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The fat cats of Indian news media are content covering Israel's ongoing genocide from the safety of their desks, studios---and MEA handouts. The Hindi newspaper @DainikBhaskar has a man on the ground in Lebanon risking life and limb. Take a bow, Vaibhav Palnitkar. @vaibhavdamoh
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I am travelling to #Lebanon for the coverage. Do send me leads, contacts and story ideas at: palnitkarvaibhav @gmail .com
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“If you kill a chicken and eat it, it's a chicken party “If you kill a goat and eat it, it's a mutton party “If you cut a cake and eat it, it's a birthday party “If you loot a nation and eat it, it's a Bharatiya Janata Party” Tamil song after India’s biggest scam #ElectoralBonds
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JNU prof defeats BJP in Manipur👇🏾
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“I feel cheated as a citizen. Does my vote not count?” Former CII chief Shobhana Kamineni, daughter of Apollo hospitals chief Dr Pratap Reddy, lets fly at the deletion of her name—her disenfranchisement—from the voters’ list in Hyderabad. #GeneralElections2019
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Remember the name: Shirish V. Date.
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The govt’s 50% subsidy for Vedanta’s silicon fabrication plant in Gujarat will amount to Rs 80,000 cr. This is more than the entire central allocation of Rs 73,000 cr for MGNREGA. Isn’t this a “freebie” in an election-bound state, when it will create very few jobs? @EconomicTimes
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India, 1963 New India, 2021
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The selfless #SudhaBharadwaj has spent 3 years in jail after #ArnabGoswami ’s nauseating witchhunt. Now, Bombay Police are returning the favour by outing tens of pages of WhatsApp conversations in the #BARCGhotala which reveal how the media is a key player in ‘The Grand Project’.
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India, a portrait in one video.
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Mohammed Zubair, the telecom engineer who gave up a Nokia job, became an @AltNews fact-checker, and belled Nupur Sharma, Yati Narasinghanand and Bullibai perpetrators. In the last 21 months, 5 criminal cases have been filed against @zoo_bear in 3 states.
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Vikas is an orphan: 8 years after dawn of civilisation, this is the state of “National Highway 227” in Bihar. Over a 20-km stretch, 150+ swimming pools—the biggest 100 ft long, 50 ft wide, 3 ft deep. Bharat Mala ki Jai. Epic pic in @DainikBhaskar for BS master @nitin_gadkari
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What exactly is the ‘Gujarat Model’? BJP has been in uninterrupted power in Gujarat since 1995. And despite 27 years of rule—13 years with @narendramodi as CM; 8 as PM—it still has *more* poverty than 22 other states and UTs. It’s a “model” only for the gau belt. @indiainpixels
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“Godman charged with wife’s murder” 25 years ago, today, the @IndianExpress reported from Coimbatore in Tamil Nadu that Jaggi Vasudev alias Jagadeesh of Isha Yoga Ashram, had been charged with the murder of his wife, Viji alias Vijayakumari. @SadhguruJV
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Prashant Tandon, the Hindi journalist who scooped the big interview with #SatyapalMalik —a full one week before Karan Thapar. Sadly, Thapar does not credit @PrashantTandy by name and keeps referring to a “YouTube interview”, as if the piano, not the piano player, did the trick.👇🏿
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अडानी का मुद्दा जनता में नीचे तक चला गया है - पूर्व गवर्नर सत्यपाल मलिक. #AdaniScam #RahulGandhi #SatyapalMalik #DBDialogue पूरा इंटरव्यू
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➡️ Railways: Rs 2,41,267 crore ➡️ Communications: Rs 1,23,393 crore ➡️ Electronics & IT: Rs 16,549 crore In the 2019 elections BJP won 303 seats, but @narendramodi couldn’t find three elected MPs fit enough to man three ministries with a total budget outlay of Rs 3,81,209 crore?
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Destroying the past is such an integral part of the legacy game. Since 1994, the Shatabdi Express has run between Chennai and Mysore, via Bangalore. 28 years on, it will vie with the Vande Bharat Express that will leave precisely 10 minutes—600 seconds—earlier. @IndianExpress
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“Welcome to CBI. “For English, press 1. For Hindi, press 2, For Gujarati, press 56. “To speak to a fixer, press 3. To speak to an extortionist, press 4. To get a clean chit, press 2002. “For complimentary services, press 5. To speak directly to a PMO official, press 2019.”
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India: a portrait in two photographs.
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▫️Disha Ravi picked up in Karnataka by Delhi Police ▫️Gujarat MLA Jignesh Mevani arrested by Assam Police ▫️Tamil Nadu vlogger picked up by Uttar Pradesh Police ▫️Vara Vara Rao arrested in Telangana by Maharashtra Police ▫️Tejinder Bagga picked up in Delhi by Punjab Police
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India is so full of talent that the chairman of LIC, who presided over a disastrous IPO (issue price Rs 949; last traded price Rs 602) and dodgy investments in the Adani FPO, is likely to get another extension, his third. @LICIndiaForever @ttindia #MitraKaal
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Remember the 12 heroes who pulled out the 41 workers trapped in a tunnel in Uttarakhand, when powerful machines had failed? They are still to be paid by @NavayugaECL , the company that hired their services. And they have received a paltry Rs 50,000 from the government.
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A nation that cannot produce proper textbooks. A nation that cannot conduct clean exams. A nation that cannot respect good academics. A nation that wants to destroy its best University. A nation that criminalises thought. A nation that jails its best and brightest. A nation that
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75% drop in CAG reports in last 5 years. From 55 reports in 2015, it was down to 14 in 2020. There were zero defence audits last year and just three railway audits. Naturally, the current CAG is a Gujarat cadre IAS officer. @NewIndianXpress
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Who owns NaMo TV? What is the source of its funds? How is it getting sarkari ads? Why is it available on all DTH platforms? Will the spending on it be part of BJP’s expenditure, or @narendramodi ? @DeccanHerald asks a “timid” EC some uncomfortable questions. #GeneralElections2019
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Remember the name: Shahnawaz Shaikh. Remember the car: Ford Endeavour. Remember the number: 007. Remember the gesture. @MumbaiMirror
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🚔 Pawan Khera arrested in Delhi by Assam Police🚔 Disha Ravi picked up in Karnataka by Delhi Police🚔 Jignesh Mevani arrested in Gujarat by Assam Police🚔 vloggers picked in Tamil Nadu by UP Police; in Goa by Kolkata Police🚔 Vara Vara Rao held in Telangana by Maharashtra Police
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It wasn’t just the blood-sucking vampires of TV news channels who feasted on Sushant Singh Rajput’s body. Rashid Siddiqui, a YouTuber from Bihar, allegedly grossed Rs 15 lakh in four months with videos built around conspiracy theories. @mid_day
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Finally—finally!—full text of joint statement issued by Amitabh Bachchan, Sachin Tendulkar, Kangana Ranaut, Akshay Kumar, Virat Kohli, Anupam Kher, Saina Nehwal and 56 others on India’s deeply disturbing COVID situation.👇🏿
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“पागल के हाथों में माचिस किसने दिया?” At the end of her frenetic takedown of the @narendramodi government, Trinamool Congress MP Mahua Moitra says the question is not who lit the fire, but who gave the matchbox to the crazed Pappus. @MahuaMoitra Watch:
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“Sourav Ganguly’s refusal to enter politics by joining BJP is the main reason for his axing as @BCCI president. @AmitShah ’s dinner was the last attempt to convince Ganguly.” The @NewIndianXpress puts a name and a method to India’s worst-kept secret. @SGanguly99
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Remember the name: Hussein bhai Remember the city: Morbi in Gujarat Remember the act: Pulling 40 people out *alive* after #MorbiBridgeCollapse
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“Jaggi Vasudev is a publicity hound and charlatan trying to find another angle to make money. He is a commercial operator using god and religion”: Tamil Nadu’s new finance minister @ptrmadurai sets himself up for a battle royale with @SadhguruJV . @the_hindu
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Muslims are 15% of India’s population, but only ▫️4.9% are government employees ▫️4.6% are in paramilitary services ▫️3.2% are in IAS, IFS and IPS ▫️1% are in Army As the flames of hatred consume India, Karan Thapar asks: “What must it be to be a poor and illiterate Muslim?”
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A small @IndianExpress reminder that on this day, 25 years ago, the mortal remains of Vijayakumari alias Viji, were allegedly consigned to flames by her husband, Jagadeesh alias Jaggi Vasudev, in a grisly demonstration of the devious dimensions of the human mind. @SadhguruJV
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How fucked-up (and shameless) is SEBI? India’s stock market regulator claims it has *no information* on who subscribed to Adani Enterprises’s Rs 20,000 crore failed FPO—a total con job that took place in full public glare just 3 months ago. @SEBI_India @FinMinIndia @HindenburgRes
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“Ram Madhav lobbied for Reliance Insurance deal” Satyapal Malik, ex-governor of Jammu & Kashmir, names RSS ideologue @rammadhav_ in scam to rip off govt workers, in which a Rs 300 crore kickback was hissed. Madhav met Guv day after he nixed plan. Watch:
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30% of the population in Varanasi doesn’t get piped drinking water even after five years of @narendramodi . Still, the city’s corporation splurged 1.4 lakh litres of water from 40 tankers to wash the roads for its MP’s “road show”. @ttindia #GeneralElections2019
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“‘Proud’ nation wrestles its way to new Parliament” A number of newspapers have juxtaposed the piety at the inauguration with the brutal handling of women wrestlers, but none combine it better than ‘DT Next���, the English daily from the ‘Dina Thanthi’ group. @dt_next
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Dear Journalists of India: All the self-promotion—bylines with mugshots, tweets, FB posts, books, “events”, speeches, piece to camera, “shows”—means little if we haven’t touched an autorickshaw driver like this. Yours humbly. @ravishndtv
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Remember the name: Azim Premji Remember the amount: Rs 9,713 crore The Wipro boss gave away Rs 26 cr in charity every day in 2021. Premji donated in just 5 days what Gautam Adani and Anil Agarwal did in 365. And he gave 3 times more than all the other 9 put together. @livemint
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“Mr Prime Minister, you didn’t do ‘tapasya’, farmers did”: While ‘panna pramukhs’ put a spin on why #MasterFroke , the Magsaysay Award-winning @ravishndtv does a brilliant 28-minute takedown of the brutality, deviousness, dirty tricks and hypocrisy:
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Subject: GUJARAT POGROM ▪️“Violence politically motivated ▪️“Aim was to purge Muslims from Hindu areas ▪️“Has all the hallmarks of ethnic cleansing ▪️“Narendra Modi directly responsible.” New BBC film reveals British govt report into 2002. Watch:
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The superb @satishacharya gives the fuel price hike one last squeeze. @Star_Of_Mysore
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“Every RSS ‘shakha’ assembles in public parks and spaces. Which law allows that?” Supreme Court advocate Sanjay Hegde has a question on UP chief minister Ajay Singh Bisht’s clampdown on ‘namaz’ in parks by “corporate employees” in Noida. @ndtv @sanjayuvacha
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🪡 Much of the outrage on the #HijabRow asks the naive question: “Why is it happening in #Karnataka ?” Answer: “Why are you surprised?” The startup state was an early-stage investor in #Hindutva . Its reputation as a #Hindutva laboratory precedes #Gujarat and #UttarPradesh .
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A first-class bank scam ( #NiravModi ); a murky defence deal ( #Rafale ); a suspicious death (Judge Loya); a financial mess ( #DeMo , GST); simmering middle-class (Budget); rural distress; jobless youth; trouble at the border; riots; lynchings.... Is the writing on the wall for 2019?
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Q: How does a hugely profitable media giant honour a journalist who has served the company for 24 years during the time of #Coronavirus ? A: 👇🏿
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How right-minded Pakistanis joined hands and sprang to the support of #WingCommanderAbhinandan in Pakistan today and pushed @ImranKhanPTI ’s government to release him in a goodwill gesture.
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Teesta Setalvad, the journalist who launched ‘Communalism Combat’. Her grandfather, the only Indian on Jallianwala Bagh inquiry commission. Her father, India’s first Attorney General. Now, slandered by pygmies who know a lot about communalism, and little about the Constitution.
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90 days ago, on 27 February, @narendramodi “inaugurated” Shivamogga Airport, in Karnataka. Not a single flight has taken off or landed in the last 3 months. @PMOIndia ’s day-trip to “inaugurate” the airport, on the eve of #KarnatakaElections , cost the state Rs 21.06 crore.👇🏿
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Shocked that @narendramodi ’s 110-minute visit to Dharwad in Karnataka on 12 March to open an IIT campus cost Rs 9.49 crore? Don’t be. @PMOIndia ’s day trip to Shivamogga and Belagavi on 27 February cost *four* times as much: Rs 36.43 crore. That’s an official estimate. #WTF
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Deeply saddened by the passing of Geetanjali Aiyar nee Ambegaonkar. The Taj Group executive was on one of the sober faces of Doordarshan in its heyday; the svelte actor in Sridhar Kshirsagar’s TV drama ‘Khandaan’; and a model for everything from Solidaire to Marmite.
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Shocked that @narendramodi ’s 110-minute visit to Dharwad in Karnataka on 12 March to open an IIT campus cost Rs 9.49 crore? Don’t be. @PMOIndia ’s day trip to Shivamogga and Belagavi on 27 February cost *four* times as much: Rs 36.43 crore. That’s an official estimate. #WTF
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▫️“Gautam Adani is just a front for Narendra Modi ▫️“It is Modi’s money in Adani companies ▫️“When Adani became world’s second richest man, it was actually Modi who did” @ArvindKejriwal ’s blistering assault on @narendramodi ’s integrity. Watch:
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Bose died in 1945; Gandhi in ‘48; Patel in ‘50. Nehru spent 9 years in jail in the freedom struggle; was PM for 17 years after; built dams, labs, hospitals, colleges, factories; gave India a chance at modernity—and he won’t be in exhibitions to mark 75 years of independence?
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There are only two kinds of journalists in India: those who have been “sued” by #AnilAmbani ’s bankrupt group—and those working for his brother #MukeshAmbani ’s networks. #RafaleDeal #RelianceDefence
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Actor @prakashraaj ’s brave jibe at @narendramodi and @amitshah on who is a Hindu: not a word in The Hindu; not a word in the Indian Express; not a word in Hindustan Times, Telegraph, Tribune and Deccan Chronicle. Only @DeccanHerald has a mention.
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Funny—and mighty revealing—that only one of two judges had these thoughts. #HijabBan @LiveLawIndia
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Early trends from the states are on expected lines. @timesofindia
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Indian media has barely been able to mention BJP president @amitshah ’s dark and inglorious past. Meanwhile, @washingtonpost goes for the jugular, calling him “India’s invisible prime minister”—and ”dangerous”.
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For six years, the media has been asking all the tough, uncomfortable questions to the Opposition. Now, even @AmitShah has joined in the joyride. @indianexpress
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Still the world’s best looking “Executive Editor” ever.
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The new seven sins: “A superficial and xenophobic nationalism; disdain for human rights; unimaginable subjugation of mass media; obsession with national security; a government intertwined with religion; complete disdain for intellectuals; erosion of independence of institutions.”
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The relay race to living hell.
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“Where do you find these Reporters?” Here, in your own backyard. The @washingtonpost sends the perfect return gift to @narendramodi (and @AmitShah ), by recognising the grit, courage and chutzpah of @RanaAyyub , the author of ‘Gujarat Files’.
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Thrilled to be joining The Washington Post as their Global opinions writer. Hope I can make a meaningful contribution to a newspaper with a legacy of speaking the uncomfortable truth @hiattf @elopezgross
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Bullshit Without Borders No. of medical colleges in Karnataka: 60 Maharashtra: 56 Uttar Pradesh: 55 Telangana: 33 Kerala: 32 Andhra Pradesh: 31 No. of medical colleges in Gujarat: 29 No. of medical colleges in India: 543
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▫️LIC stock down Rs 382 from IPO price of Rs 949 ▫️LIC market valuation down 40% to Rs 2.4 trillion ▫️LIC worst-performing mega-cap, down to No.12 from No.6 How a stupid government, faceless babus and yes men have reduced a great company—built by the citizens of India—to a joke.
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“Terror has no religion. But since you asked, prime minister, do not forget the most heinous terrorist in independent India”: ‘The Telegraph’ reminds @narendramodi of Nathuram Godse after PM asks: “Is there a single incident in history of Hindus engaging in terrorism?” @ttindia
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So, Israeli spyware can snoop in on encrypted WhatsApp conversations of journalists and activists. North Korean malware can make its way into the Kudankulam nuclear power station. But somehow EVMs and VVPATs are magically safe—and Aadhaar.
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Indian media coverage of the liberation of Bangladesh tends to be all about Indira Gandhi and Sam Manekshaw. But who remembers Anthony Mascarenhas, the Belgaum-born journalist, whose 9,047-word expose of the horrors in East Pakistan in 'The Sunday Times', London, convinced Indira
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Q: BCCI auctioned IPL media rights for Rs 50,000 crore. What is the tax @BCCI will pay on its share of Rs 25,000 crore? A: Zero. Because IPL is a “non-profit activity” to develop cricket. Just like electoral bonds are to develop democracy. @HindustanTimes @AmritMathur1
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600% jump in train cancellations; 30% trains running late; just 3.5% track renewed; only 4 km track electrified in one year; barely 400 km of new tracks. Official figures show why @PiyushGoyal has to speed up videos, and spam rail users. @RailMinIndia
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"Without Pandit Nehru, India would have been a garbage dump for crackpot science. India is probably the only country whose Constitution explicitly declares commitment to the 'scientific temper'---a quintessential Nehruvian notion": Pakistani physicist Pervez Hoodbhoy. @dawn_com .
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How journalists are educating @ShekharGupta , the current president of the Editors Guild of India, on what do with a vile, hate-spewing Islamophobic bigot who writes for his website, @ThePrintIndia . @IndEditorsGuild
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The fine Kannada cartoonist P. Mahamud hits the last nail. @cartoonist_PM
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Bed-ridden former PM Atal Bihari Vajpayee was entitled to SPG cover till his death, but Manmohan Singh, still a very active politician and moving around in public, to be stripped of it? Cheap cunning and pettiness is the hallmark of the ‘Gujarat Model’.
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▫️Gautam Adani has lost Rs 3,000 crore every week since Jan 24 ▫️Market-cap of Adani Group firms down by Rs 711,000 crore ▫️Adani’s personal wealth down by $28 billion How a tiny research company did what all of India’s media put together could not, would not, did not. @bsindia
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Property rights for women, 69% reservation, free education for first graduates, public insurance, waste management, dignity of labour: #Karunanidhi for dummies whose worldview of “development” begins and ends with vacuous ‘vikas’.
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“Reliance is a parallel State. I do not know of any country where one single firm exercises such power so brazenly, over the natural resources, financial resources, professional resources and, ultimately, over human resources as the company of the Ambanis”: Gopalkrishna Gandhi.
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The heroism of Rahul Bajaj in confronting @amitshah on tax terrorism, lynchings, @PChidambaram_IN and Pragya Thakur: lead story in ‘The Telegraph’—but not even a mention in @EconomicTimes or @timesofindia .
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“Take Nehru away, 100% of speeches of Modi will be over. It won’t exist.”
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“Chronology samajh lijiye” ▪️10 May: minor records statement against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Saran Singh before police and magistrate ▪️4 June: Amit Shah meets wrestlers ▪️5 June: Minor withdraws charges ▪️15 June: Delhi Police, which reports to Shah, files cancellation report.
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Delhi Police Files Cancellation Report In POCSO Case against BJP MP Brij Bhushan Singh, Submits Chargesheet In Sexual Harassment Case @nupur_0111 #POCSO #SexualHarassment
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Picture of the day: Justice J. Chelameshwar watches a truck carry his belongings from Lutyens Delhi to his village in Andhra Pradesh. The outgoing judge's killer question: "Who is meeting those who are in power and why?" @indianexpress
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“Does BJP feel that people who go to Harvard or IITs or IIMs or other institutions of excellence, in India or abroad, do not work hard? One must not wear his humbleness as a tool for self-aggrandizement”: Mamohan Singh in an interview with @sunetrac
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The world’s best looking “Executive Editor” ever?
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The doors of BJP and NDA are always shut by "Chanakya" with his mouth before he reopens them with his hands.
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Exactly one month ago, today, unnamed Indian “officials” were giving #Coronavirus a certificate. @PTI_News #TaaliBajao
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Ram Rajya🙏 A 79-year-old ex-IPS officer with Parkinson’s Disease spends 3 weeks in jail for speaking for 15 minutes at a rally in Gorakhpur demanding land for landless Dalits. Illegally detained for 12 hours, he is charged with “attempt to murder”. @IndianExpress @asad1_rehman
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▪️2 months ▪️120 killed ▪️250 churches burnt ▪️1700 houses destroyed ▪️40,000 people displaced “Millions of Muslims and Christians suffer every day” European Parliament debates “Sab ka Saath, Sab ka Vikas” in the land of Hedgewar and Savarkar.👇🏿 Watch:
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Q: When you look back [at the Gujarat Pogrom] do you think there is anything you should have done differently? A: Yes, one area where I was very, weak—and that was how to handle the media. @narendramodi ’s response to the BBC’s Jill McGivering, in 2002. @jmcgivering @BBCWorld
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“The blow of the @IPL ’s suspension is to the pride and credibility of the world’s most powerful cricket organisation. Might its go-to counsel on epidemiology have been that noted expert Narendra Modi?”: Gideon Haigh skewers @BCCI ’s nepotism and sycophancy in the @australian .
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While you were sleeping safely (or mass-forwarding the latest bullshit on lighting ‘diyas’ with a 🙏), newspaper distributors and vendors were hard at work to get your paper to you. Remember to say ‘hello’ to the unsung soldiers of journalism. #COVID2019
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Question: How many plastic bottles does it take for two people to discuss better “waste management” in Bangalore? Answer: 👇🏿
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Eight years ago, Wing Commander Abhinandan Varthaman on what it takes to be a good fighter pilot: “Bad attitude”
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With 171 pieces over 15 days, the Hindi daily ‘Dainik Jagran’ led the pack in Islamophobic dog-whistling on ‘Tabhlighi Jamaat’. Today, the Bombay HC order that foreign Tabhlighi participants were made “scapegoats” gets a 2-column mention, on page 6.
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“TV channels under pressure from @pmoindia to tone down Opposition numbers in exit polls. A couple of pollsters do fieldwork for BJP; therefore have a conflict of interest. TV exit polls, a ‘satta bazaar’ play; will make some very rich”: Ex- @abpnewstv man @abhisar_sharma .
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A good journalist can at best write in a couple of languages. A good cartoonist can convey in every language without uttering a word. The Kannada cartoonist P.Mahamud on how a ‘fakir’ and a ‘shahzada’ emerge after the televised eviction of democracy. @cartoonist_PM #Andolana .
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There is so much preening and self-promotion by desktop warriors on Twitter that it is easy to forget that the picture of the day was shot by Pulitzer Prize-winning @ReutersIndia photographer Danish Siddiqui. @dansiddiqui
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“India is witnessing the fastest dismantling of its parliamentary democracy. Emergency was nothing in comparison. There are no functioning Assemblies; the cabinet doesn’t meet. Morons with zero knowledge are reworking labour laws”: P. Sainath @PARInetwork
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🔻 No, the Muslim population share hasn’t grown 43% since 1950 🔻 India has added 5 Hindus for every Muslim since 1950 🔻Hindu population has tripled from 320 million in last seven decades Samreen Wani of ‘Business Standard’ teaches @PMOIndia economic advisors how to read data.
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In WhatsApp University, there’s no need to read: Bangalore South MP @Tejasvi_Surya gobbles up public library space reserved to coach underprivileged children, to set up his office. @pmoindia @narendramodi
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