Nirupama Subramanian
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Journalist. ElectionBeat podcast Gone fishing @AwaazSouthAsia . Earlier @ The Indian Express, The Hindu.
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A hot LOC with Pakistan, a hot LAC with China, tensions with Nepal, a miffed Bangladesh (over CAA), not on the table in Afghanistan. How did we get here?
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Kangana Ranaut made the cardinal mistake of reminding you know who about the you know what.
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Anyone who thinks India’s “real” freedom came in 2014 shouldn’t be accepting an award set up in 1955. Pls return it.
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Lesson from Lanka: Elected leaders in majoritarian democracies cannot feed off polarisation alone.
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The Kumbh mela and election rallies happened on Mars.
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The more he speaks, the more he reveals himself to be unfit for any job, let alone that of PM.
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Long overdue, long thread from
#Kashmir
from my visit to the Valley from Aug 20-25.
It's surprising how many people believe India's Kashmir problem is solved.The reality on the ground is entirely different, & once the fog of celebration clears,the challenges may become apparent.
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Close your eyes and imagine this was the response when a cabinet Minister called Bangladeshis termites.
However, irresponsible comments from those who should know better can damage long-standing partnerships.
So, let me clarify- Delhi CM does not speak for India.
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Good move by Pakistan to release Wing Commander Abhinandan. 👍👍
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Dear Ambassador Gilon, you may know this already, Hitler has many admirers in this country among the same lot who saw in a bad film an opportunity to push communalism, bigotry, prejudice. Sorry to say, your apology empowered them. MeinKampf is India’s perennial top seller.
Just wanted to share one of a few DMs I got in this direction.
According to his profile, the guy has a PhD🤔.
Even though he doesn’t deserve my protection, I decided to delete his identifying information.
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Wish India had acknowledged this missile fiasco immediately after it happened, instead of keeping quiet for 48 hours after the incident, and making a statement only after Pakistan announced it.
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To those saying I’m a “Chinese agent” for being “silent” about their role in Lanka collapse, thank you, because it has given me an opportunity to tell you all how the politics of ethnic and communal hate brought the rajapaksas and the Chinese together. >>
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Friends, I’ve been reporting from 🇱🇰 over the last 2 days for
@IndianExpress
The anger I’ve seen and heard in this time is a massive explosion against the failures of the government to make it better for the people after a 3-decade civil war ended in 2009.
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For the first time 3 Hindu candidates won in
#PakistanElectionResults2018
on general seats - one in NA and two for Sindh PA. All from PPP.
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From a friend in
#NZ
- tomorrow, women across the country will wear a headscarf and men a scarf over their shoulders, in solidarity with the Christchurch victims. This is going to be powerful.
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🤣🤣🤣🤣. When misinformation becomes so absurd you can only laugh as you remember Kargil 1999, IC814 1999, Parliament attack 2001, Pathankot 2016; Uri 2016; Dokalam 2016-17; China inside India at Ladakh 2020, an ongoing crisis.
What Israel is facing today, India suffered between 2004-14. Never forgive, never forget…
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What kind of man wears only underwear when he opens the door to a colleague he has called up to his room? 🧐
What kind of woman goes into a hotel room when a man greets her in his underwear?
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Those attacking Kashmiri students in different parts of India, or appealing for an “economic boycott” of Kashmir, please remember you are helping terrorists/jihadists achieve their goal. This is exactly what those guys want. And to think you are falling into the trap so easily.
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Hate to say this about my own colleagues but it's amazing to see everyone going gaga about Pakistan getting "spooked" by India, and mum about what is happening in Ladakh vis a vis PLA. Tell us something about that, will you please? Waiting in the dark, here, in India.
#Ladakh
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Seen Pak spooks stop guests outside IndianHiCom in Islamabad, hectoring,haranguing them.Used to think: small minded,insecure country. Guess what? IN Delhi today,Indian spooks tried to prevent Indians frm attending reception at PakHiCom. Same pinch.Smallminded, insecure country.
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Welcome back Wing Commander, brave son of India. But beware of any pilot project that may be awaiting you.
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Is the Sri Lankan President trolling government of India? Very interesting...
Contrary to the usual tear-gas & baton charge that greeted Uni student protestors previously, I invited the union reps to Pres office to meet with Addtl Secy & Higher Ed officials to discuss grievances. Regular follow-up mtngs were scheduled, to ensure speedy resolution to issues
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Here’s
@ImranKhanPTI
‘s first big announcement on India-Pak relations - let’s talk, let’s trade
To move forward Pakistan and India must dialogue and resolve their conflicts incl Kashmir: The best way to alleviate poverty and uplift the people of the subcontinent is to resolve our differences through dialogue and start trading
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At the rate at which JK police/administration is going after journalists, there will be soon more journalists in Kashmir jails than militants. The targeting of journalists in Kashmir should worry media across the country.
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When someone claims they are descended directly from God, they are usually dismissed as crazy, and their family members/friends will take them to see a doctor.
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For one, India has no friends left in Kashmir. Even those who called themselves “moderates”, those who pushed India's case in the Valley, are angered so much that they say they have to rethink everything they stood for.
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To all those on my timeline pointing out that it was dynasty that caught up with the Rajapaksas, pls note: Friend “Abe san” was a third generation politician. His grandfather was PM of Japan and father was foreign minister.
#SriLankaProtests
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Someone in high office hints that India might change NFU and he gets 35.5k likes!!! Do people even know what a nuclear bomb does? Or are they cheering in the belief that they will survive it? Is surviving a nuclear war better than dying in it?
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Can’t help remember today
#Karunanidhi
publicly applauded LTTE for fighting back Indian Army (IPKF) in SL >>
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Did they unblock Twitter just for you, Ambassador?
We (22 foreign envoys) are interacting with the traders, businesswomen & entrepreneurs in Srinagar about the status of business & tourism in J&K on the sideline of our tour to this beautiful valley.
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Wow!touched by unity in Parliament condemning Pak, wish we could see such emphatic condemnations of communal lynchings, attacks on marriage parties in the name of 'love jihad', attacks by cow vigilantes on unsuspecting people, and the inhumane treatment of humanshield Farooq Dar
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Yes, all those interested in peace and normalcy between India and Pakistan feel exactly the same way.
I want to thank Sidhu for coming to Pakistan for my oath taking. He was an ambassador of peace & was given amazing love & affection by ppl of Pakistan. Those in India who targeted him are doing a gt disservice to peace in the subcontinent - without peace our ppl cannot progress
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Wonder how India would react if SMQ asked his High Commission here for report on Holi Gurgaon incident in which Muslim family was beaten by mob that got into their house.This is what is possibly meant by going bananas, even if it’s in hyper election season.
#selectivechowkidari
I have asked Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan to send a report on this.
@IndiainPakistan
Two Hindu girls abducted on Holi eve in Pakistan's Sindh via
@TOIWorld
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Even in N.Kashmir, where the Army had built a solid relationship with people, a youth sitting in the waiting room of the office of a district's deputy commissioner said: “The India story is over for us”. I found this sentiment voiced again and again, in many places in the Valley.
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Why PM Modi and EAM Jaishankar will try and stoke emotions on
#Katchathivu
but won’t tell you what India got in return, including sovereignty over the strategic Wadge Bank, where the govt has only weeks ago invited bids for oil exploration, I write for
@newslaundry
PM Modi has raked up the
#KatchatheevuIssue
again, to find an “emotional” issue that will resonate with voters in Tamil Nadu, given that the upcoming polls are one in which the BJP is desperate to make inroads into the southern states.
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@tallstories
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The first step to resolving a problem is to acknowledge it exists. In Kashmir, the problem cannot be acknowledged as it officially ceased to exist on August 5, 2019. Therefore, everyone has to keep their heads down and pretend all is well in Kashmir, including Kashmiri Pandits.
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The government will eventually tire out the people, but if there ever was a plan to win them over, it has become much more difficult now, if not impossible, than it was before August 5.
End of thread. Thank you for reading.
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“Modi hopes for safety of Hindus and other minorities as he congratulates Yunus for taking charge in Bangladesh”. We should also hope they don’t call Hindus and other minorities “ghuspetiye” or “termites”.
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It is not so much about Article 370 as it is about the fear of demographic change, the “loss of identity”, the loss of land rights, the loss of being “special”. The demotion of the state to a union territory has rubbed in the humiliation.
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With a thick security blanket, more troops than ever before, better intel and many successes against militancy as claimed, why is the government now so helpless as to have to ask visitors to the Valley to leave immediately? If this isn’t an admission of failure what is it?
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Be very scared when a government starts using the military to score political points.
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At the time I visited, people were still shocked, stunned by the turn of events, including the communication blockade, now in its fifth week, which they described as a “brazen” move to cut them out of the discussion altogether.
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It used to be that only Pakistan dumped on its Nobel laureates. Now India has joined that select club.
#WATCH
Piyush Goyal:Abhijit Banerjee ji ko nobel prize mila main unko badhai deta hun.Lekin unki samajh ke bare me to aap sab jaante hain.Unki jo thinking hai,wo totally left leaning hai.Unhone NYAY ke bade gungaan gaye the,Bharat ki janta ne totally reject kar diya unki soch ko
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They didn’t ask about why army camps were being set up in northern SL.Instead they opened their wallet to build infra projects.That’s how the Chinese walked all over Sri Lanka.Thanks for reading. And btw hope you all know that Chinese imports into India have never been higher. <<
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Next time Delhi whines about Indians having to wait “800 days” for US visas,it should remember how it has denied 2,500 Afghan students, many of them women,visas to return& resume their studies because of “trust and efficiency issues”.
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Oh, so SAARC is back in the reckoning? Until the other day, MEA wallahs were all about “SAARC has outlived it’s purpose” “SAARC is history. Have to move on” etc.
I would like to propose that the leadership of SAARC nations chalk out a strong strategy to fight Coronavirus.
We could discuss, via video conferencing, ways to keep our citizens healthy.
Together, we can set an example to the world, and contribute to a healthier planet.
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Re TN Governor describing himself as governor of Tamizhagam in the pongal invit, here is the constitutional amendment (Act 53 of 1968) renaming the old Madras state as Tamil Nadu.
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“Flood” and “ volcano” were common metaphors to describe how the anger would burst when communications are restored.
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@sheela2010
@washingtonpost
@thewire_in
False comparison. This is not a sting operation. It is government mounted surveillance on some marked people. No one in media is divided over publishing the names of the people that the government is tracking.
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Imagine you’re at a press conference with Prime Minister Modi and you get to ask him one question. Mine would be this: Prime Minister, why did you encourage a super spreader event like the Kumbh Mela to take place? What would yours be?
#askyourPM
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Both said what had happened "will boost militancy”. While one said the only way fwd was militancy, the other said he wasn't an advocate of violence, but what happened had angered him deeply. He said: “I was never for 've pushed me into its arms”.
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In a Pulwama village, for instance, two students who once thought of themselves as budding political leaders, and networked ceaselessly with mainstream politicians said India had broken what little trust it enjoyed in
#Kashmir
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So when a Prime Minister publicly contradicts his Home Minister , what does that mean ?
#NRC
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@iamthedrifter
Terrible. But why bring Palestine or Kashmir into this. The issues are different, the violence is different.
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I met one boy who had just been released. There was a red swelling on his arm where he said he had been beaten. At a few places, the villagers had cut trees and placed them across the roads to prevent security forces from entering.
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But if the first challenge is that virtually the entire population of the Valley has now turned anti-India, the next is that there are virtually no politicians left in the Valley who can sell Delhi's scheme to the people.
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First the ban on NDTV. Then murder charge against Nandini Sundar. What is this government getting so rattled about?
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In
@HamidMirPAK
show, interesting point that PM Imran Khan approved decision to import cotton yarn,sugar from India on March 26. In cabinet, Sh Mahmood Qureshi, Sh Rashid,Shireen Mazari & Asad Umer opposed ECC decision. Is this Gen Bajwa vs establishment? 😳😳
#indiapak
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One week of curfew, no communications and about 8 million people under lockdown. This is the promised deliverance of
#Kashmir
? For the rest of India, try living two hours without your phones, without being in touch with your kids.
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There was an older one with graves from the 90s. All these people didn't sacrifice their lives for nothing, they said. Villagers said the Army, much more visible now even by Kashmir stds, was picking up 4-5 boys every night, handing them over to cops,who wld release them next day
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Don’t think our guys realise that soft power ceases to be that when it starts taking orders from hard power.
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Someone pls clarify, if “sprinkling” news coverage with Chinese talking points (as NYT alleged of Newsclick),& allegedly receiving money for this are terror offences, is India accusing China of fomenting terror in India? Has Goi taken this up with China?
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Anyone who offers themselves as Delhi's face in Srinagar would have to be high on courage. People said: “Good all these leaders and politicians have been put in jail. They feathered their own nests by selling our fate to Delhi. They had it coming."
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Wild speculation on social media that IAF crossed into Pakistan to hit Balakote in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa. FYI, there is a Bala Kot across from Poonch. In fact it is a divided village on the LoC.
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There are two broad ways in which people expressed their anti-India response. One was typical of south Kashmir, from where the 2015 militancy began, and also of young people everywhere in the Valley.
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Two notable
#JNU
alumni , both cabinet mins in the Modi government, have condemned the violence on the campus over Twitter. Well done. Hope they have conveyed that same sentiment to Home Minister Amit Shah.
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In another village, people showed their “martyrs' cemetery” - a recent one where 8 people from the 2016 agitiation were buried – & said none would betray their memory.
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They nurse the hope that Pakistan or “someone else” will "do something". There is almost a wish for war. As one journalist put it: “The appetite for violence has grown”. There is dejection. US President Donald Trump is a hero.
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The other kind of response was from people in Srinagar. Even those who considered themselves “pro-India” are angry at their “betrayal by Delhi”.
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By arresting mainstream leaders, activists, lumping them with separatists, and creating a binary in which “You are with us or against us”, the govt too has left virtually no political space for “collaborators”.
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Harayana CM
@mlkhattar
takes train 2 Delhi.Says going by road waste,it means a long 'kafila' of cars
@IndianExpress
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No honest journo believes that Arnab was practising good or honest journalism, but many of is r on his side 2day coz we recognise this a slippery slope for media freedom.
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At the moment, Kashmir is anything but normal and all assertions to the contrary, whether by officials or media, are from la-la land. True, no violent uprising, but life, even the post-2016 one that people had got used to, is paralysed.
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This is the first time since Sheikh Abdullah’s August 8, 1953 arrest that mainstream political leaders in
#kashmir
have been arrested. This is the 66th year of that event in history, seen as a turning point in Kashmir from which Delhi’s relations with Valley never recovered.
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The home minister, whose efforts to bring peace in Manipur are yet to bear fruit, is trying to create another faultline in a peaceful part of the country with a reference to “Aliya, Maliya, Jamaliya”, an anti- Muslim jibe that Modi used extensively in the 2002 Gujarat election.
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19 lakh in Assam, 80 lakh in Kashmir— Indian citizens in unimaginable distress but everywhere else in India, people seem to think the way to make the country more secure is by inflicting misery on others.
#Karma
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OCI holding Kashmiri Pandit woman eminent professor gets deported, but government facilitates travel for crony’s private guests among whom is American celebrity Rihanna accused by EAM Jaishankar of running anti-India campaign. Nice.
Jamnagar airport declared an international airport for 10 days. For billionaire Mukesh Ambani’s youngest son’s special celebrations, the IAF has permitted access to its sensitive “technical” area as well. Govt presses in resources to set up a Custom, Immigration,Quarantine
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Pang Gong Tso as I saw it through the lens of my then new digital Canon during a visit in 2005
#Ladakh
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India snapshot 2day:after threats frm Hindutva grps, Muslim stand-up comic cancels shows in Mumbai;Kashmiri students booked for supporting Pak in cricket match; film makers wanting to shoot in a BJP ruled state must submit scripts for “approval”. Slipping down slippery slope fast
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The Prime Minister of the world’s largest democracy is going to finish his 5 year term without having faced a single press conference. Guinness Book of Records?
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All those complaining to
@airtelindia
or other phone net service providers about connectivity probs,take a deep breath & think of people in Kashmir who haven’t had connectivity for more than six months now. No.2G broadband is not good even to read your mail on the phone. Thanks
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Among those who'd never throw stones/shout Azadi slogans, but who built a middle of the road politics, supporting protests as well as held out for accommodation with Delhi, there was shock that there was no “spontaneous uprising” on the streets in the manner of '16.
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In Handwara, I was witness to an unlikely scene - a VHP member from Amritsar was lamenting the lack of “insaaniyat” as he tried to meet his detained Kashmiri friend’s case | India News, The Indian Express via
@IndianExpress
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China was the only one that didn’t ask questions about the Rajapaksas militarised majoritarianism,their search for new enemies that is the targeting of the Muslims, the setting up of the Bodu Bala Sena, the the speeches, the numbers of civilians killed and missing in the war >>
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"Hum ko chaar thappad padey, par inko bhi eik-do toh padey hain na. Achchi baat hai (We've been thrashed, but it's good that these politicans have also been slapped up)"
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In 2010, after the Rajapaksa led the military defeat of the LTTE, and wanted to maximise on the Sinhala-Buddhist chauvinism, they embarked on vanity infra projects in the south. China was the only one that didn’t ask uncomfortable probing questions about all the bad stuff.>>
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On the highways, there were plenty of private cars on the roads. But no public transport. Markets were shut.People said it was because of a “civil curfew”, a bandh, self-imposed because there was no call for it, as the leaders who normally do that are all detained.
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The Chinese didn’t want to know about white vans and missing or arrested journalists, they didn’t care about freedom of press or who killed Lasantha, they didn’t vote against SL in the Human Rights Council. >>
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One person alleged family members of those picked up were being asked to remove the trees as condition of release but I asked around in the village and could not find anyone like that.
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From 22 year old to 82 year old, the government’s at war with its own citizens, making an example of some to make others fall in line.
#goingnowhere
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For pulling no punches, this question asked at a press conf with the head of a country may have few equals: “Do you have blood on your hands?”-January 3, 2008, Islamabad. Q by a Brit TV journo to GenMusharraf after BB’s assassination.Don’t know why I remembered this today.
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Waiting for a good explanation for not taking any questions after briefings.
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Because it has great resources, the government may eventually find a politician or two, or even create a new lot of leaders in the manner it found candidates to run for the 2018 panchayat elections, to take the plan forward.But the going for them will hardly be easy.
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Congrats
@ImranKhanPTI
@PTIofficial
.Hope u allow Indian mediato visit your NayaPakistan instead of shutting us out.
#ElectionResults2018
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This is what Kashmir looks like one year later: members of a legitimate political party prevented from meeting, it's top leader still in jail.
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RTI was on ventilator support but made impressive recovery to provide TN BJP leader with the info he sought. And correct if I’m wrong, can’t think of a single other instance in which matters relating to diplomatic ties with another country have been generously provided.
Cleverly drafted RTI application by TN BJP President Annamalai, wherein he has sought for just two specific documents from MEA over Katchatheevu island.
1. Background Note on Katchatheevu dated 10.5.1961
2. Record of discussion between then Foreign Secy and then CM of TN dated
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There is dejection that world leaders side with India.
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