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#Neurodiversity is my superpower ❤ | Writer, Film-maker | My Books: My Daughters' Mum | Immortal For A Moment |

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Writing to heal, share, make meaning of the stories of our life. New dates announced for the Ochre Sky #Memoir workshop with @natashabadhwar and Raju For more information and registration, apply here:
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"We will react to hate with love. When they threaten to hit us, we will hold the tricolour flag. If they shoot us, we will embrace the Constitution. If they jail us, we will walk in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara." #StandWithUmarKhalid
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How to rescue a victim during a #lynching incident. Real life demo by women students of #Jamia
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Its friday in #Gurugram again. #Namaz being offered at Akshay Yadav’s open garage in the automobile market in Sector 12. Its a small start, may it lead to a show of solidarity between people that defeats forces of hate.
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So incredibly uplifting ❤️
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#IStandWithMunawarFaruqui I stand with Munawar Faruqui
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Thank you for this compilation of the best of #KamalKhan , @ndtv
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This is what TV journalism has lost today #KamalKhan
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Sickening and shameful behavior by the Hindu right-wing as they disrupt #GurugramNamaz
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Natasha Narwal's father, Mahavir Narwal, has died without being able to meet his daughter. "There is nothing to fear about being in jail." he had said about his daughter's wrongful arrest. "My daughter will cope with positivity and come back stronger."
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Ahmed Geelani and Ravindra Kumar Mishra. “When I go for namaaz, I leave my shop under Pandit-ji's care. If you want a solution for today's problems, come and meet us.” Friendship is beyond cast, creed, religion, race and this story sets that in stone.
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“This is what it feels like to smash the patriarchy!” #PriyaRamani ❤️🌻
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“I still have faith in our Constitution. This is justice delayed. It’s a totally fake case.” #Listen to the fearless voice of #SiddiqueKappan
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Every word @ReallySwara speaks about #HamaraSamvidhan is pure gold. Listen and be inspired.
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#UmarKhalid is fearless and speaks with calm and eloquence. He addresses questions of land, labour, caste, adivasis, gender and communalism. He is a leader they fear. #StandWithUmarKhalid
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“Where can I get a visa to go to the village of the rape victim of #Hathras #Bilkis #ShaheenBagh
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Glory be to @iamsrk Hum tumhare saath hain 💕
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A #parenting lesson is from a father whose daughter has completed 6 months in jail, framed under UAPA. His voice may break as he speaks of raising #NatashaNarwal as a single parent, but Mahavir Narwal's determination and pride is steady. @harsh_mander
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This man is in ICU today. A father, a teacher, a patriot - most of all a man who inspires with his courage and love. Imprisoned on false charges, his daughter #NatashaNarwal continues to speak up for and demand the rights India's constitution guarantees.
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Gulfisha Fatima is an example of courage and bravery. She has been unjustly charged and incarcerated without proof or investigation. Break you silence. Speak up for her. #freegul #freeallpoliticalprisoners
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Gosh she is cute
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Father #StanSwamy , who prefers to bear his pain quietly, is deeply unwell in Taloja Jail. The 84yo priest & lifelong human rights worker has been incarcerated without trial and bail. He needs our support urgently. #SaveStanSwamy #FreeAllPoliticalPrisoners
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A shocking, unlawful incident of discrimination by @IndiGo6E at Ranchi airport. #MustRead #MustDemandJustice Reported by Manisha Gupta, witnessed by hundreds of co-passengers. #DisabilityRights #DisabilityTwitter
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Since you can't be at the #FarmersAgitation on the borders of Delhi, we bring you the pulse of the protest. Bella Ciao - punjabi version by @poojansahil #WapasJao
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One of the most under-rated life decisions - one that we are least trained and supported to do - is leaving. Quitting. Jobs, friendships, relationships, homes, cities … dreams that need to be abandoned. Leaving is living. It’s a positive choice. Even if it hurts like death.
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Raise a child like #AisheGhosh
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India shall stand united Mohd. Adeeb and Altaf Ahmad along with members of the Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch being welcomed by members of the Gurudwara Committee, as they arrive to wish Sikhs on #Gurpurab
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Leaving a family whatsapp group is an act of love.
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"You belong in the dust-bin of journalism, @rahulkanwal ...this is hate-mongering and you are a hate-monger." ~ @kavita_krishnan
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Salute to the spirit of @munawar0018 A fine and moving interview. "I used to eat biryani, I will eat khichdi. If I don’t have money at least I will be able to eat khichdi" #MunawarFaruqui speaks to @kunalpurohit at @Article14live
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#HarshMander is an oasis of calm and gentleness, even as he is a man with an unbending resolve to speak truth to power. He works tirelessly on the ground, reaching out to victims and to those in need, and is relentless in his efforts to make those who are in power accountable.
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“I don't see any hope. The Parliament is just hollow symbolism and nothing else. Where do we go from here?” #WATCH Heart-felt, fiery speech by @manojkjhadu , Rajya Sabha MP. A wake-up call for all of us.
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Father Stan Swamy has died. He is now free. The state that inflicted cruelties on this brave, noble soul has murder on its hands.
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Last night we ate tawa-fresh rotis that tasted of revolution
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“We’ve never cooked at home and now look at us!” Scenes from the #Tikri border of Delhi. The solidarity and resolve of farmers determined to dialogue with the Modi government remains undaunted. #JaiJawanJaiKissan #FarmersBill #FarmersBill_2020
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Is today a good time for this short refresher on the infamous “Gujarat Model”? “You need to understand the Gujarat model to make sense of what is happening in India today,” explains @harsh_mander
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Beaten, tortured, humiliated and traumatised for life: How 124 Muslim men are suffering the consequences of unchecked #islamophobia , false charges and a judicial system that failed them for 20 years. @Article14live
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The story of the hounding of @zoo_bear also shines a light on the power of idealism, inspiration and solidarity. “Probably because of the threats, I feel I must work more to debunk misinformation. There are threats to my life…I want to keep working.”
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Stop everything and #watch . Solidarity, discipline and grit in a face off with a regime that connives to crush its own people. #FarmersProtest #RepublicDay #RepublicDayViolence
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Mamta vs. Modi The things that happen on the internet 🤯
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Let this video of inter-faith solidarity stay forever in your heart. Today on #Gurpurab , a Muslim and a Sikh offer respects in a #Gurudwara in #Gurgaon Gurudwara committee has invite Muslims to offer Friday #Namaz after they were threatened elsewhere.
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“People would call for oxygen. Despite being an MP, we could not arrange it. Of a 100 phone calls in distress, we had a success rate of 2 or 3. The people that have died have left behind a living document of our failure” Searing words by @manojkjhadu
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2000 abandoned bodies on the banks of one river. Since you asked for a data.
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India isn’t having a picnic. But our drains aren’t choked with bodies, hospitals aren’t out of beds, nor crematoriums & graveyards out of wood or space.. Too good to be true? Bring data if you disagree. Unless you think you’re god My #NationalInterest
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😂 that’s the wrong spelling of Mr. Goswami
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He ridiculed and abused media, lied on camera, had no basic decency, was mean to everyone, faked popularity, now he wants SC to rescue him and media to support him! What a bully...!!!Concede and go now, Mr Trump.
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Munawar Faruqui is the new Dr. Kafeel Khan. We must collectively resist this targeting of the best of Indian citizens.
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Jokes about a 25-year-old song & #Amit Shah in 9-month-old video, a law that does not exist & another wrongly applied are basis of #UP police arrest warrant against comic Munawar Faruqui, now in an MP jail for 18 days @saurabhsherry & @kunalpurohit report
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“I’m not afraid, I am angry,” repeats #NaseeruddinShah What a time to be alive!
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Rahul Kanwal practices journalism that telling his interviewee that there will be no #NRC because the PM clarified about it in one speech. Interviewee calls out both the "journalist" and the prime minister
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One Indian spoke up. He chose a good time. The best words chose him. Presenting @manojkjhadu , the conscience-keeper we need. (With subtitles!)
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Writing is a form of screaming. Try it, it works.
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In solidarity with @MANJULtoons No prison is big enough to contain free speech स्वतंत्र विचारों को कभी बेड़ियों में नहीं जकड़ा जा सकता।बोल की लब आज़ाद हैं तेरे..! Featuring @ravishndtv , @mandeeppunia1 , @pbhushan1 , #ArundhatiRoy and #FreedomOfSpeech
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"Every week we see the same set of people disrupt #GurugramNamaz Why can't the police act in time and keep them in preventive detention? The state is in collusion to deliberately make Muslims feel unprotected and insecure..." Prof. @Apoorvanand__
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Keep writing jokes, Munawar.
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Court Denies Bail To Comedian Arrested In Indore For "Insulting" Hindu Gods
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Come back home, @Sanket beta All is forgiven
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#Watch Sushant Singh use analogy after analogy to drive home one point - It is time to protect the #Constitution of India. Now! @sushant_says on @karwanemohabbat
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What have we done to our own?
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#Thread 🧵 The arrest of #Zubair is a case study of constitutional violations and factual and legal mala fides being practised by a vindictive state against one man determined to be on the side of facts, truth, science. 1/13
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#WATCH this chartered accountant do the math. “I get your hate, I get your venom, but why would you want to ruin yourself in the process of wanting to hurt the other...” he asks. #CAA_NRC_Protest
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3 steps to Adulting: 1) Learn to say No 2) Learn how to say No 3) Learn to take the blow when people are offended that you said No, however nicely you may have said No
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A #ShaheenBagh protestor's baby has died from exposure to cold. Last year Zabeda and Anar Husain's infant son died in her arms as they stood in a day long queue to get their papers checked for #NRC in Assam. This is the human cost of flawed govt. policies
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“UP may not be governed by laws but there are laws that protect the people of India…” @priyankagandhi takes on UP police attempting to arrest her without a warrant.
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There are some rare, precious people whose presence teaches us so much about being human. #KamalKhan brought dignity and gravitas to TV reporting. He remained steadfast in his commitment to journalism despite mounting pressures and never compromised on being good and kind. #RIP
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In solidarity with @harsh_mander In solidarity with the Constitution of India
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We see a woman reading in an airplane. Tell me about her.
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Old pic : My grandfather & Prime minister Sh. Lal Bahadur Shastri ji Reading Files In Aeroplane.
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#EXCLUSIVE “If people can see their own loved ones in place of the person in the photograph, my work is done. I see myself as the connection between my subjects and the viewer.” #DanishSiddique speaking to media students at MCRC, Jamia Millia Islamia
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This is horrifying
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On April 25, one Syeda Khatun, alias Soni (24), was allegedly abducted by Birendra Kumar and his aides from Etwa in Uttar Pradesh’s Siddharthnagar, when she had gone to the fields around her home during Ramzan Sehri. The accused is sending these pictures to the family. #Thread
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#ArundhatiRoy cuts through the clutter of disinformation. “The massacre in NE Delhi was designed by the state to crush the anti-CAA protests. The NRC is not a refugee management law. It was a refugee manufacturing law.”
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The bold voice of #SafooraZargar - a woman who knows the devastating cost of speaking up against a fascist regime.
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Civil society protests against the horrific, shameful violence perpetrated by #DelhiPolice on the students and residents of #JamiaMilliaIslamia today. Join the civil disobedience at Delhi Police Headquarters, ITO. #CABProtests #SOSJAMIA
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Muslims are being marginalised in 3 systematic ways: 1. Through laws on issues like triple talaq, cow slaughter, love jihad 2. Targetted violence in public spaces 3. Using the media to criminalise Muslims @Apoorvanand__ says it like it is.
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❤️ first prize meme!
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Why are no efforts visible on the ground, @ArvindKejriwal Volunteers are on the ground, we are trying to reach every effected colony and street. Where is the govt.? We can't see you... neither can the victims.
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We r putting best efforts. I am personally trying to ensure that relief reaches each person in need. Our aim is to bring their life back on track. We want people to return to their homes and be welcome by their neighbours.
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#Hindustan #Zindabad Hindu Muslim Sikh Isayi aapas mein bhai bhai Outside Police Headquarters in New Delhi. #CABProtest #SOSJAMIA
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I challenge @ndtv to justify this willful ignoramus as their top news anchor
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We are all Umar Khalid Safoora Zargar Khalid Saifi Ishrat Jahan Meeran Haider Asif Iqbal Tanha Shadab Ahmed Natasha Narwal Devangana Kalita Tasleem Ahmed Saleem Malik Mohd Saleem Khan Athar Khan Tahir Hussain Mohammad Parvez Ahmed Mohammad Ilyas Sharjeel @karwanemohabbat
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Don't underestimate the power of leaving. Of going away. There is a reason the world is so large, life so long, relationships so complicated and often toxic. We are meant to get up and leave. Find life again.
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The empath and lover, @surekha One who was wounded, yet determined to heal. "She gave me a new life," a young friend writes to me. I am collecting your love notes and memories for Surekha's beloved child, V and husband, S. Send them here. Let everyone know how magical she is.
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The voice of India's youth. This video made me cry. I have no other words.
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"What can we do," says a man standing in an endless queue for his first meal of the day. "I don't know how to steal and there is just no work." A heart-breaking, sobering look at the hunger crisis in the city. A call for solidarity from @karwanemohabbat
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Yay! Congratulations #India @ravishndtv is awarded Asia’s premier prize and highest honour, the 2019 Ramon Magsaysay Award. #RamonMagsaysayAward
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Is this what Indian boys are being raised to become? Common hecklers. Brainless vermin. Dharti par bhaar
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लड़ेंगे जीतेंगे ✊✊✊ Ladengey jeetengey
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Today at 12 noon. We will not be silenced. Press Conference on Delhi Police’s flawed investigation of NE Delhi violence. @pbhushan1 @pamelaphilipose @harsh_mander
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#Watch A reporter is beaten up by a mob of 50 for reporting on Covid. A retired IAS officer is harassed with FIRs against him. Citizens victimised by the state. “Why do they keep filing FIRs but never arrest me?" @suryapsingh_IAS asks #YogiAdityanath
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Witness the courage and joy of @KSaifi and @UmarKhalidJNU as they appear in court ...and be inspired. hum ladenge, saathi udaas mausam ke khilaaf hum ladenge, saathi ghulaam ichhaon ke liye we will fight, comrade, to dispel unhappy times...
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I will not be shamed for my solidarity, sister
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How @zoo_bear #MohammadZubair has been framed.
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"It is difficult to find a therapist who understands that depression is political. That I am depressed because the world is patriarchal, casteist, racist and cruel." Brilliant, insightful personal essay by @sravanthid
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PM #Modi did not apologize to the farmers.He apologized to the Ambanis, Adanis and the corporates saying: ‘Please forgive us. We failed to implement the laws you wanted because the #farmers ruined our game' Ashok Dhawale President, All India Kisan Sabha
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Thank you for loving me Surekha. And occasionally scolding me for RT-ing my own praises.
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"We are not sad or ashamed of the time we have to spend in jail," said #UmarKhalid . "When criminals are in power, those who oppose them will find themselves in jail." A gentle reminder of the importance of being @UmarKhalidJNU
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“Political satire is an art. It cannot be toned down.” The guts and glory of being Munawar Faruqui @munawar0018
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😂 Godi media admitting that farm laws were in Modi’s personal interest.
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Govt Source says Modi has chosen national interest over personal interest and party interest by repealing the three farm laws, points out how aim is to not anti-national elements take advantage of the situation who want to create fissures between communities
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Submitted respectfully to my ex-colleagues and wannabes masquerading as journalists: “Read the Constitution at least today.” #FarmersProtest #TractorMarchDelhi #TractorParadeOn26Jan
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In case you have been worrying about lagging behind your peers and being unable to keep up with expectations… consider the possibility that you are actually ahead of the curve. You have rejected milestones that have no meaning for you. No one else will be able to tell you this.
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