baawa sayan bajaj

22 | pursuing llb @jindalglobaluni | formerly—research assistant and speechwriter to dr. @shashitharoor

[baawa sayan bajaj @sayanicverses]

Grateful to you for being there, Sir. You, along with Mr. @KapilSibal and Mr. @DalrympleWill, set an extraordinary stage for the Jindal Society for Modern Indian Histories, placing us firmly on the path towards realising our goal—free, scholarly dialogue over matters historical!

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

A very busy couple of days of meetings and events since my return to the capital after the #KeralaElections. Highlights on Friday included the CWC meeting on the Women’s Reservation Bill and a discussion with @KapilSibal and @DalrympleWill on the importance of history for understanding the present. We were inaugurating a new society established at @JindalGlobalUNI by my former aide Bawa Sayan Bajaj and his student colleagues (pix of JGU event)

[Shashi Tharoor @ShashiTharoor]

Naidu ji, let’s try a thought experiment. Say your salary is 2 lakhs and your driver’s is 20,000. You announce a 50% increase for everybody. Your salary is now 3 lakhs and your driver’s is 30,000. The percentage or proportional increase is the same — but aren’t you much better off than your driver, than you used to be?

That’s what your fellow Southern CMs are concerned about. You don’t think there’s any difference between UP’s 80 MPs today versus Kerala’s 20 MPs, if it tomorrow becomes 120 vs 30? Some proportionate difference, huge difference in political weight — with 90 more UP MPs against 10 more Kerala MPs. Is that of no concern to you at all?

@ncbn @vdsatheesan @INCKerala

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

At Haldighati, Hakim Khan Sur on Rana Pratap’s side fought Raja Mansingh on Akbar’s side. The kingdom of Mewar, fought the empire which ran from Agra. Both sides were Indian.

[Kapil Sibal @KapilSibal]

Bhagwatji

RSS formed on 27/9/1925

Hinduism 4000 years old

RSS says it propagates Hinduism

But works for BJP

BJP’s politics against basic tenets of Hinduism

RSS now a political organisation

RSS says Hinduism cannot be registered

RSS does not
=
Hinduism

[Ashok Upadhyay @ashoupadhyay]

Could not find the Nationalist Citizen Party of India (NCPI) in the ECI's Excel sheet list of 744 parties that contested the 2024 Lok Sabha elections.
If 20 rebel TMC MPs merge with it, will NCPI hit the parliamentary jackpot without contesting a single Lok Sabha seat?
A bigger political miracle than the BJP securing 6 Rajya Sabha MPs from Punjab with just 2 MLAs in the state Assembly?

[Gilles Verniers @GillesVerniers]

To add to this, no party named Nationalist Citizen Party of India (NCPI) has ever contested a single seat in a Lok Sabha election. It contested in two seats in Tripura in 2023, in Chhawmany and Kailasahar. Both candidates finished fifth, with 536 and 286 votes, respectively.

[gy @g1rgers]

@MT_6226 people hate Modi because he's a retarded Hindu nationalist. Not because he's brown.

[Harsh @harshonomist]

for me, Aligarh was/is and will be the best and one of the most powerful performances by manoj bajpayee ❤️ 🏳️‍🌈

[baawa sayan bajaj @sayanicverses]

Are we really surprised? He apparently has a US citizenship and showed up to the US in 2024 to vote for Trump. I marvel at those who loyally follow him.

[Carlos Trump @PaxMacintosh]

Special Forces of the Hindutva Shikhandi Regiment

[baawa sayan bajaj @sayanicverses]

They were videographing this shit? Are we for real as a country?

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

Om Birla is collecting MPs to get the bill passed in the Loksabha because Modi and Amit Shah faced an embarrassing defeat by Rahul Gandhi Ji in April month.

He will go down as the worst Loksabha speaker in the history of India.

[Kapil Sibal @KapilSibal]

TMC rebels :

Will merge with Nationalist Citizens Party (NCP)

Indian Democracy has become the “theatre of the absurd”

A joke !

The rebels of the TMC legislative party cannot merge with a political party ; that can happen only if the TMC wished to do so !

Disqualify them !

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Tau hi, Kong hey, Zee Yong, Gu Kang, Kan Freng, Zu Chin, Wren Lu Yen, Tinag Zi, Du Min, Zong Gwing, Hey Huwang, Gau Yang

Remember who these people are, Navika?

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

No Return Address: Nehru Writes to Modi by A J Philip https://t.co/qqkrYr4Cmr #IndianCurrents

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

still can't believe he actually went and did a photoshoot with the crashed plane in the background

[baawa sayan bajaj @sayanicverses]

Please drop whatever you’re doing and go watch Raakh on Prime right now: it’s so bloody good—poignant, wistful, haunting, and apt to bring tears to your eyes. An elegy to a Delhi that once was, before it stumbled into the clutches of darkness, becoming unsafe overnight.

[Arjun* @mxtaverse]

The only Gujarati who has ever overtaken Nehru's aura or overshadowed his achievements is the man whose photo every Indian carries in their wallet.

[Apoorvanand अपूर्वानंद @Apoorvanand__]

Very heartwarming. To hear it from the youth: rejecting the politics of communal division.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: SC dismisses Meenakshi Natarajan plea on rejection of her RS nomination, says she must file election petition in HC. A petition like this will take minimum 2-3 years , followed by appeal by which the RS term will be over!@ECISVEEP will take hands-off approach saying matter is sub judice! Net net: a returning officer can act in a prima facie arbitrary manner to disqualify a candidate with no immediate legal remedy. What a ‘masterstroke’!🙏

[Harshit Anand @7h_anand]

Narendra Modi’s muscle lies in terrorising opp. MPs/MLAs into joining his party, in muzzling criticism at home, in incarcerating young students for having a voice. He does not have the muscle to rise up to Trump, a bigger bully, and question why 3 Indians were killed unprovoked.

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

In this week’s Open Magazine. Out today.

[Shah Alam Khan @shahalam13]

Since the comparison goes on, please see these two letters by Nehru. One, where he says he dislikes change of names of places/sites, particularly renaming them after him and second his opposition to let an embassy buy his own book. That’s austerity.
There’s no comparison.