Anuradha Bhasin
Executive editor, The Kashmir Times
"The newspaper has been an independent voice in the state of Jammu and Kashmir, weathering several tumultuous decades of war and military occupation. But it may not survive Mr. Modi"
Guest essay for the New York Times
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His repressive media policies are destroying Kashmiri journalism, intimidating media outlets into serving as government mouthpieces and creating an information vacuum in our region
Now Mr. Modi is taking steps that could replicate this disturbing model on a national scale
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Modi's Hindu-chauvinist movement has normalized intolerance and violence against Indian Muslims
India’s once rambunctious press is under pressure, with journalists surveilled and jailed, the government using strong-arm tactics against media outlets to ensure favorable coverage
In January, draft amendments to digital media guidelines were introduced that would essentially allow the government to block any content Modi government doesn’t like.
It is Modi’s Final Assault on India’s Press Freedom
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"India's right-wing does not have intellectual firepower, so India's right asserts itself on Twitter, and WhatsApp"
Shekhar Gupta🙌
Now think, which other editor can dare say that about the right-wing?
He continues...
"Twitter is made for India's right-wing and now WhatsApp. That's why whatsapp propaganda and revisionist history is working. If the right-wing had real scholarship, some of it had been questioned"
Salil Tripathi and Sadanand Dhume were on the panel, and he was responding to one of their comments
"India's right-wing does not have any defence of classic liberalism"
RSS has been compared to various organizations, what's your experience?
[BJP Voters and Sanghis - Don't Vote]
𝐌𝐮𝐬𝐥𝐢𝐦 𝐁𝐫𝐨𝐭𝐡𝐞𝐫𝐡𝐨𝐨𝐝 was founded in Egypt in 1928 by Hassan al-Banna, a 22 year old Muslim who admired Hitler's hatred of the Jews and persistently wrote to Hitler to express his admiration and his desire for Hitler's Nazi Party to collaborate with Islam
𝐒𝐜𝐡𝐮𝐭𝐳𝐬𝐭𝐚𝐟𝐟𝐞𝐥 (SS) a Nazi paramilitary group, founded in 1925
The SS became a virtual state within a state in Nazi Germany, staffed by men who perceived themselves as the “racial elite” of the Nazi future.
If you laugh at this, the joke will be on you and your future generations
A workshop by Samvardhinee Nyas, a wing of Rashtra Sevika Samiti, saw the participation of 70-80 doctors, mostly gynecologists and Ayurveda doctors from 12 States
This was decided🔻
"If the mother already has a son as her firstborn and expects her second-born to be a girl, but gives birth to a boy, then the child could grow up to be homosexual"
Dr Shweta Dangre
"There is too much crime in the country. We see children murdering their parents, turning into rapists. Mothers will be happy if they give birth to children like Lord Ram, who are duty-bound towards parents and save the country too"