Shwetab

He/him and also the first to die in a horror film.

All my tweets are my own views and not my company's 💀

[Jarshad NK @jarshadnk]

Sachin Tendulkar has finally spoken on the student protests, and I had to read his note twice: once as a fan and once as an editor. The fan was disappointed, but the editor realised that this was a textbook specimen of the kind of writing that George Orwell warned about in his essay “Politics and the English Language”.

The essay was written in 1946, but it might well have been written yesterday about this very statement. Orwell’s point was that when people want to hide something, they stop using plain words and reach instead for the passive voice, for fog, for phrases that sound like they mean something while meaning nothing at all.

Consider the line, where students are disappointed that “their hard work hasn’t been rewarded”. Rewarded by whom, and denied by whom? There was a paper leak, which means somebody leaked it, some institution failed to prevent it, and an official presides over that institution. Yet none of them appears in the statement, and neither does the leak itself. A crime with identifiable custodians has been turned into something that simply happened to lakhs of children through nobody's fault.

Then comes the list of those who must set things right: parents, teachers, friends, relatives, schools and administrators. If you read that list again slowly, you will notice it covers everyone in India except the people the students are actually protesting against, which is to say the NTA, the education ministry and the government. When everyone is responsible, nobody is, and that is not an accident of drafting. It was engineered to deflect blame.

There is also a quiet sentence buried in the middle. “A society which prioritises outcomes over effort will seek shortcuts over meritocracy” is a line about those who take shortcuts, meaning the cheat. So a note on protests around paper leaks ends up gently lecturing the leaked-upon about honesty. His father’s lovely lesson—that failure is okay but cheating is not—is again aimed squarely at individuals, while the scandal and protests right now are about institutions that failed them.

The rest of the statement is what Orwell called ready-made strips of words, glued together. Full of dreams and energy, fuel to our success, safeguard their aspirations. Nobody can disagree with any of it, which is precisely the point, for this is prose engineered so that no one in power will find a single sentence to object to.

What an actual position would have looked like is a single sentence in the active voice: The government must find and punish those who leaked the paper, and fix the system that allowed it. He wrote 160+ words to avoid writing that one.

Here’s Orwell’s full essay for those interested:
https://t.co/VlPoJdOcDG

[Savio Cardoz @ScCardoz]

Where is the President Murmu now?

[erin @russconist]

when we said step up we meant on the podium lewis

[Remi Kanazi @Remroum]

Reasonable response to group of racist, genocidal cheaters

[Akshai @Akayu06430392]

He took India from 173 rank in 2015 to 96 rank in 2018 by scoring against lower ranked teams eh?

[Dr Aniruddha Malpani, MD @malpani]

This is the award you get for speaking up in India

[Shwetab @ukiboiii]

@ryanhammer09 Lakers Caruso would be the biggest hater of OKC Caruso if they ever met.

[. @KeyaraFoxx]

In her research for the origin of STDs, she uncovered how the complete lie that you can get an std from a toilet seat was created by doctors (probably also molesting their daughters) in a refusal to accept that little rich white girls were sexually assaulted by their dads.

[sixing plotting 76 poles @polplotting]

Do you know how depressing it is to have a nation of young people who's idols are all mostly illiterate lonely middle aged men.

[Kylie Cheung @kylietcheung]

wemby is the new face of the league as far as i am concerned

[Pratap @Pratap_btp]

Think about it.
Inside Parliament, shielded by marshals and surrounded by 300 MPs, Modi still lost his nerve.

Can a nation of 140 crore people entrust its security to someone so visibly afraid?

And yet, this very man is the quickest to question and malign those who laid down their lives for the country.

[🦉 @macroschema]

Air India crash investigation has been buried

India only organised one media interaction on the crash and did not take any question from the media

The very concept of accountability doesn’t exist in modern India

Around 250 people were killed and yet there is no conclusion

[Shwetab @ukiboiii]

@lfc_lance Eto, easy.

[Punit Pania @Punit_Pania]

Kuch hi ganton main ye 'kal ki baat' ban jaayegi, then we won't have to worry about it. All eyes on 2047 🚀

[Shwetab @ukiboiii]

@PixelPronghorn @esjesjesj Can you expand the AI overview please

[Shwetab @ukiboiii]

@GauravR01956770 @Sanatani0707 @nipunmarya The green line appears when during an update your device overheats, which is common. That's why a lot of devices with faux leather finish see the green line issue along with OnePlus phones as they are known for sub par cooling.

I have an IQOO Neo 9 Pro so I researched it.

[𝕲𝖆𝖓𝖊𝖘𝖍 * @ggganeshh]

A brick layer in the US charges 20$/hr, 160$ a day ~= 31,500 Rs

A brick layer in India gets 1500rs per day

Ratio of bottled water cost /earning-day

US: 175/31500 = 0.005
IN: 15/1500 = 0.01

IN is expensive. No amount of spin can change facts

[🦹🏻‍♀️ @Avnidahiyaa]

You won’t even minutely consider standing up for basic human rights but dogs is where people become activists?

[EngiNerd. @mainbhiengineer]

The poor guy is crying because he lost a phone. I'm crying that even if he buys a new phone, Govt will take another 18% GST on that and the condition of roads will still be same.