Bharatiya | ಕನ್ನಡತಿ | Author | Entrepreneur | Graduate & Fmr SU President @UniofOxford | Common Citizen
Jul 23, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I'm from Udupi and nobody is talking about Alimatul Shaifa, Shabanaz and Aliya who placed cameras in female toilets of their college to record hundreds of unsuspecting Hindu girls. Videos and phots that were then circulated in community WhatsApp groups by the perpetrators.
Let me tell you, many of the girls who were featured in the videos are depressed and disturbed to the extent that they are contemplating self-harm/suicide. Yet, this issue is not being condemned with the severity it deserves.
May 21, 2023 • 15 tweets • 3 min read
A refresher on the #ShahBano case where Congress took away maintenance money from divorced dependent Muslim women for appeasement of its patriarchal spokespeople with an act ironically titled The Muslim Women (Protection of Rights on Divorce) Act, 1986 against Supreme Court ju't
In 1932, Shah Bano, a Muslim woman, was married to Mohammed Ahmad Khan, an affluent and well-known advocate in Indore, Madhya Pradesh, and had five children from the marriage. After 14 years, Khan took a younger woman as his second wife.
Aug 27, 2022 • 11 tweets • 3 min read
Long thread.
At some or the other point, someone in your family must have asked for a "harake" or mannat from god when they needed faith to get through an immensely difficult period in their lives. My family is huge. I am an only child but my father has 5 siblings.
That makes upto 11 first cousins who are greater than life to each other and me. We grew up together in Udupi and live in each other's yards for 99.9% of the times. We have a harake seva once a year as we are so many people going through so many things at different stages of life
Jun 25, 2022 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
Kushal Baran Chakraborty ji is a good friend and a well-known Bangladeshi Hindu Activist who is currently being dog-whistled by one the biggest Jihadi Pages of Bangladesh. They are posting everything from his address to his occupation to his regular routes.
His crime? He has an old photo with @myogiadityanath ji and that is worthy of a death sentence in Bangladesh. One of the biggest jihadi pages of the country "Basherkella" has posted a long thread making blasphemous accusations. facebook.com/30110404071468…
Sep 11, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
""On day one, the conference unanimously decided to "Dismantle Hinduism as a religion to cure it of its affliction". To me, it surely sounds like colonisers reciting the edict to destroy an indigenous faith.""
In yet another instance of forced conversions and using women as just a tool to further radical religious ideas, we find the story of Sonika Chawla who was abducted and married off to Zeeshan Laghari. (1/4)
The girl belongs to Larkana, Pakistan, and will be reduced to just another case about the maltreatment meted out to minorities in Pakistan by the radical majority. (2/4)
Jun 20, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
West Bengal Violence 2021: A thread
A crowd-sourcing thread to document and help victims of rape, arson, murder and looting. Because there still seems to be #noplaceforhumanity in the state.
West Bengal Violence 2021: A thread
A call for lawyers willing to fight West Bengal cases pro bono.
CW: Gang rape, assault, violence.
Supreme court starts hearings of the horrific gangrape of multiple women including minor girls.
A 60-year old woman was gang-raped in-front of her young grandson while goons thrashed the daughter-in-law. 1/n
Bengal police refused to file FIR despite medical examination at Apollo hospital Kolkata confirming rape.
A 17 year-old Hindu girl was gang-raped to be taught a lesson. Police intimidated the family to withdraw case by insinuating gang-rape of their other daughter. 2/n
Apr 25, 2021 • 7 tweets • 4 min read
An open letter to President Biden @POTUS
In March 2020, when US was battling its first wave of COVID-19, India shipped 50 million doses of Hydroquinone, when asked for help, without missing a beat [1].
Ever since, the US has stockpiled enough vaccines to vaccinate the entire eligible population twice over [2].
Biden administration still refuses to lift embargo on export of essential raw materials for the vaccine.