Saptarshi Bhattacharjee

@theskindoctor13 This thing happens only in one sector of the country.

Ticket: ₹2000 Food: ₹300 A complimentary upgrade to the general coach experience: priceless! Some things money can buy. For everything else, there’s Indian Railways. Keeping you grounded by reminding of the nostalgia of your general coach travel days, when you had no money.

@megabaggers @crispeconomiX This seems like Copilot or Gemini. Betting my money on these two because you won't spend money or the last two grey cells in your brain to write something original.

Your essay is elegantly written, but it is the textbook Non-Resident Bengali syndrome. Spend two years in Kolkata for an MBA, collect stories of decay, then spend the next two decades lecturing Bengal from Delhi with zero skin in the game. You thanked your father for leaving in 1978. Fair. Many of us thank ours for staying and building anyway. The “koop mandook” you mock are running 150-person global tech firms out of Salt Lake and Rajarhat while paying taxes to a state that treats enterprise like a crime. The real rose-tinted glasses are on the NRB who mistakes his personal escape story for Bengal’s permanent destiny. Bengal’s tragedy is not that people want ₹1000-2000 a month. It is that a certain class of educated Bengali who left turned failure into a moral badge and now lectures those still here that change is impossible. You are right that 50 years of policy failure cannot be fixed by “chaa-er cup-e biplob”. But defeatism dressed as realism is the same intellectual laziness you claim to hate. Builders matter more than exiles with opinions. The light at the end of the tunnel will not be carried by NRIs waving placards from abroad. It will be built brick by brick by the people you called frogs in the well. We see you. We don’t need your permission to keep working.

I am a Non Resident Bengali. I was born and brought up in Delhi. Apart from yearly visits to Kolkata during summer vacations, I stayed continuously in Kolkata for 2 years only- during MBA. And that stay removed the rose tinted glasses. There are 3 things that jolted me- generic dilapidation, civic apathy and abject urban poverty. My friends from CU/JU wore "You can travel the entire city and eat if you have 100 in your pocket" as badge of honor. You see half the people would starved as they did not earn 100 a day. Apart from IIMC which places almost everyone outside WB , every B-School struggled to place anyone within the city that paid more than 3 LPA. There were just no jobs. The students at these B-Schools boasted of being from Xavier, Brabourne etc. and were 'koop mandook'. Most of the people I knew of then are not in Kolkata. Some realized early, some late. But they realized. No one wants to go back. And then you see some random Bong NRIs clownishly dancing with placards saying 'Don't vote BJP'. Really? You bloody left because leftists destroyed industries and TMC appeased the peaceful folks to the hilt. In my ancestral village, everyone from my father's gen either has a small shop or is a party worker. Their sons while away their time at nooks, smoke weed. I always thank my father who decided in '78 that it is time to leave Bengal. Visionary. Else I would be one of those guys. I don't know if the situation Bengal can be reversed. Most Bengalis are too poor and really want that 1000-2000 every month. Elites are co-opted. Sliver of middle class wants to go out. Even if BJP comes somehow, all gundas might shift en masse to BJP. Then what? We Bengalis need to bring changes from within. Too much of marinating in past glory and 'Amartya Sen maachher matha kheye boro hoyechhen, tuio khaa', has done us in. I don't know how. I don't see light at the end of the tunnel. Chaa er Cup ey Biplob ene baal kichui hobe naa. What did not work for ~50 years, will magically start working now? Are you daft?

@yamanakanobody Of course. Thus is Crows Zero OST. Absolutely brilliant!

海外は日本の音楽とか聞いたりするの？

@chodampatti999 @BeingTrickyy Aura? Of what? Stuck in the aura of old Colonial Buildings because whatever good architecture is there is all Victorian from that era. There is very less capital injected in the economy, how can you even think Kolkata will have better public infra?

@BeingTrickyy Ahmedabad me jhaat bhar ka aura nahi jo Calcutta ka aura match kar sake, bkl

Slum Ahmedabad Developed Kolkata

@TorqueIndia And what interior are you expecting? Let me guess three LED displays and capacitive touch buttons? You need to learn a thing or two about aesthetics.

People are actually paying ₹65 Lakhs in Bangalore for this dull, uninspiring outdated interior. It’s so bland it could make you feel sleepy behind the wheel. Toyota Fortuner Legender

@hui_mori_ What resolution are you playing the game in? I am planning to buy a GPU for my rig. My monitor is 1440p, so kind of curious that what will be the sweet spot.

minha 5050 ta chorando? sim, mas o tanto de foto que tou tirando de cyberpunk com rt ligado nao e brincadeira kkkkkk

@kekdaishere @theskindoctor13 Development Bengal mein bohot kam hua hain. Entire industrial lines have vanished. No big GCCs, no big IT projects, heavy industries presence has gone down rapidly. For the religion part, it is a known fact that there is a certain bias from Trinamool owing to huge voting base.

@NineApathy @theskindoctor13 Toh development toh bengal me bhi hua hoga..Lekin baat Issues ki h...yaha ke states ke elections me kabhi development issue nahi hota only Hindu-Muslim, ye vo..aisa konsa saturation aa gya h ki yaha ab development ki need nahi. Vaha ka election aate hi development agenda ban gya

Mamata Banerjee must lose! Fifteen years in power, and the state has gone from bad to worse. Bengalis should vote on real issues like jobs, development, crime, radicalization, instead of Mamata’s usual emotional rhetorics like antargata–bahirgata. In the last Lok Sabha elections, a bahirgata, a complete outsider who probably can’t even speak Bengali, Yusuf Pathan, was given a ticket by Mamata out of nowhere in Murshidabad and he went on to defeat a “son of the soil,” the antargata, five-time MP Adhir Ranjan Chowdhury. Such bahirgata–antargata slogans are meant only for Hindus. Muslims don't care.

@UditNigam10 @rajeshP55005083 @theskindoctor13 IT Cell and Biased Media target audience is just 2 percent of the whole population. Not the entire sample size. Are you saying they are getting majority and supermajority in LS due to IT cell? 🤣🤣 No sir, they are winning because the alternate is laughable.

@NineApathy @rajeshP55005083 @theskindoctor13 They’re exactly voting Modi for this reason only because they’ve been fed by the IT CELL & Media consistently that only Modi & BJP are there to look after Hindus

@kekdaishere @theskindoctor13 UP, Gujarat and even NE states? Haven't you seen developments? Highways, Trains, PSUs? I know hyper nationalism is present but how can you even say development is not there?

@theskindoctor13 When it comes to non-hindi state, suddenly development comes as an agenda. But for the hindi belt, Cow, Hindu, muslim, Batenge toh katenge, Beef, Nationalism etc etc.

@rajeshP55005083 @theskindoctor13 Modi never told to vote on Hindu Khatre Mein Hain. Even if he has told I don't think the general Hindu population in this day and age is voting BJP because they are scared. That is something the Hindus will have to understand for themselves.

@theskindoctor13 Exactly the case with the Modi regime. He should lose the coming general elections. India should vote on real issues like jobs, development, crime, radicalisation instead of Modi's emotional rhetoric of Hindu khatre main hai and religious blackmailing.... Right?? 🤔🤔

@RahulMukherji5 Yeah I mean what else can we flaunt about right? Tech Parks, GCCs, heavy industries, good roads, tourism? Naah these things are immaterial. Better to have Hilsa and think about the good old times. You know it's good to be biased, but not daft.

In #Bengal, you can enjoy Hilsa on the Ganges, even mutton or chicken, and yet not get arrested. That's us. Bangalis.

@goatwati These folks are not even apologetic about it. And some people wonder why peace is an illusion.

This is such an important thing. Go to the restaurant to talk and have fun with people, the only time you are expected to stay off your phones. But no! Some bloke decided that designing menus is hella tedious. 💀

@thevirdas Glad you could bring the religious unity flavor in this tweet also. Alag hi talent hain inke bhai.

Just woke up and realised this i think is my 20th year in Mumbai. A city I came to with very little, that’s given me everything. A passage from my book about the day i moved here :-)

@sagarcasm The cherry on top is seeing the LSG owner's face. Utterly delusional and disrespectful to players!

Priyansh Arya in every match

@thechosenberg He is dating Elsie Hewitt and also had a baby. Doing very good in life! She looks like a dream.

Notice he’s no longer rumored to be dating beautiful suddenly single women

@_cricketsparsh Seriously. She did this for 3-4 overs on the trot. Proper brainfade. Nobody is correcting also.

His name isn't Gurjanpreet, Anjum Chopra. His name is Gurjapneet.

@abhasnavin @_cricketsparsh That is very pertinent here because they were not starting overs even after 70 seconds. Two warnings were there even. The umpires are giving too much leeway these days. Almost all the matches are finishing by 4 hours these days. Chill down mate, not everyone is after RCB.

@_cricketsparsh He seems to be always against RCB, just now he was telling what is the penalty for starting a new over not within the 60 seconds.

What even is Sunil Gavaskar’s point? So what if he made contact?

Somebody should ask Anjum Chopra to take player names correctly. Gurjapneet has become Gurjanpreet several times in two overs. Why can't the commentators be on top of their craft? Ridiculous. The standards have gone down so much. #IPL #srhvscsk

You folks are generational beggars. Nothing more than that. Taking loans from one country to pay off loans to another. Acting like a mediator on the big stage while there are load sheddings in your capital. Stay more on the ground. Seriously!

@backoffbud Tell us one thing. Have you looked at your size man? Leaving nuclear weapons aside, what would happen to your country if even a quarter of our armed forces decide to take back our land. Utter delusion. Behave according to your worth mate.

Makes sense. Pak's GDP growth averages 2-3%, pulls down "South Asia" significantly. Helps Pakis find absolution in their quest for identity - 3rd rate Arabs instead of being 2nd rate Indians;)