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Kaagaz nahi dikhayenge, par kaagaz kuch kahaaniya sunaate hai. My father's first passport tells the history of how he became a citizen of a new country, and why his father refused to become Indian. My piece in #SundayEye's special issue on #RepublicDay indianexpress.com/article/ex…
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"Vieillir, c'est se retirer progressivement du monde des apparences." Goethe
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📢 For days, there has been outrage over legal notices sent to digital rights groups @internetfreedom and @SFLCin Turns out not only is the notice sent in the name of the RSS fake, even the purported Delhi Police communication to X is fabricated. @sighyush reports: scroll.in/article/1096912/do…
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Exclusive: Double hoax – Takedown notices from RSS, Delhi Police to IFF, SFLC and Geo Blocked in India turn out to be fake. Address and phone number on legal notice led to a different RSS. @scroll_in scroll.in/article/1096912/do…
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Cartoon @IndianExpress. The news is: After 12 years, Opposition rally gets saturation coverage. #Protest
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🚨 Karnataka protesters arrive with a several-metre-long cloth banner displaying names they claim were deleted from voter lists. A striking visual at the INDIA bloc protest. #RamlilaMaidan
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Must read story by @safwatzgr "Once they landed in jail, their networks expanded manifold,” said Singh. “Earlier, they had to leave their homes to procure drugs but after jail time, the nexus was so strong that drugs would be delivered to their doorsteps."
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Jhota’s killing has resonated beyond Mansa, quickly becoming a symbol of the impunity of drug peddlers in Punjab and putting the ruling Aam Aadmi Party government under significant pressure ahead of Assembly elections. #Punjab scroll.in/article/1096710/a-…
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🚨The SIR has repeatedly been sold as an exercise to identify “illegal foreigners”. Data from at least six states shows only 1,600 found in a combined electorate of over 98 million. Also no standardised SOPs were issued which means several states didn’t even collect this data. @htTweets
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Why Form 6 for deleted voters? Because the ECI does not want to acknowledge that a large number of voters may have been deleted due to its carelessness, or failure to exercise the required diligence in conducting the #SIR. 1/3
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An interim arrangement that has led to 27 lakh disenfranchised? Every day, the honourable court leaves my brain scrambled
#BREAKING Supreme Court has not upheld "Logical Discrepancy" category; in Bengal SIR, it was permitted only as an interim arrangement; Bihar SIR did not have LD category ,so it was not adjudicated, says Justice Joymalya Bagchi.
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Big news for Tuberculosis treatment: Indian Patent office refuses to grant patent for BPal treatment, a short regimen using Bedaquiline, pretomanid and linezolid. This will make the regimen affordable for many drug resistant TB patients @scroll_in
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Delighted Irwin Allan Sealy has won the Godrej Literature Live Lifetime Achievement Award at the Mumbai LitFest I’ve read everything he has penned, from The Trotter-Nama on. No two books are alike A richly deserved Lifetime Achievement Award to one of the koolest authors I know
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Genuinely insane and exactly as the entire academic fraternity had cautioned.
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i’m gonna make americans watch this scene to show how intimidating they can get
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Dada, I did. As a media stalwart, you know why it’s important to talk to Dr SY Quraishi in the press context. No recent CEC has framed the world’s largest election so positively & usefully for global audiences, via SVEEP, National Voters’ Day, IIIDEM, & as IDEA’s Global Ambassador of Democracy. He has been the (unofficial) global ambassador of Indian democracy. His books (An Undocumented Wonder, The Great March of Democracy, India’s Experiment with Democracy, Democracy’s Heartland) document both the machinery and the unfinished reforms. Why is this institutional memory largely missing from today’s debates on rolls, SIR, appointments & integrity? Thanks for watching.
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