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INC. MP for Thiruvananthapuram. Author of 22 books. Ex Minister ofState, Govt.of India. Former UnderSecretaryGeneral,UnitedNations. RTs do not imply endorsement

New Delhi & Thiruvananthapuram
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    23 hours ago

    My op-ed in today's on the appointment of as Leader of the Opposition in Kerala. English version:

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  2. 11 hours ago

    Knowledgeable article on a "Public Health Strategy for India" by offers clear-headed solutions to handling our current crisis:

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  3. 12 hours ago

    Thoughtful, critical review of by : "It lays out the face-off between two nationalisms in India today with erudition&moral clarity", she says, but then "why has a hard&unforgiving nationalism made such great strides?"

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    May 22

    When I started tracking COVID's second wave I found a factor of 4 as difference between official deaths & what i saw on ground. That factor has gone up to 8 . From one ghat of Varanasi's I report how 2800 bodies were cremated a week as district declared 227 deaths for 5 weeks

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  5. 15 hours ago

    The Chinese are taking extraordinary strides in space exploration: . We don't hear enough about this in India. As long as it's benign, we can watch & applaud. But if China starts weaponising space, we should take protective measures NOW.

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    16 hours ago

    Can't agree more that ,the barge accident is a man made disaster. & Afcons Infrastructure Ltd management should be arrested for this callous omission resulting in the death of 76 men. Commendable work by two young reporters & .

    'If they had moved the barge, nothing would have happened to anyone.' ONGC claims barge P305, which sank on May 17, was advised to return to shore due to . Families hold the companies responsible. & report.
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  8. 16 hours ago

    This is a remarkable thread by on the unfolding tragedy of the disaster in India. Read it for a sad & shameful snapshot of history:

    COVID-19: The India Story. A timeline thread. 👇 India's first COVID case was detected in Jan2020. PM Modi on 24th & 25th Feb 2020 was doing this:
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    May 22

    Questioning the bias in , is in a way, questioning the bias of the human mind. We need to make AI more ethical but are we prepared to do enough to make it ethical? To what extend is a matter of priority? -- Dr C Raj Kumar, Founding Vice-Chancellor,

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    May 21

    भाजपा सोशल मीडिया को ख़तरनाक हथियार की तरह प्रयोग कर रही हे BJP using media as weapon of mass distraction, shifting eyeballs from Covid, China, economy Dr. Shashi Tharoor

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    May 21

    Trolling on social media BJP’s organised activity They have cells and there is an army of trolls who have multiple accounts. They get instructions, messages and then attack some of the favourite targets of BJP

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    24 hours ago

    I offer a point-by-point analysis of the official failures that led to,&continue to exacerbate, India’s catastrophic Covid-19 situation. Our leaders should apologise for the horrors they have inflicted on country. -

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    24 hours ago

    ठोस काम के बदले दिखावे पर जोर सरकार ने लोगों को मोटे तौर पर उनके हाल पर छोड़ दिया.. डब्ल्यूएचओ के मंत्र की अनदेखी: अनियंत्रित लॉकडाउन: वैक्सीनेशन में देरी: गलत प्राथमिकताएं पैसों की किल्लत: तानाशाही और कट्टरता: Dr.

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    May 22

    After getting an analysis from VHS IT Cell supervised by Jagdish Shetty, about the tactics of the PMO- driven Fake ID twerps in Twitter, I see an alerting resemblance to Hitler’s storm troopers. I would request well wishers of BJP to lean on Modi to put a stop to this.

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  15. 23 hours ago

    Looking forward to reading this, . I had come across references to Sir Edwin Arnold's book since college days (as the first & most successful work to popularize Buddhism for Western readers) but never read it myself. Now I shall discover his work through you!

    The 2020 lockdown goaded me into writing something that had been on my mind for quite sometime. Here’s the result, with a Foreword from His Holiness, The Dalai Lama. It’s a fascinating story, even if I say so myself, of an epic poem on The Buddha — The Light of Asia.
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    May 22

    inhumanity. How cruel, communal and inhuman can be ? Why can't or take suo motto action and order jail for these criminal cops and a compensation of atleast one Rs one crore to the family of the victim ?

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  17. May 22

    When writes about our public culture, he has few equals!: From zero to gau mutra

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    May 21

    As part of AIPC Delhi’s 'COVID Help' drive, South Delhi Chapter Secy. , DPMC President & others distributed dry ration, fruits, & face masks in the Mehrauli Vidhan Sabha area.

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    May 21

    राजीव गांधी जी की पुण्यतिथि पर हमने Food Drive की शुरुवात कीI हम अगले १५ दिनों में, १०००० लोगों को खाना खिलाने की मुहिम चलाएंगे के साथ पूरी टीम का धन्यवाद Thank you for constant suprt

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  20. May 22

    How GoI has both ridden roughshod over Federalism AND dumped its own responsibilities on States without planning or coordination, while intruding into areas reserved for state/local governments, plunging our constitutional system into chaos:

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