Yesterday I was reading The Sanjay Story by Vinod Mehta. Reading texts on the emergency it often strikes me that contemporary comparisons are inadequate or misplaced. What we are passing through is somewhat different — it is more enduring and institutionally violent.

As a country that's nearing 75 yrs of Independence and marking 14th August as the Partition Horrors Rememberance Day, what are some ways in which we can commemorate the legacy of survival & loss and work towards reconciling as a subcontinent? #AcademicTwitter

What's the 'city with best weather in India' gotta do with Bangalore drowing in floods today and every single time the city faces a massive downpour... Read on, a thread...

Continuous flooding in working class areas of Maramma Devasthana, BEML layout, Palyam, Brookefield bus stand, where powrakarmikas of ward nos 85, 86 and 149 reside. Flooding due to Brigade Tech Gardens pumping out water from their premises!! @BBMPCOMM please initiate action!

I love you all :) The first song from ‘Unreal Unearth’ will be shared within a matter of weeks.

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Some folks have been suffering from a severe heart-burn for the past 48 hours. Don't be so disappointed. You all will also be featured in a list. That one that is made for the Indian version of Nuremberg trials.

.Basant Kumar की रिपोर्ट में देखिए गुमान के साथ उनके गांव की यात्रा. गुमान को सुनते हुए भरोसा करना मुश्किल हो जाता है कि यह #Gujarat का कोई गांव है. वही गुजरात, जिसके विकास मॉडल की चर्चा कर भाजपा केंद्र में और देश के अन्य राज्यों में सरकार बना चुकी है. hindi.newslaundry.com/2022/12/01/guj…

Yesterday, I wrote a heartfelt op-ed for Hindustan Times about the grim conditions in India's archives Not only are records decaying away, what little survives in India's archives is subject to the most absurd rules So imagine my reaction when I received this forward on WhatsApp..

Elon and the Indian Right Wing are similar. Both came to power to make rename things for the worse. #TwitterX

Police raids Sanjay Rajoura, Bhasha Singh, Urmilesh, Prabir Purkayastha, Abhisar Sharma, Aunindyo Chakraborty and Sohail Hashmi’s places this morning. Phones and laptops taken. Some of them taken to police station. All of them associated with Newsclick.

Oxalá. Late poet Saleem Al-Naffar is one of the more than 20,000 Palestinians murdered by Israel in Gaza in the last couple of months. This poem, which I discovered thanks to Literary Hub, says it all. I believe any Arab will guess the origin of the Portuguese word 'oxalá'.

#ProjectElectoralBond | Wondering why India's top companies didn't feature on the ECI's #ElectoralBondData list? The firms are linked to Reliance Industries through common directors, common addresses, and business associates. Who are these firms? newslaundry.com/2024/03/15/rel…

BJP lost Sambhal by 1.2 lakh votes. scroll.in/article/106769…

Delhi: First FIR u/s of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023 registered at Kamla Market PS in Delhi. Case registered against a street vendor u/s 285 of Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita for obstruction under foot over bridge of New Delhi Railway Station and making sales.

Sambit Patra dimaag ko khatra is now in parliament 🤯

"And those who claim to be Hindu, are engaged in violence", a statement by Rahul Gandhi which made a uproar in Parliament but got proven right within 24 hours.

How to make Budget ka Halwa? Recipe leaked! #Budget2024