Mitali Saran @MitaliSaran@mastodon.social

Everyone needs to watch this. #ChinaIndiaFaceoff
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vJuUj54ILos

This is a particularly difficult time to fight back against discriminatory government action/policy. Kudos to those who led this. https://scroll.in/article/967018/how-indias-disabled-community-fought-to-halt-a-legislative-change-amid-the-lockdown-and-won

You have to be a moron to trust the official version of how #VikasDubey died.

While the Indian government has been at war with Indian citizens, China has helped itself to Indian territory.

@ajaishukla@twitter.com writes: "the Line of Actual Control (LAC) – the de facto border – has been effectively shifted by a kilometre (km) into India."

http://ajaishukla.blogspot.com/2020/07/galwan-pullback-puts-indian-troops.html

Most Bollywood celebs won't risk even a tweet in defence of country and countrymen. But if there's money to be made off real people's real blood, they arrive faster than a speeding bullet. https://www.indiatoday.in/movies/bollywood/story/ajay-devgn-to-produce-film-on-india-china-galwan-valley-clash-1696884-2020-07-04

When optics is the first refuge of politics, at the cost of rationality, it tends to backfire--in this case, putting Indian lives at risk, and making Indian science look ridiculous. https://indianexpress.com/article/india/icmr-claim-coronavirus-vaccine-covid-cure-6489171/

Anyone know if Delhi requires people returning home from other states in their cars to quarantine?

Where most people see tragedy and suffering, some see a political opportunity to be built on more tragedy and suffering.

The government loves to insult our intelligence.

1) There are no incursions of foreign troops into Indian territory, but we'll win the war.

2) There's no community transmission, just covid spreading so rapidly that central govt had to step in.

It's called LYING.

The judiciary "has stubbornly clung to old notions—women are either hapless creatures whose honour is located in their virginity or they are conniving blackmailers seeking to trap innocent men."

An absolutely vital analysis of the misogyny in our courts. https://www.article-14.com/post/the-indian-courts-misogynistic-handbook-for-rape-survivors

"The most devastating blow to the EIA regime is the creation of an ex-post-facto clearance route [...] what could not be ratified will now find itself notified."

@satyajitsarna@twitter.com on the "deliberate sabotage" in the Draft EIA Notification.
#Environment
https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/ease-of-harming-environment-6478163/

"Jayaraj and Bennix sat on the ground and abused us verbally and rolled on the ground. In this, they suffered internal injuries”.

That's the police version.
https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/justice-jayaraj-fenix-bennix-timeline-two-shocking-custodial-deaths-tn-127424

It's #DejaVu day.

Ram Madhav is either the most unselfconscious person on the planet, or he's finally trolling Modi. #Emergency https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/when-democracy-was-shackled-ram-madhav-6474726/