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8 years

. @madhutrehan Despite being informed it is a hoax why do you not delete your tweet and inform people that you made a mistake. @dragonswish

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@srivastavarita1 @SatishGadiyar @PChidambaram_IN @INCIndia Agree, Chidambaram knew what he was doing. Jaitley has been a disappointment.

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@SatishGadiyar @PChidambaram_IN The response of @INCIndia on this issue has been duplicitous. However, @PChidambaram_IN 's position on the Delhi government status case is also probably because he appeared for them in the Supreme Court.

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6 years

@65thakursahab Yes, till recently Nirmala Sithraman's husband, Parakala Prabhakar, had cabinet ranked post in AP government. Seems he quit when TDP broke out of NDA. He comes from a family of Congress-folk, was JNU's NSUI president and Congress MLA till 1997-

Parakala Prabhakar - Wikipedia

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7 years

@gautambhatia88 @Nidhi @bombaywallah It is sad that all major lit fests are sponsored by big corporations and hecnce it becomes "Zee JLF" etc. All except @BlrLitFest , India's only major lit fest which is crowd-funded. You cant find a corporate logo anywhere.

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5 years

@_black_Dread_ @Vnyk16 @sharad110 @ShekharGupta I think he was being sarcastic, pointing out the tendency to blame everything on Nehru.

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6 years

@mohanstatsman A chase like that in 2002, cannot be compared to a chase in 2018. Here's is the simple test, let's see in one year's time, whether people still remember this match as much as the Natwest trophy final.

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2 years

@blended__kahlo @DietPravda Check out @bicblr which hosts wide-ranging, eclectic events regularly. Lahe, Lahe has a great set of workshops. Goethe-Institut, Alliance Française, also have interesting events. Check NGMA, Chitra Kala Parishad for art and @ChampacaBooks and @bookworm_Kris for book events.

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4 years

What is worse is that we are encouraging a form of hyper community policing of our neighbourhoods. RWAs and gated community societies are becoming vigilante enforcers of a twisted form of order and security. 3/N

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5 years

@secondofhername @vinaykesari @bharatunnithan @siddharth3 This is not a true story but an illustrative anecdote shared by Don Harper Mills, a medico-legal scholar, to demonstrate how a change in few facts leads to different legal consequences. So, though it's not true, it's a useful story.

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3 years

@AbbasMomin Fontainhas, Goa French Quarter, Pondicherry Fort Kochi

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5 years

@SreenivasanJain Q: Do you think the experimental turn in development economics, as seen in the use of RCTs, dissuades researchers to not examine more structural reasons that cause poverty and inequality?

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12 years

Excellent speeach by @ShashiTharoor Touched on all key issues India faces and efforts by UPA to adress them. True patriot.

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2 years

Egg and Bacon on Toast with a cup of coffee at Koshys, classic Bangalore things. #Bangalore #lurusights

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6 years

@sanjayuvacha @ShashiTharoor Well, @ShashiTharoor is more mallugent than dilligent!

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4 years

After all of this is over, will we as a people continue to be suspicious of each other? As we become obsessed with protecting ourselves, will we also lose some of our humanity? 8/8

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5 years

@jamewils If you are in Bangalore for only 2 days, stick to the MG Road Area (MG, Brigade and Church Street). That has always been and still is what Bangalore is. People in your TL staying in suburbs might pitch for their place, but it does not come close to the CBD.

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5 years

Here are my predictions for 2019 elections. Putting it out there before the exit poll surveys come out tomorrow. Congress: 118 UPA Allies: 77 UPA Total: 195 BJP :180 NDA Allies: 30 NDA Total: 210 Others Total: 136 (Anti-BJP: 90 Unallied: 46) UPA + Anti-BJP: 285

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4 years

We are also legitimising the operation of a powerful surveillance state. Will the state undo it's tracking systems after this crisis or continue to use it against others? Will our RWAs and societies find new victims to target after this? 7/N

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4 years

This hyper policing and exclusionary thinking is actually the basis on which our gated communities and RWAs are founded. So, this isn't new. It's how our so called "middle class morality" is wired. We are now giving them further ammunition to turn people against each other. 5/N

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4 years

@thebokettogirl @ngtweets1969 @JanusBlinked The pictures only tells half the story, when you see Jeremy Brett in action, he really looks like Sherlock Homes.

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@iThunderbolt

8 years

@madhutrehan @baxiabhishek What kind of response is that? Just because it makes a "good story" you wont delete and apologize for your tweet?

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2 years

@joybhattacharj I'm not sure if Ruskin Bond can be called an Anglo-Indian (despite what Wikipedia says). Thought he is a British-origin Indian, since his parents are of British and not Anglo-Indian descent.

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4 years

I'm increasingly concerned about how we are approaching the corona crisis. Yes, I understand the need for social distancing and self-isolation. But while some of us have the privilege to practice self-isolation and "work from home", a majority of Indians can't afford to do so 1/N

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5 years

@jamewils And the area has a bunch of hotels where you can stay which are also affordable (around 2-3K). There is Curzon Court, Hotel Ajantha, Ballal Residency, Iris Hotel and some new Fab hotels etc. All quite neat, well equipped and affordable.

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2 years

@blended__kahlo @DietPravda @bicblr @ChampacaBooks @bookworm_Kris Also check out new spaces like @MAPBangalore and @IME_Bangalore which offer interesting and unique experiences and events.

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3 years

Came across this interesting video of Queen Elizabeth's visit to Bangalore in 1961. Shots of MG Road visible. The Queen visits the Bible Society of India headquarters and Lal Bagh. British Raj hangover quite apparent.... #Bangalore #BritishRaj @WeAreBangalore @peakbengaluru

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7 years

@d_extrovert @pranaykotas JP Narayan on RSS much before the emergency. Later during the time of emergency he backtracks since he wanted RSS support to fight Indira.

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11 months

Bangalore will soon have "India's first instagrammable home"! In this age of asinine aesthetics, all things have to be "instagrammable". Not just restaurants and resorts, even new real estate (not interiors) projects, now appeal to this sentiment. #Bangalore #lurusights

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5 years

@DearthOfSid It's good to see an unapologetic leftist on twitter, one that doesn't try to make ideas palatable for the larger liberal crowd here. The larger question you, and the new young left globally faces is about left politics and its interaction with identity politics.

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5 years

@jamewils Folks will say you get some pani puri in some random place, great dosa at another place and bisebele bath somewhere else. Please ignore. Stay in MG Road area and get everything- all kinds of food, shopping, drinks, walkable footpaths, access to metro. And don't miss Koshy's.

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4 years

North-easterners, airline crew, people looking foreign, are all facing discrimination and ostracization. Apartment WhatsApp groups are buzzing with all kinds rumours of people in the neighbourhood who may have the dreaded disease. We are stigmatizing the victims of a pandemic 4/N

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5 years

@rohini_mohan Actually, there's good chance that the protest will have a real impact. It won't stop CAA, but can stop nationwide NRC

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4 years

Yes, mixed member system like New Zealand should be good. Maintain constituency-legislator connect of FPTP, and do justice to vote share by having some PR seats (maybe 1/3rd). I would say 500-550 FPTP (like now) and 150-200 PR seats for Lok Sabha.

Parag Bhandari

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4 years

India needs a mixed system of elections with some seats to be elected from First Post the Past method and some seats from proportional system of nationwide vote share.

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3 years

@Janaki_Sr Oh God. Was this in Bangalore? Same thing happened at my place today at around 8 pm. Men claiming to be from RSS asked for my support to build Ram Temple, gave me a pamphlet with bank account details for the transfer.

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8 years

Responding to rapid urban expansion @metropolis_org @urb_im @bruce_katz @CPRIndia_Urban @maliniranga @SaskiaSassen

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5 years

@Agrimonious @IshitaYadav How did the above para pass editorial scrutiny? @rajkamaljha

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3 years

@BLRSmartCity @SmartCities_HUA @smartcitysindia @CHOLAN What is the logic of having name boards saying Wood Street Road or Tata Lane Road? Road, Street etc are synonymous. Wood Street was always Wood Street, no one refereed it as Wood Street Road. Just like Church Street is not called Church Street Road.

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5 years

@DearthOfSid Sex on the promise of marriage is surely not just a personal issue, the law can interfere. However, I disagree on calling it rape and equating with the latter's heinous nature and punishment. Sex on the promise of marriage should be criminal breach of trust.

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4 years

@prajwalmanipal Yes, it's a good gesture, a nice story. But I'm slightly concerned with all the positive coverage of it in the media. It could feed into the "Good Muslim" narrative (versus the "Bad Muslim" who won't do anything like this.)

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3 years

@bengawalk @arundathi9 Just around the corner, missing in this map, is Cranberry Apartments

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8 years

@madhutrehan Or you will just keep it because it just confirms your biases, facts be damned. @dragonswish

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8 years

. @TVMohandasPai As per UAPA- Any act with intent to strike terror on "any section" of people is a terrorist act. @ccfx135 @sanjayuvacha

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5 years

The #NRC_CAA_Protest continues.... Town Hall, Bangalore on the occasion of #SavitribaiPhule Birth anniversary and Modi's Karnataka visit. Protesters also formed a #GobackModi hash tag!

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3 years

@futuredrwillis @jacasiegel Cambria. Or stick to good old Times New Roman.

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4 years

We are creating new kinds of social outcasts and enemies, those based not just on caste and class identities. With governments stamping corona notices outside houses, people can now actively discriminate and police one another. 6/N

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4 years

It's important for us to reflect if we should mindlessly champion policies that are convenient for us but causes immense hardship to those less privileged. Thousands of people stand to lose their livelihoods, but do we bother about it as we get into this self-protection mode? 2/N

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4 years

@arunava It definitely looks like they are. It is fine, of course, makes business sense for the publisher. But it does signal a disturbing fetishisation of books and book covers and the descension of the discourse on books to warped partisan trends of social media.

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4 years

@gauravsabnis Wow. Just so great to see Bernard from Yes Minister. Perfect foil for Hacker and Appleby. Probably my favourite series ever.

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2 years

Stopped for Filter Coffee and Mangalore Bajji at the good old Hotel Ajantha after a long time.... #Bangalore #lurusights

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8 years

Great to have watched #SakshiMalik win. Only few in my TL seemed to have been watched it. Most of our great news/sports experts sleeping.

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8 months

@udupendra Yes, also Indo-Dubai Plaza on Rest House Road, off Brigade Road.

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5 years

Beyond the Kashmir debates, if you want to read a great piece of journalism, read this story on The Green Gang by @lizflock A fascinating and nuanced account of a vigilante group of lower-caste women from UP who take on the powers that be. @ALadyinMumbai1

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4 years

The Koshy's Gang. The journalists, lawyers, writers, artists and old Bangalore elite/middle class that hang out at Koshy's Parade Cafe constitutes a diverse but distinct class. Also, Church St, MG Road, St Marks Rd converge at Koshy's. @Ram_Guha #KoshysGang #Bangalore

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4 years

What would a Bengaluru equivalent of Khan Market gang be?

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5 years

@UnamPillai @TRRVHF Damayanti seems a bit like a person from the current generation. I think it's the hairstyle, too modern.

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5 years

@AnantikaMehra This one, I presume-

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8 years

@rehack20 @mickysood @Ram_Guha @sardesairajdeep Mark Taylor too. He declard at Bradman's score of 334, didnt break it. Clarke also got a 300

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4 years

Haunting visuals of Mumbai under lockdown, set to Hans Zimmer like background track, using drone. The absence of "crowds" and "chaos" is presented as a great things that makes the city beautiful. But what's a city without it's people?

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4 years

A city without its people is just plain sad. People are its life force.

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4 years

The Supreme Court must reconsider its flawed order regarding evictions within 3 months. #NoForcedEvictions

No Forced Evictions

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4 years

We stand firm on our demands of #NoForcedEvictions

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5 years

@Ramanan_V @DearthOfSid Exactly. Quite disappointed that much of the critique on the fake encounter/extra-judicial killing is indulging in whataboutery. What about Unnao/Sengar/Nithyananda etc. So do we want them to be "encountered"? The arguments should be on first principles.

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9 years

RT @scroll_in Will Smart Cities stifle local democracy? @BenCampkin @urbancommune @jscaseddon @vrsrini @write2kill

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3 years

Bangalore is trying to become "smart" by installing new road nameplates like "Wood Street Road" and "Tata Lane Road". What next, Church Street Road Marg? @BLRSmartCity

Bengaluru Smart City Limited

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3 years

Worried that you are lost as you don’t know the names of #roads ? Well, not anymore! New #nameplates are being installed across the city to guide the right direction! @SmartCities_HUA @smartcitysindia @CHOLAN

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8 years

@threeinchfooll Yes, hypocrisy. But not a new convert to Hindutva. Pai has been spewing venom for long time, just got a bit worse recently.

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5 years

@sugataraju Interestingly, Trump's speech had a lot of anti-immigrant rhetoric. The crowd cheered it, not too much, but just enough. With reference to the southern border, it was more against those who cross over from Mexico.

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4 years

@udupendra Yes, Kannada is Kannad in Hindi. So, it's fine if a North Indian refers the language as Kannad while speaking in Hindi. The problem is those living in Bangalore who still call it "Kannad", even while speaking in English. Because the name of the language is Kannada in English too

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3 years

Came across this song called "Bangalore" by Thomas Itty. Nice and groovy, a hidden gem? #Bangalore #Bengaluru #acoustic @WeAreBangalore @peakbengaluru

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5 years

@DearthOfSid @ConradkBarwa All of this, in the context of Savarkar, might feel like unjust. But if we think beyond the specific case, the need for having strong evidence and inadmissibility of statements made outside court, commissions of enquiry, are just procedures, which protects accused against state.

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5 years

@Ramanan_V How unsurprising. Mr Guha wanted Mr Nitish Kumar to take over as President of Congress. Within one week of this grand suggestion, Nitish warmed up to Modi and re-joined NDA.

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3 years

@abnvdnsh @nowme_datta Depression may or may not have clear attributable reasons. That's what mental health professionals say.

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5 years

Congratualtions #MadhuriVijay and @HarperCollinsIN for winning the @TheJCBPrize 2019. I just bought the book recently and it seems like a very interesting, and dare I say a timely piece of writing. Will surely enjoy reading the same. #TheJCBPrize2019

HarperCollins

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5 years

Absolutely delighted to announce our author #MadhuriVijay ’s book #TheFarField as the winner of the 2019 JCB Prize for Literature! @TheJCBPrize #JCBPrizeWinner #TheJCBPrize2019 #MadhuriVijay Get your copy here:

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3 years

The ring rainbow adorns the Bangalore sky. Rays of hope in these troubled times? #Bangalore

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@iThunderbolt

6 years

@mathangcito Hotel Ajantha, obviously.

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6 years

@65thakursahab Just a clarification, he was a Congress MLA candidate (who lost) and member of the party till 1997. @65thakursahab @UrMujeeb

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8 years

@samjawed65 @threeinchfooll Ha ha! @narendramodi 's "Brave Veer Savarkar" beats Starbucks' "Chai Tea Latte" hands down. #BraveVeerModi

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4 years

@gauravsabnis Haha yes. I remember it very well. Bernard had a lot of those sort of lines. Saw the whole series again on amazon prime recently. Still too good.

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5 years

@AbuibrahimNBS @Advaidism Yes, great point. The values of liberty, equality and fraternity, were only for the "civilized" Europeans and could never be given to the "savages" from the colonized countries.

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14 years

@diptosh Why is the media not creating any noise about Mukesh Ambani's $1 billion home on disputed Wakq land Read: http://t.co/lX7ANKU

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3 years

Here's something. Deepa Mehta is set to direct the movie adaptation of Madhuri Vijay's @TheJCBPrize winning novel "The Far Field" It was a fantastic and deeply moving novel, one of best I read recently. Hope the adaptation won't disappoint. via @variety

Deepa Mehta Prepares Women-Centric ‘Get Out’ Style Horror Film, ‘Far Field’ Adaptation

Indo-Canadian filmmaker Deepa Mehta is prepping a supernatural thriller, and an adaptation of award-winning novel "The Far Field."

variety.com

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5 years

@IshitaYadav @Agrimonious @rajkamaljha Yes, quite surprising that it got published. And that to as op-ed. Just because a staffer wrote, can't keep the standard lower.

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5 years

@ConradkBarwa @DearthOfSid Perhaps, but i would hesitate to state this with any certainty. Especially because the prime accused, Godse, was already convicted and executed. Courts don't usually reopen and conduct retrail of such a case, just to further convict a conspirator.

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4 years

@gauravsabnis Now that you say, yeah I might have also reacted similarly with quibbles on logical inaccuracies.

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5 years

Finally, Amitabha Bagchi's "Half the Night is Gone" gets the honour it deserves. Wins the @thedscprize for South Asian Literature after being nominated for many awards last year. A truly remarkable and uniquely Indian novel. Many Congratulations! @Chikisarkar @juggernautbooks

The DSC Prize

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Presenting the jury citation for Amitabha Bagchi’s winning novel ‘Half the Night is Gone’. #DSCPrize2019 #IMENepalLitFest

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4 years

@pranjan12781 Yes, academics should try to write in a simpler manner, but not sure how some of the terms can be completely avoided. If the discussion is on the nature of knowledge, it is surely an epistemological question, can't simply wish it away.

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2 years

@PonnathPuraaNa Ashirvad, St Marks Road @AshirvadSocial

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6 years

@ShoaibDaniyal @tishasaroyan Gandabherunda has been an important symbol of Karnataka and is also being seen as symbol of Bangalore. So @BlrLitFest , the city's premier literature festival which has been community run for 8 years, also prominently uses Gandabherunda as its symbol.

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4 years

India's response to the corona crisis raises many concerns. We ignore the livelihood needs of the poor. RWAs and societies are becoming hyper-sensitive and targeting those from North-East, Airline staff and others. #StopRacialProfiling A Thread

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4 years

I'm increasingly concerned about how we are approaching the corona crisis. Yes, I understand the need for social distancing and self-isolation. But while some of us have the privilege to practice self-isolation and "work from home", a majority of Indians can't afford to do so 1/N

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5 years

2019 Prediction: UPA: 195 (118+77) NDA: 210 (180+30) UPA+Anti-BJP Parties (SP,BSP,TMC,Left): 285 Do check the detailed state wise predictions: @Paragbhandari1 @ArchisMohan @NITINKML @partha2019LS @Neeraj_2019 @arungiri @srivatsayb @gis_research

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6 years

@sidin Yes, supporting Uruguay. If Messi is out of the world cup, Christiano Ronaldo should also not be there!

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@iThunderbolt

8 years

. @CNNnews18 Entire nation? All sleeping. Only few of us bothered to stay up. Where is the media?. No news coverage of #SakshiMalik win.

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@iThunderbolt

5 years

As I predicted, Ornit Shani, the dark horse, has won the @newindiafndtion book prize. #blrlitfest

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10 months

@amuldotexe @Sarve___tanvesh @Naina_2728 At Sendhoor Coffee, Cambridge Layout?

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9 years

Modi's smart city is a techno-utopia which ignores the basic tenants of democratic urban governance @AyonaDatta @CGWG2 @jscaseddon @rkeil

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6 years

@alkagurha A bit? Ha ha. And Rekha has always been self obsessed.

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3 years

@gunsandroches @nevillejude Here's a long read on the origins of Shrewsbury biscuits and its strong bond with Pune -

Shrewsbury: A legend that takes the biscuit

Is the lionisation of the Indian Shrewsbury biscuit at least in part due to India’s Raj nostalgia? Possibly

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6 years

@udupendra Dravid can be a good prime minister, but will find politics difficult. Ganguly has leadership skills and the ability and interest to navigate politics. Dhoni also has ability, but will not have similar interest. Gavaskar will be a safe bit. Shashtri with his grit best suited

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6 years

For people of Karnataka, it is not the wedding sari of @deepikapadukone that revived Gandabherunda. It is a constant sign in all state govt offices and documents. And it was again revived by the Bangalore Lit Fest 8 years back. Here are the symbols of GoK and BLF:

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@iThunderbolt

4 years

Very useful thread on reading poll results in the US Elections. We ignore the 'undecided' column in poll results so often, to our peril.

Carl Allen

@RealCarlAllen

4 years

1/x The polls weren't wrong, you just read them wrong. The spread in a poll matters some. But a 50-47 lead (+3) is FAR MORE ROBUST than a 46-40 lead (+6) People see a poll avg at 46-40, and when the result is 47-49, they say "pOlL wAS WrONg" From +6 to -2?!? Off by 8!!! Nope.

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@iThunderbolt

4 years

@Aakar__Patel Yes, the CAA-NRC protests, and even other ongoing global movements, do have parallels with 1968 Paris.

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@iThunderbolt

5 years

@DilliDurAst @RanaAyyub 2026 probably. Halfway through his 3rd Term, Narendra Modi, having crossed 75, may step down and get Amit Shah to take over as PM.

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@iThunderbolt

5 years

@IshitaYadav @Agrimonious @rajkamaljha Wow! That was really a beautiful, heart-wrenching piece of writing. @rajkamaljha is just truly remarkable here. Thanks a lot for sharing

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