Kumar Mangalam

🇮🇳➡️🇳🇱 |Jack of all trades, Master of Infection and immunity, PhD Candidate, Football lover|
All opinions - an excercise of free speech

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

My package from France to Germany has been sitting in France since the last 18 days. It's via DPD, being handled by you. It has been confirmed by DPD that the package has not been sent. Please help me with the issue.
@Chronopost

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@delhivery @help_delhivery is a nightmare, to an extent that everytime I see an email that my order is with them I prepare for a horror show.
This month they have gaslit me twice. order from @hm returned to the seller and currently doing the same again with a @UniqloIn order.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@Iyervval Can we actually divert or hold any significant part of the water? Or is this political signalling before the actual retribution comes?

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@IndianTechGuide @TheBanat just in time! 😂 Did you have inside information?

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@stats_feed Harambe

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@thehawkeyex It will take them 5 years to get properly trained and learn the ropes and when they finally are ready to be really productive, they are gone. Waste of taxpayer's money and waste of time for both parties.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@stats_feed Rotterdam residents would disagree 😂

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@aakancvedi @spectatorindex They do have a participatory democracy. Think what would happen if you tried to apply that in a South Asian country 😁

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@mkjolly15 @BE_IISc @iiscbangalore @kishorehari139 @shuba_raghu @TheAviatorFrame @Jain_Paras_20 @Seemadri_S @Sarthak_Sahoo_ @divyoj @MaalavikaP @PradyumnaVH Congratulations! I remember you from one of the most enthusiastic scientists I met during my BSSE BEST internship in 2019. Hope you continue to inspire more students to enjoy science!

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@FPLMate No

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@RaoSumukh I had a chat about this with an auto rickshaw driver in Kolkata. I said having UPI in his vehicle will make life easier for him and customers. He said he has to run to the ATM all the time if he does that. So we can't blame them, even they have to transact with others using 💵

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@ashwinravi99 Seam position. It's a much finer angle on your delivery, compared to his.

[Hardik Rajgor @Hardism]

Two Timelines

I follow both LW and RW commentators to get a mixed set of views on my timeline. In the last 48 hours, two separate acts of violence took place. One involving railway cop Chetan Singh in Maharashtra, and the other involving a mob in Mewat, Haryana.

One set of people are talking about Chetan Singh. They believe he is a Hindutva terrorist, a creation of all the hate and vile that has been mainstreamed over the years. He visually identified Muslims across coaches and selectively killed them. He made disparaging comments, and even took names of political leaders. Is this not evidence of unchecked bigotry that has gone too far? All fair questions.

The other set of people are talking about Mewat. Where an Islamist mob pre-planned an attack on a yatra. Video threats were issued in advance, stones were collected for pattharbaazi. Is taking out a yatra in a Muslim area a provocation? Should there be ‘no-go’ Hindu and Muslim areas? Is violence justified for provocation? Again, all fair questions.

The sad thing however, is that the LW won’t talk about Mewat honestly, and the RW won’t talk about Chetan Singh honestly. Both even had their own separate hashtags - the former tweeting about #Islamophobia_In_India and the latter tweeting about #HindusUnderAttack. Ironically, two of India’s largest social groups, feel an existential threat to their community at the exact same time. The evidence is poor on both counts.

Both sets of people have their own set of digital platforms, journalists, influencers and reportage. They retweet and share within their own circle and amplify the same set of voices inside a bubble. There are two sets of ‘truth’ of a common event that everyone is watching live in front of their eyes. And you get to pick which ‘side’ you are on.

The LW and RW have stopped talking to each other. People are now put in boxes like “Hindutva” or “Liberal” so you can decide how you feel about them before they say or do anything.

Both sides believe the other side simply doesn’t or cannot engage in good faith. That they are either anti-national or Nazis. That either India will become a Hindu Rashtra or Hindus will be wiped off from the country. That if the other side has power, the country as we know it, will cease to exist. That there is no point in discussion or debate itself. This is dangerous.

When two sets of people cannot talk to each other, the only way to settle disputes ends up being violence. I see two separate timelines in one feed, may we never have to see two mobs on one street, for that would be a full blown civil war.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@FPLMate Baldock/Henry to Stones

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@PTUshaOfficial why is the Indian football team not being sent to the Asian games ? @ianuragthakur Indian football fans are disheartened by this decision. Please reconsider and reverse or provide us some viable reason.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@Iyervval I feel deeply empathize with people named Rahul and people with surname Modi in the country after going through the comments on this tweet 😭

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@wordybiologist I hope the "I am become death, destroyer of the word" is somehow featured in the movie.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@kushal_mehra @ARanganathan72 We need @ARanganathan72 x DIVINE @VivianDivine

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

@kushal_mehra That's why I always think that we as Indians are so lucky that we have caste based reservation embedded in our constitution. I strongly believe if it's there, it's almost impossible to remove and if it's not there it's almost impossible to implement.

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

I'm willing to write ~250 words to make sure that I can buy good ingredients for a fair price to make my Sunday Indian meal 😋

[Kumar Mangalam @rubbish_kumar29]

Creating an opportunity for companies in India to expand in this part of Europe, where Indian food and ingredients are in good demand, even among the natives/businesses. I don't exactly know which ministry or people can actually respond to this information or act on it....