Anwiti_

Journalist. ex - Newslaundry, Indian Express The Quint, FII, Citizen, LiveWire. read. write. read.

[Anwiti_ @AnwitiSingh]

It's crazy how vehemently he loved his daughters, despite being raised in a deeply patriarchal set-up that had taught him to hate daughters and sisters.

And now, every day for me a battle with the universe where I refuse to accept he is gone. Forever grateful to be his daughter

[Emily Zanotti 🦝 @emzanotti]

Dolly Parton struggled with severe endometriosis, which led to her once passing out on stage. She had a hysterectomy in her early 30s. But she never stopped loving and helping kids.

[alison chains @cooldetat]

burst into tears again thinking about how the doctor who delivered baby dolly was paid with a bag of cornmeal. a bag of cornmeal for dolly parton

[marlie @P4SSENGERSEAT]

DAVID ATTENBOROUGH STAY INSIDE SLASH SERIOUS THERES PEOPLE DYING WHO HAVE NEVER DIED BEFORE

[Laura Miers @LauraMiers]

Our society no longer allows people like Dolly to succeed. Folks are taken out of the game long before they can rise up. People cannot dig their way out of poverty like that in the US anymore. It’s physically impossible. End of an era. And the Class War is accelerating.

[Mike Scully @scullymike]

She was a delight to direct & so naturally funny. She loved the joke about her make-up remover being strong enough to blow open a jailhouse door. I had her do a few extra unnecessary takes just to make the experience last a little longer. Brightened the day of all in room.

[Anish Moonka @anishmoonka]

The doctor who delivered Dolly Parton in a one-room Tennessee cabin in 1946 was paid with a sack of cornmeal. Her father farmed other people's land and could not read or write. Eighty years later, the reading program she built in his name has mailed more than 300 million books.

She wrote "I Will Always Love You" on the same afternoon she wrote "Jolene," as a goodbye to Porter Wagoner, and released it in 1974. Elvis wanted it. The night before the session, Colonel Tom Parker called and said Presley would only record it if they got half the publishing, meaning half of everything the song ever earned. She had been in Nashville ten years by then. She said no, and cried all night. Whitney Houston cut her version in 1992, held number one for fourteen weeks, and Forbes later put Parton's royalties from it near $10 million. She put some of that money into an office complex in Nashville and called the place the house that Whitney built.

Dollywood opened in Pigeon Forge in 1986 because she wanted paychecks in the county she came from. Around 4,000 people work there now. Three million visitors come every year. The University of Tennessee put its economic impact at $1.8 billion, and it is the largest employer in Sevier County. Since 2022 the company has paid tuition, fees, and books in full for every worker from their first day, seasonal hires included.

Wildfires tore through those mountains in November 2016, killing fourteen people and destroying more than 2,400 buildings. Her foundation was handing out money within 48 hours. Every family that lost a home got $1,000 a month for six months, regardless of income. The final check was $5,000. Total delivered: $8.9 million.

In April 2020 she sent $1 million to Vanderbilt for coronavirus research. When Moderna's vaccine results ran in the New England Journal of Medicine that November, her fund appeared in the footnotes.

Carl Dean, her husband of nearly sixty years, died in March 2025. The note she wrote to fans afterward ended with the same five words she wrote for Porter Wagoner back in 1974. She died in Nashville today. Her family asked that instead of flowers, people give to the Imagination Library, which still mails 3.4 million books a month to children who will never get to meet her.

[simone de bolivar @_bitchsword]

crying

[Marshall Mathers @Eminem]

I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.

[Press Trust of India @PTI_News]

VIDEO | Patna: Reacting to Bihar Education Minister Mithilesh Tiwari advising Tejashwi Yadav to clear his class 10 exams before supporting protests by students, Jan Suraaj Party founder Prashant Kishor says, "If Mithilesh Tiwari had advised Tejashwi Yadav to clear his class 10 exams, I think he should give the same advice to Samrat Choudhary as well, to clear his Class 10 exams before the next Cabinet meeting."

(Full video available on PTI Videos - https://t.co/bIyFWTfmBd)

[kate @fondalesbian]

“to her gay and trans fans, i want you to know that she loved you” i’m sobbing oh my god jane 💔

[gianmarco @GianmarcoSoresi]

This is where Zionism leads you, telling rabbi’s they don’t know what it means to be Jewish

[Sir Norman of Nowhere. 🏴‍☠️ @Normanjam67]

Remember when the Panama Papers showed us even Queen Elizabeth was stashing her money offshore to hide it from the taxman, and nothing happened apart from the murder of the person who leaked them?

[Kathleen Newman-Bremang @KathleenNB]

i listened to the “dolly parton’s america” podcast the summer after my first miscarriage when i was taking long walks to clear my head and grieve. it was such a comforting listen. this my first time seeing this quote and it just made me sob. i love this perspective

[mir.i.am #PrayForSnooki @moll11y]

I’ve always really loved this quote

[Barstool Are Dee Tee @editti22]

I mean this with the utmost respect, this is an incredibly baller way to announce you died

[Seema Chishti @seemay]

Hello @bihar_police what is this?

[Karen Vaites @karenvaites]

Hoping Dolly's remarkable literacy legacy is being discovered in every corner of America tonight.

[Bar and Bench @barandbench]

EXCLUSIVE: Supreme Court Justice Sandeep Mehta asks CJI Surya Kant to replace Rajasthan HC Acting Chief Justice for misusing office

@DebayonRoy #SupremeCourt

https://t.co/f9MPQqTLzB

[Anwiti_ @AnwitiSingh]

@Van0371 @ndtv @ch_dharambir @Ankit_Tyagi01 Ankit Tyagi is a brilliant reporter. No one voted for him to rule, he is just asking questions to the elected official.