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Anna MM Vetticad Profile picture
@annavetticad
May 17, 2020 • 12 tweets • 7 min read • Read on X
It's good that @AltNews calls OpIndia a "right-wing propaganda website", not a news website. The tragedy is that this rag's #Islamophobic agenda is no different from several Indian news platforms and journalists who/that were once respected and reliable. altnews.in/gopalganj-boy-…
It takes a particular level of evil to play around with a grieving father's words to claim that he alleged a communal angle to his child's death, as OpIndia seems to have done, especially during a pandemic. More details in an earlier report by @thewire_in thewire.in/communalism/bi…
A word of appreciation for Bihar DGP Gupteshwar Pandey who took the trouble to do a nearly half hour FB live today to explain details of this drowning and dispel rumours of a communal angle to this death. Please watch this video. @bihar_police @IPRD_Bihar m.facebook.com/IPSGupteshwar/…
Follow-up: I am adding to this thread because I gather from my mentions since last night that OpIndia/Sangh supporters are trying to confuse the public while targeting the Bihar DGP because he tried to dispel claims that there is a communal angle to this drowning. (Contd)
Some Sangh trolls are claiming that Bihar DGP #GupteshwarPandey in his Facebook live supported a local SHO who misbehaved with the victim's family. This is false. Listen to Pandey's FB live yourself - I have shared it above. Alternatively, re-read the @AltNews article. (Contd)
. @AltNews says: "In a Facebook Live on May 17, DGI of Bihar police #GupteshwarPandey informed that Kataiya SHO Ashwini Tiwari has been suspended." Trolls know the public are busy, they count on us seeing their tweets & not having time for this article or the FB live. (Contd)
That's just one of the games being played here. Please be aware of the larger game being played too: is this an effort to divert attention from India's migrant crisis that has drawn global attention? Please do not fall for propaganda. Please avoid propaganda websites. (Contd)
Please avoid mainstream media houses that act as PR arms of the government instead of questioning them. Please support the wonderful journalists in the mainstream media who continue to highlight the tragedy of our poor workers despite pressure from various quarters. (Contd)
A communal divide at any time is terrible, but can you imagine what this could mean during a pandemic? #GupteshwarPandey & the news platforms busting fake news are trying to calm nerves & avoiding communal tension. Don't fall for those trying to light fires & fan flames instead.
See this screenshot. The propaganda website that started it all has now backtracked and is trying to blame the victim's father, just because the #Bihar police have filed a case against them for their misinformation (details of the case in the @thewire_in article above). Image
Please also read this thread by @Pooja_Chaudhuri of @AltNews 👇🏾
Final tweet for this thread: Yawn! This silly taunt 👇🏾 has not worked for the 11 years I have been on Twitter, so why do you think it will silence me now? 🙄 If you really want to hurt my feelings, call me a "Sanghi PR agent", and I challenge you to say that with conviction 😄 Image

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My cousin just lost her son to #COVID that he contracted in 2020 and never recovered from. He had been terribly ill and declining for 2 years. He was a doctor, a father, a husband, a son. Before he got #COVID, he was also a healthy man in his 40s. (1/6)
I'm sharing this here because I see people getting careless as the authorities in India gradually ease #COVID-related curbs, even as cases rise in some countries. How fast the Indian public has forgotten the devastation caused by the 2nd wave last year! #CovidIsNotOver (2/6)
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Feb 2, 2022
Since I posted this video here, I've been touched by the warm responses from so many good people, but also startled by the storm of Sanghi spammers though I thought I was habituated to online misinformation and hate after so many years of facing organised trolling. (1/n)
Communal profiling, personal attacks, defamatory comments are all par for the course on Twitter. I'm tired of speaking up about this for myself since @Twitter @TwitterIndia @TwitterSupport do nothing. So today, I wish to address another aspect of this strategic trolling. (2/n)
Apart from aiming to mess with your head, troll bosses know that even if the targeted person doesn't amplify their tweets, some members of the public will see them when clicking on the original tweet. So they flood your mentions with the very propaganda you seek to refute. (3/n)
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Oct 3, 2020
"Wherever #Muslims live, they don’t like to live in co-existence with others" - #AtalBihariVajpayee as PM said this in 2002 in which the Gujarat 'riots' were followed by attacks on Muslims across the state for a year. Full text of his speech👇(Contd)
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As this profile says, "#Vajpayee reached a new low with the Gujarat pogrom that took place under Modi’s CMship. ..Not only did he not remove #Modi from his post; he emulated him by presenting the carnage as an understandable reaction by #Hindus." (Contd)
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Vajpayee's mask of genteelness was carefully constructed to fool most of the liberal media, public & politicians, who either fell for it or used it to mask their own opportunism when aligning with him, despite knowing his commitment to #RSS' hate politics. #AtalTunnel (Contd)
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Oct 2, 2020
"There will come a day when the rotten mess of majoritarian & misogynist evil decays to its very core, collapses, and becomes the manure for living things." - A letter from feminist & historian #JDevika to Kerala's @WCC_Cinema. #Avalkoppam #Metoo (Contd)
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#JDevika: "There is no hubris in human history that has not collapsed under its own weight. There is a saying in Malayalam: adiyolam cheenjhaale valam aakoo – only if it rots to its very core can it become manure." #WomenSupportingWomen #MeToo (Contd)
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#JDevika's words to @WCC_Cinema should be read by every women, every activist, every member of a marginalised social group who speaks up for equality. It is a long and tiring road, and when you raise your voice, the backlash is inevitable. (Contd)
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Sep 18, 2020
Just reading that some members of the #Malayalam film industry have gone back on statements given in the 2017 actor assault case. I understand that #Dileep is powerful but whatever happened to doing the right thing because it's the right thing to do? (H/T @rimakallingal) (Contd) Image
People ask so casually, "why don't you complain?" even when a woman highlights something comparatively less grievous like misogynistic trolling. Here is a survivor of physical assault who courageously filed a police complaint, & look what it has got her in almost 4 years. (Contd) Image
Standing #InSolidarity with a brave survivor. #MeToo #Avalkoppam Image
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Sep 3, 2020
Risk-taking #Malayalam cinema has got gr8 audience support in #Kerala in recent yrs. Streaming sites are taking it to audiences outside Kerala who were earlier deterred by poor show timings at theatres,theatres skipping subs etc. This is democratisation we must fight to preserve.
"The Kumbalangi Nights Phenomenon: One small step for Mollywood, a giant leap for Indian cinema" - I wrote this for @firstpost in 2019 on the confluence of changing circumstances that allowed a #KumbalangiNights to become a pan-India hit. Do read ICYMI

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(Cont'd) The lesson: next time a producer/distributor/exhibitor/newspaper editor says, "only Mallus watch Malayalam cinema", "Hindi belt wallahs will not see Tamil/Telugu films", "Dalit/LGBT/women-centric films have a limited audience" etc, call them out on their bullshit.(Contd)
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