Aroon Deep

Covering tech policy for The Hindu தொலைபேசி / பேசி தொலையும். EN/FR/HI/TA

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Impeccable spelling game in the parliamentary steno pool

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

This was unexpected! 😂

Never thought I'd hear the words 'vastegunehuiyan' and 'kuchu-puchu' in the Parliament.

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

Accha, what is this then?

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

जिस जनता सरकार, जूडिशीएरी और लोकतंत्र के धज्जियां उड़ने समय कम्फर्टब्ली नम थी, अब उसको लगता है की किसी नेता को गाली देने से पूरा देश बर्बादी में जा रहा है

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Sounds about right. As always, soft target of OTT is waiting. The only thing they have left going for them where there is some freedom - gali galoch - its days are numbered.

[Paras A Bisht @6RiseAndShine]

I'm traveling to delhi and man I have seen some anger against Genz abusing Modi ji
Ladies and Gentlemen u r not ready for this

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

But it's a bit annoying as a factor. The underlying motivation is "haww you must respect prime minister even if u disagree" - the instinct being that the state's legitimacy flows from this reverence. Annoying because-

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

@HitchhikerQ Yes, along with the most baller belligerents section https://t.co/Wgflt29Xqz

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

It's made Wikipedia news

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

As a result of our last Nilekani-led reform process, people starved without rations if they were unlucky enough to not have cell coverage, and lost their right to vote if they had one character difference between name on one ID proof and another.

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

But before all this, Mr. Nilekani will first have to start looking for problems to solve. Since the ones he's been hired for are not in his scope of work, it will take time. Please be patient

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Computer Based Testing only with Aadhaar-based iris authentication for maximum security. Issue is paper security? Don't worry, focus will be on student authenticity. Iris authentication will be continuous, student will have to make eye contact with webcam every 10 seconds.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

HIGH POWERED TASK FORCE on examination reforms under the leadership of Shri Nandan Nilekani constituted.

@NandanNilekani

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Admit card will be issued exclusively on Digi Locker. Students without phone may borrow the household's lone phone, which will not be required for those ~6 hours anyway. Who needs phone and all

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Censor Board chair reacts to gendered expletives by young people at Jantar Mantar over the last few days. Note that gendered expletives are generally banned in Indian films, even when they are spoken by adults in movies restricted to adults. Wonder who should really introspect.

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Meanwhile nobody used or needed Bitchat, and Microsoft ignored the blocking order. Go figure

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

IT cell head apparently no longer read in on what's ahead, or even what just happened

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

This is shocking!
Five Muslim Students returning to Jamia area from Jantar Mantar were detained by the police near @jmiu_official and taken to the police station. Social activist Zeba Khan @zeba_kh_an and the reporter Afzal Alam @afzalalamjmi chased the police vehicle and freed all the Students.
Hello @DelhiPolice, Why were they detained, is it a crime to participate in Jantar Mantar protest?
Why are young Students from the Jamia area being treated like criminals just for participating in the protest?

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Chilling

[Suchin Mehrotra @suchin545]

Even his "statements" seem to suffer from the curse of the second half.

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

@theabdlrah well the whole point is to NOT get inclusion right and to actively attack it. the only sarkari thing where i have seen Zack Snyder cut of Vande Mataram played was a ministry of minority affairs event.

[Aroon Deep @AroonDeep]

Vande Mataram Ragebait bill didn't even enter discourse. Incredible vibe shift