Prof K Satyanarayana when the Police allegedly asked these qtns to him in 2018.👇
Why are there so many books in ur house?
Why do u read so many books?
Why are u reading books on Mao & Marx?
Why r there photos of Phule & Ambedkar but no photos of gods?’
Plz stay. 🙏1/9
28/8/18 Police from Mah & Telangana raided Prof K. Satyanarayana’s house as being the son in Law of Varvara Rao, one of the accused in Bhima Koregaon.
Satyanarayana a prof of cultural studies & dean at the English & Foreign Languages Uni(EFLU) in Hyd.
Book matters? 📕 🙂2/9
Delhi Police in a charge sheet against Sharjeel Imam named these books.👇
1. Exodus before Partition: Paul Richard Brass.
Police said JNU scholar was "radicalised" by the book.
2. Why I Am A Hindu: Shashi Tharoor.
Reading Books may become injurious to health. 😀
More. 3/9
In 2019 Activist Elgar Parishad- Bhima Koregaon case accused Vernon Gonsalves was seeking Bail.
Justice Sarang Kotwal said "such books" indicated they contained some material against the nation.
It was Leo Tolstoy’s classic worldwide renowned book "War and Peace". 📕 4/9
In the Bhima Koregaon case,
PP Ujjwala Pawar argued in Court all 5 Activists arrested were part of setting up the "Anti-fascist Front".
What is the abstract?
Making an 'Anti-fascist' force is a crime in the Mother of Democracy. 😀
Coming back to books. 📕😊 5/9
Dec 2019 NIA officials reported seizure of a few books The Communist Manifesto, Vladimir Lenin’s Selected Works & titles related to Mao Zedong & Lenin from the Krishak Mukti (KMSS) office.
It is a peasant org based in Assam formed by RTI activist Akhil Gogoi. 😎 6/9
NIA in the chargesheet said one of them had used phrases such as “Comrade” & “Lal Salam” on FB. 😱
In Jan, 2020 NIA charged them wid UAPA.
(EFLU) prof K. Satyanarayana in 2018 claimed that the Pune police questioned him over books with red covers & Marx books. 📕7/9
Nagpur Uni Eng Prof Shoma Sen also arrested linked to Bhima Koregaon Case.
Her daughter Claimed, "The literary evidence they collected from my mother’s house includes basic Communist literature, like books by Marx & Lenin, which u will find in any left-leaning household".📕 8/9
After Hitler seized power 1933, tens of 1000s of books were incarcerated in Germany.
But we are in the Mother of Democracy also Democracy is in our DNA. 🥰
This yr in Bihar Ramnavami violence 4500 Islamic literature books in Azizia Masjid library burned.
Stop Reading.🙂 9/9
However Dalit Prof's wife claimed
one policeman asked her
"Ur husband is a Dalit, so he does not follow any tradition. But u are a Brahmin, so why are u not wearing any jewellery or sindoor? Why are u not dressed like a traditional wife?’’
His father was a municipal sweeper. He studied, rose & became a lawyer.
In Aug 2021 when released on 1 wk interim bail, he wore his black coat & went straight to the sessions court to sing his story.
He, Adv Surendra Gadling & this is his Spirit. ✊🏾
7yrs in jail. No trial.🧵1/11
Born at the bottom of the social pyramid, Surendra Gadling paid for his education by teaching others. An apprenticeship in the Railways opened the door to a secure job & pension.
He chose instead to serve the poor & the marginalised - those the state treats as disposable. 🧵2/11
Using music & theatre, Surendra took Dalit rights naming India’s ancient pillar of injustice. He was one of the founders of Awhan Natya Manch’ organised cultural evenings in Nagpur's slums.
He defended poor Dalits & Adivasis, arbitrarily booked by the state without fees. 3/11
THE LAST FAST.
This land had never seen before, refugees on both sides walking a blade so sharp swallowing their loved ones.
Gandhi was in Delhi since Sept. Freedom fighter Shafi Ahmed Kidwai death in Mussoorie riot while trying to bring peace had devastated his wife Anis.🧵1/17
Anis Kidwai came to Delhi & met Gandhi. Gandhi told her until a Muslim child is able to walk outside without fear, he could not leave Delhi.
1000s of visitors were meeting Gandhi with similar or worse traumas. Hearing them, He had been overwhelmed by a sense of impotence. 2/17
However, the West was also calling. In Sept 1947, Lahore civil servant Brijlal Nehru wrote to Gandhi ‘This vicious cycle, only you can break it.’
18 Sept, Gandhi in a gathering said he'll go to Pak "I shall be glad to die there" but only after Delhi shed its madness. 3/17
Actor @vivekoberoi wiped out the life savings of 11500 Maharashtra families in the name of “affordable housing” - and now living lavishly in DUBAI, surrendering Indian citizenship, safely out of India’s Law.
The Karrm Infrastructure scam, Vivek oberoi very part of it. 🧵1/15
"Ek rupaya do, flat tumcha naavavar kara. Swimming pool bhi milega, gym bhi milega, sabziwala bhi swim kar sakega!” - Vivek Oberoi said this in 2016
And he was very partner & promoter both. He himself confirmed it in his interview with @ndtv, @htTweets & others. 2/15
From 2016 Vivek Oberoi aggressively promoted the Karrm Infrastructure through using the media platforms & this is going on even today.
Be that his 2017 announcement to gift flats to the 25 CRPF martyred Jawans in Sukma or gifting home to an acid attack victim. All Fraud. 3/15
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