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Pratyasha Rath
@pratyasharath
Development Sector Advisory. Social Research. Behavioral science. Odia. Vocal, Political, Critical. Reading, Learning, Navigating.
Jul 15 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
A 20 yr old student from Balasore, Odisha ran from pillar to post complaining about the sexual harassment she was facing from her professor
Complained to the principal, wrote to the MP, tweeted to ministers

When all failed, she set herself on fire.
Soumyashree passed away today The college had no established internal complaints committee. It was set up probably once she complained and not surprisingly cleared the professor.

Even made her encounter the professor! Clearly they had no idea about how sexual harassment complaints need to be handled.
Apr 26 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
There are so many things which are coming to light now.

Sharda Kukreja has been living in India for 60 years or so. Has an Aadhar card, votes from Bolangir but still has a Pakistani passport!!

What is the formal process of citizenship then and what do we make of this! I’m also very curious about 16 Pakistani nationals on long term visa in Odisha, out of all places!!
Jan 18, 2024 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This period leading up to the Prana Pratistha seems to be the closest experience to what the functioning of a pagan, modern civilizational state would ideally look like

That arc of modernity on our own terms, was broken due to colonization. But it may have landed somewhere close There are no parallels of witnessing powerful pagan civilisations go about their business, in recent memory. So this must seem alien to so many. Outside and sadly within India too.

But this is how it would be. Where the Gods are centre stage in public life. As a principle.
Nov 12, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
This leaves you with little more than impotent rage seeing the kind of religious targeting has happened here.
And to see that Hindu kids have played a part in getting a fellow Hindu beaten up for saying uncomfortable things against Islam by familiar suspects.
Hopeless situation. Yet another example that there is no getting away from physical targeting and violence intended to be fatal, if you say anything about X religion.

The person is marked for life and can’t escape it.

And if you knowingly push that person towards vengeful hordes, ur just vile.
Nov 8, 2022 • 8 tweets • 2 min read
There are some festive days, which just can’t be experienced from far.

Kartika Purnima at home meant being in Cuttack from the night before. And getting up at 4 am and walking with family to Mahanadi with our paper boats.
Thousands of tiny boats being set off in the water 🙂 The boats would hv incense, a Pan (betel leaf) n some flowers. And as we put the boats in water and give them a gentle push, we would say

‘ Aa ka ma boi. Pana gua thoi.
Pana Gua Tora. Masaka dharma mora’

Those who are setting off and those staying behind, both do their dharma
Nov 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
This blue tick for 8$ is a great social experiment.
People are ok with inequity stemming from influence and power, but not with inequity stemming from money.

A person with tremendous unaccounted power is a lesser evil (if it favours me ofcourse) than a person with decent money ‘The rich will be heard more’ is a worse position than those with a certain ideology being heard more!

Also comes with the assumption that somehow those being heard more now, will not have a significant overlap with the ‘rich’ category.
Oct 26, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
The Wire has quietly slipped this bit into their apology statement.
They were deceived by a member of the Meta investigation team.
So essentially, their reporter created a fake story and ran with it. How many more stories by him are fake? Image They have published and defended a fabricated report. Tried to tarnish a persons reputation. And are hiding this fact in the fine print while saying editorial standards were not rigorous.

A whole story (possibly more) with all evidence manufactured, is not just an editorial slip
Jun 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
One person will go to jail for a couple of days and get crores in funding post that.
Others will be beheaded sooner or later.

All debates on FoE are pointless and perhaps even tone deaf. This is as black pilled as one can get. The ‘minimally decent people’ need to pay with their heads for their alleged transgressions.
And those who provide cover fire to this brand of ‘justice’, will somehow become the only victims in the process!!
May 28, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Looks like the blue tick account positioning as a leading Odia civil society leader working on humane tech has deactivated his hateful alt account. Ofcourse calling women cunts shows how humane you are!! Too bad you can’t do it from your original account!! Show your true self! Middle aged men some working in civil society, some teaching architecture, positioning themselves as decent people run alt accounts here apparently calling out ‘hate’. And bring their true crass misogynist, putrid selves for display.
There is only so long you can use anonymity.
May 28, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
Requesting everyone to please report this tweet.
There is a bunch of these cretins who feel they are beyond facing any music even with sustained harassment.
I think this and a bunch of other things their group has been doing will make for a decent case. Iv blocked almost all of them n I do know their real names and jobs but have never crossed a line to reveal it.

They continue with the choicest of language against me which by every definition fits sexual harassment. On the street, this would lead to one tight slap on their face
May 17, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
Some of the ‘eminent historian’ narratives on Kashi that you might return in the coming days.

‘Aurangzeb found that a princess was molested by the temple priests and hence, razed the temple. But relocated the deity’
- Gargi Chakravarty (BJP/RSS and distortion of history) ‘Sufi rebels and temple priests were allies and did not follow the laws of the land. Secular Aurangzeb just wanted to break that nexus and hence attacked the temple’

-K.N Panikkar (What is communalism today)
May 16, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Just for context on other things going on in Puri.
The ASI hs submitted a report stating that excavations within 100 metres of the temple premises has led to damage of important heritage architecture. Excavation is fr d corridor project. An impact assessment ws not done it seems I see the value in these corridors. Both in Kashi and in Puri. Temples and temple towns need to be factor in devotees and the hardships they face, to do their duty.
But this is a clear ham handed attempt by the state which shows absolute negligence for priceless heritage.
Jun 7, 2021 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
What a story!!
This isn't news for many of us but hopefully those who were propping up this rent-a-cause child activist, will introspect.
Her father is a criminal who has duped people of their money, possibly even managed a Covid scam and has stopped his daughters school!! Image Iv always stated that this seems lik a clear case of abuse. Almost child labour where a father s playing wid the life of his daughter to make money.
N useful idiots r celebrating it.

Seen a senior member of Greenpeace repeatedly endorse her. Wonder if they r complicit in this?