Damn. India has gone down a very deep, dark shithole. I doubt it can be redeemed. This would've been unthinkable 15 years ago. At her age, we used to be idealists who believed in universal brotherhood. What'll she turn into when she's 50?
Dear Mr.
@elonmusk
:
Bud, we need your help in India. Could you buy out the rest of NDTV before Adani does? It doesn't cost much - basically small change for you. You'll save Indian democracy from crumbling completely, plus you'll acquire a new captive platform in India.
#NDTV
is not just a TV channel. It is a symbol of the last standing pillar of democracy as it crumbles around us.
The crude, in-your-face politician-business nexus evident in the hostile takeover bid tells you of the brazenness of the ruling party.
But why are they so scared?
@GemsOfBollywood
Your values are exactly the same as those of radical Islamists. Don't know why Sanghis and radical Islamists hate each other so much. You're practically the same people, with the same regressive mindset.
@Shuks80
Your generation still feels some shame because they remember what the past was like. The next generation will feel no shame at all, because this would have long become the new normal. The 2nd class status of minorities would be taken for granted.
@SaketGokhale
50 lakhs/ annum is a pretty big "salary" in India, bro. What kind of work were you doing to justify this salary? And let's say you managed to raise 50 crores/ annum via crowdfunding instead of 50 lakhs. All that would go into your "sustenance"? That's not how it works, bro.
@abhiandniyu
No offense bro, but all you're saying in this tweet is that you didn't pay attention in school. Kucch padhai likhai kiya hota, to aaj itni beizzati nahi ho rahi hoti
It is now abundantly clear that Twitter is no longer a neutral forum. It is now a RW platform in the same category as Fox News /Breitbart. The owner has a political agenda and can't be trusted not to dox you to RW governments/interests.
@tavleen_singh
A word of advice Tavleen - when you engage so much with someone on Twitter, it makes sense to take a quick look at their profile before spouting off.
@chetan_bhagat
Doesn't look like you understand the term freedom of expression. Freedom of expression means that people have a right to criticize the film, just as Agnihotri had the freedom to make it. We're also free to question the government's intentions in promoting this film so actively.
@incelmanlet69
@DiscourseDancer
@hganjoo_153
I think you probably support Pakistan. In fact, you seem to be a Pakistani agent working for the ISI, destroying India from within. Shame on you. Treason is a terrible crime.
Just heard an American film expert confidently explain that in India, there are 2 languages spoken - Hindi and "Tegulu". This has given rise to two competing film industries - Bollywood and Tollywood. This competition is why India is now producing better movies than Hollywood.🤦
@DilliDurAst
"The last time India had a Gandhi as prime minister was 1984-89, when most Indians alive today were not born."
Bro, you can make your point without reminding people of their age.
When this person completes their degree from IIT and is offered a job at McKinsey or Goldman Sachs in New York, they will instantly be cured of all these phobias and traumas and will happily break bread with beef and pork-eating clients and colleagues at the same table.
@Puru2122
@PawanSaysToo
Umm...startups, by definition, don't have money. They have a product that they're trying to sell. They need money to survive and grow. You can't tell them to "give back to society" when they haven't gotten much from society yet. Paytm and Tesla aren't startups anymore.
@prettypadmaja
@chetan_bhagat
In other words, you live in a comfortable self-reinforcing bubble of false information and propaganda, from which there is no escape
@IrfanPathan
@kapsology
We have reached a very dark place. A very, very dark place. This is not the India I grew up in. This is now a completely different place.
@AnupamPKher
@vivekagnihotri
This will fail badly. You fooled people with Kashmir files because it was about events that happened a long time ago, before much of your target audience was born. But people still have recent memories of the mishandling of the Covid pandemic. They still remember those who died.
@MBarrett1919
@richimedhurst
No idea why Brits seem to still think that Britain sends aid to India, so long after it was stopped. Can't get over the colonial hangover? Do you still have wet dreams about the "British Empire"?
@mohitbhagwati
@ShekharGupta
Bullsh*t. Did Modi expect these people surviving from day to day to 'stay where they are', without any source of income? Did he think that throwing food packets at them to prevent them from starving to death was enough? Do the poor have a right to live with dignity in India?
@Simi_Garewal
If she's lying, she can get sued massively. This interview also removes any chance of her ever getting from the crown. It was a massively risky move with no apparent benefit. I believe her. You have offered no facts or arguments to substantiate why she shouldn't be believed.
@NachiketGopal
@MichaelKugelman
Everybody loves Modi. He's the center of the universe. Everything that happens, happens because of him. Flowers bloom because of him. Cows poop because of him.
@maheshperi
If Adani and Ambani don't donate to BJP, then there's something much bigger and much more sinister going on. The extraordinary largesse bestowed upon them by the BJP since 2014 has catapulted them to the top of the world billionaire rankings. Why? What do they have on Modi?
@APAC_User
@dhruv_rathee
You are not allowed to violate copyrights and patents anywhere in the world. Unless you live in a 3rd rate tinpot dictatorship - a pariah state that refuses to abide by international law.
@ajay43
Something's gone wrong relatively recently (the past couple of decades). At 21, I remember being naively idealistic, and full of positivity, not insecure, cynical, hateful and bigoted like so many Indian youth of today.
@timesofindia
@TOICitiesNews
Look at these comments. Depressing. This isn't Hinduism. This is fascism. India has become a country of intolerant, insecure, small-minded, bigoted people. No grace, no generosity, no higher ideals. Just narrow-minded pettiness.
@mayhoskote
I remember the sentiment being more anti-Pakistan than anti-Muslim. Anti-Muslim sentiment did exist but wasn't this mainstream and tended to be restricted to a certain "rioter" class that lived in seedy parts of the old city, not multiplex-going, urbane middle class young women.
In India for the past couple of weeks, and am convinced that at least 50% of the reason for India's backwardness is a culture of tardiness. Lack of respect for deadlines, for other people's time, for own time. Promises aren't kept. The spoken word means nothing. Compulsive lying.
@SoniaSikka4
@Subhashitani1
And I'm sure Trudeau doesn't have his picture plastered all over, as if he is personally and singularly responsible for inventing the vaccine and making it available.
@SarvpriyaGupta
@viraj_sheth
I've lived in all 3 as well. Never met a hostile Pakistani. Obviously they're not going to like it when you ask them to celebrate someone known for hating Muslims. Have you considered that YOUR attitude might have something to do with your experiences?
@vivekagnihotri
So many big words to obfuscate a simple fact. Did you or did you not lie about your film being shortlisted for the Oscars? Did you or did you not try to mislead the public?
@dhume
I obviously don't support arresting people being arrested for supporting the wrong side in a cricket match, but this isn't an apples to apples comparison. Britain isn't sending terrorists to India to kill Indians. There isn't a secessionist movement ongoing in Britain.
@MattWallace888
If I was in Parag's place, I'd take a couple of years of sabbatical with the massive payout he got from Twitter. And how do you know he has 0 offers? Do you work as his PA?
@draaarkk
@RahulGandhi
@mkstalin
I don't care about Rahul Gandhi. I care about India. India needs someone who can defeat the BJP. And Rahul Gandhi is not that person. Time is short. We have a couple of years until 2024. If BJP wins in 2024, India WILL turn into an autocratic Hindu Rashtra...
@rishibagree
Are you serious? Adani is not under the scanner because his share price fell. He's under the scanner because he's been accused of serious financial crimes and fraud (with evidence). The fall in share price is a side effect. Is there evidence of similar fraud in the case of Wipro?
@Cow__Momma
@htTweets
@narendramodi
He's actually sounding like Trump, who gets up every morning and tweets "RIGGED ELECTION!! I WON!!" Modiji says "They're lying! India is not a fascist dictatorship! India is the greatest, most beautiful, mother of all democracies!!"
@MattWallace888
Are you guys turning Twitter into the social media version of a tabloid? Can you guys just get out of the way and allow people to use Twitter to have conversations with each other, instead of being subjected to the juicy gossip you dish out everyday?
@ashoswai
The lead police officer killed was also a Brahmin. Why do you needlessly make everything about identity politics? This was about criminality, not about caste.
@kamaalrkhan
"Running away" from evil toxicity like you is a good thing. More people should run away from toxic sewers of negativity like you and bring more positivity into their lives.
@pbhushan1
Sir, you are a major Twitter influencer. Please don't legitimize this alarmist (and extremely damaging) pseudoscience. The world already has enough loony anti-vaxxers without you joining them. Couldn't you at least have waited until this was peer reviewed and published?
@RShivshankar
So we should lean on sold out lapdogs of the BJP like you? You questioning someone's journalistic integrity is like the joke of the century.
@shhhyas
@swiggy_in
Bhaisaab, kisano ko bhi boycott kar doge, Swiggy ko bhi boycott kar doge, to khaoge kya? Tum to Gurudware ke langar par bhi nahi baith sakte...
@theliverdr
Nice, weren't you just berating someone for making statements based on anecdotal evidence? What exactly do you think you're doing in this tweet? Where are peer-reviewed studies based on large sample, multi-year data that conclusively establish your case?
@vivekagnihotri
Thanks for confirming that you haven't actually contributed a single penny out of your massive profits for the benefit of Kashmiri Pandits, whose story you exploited to gain those massive profits.
@ani_sam
@AatishTaseer
@TheAtlantic
We have a Hindu India right now. It's 85% Hindu. The dominant culture is undeniably Hindu. What you're talking is a theocracy. And that, we must never have. India's founders modeled it after the post-enlightenment cultures of the west, not medeival theocracies of the east.
@BellamSwathi
You haven't met a single person who has watched Pathaan in the theater? That says more about the kind of company you keep than about Pathaan.
@danishjmk
Damn, this is terrible. I would apologize on behalf of these hideous bigots, but what's the point? They're not sorry, and I don't really represent them.
@FaisalzUpdates
@IlhanMN
Interesting. Did she also visit some of the many beautiful terror training camps in POK?
@CChristineFair
perhaps you give your friend
@IlhanMN
some guidance on places to visit in beautiful POK?
@lucifer_damned
As a comedian, he's expressing his own thoughts. As a lyricist, he's performing a job, as per required specifications. And why does being anti-caste mean you can't crack jokes on Mayawati? Mayawati is more than just her caste. She's a human being with human failings.
@ashajadeja325
The reason we're only talking about the retaliatory pogrom and not the train burning today is because
- The retaliation was WAY disproportionate to the crime.
- It was carried out not against the perpetrators, but against innocent women and children.
- it was state sponsored.
@zoo_bear
@MrsGandhi
Besides, if I remember correctly, the girl being referred to was actually sending a unifying message - that both India and Pakistan can be "zindabad", which Sanghi vultures has swooped down on to cast her as anti-national?
@ShefVaidya
If I were to write here what YOU remind me of, Twitter would permaban my account.
You've messed with the wrong guy this time, that much is for sure. Contact a good lawyer ASAP.
@mudishudrejine
@JDinkan
@rishibagree
Savarkar used his ideology against his own people, and to support continuation of British rule.
But I can see where your "own people" comes from. To you, "own people" means only Hindus. To me, it means all Indians. That's the difference.
I look forward to traveling from Beijinpur to Shanghainagar by Vande Bharat express, washing down my matar paneer and mango achaar with a bottle of rail neer.
@yavanoivnu
@championswimmer
@shivabhakt_
Well, we're talking about the principle. Kissing involves greater saliva exchange than using the same serving spoon, so logically that should be out of bounds and forbidden too?
@vaniIlaessence
Although the actual article isn't really complaining about it - it just talks about how the Pakistani team have created a non beef menu for themselves, and seems largely appreciative of their experience in India.
@saliltripathi
It's also POSSIBLE that Soros, Bezos, Elon Musk etc. are all actually shape-shifting alien lizards from Andromeda who are secretly controlling the world through mind control. The key thing, when you make outlandish claims, is EVIDENCE. Where is the evidence?
@AnupamPKher
What a strategy sir ji - spread Hindu Muslim hate in India from a safe distance, while living the high life in New York. And it's of course easier to spread hate using 5G in NY than the using 2G in Kashmir.
@SaketGokhale
As an ex-Muslim atheist, she is entitled to her views about her former religion. By your logic, Dawkins, Hitchens etc. are all hate mongers against Christianity who should've been prosecuted and jailed?
@kabindradey
@Swamy39
I'm mystified by this. What exactly has he achieved? What's the source of this trust? His record seems to consist entirely of failures, from demonetization to Covid mismanagement? He seems to have hypnotized an entire population of people with pure rhetoric.
@Vandana43538816
@GemsOfBollywood
Abey prisoners in the US also wear bhagwa colored uniforms. Want to take it up with the US government? Why are they insulting sanatan dharma?
@lokihinhun
@kaushikrj6
Then it should apply to symbols of Hindu religion too. No bindis, sindoors tilaks, janeus, mangalsutras etc. No Diwali functions. No nothing.
@TrulyMonica
I celebrate my Hindu festivals with my family and friends. I don't celebrate festivals by taking out aggressive processions, brandishing weapons, chanting hateful slogans and taunting people of another community, hoisting my religious flags on their places of worship.
@theliverdr
Here you provide anecdotes and ask for concern and empathy. Elsewhere you berate people for providing their own anecdotes and ask for scientific evidence. You can't have both. Pick a lane. Me - my interest is in scientific rigor, wherever it might fall.
@vivekagnihotri
@myogiadityanath
@PMOIndia
@narendramodi
You get special treatment because you have sold your soul to these people and spend your time licking their posteriors. Not everyone in Bollywood is as corrupt, spineless and morally bankrupt as you.
@gauravsabnis
I'm in India right now and what's happening here is surreal. Godi media TV channels (everything except NDTV) have conspired to create an alternative reality where Modi is the world's greatest, most celebrated leader. If you live here long enough, you might start believing it too.
@_bae__bee
Depends on the specific temple maybe? The Iskon temple where I live serves simple meals/ prasada for free, though on festivals, people also put up their own stalls where they sell food/ sweets etc.
@ShampaDey13
Shaming people for their looks. A typically classy "NaMo bhakt". She looks beautiful btw. But the ugliness of your heart is oozing out of my screen right now.
@ShekharGupta
@dksingh73
WTF? This article is surreal. A eulogy to a ruthless, remorseless fascist. Articles like this normalize and legitimize murderous bigots like Ajay Bisht. And the writer is the Print's political editor? I now question Shekhar Gupta's judgement.
@one_by_two
No irony. These guys aren't Hindus - they just use Hinduism as a ruse to fulfill the sinister objectives of their fascist leader. You can eat beef if you're a Sanghi (ahem
@vivekagnihotri
) but if you're not a Modibhakt, you are barred from temples even if you've attained siddhi.
@Abhijit49839720
@vimoh
Of course there were. Modi has just legitimized and empowered them, allowing them to come out of the closet and peddle their wares openly.