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Apr 16, 2023 7 tweets 6 min read
INC’s 4 Guarantees to people of #Karnataka are formidable steps to undo the looting of BJP's ‘40% Commission Sarkara’

Based on people’s pain felt during Karnataka part of #BharatJodoYatra, CONGRESS will implement within DAYS of coming to power in Karnataka

↗️ Gruha Lakshmi
↗️… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image Congress's 4 major Guarantees for #Karnataka

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Apr 16, 2023 4 tweets 1 min read
• Keep cutting trees Kolkata
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Apr 16, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Twitter is once again embroiled in a free-speech debate over repressing #Indian voices on the global platform.
Last week, Twitter withheld tweets by an Indian journalist Saurav Das, dating back to November 2022. These tweets were blocked worldwide “in response to a legal demand,”… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image @OfficialSauravD does not remember the exact context of the tweet, according to a report in the daily newspaper The Hindu. Twitter did not inform him about the action, he added.

Dissatisfied with a sketchy response to his right to information (RTI) plea seeking reasons, he is… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 14, 2023 7 tweets 4 min read
The changes to textbooks were prescribed by the National Council of Educational Research & Training (NCERT), a state-run body under the federal education ministry

1. Muslim rulers erased from textbooks

2. Gandhi’s killing, Gujarat riots details edited

3. References to… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image Muslim rulers erased from textbooks

Evolution is not the only glaring omission in the textbooks, introduced by Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s Hindu nationalist government that has ruled India since 2014.

Modi’s BJP and its ideological mentor, the far-right Rashtriya Swayamsevak… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Image
Apr 14, 2023 5 tweets 3 min read
Thread 🧵 Image In an interview that could cause political earthquakes in the Modi government, the Bharatiya Janata Party and in Jammu and Kashmir, Satya Pal Malik, the last governor of J&K before it was divided and reduced to Union territory status, says “Mein safely keh sakta hoon Prime… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 14, 2023 10 tweets 5 min read
Thread 🧵 Image On 9 April, the Gujarat police arrested Hindutva star Kajal Shingala, or Kajal Hindustani, for inciting riots at an anti-Muslim rally.

Her metamorphosis—like others—from an obscure Islamophobe to public speaker was enabled by years of virtually unchecked hate speech on social… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 14, 2023 4 tweets 2 min read
India’s opposition calls Google for probe into fall in Gandhi YouTube views

on.ft.com/3mrp3At Image India’s Congress party has written to Google parent Alphabet demanding to know whether there has been “suppression” of videos by Rahul Gandhi, the country’s most prominent opposition politician, on its YouTube platform.

The party made the request in a letter, seen by the… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…
Apr 14, 2023 4 tweets 3 min read
When it comes to #China, the world’s attention may be focused on its threatening military manoeuvres against Taiwan and the visits by various European leaders to Beijing, but for #India, it is about deciphering the message China is trying to send with its recent actions. On April… twitter.com/i/web/status/1… Even then, his politician’s mask slips at times. Like when he admitted, “Look, they (China) are the bigger economy. What am I going to do? As a smaller economy, I am going to pick up a fight with the bigger economy? It is not a question of being reactionary, it’s a question of… twitter.com/i/web/status/1…