Swati Moitra
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She/Her. বাঙাল. Certified বিদ্যা বাচস্পতি. Researches book history/cultures of reading. Not a current affairs Twitter handle.|| Mail: sm @swatimoitra .net
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Imagine being Kokilaben and having one daughter-in-law washing laptops with soap water and the other taking the chana out of the cooker and placing the empty cooker on the burner. Completely on her side here.
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Thinking of spending 9 minutes at 9 pm on 9th September on the terrace with a thali, screaming "grow GDP, grow."
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I don't know who needs to hear this but a good PhD is a done PhD. Just get it over with.
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If farmers can't protest because the matter is sub judice, surely the sale of electoral bonds must also stop because the matter is sub judice? No?
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The least INC could do is stand by Zakia Jafri. Ehsan Jafri was their MP.
A party that won't stand by its own can't expect us to vote for them.
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Breathtaking image of the eclipse at India Gate by Indian Express' Praveen Khanna.
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Atishi Marlena.
Raghav Chaddha.
Sanjay Singh.
3 representatives from AAP playing up xenophobic hysteria. This is not a one off, it's the party line.
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We are proud of Kamala Harris' Indian roots but Sonia Gandhi is a foreigner and Rahul/Priyanka Gandhi should go back to Italy.
The breathtaking hypocrisy of this country.
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Why would a Bengali tea stall owner declare free tea for Argentina? Because she can. Football is heartbreak and the purest of loves. (Image courtesy Sahebul Haque/Subhankar)
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On Labour Day, a simple demand: ASHA workers and cremation workers must have permanent jobs and pay hikes.
Enough is enough.
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Me: *logs in to SBI online*
SBI: here's an OTP
SBI: sorry you gotta change your pw
SBI: here's another OTP
SBI: now do this twice
SBI: now sing a song and jump through rings of fire
Me: *breathes*
SBI: sorry we logged you out
SBI: here's another OTP
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The older I grow, the more I understand Kumbhakarna. Why fight wars when you can nap instead?
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Imagine calling Hrishikesh Mukherjee films vulgar. Hrishikesh Mukherjee, gentlest of middle-brow comedies, maker of Golmaal and Chupke Chupke.
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Just saw a Zee News clip where the anchor is asking a Bengali panelist to pronounce Rabindranath's surname correctly: "Thakur nahin, Tagore boliye. Unka naam toh thik se lijiye."
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They took a good, kind man who had spent his entire life in the service of others, and killed him. Even that last hearing, when Father Stan begged to be allowed to return home to Ranchi - the court admitted that they could see how far gone he was, but they couldn't give him bail.
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Firhad Hakim could have been arrested at any point since 2016, along with Mukul Roy and Subhendu Adhikari. To harass him now is to disrupt the entire Covid co-ordination and vaccination process in Kolkata.
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I acknowledged my dog in my MPhil dissertation. My father, who only read the acknowledgements, asked what the dog had to do with my thesis.
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In the infinite wisdom of Laloo Prasad Yadav: riots do not happen if governments do not want them.
Riots are an organized crime. Always remember that.
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Clytemnestra is that you
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First Dalit girl sits in matric exam, entire village rushes to exam centre to wish her good luck
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Brinda Karat was not alone. It was an organized left delegation. Hannan Molla was there. Rajiv Kunwar was there. Ravi Rai of the CPI(ML) was there. And this is just the leadership. This absurd liberal take needs to end. 1/
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Listen very closely. If you're surprised that hardworking Punjabi farmers are being branded Khalistani, it's because you were looking the other way when hardworking Bengali farmers and migrant workers were being branded illegal immigrants.
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Can we talk about the fact that Aditi Ashok's caddy is her mother?
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PS: forcing women to take off garments they've chosen to wear doesn't end up well, please ref. the Mahabharata
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Not sure why people are so surprised about Durga idols being topical. They always have been. This is a WW II era Durga idol by the legendary Gopeshwar Pal (also responsible for warrior Durga/breaking away from the single frame). Note Mahishasura's moustache. [image - Ebela]
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I've had students come up to me in tears after reading Phule and Bama. I've had students sit slack-jawed after reading Mahasweta Devi and Manto. You don't have to do much. It's how some things are. Classrooms can be transformative. That's why they scare some people.
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It is impossible to explain how ghastly the flood situation in Assam is right now.
This should be the ONLY Assam headline right now. Everything else is a travesty.
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Gandhi was, by no means, a leader without problems. But as a child of East Bengali refugees, I will never forget Gandhi in Noakhali, walking barefoot while riots ravaged Bengal.
We no longer make leaders who are willing to put their bodies on the line to douse the flames.
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Babul Supriyo did multiple rallies yesterday while having sent his sample for a test. Announced himself positive today.
Daily COVID cases in Bengal spikes to 14,281. Ground-level journalists are doing an admirable job, as are doctors & nurses. But the spike was inevitable with the political leadership's insensitivity to human welfare & failure to do a nationwide lockdown on election rallies.
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We could perhaps do with a little less cynicism on Twitter, if only to grasp the enormity of the sacrifices of the people who conducted this movement for a year. A year. 700 people dead. Entire villages rallying behind their farmers, relay sit-ins, pizza langars, gyms!
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It was not uncommon for women to be heckled while going to college in the 19th century. Savitri Bai Phule herself withstood verbal and physical abuse.
Foolish to think Savitri Bai's daughters will not stand up to the same.
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Zee News would like you to believe that a teenage activist from another country has orchestrated the largest farmer's movement I have witnessed in my life.
This is national television, yes. In a way I'm glad the world is getting a dose of the lunacy we are subjected to.
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Hilarity on Bangla TV: News18 Bangla tells a panelist that he cannot criticize Ambani on Ambani's channel.
Appreciate the honesty.
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The male protagonist of Chak De is a Muslim athlete in India. Not all hot takes are necessary.
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Anganwadi workers deserve your feminist solidarity and support.
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My friend was lying on the floor of BHU Covid ward for 2.5 hours at night, with not a single soul to attend to him. Later on, he paid 36k for two vials of Remdesivir. His roommate lost an eye to the fungus. When he came out, there was no wood in Manikarnika.
At 11 AM tomorrow, 21st May, will be interacting with doctors and frontline workers who are working tirelessly to contain COVID-19 in Kashi.
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Both JMI and AMU faced spine-chilling horror on this day, last year. Please don't minimize AMU's story because it's not in Delhi.
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I'm sure your 30+ tweets thread on learning about ADHD is great, but maybe consider your target audience.
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There will be a lot of hagiographies today, so remember who he was and what he stood for.
#SoumitraChatterjee
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There are many things that are wrong with Delhi University. The cut-offs aren't one of them. 🧵
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A few years ago, a profile started popping up in my friends' fb walls. The profile mostly engaged with left-wing workers or sympathizers and always had a lot to say. People argued with it all the time, myself included. The profile argued but never trolled.
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2500 people died in the US yesterday but if this glorified YouTuber says so...
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Kamla Bhasin has passed. In the recent past, I have disagreed with her takes on some things, but her warmth, her energy, her generosity, her commitment to crossborder feminist solidarity in toxic S Asian contexts - this I will remember. Rest in power ma'am.
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I should have known better than to try eating Korean noodles with 2x spicy written on the pack, accompanied by the image of a chicken holding a bomb.
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There seems to be a misunderstanding regarding why many of us have insisted on emphasizing on the Bengali identity of the residents of Jahangirpuri. It suggests a lack of understanding of the very long history of persecution of Bengali migrant workers as foreigners. 1/
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This image went viral on Bangla social media today. A Durga image from last year... yes, as a migrant worker.
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Must have spotted a woman in ripped jeans.
Watch | Train rolls backwards for 35 kilometres in Uttarakhand
Read here:
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It is imperative that every academic institution in India with Afghan students finds a way to accommodate them, and not abandon them in this desperate hour.
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IITs like other higher educational institutions are now given loans via HEFA. Not grants. Loans must be repaid because not all of us are rich industrialists. Hence, fee hikes. Coming next at your university.
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Found this on Facebook. Whoever the creator is, you have my respect. This is the ultimate meme.
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Indian Railways to stop printing timetables! The end of an era in publishing.
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Just to be clear: Jahangirpuri has a migrant Bengali working class population, of which many are Muslim. This brand of xenophobia is not new in Delhi. It's now being trumpeted by Hindi media and all political parties in West Bengal are silent. Have you no shame?
This is today’s Dainik Jagran claiming that more than one lakh Bangladeshi infiltrators live in Jahangirpuri.
If true, the entire police establishment in that region ought to be sacked for gross incompetence.
If not, the worst kind of communal fear mongering from a newspaper
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I enjoy it when people periodically try to school Subhashini Ali on Subhash Bose, only to discover that she is literally named after the man by her mother, who was also in the INA and the CPI(M)
I think you shd remember that my mother was a member of Netaji s Provisional govt of Azad Hind
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One thing my professors taught me: if it's students vs the state, you stand with students.
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Most partition refugees did not build their houses legally. They parked wherever they could. They grabbed land, settled on government and private property. You can see traces of it in Kolkata's refugee colonies even today, from Leningarh to Bijoygarh.
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I am disgusted by journalists parachuting in from Delhi, talking glibly about "Hindu votes" and "Muslim votes" without an iota of criticism or addressing any fundamental issues of our lives. Your coverage is no less communal.
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Every time a speaker speaks a sentence in English, Hindi speakers start demanding Hindi in unison. Had to actually put my foot down and point out that many of us, esp those from the south, signed up for a bilingual program.
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@visvak
@neerjadeodhar
It's still stolen wealth, that belongs to the miners who laboured in the diamond and emerald mines, to the people who owned these lands in the first place, to the artisans whose labour made those artefacts possible.
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My request to Bengalis: please don't write poetry about Maradona.
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I have been watching, with quiet horror, what has been unfolding at the University of Delhi. A recruitment process that displaces 'ad hoc' faculty at will, never mind the years put in, 4 months at a time. Yes, 4 month contracts. 1/
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We should remember that Major Dhyan Chand refused to salute Hitler during the Olympics.
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Bless you, kiddo. (Caption: a sixth class kid places his pencil on his head and falls asleep at the mathematics festival at Chittagong, early in the morning; photo by Jewel Seal)
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If only
@priyankagandhi
showed the same firmness in Assam. If only.
I appreciate that she is sticking to her guns in UP, but her party has just suspended Sherman Ali for simply narrating history that is unacceptable in dominant public discourse. It's unfortunate.
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Who else believed, for a long time, that Milan (মিলন) Kundera was an Indian writer
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This one time in a dialogue with Gayatri Spivak, Romila Thapar talked about being the student selected to lower the Union Jack and raise the Tricolour in her school, in 1947. I think about it sometimes, the lives their generation led.
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My grandfather was an ordinary worker of the CPI + IPTA. He lost his job in the historic P&T strike of 1946. In 1947, he became a refugee and sold peanuts at the maidan for 3 years. He did it for our freedom, not for 'bheekh' as some overpaid trolls might claim.
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There are really grown men on this app getting off on calling a 37 yo actress 'a*unty' because it annoyed her. The extended adolescence of the Indian male is quite something to behold.
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From the first cruelty, that of arresting a 83 year old man with advanced Parkinson's - to the denial of a sipper - to repeated medical negligence, refusal of bail in a pandemic... What did the courts think would happen? That he would miraculously become fine?
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Please, be kind. Be kind to those disengaging and to those doomscrolling. Be kind especially to those who do not have the privilege of watching from afar but are living it, and may not be feeling very kind themselves.
Be kind to everyone except those in power.
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They were there in front of the bulldozers because it's what they do, and because they have some organizational strength in Delhi.
That photograph of Brinda Karat is amazing and should be shared everywhere, but don't make this her personal crusade. Trust me, that's not it.
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You're literally allowing the Kumbh Mela. Resign.
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I don't know what my year was like. Many people I knew died. We spent days arranging for oxygen cylinders. I won't forget that horror as long as I live. I won't forgive the people responsible for it.
#2021
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Father Stan would have believed in heavenly justice, right and wrong. I don't. But if there's such a thing as divine retribution, I hope the perpetrators pay.
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Your janeu is showing.
Resident doctors across India to go on strike today to protest delay in NEET PG admissions. There have been no admissions in most med colleges across India for PG course for a year now. We call them Covid warriors and then make them hostage to reservation politics. Not done!
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Your solidarity is not enough. Your party enabled this for decades. Act.
Assam is on state-sponsored fire.
I stand in solidarity with our brothers and sisters in the state- no children of India deserve this.
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The left parties send organized delegations. That is their politics. The CPI(M) had sent an organized delegation yesterday as well. So have other parties and trade unions. Left parties did a joint fact-finding exercise. It was all over the news. 2/
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ASHA workers still do not have permanent jobs.
This is beyond wrong.
Pulse polio immunisation at Sunderbans, delta of Ganges. Amazing HCW working tirelessly in waterlogged zones.
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RIP, Com. Bidyut Guchhait. Even watching you from afar engaging with young activists of all ideologies was an experience.
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Safdar Hashmi was fatally shot by INC-adjacent goondas on 1st January, 1989, while performing "Halla Bol" at Sahibabad.
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A lot of the political commentators on this site were furious at Mr. Kharge for not handing a walkover to Mr. Tharoor. I hope they understand what an asset he is to his party.
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Here's the thing that rankles, here's the part I must write down before I sleep - you've met a person with impairments courtesy Alzheimer's, Parkinson's, forms of dementia, haven't you? You parents or grandparents or elders. You've cared for them, wondered when your turn is.
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The people of Bengal, Punjab and Assam can now be randomly harassed by the BSF if they live within 50 kms of the border.
The same BSF that has been caught red-handed involved in smuggling rings just recently.
Silence from the defenders of democracy.
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Publicly accessible archival documents on anti-colonial movements in eastern India by the WB State Archives. Great job I must say.
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The left parties are there during every demolition. Heard of Rangpuri Pahari or Kathputli Colony? Do you know why the Jahangir Puri settlements exist in the first place? (Hint: Emergency) 3/
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Not a single member of this country's academic elite noticed when an arbitrary intervention led to the suspension of 13 Assistant Professors in Chapra. A few voices of disquiet noticed the churning in VBU, but that's about it. Today you speak of PBM and Ashoka.
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Someone pointed this out yesterday, and they're absolutely right - there's no reason to not replace the hand-pulled rickshaws in parts of Kolkata with battery-operated ones except poverty aesthetics.
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If a leaf is dislodged in DU/JNU/Ashoka, Pratap Bhanu Mehta shows up to write an op-ed. Apoorvanand delivers lectures on the idea of the university. Mukul Kesavan writes a column. The same courtesy is not extended to the AUDFA strike let alone other state unis.
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Nothing left to say. Needless to say, she is ethnically Bengali.
#Assam
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#SejeBalaGhosh
said her father was a freedom fighter and questioning her citizenship was an insult to her father’s sacrifices.
(Reports Biswa Kalyan Purkayastha)
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Courtesy Maroona Murmu. Some advertiser really thought this is a good idea.
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upsc kar lo, they said. life set ho jayega, they said.
Prabin Lal Agrawal, a 1994-batch IFS officer, was serving as
#Tripura
's chief wildlife warden. He recorded the names of the lion couple as 'Akbar and Sita' in the dispatch register while sending them to Siliguri.
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Er, since this is viral now, please consider supporting the Cheruia Public Library in Balia, UP, which is doing some important community work for young people.
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Milkha Singh was born in 1929, 10 years after Jallianwala Bagh. Bhagat Singh was executed in 1931.
Milkha Singh was born in present day Pakistan and lost his family to Partition violence, which he witnessed. He also spent time in a refugee camp.
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