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"Eminent river engineer and former professor of civil engineering at IIT in the Banaras Hindu University (BHU) Prof. U.K. Choudhary"Stop. You're NOT qualified to opine on virology, epidemiology, or anything

[THREAD]1/38Once upon a time, a man we know little of today traveled out of Ḥalab (today's Aleppo), crossed the Khyber, and settled in Uch Gilaniyan, a small town in Bahawalpur

[THREAD]1/21A piece of fake news has been gaining currency on WhatsApp and Hindi news channels (of course) that claims coronavirus was "created" in a Chinese lab.This thread is my attempt

[THREAD]1/38On May 5, 2020, a man ended a 323-day hunger strike in Turkey. 2 days later, he was dead. His name was İbrahim Gökçek and his story goes back more

[THREAD]1/18About 500 miles to the southwest of Ankara less than half an hour from the Turkey-Syria border lies the city of Harran. Here lived, long ago, a pagan star-worshipping people

[SHORT THREAD: HUBRIS]1/3When Indira Gandhi ran for office in 1971, she won. And did so with what was then the biggest electoral mandate in the history of modern democracy.India went

[THREAD: HYDROXYCHLOROQUININE]1/24@realDonaldTrump calls it the new magic bullet and extorts it from India. India calls it the magic bullet and pretends to be the savior of humanity. Scientists stand conflicted,

[THREAD]1/22Today is #YomHaShoah, or Israel's #HolocaustRemembranceDay, and to commemorate this I'm gonna tell a story. Story of a friendship that transcended not only history but also politics. And time.This goes

[THREAD]1/24Just received this on WA. Claim is, a 14 year old astrologer named Abhigya Anand had predicted the pandemic a year and a half before it showed up. As always,

[THREAD]1/16Someplace deep in the German state of Lower Saxony lies the NATO-controlled Bergen-Hohne Training Area. Spread over a sprawling 70,000 acres, it's the largest military training area in Germany. Now,

[THREAD]1/25Barely three years since the 1857 Mutiny, Edward set up India's second brewry in Murree, a sleepy mountain resort near Rawalpindi. The town had a small British garisson that had

5/19By 1500 BC, the first Veda had been written. This was the first written record of a civilization's practices, both religious and otherwise. Here we find references to plenty of