Lily D'Potter

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Lily D'Potter

Lily D'Potter

@LilyMePot

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Gurgaon Katılım Ekim 2022
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Joy Bhattacharjya@joybhattacharj·
It's Sigmund Freud's birth anniversary. I was quite blown to discover that Freud, Hitler, Stalin, Leon Trotsky and Josef Tito all lived in the same 2 mile radius in Vienna at the same time, 1913!
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Seema Chishti
Seema Chishti@seemay·
"Written less like formal history and more like a journalist’s despatch, Karl Marx’s 'The Eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte' is a masterpiece of historical writing" Anjan Basu on Karl Marx's birth anniversary #OTD thewire.in/history/no-his…
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Ramachandra Guha
Ramachandra Guha@Ram_Guha·
As @pbmehta writes, “we are on a wing and a prayer that the consolidation of this form of Hindutva does not result in deeper exclusion and violence, which is typically the denouement of such nationalisms.” indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
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Lily D'Potter@LilyMePot·
5/ Civility is about empathy, not just following a drill. This article feels like a long-winded way of saying he’s annoyed that the 'exclusive club' isn’t exclusive anymore. It’s just gatekeeping dressed up as a lecture on civic sense.🧵
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Lily D'Potter@LilyMePot·
4/ High-walled gated communities and military messes don’t grant you a monopoly on character. Using a hypocritical elite’s rant to justify a saviour complex doesn't make the country better. It is only reinforcing the same classism the article pretends to hate.
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Lily D'Potter
Lily D'Potter@LilyMePot·
1/ Seeing this @Suhelseth piece "Rude Nation" all over WhatsApp. It’s peak irony coming from a man I’ve seen on a flight scowling and being incredibly rude to the crew. The "king of civility" needs to check his own boarding gate manners first.
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Neil Scott
Neil Scott@MrNeilScott·
“Why not have the reader re-read a sentence now and then? It won't hurt him.” Nabokov to his New Yorker editor.
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Rahul
Rahul@notself·
Though Gulzaar has made a better film, 13 years before Ijaazat, another estranged couple met in a railway waiting room with happier results.
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CinemaRare
CinemaRare@CinemaRareIN·
Lights, camera, Bachchan! A number of @SrBachchan films are newly added on @JioHotstar.. Anand (1971) Raaste Ka Patthar (1972) Benaam (1974) Deewaar (1975) Chupke Chupke (1975) Amar Akbar Anthony (1977) Don (1978) Trishul (1978) Be-sharam (1978) Kasme Vaade (1978) Manzil (1979) Jurmana (1979) Shaan (1980) Do Aur Do Panch (1980) Khud-daar (1982) Satte Pe Satta (1982) Nastik (1983) Mahaan (1983) Indrajeet (1991) Aankhen (2002) Hum Kisise Kum Nahin (2002) Deewar (2004) Aetbaar (2004) Cheeni Kum (2007) Aladin (2009) Aarakshan (2011) Shamitabh (2015) And, Bawarchi (1972) which was narrated by Big B and Ki & Ka (2016) where he makes a cameo.
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Roshan Kishore
Roshan Kishore@Roshanjnu·
I’ve postponed this week’s Terms of Trade to election result day (Monday). But today happens to the death anniversary of Ashok Mitra, whose cult classic has inspired the name of my column. Sharing a short piece I wrote on him some time ago azimpremjiuniversity.edu.in/indian-economi…
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Rahul Bhatia
Rahul Bhatia@socmedrab·
From my book: How Advani's vilification of Muslims led to the creation of the database that became Aadhaar, the ultimate tool of exclusion. Advani wanted it because he was obsessed with "infiltrators", said his advisors, who knew exactly what he meant. amazon.in/Identity-Proje…
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Seema Chishti@seemay

The term “vote bank” has a dark origin and bad usage - well before 2014. Advani used it a lot. That obsession is what may have led to the toxic SIR in the state - where exclusions of the kind and scale were the gaol - not an error.

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Mrinal Pande
Mrinal Pande@MrinalPande1·
मधु लिमये राजनीति के ऐसे संत थे जो जनता दल सरकार गिरने पर संसद में वे रोये। मेरे दफ़्तर के पास रहते थे सो वे विशेष लिखते तो आलेख लेने के बहाने उनसे मिल आती।धन्यवाद सुन बहुत संकोचसे पत्नी चंपा जी ने बताया कि आलेखों के तुरंत भुगतान से तंगी के दिनों में लेखन से ही घर चल रहा था।
Yogendra Yadav@_YogendraYadav

आज के युवजन पूछते हैं: मधु लिमये कौन थे? दोष उनका नहीं, हमारा है। राजनीति में किसे याद किया जाएगा, यह अक्सर उसके काम से ज़्यादा उसके वारिसों की हैसियत पर निर्भर करता है। मधु लिमये भारतीय राजनीति के ऋषि थे-वंशानुगत राजनीति के विरोधी, “जाति तोड़ो” और “पिछड़ा पावे सौ में साठ” के समर्थक, संघर्ष, आंदोलन और जेल यात्राओं से तपे हुए जननेता। चार बार सांसद रहे, पर साधारण फ्लैट में सादा जीवन जिया; मंत्री पद और सुख-सुविधा से इंकार किया। उन्होंने सांप्रदायिकता के खतरे को बहुत पहले पहचान लिया था। “दोहरी सदस्यता” के प्रश्न पर उनका आग्रह इतिहास ने सही सिद्ध किया। उनका बौद्धिक योगदान भी असाधारण है-करीब साठ पुस्तकों में भारतीय राजनीति, समाजवाद, संसदीय संस्थाओं और गणराज्य के स्वधर्म पर गंभीर चिंतन। मधु लिमये को याद करना, भारतीय राजनीति की भूली हुई नैतिक परंपरा को याद करना है।

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Physics In History
Physics In History@PhysInHistory·
A cat co-authored a scientific paper in 1975, when his owner, a physicist named Jack H. Hetherington, decided to add him as a second author to avoid changing the plural pronouns in his manuscript. The cat’s name was Chester, and he was given the pen name F.D.C. Willard, which stood for Felix Domesticus, Chester. Willard was also the name of Chester’s father. The paper was about atomic behavior at different temperatures, and it was published in Physical Review Letters, a prestigious physics journal. Chester’s co-authorship was revealed when Hetherington sent some signed copies of the paper to his friends and colleagues, and included the cat’s paw prints as his signature. The story became widely known and amused many people in the scientific community. Chester even published another paper as the sole author in 1980, in a French popular science magazine. He died in 1982, but he is still remembered as the first and only cat to have authored a published scientific paper.
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