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Kaagaz nahi dikhayenge, par kaagaz kuch kahaaniya sunaate hai. My father's first passport tells the history of how he became a citizen of a new country, and why his father refused to become Indian. My piece in #SundayEye's special issue on #RepublicDay
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Cartoon @IndianExpress. The news is: After 12 years, Opposition rally gets saturation coverage. #Protest
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🚨 Karnataka protesters arrive with a several-metre-long cloth banner displaying names they claim were deleted from voter lists. A striking visual at the INDIA bloc protest.
#RamlilaMaidan
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Must read story by @safwatzgr
"Once they landed in jail, their networks expanded manifold,” said Singh. “Earlier, they had to leave their homes to procure drugs but after jail time, the nexus was so strong that drugs would be delivered to their doorsteps."
Jhota’s killing has resonated beyond Mansa, quickly becoming a symbol of the impunity of drug peddlers in Punjab and putting the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government under significant pressure ahead of Assembly elections.
#Punjab
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HC orders Maharashtra to pay activist Arun Ferreira Rs 2 lakh compensation for 2011 re-arrest scroll.in/latest/1096742/act…
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The desperation and limits of Punjab's anti-drug crusaders, who are stepping in to make up for state failure
@safwatzgr reports
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The desperation and limits of Punjab's anti-drug crusaders, who are stepping in to make up for state failure
@safwatzgr reports
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Jhota’s killing has resonated beyond Mansa, quickly becoming a symbol of the impunity of drug peddlers in Punjab and putting the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government under significant pressure ahead of Assembly elections.
#Punjab
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🚨The SIR has repeatedly been sold as an exercise to identify “illegal foreigners”. Data from at least six states shows only 1,600 found in a combined electorate of over 98 million. Also no standardised SOPs were issued which means several states didn’t even collect this data. @htTweets
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Why Form 6 for deleted voters?
Because the ECI does not want to acknowledge that a large number of voters may have been deleted due to its carelessness, or failure to exercise the required diligence in conducting the #SIR. 1/3
An interim arrangement that has led to 27 lakh disenfranchised?
Every day, the honourable court leaves my brain scrambled
#BREAKING Supreme Court has not upheld "Logical Discrepancy" category; in Bengal SIR, it was permitted only as an interim arrangement; Bihar SIR did not have LD category ,so it was not adjudicated, says Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
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Big news for Tuberculosis treatment: Indian Patent office refuses to grant patent for BPal treatment, a short regimen using Bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid. This will make the regimen affordable for many drug resistant TB patients @scroll_in
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Delighted Irwin Allan Sealy has won the Godrej Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai LitFest
I’ve read everything he has penned, from The Trotter-Nama on. No two books are alike
A richly deserved Lifetime Achievement Award to one of the koolest authors I know
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i’m gonna make americans watch this scene to show how intimidating they can get
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Dada, I did. As a media stalwart, you know why it’s important to talk to Dr SY Quraishi in the press context. No recent CEC has framed the world’s largest election so positively & usefully for global audiences, via SVEEP, National Voters’ Day, IIIDEM, & as IDEA’s Global Ambassador of Democracy. He has been the (unofficial) global ambassador of Indian democracy.
His books (An Undocumented Wonder, The Great March of Democracy, India’s Experiment with Democracy, Democracy’s Heartland) document both the machinery and the unfinished reforms.
Why is this institutional memory largely missing from today’s debates on rolls, SIR, appointments & integrity?
Thanks for watching.
To understand why Arunachal Pradesh is in turmoil, read:
‘Threats, detentions, militarisation’: How Arunachal government is choking anti-dam protests
@ZamanRokibuz_
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“My blouse was torn and my saree had been removed by three men," Laxmi Mondal told @scroll_in
The minor girls were threatened with rape and abduction.
In Bengal, Christians allegedly assaulted by Bajrang Dal mob, forced to perform Hindu rituals
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In this interview, Justice Muralidhar:
👉🏽debunks the notion that CJP leaders made a mistake by signing peace bonds
👉🏽asks what if Ranka and Das were rickshaw pullers
👉🏽calls the bluff on the Bharatiya Nagarik Suraksha Sanhita
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