Professor Nitasha Kaul, PhD
@NitashaKaul
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Prof (Chair) Politics, IR, & Critical Interdisciplinary Studies, novelist, writer, poet, traveller, dreamer, economist, artist. Full CV at
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On Jan 1, 2023, the Centre for the Study of Democracy (CSD) — founded in 1989 and the home of politics & international relations at University of Westminster — gets a new (+1st female) Director. Yours truly 🥰
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IMPORTANT: Denied entry to
#India
for speaking on democratic & constitutional values. I was invited to a conference as esteemed delegate by Govt of
#Karnataka
(Congress-ruled state) but Centre refused me entry. All my documents were valid & current (UK passport & OCI). THREAD 1/n
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Re all the lies, I am not married to a Pakistani, not Muslim convert, not a pawn of China, not a puppet of West, not a commie, not a jihadi, not Pak sympathiser, not terrorist supporter, not anti-India, not part of a gang.
I am what authoritarians fear-
a thinking woman ❤️✊🏽💃🏼
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I simply cannot bring myself to share even blurred video from
#Manipur
. The deeply misogynist patriarchal casteist Hindutva society on full display in what that Hindu mob does to those tribal Christian women. Modi silent, as when 8 yo Aasifa was raped by Hindus. Utter horror 1/2
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Disssent & critical thinking from = Label
Muslim = Pakistani
Sikh = Khalistani
Secular = Sickular
Woman = Presstitute/Whore
Non BJP/RSS KP = Terrorist
Academic = Urban naxal
Overseas = Foreign Intel Agent
Who hates & divides? Think.
And I'm part of Tukde-Tukde Gang. Really?
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It was a very important day for
#Kashmir
and for
#humanrights
today. As soon as I can, I will respond to your tweets & share the clips from what I said at the Congressional Hearing at Washington DC today. Please do also read my submitted written testimony.
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Are you actually nuts? This is me as the prime minister of my school receiving commendation from Sonia Gandhi for volunteer work on heart care awareness (Project Hriday) in collaboration with all India Institute of medical sciences (AIIMS) in 1993.
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Simply getting accounts suspended is not enough. The BJP Karnataka, VHP, RSS (people w power) are deliberately accusing me of being anti-India Pakistani supporter/agent w no evidence. RW influencers circulating lies. Violent sexual & death threats continue.
#India
#democracy
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Indian origin professor denied entry to country.
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As different parts of the world stagger through stages of pandemic lockdown, think of people in
#Kashmir
— traumatic history, effectively a constitutional coup in August 2019, silenced through communications blockades, now demographic change, settler colonial tactics & pandemic!
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The histories of our present will see the spectacle of
#HowdyModi
for what it really is - an image of democratically legitimated authoritarian narcissists who waved at crowds as they enabled violence against the marginalised masses whom they sought to silence and dispossess.
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#Kashmiris
are claimed in the name of
#democracy
and further colonized in the name of
#development
.
My article written in deep despair after the events of 5 August 2019 in
#Kashmir
; changes that are still unfolding in all their terrible detail.
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I was given no reason by immigration except ‘we cannot do anything, orders from Delhi’. My travel & logistics had been arranged by Karnataka & I had the official letter with me. I received no notice or info in advance from Delhi that I would not be allowed to enter.
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I spent 12 hours in a flight from London to Bangalore, several hours at immig where they shuttled me here & there, provided no info on process, then 24 hours in a holding cell (no BA flight back until next day) under direct cctv w restricted movement, a narrow area to lie down
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Here is a complete link to what I said in my expert testimony at the US Congress, in my opening statement, and in q & a.
[written statement is online at ]
#Kashmir
#HumanRights
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I am a globally respected academic & public intellectual, passionate about liberal democratic values. I care for gender equity, challenging misogyny, sustainability, civil & political liberties, rule of law.
I am not anti-Indian, I am anti-authoritarian & pro-
#democracy
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The happy person below has been awarded a Chair 🔥🥰
My new title "Professor of Politics, International Relations, and Critical Interdisciplinary Studies".
1st woman of colour Chair/Full Professor in Politics & International Relations at CSD, Westminster 💃🏾
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“I am not prepared to take part in a PR stunt for the Modi government and pretend that all is well. It is very clear that democratic principles are being subverted in
#Kashmir
, and the world needs to start taking notice”.
@ChrisDaviesLD
🙌🏽 👏🏽
EU member’s invite withdrawn after he requests to move around freely in Jammu and Kashmir
(report by
@PrasunSonwalkar
)
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How can the world's largest democracy be threatened by my pen & the word? How is it ok for centre to not allow a professor to be at a conference on Constitution where she was invited by state govt? To give no reason? Not the India we cherish, is it?
@CMofKarnataka
@CMahadevappa
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Mixing
#religion
and
#politics
is catastrophic in a
#democracy
➡️
Party becomes a cult, leader a God
➡️
it is hard to vote out gods, they demand worship, they do not need to give reasons, and they cannot be held accountable!
#India
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and no easy access to food and water, made dozens of calls to airport for basic things as a pillow and blanket, which they refused to provide, then 12 hours on the flight back to London.
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India denies entry to UK academic visiting to ‘speak on democratic values’
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@davidvolodzko
Very sorry to hear! current set up is thin-skinned & completely unable to take any critical thinking, questioning, or dissent. As Indian-origin academic refusing to toe ruling party line, I’ve faced hell. Any criticism from anyone is “anti-national”!
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October 1947, the promised plebiscite that never came.
#Kashmir
After 7 decades plus, the Region deserves a choice not just between India and Pakistan, but also the recognition of an answer to the slogan chanted everywhere - ‘Hum Kya Chahte? Azaadi’ [What do we want? Freedom]
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Blocked & reported. Yet another instance of relentless misogynist abuse from
#HindutvaTrolls
, anti-
#Kashmir
Indian hypernationalists who salute female
#BJP
leaders in public & send this to Kashmiri women who speak up. This is the shame of right wing men. Go, own it & grow up!
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When supporters of India’s policies in
#Kashmir
speak in the media, they have no facts & no way to justify that they are banking on destitution & decimation of Kashmiris, so they resort to personal maligning of bad faith against those who speak truth to power & disagree with them
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Decades of my work speaks for me. The officials informally made references to my criticism of RSS, a far-right Hindu nationalist paramilitary from years ago. I have travelled to India numerous times since. I was invited by a state govt, but refused entry by the central govt.
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Rightwing
#HindutvaTrolls
have for years threatened me w death, rape, ban etc. In the past, authorities have sent police to my elderly ailing mother’s home to intimidate, even though I live in UK & my work has no connexion to her, a pious temple-going dezhor-wearing retired Hindi…
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‘I am not married to a Pakistani, not a Muslim convert': Nitasha Kaul trashes claims after UK writer was deported
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Only a few hours since I posted about my experience,
#HindutvaTroll
Right-wing ecosystem in
#India
has circulated manifest lies about my views,politics,sympathies, associations,personal life. Their demands have ⬆️ from OCI revocation, to arrest/jail, rape fantasies, to death.
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Big day today. My operation! Waited for ever for it, it seems. Feels so strange to go out without earrings or eyeliner (hospital rules!), but I’m dosed on music (Heart Sutra, Elsa’s Show Yourself, and Bullah ki jana main kaun), and ready to be cut, healed & made whole again! 🥰
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Dear All, thank you 🙏🏽 for your messages that fall into 3 kinds - appreciation, trolling, & worries for my safety.
My response - 1. gratitude (we must be centred on humanity for all, esp. those not ‘like us’); 2. Peace and release from hate that’s fostered by ignorance. And 3...
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#Kashmir
- autonomy revoked, people imprisoned, movement restricted, phone & internet cut off.
Pls read👇🏽
“In theory the ruling BJP is integrating Kashmir into the rest of India. In practice it has turned the valley into a vast open-air detention centre.”
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‘The news agency ANI put out a clip of this part of Kaul’s testimony on its feed for subscribers, but with a crucial change: it edited out the words “protofascist trajectory”. Make of that what you will.’
#Kashmir
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After not allowing Indian opposition MPs to visit
#Kashmir
, in October (3 months after taking statehood+autonomy) Kashmiris put on display by India to a group of far right EU MEPs to prove that while they are denied services, silenced & suffocated - look! - they’re still around!
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Whatever I’ve said/written on
#Kashmir
over time, however many international fora/media I’ve spoken at/to — Indian mainstream media has consistently & conspicuously ignored voices like mine. The Kashmiri, and Kashmiri Pandit, voices they amplify are the state-centric ones.
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I've always dismissed such threats as petty (since 2014, disinvite from arranged talk at Nehru Memorial Museum & Library, withdrawal of already publicised lecture on gender at JNU etc all without any official reason/explanation). When I was speaking on AI & Buddhism in a third…
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I feel grateful to the universe for memories! Here’s one from a previous year — with Parveena Ahangar 😇 ❤️
The loving, caring, kind, and determined crusader for justice.
#Kashmir
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One could say - how dare they? But, the shameless and brutal colonial project in
#Kashmir
is all about multidimensional violence, including the epistemic violence of erasing Kashmiri history and legislating Kashmiri memory.
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The govt at centre in India refused me entry to a conference where I was invited by the state govt.
Unless this is fixed, I join the ranks of the Tibetan exiles and Ukrainian exiles, and others throughout history who have faced the arbitrary exercise of brute unreasoning power.
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#MondayMotivation
Do good, be well & face relentless hate with humour & style.
On
#Kashmir
,
#HindutvaTrolls
have invented my parents & spouse; hurled character & sexual abuses; wished for my arrest, travel ban or worse
Me — You need to calm down 😂
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This is also about what knowledge-making can do! Banning academics, journalists, activists, writers from India in spite of all valid documents is pathetic. The evidence is in public. In the country, academic institutions are being forced to toe the line (I have published on…
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Disgusting. The sheer claimsmaking proprietorial attitude it smacks of, as if stupendously ignorant of the political chokehold of
#India
on the people of
#Kashmir
. Shame on such colonial attitudes, especially when they masquerade under liberal journalism. 🤮
Indeed. Not just the land, but also and always the people. The part of India I feel the deepest connection to, personally, professionally, emotionally..
#kashmirprideofindia
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‘What about Kashmiri Pandits?’
When all logic fails, there’s always tragedy to be misused by
#HindutvaTrolls
🙄
#India
#Kashmir
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What’s obnoxious is a co-panellist who refuses a civil handshake & instead blames you personally for having humiliated her, as if you were the chair! I feel pity for such people & wish them peace/release from hate. In Michelle Obama’s words, “When they go low, you go high” 💪🏽🦋😇
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Deliberate and calculated economic violence perpetrated in
#Kashmir
.
“The business community has been one of the targets of the government clampdown to weaken the resistance against the August 5 decisions.”
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Oh look,
#Democracy
in
#Kashmir
Local elections - Block Development Council (BDC) - imposed upon Kashmir today and *only one* party contesting the polls — the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP).
😓
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My origin is from a downtown mohalla in Srinagar, Kashmir and I was born in Gorakhpur, Uttar Pradesh — the land of saffron to the ‘saffronisation' heartland.
This is about the threat to me & my safety, & the important impact of my work that worries anti-democratic sensibilities…
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I spoke to Karan Thapar in this interview with The Wire News where I responded to the patchwork quilt of unsubstantiated allegations that have been made against me on TV channels in India ⬇️
#democracy
#India
#rights
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I will not advise or consult with those who condone violence, foster hate, and repress their population in any country. You cannot buy me or bully me, and it is always a No to those who do not believe in decency.
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My
#solidarity
to any & all Kashmiris in/out of
#Kashmir
(& others oppressed anywhere who are denied human rights and/or right to choose nation, religion, identity of any kind) is not conditional upon their nationality, ethnicity, religion, identity.
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and registered a complaint on email in writing, which closed with Tagore’s poem: ‘where the mind is without fear’. BTW, I am not averse to advising govts, policymakers, or to engagements with a state. However, I should be asked politely, respected for my views & time, and not…
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For the Indians - when security vehicles crush Kashmiri bodies under wheels of vehicles and people in India celebrate. Please reflect on this too.
#Kashmir
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In quarantine or isolation, many of us are grateful for internet/social media, precisely what people in
#Kashmir
still don’t properly have. Not because 4G doesn’t exist but as it’s part of collective punishment of population, exacerbated since last Aug, no relenting for virus.
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Education is a wonderful thing. Read ⬇️
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#Kashmir
Today is an awful day. I woke from dreams of a ship with a deck of solid stone that not only still floats but carries a mountain on one side. I am Kashmiri, today is 5th August. I hear the words of Mayi Chani...
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So what if it was only to collect a form from the GP surgery, it was still a long overdue little walk in the sunshine today! ✨😇
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The killing of
#women
who speak up in order to silence them is the final evidence of utter
#patriarchal
bankruptcy; it happened again in
#Afghanistan
today, as the so-called ‘protectors’ and ‘liberators’ of women do their deals.
#MenaMangal
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I will be speaking as an Expert Witness at the U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Foreign Affairs hearing on 'Human Rights in South Asia: Views from the State Department and the Region" on 22 October 2019 in Washington D.C.
#Kashmir
#HumanRights
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1. Criticism of ruling party policy ≠ anti-national.
2. Criticism of anything in India ≠ Pro-Pakistan/'West'
3. Selective out of context quotes & deliberate misinterpretations amplified online = harms.
4.
#Democracy
, constitution, rule of law, pluralism, secularism = precious
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And behind those Modi-BJP campaigns of selfie with daughter, Beti padhao, this is terrible reality.
#Misogyny
- which I define in my work as feminisation as prelude to devaluation - is deeply central to
#authoritarianism
& to the subversion of
#democracy
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I am deeply knowledgeable about multiple countries and worlds. I work across a range of disciplines, themes and geographical regions. Regarding the political transformation in India since 2014, I have years of analytical peer-reviewed published work.
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Far right EU MEPs being taken to
#Kashmir
, not an official delegation, not US Senator, not free press. The transnational hate and flouting of usual norms in a
#democracy
speaks for itself.
#India
To sum it up, a group (not official delegation) of 27 MEPs - 22 of them affiliated to far Right parties - are visiting India in a private capacity - organised by an NGO - and are being taken to Kashmir Valley by the central government.
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I have also made important connexions in study of transnational repression, use of misogyny as a political strategy in authoritarian projects that undermine democracy, & rise of global right-wing. Also esp. on India, I know it very well. I am well versed in several languages, &…
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Rumours about something afoot in
#Kashmir
. No one knows what, when, how. Yet, keeping people on tenterhooks is not new for authoritarians. There is something utterly despicable & unfree about lives governed in this way - arbitrarily, unaccountably, whimsically, undemocratically.
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#Kashmir
100 Days since autonomy revoked, flag & constitutional guaranteees done away without consent by a “
#democracy
” to bring “
#development
”
For Kashmiris - *Shutdown* of broadband, mobile internet, prepaid mobiles, SMS, no independent external observers or media freedom
🤔
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Random example of many such tweets - No, I’m not anti-India, I’m anti-fascist projects. I’m not related to ‘Gandhi family’. I should be welcomed in
#India
, because there too, like anywhere, many people care for
#HumanRights
who are being silenced by fear & intimidation.
#Kashmir
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This trailer for a forthcoming movie called ‘
#Hindutva
’ is *deeply worrying* for its divisive rhetoric. Truly tragic that movies like this can make it past censor board. Mainstream
#cinema
hits rock bottom in service of ruling ideology in
#India
.
The
#HindutvaTrailer
is now out .
#Review
of HV
A very important point was raised, and the following points were highlighted that many people ignore:➡️
No other place for Hindus .
Hindu Rashtra
Article 370
College Politics
Victim card Politics
College Politics
Vampanthiyat
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I have no hope of being able to get across in this RW ecosystem, so, here is my response (in English) for those who are not bad faith actors, and want to know what I stand for.
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An all Kashmiri voices panel on
#Kashmir
at
#Cambridge
University tomorrow, 31 Oct, at 5 pm.
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I am what authoritarians fear: UK academic Nitasha Kaul after denied entry into India
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#Kashmir
wasn't, isn't, and won't be an 'integral' part of India. If saying that is sedition, not saying it is a complicit 'old lie'.
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If you care for democracy, if you care for emergent geopolitical realignments, if you rank civil and political liberties in different regimes, if you qualitatively survey democracy, sit up and take notice. I will continue writing and meaning-making for the common good. On this…
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Dear All, can
@twitter
or anyone advise what I can do to counter such deliberate &!baseless slander? Please help. Just blocking this
@RaviKant
isn’t enough, the
#HindutvaTrolls
keep repeating *total lies* to somehow delegitimise my work because they have no real arguments.
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I hope that I can see & touch my mother again. I love you mom. ❤️🥹💔
The heart-breaking price of critical scholarship, sadly, even in contemporary era!
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“a close analysis of the Jammu and
#Kashmir
police’s Report...provides clinching evidence of not just illegal arrests and detentions but also proof that many of the media reports about the arrest of minors cited by the petitioners were indeed accurate.”
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The only glimpse of the sky that I had in 72 hours when I was able to get to the departure gate. Though the professor was exhausted, the poet in me took a pic of the full moon.
At the worst when I was under cctv 24/7 with bright lights that could not be turned off, cold blowing…
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I have heard of silence of academics in diaspora being purchased by getting people via informal mechanisms to agree/undertake that they will not be critical of ruling party in return for access to India.
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#India
Election Commission appointed by BJP majority, Congress funds frozen, AAP Delhi CM arrested, most of now unconstitutional corruption-tool electoral bonds money w BJP, no paper trail for EVMs, Enforcement Directorate, CBI etc used selectively against opposition, CAA/NRC..
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For the many who won’t speak up in
#India
about the blood-stained colonial fantasy of Kashmir —
Your identity as
#Indian
should not prevent you from expressing
#solidarity
with the people of
#Kashmir
who have been endlessly brutalised in your name, before 5 Aug 2019, and after.
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