Thread by @akshaybakaya

1/ @NamitaGokhale_, you publicly "Liked" THIS* ?

[*My pinned tweet]

I can understand @AartiTikoo, @Sanjay_Dixit, @MakrandParanspe @KanwalSibal & @TVMohandasPai liking, RT-ing this..

But "@DalrympleWill's partner in crime" ?

Asserting your Azadi from Western handlers?👍

@NamitaGokhale_ @AartiTikoo @Sanjay_Dixit @MakrandParanspe @KanwalSibal @TVMohandasPai @DalrympleWill 2/ After damaad @PatrickFrench, you read this RT-ed FB post abt yr daughter @MeruGokhale's g'bye message to @PenguinIndia,

her salute to great authors she learnt from (#ArundhatiRoy & co) & her deafening silence on best-selling @vikramsampath, so... 3/

tinyurl.com/47zw6nbx

@NamitaGokhale_ @AartiTikoo @Sanjay_Dixit @MakrandParanspe @KanwalSibal @TVMohandasPai @DalrympleWill @PatrickFrench @MeruGokhale @PenguinIndia @vikramsampath 3/I'm wondering WHY @MeruGokhale resigned from @PenguinIndia.

@vikramsampath being India's top author-to-cancel (Paris #IPRCI2024 HQ NEVER names him, he's Voldemort),

was Meru shamed for supping w/ The Enemy & couldn't take it any more?

Also google 'Penguin Staff in Tears'.

4/ Wow! Now it’s Western “secular” propagandists like #RogerCohen @NYTimesCohen being thrown under the bus as “Modi fans”. Just not virulent enough for #ArundhatiRoy & @khanumarfa who see a coming #MuslimGenocide in Fascist India !

5/ So what made @NYTimesCohen a #ModiBhakt? Quoted just ONE line of hers — “Hatred has penetrated into society at a level that is absolutely terrifying” — & then said Modi's India is brimming with confidence!

Unpardonable. 😬👎

nytimes.com/2022/12/31/wor…

6/When I asked why such a great thinker ("translated in 50 languages") can't show ONE straight sentence in an INDIAN language, this is the reply I got from #ArundhatiRoy :

7/Once we had Sonia, or her 'Maun'-Mohan mumbling in English. Now a Ph.D in Hindutva like @ingridtherwath (a coordinator of #IPRCI2024) panics. No idea what's going on, it's all in Hindi. Damn Modi ! So she decides to pretend. Tweets trash in Devanagari:

https://twitter.com/akshaybakaya/status/1630831751303139328