Aritry

Feminist/Writer/Journo @project_polis

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

Marjane Satrapi’s illustrated ode to smoking, 2005, @nytimes

[Aritry @aritry]

This is important! We need to save our independent media 👇👇

[Article 14 @Article14live]

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[Aritry @aritry]

@irfhabib @sanjayuvacha Attempts at destroying JNU, as intended.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Suchitra Vijayan @suchitrav]

The Supreme Court called punitive demolitions “wholly unconstitutional.” So why are the police officers carrying them out posting the footage to Instagram for clout? New reportage by Samira Iqbal for @project_polis on the digital ecosystem legitimizing India’s “Bulldozer Raj.”
https://t.co/hDn3QxE9y3

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Cockroaches survive nuclear disasters. The authorities panic over social media posts.

We condemn the takedown of Cockroach Janta Party (@CJP_2029 ) page on X/Twitter under India’s opaque digital censorship infrastructure. It is clear violation of free speech and expression. We will provide any and all support against any illegal state censorship.

@Cockroachisback

Comic by @aaaaadvik

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Israeli media reporting (for days) about orders to INDISCRIMINATELY KILL Palestinians has gotten no traction in Western media.

This story should be huge, the lack of coverage is a choice.

[Brian Tashman @briantashman]

Israeli soldiers admit they have a “shoot all men they saw on sight” policy in Gaza and then claim they’re “terrorists” later, even if they’re unarmed and trying to surrender

[Aritry @aritry]

It's possibly White Phosphorus. and possibly also a war crime by Israel. We documented the usage of this deadly chemical in Southern Lebanon at @project_polis. This is ecocide: https://t.co/EOvJoMfkF3

[Reuters @Reuters]

Plumes of thick smoke were seen rising from southern Lebanon, following a series of Israeli airstrikes.

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

Reuters complicit in the ethnic cleansing of southern Lebanon by deliberately omitting the fact that this is a white phosphorus bomb.
Using white phosphorus near civilian populations is a war crime.

[Aritry @aritry]

@AssalRad @Reuters Think they changed it 2 days later. Check? https://t.co/xD6EtP4ulj

[Briahna Joy Gray @briebriejoy]

Meanwhile, Zionists have been using “what about Sudan” as a means to deflect criticism of Israel.

[Yanis Varoufakis @yanisvaroufakis]

Did you know that Dr Hussam Abu Afiya, the heroic doctor who stayed until the last moment in his bombed out hospital saving lives, and who the Israeli army abducted illegally, is STILL kept in chains? Now, Israel seeks to extend his illegal detention. Speak out!

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Congress govt in Telangana invoking the stringent UAPA against a Twitter user for his alleged critical remark against the government. This is how the Congress restores the freedom of expression when it is in power.

[Alan MacLeod @AlanRMacLeod]

Same day, same outlet (the BBC):

Somalis "hijack" ships.
The US merely "boards" them.

This is how consent is manufactured in real time.

[Prasanna S @prasanna_s]

Barely a whisper in the Indian press ....

[jeremy scahill @jeremyscahill]

Trump’s fabricated description of a theoretically nuclear armed Iran threatening and menacing the Middle East would be a remarkably accurate description if he was describing Israel.

[Rakhi Tripathi @rakhitripathi]

You talk of women’s representation while taking away voting rights from poor women in West Bengal.
That’s not empowerment. It is hypocrisy.
Prof VK Tripathi

[Aritry @aritry]

This is illegal. You cannot exclude people from their right to vote because your admin procedure did not finish in time. The complicated online appeal processes further deepen the class divide. Majority are stripped of rights and access. This is not democracy.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Decades later, people reading about this moment will find it unbelievable that India’s
institutions, and its people allowed millions of Indians to be disenfranchised.

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

The grand son (88 yrs) and grand daughter in law (82 yrs) of Nandalal Bose couldnt vote this time, thanks to @ECISVEEP
After SC’s direct intervention, their names were added yesterday but the modified list didn’t reach the booth and presiding officer.