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Hello Mallikarjun Kharge, Rahul Gandhi, This is the time to show your commitment to freedom of artistic (I use the word very loosely) expression and NOT repeat NOT ban the movie #Emergency Let it take its chances at the box office.

I reminded of a recent video of वरुण 🇮🇳. He starts by saying "comedy is dead, because everytime he thinks to himself "they lost Ayodhya" he bursts out laughing".

How come there were hardly any hate crimes over beef before 2014? Who has brought in this ugly disease in India? Doesn't even require any intelligence to answer that. Yet, some influential people who could make a difference continue to remain silent. The heroes and the sportstars

If Hindutva thugs with diabetes were travelling in a train and found a Muslim man eating jalebis, they would beat him up. See how stupid that sounds? It's the same for the Muslim man eating meat that you were not allowed to consume.

This morning Karen Martin on the BBC News (World) touchingly listed out the names of all the seven Israeli hostages killed by Hamas in Gaza. It was only lack of time, I suppose, that prevented them from listing the 47 Palestinians killed by the IDF. x.com/OmarBaddar/sta…

I will believe the SC is serious if it actually orders Govts to fully compensate all whose homes had been bulldozed in such cases. Until then, it's just empty posturing.

Representativeness heuristic: A cognitive bias that involves comparing whatever we’re evaluating to a situation, prototype, or stereotype that we already have in mind. Is this why young Hindutva adherents find it so easy to assault, even k!ll, Musl!ms?

An image of Muslims has been drilled into them from childhood, in their homes; neighbourhoods; shakhas. They fail to connect what they are actually seeing - for instance a frail old man travelling to visit his daughter, with the image of the demon they have planted in their mind.

In #NewIndia we don't give any fu**s to the massive intelligence and governance failure that led to #IC814 and the aftermath of releasing terrorists. We have all the fu**s in the world to give for a movie made on the incident. As a nation, we are hurtling towards doom.

Riding the bus and overhearing a hijabi woman talking with another woman wearing shorts. They're talking about gases on Mars and the function of temperature and other astrophysics things I don't understand. For ten minutes, the world has shown me what it could be. Should be.

Reporter: What makes you think this deal with go through? Biden: Hope springs eternal! What? Seriously? Since when is hope a substitute for strategy?

If you* have time to read only one article today, make it this one. "Ten Half-truths of Caste Census" by Yogendra Yadav * If you are against caste-census for any reason, you MUST read it. Image kind courtesy Sushant Singh

I am reading Naomi Klein's "No Is Not Enough". She talks about branding and how everything of what Trump did, in the run up to and then as the 45th President was about building his own brand. I can see a lot of parallels here in India too.

Waiting for lynching apologists to say "They made a mistake but their hearts were in the right place. They deserve forgiveness." fcuking bigots. fcuking enablers.

Bangladesh has won a test series 2:0 in Pakistan. This has got to be a significant moment in their cricket history. Well played. #PakvBan

A TIL moment for me 👇

Nothing to see here but the ThePrintIndia under Shekhar Gupta making you think the murderers are actually the victim here. Such a nice bunch of folks who mistakenly thought the boy was a Muslim (hence fair game), that's all

Our history is our history. It has good bits, great bits, horrible bits, awful bits, mediocre bits, shameful bits, glorious bits. That's for all of us. We study it, we learn a little about ourselves. But this hysteria about being great all the time is tedious and stupid. Please.

"These things happened. They were glorious and they changed the world... ... and then we fucked up the end game." Charlie Wilson (reflecting on the role the USA played in helping the Mujahideen throw the Soviets out of Afghanistan.