Sambit Sengupta

Love what I do and do what I love-- always. Selling (+ talking about) semiconductors & Technology is my passion.

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

Kiren Rijiju was removed from the law ministry, apparently for pointing out the flaws in the current judiciary and harping on judicial reforms. With the most prominent member of the Economic Advisory Council to the Prime Minister raising the issue afresh, how do we read the situation? Is the PM now ready to open this new battlefront? Fighting on too many fronts since 2014, he picks new fights judiciously, one or two at a time. Are wayward judges the new enemy he has identified for reforms? Or will Sanjeev Sanyal meet the same fate as Rijiju?

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

One thing I notice repeatedly in discussions on the #EVM

To strike a balance, journalists mention LK Advani. It seems they deliberately overlook the fact that after BEL and the Election Commission gave all stakeholders a demonstration to show why the Indian system of elections can't be rigged, Advani never repeated his doubt/allegation — Mayawati didn't either, but Mayawati is not the politician journalists name whenever the context of EVM crops up — but the Congress continues to do so after losing every election while staying mum about the EVM when it wins.

Here are some irrefutable facts about the Indian EVM:

1. Unlike the models tested in advanced economies and democracies in the West, Indian EVMs are standalone units. They are not connected via the Internet.
2. An Indian EVM has a write-once-read-many (WORM) memory; it's a data storage device in which information, once written, cannot be modified. In other words, an Indian EVM is like a calculator while the American counterpart whose flaws were demonstrated in hackathons was a computer.
3. Sure, any machine in the world can be hacked, and an Indian EVM is no exception (a few Indian geeks demonstrated it after stealing one unit each). However, due to (1) and (2) above, rigging an Indian election would involve tampering with lakhs of machines one by one. It's not like you hack one machine, and the entire election goes in your favour — as demonstrated twice in the US and once in the Netherlands, after which they decided not to use machines for counting votes. The scale of theft has to be massive, and no case of missing or unguarded EVMs reported so far is so big that it could have altered the result. At the rate of 2,000 votes per EVM unit, you cannot alter the result of a constituency that has 17 lakh 86 thousand 372 voters on average (97 crore total voters in India as of 2019 divided by 543 Lok Sabha seats — data from an article I had written three years ago).

My questions or issues are

1. Do journalists know this technicality and yet not inform their viewers and readers? Do they not know that Advani made the allegation only once and never expressed his erroneous understanding of how an EVM works ever again? If so, knowing something but not telling it — and repeating this folly time and again — is a serious violation of journalistic ethics.
2. If they do not know, that's a terrible commentary on their education.

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@airtelindia customer service is not able to resolve issues with Wi-Fi for an entire area in Whitefield for past 5 days. When complaints are raised it gets closed saying resolved but no one able to use Wi-Fi

[𝐒𝐓𝐀𝐕𝐊𝐀 @Maverickmusafir]

Today, let us remember Field Marshal SHFJ ‘Sam’ Manekshaw on his 110th birth anniversary.

Born into a Parsi family in Amritsar, the community had migrated from Persia to India to avoid religious persecution, first landed as refugees in Gujarat. Sam’s grandfather, Framji, was a teacher in Valsad; Morarji Desai, a freedom fighter who later would go on to become Prime Minister of India being one of his students.+

[Surajit Dasgupta @surajitdasgupta]

Hindu critics and commentators like #RachitKaushik (@SabLokTantra) are a minuscule breed. If ever they have a brush with the law, neither the pathologically hateful left nor the pro-government not-so-right wing would come to their rescue.

My piece:
https://t.co/ohZQL1wxLp

[Itihasika @itihasika]

If you are an Indian history enthusiast you should read, bookmark & share this thread

As promised, top 20 Indian dynasties with the map and a picture of art/architecture of the time & a mention of the most notable ruler

Do comment how many were you aware of & what was missed?

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@indiannavy Dear Sir, I am researching on one of my ancestors ( he was younger brother of my maternal grandfather). Who died in this operation. Want to know if his name ( Mr. SENGUPTA) is there noted somewhere. I think he was just a 20 year old when he gave his life in this operation.

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@intel True legend. One of the founding fathers of semiconductor industry. Deep respects. Rest In peace.

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@ActorMadhavan Congratulations.. May he bring our country more and more laurels

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@hvgoenka Will there be books available?

[Business Today @business_today]

India vs Pakistan At #WEF23 Session At Davos. Gurudev Sri Sri Ravishankar Gives A Befitting Reply To Hina Rabbani Khar On Terrorism.

Watch: https://t.co/cn7PICe4pb | #Pakistan #India #WEF23 @DailyhuntApp @TGBLIndia @SriSri @HinaRKhar @rahulkanwal

[alokpabalkar @alokpabalkar]

https://t.co/THnfHlsPUc Event. Year 2023 starts with a bang. Full house. #highschoolmoms #surge2023 #surge #surgeonlife

[Vignesh @areuforealman]

To my dear Bengaluru with love,

[Anuj Dhar @anujdhar]

NG Ganpulay, a member of the Free India Centre, recorded the performance on tape. After his death, this tape was handed over to All India Radio, which broadcast a programme in 1980 called "National Anthem born in Exile". @AkashvaniAIR

[Anuj Dhar @anujdhar]

Original recording of "Jana Gana Mana" performed by the Radio Symphony Orchestra of Hamburg, Germany, 1942. This was the birth of our National Anthem, thanks to #Netaji

@vikramsampath @ProfKapilKumar @chandrachurg @ShefVaidya @Sanjay_Dixit @sdeo76 @PanickarS @NijiSachiv

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@BLRAirport Cafe coffee day

[ITBP @ITBP_official]

Salute!

Namgyal, a local kid in Chushul, Ladakh saluting the ITBP troops passing by.

The enthusiastic kid saluting with high josh was randomly clicked by an ITBP Officer on 8 October morning.

[CBIFindAjitabh @PragyaS18122017]

@gauravanki @MimicZadoo @narendramodi @BJP4Karnataka @INCKarnataka @SushmaSwaraj @republic @ZeeNews @ABPNewsTV @DCPCentralBCP @DCPSouthBCP @dcpwhitefield @PMOIndia @rajeev_mp @CMofKarnataka @siddaramaiah @RLR_BTM @CPBlr @BlrCityPolice @rajnathsingh @ndtv @MirrorNow @aajtak @ANI @DDNewslive @News18India @CIDKarnataka @ChangeOrg_India @BSYBJP @NEWS9TWEETS @hd_kumaraswamy @HMOIndia @DeccanChronicle @DeccanHerald @News18Kannada @KannadaPrabha @btvnewslive @tv9kannada @ZeeKannada @THBengaluru @htTweets @CNNnews18 @news24tvchannel @ABPNews @TimesNow @TOIBengaluru @Swamy39 Please join us in the Online Protest on 6th September 2020 to raise your voice for seeking #JusticeForAjitabh to know what happened to him on 18th December 17 ? How can #CBI be clueless ?

[Infosys @Infosys]

Bill Amelio & @anandswam discuss the transformation journey of #Avnet, a 100-year-old company. Business transformation, productivity and incubation of new ideas helped Avnet to stay abreast with changing times. https://t.co/Ovn724tskC #NavigateYourNext

[Sambit Sengupta @sambitsengupta]

@BLRAirport something wrong today. It is normal lunch hour and most restaurants are in cleaning and closed mode. Any particular reason why our airport is somlaid back today?