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Sidharth Bhatia

@bombaywallah

Founder Editor, The Wire, Podcast, The Wire Talks, Author(India Psychedelic, Cinema Modern). Politics. culture and beloved Bombay. Troll & abuse intolerant.

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Congress pressure & Bihar elections are not the only reasons why Narendra Modi wants a Caste Census. There are three others which are also tactical - but can make big changes. CERI Sciences Po King's India Institute Carnegie IndiaBASAS⁩ thewire.in/politics/why-d…

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With all the uncertainties and obstacles, should Indian students still apply and go to the US to study? Viral Doshi, who guides Indian students towards applying and joining US universities, tells us the pros and cons.

Sushant Singh (@sushantsin) 's Twitter Profile Photo

What else do you expect from a government where its own external affairs minister couldn't display the basic human decency, forget leadership and moral authority, to publicly support his foreign secretary being attacked by low-life Hindutva trolls?

What else do you expect from a government where its own external affairs minister couldn't display the basic human decency, forget leadership and moral authority, to publicly support his foreign secretary being attacked by low-life Hindutva trolls?
Sucheta Dalal (@suchetadalal) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Updated: So now Passport Seva does not rely on #Aadhaar-- it is hugely faked, says the officer. So you are FORCED to download digilocker to verify with Aadhaar ! What a complex web was spun by Nandan Nilekani when he convinced both #DrManmohanSingh #UPA and Narendra Modi (who was

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Every time the Indian government insists that America had no role to play in ending the conflict between India and Pakistan, he blows this narrative by saying openly that he "stopped the war." But PM Modi has not yet come out and said this is wrong. What is Modi hiding?

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The Bishnoi gang, tied to India’s gov’t, threatens Canadians. Declare it a terrorist group & review all info-sharing with foreign states. Canada must stand firm against repression on our soil! 4/ #SikhSafety #DefendCanada

The Bishnoi gang, tied to India’s gov’t, threatens Canadians. Declare it a terrorist group & review all info-sharing with foreign states. Canada must stand firm against repression on our soil! 4/ #SikhSafety #DefendCanada
ranjona banerji 🇮🇳 (@ranjona) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Without letting the Congress or Indira Gandhi off the hook, this is also true: The Emergency’s True Legacy: How JP’s Naivety Empowered the RSS m.thewire.in/article/histor… via @thewire_In

Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Mamdani with little money and great messaging defeated Cuomo with lots of money and political backing. While doing so Mamdani spoke for the oppressed, marginalised and disadvantaged. It is yet to be seen whether he lives upto his word. But he did win against all odds.

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My interview with former Minister of External Affairs Salman Khurshid who has some candid things to say about the state of Indian diplomacy

Pratik Sinha (@free_thinker) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Shashi Tharoor has repeatedly stated that RSS wants to rewrite the constitution to create a Hindu Rashtra, but now he claims that RSS has moved on from that. Question is whether it is RSS that has changed or is it Shashi Tharoor that has changed?

Shashi Tharoor has repeatedly stated that RSS wants to rewrite the constitution to create a Hindu Rashtra, but now he claims that RSS has moved on from that. Question is whether it is RSS that has changed or is it <a href="/ShashiTharoor/">Shashi Tharoor</a> that has changed?
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[1/5] A ruling party spokesman is trying to create confusion over a story (subsequently done by other news outlets also) about what the Indian defence attache said in a seminar in Indonesia on June 10.

[1/5] A ruling party spokesman is trying to create confusion over a story (subsequently done by other news outlets also) about what the Indian defence attache said in a seminar in Indonesia on June 10.
Maj Gen Harsha Kakar (@kakar_harsha) 's Twitter Profile Photo

They don’t even know that there is a Wellington in India too..n so Our Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw was laid to rest in New Zealand according to the The Times Of India . God save us from our own press.

They don’t even know that there is a Wellington in India too..n so Our Field Marshall Sam Manekshaw was laid to rest in New Zealand according to the <a href="/timesofindia/">The Times Of India</a> . 
God save us from our own press.
Seema Chishti (@seemay) 's Twitter Profile Photo

Diljit Dosanjh’s Stardom Threatens the Gatekeepers of Indian Nationalism "Dosanjh’s Sikh and Punjabi identity is not incidental to his global stardom. It is central, deliberate, powerfully visible" Fine piece by Sushant Singh (first up in The India Cable ) thewire.in/politics/dilji…

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A sitting cabinet minister, with 20 hate speech FIRs pending against him, delivers an anti-Muslim hate speech INSIDE the premises of the Maharashtra legislature. New Maharashtra. 👏👏