Arjun 🇮🇳

time to retire @free_thinker & @zoo_bear . Indian news is all non-planted and runs through editorial checks.

White towels are a legacy of British era, when there were few roads, fewer cars and no ACs. Officer toured on horses and towels were an integral part of hygiene routine. British left, horses were sent away, but towels stayed! It’s not just towels, the size of tables and colour of ink are also defined by hierarchy. When I was working at Joint Secretary level with the Vice President of India, I had to fight a stiff battle of sorts to order a smaller table that would fit better in my office. The system would not approve of a smaller table! Regarding the colour of ink to be used for noting and signature, Sh. Arun Shourie has written a hilarious, if not ridiculous, memoir as minister. In 1999, two officers in the Ministry of Steel made notings on files using red and green ink. This raised a furore as they were junior officers. The seniors were scandalised and an enquiry was initiated. India’s bureaucracy spent 13 months debating which colour ink officers could use on files. The enquiry was routed through several ministries and departments: Ministry of Steel wrote to Dept of Administrative Reforms It referred to Directorate of Printing (ink experts) Printing referred to Dept of Personnel & Training (DoPT) DoPT threw the ball back: “it’s your Manual, you decide” National Archives was consulted for longevity of ink colours Ministry of Defence consulted for Army ink hierarchy Conclusion after 13 months: juniors wrote in blue-black or blue ink, because that has the longest life of impression. In British era, the files had to travel to Britain, so juniors would write in ink that would stay for the longest. The top brass would sign in green and red. Ruling: Two new paras were added to the manual of office procedure: Para 32(9) says that only officers of Joint Secretary level and above may use red or green ink, and that too only in rare cases. Para 68(5), on the other hand, does not limit the use of these colours to any particular rank (as modern ball pen ink have no issues of shelf life for any colour!) The white towel on the officer’s chair. The red telephone on the desk. The peon standing at the door. The green ink reserved for the senior sahib. These are not accidents of history. They are architecture, the physical grammar of a bureaucratic culture that worships hierarchy.

@Kristinartz @CruciFire It still exists (in India at least). And we still subscribe

Did anyone in your family ever read Reader's Digest? That little magazine was always around - on the table, in the bathroom, tucked in a drawer. Short stories, jokes, and advice you somehow always read. Who remembers it?

@GamewithDave What're you waiting for? Christmas?

For anyone who used a computer between 1990 & 2005… what’s the one game you still think about?

@LiciousFoods Never mind. I got my refund. Just a note to myself to not order lucious from quick comm.

@arjun_siva Hi Arjun, we apologize for the kind of experience you had with the Licious product from Swiggy instamart. Please share your order ID via DM with your registered contact details, so that we can assist you accordingly. ~Evan twitter.com/messages/compo…

Hey @LiciousFoods, you guys should really rethink selling on @instamart_it Ordered boneless breast last night. Opened up the box this morning, inside was a pack of curry cut with the label peeled off. Cut it open and it smelled like death. Got my refund, but what an awful exp

Dark stores try to get away with all kinds of nonsense. This was another example of brands and customers getting shifted by unscrupulous platforms and their agents

@bandrabuzz St Joseph's?

Can you guess the name of this prestigious educational institution located in Bandra?

@Shashankrao06 @Central_Railway @HT_Mumbai Lolol... Non AC, closed door. Where is this being used?

First look! The first non-AC closed door rake has arrived in #Mumbai. The Kurla Carshed of @Central_Railway got this first rake from ICF Chennai on Monday evening. @HT_Mumbai

@SelflessCricket Why are you disheartened by that? He is getting 11 crores from his team. Not like he's living in abject poverty.

🚨 Ishan Kishan is playing without a bat sponsor. No brand is willing to sponsor a bat for a player who won the World Cup just two months ago? This is so disheartening to watch as a fan.💔

@DavetheDegenn @Rileybob11 @OverDogsPodcast Seems like a new alliance - cosm.com/partnerships/u… - whatever it is, looks cool af

@arjun_siva @Rileybob11 @OverDogsPodcast Shit you might be right, this looked like the sphere from this video

This is straight up better than being at the venue. 🍿👀

@DavetheDegenn @Rileybob11 @OverDogsPodcast Isnt this Cosm in LA?

@Rileybob11 @OverDogsPodcast This is the Sphere in Vegas

@upfrontmma She's 15, Jeffrey!!

Seems familiar in the Indian context.

Maybe first show proof of what you're doing with rape cases in double engine states before making hollow promises for Bengal? Just maybe?

@vivekisms Perhaps, but don't you run soft drink cans under a tap anyway? Ever since I read about rat poop/pee on cans a few years ago, I've been paranoid about this. (No matter how hoax-y those were, I still don't trust warehouse hygiene)

Blinkit is way better than Zepto. At least when it comes to delivery of soda cans. Zepto delivers soft drink cans in terrible bags full of onions and veggies and all of that is stuck to the can. Terrible.

@beastoftraal Well, the country has been suffering from main character syndrome for a while now.

Wow! NYT... THE New York Times made a mistake with the full form of NATO? 🙄

@Ahinnst @theliverdoc Oh... TIL

@arjun_siva @theliverdoc Turns out the actor playing it is actually Noah Wyle’s actual wife

Latest episode of #ThePitt . I diagnosed the lady before McKay and Santos did, thanks to one of @theliverdoc's early tweets during the lockdown. Lady was on her way to liver failure due to overdoing turmeric supplements.

@AnishPandey99 @theliverdoc 🫡

@arjun_siva @theliverdoc Finally something watching a good show . Hey fellow the pitt enjoyer🫶