Frnds
800 metres away from PM's residence there was a VVIP wedding on 11th March. The Guestlist was full of VVIPs starting with PM Modi,Rajnath Sing, Amit Shah, JP Nadda, FM Sitharaman & CMs from BJP-ruled states.
It was the wedding of Navika Kumar's son.
Stay here frnz. ☺1/12
In 1988 Times Group Hindi Newspaper NavBharat Times Editor Surendra Pratap Singh's wedding was attended by Chief Ministers from 7 states and many Central Ministers. It was highly criticized then. Anand Swaroop Verma in his Book "Patrakarita ka Andha Yug" wrote about this. 2/12
It was the view of the majority of the Journalist fraternity during then that against those your pen is expected to move if you make a sweet relationship with them, your loyalty towards your profession is no more trustworthy.
11th March wedding of Navika Kumar's son Siddhant in GymKhana Club. Other than BJP Mins Shehzad Punawala, Anand Rangnath, the owner of TimesGroup Vinit & Samir Jain, Rajat Sarma India Tv were present.
No @INCIndia or any other party leadrs were present.
Plz stay frndz. 4/12
With this Navika has established her Leadership in the elite or the Lutyen lobby class she often joked in past years.
It is a significant thing that she didn't care to hide her close bonding with the Ruling Govt. Maybe as all these are normalised these days. 5/12
In 2019 in an interview, Navika Kumar: Even today I'm hungry for news. That hunger is understood by a survey of Newslaundry where it has been found Jan22 to June22
Her 123 nos debates
Communal 45
Anti-Opp 36
Pro BJP 10
Others 32
That interview link.👇6/12 samachar4media.com/interviews-new…
2009 Neera Radia tape. Barkha Dutt still suffers from that leakage of 5000 talks betwn Politicians/Corporates/Journalists. 6-8 journalists were caught & Navika Kumar was among them. Surprised?☺
In that tape Neera Radia told Navika to not share information wid Arun Jetley. 7/12
Nothing to be surprised as Navika Kumar Had a strong relationship Respect/Guide/Mentor with Arun Jetley whom she used to call everyday Morning. She said that herself in 2019 after Arun Jetley's Demise. 🙂 8/12
Neera Radia Tape changed lives of Barkha Datt, Vir Sanghvi but strangely Navika hardly faced 2 wks suspension from studio. She was not even a big name like 2day. Again 2022 Nupur Sharma's row in her show resulted heavily for Nupur but Navika remained untouched.
Stay frnz🙏9/12
After Arnab Goswami left it is not R Shivsankar but Navika who took charge. Despite only 20% representation of Females in TV media hats off to Navika made it. It fastened from2020 #SSR case when she targeted Rhea Chakraborty insanely. Remember this Ekta Kapoor style Entry? 10/12
She is the boss of @TimesNow it can be understood well the rival Republic Group 2021 filed a defamation case Against Navika only.
But her devotion to Ruling made it easy to cross all obligations. In Jan24 when #HindenburgReport revealed she kept bashing @INCIndia 11/12
Finally
She is only a part of a machine built by whom u know well.
Endng this thread with the lines of Raj Kamal Jha, the Editor of Indian Express 6yrs ago who said this after PM's speech. Plz listen frndz.🙏
"Criticism from the Govt is a Badge of Honour"
The OBC Muslim PhD linguistic scholar & Ambedkarite prof from Kerala who once won the "Best Young Linguist' award; exposed the 'reserve seat scam' of Delhi Uni & whose only activism was to build an egalitarian campus - last 5 yrs in JAIL, no BAIL no TRIAL.
Prof Hany Babu. 🧵1/12
Prof. Hany Babu completed his fellowship at the prestigious Uni of Jena, Germany & later worked as a research assistant at the Uni of Konstanz.
He could’ve lived a settled life abroad, but chose to return to India in 2002. joined EFLU as Professor, then Delhi Uni in 2008. 2/12
Here he formed Teacher Asso - "Academic Forum of Social Justice". Through RTI he collected data from 30 colleges of Delhi Uni exposed 'reserve seat selling scam' which was going on in Delhi Uni.
He was one of the activists worked reservation to be fully implemented in UNI. 3/12
The only thing that Hindu Rashtra offers it's Hindu subject is - the circus of minority suffering. Modi model knew a formal ammendment would be struck down. So they simply rule it as if India is a Hindu Rashtra without declaring it.
But How?
Dr Ambedkar explained it.
Stay.🧵1/7
The wise & farsighted man Dr Babasaheb in his Historical speech on 04 Nov 1948 warned the Constituent Assembly that -
A democracy doesn’t perish from external attacks, but when even a few within stop believing in its constitutional morality & spirit and cease to act by it. 2/7
He explained the way a country's administration must match the spirit & Constitutional morality.
Insisted that if have a democratic Constitution, the actual working Govt, bureaucracy, institutions & officials must also behave democratically. Are they behaving so today? 3/7
BBC Bangladesh finally found Sakina Begum(68yr) missing since her detention by Assam Police 4 months ago.
After 4 months daughter Rasia could see her mother, talk to her - Thanx to the science.
Yet she can't touch her, Thanks to the division of hearts called - the Border. 🧵1/9
Rasia saw her mother last time on 25th May. She says that day - Nalbari Police, Assam asked Sakina to report to the police station for a “signature on some papers for her case,”
Sakina was declared foreigner by Assam’s Kangaroo Court aka Foreigners Tribunal in 2012. 2/9
There are several reports about the arbitrary and bias work of Foreigners Tribunal of Assam. However after that Sakina spent 5 long years in the Kokrajhar detention centre, Assam.
Finally she was released in 2019 after a Supreme Court Judgement made conditional bail. 3/9
Celebrate RSS? Really?
After Jallianwala, the native Indians there were forced to crawl on streets. See it👇🏾. Such humiliations weren’t rare. Our ancestors had to suffer it. Think!
Sharing a story u probably never heard - The 60yr Birthday Celebration of Queen Victoria.🧵1/14
Year 1897 Queen Victoria's Diamond Jubilee celebrated across British India - the saddest yr that surpassed 1876 famine.
A severely deficient monsoon followed throughout Punjab, Central Province, NW Provinces, Oudh, Bihar & Madras Deccan in 1896.
The viceroy was Lord Elgin. 2/14
Lord Elgin kept grain prices high to ensure exports, while officials refused to bring grain where people couldn’t pay. A Famine Fund, however, had been set up after the 1876–77 famine - now being invested in tackling Afgan rebels.
Kavinder Gupta, LG Ladakh - RSS pracharak since childhood. 🙏🏾
Scientist #SonamWangchuk will now spend many years in jail, time enough to crush a spirit. Yet he’ll return someday. But 4 young lives lost in Leh will never return to their families.
Why & how did they die? 🧵1/6
Chering Dorjey Lakrook, Pres of the Ladakh Buddhist Asso & also co-chairman of the Leh Apex Body (LAB), told @the_hindu deaths of the four men during Wednesday’s protests were caused by bullet wounds, indicating “indiscriminate firing by the police”.
From @IndianExpress 👇🏾2/6
Jamyang Tsering Namgyal the Ex-BJP MP from Ladakh in his letter to LG Kavinder Guptaji said "Firing on unarmed people has shaken the public trust."
Qtn is who ordered firing on protestors? And more important is 'WHEN'?
Several sources telling the protesters were unarmed. 3/6
Then in his early 30s, a PM Rural Development Fellow, already extensively worked for improvement of Gadchiroli Adivasi livelihood.
Today After 7 yrs in jail, No Trial, now in alarmingly failing health condition has appealed for bail again.
Mahesh Raut - arrested in 2018. 🧵1/15
From a OBC Kunbi household in Chandrapur Dist, Maharashtra Mahesh was young when his father (police officer) died & he was raised by his mother.
After graduation he got a job of Govt Teacher posting in Goa but dropped this job to complete his masters from TISS (2009-2011). 2/15
After completing Masters he won the prestigious PMRDF (2012-14) Fellowship. He took the fellowship only in condition to be placed in Gadchiroli in Maharashtra.
Gadchiroli sprawls 14000 sq km over dense forests, mountains & rivers & several Adivasi community incl Madia Gond. 3/15