Film critic+Independent journalist | Nadal-level trier | Rom-com crier | I look for intent | Loud
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Tatsam retweeted
E20 बना 420 - जनता की गाड़ी से पेट्रोल चोरी!
मोदी सरकार कहती है - पेट्रोल में 20% एथेनॉल है। कर्नाटक सरकार ने 7 ज़िलों से पेट्रोल के सैंपल लेकर मान्यता प्राप्त लैब में जाँच करवाई।
नतीजा देखिए
- 14 में से 11 सैंपल में 20% से ज़्यादा एथेनॉल
- IOCL में 31.2%, HPCL में 30.5%
- IOCL, HPCL, BPCL, Nayara, Shell - सरकारी हों या प्राइवेट - सब सीमा से ऊपर
- और कंपनियों की अपनी लैब ने एथेनॉल की मात्रा रिपोर्ट में लिखी ही नहीं
मतलब आप पैसा महंगे पेट्रोल का दे रहे हैं, टंकी में एथेनॉल भरा जा रहा है। नुकसान किसका? आपका।
आपकी गाड़ी इतना एथेनॉल पचाने के लिए बनी ही नहीं - मतलब, घटता माइलेज, बार-बार मैकेनिक। शौक से ली गई गाड़ी की बर्बादी।
और पंप पर लिखा तक नहीं कि टंकी में क्या डाला जा रहा है - चुनने का कोई विकल्प नहीं।
मोदी जी, बताइए - देश की टंकी में क्या भरा जा रहा है? पेट्रोल में असल में कितना एथेनॉल है? 20% से ज़्यादा मिलावट करने वाली कंपनियों पर कार्रवाई कब होगी?
और डिबेट की चुनौती अब भी खड़ी है। ये मुद्दा भी जोड़ लेंगे - आपकी नीतियों से असल में फ़ायदा किसे हो रहा है?
Tatsam retweeted
A Beginner’s Guide to the Bengal SIR
@chhuti_is who has done exemplary work and news editor, @SoumashreeS who has swum with her and worked incredibly hard to bring these stories to you.
Both unpack the massive disenfranchisement.
"Vote next time" but...? youtu.be/BTTl5prvtDk?si=S5oJ…
Robert Pattinson has emerged as a contender for 007.
Multiple sources tell THR that Pattinson is among those who have screen tested for the role of James Bond, joining hopefuls Callum Turner, Jack Lowden and Josh O’Connor.
hollywoodreporter.com/movies…
Tatsam retweeted
Dear Temple Team,
Doctors are asking for scientific evidence, not your financial history, personal sacrifices, or business credentials. Stop calling legitimate scientific scrutiny “rage.”
You have responded to questions about medical accuracy with investment figures, return policies, personal reputation, and promises of future studies. None of these constitutes scientific validation.
A few simple points:
1.A 14-day return policy is not scientific validation. Patients can feel better on placebo treatments too. Subjective satisfaction cannot establish medical accuracy.
2.Spending $30 million doesn’t prove efficacy. Medical history is full of expensive technologies that failed rigorous testing.
3.Personal reputation is not evidence. Science doesn’t become more credible because a successful entrepreneur believes in it.
4.Customer investment is not independent validation. Financial confidence and scientific credibility are two different things.
5.Promising future publications doesn’t validate present claims. If you make health-related claims today, doctors are justified in asking for evidence today.
6.Individual experiences cannot replace properly designed validation studies. We need accuracy, reproducibility, clinically meaningful outcomes, and independent testing.
And one final point:
Doctors are not against innovation. We are against asking the public to trust medical claims before the evidence is available.
If Temple delivers what it promises, doctors will be among its biggest supporters.
But science is not a popularity contest, and criticism is not “rage.”
You cannot answer questions about scientific evidence with a balance sheet, a biography, and emojis.
Publish the data. Let independent researchers examine it. Let the evidence speak.
That’s all we’re asking.
@theliverdoc
Dear Concerned Indian Doctors,
I see your rage against Temple on X. I have a few points
to make:
1. First and foremost, a business lesson: if Temple were a scam, and any of what we said weren't true, people would know it in just a few days of using Temple. We have 14-day, no-questions-asked returns (which even Apple doesn't offer in India). If the product doesn't work, it fails out of the gate and the company dies before recovering a tenth of its R&D.
2. We have already spent $30m building Temple, $20m out of which is my own money. Selling a few thousand devices recovers a small fraction of this investment. A scam that pays nothing is not a scam anyone would run.
3. I left the Eternal CEO role to chase purpose with Temple. This is not about money. I have enough of it to last for generations. My incentives are fully aligned with getting the science right. I am not staking a reputation earned over 20 years on making a quick buck.
4. Our employees bought into our round a few months ago. The round we're raising now is mostly our customers. Scams don't build that cap table.
5. Most wearable companies start with internal studies. Whoop shipped its band in 2015, and the first published validation followed a few years later. We hold ourselves to a higher standard; pre-prints are a step prior to peer reviewed publications, and they are coming up.
6. At some point you have to stick your neck out and say: we believe in our science, and the product is now valuable enough for people to pay for and use. We believe we are there. More validation continues in public.
7. We are confident that we are building something that the world is going to be positively astonished with. We stand by our science and our methods. Each of our claims is easily verifiable by individuals and institutions alike, and you will see a lot of independent studies come up on their own when the device becomes available to use.
Last but not the least, the most ground breaking features in Temple are not even public yet. And some of them, thankfully, have nothing to do with doctors 🤭
Hope this addresses some or all of your concerns. If not, keep raging 😘🤗
Tatsam retweeted
Before 2014 TMKOC vs After 2014 TMKOC
See the difference between then you guys decided !
Tatsam retweeted
No Safe Havens: How India’s Censorship Regime Is Closing India’s Private Film-Screening Spaces article-14.com/post/no-safe-…
See ya, Ram!
Tfw Ranbir Kapoor comes on screen and asks: "Sab kushal mangal?"
And I wanted to scream: NO!
m.thewire.in/article/film/ra…
Tfw Ranbir Kapoor comes on screen and asks: "Sab kushal mangal?"
And I wanted to scream: NO!
m.thewire.in/article/film/ra…
The plethora of adjectives, Chico. They never lie!
#Ramayana… the sheer scale of the film and the visuals on the big screen are spectacular to watch.
Ranbir as Rama, especially from the Vanavasam onwards, is serene yet magnificent. Yash brings a menacing presence as Ravana, while Sai Pallavi is graceful as Sita. The pre-climax and climax… loved every bit of it.
Congratulations @malhotra_namit, @niteshtiwari22 and the entire team on bringing such an ambitious vision so beautifully to the screen. 🙏
Tatsam retweeted
A venue asks to remain unnamed
A festival says it is “awaiting clearance”
Police stop a private screening
A university asks for a censor certificate
@LunkyFallow reports how India’s censorship regime is expanding into pvt screenings
article-14.com/post/no-safe-…
I've been working on iterations of this piece for 7 months now. It went through 2 publications, before arriving at Article 14. Grateful to Samar and Betwa for giving it a place.
Thank you @TheSunlitWindow for seeing me through the ups and downs.
A venue asks to remain unnamed
A festival says it is “awaiting clearance”
Police stop a private screening
A university asks for a censor certificate
@LunkyFallow reports how India’s censorship regime is expanding into private screenings
article-14.com/post/no-safe-…
Vanga ki masculine daadhi mein tinka
When someone commits a heinous crime, the first response should be empathy & an attempt to understand the larger problem. Not finding a convenient scapegoat in cinema.
It is becoming increasingly clear that your concern is not for the victims or their families, but that you're using a horrific tragedy as a dirty excuse to settle your personal scores.
This is especially directed at those failed frustrated jobless male/female actors, few directors, producers & parasites, who suddenly appoint themselves as social reformers whenever an opportunity arises to take a dig at someone else's work.
A tragedy deserves empathy 🙏, not opportunism. Learn the difference.
Tatsam retweeted
Why does no one in Bollywood except for Naseeruddin speak up? So many great rebels & patriots on screen but none in real life? McCarthyism saw top Hollywood men Dalton Trumbo, Charlie Chaplin, Orson Welles, John Garfield blacklisted but they never backed down. Robert DeNiro, Tom Hanks, George Clooney stand up to Trump.
Tatsam retweeted
Gyanesh Kumar would’ve never let this happen to Trump.
#JustSaying
If even a fraction of the ICT fans demanding accountability from Bharat, did something similar from Gambhir and a nakedly communal BCCI, the discourse would be somewhere else.
Go worship your God of Sponsored Posts and Insta collabs.
Sarfaraz Khan on India omission: I ask myself same question everyday, ‘Why should I work harder’?
By @pdevendra
indianexpress.com/article/sp…
After Gyanesh Kumar resigns and this govt falls, we should go after Bhushan Kumar. Singlehandedly destroyed Hindi film music.
To think singers/musicians have to cater to Kumar's algorithm is a travesty. So much lost potential over so many years, like tears in the rain.
Sunidhi Chauhan x Shillong Chamber Choir harmonising on an unplugged version of her classic Kaisi Paheli Zindagani. Just pure and simple music. And what a joy to be able to sing together.
#shillongchamberchoir #scc #sunidhichauhan
Tatsam retweeted
Sunidhi Chauhan x Shillong Chamber Choir harmonising on an unplugged version of her classic Kaisi Paheli Zindagani. Just pure and simple music. And what a joy to be able to sing together.
#shillongchamberchoir #scc #sunidhichauhan
Stars have entered cringebait territory.
Departure time 5:12 am…. Flight on time , 2 pegs down taking off with my sexy beauty… pata nahi kahaan mai land karoon
#TeriSexyBeauty Out Now
bit.ly/TeriSexyBeauty
@LakhiaApoorva @IChitrangda @SajidMusicKhan #HimeshReshammiya @Singer_muskaan @TaaleemMusic #caesargonzalves #AdelePereira #ZeynShaw #AbhishrriSen @TheAnkurBhatia #HeeraSohal @JasonThamIndia #HarshilShah #VipinBhardwaj @SKF_Music @SKFilmsOfficial @ShamiraahN
Tatsam retweeted
to the most respected finance minister. i have a doubt. please find time to answer me.
you say that the venue for a debate is the parliament.
you say that my home minister, amit shah has offered a special session to debate.
you say that if rahul gandhi - the leader of opposition, wants to debate my prime minister, he should come to the parliament.
ma'am, let's start by pointing out some facts.
jul 20 - the parliament session opens. narendra modi, the ever so hon'ble prime minister - addresses the media - outside the parliament. he asks for a fact-based debate.
jul 24 - Amit Shah's National Honour Bill is introduced in Rajya Sabha, by Nityanand Rai, who is MoS for home affairs. Jairam Ramesh asks "Where is the Cabinet Minister". This is present in the RS Transcript.
jul 29 - Rahul Gandhi, the leader of opposition - asks "why is the Home Minister not here today?". This is also present in the LS Transcript.
jul 30 - Rahul Gandhi asks "why Shah is so scared of coming to Parliament"
aug 4 - Amit Shah, is seen in the parliamentary complex. at an NDA Parliamentary Party Meeting. He Doesn't enter the house. as per reporting from Navbharat Live.
aug 6 - Mallikarjun Kharge, in Rajya Sabha, asks "Why is the Prime Minister not coming? Why is the Home Minister not coming?" as Per Kerala Kamudi - this is consistent with the RS transcript.
aug 11 - congress MP Manickam Tagore attacks the absent home minister. as per reporting by the ANI.
aug 12 - Amit Shah says to the media, "have been coming to Parliament regularly since the Session began; I sit in my chamber."
talking to the media, at around 12:30 PM, Amit Shah offered "If the Opposition wrote to the speaker, there would be a debate from 3 PM wednesday (12 aug - the same day) to 3 PM thursday (13 aug - the next day)
this was roughly a 2 hour window to submit the letter.
he further said "I will sit in the House; I will listen to everyone and respond to every point."
Rahul Gandhi said "We are not interested in listening to his lecture, Who shot those students? Who blinded that student? Who ordered the lathi charge?"
this referred to the Pellet Shots fired at the Student, Sahil Lochav. He asked about the Lathi Charge that happened in the protests on July 20th.
The Opposition wanted a statement from Shah about this, Shah wanted them to submit a letter to the speaker, in a window of roughly 2 hours - after not being present for 17 straight settings. with no recorded appearance.
aug 13 - Lok Sabha sits for 4 minutes. 11:00 AM to 11:04 AM. The National Song, Vande Mataram, is played. and then, the house is adjourned sine die. Both ever so honourable Prime Minister Narendra Modi and Home Minister Shri Amit Shah were present on these days. for the 4 minutes.
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Respected Finance Minister Ma'am,
These were the facts I have pointed out. I have not said anything that was my own opinion. I have not framed the facts in a way that support any party. My facts were gathered by scraping Documents from the LS and RS portal, OCR'ing the PDFs, then parsing them and then Aggregating News Sources. - and pointing out facts from them. Cold, Hard, Records.
I have not asked any questions yet - which I will do now.
I am a human. I have evolved Pattern Seeking skills.
I spot a pattern here. I see that for the entirety of the Monsoon Session, Prime Minister Modi, and Home Minister Shah, did not utter a word on the record of the Lok Sabha. They were not present in the house except for the last 4 minutes, on the last day.
Shah says "He was sitting in his cabin",
Ma'am, I don't think debates happen when you sit alone in a cabin. It happens on the floor, where the other side can ask questions too.
I don't see a meaningful debate happening in an environment like the Parliament. I say this with utter disappointment.
If Parliament is the venue for debate, why did the two most senior members of the government not speak there once in 19 sittings? And why was the one offer to debate made to the press on the 18th day, with a deadline of a couple of hours?
Why are there "offers" even? I think it is your responsibility to be in debates because that is your entire job.
As you say, "Demanding answers also carries an obligation to hear them." -- Well, were Amit Shah or Narendra Modi, hearing the Questions being asked? They were not in the house even.
Please Answer my Doubts. I would be very obliged if you do so.
Regards,
Sarthak
Rahul ji, you ask the Prime Minister to choose a venue for a debate. There is already one: Parliament, where you happen to be the LoP.
Just yesterday, Home Minister Shri @AmitShah offered a special session to debate SIR and EVMs. Why not show the same enthusiasm for a debate in Parliament that you show while issuing challenges on social media?
Demanding answers also carries an obligation to hear them.
There have been several occasions when you and your party have walked out of Parliament while the government was responding to your allegations. How do you claim to be so eager for a debate when you don’t even stay to hear the other side?
It doesn’t stop at walkouts. You and the INDI Alliance have repeatedly disrupted proceedings, leading to entire sittings being washed out. If you are so keen on debating, why not allow Parliament to function in the first place?
And then there’s the mock Parliament you recently held at the Congress President’s residence. Frankly, that was more a ‘mockery of Parliament’ than a ‘mock Parliament’. You found the time and enthusiasm for that exercise. Surely, the real Parliament deserves at least as much.
You speak endlessly about protecting democracy and the Constitution. But that respect should also reflect in how you treat the institutions they have established.
As for the issues you frivolously raise, bring specific allegations and evidence to back them up. Simply throwing together a long list of accusations doesn’t make your case any stronger. As LoP, you are expected to show some seriousness and responsibility.
You say, “Daro mat.”
Then bring the facts, face the scrutiny and stay to hear the answers. In the House, uphold the standards of debate you demand from others.