Sources : Do not under estimate the power of a poisonous snake – Mylapore Broker Gurumurthy. In an order issued today, government of Tamil Nadu appoints former HC Justice S Baskaran as Chairperson of Tamil Nadu Human Rights Commission. 1/n

Sources : TN Minister for Food and Civil Supplies, R Kamaraj gets infected with Covid19. He has been admitted in MIOT.

A few questions to @CMOTamilNadu 1/n

1) When he claims that he is providing world class health facility and claims the state has prospered under his rule, why none of his cabinet colleagues, who were infected with Covid19, for example Minister for Higher Education KP Anbalagan get admitted into a government 2/n

hospital. Does @CMOTamilNadu’s own cabinet colleagues don’t trust government hospitals ? Or, whatever @CMOTamilNadu says is a lie ?

2) When his own cabinet colleagues get infected with Covid19, and have the risk of becoming a super-spreader, why is @CMOTamilNadu 3/n

undertake political campaigns ?

3) Is @CMOTamilNadu aware that Minister Kamaraj, recently participated in the recent function to distribute Pongal gifts and people jostled to get a selfie with him and he has become a super spreader of Covid 19 now ? 4/n

4) When his own cabinet colleagues who get infected with Covid19, are crorepatis and get treatment in private hospitals, what would a poor @actorvijay fan most of whom are BPL & their family will do in case they get infected ? 5/n

Sources : TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy, who claims to run “Amma’s government” has decided to accord the ceremonious farewell parade to disgraced police officer Jaffar Sait, who retires on 31.12.2020. While all DG level officers are eligible 1/n

for this parade on their retirement, no such honour was accorded to the DGPs who had retired in the recent past. A few of them are Ashok Kumar, SR Jangid, S. George, Ashish Bhengra, Asuthosh Shukla, Sri Lakshmi Prasad, RC Kudawla etc. 2/n

Rehearsal for Jaffar Sait’s ceremonious farewell parade is being held from 21.12.2020 at Avadi TSP Battalion grounds till date and the rehearsal would continue till 30.12.2020 say sources.

Edappadi Palanisamy should remember that Jayalalitha, 3/n

in 2011, immediately on assumption of her charge as CM in 2011, transferred Jaffar Sait to a post in the rank of Sub-Inspector of Police – Special Officer Mandapam Special Camp for Sri Lankan Refugees. 4/n

DVAC registered two criminal cases against Jaffar Sait on 23 July 2011 and he was suspended on 1st August 2011 and his headquarters was fixed as Ramanathapuram. Jayalalitha didn’t even allow him to come to Chennai. 5/n

Sources : Makkal Neethi Maiyam Chief Kamalhasan was furious for my interview that I termed him a B Team of BJP. Link of the interview is as follows :

Kamalhassan furiously tweeted, “ I am not anyone’s B Team”
An hour ago, Kamal tweeted as follows : Two girls, “Arshitha Agarwal” and “Kunisha Agarwal” had helped poor students, who are not able to get gadgets 2/n

to help poor students for attending online classes.
People are wondering who are these Arshitha Agarwal and Kunisha Agarwal. They both are the daughters of Chennai City Commissioner Mahesh Kumar Agarwal IPS. 3/n

Today morning, I tweeted, in regard to the participation of Mahesh Kumar Agarwal’s daughters in the event held at Chennai CoP office with regard to the above event where iPads were distributed for poor girls, which was held in Chennai Commissioner’s office. 4/n

While it is a semi-official function, Mahesh Kumar’s Agarwal’s daughters participated in the event.
I had tweeted as follows : “The @chennaipolice_ Commissioner is doing a great job of distributing free iPads to poor students with the help of NGOs. 5/n

Thread on the missing 100 Kgs gold from CBI

In an unusual order, perhaps for the first time in history, the Madras HC has ordered a state Crime Branch CID probe into 100 Kgs of gold which went missing from the custody of CBI. 1/n

State CB CID officials will now probe the role of the elite CBI agency in the missing ingots weighing more than 100 Kgs.

When the CBI probed this case, the role of several IAS & ITS (Indian Trade Service) came to light. The role of Dr. Swarna, IAS, then Joint Development Commissioner, Special Economic Zone, Chennai also came to light. 3/n

Dr. Swarna is now the Secretary to government, P&AR, Government of Tamil Nadu. When an Addl SP went to examine Dr. Swarna with regard to this case, she threw a tantrum as to how an ordinary Addl SP can examine her and rang up TN Home Secretary to suspend the Addl. SP. 4/n

All the All India Service Officers involved in this case, using their bureaucratic clout in Delhi, ensured that this case never saw the light of the day.
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Sources : BJP takes Dy CM OPS and his sons under their complete control. The carrot they dangled before OPS is ministership for OPS’s elder son OP Raveendranath, who is popularly known as General Tyre. 1/n

With OPS completely under their control, BJP targets EPS. Yesterday and today’s IT raids in Sri Pathy associates is directly targeted at Edappadi Palanisamy.

One of the Directors in this firm is Srinivasamoorthy. He is also a Director in an Erode based firm called, 2/n

Supreme Sago Industries Erode Private Limited. Along with Srinivasamoorthy, the other director in this Sago firm is one N.Ramalingam.

The Ramalingams are in-laws of TN CM Edappadi Palanisamy. The relationship between EPS and the Ramalingams are as follows : 3/n

Edappadi Palanisamy’s son Mithun Kumar is married to one Divya. Divya has a sister by name Saranya. Saranya’s husband’s brother is Chandrakanth Ramalingam. This is how the Ramalingams are closely related to EPS. 4/n

This Chandrakanth Ramalingam was earlier arrested in Bangalore in December 2016 for holding 46 lakhs of freshly minted new currency following demonetization.

Today is the 110th Birthday Anniversary of Faiz Ahmad Faiz. His story is incredible.

Joined the Indian Army in 1942 (WW2).
Supported the Naval Mutiny.
Attended Gandhi’s funeral in Delhi.
Nominated for Nobel Prize in Literature.
Received the Lenin Peace Prize in 1962.

#Thread

Just like Bhagat Singh, Faiz was considered a Hero in Undivided British India. During WW2, Faiz served with a unit led by Akbar Khan, a left-wing officer and future Pakistan Army general.

Faiz rose to the rank of lieutenant-colonel.

There was a mass recruitment of Indians especially socialist & communist activists into the British Indian Army and RIN (Navy) for war efforts against Nazi Germany after 1941.

However, once the war was over, the newly recruited men turned against the British, 1946 Naval Mutiny.

His poem Subh-e Azaadi (The Dawn of Freedom, August 1947) records his disappointment with the partition of the Indian subcontinent.

Faiz was imprisoned for more than 4 years after partition in a fake case popularly called "Pindi Conspiracy Case".

Communist party of Pak was banned soon after that Rawalpindi Conspiracy case.

He was held in solitary confinement in Sahiwal and Hyderabad (Sindh) jail and was even deprived of writing material. Faiz was again imprisoned in 1958 (Ayyub Khan’s martial law).

Leaders must inspire. It is essential that a leader performs exceptionally well at a personal level. But that alone is inadequate. He should create synergy and lift his team to a higher plane. 1/n

Take Modi. He ticks all the boxes. Not easy to take a Country of 1.38 Billion people with you

On the Cricket Field Virat Kohli performs exceptionally well at a personal level. But does he inspire his team to perform at a higher level? I have serious doubts. 2/n

Rahul Gandhi neither performs at any level not does he create synergy and lift Congressmen. They are resigned to their fate all the time.

I had an exceptional Regional Manager who was brilliant in his work, and guided and motivated us. One would die for him. 3/n

I was once taking classes in 8th floor when I overheard a conversation between two of my students. One was chiding the other for showing undue respect to me. 4/n

Second student told him that "If Sir asked me to jump from this floor, I shall do so unhesitatingly, knowing that he would not ask me if he had not taken enough precautions in the first place".

It was one of the greatest moment of my life as a Teacher 5/n

#Thread
Why To Avoid Western Style Birthday Celebrations ?

We all agree that Birthday is a very special and auspicious day for all of us.

If it is so special then why do we celebrate it in inauspicious way?
@Anshulspiritual @mysql_sync
@Vedicphilosophy

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Birthdays celebrated as per tithi (a lunar day) are very pious, because we receive a lot of Chaitanya (Divine consciousness) on this day. This Chaitanya should be utilized to the fullest.
@nsbchd @khanna248 @nehasaini0204

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Let us understand few things which can be avoided during birthday celebrations & receive maximum blessings from Bhagawan:-

1. Never wish or celebrate birthdays at midnight, instead this should be done after sunrise. @Poornimachouha8 @Vaidyvoice

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Please understand that as per Hindu Culture a day starts from sunrise and not from midnight. During midnight the Tamas and Rajas particles (negative particles) are highly predominant in the atmosphere and also there is lots of..
@SuvarnBharat @vijayashreenair

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negative energy is present in the atmosphere during midnight. So doing any auspicious celebrations/giving greetings during such time doesn't give good results to the individual.On the other hand the time after sunrise is considered as the time of spiritual practice..+

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[QT: INDIA, THE GOLD STANDARD OF CLASS]
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Some time last week, an American shared this on LinkedIn. A neutral (note the 3rd-person verbiage) observation of the goings-on in our capital with a legit @AP thumbnail. Of course India had to descend on him like an avalanche of poop.

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This is a quick thread of some of the worst responses out there, just to illustrate the obvious, which in one way makes the exercise pointless. At the same time, such loss of a demography's class must never be out of the spotlight. So am doing it anyway.

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Just before we start, here's a small bummer: I've redacted all identifying information even though it's all in public domain. This is to avoid any inadvertent code violation; Twitter doesn't seem to like doxing and neither do I.

So here we go.

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1. Corporate affairs general manager at a Japanese auto heavyweight.
2. DB architect with a Silicon Valley giant. Sum total of his argument? Farmer leaders lean Left. Interestingly, also disses the IAC shindig the biggest benefactor of which was the party in power today.

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Here's another, this time no less than the COO of one of the biggest electronics retail chains in India. From his English, to his demeanor, to his self-entitlement, tweet naming one thing that isn't oozing class.