Kaisar Andrabi

Journalist BBC | Words @thedailybeast @AJEnglish @ForeignPolicy @Diplomat_APAC @NikkeiAsia @boomlive_in @thewire_in @SCMPNews @RNS & more Fellow @cambridge_Uni

[Kaisar Andrabi @KAndrabi]

Before he left for the mosque, his wife had told him to have dinner first. But Hassan assured her he would be back within 20 minutes and they will eat together. He never returned, Hassan’s father told Al Jazeera.

My latest for @AJEnglish
https://t.co/pijsWd83os

[Dr Sheikh Showkat @DrSheikhShowkat]

Inability of India to take on China the way Pakistan did in the context of USSR has made the Anglo American  think tanks pessimistic about the Indian will/ potential of seriously confronting -competing with China.

[Nick Sortor @nicksortor]

🚨 BREAKING: A Boeing 737-400 freighter has gone missing in the Indian Ocean, just past the Gulf of Oman, after taking off from the UAE

Flight tracking data shows an EXTREMELY rapid descent, dropping approximately 35,000 feet in less than 2 minutes, before disappearing from radar entirely.

Pray for the souls on board. A search and rescue operation has been launched.

It's not currently known what would have brought down the plane.

The K2 Airways cargo plane (AP-BOI) was reportedly en route to Karachi, Pakistan.

[Reuters @Reuters]

EXCLUSIVE: Pakistan mediating Libya unity push as rival camps seek deal, Pakistani sources say https://t.co/EJNoa3wp03 https://t.co/EJNoa3wp03

[Majid Maqbool @MaqboolMajid]

The Print, known for publishing the vilest anti minorities, anti Muslim diatribe by cowadly hiding behind fake bylines, is calling Sutlej "baseless propaganda". Not surprising!

[Scroll.in @scroll_in]

In #Chauhaan teaser, #AjayDevgn’s voiceover describes traditional crowd control methods such as tear gas, water cannons and pellets used by security forces in Kashmir as ineffective.

https://t.co/DVmB0d4Dkr
But in Kashmir, pellets represent death & ruined lives.

✍️@safwatzgr

#slowlane

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Indian authorities are demolishing mosques in Uttar Pradesh that they say were built illegally. But the demolitions have sparked anger among Muslim leaders, who say they are being disproportionately targeted.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

हज़ारों घायल, सैकड़ों नागरिक नेत्रहीन, दर्जनों की मौत, पैलेट गन कश्मीर के सबसे गहरे जख्मों में से एक है. लेकिन 'चौहान' फ़िल्म का टीज़र उस दर्द और पीड़ा को एक तमाशे में बदल देता है. 'जुम्मा चुम्मा दे दे' गाना इस माहौल को और हवा देता है. | @Indra_Calcutta

https://t.co/NAQZkLdDlp

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Almost 90% plus of Private Sector Indian CEOs Promoters and Top Businesspersons come from the ultimate reserved class - the Savarnas (mostly Brahmins and Banias). They silently allow none else to flourish. Their networks across Banks, VCs, PEs, Markets, Society and now even Politics, ensure a multi-generational reserved monopoly. Automatically. Silently. Gently. This has been so for generations, not just 75 years. Silence doesn't kill this reality.

I know it as I have seen it at close quarters, being one of them. Living among them. And frankly, you know it too.

Yes yes yes they are talented. They had all the means to be talented - safe childhoods, unlimited nutrition at will, best education and parenting, best imaginable education and healthcare, no degrading social treatment ever - for generations. Imagine merit and talent without it. Just imagine.

As for "merit", something we hear cries 24x7 about, Indian private sector (zero reservations since eternity) in past 30 years of neoliberal economy could create not one genuine world beating product. No Google No Anthropic No SpaceX No Palantir No WhatsApp No Mercedes No Toyota nothing. Savarna control of corporate India is generally about extraction at the cost of the nation, the society, and 90% of population. That is the only truth. And when confronted with this visible fact, they turn abusive and malevolent. They reject facts that scream from every newspaper every day. They turn their vile on the unfortunate who have paid the heaviest price for the rigid caste system. Every failure is sought to be pinned on some non-Savarna, by hook or crook. And then they scream "hey why bring caste into it?"

Get real. Please.

Real change begins the day Savarnas rise and demand a destruction of the Caste System itself, a disease due to which reservations are an absolute necessity. They possibly never will, because the hardened and ossified caste system keeps them in a position of continuing privilege, which they deny, then constantly display victimhood, and then blame the unfortunates who have been victimised for centuries, and then turn violent if situation so permits.

They are terrified, that one day, caste system will actually end. And all will be equal. They are mortified at the very idea. Because that is how it has been for ever. FOR EVER.

The daily cope "caste doesn't exist" "it was invented by British" doesn't change the truth living right between all of us.

Wake up. Change yourself kindly. Reservations and social justice are coming in private sector soon. Learn to respect those whom you shut the doors on for ever. Learn to help share respect and acknowledge. The moral arc of history won't be held hostage for ever. The time for change is fast arriving. Embrace it, do not reject it. We will be infinitely better when everyone has similar opportunities. And when social apartheid (of a million types - from separate kitchen cutlery to restricted lift usage) comes to a permanent end.

(And if you are another one who denies the screaming reality, spend just one week in any village near your city, and see what happens to the "lower castes" on a day-to-day basis.)

DEMAND THE DESTRUCTION OF CASTE SYETEM AND IN JUST 30-40 YEARS, ALL WILL BE ACTUALLY EQUAL. THEN REAL MERIT WILL EMERGE.

Remember: remaining silent on Casteism is the biggest Casteism of all. Talking openly about it, with the noble goal to ending it one day, is humanity. Finally, only and only humanity will prevail. Be on its side.

Best wishes to all of us.

[Sandeep Manudhane @sandeep_PT]

Ah, "merit"!
Selling highly sugared sodas to crores of kids worldwide for years, ruining their health while minting millions and pontificating.
Merit, indeed.

[Sidhant Sibal @sidhant]

Just in: Congress party's Salman Khurshid & PDP's Mehbooba Mufti to travel to Iran today to attend the state funeral of late supreme leader Ali Khamenei; They will travel to Iran on special Iranian Mahan Air flight at 4 pm

[M K Venu @mkvenu1]

That is being very polite!

[Sushant Singh @SushantSin]

Tehran is embarrassing the Modi govt.

[OPPO India @OPPOIndia]

A design that's impossible to ignore.
Get ready to witness the all-new OPPO Reno16 Series, your next trend-setting camera phone.

[Rest of World @restofworld]

Behind the World Cup's real-time data and automated offside calls is a vast network of manual laborers who turn every pass and tackle into structured analytics to fuel the sports betting industry https://t.co/k2bdSiCR0z

[Gowhar Geelani @GowharGeelani]

If you wish to understand the larger geopolitical game in the region—Gwadar versus Chabahar port, which country is isolating whom, China’s investments in the region, US sanctions on Iran & new alliances — read this insightful piece by @jaffrelotc #westasia
https://t.co/xSBG5v0pwT

[Lukasz Olejnik @lukOlejnik]

The C.I.A. is reorganising to put greater priority on cyberoperations, especially offensive cyber capabilities. It wants officers to become more skilled at using digital tools, data, and code for intelligence collection. A major focus is using AI, understood as "digital nuclear weapons" aggressively but keeping humans in control of final decisions. The agency is strengthening its ability to hack computer networks, communications systems where intelligence can be gathered. https://t.co/5E4wNotxPk

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

20-year-old Mohammad Zaid, beaten to death in Ghaziabad’s Loni area after his motorcycle brushed against a car. The accused, a real estate businessman named Rahul Mavi, took Zaid to his office where he and his friend allegedly brutally assaulted him. Rahul has been arrested.

Zaid’s aunt alleged that the accused cut the motorcycle’s fuel pipe and threatened the boys, saying they would also be beaten if they named them to the police.

🔗 https://t.co/JVjpbj9ZUK

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

China is steadily redrawing the Line of Actual Control on the ground — not through dramatic offensives, but one military outpost, one militarized frontier village, and one new road at a time. The reported Chinese encroachments in the eastern Himalayan sector illustrate its longstanding salami-slicing strategy.

New Delhi can no longer afford to remain in denial.

[Ramy Abdu| رامي عبده @RamAbdu]

Veteran journalist Mujahid Abu Mufleh, before and after his detention in the Israeli Auschwitz camps.

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

If this was any other country, it would be huge news, and most western governments would be loudly condemning it.

But it’s Israel so…