Nissim Mannathukkaren
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Announcing the publication of my book.
South Asia edition coming soon.
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‘The hand of God’ — nurses trying to comfort isolated patients in a Brazilian Covid isolation ward. Two disposable gloves tied, full of hot water, simulating impossible human contact. Salute to the front liners and a stark reminder of the grim situation our world is in!
@sadiquiz
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No, Goa did not come under the Portuguese when Mughals were ruling parts of India.
There were no Mughals in India in 1510.
Please read History and not Entire Political Science.
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I had a digital camera in 1987-88. And I took a colour photo, which I sent by email in 1987-88. -- Narendra Modi.
The joke is not on Modi.
The joke is on the "educated" elite/middle class supporters of Modi who have made idiocy and ignorance fashionable.
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8 years of Modi government:
8,00,000 Indians took foreign citizenship.
23,000 dollar millionaires left India.
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Baba Ramdev launches Ayurvedic drug to cure Covid:
Coronil.
Human trials will follow after purchase.
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The people who have never opened their mouths about violent religious majoritarianism and caste atrocities in India.
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In India coronavirus has religion.
But a Dalit woman raped and murdered does not have caste.
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In 2018, 400 'cow protectors' killed Inspector Subodh Singh and set a police post and vehicles on fire in Bulandshahr. The PM did not condemn the mob for killing a policeman. The CM did not attach properties of the accused. The main accused, a Bajrang Dal leader, is on bail.
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Arnab Goswami's habeas corpus plea is heard in the courts in 24 Hours.
600 habeas corpus pleas of thousands of Kashmiri citizens under preventive detention are waiting to be heard even after 1 YEAR.
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When you are down and out, think about Ajay Devgn.
He has got 3 national film awards for acting, or rather having the same expression on his face for 30 years.
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The man with 20 million followers on Twitter openly and brazenly lying about being shortlisted for the Oscars.
And the irony is that the gentleman really thinks he is raising the stature of India on the global stage.
Pathetic.
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BJP has an age limit of 75 for ministers.
88-year old man is announced as the BJP chief ministerial candidate in Kerala.
That means Modi will not become a Fakir at 75.
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Jawaharlal Nehru inaugurating the statue of Sardar Patel while the latter was alive.
Godhra, Gujarat, February 14, 1949
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The Great Indian Kitchen, which won 'best film' at the Kerala State Film Awards and which was also in many critics' lists as the among the best Indian films of 2020, was not given a single prize at the National Film Awards.
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Pope Francis
@Pontifex
announces India's first Dalit cardinal:
Archbishop of Hyderabad, Anthony Poola.
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This fascist demagogue would have been behind bars in any democratic and civilized country.
But in India, he heads the largest state.
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Kerala has completed 35,312 telephonic counselling sessions of mental health support for COVID-positive patients and families.
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90-year old Kajodi walking from Delhi to her village in Rajasthan, 400 kms away, after the national lockdown in India.
via: Salik Ahmad, Outlook
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64 years ago, the people of the Soviet Union thronging to welcome Nehru (Samarkand, 1955).
And Modi is supposed to be a rockstar for addressing 50,000 Indians (of which, many Gujaratis) in America in 2019.
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People of Japan (not Indians with American passports) gathered to see Nehru (Hiroshima, 1957).
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Nathuram Godse, the killer of Gandhi (seated, third from left).
VD Savarkar, the father of Hindutva (seated, second from left).
Madan Lal Pahwa, who tried to kill Gandhi before Godse (standing, third from left).
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BJP's official Youtube channel suspends the like/dislike option after 1.2 million dislikes on Modi's Mann ki Baat video.
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Gulfisha Fatima, a 28-year-old MBA graduate and an aspiring teacher, has now spent 132 days in an Indian jail on terrorism charges for participating in the anti-citizenship protests.
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20 killed so far.
Every single person is from a BJP-ruled state.
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The lapdogs of the government are saying that a flag with a "Khalistani symbol" was hoisted on the Red Fort.
Why is the Prime Minister wearing the same Khalistani symbol?
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Adani was a visionary when he named one of his major companies as 'Adani Total Gas.'
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A boy selling masks for 20 Rupees (10 cents) in Sahiwal, Pakistan.
When a buyer jokingly said: "I don’t even have 20 Rupees," the boy replies, "take it for free... my mother told me that a very bad infectious disease is spreading everywhere."
Via Sharmeen Tarar
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Jawaharlal Nehru wooing the United Nations, Shankar, 1953.
When almost the entire mainstream Indian media crawls in front of one man today, it was possible to draw the prime minister naked 65 years ago.
Shankar was awarded the fourth highest civilian award in 1956.
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JNU Shunak Sen student wins best documentary at Cannes!
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Internet is a fundamental right in India according to a recent court decision.
Today is the 100th day without Internet in Kashmir.
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Indian rightwing is going ballistic because Twitter CEO
@jack
Dorsey "insulted" India by holding a placard saying, "Smash Brahminical Patriarchy."
Should not the patriotic rightwing boycott Twitter in protest and go back to their own 5000-year old social media platform, Gobar?
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India's rank in the United Nations Water Quality Report:
120 out 122 countries.
Can we talk about something more relevant than the Indian cricketer's "sacrifice" and his right to wear military insignia on the sporting field?
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Fake journalists like Arnab Goswami sit in their air-conditioned studios and brand and hound innocent civilians as terrorists.
Real journalists like Shujaat Bukhari and Gauri Lankesh are killed by terrorists for doing their job.
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There is simply nobody in the BJP who can beat the decency, brilliance and scorching debating skills that
@Pawankhera
brings to news shows every night.
This man should be in the parliament to give the rightwing a run for their sorry money.
If Congress get few more people like
@Pawankhera
, Modi govt’s propaganda machinery will be forced to change its TV debate strategy.
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Apparently, hugging is against the decorum of the Indian parliament.
I guess, lynching is the new norm.
#RahulHugsModi
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Karl Marx himself opposed Lenin. So what is the problem in bringing down Lenin's statue? -- RSS spokesperson on TV.
There is only a small problem with this: Lenin was 13 years old when Marx died.
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A "journalist" at India Today as well as in India today.
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Not social distancing.
Physical distancing and social solidarity.
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Protest rally in Kochi, Kerala today against the Citizenship Act.
Happy New Year!
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You have great reporters. Where do you get them from? Wish, I had reporters like these. -- Donald Trump to Narendra Modi.
Modi did not get the joke, and what a compliment to the North Korean media in India.
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Finally, international recognition for all the work that you do everyday.
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23 killed.
Modi is silent, just as he was during every critical event in the last 6 years: cow lynchings, rapes, Gauri Lankesh, demonetization deaths, attacks on Kashmiris, Pulwama, etc.
This is a man who came on national TV just to announce a space weapon test by India.
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BJP President, Kerala.
Amazing premonition of the number of seats that BJP would get in Kerala.
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Mahesh Hegde, founder of fake news website, Postcard News, claims 95% of rapes in India are committed by Muslims.
He is one of the chosen 1941 people followed by PM Modi on Twitter.
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303 BJP MPs elected.
Not a single Muslim MP from an Indian Muslim population of nearly 200 million, equivalent to that of the population of Brazil.
And they ask, where is fascism?
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Amit Shah's declared assets is Rs. 39 crores.
He is not a part of the elite Khan Market gang.
Just an ordinary man representing the poor masses of India.
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BJP and allies sweep India.
Get zero in Kerala.
Can Kerala be a different country, please? Thanks.
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The largest film industry in the world, and one can count exactly three or four celebrity names who take on the Modi regime.
And one of them was rewarded with an Income Tax raid today.
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A humble man from a modest family background, yet went onto become one of India's greatest cricketers, and then the most powerful cricket administrator in the country at such a young age.
Happy Birthday, Jay Shah!
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My article: where I argue why the Modi personality cult is worse than Indira Gandhi's.
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India is the mother of democracy, says Modi.
Modi did not tell us that nearly 70% of internet shutdowns by the government in the world happened in this "mother of democracy" for the last 3 years consecutively.
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How about making a new film called 'The Petrol Files'?
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Global Hunger Index is calculated by people calling you up and asking "are you hungry?"
And if you are travelling on a flight, and missed your meal, one is counted as hungry!
The idiocy, the sheer insensitivity, and the spectacular confidence in parading them:
As a doctor who studied about these index in depth in our MBBS (Social and Preventive medicine) it hurts. As a citizen I feel ashamed on the ignorance of our politicians on science and health.
Global Hunger index (2023) India ranks 111 out of 125 countries in terms of ‘hunger.…
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Some brilliant work by
@AltNews
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@free_thinker
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@zoo_bear
in the last few days with a series of fact checks.
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For everything they keep blaming Modi.
If China has captured 40 sq. km land inside India's territory, how is Modi responsible for that?
Some blame should lie with Maharashtra and Kerala governments also, no?
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Sree Sankaracharya University of Sanskrit (SSUS) at Kalady in Kerala has become the first university in the country to pass a resolution against the Citizenship Amendment Act.
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I had signed this along with 4600 others against the targeting of
@svaradarajan
and
@thewire_in
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Donald Trump is impeached, for the second time, in exactly 7 days after inciting violence.
Delhi Police has not been able to spell Union Minister Anurag Thakur's name after one year of his public call to shoot "anti-nationals."
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A BJP MP who thinks that lakhs of migrant workers who are walking up to 400 kms to get back home are irresponsible.
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If you kill a black buck, you will get five years in jail.
If you lynch a man for eating beef, you will go scot-free and even be draped in the national flag.
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My article
@the_hindu
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@ttovino
's 2018 based on solidarity and unity, becomes the biggest Malayalam hit, Kerala Story, targeting Muslims and Kerala, becomes a blockbuster elsewhere. When a nation embraces Goebbelsian propaganda as artistic imagination, it is in deep peril.
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EVM means "Every Vote for Modi." -- Haryana BJP Chief Minister.
Electronic Voting Machine and its Freudian slips.
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An ode to India's ineradicable plurality:
Station name in 4 languages.
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The top 5 Twitter trends in Pakistan today were about the passing of the Indian actor Irrfan Khan.
Irrfan would have been very happy and hatemongers on either side very angry.
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Hindutva brigade is now circulating "real" photographs of Tipu Sultan.
Tipu would have liked to take a photograph of himself, but, alas, he died some 27 years before the first photo in the world.
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My article in
@thewire_in
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India is the only country with an unusual and dangerous response to coronavirus: the propaganda that its numbers are low because of the stellar leadership of its government and its leader, Narendra Modi.
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Stadiums Named After Leaders in Their Own Lifetime:
An August Company!
Adolf Hitler Kampfbahn, Stuttgart
Stadio Municipals Benito Mussolini, Turin
Joseph Stalin Stadium, Baku
Saddam Hussein Gymnasium, Baghdad
Kim II Sung Stadium, Pyongyang
Narendra Modi Stadium, Ahmedabad
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Breaking news: India's health minister quits.
Oops, sorry! It is Jordan's health minister.
Jordan is ranked 118 in the Democracy Index and an authoritarian country.
India is ranked 53.
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Harbhajan Singh, previously guilty of making racial slurs, now flaunts his naked communal side.
Absolutely condemnable.
Some countries have moon on their flags
🇵🇰🇹🇷🇹🇳🇱🇾🇦🇿🇩🇿🇲🇾🇲🇻🇲🇷
While some countries having their flags on moon
🇺🇸 🇷🇺 🇮🇳 🇨🇳
#Chandrayaan2theMoon
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When hate is manufactured every day by those who wield immense power, on either side of the border, to keep India and Pakistan divided and bleeding, it is incredibly heartwarming to see people transcend it.
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India's new Education Minister has two honorary doctorates, from the same unregistered Sri Lankan University, and yes, in two different fields, literature and science.
This genius had said before: “Lakhs of years ago, Sage Kanad had conducted a nuclear test."
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Every single dictator currently ruling would have nightmares looking at the photo clicked exactly 10 years ago by Khaled Desouki on 10.10.2020.
Every single dictator in the front row is either deposed, dead or assassinated.
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I write in
@the_hindu
today: instead of an empty celebration of the present film blockbusters from South India, there is a need for the real "Pan-Indian" cinema.
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The supreme confidence to spew nonsense without referring to even one scholarly work on the topic from from entire libraries that exist on it.
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US Elections are making many go gaga over the Election Commission of India.
The same Election Commission which is sleeping while the PM goes on with his communal demagoguery asking people in Bihar not to vote for those who do not chant ‘Jai Shri Ram.’
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Another excellent work by
@AltNews
Toolkit status after 60 hours - Thread
On 18th morning, screenshots of two documents went viral, and was claimed to be a Congress 'toolkit'. Many top leaders of BJP shared these screenshots and accused Congress of trying to make political capital out of a pandemic.
1/n
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The killing of a 22-year-old Muslim League activist in Kerala by alleged Left/CPM workers is absolutely shocking. There are no words to describe such heinousness in a democracy in this age.
There cannot be any "ifs" and "buts" and whataboutery in condemning it.
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Swapan Dasgupta in Queen's English tells us that BBC has a colonial attitude.
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Legendary cricketer Jay Shah, around 30 years old, set to be the secretary of BCCI, the most powerful cricket body in the world.
His father, Amit Shah, will be a proud man.
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Solar Eclipse, India Gate, New Delhi
Photo: Praveen Khanna
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India cannot become a strong military state like Israel because India has an anti-national Jawaharlal Nehru University. -- Gen. V. K. Singh, Union Minister.
I am proud that my alma mater of only 8500 students has prevented India from becoming the fascist state of Israel.
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Just as the South African State under Apartheid, and the Afghan State under Taliban claimed: "Please leave it to us."
Every single autocracy in the world has used this nativist and insular argument: we will do what we want, please do not interfere.
Nobody else can judge us.
India’s Democracy Debate -Please Leave it to the Indians. My piece in
@washingtonpost
- on how rebukes by western governments or stereotypes by Western Media will make Indians close ranks. India’s democracy has to be strengthened by us & us alone.
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After deploying half a million security personnel in Kashmir for 30 years, after the deaths of around 50,000 Kashmiri civilians, and 6500 troops, finally it seems we have an answer: a military solution.
So please wait for the "befitting response" to Pakistan promised by the PM.
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