Aniket Aga
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Kashmiri. Science, agriculture, democracy. Author of Genetically Modified Democracy. Winner, Fleck Book Prize 2022.
Joined April 2017
My book on the GM debate - its roots in new agrarian & environmental movements, the history of biotechnology, and the rise of pvt seed companies - will be out in November from Yale University Press. On the cover are delicious non-GM brinjals from Nashik - photo by @ChitrangadaC
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In every constituency that I (randomly) checked, there is a difference between total votes cast on #EVMs and total votes counted, sometimes to the tune of thousands. Highlighting just a few cases below. Why should there be any difference? 1/n
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Looking more closely at Karimganj (Assam), it appears that an extra EVM was counted in Patharkandi AC - each EVM typically stores 1500 votes. @ceo_assam must explain all the excess votes counted. And it is vital that ECI make all Forms 20 and 17C public. Attn: @poonamjourno
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Over 800 #IIT alumni have endorsed this letter to the Director, #IITKharagpur. Many more need to. Please share and RT. #IITKgp #End_Casteism_In_IIT.
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Mr. Sibal - who stoutly defended and steered the #UAPA (Amendment) Bill and #NIA Bill in 2008 in the Parliament - can't even get #StanSwamy's name right.
Stan Smith (84) passes away .The system sucks .UAPA .No bail.Little hope of early trial. Others too languish in jail .Lawyers , Academics , Social Activists . raise their voices for the voiceless.They too are now “voiceless”. The State calls them “ terrorists”.
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Chandrachud was part of the bench that restrained Bombay HC from hearing the PIL demanding an investigation into #JudgeLoya's death. The same bench then went onto dismiss the case without an SIT investigation. Wonder whose personal liberty he was protecting then.
We must send a message today to the High Courts as well. “Please exercise your jurisdiction to uphold personal liberty!”.- Justice Chandrachud. #SupremeCourt #ArnabGoswami.
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Journalist from @abpnewstv at Ram Leela Maidan just told a Shetkari Sanghatana group NOT to shout slogans against #Modi in front of camera. "Apni baat rakhiye, Modi Modi mat kariye". #GodiMedia #DilliChalo #KisanMuktiMarch @LongMarch2Delhi.
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@rautsanjay61 @Awhadspeaks @ECISVEEP In 2019, @poonamjourno had done a detailed analysis and found such mismatches in 370+ seats. @ECISVEEP did not explain the discrepancies then. This further underscores the need to make Forms 17C and 20 public. 3/n.
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Remember Mumbai North West? Total votes cast - 9,51,580; votes counted - 9,51,582 Attn:.@rautsanjay61 @Awhadspeaks. Also, South Goa: Total votes cast - 4,45,916; votes counted - 4,45,924 . Where did the extra votes come from? @ECISVEEP .
Mumbai North West - Another constituency where @ECISVEEP website did not display #PostalBallots tally until the very end. SS-UBT's Amol Kirtikar lost the seat by 49 postal ballots & apparently 111 postal ballots were voided.
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We lost Dinesh Mohan today to #COVIDSecondWaveInIndia. He taught road safety at IIT Delhi. Was among the first to warn abt CNG, particulate matter & air pollution in the 1990s. Also a staunch human rights defender and advocate for peace & justice in the subcontinent. 1/2
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@rautsanjay61 @Awhadspeaks @ECISVEEP @poonamjourno And so far @ECISVEEP has not released even PC-vise data for Phase 7 of #Elections2024.
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The issue over @sabya_economist's resignation is simply this: whether academia will protect research which advances reasoned conclusions that go against official/power-backed narratives. 1/2.
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'Seed Stories', our documentary film set in the Niyamgiri foothills, will screen at the CD Deshmukh Auditorium, IIC in Delhi on July 30, 6.30 pm. Please come/share with others interested. Q&A with the director @ChitrangadaC will follow the screening. #agroecology #sustainability
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The table (reproduced below, again) indicates votes polled on EVMs and votes counted on EVMs and the difference between the two. Please note again that there should be no difference between votes polled and counted on EVMs. 5/n.
In every constituency that I (randomly) checked, there is a difference between total votes cast on #EVMs and total votes counted, sometimes to the tune of thousands. Highlighting just a few cases below. Why should there be any difference? 1/n
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In 2021-22, the #IndianRailways earned more per pax-km from unreserved sleeper class mail/express passengers than from 3AC travelers, and lost 37% of second class travelers as compared to 2013-14 . My analysis of 20 years of data in @Article14live.
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No clarity yet from .@ceo_assam & @DcKarimganj on the thousands of excess votes counted in Karimganj PC. Why is this grave discrepancy taking so long to clarify? . Also, please release all Forms 17C. Attn: @AICCMedia @Jairam_Ramesh @GauravGogoiAsm.
Thank you @ceo_assam & yes, please make the reply from RO Karimganj public. Also urge you to upload all Forms 17C on your website. 10/n.
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How women journalists are auto-trolled & harassed. Just one of the chilling details in this painstaking investigation by .@KaulAyushman & @onosmosis in @thewire_in . #tekfog.
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Thank you @ceoup for the clarification. Request you & all CEOs to make data abt 1 & 2 public, for accurate election analyses. Could you also please explain how in some PCs like Mumbai North West, total EVM votes counted are more than EVM votes polled?.6/n.
The difference can arise between votes polled and votes counted because there are certain polling stations whose votes polled are not counted as per the extant protocol issued by the Commission and provided in various Manuals and Handbooks( e.g Para 11.4 of the Handbook for.
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Arnab gets bail for 50k. Contrast with the land rights activist Damodar Turi who spent 9 mnths in jail on #UAPA charges before his family could raise Rs. 20 difficult thousand for #bail. What to say abt his 83yr colleague #StanSwamy ?. by @ChitrangadaC.
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To get something as basic as the data that the CDSCO reviewed before giving emergency authorization "in clinical trial mode" to #Covaxin in January, @SaketGokhale has had to approach the Bombay High Court.
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Yesterday at #Mustafabad, at the funeral of Aqil Ahmed, lynched by a mob, people demanded the govt dredge the drain - who knows how many bodies are lying there?. This is what citizenship has been reduced to. Story by @ChitrangadaC in @thewire_in #Delhi.
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I've filed an #RTI request with Delhi Metro and Delhi Police asking for the order and threat assessment that led to the Metro closing 20 stations yesterday. I am sure that the order was issued after 'application of mind' . so it should be public. #CAAProtest #IndiaAgainstCAA
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Mr. Vaishnaw is back as Railway Minister, amidst continuing distress & mayhem in trains. Pls read my story 👇🏾 on the dismantling of #IndianRailways for large sections of Indians under NDA.
Compared to 2013-14:.–32% fewer passengers in 2022-23.–108% costlier overall in 2021-22.–Unreserved sleeper-class travel >4x costlier in 2021-22.–Share of second-class seats & berths down 13% in 2022-23. @AgaAniket’s analysis of 20 yrs of #IndianRailways.
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Odd that pundits in #India are comparing our inscrutable and weak Election Commission favorably to the #USElections - we've forgotten that 1. the #EVMs have never been subject to robust public scrutiny 2. In many cases in 2019, the votes counted were different frm. 1/.
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After AS Dulat, Vikram Sood speaks up in defense of Saiba Varma's book. Endorsements from two ex-chiefs of R&AW must be a first in the anthropology of #Kashmir.
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The series of disclosures/exposes by #Hindenburg - with no presence in India - also makes one wonder what corporate governance researchers, PhDs in accounting, financial engineers, B school professors, and large sections of the business press are up to in this country.
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This is a breathtaking paper by Sabyasachi Das, offering rigorous insights into general elections 2019. We need more of such scrutiny of the actual conduct of elections. Meanwhile, thank you @sabya_economist.
This is a careful paper documenting evidence of electoral manipulation by BJP in 2019. The author, @sabya_economist, is a Yale Ph.D., currently at Ashoka Univ in India. I didn't tweet about his paper myself because I was genuinely concerned for his safety. Now the word is out.
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While journalists, students & activists get beaten up & jailed for as little as talking mildly about repression in Kashmir. children of R&AW officers can write #occupation and get endorsed by AS Dulat himself!.
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My column today on HT #GMMustard, and the govt's attempt to confuse the Supreme Court & the public. Evidence of risks from herbicide-tolerant (HT) crops is growing. And the govt's response is that HT mustard should not be considered HT!. In @TheHinduComment
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Mumbai North West - Another constituency where @ECISVEEP website did not display #PostalBallots tally until the very end. SS-UBT's Amol Kirtikar lost the seat by 49 postal ballots & apparently 111 postal ballots were voided.
This is how administration helps a loosing candidate to win. Postal ballots are counted in the start when counting begins but they were counted in the last during recounting .And that is how #Amolkirtikar was defeated by 48 votes after having declared elected by 2000 votes. This.
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Delighted that our documentary film Seed Stories is premiering at the Kolkata People's Film Festival on 27 Jan at 4:30 pm. Please come by to watch the film and interact with @ChitrangadaC, who directed the film, editor Ajay TG and ecologist Debal Deb.
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Delighted that @ChitrangadaC & my documentary film 'Seed Stories' is screening at the Festival of the Earth in Rome tomorrow 18 May at 6 pm. @TerreFestival.
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My piece w/ @ChitrangadaC on the #Modi govt's commitment to ecological illiteracy. Decimating forests, diluting #eiadraft2020 & increasing #India's vulnerability to pandemics: all amidst #Covid19 & lockdowns @PrakashJavdekar @Jairam_Ramesh . Longer online:
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Here is an archived copy of @gernalist's story - apparently taken down by Hindustan Times - on the land grab & ecological decimation in #Goa. "21.29 lakh sq m green zones in Goa converted for construction in 15 month: Data"
This week, @htTweets took down a crucial report about land conversions in Goa, without any explanation. It was taken down an hour after a BJP minister threatened a breach of privilege motion against a ‘national paper’ for ‘malicious, anti-Goa stories.’.
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Some people have responded saying mistakes are inevitable in a mammoth election machinery. However, ECI itself says that Form 17C must tally with votes counted in Form 20. In any case, 1000s of excess votes merit a serious investigation. 9/n.
Looking more closely at Karimganj (Assam), it appears that an extra EVM was counted in Patharkandi AC - each EVM typically stores 1500 votes. @ceo_assam must explain all the excess votes counted. And it is vital that ECI make all Forms 20 and 17C public. Attn: @poonamjourno
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Incredible turn out in Nashik too. #CAA_NRC #CAAProtestPlacards #CAAProtest #CAAProtests #IndiaAgainstCAA
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The special issue on the farm laws & protests in Sociological Bulletin is very good, rich in insights. It is edited by @reasonbuster72.
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Among constituencies where EVM votes counted exceed EVM votes cast, these two caught my eye. 👇🏾. In Jajpur, the winning margin (EVM only) is 469 & w/ postal ballots, is 1587. In any case, where are 1000s of excess EVM votes coming from? @ceo_assam @ECISVEEP .7/n
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Oct 20: National Commission of Women Head @sharmarekha discusses 'rise in #lovejihad cases' with Maharashtra Governor. Nov 11: @NCWIndia #RTI disclosure: NCW has NO DATA on 'love jihad'. So @sharmarekha: What is this 'love jihad' and what rise in cases? Or are you dreaming?
Our Chairperson @sharmarekha met with Shri Bhagat Singh Koshyari, His Excellency, Governor of Maharashtra & discussed issues related to #womensafety in the state including defunct One Stop Centres, molestation & rape of women patients at #COVID centres & rise in love jihad cases
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The #Modi govt has been strangling the #RTI Act, effectively re-writing it through bizarre, extra-legal denials. In a pandemic, such actions have fatal consequences. @ChitrangadaC & I write for @TheHinduComment. #COVID19.
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My book on the GM debate - its roots in new agrarian & environmental movements, the history of biotech & the rise of pvt seed companies - will be out this November in South Asia from Orient Blackswan. On the cover are delicious non-GM brinjals from Nashik - photo by @ChitrangadaC
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The illegality of the deoperationalization of #Article370 is quite evident. Yet, I have not an iota of doubt which way the #Article370 judgment will go. I just wonder about the ugliness & cruelty that the state will whip up across India to mark its 'victory'.
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@thazleem @adrspeaks @pbhushan1 @AnjaliB_ @tjoseph0010 @rautsanjay61 @yadavakhilesh @MamataOfficial @srinivasiyc The headers are correct. The difference is between votes counted on EVMs & polled on EVMs. I have taken the figures from the ECI website.
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'#MigrantWorkers' are overwhelmingly of the #Dalit, #Adivasi and 'backward' castes - no accident where liberalization cements upper caste dominance. @ChitrangadaC and I write in @ndtv on why India's #COVID19 response is a caste atrocity. #MigrantLabourers.
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My piece on #GMMustard in the context of roughly twenty years of the debate over genetically modified (GM) crops in India - published by @boell_India. Thank you @mirzalibra10 for commissioning the piece & helping me sharpen it with edits & comments.
🌾 The Supreme Court stands as the final frontier for GM mustard & its potential impact on Indian farming and food culture. Learn how this debate has evolved and why it's critical for the future of agriculture in India. Analysis by @AgaAniket. Read 📰:
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The #USElection2020 on the other hand has seen steady, patient and credible counting. Give me reliability of paper ballots and manual counts anyday over myths of efficiency and speed. 3/.
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Bharat Biotech has a virtual monopoly over #Covaxin, while the govt flouts #RTI & CIC orders, hides the deal. Economist @ramakumarr calls for CAG probe into the ppl's vaccine that is one of the costliest in the world. w/ @ChitrangadaC for @Article14live .
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Honored to receive the prize and grateful to the farmers & marketing agents, whose generosity enabled this research. The late Krishna Bharadwaj's daughter, #SudhaBharadwaj, the trade unionist, lawyer & human rights activist, is in prison for over 1000 days without bail or trial.
JPS has awarded the Krishna Bharadwaj & Eric Wolf Prize 2019–2020 to @AgaAniket for the paper “The marketing of corporate agrichemicals in Western India: theorizing graded informality”, available Open Access now:
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If you have a moment to spare from the royal drama and palace intrigue in Rajasthan, read Jacinta Kerketta's dark poem on the country rapidly turning into an open jail. #VaraVaraRao
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Thrilled that Seed Stories will screen at Prithvi Theatre in Juhu on 26 April at 7 pm, as part of the Vikalp series curated by Simantini Dhuru & @anandverite. Please come by and spread the word. A Q&A with Debal Deb & @ChitrangadaC will follow the screening. #Sustainability
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Abt 3.3 million people & 9000 crores of turnover depend on horticulture in #Kashmir. But the sector is in crisis since the #Article370 decision. Labor wages have collapsed as out of work employees throng orchards. By Muzamil Bhat, Budgam in @PARInetwork.
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1. @ghulamnazad & GA Mir - stopped at SXR airport - 8/8/2019. 2. @SitaramYechury & D. Raja - stopped at SXR - 9/8. 3. GN Azad - stopped again, this time at Jammu airport - 20/8. 4. Opposition delegation - stopped at SXR - 24/8. 5. Yechury moves SC to visit #Kashmir - 28/8. 1/2.
Important. And the Home Minister is right. The opposition made only one attempt to go to Kashmir and never tried again. That is how hopeless the opposition is.
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. the turnout. 3. The ECI reported discrepant figures for turn out (app/website/CEO report) in many constituencies. 4. The ECI is missing 20 lakh EVMs 5. the ECI disposed of the limited VVPAT slips in violation of the statutory time frame. #USElection2020 #USElections 2/.
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Under #RTI, the National Commission for Women admits on Nov 26 that it has NO DATA on 'forceful conversions' of women anywhere in the country. On Nov 11, it has already conceded that it has NO DATA on #lovejihad. So where is @sharmarekha getting her facts?
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Thank you @ceo_assam & yes, please make the reply from RO Karimganj public. Also urge you to upload all Forms 17C on your website. 10/n.
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Will be delighted if the new #NCP #ShivSena #Congress govt in #Maharashtra:.1. Quashes the fake charges against Mahesh Raut, Sudha Bharadwaj, etc. 2. Prosecutes those behind the #BhimaKoregaon violence. 2. Orders a probe into Judge Loya's death. #UddhavThackeray #SharadPawar.
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Illegal Bt & HT #cotton, with #glyphosate is racing into Rayagada, a biodiversity hotspot. The risk to Adivasi farmers' health, finances and ecological knowledge is serious. First of two part stories with @ChitrangadaC . @PSainath_org @PARInetwork.
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@ChitrangadaC @PSainath_org @PARInetwork @kkuruganti @Sridhar67 @Devinder_Sharma @GMWatchIndia @SumanSahai @ashwani_mahajan This is a photograph of Nuziveedu's Bolgard II cotton seed packet. The company itself declares that Bt cotton is not working against the Pink Bollworm. Yet farmers pay a whopping Rs. 730/packet for #Btcotton, often more. And the disclaimer is in English only.
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A few sections from #Chandrachud's judgment in the #JudgeLoya PIL. If this be the quality of reasoning & extent of self-pity and grandstanding from a judge that some consider sharp, is it any wonder that the sexual assault complaint against Gogoi by the SC staffer went nowhere?
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Looking forward to discussing my book on the science & politics of genetically modified (GM) crops in #India at @AshokaUniv on Friday, 25 March, at 6:30 pm - with @Jairam_Ramesh, @SumanSahai & LS Shashidhara. Do join us: #GMFood #STS #AcademicTwitter
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Chitrangada & I are screening our documentary film 'Seed Stories' at @UMSEAS on Oct 5 at 5:30 pm. Please come by if free & interested. Details below 👇🏾. @ChitrangadaC . #Odisha #IndigenousAgroecology #biodiversity #HTcotton.
Join SFSI and @UMSEAS on October 5th at 5:30pm for a chance to hear from Filmmakers @ChitrangadaC and @AgaAniket on their documentary film, 'Seed Stories'.
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The govt and people who cheered waiving of 1.45 lakh crores in corporate taxes annually, for the richest Indians. want to know why #JNU students are protesting 'modest' fee hikes, and clobbering students while at it. #JNUProtests #TaxPayersWithJNU #TaxPayersForFreeEducation.
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If you're curious how and why cell phone services were suspended near ITO yesterday, on whose orders Delhi Police entered #JamiaMilliaUniversity, etc. go ahead and file #RTI requests. You can do so online. #DemocracyDiesInDarkness #CAA_NRC_Protests #IndiaAgainstCAA.
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By Orijit Sen. Everything else is obfuscation or worse. #JNUSOS #JNUHorror #JNUUnderAttack #AMU #JamiaMilia #FTII #HCU #NRC_CAA_Protests #Kashmir
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The last time Modi was forced to back track was the land ordinance - it nevertheless got some of what Reliance wanted via the Supreme Court, specifically Arun Mishra. Eternal vigilance. #farmlawsrepealed #FarmersProtest .
Thread: Friends, I have a short story to tell. About the functioning of the Indian Judiciary. It has characters, plots and subplots. Also a climax. Stay with me till the end. (1/n).
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Great if our elections are as robust as Barkha Dutt, Tavleen Singh, Shekhar Gupta etc. insist they are. I just feel a party that has brought in arbitrary laws & abused institutions like this one has, is in no mood to give up power. #Elections are too imp to be left to voters.
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Many tweets peddling the fake narrative of l0ve jihad are going around on twitter. But our story exposing the lies - that too based on government's own data - is being blocked/restricted by @TwitterIndia. @KAShaji123 @ChitrangadaC @Article14live @samar11.
Why is @TwitterIndia blocking these tweets and our story? Does it subscribe to the fake narrative of l o v e j i h a d?. @ChitrangadaC @KAShaji123 @Article14live @samar11 @namitabhandare
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Once again: No evidence that #GoldenRice actually improves Vitamin A levels; it is NOT ready for cultivation by farmers in India or elsewhere; and GreenPeace and environmental NGOs have little to do with the failures and delays. My column from 2016:
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Grateful to @DollyKikon, Xonzoi Barbora, Joel Rodrigues, Meenal Tula, CK Sharma & colleagues at North Eastern Social Research Centre & Dibrugarh University for launching my book in NE India. Do come by if you are in Dibrugarh.
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This poster was quite popular today at #ShaheenBagh. barbaad gulistan karne ko bas ek hi ullu kaafi tha.har shaaḳh pe ullu baitha hai anjam-e-gulistan kya hoga - Shauq Bahraichi. #CAA_NRCProtests #ShaheenBaghProtests
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While #AnandTeltumbde and #GautamNavlakha are forced by the SC to surrender during this #COVIDー19 pandemic, #SharjeelImam is locked up in Guwahati central jail since February 20 for a speech. No one has heard from him for nearly a month, not even his lawyer via telephone. 1/2.
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Must read extract in @Article14live from @jay_cds's superb new book 'Plantation Crisis: Ruptures of Dalit Life in the Indian Tea Belt', published by @UCLPress.
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10 of the many journalists who are persisting with telling the truth, despite the formidable odds. The list includes @ChitrangadaC, and mentions her recent story involving 15,000+ trees being hacked for a mine. #Adani is the mine developer & operator.
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The Network of Rural and Agrarian Studies has written to @bsindia protesting the publication of a malicious campaign by the pesticide manufacturers' lobby against Rashmi Sanghi, @kkuruganti, @sunitanar and several others. The so-called advertorial violates . 1/2
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Excited abt discussing my book at the Fleck Prize panel on Thu, Nov 8 @ 8:30 am in Room 301B at the @4sWeb Annual Conference in Honolulu. With @joevarock, Laura Foster, Damcelle Cortes & @JasonDelborne. Many thanks to @profemmakowal for organizing this. Do come by if you are arnd
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Must read piece by @evita_das. Whereas a majority of urban residents are tenants, most political parties in India - including the 'aam admi' party - are solidly on the side of fwd caste propertied class.
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Tribute by @kkuruganti to Debjeet Sarangi, sustainable food activist who also worked to document #Adivasi food and knowledge traditions, and to limit toxic agrochemicals like #glyphosate in Odisha. Sarangi passed away on 15/5. He was 53. #COVID19.
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My piece from 2016 on DU's #herbicide tolerant #GMMustard. Biosafety issues still not addressed, weak case for yield advantage, and most importantly, the government continues to withhold the biosafety dossier from the public. #GMO #glufosinate #mustard.
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#SudhaBharadwaj was arrested on 28 Aug 2018 in the #bhimakoregaon case. 2 years, no trial, no bail. @ChitrangadaC writes abt her life & work alongside workers, Adivasi communities, and women-survivors of sexual violence in Chhatisgarh, for @Article14live.
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From the prologue of @josyjosephkj's chilling new book - The Silent Coup: A history of India's Deep State. #BhimaKoregaonFrameUp #SharjeelImam #UmarKhalid #SafooraZargar #NatashaNarwal #RheaChakraborty #AryanKhan and many many others, usually from oppressed groups.
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Why is @TwitterIndia blocking these tweets and our story? Does it subscribe to the fake narrative of l o v e j i h a d?. @ChitrangadaC @KAShaji123 @Article14live @samar11 @namitabhandare
Now this tweet itself is showing up to many readers as blocked @TwitterIndia ."This tweet is unavailable," is your message. Why?.
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Really excited to be talking to @gabrielasotolav & @itihaashtag on May 17 👇🏿. Please do join us. Thank you Debjani for organizing this and for the invitation.
Please join us at @UZH_en on May 17 at 12:15 pm CET/6:15 am ET/ 3:45 pm IST for a zoom Podium Discussion on "Seed Stories" to listen to Prof. Gabriela Soto Laveaga @gabrielasotolav and Prof. Aniket Aga @AgaAniket share their work. Please register here:
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