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Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia, Alum @Columbia @nytopinion @WIRED @thebafflermag working on a book on India mdali862020 @proton .me

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Mohammad Ali
4 months
As #NarendraModi is expected to come back as India's Prime Minister, I write about how terrifying the next 5 years are going to be for India's 200 Muslims who have been vilified & demonized as "infiltrators" and dangerous undesirables by Modi himself.
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It took me an year investigating Bajrang Dal’s role in radicalizing the majority & pushing India to a brink of Genocide.After long, depressing days, nights & therapy sessions, the story is out @WIRED Something essential inside me got broken during this.
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Mohammad Ali
4 months
Let’s not romanticize Uttar Pradesh as some of its upper caste, privileged residents & journalists are doing. Let’s be clear. The poorest of the poor, lower caste, Dalits and Muslims have fought back, and rejected Modi’s bigotry. UP remains the cow belt it has always been.
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
The slogans which were raised there, “Munh me gilori bagal me paan, Mullon Tum jao Pakistan”, is provocative when Muslims were celebrating Republic Day! Pls come out of the studio & social media journalism. Reality is not as catchy as your Twitter one liners! 😀
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Manak Gupta
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अब ‘वन्दे मातरम’ और ‘भारत माता की जय’ “भड़काऊ नारे” हो गए....!!!!!
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Mohammad Ali
4 years
Modi government’s assault on media continues with ED raid on @newsclickin office, homes of owner Prabir Purkayastha and editor Pranjal, in Delhi. NewsClick was one of the last bastions of critical reporting on the government’s policies.
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5 years
Look who I met at the anti-CAA protest outside Indian embassy in NY today! @AatishTaseer :)
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1 year
The radicalization of India’s majority has been quietly going on for quite some time. I spent few months embedded with Bajrang Dal, and wrote about how it happens. #JaipurExpressTerrorAttack
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3 years
Modi has reduced us to our immediate identities. As Muslims, we experience an existential threat that overrides all other aspirations. We once felt entitled to an honest life of dignity in India. That dream is over. I write on sense of loss @thebafflermag
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4 years
It seems like the WIRED piece on Bajrang Dal was the best thing I did in 2020. The magazine featured the story as the top culture story of the year. 😊
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
On #KasganjViolence Kasganj administrative officers are on record saying that it was unscheduled, unauthorised & illegal bike rally of ABVP cadres and their subsequent provocative slogans which led to the clashes and stone pelting.
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7 years
Yogi ji promised 1 lakh in farm loan waiver but he sent 1 paisa in my account, Chhiddi Sharma tells me @the_hindu
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6 years
BJP lost #Kairana despite the country’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi campaigning hours before the bypoll. Opposition won the seat when even Akhilesh Yadav had not campaigned in Kairana.
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
So that we don’t forget, On this day two years ago Mohammad Akhlaq was lynched in Dadri. All the accused are out on bail!
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Mohammad Ali
3 years
I am grateful to @sajahq for the Daniel Pearl Award for Outstanding Reporting on South Asia 2021 for my profile of a Hindu vigilante in @WIRED It was an investigation into the process of radicalization of India’s Hindus using a dangerous cocktail of social media & Hindutva.
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8 years
Exclusive: There is no evidence of cow slaughter against Akhlaq's family & case will b closed, Police tells me
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7 years
One fact which went unnoticed is that BJP lost from the hotbed of communal tension-Muzaffarnagar, Shamli, Kairana, Meerut. Despite Yogi Adityanath’s election rallies, BJP, for the 1st time aftr the 2013 riots, lost the municipality seat of Muzaffarnagr & Meerut #UPCivicPolls2017
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8 years
I told my worried dad this afternoon that if Muslims can stay in India after Modi in 2014 then certainly they can stay in UP after 2017 :)
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8 years
Dalits r being beaten & humiliated! Is this the Acche Din you promised?, Dalits ask @narendramodi @the_hindu
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
At a time when some journalists have chosen to peddle fake news & have turned into hate mongers, interrogating a senior BJP leader like Katiyar requires immense courage. It’s a moment which offers me hope. You @TanushreePande are an inspiration for all of us!
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#CommunalKatiyar - BJP MP Vinay Katiyar had no answers to CNN-News18's questions. Asked for proof, he turned aggressive | @TanushreePande
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7 years
A woman was shot dead inside a police station, 2 girls were kidnapped in broad daylight in UP. Let's see if media talks about the Ram Rajya!
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5 years
I met a Pakistan Administrative service officeer who is a Fulbright scholar at MIT today. He said Pakistanis love Modi because Modi managed to do to India what Pakistan always wanted but could never be successful in doing-destroy it’s democracy & the country. 1/2
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Mohammad Ali
8 years
BJP candidate Suresh Rana,a riot accused,makes provocative speech,says if he wins then it ud lead to curfew in Muslim town Deoband,Moradabad
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The @WIRED piece which got Daniel Pearl Award for outstanding reporting on South Asia from @sajahq It won’t have been possible to do it (started as my @ColumbiaJournMA thesis) without the support of @jessbruder @johngravois and my school Dean @SteveCollNY
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
You refused to give scholarships to Muslim children in Gujarat as CM, as PM do nothing to prevent lynchings and now do these good for nothing gestures!
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#WATCH : PM Modi pauses his speech midway at BJP Headquarters in respect of Azaan #ModiWaveInNorthEast
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7 years
Yogi Adityanath govt plans to withdraw 9 criminal cases against all the riot accused BJP leaders including MP Sanjeev Baliyan, MLAs Sangeet Som & Suresh Rana who are accused of making provocative speeches which led to violence in Muzaffarnagar, Shamli in 2013
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7 years
My ground report on how Bhim Army schools hv quietly spawned an educational revolution in d backwaters of Saharanpur
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और कितने चंदन गुप्ता की बलि चाहते हैं ये टीवी एंकर? सच तो ये है कि आप हिंदुओं के पक्ष में भी नहीं बोल रहे हैं आप सिर्फ़ एक राजनीतिक दल के अघोषित प्रवक्ता बने हुए हैं हिंदू-मुस्लिम तनाव पैदा करके आप उनके राजनीतिक हित साध रहे हैं strong piece @abhisar_sharma
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7 years
Yogi Adityanath govt transfers the top cops of Saharanpur & Agra who acted against the rioting & vandalism by BJP workers & RSS affiliates
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Mohammad Ali
4 years
One newspaper carried 160 Islamophobic stories, imagine the impact of dozens of newspapers and channels peddling the same nonsense on daily basis.
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1 year
The Modi govt’s tacit support to violence against Indian Muslim goes along with its destruction of Islamic heritage of the country. In this dispatch @nnooreyezdan and I write about the erasure of Indian Muslims’ collective historical memory.
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Every 15th August Sartaj, son of Akhlaq who was lynched in Dadri over rumors of beef, shares hopeful messages of claiming India as his own, something most Muslims still do. Sartaj is waiting for the Indian state to love him back & punish his father’s killer who are roaming freely
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Mohammad Ali
10 months
There was a proposal to adapt my Wired profile of Bajrang Dal into a series/docu. But in the first meeting itself the streaming platforms told Condé Nast that they won’t be able to do anything with it because it’s an extremely sensitive subject in India.
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Gerry Shih
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New: Under pressure from the Hindu right, Netflix and Amazon in India drop projects touching on political, social issues and documentaries. After "Tandav," Amazon's head went into hiding and surrendered passport. Netflix execs feared risk of arrest.
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7 years
It’s heart wrenching the way every Independence & Republic Day, Sartaj, the Indian Air Force Corporal & son of Mohammad Akhlaq who was lynched by the Hindu Rightwing goons, is the first one to greet me! Despite that, the majoritarian India will always suspect his patriotism!
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8 years
"It ws sad to see dad's killer treated like a martyr even when my brother works in Air Force," Akhlaq's son tells me
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6 years
Just wait till @PiyushGoyal makes a video claiming this flyover to be in Ahmadabad! #FakeDevelopment #MakeInIndia 😂😂😂😂
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People's Daily, China
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Don't get lost in this flyover in mountainous Guizhou Province
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8 years
Provocative & hate speech being delivered in Bishahra villg in #Dadri after Ravi died of kidney failure Video by @rvmoorthyhindu @the_hindu
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Mohammad Ali
3 years
I feel a deep sense of loss knowing that my country can disown me at any time, that my motherland has become bewafa. It is too painful to talk about this because we want to hope for the idea of India to survive. I write for @thebafflermag
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
To counter the Rightwing propaganda: Muslims of Kasganj were celebrating Republic Day & decorated the lanes with balloons Tricolour when the ABVP workers took their unscheduled bike rally & started making extremely provocative slogans & insisted taking rally through Muslim area
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NTPC Dadri offered contractual jobs to Dadri lynching accused in a meeting with BJP MLA Tejpal Nagar & Bishahra village elders, (1/n
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Mohammad Ali
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Hindi newspapers invent an ISIS sleeper cell/Al-Qaeda cell twice a month especially in western UP and they will publish those completely false & baseless reports & their follow up which demonise Muslims & peddle Islamophobia as a staple regular diet for the cow belt!
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Omar Rashid
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News reports claming Islamic State sleeper cells found in #Moradabad are baseless: UP ATS @Uppolice @abaruah64 @the_hindu @hindureporter
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Mohammad Ali
5 years
“Shab bhar sardi khane wale, water canon Se darte nahi/tum humko kitna maaroge/Hum darde badan se darte nahi...tum aaag lagate jaoge/hum aaag bujhate jayenge...” @hussainhaidry at his best!
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Mohammad Ali
4 years
In India Islamophobia and violence against Muslims, is preferred way to behave for the Police. The agency Apologize for Beating Lawyer, 'We Thought You Were Muslim,' They Say
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
Setback to the BJP/Modi/Yogi/Khattar govts which legitimised cos vigilantes on the name of "gau rakshaks, gau sewa"!
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Mohammad Ali
3 years
Well, the NewYorkers can take relief in the fact that they built this subway system in 1900, almost a century before Delhi :)
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3 years
We are not as bad as New York at least, the eternal optimistic Delhiite would say!
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Mohammad Ali
4 months
A day to remember this poem by Rahat Indori!
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Mohammad Ali
3 years
"It's our DUTY to document what is happening around us." Inna lillahe wa Inna ilaihe rajioon #danishsiddiqui
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Danish Siddiqui
3 years
Thanks for your kind words. I don't think there is anything HEROIC about it. As journalists, this is what we signed up for. It's our DUTY to document what is happening around us.
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Mohammad Ali
8 years
Three mutton shops were burnt last night by unidentified people at Jalesar road in Hathras, SP Dilip Kumar tells @the_hindu Area tense
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
If at all, @NupurSharmaBJP shud file FIR against Ramdev for being blatantly so casteist & insulting the presidential candidate! @RanaAyyub
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#WATCH : Ram Nath Kovind is a Dalit, but he has the caliber to hold an important position like the President: Baba Ramdev #KovindForPresident
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8 years
A long line of black money holders fighting with each other to loot the ICICI bank ATM in Meerut #DemonetizationDisaster
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
Indian Muslims would love to have their prime minister @narendramodi visit any mosque 🕌 in India as well!
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Yet another Indian connection with Oman! PM @narendramodi visited the Sultan Qaboos Grand Mosque in Muscat, which is the biggest mosque in Oman. The mosque is built from 300,000 tonnes of Indian sandstone sculpted by 200 craftsmen from India!
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Adityanath govt slapped NSA on Bhim Army founder Chandrashekhar for protesting against attacks on Dalits. Now Karni Sena is burning cities, threatening every one, attacking school buses, challenging SC &the very idea of law and order. Let's see if any law is slapped against them!
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8 years
The poster which got #YogiAdityanath the job of Uttar Pradesh CM :)
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"BJP must celebrate Ambedkar jayanti in upper caste colonies 1st",Dalits on whose name communal riots happnd,tell me
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8 years
Maharana ki dharti kabhi dadhi (beard) wale ko bardasht nahi karegi. Sawa lakh (Muslims) ka Ilaaaj kar dunga, says BJP candidate from Hapur
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1 year
Its gonna be part of an echo chamber but sharing this essay I had written on death of hope for Indian Muslims. “Modi has reduced us to our immediate identities. As Muslims we once felt entitled to an honest life of dignity in India. That dream is over.”
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It was a very painful piece to write, because it meant acknowledging that the idea of a life of an equal citizenship for Indian Muslims, is over in Modi’s India.
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New York Times Opinion
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I’m an Indian Muslim, and I’m scared to say so. Read:
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Mohammad Ali
7 years
One dalit killed & 11 of them seriously injured in fresh dalit-Thakur caste violence in Saharanpur after Mayawati left Shabbirpur villg tdy
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People asked me to share the link of the piece WIRED Magazine featured as its top culture story of 2020. This story is being taught at various universities & colleges in the US as part of programs on South Asia, populist democracies, tech & fake news.
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9 years
My report on how India's top corporate like Bajaj & Birla, owes 2760 crore to farmers many of whom committed suicide
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9 years
Urgent news alert! Pushp Sharma the journo who did RTI story on Ayush ministry's acceptance abt 'denial' of jobs to Muslims hs bn "arrested"
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9 years
Even as a court case ws going on against police force fr killing 42 Muslims,UP police destroyed da evidence.My story
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7 years
ABVP’s so called “Tiranga Yatra” had many Bhagwa flags and extremely problematic slogans, alleges Munazir, an eye witness from Kasganj. Some video clips of the incident show the saffron flags. It is a case of police lapse, alleges another who called police which reached late.
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The fact that members of both the communities were hit by bullets, one succumbed to injuries and other is being treated in a hospital, suggests that firing was done from both the sides. I am writing just the facts here #KasganjViolence
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Newsbreak: A grand Modi temple wl b built in Meerut in 5 acre land,with a 100 feet statue of PM @narendramodi to b worshiped by Modi bhakts
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Mohammad Ali
8 years
Front and back view of the ongoing Modi rally at Meerut today. People r waiting for @narendramodi to reach the venue @the_hindu
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It was on the suggestion of the riot accused BJP MP Sanjeev Baliyan that Yogi Adityanath govt decided to withdraw Muzaffarnagar riot cases against BJP leaders.
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A @Uppolice SHO of Sardhana police station Dharmendra Singh Rathor touches feet of Sardhana BJP MLA Sangeet Som at a function in Meerut
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8 years
This is what Zee news journalist Pravin Dubey who reached the spot of the #SIMI "encounter" had to say!
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Jinhe Naaz hai hind per wo kahan hain!!!
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Munish Singh, a Jat living in Meerut told @the_hindu that except strong RLD supporters,urban Jats are largely voting for BJP @VSubrahmaniam
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Despite propaganda of the Hindu Right,Meerut ‘love jihad’ couple's 3-yrs courtship ends in marriage.My ground report
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It is interesting that the 2 Hindu AIMIM Zila Panchayat members won from sensitive & crucial Muslim pockets like Azamgarh & Muzaffarnagar!
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Hindu Mahasabha workers distribute sweets, with band and drumbeats celebrate Gandhi's death anniversary! My story.
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Those who doctored videos are photoshopping to make the UPSC topper Tina Dabi say Narendra Modi was her inspiration!
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One preacher, accused of hate speech becomes a CM, another got banned! That's the difference between majority & minority! Go figure!
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18 crore in assets belonging to Islamic preacher Zakir Naik’s outfit seized by Enforcement Directorate: Press Trust of India
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Dear @narendramodi We know how much you took care of Muslim women when they were being raped, burnt by VHP mobs in Gujarat under your nose!
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Civil society of Cambridge city protesting the presence of Indian Consul General in New York, Sandeep Chakravorty at the Harvard India Conference 2020. Mr. Chakravorty had called for Israel style settlements in Kashmir.
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NTPC offers jobs to all those who were accused of lynching Akhlaque in Dadri two years ago.
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8 years
I wonder why @RSSorg is silent when rich upper castes r given quota!No statement on reconsideration of reservation!
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8 years
The photographer who snapped this photo at the climate conference should be given a Pulitzer. Pic via Andy Garcia :)
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When the "Vikas Purus" shows his original blatantly communal face, it only means he has sensed BJP's impending defeat & is getting nervous!
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ANI UP/Uttarakhand
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Gaon me kabristan banta hai to shamshaan bhi banna chahiye;Ramzan me bijli ati hai to Diwali me bhi ani chahiye;Bhedbhav nhi hona chahiye-PM
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SSP Saharanpur, Love Kumar hd prevented BJP MP Raghav Lakhanpal frm triggering a riot aftr which BJP workers attacked Kumar's house
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I have quit @the_hindu Taking the long due break for good.
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Faces which scare the Indian State and will haunt the Modi government forever!
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At the same spot they hd brutally killed Akhlaq last year, #Dadri vlgrs drape Tiranga on the coffin of hs murder accused & made him a martyr
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Sir, there is no such thing. Pls stop spreading lies. If at all you want to find out, all you need to do is to make a call to AMU students!
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Dr. Seshadri Chari
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No breakfast/lunch for Hindu students in AMU in Ramzan. Canteen opens at 3 am & Hindu students/faculty forced to observe compulsory fast.
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He thinks Modi is India’s Zia-ul-Haq. “We are still facing the worst consequences of Zia’s Islamization of Pakistan- dangerous radicalization of the majority, total erosion of democracy & destruction of every major institution of the country.”
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Kin of the lynchers of Akhlaq in Dadri celebrated all night at #YogiAdityanath as UP CM becs he hd assured them to get killers out of jail!
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A heart warming truth in the heap of lies abt #HinduExodus a story I came across in #Kandhla which hd nvr seen riots
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Modi govt declares this Dalit village to b electrified but I find that there r not even electric polls on ground!
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Amit Shah’s co-operative bank in Ahmedabad gets Rs 500 crore deposit, just after demonetisation.
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