Remember?

#ShaheenBagh was a roaring success and the brave women there showed us how it's done.

I have said this multiple times, saying it again. The NEXT big agitation should be against media houses, starting with Noida film city.

It should be a peaceful sit in protest...

https://twitter.com/ivivek_nambiar/status/1299249449659588608

And there should be so many people there in film city, protesting against channels there, and the employees - no matter what they do in these organisations - should face us while going in and coming out, just sitting there, voicing our protest.

We call for accountability.

Some people from Hindi cinema industry is taking a stand.

@FarOutAkhtar @anuragkashyap72 #ZoyaAkhtar @Vasan_Bala #NeerajGhaywan @guneetm @vidya_balan @sonamakapoor

One of my favourites. Didn't get its due then.

Karisma Kapoor and Jaya Bachchan at their absolute best. One of @iHrithik's finest performances. @BajpayeeManoj owned every frame he was in, as usual.

Thank you @Jhajhajha for making this ❤️🔥🙏 and the songs ❤️

#20YearsOfFiza Hrithik and Karisma as siblings. Perfect casting 🔥🔥

Woman recording this video is Anusree, a resident of Thiruvananthapuram. She started recording this creep after he stared at her for over 5 mins. You can see him approach her car and from what she's saying, he tried to open the back door. Finally, see who comes to rescue! #thread This is the creep in question. The full video of the incident is here.

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The fellow stares at her four over three minutes in the video itself, approaches the vehicle and tried to open the door of the car. This is serious. He could have harmed her.

Late to the party but why aren't people on my timeline NOT going batshit crazy about this EPIC #Batman trailer!

Pattinson owned it with the "I am vengeance" answer and HOLY MOTHER OF GOD, how did they make Colin Farell look like that! I am obviously a big fan of Nolan's trilogy but I've always thought Bale wasn't great as Batman. In fact, I preferred Ben Affleck as Batman. But now, with this teaser* (sorry, said trailer above) only and only Pattinson for Batman. And damn boy, what music!

1) Bloomsbury retracting a book they feel they shouldn't have commissioned is not the same as the State banning a book/film.

2) If yesterday's outrage was enough to retract and run, they knew they had blood on their hands.

3) Responsible publishers mustn't further propaganda. I thought post August 5, 2019 and CAA being passed, and seeing the brave relentless nationwide protests against it, we realised how Indian liberals should drop the sham of ALWAYS being NICE and DECENT and take a fuckin STRONG STAND AGAINST PROPAGANDISTS AND FASCISTS... but no.

Unpopular #thread on #SushantSinghRajput, #KanganaRanaut, @karanjohar, and #Nepotism coming up.

Apologies in advance. Mute/block/unfollow because it's more of a rant too.

It is just sad that we all have to do this within 24 hours of Sushant's passing but it is important. Within the first hour of the news breaking, people had started with their conspiracy theories. Some connected it with his former manager's death by suicide last week, others let their imagination run wild. Media bonkers.

He was 34. Gave a big hit in 2019 and a big flop.

Teachers should not be bigots. It's heartbreaking to receive messages from batchmates and juniors from school talking about how disappointed and shattered they are to realise teachers we all loved in school are mindlessly sharing anti-Muslim fake news/propaganda on Facebook... relentlessly, knowing kids they taught, Muslims, are seeing all of it. A junior reached out just now saying she feels ashamed studying in our school, and school is one place we always boasted about.

Honestly, the way they change the narrative is scary.

It operates systematically, with players from different areas doing their bit.

National icons/influencers + TV channels + news wires + fake-news peddlers + Sanghi heavyweight troll accounts + IT cell dimwits. Like @Ra_shmi_Tweets noticed, this tweet is being copy-pasted and there is not reason to believe this is a top-down approach -- national icon/influencer -- to IT cell, to establish that this incident happened in Kerala.

It's subtle, but this is just the beginning.

Important thread. Let me explain why.

1) Abusing, giving death threats and rape threats on social media is same as doing it in person, and that's why you can be booked for it. Point being, if you're a bigot on social media, you're a bigot in real life.
These aren't separate.

https://twitter.com/vedvyazz/status/1219971981673582594

2) Your tweet equates illegal immigrants to terrorists. That's problematic. You can support CAA but that automatically makes you someone okay with one particular religious group being discriminated against. That's not great.

https://twitter.com/vedvyazz/status/1219972272540119040?s=20

There is a process to derailing a people's movement, in this case, the anti-#CAA_NRC_Protest the Modi-Shah-led Central government did not really expect, or at least not to this extent, and I'd like to put all that I can think of at one place, in this #thread. 1) Pitting one against another.

Oldest and easiest trick they use. And it's quite easy in a country like India because we are so diverse that sometimes I feel this idea of a "nation" is a farce. Racism, casteism, majority's minority complex, and many other factors enable this.

Since the time Delhi Police thrashed protestors at Delhi Gate yesterday, there have been so many people relentlessly fighting against the system. Lawyers who rushed to the spot, who called for help, social media warriors who don't get their due in amplifying voices and getting.. help from various quarters, a magistrate who's fair, doctors who helped, offered tips to help those who were waiting for help to reach them, journalists (not as many of them who should have been there but nevertheless) who reported, and most of all, students and activists...