fear that no one will care about the protests after that.

What reclaimed the streets??

Your protests and the streets they claim are confined to a 2km radius

[Mayank Srivastava @mayanks_81]

@kunalkamra88 Gotta admit, that's the first time you've made me laugh 🙂