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South Asia Editor Ex Editor (Nat Sec) Author: 'India's Special Forces' Views, personal. RTs≠endorsements

New Delhi, India
Joined June 2009

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    Remember the Kudankulam plant hack? We spoke to Choi Sang-myeong of and his research pin points the on the North Koreans. Andrew Salmon in Korea, and me in India report

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  2. 2 hours ago

    The Story Of A Marginalised Cuisine: How Caste Determined What Dalits Got To Eat

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  4. 3 hours ago

    The use of a food word was apt because food was one of the most common means of emphasising their humiliating status on Dalits. Trying to make a thread.. Wish me best.. (Source: Dalit food: How it became a means of oppression - The Economic Times)

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  5. And to encourage such fires on rivers, the Environment ministery has ordained that oil and gas exploration needs no clearances ? these losses are irreversible rivers dont need us, we need them. for for Also India apparently worships

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  6. 4 hours ago

    RIVER ON FIRE IN ASSAM: A tributary of Burhi Dihang river, in turn a tributary of Brahmaputra, is on fire for two days, since Feb 1, after a crude oil pipeline of OIL INDIA LTD in the area exploded during the night between Jan 31 and Feb 1.

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  7. SOS - I am currently being detained at Nagpada Police Station. The police is targeting me now for exercising my fundamental right to peacefully protest against CAA/ NRC. I have not violated any laws. I will take this further to the courts if need be.

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  8. Probably the strangest case to hit the Indian Supreme Court. A larger bench is hearing a review of issues that were never made. And the implications for India are huge. And that is an understatement.

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  9. My mother is an MCD school teacher. She hasn't got her salary for the last three months. THREE MONTHS! MCD is controlled by BJP. These guys who go around saying 'goli maro' and 'goli ka samna karna hoga', pay these hardworking teachers first.

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  10. A thread on protests, and attempts to discredit them. In 2015, I was one of the many to report on the writers' protest after the murder of Dr M M Kalburgi. Hundreds of writers joined in spontaneously, returning awards, "everything except the garland".

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  11. Third firing. Law and order in the capital.

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  13. Such intense hate for Shaheen Bagh. Only because they offer flowers and poetry in response to their bullets, because despite all opposition the people of Shaheen Bagh and those who stand by them, led by Shaheen Bagh's incredible women, refuse to speak this man's language of hate.

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  14. "Delhi had riots for 2 days" - with Delhi Police under the Home Ministry, that is some admission.

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  15. Feb 2

    Here is the proof that Jamia shooter Gopal Sharma is not a minor. Ellection Commission of India registers him as a 20 year old voter. He should be tried as an adult accused.

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  16. Happy Retraction Day!

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  17. In 1997 I took a bike to Rajgad, known as "Gadan-cha Raja" (The King of Forts) to expose the state of disrepair. The men in charge would be drinking all night at the fort. The story created a ruckus. & Prakash Kardaley were the editors who pushed the story.

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  18. Feb 1

    So here is how it works: If it goes well, all credit to PM and FM. If not, blame it on the Babus. 🤷‍♀️

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  19. Rice commercials from Kurdistan are on another level. Can we please get some series/movies like that? Here's a thread of some ads.🍛🍚 Azad Rice lets two kingdoms go into war over its rice.

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  20. Feb 1

    Meanwhile evacuated Indians in a isolation camp in Manesar, Haryana 😂 (via )

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  21. Feb 1

    Dialogues written by . Please RT this maximum and let know that he missed one name.. :))

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