@SanSip

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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Anish Gawande
@anishgawande3h
In the 2024 Lok Sabha elections, the NDA vote share was 43.80%. The INDIA Alliance's vote share was 41.48%. With "just 2% more votes" than their opponents, the BJP - and its supporters like you- behave as if the country is your jagir. So spare me the lessons on hypocrisy.
Escape@Pradeep993137h
Replying to @anishgawande
He just got 2% more votes than his opponent. Imagine what you folks would have shouted if modi won the elections by just 1or2 %age points. Shows left hypocrisy and that is why majority of genZ are not falling for your shenanigans except for ideological ones
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Admirim@admirimOct 24
Police fire rubber bullets, tear gas and water cannon as Albania marks 147 consecutive days of anti-corruption protests demanding the resignation of PM Rama. Professors, doctors, nurses and local business owners have joined the student-led protests.
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My earlier review: thewire.in/books/leaving-the…

Leaving the Reader With a Finely-Wrought Sense of a Life and a Nation in Transit

The novel can be read as a series of set pieces, each episode marking another aspect of Charulata's progress like railway stations during a journey, with some being more appealing than others.

thewire.in
Bloomsbury India@BloomsburyIndia3h
We’re delighted to announce that ‘Railsong’ by Rahul Bhattacharya has won @litlivefest Book of the year - Fiction!
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“You can cut all the flowers but you cannot keep Spring from coming.” Neruda (attrib.)
Anish Gawande
@anishgawande8h
“The powerful can kill one, two, or even one hundred roses. But they will never stop the arrival of spring.” What a guy. What a guy. What a guy.
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Adv. M@RURALINDIA6h
From @jyotipunwani Please 🙏 continue ignoring RSS. Until, it gets into your kitchens and bedrooms.
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Look at these prices. Even the e-book is out of reach.
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No stone unturned: "He likened these groups to 'cockroaches, bedbugs, tukde tukde gang, dimagi Naxals' and the coronavirus, and equated Trinamool with radical Islamist 'Jamaatis'."
Sushant Singh@SushantSin6h
When you think a BJP CM can't get any lower, one of them takes it as a challenge - and plunges even lower.
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They found a way to tackle air pollution.
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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Adam Schwarz@AdamJSchwarz12h
Serbian students overthrowing Vučić is an extraordinary achievement. In 2024, they began protesting. In 2025, they transformed a protest movement into civil dissidence. In 2026, they became a political party — and 2 months later, crushed a corrupt state-entrenched authoritarian.
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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Dušan Pavlović
@d_pavlovic11h
Чињеница да је један лабаво организован и децентрализован покрет, без средстава, без лидера, партијске инфраструктуре и политичког искуства, успео да победи моћну клијентелистичку партијску машинерију изучаваће се на универзитетима на курсевима упоредне политике и политичке економије и анализирати у научним радовима и књигама.
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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Argentina Noticias
@argennoti11h
🚨 🇷🇸 ¡TERREMOTO POLÍTICO EN SERBIA! LA JUVENTUD DERROTÓ A LA DERECHA Y LAS CALLES ESTALLAN DE ALEGRÍA ¡HISTÓRICO! Después de casi 14 años de dominio político, Aleksandar Vučić reconoció su derrota frente al movimiento estudiantil que sacudió Serbia con casi dos años de movilizaciones contra la corrupción y el autoritarismo. Miles de personas salieron a festejar a las calles de Belgrado y otras ciudades. Según los resultados preliminares, la Lista Estudiantil conseguiría entre 135 y 140 bancas de las 250 del Parlamento. ¡Una generación que comenzó protestando en las calles terminó protagonizando un cambio histórico en las urnas!
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Power to the People ☭🕊
@ProudSocialist9h
Breaking: Lula has come from behind to win Brazil’s runoff election defeating Trump-Netanyahu ally Bolsonaro. Moments after the victory Sao Paulo erupted in celebration.
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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Palestine Festival of Literature@PalFest21h
Announcing our 2026 public program in Palestine with events coming up in Ramallah and Gaza City, starting tomorrow: Monday October 26th. palfest.org/full-schedule
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Sanjay Sipahimalani retweeted
Sarayu Pani@sarayupani20h
Police detaining people including women at Chaityabhoomi No reasons given. At Babasaheb’s Chaityabhoomi, people protesting for justice for Sahil Wakode are detained Hindu Rashtra 2026
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Via poetic interludes/insta
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Sad to see Banville hold this view. Art needn't serve a moral or political cause, of course, but it inevitably reflects the values, experiences, and assumptions of the artist.
Michael Orthofer@MAOrthoferOct 25
John Banville profile @Independent_ie and they apparently had a strict word-count; still, I like how they stuff a few more bits from the exchange in at the end. independent.ie/irish-news/se… [€]
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Santiago Barbosa 🇨🇴@smoelnoOct 24
“Nunca pensé que poner un plato de comida en la mesa de un pobre generaría tanto odio de una élite que se harta de tirar comida a la basura todos los días”. - Lula
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Arpita Das (she/her)
@arpitayodapressOct 25
Bhakts keep calling me all sorts of names here: 'urban naxal' 'dirty/ugly leftist scum' 'Commie Bong whore'. So I thought I would lean into all this name calling and share a wonderful visual someone shared on Insta about all the things we have because of protests. Protests are indeed the lifeblood of a diminishing democracy.
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“I am being asked to prove that I will maintain peace, while the violence we have experienced at the hands of those entrusted with maintaining public order is left without similar accountability.”
Neha
@neha_aisaOct 24
Whose 'peace' am I being asked to keep? Please read my opinion piece below to understand why we fight this battle against this purpoted 'peace bond': indianexpress.com/article/op…

Neha Bora: What should worry us is not that people continue to protest — but when they begin to...

My challenge to the notice is not simply about a bond of Rs 10,000. It is about whether preventive powers can portray people exercising democratic rights as threats to public peace, without credible...

indianexpress.com
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