Dipawali Mitra@TOI

Senior correspondent at TOI Kolkata.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: A former colleague who has tracked the police for years sent this apt and very well written note on the July 20 violence . Pl read it carefully one and all (especially some of our top cops who still retain a commitment and integrity to the uniform)
Read here:
Full sympathies with families and children of cops as no one should be made to see the suffering of their loved ones. But this isn’t an argument about whether the protesters did this or not. The idea of parading the families of injured Delhi Police officers is a dishonourable attempt to create an emotional counter-narrative and is more aimed at deflecting systemic accountability for use of force by the state and hence shifts the focus from institutional actions to individual suffering.
Comparing state-backed police force's injuries with injured students ends up creating a false moral equivalence, because the police hold state authority and crowd-control tools. Remember, violence is always a state monopoly in legal terms. Their attempts distract everyone from the core issue - of police misconduct and disproportionate use of force. In this battle of my emotion versus your emotion, the larger picture should never be lost in any civilised society.🙏

[SS #Andolanjeevi #SaabYaadRakhaJayega @sumonseng]

The mob violence that has been unleashed won't spare anyone. Yesterday it was on @MahuaMoitra & @MinakshiMukher8. Today it is on @03upasana & @NilanjanDasAITC.
Yesterday it was on Political leaders today it's on the Female Police officers. Mark it every dissenter will face this.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: In this season of political splits and mergers, the Supreme Court’s questionable role has largely escaped scrutiny.
1) The SC is yet to deliver a final ruling on the Shiv Sena (UBT) appeal filed in January 2024 challenging the Maharashtra Assembly Speaker’s decision on the party split. That’s 30 months, four CJIs and counting.
2) The SC is also yet to rule on a petition filed by Goa Congress leader Girish Chodankar in March 2022 challenging a Bombay High Court order related to defections. More than four years have passed.

When the history of this period is written, the Supreme Court’s performance as a constitutional guardian must come under serious examination.🙏

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited @cesc Running out of patience in this heat as this is third time in the night that power supply is disrupted, causing extreme discomfort, especially to senior citizens at home.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited it has been more than 1 hour, the locality at Jhamapukur lane, Kolkata -9 do not have power supply. Docket number is 0626045717. Please do the needful to restore power supply.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited @cesc Pls look into it immediately

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited @cesc @CESCLimited Can you please fix the issue and restore the supply of power. This is the third time during the night where power supply has been disrupted.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited @cesc Please look into it.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited @CESC The power supply has again been disrupted. Pls help and restore. It can't go on like this the entire night

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited Thank you. The supply has been restored.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@CESCLimited Please call

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

Trinamool's #rebelcamp surged to 20 as MP #SudipBandyopadhyay met Union ministers, signaling a potential split in the #Bengal assembly. The group plans to stake claim as the 'real Trinamool Congress' and seek inclusion in the NDA, deepening the #party's crisis.

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[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

@mukherjeesoumit Thank you so much

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

https://t.co/IhMT1XL3jn

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

The Patachitrakars of West Midnapore’s Pingla are taking up paint and brush to paint painful stories of denial — of their right to vote. At least 34 Patachitra artists have been deleted, who are all voters of booth 183 of Sabang assembly constituency

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

'Bhoot Bangla' for BJP handles, Chowringhee slum residents say "we are the humans of Bhoot Bangla" after being deleted from electoral rolls

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

Shakespeare said ‘What’s in a name?’

But in reality, Amrita Priyadarshinee was put under adjudication by Election Commission for her Hindu-sounding “unusual” name, though her parents are Muslims.

[Dipawali Mitra@TOI @DipawaliM]

Alt+Ctrl+Del: 10 members from a single family, who has been living in Central Kol for 93 years, has been deleted from the electoral rolls. Families living in the city for generations are being wiped out.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

This Fake letter of Imran Khan's death is crazily viral on WhatsApp in India.