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 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী
Why don’t you go to College Street, talk to the book sellers, the students and the many book buyers? I think you will get your answer in the context of a country where the GDP may be rising but GDP per capita remains the extremely low, where decent jobs are few, where uneducated unemployed are a growing tribe and whose economy ( more than 80%) is powered by the informal sector. That by the way is the pan-India picture barring islands of affluence . Not special to Kolkata or College Street. The love for books, however, is higher in Kol.
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 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী
One gets a flavour of the worldview when Kolkata’s iconic #CollegeStreet is targeted for being a marker of collapse and anti-development. One stated reason - the street is filled with pavement hawkers who sell used books . Those who overlook encroachments by the rich are mad that pavement hawkers dare to sell books at rates which everyone (who loves books) can afford . Wah!
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Ramandeep Singh Mann
Ramandeep Singh Mann@ramanmann1974·
Potato 🥔 Farmer's input cost=₹8-9/Kg Farmers are getting=₹1/Kg Farmers are ploughing their crop in fields. What price are you paying for 1 Kg potatoes ??
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Mehnaz Amjad 🤝 ✍️
Mehnaz Amjad 🤝 ✍️@Mehnaz_Amjad·
@GhoshSamyak After watching Satyajit Ray movies, I could never digest a single Hindi movie. I wish I could learn Bangla, for sometimes there are no subtitles for the movies I want to watch.
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Samyak Ghosh 🌈
Samyak Ghosh 🌈@GhoshSamyak·
Reminds me something Satyajit Ray once said about Indian audience & I believe every word of that statement. Most of these folks haven’t watched a single good film in their entire life. It’s hilarious to see the kind of film/filmmaking that is being celebrated.
Telangana Maata@TelanganaMaata

‼️Aditya Dhar’s 15 seconds ‼️ “I don’t care about people who label Dhurandar as propaganda” “ I know where that labeling is coming from and Indian Audience is intelligent”

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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@yansan @GhoshSamyak If Satyajit Ray was truly a masterful director, why couldn't he leverage his renowned education, sharp intellect and artistic depth to craft a film that resonated with the "unsophisticated" Indian masses? A student never fails; it is the teacher who fails.
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@GhoshSamyak The Indian audience is basically unsophisticated. They are a backward audience, exposed primarily to Hindi commercial movies - that is what Ray told his interviewer.
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Ramandeep Singh Mann
Ramandeep Singh Mann@ramanmann1974·
40% members of Iranian Parliament।have Doctoral Degrees. They are Ph.D. Around 60% members have Master's Degree. In US, only 65% lawmakers are Post Graduate. President Pezeshkian-MBBS. NSA Larijani -Ph.D. FM Araghchi-Ph.D. Speaker Ghalibaf-Ph.D. Compare this list to our MPs😎
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@Viseur @OmarAbdullah The election process in India, some people allege, is not free and fair. It seems you do not subscribe to this view. Right?
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Omar Abdullah
Omar Abdullah@OmarAbdullah·
These sweeping transfers only happen in non-BJP ruled states & especially in West Bengal but that’s no surprise. However, West Bengal will once again prove what I have always believed to be true - officers don’t win elections for political parties, the leaders of political parties do. No amount of effort by the Election Commission to gerrymander will change the results. Come counting day Mamata Didi will win a thumping majority.
Mamata Banerjee@MamataOfficial

The manner in which the Election Commission has singled out and targeted Bengal is not just unprecedented- It is deeply alarming. Even before the formal notification of elections, more than 50 senior officials including the Chief Secretary, Home Secretary, DGP, ADGs, IGs, DIGs, District Magistrates and Superintendents of Police have been summarily and arbitrarily removed. This is not administrative action rather this is political interference of the highest order. The systematic politicisation of institutions meant to remain impartial is a direct assault on the Constitution. At a time when a deeply flawed SIR process is underway and over 200 lives have already been lost, the conduct of the Commission reflects a clear bias and an uncomfortable submission to political interests, continuing to put the people of Bengal at risk. Supplementary electoral rolls are still not published, in clear disregard of the Hon’ble Supreme Court’s directions, leaving citizens anxious and uncertain. Meanwhile, senior officers from critical agencies like IB, STF and CID are being selectively removed and dispatched out of the state, pointing to a calculated attempt to cripple Bengal’s administrative machinery. Why is the BJP so desperate? Why this relentless targeting of Bengal and its people? What satisfaction do they derive from forcing citizens, even after 78 years of Independence, to stand in queues and prove their own citizenship? The contradictions in the Commission’s actions expose its complete collapse of credibility. It claims that removed officers should not be assigned election duties, yet within hours, the same officers are sent out as election observers. The appointment of the Commissioners of Police of Siliguri and Bidhannagar as observers, without even putting replacements in place, left two vital urban centres effectively headless. It was only after this glaring lapse came to light that rushed corrections followed. This is not governance. It reflects chaos, confusion and sheer incompetence being passed off as authority. This is not incidental, it points to a deliberate design to seize control of West Bengal through coercion and institutional manipulation. What we are witnessing is nothing short of an undeclared emergency and an unpromulgated form of president’s rule driven by political vendetta, not democratic principles. Having failed to win the trust of Bengal’s people, the BJP is now attempting to capture the state through coercion, intimidation, manipulation and the misuse of institutions. I stand in complete solidarity with every officer of the Government of West Bengal and their families, who are being targeted simply for serving the state with honesty and commitment. Bengal has never bowed to intimidation and it never will. Bengal will fight, Bengal will resist and Bengal will decisively defeat every attempt to impose a divisive and destructive agenda on its soil.

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India First@AcctBackUp007·
Temples, ghats, and huge pilgrimages along the river turn it into a continuous spiritual corridor, not merely a watercourse ... 3/3
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
Religious and spiritual dimensionAmong Hindus the Ganga is worshipped as Ganga Ma (Mother Ganga), a goddess whose waters are believed to wash away sins and help souls attain moksha (liberation) ... 2/3
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
The Ganga is not just another river; for much of India, especially in Hindu tradition, it is a living symbol of life, purity, and divinity rolled into one ... 1/3
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@RupakChatto @patralekha2011 There is one other place that looks atrocious. The place leading to the Oberoi Grand Hotel. Most of the footpath is encroached by vendors selling cheap trousers, shirts, bags and footwear. The place looks horrible with competing hawkers announcing their prices loudly.
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Rupak
Rupak@RupakChatto·
Strawman argument. The tweet is not about street vendors or shinny stores. It is about a flailing and failing state whidh can't deliver basic services like an unencroached sidewalk, which should be a basic civic right for all Kolkata residents. You will find many developing countess who are able to facilitate the operation of hawkers stand without defacing or encroachment of public spaces. I am appalled (but not surprised) that some people in Calcutta and across India romanticize state failure and lack of civic sense.
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 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী
most civilised cities, including in the ‘developed world’ have street vendors selling second hand books. Seen it in Europe as well. To equate ‘development’ only with shiny, blingy stores is a marker of a certain sensibility that doesn’t like the ‘street economy’, chooses to overlook the fact that 90% of India’s labour force (even under a RW govt) is part of the informal sector, and we know what happens when that sensibility reigns. A development model which conflates selling or reading used books to illegality and intellectualising poverty can neither tackle poverty nor expansion of the mind. Lots of evidence all around.
Sanjiv Kapoor@TheSanjivKapoor

Turned comments off so it becomes his echo chamber. Anyone who cant see the difference in these two images, and what they represent, is a lost cause. Equating neatly arranged books in a clean and well-maintained university area to animals grazing in open heaps of garbage. Sad.

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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@GhoshSamyak Satyajit Ray's comments about the Indian audience were not just in poor taste; they also, in some way, exposed his command over filmmaking. A man of wisdom once said: Think like a wise man but communicate in the language of the people.
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@RupakChatto Rashbehari junction is a very busy place. Metro station, bus stops, auto rickshaw stand and devotees going to Kalighat temple. But the footpath is blocked by vendors. Just about 30% is available for pedestrians.
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@shashwatac70805 Who uses uncivilized language against fellow Indians by calling some people Bimaru and mero?
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mawjontalisircar@shashwatac70805·
@patralekha2011 ekta group andho bjp samorthok,ex bam,background check korle dyakha jay root purbobange,muslim der proti tibro jati ghrina,bjp r hoye jekono narrative era chhoriye thake binipoysay, arekta group bangla ke demean korte poysa pay.eder seriously neben na.
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 @Patralekha2011 পত্রলেখা চ্যাটার্জী
Do trolls work in shifts? Find the early trollers have retreated. Now there is a new bunch, all males, making identical ‘arguments’ , using very similar language, even abuses. This must be the night shift. Common thread - a pathological hatred and intolerance of even mild praise of Calcutta/ Kolkata as she is today. On the limited point of cleanliness and appearance. Quite amusing!
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@Entropy9992 No major world leader got reelected post the Pandemic. Except one. "The fear is real and his days in politics are numbered"?
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Entropy
Entropy@Entropy9992·
@patralekha2011 Having a huge IT cell paying them from loot through electoral bonds, PMCARES, donations Still Modi has his balls in twist and blocking YouTube, X handles, FB etc..the fear is real and his days in politics are numbered.
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India First@AcctBackUp007·
@AnirbanDey90844 IT cell? Who refers to people of Rajasthan as meros in a derogatory way? Who makes fun of people of Bihar and UP by calling them Bimarus? It works both ways.
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