Today is the Birth Anniversary of Bengali Poet Bankim Chandra Chattopadhyay

🌼 To the Origin of an Idiom, Rathyatra, & More 🛕🌼🧵 Since it's Rathyatra today, let’s talk about a very popular Bengali saying: "রথ দেখা কলা বেচা' (Rath Dekha Kola Becha), which literally translates to seeing the Rath and selling the bananas. Talking about the origin.

There is some serious problems in Hindi belt society irrespective of genders - Communal , casteist , uneducated , uncultured , abusive , sexist , hate mongering , Hindi supremest - all ills have affected their society A society heading towards its own doom

“In India, there’s lack of appreciation of the need to cross-examine data, the responsibility of a statistician.” ~ Prof Mahalanobis It was same then, its same now - Yet this man laid the foundation for Big data & analytics in India Do read 🧵 to know more about him

Just like Undeclared Emergency and Undeclared Hindu Rashtra, the nationwide #NRC, a citizenship screening drive, has started undeclared, targeting Bengali Muslims, as the BJP had promised & repeatedly reiterated. To read this piece, you have to subscribe to Article 14 14

Facts : As per global magazine Travel + Leisure's 2024 annual survey, Kolkata was ranked 19th among the world's best cities. Bengal is 3rd among in all India for attracting foreign tourists But as usual a Gutkha chaap handle will only spread fake narrative & hate

Gujarat model is simply First of its kind You have to see to believe this

Dr. Bidhan Ray birth anniversary is celebrated as Doctors day Do read this 🧵to know how he used his expertise as a Doctor to get funds & tech support for development of Calcutta in his brief encounter with POTUS John. F. keneddy A fine example in diplomacy

After Rare earths,China now has halted exports of specialty fertilisers to India, disrupting supplies of key agri-inputs vital for high-value crops. Now, India faces urgent questions on self-reliance & local production. financialexpress.com/policy/economy…

On 2nd July ,1757 The last Nawab of Bengal was brutally killed after betrayal by his own in the Battle of Palasey,which subsequently changed the history of entire Indian sub continent Do read this 🧵 to know what happened to his decendents

Credit where due Thank u bhajipao for pauperising your Bhakt mandali 👏 All that barbs & sadism they throw at others every day ,are aptly implemented by paobhajis on their own bhakts 🙏 For this they have my phull sapport ✊

A few days ago I made a fact based post on Bengals Tourism stats & IT cell coolies swarmed in with hateful post on Kolkata & Bengal Earlier I made a 🧵on Bengal tourism with verified facts ,data points &links , please feel free to use it

SoP of Modus operandi Issues in Opposition ruled states- The opposition party is solely responsible. Mess in BJP ruled states/centre - Babus to be blamed Any national achivement - institutions/ past govt / state govts to be ignored - all credit to His Highness

China has quietly pressurised foxconn to pull out chinese engineers & supervisors from their plant in india aimed at jeopardising the production. Our Country has never been so feeble & helpless diplomatically timesofindia.indiatimes.com/technology/tec…

In a historic milestone in agricultural production. For the FY -2024 to 2025, Bengal’s farmers produced 256.53 lakh metric tonnes of paddy, the highest ever recorded in any year. 3 yrs ago I made a detail 🧵 detailing the good practices that enables high productivity

Kolkata based Regulatory technology startup Data Sutram has raised $9 million in funding led by global venture firms B Capital & Lightspeed.The company seeks to expand its AI-powered fraud detection & compliance platform across new verticals & international markets.

In a bizarre incident from the land of bizarre - Bihar ; Bhimrao Ambedkar university in Bihar has awarded 257 in a 100 marks paper to a student & yet the student was not promoted . The university later clarified it was an excel entry error ndtv.com/india-news/bey…

This is Risky & dangerous from security point of view But in New India - all security risks vanishes if it is in Gujarat Our enemies will be watching in Glee at the utter stupidity of current dispensation

The height of Mount Everest’s was calculated by a Bengali Mathematician named Radhanath Sikdar from Kolkata’s Hindu College in 1852 & he was just 19 yrs old The brilliance of the Great Trigonometric Survey’s still impacts our contours & maps Do read the 🧵 for details

মহানায়ক ও মহারাজা বাংলা কে ভালবাসতেন বাঙালি বলে পরিচয় দিতেন এবং বাঙ্গালিয়ানা নিয়ে গর্ব করতেন বাংলা চলচিত্র কে বিশ্ব দরবারে নিয়ে গেছিলেন তাই জন্য বাঙালির হৃদয়ে চির অমর ~মহানায়ক ও মহারাজা