Chitvan Gill retweeted
This infamous slogan from 2020 is once again being raised in the streets of Delhi. Ominous.
Scenes from Connaught Place, Delhi, as Hindutva protesters raise slogans during the demonstration.
📷 @raghavKakkar30 & @AnantGuptaAG
Chitvan Gill retweeted
पुलिस वाले प्रदर्शनकारियों को पकड़ने आते तो वो राष्ट्रगान गाने लगते...देखिए आज कनॉट प्लेस में क्या हुआ?
Chitvan Gill retweeted
‘released a balloon into the air calling for Gyanesh Kumar's resignation’…this is a crime? And a police force that allows those detained to be groped and injured is the law?
At around 7.10 pm, the Krantikari Yuva Sangathan were returning from a protest at Connaught Place—they had released a balloon into the air calling for Gyanesh Kumar's resignation. Six women, including a minor, as well as a journalist were detained by the police and taken to the Mandir Marg Police Station. They described being groped, scratched and pulled with force, and their clothes torn. The women journalist said women constables broke her mic and ignored her press card, saying such cards “can be made for Rs 300.” The police said they will not be let go unless they give their names and details, but the women refused, saying they were detained illegally after dark and were not required to do so. The women journalist was let go after lawyers arrived on the spot, at around 8.45 pm. As of 9.30 pm, the detainees were not yet released as the police were insisting on collecting their personal details.
The police eventually let them go only at 9.50 pm, after a senior male lawyer came to speak to the police.
Videos by Surabhi Kanga (@surabhikanga)
Chitvan Gill retweeted
एक राष्ट्रीय राजनीतिक दल
और छपरी अराजक तत्वों के आंदोलन में अंतर होता है
राहुल गांधी ने दिल्ली मार्च किया, भीड़ भी है,
लेकिन कहीं भी अभी तक कोई बड़ा डिस्टर्बेंस नहीं हुआ।
ये होता है लोकतंत्र का आंदोलन। छपरी सिर्फ़ गाली गलौज और पत्थरबाजी करते हैं।
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Snippets from the early 1900s, in which a Bengali Brahmin magistrate argues against educating the Mehtars and Doms of Munger, Bihar, on the grounds that there would otherwise be no one left to clean latrines or remove corpses. (1/2)
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Christ! Over three plus decades in journalism, after seeing idol after idol reveal extremities of clay, I'd given up on looking up to anyone.
I'm now willing to make an exception for this young lady - bless her.
Street politics, done right.
Chitvan Gill retweeted
P B Mehta writes: a new moment in which mass mobilisation meets an oppressive state. "as if the state were facing some invading foreign army, not young people making reasonable and non-revolutionary demands"
indianexpress.com/article/op…
Chitvan Gill retweeted
गुरुद्वारा बंगला साहिब पहुंचे लोगों ने पुलिस पर अपना गुस्सा जाहिर किया. उन्होंने कहा कि लोगों को बिना किसी बात के डिटेन किया जा रहा है.
एक आदमी ने गुस्से में कहा, ‘आप लोगों ने 1984 जैसा माहौल बना दिया है.’
Chitvan Gill retweeted
I don't think it is fully understood what young people are putting on the line in these protests, their courage. They have no rank, money, access, privilege or social media following. Esp. young women who also face the risk of physical harassment. An extraordinary generation.
Chitvan Gill retweeted
மாவீரன் பகத்சிங் பெண்ணாக பிறந்து வந்தது போல் இருக்கிறது.🔥🔥🔥🔥
போலீஸ் அராஜகத்தை எதிர்த்து போராடும் இந்த இளம் பெண்களை பார்க்கும் போது. ❤️❤️❤️
Chitvan Gill retweeted
4 kms of silence are sending a pretty loud message across the country.
Internet services suspended within a 4-km radius in New Delhi. The Ministry of Home Affairs has approved the temporary suspension of internet services. Internet services will remain suspended within a 4-kilometer radius around the Janpath–Kartavya Path crossing. Services will remain suspended from 10 PM on October 9 to 10 PM on October 10. Instructions have been issued to suspend all forms of mobile internet technology.
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Again der sahi durust hai. In India politics is fought on the ground, and we have finally moved to that stage.
#WATCH | Delhi: Visuals from inside Akashvani Bhavan, where Congress MPs, including Lok Sabha LoP Rahul Gandhi, Priyanka Gandhi Vadra, KC Venugopal, Pawan Khera, Deepender Hooda and others are holding a protest against CEC Gyanesh Kumar.
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Such an outcry for the #orangutans but look at our own wildlife ? Three elephants electrocuted in south Bengal .. where humans & #elephants lives are lost every year .. why is this not worthy of our attention ? Support those like @AvijanS & #airavat spotlighting these. Stories
Maestro Braz Gonsalves on ( Grandfather of Indian Jazz) on Soprano Sax &... youtube.com/shorts/RdBlqowiL… via @YouTube
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Archives | "Organisation for a communist party is its biggest weapon. It is the vehicle with which the party’s understanding, or line, or whatever you may call it, is taken to the people. If that becomes weak, then however correct your political line may be, it’s meaningless. So that exercise will be completed by the end of the year in the organisation clean-up. Then we will be able to identify the concrete areas in which we have lagged behind, or committed mistakes."
An Interview with Sitaram Yechury: caravanmagazine.in/vantage/i…
Chitvan Gill retweeted
“It’s the class for which you work that is the defining character”
An Interview with Sitaram Yechury: caravanmagazine.in/vantage/i…
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Making an exception to link to this WSJ piece on Richmal Crompton’s "joyful and witty" stories about William Brown, my favourite children's book character.
wsj.com/arts-culture/books/l…
Chitvan Gill retweeted
Remember the name. Primecare Vet/Pet Hospital at Bellandur. Bastards were catching street dogs, breaking their legs and then practising surgery. This was done, since one must evidently be a total scumbag, without anaesthesia. bangaloremirror.indiatimes.c…
The GBA and police on Tuesday (September 8) raided a veterinary clinic in Doddakannelli near Bellandur following allegations that street dogs were allegedly picked up, subjected to unauthorised orthopedic procedures and in some cases allegedly euthanised.
thehindu.com/news/national/k…
Chitvan Gill retweeted
another wildlife trafficking deal gone awry.
