Babu Bhaiyya

[Ram @ramprasad_c]

Yes, Britain famously transferred wealth to India. When British arrived in India its share of the world economy was 4%. When they left in 1947, they had taken it to 23%, roughly equal to all of Europe combined.
On a serious note.
The Indian railways were financed entirely by bonds sold on the London Stock Exchange. British investors were guaranteed a return of 5% per annum by the colonial government. A guaranteed return, in an era when no other safe investment in Britain offered anything close. And who guaranteed those returns? Indian taxpayers. Indians paid for the construction. Indians paid the guaranteed profits to British shareholders. Indians paid for the equipment, which was manufactured exclusively in Britain and shipped to India at inflated prices. One mile of Indian railway cost twice what the same mile cost to build in Canada or Australia, because the guaranteed return meant there was no incentive to control costs. The more it cost, the more British investors and suppliers earned.

And what were these railways designed to do? Move raw materials from India’s interior to ports. Cotton from the Deccan to Bombay. Jute from Bengal to Calcutta. Coal from Bihar to wherever the Empire needed it. Tea from Assam to London’s drawing rooms. The routes connected mines and plantations to harbors. Not cities to cities. Not people to opportunities. Raw materials to ships. The Indian public’s transportation needs were, as Shashi Tharoor put it, entirely incidental.

Oh, and the railways also moved troops. Very efficiently. So that when Indians protested being looted, the British could deploy soldiers to shoot them. That was the other “infrastructure investment.”

But wait, there is more. Before the railways, India had the world’s finest textile industry. The British smashed the looms, broke the weavers’ thumbs (this is not metaphor, this is documented history), imposed tariffs on Indian cloth, and shipped raw cotton to Manchester to be manufactured into garments that were then sold back to Indians. India went from being the world’s largest textile exporter to an importer of British cloth within a generation.

The Bengal Famine of 1943 killed an estimated 3 million people. Churchill diverted food supplies from Bengal to already well-supplied British troops and European stockpiles. When informed of the famine, his response, on the record, was to ask why Gandhi had not died yet. This is the “infrastructure investor” Musk is defending.

India contributed 2.5 million soldiers to fight in two World Wars on Britain’s behalf.

So let us summarize the colonial “investment” in India. They took a 23% global economy and left it at 4%. They destroyed the world’s finest textile industry. They built railways with Indian money, for Indian resources, generating British profits. They engineered famines that killed millions. They drained an estimated $45 trillion in today’s value over 200 years.
That’s some unprofitable adventure.

[Aravind @aravind]

#ShitDontHappenOnlyInIndia 🧵

To let all Indians know yes shit happens in India but Shit Dont Happen ONLY in India. And somehow other countries are not heaven because media seldom shows you what shit happens around the world.

1) A Japanese man casually peeing in metro station.

[The Jaipur Dialogues @JaipurDialogues]

Best Birthday Wish by @ajeetbharti ⚡

[Dr. Rajeshwari Iyer @RajeshwariRW]

Tax payers should file a PIL in Supreme Court that no political party should be allowed to announce any kind of Freebies and if they are willing to do so, they should do with their own pockets.

[Sardar Lucky Singh🇮🇳 @luckyschawla]

अरे ये तो शांतिदूत निकला

[Vijay Patel @vijaygajera]

This is disgusting.

Goons of the Congress party have stopped a student rally because the students were wearing T-shirts with photos of Veer Savarkar and Subhas Chandra Bose.

I request @GujaratPolice @sanghaviharsh to take action against these goons.

[Ge(r)ms of Bollywood बॉलीवुड के रत्न @GemsOfBollywood]

There was never any expectations from INDI bloc. But @BJP4India must also get more bonded with common people with families than celebrities

1. The horrific rape was done after watching porn and criminal content on OTT. Hence strict regulation should be brought to control 24*7 feeding of perverted content to entire nation by OTT in name of entertainment and GDP growth.

This destroys brains, creates psychopaths and is a huge psychiatric threat as per many studies

2. Padma award given to producers of pervert content like @EktaaRKapoor of Alt Balaji and Karan Johar of Sexy Radha should be withdrawn as mistakes

3. Stop making brand ambassadors and doing photo ops and calling Bollywood lowlives in VIP events whose life has been all about spreading plagiarized and perverted content. What they do is neither art nor soft power.

On the contrary, they instigate molesters and mock Hindu values. We have compiled hundreds of evidences.

Totally distance from them.

4. Our women and children must be top priority. Be a party of difference that stands only for common masses and common families.

We are your well wishers. But family first, children first, women first. 🙏