RT @aslahtweets: Today, 12 Muslim men who spent nearly two decades in jail for a crime they did not commit were finally acquitted by the co….

RT @seemay: "For VS, Alappuzha was not merely his birthplace, but the crucible of resistance from where he rose — as a labourer, trade unio….

RT @MacaesBruno: Auschwitz was done in secret. This is done on social media.

RT @bat020: colonial atrocities so horrifying that the King of Belgium condemns them.

RT @NaTurkNaHindu: @AsimAli6 @sarayupani I also very clearly remember NDTV airing the news of Shahid Azmi’s murder as, “lawyer of 26/11 acc….

RT @brohseph_: An old trick from the playbook, here's how it played out in the case of SAR Geelani/Afzal Guru:. from N. Haksar's 'In the Sl….

Jozy Joseph in his book The Silent Coup on the "disgraceful" role played by the Indian media, by virtually all newspapers snd TV channels, around cases such as 2006 Mumbai blasts, by acting as the propoganda arm of security agencies.

A profile of Wahid Sheikh who was earlier acquited in the 2006 Mumbai blasts case. The rest of the accused have been acquited today by Bombay HC. Scores of young Muslims have had their lives scarred by a systemically communal law enforcement structure.

RT @writingback: The legendary Adv. Shahid Azmi was right as ever that the innocents were framed by the agencies. Indian police, intelligen….

RT @70sBachchan: “US popularity collapses worldwide .-China now more popular worldwide than the US .-Israel emerged as the country with the….

RT @surabhikanga: BREAKING: Bombay HC acquits 7-11 Mumbai local train blast case convicts. They will be released from prison, after more t….

RT @poeticliessence: Am losing track of the sheer number of such stories. Fcuk everyone who contrinuted to this.

RT @entropy_maker: As worker rights are ‘organised out’ of politics, issues of identity — religion, language, and national security — have….

RT @SundeepDougal: As worker rights are ‘organised out’ of politics, issues of identity — religion, language, and national security — have….

How did the figure of the 'worker' disappear from the arena of political competition?. And how has the cash transfer based welfare regime supercharged the process of demobilisation of labour & depoliticisation of workers rights?. I try to explain here.

RT @khanthefatima: India Today’s graphic from 5 years ago.

RT @nagging_citizen: Using tropes of #eviction & #embankment politics, I write on how the majoritarian state using env systematically turns….

RT @CommenterSerial: In any civilized country, this would have sparked a national uproar and led to several high-profile resignations, but….

RT @ZamanRokibuz_: Assam model is being applied across the country now. ( Read Bihar electoral revision issue: Assam did it first in 1997)….

The people who really romanticize suffering of the under-privileged are neoliberal apparatchiks who cover every failure of their state-business overlords to provide people with decent schools/hospitals/housing/transportation with paeans to some unbreakable spirit of the deprived.