#DishaRavi's arrest is so blatantly not about any crime, it's a message. If you oppose people in power & their actions, & publicize your dissent, you'll have to pay a price...
#ReleaseDishaRavi | #FreeDishaRavi
thenewsminute.com/article/disha-…
Delhi Police say the "Toolkit" called for economic, social, cultural & regional war against India... Image
All it contained, based on screenshots & reports, was info about the Farm Bills & #FarmersProtest, and suggested actions one could take to express solidarity with the farmers...
amp.scroll.in/article/985946…
By repeatedly referring to it as a "toolkit", religious supremacists & hypernationalists on twitter and permanently hysterical banshees on TV tried to present it as some weapon of mass destruction...
... The doc itself is innocuous, so #DishaRavi's apparent ownership of a WhatsApp group in which document creation was co-ordinated shouldn't matter. However, this isn't the first time Disha Ravi's activities as part of her climate activism ran up against the Delhi police... Image
In Jul2020, Javadekar's complaint about mails against the draft EIA prompted Delhi Police to order @FFFIndia, @LetIndBreathe & @ThereIsNoEarthB websites blocked, claiming that they "affected the peace & sovereignty of India"...
scroll.in/latest/968367/…
The draft EIA notification weakened the Environment Protection Act significantly, but apparently writing an email against it constituted an offence under the Unlawful Activities Prevention Act...
In a nutshell, templated e-Mails voicing opposition to potential environmental degradation & a doc explaining some legislation & protests against it can both be described as Acts of War by a 21st century democracy... if it was not tragic, it could well be a #PinkPanther film.

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We have so many dire existential threats in India - the #ToolkitCase and Nupur's iPhones - that we might have missed this hilarious story. South Africa received its 1st shipment of #COVID19 vaccine a couple of weeks ago...
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Apparently someone was furious tht @CyrilRamaphosa didn't acknowledge Indian Govt & Serum Institute for "generously allocating" vaccines.

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#ReleaseNodeepKaur
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Rajveer says Nodeep told her she was assaulted in custody...
thequint.com/news/india/nod…
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On a day the plum cake is likely to feature prominently on plates across India, did you know that Thalassery, known for associations with cricket and the circus, was also where Indians began making cakes?...
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Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington, who incidentally played in the 1st recorded cricket match in Ireland, introduced cricket to Thalassery, arguably the first place in India where Indians participated in cricket matches...
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Himmler conceived the "Lebensborn" to increase Nordic/"Aryan" birthrate & produce a "pure" super-race.

If you thought this fantasy was still-born in its Nazi cradle, you haven't heard of Garbhvigyan Anusandhan.

#ShameOnBJPigs for hiding it...
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Arogya Bharati is the राष्ट्रीय स्वयंसेवक संघ's (RSS) "Health Wing", and one of its progeny is Garbhvigyan Anusandhan Kendra whose mission is to produce Hindutva superbabies...
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One of the common misconceptions about the farmer protests against #FarmBills2020 is that the resistance is confined to Punjab, implying that the rest of the country is for the Bills, and the stir is politically motivated. This is a brief thread to counter that propaganda.
The spotlight may be on Punjab, but many states are witnessing agitations and rallies as this @htTweets report explains -
hindustantimes.com/india-news/pro…
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