Aleesha Matharu

Freelance life for now. Former Editor @livewire & Senior Assistant Editor @thewire_in | Formerly @IndianExpress | Constant Reader 🗝️

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

The arrest of Ashoka University professor Ali Khan Mahmudabad over a carefully worded Facebook post is not about national security – it is about silencing Muslim intellect.

https://t.co/ceE1l4oyeu

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Why is it necessary to add that Siren sound @aroonpurie. What is your channel trying to prove by spreading panic among your viewers?

[Siddharth @svaradarajan]

I want folks to reflect on the logic which the government is following on the flow of information.

1. Indian news channels ran programming for hours last night reporting that the Indian Navy had been deployed and had bombed and destroyed Karachi Port.
2. Indian news channels ran stories that the Indian army had entered Pakistan.
3. Indian news channels ran stories that India has captured Islamabad.
4. Indian channels ran stories about suicide terror strikes in Rajouri

All of this 'reporting' by major new channels was not just fake news but also inflammatory and provocative and clearly intended to ensure the very escalation (from the Pakistani side) that the Indian government has cautioned against from the outset.

Earlier, channels described an Indian Muslim victim of Pakistani shelling in Poonch as a Lashkar-e-Tayyaba terrorist.

Instead of firmly clearing the air with respect to this kind of dangerous reporting, the government issued instructions to Internet Service Providers across India to block access to The Wire — one of the largest Indian news platforms that has been reporting on the emerging situation with responsibility and restraint.

The blocking order is unconstitutional. It is an attack on press freedom and on the right of every Indian to access information. It must be lifted immediately.

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Dear Readers of The Wire

In a clear violation of the Constitutional guarantee of freedom of the press, the Government of India has blocked access to https://t.co/mEOYg6zJMu across India. +

[Amiya_Pandav ଅମିୟ ପାଣ୍ଡଵ Write n Fight @AmiyaPandav]

Tribal Christian women were tied in a tree by Male members of so called Hindu organization n their faces were disfigured on X Mass in Nilgiri of Balasore d home of BJP,MP Pratap Sarangi ! Attacks on Minorities Growing dangerously in Odisha @Ashok_Kashmir @irfhabib @zoo_bear

[Christiane Amanpour @amanpour]

Utter heartbreak and desperation unfolded at Syria's notorious Saydnaya Prison near Damascus, as families urgently searched for their imprisoned loved ones -- or any information about their fate, as rumors flew hour by hour. @clarissaward reports on the agony and the cruelty.

[Nilanjana Roy 📚🦊 @nilanjanaroy]

36 year ban ends -- because the original notification cannot be found.

https://t.co/ilFk8tyCLv

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

"I am a Hindu, Therefore I am here in front of you, speaking, if I were a Muslim I would have been in the photo like Umar Khalid and others." @kunalkamra88
Via - @JournoMirror

[Morgan Ariel @itsmorganariel]

Israeli’s are murderous demon possessed psychopaths.

There is a reason why nobody likes them.

[Aleesha Matharu @almatharu]

Bangladesh unrest: At least 105 dead, TV news off air, jail stormed

https://t.co/WcPd1tp9RL

[Aleesha Matharu @almatharu]

Genocide, Israel and STEM: What an IIT Madras Student Said in His Rousing Pro-Palestine Speech https://t.co/lZO6aQPKmW

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

The media won’t tell you this but Israel has now killed 16,550 Palestinian children in Gaza, in 8 months.

16,550 children killed. In just 266 days.

This is a holocaust.

Repeat. Spread it. Let the world know.

[Parth MN @parthpunter]

A roof collapses at the airport in India's capital city, causing a loss of life, and the government's first response is to "clarify" that it was built during the previous government's rule.

I have no speech.

[Barack Obama @BarackObama]

Bad debate nights happen. Trust me, I know. But this election is still a choice between someone who has fought for ordinary folks his entire life and someone who only cares about himself. Between someone who tells the truth; who knows right from wrong and will give it to the American people straight — and someone who lies through his teeth for his own benefit. Last night didn’t change that, and it’s why so much is at stake in November. https://t.co/Tn2TQu5Djo

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

The most hilarious and logical explanation of why people are celebrating it as BJP's loss, even when they've won technically. 😂

[Aleesha Matharu @almatharu]

Israel Must Stop Its Campaign Against UNRWA https://t.co/zrrbTHHklo

[emily north @north0fnorth]

you can see a genocide from space

[Mohamad Safa @mhdksafa]

At this point, you are either pro-humanity or pro-genocide, there is no in-between.

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Please resign @rajivkumarec and the rest at ECI. This is a disgrace

[Aditya Menon @AdityaMenon22]

Chief Election Commissioner should resign and write poetry behind autorickshaws. I don't think he's competent enough for anything else