My article on @scroll_in draws on a critical insight from my PhD research on women who elope and are yet classified as missing in the official datasets.
Do read and share your feedback.
https://t.co/7lC3UCJ9v7 via @scroll_in
#PeekOnGround : Is the Cockroach Janata Party an anti-national protest? We spoke to one of Delhi University's most experienced and loved teacher Nandita Narain who had joined the CJP protest at Jantar Mantar and asked her views on India's crumbling education system.
I’m going to ask everyone to stop dragging 17 or 18 years ago old students and trying to identify their political affiliations. They’re not going to be perfect liberals like you want. How many of us were at that age? When you grow up in savarna households, certain things like equality and the horrors of caste and communalism are just not taught to you. You have to give kids a chance to learn and more importantly you have to teach them and try to set an example.
They will figure it out just like so many of us did. They will pick up a volume of Dr. Ambedkar’s writings, they will pick up Dr. Sainath’s book, they will read the articles so many of you write and look at your rational posts and come to their own understanding. Maybe we can show them the right way through our words and actions.
‘Itni dalaal media duniya main kahin nahin hogi jitni bharat main hai…’
Have to listen to this lady describe how some in the media are covering this protest. What sort of questions they are asking. Brilliant byte by @anmolpritamND@nlhindi
I don't know whether I'm a supporter of CJP or not.
BuT I stand with the students demanding Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.
The future of millions of students can't be compromised without accountability.
— A student at Jantar Mantar
This GenZ kid is more sorted than people with partisan apprehensions on social media.
Reporter: What are your demands?
Aarav: Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation.
Reporter: If Dharmendra Pradhan doesn't resign today, will you still support CJP?
Aarav: I have no personal attachment to CJP. I will support any party that raises my issues. I haven't come for CJP. I have come for Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation. My issues are not Hindu-Muslim. My issues are education, healthcare, etc.
Sometimes academia feels like a long series of polite rejections.
Not selected for this. Passed over for that. Paper rejected. Grant not discussed.
I don’t have a neat lesson here.
Just solidarity with everyone who is tired of translating disappointment into resilience.
My PhD was deeply challenging because of many factors.
@raulpacheco's tweets + blog helped me navigate academic writing. He broke it down for those of us who'd be belittled for asking "naive" questions.
He was the difference between a true educator & pompous CV-chasing academic.
Cover reveal of my forthcoming book "What to do with Political Sadness, and Other Essays on Death, Destruction and Hauntology"! So proud to be published again by #YodaPress@arpitayodapress and @SimonSchusterIN
People are DYING in heatwaves across India and nobody is even pretending to care.
Because the people dying are the ones this country has trained itself NOT TO SEE.
Daily-wage workers. Delivery boys. Construction workers. Street vendors. Farmers. Sanitation workers.
People this system has FORCED out into deadly heat just to earn a living.
If heat was killing the insulated, it would be a NATIONAL EMERGENCY.
But it is killing the “THEM”, so it is just “summer.”
Press Freedom Index in India 🚨
Zero coverage on protest by NSUI and Congress on NEET paper leak
Zero coverage on protest in Manipur and Arunachal Pradesh on corruption.
But sellouts are screaming on a stupid Melody reel🤦 and hounding a Norwegian Journalist.
This is Beyond Pathetic !! 😏
• Inflation hurting common people
• Rupee falling against major currencies
• Petrol and Diesel prices soaring
• Unemployment rising
• NEET-UG 2026 paper leak shaking students future
Meanwhile, PM Narendra Modi is roaming in Rome with Italian PM Giorgia Meloni.....
The nation needs solutions, NoT photo ops
आर्थिक तूफ़ान सर पर है, और हमारे प्रधानमंत्री इटली में टॉफ़ी बाँट रहे हैं!
किसान, युवा, महिलाएँ, मज़दूर और छोटे व्यापारी सब रो रहे हैं - PM हंसकर रील बना रहे हैं, और BJP वाले ताली बजा रहे हैं।
यह नेतृत्व नहीं, नौटंकी है।
If you’re trying to reach me on Instagram or Facebook, I would like to let you know I have been suspended from both accounts. I have wanted to respond to as many Indians as possible, but my responses will now be delayed. I hope I will get my accounts back. @Meta