Swati Moitra
@swatiatrest
She/Her. বাঙাল. Certified বিদ্যা বাচস্পতি. Researches book history/cultures of reading. Not a current affairs Twitter handle.|| Mail: [email protected]
Imagine being Kokilaben and having one daughter-in-law washing laptops with soap water and the other taking the chana out of the cooker and placing the empty cooker on the burner. Completely on her side here.
A must read, this piece by Prof Ashutosh Varshney where he draws parallel between SIR in Bihar and voter truncation in 19th-century American South. Citizenship is now weaponised to exclude voters, he concludes. theprint.in/opinion/betwee… via @theprintindia
He is happy with and without the apple.. we have a lot to learn from him.
Rahul Gandhi could have raised the issue of attack on Bengali migrant workers strongly. He is the LOP in Loksabha. In 2009, INC got 6 MP seats from West Bengal and mostly from the regions these workers hail from. This way the central leadership has abandoned the state.
চূড়ান্ত তাচ্ছিল্য চারিদিক নিচের তলার মানুষের জন্য। বাঙালি বুদ্ধিজীবি প্রাণীসকল বলছে কই ব্যাঙ্গালোরের বা আহমেদাবাদের বা জয়পুরে চাকুরীরত বাঙালিদের তো কিছু হচ্ছে না। কয়েকটা গরিব গুর্বোদের জন্য এতো নেকিকান্না কেন? শ্রমিক বাড়ির চাকর গাড়ি মোছার লোক এদের সাথে এক করা কেন? তাই না!
চিবিয়ে চিবিয়ে বাংলা বলা হাউজ অফ আনন্দের ইন-হাউজ বুদ্ধিজীবী বাংলা কেমন করে বলতে হবে তার ক্লাস নিচ্ছেন। এর উত্তরে পুরন্দর ভাটকে কোট করতে ইচ্ছা হয়।
Tilottama Majumdar, an award winning Bengali author “Wherever I go, my accent, my food habit should tell I am an Indian” Any day I would prefer to deal with a Yati Narsinghanand than a hidden fascist like her.
Bengali media has reported that a migrant worker from Maldah was "pushed" to Bangladesh using a payloader. google.com/amp/s/m.sangba…
chhaiyya chaiyya song is at very beginning of Dil se. So late comers started shouting ki dubara chalao. The technician played it twice. Phir aur late comers aaye. We ended up seeing song 3 times. It was August 1998 night show at tasveer mahal, Aligarh
share a piece of movie theater lore about yourself
37% children under five are stunted in India. No outrage, no debates.
This is absolutely bonkers and can only be done by those who have no idea how these biz work. Will explain in detail b/c I have done credit modelling for this type of biz. 1. Most sellers are individual proprietors and have a single PAN. /1
This is the GST notice to the vegetable seller in Karnataka. What surprised me was the usurious rates of taxation 1. Tax calculated- 5.76L 2. Interest on tax @ 1.5% per month (18%)- 2.85L 3. Penalty- 5.76L Total - approx 8.6L penalty + int on tax liability of 5.76L
This extract from @ItaMehrotra's Uprooted takes you deep into the world of the Van Gujjars and Taungyas. Uprooted is now available in bookstores and online. @ASuitableAgency @scroll_in @ContextIndia scroll.in/article/108449…
Not a single word on the detention and harassment of Bengali-speakers. Not a single word.
बिहार में वोटर लिस्ट रिवीज़न पर योगेंद्र यादव बोले- 'ये तीन चीज़ें भारत में 75 साल के इतिहास में कभी नहीं हुईं' bbc.in/3GTp61W
Every other day, some Gurgaon resident on this app complains about waste management, but not the protection of its waste workers. m.thewire.in/article/commun… via @thewire_In
It’s frustrating to see Bengali TV media debates on the infiltration in Bengal issue. Watching Sange Suman on ABP Ananda. Though he boast a lot about fact checking, no discussion on census data, Aadhar data, ration card data. Just few cases to sensationalize & scaremongering!
I think people fundamentally misunderstand what reading does When you read Adam Smith you not only get bullet points and examples but see how he crafts an argument, how he mobilizes evidence (or doesn’t!) and spurs questions that you don’t even know to ask bc they’re subtextual
Spending an hour asking ChatGPT about Adam Smith generally teaches you 3x as much as spending an hour reading Wealth of Nations. The undergrads are using AI because it's just a better, more efficient way to learn things
In Mumbai's Aarey Forest, farmers have been growing indigenous crops (raan bhajya) for generations. But the future of their tribal agriculture remains uncertain | 🖋️by @soniyapondcar LINK: gfm.akshayakalpa.org/read/feature-a…