Mihir
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Occasional contributor to @livefist, @newslaundry, @swarajyamag. Distinguished (Armch)air Marshal. V-Dem Certified® Astronomer of Social Science.
Joined October 2011
It’s gratifying to watch film industry airheads who zipped their mouths shut on Ketaki Chitale’s arrest suddenly find their voice on political horse trading in Maharashtra 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
What an unrelenting s**tshow! Hum vote detey hi kyun Hain. Elections ki jagah ‘Bumper Sale’ lagaa doh har 5 saal. #MaharashtraPoliticalTurmoil.
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Very soon, China will lay claim to the state of Punjab, asserting that Singh is Qing.
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Stage 1: “No Hindus are being attacked.”. Stage 2: “Actually, Muslims are protecting Hindus.”. Stage 3: “Okay, some Hindus were attacked, but Hindus supported the Awami League.”. Stage 4: “Hindus are being attacked but we shouldn’t read too much into it.”. Stage 5: “Hua toh hua.”.
My write up with Niladri and Arild for The Scroll India to analyze the attacks on the #Hindu minorities in Post-Revolution #Bangladesh, and why it should not be swiftly read as an indication of a larger and darker political development in the country.
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The. Girl. Was. A. Minor. This isn’t about religion or freedom, it’s about child grooming. Is this really the hill Rana Ayyub wants to die on? 🤯.
We are officially a shithole country. A Muslim man flies to meet a Hindu girl on a date, is thrashed and detained by UP police. Let's give Adityanath a chance in 2024 ?
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- Came to India uninvited. - Didn’t get to meet with the PM. - Got lectured on “Chinese actions” disturbing the bilateral relationship. - Was advised to follow “an independent policy” and not “be influenced by other countries”. GrEaT ReSeT, we were told.
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With that look, they should name it “Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Andaman”.
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Practically every great power has developed their own unique doctrines for war, and their equipment designs have flowed from that. Strange that a son-of-the-soil type gets it, but our intelligent, highly educated scholars don’t.
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This is why India is just one election away from another lost decade.
#BREAKING | Karnataka CM Siddaramaiah's economic advisor Basavaraj Rayareddy states that guarantees have become a huge burden. "As we have directed Rs 58,000 Cr for guarantees it has become a huge financial burden to us. We are holding discussions on what to do. In the primary
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I have never been in a car crash. !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!. Then why does my car have seatbelts and airbags?
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His Home Minister booked 9,000 people for sedition when they protested the expansion of a nuclear power plant. Simpler time, my left eye.
Seeing Dr Manmohan Singh on the news reminded one of a simpler time. We did jokes about our PM and the ruling party on CNBC, on a prime time news bulletin, 5 nights a week. We knew they were sometimes watching, and even laughing along. Feels like a forgotten century ago now.
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One of the most suave, articulate, and well-read MPs around. A true asset to the nation and the legislature. Shashi Tharoor is lucky to have met him.
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Shocking footage of Shoaib Bashir and the English cricket team being singled out and fined for non-compliance with silly Indian "laws" on their visit. Would love to know what gives BCCI the right to be so arrogant.
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In a swashbuckling cyber attack on the Indian government, China seems to have stolen a key Indian strategic asset—the Kadi Ninda.
Pelosi has landed in Taiwan, opening an era of high-intensity competition between China and US over Taiwan Strait. Taiwan is close to Chinese mainland and Beijing has sufficient cards at hand. We will play them one by one confidently. The PLA is announcing a series of actions.
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"Eastern Tibet mountains" are a lush green plain in the winter. Very educational 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻.
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Suddenly, everyone appears to be is whitepilled on Modi again. Indian Twitter feels like one big happy family this morning. Strangers smiling at each other, morning walkers hugging. Hope it lasts :).
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On even days: “India should welcome refugees from Myanmar. Atithi devo bhava, etc.”. On odd days: “India should not allow outsiders to settle in Kashmir and dilute its unique demography.”
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Vidya Krishnan to call Dr. Fauci a bigoted Sanghi crook in 3 . 2 . 1 . .
Covaxin found to neutralise 617 variant of Covid-19: Dr Fauci .
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Even an NCO knows that no animal has ever beheaded another animal in cold blood for insulting its religion.
Only animals can do such things. Despicable.
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“Not human enough.” I️ believe there’s a German word for that. Some guys in the late 1930s and early 1940s used it often.
@LeenaManimekali But when asked if she believes she has hurt the religious sentiments of Hindus, Manimekalai responds with a defiant no. “These trolls are not human enough to have any ‘sentiments’ to hurt. They have nothing to do with Hinduism or faith," she says.
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1. She isn’t there to “represent adivasis”. She’s there to carry out the duties of the President of India. 2. The arrogance of an upper caste elite trying to teach an adivasi how to be a “proper” adivasi is something to behold.
I am not sure she will be able to represent the adivasis the way they need to be represented because all the BJP policies are anti-adivasi: @nandinisundar, Sociologist & Author. #NewsToday with @SardesaiRajdeep | #DraupadiMurmu
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*Phew*. Glad to know that democracy is no longer in danger anymore.
BREAKING: Violence breaks out in Bengal soon after the #WestBengalElections results were clear. BJP party office in Arambagh is set on fire. Allegation against TMC, TMC denies charge.
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Imagine leading an online lynch mob against an industrialist and then blaming Modi for his departure 🤷🏻♂️.
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Vladimir Ilyich Kohli.
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Shocked to know that Covaxin was studied by its developer and India’s apex body for medical research. Instead it should have undergone third party review by by the . er . Sahitya Akademi.
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Nice to see people who looked the other way when the Amar Jawan Memorial in Mumbai was vandalised, now scream bloody murder at the prospect of the Jyoti at India Gate being merged with the flame at the National War Memorial.
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Rajdeep two days later: “Has our rat race for 24x7 breaking news converted us to rash, insensitive scaremongers? Introspection a must. Gnight, shubhratri!”
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Via @globaltimesnews: PLA Z-10 attack helicopter undertaking extreme low-level manoeuvres in the Tibetan plateau.
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We have gone from “India won’t vaccinate enough people by the end of 2021” to “India isn’t giving boosters in 2021”. That’s impressive progress 😎.
Nearly one-third of the population of the UK has received a booster. In India, we don’t even have a policy statement on the booster. And for those primed on Covishield/Covaxin (with no access to the mRNAs) we don’t even properly know what the right booster is.
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An Indian woman living in India calling herself a “woman of color” teaches you so much about American cultural hegemony and its hold on the public discourse worldwide 😎.
Sorry to hear this. All solidarity with you. Unfortunately this unacceptable hate and threat is something many of us muslim women of colour are subjected to for speaking up. These are right wingers who want to ‘liberate’ muslim women from hijab while calling them whores and sluts.
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We are the nicest, friendliest, meekest, tamest, don’t-rock-the-boat-est, and turn-the-other-cheek-est people in the world 🥰
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Your friendly reminder that Siddharth Varadarajan is an American. His perpetuation of a fraudulent story targeting the Indian government would generally be seen as "influence operations". But our liberal intelligentsia tell us that he's defending Indian democracy. So. 🤷🏻♂️.
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India’s disturbing slide towards electoral authoritarianism continues unabated.
We want to thank @gofundme for listening to our concerns as a City and a police service. The decision to withhold funding for these unlawful demonstrations is an important step and we call on all crowdfunding sites to follow.
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Imagine falling for a scam this transparent in 2020. These are our supposedly intelligent, well-read, discerning intelligentsia.
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Standard-issue 90’s era ammunition container. Usually issued to the troops around the October-November campaign season. The ammo itself was cheap, readily available, and platform-agnostic.
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*Hamas carries out a ghastly massacre in Israel*. Indian-origin WaPo columnist: I wonder if I can somehow connect this to the BJP and “right wing” Indians?
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Who here remembers Vivian Balakrishnan flying off the handle when Kejriwal mentioned a “Singapore variant”? Jaishankar had to personally smoothe all the ruffled feathers in Singapore.
India summoning the Singapore envoy over its PM’s statement again underlines the rise of a prickly, thin-skinned India. Sadly, not like a rising, multi-dimensional global power, content & confident in its skin. The last countries India should emulate are North Korea & China….
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19 Pakistani sailors rescued in second successful anti-piracy mission by INS Sumitra off the coast of Somalia in less than 36 hours.
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The Indian Navy’s Sea King helicopters with mast-mounted sonars conducting anti-submarine operations at Pangong Tso.
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This is what Amit Shah said: “Hindi should be accepted as an alternative to English and not to local languages … unless we make Hindi flexible by accepting words from other local languages, it will not be propagated.”. Quite different from the spin being put on it 🙂.
Repeat after me. HINDI IS NOT THE NATIONAL LANGUAGE.
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Wolf Warrior supervision. Although that kick at 0:24 was delicious.
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“India is too easy. Supine.” . Meanwhile, the Indian Army is the only one to have drawn Chinese blood in recent times, and has stationed multiple divisions of troops along the border in preparation for war. But I’m sure Tunku knows that.
@tanvi_madan No, one step: Give us everything we want. India is too easy. Supine.
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Aina will happily tweet this, but won’t utter a peep about all the videos of mobs intimidating temples and hurling slurs at the devotees. She’s very objective, you see. Totally dedicated to her job.
Nothing justifies this message. Nothing. Do not tell me that this comes with my job. If it makes you feel uncomfortable, quite frankly I don’t care. I’ve had several messages like this. I refuse to become desensitised to such brazen rage singling me out because of who I am.
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Tell me why Modi wins elections without telling me why Modi wins elections.
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The Indian Navy defeated the pirates. Someone should send this to Biden to show him how it’s done.
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One is FT’s former South Asia bureau chief and the other a “South Asia specialist”. And people wonder why Indians are hostile towards Western media outlets and journalists 🤷🏻♂️
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You do not go to “practice war” with a nuclear power that has a population of 1.3 billion 🤦🏻♂️.
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Right after Modi unveiled a statue of Subhasch Chandra Bosch in Delhi. And we say business isn’t being politicized 🙄.
German Company Bosch to invest Rs 2,000 crore in India by 2026 .
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I sometimes wonder whether these people were like this when in service as well. Would explain so much about why the country is in the state that it is.
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Was catching up with a Pakistani friend recently and he's like the twentieth Pakistan progressive friend to say "damn dude, a decade ago it felt like you guys had it all figured out and we were imploding, and it's completely flipped on its head" and I'm like, yup :(.
Secular? Modern? Inclusive? India? . Once again, Partition — as bloody and terrible as it was — makes sense.
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Best part here is that she calls herself an “Activist Against Islamophobia”. She’s based in the UK, of course 🙃.
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Hmm. Why did @the_hindu delete the tweet? That Russia invaded and annexed Crimea is in 2014 is a fact, no? Whatever happened to speaking truth to power? Or is that “courage” only reserved for peddling false narratives about India?
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Sweden, which built a cock-and-bull case against Julian Assange for reporting inconvenient truths, is #3 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
#RSFIndex: RSF unveils its 2022 World #PressFreedom Index. 1: Norway🇳🇴.2: Denmark🇩🇰.3: Sweden🇸🇪. 16: Germany🇩🇪.24: UK🇬🇧.26: France🇫🇷.42: USA🇺🇸.58: Italy🇮🇹.71: Japan🇯🇵.110: Brazil🇧🇷.134: Algeria🇩🇿.150: India🇮🇳. 178: Iran🇮🇷.179: Eritrea🇪🇷.180: North Korea🇰🇵.
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One plausible explanation is that he wants to punish the country for inflicting two ignominious defeats on him, back-to-back.
Former Congress president #RahulGandhi Saturday said Congress, if voted into office in the Lok Sabha elections, would conduct a financial and institutional survey to ascertain who is in possession of the wealth of the country, and would then undertake an exercise to redistribute
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Europe imports a billion dollars worth of Russian energy PER DAY. But India, which buys a fraction of that, is undercutting European efforts to isolate Russia 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻.
China and India are emerging as pivotal financiers for Moscow by purchasing large amounts of Russian crude. Undercutting European and American efforts to isolate Russia after its invasion of Ukraine risks serious diplomatic fallout.
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An Indian Navy MiG-29K with two quad racks of Astra AAMs prepares to take off from an airstrip near the Hagia Sophia. The deployment is in response to Turkish Sultan Recep Erdoggone’s request for Indian military assistance to counter Pakistani harassment of actress Esra Bilgiç.
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From jokes about poo to jealousy of our Pu, India has come a long way indeed 😎.
#India has secretly built enough #plutonium for 839 nuclear bombs, creating the world’s 3rd largest #nuclear stockpile! . - Global security is at risk.
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“Call for medical” isn’t a thing. Candidates who clear the interview stage are asked to stay behind for a medical examination right after the results are announced. I️ would know. I️ was there 😈.
@TruthSpeak1508 Read again. I wasn't rejected. Medical was supposed to be in Bangalore. Was told I'll be informed to about Medical. Didn't get a call/letter. Not sure how it is now. This was in 2005.
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“Indians aren’t as smart as I am. And yet, they like the same moves as I do. How come?”
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"I don't know why I am being dragged into a controversy I created. I apologize for any offence that my innocent tweet, which was deliberately worded to be offensive, has caused. The Fauj runs in my blood because some of my relatives served. You should salute me for that.".
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“I️ tried pretending to be an expert on a complex topic that is beyond my understanding. I️ fcuked up and instead spread misinformation. The people who are now pointing it out are ‘ BJP dogs’”.
I released a video on Coronavirus on 6th Feb. In that video I said that coronavirus was limited to China. At that time, it was true. Now some BJP dogs like Vivek Agnihotri are taking clip from old video and passing it off as a recent statement. Watch latest video for updated info.
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Leaked footage of WHO and Bharat Biotech meeting on Covaxin approval.
Covaxin approval: WHO seeks additional clarifications for Emergency Use Listing
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NATO countries want exceptions made for luxury goods and diamonds, but India should stick its neck out and unequivocally condemn Russia 🙄.
Italian prime minister Mario Draghi successfully secured a carve out for Italian luxury goods from the EU's package of economic sanctions against Nato, EU dip tells me. 'Apparently selling Gucci loafers to oligarchs is more of a priority than hitting back at Putin,' source adds.
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Excellent! They should add that hack Vidya Krishnan to the list as well.
[BREAKING] In a 100 CRORE defamation case filed by BHARAT BIOTECH, Andhra Court ordered taking down of 14 articles on @thewire_in and restrained. 1)THE WIRE.2) Siddharth Vardarajan.3) SR Bhatia .4) M.K. Venu &others. From publishing DEFAMATORY articles relating to @BharatBiotech
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We forgave. We forgot. At least in the short term. “Aman ki Asha” was initiated a little more than a year after 26/11. In 2011, the Indian govt resumed formal talks with Pak. In 2012, we granted MFN status. The same year, Track-2 diplomacy to “demilitarize” Siachen took off.
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Biden didn’t sanction India for its “military takeover of Kashmir” because he was six years old in 1948, ya shitbird.
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Waiting for DW and BBC to tell us how this is all propaganda peddled by India’s far right.
He was a dean of Dhaka University, who didn’t allow students to recite the Quran Publicly. Today, students recited Quran in his office, make dua for his hidaya and forced him to resign. Poetic Justice!
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"Retirement gives you balls", was something someone once said about this nice gentleman.
A king once attempted to visit a part of his kingdom that was perpetually revolting against his edicts. It flopped due to poor understanding of the situation by his vanguard. The king got annoyed and jailed his minister for security. Grimms’ fairy tale runs out of steam😂.
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1. Pelosi won't visit because the PLA's A2AD "firewall" is formidable. 2. What? Pelosi visited? ASEAN will be upset.
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Not a scientific poll or anything, but Canadians on social media seem to be openly mocking the visa story. "Aren't you always telling us that you're worried about Indian persecution? So why do you want an Indian visa?". In that sense, GlobalNews has done India a huge favour.
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“Indian agents also allegedly recruited jihadists to carry out the shootings, making them believe they were killing “infidels”.”.
Our investigation into how the Indian government ordered assassinations in Pakistan as part of a wider strategy to eliminate terrorists on foreign soil, according to intelligence officials. It's a lengthy read but worth it for the eye-opening details .
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Yesterday’s expert epidemiologists are now explaining to us how a large hall cannot be converted to a recovery ward if hospital capacity is to be surged.
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This is stronger than Bhutan’s public statements during the Doklam confrontation.
Just in: "Bhutan has watched with deep concern, events in Ukraine, calls for respecting sovereignty. Bhutan adds its voice in defence of UN charter. Threats, use of force cannot be tolerated." Bhutan PR. Bhutan to vote in support of UNGA resolution against Russia
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Sharp, very sharp fact check that demolishes Rahul Kanwal’s recent sting. Now it’s up to Kanwal to prove that he wasn’t making stuff up.
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Genuine question: why is it okay to hawk beef and encourage its consumption in the rest of India but “beyond the pale” to open up liquor shops in Kashmir?
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This is cool. NYT’s narrative has gone from, “India’s response is so incompetent that millions will die!!!” to, “Oh the lockdown is amazingly effective but we wish it weren’t because OMG caste!”.
India's lockdown is strict & zealously enforced, helping reduce infections. But lower castes are being shunned more than usual. The term “social distancing” plays straight into centuries of ostracism of people who until recently were called “untouchable.”
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The Indian Army's Rafael multi-role fighter is so advanced that it can fire its gun blindfolded and still hit the target. The news portal LiveFest, run by journalist Shiv Tharoor, has reported that the Rafaels will soon be deployed to Lake Pingpong Tao. /s.
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I hope zoo bear, Arfa, et. al. fact-check him. Pronto. Cant allow these fake news peddlers to spread Islamophobia like this.
New Home Minister Shakhawat Hossain Apologises To Hindu Community For Failure To Protect Them. He Says Its The Failure Of Majority Community To Protect Others. He Hopes Things Will Be Better Soon . Good To See He Apologising Though Majority Incidents Happened Before He Took Oath
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Proud to know that Bayer, ABB, and Jockey are Indian brands. Also, full marks to RAW agent Werleman for showing the correct map of Kashmir and Ladakh 😎.
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@ShivAroor My sources deep within the establishment suggest that this is footage of the CISF attempting to control long lines of disgruntled passengers at Delhi Airport.
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