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Dilip Mandal

@Profdilipmandal

Brahmin clout at IITs is ending. At least 30% of the zonal toppers are Baniyas. The ‘Kota Coaching Factory’ is also a Baniya owned phenomenon. Change is welcome. #Sociology #IIT #Caste Thread 🧵⬇️

The IT revolution in its early years was led by the IIT graduates and postgraduates, and most of them were Brahmins. Sociologist Carol Upadhya’s study on the software professionals with 132 respondents in Bengaluru revealed that 48% per of them were Brahmins.

Now things are changing.
If we take the most valuable IT-based startups that took shape in the last few years, most of them have a strong north Indian Baniya engineers/managers footprints.

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अमिदेव

@iamamidev

#IIT #DarshanSolanki
1 दर्शन चे वडील मजुरी करतात अशा परिस्थितीतुन पोरगं IIT त जातं मोठी अभिमानाची गोष्ट होती
मनमुराद स्वप्न बघत IITत गेलेला पोरगा ह्या अवस्थेत घरी येईल असं कुठल्या मायबापाला वाटलं असेल?

अकॅडेमिक मेरिट हा शिक्षण क्षेत्रातील ब्राम्हणवाद आहे, भारतात उच्च शिक्षण

2 घेणाऱ्या आपल्या पोरापोरींची मला भयंकर चिंता वाटते,
द्रोणाचार्य होऊन बसलेल्या सगळ्या सवर्ण फॅकल्टी ला तोंड द्यायचं
मेरिट आणि आरक्षणाच्या नावाने बोंबलणाऱ्या सवर्ण क्लासमेट चा वेगळा गृपिझम
बिकट परिस्थितीतुन छोट्या शहरातून आलेल्या SC/ST पोरांची काय मानसिक अवस्था असेल

का आत्महत्या

3 पर्यन्त पाऊल जातं काय मेंटल हेल्थ असेल त्या लेकरांची काही विचार केलाय का?
कुठल्या फालतू बाबा ला घेऊन बसणारा सगळा मीडिया हा मुद्दा कधी उचलेल का?

एकतर तुम्ही इथपर्यंत पोहोचलेच कसे त्यामुळे सगळा जळफळाट

मी स्वनूभवातून सांगतोय आपल्या पालकांनी लेकरांना लहानपणापासुन आंबेडकरी

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The Better India

@thebetterindia

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"Recently, many children’s lives have been lost to borewell accidents. The Sujith incident was a real driving force behind my invention."⁠

Sadham Usean Ramasamy, a PhD scholar at #IIT Madras.

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Devina Sengupta

@DevinaSengupta

You graduated from IIT but got offered Rs 6 lakh CTC? Didn’t everyone expect you to get crore plus? Who will pay for your loan?

A story I have wanted to write for years-About IITians tweaking resume, taking coding classes, changing fields but barely getting placed.

@livemint

There are 23 IITs today. About 2 lakh sit for #JEE exams,16k IITians graduate.

But India Inc wants coders,quant, software lot.What about chemical/mechanical? They take extra classes;learn software & move away from their field to bag a job after #IIT

livemint.com/news/india/iit…

A story of two sets of IITs. The older established ones may get more recruiters but also have larger batches to place.

The new #IITs are scampering for recruiters. Some have dialled placement agencies.

@TauseefShahidi thanks for all the help.

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RajiAiyer

@RajeAiyer

Really! Read the truth here👇
Its not Congress who built IITs, AIIMS or IIMs

1- #IIT was the brain child of British Officials - back in 1946 when Sir Jogendra Singh of the Viceroy's Executive Council set up a committee whose task was to consider the creation of Higher

Technical Institutions for post-war industrial development in India. The 22-member committee, headed by Nalini Ranjan Sarkar, recommended the establishment of these institutions in various parts of India, along the lines of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (#MIT),

with affiliated secondary institutions.
2- #Pakistan made a better #nuclear weapon way before us irrespective to who paid for it,its their property,
3- Pakistan had way better roads during the Congress reign in India.. we did not have a single highway where a fighter plane

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Levina🇮🇳

@LevinaNeythiri

GIANT LEAP in India—UAE relationship (CEPA)🇮🇳 🇦🇪
~ non-oil bilateral trade, $100 billion +
~India’s 1st #IIT college abroad will come up in UAE. 👏
~ Indian medicine or medical products will now enter UAE market. But what surprises me is the THANDA response from Mallu-media. 😁

Why did i mention MALLU media? Mallu expats are 50% (approx) of the total Indian population in UAE. Recently media-one (mallu channel, pro JeL) was banned by I&B ministry. That shld be the reason for thanda response. 😃 abut great going INDIAN GOVT and UAE. 👏👏👏

Btw posted in the above tweet is the STAMP released to honour the achievements of both the countries— India’s 75th year of independence & UAE’s 50th year. 👍

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Vishal

@vgupta752

@kMakrandIAS @dtcphry Pls order STRUCTURAL AUDIT of #GodrejSUMMIT BY #IIT.
Rebinding of 2,000+ Balconies in 640 flats within 3 years of OC raises serious questions on Construction Quality of @GodrejProp Simplex Infra
Repair not complete in 2+ years
@DEEPAKKAHUJA🙏
@GodrejGroup

Severe water leakage in basement throughout the year
@CBRE_India identified leakages from the structure which needs specialized contractors and shared all details with @GodrejProp , but no action by Godrej Properties since 2020
#GodrejProperties
@GodrejGroup #CheatedHomeBuyers

#GodrejSUMMIT Terrace of Tower H of Godrej Summit, water logging even in month of February 2022 when there are no rains. Water seeping into the flats. What will be the situation in monsoons? @GodrejProp

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Ar. Vartika Sharma 🇮🇳

@Vartika_9516

A #journey to unknown! 🥰✌️

Nobody can help you out
It's only you, who can help yourself
To stay up, to stay motivated, to not fall, and to get up stronger even if you fall

You're the only one to lift yourself up
You're the only one to wipe your tears
As only you know what you're going through
Believe me
It's a journey to make you stronger and better
To help you cross bigger obstacles in future
These things won't even matter few years from now

But for now it does, and I understand the pain
But nobody else will, feel the same as you do
So only you can cure it
By putting a smile on your face
And getting back on track with more /confidence and determination

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Alexander Ghionis

@alexghionis

1/4: Voting on #OPCW Programme & Budget has become common practice, representing difference of opinion on legitimacy of the IIT and - for the some in the 'no' camp - their denial that the Syrian government has used #chemicalweapons. But who votes no and how often? #CSP26

Here we see that P&B was, at least at CSP level, relatively uncontentious, until #OPCW #IIT was established by vote in June '18. In the old days, P&B bartering could be ironed out thru consultations with TS and at EC level. From 2018, voting no is one way to protest. #CSP26

3/4 - So, we have had 4 years of P&B voting: but who has been voting no consistently? The gaudy table below shows there have been 8 SPs consistently voting no: we can assume Syria would be here if they could vote, as would Venezuela, and a handful of others. #OPCW #CSP26

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आत्मनिर्भर शेठजी

@Rationalist_04

कॉंग्रेसने 70 वर्षात काय केले..."

2] विज्ञान आणि तंत्रज्ञान..

स्वातंत्र्यानंतर देशापुढे दारिद्र्य, रोजगार, भूक, उपासमारी हे प्रश्ण आ वासून उभे होते पण तरी बाकी प्रगत जगासोबत आपणही पुढे नाही गेलो तर हा देश कधीच... 👇(1/)

स्वतःच्या पायावर उभा राहू शकणार नाही याची जाणीव नेहरूंना होती त्यामुळं 1952 साली अमेरिकेच्या MIT सारख्या संस्था भारतात उभारण्याचा निर्णय नेहरूंनी घेतला. पहिली #IIT खरगपूरला स्थापन केली गेली. त्यानंतर मद्रास,मुंबई अशा वेगवेगळ्या शहरात #IIT आणि #IIM या संस्था उभ्या राहिल्या..👇(2/)

येणारा काळ अणुऊर्जाचा असणार आहे हे दूरदृष्टीचे नेहरू जाणून होते त्यामुळं 1956 साली मुंबईच्या तुर्भे इथ भारतातलीच नव्हे तर आशिया खंडातील पहिली अणुभट्टी सुरू केली. आजघडीला देशात अशा 7 अणुभट्ट्या आहेत. आज जगातल्या ज्या मोजक्या देशाकड अण्वस्त्र आहेत त्यात आपण.. (3/)👇

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APPSC IIT Bombay

@AppscIITb

Look at the savarna caste arrogance of Prof Seema Singh IIT Kharagpur who is abusing students & parents of Prep English Course (for SC/ST & PD Candidates). She should be booked under Prevention of Atrocities Act and terminated from her post.
1/n
see video instagram.com/p/COGgh3bn64L/…

She openly threatens students with failing them in the course & arrogantly challenges them to complain to Ministry of Women and Child Care & Ministry of SC/ST/Minorites after repeatedly calling them “Bloody Bastards” & "idiots".
2/n

She is in complete cognizance of her actions & proclaims immunity from any disciplinary actions & consequences. She knows that savarna dominated IIT administration will protect her from any backlash.
3/n

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P Narahari IAS

@pnarahari

How can we Supply more O2 & Save Lives?
Problem Statement: Liquid Medical Oxygen carrying tankers can travel by road at Max speed of 50kmph only.
How to increase speed of these tankers without compromising on safety? #Hackathon #CodeNinja #solutionforlife #innovation #iit
#COVID

Train carrying Liquid Medical Oxygen tankers (tankers mounted on Wagons) can travel at a Max speed of 20kmph.
How2 increase speed of these trains without compromising on safety? @abhayjere @anandmahindra @anandesh @debjani_ghosh_ @rekha_m_menon @amitabhk87 @udaykotak @hackerrank

Liquid oxygen has a density of 1.141 g/cm3 (1.141 kg/L or 1141 kg/m3), slightly denser than liquid water, and is cryogenic with a freezing point of 54.36 K (−218.79 °C; −361.82 °F) and a boiling point of 90.19 K (−182.96 °C; −297.33 °F) at 101.325 kPa (760 mmHg).

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Michael Kobs

@MichaKobs

The #IIT just released another fake investigation. This time they swallow the Saraquib, Feb 4, 2018 incident. It starts with pages and pages of useless info to arrive at "it did not explode" but "it exploded and we ignore it."

It goes on with a "chlorine attack" with fake sarin symptoms. In IIT world, you get closer to chlorine and feel sick. (No smell will prevent you from walking right into it.)
In IIT world you get constricted pupils without getting constricted pupils as testified by SAMS.

Next, IIT elaborates on the damage of both cylinders that allegedly where dropped by a helicopter in total darkness and hit soft soil in Nusra's backyard. This is where those cylinders faced a perfectly vertical deformation that left flower-like imprints around the valves...

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Jensen Jacob

@jensenjjacob

Time for a very short story !!

Once a 14 year old kid, who used to deliver newspapers, told his family friend that if he doesn't become a millionaire by the age of 30, he'll jump of the tallest building of his city !

Sadly, he didn't become a millionaire by 30 ! 😔

1/n
#story

I'm sure nobody even remembered his outrageous claim after 16 years but that child.....that child is now the age of your grandpa and is worth $85 Billion !!! 😮

He is the legend himself - Warren Buffett !

A short thread on Warren Buffett !

2/n
#WarrenBuffett

Warren Edward Buffett, also known as the "Oracle of Omaha" is the 4th richest man in the world as I'm writing this.

Born in 1930, in Omaha, USA, he went from being a newspaper delivery boy to the owner of Berkshire Hathaway, a $526 B conglomerate !

3/n
#Omaha

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Karthik Ganesan

@KarthikGanesan6

I can't help but wade into the debate this paper throws up -not just of authors not being from India but 'authenticity', of data and insights used. Thread on what I think will be the definitive solution to India's AQ modeling woes 1/

https://twitter.com/jurpelai/status/1304409711878565892

it is widely known that @UrbanEmissions (retreated from twitter) has the best quality inventory at a decent geographic resolution. The problem, like with most other aspects of research is, this is not public. At a time, when western scholars (specifically) 2/

but perhaps scholars in general, don't really give much credit to other progenitors of ideas ala @jasonhickel in his recent Lancet paper not having even acknoweledged the likes of @tjayaraman group in the paper means that one can only expect 'southern' researchers to be 3/

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Alok Kumar Verma, IRSE (Retd.)

@trains_are_best

My plan for upgradation and expansion of the Indian Railway network:

1. Build about 15,000 km of 200-250 kmph lines to cover the GQ and it's diagonals & link other major cities. About half of this will be by upgrading the existing lines and half as new lines. Total estimated..

https://twitter.com/trains_are_best/status/1268914439266459653

...cost: About INR 5.0 lakh crore over a period of 7 to 10 yrs.

2. No more DFCs. Complete the ongoing Eastern and Western DFCs and use them (with some modifications) for carrying freight & slow passenger trains.

3. Drop all ongoing surveys and feasibility studies to build..

... Bullet Train lines. India does not need and will not be able to afford Bullet Train lines for at least next 15 yrs, by when improved technologies like Maglev are likely to be available for speed more than 250 kmph.

This plan also entails:

1. Massive upgradation of the...

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Alok Kumar Verma, IRSE (Retd.)

@trains_are_best

In the coming days, resolve of the Government of India and Railway Board to upgrade India's rly system to high speed (160-250 kmph) will be tested. Powerful foreign lobbies, which represent the interests of the manufacturers of airplanes and automobiles and the oil companies,....

... have been trying to cripple the railways in India by preventing it from raising speed and line capacity. Their first success came in 2004-06, when the Govt decided to build the Eastern and Western Dedicated Freight Corridors instead of a 200-250 kmph line which would have...

.... benifited both the passenger and freight transport (both DFCs and 200-250 kmph lines cost the same). Their next success came in 2017, when the Government decided to build the Ahmedabad-Mumbai Bullet Train line instead of the much cheaper and better option of 200-250 kmph..

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Kanchan Gupta

@KanchanGupta

Nehru did not create IITs. Dr BC Roy, CM of West Bengal, set up first IIT in Cal in 1950; it later moved to Kharagpur. IIT Kharagpur Act came in 1956. Soviet Union set up IIT Powai; US set up IIT Kanpur; Germans set up IIT Madras (all of them with trade surplus and aid).

https://twitter.com/madversity/status/1144635855425851392

We learned this in junior school as compulsory GK. I guess General Knowledge is dangerously Right Wing shyt now, so declared by our Left Liberals. What to do? #IIT #Nehru

Just in case @madversity is interested, the idea of setting up Indian institutes of technology took shape in 1946 with Humayun Kabir leading the way and Nalini Ranjan Sarkar Committee preparing a report. Extant records do not mention any role played by Nehru. So.

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Chowkidar Ravindran K M

@musicalmice

🇮🇳 NAMO NAMO🇮🇳
This thread will list down the 75 reasons why everyone should vote for @narendramodi and @BJP4India

Thanks to @muglikar_ and @IndiaPeCharcha for coming up with these brilliant 1 minute videos.

My effort here is to list all the 75 reasons in a single thread