Tom cook

Traveller. Professional overthinker. I ask too many questions

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@Charu_on_X_x This is basically “I saw a woman wearing clothes I dislike, therefore civilization has collapsed.” 😂

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@Staunch_NaMo Brahmanical patriarchy is an established term in Indian feminist scholarship, notably associated with historian Uma Chakravarti’s 1993 work, and is used to describe the interaction between caste hierarchy, endogamy, and control of women’s sexuality

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@PMOIndia Sir, reduce petrol to ₹50 a litre. Then I’ll also see this “bright spot” clearly. 😂

Until then, the bright spot seems to be visible mainly from government posters.

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@Manik_M_Jolly The funniest part is the accusation of “sexualising sister” while making the accusation is the one repeatedly directing everyone's attention to the woman's body. If you have to invent the sexual subtext yourself, perhaps the advertisement isn't the problem. 😏

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@rupamurthy1 One woman marrying into a Hindu family and later becoming politically powerful does not magically erase prescriptions concerning women in ancient texts.

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Kanchan Gupta has discovered a revolutionary research method: find a 2007 LA Times article, add “Saudi Arabia,” sprinkle some “radicalisation,” and voilà, decades of Kerala social history solved. 😂

The article discusses Gulf migration and changes in religious practices. It does not say, “Saudi Arabia radicalised Kerala Muslims.”

That isn't research. That's taking a newspaper article hostage and making it confess to your thesis. 🤡

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@theskindoctor13 Bro is not on the official promotion roster i think. He’s just a very online uncle who saw a bald monk take a selfie with kids and decided to slap pink bows on him and call it a Gen-Z revolution.

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He said “Brahmanical patriarchy.”

You somehow heard: “Let me confess my family history, explain Shah Bano, discuss Triple Talaq, and reveal my secret thoughts.” 😂

That isn’t rebuttal. That’s political fanfiction with a Wikipedia tab open.

If his statement is wrong, dismantle the statement.
If his evidence is wrong, destroy the evidence.

But inventing what he “really meant” and then attacking your own invention is not debate.

That’s shadowboxing with a straw man and declaring yourself heavyweight champion. 🥊

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Correcting a bad headline is fine. Pretending the talent exodus and the sudden resignation clamps don’t exist while you defend the “everything is already private and smooth” line is not analysis — it’s PR with extra steps. Context includes the exits. Ignoring them doesn’t make them disappear.

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@dmuthuk India is a Union of States, not a centrally managed apartment complex where Delhi changes the election calendar and everyone gets a WhatsApp notification.

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@prasannavishy Calling discussion of a dead text “nonsense” is half-right. The book is irrelevant. The politicians who keep digging it up for applause are the actual living problem.

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The real stupidity is taking a real historical problem and turning it into a cartoon.

Yes, Licence Raj restricted capacity. Yes, industrial licensing created absurd bottlenecks. But jumping from that to “millions lived a subhuman life because Congress ruled India” is not economic history. It’s political fan fiction.

India’s poverty had multiple causes: low savings, weak infrastructure, low productivity, foreign-exchange constraints, wars, food insecurity, demographic pressures and decades of underinvestment.

And the Bajaj scooter story proves Licence Raj was dysfunctional. It does not prove every Indian who was poor was personally impoverished by Congress.

Using three anecdotes to explain an entire nation’s economic history is not analysis.

It’s a WhatsApp forward wearing a PhD costume. 🤡

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Tamil Nadu government schools have better average metrics than large parts of the Hindi belt on enrolment, midday meals and basic facilities. Come see for yourself.
No drama required. Issue a simple statewide protocol: any citizen can visit during school hours with 24-hour notice, no advance cleaning, no VIP escort, cameras allowed, and the principal cannot invent new rules on the spot.
If the schools are solid, the footage will prove it. If they are not, the public deserves to know.
“Let him try his luck” is not transparency. It’s a threat dressed as state pride. Put the gates open

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Micromax was Indian capital that rose on Chinese factories and then got flattened by actual Chinese brands that did the same thing better. Two decades of declining relevance later, the brand still can’t clear the basic bar of consumer trust or product consistency. Under the new scheme it might assemble more phones for others or collect incentives. As for Lava still leans on Chinese components. So does almost everyone else. The real question is whether they can turn that partial localisation + government incentives into actual volume and consumer preference. So far the scoreboard says “surviving,” not “winning.”

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@theskindoctor13 Brother can just open ChatGPT, upload the film, and type “explain this like I’m a politician who suddenly became a doctor in a hospital corridor.
Most doctors struggle? Sure.
This man struggles with nothing. Not even the concept of specialization.

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75 years of Tamil Nadu’s development reduced to “Dravidian model did everything.” Kamaraj, central institutions, private industry, infrastructure, entrepreneurship and multiple governments apparently got deleted with one keystroke.
The article needed footnotes. It chose adjectives. 📊😂 Tamil Nadu’s success is real. The fan fiction around some of the numbers is not

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@dmuthuk You can list 387 years of firsts all you want. None of them lower the heat index or stop the next waterlogging. Pride is fine. Pretending Chennai’s climate is anything other than a humid furnace with occasional drowning sessions is just cope.

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@dmuthuk if the Left is truly the sole soul of trade unions and student movements, it should not need four MLAs and outside-support arithmetic to stay relevant. The workers and students will keep speaking. The question is whether the narrative will still be listening when they do.

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@Lotus_indrajit Is this guy living

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If the metric for success is simply remaining in office long enough for long-gestation infrastructure to eventually work, then almost any leader can claim victory 😂 Infrastructure that works is good. Mythology that turns every operational milestone into proof of personal invincibility is not.