Ruchi Angrish (She/Her/Hers)

Feminist | Community Builder| Connector| Advocate for Gender Equality| #WarriorMom | Clean Air| Nobody’s Free Until Everybody’s Free | Humanity Above All

[🇮🇳Rohit🇮🇳 @Rohit_p__]

I just went to a medical shop to buy N95 mask, i saw a woman holding an infant..a baby girl just a few months old who wouldn't stop coughing...

Me: She is coughing so much… why didnt you keep her at home...? It's so much pollution outside...

Her: She is under treatment. Doctor prescribed medicines and told us to get an air purifier...but how can we afford something so expensive?

Me after pausing for a moment...with curiosity again...

Me: Did you burst firecrackers this Diwali..?

Her: Yess (with a proud smile on her face) her father brought it...it was her first Diwali..

Me: Amazing...

[Warrior Moms @Warriormomsin]

Indeed!

[Ruchi Angrish (She/Her/Hers) @RuchiAngrish]

Absolutely 💯!!

[megha kumar @MeghaIndia89]

If firecrackers account for 80% of Diwali’s pollution, what more evidence do we need?

We need a permanent, year-round ban on firecrackers not temporary restrictions that return every festive season.

https://t.co/LkpV2zP8Z6

@MoHFW_INDIA @moefcc @Warriormomsin @CAQM_Official

[megha kumar @MeghaIndia89]

If firecrackers account for 80% of Diwali’s pollution, what more evidence do we need?

We need a permanent, year-round ban on firecrackers not temporary restrictions that return every festive season.

https://t.co/LkpV2zP8Z6

@MoHFW_INDIA @moefcc @Warriormomsin @CAQM_Official

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

Citizens will do what they are led to. Instead of blaming citizens, why not question @CMODelhi, whose govt reversed the near total ban on crackers in 2025, making way for this chaos? And the Supreme Court, which has permitted this mess in the name of “livelihood” & “sentiments”!

[Bhavreen Kandhari @BhavreenMK]

‘Manage’ pollution and ‘Make’ money⬇️

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Fake court orders how? Why? Top 10.

As per Reuters, DoT got 129 websites blocked on two fake High Court orders. Last week X told the Delhi HC that the Delhi Police orders against IFF were fake too.

1. Too many censorship bodies. MeitY, MHA, MIB, DoT, state governments, police and courts all issue takedown or blocking orders.

2. Too many censorship laws. 69A, 79(3)(b), IT Rules, BNSS notices, court orders, each with its own format, so nobody knows what a real order should look like. The Sahyog platform by templatisation has only automated the process, not made the orders intelligible.

3. Pressure on platforms to act immediately, even pre-censor. The deadline is three hours and nobody can verify an order in that time.

4. No one to check, just censor. DoT got a fake High Court order on email on a Sunday night and told ISPs to block 34 sites two days later. It was not even on the court's website. Our government is incompetent and trigger happy to take down even global web services. Full domain and app blocking is now a norm.

5. Notices have no legal threshold and rely on subjective perception of offence and vibez. A fake one reads the same as a real one. What’s fact or fiction when our censorship regime is based on magic realism.

6. MeitY is incompetent and can only pressure Silicon Valley platforms to take down more and faster. Ask who issued an order and it says not us. It does not want to provide statistics, shies away from transparency and every six months gets the itch to amend the IT Rules, 2021.

7. Courts pass John Doe and dynamic injunctions so often that lawyers emailing DoT a new list of sites to block is normal. One more email from an "advocate" is not sus to anyone.

8. Orders are kept secret. The person censored rarely gets a copy so they can't say it is fake. We found out only because X forwarded the notices to us, and Reuters because DoT puts court orders online (this category is a rare exception).

9. Platforms are punished only for not complying. Ignore a real order and you lose safe harbour and staff can be prosecuted. Obey a fake one and nothing happens lol.

10. Much of this is automated. Meta reportedly acts on government flags without human review and I4C says it has no record of notices sent through Sahyog.

Quite simply, censorship is the norm and speech is put to suspicion.

[Warrior Moms @Warriormomsin]

This is the state of affairs.
11 calls,
several mails,
cc to women’s cell.
Yet no action! @HMOIndia

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

I've known Jersey City for 20 years now and these kinda scenes have started on Diwali only in recent years.

It's a sickening symptom of the "Yeh naya Hindu hai, ghar mein ghus ke kachra karega" mentality. Much like ganesh visarjan in pristine waterways.

[Gaurav Sabnis @gauravsabnis]

Many ground based fireworks are legal in NJ, within regulations.

Journal Square folks do get permits & pay extra for fire trucks & cleanup.

It's still so unnecessary & ugly. A dazzling display of lights would be so much more wholesome than this obnoxious sight!

[Ruchi Angrish (She/Her/Hers) @RuchiAngrish]

@sabsezyadaa These same uncouth people will start behaving differently when their visas would be rejected , when they would be deported back to India . When their green card would be revoked or cancelled they would start behaving nicely - start respecting the law of the land.

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

+++ GET THERAPY FOR YOUR LOW SELF RESPECT . Don’t create a public nuisance to make up for your lack of self esteem. Work for representation in the government and corporates and universities … not prisons.
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[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

+++ unsafe public behavior and a disregard for safety and security of the general public. What we have not earned is the right to come to another country and then tell them that they are lowly and stupid and that we are superior… seriously.
8/n cont…++

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

++ and it would not be where it is without immigrants like us, we have earned our rights and our houses and our luxuries. What we have not earned is the right to come here and try to make it exactly like the crap we left behind. Polluted air, polluted water… filthy roads
7/n co

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

++ and I understand the loaded racism in the term “model minority” and I am a loud proponent of calling out the government and holding its feet to fire… and not giving racists an inch… and that this country does not belong to any one race… 6/n cont..

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

++ how can that make you feel superior??? Is it because you think that acting all tough makes you look strong??? YOU ARE NOT!!! It’s a melting pot ffs, not a dumpster fire… we have worked sooooo soooo hard to get where we are
5/n cont+++

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

+++ why are you out in the streets, clogging it up with trash and overwhelming the law enforcement to celebrate a festival, you could very well do in your driveway? Why are you terrorizing pets with loud noises??? Why the uncouth behavior??? Why bring us all a bad name???
4/n ++

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

+++ you worked hard… studied hard… and no one can take that away from you, but you laughing at and abusing the very system (racist and flawed as it may be) that made it possible is a level of arrogance no one should have to put up with…3/n cont

[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

+++ yes, you are invited cause you have skills and the education, and you work hard and provide talent and labor and intellect…. You fill in a gap. But you forget, that that gap can be filled from other parts of the world now. You were afforded the best life possible
+++2/n con

[Anjali Kapoor @Anjalifleuri]

@DelhiPolice @CPDelhi @Warriormomsin Gagan Vihar Delhi. Yesterday was like a mini post Diwali celebration here!!! And today still. Not green firecrackers but The banned ones. The whole of Diwali night right upto 2 in the afternoon next day