Probal Dasgupta

Linguist, retd from Ind Statstcl Inst 2006-18; ex Hyd Central Univ, 1989-2006. Pres, Universal Esperanto Asscn 2007-13. Pres, Akademio de Esperanto 2016-25.

[Probal Dasgupta @Zbekul]

Some of you know syntax, and are aware that "I request everyone that this is not the time for politics" is syntactically ill-formed not just in English, but in any language you translate the sentence into. We _are_ talking about evaluation, aren't we? And competence?

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I take responsibility. This is not the time for politics" is BJP terminology for, "All of you shut up. We will engineer elections and keep on winning. You people better remain servile and meek so we can continue to do as we please".

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I take responsibility. This is not the time for politics" is BJP terminology for, "All of you shut up. We will engineer elections and keep on winning. You people better remain servile and meek so we can continue to do as we please".

[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

MY CLARIFICATION...
to statements made by Lieutenant Governor of Ladakh regarding his warning to me to refrain from making comments on #CockroachJantaParty
The meeting and the LG's tweet happened on 26th evening, yet I avoided reacting to the post that evening. But next morning it dawned on me that it was more of a press statement than just a tweet as the absurd statement appeared in several newspapers. So I made this video but again restrained myself from posting...
Shayad unki aakhri ho yeh sitam, har sitam yeh soch kar hum seh gaye...
But this morning even more media channels carried this... and I kept getting calls from journalists for my comments.
So finally here it is...

Media house are welcome to use it... no copyright

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

A reminder that no serious historian, academic or anyone who has spent even minutes looking at Nazi Germany agrees with this. Hitler locked up the left, denounced the left. He was not a 'hardcore socialist.'

The only people who say this are... Nazi sympathizers & the far right.

[Probal Dasgupta @Zbekul]

‘The Tale of Hansuli Turn’: What Tarashankar Bandyopadhyay’s novel says about preserving a river https://t.co/D6Bhssy6e2

[Sen. Bernie Sanders @SenSanders]

If you give a politician $5 to influence a vote, it’s bribery.

If billionaires spend $50 million to influence an election, it’s legal.

That is what a corrupt campaign finance system looks like.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

I am not saying that Bollywood actors were part of an organised campaign against the UPA, when petrol prices were raised repeatedly in 2011-12.

But, they definitely are part of an organised silence right now.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Probal Dasgupta @Zbekul]

Half a loaf is better than none. Some good news, in the middle of a drought:

https://t.co/g1aEccxaj9

[Probal Dasgupta @Zbekul]

Hmm. https://t.co/5FdzbrjVOj

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

In Beyond the Invisible Hand I mention Thomas Aquinas, the 12th century Dominican priest who wrote against extreme inequality. In the age of AI where the super rich can control opinion & rob people of their voice, extreme inequality is doubly harmful: it throttles democracy.

[Parakala Prabhakar @parakala]

I unpack the ‘mystery’ behind Bengal’s electoral ‘miracle’.

Here’s the link:

https://t.co/n7uN1qmzxi

[Mayank Trades (Bear janta party) @nifty_ki_call]

@HelleLyngSvends Indian journalists if they work freely

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Exactly. The journalists of India should be able to do their work without being scared of repercussions.

[Probal Dasgupta @Zbekul]

https://t.co/BBPGNqymyw?

[Tanushree Pandey @TanushreePande]

No sir, we have. Unfortunately, many of us were thrown out of our jobs and stopped being counted as part of India’s “press corps” precisely because we asked tough ques to the govt.

India still has some of the finest independent journalists doing real journalism and asking difficult ques .. often at the cost of being silenced in more ways than one.

More power to Helle, absolutely. But even more power to those journalists in India who have been doing this for years, under far harsher circumstances, with far more at stake.

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Throughout all day I have struggled to log onto my Instagram account. Now I have been suspended. It is a small prize to pay for press freedom, but I’ve never experienced it before.

[Abhay Kumar Singh @AbhayVishen]

नॉर्वे की पत्रकार पीएम मोदी से सवाल पर क्या कहती हैं.

आखिर वो क्यों कह रही हैं कि पत्रकार हैं तो सवाल तो पूछना पड़ेगा.

हर एक सवाल का जवाब
@Tweetnitins
@HelleLyngSvends

[Helle Lyng @HelleLyngSvends]

Had a great conversation with @BBCHindi. Thank you for giving me the oppurtunity to explain what happened Monday and why it happened.