Mitali Saran @MitaliSaran@mastodon.social
Freelance columnist/writer, formerly Business Standard & Outlook Traveller. Words in Deccan Herald, The Wire, Caravan, NDTV Blogs, Mint Live, NYT Opinion, and a couple of book chapters here and there. #India
Joined Nov 2019
Thank you to @srinivasiyc@twitter.com and his team for their life-saving work in the absence of the state.
Replug, since this column has aged well.
The BJP's fake nationalism is not India first, or even Modi first--it's the myth of Modi first. It will cling to power first at the cost of truth, and ultimately at the cost of the country.
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/the-myth-of-modi-860073.html
One nation, one card
One nation, one election
One nation, one sec get your own damn vaccines
This would have nothing to do with a certain shortage of vaccine, would it?
RT @dhanyarajendran@twitter.com
Increase gap between 2 Covishield doses to 12-16 weeks, govt panel recommends. https://www.thenewsminute.com/article/increase-gap-between-2-covishield-doses-12-16-weeks-govt-panel-recommends-148751
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/dhanyarajendran/status/1392725507569905666
Too bad the same cannot be said about the Government of India.
RT @narendramodi@twitter.com
International Nurses Day is a day to express gratitude to the hardworking nursing staff, who is at the forefront of fighting COVID-19. Their sense of duty, compassion and commitment towards a healthy India is exemplary.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/narendramodi/status/1392365176872001539
UP ranks 3 by number of (official) covid deaths, 25 by tests conducted. The govt allows only antigen tests, only by officially recognised covid hospitals, so other hospitals are trying to buy testing kits secretly. “How will we treat patients if we don’t have the diagnosis?"
RT @Article14live@twitter.com
The #SecondCOVIDWave killing hundreds, uncounted, in UP’s sprawling Agra dist (larger than Goa+BengaluruCity), dotted with hospitals & represented by 9 #BJP MLAs & 2 MPs. @ashubh@twitter.com found uncontrolled infection & death, with #oxygen, MLAs & MPs missing https://www.article-14.com/post/in-up-s-vast-agra-district-govt-ensures-death-pandemic-go-unrecorded
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Article14live/status/1392331034511872002
He can’t face us, and he can’t face the world. Not after all those editorials.
RT @ndtv@twitter.com
Government of India, putting the bharta back in Atmanirbharta
RT @TheQuint@twitter.com
"India’s ‘Atmanirbharta’ wouldn’t have been hurt if India had used its vast cash reserves to place large orders from vaccines makers from around the world, not now, when they have no supplies to give, but back in 2020," writes @vaishalisood@twitter.com.
The BJP-RSS's frontline workers are the image brand managers.
RT @sanket@twitter.com
Govt, BJP and RSS’ big push for positivity. PMs Man Ki Baat on positivity. Party and govt work out modules on spreading positive news. And RSS organising a ‘positivity unlimited’ webinar from 11th to 14th of May. To counter narratives and perception around COVID. https://twitter.com/mannkibaat/status/1391808179307118596
Oooo yes, here's a story: Tons of people are positive, and many are inspired to vote differently next time.
RT @mannkibaat@twitter.com
This month's #MannKiBaat is back again - to celebrate the power of positivity and the strengths of 130 crore Indians!
Have any inspiring story to share with PM Shri @narendramodi@twitter.com ?
Share now!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/mannkibaat/status/1391808179307118596
Useful guidelines for anyone buying an oxygen concentrator for a covid patient.
RT @AssertiveTeen@twitter.com
Are you buying an oxygen concentrator for someone with COVID? There's lots of misinformation and it's hard to weed out the right info under pressure.
Please amplify this crowdsourced info— it's verified. You could save a life!
Note: this is about O2 concentrators NOT cylinders.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/AssertiveTeen/status/1388922252683628546
The undercounted covid dead:
"On 21 April, [Sandesh] counted 753 deaths, the highest single-day tally since the deadly second wave...On a number of other days, they counted in excess of 500 deaths. On 5 May, the paper counted 83 deaths in Vadodara. The official figure was 13."
RT @soutikBBC@twitter.com
How intrepid local reporters are counting uncounted Covid-19 deaths in Gujarat and what their work tells us about the apparently staggering levels of under-counting in the state. My piece.
#COVID19India
https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-india-56969086
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/soutikBBC/status/1391949651759177728
This involves so many levels of wretched.
RT @ndtv@twitter.com
#Covid Panic In Bihar Town As Over 40 Bodies Wash Up On Banks Of Ganga https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/bihar-buxar-coronavirus-covid-panic-in-bihar-town-as-over-40-bodies-wash-up-on-banks-of-ganga-2438888
The fracture between Adityanath’s insistence that everything is under control, and the grotesque reality of UP, will do your head in. Rounded off with a knockout last para. https://www.article-14.com/post/in-uttar-pradesh-india-s-covid-19-storm-gathers-deadly-force
Never forget that the #CentralVistaProject, besides being plain ugly, was classed as an essential service during a devastating pandemic.
Someone decided, “Just the circuses, then, hang the bread.”
RT @gilkumar@twitter.com
Is this meant to uplift spirits? When people die en masse, when there is grief? When century-old trees are being uprooted and Delhi's most iconic public gathering site bulldozed to make way to a PM's vanity project? https://twitter.com/PreetiChoudhry/status/1390667436723163144
'National disgrace' is a required qualification on the resume of any BJP leader with real ambition.
RT @bainjal@twitter.com
BJP MP Tejasvi Surya apologises to coronavirus war room staff for his communal remarks Surya is a national disgrace. Bigoted & also misogynistic https://scroll.in/latest/994291/bjp-mp-tejasvi-surya-apologises-to-covid-war-room-staff-for-his-communal-remarks
Freelance columnist/writer, formerly Business Standard & Outlook Traveller. Words in Deccan Herald, The Wire, Caravan, NDTV Blogs, Mint Live, NYT Opinion, and a couple of book chapters here and there. #India
Joined Nov 2019
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