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Indore Wale Bhiya
IndoreWaleBhiya
0. A thread on how communism can ruin lives, generations, industries and cities. 1. There was a time when Kanpur was famous for its textile industries. It was known as
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Uttara
uttaras
Naomal Hotchand (a controversial character because of his relationship with the British) whose memoirs are a valuable source wrote that in the early 18th centuryhis great-grandfather Bhojoomal moved to Kharakbunder
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Chinmay Tumbe
ChinmayTumbe
Prompted by @CafeEconomics, a short thread on company towns in India like Tatanagar (Jamshedpur), Kirloskarwadi, Modinagar (all three pre-1947) and the ones that followed them. (1/n)https://twitter.com/CafeEconomics/status/13805327521313177
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Aabhas Maldahiyar 🇮🇳
Aabhas24
1/n #SadarPranam to Ishwara within you @PritishNandy Ji. @Payal_Rohatgi is absolutely correct when she says Raja Ram Mohan Roy was a British Puppet & he created the bad image of
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Ananya Chhaochharia
ananyac05
Marks are not everything. #BoardResultA short thread how I cracked my top schools with average scores My batch was the first to have 99 as the highest score (ikr
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(I'm done)ⁿ
Shayonnita15
Mumbai jolts awake, gets a cutting, speeds off to work. Kolkata rouses, searches for his slippers, yawns, stretches and asks for a cup of liquor tea.There's a strange romance in
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an atheist named pooja
theblahcksheep
#Thread on the city I grew up in as she celebrates her 330th birthday today To Calcutta, with love good times (and not so good coffee) at coffee house “passion
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Soumyadipta
Soumyadipta
This is Ayesha Jannat, a popular leader of Jamatul Mujahideen, a terrorist outfit in Bangladesh. She was arrested last Thursday.It turns out that Ayesha is Pragya Debnath, a Sanskrit student
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Bed Tea Tagore
sohinichat
I hear an inherent sneer when Indians, news orgs says: "Even Bangladesh's economy is doing better than India."Why this "even"? The polite way to see this "even" is that it
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Siddharth Misra
sidart_misra
SUB-THREAD: Wajid Ali Shah . Defamed as a debauch and inefficient ruler, by British historian (& many Indian also). It is ironical that one who wrote
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Agniras (Gems of Indology)
GemsOfIndology
Small #Thread on Adam's report of Vernacular Education in Bengal & Bihar submitted to UK Government when "English Education Act 1835" was implemented The report was most recursive ever research
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Aparna🇮🇳
aparnasridhar7
From a friend's whatsappI grew up in Bombay, not Mumbai. Or Calcutta, not Kolkata.Regardless of the weather, our dinner time was at 8:00 PM and bed time was 10:30. Eating
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sai priya
priya_27_
Abrus precatorius(rosary pea/Indian licorice/Crab’s eye; Gunja in Hindi, guruvinda in Telugu) are plants indigenous to Asia and Africa, traditionally used to make jewelry and to weigh gold/precious stones due to
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Subhrajyoti
subhra2jyoti
Mini-#Thread on how medieval times Islamic invaders/rulers looked down upon Brahmins, especially, to further their primary objective of converting our motherland to one of their own. #History #Brahmin #india #bharat
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Xplore Space
XploreSpaceMag
1/3 #SpaceNews: A few new Dates for your #space Diaries...Are you interested in learning more about @isro and the Indian space programme, this thread has a few free online events
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Edgar Allan Poeha
vaniIlaessence
The last time Modi had come to Calcutta, we were all out on the streets, protesting. Like all things in Cal, things has eventually devolved in a hilarious and confusing
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