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Ashrut retweeted
@ABPNews की ये ख़बर देखिए.
ये चैनल मुझे वेश्या और कॉल गर्ल बताना चाहता है.
मैं सरकार से सवाल पूछूँगी तो ये बिके हुए चैनल मुझे इस तरह से अपमानित करने का प्रयास करेंगे.
इस देश का महिला आयोग मर गया है क्या? @NCWIndia
इन गोदी चैनलों का भाजपा की दलाली से पेट नहीं भर रहा है. इन्हें अब बेटियों का सम्मान खाना है.
@narendramodi इस देश को आपने बेटियों के लिए नर्क बना दिया है.
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When I started using the Delhi Metro, I was struck by everything: air-conditioned coaches, audio announcements, automatic turnstiles, even staff who allowed me to chain my bicycle outside the station.
Today, I had the honor of documenting it in @nytimes
nytimes.com/2026/09/02/headw…
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no RAF, no pellet guns, all in good fun
year after year
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While I was reporting for @Article14live on Facial Recognition Technology used by Delhi police, I found myself on their monitor. Delhi police was caught on camera surveilling a journalist on duty. When I confronted them, this is what they had to say.
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Tear gas and batons. Suspended metro services and mobile internet. Reported unnecessary and excessive use of force against peaceful protesters. Demonstrators in India were marching towards parliament to demand the resignation of a Union education minister following alleged examination paper leaks that affected millions of students. The Delhi Police responded with violent crackdowns.
Indian authorities must ensure that all allegations of unlawful conduct against these Cockroach Party-led protests are promptly, independently, and impartially investigated.
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The sheer amount of anti-Modi hatred at the protests is astonishing. Not just against the government or the Party in general, but against Modi personally.
People are mocking him directly, shouting anti-Modi slogans, singing songs cursing him, defacing his posters and images, and it won't be surprising if people start burning his effigies on the streets.
This is an astonishing failure of Modi's omnipresent PR machinery. For more than a decade, they worked overtime to sanitize Modi's image, mythologizing him as an infallible, quasi-divine entity beyond reproach. Credit for every successful government policy was always attributed to him, while he was carefully kept away from all its failures, for which his minions (e.g. ministers) eagerly absorbed the blame. Corporate media sang his praises and extolled his virtues day after day. It was perhaps the biggest cult of personality in modern India's political history, surpassing even that of Nehru.
And today, it's all going down the drain. The house of cards is crashing down. As always, pride came before the fall. Style can only win over substance for so long.
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Despite calling them out ( @TajinderBagga @Mrsinha @UnSubtleDesi ) for sharing clipped video, more than an hour back, None of them have deleted their misleading tweet or apologised for sharing misleading video.
These BJP members and Iat cell trolls have been waiting for a slightest oppertunity to bring in Hindu-Muslim angle to target the Protesting students..
Beware! They did the same during Shaheen bagh protest, They did the same during Farmers Protest. They are trying the same formula even now.
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IIT Rorkee’s gag order warning students from using social media for participating or discussing current student protests.
IIT Roorkee calls students not to say or do anything which is capable of embarrassing relation between Central govt and IIT.
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Rahul Gandhi today exhibited a degree of personal physical courage that will forever be beyond the comprehension of Narendra Modi, a man too frightened to take an unscripted question.
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This work is in Bad Taste by @thewire_in. Don’t watch it. Anyone who watches and laughs is anti national. Like or Share it for awareness purpose so that people know what not to watch.
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After 30 years of planning, Navi Mumbai Airport opened in 2025 without NO REAL RAPID TRANSIT LINK. The nearest rail station is 3.2 km away with commuter trains every 60 minutes, the other station is 8.3km away, crowds heavily, and both require unreliable shuttle buses to access.
No cabs were ready to take any trips
In the Mumbai Metropolitan Region, transport has become a massive struggle by design. Bad planning is now a norm.
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Wheelers book stalls going! It is the end of an era of Nobel laureate Rudyard Kipling's dream on Indian Railways. One of Indian Railways’ most iconic features—the Wheeler book stalls— are set to disappear from stations across Mumbai’s Western Railway network, marking the end of a nearly century-old legacy. #Mumbai
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A couple of days ago, OTTPlay, the website I used to write for, shut down. It was abrupt and no one had an inkling. As someone escaping a blazing house, my knee-jerk reaction was to save the few pieces I was happy with. The shock came a little later and remains.
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I hope @ReelReptile's singular column finds a new home soon. The same for @MadameSengupta and @gradwolf's essential criticism
It's a difficult time to be a cricket and Bollywood fan. Went long on this moral conflict in what is, perhaps fittingly, my final OTTplay column:
ottplay.com/features/for-the…
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CC to all those who have stopped laughing in the pursuit of making India a vishwa kind of Guru. Go and Laugh. Laughing clubs in your neighbourhood park requires good stuff.
Back to stand up |
Chennai shows few tickets left -
3-4-5th April | in.bookmyshow.com/events/sta…
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Delighted to share that @Reuters has won India’s most prestigious journalism honour — the Ramnath Goenka Award — for business reporting for the investigation that revealed how Apple supplier Foxconn rejected married women from India iPhone assembly jobs because they had more family responsibilities than unmarried women.
The story had immediate and lasting impact. Modi's government called for an investigation within hours of the story being published, and the women's wing of Modi's party, India's human rights agency and opposition parties all reacted to it. The story became a major talking point on TV news and talk shows, as well as in newspaper editorials. Indian labour officials visited the Foxconn factory as part of the probe. Foxconn changed its policy: the company quietly tweaked its hiring protocols. It ordered its hiring agents who helped recruit iPhone assembly workers to remove age, gender and marital criteria from job ads.
For some Indian women, a job building iPhones is a ticket out of poverty. Between January 2023 and May 2024, Reuters made more than 20 trips to Sriperumbudur. We also reviewed a candidate information pamphlet, dozens of job ads and records of WhatsApp discussions in which four of Foxconn’s third-party recruiters stated to prospective candidates that only unmarried women were eligible for assembly jobs. 🙏
It was an important story. Apple is positioning India as an alternative manufacturing base to China. India PM Modi sees Foxconn’s iPhone factory and Apple’s broader supply chain as helping the world’s most populous country move up the economic value chain.
With @PraveenR_P, @MunsifV. Special thanks to our editor for the project, David Crawshaw. @ReutersPR
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This is influencer Mukesh Mohan.
Not long ago, he stormed into the national spotlight by dropping a hard-hitting video on Nitin Gadkari’s alleged beef business — a video that was firmly rooted in The Caravan’s explosive investigative report.
Now, for doing exactly that, the same Mukesh Mohan has been hit with a massive ₹50 crore defamation suit — and an FIR slapped on top of it.
The man has been dragged through Nagpur police stations for the last two days straight, running from one counter to another, while the authorities have already seized one of his phones.
Let this sink in: The Caravan report was the original source that blew the lid off the beef business. Mukesh Mohan simply made a video based on that very report and credible sources.
So tell me — how “justified” is it to file an FIR and slap a ₹50 crore defamation case on an influencer for simply speaking on a story that an award-winning magazine had already exposed?
@MukeshMohannn
