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Good meeting yesterday where various groups, even extending beyond Bengaluru, spoke about the importance of protest at the site of grievance and injustice. Wide coverage in newspapers in the city. The police came too but didn’t stay (they would have learnt something if they had)
BBMP decentralised into 5 corporations. Blore Police Comissionerate also likely to split into 5.
Why then should protests remain centralised and locked in freedom park ?
Join the Round Table organised by by @horaata_protest on Mon 26 Oct.
@bengawalk @clifroz @aishwaryar23
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The Karnataka High Court’s decision to quash the FIR against 13 people for painting slogans criticising a Supreme Court verdict is a welcome defence of free expression. When the police casually invoke grave charges over dissent, the process itself becomes the punishment.
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How long before we start referring to the 2C scenario as being in 'overshoot'? Next year?
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In Bichalghati, a Pando tribal village in Chhattisgarh, shrinking forest resources had pushed families towards low-paid work & migration.
Securing individual forest rights, building water infrastructure & reviving farming helped the village chart a different course.
Read the 🧵
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Umar Khalid's thesis was removed from IISER Pune library. Their BoG chair described its inclusion as "shocking" and a "mischief."
Bit of a strong reaction to a book whose subject is the effect of British colonial administration on Adivasi communities between 1830-1897.
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Please excuse them, they were busy asking us why we were carrying the 🇮🇳 & singing the National Anthem without prior permission.
Where are the "only freedom park", "traffic jam", "public inconvenience" warriors now? The @PoliceBangalore and @CPBlr must make public the application for permissions and the permission letters.
Tomorrow.
BBMP decentralised into 5 corporations. Blore Police Comissionerate also likely to split into 5.
Why then should protests remain centralised and locked in freedom park ?
Join the Round Table organised by by @horaata_protest on Mon 26 Oct.
@bengawalk @clifroz @aishwaryar23
Rishika Pardikar retweeted
BBMP decentralised into 5 corporations. Blore Police Comissionerate also likely to split into 5.
Why then should protests remain centralised and locked in freedom park ?
Join the Round Table organised by by @horaata_protest on Mon 26 Oct.
@bengawalk @clifroz @aishwaryar23
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This is the second time this had been burnt in anti dam protest. In 2011, the same office was burnt down.
From archive of Arunachal Times. Courtesy: @tongamrina
Eyewitnesses told @scroll_in that anti-dam protesters have set fire to the NHPC office in Pasighat after police fired tear gas on peaceful protestors.
A statement from police is awaited.
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Nah society (living in Taksin border) has repeatedly alerted the govt that Chinese troops have taken over their ancestral grazing lands. But our Displacement loving govt is blind when it comes to border security & busy building dams, imposing UAPA on indigenous people
Chinese troops have come in "6-7 kms" and set up tents according to govt sources quoted in Hindu.
[Remarkable that such a situation can exist for months and far from any action to evict PLA, Indians aren't even told. Xi was even hosted in the meanwhile!]
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Local journalist of Arunachal has been telling this since August. Nothing new in this report. Only thing is ITBF folk admitting in publicly. We were censored for writing about it by government of India. Delhi journos should visit ground and file report.
A roundtable discussion to reclaim the right to protest in Bengaluru. The underlying belief is that people should be able to protest wherever a grievance arises. The demand from the Congress government is to scrap BJP-era order restricting protests to Freedom Park
Local media had warned about this four months ago arunachaltimes.in/article/ch…
China and India in a standoff at multiple locations along Arunachal border since July, India hosted Xi Jinping from Sep 11-13 for the BRICS summit.
“In the past few-days, a situation arose where face-off happened at several locations in Arunachal and it still continues,” ITBP D-G Shatrujeet Kapur said on Thursday.
This is the first official confirmation of the scale of the continuing tensions on the north-eastern border since July this year.
Government sources told The Hindu that since late July, India and China have been engaged in a stand-off at Asaphila near Taksing in Arunachal Pradesh. The Chinese People’s Liberation Army (PLA) is said to have pitched tents at an elevation, within 6-7 kilometres of India’s perception of the Line of Actual Control (LAC) near Maja company operating base in Taksing circle of Upper Subansiri district, sources said. I ✍️
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And faced backlash
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This is how censorship works. My Instagram post about the alleged Chinese incursion in Taksing has been restricted. Everyone knows who is behind it. But how long can the truth be hidden?
#Taksing #UpperSubansiri #ArunachalPradesh
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"Why are French police so violent? Their job is to protect the state, not the people. Officers are instruments of state whose job is to repress, rather than manage, public dissent." trib.al/S65OegJ
"To deliver the Paris commitment to keep warming well below 2°C requires global CO₂ emissions to fall by around 8% annually, starting immediately. The rate would be higher for the UK & other developed countries if the equity dimension of the Paris Agreement were taken seriously"
Jackdaw: a decision for last century. climateuncensored.com/jackda…
A hastily drafted post following the UK Govt’s decision to approve further drilling & production at the Jackdaw gas field in the N.Sea. Please excuse typos, non-sequiturs, etc - I wanted to get the post online today.
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Want to understand the underlying economic currents for India's youth movement? Join us on the seminar happening now:
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Students in Italy hit the streets to demand their government fund education instead of war.
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Honestly…watching the RSS centenary celebrations and the march through the streets of Itanagar today was unsettling. We have so many issues in Arunachal Pradesh that need our leaders’ attention, yet seeing them align themselves with the RSS makes me wonder where our own Indigenous identity stands in all of this. What about our land rights, reservation, ILP, customary laws, constitutional safeguards, our languages and belief systems? As Indigenous people we need to ask these questions. Supporting a political party or ideology is a personal choice but we also have every right to question what that alignment means for our communities. Our identity should never come second to political loyalty.
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My dearest Swayamsevaks of the RSS,
Hope the Dasara festivities are in full swing!
Not to be a wet blanket, but a gentle reminder, merely “informing” or telling the Home Department to “cooperate” or “make necessary arrangements” is not the same as obtaining permission.
Please submit your application in accordance with the prescribed procedure applicable to all organizations and await formal approval from the competent authorities.
I am sure you have read your own Akhil Bharatiya Pratinidhi Sabha Annual Report 2025–26, which states that the RSS conducted 562 route marches across Karnataka, involving 2,21,963 uniformed participants.
Now, when lakhs of you intend to march through Karnataka’s streets on single day at the same time, the Police Department has considerable preparations to make: deployment of personnel, transportation, food, traffic management, security arrangements and other logistics.
All of this requires planning, manpower and public resources.
So, please fill out the prescribed application form, provide the necessary details and await formal permission.
Happy Dasara!
