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Jan 18 • 9 tweets • 2 min read
@timesofindia yesterday carried a video which showed an event "in the British parliament" celebrating the opening of the temple in Ayodhya. The story also has a video: 1/5
@timesofindia Here's the Times story: 2/5timesofindia.indiatimes.com/videos/interna…
Jan 14 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Films to watch during the coming week:
RAAM KE NAAM
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Aug 8, 2023 • 13 tweets • 3 min read
Since bhakts are suddenly discovering what a great newspaper @nytimes is, I thought I'll make a thread with ten great stories from New York Times in recent years: 1/nnytimes.com/2023/07/13/opi…
Jun 13, 2023 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Pai's song:
First they came for Muslims but I said nothing because I wasn't a Muslim.
Then they came for Dalits but I said nothing because I wasn't a Dalit.
Then they came for JNU students and I said nothing because I wasn't a JNU student.
1/n
Then they came for NGOs and I said nothing because I was not an NGO.
Then they came for human rights defenders and I said nothing because I wasn't a human rights defender.
2/n
Jun 13, 2023 • 36 tweets • 19 min read
#GFRR off to a terrific start with Rebekah Smith stressing the need for responsible recruitment saying how the industry can learn from civil aviation which made safety a global priority. @ihrb
Heaven Crawley of UN centre for policy research says that kids from migrant households stay longer in schools than kids from other families, acc data from Burkina Faso. #GFRR@ihrb
May 17, 2023 • 6 tweets • 2 min read
After listening to the nice little imaginative fairy-tale of Mrs Murthy and the Heathrow airport immigration official, here are a few real stories.
1. Amartya Sen lands at Heathrow, an official reads his address in the UK. The Master of Trinity College.
Do you know him, he asks.
And Sen, characteristically, asks himself (doesn't makes an exhibition of it): "Do I know myself?"
Companies in India have been at the forefront of socially-relevant advertising that affirms respect for minorities and human rights. A noteworthy, commendable practice that companies from elsewhere should follow. 1/n @ihrb@lawsofrule@hkaur0304@houdart@ARamasastry
True, there has been backlash, as Tanishq and others have faced, and self-righteous socially conservative jingoist groups have called for 'boycotts,' as @IndiaStarbucks@StarbucksIndia is now facing. But it must persevere. 2/n
Parliamentary parties seeking new leaders is not an unprecedented phenomenon. Tories have been doing it too often lately, but Gordon Brown too became PM after Blair left. 1/2
It is not so bizarre; party members often vote for a charismatic/extreme candidate (see some US primaries as another example). MPs know they need to secure broader support to win elections (and not only appeal to the loyalists) and hence they opt for more electable candidates.
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