Vineet Jain created the monster Times Now. Navika is a puppet. If Bollywood is serious about fighting back, it shud boycott Filmfare awards, Filmfare magazine, Bombay Times parties & stop advertising in Bennett Coleman media. Lawsuits take ages, put your money where your mouth is
Vineet Jain destroyed quality Indian media. He ruined print journalism with crappy Times of India. He lowered readers' IQ with entertainment supplements. He killed electronic media with Times Now & created the monster called Arnab. He ruined news websites with clickbait culture.
Vineet Jain acts over-smart. He runs Times Now to cater to RW fascists and Mirror Now to cater to LW 'liberals'. He's milking advertisers and viewers on both sides. In reality, he's platforming hate & bigotry and hiding behind 'both-sideism' and 'neutrality'. Time to call him out
Vineet Jain turned the venerable Times of India (ToI) into 'Toi'let paper of India. The 180 year 'Old Lady of Bori Bunder' witnessed history, fought in the freedom struggle and championed democracy. Today, its editorial content has nosedived. The paper is only fit to clean cars.
The Indian Press played a stellar role in the Freedom movement. It batted for democracy during the Emergency.
Today, Vineet Jain and Bennett Coleman is hurtling us back into fascism. Information is replaced with sadistic entertainment. He destroyed a 180 years old legacy. Shame.
Times of India once claimed its editorial content was independent of its sister concern, Times Now and tried to dissociate itself from it. That's rubbish. They all fall under Bennett Coleman. Vineet Jain is ultimately responsible. But he's just minting money & buttering Fascists.
So 'journos' who spread hate and lies do so with active editorial participation of their bosses - Media Owners. A Navika or Shivshankar could be reined in by Vineet Jain but he *chooses* to let them air hate for ads & govt benevolence. Such 'neutral' owners are the real culprits.
Vineet Jain inherited a 180 year old legacy - BCCL /ToI. Instead of building it editorially, he cheapened it with just 'glamour & ads'. Guy loved throwing Holi parties, Bombay Times parties and being seen with Bollywood starlets at his Filmfare awards & Femina Miss India contest.
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Tatas were BJP's biggest donors via the dubious electoral bonds. Ratan Tata has endorsed Modi, giving him credibility amongst cosmopolitan and middle class Indians.
Tatas are *enablers* not victims or 'silent bystanders' of Hindutva / BJP
Here's the "quiet, respectable" Ratan Tata paying obeisance to RSS founder Hedgewar at Nagpur.
He also looks happy in the company of Pujya Pujari Bhagwat ji, the bigoted Hindutva ideologue.
Ratan Tata actively supporting BJP /Hindutva campaign during 2019 Lok Sabha elections.
The same guys who are today trying to malign Mumbai and topple SS-INC-NCP govt in his home state Maharashtra.
Shah Faesal's father was killed by militants when he was 19. He became a doctor, topped IAS. Is a Fulbright scholar at Harvard. Joined politics to serve people better. Believed in Indian democracy & inspired Kashmiris. Today he's *locked up* & called *anti national*
India, 2019
Shah Faesal is a Fulbright scholar at Harvard, visits it regularly. Was going there when he was detained at Delhi airport. Sanghis said he was fleeing the country, meeting "terrorists" at Turkey (he had a connecting flight) etc. Now Harvard has written to Modi seeking his release
#ShahFaesal was a doctor, IAS, politician, scholar, motivator. He father was killed by militants yet he chose the pen instead of a gun. He chose compassion over revenge. This man is a legend in Kashmir. Today he's called 'anti national' and we wonder why Kashmiris distrust India?
@JM_Scindia Have some shame, Mr Scindia. You sister is married to grandson of Hari Singh who's partly responsible for messed up accession. Dogras treated Kashmiri Muslims like serfs, massacred 2 lakh Muslims in Jammu in 1947 to change the demography. And you do them an injustice again today
@JM_Scindia Maharaj Hari Singh's Army massacred approx 2 lakh Kashmiri Muslims in Jammu in 1947 and forcibly displaced half a million of them to Pakistan to alter the demography of Jammu.
@JM_Scindia Sudha Kaul was J&K's first female IAS officer who grew up in the Valley. She writes how Kashmiri Muslims were treated like serfs for centuries incl by Dogra kings (family your sister is married to.) Even Congress did them a disservice for decades post '47
Akshay Patra gets states, central govt grants (50% as per its website) + donations. That's taxpayers & donors ACROSS communities. It earns social & monetary capital. Taxpayers within rights to demand culturally inclusive (onion-garlic), tasty food for kids
Instead of reacting to provocative chants of 'Jai Shri Ram' by BJP goons, @MamataOfficial and Bengalis should launch a cultural counter-offensive. They should smile and greet them with 'Jai Maa Durga'. The Goddess has slayed worthier opponents than Hindutva fascists. 1/n
Bengal traditionally worshipped the divine feminine; the Holy Trinity of Durga, Saraswati and Kali. 'Jai Shri Ram' is not as much a part of their culture as the goddesses are. It is time for Bengalis to reassert and reclaim their cultural space trampled upon by sanghis. 2/n
Bengalis prefer 'Jai Maa Durga' 'Jai Maa Kalkattewali' over 'Jai Shri Ram' any day. And the entire East revers Saraswati, the gentle goddess of wisdom and culture. Please restrain Lord Ram to Nagpur and Yogi's cow-belt, thanks. :) 3/n