Devasheesh Chowdhury

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Devasheesh Chowdhury

Devasheesh Chowdhury

@ChowDevasheesh

The eternal optimist. loves life, people, times. A day without laughter is a day wasted. India above all

Katılım Kasım 2015
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Darab Farooqui
Darab Farooqui@darab_farooqui·
NDA won 293 seats in 2024. INDIA alliance won 234. The gap looks large until you do the math. INDIA needs 40 more seats. That's not a wave. That's just normal Indian election. The vote shares tell the real story. NDA polled roughly 43-44%. INDIA polled 41-42%. The entire "Modi mandate" rests on a gap of 2-3 percentage points being brutally amplified by a first-past-the-post system where the candidate with the most votes wins, regardless of margin, and every other vote disappears. It was never a landslide. It was a conversion advantage. The opposition only needs to convert the fence sitters. The votes already exist. What 2024 demonstrated, painfully, is that secular votes in constituency after constituency were split across multiple candidates, enough in each case to change the result. The problem wasn't popularity. It was coordination. The next India Alliance should be bigger, more inclusive. So what does 2029 require? Not a revolution. Not a wave. Seat-sharing discipline that INDIA already demonstrated it could achieve in UP, and then didn't finish. Forty seats across a country of a billion voters. There is genuine anger in the country. It is real, it is growing, and it is not going away. The economy is not delivering for ordinary people. People are waking up to the reality. These things compound. Angry people are eager people. Eager to bring about the change. An alliance that fights like it means it, disciplined, coordinated, unapologetic, doesn't need a miracle. A 2-4% shift in vote share, on top of anger that is already there, already looking for an outlet, is not ambition. It is arithmetic. BJP's vote is geographically concentrated in states it has already maxed out. There are no more seats to gain in Gujarat or Madhya Pradesh. They've swept them clean. INDIA's growth potential sits in states where the race is close: UP, Maharashtra, Rajasthan, Bengal. Which are exactly the states where coordination and a 2-4% shift matters most. State elections are a different contest. Haryana was lost. Maharashtra was lost. More may follow. Local equations, local incumbencies, local failures. Even break down of India alliance in some cases. These are real and they will hurt. But Lok Sabha is not an aggregation of state elections. It is its own battle, fought on national questions, on the idea of the country itself. And yes, the media is captured. The ECI has questions to answer. The courts have disappointed. The agencies are weaponised. All of that is true. And yet 2024 still happened. The opposition still won 234 seats against the full force of the incumbent machinery. The system is bent, not yet completely broken. Modi is not invincible. The arithmetic says so. The data says so. The only thing that can save him in 2029 is the opposition's own failure to coordinate. That failure is a choice. It can be unmade.
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Devasheesh Chowdhury
Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
*LIFE LESSON FROM SPORTS* *Friday Feelings of Fukra Fakeer* The road to success is littered with obstacles designed to test your resolve. Every time you choose to continue when it hurts, you build the mental toughness champions are made of. Persistence isn’t talent—it’s a decision repeated daily until victory becomes inevitable.
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Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
@vee22n There was a poemstory about near kids who go missing on a solar eclipse and the bear father fights with crocodile to release the sun. Also visiting grandfather, Tolstoy takes for children and so many more
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Vidya Nagaraj
Vidya Nagaraj@vee22n·
A question When i was younger, Amma used to buy me 'Russian books' from book fairs and exhibitions. These were Russian folktales in English The OH hasn't heard of them Anyone here remember those books? Baba Yaga the witch, a quest of some sort...
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Rants&Roasts
Rants&Roasts@Sydusm·
Tintin, Asterix, Phantom, Tarzan, Mandrake, Archie, Commando, Donald Duck, Richie Rich, Casper, The Flintstones, Hagar the Horrible, Beetle Bailey, Henry, Mad, Chacha Chaudhary, Zorro, Indrajal, Superman, Batman, Garfield, Flash Gordon, Little Lotta, Dennis the Menace, Sad Sack, Peanuts... Where was the time to read school textbooks during childhood!!
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Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
*LIFE LESSON FROM SPORTS* *Guruvar Gyan of Guru Ghantal* Leave it all on the field. Hold nothing back—pour every ounce of effort, heart, and focus into the moment. Regret comes from unspoken potential, not from exhaustion. When the final whistle blows, walk away knowing you gave everything. That total commitment separates winners from those who merely played.
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Roshan Rai
Roshan Rai@RoshanKrRaii·
Unreal Trinamool undercurrent in West Bengal. People are literally voting for TMC like their life depends on it. This wave is bigger than 2021 , 2021 was about making Didi win, 2026 is about survival of Bengali Asmita. 210+ 🥳🥳🥳🥳
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Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
*LIFE LESSON FROM SPORTS* *WEDNESDAY WISDOM OF WAKHRA WANDERER* No pain, no gain. True champions embrace the burn, the soreness, and the grind when others quit. Every extra rep, early morning run, and sacrifice forges unbreakable character. Comfort is the enemy of greatness. Push through the discomfort today, and tomorrow your body and mind will reward you with victory.
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Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
@Nher_who Post anything you want and then cry that you're being trolled. Please read regulations in greater details if you can.
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Nehr_who?@Nher_who·
Tomorrow is Phase-II voting in Bengal BJP has given an advertisement today appealing to Bengalis to vote for them. How is this not a violation of MCC? Why isn't EC taking action on BJP? Has EC gone totally biased and spineless?
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IndiaSportsHub
IndiaSportsHub@IndiaSportsHub·
🏓 UTT Season 7 Auction The overseas stars are ready to light up Ultimate Table Tennis 🔥 Top foreign paddlers bring: ⚡ World-class speed 🎯 Tactical depth 💪 Big-match experience With franchises building their squads, these signings could define the title race 👀 Who should your team target in the auction? #UTT #TableTennis #IndianTableTennis #SportsBusiness #IndiaSportsHub
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IndiaSportsHub@IndiaSportsHub·
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Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳
Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳@mshahi0024·
I don’t know how long I will live, but I just want to live long enough to witness BJP being destroyed, RSS being dismantled, and every corrupt leader and officer that support them being sent behind bars. 😡😡
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Devasheesh Chowdhury
Devasheesh Chowdhury@ChowDevasheesh·
@SupriyaShrinate @Pawankhera He's already been silenced, it seems. And why should HBS reply to any Tom Dick and Harry? You have proof, go to court. You don't, at least fabricate wisely
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Kavish aziz
Kavish aziz@azizkavish·
A man like Lalu Yadav is born once in a hundred years, whom neither money can buy, nor any political party. He chose to go to jail, but he refused to compromise. He underwent surgery and remained in a wheelchair, yet he never compromised on his principles.,
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Srivatsa
Srivatsa@srivatsayb·
The British Empire tried to finish Congress. They failed. The RSS/BJS/BJP tried to finish Congress. They failed. The Muslim League tried to finish Congress. They failed. The Janata Party tried to finish Congress. They failed. The Communists tried to finish Congress. They failed. The AAP tried to finish Congress. They failed. For over 140 years, the Indian National Congress has outlasted, outwitted, and outperformed every adversary. Adversaries come, rise, fade, and fall. Congress remains. The Indian National Congress isn’t just a party - it is a movement. It is the idea of India in motion. It defends the Constitution and binds Indians together. Many have tried to end INC. None have succeeded. None will. India endures. Congress endures.
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