And there should be so many people there in film city, protesting against channels there, and the employees - no matter what they do in these organisations - should face us while going in and coming out, just sitting there, voicing our protest.
We call for accountability.
If they publish crap, they should know there are people right outside to question the shit they published. Vulture editors should know there are people outside, and a lot of them, who could just barge in if they run propaganda. Guests attending bullshit debates should know.
And the drastic step. You know what hurt Sanghis the most after abrogation of Article 370 and passing of CAA? The fact that people, close to them and strangers alike, decided to take a stand against sanghipana, that children fought parents, brothers fought brothers...
WhatsApp groups became battlefields. A lot of sane people said 'Enough is enough', they said out loud that they won't take casual Islamophobia and anti-intellectualism in silence. They unfriended Sanghis, blocked them, decided not to engage at all. I have done this in my family.
And I know friends who have done the same. A friend didn't talk to her parents, who celebrated blackout in Kashmir, for weeks just to make them realise how people in Kashmir felt. Sanghis had meltdowns knowing people they knew were refusing to engage because of their vileness.
They still do. This is a recent example.
SOCIAL ISOLATION. This is drastic, but people working with media vultures should be called out, singled out and forced to either shake up things in their organisations or resign. We have EMIs to pay cannot be an excuse anymore.
THE NEXT AGITATION SHOULD BE AGAINST MEDIA HOUSES. EVERY SINGLE EDITOR AND PRODUCER AND REPORTER RESPONSIBLE FOR FAKE NEWS AND FAKE NARRATIVES SHOULD BE HELD RESPONSIBLE AND SINGLED OUT. THEY SHOULD FACE THE HEAT INSTANTLY. EMPLOYEES AIDING THIS SHOULD BE SINGLED OUT.
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Woman recording this video is Anusree, a resident of Thiruvananthapuram. She started recording this creep after he stared at her for over 5 mins. You can see him approach her car and from what she's saying, he tried to open the back door. Finally, see who comes to rescue! #thread
This is the creep in question. The full video of the incident is here.
The fellow stares at her four over three minutes in the video itself, approaches the vehicle and tried to open the door of the car. This is serious. He could have harmed her.
This was near Statue Junction in Thiruvananthapuram. Around 2.56 PM.
Patriarchal a-holes are shitting in her comments, blaming her (Surprised? Me neither!) and accusing her of "Making a big deal out of this".
Had she not locked her door, anything could have happened.
Late to the party but why aren't people on my timeline NOT going batshit crazy about this EPIC #Batman trailer!
Pattinson owned it with the "I am vengeance" answer and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, how did they make Colin Farell look like that!
I am obviously a big fan of Nolan's trilogy but I've always thought Bale wasn't great as Batman. In fact, I preferred Ben Affleck as Batman. But now, with this teaser* (sorry, said trailer above) only and only Pattinson for Batman. And damn boy, what music!
1) Bloomsbury retracting a book they feel they shouldn't have commissioned is not the same as the State banning a book/film.
2) If yesterday's outrage was enough to retract and run, they knew they had blood on their hands.
3) Responsible publishers mustn't further propaganda.
I thought post August 5, 2019 and CAA being passed, and seeing the brave relentless nationwide protests against it, we realised how Indian liberals should drop the sham of ALWAYS being NICE and DECENT and take a fuckin STRONG STAND AGAINST PROPAGANDISTS AND FASCISTS... but no.
Why is it difficult to understand it wasn't a call to ban the book? Outrage was against the very decision to commission propagandists to further a narrative demonising one particular community and being complicit in an event where hatemongers and bigots were given centrestage.
Apologies in advance. Mute/block/unfollow because it's more of a rant too.
It is just sad that we all have to do this within 24 hours of Sushant's passing but it is important.
Within the first hour of the news breaking, people had started with their conspiracy theories. Some connected it with his former manager's death by suicide last week, others let their imagination run wild. Media bonkers.
He was 34. Gave a big hit in 2019 and a big flop.
Many in Bollywood literally woke up to the news, shocked and sad. Many who seem to have known what Sushant had been working with, felt guilty, possibly for not reaching out to him.
A vulture put out a tweet elaborating how he died and disclosing Sushant was depressed.