Looking outside. Looking in. Researcher, Ethnographer, Social media observer. https://teapawt.net/t.co/YT5WY2PdXF
Mumbai, India
Joined November 2006
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
Some of us who knew @Surekha are getting together this Friday on Zoom to celebrate her with stories, pictures, laughter. Would you like to join us?
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
The empath and lover, @surekha
One who was wounded, yet determined to heal.
"She gave me a new life," a young friend writes to me.
I am collecting your love notes and memories for Surekha's beloved child, V and husband, S.
Send them here. Let everyone know how magical she is.
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
covidmealsforindia.com is connecting Covid -19 patients in India who need home-cooked food. Some 1,500 home-chefs/kitchens/volunteers across 50 cities have their listings up. Deliveries happen through Swiggy, Dunzo, Wefast, Shadowfax etc. or through local delivery and taxis.
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
Please read this thread and support @medianama pro. 🙏🏽 @nixxin for your tireless work over the years.
So, a significant day for us at @medianama today. An especially difficult decision for me to make, since I've always felt a pull from a public interest perspective that information, in order to be effective and usable by a wider group, needs to be open, and accessible
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
#IStandWithPriyaRamani because #PriyaRamani stood up for everyone else.
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
Whether or not Priya Ramani and Rebecca John succeed against MJ Akbar's claim that he didn't sexually harass multiple women, they have fought a courageous, excellent case. More power to such feminist, justice oriented litigants and lawyering. #istandwithpriyaramani
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
On Munawar Faruqui, MP High Court reserves bail order & says 'such people must not be spared.' He turns 29 in 3 days, and will probably spend his birthday in prison -- for a joke he never made. You can read more about his life + stand up here: bit.ly/3pd7VKF
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
I’ve finally managed to get through the Arnab Goswami Chatgate pdf. Everyone has already highlighted those portions that needed highlighting. I have a slightly different tack.
1. The messages tell me that news is a carefully constructed consumer product.
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
"A new system will be put in place under which any woman moving out of her house for her work will register herself at local police station and will be tracked for her safety."
They've found one more way to restrict women's movement in the name of safety
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
We can all joke about how painfully long America is taking to count its votes. But it also underlines that every vote actually counts in their system. And that’s something to think about.
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
📢📢 THREAD: It's the need of the hour to amplify voices who have been fighting for a struggle we have only now opened our eyes to as a nation: #caste exists, caste-based gender violence is frequent, and we continually deny basic #humanrights to #minorities.
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
Vivid, painful, tormenting first hand account by reporter @TanushreePande on #Hathras family’s sleepless night when their daughter’s body was burnt while they were barricaded at home. As a society we’ve become numbed, inured. #mustread indiatoday.in/india/story/ha… via @indiatoday
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
It was this drain running between the houses of Thakurs and members of Valmiki community that was the latest cause of dispute. In 2001, Ravi and father of another accused were arrested for chopping fingers of the grandfather of the Hathras rape victim.
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Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
The tragedy of being middle aged and middle class at a time when the economy is collapsing & the restaurant sector is hurting. mumbaimirror.indiatimes.com/…
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
No matter what happens, please do not retweet anything which is related to the Bollywood - NCB circus, even as a joke, for just the 12 hours.
This day belongs to the Indian Farmers.
#FarmersProtest
#FarmBills2020
#BharatBandh
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
There is a massive nation-wide protest of farmers likely to happen on the 25th, Friday. While the country was busy talking about Bollywood, the farmers want the country to hear their voices. #FarmBills2020
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
Sickening Kangana. Shameful comment! बस करो please. अपने ज़हन की गंदगी ख़ुद तक सीमित रखो, गाली देनी है तो मुझे दो.. मैं तुम्हारी बकवासें ख़ुशी ख़ुशी सुनूँगी और यह कीचड़ कुश्ती लड़ूँगी तुम्हारे साथ। बड़ों की इज़्ज़त भारतीय संस्कृति का पहला सबक़ है- और तुम तो कथित राष्ट्रवादी हो।
Dina Dastur Mehta retweeted
"We will react to hate with love.
When they threaten to hit us, we will hold the tricolour flag. If they shoot us, we will embrace the Constitution.
If they jail us, we will walk in singing Saare Jahan Se Achcha Hindustan Hamara."
#StandWithUmarKhalid
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