Kajal K Iyer
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GLC'23, SIMC '07. Polyglot. Interest areas : law, education, books, movies, Doctor Who, Mumbai & Gujarat. Past - Broadcast News
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We lost her..this is how I want to remember how..she fought and she fought the virus for 40+ days but it gripped her like a demon..My mother the strongest woman I know is now not here..
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Mother has been in ICU almost a month now. Covid has attacked everything it can in her body. Doctors and nurses at KD hospital Ahmedabad doing their absolute best to treat her. Hoping and praying.
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It will soon be a month to mom's death. I have decided to scrub clean my TL and now use it to amplify genuine relief messages for
#COVID19
. This could be medical help, job requests, help with rations, genuine good Samaritan work. Tag me, I shall amplify. Only genuine stuff pls.
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The
#COLLEGIUM
is low hanging fruit to attack. Legal reform in this country requires firstly the simplification of the language of law, which will immediately make it more accessible. We need to let go of complicated, multi-punctuation sentences while drafting.
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Mumbai rains can seem really nice when you have the luxury of watching them from your window and don't have to wade through them.
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Update - earlier this month resigned from Times Now, will be around till formalities done. Hope to continue writing/reporting in other formats later. Will be shuttling b'ween Gujarat/Mumbai over the next year.
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While one understands the BJP's need to take the MLAs as far away as possible, Assam is dealing with major floods currently. Would it be wise to engage the state's already stressed security and bureaucratic apparatus for these MLAs, when citizens there may need it more?
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This is interesting. US film makers and reviewers have been going gaga over
#RRR
An over-the-top action movie from India is drawing packed audiences in the U.S.
#RRR
is a product of the Telugu film industry (Tollywood). Glowing review in
@TheAtlantic
⬇️
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@SchrodingrsBrat
This is idealistic at best. Reality is you end up choosing every moment, something or the other and not all choices will pan out the way you imagined. This idea that we can control reality is what I believe is leading to a lot of anxiety and depression today.
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I recharged a number today hoping to hear it ring, even when I knew, no one would be on the other end to pick it up.
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Going to do something like
@gauravsabnis
today. A long thread on city trivia. Reclamation in Mumbai has always been a contentious issue and most of us think that this city was made up of 7 islands which were haphazardly reclaimed. But was it really 7 islands when British arrived?
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@shrutisonal26
Thank you for posting these. I didn't know they existed. It will be 2 years since mom for me in June. Its strange how talking about losing parents is such a rarity in public life everyone's like ye to sab ke saath hota hai so move on. But shouldn't we be speaking more coz of that
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Long time Mumbai police/agencies and court reporters will agree that this seems like a boomerang, the tactics of 'planting' information and suspicion against accused is now being done to those who used to do the planting. All round credibility has been shredded.
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For the past 2+ years all the stories Maharashtra reporters have been made to run around for crazily, fall like a pack of cards in courts. Funny part is, many local reporters have resisted, but Delhi hai ki maanta nahi.
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"At Bombay an officer cannot rent a house to live in for double the allowance of house rent granted to him by the Company."
Nearly 238 years ago, 4 officers, 34 captains & 110 subalterns of the Bombay Military wrote this letter to the East India Company, arguing for better pay.
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Only one thing seems clear as of now - there will be a stronger opposition in the Parliament!
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Sena's Eknath Shinde to address press conference in Surat at 12 pm. Mahavikas Aghadi looks to be in trouble.
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A side effect of growing older for me has been the inability to suspend disbelief when it comes to romantic movies. They either made me cringe or feel bored. Happened to watch
@Riteishd
directed Ved today & now I want to live in a house in Alibaug playing Sukh Kalale in the BG
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Sorry Mumbai reporters, spoke too soon....
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Look, there will now be debate and dissent in Parliament because of strong opposition and coalition government, how unfortunate, how much public money is being 'wasted' due to debates and dissent, we must hold opposition accountable!
This refrain while conveniently forgetting
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It is Uncle Pai's (Anant Pai) anniversary today and what better tribute to him than a thread on 90s reading habits and what it meant to be a voracious reader back then in a tier 2-3 city. 🧵
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In the past month, Maharashtra has lost 5 senior reporters. Ashwin Aghor, Satish Nandgaonkar, Sujata Anandan and now Pankaj Khelkar and Aariz Chandra. The stress and havoc Covid and the resultant lifestyle and employment changes have brought into our already high strung lives is
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As fascinating as this thread is, it also highlights one thing about the Indian hiring process - you talk a good game and appear to be connected, nothing can stop you, unless you mess up of course. Thread on Devesh Kumar who is said to have given those emails to The Wire.
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The Judge has said what is often whispered in legal corridors. Special cases of specialised agencies while hyped a lot in the media and elsewhere, eventually end up in acquittals for lack of evidence or drag on for years in the name of further investigation.
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@ss_suryawanshi
@NewIndianXpress
@TheMornStandard
He didn't have minister earlier on his profile, a similar screenshot had been spread around Sushant Singh time to say he removed minister. He never had the post on the bio.
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Maharashtra removes all
#Covid_19
restrictions in the state. Processions, gatherings and life as before allowed.
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Now streaming in Maharashtra - Political Controversy. Here I write for
@thenewsminute
on the riveting saga playing out in Maharashtra, almost resembling a web series or show.
@nawabmalikncp
@Dev_Fadnavis
@neetakolhatkar
@jitendradixit
Maharashtra politics is running like a mega-serial on TV news channels, writes
@Kajal_Iyer
#Opinion
#Maharashtra
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This piece on Shraddha Walkar is heart breaking. There were signs all along but abuse twists the mind to decline help also.
On another note, in the West, I believe it is mandatory for medical professionals to report suspected assault, wish such a rule is enacted in India too.
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Never before has Maharashtra seen such low level of politics, animal sounds responded to with animal memes and retaliatory animal memes. The legislature is being lowered to a mean boys hostel rivalry.
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Wrt history, one keeps hearing this refrain, media won't tell you, it was never taught etc etc as if in pre-British, pre-Islamic India things were passed down and preserved well. But that is not the case. We have always had a culture of keeping history limited to a few.
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Music of Laal Singh Chaddha seems to have a Barfi feel to it.
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The judge to citizen ratio is 21 to a million. All the answers to pendency of cases lie here. The Center has said this is because states have not done their job in recruiting. Be that as it may, is it not possible to have consultations between Center and states to speed this up?
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@saliltripathi
I was just thinking how I know this incident. I have read your uncle while in school in Gujarat :)
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A few days from now, you won't hear any more stories about Morbi. Follow up is a dying art, TV lost it long ago but so has print now. And social media will move to the next tragedy even if it is halfway across the globe. Daily exposure to visuals of calamities has desensitised us
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What
@sohitmishra99
has put in words here is what so many who quit journalism, especially TV, in the past few years felt before they quit.
He makes a pertinent point, there was never much money in journalism and much lesser in the last decade, but you still could get the
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@BabuBongo
@samidhas
@SharmaShradha
@chandrarsrikant
@jaivardhan88
@sumanthr
@Korporatekumar
Why is this person so emotional about it? Threatening death and all? Don't you get a refund if you don't get an allocation?
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An argument, though jokingly, I hear from some lawyers is if it is made simple no one will come to us. My counter to that is people still won't know or have the time for procedure. Just like how reading up symptoms and treatments on Google doesn't make anyone a doctor.
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@iindrojit
It exposes so many things about us as a society. Men seen as valuable only after conventional success, women as commodities to be handed over to such men, proclivity of our elders to poke into young people's lives to live vicariously. Chopra has shown extraordinary poise.
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Lastly, overturning Roe v Wade is what happens when politicians 'choose' the judiciary. Our fundamental rights and our duties to this vast democracy should not be governed by popularity contests. Democracy isn't about majority alone, it is about informed choice for larger good.
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The best
@mmkeeravaani
song ever has to be Maine Dil Se Kaha from Rog. Followed by Gali Mein Aaj Chand Nikla and Aawarapan Banjarapan.
@neeleshmisra
@saeeddquadri
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When it comes to chroniclers of Mumbai's colonial past, most people turn to the works of men like SM Edwards, Malabari, Campbell, Wacha, Hamilton, Ovington etc. But did you know there were many women also who wrote detailed volumes giving a glimpse of life in then Bombay? 🧵
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A judge's son has to take the LLB exam, the bar exam, practice a few years, take the judiciary exam and work their way up before the Collegium can consider them even. A politician's son just has to be born to him to become the next MLA. Point is both are not the same nepotism.
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And the crow is free. Thank you Mumbai Fire Brigade for the quick response. Also
@Iamrahulkanal
some of your friends also turned up :)
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Complaining about construction noise on Sundays has been futile in Mumbai for the past 300 years atleast. How do you ask? Two priests Richard Cobbe and Thomas Carr complained in 1720 and 1831 respectively. Cobbe's complaint went unheeded, Carr's led to govt holiday on Sunday.
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@KuthaliPu
@kavithamurali
Seems like advocate was anyway going to be the leering kind and would have blamed you for being an independent woman if you complained about him being a lech. I know it doesn't feel like it but you dodged a bullet there. Also sorry you had to go through this.
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People cling to their past when they feel the present and the future isn't going as well as they had imagined. They cling to it, when they feel they haven't lived up to their potential. If we as a nation develop this potential, we won't have to worry about correcting the past.
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Reclamation has always been cited as a necessary evil in Mumbai, the latest justification being the
#coastalroad
project. But they say water finds its own way, one only hopes, that the way is not over us.
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Reminds me of Gujarat Rajya Sabha and the jagrata we did at Gandhinagar. Yaad hai
@LangaMahesh
@nistula
@brijdoshi
? It feels good though to just be viewing it from the outside and not have that on field investment for a change :)
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@Akshaypawar_31
@PriyankaJShukla
@chinukofficial
@DrSubhasree
@DrMungekar
@DrDeepakKrishn1
@DoctorAjayita
@DrHarjitBhatti
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@askdheeraj
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@MumbaiPolice
I do not know this individual but he has tagged me, can something be done to locate and counsel him?
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@sohitmishra99
फ्लोर टेस्ट को सेट असाइड किया गया है, और दुबारा फ्लोर टेस्ट लेने के ऑर्डर दिए गए हैं इसके पहले। अगर इस्तीफा नहीं देते तो शायद ये ऑर्डर आता।
सवाल अब और इसलिए भी उलझ गया है क्योंकि कोर्ट ने कहा है कि पार्टी सर्वोपरि है व्हिप के मामले में, और चुनाव आयोग ने शिंदे को पार्टी बता दिया
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Ironically, one of the biggest symbols of
#reclamation
, Nariman Point, was named after Khurshed Nariman, who faced libel cases for speaking up against the Backbay Reclamation project launched by the British in the 1920s.
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@shrutiganapatye
@typingvanara
This infact might be related to the famous family Readymoney..they were an entrepreneurial family during the colonial era and were very close to the British. There is one Readymoney building in Fort too if I am not mistaken. They also built a Readymoney fountain in Britain
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With literally no serious debate and a deafening silence on important issues, why is media coverage so dismal? My piece for the Free Speech Collective.
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@nistula
Meanwhile Mumbai reporters :
यहीं डूबे दिन मेरे... यहीं होते हैं सवेरे... यहीं मरना और जीना...
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In 1909, prolific chronicler of Bombay's colonial history, S.M. Edwardes wrote in the Bombay Gazetteer he compiled, that Bombay was 7 separate and amorphous isles. By the time he wrote this book, the British had been in possession of the city close to 4 centuries.
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Going to attend physical college classes from Monday onwards. Going back to the classroom after nearly two decades feels unreal and almost like a do-over in life 🙂
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Two centuries later, rents in Mumbai are still prohibitive. The letter dt Nov 22, 1785 states, "Every necessary article of life here is much dearer, as may be well supposed on this barren confined island, that at either Bengal or Madras..."
Still true....
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BJP's Ameet Satam had denied he ever supported Tipu name for the Malad garden but now minutes of meetings from 2013 doing the rounds on social media showing he was approver. Another document from 2001 also out where another BJP leader had proposed Tipu name for Andheri garden.
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Goa Forward Party raises
#oxygendeath
report of GMC
#Panaji
in the assembly. House adjourned in subsequent melee.
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Whenever it looks dreamy and misty in Mumbai, remember it is not love which is in the air but mosquito repellent fog.
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@TanushreePande
@BrutIndia
Even Film Companion did. But then we also had cricketers and entrepreneurs going there. 🤷
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What I find intriguing is that they are trying to erase the fact that starting with that Karnataka MP candidate of the BJP to many in UP, Rajasthan and even Maharashtra, openly saying in campaign speeches 400 chahiye samvidhan badalne ko and are now trying to say it never
South Asia's Leading Multimedia News Agency's Chairperson Smita Prakash is upset that PM Modi started the Anti-Muslim narrative a little too late. After 3 phases. 🤡
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The one part of Bombay history that is undeniable is that it was handed over as part of Catherine Braganza's dowry when she married Charles of England. The King soon handed over the lands to the East India Company (EIC) to be managed. But what was considered Bombay then?
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Not tweeting the shocking video but incidents like the firing at former Sena corporator Abhishek Ghosalkar are very rare in Mumbai. Its happened less than 3 kms from where I live which is like the same neighbourhood in Mumbai. Incidents of women being harassed on the street and
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This fascinating piece of history has been explained in great detail in Dr. Tim Riding's piece on Historical Geography called Making Bombay Island (open source). Here he quotes correspondence between EIC, the Portuguese, the Crown and others to deconstruct several popular myths.
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Std 5 student Vaishnavi of Bhor taluka learnt about
#RighttoEducation
in school. She then convinced labourers working near her home to send their kids to school. 274 ZP Schools of Bhor have adopted an innovative Constitution & School Parliament model leading to ripples of change
My Constitution,My School,My Vote
How Constitutional studies & school governments have democratised governance in 274 ZP schools of Bhor & brought about societal change in villages nearby.This
#ConstitutionDay
, watch this story of schools run for,by and of students.
#education
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To prove this and to extinguish all Portuguese claims to the islands, the British hit upon the idea of filling the breaches between the land masses. The first of these projects was undertaken between 1709-11 and filled the inundated parts between Mahim-Parel and Mahim-Worli.
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Any weekend plans Mumbai reporters? All of you desperately need Zhadi, Dongar, Haatil...
@Marathi_Rash
@mayuganapatye
@Ranjeetjs
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The Portuguese at that time liked to think of the island north of Colaba island as Bombay. There arose several disputes throughout the 17th and early 18th century between the Portuguese and the Governors of the EIC if Mahim was a part of Bombay.
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After much delay, by 1728, the breach between Worli and Malabar Hill was also filled up. The project took a long time as the sea walls kept getting washed away. The legend of Goddess Laxmi blessing the contractor and allowing the breach to be filled took shape during this project
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The frequent tussles irked the EIC authorities in the city who saw in Bombay a great trade and political potential. They started contesting the Portuguese claim that Mahim was a separate island. Over time it became the stated position that Bombay was one land incl Mahim.
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Is the Collegium unfair? Are there biases? Do they choose someone they like better?
Does your company owner's son become your next boss? Does his brother-in-law get a senior position directly? Does your boss promote someone he likes over someone who deserves? Flaws everywhere.
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All South state leaders reacting to Revadi controversy, it really isn't about you, it is about AAP announcing subsidised ameneties in Gujarat, also Revadi is a popular prasad in temples of Gujarat and there are elections round the corner in Gujarat.
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आज के वक्त में बगैर पैसे या खाना दिए या हिंसा की लालच दिए चार लोग इकट्ठा नहीं होते नेताओं से। ट्वीट स्टॉर्म करने को आज कल हमारी पीढ़ी लड़ाई मानती है। और फिर आ जाते हैं सालों तक अपना वक्त, पैसा, जान देकर संघटित आंदोलन द्वारा जीत हासिल करने वालों पर सवाल उठाने।
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In that first reclamation, the kolis lost out on inlets they fished in. Even today, they are victims of successive reclamations. The British asked the kunbis to cultivate paddy on the reclaimed land in the 1700s. But now even paddy fields or any fields for that matter are gone.
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@gauravsabnis
Arre yaar why is everyone amplifying this even? Ye sab itna zaruri hai kya? Kisiko nahi jama wo jayenge doosre shehar, less people in trains here.
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A great day for hardworking PR professionals of India whose work has been recognised by the President today.
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Report on midnight
#oxygendeaths
in GMC
#Panaji
puts spotlight on mismanagement of the
#COVID19
response, says requirement was never properly assessed and that Scoop, the supplying company delivered much less but hid the facts out of fear of losing favour.
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