Prosenjit Datta
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Indian, Rurban Maxwell, Dubito Ergo Cogito, Cogito Ergo Sum
India
Joined August 2009
On the last day of the year, allow me to boast about the few things I did (and avoid mentioning the hundreds of things I intended to but never did). A short thread. I wrote a book and @AlephBookCo published it
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Teach your children to be good humans instead of religious bigots.
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Give her from the Rs 15 lakh you received.
My maid is disappointed as she did not receive โน1 lakh as promised by a political party . What she can do now? . #SundayVibes.
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GST of 18% on medical insurance premium is ridiculous in a country where medical debt is one of the biggest problems for the bulk of the population.
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Oil is thicker than blood sometimes ๐๐๐๐.
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Why is it that during Navratris, a small section of North Indians believe that they have the right to censure every other Indian's food choices?.
Why is it that during Navratri, every leftist seems to be posting videos of themselves eating non-vegetarian food?. Are they trying to appease a particular community?.
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Did you get to pay a lower price for petrol or are you just a brainless cheerleader?.
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IIT Kanpur students dress this way normally? ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค.
In his trademark style, PM @narendramodi paid a surprise visit to another block of IIT Kanpur to interact with students who were not a part of the convocation & the students were absolutely thrilled with a one-on-one interaction with him!! #ModiMagic.#ModiInKanpur
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Pilot or Scindia deciding to quit Congress because they are disillusioned is fine. But if they had mass support, they would build their own party the way Mamata or Jagan or others did. Joining the BJP shows they do not have any mass appeal.
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MP and national VP of BJP. Sends son abroad for better life. Comes back only to vote, not work or study in India.
The one with my son ๐ธ -.Sourav flew in from Germany to cast his vote for development, good governance and a strong, self-reliant Bharat! . I urge all my friends to please go out and vote ! Voting is not just our right, it's our duty towards democracy. ๐ฎ๐ณ
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Can also bring many Indians out of the poverty line. .
Pakistan ๐ต๐ฐ can pay back their loan if Anant Ambani donate this watch to them ๐ฅน๐ฅน๐ฅน. #AmbaniPreWedding
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Always remember to use the right terminology. It is โincentivesโ when you offer it to the rich. It is โfreebieโ when you give it to the poor.
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I have a journalism joke but someone already broke it.
I have a software developer joke but requirements are still changing.
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Not a single railway minister in those 58 years had the unenviable record of one derailment a day for over a week ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
#WATCH | While speaking in Lok Sabha, Union Minister for Railways, Ashwini Vaishnaw says, "Those who are shouting here must be asked in their 58 years of being in power why they were not able to install Automatic Train Protection (ATP), even 1 km. Today, they dare to raise the
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If Mohua and Sagarika cannot stand with the women protesting tomorrow, they have no right to expect that anyone will respect them.
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Tax payers you mean?.
Modi will bear the cost of treatment of senior citizens above 70 years of age: PM Modi at poll rally in Dhamtari, Chhattisgarh.
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Instead of breaking a Chinese built TV or mobile phone, please take them apart carefully, study their design and develop and build a better Indian TV and phone. at a cheaper price. This will be vastly more useful for the country.
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North Indians are telling Malayalis that Prakash Raj made a racist joke about them ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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My reaction is that Flt Lt Anoop Verma shows that Officers are not necessarily Gentlemen anymore.
What will be your reaction if this man becomes your PM ever ?
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Shiela Dikshit tried to make Delhi what the capital of a country like India should be. It was not perfect was it was still something you could be proud of. BJP and Kejriwal joined hands to ensure her defeat. Since then, it has been a downward spiral.
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Defamation case against Assam CM Himanta Biswa: Uttarakhand court records statement of complainant.
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Karnataka Shocker: ABVP Leader Held For Sharing Videos Of Having Sex With College Girls On Social Media.
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Anyone who expected otherwise was unbelievably naive .
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TRAI recommends slashing 5G spectrum prices. What happened to the notional loss theory Wala Vinod Rai I wonder ๐ง๐ค.
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If you love cows, become a veterinarian. Not a Gau Rakshak. But I suppose the first involves hard work and study and doesnโt have the thrill of killing humans ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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Woman sitting in the US Is worrying that the Muslim electrician doing a good job at her fatherโs house is no longer laughing at her fatherโs jokes and therefore concludes he is getting radicalised. And she is wondering why ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
In Bengaluru, my father always calls Anwar the electrician when needed for works in the house. It has been decades. Earlier, Anwar dressed like any other person but slowly changed to skull cap & short pajama (to enable feet-washing before going to pray). What's more, there was no.
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India is a land of miracles. Several cases of disabled people becoming miraculously normal after joining the IAS via disabled quota is coming to light ๐.
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Seen any Gau rakshaks helping out humans recently? Any anti Romeo guys in streets looking to help you find oxygen? No?.
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Please remember that blocking roads because you want to protest is bad. Blocking roads for a marriage is OK ๐๐๐๐๐.
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โServed noticeโ and not demolished with a bulldozer tells you how influential they are.
Manorama Khedkar's bungalow served notice. The encroachment department of Pune Municipal Corporation issued the notice. There has been encroachment on the pavement on the side of the road. #poojakhedkar #bungalow #notice #latestnews #pmc #pune #punecity #punenews #punemirror
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Man mixes up RT PCR test with covid vaccines. Doesnโt know anything about per capita income. Comes on TV and blabbers every night ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Price of COVID 19 RT PCR Test in UK for travel to India 130 pound sterling (around Rs. 13000). Price in the USA 130 dollars (around Rs. 10,000). Add to this the fact India has rolled out 150 crore jabs at subsidised cost for citizens. Still not a humanist society?.
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Completely unreliable sources tell me that one gentleman from Maharashtra will first fly to WB to take oath as CM at 3.30 AM and then jump into his waiting chartered Jet to fly to Kerala to take oath as CM there at around 5.45-6 AM . ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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Ok. what was the last press conference of PM where you went an asked a question? ๐ง๐ง๐ง๐ง.
And let me tell u how it works - we go to press conferences to ask for reactions . so if we go to BJP we ask them on what cong said and vice Versa โฆ but then u have to go to field to know how it works . enough said.
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Boss you enjoyed subsidised education in DU and also were a student activist. in fact, you were fairly political and opposed to the government in power then. or have you forgotten?.
@priyashmita None of my family members or me enjoy any subsidy. All of us pay all taxes as well. I donโt claim even the concessions meant for senior citizens. Do you?.
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The argument has moved from โwe are not corruptโ to โSo what? Everyone is corrupt so why should you single us out for getting the highest amount. After all, as the party in government, we are bound to get highest amount of moneyโ ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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If there are 50 MLAs, why do they need 70 rooms? ๐ค.
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#seriousquestion Why do senior Indian journalists need to travel all the way to Davos to interview Indian luminaries who could equally be interviewed in the country. .
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Bhakts be like, the PM cannot do anything about Delhi because he doesnโt control Delhi. Also, the PM will solve the worldโs problems, stop wars, fix all that is ailing in the country and abroad etc etc.
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If it was one of the poorest countries during Mughal rule, why did the Brits want to colonise it? ๐ค๐ค.
Wrong. 2000 years ago, long before a single rat eating Mughal invader stepped on Indian soil, India was world's richest country with 32.5% of World's GDP. By the end of Mughal rule (1820 CE), India became one of the world's poorest countries. Its GDP was half that of China
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I wonder if they will show that Prithviraj Chauhan fought with most of his neighbours who also happened to be Rajputs.
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The electoral bond scheme was so transparent that the government and the SBI hired some of the most expensive lawyers to stop people from knowing who had bought them and who had got them ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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In the last five years we have realised that it is useless to have savings as cash in your home because demonetisation can happen any time, and useless to keep money in bank either because RBI and government will not act quickly enough to stop a bank from collapsing ๐.
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Why exactly are Handwash and Sanitisers at 18% GSTif we want more people to use them and more frequently.
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He was not even jailed but as soon the charge sheet was finalised, his lawyer applied for bail, the govt prosecutor did not even oppose it and the judge gave him bail. .
#BREAKING. Delhi Court grants interim bail to BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh and co accused Vinod Tomar in alleged sexual harassment case by women wrestlers. #DelhiPolice #BrijBhushanSingh #SexualHarassment.
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Please remember that UAPA is worse than sedition law.
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For this car wash service, Mr G will ensure that money is deducted directly from your bank account via Fastag ๐.
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Amazingly, when Jio launched its mobile service for free for six months, it was not considered predatory pricing. But hey, letโs accuse global players for selling stuff cheap. Goyal accuses e-com players of predatory pricing, FDI violation
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Sending him on long leave was so much easier than improving the food that was served ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Uttar Pradesh cop who complained about mess food sent on 'long leave'
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The government is following strict Covid protocol. Every minister is socially distancing from nationโs problems ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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Umm. You donโt know India is a union of states as per the constitution? And you rose all the way to the rank of Major General ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
Why is @RahulGandhi against the country? Where is it mentioned that India is a union of states. if he cant read, why talk crap. SC, delving on a @INCIndia case stated there is no Pegasus on any mobile, yet he harps on it. Is he Indian or anti-India. Yet people want him as PM.
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Eight โturncoatsโ in Karanataka who helped BJP form govt in 2019, lose election.
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I suspect our vaccination program will one day be studied in Harvard Business School as a case study in how NOT to do it ๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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So the PM was warning states about the second wave but simultaneously not ordering enough vaccines, not preparing for oxygen or beds and also exporting vaccines. that is what one can make out of recent statements from BJP and govt.
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Just to put it in perspective, the NIA had not gathered enough evidence to actually prosecute Stan Swamy but kept him in jail till he died. But the Ansal brothers of the Uphaar Cinema fire tragedy were convicted by SC but allowed to stay out of jail because of age (75 and 67).
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The comment says a lot more about Ms Murthy than about Ms Gandhi.
I hear Sonia Gandhi Ji .danced with women from Sonepat, Haryana, for Rahul Gandhiโs YouTube channel. Sonia ji is a former dancer, right? Or was it just a hobby? Whatever it was, she appears to be going back to it, to help her Son Rahul Gandhiโs YouTube channel.
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Anyone else get the feeling that it is not lack of competence but a case of massive disinterest in saving people or ending the pandemic?.
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Vinod Raiโs notional loss theory started the process of destruction of the telecom industry investments.
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You can arrest sitting CMs on the basis of allegations. You can unleash ED and CBI on businesses - except if the business is owned by Adani. If it is Adani, the government itself will jump up to defend the businessman.
So @RahulGandhi wants a businessman arrested, on basis of an indictment seeking a trial by a US Distt Attorney . A little bit of schooling for the constitution waver is in order. If country went by his definition of rule of law, that every accused shd be arrested only on basis.
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Do not read too much into stray comments by Kher, Ghose or Seth or Bhagat. These are just to give the impression that they too criticise from time to time. It is not a change of belief.
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We used to have 5 Year Plans. Then we decided 5 Year Planning was so boring in a dynamic world and shut down the Planning Commission. Now we exhort people to have 25 Year Plans. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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Dr MMS was not a popular politician. He was an economist who was asked to be PM in two governments in which Congress was nowhere near 272 on their own, had to deal with multiple fractious and ambitious allies and also ambitious politicians within his own partyโฆ.1/2.
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There are plenty of economists who will argue that Reliance Retail needs protection from Amazon and Walmart while also arguing that Punjab farmers need no protection from Reliance or Adani . ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ.
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CoWIN breach: โNo government in a developed country would have survived a data leak of this scaleโ.
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PM Modiโs โstoic silenceโ is rubbing salt in wounds of Manipur people, says Congress.
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Madam, please study history. If it was rebuilt in the 14th century, surely the Mughals couldnโt be responsible for destroying it. Babur invaded in the 16th centuryโฆ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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Nobody talks of the 100 Smart Cities any more ๐๐๐.
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Navika Kumar and Pallavi Ghosh are asking questions about Rahul Gandhiโs Yatra. I think they have valid queries. But why not ask him directly? They are both political reporters and as far as I know Rahul Gandhi talks to the press freely unlike some others โฆ.
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Got defrauded of 5 lakh by someone who pretended to be part of @goibibo refunds team. Number 943815736. Took the money from My @ICICIBank account before I could even block the transactions and freeze my account. I made the mistake of downloading the @goibibo app.Feeling foolish.
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Hello India Today -- the big stories are inflation, poverty and unemployment. .
1200-year-old idol of lord Narsingh allegedly found in one of pillars of mosque inside Qutub Minar's complex. @Milan_reports with details. #ITVideo #India #QutubMinar | @nabilajamal_
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Diaspora is a polite way of describing those who fled the country ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐#JustSaying.
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That is perfectly ok. She is the anchor who claimed the Rs 2K notes had electronic chips in them too. I doubt India Today hired her for her journalism or common sense.
Aaj Tak Anchor Shweta was defending Modi Govt on recent train accidents by comparing it with the number of train accidents in 2000-2001. Ironically it was NDA govt in 2000-2001 not UPA. Shameless Journalist can go to any extent to defend Modi.
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Quite amazing the number of people on Twitter who slept through classes in Indian history when they were taught about the Maurya, Gupta, Sena, Pala, Pallava, Chola, Chera and even the various Delhi sultans but woke up and paid attention during when the Mughal era was taught ๐๐.
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Nephew, I have held a bow and arrow. I have never โholdedโ an arrow in my life though, whatever that means.
@ProsaicView @DrVW30 Uncle have you ever holded arrow ??.
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This is what happens if you sleep through history classes, donโt read your newspapers and live in town little bubble ๐.
For decades, a mixture of weird left-wing politics, fake-pride, closeness to Russia, anti-capitalist stance type policies led India away from USA, and it was our loss. May this be a new era of friendship between the two greatest democracies of the world. #HowdyModi.
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Even if she said sex, what would be the problem? Donโt elected representatives in India have sex? ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค.
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Wait a minute. I heard an identical statement from the Ease My Trip Co founder. Is this all part of one single scripted advertisement ๐ค๐ค๐ค.
#WATCH | Delhi: YouTuber Gaurav Chaudhary who is also known as Technical Guruji, says, ". There were around 300 startups in India in the year 2014, today there are more than 1 lakh startups. Over the years, we have seen that Government schemes like Make in India, Skill India,
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Don't know about Buffaloes being confiscated or Mangalsutras snatched by any party but certainly one fine evening, a lot of Rs 500 and Rs 1000 notes with households were rendered useless by a single announcement.
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The next time the CJI talks about lower courts routinely denying bail, remember this case.
Former JNU student & #UAPA accused Umar Khalid's bail plea in Delhi riots larger conspiracy case listed to be heard today by a bench of Justices Bela Trivedi & Dipankar Datta. Khalid has been in jail as an undertrial for over 3 years. #SupremeCourtofIndia #UmarKhalid #Bail
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So Mr Patanjali was not only selling adulterated honey, horror of horrors, he was selling anti national adulterated honey using Chinese Fructose. At least he could have adulterated using Indian fructose syrup. Kadi Ninda. ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐#JustSaying #Honey.
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NYT, if I remember, had a full front page of names and stories of everyone who died in the first wave. Here, we get upset if deaths are counted. .
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S P Mukherjee was actually a part of the govt led by Faz Ul Haq and wrote a letter to the British about how to defeat the Quit India Movementโฆbut let not facts get in the way of a good WhatsApp forward.
Savarkar & SP Mukherjee sought guarantee from Cong that it wonโt allow Indiaโs partition as condition for participating in Quit India but didnโt get as Cong was bent on Muslim appeasement. So Savarkar & SPM fought on 2 fronts - British & Islamists. Partition proved them correct.
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Kangana Ranaut may well win from Mandi. I mean if Hema Malini keeps winning from Mathura and Sunny Deol wins from his seat in Punjab, KR winning is a distinct possibility. In general, the bulk of Indian voters do not look at brains, knowledge, integrity or acumen while voting.
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Have two IITs. one veg and one non veg.
Probably do a survey of students and if majority agree , have one cafeteria which is pure vegan so that such conflicts donโt happen .
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Forget the cost, I am wondering who has the time to stay 50 days on a boat in a river. Must be cash and time rich, which is a difficult combo.
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Dr MMS was criticised for being a weak PM. But top officials donโt listen to the strong PM either ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค.
Modi lashes out at top officials โ โshould have been better preparedโ to handle 2nd Covid wave. Moushumi Das Gupta @dgupta_moushumi reports. #ThePrintGovt.
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Sir, Indian jails are filled with people who are accused but against whom even a charge sheet has not been filed. Of course we understand the law different when it comes to rich friends.
So @RahulGandhi wants a businessman arrested, on basis of an indictment seeking a trial by a US Distt Attorney . A little bit of schooling for the constitution waver is in order. If country went by his definition of rule of law, that every accused shd be arrested only on basis.
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RSS.
Whatโs not taxed in India?.
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I have been pretty proud to be Indian long before Mr Modi be PM. Tavleen is a different case of course.
The most fundamental change that has happened in India in ten years of Modiโs rule is that a process of decolonisation has taken place. When Indians say we are proud to be Indian for the first time itโs this they mean.
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On twitter, many people who seem to have studied in our finest engineering and management colleges seem to have no idea about democracy, the constitution or have studied civics in school.
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Amazing that the girls who lost to Vinesh Phogat when Vinesh was at 49.9 kg weight are getting medals they didnโt fight for. The gold medalist too wins gold without fighting anyone in the final bout. Only Vinesh, who won three bouts while weighing 49.9 kgs gets to be last ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ.
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So the Congress was a truly corrupt party. And now all its big corrupt leaders have joined the BJP. So what does that make BJP? ๐ค๐ง.
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Unreliable sources tell me that a film director has hired bouncers to grab people walking into malls and shove them into a hall screening his film and not letting them out till the show is over ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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I remember the advice for journalists of my era was that prepare very thoroughly, have all facts in your fingerprints and only then go to interview Chidambaram because he could rip you apart if you made a mistake. The same applies to interviewing PTR.
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Unreliable sources tell me that Ashoka, Chandragupta Maurya, Chandragupta I, Samudragupta, Chandragupta II, Sher Shah and even Akbar are trying to figure out why Aurangazeb is so much in the news instead of them ๐๐๐๐.
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50% of the money spent on election rallies could do wonders for our healthcare facilities.
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No Bhakt will ever answer why after 8 years, authorities are still investigating opposition parties instead of starting the cases in court. .
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But if Rahul Gandhi does push-ups, it becomes a gimmick ๐ค๐ค๐ค๐ค.
Never skip your fitness routine!. Our young and energetic Minister for Youth Affairs & Sports @iAnuragThakur leads the way as he launches the #FitIndiaApp on the second anniversary of the movement.
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Sir, please stop worrying about the Gandhis and the Congress. There are too many problems in the economy that needs your urgent attention. The scarcity of jobs is one. The slowing sales of everything from automobiles to FMCG is another. The rural distress is a third. .
The myths of Priyanka Gandhi stands demolished. Indiaโs conventional wisdom has been โเคฌเคเคฆ เคฎเฅเคเฅเค เฅ เคฒเคพเค เคเฅ, เคเฅเคฒ เคเคฏเฅ เคคเฅ เคเคผเคพเค เคเฅโ. The Myth of โPriyanka will make a differenceโ was worth a lakh. Today, the myth has lost its value.
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If we are promoting Digital India why are we paying a big โconvenience feeโ for booking anything online? ๐คท๐ปโโ๏ธ.
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I did a snap poll and I have a 33% approval rating in my household ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐. We are a 3 member household ๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐๐.
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