Author: The Adventures of an Intrepid Film Critic, Journalist, World's most committed feminist :) Instagram: annammvetticad FB: AnnaMMVetticadOfficial (She/Her)
"The ethical & legal violations of the Oscar-nominated
#ToKillATiger
"
Read my article on Himal Southasian
@Himalistan
about this deeply problematic Canadian documentary tracking a father in Jharkhand fighting for his 13-yr-old after she was gang-raped.
In 2010,
#KanganaRanaut
told me she does not mind the privilege (she called it "quota") star kids have since she herself has a quota and privilege back home because her granddad was in the IAS, her mother was a teacher, Dad a businessman & great granddad a freedom fighter (Contd)
I just booked a flight.
#IndiGo
was offering a lower price for the timing I wanted. I am a middle-class woman, every paisa matters to me, but I opted for another airline because I want you to know
@IndiGo6E
that you were wrong to ban
@kunalkamra88
.
#IStandwithKunalKamra
Protesting is a crime.
Criticising this government is a crime.
Being
#Muslim
is a crime.
Let us not pretend that there is anything more to
#UmarKhalid
's arrest than this.
#IStandWithUmarKhalid
No idea if this is what he intended, but I love the fact that
@RahulGandhi
's tweet provoked the knickerati enough to mock him with, "Hey, check your spellings. It's
#SurrenderModi
not
#SurenderModi
."
Haha, okay, thank you for the clarification and confirmation 😄
My cousin just lost her son to
#COVID
that he contracted in 2020 and never recovered from. He had been terribly ill and declining for 2 years. He was a doctor, a father, a husband, a son. Before he got
#COVID
, he was also a healthy man in his 40s. (1/6)
Children raped by relatives, women beaten up by husbands are told the same thing: "the neighbours should not find out." Even women of minority communities are told: "let's keep this within the community." This is an old argument used by oppressors & their supporters.
Hello
@IAF_MCC
, Is this man really part of the Indian Air Force or is this a fake account? If fake, do note that he is misusing IAF's name. If not fake, then as an Indian woman I'd very much like to know if his creepy tweet about
@RanaAyyub
reflects
#IAF
's attitude to women🙏🏽
#BBC
's
#NarendraModi
documentary is damning. Apart from eyewitness accounts, it reveals the findings (so far unpublished) of a UK government inquiry into the 2002 Gujarat pogrom, when Jack Straw was Foreign Secretary. Chilling, even if you've been tracking Modi for long.
@BBC
✊🏽
#SaiPallavi
in
#Gargi
(Tamil) is one of the best acting performances I have seen in an Indian film this year. And Gargi's thoughtful exploration of its primary theme - the effect on a woman when a man she loves is accused of a sexual crime - blew me away.
@Sai_Pallavi92
❤️✊(1/8)
#Unnao
survivor's aunts: killed in car accident
Survivor: injured in accident
Lawyer: died this week of injuries from the accident
Father: killed in a beating
Every jerk who ever mocked
#rape
survivors for not filing official complaints should rot in hell!
If 1 more Bollywood person says, "we're soft targets," I'll scream.India's other film industries & practitioners of other arts show courage despite getting one-millionth of the media space B'wood gets.Barring some individuals, Bollywood is a "fraternity" of cowards & opportunists
Thank you
@TimesNow
for letting us know you think watching a movie at a cinema hall is condemnable. Would you have preferred it if
#RahulGandhi
watched porn on his cellphone like your party's Karnataka MLAs?
#AreYouSeriousTimesNow
#BJP
Thanks for sticking your neck out,
#PoojaBhatt
. It takes guts for any non-politician to join the
#BharatJodoYatra
, knowing the risks it entails.
@PoojaB1972
✊🏽
PS: You walk like such a boss!
Hell hath no fury like a bigot faced with a woman who refuses to stay silent. Bless you
@RanaAyyub
for continuing to fight despite years of incessant, traumatic abuse.
So
#RichaChadha
used sarcasm as a tool to express anguish about a great loss to our country, & she is being lectured about love for our armed forces by Canada's most famous Kumar. Irony defines today's India.
@RichaChadha
@alifazal9
♥️✊
So
#ShahRukhKhan
posts a funny tweet to our hockey team, the coach replies warmly with a joke, but Sanghis & a rival star's fans have somehow turned this into an opportunity to abuse SRK?!!!!🙄
Humourless hate-mongers!
#ChuckThemIndia
#ChakDeIndia
Hope
#ABPNews
does not delete this revelatory 11-minute clip from the
#SwaraBhasker
-
#RubikaLiyaquat
Q&A on realising that their FB team was unaware of the game their Twitter team was playing.
...The full interview is on YouTube - do watch for yourself.
And now, let's talk - seriously - about
#mentalhealth
, nepotism, class and other crucial issues that are being overshadowed by self-absorbed individuals & agenda-driven groups since
#SushantSinghRajput
's passing 🙏🏽
Translation: We crawled when asked to bend, threw a small, gutsy news start-up under the bus, and risked the safety of scores of ordinary citizens.
#Razorpay
#AltNews
..I hesitated to bring this up since I don't want a discussion on nepotism derailed & (this is a golden rule of journalism) I don't want to make this about myself. But
#Ranaut
's team left me with no choice by circulating a tiny clip from this show to claim I shamed her. (Contd)
No one should be subjected to the kind of tweet sent to
@zoo_bear
by that hate-filled misogynist & Muslim-hater who has been legitimised by Indian news media in the name of neutrality. The media must be objective,NOT neutral.Neutrality in the face of evil is its own form of evil.
In a depressing world, some positive news 👇🏾 "She had earlier appeared in
#NEET
in 2017, but was not successful. This year she learnt about the Delhi govt's free coaching scheme for
#Dalit
students under which she got 4mths coaching at a private institute"
A human being lies dead. This child will most likely be scarred for life. But all
#SambitPatra
sees is an opportunity to fling a jibe at his political opponents. This vile tweet is an all-time low even by Patra's past-the-bottom-of-the-barrel low standards.
#KashmirBleeds
#Sopore
Some of the filthy comments in response to this tweet are all the proof you need that this is a risky stand for any Indian politician to take. Thank you
@RahulGandhi
for speaking out against
#MaritalRape
. This means a lot.
Is
#BJP
making this video viral to mock
@RahulGandhi
? What a self-goal! 'Cos all I see here is RG being kind to an elderly man, respecting cultural differences, smiling graciously in an awkward situation, and just generally being decent. You know, all the things
#Modi
is not?
Man!
#BJP
is having a field day with this video, but to be honest it goes to show what a great guy
@RahulGandhi
actually is! Behaved with so much decency and niceness!
If this was Modi ji he’d have pushed the translator off stage and suspended the state committee by now!
Shocked at this mindless tweet from you,
@NSaina
. No doubt it will get you applause, but the harm done by you who have such reach and are such a +ve role model for women is immeasurable. I request, urge, even beg you to have the humility to study an issue before commenting on it.
So many Indian liberals don't get this simple fact: that
#AtalBihariVajpayee
was the small single pill, who fed us his bigotry gently to test the waters in preparation for the higher dose called
#Advani
, who further set the stage for
#Modi
-
#AmitShah
, who then bred
#Adityanath
🙄
Stefan Zweig on how the Nazis "practiced their method carefully: only a small dose to begin with, then a brief pause.Only a single pill at a time &then a moment of waiting to observe the effect of its strength," to see whether the public conscience "would still digest this dose"
Foreign governments are stepping up to help
#Kerala
in this tragedy. Meanwhile, India's PM is still figuring out whether his own people deserve funds that are rightfully theirs, and his party's trolls are calling Kerala a "bikhari" (beggar) state.
#shame
#BJP
#Modi
This man is a spokesperson of India's ruling party, and is confident that he can get away with this open threat. Disgusting.
#Muslims
#BJP
#sambitpatra
During Twitter CEO
@jack
's visit here, he & Twitter's Legal head
@vijaya
took part in a round table with some of us women journalists, activists, writers &
@TwitterIndia
's
@amritat
to discuss the Twitter experience in India. A very insightful, no-words-minced conversation 😊
The
#NobelPeacePrize
became a bit of a joke when they gave it to
#Obama
at the start of his Presidency. That said, the prize brings great global attention to its recipients, so it's lovely that Time thinks our very own
@free_thinker
and
@zoo_bear
are frontrunners this year. ✊🏽
🤣🤣🤣🤣 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 In a choice between weeping over the state of Indian journalism in 2021 and having a good laugh, today I choose to laugh at this video.
Ma'am, a "free & independent India" should allow us to dress as we choose. Besides,we need to stop demanding that
@priyankachopra
be a perennial representative of India abroad. She has done the country proud,but she is an individual in her own right. Let's give her a break,please
"Regardless of what has been said the past few weeks..."? You do not get to play innocent after 6 years of demonising
#JNU
, Madam Minister.
#SOSJNU
#EmergencyinJNU
Horrifying images from JNU — the place I know & remember was one for fierce debates & opinions but never violence. I unequivocally condemn the events of today. This govt, regardless of what has been said the past few weeks, wants universities to be safe spaces for all students.
Such an open expression of caste prejudice from someone claiming to be a journalist. Reminder: this is a person who has the power to shape news coverage of caste atrocities...or erase it.
जब इंसान पंचर बनाने का पुश्तैनी काम छोड़कर कुछ और करता है तो ऐसी ही गलतियां करता है। सरकार की आलोचना और सवाल पूछने के मेरे पुराने और कल तक के ट्वीट/वीडियो निकालने की मेहनत में जनाब अपना ही एजेंडा ध्वस्त कर रहे कि मोदी सरकार से तो सवाल पूछे ही नहीं जाते कभी।थैंक यू।लगे रहो।
Don't know whether to laugh or cry at this shamelessly opportunistic tweet.
#PehluKhan
was killed by the Sangh Parivar's ideology of
#hate
, same Parivar that you
@priyankac19
have now embraced. At least have the courtesy to keep quiet at such a time.
#PehluKhanVerdict
Why is the
#Kanpur
video hard to watch for a journalist who batted for this regime even after Gujarat 2002? Heaven save us from the crocodile tears of enablers who now weep for Muslims and other minorities. "...And then they came for my son."
#TaapseePannu
@taapsee
speaks up: "Yes, I’ve been dropped out of films & replaced with star kids but the fact that
#KanganaRanaut
& her sister try to discredit me, call me names, put wrong allegations on me, is an equal level of harassment, if not more."
ISKCON missionaries approach strangers in public places to discuss Lord Krishna and distribute the Gita - that's not proselytisation? ISKCON missionaries dance in public spaces - that's not disruption? See this thread on yet another attack on India's
#Christian
minority. (Contd)
Christian missionaries who were distributing the Bible in
#Bengaluru
were assaulted by a mob, & the incident was caught on camera.
According to members of the small group, the incident occurred on Dec 23, as they were distributing
#Bibles
&
#Chocolates
in the
#Malleswaram
area.
Can you imagine a Delhi editor ever addressing Modi, "As a Gujarati guy..." or Yogi, "As a UP guy..."?
@ptrmadurai
#AsATamilGuy
you were അഡിപോളി👏🏽👏🏽👏🏽
#TamilGuy
A senior lawyer just told me there is no section of the Narcotic Drugs & Psychotropic Substances Act under which a person can be booked for:
(1) being the child of a
#Muslim
(2) Dad not being a sarkari chamcha.
Kindly share this news with those who want to
#SendAryanKhanToJail
1 tweet mildly critical of
#KanganaRanaut
= 40+ hours of communal trolling, misogyny, abuse, lies. If you still think this is about
#SushantSinghRajput
or
#nepotism
, if you do not see that hers is a self-serving battle backed by the IT Cell & unrelated to Sushant, you are naive.
The statement by the Samyukta Kisan Morcha is not celebratory, but cautious. India's farmer protestors are not easily fooled. They are watchful, and rightfully so.
#Farmlawsrepealed
@AkhilKatyal
Hi Akhil, I hope you don't mind that I translated your poem for the benefit of non-Hindi speakers here. I'm sure you would do a better job, but considering the atmosphere in India today, I found the exercise cathartic. Bless you!
#ShahRukhKhan
#AryanKhan
Dear fellow mediapersons, Please delete those photos of
#ShabanaAzmi
lying injured on the road after her accident. They are invasive and intrusive. Please.
Get well
@AzmiShabana
ji. There is more goodwill & positive energy coming your way than you can imagine.
@Javedakhtarjadu
Stop shaming women who do not out sexual predators. Instead laud women who do, and understand that speaking up often - actually, usually - comes with terrible consequences.
#TanushreeDutta
#MeToo
#Avalkoppam
#1StepToSSRJustice
would be paying tribute to
#SushantSinghRajput
for the way he rejected Hindutva politics on and off screen. Reposting my article: "Let's talk about the
#Hindu
-
#Muslim
amity in Sushant's films, and other inconvenient truths"
I'm sharing this here because I see people getting careless as the authorities in India gradually ease
#COVID
-related curbs, even as cases rise in some countries. How fast the Indian public has forgotten the devastation caused by the 2nd wave last year!
#CovidIsNotOver
(2/6)
You know you are in
#Kerala
when restaurants advertising beef are everywhere and no one risks being murdered for their food choices. Kerala, I know you read a zillion newspapers, but you still have no idea how much you stand to lose if you vote for a right-wing government.
Ignore any1 who mocks you for taking precautions. When
#COVID19
attacks your body, can they swap places with you? I've seen a doctor trolling another on Twitter for urging people to remain careful. The
#pandemic
of stupidity rivals the
#COVID
pandemic now.
#CovidIsNotOver
(4/6)
I have some happy news to share ❤️
I've cleared Level 1 of the 10-year language programme run globally by the
#MalayalamMission
, which comes under the
#Kerala
Government.
Here I am writing the exam this July😊 I've covered my fellow examinees' faces since they are kids. (1/n)
Shameful. Disgusting. How can
#MohammedZubair
be arrested for calling out religious fundamentalists for making a mockery of their own religion.
#FreeMohammedZubair
This guy was projecting himself as a hapless victim of Arnab Goswami in his resignation letter from Republic. Don't be gullible and make him a hero. He did not quit over journalistic values, he quit because the personal gain he expected in that organisation did not come his way.
Indians opposing this government's injustices have been ignored/punished for years. A Western stars posts 1 tweet & within days,
#4Ginkashmir
is restored & the nails at Ghazipur are 'repositioned'. Our sarkar cares more for its image abroad than what Indians think.
#FarmersProtest
.
@RahulGandhi
: "India should be preparing itself not just for the
#COVID
virus but also for the economic devastation that is coming." He has been warning the government since early 2020, but they were busy maligning him. India is suffering the consequences.
This guy messaged me 2 videos of himself - what I assume are m
@sturb
@ti0n
videos - on
@facebook
. I say "I assume" since I do not open videos from strangers, but the reason I assume what they are is that he's naked in the preview images & holding his swollen thingie in one. (1/n)
The
#RSS
did not participate in India's struggle for freedom from the British colonisers - they should leave it to the rest of us to discuss colonial mindsets. The
#BBC
documentary is thoroughly researched and reported. It's journalism, not colonialism.
All my life I've heard
#AbideWithMe
sung at
#Christian
funerals in Delhi. Calling it a "colonial legacy" is part of the Sangh's age-old strategy to equate everything Christian with the colonisers & vilify India's Christian minority, rubbish them as British agents & worse. (1/4)
Wearing masks, staying physically distanced wherever possible & avoiding crowds are not favours we're granting to the government. Be sensible. Do this for yourself. Is life really worth less than a farmhouse wedding, a religious procession or a fair?
#CovidIsNotOver
(3/6)
Another guy who issued a rape threat to
@Agrimonious
#AgrimaJoshua
has been arrested. In an India where men routinely get away with actually inflicting violence on women, this arrest for a threat is important. Hope he gets the punishment he deserves. Thank you
@MumbaiPolice
As my cousin struggles to come to terms with the loss of her son, all I can say is, please don't take
#COVID19
lightly. Disregard those who trivialise it, listen to doctors who speak common sense, stay as safe as you possibly can. Life is precious and
#CovidIsNotOver
yet. (6/6)
A comedian is forced to justify his joke about the majority by pointing out that he makes jokes on minorities too. Every major religion has trivialised itself by contradicting in practice what scriptures say in theory - if you can't see that, the joke's on you.
#MunawarFaruqui
If
#Sony
hadn't tweeted this video, I'd have assumed it's a parody & shrugged it off.Wonder how they convinced
#AmitabhBachchan
to do this ad, considering that a swipe at journalists who support fascism amounts to a swipe, however oblique, at fascism itself. Interesting.
#KBC2022
We all know that one person jo humein aisi unverified sansani khabrein sunata hai! Tag them in the comments and tell them that "Gyaan jahaan se mile bator lo, lekin pehle tatol lo."
#KBC2022
coming soon! Stay tuned!
@SrBachchan
I'm feeling both shaken and moved from the experience of watching T.J. Gnanavel
@tjgnan
's
#JaiBhim
. I approached it with trepidation, wondering if it would be all Dhan te dhan and an upper-caste male saviour sidelining the pain of an oppressed people, but it is not. ❤️ (1/7)
It is especially painful & ironic to see
#RajkummarRao
in this PR-driven pic with a PM known for his Islamophobia, anti-minorityism & rights apathy. Rao's first lead role was as the late
#ShahidAzmi
, who fought for those wrongly accused in terror cases. Et tu,
@RajkummarRao
?