Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome.

Thought muncher. Atheist. Rural Education. Indian Classical. Ex-TechFounder. Zizek.Wilson.Śāntideva.Exupéry. দাশ। বসু। Kundera. @paramparikIndia.

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

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Uncanny.

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London concert 26th July @ The Bhavan. Right by West Kensington Stn.

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@theliverdoc Amul

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

The pollution guru of the planet.

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The majority of these cities – 13 – are in the world’s most populous country, India, where booming economic growth is fired largely by coal and where hundreds of millions live in traffic-clogged and congested megacities.

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

@SVG__Collection In reverse, I always suggest this crossover track to those looking to get a feel of Indian Ragas set on a guitars-drums-EP base.

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[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

@ConradkBarwa Opp condition and getting worse...I read even BlinkIt wrappers, product labels, distant T-shirts and every billboard on the road.

[iamOnir @IamOnir]

Feel the devastation that Ma feels . Has been a rough year for her . First she lost her younger brother to an accident , then Baba. She has been trying to deal with the absence of a 60 years companion/ friend and realising that she never knew she would miss him so much . And 1/1

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

@Helenreflects One good news this week.

[Devinder Sharma @Devinder_Sharma]

Why are pretty looking fruits so tasteless? Ethephon chemical, an organophosphorus pesticide, is the culprit. Know how it has penetrated the supply chain .. Very good analysis

[Aparna @chhuti_is]

Prof Indranil Dasgupta on Bibek Debroy.

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

India's privileged upper class & caste elites who dominate the media, Judiciary, Bureaucracy, the elite business community have consistently betrayed its Democracy, started crawling whenever it was asked to bend.

After imposing Emergency an American reporter J Anthony Luckacs in the New York Times reported his interview with both common public and influential people.

He was told by an official in Delhi that it was only foreigners who cared for such things as the freedom of expression.
'We are tired of being the workshop of failed democracy,' said the official. 'The time has come to exchange some of our vaunted individual rights for some economic development.'
Resonate something?

The journalist found that the business community were especially pleased with the emergency. A Delhi hotel owner told him that life was now just wonderful. 'We used to have terrible problems with the unions. Now when they give us any troubles, the government just put them in jail.'

He went to Bombay and met J.R.D. Tata, arguably India's most respected industrialist. Tata too felt that 'things had gone too far. You can't imagine what we've been through here - strikes, boycotts, demonstrations. Why, there were days I couldn't walk out of my office into the street. The parliamentary system is not suited to our needs.'

Noteworthy KK Birla the leading Businessman after the 12 June Allahabad HC judgement took delegation of 500 businessmen in Indira Gandhi office pleading her to stay on office.

He sacked hugely respected Editor V. G. Varghese from his newspaper Hindustan Times just to please Indira.

Who contributed the most in the Emergency? It was Judiciary. Lawyers representing the thousands jailed under MISA argued that the right of habeas corpus could not be taken away by the state. Judgements in the lower courts seemed to favour this view, but when the case reached the Supreme Court it held that detentions without trial were legal under the new dispensation. Of the five-member bench only one dissented: this was Justice H. R. Khanna, who pointed
"Detention without Trial is an anathema to all those who love personal liberty."

However, 14th Jan, 1963 Indira Gandhi more than a decade before the imposition of Emergency in a letter to her friend Verrier Elwin complained about Democracy.

She said 'Democracy not only throws up the mediocre person but gives strength to the most vocal howsoever they may lack knowledge and understanding.'

Three years later, when she had just become prime minister, she told a visiting journalist that "the Congress has become moribund," adding, "Sometimes I feel that even the parliamentary system has become moribund." besides "inertia of our civil service is incredible"; "we have a system of dead wood replacing dead wood." "Sometimes I wish, we had a real revolution — like France or Russia — at the time of independence."

After imposing Emergency Indira Gandhi once said
"Sab bolte the yeh ho jayega woh jayega
Lekin ek Kutta bhi nahi Bhauka" (source : Prabhash Joshi - Founding editor, Janasatta)."

This arrogance was broken by the marginalized, poor, the other India, not the urban Middle Class nor the opportunists mentioned above.

Nevertheless, there are a lot of things to be learnt from this chapter of History even about the so-called JP Movement. May read the below one and avoid WhatsApp. 🙏🏾

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

Scary!!

"...(Indian American) men seem to have shifted towards the Republican Party. In 2020, about 23% of younger men said they would vote Trump. Now that number is 48%. It is like a 25 point shift, and you don't actually see shifts that big in surveys."
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[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

How do people view death when framed against the myriad masks worn and shed, material harms caused to the known and the unknown, and a non-reflexive self burdened by delusion?

Criticism of demonetisation not fact-based: Bibek Debroy

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[Uma Mahadevan Dasgupta @readingkafka]

Front page story about older women who are learning to read & write for the first time in rural public libraries. By @AshwiniMS_TNIE
#librariesforall

[Advait Moharir @MoharirAdvait]

. @Vijayshreeeee and I write in today's @the_hindu on how the NREGA has collapsed in West Bengal over the last few years

Key takeaway: Whatever little work exists is taken up more by job SC/ST households!

[MarshFamilySongs @MarshSongs]

Here's our last parody song about the #USElection2024. It's called "Bohemian Trumpsody" (based on the inimitable @QueenWillRock but with only six voices & no overdubs) & we've self-trolled in it as 'libtards' already, just to save folks time who might be offended 🎶🗳️🤞
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[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

Twittter linguistics mob is hallucinating again.

[🚨Indian Gems @IndianGems_]

Oldest Language currently spoken in India :-

Tamil (5K years)
Sanskrit (3K years)
Kannada (2K years)
Telugu (2K years)
Malayalam (2K years)
Odia (2K years)
Marathi (1.8K years)
Bengali (1.5K years)
Gujarati (1K years)
Hindi (0.8K years)

Tamil is the oldest & Hindi is the Newest.

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

@keithfrankish Something to do with underpants. Literal meaning of Jungia-n in Bengali.

[Partha M. w/ Severe Imposter Syndrome. @partham]

What I wrote was surrounded with radiance. I closed the curtains because I was worried that the slightest crack between them would allow luminous rays from my pen to escape, when what I ultimately wanted was to pull back the screen in one go and thus illuminate the world.
Roussel

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In Kerala and Tamil Nadu:

Twenty years ago, two third of the deliveries were happening in the private sector in these two states. Today, two third of the deliveries happen in the public sector. Checkup and meds are delivered at home for diabetes and hypertension.

--Rediff