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
Plus what's the point if you're going to keep bulldozing them
RT @zoo_bear@twitter.com
Few days left to get this promise fulfilled.
"मैंने मन में ठान ली है। हिंदुस्तान के हर एक परिवार के पास पक्का घर होगा। मैंने व्रत लिया है कि आज़ादी के 75 साल होने तक देश में एक भी परिवार ऐसा नहीं होगा जिसका अपना पक्का घर न हो।" (Rajasthan, 26.11.2018) #AazadiKaAmritMahotsav
Political bickering is normal, but what Modi is doing to the opposition is different. My column for @DeccanHerald@twitter.com https://www.deccanherald.com/amp/opinion/hands-on-the-throats-of-the-opposition-1133858.html
I remember this story about the cop who wouldn't stop--amazing.
RT @sruthijith@twitter.com
Pooja Gaud, a 7-year-old who went missing in 2013 and was the subject of the only newspaper story to have moved me to tears, has incredibly been found!
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/sruthijith/status/1555566415200940032
“All reasonable Americans must plant ourselves in a long row and lock arms against the terrible wind from the far right. As we brace together for this post-Roe season, take heart: In the first battle, Kansas held the line.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/03/opinion/kansas-abortion-vote-roe.html?referringSource=articleShare
👏🏼👏🏼
RT @reporters_co@twitter.com
1. #Thread: After first outrightly lying to citizens, the Union government takes back orders that made Aadhaar compulsory for infants and children to get their rations and entitlements.
Let us tell you how it all transpired. Please stay with us till the end of this thread.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/reporters_co/status/1554675484192935936
That's all the world needs now. #Fujian
There isn't enough power in the world to empower an ideology that depends on milking the feeling of disempowerment.
RT @GeetaMadhavan@twitter.com
They are in power ,what are they so angry about 🤔
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/GeetaMadhavan/status/1552998201967292418
Hathras is really into being in the news for all the wrong reasons
RT @ashubh@twitter.com
Geetanjali Shree was scheduled to speak at a public function in Agra today.
Sandip Pathak, a Hathras resident, found her novel objectionable, approached the police,asked the UP CM to file an FIR in the case, forcing the organisers to cancel the event.
She's deeply hurt.
Let’s also release the political prisoners, including journalists, who have been in jail for months and years on absurd grounds, and let’s stop filing hurt-sentiment FIRs every three seconds.
RT @nitin_gadkari@twitter.com
"विजयी विश्व तिरंगा प्यारा, झंडा ऊंचा रहे हमारा"
Let's hoist our national pride, the Tricolour at our homes from 13th-15th August as a part of #AzadiKaAmritMahotsav celebrations.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/nitin_gadkari/status/1553265083098181633
“Rather than being a guardian of rights, the Supreme Court is now a significant threat to it.” - @pbmehta@twitter.com #PMLA https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/pratap-bhanu-mehta-by-upholding-pmla-sc-puts-its-stamp-on-kafkas-law-8057249/lite/
In which @Nidhi@twitter.com is able to contain her laughter for 20 seconds more than I coulda 😂
RT @t_d_h_nair@twitter.com
At present, the biggest "national issue" is Ranveer Singh's "bum"😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/t_d_h_nair/status/1551974915355447297
Good overview of the "law and order" situation in UP: groundless allegations designed to crush dissent.
RT @Article14live@twitter.com
.@UmarKhalid_Ald@twitter.com was live on Facebook from Azamgarh on the day violence erupted in his home city, Prayagraj, but the UP Police are looking to arrest him. His social media posts show the allegations against him are groundless, his lawyer tells @betwasharma@twitter.com
https://article-14.com/post/lack-of-evidence-in-cases-against-prayagraj-activists-for-june-violence-all-involved-in-anti-govt-dissent--62da0dfe8fa1b
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Article14live/status/1550331551162007552
High five, @zoo_bear@twitter.com @free_thinker@twitter.com @AltNews@twitter.com
RT @free_thinker@twitter.com
Zubair wants to convey his heartfelt gratitude to everyone who stood by us and supported us in the last few weeks. He'll be back real soon.
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/free_thinker/status/1549854196480065536
#Zubair wins something today--a smackdown of the atrocious hounding he has undergone. But it is three weeks late. What happened to justice delayed is justice denied? If every malicious case has to go to the Supreme Court, what's the point of having lower courts?
Vilifying, harassing, arresting, and endangering journalists—New India’s new happy place.
RT @Article14live@twitter.com
“Vultures, pro #Pakistan, anti-state narrative builders.” A newspaper op-ed called 11 #Kashmiri journalists #terror supporters. They’re widely published, some in @AJEnglish@twitter.com, @trtworld@twitter.com, @ForeignPolicy@twitter.com, @VICENews@twitter.com. @iyerkavi@twitter.com on latest attack on #FreePress
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/Article14live/status/1547425622313410560
Classic BJP bait-and-switch, and as always promoting communalism in the guise of secularism.
Remove ‘beef’ from signboards, Arunachal sub-division authorities order eateries https://scroll.in/latest/1028306/remove-beef-from-signboards-arunachal-sub-division-authorities-order-eateries
Amazed that there are four lions instead of four lion bodies with Modi heads
Since when is the national emblem bad-tempered lions?
"Much depends on who you are,
And what you’re known to say—
Are you promoting Hindutva,
Or standing in its way?"
My column--today in @thewire_in@twitter.com--on the train wreck that is justice today.
RT @thewire_in@twitter.com
Here’s a winning formula / To make the Rashtra stronger: / Lengthen the long arm of the law, / And let its nose be longer. https://thewire.in/rights/poem-requiem-for-justice-with-apologies-to-poetry
🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thewire_in/status/1546124842797109249
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
