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Have vested interests in free speech, liberal democracy. Atheist who likes the Buddha. Author of "Early Indians" published by @Juggernautbooks
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"A very readable account... should be of interest to anyone curious about the waves of migration and intermixing that resulted in the rich tapestry that makes up the people of today's India"
-Venki Ramakrishnan, molecular biologist, Nobel Laureate
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The Kunal Kamra story is no longer about inconveniencing someone on an aircraft. It is about unwarranted, illegal, dictatorial misuse of state power against an individual.
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One man who can’t show his degree certificate wants 1.3 billion people to show their grandparents’ documents or be imprisoned in detention camps.
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That is NOT important. What is important is that no self-respecting journalist should be doing what you are doing -turning a process that is corrupt to the core into amoral entertainment. It needs to be investigated and exposed, not glorified and covered like the Filmfare awards.
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Don't be afraid, name the minister, his son and their party. Show their faces. Ask them a few questions. You can do it. Try it. It is not too hard. It is called journalism.
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Malayalis do not look at their politicians as superhuman heroes. None of them. They criticize them, mock them and complain about them bitterly. They also change them often. All of which keeps most of them on good behaviour. Highly recommended for all states. And the nation.
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It is wrong to describe what is happening as a 'failure' of the govt. A 'failure' assumes that the govt tried to do something, but unsuccessfully. Evidence suggests the govt had no concrete plan for suppressing a second wave. The only plan it had was for suppressing data.
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Parliament that does NOT debate issues. Courts that do NOT hear cases. Media that does NOT question power. Executive that does NOT exercise independence. The farce that IS on.
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Essential steps to good governance from Kerala
1. Don't hero worship any political leader. YOU employ THEM.
2. Vote in & Vote out regularly
3. Always make brutal fun of those in power
4. Learn to organize on specific issues
5. Never ever compromise on equal dignity for all
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Amidst the rising tempo of genocidal noise from Uttarakhand, Delhi and elsewhere, if you listen carefully, you can also hear a deafening silence. It is a sign of easy, comfortable complicity at all levels.
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Gujarat 2002. Notebandi 2016. National Migrant Exodus 2020. Covid Cataclysm 2021
The frequency is increasing. So is the scale.
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This is great. Your channel should also immediately declare the ad revenues you collect from Chinese companies or companies in which the Chinese have a stake, so that people can decide whether to watch you or not. This should be easy-peasy, so do it quickly now!
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Killing the Jews was an internal matter for Germany. Or was it? What do you think?
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The lights are being turned off one by one at a deliberate pace. Your eyes will get adjusted to the darkness gradually. And at some point, you are going to hate light because light will hurt your eyes.
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The main driving force behind the Indian Rightwing movement is upper class resentment over ancient privileges diluted by democracy. Its objective is a hierarchical future similar to what tradition dictates. The hate you see is the necessary force to create the new hierarchy.
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They murdered him. While everyone was watching. Because there is nothing to stop them.
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It looks like the last four years have made EVERYONE feel they are in danger. Hindus feel they are in danger. Muslims feel they are in danger. Dalits feel they are in danger. Farmers feel they are in danger. PM feels he is in danger... Sab Khatre Mein Hai. Why so?
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Why would those who cheered the assassination of a 78-year-old unarmed man at a prayer meeting in 1948 think twice about murdering an 84-year-old sick man in 2021?
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Just saw a video, apparently promoted by the govt, that talks about the 24,000-year-old civilization of India.😎 24,000 years ago, the world was in the grip of a glacial period, and all modern humans everywhere were hunter-gatherers.🤦♂️
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What the average Indian Television News Anchor does every day is no different from what the teacher in Uttar Pradesh did. The same.
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Anyone who criticizes Goebbels while taking care not to criticize Hitler is probably just angling for Goebbels' job.
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It takes a versatile genius to turn one of the fastest growing economies into one of the fastest contracting ones while also presiding over a million deaths, accepting enemy intrusions, widening social divides, upsetting the federal arrangement and eroding institutions.
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What is going on today is surreal. The scale of the tragedy. Then the scale of the denial that dwarfs the scale of the tragedy. Then the scale of the lunacy in allowing large gatherings that dwarfs the denial. Then the scale of the malevolence that dwarfs the lunacy...
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The biggest political experiment in the world is happening right here, right now: How to make a billion people, or a great part of them, think and act like a mob through incessant propaganda. Nothing similar in scale has been attempted before.
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Su Venkatesan, well-known Tamil author and MP from Madurai, speaking in the Lok Sabha on the narrowly-constituted panel to study Indian culture
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Remember, Sudha Bharadwaj, who dedicated her life to helping tribals is still in jail, without trial. Convicted killers are out on bail, and asked to do social service!
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It is hilarious that those who have no desire to know which cronies are funnelling thousands of crores in dark money to the ruling party want to know urgently who’s funding the food requirements of protesters at Shaheen Bagh🤦🏽♂️
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Nothing. It was just standing there, immobile. It wasn't lynching anyone. It wasn't running a hate news channel trying to foment riots and win elections. It wasn't even asking stupid questions.
Me too want to know! Wht was a statue of Lenin doing in India? 🤔
#JustAsking
@SitaramYechury
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Things we have become inured to in 5 years:
1. Mob violence & lynching
2. Hatred-spewing news channels
3. Brazen data burial, manipulation & lying by govt
5. Blunders marketed as Masterstrokes
6. Branding those who question the govt as anti-national
7. Whatsapp history
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Many Indians suffer from a peculiar form of long-sightedness. They can clearly see atrocities that happen at a great distance, preferably in another country, but they are utterly unable to see atrocities that happen under their nose. Hope medical science will offer a solution.
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Only in India: people who call themselves journalists defending the government's right to spy on journalists.
Warped minds.
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India's news television media, it is now becoming evident, is likely the most bigoted and twisted in the world. Not satisfied with spreading lies, venom and hatred within India, they are trying to export this stuff to the whole world.
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The journalists who do these interviews should be considered for the next Filmfare awards.
Proof in black & white that even Modi’s love fests with panna pramukhs are scripted. See the questions & answers
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Almost all of our news anchors and many of our editors have had such extraordinary prescience. Such insight. Such foresight. Amazing.
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I have finally understood what "BREAKING" means. It is a kind of admission, or a warning, by TV channels that they are about to break something - such as truth, ethics, decency, propriety, rule of law, etc.
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History will regard this as a significant moment, at a time when it seemed all was lost and integrity, uprightness and independence were all fairy tales.
Lawyers lining up for Justice Muralidhar's farewell at the Delhi high court.
Photo by
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This took real commitment, 24-hour-work-days, hard work (not Harvard), and an amazing attitude that can be summed up this way: "benefit le sakte hain!"
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Criticizing the Opposition is easy. There is no cost to it. It requires zero courage. No wonder there are so many willing to do it at any time. It would rank high on the 'Ease of Doing Journalism' index.
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A country where anyone anytime can be arrested and held in custody, without trial, at the whim of the govt, with courts giving no conceivable reason for denial of bail, is not a country that can claim to have rule of law. It is a land that is fast becoming uncivilized.
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That will take a lot of hard work in fudging.
India to achieve 10 per cent GDP growth by Q4 of FY 2018-19: Piyush Goyal
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Friends, the book I have been working on for long is out. Check in your favourite bookstore, or Amazon/Flipkart. It answers fundamental & long-debated questions about us in a comprehensive manner, starting from 65,000 years ago. Do read and pass the word!
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Question, 5 marks: How will you write a 50-word Edit on the arrest of the young climate activist that makes you look reasonable and also pleases and praises the govt?
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If the Central Govt stops the flow of external aid to Kerala's flood victims, it will need to answer these questions quickly:
1. How on earth could you then allow political parties to access foreign funds?!
2. How come Gujarat can get foreign funds but Kerala should not?
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Moving from calling the opponent Pappu to calling him Ravana shows the dramatic change in threat perception. Impressive.
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If the teacher were not standing over my shoulder watching me, I would have copied my notes and won the test: Student
If Congress & JDS would not have held its MLAs hostage, we would have formed the government in Karnataka: Amit Shah, BJP.
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This is a pleasure to watch. Notice the expectant smile on the face of the anchor at the beginning, the slow waning of it and the fidgeting towards the end.
@rahulkanwal
asked famous author Yuval Noah Harari
@harari_yuval
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Observe Kanwal's body language as Harari says India must stop harassing Muslims.
Thank you, Harari. Indeed, the human solidarity is the way-forward.
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It will be Onam this Saturday, the festival that brings all Malayalis together, wherever in the world they are. The floods this year will dampen the celebratory air, but not the spirit of the Malayali. After all, Onam is about a joyous comeback, a perennial return.
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The on-going radicalization of Indian society is a top-down, not a bottom-up, affair.
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No, you are not. You are merely scrounging around for a different way to frame the issue: Delhi vs the rest; Khan Market vs Bengali Market; Urdu vs Hindi... anything other than the real thing today: a Nazi-inspired party and its govt vs Students across the country
Frankly, I am bored and disgusted by the national politics of India being reduced to the politics of Delhi. There is a world beyond Jamia, JNU and Shaheen Bagh.
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When Muslims are under attack by the institutions of state, as captured on countless videos, a true Indian journalist will speak as a Muslim. Those who do not do so are letting their biases overcome their Indianness. This should be self-evident.
Great .. madam . Vaise u didn't have to block me. Neither I ever followed u nor I would have ever wanted that .
I quoted a news channel's video where u were only talking about MUSLIMS and u didnt talk like an INDIAN anywhere. God bless u 👍🙏
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Calling Jignesh Mevani casteist is like calling Phule or Ambedkar casteist or Mandela racist or Gandhi imperialist. Inverting the meaning of words is a standard propaganda tactic.
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None of them run lynch mobs. None of them garland lynch mobs. None of them have a Twitter army issuing rape & death threats. None of them have Photoshop factories producing hate propaganda. None of them have TV channels spreading hatred. They all pass the most basic test.
Why don’t you give me a few suggestions for a better bet Richard? So far the choice is: Rahul, Mayawati, Akhilesh and more of the same. Under which of these fine leaders do you think India will do better??
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Cut this crap. Predicting election results a few days before they are announced is a useless exercise that adds nothing good to our democratic experience. What does a make a difference his how media does its real job - holding power accountable. And there, you are a big ZERO.
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When someone proves to you the first time that they do not value human lives, believe them. Don't take chances.
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By that logic, any parliamentary discussion is futile as well - because MPs are divided on party lines. Elections are futile too - because voters are divided on party lines. Didn't know the honourable FM also graduated in 'entire political science'.
"We can't rely on Joint Parliamentary Committee (JPC) because people are divided on party lines. So, in such cases, we have to rely on judicial processes," says Finance Minister Arun Jaitley
Watch LIVE now on and NDTV 24x7
#RafaleDeal
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When you treat citizens as adults and equals, you share honest, important, transparent information with them. When you treat them as idiots, you try to distract them with bells and whistles and ask them to sing and dance.
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Economic offenses are minor when compared to pumping up hatred against a community that is already under bigoted physical attacks. The latter is a crime against humanity. Money can be recovered, lost lives can't be.
Republic TV says Arnab Goswami's interrogation on for more than 7 hours. Is he some economic offense violator, what is taking so much time? He went in at 9.20 am, came out briefly for a couple of minutes but did not meet with colleagues waiting outside.
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It is shocking to see how many senior journalists have given up the basic ethics of journalism. I have never seen a darker period of Indian journalism in the nearly four decades that I have closely observed it.
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Trump thought judges he appointed to the Supreme Court will favour him. They didn't. Trump thought Republicans in power in states will fix the election results for him. They didn't. When a nation has enough citizens with working spines, its democracy can survive severe challenges
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UP has a Chief Minister and a party that has been elected to power. Don't be scared. Name them. The skies won't fall. Take a deep breath, gather courage and then try spelling out the names.
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Battle. War. Wounded tiger. Itching to strike back... That's a lot of words to hide the lack of reporting on how political outcomes are brought about - how the law is broken, how constitutional norms are violated, how investigative agencies are used to threaten opponents...
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The number of journalists who are trying to spin, downplay and minimize the gravity of Hollande's revelation is a revelation in itself. Something nasty happened to Indian media after 2014.
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What exactly is the meaning of this cliche, 'Secularism Failed'??
If people become dishonest, does 'Honesty Fail'? If they become thuggish, does 'Civility Fail'? If no one takes a bath, does 'Cleanliness fail'? If not, why does 'Secularism Fail' when a govt becomes bigoted?
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It did not take long to go from the election slogan ‘Acche Din Aanewala Hai’ to the election slogan ‘Goli Maaro Saalon Ko’. Why? Because the second slogan was always the true meaning of the first one.
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A lynch mob consists of actual murderers, TV newsroom hatemongers, data support providers, social media cheerleaders and silent observers.
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The Bommai conversation with India Today makes it clear, quite unsurprisingly, that Indian news television is even more hooked on spreading hatred and violence than the leading political party. They are not merely following; they are leading in this matter.
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This is far, far worse than I thought before watching it. This is despicable not only for its utter crassness, but for the way it pushes the minds of intelligent, well-intentioned, sensitive children towards the gutter with such ease.
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India ranks 86 out of 98 countries in the Covid Performance Index of Lowy Institute - the worst performer in Asia, below Iraq, Bangladesh and Indonesia. Sri Lanka comes in at number 10.
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What Pakistan accomplished in the Zia years, 1978-1988, we are accomplishing about four decades later. The consequences will be similar.
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It is great to see prominent Indian journalists standing up against the tyranny of... the government of Canada. Imagine the courage, the chutzpah, the commitment to the ideals of a free and independent media that they exhibit. Amazing. In fact, breathtaking!
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The sad, sad face - and state - of mainstream journalism in India today.
Dear
@narendramodi
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#VoteKar
. we have done just that.
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In the history of the Indian Republic, it is difficult to find another period of such incompetence & mismanagement with such devastating consequences. Consequences that are worsened by attempts to manipulate the data. For mercy's sake, manage the Pandemic, not the Perception!
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How many years have we slipped?
1. 17 years, when we last took foreign aid
2. 74 y, when we had similar mass casualties
3. 77 y, when deaths of this cale happened due to scarcity (of food, rather than oxygen, medicine...)
4. 103 y, when we were laid low by Spanish Flu
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We don’t elect the Pakistani govt, the Azerbaijan govt or the Moroccan govt. They are not accountable to us. We elect the Indian govt, which is duty-bound to be accountable to us. Civic lesson number 1.
Anti-CAA protestors should raise their voice against Pak's atrocities of the past, says Modi in Karnataka. Asks what stops them from protesting against Pakistan
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They have apologised, repeatedly. Have you done so for 2002? Now is a good time to do it. Go ahead, let us hear it.
It is a matter of disgrace that the Congress Party has no remorse over the Sikh killings of 1984.
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Your 'apology' has 198 RTs. You waited till your original lie was RTd over 3,000 times to delete it. So it's reasonable to conclude your 'apology' is phony and that you successfully achieved your objective of injecting communal venom into our society. Once again.
2/n My unconditional apology for misleading tweet. Big lesson for future. Wi be far more careful henceforth.
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How are they all standing, without a spine?!
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A dysfunctional nation in the making. Or already there.
Electricity Bill is high and there are so many problems but I love Yogi ji because "Woh mullo ko maar ke bhaga raha hai".
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No good has ever come out of mixing religion with politics. No good will ever come out of it. This is because religion gives those in power a riskless, costless way to do whatever they please and justify whatever they want. There is no mystery to this. We experience it every day.
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There’s only one national party that gains from riots. There’s only one national party whose leaders make hate speeches, consistently. There’s only one national party whose political philosophy & electoral model are based on religious polarisation.
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Violence is at the heart of the ideology that is taking India back to the dark ages. Violence based on religion. Violence based on gender. Violence based on caste. Violence based on language. Violence based on region. And all this violence to ensure political & social dominance.
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The raid on
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"Prasoon Joshi asks the Prime Minister- you are working hard but can you change the nation alone?"
Yup, the Nation is the problem!
We need to elect an entirely new set of citizens and dump the existing ones.
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Nehru visualized dams, heavy industry, scientific institutes. Rajiv had a dream about Indians mastering computers. Manmohan Singh figured out how to free the entrepreneurial spirit of the country. None of them, however, could grasp the potential and promise of the Pakoda.
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Is this a complaint?
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Fastest growth experienced by India ever. Fastest decline in poverty. No pogroms under his watch. Economic Data that is trusted. Right to Information. A PM that is trusted. A country that is respected and admired. Difficult to believe that all this was just over six years ago.
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This juvenile word play is still going on?
PM Narendra Modi in Paris: Today in the 21st century we talk of INFRA. I would like to say that for me it is IN+FRA, which means the alliance between India and France.
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Rubbish, as we have come to expect from this man. Burning the body against the wishes of the family was a political decision. Destruction of evidence through the burning is a political act. Casteism is entrenched politics. You can't take politics out of caste oppression.
"There should be no politics on this issue. Why should such an incident happen in UP, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Mumbai or Delhi? No rape incidents should happen in the country": Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal at
#JantarMantar
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The majority of the middle class today is at home with bigotry, violence and the choking of democracy. In fact, as long their hate is kept fed nicely, and the news is entertaining, they don't mind losing territory to China either.
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It would be good to know the location of this moral high ground. We could then promote it as a tourist spot. Is it Kathua? Or Dadri? Or Muzaffarnagar? Or Naroda Patiya? Or Best Bakery, Vadodara? Or Gulbarg Society, Chamanpura? Or...
Few things have damaged the BJP more than the manner in which they have allowed an alleged child rapist to control the narrative. The moral high ground has slipped.
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The number of political prisoners in a country is usually directly proportional to the decay of its democracy. If that number is going up rapidly, so is the degradation of its democracy.
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Who funds you? Can't tell because... Electoral Bonds!
What defense deal did you make? Can't tell because.... Secrecy Clause!
Who travelled with you? Can't tell because... National Interest!
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Murder by rioting and burning. Murder by lynching. Murder by dog-whistling. Murder by rallying. Murder by gathering. Murder by choking without Oxygen. Murder by not ordering vaccine. So many different methods!
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