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Kochi
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binu karunakaran retweeted
Not only is it stupid but also mostly slop.
They are trying so hard to be evocative with the Vienna analogy. Also, contrarianism!= independent thought. It reads like an aesthetic of intellectualism to me because none of the ideas seem original.
binu karunakaran retweeted
Very important thread on the ECI's desperate attempt to cover its tracks before the Supreme Court and it will not wash.
This has now become a test of the @indSupremeCourt and whether it wants to lose public legitimacy just as the @ECISVEEP already has.
The Election Commission has filed its reply in the Supreme Court to the petition on how the three-member Commission functions.
27 pages, approved by all three members. Its argument: every decision was unanimous, and a Commissioner’s note is a “suggestion,” not a decision.
Here’s what it addresses, and what it doesn’t.
🧵 (1/10)
Yeah, looks like it. Dreaming right-wing renaissance out of the ashes of secular socialism with nostalgic set-design of Viennese modernists in 1896, brooding over coffee.
Every single post I've seen from Indian "academia" (which is almost 95% straight-up Mimicry of Western academia and has almost nothing new to show for itself in terms of brand-new ideas) is petty, childish, and jealousy-ridden seethe. It's proof that @sirfaditya and @kavitaayeinn are doing something very interesting and provoking...
binu karunakaran retweeted
Absolutely insane.
Theni jailbreak: 17 prisoners in TN escape after faking seizures, four of them caught
Were the jail authorities sleeping?
| thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu…
binu karunakaran retweeted
Amazing achievement. In 2024, Serbian students issued this letter to "Students Around the world"
“The world is on the brink of collapse, representative democracy is failing and our future is at risk...There are countless reasons for a blockade, and you know best what yours is"
Sırbistan'da öğrenciler doğrudan demokrasi yöntemini seçim siyasetine taşıdılar.
Liderlere dayalı, yukarıdan aşağıya bir örgütlenme yerine, herkesin söz alabildiği öğrenci genel kurulları (plenum) oluşturdular. Kararlar tartışılarak, mümkün olduğunca uzlaşmayla alındı.
Bu yöntemi üniversitelerin dışına da taşıdılar. Mahallelerde, kentlerde ve köylerde yurttaş meclisleri (zborovi) kuruldu. İnsanlar kendi sorunlarını tartışmak, çözüm önermek ve birlikte karar almak için toplandı.
250 kişilik milletvekili aday listesini de şöyle oluşturdular:
1- Önce 250 adaylık kontenjanı, öğrenci sayılarına göre altı üniversite kenti arasında paylaştırdılar. Belgrad'ın listeye hâkim olmaması için diğer kentlerin de üst sıralarda temsil edilmesini sağladılar. Ardından her kentin kontenjanını fakülteler arasında dağıttılar.
2- Ülke genelinde 80'den fazla fakültede öğrenci genel kurulları toplandı. Öğrenciler kendileri aday olmadı ama her biri aday önerebildi ve neden o kişiyi önerdiğini açıkladı. İsimler tartışıldı, önce uzlaşma arandı, gerektiğinde oylama yapıldı.
3- Mevcut siyasi kadrolara kapıyı kapattılar. İktidar partilerinin mevcut ve eski üyelerini, iktidar adına görev yapmış siyasetçileri ve bürokratları, muhalefet partilerinin üst düzey yöneticilerini aday göstermediler. Böylece hem iktidardan hem de yerleşik muhalefetten bağımsız bir liste oluşturdular.
4- Fakülteler birbirlerinin adaylarını da denetledi. Önerilen bütün isimler ortak bir listede toplandı ve tüm fakültelerin incelemesine açıldı. İtirazlar öğrenci kurullarında tartışıldı. Adayın elenmesi için kurulların yarısından fazlasının veto etmesi gerekiyordu. Tek bir fakültenin itirazı yeterli değildi.
5- Elenen veya çekilen adayların yerine yedekler getirildi. Böylece profesörlerin, doktorların, bilim insanlarının, işçilerin, sanatçıların ve aktivistlerin yer aldığı 250 kişilik liste ortaya çıktı.
binu karunakaran retweeted
TN school recognition scam: How a safety mechanism was turned into a money making scheme
By @Ahmedshabbir20
thenewsminute.com/tamil-nadu… #
binu karunakaran retweeted
Please read this important story by my colleagues @Basantrajsonu and @AshwineSingh
Exclusive- Uttarakhand ERO refused BJP worker’s bulk Form 7 objections. After ECI complaint, 5,359 were accepted
@AshwineSingh and I report -
newslaundry.com/2026/10/24/u…
binu karunakaran retweeted
Southbound Review is a weekly, and the quick turnaround encourages discourse, arguments and rejoinders. I've weighed in in this issue on contemporary Malayalam literature, summarising poet and translator P. Raman's views:
southboundreview.com/convers…
binu karunakaran retweeted
Judge booked for letting minor son drive Mercedes that killed man in Kochi
thenewsminute.com/kerala/jud…
binu karunakaran retweeted
Lecture is available here: youtube.com/watch?v=X5z-TJB_…
binu karunakaran retweeted
Artists who don't take a stand are the ones who will make their bed anywhere. If you are a radical artist you'll feel the urge to spit at these proclamation but the bitter truth is that the majority of the literary world (its prizes, its prestige, its media outlets, its inner circle of critics) all belong to the same fucking club. They are the ones who are the tastemakers. They are the ones who are the gatekeepers. Banville might be saying something and exposing himself as an filtered idiot, but everyone in this elite circle is thinking the same, and they're applying this criterion in their decisionmaking. What happened with Rooney is that she's such a rockstar commercial bestseller, someone who could win the market before her politics could disturb these peaceniks. For a lot of the other writers, their politics earns them an immediate blacklist, and it is ever-present.. before they're even allowed to enter, compete in the market, or in the literary arena for whatever sham prizes that are being given away
‘Second-rate artists and mediocrities can take a stand. Real artists don’t take a stand on anything’ — John Banville buff.ly/HSmql5q
binu karunakaran retweeted
This is how the ECI under Gyanesh is illegally filling forms to deleted voters directly from its centralised software in the name of poll officials. It is a criminal act for which Gyanesh and gang have to be punished.
binu karunakaran retweeted
Samajwadi Party has identified 100 seats where lakhs of duplicate voters--with a voter registered twice, thrice, and even 5 times--exist.
How many of these seats did the SP/BJP win or lose by a thin margin in 2022?
To know more, read my story 👇
m.thewire.in/article/politic…
Prompting a sagebot byte by byte,
Feku ensured his aura stays bright.
The man blurts out in glee:
"The bot validates me,
See, my divine rule is right!"
binu karunakaran retweeted
A BJP booth level agent filed 5,359 Form 7 objections in Uttarakhand’s Kichha, mostly seeking the deletion of Muslim voters’ names.
He claimed the ERO initially refused to accept the bulk objections but accepted them after he complained to the ECI.
Investigation by @AshwineSingh and @Basantrajsonu
newslaundry.com/2026/10/24/u…