Terrifying story of how the Hindutva website, OpIndia attacked the Muslim principal of one of Mumbai's most prestigious schools -- leading to her being fired.
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Yesterday a Dalit Domestic Worker was beaten with a belt and burnt with a hot knife for quitting her job,and demanding to be paid for her time. MlC completed. Union workers will file an fir today. Details on the thread.

Everything about EVMs is a secret. But what's out is super worrying.

1 - ECI lies about it. EVM are not standalone, all get connected to computers.

2 - Experts giving certificates of them being safe are same people who invented VVPAT...🧵

Neel Madhav and Parth MN report.

Arunachal is way ahead. Long list of people getting elected unopposed. If #SuratModel is danger to democracy, what has been happening in Arunachal is too. But you will seldom find delhi based media and folks making noise about it.

Scholar of decolonisation here.

This is not decolonisation. Quite the opposite: recolonisation.

Braving the scorching heat, thousands of voters turned up in Ranchi yesterday for the #UlgulanNyayMahaRally
Read my ground report.

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चुनाव के दौरान भाजपा और उसके समर्थक बार बार मुस्लिम तुष्टिकरण की बात करेंगे।

लेकिन क्या भारत के मुसलमानो को वाकई में अनुचित लाभ मिले हैं?

Supriya Sharma से जानिए जवाब, ४ मिनट में।

ऐसे वायरल दावों का सच जानने के लिए ऑर्डर करें हमारी किताब: amzn.eu/d/107uOXK

New lows everyday

New Scroll series: No achhe din, but..

Mumbai resident Ajit Kumar Yadav spent UPA years struggling to find work. In the Modi era, he works 18 hours a day to earn what he did 5 years ago.

Why does he still support the BJP? The Ram temple.

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In today's press con, economists Jean Dreze and Reetika Khera explained the dire situation of informal workers. Real wages have barely risen in India since 2014-15, despite rapid GDP growth. 1/n nolina minj Siddharth Dipankar Bahujan Economists G Sampath Priscilla Jebaraj

Have received at least six similar messages from the Manipur:

'Arambai Tengol has taken complete control of almost every polling station and they are making people vote on gunpoint. They are even voting on behalf of the people for BJP'

Have also received videos which I'm trying

View from the Margins: As Tamil Nadu votes today, read this story about Christuraj. And why it's important for the future government to extend reservation and other benefits to the Dalit Christian and Muslim communities.

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An important and disturbing story by Shreya Raman

“Somli broke into a wail holding Kamli’s bangle: “You were sick, my daughter, and they killed you like an animal. Where are you, my daughter? I am looking for you but I can’t find you.”

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Amidst much resignation and disillusionment, ELAIYA AR keeps his faith in education and anti-caste unity to counter Hindutva forces. Read my story for our Modi generation series on the #LokasabhaElection2024
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#LokSabhaElections | Elaiyakumar from Tamil Nadu views the BJP as a “pro-Brahmin party” that works for “Aryan welfare”. scroll.in/article/106672…

He believes that a “social justice politics” that unites Bahujan and Dravidian people has the potential to counter Hindutva. Read on

What do young Indians who voted for the first time in 2014 think of the past decade? Scroll reporters find out in The Modi Generation

In the first report of the series, Johanna Deeksha spoke to R Hari, a Tamil repatriate, who cast his first vote in 2014 scroll.in/article/106667…

'...our community had been saying these dams are not feasible and yet governments went ahead and built them.”

For View from the Margins: Vaishnavi Rathore on how Sikkim's Lepchas are fighting against the damming of their holy river, the Teesta.

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Scroll.in will publish a new election series called 'View from the Margins'.

The aim: to try and understand how the powerless and voiceless have fared under a decade of Modi.

On the day Vodafone Idea opted for govt bailout, Aditya Birla group donated Rs 10 CR to BJP.

11 months later, no sign of bailout.

So 6 days later, Birla donates another Rs 100 crore. The bailout happened within 2 months.

For #ProjectElectoralBond :
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