Just A Citizen
@ks_NotANiceGirl
Followers
3,789
Following
1,750
Media
3,524
Statuses
58,185
Explore trending content on Musk Viewer
Charlotte Beauty Of Skin
• 248996 Tweets
#BalenciagaxPPKRIT
• 178217 Tweets
taeyong
• 129453 Tweets
Social Reformer Sant RampalJi
• 47948 Tweets
ライドカメンズ
• 40520 Tweets
IPOB
• 34080 Tweets
ヤクルト
• 20756 Tweets
ライガーテイル
• 20493 Tweets
#THE夜会
• 19634 Tweets
スレイヤー
• 18710 Tweets
まっすー
• 15898 Tweets
勝ち越し
• 13760 Tweets
ドリアイ
• 12637 Tweets
GenG
• 10749 Tweets
Holanda
• 10095 Tweets
Pinned Tweet
A THREAD of all my threads on Feminism for easy access.
TW: Men Are Trash
A couple days back, I used these three words and well, many people here lost their minds.
Today I want to talk a little more about it from the perspective of women and our voice which has been systematically silenced over the centuries.
[THREAD]
36
97
251
13
25
123
As a trained Bharatnatyam dancer, this is just terrifying. The posture, the pose, the hand gestures, the movements - everything is absolutely wrong.
Anant Ambani's wife Radhika Merchant proudly flaunts her culture & Sanatan dharma. Jai Shree Ram. ❤️
#AnantRadhikaWedding
|
#AnantAmbani
717
4K
39K
393
569
8K
When bhakts watch Rang De Basanti now, do they think the students were the real villains?
47
701
5K
When you’re an unmarried Indian woman, after a point your birthday is a day of mourning. So today, my parents told me how I’m way past my expiry date and how I’ve destroyed their lives and left them unable to show their face to anyone, making them social pariahs and outcasts.
195
273
4K
A man murdered a woman in Delhi because he didn’t want to marry her.
A man murdered a woman in UP because she married another man.
A man murdered a woman in UP because she married a man he didn’t approve of.
A man murdered a woman in MP because he suspected she was cheating.
30
720
3K
Spoke to my uncle who works in healthcare (public sector) in Lucknow. He says any data coming out of there is misleading - the real numbers would be staggering. All healthcare workers are exhausted and demotivated. The stories he told me are horrifying - this one doctor who...
37
912
2K
Alia Bhatt can giggle about how her husband controls her, because she is privileged enough to leave him the second she feels she can’t take it anymore. But by romanticising that shit she is condemning every girl who is not as rich/famous as Alia, and that is the real problem.
20
210
2K
Shyam Benegal’s Manthan (1976) was probably the first crowd-funded film in India & definitely the first on its scale. Financed by 500,000 dairy farmers of Gujarat, who contributed Rs.2 each, Manthan remains as a rare and unique example of a film that was funded by its subjects.
18
320
2K
It finally happened. Father threw the Shradha Walker case at my interfaith relationship. Obviously I did not let that slide, and countered immediately. Raged and shouted later at Mother as well. But it doesn’t matter. The propaganda is so relentless, we never stood a chance.
103
82
2K
Good Friday and Eid turning into an optional holiday in corporates across the country is just another example of businesses adapting to populist politics without any morality. I’m sure this wasn’t the case even a decade ago.
31
313
1K
I could go on and on and on.
But most of you still don’t understand that the problem is men murder women because they think they own the women - men feel they’re entitled to take away women’s lives because they believe they own these lives.
6
198
1K
Men will talk about how the woman’s family is expecting a 25 LPA package but will never talk about how the man’s family demanded that the girl’s side spend 50 lakhs on wedding functions and another 50 lakhs on “gifts”.
33
146
1K
I don’t have any questions for Akshay Kumar. But a lot of them for Twinkle Khanna. Here I can’t even bear to remain friends with supporters of fascism, how does she manage to stay married to one?
59
99
1K
There was a reason Hitler-Goebbels had a film department - they understood the power cinema as a medium holds over a population. As a rule, I don’t criticise movies without watching them - but in this case - the marketing says it all.
19
215
984
We’re an interfaith couple.
We’ve been together for more than a decade. We knew we wanted to get married to each other more than 2 years back.
We’ve been in limbo ever since - Fighting family, society, trying to find the safest way to get a piece of paper and make it legal…
48
87
803
How old were you when you realised that the women you grew up hearing the worst about were often just the bold, fierce, independent, confident ones, refusing to conform to society’s rules?
34
103
695
WTF is with Indian landlords and moral-policing tenants - and especially young, independent, female tenants? This man just barged into a girl’s rented flat and started shouting at her to vacate cause she had friends over? People living in rented homes can’t have guests in India?
29
87
675
This one senior from my brother’s engineering college (private, highly reputed, very expensive institute) works on social media & digital strategy for BJP.
This educated man from an upper-caste, upper-middle class family - speaks English, goes to pubs, is one of those who…
8
95
632
Okay, who’s going to break it to the sanghis that the 🚩 emoji is not a bhagwa? Bechare social media pe red flags lehrate rehte hain and they don’t even get the irony 😭
17
62
613
ENABLE the fascists.
NOT THE POOR ILLITERATE MASSES that twitter loves to hate on.
Hate on the educated people sitting in AC offices and driving misinformation campaigns and hateful propaganda day in and day out.
5
72
559
the regulations. But what seems a more believable explanation is that private labs have been stopped from testing so that the number of detected cases remains low.
There is a lot of corruption - people are extorting thousands, even lakhs - for medicines, and getting tests...
3
129
539
saved countless of lives through the pandemic wasn’t able to save his own father. He breathed his last in transit by the time they managed to find a bed.
A young doctor who had served Covid duty almost 22 times in the biggest govt hospital in the last one year, passed away...
1
114
525
Inter-faith or inter-caste love is the most revolutionary act of resistance in this country. It takes everything you have. And I just don’t know if I have anything left to carry on now.
29
56
543
due to the virus after battling for his life for days.
He says that entire healthcare sector has completely collapsed. If you get infected you won’t find a doctor, or medicines, or beds. The government has stopped private labs from testing stating that they aren’t following...
2
109
517
Getting beds, however, is completely out of the question. Like he says, even the most well-connected doctors can’t find beds for their own families.
It’s our worst nightmare come true in Lucknow right now. And he says he only sees it getting worse... before it can get better.
2
118
486
Watching just the first 15 mins of Sooryavanshi is enough to understand just what kind of a dogwhistle and propaganda laden shitfest it is. Any artist associated with such a project should be ashamed to call themselves one.
17
58
473
Y’all can deny it all you want to, but facts don’t change:
For an interfaith couple to even consider getting married under the Special Marriage Act (1954) - a great amount of social & economic privilege is required.
I see people throw around SMA without realising this.
#thread
7
120
452
I don’t know how many people remember, but BJP hadn’t even announced Yogi as CM candidate last time till after they had won, cause his image had been that of a “gunda”.
Now they have solved the image problem, but they still did not give him Ayodhya, Mathura or even Banaras…
5
68
458
This country really loves to hate love, doesn’t it?
10
99
438
Heard about this girl I knew in childhood today - she helped her aunt escape an abusive marriage with her young child - both of them live with her now. But apparently this girl is the villain cause she’s a divorcee who’s now broken another house 🙄
“kyuki kaan bhar diye unse”
8
48
447
Young adults - teenagers who’re just out of school or maybe still in school - from upper caste families are TAUGHT & FED hatred against reservations by their families, teachers, coaching centres, etc. They have led a sheltered life, haven’t seen the real world, they are just…
11
116
411
They were going to lose UP.
That’s the only reason to take back the laws. Now, we gotta make sure they still lose.
15
59
418
Too many people asking that why did people vote for BJP despite the mismanagement in the 2nd wave of Covid-19.
Not enough people asking why the media did not hold BJP accountable for the high death toll & painted it as failure of the “system” enabling BJP to get away with it?
15
79
395
Here’s everything that’s wrong with India - instead of solving problems, we like to cheer on those who struggle to cross the obstacles that shouldn’t be there in the first place.
I was really amazed to see this man trying to deliver food on time even with a terrified heavy rainfall. People who are driving cars were struggling to drive but this man has such a dedication, hats off, hope
@zomato
recognise these type of people and give some rewards.
82
113
890
13
71
389
How do men talk about God and then harass teenaged girls? How does that even work?
35
39
364
Passed out after crying my heart out, woke up in tears. I’d never wish this life on anyone.
71
9
351
I get it that many people are pissed at Zoya Akhtar’s portrayal of Muslims in an episode of Made in Heaven, but I wish people remembered that she also created Dahaad, the only piece of content that had the guts to portray the reality of “Love Jihad” propaganda.
6
21
369
I ordered food, I was feeling lazy, so I asked the security guard to put it in the lift and send it up. Now there’s a power cut and my dinner is stuck in the lift. How’s your Saturday night going?
30
9
351
The reason why inter religion relationship/marriage don’t work between two persons from different religions is because OTHER PEOPLE DON’T LET IT WORK.
Parents, relatives, neighbours, literally anyone & everyone make life hell for interfaith couples.
ITS ON ALL OF YOU, NOT US.
6
51
347
From Riri To Greta to Meena to Mia to Susan to Sonakshi to Swara to Taapsee to so many others.
So don’t tell me that gender means nothing when it comes to speaking up against evil. Cause the male of the species is too cushioned in his own privilege to ever understand oppression.
8
94
335
This was never about the girls or what they choose to wear. This is about Hindu supremacy and terrorism.
#KarnatakaHijabRow
@INCKarnataka
president
@DKShivakumar
has tweeted saying replacing National flag with Saffron flag at
#Shimoga
is a breakdown of law and order.And the college should be closed for a week.
1K
3K
7K
3
101
333
Sorry to break it to you - but if a piece of cloth being burnt (by women who are being killed because of it) is more offensive to you than the fact that women are being killed in the streets - then you’re just a pathetic, hateful, bigot. You want people to stand with you… +
4
56
333
This country makes me sick to my stomach.
It is 20 fcuking 22 and y’all still can’t grasp the idea of two adults choosing their own partners - the way y’all police people, especially women.
And not one community that does anything right. Each and every one fcuks with lives.
8
48
333
Today I learnt that if you don’t agree with a Muslim, you’re prejudiced against the religion and that having a different opinion is Islamophobic.
I totally need a break from this crazy place.
45
28
315
I’m just gonna say it - most of you make no effort to understand the pain of non-sanghis who come from sanghi families & even worse - do not understand the psychological torment that comes with having to battle hate everyday in a space that was supposed to be about familial love.
22
38
324
In Awadh, we don’t cover our meat and even the sanghis don’t get any random eye infections.
20
17
304
Left a really toxic workplace and started at a new organisation. 2nd day in and they’re saying they sponsor therapy if we need it! Yeh kya mai sapna dekh rahi hun? Btw please send good wishes as I start this journey, my anxiety has been so high cause it’s a big big change for me.
46
8
309
Just received a package I didn’t order and it turns out the boyfriend has sent over the prettiest kurta set as an Eid gift. And the idiot didn’t even buy a new kurta for himself. Been a decade and he still manages to make me fall in love with him more and more every day.
24
5
299
Interfaith/intercaste couples don’t live in a utopian bubble. We didn’t choose this path cause we thought it’ll be sunshine and roses. We’re the only ones with the spine to look all your hate, prejudices and rules, and still fight for love. Tum jaiso ki wo himmat ya neeyat kahan.
6
35
297
@shadowfytertoo
@Awkwerddd
A decade of experience in the fashion industry. However, I assume even an untrained eye can tell the difference between a professional model and regular people.
1
1
271
Girls, find yourself a guy who will get you bed tea even when he’s fasting himself.
25
12
268
Do you why sanghis only use Hanuman Chalisa to disturb Muslims in their time of prayer? Cause in chutiyon ko aur koi aarti / shloka / chalisa nahi aati hai - hanuman chalisa is easiest to memorise & bhoot pishach nikat nahi aave wali line to bollywood ne hi ratwa di hai sabko.
20
61
270
Found a report on one of the cases I’ve written about in this thread:
3
71
266
Bleeding, cramping, hurting and still going on with our lives. Who tf called women the “weaker sex”?
6
33
271
Metro Hospital, Preet Vihar, Delhi is about to run out of oxygen in less than an hour. Friend’s uncle is in the ICU. The hospital has asked families to take the patients wherever they can. But where to take them when this is happening at every other hospital?
27
262
268
Ladies: Is there any woman/girl out here who has never been:
1. Catcalled or whistled at
2. Stalked by unknown men
3. Touched or groped without consent
4. Abused or assaulted, physically or verbally
I want to talk to the lucky women who’ve been safe from this.
RT to amplify.
36
139
250
TW: Men Are Trash
A couple days back, I used these three words and well, many people here lost their minds.
Today I want to talk a little more about it from the perspective of women and our voice which has been systematically silenced over the centuries.
[THREAD]
36
97
251
Also while we’re talking about Rang De Basanti, I absolutely love the movie but I absolutely hate the fact that women had such lack-lustre supporting roles.
4
5
261
The sensible (and sanitary) way of interpreting it: Men need to stop peeing on the road.
The pick-me way of interpreting it👇:
10
33
253
Fcuk this shit. I wanna leave this country. With my guy.
Cause I think I deserve happiness, to live some place where I can be with my love without worrying about any judgement or being afraid for our safety.
I just think we deserve a good life & I refuse to feel guilty for it.
38
9
256
I haven’t tweeted this to ask for solutions. So please refrain from doing that - you can’t do anything. Just try to spend a few minutes imagining how life is for people like us. Put yourself in the situation and try to understand how hard it is. Empathise. Build a better world.
15
15
257
Upper class, upper caste privileged women committing crimes is not an excuse for you to attack feminism. Women attacking delivery executives or cab drivers don’t get the impunity to do so because of their gender but because of their class/caste privilege.
8
50
250
Lived the majority of my adult life ashamed that I come from a backward state like Uttar Pradesh - even more so since the fascists took over. Realising that other states are equally fcuked up. We are just the easy target for jokes, memes & stereotypes. Looking at you, Karnataka.
13
25
244
Visited Shirdi and it’s proof of how nefarious and evil Savarna Hinduism is. An ascetic who lived in a dilapidated mosque and preached a syncretic mix of Islam & Hinduism to his followers has been completely taken over by a Hindu Temple Trust, fooling people in the name of “God”.
28
43
250
Many husbands abuse their wives.
When they belong to same community nobody really cares. But if it is an interfaith marriage - narrative immediately shifts to “this is what happens to women who marry outside community”. Auraton ka hi trauma use kar ke auraton ko hi police karna!
3
70
242
Who wants to talk about the fact that it was the women - Sue & Sonia - who cared about revolution in the beginning. The men didn’t give a fcuk.
Suddenly, towards the climax, the men wake up from apolitical stands & emerge as real heroes, while the women are left in the wings.
7
8
243
Been 11 glorious years with this beautiful man and he was the first one to wish this year with a simple “Happy 12”. Now, that’s just his poor maths but I decided to add the extra year for all the extra struggle that comes with being an inter-faith couple.
Happy 12 to us my love❤️
40
6
230
We’ve danced at all their weddings, we’ll be dancing at some more this year - while we’ll stay exactly where we are. Thinking about each permutation and combination to prepare for every possible outcome of even our smallest decision.
Y’all have no fcuking clue what it takes.
1
12
225
The same people who use the Taliban to justify their hate are today celebrating the actions of the Taliban. Just shows that Sanghis don’t have any value system. Hate isn’t a belief. Bigotry isn’t an ideology.
2
37
216
All you a$$holes can do is sit on twitter and preach without ever knowing even a fraction of what it means. The fcuking audacity. The fcuking audacity. Makes me sick.
6
10
216
Why do NRIs always dress up in the fancy dress version of Indian costumes to assert their Indian-ness on these occasions?
Y’all do know Indians don’t dress up like that regularly? Also, what’s with the Bharatnatyam performance?
Washington DC: A large number of Indian-Americans begin gathering outside the White House ahead of the arrival of PM Narendra Modi.
The PM will have a bilateral meeting with US President Joe Biden today. He will later participate in the first-in-person Quad Leaders' Summit.
331
649
7K
31
24
220
Dropping without comments.
I really have nothing to say to this.
43
24
200
Sasusal tak kyu jana hai, mardon ko to yehi kaam apne khud ke ghar mein karne mein sharam aati hai.
7
31
208
Privileged, upper caste, upper class Hindus are leaving the country in droves & it isn’t even anything new, happened pre-2014 also. My two cents? Aap silently nikalo na. You were not unsafe in this country, leaving is a personal choice. Stop pretending like it’s some sacrifice.
7
34
214
Listened to an hour long lecture by father while mother sobbed - basically a full fledged blackmail session that can be summarised as they sacrificed everything to raise me and I have done nothing to give them any happiness. And I did not say a word. Where is my Nobel Prize?
16
6
207
In the time that we’ve just been weighing our options, thinking about what we might have to go through, how we could ensure our safety - even our single peers have met their partners - some fell in love and got married, some got into arranged marriages and called it love.
1
10
207
The Sri Lanka-Modi-Adani affair that has come to light will not be breaking news on any mainstream media channel or paper. I can bet people not on twitter won’t have any clue what happened there. And this is why I’ll always hold Media as the number 1 culprit of our country.
11
66
205
Somebody I love a lot needs all your prayers tonight. Please. I don’t know what else to do. Please.
33
5
207
@TheDeshBhakt
Because now everyday people have started countering their propoganda. I’ve taken to writing counter-propoganda of every post they send, in English, in Hindi, factual or anecdotal. I give them a taste of their own medicine.
7
14
196
Woman loved man. Family didn’t approve because different religion. Woman left her family to live with the man.
^till here it is a textbook interfaith case
But, then, man k!lls the woman who loved and trusted him. And a fascist state’s lapdog media uses the case for propaganda.
5
28
199
This Supreme Court judgement is quite possibly historic for women’s reproductive rights. But let’s not forget one thing. Our society does not function on laws made inside courtrooms. If you really want women to benefit, you need to start changing public perception on such issues.
3
37
197
BJP didn’t get voted in by a majority of Indians. They got 37% votes in a 67% voter turnout - that’s less that 25% of total population. The majority of Indians aren’t rabid sanghis. The majority of Indians are apathetic, indifferent, uninterested. Which actually makes it worse.
12
41
196
I don’t understand people in arranged matches who get a pre-wedding shoot done & post it with captions like “your love completes me”.
I’m like: behen, you met the guy once in a family approved setting where all you did was serve him some tea. It isn’t love, just sit the f down.
29
18
188
People want us to trust the “intentions” of men, but they will not trust the “lived experiences” of women.
4
34
185
PSA: Yeh wahi log hain jinko India aa ke ek glass paani peeke food poisoning ho jaati hai.
13
19
170
I don’t know why but I have a feeling that tomorrow is going to change my life forever - for better or for worse. Please send wishes, hugs, strength, love, whatever you can spare. I could use some cause I’m feeling terribly empty.
63
6
183
Attended another wedding with my partner. Happy for our friend, mourning for what we can never have - how we’ll never have our friends dance in a baraat, never have family cry happy tears, never have cousins tease. How we’ll never have to coordinate outfits for different events.
14
4
187
Feeling guilty about dragging him into this toxicity with my family - a major life decision on hold - being tormented just for the crime of falling in love - I apologised to him & said I’m sorry we might never have a normal life.
He replied: We will have an extraordinary life 🥺
30
8
176
Dowry was prohibited in 1961.
My cousin got married in 2016.
My aunt & uncle gave a car, furniture for the guy’s parents house in their native town & more furniture for where the couple would live in the city, and god only knows how much cash.
They called it “gifts”.
27
21
172
@thatindicmonk
It’s none of your business but have you heard of something called the special marriages act? Get lost with your venom.
1
4
185
So bhakts won’t believe that SSR wasn’t murdered even after AIIMS confirmed it, but they will believe that a Dalit woman broke her own spine?
Make it make sense.
7
23
180