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Bengaluru, India
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Hi folks, I've started a substack blog and the first post is a long-form essay about impact of the Mutiny in 1857 on the massacre in Amritsar in 1919. I don't think we get enough context in our books and movies. If you like it, please share and subscribe!
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Bizarre incident.
Citizens cleaned Ane Park near Bengaluru on their own by crowd funding.
When they came next day they saw poster of BJP MLA Ashwath Narayana taking credit for it.
This made them furious and they are calling this out.
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बिगबेन से मेरा नाता तो जशोदाबेन से भी पहले का रहा है 🇬🇧😌
#ShyamRangeela
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> Bro is Aleksandar Vučić.
> Bro is a far-right leader.
> Bro has dominated Serbian politics for 12 years.
> Bro became Prime Minister in 2014 and President in 2017.
> Bro took control of the media.
On 1 November 2024, a concrete canopy collapsed at a railway station in Novi Sad, Serbia, killing 16 people.
> People demanded answers, transparency, and action against those responsible from Bro
> Bro took no interest in it
> Students started protesting across Serbia against corruption and Bro’s government.
> Students came together and created an electoral list called “Student List – Students Are Winning.”
> Today, Bro’s alliance lost the parliamentary election.
> Now, Serbian citizens are storming media houses accused of spreading Vučić bro’s propaganda and attacking news anchors.
This tells us that if you’re a journalist in any country, please don’t be a government mouthpiece. Otherwise, you’re going to have tough days ahead.
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Future of Godi Media
📺 “We reported events one-sidedly for years”: Serbian TV apologizes to viewers after Vučić's party loses the election
Radio Television of Vojvodina (RTV) opened its news broadcast with footage of celebrations following the Student List's election victory — scenes it had failed to show the previous evening.
“For years, we failed to fulfill our duty. We kept silent, turned a blind eye, reported events one-sidedly, and failed to ask the necessary questions. For that, we owe our viewers an apology,” news anchor Goran Eror said.
Following the controversy, RTV's acting editor-in-chief Nenad Čačić resigned.
A similar incident occurred in Hungary, where state television also apologized to viewers after Viktor Orbán's election defeat.
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Adani is suing me for ₹50 crore, apparently valuing the damage to his reputation at that amount.
I contend that wealth acquired through alleged wrongdoing does not confer credibility or reputation.
My valuation of that reputation? ₹0.
And if the reputational damage is zero, the compensation should be zero.
₹50 crore demanded. ₹0 deserved.
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Never marched with freedom fighters against the British. Never marched with workers for more wages. Never marched with farmers for land rights. Never marched with women for their safety and empowerment. Never marched with students to condemn paper leak. But they keep marching...
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Brazil tried Bolsonaro, saw the damage, and brought Lula back.
India tried Modi, saw the damage, and kept voting for him.
The difference? Education. An educated society recognises its mistakes and corrects them. An uneducated one defends them.
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i want everyone to know brazil just won against fascism
despite them having the media on their pockets and the elites on their side
despite millions of dollars of american interventionism
despite totally unrealistic odds
if we can do it, so can you
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When you like Lula or hate him the fact that we won’t see Bolsonaro gift all of Brazil’s wealth to Trump’s friends has to be good news
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If Lula wins, remember he will have won overcoming a very clear and organised campaign of voter suppression…
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Lula won because the EVMs in Brazil are audited and are transparently counted. Lula won because the SC in Brazil do not take orders from rich oligarchs and the master.
I wish we had the same in India. But that is too much to ask.
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When Bolsonaro was disgracefully invited as Chief Guest for our Republic Day Parade in 2020, several of us in Mumbai held a protest at Churchgate Station against an abandonment of “Indian values” by a government that turned a blind eye to his environmental destruction, his homophobia, his deep links to organised crime.
“Aarey, Amazon, queer ladhai, Modi-Bolsonaro bhai bhai” was the slogan coined at that protest. Today, as the son of one far-right bigot bites the dust in Brazil, much to the relief of so many who were terrorised under his father’s last regime, there is hope reignited for change across the world.
Congratulations, Comeback King @LulaOficial. Here’s hoping we can invite you to a Republic Day Parade in New Delhi soon.
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In the end, Brazil really did teach the United States a lesson. They jailed the fascist, and then they defeated his political heir.
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Dr Randall and others arrested in Orissa must be released
Speaking against environmental harms that harm peoples health is not a crime
We try all kinds of coercion & incentives to get doctors to go to rural areas
- but when someone does it willingly- the govt puts them in jail
Doctor moved to Odisha to treat Adivasis, now behind bars for anti-mining protests indianexpress.com/article/in…
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Democratic expression was silently buried in 2014. Proof is this fearless enjoyable tweet that nobody objected to, no ED reacted to, and no goons beat up anyone for.
