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A lovely evocative poem by Badri Raina about marigolds blooming amid #COVID19: https://t.co/69fuXxJkWR — PolitiTweet.org

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These are excellent proposals and very much in congruence with my letter on the same subject to @PMOIndia & @DrSJaishankar. All concerned about our migrant workers in the Gulf during #COVID19 #Lockdown should read this thread. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's Read-Aloud #Lockdown Story #34 for children from @ShobhaTharoor is "How Tenali Raman Gained a Position in the King’s Court": https://t.co/zRJiwXqJpH Tenali Raman uses his talent and skill to gain a position in the King's court. — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @report_real: The PM CARES Fund will not be audited by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG). Why is PM Modi forcing everyo… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @ShobhaTharoor: @ShashiTharoor @juggernautbooks @htTweets @mrsfunnybones Wonderful idea @Chikisarkar to “serialize” this memorable story… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Subytweets: The Middle Eastern Indian expatriate work force is one of the key reasons, many Indian states especially, South Indian ones… — PolitiTweet.org

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Mourning the premature passing today of actor Ravi Vallathol, son of a distinguished Thiruvananthapuram family. He was the nephew of the epic poet Vallathol Narayana Menon &son of prominent playwright& AIR exec TN Gopinathan Nair. Ravi starred in various TVserials &was much loved https://t.co/UJ1JAiWOdU — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @mrsfunnybones: Thank you @ShashiTharoor for tagging me. I'm taking the #OneStoryOneNation  readathon forward by reading part 2 of Tagor… — PolitiTweet.org

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Here it is!The first part of RabindranathTagore's timeless story, Kabuliwallah, read by me as I kick off the #OneStoryOneNation readathon for @juggernautbooks & @htTweets. You can participate too: details here: https://t.co/olKAgKvizq Now over to @mrsfunnybones for Part2! https://t.co/1Fmz8VYbcp — PolitiTweet.org

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Some reasons for #LockdownLift: Coronavirus crisis to hit 29 lakh jobs in Indian aviation: IATA https://t.co/iayJZH2JzS 5. 31% apparel units to shut down, 2.5 mn jobs at risk: CMAI https://t.co/1p7fRkvINU Container shipping lines start skipping India: https://t.co/d3T4JmkvU9 — PolitiTweet.org

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This seems sensible. Pressure to lift the #Lockdown is mounting from all concerned about sufferings of poor, daily wage workers, & others whom Govt has not helped survive. There's no alternative to a phased & calibrated lift, with some groups, activities & areas still restricted. — PolitiTweet.org

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Today's Read-Aloud #Lockdown Story #33 for children from @ShobhaTharoor is "The Wolf and the Rats" from the Jataka Tales: https://t.co/5D2zZ2FdHj From this story we learn that "the treacherous deserve no mercy.” Could also read to @ChouhanShivraj's new friends! — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @arunmsukumar: From the High Court order, it appears the Kerala govt: 1. Did not ask Sprinklr to anonymise health data (!) 2. Stored dat… — PolitiTweet.org

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A good interview by Mitali Mukherjee of @samirsaran on #PostCovid19 prospects. A lot of good points, though i wish i could share his optimism about this government's capacity for much-needed course correction. https://t.co/LDwby2IgVP — PolitiTweet.org

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With mounting concern over Pravasi Keralites in the GCC countries, I wrote to @PMOIndia & @DrSJaishankar to propose specific solutions to their plight: https://t.co/rBZdX6sYCW — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @3threewomen: As the #Covid_19 incidence rate rises to over 23,000, with 4700 cases cured, timely ACCESS to treatment can ONLY happen wi… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @3threewomen: Tagore’s “kabuliwallah” awaits starting tomorrow. Your own voice can be merged with other favorites so do join in, READ &… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @MPTrivandrum: കാലത്തിനൊപ്പം മാറുന്ന തിരുവനന്തപുരത്തിന്റെ സ്വന്തം രാജാജി കോളണി അഥവാ ചെങ്കൽ ചൂള. ചെങ്കൽ ചൂളയെപ്പറ്റിയുള്ള തെറ്റിദ്ധാരണകൾ… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @Chikisarkar: Watch out for the first video with @ShashiTharoor tomorrow for #OneStoryOneNation at 12 noon. More information on our read… — PolitiTweet.org

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RT @JayasreeVijayan: What about health workers, doctors, social workers and those who are in below poverty line ? What are the measures t… — PolitiTweet.org

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9/9 In this emergency, ICMR should be taking decisions in hours and days, not weeks and months! We had given ₹1Cr funding to SCTIMST from MPLADS on Mar 30. Since then their kits are ready, trials have worked. RGCB too. But ICMR is unable to move at the rapid pace required. Why? — PolitiTweet.org

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8/9 SCTIMST's RT-LAMP test, a conclusive, yet faster & cheaper test which can replace expensive &time-consuming RT-PCR tests, &RGCB's Antibody rapid test kits (the kind we have now imported from China &found faulty) are still awaiting ICMR approval. Why is Govt dragging its feet? — PolitiTweet.org

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7/9 Infact, there are 2 successful initiatives from my own constituency, Thiruvananthapuram, w/which I am closely associated: Sree Chitra Tirunal Institute for Medical Sciences&Technology (SCTIMST) and Rajiv Gandhi Centre for Biotechnology (RGCB), both GoI centres of excellence. — PolitiTweet.org

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6/9 "What other choice did our Govt have? Congress was asking for rapid tests." Ans: Yes we have options: The answer lies in indigenous development of test-kits, as USA,SouthKorea &Germany have done. Indians are no less capable but has the Govt been smart enough to facilitate it? — PolitiTweet.org

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5/9 Spain, w/one of the largest counts of positive cases, returned around 600,000 faulty kits to China. Czech&Filipino authorities also discarded testing kits imported from China, claiming they had only 20%& 40% accuracy respectively. Slovak PM: "throw straight into the Danube”. — PolitiTweet.org

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4/9 China said that the kits should be procured from authorised manufacturers. One of the companies that India ordered from is the same company that the UK govt had ordered&then rejected for being flawed. The British are seeking a $20 million refund from the two Chinese companies — PolitiTweet.org

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3/9 The EU Medicine Agency’s guidelines, on par with the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention’s (CDC), require that rapid tests be 80% accurate. Chinese kits bought by India have shown an average of 5% accuracy, which is the lowest by their own standards. — PolitiTweet.org

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2/9 "What can Modi do about it? Many other countries also had the same experience." Yes, that's exactly the point. How smart is a government if it does not learn from the mistakes of other govts? Isn't it foolishness to make the same mistake at the cost of public health& money? — PolitiTweet.org

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1/9 Been reading the comments on this issue on social media. This thread responds, disregarding the usual whataboutery & lame refs to "70 years of @INCIndia rule" (though i didn't know Vajpayeeji had joined our party: posthumously, seeing what's happened to BJP, he well might!) — PolitiTweet.org

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This month marks the 59th anniversary of the first assassination of an Indian diplomat serving abroad. K. Vijaykrishnan recalls the episode of the killing of 38 year-old Sankara Pillai in Ottawa: https://t.co/wvfuJ4aDOI — PolitiTweet.org