Amaal Akhtar

tareekh gawah hai | PhD History @UW | Urdu print & pop culture in 20th c. north India | Written for @indianexpress, @the_hindu, and @thequint |

[Amaal Akhtar @akhtarloony]

First ever academic piece on some of my favourite things, now available to read:

https://t.co/bMwSRXKc1k

[Isha @revgirlisha]

The RSS doesn't simply spread ideas. It builds the social machinery that reproduces the people who hold those ideas. Schools, local branches, cultural organizations, student groups, charities, neighbourhood networks—ideology is carried through institutions that outlive

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

The most misinformation is peddled by legacy media. Not by reels. And young people are much smarter and more informed than we give them credit for. They cut through the BS. This patronising approach needs to stop.

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

Brand Modi was built on tens of thousands of crores of corporate & public money.

What happened at Jantar Mantar
"amounted to a carnivalesque bonfire of Brand Modi."

I write for Time on the significance of the Revolt of the Cockroaches

https://t.co/joN2kLOGPN

[Anurag Minus Verma @confusedvichar]

Bulla ki jaana mein kaun.

[Spider @SpiderAlert24]

See how governments control NDTV.
An Ex-NDTV journalist explained it.

[Arun Kumar @arunk_patel]

Mohammad Irfan is the worker-intellectual of India.

He defies boundaries of labour and knowledge, of books and ice-selling, of literacy and illiteracy.

My column piece in The Indian Express @IndianExpress

This is one of my favourite pieces I wrote.

https://t.co/46Sq4gyhWY

[ヒューゴ @klarnic_debt]

Every Indian historical drama is like “this based Hindu king bravely outsmarts a comically evil Muslim invader” and then some caste community you’ve never heard of will launch a hartal claiming that the movie amounts to genocide

[Joy @Joydas]

This is absolutely fantastic price of work. While nobody had any doubt when a truck full of stones was found at the protest site, this just nails down the trail

[Sophia Zehra Abbas @abbas_sophia]

It’s totally legitimate specially for targeted minorities to be skeptical of a movements direction, supposed leadership, tone setting and selective repercussions of police action and also be involved, have slivers of hope or celebrate small wins. Bas kardo yeh either/ or policing

[Abijit Ganguly @AbijitG]

History will remember when the fight was not fair, Gen Z didn't f**k off from there.

[Shivam Bahuguna @JanusBlinked]

The less discussed part of the protest groundswell is that almost every sector that could absorb the youth is essentially nuked. MSMEs never recovered from Demo+GST+Covid triple shock. AI is eating up techie jobs, which in turn affects other sectors. Govt jobs also in low supply.

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

To anyone who says “keep politics out of it or don’t politicise it”, everything MUST be politicised. Whether it’s exam leaks or women’s safety. These are issues we must hold our leaders accountable for. Everything IS political. Stop being timid and demand accountability. Stop both sidism. Stop whataboutary.

[Gurpriya @GurpriyaSidhu]

faiz: hum dekhenge
samdhish: cameraperson parth, dekhaiye

[🍉 @DelhiIsNotFar]

Rahul Gandhi was raising this issue long before CJP took birth.

So this question and answer itself lacks depth and comes from people who themselves were sleeping.

It was NSUI and IYC that first faced water cannons and lathis, long before CJP even sat down at Jantar Mantar.

[65thakursahab @65thakursahab]

Sometimes in late 2018 - 2019, Rahul Gandhi had asked a room full of volunteers, who they thought was the best spokesperson the Congress had.

The entire room, said @Pawankhera in unison.

Sitting besides RG, Surjewala ji, who himself is a classic spokesperson, was nodding in agreement.

[عائشة حق @Haqq_Aysha]

Nobody listened when Muslims said the same thing about Shaheen bagh, no major media outlet covered it.

This is called a full circle!

[صائم Sam @Sam__00786]

People seem to be realizing and accepting the truth about past protests now. 🙂

[Shantanu @shaandelhite]

To whoever it concerns, especially to AAP gang,

Paper leak issue didn’t start from NEET 2026 but it started from NEET 2024, UP RO-ARO paper leaks and many others.

It was Rahul Gandhi Ji who fought Loksabha 2024 on the issue of paper leaks in UP and Bihar.

Sharing this clip from BJNY 2024.