Indep. journo. Podcaster. Film course teacher. Runs @opiniontandoor. The Wire's Grit Fellow, RTI Fellow, The Hindu Centre Fellow, Sahapedia-UNESCO Fellow etc.
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Finally realised my childhood dream of making my drawings move. Drawing each element in each frame by hand and moving them inch by inch, seeing them come to life was an experience I can't put into words. Made even more special by my mummy @AmitaGarima lending her voice to it. 😊
Priya Sultana is out now on Begum Rokeya Sakhawat Hossain's b'day, inspired by her story, Sultana's Dream, one of the 1st Sci-fi and Feminist Utopian stories in South Asia.
Voice Acting by @AmitaGarima
Written, Animated & Directed by @SumitJournalist
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If there is nothing to hide, why so quick to delete the @reporters_co story?
Instagram restricted our story on the ECI’s internal records of 2024 elections within two hours, citing the IT Rules. And when we posted about the restriction, that post was removed too.
Watch and share this video to see what @TweetSumedha & @VenkateshNSS reported on.
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In Mustafabad, @the_hindu found 87 voters against whom deletions have been sought by BJP BLAs. All 796 Form 7s are against Muslim electors and 16 BLAs deny filing them.
In this story, I find how all Form 7s spread across 25 booths, 3 areas. The areas were not 'picked' randomly.🧵
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Hello @ceoup @ECISVEEP, UP CM @myogiadityanath claims that one of the objective of SIR was to remove the names of 46 lakh deceased voters and identify and remove illegal immigrants from Pakistan and Bangladesh.
But, according to the Form 10 data we collected from the ECI website for 6 January – 10 April 2026, only 3,099 entries were flagged as 'Non-Indian Citizens'.
Could you pls share a detailed breakdown of these 3,099 entries? How many were Pakistani, Nepali, Rohingya or Bangladeshi nationals, and how many were former Indian citizens who had acquired citizenship abroad? How many objections were verified and resulted in deletion?
Against a total electorate of 15,44,30,092 (15.44 crore), these 3,099 entries amount to approximately 0.002%.
Please share the report so that Politicians can use (or skip) this data during during election rallies. Also, This will help the public to assess the data behind these claims.
Yours Truly,
"Mr. Fact-Checker"
"Shri Zubair".
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Israel must immediately open all Gaza crossings and let humanitarian aid in, starting with new tents and modular housing, clean water, nutrient-rich food, medicines. If by 9am tomorrow Israel still refuses, any principled leader would send humanitarian vessels to break the siege.
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#हिंदी एक्शन फंतासी #कॉमिक्स की उपसंस्कृति पर हमारे #वीडियो की इस #झलक में देखें कैसे 80 के दशक के अंत तक #इंद्रजाल कॉमिक्स का समापन होता गया पर दूसरी तरफ़ 1986 में हिंदी एक्शन फंतासी कॉमिक्स को #राजकॉमिक्स में अपना नया घर मिल गया। पूरे वीडियो का लिंक- youtu.be/IirixxZVidY
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On the record : NIA and Indian Police departments are buying phone cloning software from the Israeli company Cellebrite.
On 10 Oct Delhi Police detained @dhruv_rathee and took his phone. On @kunalkamra88’s podcast with @ShyamMeeraSingh he said he believes they tried to clone it with Cellebrite. We can’t verify that. But we can show what the government buys. (1/10)
Writes @Vikram0Raj : internetfreedom.in/the-home-…
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This is the central question to AWOL ECs.
Why is Bengal the exception to attempts to appease critics/people on SIR?
How can EC be selective?
“Second chance” why not for Bengal?
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Sorry @Jairam_Ramesh SIR must be scrapped not suspended. And we need to Revert to 2024 Voter Rolls with Additions of +18 year old First Time Voters added thru Public Hearings! #SIR
Another day, yet another U-turn.
The Election Commission of India has just issued instructions to include left-out voters in the on-going SIR in seven states/UTs. This is a belated admission that wrongful deletion and exclusion has indeed taken place under the ASDD (Absent, Shifted, Dead, Duplicate) category.
The ECI is carrying out corrective after corrective after the nation-wide outrage and anger over SIR which has robbed over 13 crore Indians of their constitutional right to vote. Every new set of orders begs the question: what was the point of this bureaucratic mess that every Indian has been put through? These repeated clarifications and amendments actually expose the true intent of the diabolical PM-HM. They have been caught out.
SIR is the latest form of Vote Chori. And now that the Chori has been caught, the ECI and the PM-HM duo are doing everything to cover their tracks.
Every corrective also reinforces what has become abundantly clear:
1. Gyanesh Kumar must go.
2. SIR must be suspended.
Sumit Chaturvedi retweeted
Ooph Why is 2024 Electoral Roll not being reverted to?
Nearly 2 lakh people declared dead in ECI’s SIR exercise in Rajasthan are found alive in the roll prepared by the State for ongoing panchayat elections.
Read full report by @meherk___, @DikshyaKoirala7 and @nidamominn
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Hey @ECISVEEP, it will be much cleaner & simpler if you just rolled back the entire fraudulent SIR instead of doing course corrections every day!
SIR must be completely withdrawn.
Voter lists restored to pre-SIR status.
Then, revisions done transparently through public audits!
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.@myogiadityanath, आपने नियम बनाया था कि प्रोटेस्ट करने वालों को सरकारी नौकरी नहीं मिलेगी।
अब बस अमल कर दीजिए!
आख़िर CM की नौकरी भी तो सरकारी है।
#WATCH | Ghaziabad: Uttar Pradesh Chief Minister Yogi Adityanath participates in 'Loktantra Bachao, Arajakta Hatao' padyatra in Ghaziabad.
Sumit Chaturvedi retweeted
SIR removes bogus voters - @Tejasvi_Surya
Jyothi from Bangalore South who received 5 voter ids after final roll must be Rolling on the floor laughing.
SIR removes bogus voters.
A Congress minister in Karnataka initially praised the SIR, but later changed his stance under pressure from within his party.
In Kerala, a Congress leader also acknowledged that the SIR had removed nearly one crore bogus voters.
SIR is praised in Kerala but questioned in Maharashtra. Is Congress's position on electoral reforms determined by whether it wins or loses?
The country deserves a responsible Opposition.
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#जयशंकरप्रसाद के #गद्यसाहित्य में #काव्यात्मकता और #छायावाद की छाया पर हमारे #वीडियो की इस #झलक में देखें किस प्रकार #प्रसाद के #साहित्य में #मनोभाव एवं अंतर्मन के #चित्रण में उनकी #काव्यात्मक शैली प्रकट हो जाती थी। पूरे वीडियो का लिंक- youtu.be/sWVrVcMJcHk
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Union Minister Lalan Singh has said that Aadhaar will be replaced by voter IDs.
This was the plan all along. The SIR exercise has already removed at least 13.3 crore Indians from the electoral rolls. Now the absence of a voter ID is being floated as grounds to deny ration, housing, health insurance and guaranteed employment.
This is the larger design. First, strip people of their political voice by deleting them from the rolls. Then strip them of their welfare entitlements for not being on them.
The result: millions of Indians pushed out of both the democratic and the welfare framework, reduced to second-class citizens, denied rights that are theirs as citizens.
Aadhaar to be replaced by voter ID, biometrics for benefit payments: Minister indianexpress.com/article/in…
