Member of Parliament. Rajya Sabha. AITC. Journalist. Author: `Indira,India’s Most Powerful PM.’ ‘Vajpayee: India's Most Loved PM.’ ‘Why I Am A Liberal”.
Those calling for arrest of
#TablighiJamat
must also call for the arrest of Kanika Kapoor, her VIP hosts, all Madhya Pradesh MLAs holding meetings when
#COVID
outbreak reported. Also of 700 MPs of both houses who attended Parl when there shd’ve been social distancing
#Lockdown21
With apologies & respect to Modiji, but today he has been outdone and outshone in diplomacy, war strategy and public outreach by a swashbuckling cricket captain
@ImranKhanPTI
Hum Ghar mein ghus ke marenge ( we will enter their home and hit them) says
@narendramodi
at a rally in Ahmedabad.
@PMOIndia
sir you do realise India and Pak are nuclear powers, right? Aren’t you playing with fire just to win an election?
I wld like to contribute to re-building of Ashok Ngr mosque & towards bereaved families, including of Constable Ratan Lal. CM
@ArvindKejriwal
pls start a chief minister’s relief fund to rebuild NE Delhi
@AamAadmiParty
#DelhiRiots2020
. Let’s do it, Dilli. Let’s rebuild, restore 🙏
When private citizens demand this kind of security, they should pay for it. Who is paying for this massive security detail? The hapless Indian tax payer again. We don’t get the healthcare or infra we need, instead our taxes go to protecting celebrities?
#WhyFreeSecurityToKangana
59 grams of marijuana has the Narcotics Control Bureau of the central government of India in a sweat over drug dealing. Has the NCB ever undertaken a pilgrimage to the holy sadhus at the Kumbh Mela?
#RheaChakraborty
#SushantSinghRajputCase
Sorry, but I’m a conscientious objector to tonight’s mega event. I will not be joining
#9pm9minutes
as I do not approve of politicians or the state dictating behaviour choices. I want politicians to instead work on their primary duties of providing healthcare & smart government
Shocking that
@narendramodi
has so far not uttered a word on Wing Commander
#Abhinandan
, that his party colleague has implied surgical strike was for BJP's political benefit, that Defence Minister has so far been missing in action. Thank god Indira Gandhi was PM during Bangladesh
The
#RamMandirAyodhya
is being built after the criminal act of demolishing a mosque and the
#BhumiPujan
date is the same as the day Kashmir was split into UTs and its people humiliated. As a Hindu, I quote the lines of veteran editor Prabhas Joshi:yeh toh Raghukul nahin
Former prime minister Rajiv Gandhi was brutally killed by the enemies of India. Will abusing the assassinated former PM in public actually bring in votes? If so, India is wallowing in a pit of moral degradation
Trending
#SurenderModi
and then getting gangs of frothing bhakts to leap in to agitatedly cry “ the spelling is surrender, the spelling is surrender” is, I must say, rather clever 😎
The story of
@KamalaHarris
mother Shyamala Gopalan is a truly epic India story meeting the American dream. A Tamil woman born in Madras, journeys alone to US in 1950s, marries a Jamaican, becomes a noted scientist. Her daughter now ascends to US VP. Incredible.
#bidenharis2020
India 5th country to isolate
#COVID
ー19 virus & 10 people have been cured. Working in v difficult conditions, India’s valiant doctors rise to global stds. As we cheer our brave docs, let’s remember one of them Dr
#kafeelkhan
sadly still languishing in jail
#CoronavirusPandemic
This lady consistently gives journalism or (what passes for it in that channel) a bad name. She is worshipful of and obsequious to political power and bullying of citizens. A disgrace
This is journalism of courage by
@aajtak
. Heckling the nurses and doctors and creating nuisance inside a hospital award. If they show even one hundredth of this aggression in questioning politicians, then it'd be quite an achievement.
Reality check: Maldives has around 170 top class resorts, & 900 guest houses, each resort on an island. Lakshadweep has a handful, none remotely close to Five Star category. The last time Lakshadweep made headlines was when the LG there recommended a beef ban . Tourism demands…
So a
@BJP4India
leader says there were no casualties at Balakot and an official tells
@IndianExpress
that IAF did not cross LoC. Will citizens of India ever get to know what really happened? The answer, my friends, is blowing in the wind
Dear Mr
@PMOIndia
sir, with respect next time you want to make a life changing announcement at midnight deadline pls choose 8 am not 8pm. At least give people a day to prepare and keep transportation going. 🙏🙏
Well done, neighbourhood ! A crescendo of clapping and bells in our area as we all give a standing ovation to our valiant health workers -brave doctors and nurses-my doctor son among them 👏🏽👏🏽
After I resigned from news channel CNNIBN in 2014, I occasionally appeared on NDTV in the days when it was helmed by Dr Prannoy Roy. Long before I.N.D.I.A’s boycott, I quit Ambani-owned CNNIBN, I no longer appear on Adani-owned NDTV and NEVER EVER go to the other bhakt media…
“Yes I declared
#Emergency
, but then I called an election, accepted the people’s verdict, resigned and left. Does any “dictator”do that?”
#June25
. Quote from
#IndiraGandhi
in my biography “Indira, India’s Most Powerful PM.”
@juggernautbooks
#WATCH
Union Minister Prakash Javadekar in Delhi: Kejriwal is making an innocent face & asking if he is a terrorist, you are a terrorist, there is plenty of proof for it. You yourself had said you are an anarchist, there is not much difference between an anarchist & a terrorist.
And this is an IIT educated mathematician and public intellectual honoured and lauded by Harvard University who has spent a lifetime struggling for the rights of the poor. Yet in “New India” she is jailed.
#SudhaBharadwaj
The Prime Minister who never sought the limelight but whose bold economic reforms and ‘Manmohaneconomics’ created the ‘New India’ after the Great Change in 1991. History will indeed be kind to
#ManmohanSingh
. Happy birthday sir
This photo of the squawking bloodthirsty Hindutva goon brandishing his pistol at an unarmed protester while cops grin and watch captures India at the moment : unarmed citizens up against state power gone rogue
Not Mandir wahin banayenge but “HOSPITAL WAHIN BANAYENGE”. In my Sunday Times column I call for a complete reset in post Covid politics in which citizens demand healthcare above religious shrines and monuments.
I am delighted and honoured to be nominated to the Rajya Sabha by the
@AITCofficial
. I remain inspired by the formidable courage of
@MamataOfficial
, India's only woman chief minister. My commitment to constitutional democratic values remains unflinching.
"All wars are miscalculated, and no one knows where they lead to. World War I was supposed to end in weeks, it took six years. Similarly, the war on terrorism was not supposed to last 17 years," says Pakistan PM Imran Khan
PM Modi is in Bandipur to mark
#ProjectTiger
. FYI:
#ProjectTiger
did not start in 2014. It was set up in 1973 by PM Indira Gandhi. Most thought at the time it would not work but it did. In fact few PMs have been as passionate about wildlife conservation as Indira Gandhi was.
India only country where medical emergency now a full blown police state. Why is
@DelhiPolice
arresting anti CAA protesters during
#lockdownindia
? Where can they go? Remorseless to keep pregnant Safoora in jail and re-arrest
#PinjraTod
after they were let off by court!
Note to Indians circulating ( admittedly hilarious)
#LizTruss
jokes: When leaders resign if they fail to deliver on promises, it’s a sign of a vibrant and functioning democracy. In India, by contrast … let’s not even go there.
My cousin Sucharita Sen, member of
#JNU
faculty, in hospital with severe head injuries. Will the thugs who beat her up be called “anti national”? Will
#JNU
alumni in Modi Government stand up for her ? Resign in protest??who will today speak up for an unarmed teacher?
#JNUattack
Amused at reactions of some to
@zoo_bear
and
@free_thinker
on the Nobel favourites list. 'No its not a nomination.' 'No it's not this, no it's not that.' An avalanche of sheer envy. Fact that
@AltNews
globally recognised and named as a potential Nobel winner is itself an honour.
Interesting that the
#RussiaUkraineWar
has seen the rediscovery of
#nonalignment
in Indian foreign policy among the Nehru haters. Inspite of the insults heaped on him, Jawaharlal Nehru is alive and well!
#jawaharlalnehru
15 year old who has dyslexia writes to PM Narendra Modi: “Do you know what I go through? We are children who know how to be kind.” | India News - Times of India
Lots of huffing & puffing about press freedom on
#ArnabGoswami
arrest. Let us huff & puff equally loudly for
#SudhaBharadwaj
#StanSwamy
#AnandTeltumbde
, students, journalists, activists, many in jail under draconian anti terror laws, repeatedly denied bail. Democracy is for all
Jamia student
#safoorazargar
is pregnant, in no position to destroy evidence, had been protesting a law as is her Constitution-given democratic right. Charging her under draconian
#UAPA
, now denying her bail is not just remorseless but even de-humanises a young woman
A 3yr old Kashmir child sits numbed & crying, a victim & witness to deadly violence. For India’s ruling party spokesperson to circulate the child’s photo, call it ‘Pulitzer lovers” is mind boggling insensitivity revealing again the dehumanising view of
#Kashmir
. Terrible times.
Kerala govt has set up a quarantine centre in Guruvayur of Thrissur dist for people being brought from different countries. The 181 passengers who were brought to Cochin from Abu Dhabi on an Air India Express flight have been taken to quarantine centres in their respective dists.
"Yeh Congress ki kaunsi vidhwa thi jiske khate me paisa jaata tha" says
@narendramodi
. This is a shameful, foul, utterly disgusting comment from someone sitting on the chair of India's Prime Minister
Ye Congress ki kaun si Vidhva hai jis ke khate me paisa jata tha. (Who was this widow in the Congress whose account this money used to be transferred?) -- Narendra Modi, PM of India, referring to
#SoniaGandhi
.
No PM of the country has stopped to this level. No PM.
#NayaBharat
“If they think they’re going stop us protesting by beating, hurting hitting us, they’re wrong. We’re going straight back to protest as soon as we all recover.” My brave cousin
#JNU
prof Sucharita Sen tells me, as she lies in bed with a deep head wound.
#JNUattack
Journalists taken off air, FIRs against farm leaders and journalists, sedition charges against journalists and opposition politicians but why no action at all against
#DeepSidhu
who led the assault on the
#RedFort
? Another
#KomalSharma
?
The depths of superstition and foolishness that India is now descending into is so dark and so fetid, that it’s questionable whether we’ll ever be able to climb out again. And yet how hard our founders fought for rationality, for sanity, for escape from blind beliefs.
#Covid_19
No right thinking person should judge you by your citizenship Mr Kumar, but I hope you are aware how many of those you sympathise with use 'citizenship' as a stick to harass, humiliate, torment and abuse others..
Stop the lynchings and hate crimes now,
#Jai
Shri Ram must not become a call to murder. Konkona Sen Sharma, Anurag Kashyap, and 47 celebs write powerful open letter to PM Modi on lynching incidents
"When Mr
@narendramodi
uses personal language against me and my mother, it reveals the quality of the man, my mother's Italian but she's more Indian than many Indians and has sacrificed and suffered for this country."
@RahulGandhi
“Yes I imposed the Emergency, but I also revoked it. I called elections, accepted the verdict and resigned. But what about those who had earlier been calling for the army and the police to mutiny and rise up against an elected government? Were they very ‘democratic’?”…
Heinous, disgusting, vile and loathesome. With what right did these terrorists enter a home and beat up residents? How dare they? Whose protection do they enjoy? Top netas who preach violence and religious division are squarely responsible.
Look forward to the day in modern India when husbands will fast for the safety, happiness and longevity of their wives.. gnight shubhratri..
#KarwaChauth
Travelled across MP, in and around Hyderabad and now through Rajasthan: one common factor that has ruined lives and livelihoods: notebandi, notebandi, notebandi. Citizens face enormous hardship, billionaire swindlers get away
And it’s official . Home Ministry says it has no knowledge of the existence of a “Tukde tukde gang” in response to an RTI query. What about the ‘Khan Market gang?’ 😇
A shocking letter that reveals how India’s Modi toady media functions. They play judge, jury and executioner for everyone they want to target, yet observe zero ethical standards themselves. What a bunch of third raters.
“I am not anti-English, I am not anti-British, I am not anti any government.. I am anti-untruth, anti-humbug, and anti injustice. So long as the government spells injustice, it may regard me as the enemy:” Gandhi.
#HappyIndependenceDay
#IndependenceDayIndia2020
Good to see
@RahulGandhi
holding an open press conference. When will
@narendramodi
ji do the same with all journalists, not just scripted interviews to the spineless cheerleading toadies?
My colleague
@SaketGokhale
files a complaint against
@narendramodi
for using an Air Force helicopter for campaigning — how is this not a violation of MCC ? Did
@BJP4India
pay for renting the chopper since it was not for official purpose ? Remember Indira Gandhi was disqualified…
Disturbing to hear that
#JawaharlalNehru
‘s role in INA trials has been removed from sound & light show at
#RedFort
. Nehru fought as legal counsel for INA under trials and for their later re-employment in India. Bose named an INA regiment after Nehru. New generations should know.
Congratulations to PM for winning a peace prize. Perhaps in pursuit of peace in India he could 1) condemn violent language used by
@tathagata2
2) condemn attacks on Kashmiris 3) condemn all lynchings post 2014 4) apologise on behalf of his minister who garlanded lynching accused
Bhakts, be warned. Threatening and intimidating my kids will not shut me up, in fact my resolve will only grow stronger to fight the evil forces you represent. To use Arundhati Roy's words, if you cut off my head, even my severed head will keep speaking! Good night
Interesting that
@BJP4India
rakes up
@RahulGandhi
alleged British citizenship when so many of its own diehard supporters are citizens and residents of the United States
Wonder what the news anchors feel when they see headlines like these. Do they smugly tell themselves “mission accomplished today I made some kids cry?”
2-3 youths are going around in my area to every house asking for any available food. Shocking! What is the C. govt trying to do? Plunge India into famine to fight flu? Ministers, stay home if you’re scared, let the rest of India get back to normal life. NO
#Lockdownextention
Mr CM Yediyurappa pls don’t ruin a young girl’s life. Call her to your office, counsel her on the wrongness of her slogan if you must,but kindly do not slap sedition on a teenager for a slogan. It makes a mockery of democracy.
#seditionmustgo
#AmulyaLeona
“Agenda?” ‘Jihad” “Pak sponsored” : so many harsh words for a 3 year old grieving over his dead grandfather. There is more to life than political point scoring Patra-Ji. Give politics a break, try some humanity instead. Namaste and Jai Hind.
Sagarika ji
Heartless is to endorse “Jihad” & “Terrorism” without a word.
It takes heart to stand against Pak sponsored terrorism ..
Well those who make a living out of intense human suffering should not counter posture when the picture does not fit into their AGENDA
Namaskar 🙏
Shocking and disturbing
@himantabiswa
. A day after PM says in Washington “Democracy is in our DNA” and there is no discrimination in India,
@BJP4India
Assam CM makes a discriminatory statement laced with religious overtones. Is this the language to be used by a leading…
There are many Hussain Obama in India itself. We should prioritize taking care of them before considering going to Washington. The Assam police will act according to our own priorities.
Mr
@RahulGandhi
vacates his MP bungalow after
#disqualification
. But Mr Ghulam Nabi Azad still occupies his bungalow more than a year after ending his MPship. Different strokes for different folks.
The refreshing thing about
@RahulGandhi
’s presser today was not only that it was an open press meet where he took all qs from press (which is democratic duty of all politicians) but also that he offered a constructive purposeful agenda rather than a negative tirade
#RahulGandhi
2.3 MILLION tweets for
#NationalUnemploymentDay17Sep
? Can anyone confirm? IF (big IF) these are genuine users, then that's huge. Has youth protest shifted online?