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Unpopular reports on 2020 Delhi pogrom. A thread.
"The activists behind the citizenship protests did not need to organise a riot to attract global media coverage and international criticism of the Modi government. The record shows there was no shortage of either."
thewire.in/rights/delhi-p…
"He said that the police made him sign a statement which he couldn’t read as he had almost been blinded and his mother, who was with him, is illiterate. “We don’t know what they wrote in it,” he said."
thewire.in/rights/delhi-r…
"The RSS, the parent organisation of the BJP, also surfaced a couple of times in the rioters’ WhatsApp group. The most critical mention was at 8 pm on February 25."
newslaundry.com/2020/07/04/del…
"The accused were part of a WhatsApp group -- Kattar Hindu Ekta -- that was created on February 25 to take “revenge” on Muslims, the charge sheets said."
newindianexpress.com/cities/delhi/2…
"Over four months after his readymade garments godown and house in Bhagirathi Vihar, North East Delhi were attacked and looted by a mob on February 25, Nisar Ahmed has still not managed to have a proper case registered by the Delhi police."
thewire.in/communalism/de…
"Alt News has reviewed the report and found that it cannot be categorised as a ‘fact-finding’ report because of the torrent of misinformation it carries."
altnews.in/delhi-riots-fa…
"The Caravan is in possession of numerous complaints filed in February and March by residents of northeast Delhi, who wrote that they witnessed violence perpetrated by or at the behest of BJP leaders."
caravanmagazine.in/politics/delhi…
"However, this is different from the figure given by the Delhi Waqf Board, according to which 19 mosques had been damaged during the riots."
thequint.com/news/india/nor…
"He gave a speech that called for love and non-violence. Government agencies consider this an act of provocation."
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"Perusal of the case diary reveals a disturbing fact. The investigation seems to be targeted only towards one end."
thequint.com/news/india/del…
"At least nine people, most of them members of this WhatsApp group, have now been arrested by the Delhi Police for killing Muslims in Bhagirathi Vihar that falls under Gokulpuri Police Station."
thequint.com/news/politics/…
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It's undeniable that, despite everything, BJP would easily win if the country went to polls today. While the majoritarian rhetoric has been its core electoral strategy, the key problem remains the fact that the Indian voters are still convinced that there is no alternative.
The repeated, assertive offensive of the Opposition clearly isn't working. If anything, it's strengthening the foundations of the BJP voters' trust in their own choice. It's not bringing the fence-sitters back to the fold and unless that happens, there's no hope for change.
What can the opposition do about this? Is there something new they can come up with, something outside the box which can make a change in the voting pattern? Is anyone trying anything new despite clearly knowing that the old tricks are not working?
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"Debrahmanising History" by Braj Ranjan Mani: A thread with key points.
"A benign amnesia shrouds the conservative and anti-dalit-bahujan stands of Indian nationalism, which permits academic and popular projections of the essentially upper-caste leaders such a Gandhi, Nehru and Tilak-Savarkar as non-partisan leaders."
"Nothing can be more hypocritical than the claims of academic neutrality and objectivity that is invoked by 'disinterested' social science. There is a writer behind every writing, and it matters from where one writes, to whom one writes, and with what objective and perspective."
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Every time stories of caste atrocities get reported, the upper caste Hindus argue that their religion defines caste based on worth and not by birth citing scriptures.

This thread is Dr. Ambedkar's response to this argument, paraphrased, based on the text Annihilation of Caste.
"How are you going to compel people who have acquired a higher status by birth, without reference to their worth, to vacate that status? How are you going to compel people to recognise the status due to a man, according to his worth, who is occupying a lower status by birth?"
"For this, you must first break up the Caste System, in order to be able to establish the Chaturvarnya system. How are you going to reduce the four thousand castes, based on birth, to the four Varnas, based on worth?"
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