Lessons from @AltNews on how NOT to cover cases of minor girls’ abduction - a crime I feel very strongly about
Facts:
-A 16-year-old girl is kidnapped twice by Mehtab, who is 32 & has 6 kids (even if she eloped, it is still kidnapping case as she is minor). Mehtab is on bail +
-Girl goes missing for 3rd time, CCTV shows a man in skull cap & pathani suit taking her in a burqa
-Father names Mehtab in FIR as he had done it twice before
-Turns out that this time, it wasn’t Mehtab. Girl plotted her own kidnapping with help of her friends +
Because family wasn’t allowing her to go to Delhi to study due to Mehtab. Friends are Rinku and Divyanshu
- Altnews wonders how FIR filed “solely” on father’s testimony. Shows lack of knowledge of law and how FIRs are filed. Is police supposed to take zoo bear’s statement instead?
-Says media published “unverified” news. Shows cluelessness of how media works. +
-Says girl plotted kidnapping “to implicate Mehtab”. What an insensitive thing to say! Victim-blaming the girl for crimes of Mehtab? Is serial kidnapper Mehtab the ‘victim here? Why no mention of the fact that Mehtab kidnapped her twice before? Why desperation to make him victim?
- Girl did not plot her kidnapping to implicate Mehtab. She did it to go to Delhi.
-Finally, report says Mehtab still “incarcerated”. Well, he is absconding
So much for fact-checking!
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Please note that this post is an update on a vivah (organised by Agniveer) of M girl who embraced Hinduism and married H boy. They are doing good and are safe.
I have a major issue with Indian education system beyond fake history it teaches:
It teaches mostly useless stuff for most people. You get pass certificates and degrees based on knowing stuff that 99% will never need in life.
It creates hollow babus good for nothing useful
The moment a family gets slightly urbanised, it gets in rat race of marks. And marks come from mugging and vomiting junk - right from primary to Civil Service exams.
Thus, a country that needs entrepreneurs is reduced to "masti ki pathshala" losers who are good to be clerks
Entire history, geography syllabus from 6-12 can be compressed in 2 years. Better teach them trades, doing business, aptitude skills, multiple Indian languages, giving first aid, survival skills, moral values etc.
We need to redefine education to mean knowledge that helps
Some people are angry that Agniveer claimed to have helped agencies nab terrorists planning to rape Yezidis in ISIS.
Read this thread as response:
Well that is a fact. Me and @DharmaOfVedas have IP of a technology made in collaboration with IIT Bombay.+
It has been used by ATS Mumbai to identify terror social networks. They caught several terrorists including some who were on way to join ISIS. At least one confessed that he was looking forth to enjoy Yezid girls sold as slaves. That was source of what was claimed by Agniveer +
We still have a formal tie-up with IIT Bombay on this. We arw working on a couple of more technologies designed for national security.
Please note that both me and @DharmaOfVedas are researchers in our other life.
For more details, connect with NCETIS, IIT Bombay.
Newslaundry introduced a full time Congress worker as a practicing doctor in AIIMS and circulated his fake diagnosis. swarajyamag.com/politics/docto…
The fake news peddler @newslaundry concocted a lie that a mandir was cleaned after President's entry because he is a Dalit. Later it pulled down the report when exposed.
Western notion of LGBTIQ and Kinnar, Shikhandi, Hijra in Bharat are two diff things. Whatever be ur stand, one should be clear of this diff. LGBTIQ does not have a direct biological basis as per research so far. It is a choice which some suspect to be partially due to biology.
Often, many believe that transgender are LGBTIQ. No. Transgender is a biological condition. And hence irrespective of debates on LGBTIQ issue, they are as sammanit in all aspects as male and female genders.
T in LGBTIQ is not transgender but transsexual which is psychological.
The other crucial aspect ignored in this debate is the Bharatiya emphasis on self control aka Brahmacharya. Be you gay or straight, the urge for purposeless sex must be controlled. This is message of Gita, Vedas, and all Dharmik texts. Krishna is supercritical of lust.
A lot of people call me Tattiveer. Am proud of it. Even @narendramodi must know about this.
My childhood was spent in Kolkata where waterlogging was common. Since childhood I saw my father and grandfather (who are no more) take long bamboo skin (baanspatti) +
They would get out to lane and road to unclog all drains. Even after IIM convocation, we had waterlogging next day. And we happily celebrated cleaning the entire area. Then, as always, we cleaned toilet before bath. Even till date, I am proud of superior tatti-cleaning skills. +
Even when I stayed in hotels, I always made point to clean my tatti and not outsource to housekeeper. Yes, my khandan taught me this valuable skill. Am proud of it. Feel free to call me tattiveer for my cleaning skills. Or Agniveer for other things I do. Its all same for me. 🙏