Engineers have won the Nobel Prize; none from India, though. Yet, there is at least one Indian engineer, who believes he has the IQ of an Einstein, the aptitude of Wilhelm Röntgen (the first engineer with a Nobel, 1903) and the sentience of a Swami Vivekananda, not to say the political acumen of a Nehru (naah, not him, he hates Nehru, obviously for his guts). In the end, Tathagatha Roy, former Governor of the states of Meghalaya and Tripura and a self-proclaimed ardent follower of Hindutva and Prime Minister Narendra Modi, has ended up as a political laughing stock.
Roy hasn’t yet tweeted about why the Nobel committee has neglected to recognise his contribution to society – he has been the founder head of the department of construction engineering at Jadavpur University – but, instead, he has been tweeting his caustic opinions on several critical social matters, none with any scientific temper.
Recently, though, Roy’s Hindutva rhetoric and his allegiance to the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) seem to be on the wane. Surprisingly, he is full of unspent anger. Roy’s political activism, at least these days, has been mainly through Twitter, and it was through Twitter that he recently made a serious allegation against his own party, the BJP.
Quite like a stubborn constipation, Roy has been carrying this complaint for around three months – and he has confirmed this over and over again over regional television channels. He says the BJP had used money and women in securing people...
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