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Apr 30 • 6 tweets • 2 min read Twitter logo Read on Twitter
Mukul Kesavan writes in the Telegraph:

"It (Ed: the #WrestlersProtest) is made easier by the socially mainstream identities of the protesting wrestlers...they aren’t guilty of being Muslim..."

Kesavan doesn't get it. It's not Hindu/Muslim. It's pro/anti BJP/Modi. (1/)
Those are the only identities that matter in today's India. Are you with Modi or against him? And it doesn't matter how much you supported his actions in the past. One strike, and you are out. You have to show unwavering loyalty. (2/)
And it's not the government or the party that is expecting this. It is the people of the country.

And if they think you are an "anti-national" (if you have ever criticized Modi's government) they will stop buying the products you endorse or watch your films. (3/)
That's why most actors and sports persons don't criticize the government. Because the people are behind Modi, even if that means supporting a molester or a murderer. So blame the people, not the cricketers or actors.

telegraphindia.com/opinion/grey-s…

(4/)
Kesavan asks why a Sachin is unwilling to speak up when a Neeraj Chopra is willing. Maybe because Chopra is younger. Kesavan wrongly attributes cricketers' reluctance to the fact that they belong to organizations. The reality is that they are afraid of being boycotted. (5/5)
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Apr 24
In five years, #JoeBiden will likely get the #NobelPeacePrize. But not because he did anything proactively for peace.

It is because a #Multipolar World will be more peaceful than a unipolar one, and Biden has done more than anyone else (albeit unwittingly) to further that. (1/n)
The US-led #sanctions against #Russia in response to the #UkraineRussiaWar have forced countries around the world to abandon the US dollar as a medium of trade. This is forcing the rest of the world (non-West) together. Banning Russia from #swift was most important in this. (2/n)
#India and #China desperately need oil. Because of sanctions, Russia is providing oil at cheap rates to both. Russia has now become India's largest source of oil, displacing Saudi Arabia and Iraq. Chinese imports of Russian oil have also zoomed upwards. (3/n)
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Apr 16
There are many liberals who were first shocked about the encounter killing of #AsadAhmed and then horrified by the killings of #AtiqAhmed and #AshrafAhmed in custody. I count myself as a liberal, too, but I find these criticisms bereft of logic.

A 🧵 to explain why.

(1/n)
We would all like our justice system to operate with full due process. But that it doesn't is shown best by the fact that the term "encounter killing" is unique to India. You don't hear this term in Western countries. Outside India, these are known as #extrajudicialkillings (2/n)
Liberal commentators have denounced the killings of these three gangsters without due process as the complete failure of the law and order system. They are right. But this failure is not new. The first encounter killing in Mumbai happened in 1982 in Wadala.

(3/n)
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Apr 14
There has been a lot of outrage about the scrubbing of #MaulanaAzad from the history textbooks in India by the BJP, and justifiably so.

A thread 🧵. (1/n)
But for the last 75 years, nobody seems to have been outraged by the fact that the greatest Indian public intellectual of the 21st century, Dr. BR #Ambedkar, was practically scrubbed from history textbooks by Congress governments and BJP governments alike.

(2/n)
Sure, when I studied about Ambedkar in Maharashtra State Board textbooks, they told me that he was the author of the #indianconstitution and had grown up enduring great #castediscrimination. But THAT WAS ALL.

(3/n)
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Apr 6
Purchasing Managers Index (PMI) is an index that measures if the economy is growing or shrinking. It measures the economic activity each month and compares it with the previous month.

(1/n)
A value below 50 indicates that the economy is shrinking. Above 50 indicates that the economy is growing.

Current PMI values for March 2023.

Manufacturing:

China, 50.0
US, 46.3
UK, 47.9
EU, 47.3
Russia, 53.2

(2/n)
Services :

China: 57.8
US: 51.2
UK: 52.9
EU: 55.0
Russia, 58.1

China has been growing robustly since it ended the zero Covid policy. Russia is doing fine despite Western sanctions. The West is in recession.

(3/n)
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Mar 2
There Will Be No #WWIII !!!

Headlines in the Western media suggest that the US is determined to impose harsh #economicsanctions on China for allegedly "planning to supply Russia with weapons."

This is actually great news. A 🧵 to explain why. (1/n)
China has denied the allegations, which only say that China is "planning to supply Russia with weapons," not that they have actually supplied weapons. But the US doesn't care about reality, only about its own decisions. Ask #Iraq . There were never any #WMD (2/n)
If China is not supplying weapons to Russia, why sanction China? Because China is an economic lifeline for Russia. China buying Russian energy and natural resources is what helps Russians get everything they need in return. As long as this goes on, sanctions will fail. (3/n)
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Feb 28
I honestly don't understand the "solution" to the #NorthernIreland issue which was caused by the #BrexitDisaster that #RishiSunak seems so excited about.

A short 🧵. Maybe someone can enlighten me.

Apparently the solution is something called the #NorthernIrelandProtocol

(1/8)
Apparently, according to this protocol, there will be a "border at sea." Goods coming from England to Northern Ireland will be marked as those terminating in Northern Ireland or those going on to Ireland (EU checks.)

I don't understand how this will solve the problem. (2/8)
The whole point of the UK coming out of the EU was the implication that the UK will not benefit from the European market rules. That means, for example that French cheese is cheaper for European countries than it is for England.

(3/8)
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