Priyam Bose

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Tourists on a safari in #Bandipur National Park in Gundlupet taluk of #Chamarajanagar district were treated to a rare sight when they spotted a pair of #tigers in the wild. #Karnataka

@KanchanGupta I heard somewhere "saach ke sath wala jhoot pakadna muskil hota hain". The the refugee crisis of that era was real. But the claim that Nehru was anti Bengali Hindu or his actions were targeted against Bengali Hindus because he was prejudiced needs adequate proof. Where is it?

Yes, comparing Modi era with Nehru’s is right. Not to do so would be injustice to millions who suffered because of Nehru. For example, Hindu Bengali refugees. Their children, grandchildren must never forget that their people were abandoned and thrown to the wolves by Jawaharlal Nehru before, during and after Partition. Nehru despised dark-skinned Hindu Bengali refugees, among them my father, his siblings, their widowed mother and grandmother, fleeing rapacious and murderous Muslim League mobs in East Bengal; he did not want them to seek shelter in India. Nehru wrote to CM BC Roy, instructing him not to let Hindu Bengali refugees enter West Bengal. Push them back from the border, Nehru said, don’t let them in. Nehru insisted Hindu Bengalis of East Bengal / East Pakistan were coming to India for free-loading at the expense of Indians. He cut back Central funds for West Bengal to stop the meagre refugee assistance by way of a couple of kilos of inedible worm-infested rotten rice for Hindu Bengalis. Hindu Bengali refugee women and children separated from their families, or widowed and orphaned in the Noakhali genocide and subsequent Partition Massacre of Hindus, rummaged in garbage bins and pitifully begged for morsels of food. Hindu Bengali refugee children in rags with dark large sad eyes greedily licked on used banana leaves dumped on the streets by eateries, also known as ‘pice hotels’ in Kolkata parlance, of which there was a profusion in the post-War years. Emaciated babies and rickety children of Hindu Bengali refugees huddled with stray dogs on pavements. Many Hindu Bengali refugees lived on ‘rice water’ or ‘fan’ (the starchy water that is thrown away after boiling rice) collected from homes of compassionate Bengalis who had little food to share. In the morning and evening there were pheriwallahs hawking their wares; in the afternoon there were Hindu Bengali refugee women in tattered sarees that barely covered their bodies and naked children with battered and bruised aluminium pots going from house to house, begging for ‘rice water’: “Ma, fan daao Ma…” Those voices of has hunger were to haunt Hindu Bengali refugees like my parents for long, often till death. Driven by hate for Hindu Bengali refugees, Nehru ordered horrifyingly, nauseatingly squalid and disease-ridden refugee camps to be named ‘Permanent Liability Camps’ or PLCs — PLC 1, PLC 2… — reminiscent of the ‘Permanent Solution Camps’ of the Nazis. When despite his best efforts Nehru failed to push back the Hindu Bengali refugees to be slaughtered in East Bengal/East Pakistan, Nehru brought his devastating Freight Equalisation Policy which collapsed industry in West Bengal. Tens of thousands of jobs were destroyed and the Hindu Bengali was rendered jobless: Those who lost their jobs and businesses began turning on Hindu Bengali refugees just as Nehru had hoped. Yet Nehru could not break the spirit of the Hindu Bengali refugees who were grateful to Bharat and determined to help rebuild this great nation savaged by invaders and colonisers especially John Company. Through generations we Hindu Bengali refugees toiled, we built, we paid taxes, we sacrificed for the Nation, our Nation, we succeeded in establishing ourselves as dutiful, law-abiding, loyal citizens of India. Having lost our home and hearth, we had no other home but India. We Hindu Bengali refugees were hived off to malaria-infested inhospitable Dandakaranya and we cleared forests and made the soil fertile. We were packed off to Andaman and we rebuilt our lives there. When we tried to set up home at Marichjhapi we were slaughtered: the estuaries turned red with our blood. We grieved, we got up, we overcame that setback. We lived with dignity and honour, we earned our food, we were not freeloaders. We were poor but we were honest: we had integrity. Cut to 2026. So who have proved to be India’s ‘Permanent Liability’ cadging off the state and living on unearned money? Nehru Dynasty.

@fermatslibrary Where is that lecture?

In 1854, 27-year-old Riemann had to give a public lecture to qualify as a professor at Göttingen. Custom was to propose three topics; examiners almost always chose the first. His examiner was Gauss, who broke convention and picked the third - the one Riemann had barely prepared: the foundations of geometry. The audience was the philosophy faculty, so Riemann used almost no formulas. In plain prose, he argued that the geometry of space is not given in advance - space could be curved, and only measurement can decide. Gauss, famously impossible to impress, walked home praising the lecture. It was published only after Riemann's death at 39. Sixty-one years after the lecture, Einstein needed exactly that mathematics to write general relativity.

@Jijith_NR @theseeker1000 I don't really understand your point. Do you want school kids to memorise all 540 janapadas? It has been always been obvious that 16 Mahajanapadas don't cover all the polity of that time.

@theseeker1000 But the 16 Maha Janapadas don't cover all of Bharatavarsha. These 540 smaller Janapadas cover all of Bharatavarsha.

540 Janapadas! 🔥 This is the total number of Janapadas - kingdoms- in Bharata Varsha, as per Mahabharata.🔥 This will blow your mind as this is several times more than the number of Sixteen Janapadas that the mainstream history taught you! Itihāsa Mahābhārata is inseparable from Bhāratavarṣa. No other ancient text contains this much information about the Geography of Bhāratavarṣa. Mahābhārata mentions around 540 Janapadas, more than 100 cities, towns, & villages, 230 rivers & lakes, 100 mountain ranges & peaks, 20 forests, 59 regions, and 280 holy spots (Tirtha Stanas). But what did we learn in schools? Just 16 Janapadas!

@Jijith_NR 16 Mahajanapadas

@niyetsel PEACE

Write down the first word you see.

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Only EVM manipulation can explain this.

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This is conclusive evidence that EVMs are being manipulated or replaced!

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The numbers in full: CPI(M)-ISF candidate Saptarshi Deb got 1 vote from Booth 164. TMC's Tapash Chatterjee got 5. BJP's Piyush Kanodia, who won the seat, got 637 out of 656 votes polled.

In WB's Rajarhat New Town, the result in Booth 164 has shocked voters. Several of them told @AltNews they voted for CPI(M), votes which have simply vanished. CPI(M) got only 1 vote in the booth. 88% of voters are Muslims. BJP got 97% of the votes. Thread 🧵

“Where your fear is, there your task is.” — Carl Jung

Indian Peafowl. The Indian peafowl (Pavo cristatus) is a large, colorful bird native to the Indian subcontinent, famous for the male's (peacock) iridescent blue and green plumage and long, ornate tail feathers used in courtship displays. It is the national bird of India, commonly found in forests, agricultural lands, and near human settlements, and is omnivorous, eating insects, seeds, and small reptiles. Females (peahens) are duller in color with shorter tails, and both sexes have a distinctive crest. Key Characteristics: Appearance: Males have a vibrant blue head and neck, a green body, and a long train of feathers with eye-spots; females are browner with a green neck and shorter tail. Courtship: Males fan their elaborate train of upper tail coverts (not true tail feathers) in a spectacular display to attract females. Habitat: Found in open lowland forests, scrub, and agricultural areas across South Asia, they are adaptable and can live near humans. Diet: Omnivores that forage on the ground for insects, seeds, grains, berries, and small vertebrates like lizards and snakes. National Symbol: It is the national bird of India, known as Mayura in Sanskrit, and holds significant cultural importance. Behavior and Life: Vocalization: Known for their loud, screaming calls, especially during the rainy season. Lifespan: Can live up to 20 years in the wild, though this varies due to threats like habitat loss and predation. Classification: Belongs to the pheasant family (Phasianidae). 📸: @drmanojkumar

Good Morning ☀️ ~ Open the window. Let your heart breathe. ~ Art by Elena Wuest.

@TheSquind Why should they have vacated their seats? I am strictly asking from protocol POV. MLAs are not their superiors. And it was the job of the organisers to ensure there were adequate seats.

In Blue

In the Evening Light Charles Louis Signoret,French 1867-1932

Even the wild’s mightiest creatures find moments to pause and play. A drone captured a Royal Bengal Tiger basking in Papikonda National Park near Rajamahendravaram. A rare sight in the agency-area forests, where tigers rarely pause without any territory to guard or prey to chase. #ViralVideo #RoyalBengalTiger #WednesdayWildlife

Moonlight, Chalk Lane (2016) Jane Madgwick.

Ranthambore gave me countless frames, almost every kind of moment a #wildlife photographer dreams of… but this one feels different. This frame carries silence, reflection, and the true soul of the wild. Share your all time favourites Frame of Wildlife ! #Ranthambore

"Nothing in this world is harder than speaking the truth, nothing easier than flattery”( Fyodor Dostoevsky)

@voidwithverses It's the sun man. You need sunscreen with SPF 100.

“A young man who travels a lot is older than an old man who stays in the village.” -African Proverb-