In 1904, Dharmanand Kosambi tried convincing the locals at Sarnath that the Dhamek Stupa was an Asokan Buddhist monument, only to be told that no "history" could outweigh the knowledge handed down by their "forefathers", who had held it to be an "oil-presser's mill." (1/n)
People think AR Rahman owes anything to this country. If anything, this country has been the biggest roadblock to critical and creative thinking in the last decade or so.
If you follow climate, you would have heard about the goal to limit warming to 1.5°C and the Paris Agreement. An interview unpacking where we are in terms of achieving this goal, where we need to go and how to get there #COP30
https://t.co/v9a8Fc7q15
Even after thirty three years of UNFCCC some people still wonder why developing countries have concerns about a fossil fuel phaseout. Answers in this 'Fossil of the Day' award to the EU at #COP30. Lack of support would, obviously, result in resistance
https://t.co/UAPwcIrKko
The entire state infrastructure and institutional machinery was put into this job to defame the Muslim residents of Seemanchal (Bihar), esp the Bengali speaking Shershahbadia Muslims.
Bangladesh Jamaat opposed "Amar Sonar Bangla ami tomay bhalobasi", General Ayub Khan of Pakistan banned songs written by Tagore in Dhaka Radio and then one ruling party in India is contemplating action against Bengalis for singing a Rabindrasangeet!
You are in power in West Bengal. If the allegations are true, arrest them under National Security Act. Why arrest them under some usual BNS act and let them get bail soon? Make an example for peace in our state.
Until and unless the rotten tender system is revamped, this will continue. Manufacturers offers rates that cannot possibly make for decent drugs; politicians and babus take cuts; drug control turns a blind eye.
Atheists have assumed that logical supremacy exists where they can make the worst arguments during a genocide to dehumanise people facing it and pass it off under rationality. Scientific thought used emotional bullying amidst a genocide. You think they don't know your arguments?
This scumbag is trying to defend his worst tweet. Those who believe don't do it because a corporation told them. Belief has existed before corporations. Appropriations by capitalism doesn't change nature of belief.
We need to respect the chasm between belief & disbelief.