After this post, many of you offered to donate funds to get PPEs/gloves/masks for graveyard & crematorium workers. I've been asking around Bangalore to find the most reliable group to donate to, so that the kits reach efficiently with no leaks. Read the thread below + DM me.
The best bet is to donate to volunteers who are already doing the rounds of graveyards, crematoriums to transport the dead. I found @mercymission1 most reliable. Spent a day with them in their hearse ambulance. Their work is pro bono, they coordinate with BBMP, grave workers too
Send me a DM with your name and I'll send you the bank details. There's a way to ensure the money is used for this purpose only, I'll tell you more in DM.
No crowd funding please.
But most efficient of all, is to yourself buy dozens of protective equipment & give it to graveyards & cremation grounds you know. If you're a grieving family, it's hard to remember all this, but when you buy gloves for yourself, buy many extra for workers.

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25 Feb
India filed 249 sedition cases between 2016-19 (NCRB data only from 2016).
Less than half made it to trial.
Only 5 convicted.
69% cases are pending investigation.
In 2019 alone, 30 sedition trials were completed, and only one ended in a conviction, making for a conviction rate of 3.3%. In contrast, the conviction rate in murder trials the same year was 42%.
SC has said there must be incitement to violence for an expression to amount to sedition, but this is frequently ignored.
So students peacefully protesting CAA, a journo going to cover a Dalit teenager's rape, someone praising Pak cricket team, or drawing cartoons are accused.
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17 Nov 20
#LoveJihad has moved from flirting & butterflies-in-the-stomach, to legitimate social & legal sanction faster than many relationships I know. Since 5 states (MP, UP, Karnataka, Haryana, Assam) are planning laws against this crime, here are some facts. 1/n
The term #LoveJihad was 1st used arnd 2009 by some Hindu & Christian groups in Karn, Kerala to refer to a shadowy conspiracy by Muslim men to deceive/coerce women into converting to Islam + join terrorism. It has since led vigilantes to harass interfaith couples. 2/n
Since 2009, MANY official investigations have found ZERO EVIDENCE of the existence of #LoveJihad. 3/n
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28 Oct 20
Central Information Commission issues show-cause notice to Min of Elec & Infotech, NIC, asking why they don't have info about who created #AarogyaSetu & how, when it's a gov.in website. CIC called it "extremely preposterous"
livelaw.in/amp/top-storie…?
PIOs in the ministry of Elec & Infotech don't know who developed #AarogyaSetu and how. Meanwhile... Former CTO of Goibibo says he helped build the Covid tracking app.
1/n yourstory.com/2020/07/techie…
Also Deep Kalra, CEO of MakeMyTrip, was "pleased to share" that the company was involved in the development of India’s contact tracing app, #AarogyaSetu during the earnings call for Q4FY20. medianama.com/2020/06/223-ma…
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28 May 20
Aunties in my building have been making theplas/masala chappatis everyday to give to an NGO that distributes it to travelling migrant workers. But the conversation every time I go to give my share of rotis is revealing. I've learnt that kindness can exist without respect. 1/n
Some of the comments:
"They just can't listen to instructions apparently"
"What's the need to go home now? Work has started"
"Paapa (bechare), they are so hungry they tear at food like animals."
"Only these people can live in the station like this."
"They are not calm people, paapa (bechare)"
"Police is struggling to herd them. Of course the lathi has to be lifted to make them listen."
And my fav:
"They're going home coz in Jan Dhan account, everyone's got Rs. 1000 each. Aaramagi they can use that."
3/n
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22 Jan 20
Excellent story on how the govt has been steadily placing hurdles for Muslims seeking Indian citizenship. To those pro #CAA saying "Muslims can apply for citizenship in the normal route," here's why they can't: not eligible for Long Term Visa, the first step to get citizenship
Muslims from Bangaldesh, Pak, Afghanistan have to pay 213 times the overstay penalty Hindus, Sikhs, Buddhists, Christians, Jain's from there pay.
RBI changed rules in March 2018, so that Muslims from Pak, Afghanistan & Bangladesh cannot get Long Term Visas and cannot buy land or open bank accounts. Hindus, Sikhs, Jain's, Buddhists, Christians from these countries can. All this before #CAA.
google.com/amp/s/thewire.…
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30 Dec 19
Please read the text of the #CitizenshipAmendmentAct before you believe or disbelieve gurus. It's barely 3 pages.
If you aren't clear why NPR (national population register) and NRC are connected, here, read this:
Step 1: Section 14A, Citizenship Act 1955, on creating a nationwide citizens register and issuing national identity cards. It was added in the Act in 2003.
Read step 2 next.
How are NPR and NRC connected?
Step 2: Read Citizenship Rules, which detail how the citizens register will be made.
This is a little longer but easier language.
Note: The 1st time population register is mentioned ever is in these rules on how to make citizens register.
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