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18 Feb, 4 tweets, 2 min read
FIR says a 9 Yr old girl in Bandipora, Kashmir, abducted and molested by 3 Army men. Military then "raids" her home to pressurise her parents to withdraw FIR. Shameful. But unsurprising. Why? See thread below m.thewire.in/article/rights…
Read this for some context of systemic sexual violence in conflict areas where there's virtually military rule theleaflet.in/major-gogoi-an…
Read this piece on the Handwara girl wandemag.com/handwara-girls…
A piece on how our Godi media treats allegations of rape by men in uniform in conflict areas m.thewire.in/article/cultur…

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20 Feb
Please read the thread by @AudreyTruschke, and this one by me. The verdict that convicted Mahmood Farooqui of rape was a landmark one like the #PriyaRamani one of yesterday. The Feeble No verdict that overturned it is an affront to our legal system.
I had in mind the Farooqui case when I wrote yesterday about "campaigns (across political aisles) claiming that the amendments to India’s sexual violence laws in 2013 are “draconian” when applied to privileged men." indianexpress.com/article/opinio…
Remember, men's reputations survive even rape convictions. They survive even when the man has argued in trial court that he did not touch the woman, to turn around & be acquitted in the HC on the basis that he assumed she consented since her No was too feeble.
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19 Feb
Golwalkar in his own words - from Bunch of Thoughts, the RSS manifesto. @MinOfCultureGoI these are the ideas you're celebrating. @AmbLindnerIndia these are what you bowed to in Nagpur. These are the views which underpin Modi Govt policy.
For Golwalkar, Hindu = national, Muslim, Christian, Sikh, Buddhist, Dalit, OBC, feminist, Tamil, Kannada, Manipuri etc = communal, separatist.
Golwalkar celebrated Islamophobic bigotry, decried calls for Hindu-Muslim unity
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19 Feb
Which thoughts are those, @MinOfCultureGoI? The one where he said the Nazi purge of Jews was something India "should learn and profit from"? Or - there's more, see thread.
Golwalkar: Muslims, Christians "must lose their separate existence to merge in the Hindu race, or may stay in the country, wholly subordinated to the Hindu Nation, claiming nothing, deserving no privileges —not even citizen’s rights." These his profound thoughts @MinOfCultureGoI?
Read Golwalkar's "Bunch of Thoughts" whom @MinOfCultureGoI is celebrating today. He said Sikh, Buddhist, Tamil, Dravidian, Dalit, OBC, feminist identities and causes were all anti national, divisive. He celebrated Islamophobic bigotry as national sentiment.
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4 Feb
#Thread The FIR against @GretaThunberg isn't a joke. @DelhiPolice claims the toolkit is proof of a "conspiracy". In the protests against the Islamophobic citizenship law CAA, the same police used a WhatsApp group as pretext to arrest scores of activists for "conspiracy" to riot!
Likewise, members of the Elgar Parishad, who formed an anti fascist front and held a peaceful event which was attacked by far-right mobs, have been in jail for 3 years + now, accused of vague "conspiracies". In India under Modi, any plans to protest = conspiracy.
Meanwhile the @DelhiPolice did not even touch far-right Hindu supremacist hatemongers who instigated people to shoot Muslims & anti CAA protestors, and led rioting mobs to kill Muslims last year. Did not touch RW mobs that entered JNU campus, broke skulls of students & teachers
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2 Feb
. @guardian reports on #NavreetSingh death: Dr Basil Purdue, a pathologist registered with the UK Home Office who examined the video footage and postmortem, said: “To me this is one gunshot wound, possibly two, unless proved otherwise. You cannot get these injuries from a fall."
9 journalists face sedition & other criminal charges, for reporting on questions #NavreetSingh's family have about his death. The same lot that spent weeks claiming Sushant Singh Rajput's death was murder not suicide, brands it sedition to ask questions about Navreet's death!
Video footage, postmortem show a huge hole under Navreet's lip, and another one behind his ear on the other side, with brain matter spilling out. Gee, what could possibly explain two round holes on opposite sides of the head 🤔. Why prevent journalists from asking the obvious?
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23 Jan
It's the shrug in this tweet that is part of the problem. If you share the survey minus a context where you explain how constitutional morality (as opposed to majoritarian morality) is supposed to work in law-making & life, you make the results seem like a mandate. #journalism
Such findings are not surprising. What @IndiaToday @sardesairajdeep could do for context for eg: discuss SARI surveys which found that most Indians across caste lines want intercaste marriage outlawed. No govt said that's a mandate for such laws? Why not? thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/…
SARI surveys, which are high on context & analysis not clickbait, also found that a majority practices untouchability. That is not a mandate for legalising untouchability, and that needs to be underscored, explained when shared in media @IndiaToday
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