RajeshJoshi

Independent journalist and media trainer. (Aspiring actor) RT≠endorsement.

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

Very useful for protecting your privacy from the prying eyes of @Google. Thanks @techxutkarsh

[Utkarsh Sharma @techxutkarsh]

If you have a Gmail account, you need to read this.

Google's AI now scans your emails and attachments, bank statements, tax files, medical letters, all of it. It turned on by default, and there's a class-action lawsuit over how.

Here are 5 moves to shut it off, the switch is hidden in two places:

[Dr. Brahma Chellaney @Chellaney]

The irony is that the U.S. and India are "Major Defense Partners," conduct joint military exercises and cooperate across the Indo-Pacific. Yet the U.S. Navy has launched missile strikes against commercial tankers in international waters and killed Indian merchant mariners.

The U.S. Navy had direct communications with the crews of the three foreign-flagged commercial tankers and was fully aware of their Indian nationality before launching the strikes that killed three crew members this week.

This echoes March, when the U.S. Navy torpedoed and sank, in India's backyard, an Iranian frigate returning in a non-combat configuration after largely expending its munitions during an India-hosted multilateral naval exercise in which the U.S. also participated.

And just as the U.S. Navy did not attempt to rescue the sailors from the sinking frigate, it likewise did not come to the aid of the surviving Indian crew members aboard the three tankers it struck. The rescue efforts were mounted instead by Omani authorities.

It is noteworthy that the vessels Washington labels part of a "shadow fleet" transporting crude oil are largely linked to China and Russia. Yet since the Trump-ordered naval blockade began on April 13 without any basis in international law, the U.S. military has not struck a single tanker actively bound for, or coming directly from, either China or Russia.

Striking such a vessel would transform a localized naval blockade into a direct geopolitical confrontation with Beijing or Moscow — a line the Trump administration has explicitly avoided crossing. Instead, it has employed kinetic force only against lower-profile vessels, including those carrying Indian crew members.

Taken together, these incidents are a sad commentary on the state of India's foreign policy under the present government.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

I am privileged to be associated with the high-profile cases against two news organisations — NDTV and Newsclick.

I was also one of the many picked up from my home by 8 cops and questioned in the Newsclick case.

Although my ordeal was very short — and the cops were extremely polite and almost apologetic — it traumatised my family, especially my kids.

My anger at that time all but made me abandon my father's teachings of never letting my politics come in the way of my analysis. I am glad to say that I was able to transcend the temptation of becoming a partisan commentator.

However, I do not question the establishment for what happened to me. I had already experienced the state's overreach as a three-year-old, when my father had to go underground for a year during the Emergency.

My question is to the mainstream, legacy news media — especially those who do various shades of Journalism of COURAGE.

What made you regurgitate whatever was fed to you against Newsclick, or indeed against NDTV?

What made you not look at the obvious holes in the stories concocted against them?

Why did you not even do your patented 'he said, she said' journalism? Why was it only what HE said?

Make no mistake — YOU are the real enemies of democracy.

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

@MCD_Delhi @DCSOUTHZONE @LtGovDelhi @CMODelhi @praveshwahi @dip_delhi @SecyDIP @SBM_MCD Wowwww! I’m impressed. Now action is awaited. Thank you so much in anticipation @MCD_Delhi !!

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

One week challenge for @DCSOUTHZONE Let’s see how soon the civic authorities “swing into action” to clear this pile of rubbish lying on Bhai Jeet Singh Marg footpath, Katwaria Sarai across Qutub Hotel. @LtGovDelhi @CMODelhi
@praveshwahi
@dip_delhi @SecyDIP @MCD_Delhi
@SBM_MCD

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

While the buzz of a @INCIndia - @AITCofficial merger intensifies, it’s time for the @cpimspeak and @cpofindia to sit together and plan a political merger - yes, merger - if they are serious about turning the tide that is advancing fast to swallow them. https://t.co/m4dztSC1h7

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

@INCIndia का महिला मोर्चा कहां सोया हुआ है @garrywalia_ जी?ज़िम्मेदार विपक्ष की भूमिका निभाने से क्या भारत की जनता रोक रही है कांग्रेस की महिलाओं को?

[Gurpreet Garry Walia @garrywalia_]

स्मृति ईरानी का पुराना खजाना खोदा है , रीट्वीट करके वायरल करना आपका काम है

2012 👇

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

विकास करना है जी, भारत को २०४७ तक विकसित भारत बनाना है जी।

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

द टेलीग्राफ़ (कलकत्ता) में छपा सुशांत सिंह का ये लेख पिछले १२ बरस में नरेंद्र मोदी की सदारत का बेबाक लेखाजोखा प्रस्तुत करता है। पढ़िए इस दौर में हिंदुस्तान ने क्या खोया और क्या पाया।

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

‘Today’s unfortunate reality is that India is not merely absent from the high table making major international decisions, it has become irrelevant to them.’ @SushantSin is spot-on here:
https://t.co/iE2YG6r68n

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

ये कितना दारुण वीडियो है! कौन हैं ९ बरस की छोटी-सी ईरानी बच्ची लीला के दुश्मन? कब उन हत्यारों को और उनके साथ दे रहे लोगों को उनके अपराधों की सज़ा मिलेगी - मिलेगी भी या नहीं?

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

Me lord!

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

इस प्रार्थना में आपके साथ हूँ

[Supriya Shrinate @SupriyaShrinate]

This boy’s clarity of thought and honesty of expression on caste-based disparities are commendable.

Hats off to you, young man!

He is so right. Reservation is not a poverty alleviation programme but a means to bring equity and equilibrium to the social structure. 🫡🫡

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

“A celebrity MAGA influencer and conspiracy theorist walked into a conclave in India under fire for mocking Indians as “third-world invaders” with low IQ and bad hygiene, but may have walked out as a new mascot for India’s Islamophobes.” A brilliant piece on far-right alliances.

[Toda Peace Institute @TodaInstitute]

A new report from @Planet_Deb examines transnational far-right alliances which are exacerbating existing challenges to democracy by creating a networked infrastructure that amplifies extremist ideologies @TodaInstitute https://t.co/4fk8Ix2rdu

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

@ANI wouldn’t tell the full story as to which factory it was and why the workers were forced to come out in the street to demand #justice! #labour #noidaworkers #tradeunions

[ParanjoyGuhaThakurta @paranjoygt]

April 4, 2026 | New Delhi: The Editors Guild of India is deeply concerned by both the contents and the underlying intent behind the Draft Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Second Amendment Rules, 2026 (“Draft Amendments”), which were made public by the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology (MeitY) on March 30, 2026, with just a fortnight given for comments.
Prima facie, the amended rules and guidelines, whose stated purpose is to “strengthen compliance” and increase the effectiveness of regulatory oversight of content regulation mechanisms under Part III (Code of Ethics relating to Digital Media) of the IT Rules, 2021” appear to arm MeitY with sweeping powers of content regulation, sharply increases the compliance burden on digital intermediaries, and gives the executive overarching powers to block or take down content generated by  “non news publishers” and intermediaries. This will directly infringe the fundamental right to free speech guaranteed to all citizens under the Constitution and will have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and the airing of contrarian views, which are fundamental to an open and functional democracy.
Sub-rule (4) to Rule 3, which deals with due diligence obligations of intermediaries, now makes it mandatory on the part of intermediaries to comply with “any clarification, advisory, order, direction, standard operating procedure, code of practice or guideline issued by the ministry, by order in writing”. Failure to comply has been linked to loss of the safe harbour protection extended to intermediaries and platforms for user-generated content, under section 79 of the Information Technology Act. The absence of due process for the issuance of compliance orders and the complete lack of transparency in the process are deeply concerning.
Changes to Rule 14(2) and Rule 14(5) in the draft amendment also greatly widen the powers of the Inter-Departmental Committee (IDC). IDC, a central oversight body constituted under Rule 14 of the Information Technology (Intermediary Guidelines and Digital Media Ethics Code) Rules, 2021, was specifically created to hear grievances and complaints against digital content. Now, the IDC has been empowered to deal with and “matter” – a generalisation which arms the body to consider virtually any issue, in the absence of any definition of what constitutes a “matter”. Other provisions devolve rulemaking powers entirely to the executive branch, removing the window for legislative oversight provided under the IT Act.
The EGi calls on the government to urgently review or recall the draft rules, and engage in more constructive consultations with all sections of stakeholders and take on board valid concerns and objections.
Warm regards,
Sanjay Kapoor, President
Raghavan Srinivasan, General Secretary
Teresa Rehman, Treasurer

[Jairam Ramesh @Jairam_Ramesh]

I still remember the quiz at Hindu College in mid-December 1974. The question was who was the only British PM to have been assassinated. Nandan and I were foxed. I took a wild guess and said Robert Peel. The answer was wrong and the other teams also didn’t know. The quiz master threw the question open to the audience. Prompt boomed in a shout from the back: Spencer Percival 1812.

The answer was right and it came from none other than Shashi Tharoor. Ram Guha was in the audience and we have shared memories of this quite often.

[RajeshJoshi @RajeshJoshi]

This headline must have made the #Indian establishment, particularly PM Narendra #Modi, uncomfortable, as #Pakistan’s Field Marshall Asim #Munir has got a place on the high table of global #diplomacy without chanting: Ab ki baar, #Trump sarkaar!https://t.co/oQjoanSrhK #IranWar‌

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Any use of nuclear weapons at this stage, will amount to the extinction of humanity.