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Apr 16, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
• Keep cutting trees Kolkata
• Keep feeling mountains for highway GoI
• Keep polluting the coastline with Mundra type ports Modani
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…@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
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.
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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
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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
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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.
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…