Collector & District Magistrate, Angul | Sometime Lawyer & Quizzer | Tweets on History, Food, Languages, Aviation and Architecture | Occasional brainrot
Joined October 2009
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Days like these are what I watch F1 for! Forza Ferrari forever!
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Feel ancient, but it was Jurassic Park. Scared the hell out of me!
Jun 11
My first movie in the theatre was Partner( banger). What was yours??
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Seems to have watched Brigadier Suryadev Singh in Tirangaa one too many times
Jun 13
Aryan Verma, a 21-year-old youth, was apprehended for impersonating as youngest Army Brigadier. His entourage included two bodyguards he presented as NSG commandos. A trap was laid after alert from ex-servicemen who doubted Verma's youngest Brigadier credentials.
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Two things can be true - Antonelli is a generational talent and the Monaco Grand Prix has no business being in the F1 calendar anymore. #f1
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Remember seeing him on Doordarshan growing up. An absolute encyclopedia of Parliamentary procedure!
Jun 5
Who Was Subhash C. Kashyap? Former Lok Sabha Secretary General Dies At 97
#SubhashCKashyap #LokSabha #SecretaryGeneral #SecretaryGeneralDies
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Not surprising actually. Assamese and Odia show more affinity to each other than to Bangla.
Chatgpt detects written Assamese as Bengali (obviously because of the script) but spoken Assamese as Odia!
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A little known nugget is that the original Hazrat Nizamuddin Railway station was located bang in the middle of what is now the Delhi Golf Club, close to the villages of Ghiaspur and Azimganj. When New Delhi was built, the railway line was shifted to its present location
May 24
The one club that ought to be taken over is the Delhi Golf Club.
A massive patch of artificially maintained, water-guzzling green that has zero ecological value. Serving a 1000 or so people who play a slow sport that is exclusionist.
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Such amounts are impossible for humans to wrap their heads around. If one were to count it manually 24*7 using 100 dollar notes, it would take 111 years. Even the fastest counting machine would take 5 years. A bundle of the same would reach 400 km into the atmosphere..
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Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ retweeted
Angul takes a leap in agri-export with the successful export of 20 quintals of naturally matured Amrapalli mangoes to Italy. Facilitated by ORMAS-supported FPO through farmer mobilization, procurement, sorting, and grading support.
@CMO_Odisha
@IPR_Odisha
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While the electric fan experiment didn't work out, a massive oil flame used to be lit on top of the India Gate dome on important occasions for many years. With the increasing lighting around the area and the staining caused by the oil, this was later abandoned
May 22
The January 1931 issue of The Architectural Review studied New Delhi,the new capital of India which was to be opened in Feb. 1931.
Here it mentions the original plan for the All-India Memorial Arch (India Gate) to emit memorial smoke from its top, by means of gas & electric fans.
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Such a fantastic amalgamation of Indic and Greco Roman influences. The toga held over one arm and the toned abs are Classical Rome but there is a dhoti underneath and the hair has flowing curls like a Kushan Buddha..
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There have been a total of three incidents where a plane coming in to land at Sahar Airport has ended up landing at the much smaller Juhu airfield by mistake.
May 18
Juhu from 3,000 feet.
The Arabian Sea, the old Centaur Hotel plot, JW Marriott, airport runway edges, and even the hidden Juhu Lake all visible in a single frame.
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The Indo Surinamese or the Hindoestanen are unique amongst the Caribbean Indians in preserving their native languages. Awadhi and Bhojpuri or a mix of the two, is still their lingua franca. Even their music Baithak Gaana retains a lot more Indian influence than the usual Chutney
May 16
The Indian diaspora is a living bridge of the India-Netherlands partnership. Our decision to extend OCI Card eligibility for the Surinamese Hindustani community from the fourth generation to the sixth generation has been enthusiastically received by the diaspora in the Netherlands!
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5 projects each semester in @NALSAR_Official. Each of 3000 words. Mostly all original! 😅
I was told by a 22yr old today that there was no way people were writing 10 page papers without AI.
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The 1857 War of Independence happened AFTER the introduction of Railways and Telegraph in India. The British in Delhi could warn their compatriots in Punjab and Calcutta the very same day when the Meerut rebels expelled them from the city..
May 12
What historical fact sounds fake but is true?
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This one spent many years in the courtyard of the Sub Collector's residence at Jajpur along with a couple of magnificent Buddhas. Jajpur was lucky in having Sri MM Chakravarti as SDO who did some pioneering work in the discovery of Ratnagiri and documenting the numerous finds
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Abdaal Akhtar | ଅବ୍ଦାଲ୍ ଅଖ୍.ତର୍ retweeted
May 11
India’s forests are also forests of memory. Hidden within them are forlorn graves, weathered memorials, old bungalows & stories lost to time.
This piece for @htTweets traces the stories of two foresters from another era through forgotten memorials hidden in the woods.
A short🧵
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Generally not a fan of brutalist architecture, but Kahn and Doshi's work at IIMA is magnificent.
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Sir David has been an inspiration for so many. The idea that there is beauty worth preserving in the wilderness seems obvious today, but it is the work of popular communicators like him that this became mainstream in the post War world! Happy Birthday!
David Attenborough, 'the voice for nature,' turns 100 reut.rs/48EFrlX reut.rs/48EFrlX
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An interesting nugget in this is how Penang was the original Kaala Pani. Taken on lease in 1786, it grew so rapidly using convict labour that in 1805, it became the fourth Presidency of India at par with Calcutta or Madras before eventually losing out to Singapore in the 1830s
May 2
India’s freedom struggle did not begin in Bengal or North India in 1857. It is time to correct the record.
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