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No Comprende (Now @bhanujkappal.bsky.social)
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Sometimes antisocial. Always antifascist.
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Can we get a K-pop star to also make a comment about the farmer protests? I really wanna see how the IT Cell vs Army battle plays out.
Wearing a Che Guevara t-shirt to go have a "scrumptious dinner" with Piyush Goyal, while his government unleashes terror on leftist students in the national campus.
Ranvir Shorey really is the face of Indian centrists.
Have you ever before seen a gun-brandishing terrorist walk towards the police, his back turned to them, not at all worried that they would tackle/shoot him?
I can think of only a couple of explanations for that, and neither of them reflect well on the Delhi police and the state.
Hindus For Air Pollution is an interesting stand to take.
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NRI Twitter more triggered by a white guy not liking Indian food than it is by the rapid dismantling of the Indian republic by Hindu fascists and state repression and disenfranchisement of millions.
India's industrialists laugh at the police using humiliation as a tool of policing because they know such abuses of authority will never affect them. The school analogy is also instructive - the masses as errant schoolkids, with themselves as the benevolent principals, of course.
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“Face mask rule violators at Marine Drive in Mumbai being made to do a “Murga” walk as punishment by Mumbai Police” Received on my ‘SignalWonderbox.’ A common punishment in the boarding school I attended. Comical, but physically taxing.I certainly won’t forget my mask!!
By arresting his granddaughter's husband on trumped up charges.
Remember this image every time you read about Delhi Police's fabricated narrative around the Delhi pogrom.
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#Breaking Umar Khalid arrested by Delhi police for his alleged role in #DelhiRiots
In solidarity with these seventeen. There should be legal action against BBMP and Tejasvi Surya and the others for discriminatory action, defamation and wrongful arrest. t.co/WUCVFDaoMD
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What fresh diaspora bullshit is this? Will white editors stop giving space to soft-Sanghi fash apologists just because they're brown-skinned? How about talk to someone actually in India before publishing this ridiculous victim-blaming nonsense?
. insta-blocking anyone who asks her about the withheld accounts is not a good look for . When your director of public policy refuses to engage with a simple question, it doesn't really inspire much faith in your commitment to transparency or user rights.
Arun Ferreira's first arrest was under a Congress government. Kabir Kala Manch were branded Naxals and thrown into jail under a Congress government. Your party passed the laws and set the precedents that have paved the way for such gross misuse of state power.
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There is only place for one NGO in India and it's called the RSS. Shut down all other NGOs. Jail all activists and shoot those that complain.
Welcome to the new India.
#BhimaKoregaon
What pisses me off is that Dub Sharma gained so much cultural and social capital for a song that appropriated student protest chants, and then erased the actual student leaders from the track and sold it to a company that vilified them for profit. And now he says this. twitter.com/dubsharma/stat
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Chacha was in the front row when they stormed the Bastille too, I'm sure.
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My attachment to France is quite old, and I can never forget it. Around 40 years ago, a cultural centre of France was started in Ahmedabad, Gujarat, and the first member of that very centre is today talking to you.
- PM @narendramodi
The US media had photos of corpses piled up in refrigerated trucks. A quick Google search would have shown you the images. But don't let the facts get in the way of your propaganda.
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Burning or burial of the dead is a sacred, profoundly private act. US media never disrespected their dead from 9/11 to Covid. Nor did media of France, Germany, Italy, UK, China or any self-respecting nation. It’s your prerogative, but just asking: Was this necessary? twitter.com/BDUTT/status/1…
Hindu racists shocked that white racists don't ask if their brown victims are Hindu before shooting them.
3 takeaways from the Nidhi case:
1. It's sad, but it's also bloody hilarious.
2. Too much about that story doesn't add up, as many of her online 'defenders' are happy to point out in private.
3. Blue tick liberals prove once again that diff standards apply to their friends.
Khan Market is named after freedom fighter Khan Abdul Ghaffar Khan, not a Mughal king. You absolute nincompoop. twitter.com/Payal_Rohatgi/
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Yesterday's protest against CAA at Shivaji Park showed the face of middle class savarna India. First some old uncles came to "debate" the protesters. Armed with whatsapp talking points, they proceeded to shout at teenaged students at the top of their voices.
When you failed high school science so hard you don't even know what "chemical" means. Pure water is a chemical you numbskull.
Farmers refilling the trenches dug by the Indian state with their own hands. Incredible. twitter.com/atulchanpuriya
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The Indian state finding out that last minute all-nighter just-before-deadline approach doesn't work for public healthcare in the middle of a global pandemic.
Where are all the people who were crying about buses last December? twitter.com/atti_cus/statu
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Rishi Sunak won't approve your visa application bro, chill out.
Stan Swamy passed away while imprisoned in a case where key evidence was planted, a case that has less to do with any crime than with the State's inability to tolerate dissent. The State has its blood on its hands, and that includes an apathetic judiciary.
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BREAKING : Father Stan Swamy passes away, counsel informs Bombay High Court when the Court took up his bail plea.
#StanSwamy twitter.com/LiveLawIndia/s…
Apparently this person crying about Hinduphobia is also the same person who airdropped sexually explicit pictures onto strangers' phones as a 'prank'. Peak sanskaar. t.co/KpPSPWuQLO
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It's been 16 years since Nisha and I shared a first kiss on the sweaty dance floor at a South Mumbai nightclub. Talk about life-changing moments.
Bhima Koregaon and the Delhi riots, two incidents of violence engineered by right wing forces that are now being used to harass and arrest anyone who dissents against this fascist government. We're living in Emergency 2.0.
Just found an SSR twitter space and honestly all I can say is that this country really needs accessible mental healthcare.
Is this the first time an elected leader has addressed the nation in order to organise a flash mob?
Things have gotten so bad, half the Mumbai indie scene is out to protest.
You know cats are the pets of the people because there's no such thing as a "police cat."
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People are always like CATS R ELITIST DOGS R THE PETS OF THE COMMON MAN but like 95% of cat acquisition stories are "I found him in the garbage and took him home"
Kinda wild that the Prime Minister of the world's largest country saw King Charles' coronation and went I want some of that. And now the whole country is arguing over a sceptre that nobody had heard of two weeks ago.
Never been prouder of being from Chandigarh. twitter.com/DilliDurAst/st
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Every morning I wake up and am shocked anew at the fact that our country is enacting Nuremberg-style laws, arresting young Muslim men for the crime of falling in love, destroying families-to-be in aid of bigotry. And most of us just act like it isn't happening.
But pls don't be rude to the editor of this wank-rag of a channel, okay?
How was dinner with Piyush Goyal, Ranveer?
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Students being used by political parties and their agendas is something this nation needs to address immediately. It’s heartbreaking to see kids being brutalised by power hungry politicians. #JNUViolence
If the Munawar Faruqui case doesn't convince the Indian comedy industry to work towards a more pro-active and organised response to censorship-by-mob, I don't know what will. 2020 saw an unprecedented shrinking of the space afforded to Indian comics, with little fightback.
There's something uniquely infuriating about the smug ignorance of this overgrown toddler. I think it's that slimy self-congratulatory smile he gets every time his lone, overworked brain cell manages to come up with a full coherent sentence. twitter.com/thevirdas/stat
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Nucleya and Raftaar applauding this piece of misogynistic garbage, probably thinking that it's okay because it's a woman saying it. Y'all are trash.
This explains a lot about OpIndia.
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After I joined OpIndia, I wanted to do a distance learning course in journalism too. Rahul Roushan talked me out of it and told me that I am instinctively doing more than what trained journalists do. He said it would be a waste of time and now, I believe he was completely right
Mumbai Mirror shutting down is terrible news for journalism in the city. Despite being a Times Group publication, it had fantastic local coverage and reach, and did some great national stories too. It's also been one of the braver mainstream publications in recent years.
"She's not financially independent and can't leave, so it's okay for me to beat her" - Sincerely, Purushottam.
Psychedelics, Nazis and cryptocurrency. Can this story be more 2021?
The absolute worst take on Kashmir is the people going "whatever happens, you've got to appreciate the planning/chutzpah/gaumutra of the BJP in pushing this through."
These are the kind of people who will look at the Holocaust and praise its efficiency.
I'm stoned in public quite often actually. t.co/wmLcCJCkZy
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As rich Indians, you mean. Sometimes I wonder if these startup CEO types understand that there's more to the country than their target audience/peer group.
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We as Indians will have 2 choices after this storm is over.
Give up hope and leave this nation after all the pain and suffering we went through.
Convert all of this pain and suffering as potential energy to fix this nation forever.
One choice is easy, other is worthy.
If Hindol Sengupta is considered a major public intellectual now, I'd like to nominate my cat as one as well, for his distillation of anarchist political philosophy into simple, everyday practice.
My agent: "Dude we really need to set a delivery date for your manuscript"
Me: "hum kaagaz nahin dikhayenge."
Someone give the photographer and photo-editor an award.
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German Chancellor Angela Merkel stresses "solidarity" with Israel in call with Israeli PM Benjamin Netanyahu, as death toll from Israeli strikes in besieged Gaza tops 200
One sign that we're in a surreally fucked up timeline is that Farhan Akhtar just proved himself to be more anti-establishment than most of the Indian rock/metal scene.
Been detained with two other journalists by cops from outside the Republic office.
Did you really though, Mirror?
Akshay Kumar should give up his Canadian passport and come home in protest against Trudeau's comments.
They are still doing fucking inaugurations in the middle of a national health emergency. Politics trumps everything in Ram Rajya.
As inspiring as these protests are, it's imp. to remember that this government has 4.5 more years in power. They can pull a tactical retreat, confident that they can wait out the protests. The opposition needs to figure out how to turn this discontent into wins at the state level
The police should not be "handing" consenting adults "back to families". They're just as complicit in this tragedy.
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Inter caste couple elope. Police track them down and hand them back to families. Brother of woman beheads sisters lover, minutes later she hangs herself.
Madhya pradesh.
The real victims of this crisis are CEOS and founders, yes.
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Every founder right now is trying hard to juggle many balls to the best of their abilities - taking care of their family, their team, their company, their investors. The buck stops at them for everything.
Pls send a message of support & encouragement to your founder friends 
The Sunni Waqf board should use their 5 acres to build a museum of shame, documenting the crimes of Indian majoritarianism.
I wonder if MNS thugs will go ransack the Swarajya office for writing "Shivaji" instead of "Shivaji Maharaj"?
Lmao just saw some big shot editor compare the farmers protest to the Capitol Hill insurrection. This is the level of analysis in Indian media.
I just wanna ask, with your tongue so firmly stuck up a certain arse, what sort of tongue cleaner do you use to get the taste out?
I hope the world is watching as Twitter collaborates with an authoritarian government to silence the voice of a movement that is facing severe police brutality and repression. twitter.com/PunYaab/status
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Exactly the level of discourse I expect from India's premier think tank wonks.
Not to be a bummer but we must be this outraged when the state unleashes terror on citizens anywhere in the country, not just when it happens in Delhi. This anger that you're now feeling? It is a part of life for so many for years. In Kashmir, in Assam, in central India.
Shouldn't he only be treated by AYUSH docs?
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Indian liberals cling so desperately to the idea of civility in a public discourse decisively hijacked by the most divisive, genocidal forces. It reflects a yearning to return to a status quo that was neither just nor civil in reality, and that has gone forever anyway.
There are major hospitals in the national capital literally begging for oxygen on Twitter. This is what it's come to. Hope your mandir was worth it.
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And this was a small, peaceful protest in front of a police chowki in Shivaji Park, with a number of upper class kids in attendance. Imagine how this rhetorical escalation plays out in places where protesters are not protected by privilege and TV cameras. Then look at UP.
He's deleted his tweet now, but the General Secretary of the BJP told Bernie Sanders that his comment on the Delhi violence will "compel us to play a role in presidential elections". On twitter.
Modi and Shah sacrificed tend of thousands to COVID-19 to win an election they ended up losing.
I hope at least someone in the Indian state has the courage to ask them if it was worth it. Although like most Indians over the last few years, my hopes are likely to go unfulfilled.
You know you're in Delhi when you ask the Uber driver if he has a matchbox and he gives you this.
First of all, this ridiculous rush to defend rats jumping off the Republic ship is an insult to all the journalists who choose integrity over a paycheck, who hustle and grind to pay the bills instead of being willing participants in hate propaganda and lynch mobs.
Watch Indian liberals outrage more about a piece of cloth than they did about months of police brutality and violence against a democratic protest.
If you're ever worried about calling things wrong or sounding like an idiot in your music crit, just remember that the Guardian once carried a piece that said that Naezy was born in the Khatarnak suburb of Mumbai.
And four years later, that piece is still up sans correction.
I will never forgive the right wing for making us defend ol VD.
Uncle, please sit.
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Keeping students out of politics is actually a good thing, imho.
How stupid do you have to be to record a sexual encounter without the other person's consent because you're worried about being falsely accused of violating consent?
So many indie musicians are completely silent on the protests and the brutality with which the BJP is trying to clamp down on them. Disappointed, but not surprised. "independent" hoke kya ukhaad liya tumne? Even Bollywood actors have more balls than you, kaise indie artists ho?
If anyone tried to do the same to a temple ritual, imagine the police response? Free lathi-charge for everyone!
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To counter namaz in the open, residents of Gurgaon’s sector 47 show up with mic and speaker, sing bhajans. This is the fourth week in a row that Friday prayers have been disrupted
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Also true for India.
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In Pakistan, a centrist is a right winger with a good English accent.
You're waiting for a Brahmin Lives Matter protest before you step out into the streets?
Only non-American political turmoil can be mined for jokes. twitter.com/JordanGavaris/
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Farhan Akhtar opening for U2 confirmed.
It's amazing that the BJP is making such a big deal of Subhash Chandra Bose, a man who was more open to working with the Nazis and Imperial Japan than with the Hindu Mahasabha.
Lmao to all the people who voted BJP because it would be "strong on terror". Turns out you voted for the terrorists.
The venue for tomorrow's protest in Mumbai has changed to Azad Maidan.
BREAKING: clouds booked for terrorism under UAPA.
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‘Unfortunately, couldn’t see the sun’: PM @narendramodi blames clouds after failing to watch solar eclipse
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#solareclipse2019
This is torture.
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Just In | Wheelchair bound Prof. G.N. Saibaba, who is 90% physically disabled and tested positive for #COVID19 has been sent back to the anda cell at Nagpur Central Jail after being taken to a Hospital, reports @courtkacheri4.
All the fact checking on Twitter is amazing but how do we get regional papers and media to report on Modi's lies? He knows his base isn't following progressive Twitter.
Is there another class of people as clueless, relentlessly self-aggrandizing, and egotistical as startup founders?
We've got state ministers threatening a repeat of the mass murder of 2002, and there's people still worrying about buses.
If you don't like Kunal Kamra's tweets, just don't read them.
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[BREAKING] Attorney General KK Venugopal grants consent to initiate contempt proceedings against stand up comic artist @kunalkamra88
AG states that tweets by Kamra "were highly objectionable."
What is happening with Munawar Faruqui right now is a reminder that the conservatives have always wielded 'cancel culture' against those with less power, and their 'cancelling' tends to be much more violent (sometimes even permanent).
IMHO, you should read a history book.
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IMHO, educational institutions and campuses should be free of all politics. Education & politics together only breed criminals and hokey politicians in India. #CABPolitics
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Nobody cared about Dub Sharma before the original cut of Azaadi came out. Man owes his whole career to student protests but now he out here giving chaddi uncle takes.
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Also imp. to note that the writer is really just using "cultural appropriation" to mean "offended my sensibilities", which is so far from what that term actually signifies.
Either the writer is hopelessly ignorant about the social justice terms she uses, or wilfully deceitful.