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@TovarischManu @kaushikcbasu @AakritiMandhwa1 You mean the 1943 famines? Tagore was dead for two years by then. The Kuka rebels were blown from cannons in 1872, when Tagore was all of 11. Please, please, get your dates right.

@offog @kaushikcbasu @AakritiMandhwa1 What happened to Tagore's conscience when millions died because of engineered famines? When Khudiram Bose was executed? When Kuka warriors were blown to bits by the British canons? Why didn't his conscience stir then?

According to legend, when Tagore got news of his Nobel Prize, he was chairing a meeting on financial problems related to plumbing for the Santiniketan school he had founded. A man came in & gave him a telegram. Tagore read it, & said, “Money for the drains has just been found.”

@TovarischManu @kaushikcbasu @AakritiMandhwa1 Also, post-Amritsar, Tagore was one of the very few to excoriate the British over the massacre, which led to a distinctly frosty welcome next time he was in England.

@TovarischManu @kaushikcbasu @AakritiMandhwa1 Er, the Amritsar massacre was in 1919; he got the Nobel in 1913. He was a genius in many disciplines, but had not, to the best of my knowledge, invented a time machine.

@Nonsane120821 Your profile name speaks for itself: such self-awareness is rare.

@RadhikaBarman5 Loll bengalis are the most retarded people in India 🤣🤣, the communist and left and ruined their mind, forget politics they aren't good at anything, now don't bring up the past , they used to be very smart and now they are the most retarded 🤣🤣🤣

Only in X you will see North Indians teaching Bengalis bengal politics.

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🧵Who is Francesca Orsini? Many people here have expressed ignorance about her work. Lets change that. Her google scholar profile mentions that she has 2500+ academic citations. That’s over two thousand published journal articles or academic books referencing her work.1/n

'And everyone here knows her': Arvind Krishna Merhotra's evocative poem on readers at the Bharati Bhavan Library, among them a young Francesca Orsini.

Unnamed GOI officials, on condition of “strict anonymity”, are suggesting Prof Francesca Orsini was blacklisted because she did ‘research’ which visiting India in a tourist visa. Think about this for a second. Orsini is a professor of Hindi, her most celebrated work is on the Hindi public sphere. So what these officials are suggesting is that if she comes to India on a tourist visa, she cannot speak to people in Hindi, cannot meet friends who are Hindi scholars, cannot watch a Hindi play or attend a mushaira or Kavi sammelan as all this would be considered “research”! Indian babudom is anti-intellectual at the best of times but in the hands of the ignorant politicians ruling over us these days the system has crossed all limits of rationality and basic common sense.

Few have shaped our understanding of Hindi and North Indian literary cultures like Francesca Orsini. To know she’s been denied entry into the country she’s written about with such love and rigour feels deeply wrong.

@ParetoSimplifed @ranjona No, he was in jail for one night (which he should not have been). The case was settled 10 years later.

@ranjona People were arrested for saying "Jai three Ram" ! Professor Ambikesh Mahapatra spent 10 years in jail under the dictatorship of Mamata Banerjee

Why should you be arrested for saying you love Mohammed? Where's the crime?

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