Sanjeev Sanyal
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Writer, economist & collector of old maps. This twitter handle belongs primarily to the writer, and only occasionally to the economist. RTs are not endorsements
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My column in today's FE on the mechanics of how global rankings and indices gain their legitimacy despite their problematic methodologies and embedded biases. In particular, I illustrate how the World Bank's Worldwide Governance Indicators are used to give legitimacy to the
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This is India....... where the awardee does not kneel for a knighthood but instead blesses the Head of State
President Kovind presents Padma Shri to Shri Nanda Prusty for Literature & Education. 102-yr-old “Nanda sir”, who provided free education to children and adults at Jajpur, Odisha for decades, raised his hands in a gesture of blessing the President.
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While no one was watching, RBI has shifted 100 tonnes of its gold reserves back to India from UK. Most countries keep their gold in the vaults of the Bank of England or some such location (and pay a fee for the privilege). India will now hold most of its gold in its own vaults.
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Why data is meaningful only if you know the context.....
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Meanwhile not a word from
@UNHumanRights
about the genocide against Hindus in Bangladesh….. not a word
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Media persons need to recognise that
@Neeraj_chopra1
is a national icon. They need to treat him with respect irrespective of his age or background. The repeated instances of casual disrespect are a reflection of a deep-rooted class bias.
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A thousand years from now, my future generations may or may not remember what I did or read the books I wrote, but they will remember me as the ancestor who lived at the time the temples were rebuilt. This is how a civilisation confers immortality.
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The new ASI dig at Rakhigarhi is throwing up some amazing finds from early, mature and late Harappan periods. Some are multi-storey buildings. These are just from a small area; there still are huge unexplored mounds. 1/n
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Lakshadweep is just awesome for diving. Matches the best in the world….. have had turtles, octopuses and even reef sharks within touching distance. The Andamans are excellent too
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Be such an inspiration, that hundreds of years laters, they call out your name like this.......
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I lived to see an Indian Prime Minister make such an unapologetic pitch for India's private sector.
When I wrote "Indian Renaissance" in 2006-7, I had hoped for such as day.
No small thing for someone who grew up in Jyoti Basu's Bengal
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As I leave the Ministry of Finance to take up my new role at the Prime Minister's Economic Advisory Council, I would like to thank Hon. FM
@nsitharaman
and all my colleagues for their support and guidance during an eventful five years. Look forward to continuing to work together.
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And three years later India was bankrupt…… begging for a rescue
YEAR-1987, Former Prime Minister of India Rajiv Gandhi's visits to USA .
When Mr Gandhi speaks, no translator is needed for the Foreign dignitaries.
This starkly highlights the difference between a visionary leader with a strong educational foundation and one without ! 🫢😆
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If the heads of Penn/MIT/Harvard are not forced to resign after that performance, it will be a sign that the US too is past the point of no return. It is already too late for Europe. So, if US cannot turn back, we in India should make our own arrangements.
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The most important lesson from the history of Nalanda is this - a library without an army is condemned to be burned.
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Farewell to a great friend of India, Padma Vibhushan Shinzo Abe 😥
Om Shanti
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My father was born in a slave nation & he lived to see a time when his Prime Minister could command the stage like this in the world's most powerful country.
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And also modernised akhadas. All temples used to have an attached akhada for martial arts training.
BIG NEWS 🚨 ISRO Chairman S Somanath advised setting up libraries in temples to attract youths to temples.
His innovative idea will promote learning and cultural heritage amongst youth
He said "Youth can read, discuss various issues in the evenings, and develop their careers in
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When my ancestors moved to Kashi circa 1780, they wept with joy at the temple reconstructed by Ahalyabai Holkar. I have lived to see the reconstruction of 2021. There is something about deeply felt civilizational memory .......
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Even as we celebrate the
#ThomasCup2020
win and the players who did it..... Do remember Gopichand, the man who built a generation of world class badminton players. Even those who may not train under him, owe him for the mental shift
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The barely concealed glee among those who know what awaits Bangladeshi Hindus. These are the exact same lot that opposed CAA.
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Very good news. The "wagh nakh" used by Chattrapati Shivaji to kill Afzal Khan will be brought back to India from UK.
This is such a major turn in our history, and I had no idea that the wagh nakh had survived!! So happy to hear that are reclaiming it..
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As many of you are aware,
@vikramsampath
is constantly attacked personally by the Left cabal for the crime of writing a book about Savarkar. The latest is that he is accused of plagerism. The evidence is very weak as explained below 1/n
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West Bengal seems to be waking up from 50 years of sleep...... something quite different is happening. I am often critical of my fellow Bengalis, but some deep awakening is taking place. Hopeful for the first time in my life.
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My Bengali Hindu family was ethnically cleansed from East Pakistan (now Bangladesh).
My Jewish family was ethnically cleansed from Hungary & Czechoslovakia - where was your family ethnically cleansed?
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No country can prosper till it can learn to distinguish between those who pursue excellence and those who pretend to do it in a movie.
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As I step from one phase of my life to another ......
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Meanwhile, this country issues travel advisories to India !!
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The silence of the Bengali “intellectual” in the face of what is happening to Bangladeshi Hindus is both disgusting and unsurprising. The “aateil” have an opinion on every issue in the universe except on those where a spine is needed. They justified their treachery of Netaji;
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It is good to see global "experts" take such an interest in Indian agriculture. Perhaps they should ask their own governments why they keep complaining to WTO about support to Indian farmers. Meanwhile, look forward to introduction of APMC mandis in Sweden & US
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When you see a bull in a Harappan seal, this is possibly what we are looking at
Kankrej cattle, from Gujarat's Kutch region.
Their distinctive lyre-shaped horns and heavy build make them one of the largest Indian cattle breeds.
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A really vicious cold bug has spread all over India (and the world). Almost everyone I know - including myself - has had a bad throat infection that then lingers for days as a chest congestion. Very annoying.
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This is really sinister - the US government is putting in half a million dollars to promote atheism in Nepal. Why?? All in the name of freedom of religion. Listen to this to the end when the actual purpose is read out.
The Biden Administration spent HALF A MILLION DOLLARS of your money to promote atheism in Nepal. Then, they came to Congress to lie about it.
They just got BUSTED in real time.
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Now real students will discover what the "students" of the revolution were really about.
Cox's Bazar Sea Beach tortured young woman wearing t -shirts
Bangladesh entered the Taliban of the Shariah rule!
Soon girls will be banned from entering without burqa!
#BangladeshCrisis
#BangladeshiHindus
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Deeply concerned about democracy in US, non-Nordic Europe and Peru. India and Singapore need to work together to stabilize the global situation.
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In a sacred grove in the inland forests of Goa, there is an ancient shrine to Nau Devi - the goddess of ocean voyages. We went there today to seek her blessings for our stitched ship project
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British MPs stopped telling us what to do in 1947….. read up on it
Indian farmers are peacefully protesting. Supported by 200 unions. Potentially largest strike action in the world
They’re met with spiked barricades and tear gas en route to Delhi
Without a guaranteed crop price it condemns millions to exploitation and poverty.
#FarmersProtest
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There is a class of Indians who want India to fail just so that their feudal privileges may be maintained. And then there are other Indians........
Vande Bharat train that met with an accident got it’s nose fixed. Surgical team who did the nose job in pix 😀
Those who were gleefully clapping away after the unfortunate accident (no human casualties), you can put away those photos now.
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My barber thinks I need a hair cut.......
Pfizer CEO says fourth Covid vaccine doses may be needed sooner than expected due to omicron
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The decline and collapse of elite universities in the US is near complete. They still have an edge in STEM but for social sciences and humanities, there is no pretence left. The closing of the Western mind was surprising quick. Wonder if this happened to us in the 12th century
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At the time that the ship hit the bridge, it would have had a local pilot. In any case, the crew had warned the authorities which is why the casualties were relatively few (for such a disaster). But, hey, why give up a chance to do racist cartoons 1/2
Last known recording from inside the Dali moments before impact
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Proud of my fellow Bengalis for standing up to persecution......
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Dear
@ShekharGupta
Your
#cuttheclutter
on the Bloomsbury scandal misrepresents me &
@ARanganathan72
as your video suggests that we were behind deplatforming. On the contrary, we we protesting against cancelation of the book and advocating freedom of expression 1/n
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List of those who have fought Shakti before:
Shumbha
Nishumbha
Raktabeeja
Chanda
Munda
Mahishasura
and.......
#WATCH
| Mumbai, Maharashtra: At the conclusion ceremony of the Bharat Jodo Nyay Yatra, Congress leader Rahul Gandhi says, "There is a word 'Shakti' in Hinduism. We are fighting against a Shakti. The question is, what is that Shakti. The soul of the King is in the EVM. This
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One of the backbones of the
#Covid19
lockdown is India's Kirana-shop network. They have not merely kept 1.3bn people supplied despite many difficulties, they extend localized credit, provide doorstep delivery, and source products for specific needs. An incredible effort.
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So,
@vdeminstitute
has now blocked me!!
So much for freedom and dialogue. This after I asked them a very common sense question about their home country.
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A few weeks ago, I had raised the issue of how a tiny cabal controls Indian publishing and constantly imposes ideological censorship. We have just witnessed one example of how this insidious control is wielded. 1/n
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Now that India's strong growth performance is no longer in doubt, let me deal with some common questions raised about India's economic performance: "FDI is going to Vietnam and not coming to India"; "Bangladesh now has a higher per capita income" and so on. 1/n
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Factually untrue.Given devastation in Japan in WW2, India had the largest industrial base in Asia in 1947. The main achievement of Nehru's industrial policy was to freeze India's entrepreneurial class. With one exception, the large business families of 1947 were the same in 1991.
Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru is the architect of modern India. When he took over the reigns of India’s destiny, not a pin was manufactured in India. But instead of blaming the past, cursing his predecessors and making excuses, he rolled up his sleeves and built our modern republic.
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Of course channels like
@dwnews
and
@BBCWorld
think that that this perfectly reasonable behaviour from "students" in Bangladesh. How is this different from Nazi Germany?? Or perhaps this treatment of Hindus is thought justified in the same way that the ancestors of
@dwnews
Another Hindu teacher in Bangladesh has been insulted by Muslim students he once taught and was forced to resign. Every day, thousands of Hindus in Bangladesh are being pressured to sign resignation letters. Their aim is to remove all 2.5 million Hindus working in Bangladesh.
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We had always known that international handlers were involved, but reading their handbook was quite instructive.
The detailed instructions - that we can now compare with actual events - is fascinating.
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Facebook has just informed me that my post on 26/11 Mumbai attacks is against their "Community Standards" on spam........ really??? And how is it spam? or "false advertising"?
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Reuters April 30, 1945: Former Berlin painter kills himself and wife
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After vandalising
@vikramsampath
and my Wikipedia pages, TrangaBellam has been busy vandalising
@vivekagnihotri
's
#KashmirFiles
page. Must admit, she is very hard-working......
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India suffers from an elite that is riddled with people who shamelessly undermine the country. The root of this is the fact that, after Independence, those who had collaborated with the British occupation were not purged but allowed to flourish.
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In other words, we Hindus do not even exist. So, our history, culture & world view cannot possibly matter. When Europeans colonizers wanted to fully take over a place like Australia, they declared it "terra nullis" (uninhabited) - this is the same idea.
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TIME magazine thinks that "Hindu Lives Matter" is a dangerous idea.
#Hinduphobia
is perhaps one of the last forms of prejudice that can be publicly practiced in the West without consequences.
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It is extraordinary how much effort is being put in by Western media (BBC, DW etc) to deny atrocities on Hindus in Bangladesh. What drives this? Is it entirely organic or being coordinated?
Violent anti-government protests in Bangladesh have fueled many false claims of attacks against the nation's Hindu minority.
Here's what's been circulating online:
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So NYT suggests that attacks on Hindus are “revenge” …. In other words they must has done something bad to start it and needed to be avenged
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This is deliberate misinformation. Very disappointing. India has vaccinated 135mn (3.1mn in the last 24 hours alone). If you nothing +ve to contribute, kindly refrain from spreading fake news.
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Evidently Indians are among the most unhappy people on Earth..... worse that Israel, Palestine, Ukraine, Russia, and even Pakistan. These bullshit indices sometimes stun me....
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For those outraging over the lions baring their fangs, the original Mauryan lions also bare their fangs. It was a symbol of imperial power - not some pacifist iconography. Some replicas created post-Independence turned it into a "grin". Those are not true to the original
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Genocide denial disguised as "the other view"
'Hindus are not in danger in Bangladesh. Minorities are safer there than in India'
@ZafarSobhan
, editor, Dhaka Tribune, lists his 10 points he wants India to keep in mind
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Global Press Freedom Index
BREAKING: Germany bans the right-wing Compact Magazine, raids home of chief magazine editor Jürgen Elsässer
Interior Minister Faeser gave the order
The magazine's crime? "Stirring hate"
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The statue of Columbus torn down in Baltimore. Meanwhile, we in India celebrate "landing spots" of Vasco da Gama. How mentally colonized do we have to be?
Protesters just took down the Christopher Columbus statue in Baltimore’s Little Italy.
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When
@harshmadhusudan
turns demolitionman .......
As opposition compares Hindu India to Nazi Germany, Harsh Gupta Madhusudan gives it back to Shashi Tharoor in a debate. |
Watch:
#BTIndiaAt100
#IndiaAt100
@sardesairajdeep
@ShashiTharoor
@harshmadhusudan
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Hum gareeb thhe, gareeb hain, aur , maa kasam, hamesha gareeb rahenge........
My riposte to the ruling party's fantasies of India becoming a superpower:
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Three of the world’s top five economies are in Asia, but global norms and certification are still set in the North Atlantic. Neither China nor Japan has made a dent, I think this is an area where India can succeed.
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It would indeed be nightmare if India's economy dropped to US$10bn. Perhaps Forbes should hire journalists who know the difference between billions and trillions.
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It should be clear by now that Twitter is not a "platform" but a political player.
Twitter withdraws blue verified badge from personal Twitter handle of Vice President of India, M Venkaiah Naidu: Office of Vice President
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Huge hoard of copper weapons and items found in Mainpuri. Estimated to be around 4k years old i.e. similar age as the Sinauli finings. Adds to evidence that Gangetic plains had a developed civilization contemporary to Harappan. It was a warrior culture
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Genocide is not extremism, but making a movie about it is......
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Looks like the TN Bar Council has issued a fatwa against me for questioning the efficiency and vacations of the judicial system. Their main points in defence of the legal system:
1. The bureaucracy is also very inefficient. Well, I agree. Hence all the effort to do process
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Why drag India into it? So far at least, we have managed this better than many others...... And we did not create this crisis in the first place.
'Thank God this didn't start in India': Jim O'Neill praises China's coronavirus response
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All in favour of technology, but this is totally soulless. It completely misses the point of the exercise..... it is no just a "disposal" problem but one of returning the idol to the elements with respect
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Aircraft over Delhi right now vs aircraft over Beijing. Even allowing for time difference, this is very interesting indeed......
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The United States came within a quarter of an inch from civil war. Let that sink in. Whoever is playing this dangerous game, needs to be hunted down. Never forget that civilisation is a Ponzi Scheme, it is nasty when it unwinds. Never assume it will not happen in your lifetime.
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In a shocking development Delhi AQI drops below 50. Our lungs may not be able to deal with this......
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Very pleased to welcome my old friend Anantha Nageswaran as the new Chief Economic Adviser at the Ministry of Finance.......
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The genocide of Bengali Hindus should never be forgotten or forgiven. I am so glad
@TulsiGabbard
is drawing attention to this horrible act of ethnic cleansing.
Hindus & religious minorities in Bangladesh continue to be targeted & persecuted, as they have been since 1971 when the Pakistani army systematically murdered, raped & drove from their homes millions of Bengali Hindus because of their religion & ethnicity.
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Ah yes, the 10-year old Elon must be held responsible for the evils of Apartheid because he bought Twitter 30 years after the end of Apartheid. All makes sense .....
Elon Musk grew up in elite white communities in South Africa, detached from apartheid’s atrocities and surrounded by anti-Black propaganda.
He sees his takeover of Twitter as a free speech win but in his youth did not suffer the effects of misinformation.
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Conferring the "Arjuna" on her seem so so appropriate
President Droupadi Murmu confers Arjuna Award, 2023 on Ms Sheetal Devi for her achievements in Para Archery. She has won:
● Three gold medals and one silver medal in the 4th Para Asian Games held in Hangzhou, China in 2023.
● One silver medal in the World Para Archery
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BBC does this sort of thing routinely on India, but never an apology
🚨 BBC forced to apologise for getting caught reporting shocking fake news
Pass it on for the world to see
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Ah yes...... if ever there was a case of stealing intellectual property
Cardiac coherence breathing exercises can stabilize the heartbeat and have a powerful ability to dampen anxiety.
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I did not know him personally, but I was once the owner of a Camlin geometry box..... my proudest possession in class 7. One wonders if he knew how many lives he touched. Om Shanti!
Subhash Dandekar, the head of the Camlin Group of Industries, passed away today at the age of 81 in Mumbai.
Om Shanti 🙏
(Many across generations would remember one of his famous products - the iconic 'Camlin Compass Box' for schools.)
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This is wonderful. A NOIDA-born UP wallah - a brahmin at that - is the poster child of Tamil nationalist pride. National integration at its best
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As a Shakta Hindu,I find it deeply offensive that my religious traditions are deliberately misrepresented by those who wish to leverage it for their political ideology. Several manifestations of Shakti have been worshipped in India since the Neolithic Age.Nothing to do with caste
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Today's India owes a lot to revolutionaries like Savarkar, Rash Behari Bose, Sachin Sanyal and Aurobindo Ghosh. Their contributions were long suppressed; no longer......
The British Termed Him The Most Dangerous Man!
Indian Revolutionaries Revered Him as "Veer"!
Yet, he was Unsung, Unhonoured, Unacknowledged & Unheard!
This 22nd March IN CINEMAS, HISTORY WILL BE REWRITTEN!
Witness the Epic life of
#SwantatryaVeerSavarkar
& the Untold Saga of the
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