“And it may well be that we will have to repent in this generation. Not merely for the vitriolic words of the bad people and the violent actions of the bad people, but for the appalling silence and indifference of the good people who sit around and say, ‘Wait on time.’”
I just discovered that the guy who exposed the brand manager of
@TanishqJewelry
to massive trolling, hatred and threats, forcing the withdrawal of the Hindu-Muslim harmony advertisement is followed by our Prime Minister.
So they bullied
@RichaChadha
into apologising. She didn't have to. She wasn't mocking the soldiers who died saving India's borders; she was mocking those who were responsible for those deaths and their inability to stand up. Remember: "na koi ghusa hai na...?"
#BREAKING
- A case has been filed against the breastfeeding cover picture of Grihalakshmi magazine at the Kollam CJIM court. The case has been filed under section 3 & 4 of the indecent representation of women (Prohibition) Act 1986.
@rahulkanwal
asked famous author Yuval Noah Harari
@harari_yuval
to comment on India's reaction to the
#COVID19
pandemic.
Observe Kanwal's body language as Harari says India must stop harassing Muslims.
Thank you, Harari. Indeed, the human solidarity is the way-forward.
.
@TataCompanies
, of which Tanishq is a subsidiary, made the single largest donation to the BJP (55.5% per cent of Rs 800 crore) before the last Lok Sabha elections.
"Are you okay" asked a fan to
#SushantSingh
in March. His patchy twitter presence had made her suspicious. Interesting that his colleagues were clueless. The ruthless world of showbiz! All that outpouring of grief now seems so hypocritical.
I have no sympathy for Tatas, AT ALL. It got the hate it funded, nurtured; a dose of its own medicine. I only regret once respecting the brand. Once a "nation-builder" to a fledgling India, Tatas has turned out to be just another opportunist.
This guy knows exactly what he's doing. He's looking for his two- minutes of twitter fame by going after
@iamsrk
. He baiting. He knows this "sells". Don't rise to the bait. Don't give him the visibility he's looking for. Don't RT or QT. Possibly, ignore.
A newborn lost both her parents & grandparents from the father's side to
#covid
. The baby was positive too, but survived. Grandparents from mother's side have reportedly *reluctantly* taken her with them, after police insisted. Stories of
#CovidOrphans
will haunt big time.
I only feel terribly sorry for the brand manager who commissioned and the creators who made this advertisement. In this political climate, they tried in their own way to spread love, to uphold India's idea of pluralism. They failed.
It is quite possible that many RW trolls (IT cell guys?), who pounced on Tata & its employee, at some point gained from the donation, in some way or the other. Some employee freedom they have boss! They do not even spare their biggest investor. Any other job with that luxury?
The creators of
@TanishqJewelry
's absolutely beautiful advertisement failed--and let this sink in--because the hatred they were subjected to was enabled by none other than their own employer.
Someone trying hard to make this look like a two-sided conflict. to anyone who believes him, or at least wants to, just ask on whose side are .
@DelhiPolice
and the government. if you have the right answer, you won't fall for these claims.
#DelhiRiots
More details later. But two things in the end. 1: it is a full fledged communal riot, both sides inflicting damage. 2: I have never seen such polarisation between Hindus and Muslims in my entire journalistic career.
Nuance is scarce in public discourse. And with RW eco system being so opposed to intellect and thinking, in fact anything that requires a functioning brain, it's indeed pointless trying to reason with them.
Today a CPM leader i know joined the BJP. When I was in college, and he a youth leader, he had tried very hard to get me to join SFI. I wasn't interested in politics, but was a big fan of his commitment to ideology. Sigh!
This is not an isolated incident. This is routine behavior for our power-drunk babus. Thanks to the smart-phone we can now see and outrage over things that always existed. As a next step, can we expect bodies like
@IASassociation
and
@IPS_Association
to really talk to their boys?
I met the children whose parents don't have smartphones and whose neighbourhoods don't have WiFi. They have been pushed out of the school system as it goes online. Their dreams are still big though. That report coming on
@themojo_in
as we hit Day 45 of reporting from the ground
Sorry I'm trolling .
@ShekharGupta
. I am angry. People like him who ran the government propaganda, gave a false sense of security by celebrating too soon, who made fun of science, and brains, are responsible for what's happening now.
Can you handle the truth?
@ShekharGupta
had asked us last year. "Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals not run out of beds. Our crematoriums and graveyards are not out of wood or space."
excellent! this is the way to make donations. but I would have been happier if the owner of Kolkata Knight Riders had also donated to West Bengal CM's relief fund. Knowing Bengal-Centre relations, we are not sure how much aid our state will get from centre. :(
@MamataOfficial
In these times it’s imp to make everyone around u working tirelessly for u.. not related to u.. perhaps even unknown to u... to feel they are not alone and by themselves. Let’s just make sure we all do our little bit to look after each other. India and all Indians are One Family.
This just happened. Because: refer to the second photo. Journalists who love to criticize, cannot digest even a polite criticism. I had somehow expected better from her.
If you really want to know how the prime minister doing
#didiodidi
to a female chief minister amounts to cat-calling, read just this one piece by
@ChandrimaB2014
for
@ttindia
.
Hey
@Jack
I am a woman from a country where using
@Twitter
is a crime because of this dictator
@khamenei_ir
. I am from Iran. So simply a “criminal” is talking to you, Please listen to me
When I see statements like this from bright minds who had it in them to crack the tough civil services exams, I feel relieved that I did not pursue my school-time dream of becoming a civil servant.
it's easy to say they will be provided for. maybe theoretically it's possible to feed every mouth in the country. what's overlooked is the stripping of dignity, the pain of turning a beggar from a daily-wage earning worker overnight, without a certain future. must be devastating.
Dr.Kafeel Khan has been jailed three times on ridiculous charges and still is in jail. Perfect example of how the system crushes you for doing your job
Watch Video:
Ma katai pani jaadina, yahi desh mai basnechhu. Nepali translation of the anti-fascist bangla song "ami ei deshetei thakbo". Created by youths from Darjeeling's tea gardens.
#laaliguras
.
@paramspeak
A must watch interview of .
@PrashantKishor
on how India botched up its response to coronavirus and now stares at a catastrophe. Excellent,
@khanumarfa
!
Thanks to Centre's Corona Mismanagement,We Are Staring at a Catastrophe
Watch my no-holds-barred intw with
@PrashantKishor
where he analyses Govt’s Covid response,politics around it &how it’ll define the future of democracy in India
36 mins,worth your time
It's not the politicians so much, the shrinking of India's liberal space has been mostly the doing of our journalism. And not even for an ideology, but plain greed for money (ad revenue). How do they even get any sleep?
So many of us grew up thinking so highly of journalism as a profession. As it turns out, the gatekeepers to the world of journalism are some of the most immoral people India has known.
One of the very few voices from Bollywood speaking out. Why are the others so quiet? If they don't stand up now when will they? Sabka number ayega. Sabka!
In the name of Justice these people have lynched a human being off her right to live even before proven guilty. I sincerely pray Karma finds the address of each n every human being part of this lowest low of mankind we are witness to.
In the face of a grieving nation and tragedies unfolding all around us, the continued attempt to push FALSEHOOD and PROPAGANDA in the name of spreading POSITIVITY is disgusting!
For being positive we don’t have to become blind propagandist of the Govt.
Let me clarify, it's a Freudian slip. BJP wallahs dislike Bengalis. For them, all Bengalis are Bangladeshis (which they whisper as if it were an illness). Many in the Bengali elite buy this too. Wake up & smell the fish, kaku. You are ekkebarey not in their scheme of things.
of course the fish is not the issue AS GUJARATIS DO COOK AND EAT FISH . BUT LET ME CLARIFY BY BENGALI I MEANT ILLEGAL BANGLA DESHI N ROHINGYA. BUT STILL IF I HAVE HURT YOUR FEELINGS AND SENTIMENTS I DO APOLOGISE. 🙏
'Rage, rage against the dying of the light.' Goodbye,
#DanishSiddiqui
. Thank you for being here, for making this world a little better. For your extraordinary work, and your contribution to Indian journalism, we shall remain forever indebted to you.
Chief Minister Mamata Banerjee knew what was coming. She had even written to the PM, asking to vaccinate the people of the state for free before the elections. Centre didn't let it happen. The outcome is for everyone to see.
This is Kerala, where agencies are mass ‘spraying’ people crossing borders. But all the outrage is reserved for UP, because a saffron clad monk of the BJP is the Chief Minister and is doing a good job!
#IndiaFightsCorona
while ‘The Lobby’ fights India...
@SaketGokhale
May be true. Trust these guys to do anything. But a condemnation and an appeal to everyone, irrespective of political colour, to exercise restraint must come from the leadership.
Can you handle the truth?
@ShekharGupta
had asked us last year. "Our drains are not filled with bodies, our hospitals not run out of beds. Our crematoriums and graveyards are not out of wood or space."
Wearing mask is desirable. Mask can be prepared in 2 minutes by anyone. I have made it. You can also do it and here is the video lesson to assist you.
#WearFaceCoverStaySafe
#IndiaFightsCorona
On another note, my cousin in Bombay disposed off chicken bones into a bin outside his house.
His neighbour: please don't throw the bones there. Our dog is vegetarian.
A private school in Lucknow has disallowed eggs in tiffin? Maybe there are more... A parent sent me the screenshot of her chat with the school authority, where she is being told to not pack eggs in tiffin because "many children don't eat eggs!"
Bravo India 🇮🇳!
After years of planning and preparation, the ban on single-use plastic kicked in on 1st July with units engaged in production, distribution, stocking, and sale of such items being closed.
उन्नाव मे ब्लॉक प्रमुख चुनाव की धांधली की कवरेज कर रहे टीवी पत्रकार कृष्णा तिवारी पर सीडीओ ने हमला कर दिया. हमलावर आईएएस अधिकारी है जो नेता के साथ मिलकर पत्रकार को पीट रहा. पत्रकारिता कितना जोखिम भरा है इस वीडियो से आपको यकीन हो जाएगा. सरकारे आएंगी-जाएंगी, लोकतंत्र अमर रहना चाहिए
"Ravish is, by a long way, the best news presenter and anchor we have currently on Indian television. Period." wrote
@ARanganathan72
for
@newslaundry
. Ravish Pe Report
Some really fine lines for
#ravishkumar
.
A rather disturbing video emerged from UP’s Muzaffarnagar, in which a teacher is seen asking students in the class to hit a fellow student, as punishment. As if that wasn’t bad enough, the teacher is also heard religious profiling Muslim students and justifying the treatment……
“Jaya Bachchan to Taapsee Pannu – Bollywood’s women defend industry. Macho male stars are mostly Missing In Action....”
ThePrint's
@shubhangi_misra
writes in
#PoV
As a crowd of people chant "
#Kashmir
mein zulm hai"--Kashmir is under oppression--a
@ZeeNews
journalist literally speaks over them claiming that the people are looking forward to development.
Are Indian viewers so happy to buy state propaganda that they will ignore their ears?
The Hindu top brass has spoken, against those who "spun the tale". No, it's not the govt who authored the damning report, but
@thecaravanindia
that quoted from the report. If this is not the post-truth era, what is?
Undeniably the recent efforts of a GoM to “ neutralise” unfavourable narratives are obnoxious & repressive, but also repugnant are the twists in the tale spun by
@thecaravanindia
which has used this to attack the integrity of some fine journalists like
@nistula
@the_hindu
.
@MaliniP
No, it's not. But don't think Caravan is the villain here. As a leader in journalism, we request you to ask those who have done the real "tarnishing", how did the names end up in the report? Why? Also pls condemn plans to codify and neutralise journalists? For all of us 🙏.
Dr. Tharoor believes we've moved on from
#GujaratRiots2002
. That the Muslims have put it behind them. Have they? Ask Bilkis Bano. Ask Zakiya Jafri. And many more.
It's things like these that disqualified his candidature as the President of INC.
Former Miss World & actor Aishwarya Rai Bachchan & her daughter Aradhya Bachchan admitted to Nanavati Hospital. Both are covid positive.
Her husband Abhishek Bachchan & father in law Amitabh Bachchan have been recovering there since last week
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India's own
#MeToo
movement that never happened because nobody believed her. it was 10 years ago. now that she has spoken again, don't let go of this chance, Bollywood.
#TanushreeDutta
Some incidents that take place even a decade ago remain fresh in your memory. What happened with
#TanushreeDutta
on the sets of “Horn Ok Please” is one such incident - I was there.
#NanaPatekar
[THREAD]
Interesting & revealing story in The Caravan. However, in all fairness it must be recognised that not all the journalists named in the GoM report were party to or complicit in this project of media manipulation, generating disinformation & toxic spin, and manufacturing consent.
When I see Bengali bhakts going hammer and tongs defending this regime and all their wrongdoings, gawd I feel so much like yelling, "sit down, moshai, you are not even in their scheme of things."
They don't have a problem with the dead being cremated, day and night, on pavements and parking lots. They have a problem with journalists reporting on the dead.
Sudden, organised cry for not reporting from cremation grounds and graveyards (none of which bothered the same people last year) is such a giveaway attempt to try and sanitise the scale of the horror unfolding. Old troll trick to attack the messenger won’t work. Save your breath
Sobering, and embarrassing reading this:
Muslim school kids called names and told to ‘go to Pakistan’, mothers blame hate generated by prime time TV
Amrita Nayak Dutta
@AmritaNayak3
reports:
Many were really arguing, "but there's no report of molestation". I was really surprised. Come on, is it possible for Indian men to go on a rampage, kill people & burn homes, without sexually assaulting women? I mean, don't they do it all the time, even on good, peaceful days?
I've learned the police are monitoring the case. Maybe the "reluctance" is just temporary, a reflection of the fragile mental state we are all in right now. Shall update as I get to hear more. Also if any help is needed.
RB Rai (right), president of Communist Party of Revolutionary Marxists, sharing the stage with
#YogiAdityanath
in Kurseong, Darjeeling. I've truly seen it all.
#BengalElections2021
Singapore, the model for
#coronavirus
response, is now seeing one of Asia's worst outbreaks. Reason: migrant workers. "A cautionary tale for neglecting marginalized communities during a pandemic."
@ShekharGupta
thanks for responding. sorry again for trolling. yes, you are taken seriously. but that's not the point I'm making. twitter is no place for nuance. maybe it's worth revisiting this piece of yours. the content. the tone: