Vasundhara Sirnate @vsirnate Twitter profile

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Vasundhara Sirnate

@vsirnate

2 years

I’ve seen the footage from #Leicester where about 200 supporters of Hindutva took out a rally shouting Jai Shri Ram in a Muslim area. Let me just say to all my fellow Indians, Hindutva has deeply broken our country. Please do not export these divisions worldwide.

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I’m sorry Mr Modi, but my dad actually fought in the 1971 ops. It was a complicated war and one for which many good lives were lost. Stop this personalizing of history. This is the story of the Bangladeshi freedom fighters and the Indian armed forces, not yours.

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People aren’t humanly built to take the kind of public abuse and insult @RahulGandhi has taken for YEARS now. And he’s still standing. There’s something we need to observe and learn from here. He hasn’t crumbled.

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This thread is for Non-resident Indians in America that support the #CAA Today I want to tell you the story of a man called Bhagat Singh Thind. He was born in 1892 in colonial Punjab. In 1913 he went to the US for higher education and enlisted as a soldier for the US Army

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Well deserved! You have certainly helped in transforming the face of Indian news by erasing the line between news and extremist, genocidal propaganda.

Sudhir Chaudhary

@sudhirchaudhary

1 year

Received the award for being India's Transformational Leader. While I don't work for awards, I am humbled by this recognition. For me, the real award is the love and trust of my viewers. Thank you for your unwavering support.

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4 years

The entire Mahabharata was a war where family fought and killed family.

Gaurav Goel (Modi Ka Pariwar)

@goelgauravbjp

4 years

Aurangzeb killed his own family members still pesudo secularists want aurangzeb road.

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2 years

Boris Johnson in India asked “did we impose a salt tax? How astonishing” Along with a comb, I now want to send him a consignment of textbooks on British colonialism. 🤦🏽‍♀️

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1 year

I’m on the side of the @IndiGo6E flight attendant. The man clearly calls her a servant, he says “you are a servant”. She responds with “I am an employee”. It makes me sick to see so many men saying this is bad behaviour by a flight attendant. Sorry, but there are limits.

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4 years

This “apology” is misleading. I will tell you why.

Republic

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4 years

When initial news of shots fired at Jamia came in, there were incorrect reports on the identity of the gunman as one of the protesters. This was immediately corrected by Republic TV when reports confirmed his name was Gopal Sharma. This was clarified by the channel on-air as well

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3 years

I’m going to do a slightly substantial thread in Sadanand Dhume’s piece for @WSJ because I am quite disturbed at the flex the debate is taking. The problems in the piece go far beyond a debate on how “gentle” the govt has been on the farmers. Thread. 👇🏽

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2 years

I’d like to thank the folks who have attacked me on Twitter today. See they just proved my point that right-wing Hindutva assertion is being played out through threats, abuse and intimidation of anyone who stands against them on all fora. I still have no hate for them.

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4 years

As someone from an army family, I strongly object to pictures of grieving army families being used to push an anti-Kashmiri, toxic nationalism agenda. I am happy for the Kashmiri photojournalists who won an award for their work and I recognise their struggle.

Nishant Chaturvedi 🇮🇳

@nishantchat

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Friends decide what u want to talk about ? The photographs that won #PulitzerPrize OR This Photograph that Won the Hearts of the Entire Nation.. BHARAT MATA KI JAI !!!

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I am so so disappointed in @AtishiAAP . I had really expected better from her.

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The reason I’m opposing #Agnipath is because you don’t want every random, unemployed Indian man to be even basically combat trained. It’s very very bad for women. I am predicting a rise in VAW after the first stint ends.

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To everyone alarmed at #KashmirFiles scenes where Pallavi Joshi’s character yells that India will be in “tukde tukde”, let me assure you that in my time at JNU not a single prof. ended or started or even mentioned anything about tukde tukde bits of India.

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Okay, looks like this is going to be a longish one. Hold on to your hats! 1. The media's job is to ask questions. Hard questions. Annoying questions. Questions that make the powerful want to toss custard at you. That's not being like the opposition. That's what the job is.

IndiaToday

@IndiaToday

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The media cannot play the role of the Opposition, expecting it to do that leads to unfair charges of Godi or Modi media. If the Opposition is in disarray, the media cannot be blamed for it. We are observers in this boxing match, we are not the players: Kalli Purie, Vice…

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Thousands of Hindutva supporters have called me a liar for the last 20 hours and threatened and intimidated me. I was right all along. This journalist has had the most harrowing experience on the ground in #Leicester . I am sorry you had to deal with this hate Aina. In solidarity

Aina J. Khan

@ainajkhan

2 years

It was a tense day of reporting from Leicester for me today. I interviewed a Hindu man wearing a motorbike helmet, holding an Indian flag on Belgrave road, the site of some of the unrest yesterday between a group of Muslim and Hindu men. Here’s what happened. 👇🏼

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AHAHAHAHAHAHAHHA I have never seen anyone fly a fighter jet without a helmet. And what's up with those missiles? "Rafael Reporting". 🤣

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I have so many questions….

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3 years

Barkha set a trap for Deep Sidhu by raising Bhindranwale. I’ve had issues with her spins for a long long time but this is some next level propaganda because it’s stemming from a sense of righteousness.

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Millions of Indians like me do not support Hindutva in any way, shape or form. We see it as a form of right-wing fascism which has brought nothing good to our home society. We have faced abuse, threats and ridicule for simply stating that we do not sign onto this project.

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I’ve finally managed to get through the Arnab Goswami Chatgate pdf. Everyone has already highlighted those portions that needed highlighting. I have a slightly different tack. 1. The messages tell me that news is a carefully constructed consumer product.

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This person called Alok Bhatt @alok_bhatt deleted a tweet calling an Italian woman who made India her home and is the widow of an assassinated former PM and a Congress party leader, a sexist slur. Here is the screenshot. @INCIndia take note of this handle. @NCWIndia @IndiaMeToo

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4 years

Right I got to work as soon as I saw the shooting. I focused on #RepublicTV to see how they would cover the incident #jamiafiring where one #RambhaktGopal shot a student. In what follows, pay attention to the topmost header of the screenshots.

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Men are too emotional to lead. We need someone strong and sensible who won't go boo hoo at the first hint of a crisis.

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PM Modi chokes with emotion while thanking doctors, frontline workers during video conference with them

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2 years

As Elon Musk prepares to takeover Twitter, I urge everyone to listen to historian Jill Lepore’s podcast on Musk to understand the man and what strands of thought underpin who he is and what he does. The podcast is called The Evening Rocket.

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2 years

Do not underestimate the #BharatJodoYatra . No politician in the last few decades has attempted anything like this, until Rahul Gandhi. This isn’t about elections alone. This is about rebuilding trust in a broken country, with broken people and broken social ties.

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We recognize that Hindutva is an ideology of Hindu upper caste, predominantly male supremacy. And we do not want it to poison India or any other country.

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5 years

Will someone please explain to me why Hema Malini is being airdropped across wheat fields in India armed with a sickle?

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8 months

As an “army brat” I once met another one (BJP supporting) in Delhi who told me “Didi we don’t have a problem with rich Muslims, it’s the poor ones who can be radicalized”. I told him “you’re wealthy AND radicalized. What should we do about you?”

Asim Ali

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Met a drunk 'army brat' kinda guy in a S. Delhi party once. Upon learning my name went into an unprovoked, self-laudatory mode about liking Muslims. A H friend asked which party did you vote for. Deflected for 5 mins, and finally said BJP. Both of us sort of laughed on his face.

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2 years

India’s top opposition politician, Rahul Gandhi, is walking across 12 states of the country in a bid to unite India. I would like to see more domestic and international news coverage of this. Not critical analysis from the usual suspects, just factual news coverage.

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This is a fantastic interview with a very brave temple priest.

Modi has Destroyed More Temples than Aurangzeb: Vishwanath Temple Mahant | NewsClick

Those who want to tailor history to suit their political agenda never mention Akbar built Vishwanath Temple—only that Aurangzeb destroyed it.

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Hi David, I am deeply empathetic about what you have reported as your experience in India w.r.t. sexual harassment and sexual assault. Yes you’re quite right in your assessment, it’s what many, many of us have been saying and reporting for many decades. However,

David Josef Volodzko

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My Indian brothers and sisters, I have written about some of the factors that create the problems that women in India face regarding rape and other forms of sexual abuse. I have mentioned honor killings, which makes women reluctant to come forward, and I have mentioned shaming…

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Rishi Sunak hasn't answered "no" to whether the UK will leave the ECHR. I am so deeply uncomfortable with non-white descendants of immigrants like Priti Patel and Rishi Sunak rolling back protections for future generations of immigrants or asylum seekers.

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Indian media’s capture is so complete that an opposition leader who has undertaken a historic long march across the country and refuses to speak the language of communalism and religious hatred, has been invisibilized in the news. So amplify him.

Rahul Gandhi

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India's institutional capture will be reversed. Those who have played a role in destroying our institutions know they will have to pay a price.

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5 years

On Indian media (thread): On 14 Feb a horrific terror attack took place in Pulwama. As @suchitrav and I were reading the news and watching the discussions, we noticed something very wrong with the reporting in the Indian media.

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In India we are constantly fighting against a government that suppresses truth, muzzles opposition and uses bad faith policies as a stick to beat minority groups with. The Indian government has also targeted journalists who actually do their jobs, especially female journalists

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3 years

Got a DM from a Modi supporter saying my profile pic is “bold”. I’m literally reading a book in a coffee shop and scratching my head. What’s so bold about it, a woman reading?

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The discussion should be about male violence against women. It has turned into an identitarian mess. How does identity explain Naina Sahni (killed by her husband), Priyadarshini Mattoo (killed by her stalker), or Surjit Athwal (honor killed by family)?

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Arguing with Mohandas Pai is like arguing with a deceased fish. Boring.

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2 years

Do you wake up every morning and search for jihadis under your bed Mr Pai? I just look for my furry slippers. That’s the fundamental difference between us. Paranoia vs no paranoia.

Mohandas Pai

@TVMohandasPai

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Then why are not calling out the Jihadi terrorists in #Leicester . The Hindus marched there in protest against the vandalism of their homes there!Why this one sided fake tirade?you live in a free country where every day the media incl @the_hindu criticise govt but you abuse us!

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I think I'm finally able to understand why I have been disturbed by the Indian state going after and incarcerating young women activists for the last some years. And age does matter. Its because these incidents reinforce the case for patriarchal control of young women

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who are targeted on social media by the legions of foot soldiers behind a keyboard. The last thing we want is the same polarization that has made India unsafe for everyone, to occur anywhere else.

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If you want to know how messed up India is right now, Arundhati Roy is facing sedition charges for something said over a decade ago. For a sedition charge to stick in a court of law the utterance must cause “immediate” violence or unrest. A decade later is not “immediate”.

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Indian men crawling out of the digital woodwork to tell me what to think, how to think, and threatening me with abuse because quite clearly I’m not going to listen or pay attention. Can’t believe they talk to the women in their lives with the same vile mouths.

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The most ridiculous thing I’ve seen on the rw ecosystem is a total meltdown over AltNews’ Nobel nomination. Screenshots of what the nomination rules are, calling everyone who did a “favorite to win” list a liar etc. But it’s like in that collective beehive no one got the facts

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Arnab does not want the nation to know or ask anything about this case. 🤔

India’s nationalist TV anchors are oddly silent on Davinder Singh

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It is not often that multiple people I admire are on the list for a Nobel Peace Prize. Harsh Mander is someone whose lectures I attended a long time back as a student and they left an impact. @zoo_bear and @free_thinker are forces of nature that I have got to know on Twitter.

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Okay let’s get to the most controversial part of the #UttarakhandCivilCode . I reserved judgment until I had waded through the whole pdf. Here’s what I noticed. 👇🏽

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A story that every national media should be looking into. Yashwant Sahdev Shinde is/was associated with the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh. On August 29, 2022, he filed a sworn affidavit before Extra Jt. District and Sessions Judge, Nanded. What was in the affidavit?👇🏽

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It is not an understatement to say that preparation for large scale societal violence is fully underway in India. There is too much of this sort of hate talk. I heard some people talking about this in UP while I was there last month.

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A Hindu religious leader calls all Indian Muslims to go to Pakistan and Bangladesh! There are only 200 million Muslims live in India.

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I’ve been watching footage of the #BharatJodoYatra (Unite/Rejoin India) and I’ve got to say hope, however weak, can be a really radical thing. This is probably why India’s ruling govt. doesn’t want the public to have any hope independent of what it allows.

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World, this is how anti-Muslim propaganda is being mainstreamed on Indian ‘news’ channels. This anchor says Muslim boys change their names and enter Hindu religious events to lure Hindi girls into relationships. They present this as a news story

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I mean when you’re teaching Immanuel Kant and Dalit politics and gender and electoral polling etc, there isn’t much opportunity to bring in tukde tukde. All of that is completely fabricated for cinematic effect and propaganda. So please don’t buy into it.

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A bed allocation scam is unearthed. @Tejasvi_Surya singles out 17 minority names as culprits. There are 120 people working in that bed monitoring center. So there are 120 possible suspects. He picks 17 after profiling them. Don’t make him a cop.

COVID-19: Questions raised over veracity of BBMP quota beds

‘Some are trying to make money out of the shortage of oxygenated and ICU beds’

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#KanganaRanaut takedown. Sorry I am triggered She needs to understand @IJaising is not against capital punishment for Nirbhaya’s rapists specifically. She has a moral objection to the idea of capital punishment by itself. This DOES NOT mean that she has sympathy for rapists.

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I think we owe Nibhaya an apology. In ten years, we have turned into a country that moved from locking up her rapists and murderers, to a country where other rapists and murderers are set free on grounds of “good behavior”. Did we fight for nothing?

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The deeply disturbing video of a young girl lying in distress asking for help as men stand around and take videos is a grim reminder that under patriarchy female distress is seen as a form of entertainment for most men. It makes me angry that instead of empathy

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And if we are going to talk about moral objections and satyagraha then let me remind everyone of the Blood Telegram sent by Archer Blood via the US state department’s dissent channel, to Nixon. It registered dissent from the US consulate in Dhaka and condemnation of US policy

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Every year, every bloody year, I have to educate some entitled and poorly read Indian male commentator on stubble burning. Farmers don’t just get up one day and say “yay let’s burn some stubble” I’m just going to attach my thread from last year. Just read guys, just read! 🤦🏽‍♀️

Rahul Shivshankar

@RShivshankar

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6 months jail for bursting firecrackers on Diwali in Delhi says AAP. But same AAP spares stubble burning farmers in Punjab. Monitoring agency SAFAR says stubble burning contributed 48% to Delhi air pollution in 2021. Criminalize culture, molly coddle kisan. AAP-easement?

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Thanks to @twitter for supporting the countless reports filed yesterday that reported the mass hate speech directed against me. You’ve taken down quite a few. Deeply appreciated.

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Dear @twitter @jack let me tell you something. Pls pay attention. 1. We are all living through the worst disaster/crisis of this century already. 2. People in India are scared and sad and grieving and they’re expressing these complex emotions through social media and

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Troubled by your response. As a woman you should understand the level of sexual threat and male violence that is directed towards all women in India. The only people defaming the country are the sexual assaulters, not the primary or secondary victims.

Rekha Sharma

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Did you ever report the incident to Police? If not than you are totally an irresponsible person. Writing only on social media and defaming whole country is not good choice.

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@zoo_bear Just in case it’s deleted 👇🏽

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4 years

You know that 3000 crore statue that was built? That money could have been used for the public education system to subsidize poor students. So now you’ve spent the money on a statue and are beating up the students who can’t pay the hiked fee.

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If you have any hair-raising stories about VFS global visa processing services, please share them here or over DM. A couple of us have been observing the organization’s behaviors and are wondering if the harassment they have introduced into the visa process is a monetary strategy

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You gotta love Kangana Ranaut today. She boldly went where no inquiry commission had gone before. She took two thumbtacks and a piece of long red string and connected Modi to the 2002 pogrom, on a social media cork board. Ok maybe not “love”.

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And let us not forget the contributions of the “Phantoms of Chittagong” the Tibetan Special Frontier Force under Sujan Singh Uban, who basically were almost not recognized for their secret mission (which some still dispute)

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Today you are not only American citizens or visa holders, but you also have overseas membership of India. You can work and live in two countries on two continents because someone took the metaphorical bullets for you 100 years ago.

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In urban areas in India, a khap is called a RWA.

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This apology is not an apology. It’s misdirection. What Republic TV did today was a PROCESS not a “mistake”.

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I remember Sarah Jacob from college (she was a year senior to me) and she was a no nonsense person back then too. Much respect! ❤️

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Do you see the irony of your kind supporting the #CAA ?

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Very very interesting thing happened in the Rajya Sabha last week on which I saw zero coverage except on one relatively unknown legal site. The Constitution Amendment Bill 2020 was introduced on 7th Feb.

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Saw a debate raging about whether intercourse with someone by promising marriage to her constitutes rape. I’ve tried to respond to this but I’ll lay it all out again, a bit simply. There are two things we need to think about before dismissing the claim.

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The coverage that I screengrabbed today was between 2 pm IST and 6:30 pm IST. This was not “a” mistake. This was a process

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It’s happening again! 😭

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Will someone please explain to me why Hema Malini is being airdropped across wheat fields in India armed with a sickle?

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Since then you already know the plot. Many of you Indian-Americans moved to the US after that. Now I wrote this thread to remind you of a history that you possibly do not know about. But you are there today because someone else raised the issue of your membership in America

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I must express my discomfort with YOU being the person articulating this. I’ve gone over your note on Gaza and find it deeply disturbing. There is really no case to be made to colonize anyone, anywhere, anytime. Period.

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This is my considered response to Manu Joseph's column titled "Many women don't adore the idea of men: Now what?" I am writing this in the spirit of opening a conversation about the issues raised and as an Indian woman, who often throws words like "patriarchy" around. Thread!

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I’m going to give @AltNews a shout out. It takes immense patience to keep calling out nonsense and lies from the same platforms repeatedly. I applaud this patience and attitude to not let anything slip By them. Lots to learn here.

Pratik Sinha

@free_thinker

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Thread on the unparalleled lies and shamelessness of OpIndia. Yesterday, @AltNewsHindi showed how OpIndia fabricated a false story about a boy being sacrificed at a mosque in Gopalganj, Bihar. 1/7

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Seeing awful hot takes on this by Indians. What you won’t understand is that a parliament is about representation, not domination. The fact that this young representative has people echoing what she’s saying, is impressive. This is democracy at its best- culturally open,

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Republic TV is trying very hard to blame the violence on the students of Jamia.

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Thread: Recently I’ve spent a lot of time in this lockdown reading about labor, migrant labor, labor laws in different countries etc. And I came across a fascinating story that I didn’t know of before, quite by accident. This story tells us why labor protection laws matter.

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Just a thought. The damage to institutions in a decade of BJP rule will have been so thorough and awful, that whoever comes next will have to have a road map to build them back up. And I’m not sure we have those sorts of visionaries in India anymore.

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@vsirnate

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to back Yahya Khan’s plan in what was then East Pakistan.

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@vsirnate

4 years

Please share this thread widely on why NRIs should not be supporting the #CAA_NRC_NPR . Its a question of history. What goes around, comes around and they should know that there are no guarantees.

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@vsirnate

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You support of the #CitizenshipAmmendmentAct but remember that not that long ago (what is 100 years in homogenous empty time), someone basically used a similar premise like the one the act is based on, i.e., something ascriptive that you can't scrub away overnight in the shower,

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@vsirnate

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102 years ago. And it took half a century for 100 of you per year to be allowed in as legal immigrants per year. Do you see how you have benefited from that century of struggle?

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@vsirnate

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PS: some right winger folks are thinking my dad died in 1971. I don’t know why they’re thinking that based on my above tweet, but he didn’t. He retired from the army in the 1990s.

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@vsirnate

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This makes no sense. Are you okay sir? Concerned about your state of being and mind.

Tarek Fatah

@TarekFatah

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Trust me Ma'am, there is no cure for blindness or what passes as "Hindu Guilt" so rampant among the "Aman Kee Asha" aunties of the kitty-party crowd. Even if Timur or Mahmood Ghazni reappeared and plundered Bharat, you'll be there cheering them on @vSirnate

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Do you remember the time when Dalit women had to bare their torsos to upper castes? And if they didn’t they had to pay a “breast tax” in Kerala? Do you know of or remember brave Nangeli who cut off her breasts and bled to death as resistance to the “Mullakaram” tax?

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@vsirnate

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This was not “immediately corrected”. The screen grabs from the Hindi broadcast still said CAA ka Virodh Pistaul tak. This is approximately at 6:10 Pm IST

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@vsirnate

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Just some observations on the doublespeak of the Hindu right wing nationalists in India. 1. They want Justice for Ankita (as everyone should)but release #BilkisBano ’s rapists. 2. They say women in India are respected and then send death and sexual violence threats to women.

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I think the lesson is clear. If media and journalism in India don’t stop being propaganda tools for the state, we can kiss electoral democracy goodbye. Here’s a state where people seem to have voted against their own interests, because they’re convinced their religion is a bigger

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@vsirnate

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False information on major news channels, regarding a death, led to violence in Karnataka because the information was given a spin. Five years later the truth comes out. Who will hold these anchors and channels accountable?

Pratik Sinha

@free_thinker

2 years

Thread: Five years ago, @ShivAroor and @gauravcsawant broadcast this false information on @IndiaToday with the most provocative messaging. 1/n

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@vsirnate

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The MEA seems to think Rihanna is a country.

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@vsirnate

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Update: Holy Gau mata! there’s a movie on this man. I didn’t even know that until someone just told me. Does it address the issue of his casteism? Has anyone watched it?

Film to shed light on turbaned ‘American’ soldier’s fight for rights

All Quiet On the Home Front, a film based on the life of Sikh American soldier Dr. Bhagat Singh Thind, is set for release during Sikhlens Film Festival in November.

indianexpress.com

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@vsirnate

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Humble request. Please don’t add me to groups on Twitter msgs with BJP folks. I am not Vasundhara Raje.

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@vsirnate

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I keep repeating this to all Indian women. Please for your own sake be so fierce and independent that you are never in a position to be viewed as a replaceable item on a shelf in a supermarket. Because that’s what Indian society does to even the best women

A bride collapsed and died at her wedding. The groom then married the woman's sister with her dead...

Their families agreed that the bride's younger sister would replace her following her death. The nuptials carried on and the couple wed that same day.

www.businessinsider.com

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@vsirnate

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I want Indian MPs to convene a special session of Parliament to raise the issue of violence against students and answers from the government, including UP post mortem reports. It is ridiculous that I have to tell these MPs what to do.

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