Mayank Kedia

I love poetry, tolerate politics

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@murthyavn @aditto In a country as large as this, you'll always find a few million people against everything. If this was a bill which was bad for all the farmers, we wouldn't see a Delhi centric protest at all, after all 50% of the population is into farming.

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@murthyavn @aditto Opposition to the bills is frankly inexplicable, and the demands from the protesting groups keeps increasing (repeal laws, free electricity forever, no ban on stubble burning, MSP for everything (!) etc.)... Hard to defend (the protests).

[Mo Zarrinsadaf @MoZarrinsadaf]

"The goal of media is to make every problem, your problem."
@naval

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

Lol, lovely video. Obviously @pbhushan1 sahab doesn't know or doesn't want to know economics etc. But sense of humour toh mast hain :)

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

#Budget2021

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

You gotta be kidding me man. We have these once every 4-5 years, and unfortunately this one's on the wrong side of history :\

[Praveen Swami @praveenswami]

⁦If @ZeeMohamed_⁩ is right, passing the civil services examination doesn’t automatically mean you’ll be brilliant at designing India’s cities of the future and overseeing nuclear physics programmes. That cannot possibly be true. https://t.co/O0pMDGcOk8

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@ShivamVahia The total cost of the plan is not even 0.1% of the planned 100 lakh crores investment (till 2023). If there is any administrative efficiency gain from moving all offices into one area, it'll pay for itself quite easily. Gareebo ki tarah sochne ki aadat ho gayi hain humein :/

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@ShivamVahia It's actually a really important pre-cursor to increasing the total strength of the Lok Sabha. We are too large to be governed by 545 members. There are plans to increase this to ~700+ and this can only be done by building a new parliament building. 1/2

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

Lol. Kolkatta is already dead. Any sane person does not want to willingly move to Calcutta, *even* if they are Bengali. Its a brilliant place to visit, a dead city - especially as illustrious as Calcutta once was, has a magical quality to it.

[Pritish Nandy @PritishNandy]

Rajiv Gandhi called Calcutta a dying city. He was proved wrong. Amit Shah will be proved wrong too. Calcutta will survive it all. For its a city whose heart beats for everyone. The City of Joy.

[Joseph T Noony @JoeAgneya]

Most IndoEuropean tribes did not remember where their homeland was by the time they composed literature. But the ancient Zoroastrian text Vendidad give a list of 16 ancestral lands, none of which are in mainland Iran, but most of them are spread over Afghan and & the Indus Valley

[Aarzoo Khurana @aarzoo_khurana]

@ParveenKaswan What do you think about these guys?

A pair of Sarus Cranes calling out to their pals at Keoladeo National Park.

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@Twitter, @TwitterIndia Can we label this tweet as misleading pls ?

[Cory Doctorow NO LONGER ON TWIT TER @doctorow]

Last week, the largest organized strike in human history shut down India. 250,000,000 people struck against Indian PM Narendra Modi's neoliberal reforms to the agricultural sector.

https://t.co/aMLv5Q0dcm

1/

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

There's no doubt that we cannot go forward as a country without at least some semblance of law and order. Police and Judicial reforms are an absolute must. So many of these issues are just about the arbitrary nature of justice delivery :/

[Ifra Jan @IfraJan_]

Interfaith marriage is now going to be an upper class luxury. I hope lawyers across India would offer their services for free to low income groups for registration/legal support to poor couples whose rights are threatened by the goon culture unleashed by the ruling party.

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@RoadsOfMumbai Or from Mantralaya or from the small posh part of South Mumbai our administrators never move out of.

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

@madversity These are the things that are broken at the State level, that's the problem. No state govt (except Delhi under AAP) has shown the resolve to solve these issues. Don't expect magic wand solutions from the Center.

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

Great example of how "well meaning" "bleeding heart" liberals will keep a poor country poor. Aa jao beech mein kuch bhi bolne ke liye with half ass understanding of what is going on, & our Anglophile - zero wisdom - insecure junta will applaud these "Free world" saviours. 2/2

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

So, does he stand for tying down farmers to local Markets (Mandi's) and state guarantees for crop prices then - in Canada ?
Makes you appreciate how hard it is to do any meaningful reform in India, vested interest of thousands of people can block wellbeing for millions. 1/

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Canada PM @JustinTrudeau raises the issue of farmer protests in India. Says, "situation is concerning.... Canada will always be thr to defend the right of peaceful protest". Adds, "we have reached out through multiple means directly to Indian authorities"

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

More to food in Bengaluru than Masala Dose and Coffee, according to my Ardhangini - https://t.co/Zc1PUnMlxV

[Mayank Kedia @moonsixpence]

A bad idea who's time has come ? 😭😭

[Avik Saha @aviksahaindia]

Farmers Demands:

1. Law for declaring MSP for all crops
2. Law for creating secure environment to get MSP

Simple Demands.

MSP & Getting MSP is the floor. Farmers can't go below that. They will be buried.

Big Qs: Why Won't the Central Govt. Fulfil These Demands???