Anand

IISER-Bhopal('20) | Bipolar | paradox enjoyer | in deep deep shit | Atheist ⚛️

[Annie ༉‧˚ @puspailuvtears]

Narendra, it's done, bro. Don't extend this. Keep the spirit for another life if you get one, which I doubt.

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@AkshuData35021 @MumbaiyaPorga @AdityaRajKaul chess khelega lichess pe?

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@AkshuData35021 @MumbaiyaPorga @AdityaRajKaul you belong to neither, random name

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

Meme war against gen Z? Son

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

Inside Track on Key Cabinet Meet:

- PM asks Ministers to boost Instagram presence.

- PM to Ministers: Get active on Instagram, don’t limit yourself to X

- Prime Minister tells Ministers: Share reels on government schemes, reach out to youth through Instagram

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@MumbaiyaPorga @AdityaRajKaul Godi media offices are most important! They're poisoning our parents' minds and keeping these undemocratic and incompetent bullies in power.

[meeta @meetapersecond]

what ra modi too much cop you’re showing 😠😠

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@meetapersecond elite ball knowledge AND funny

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : The blocking of BitChat's code on GitHub is unconstitutional and authoritarian.

New Delhi, 24 July 2026

The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the order issued by the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), Ministry of Home Affairs, directing GitHub to remove the code repositories of BitChat.

The order, Notice No. 11072601011432, was issued at 11:16 pm on 23 July 2026 under Section 79(3)(b) of the Information Technology Act, 2000 read with Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules, 2021. The order directs GitHub to disable access to three repositories, including the Android application and its release files, within three hours. It threatens the platform with loss of safe harbour and criminal prosecution. No copy was published by the Government of India. The public learnt of it from a post by @jack, whose team develops BitChat. Censorship in India now comes to light through disclosure by the censored.

Since 17 July 2026, the Ministry of Home Affairs has suspended mobile internet around Jantar Mantar as per public reports about five times, most recently within a 1.5 kilometre radius from 4 pm until midnight on 23 July. That radius takes in Janpath and parts of Connaught Place. Reports describe signal jammers at the protest site and people walking two kilometres before their phones work. Inside that zone a student separated from her group during a detention drive cannot send a message to say where she is. Thousands of students and young people have camped at Jantar Mantar since June, seeking accountability for examination irregularities. Permission for their march to Parliament was refused. Metro stations were shut and also internet connectivity has been blocked.

BitChat is an open source application built for exactly this situation. It passes messages from phone to phone over Bluetooth, without mobile networks or a central server. It is striking that the order does not identify a single unlawful message. It objects to what BitChat is. In its own words, the application is dangerous because it enables communication "even during network restrictions" and can "circumvent lawful restrictions" during "internet shutdowns". Hence, the government's objection is that citizens can speak to one another while it has switched the internet off.

The order is illegal on at least four grounds.

1. Section 79(3)(b) is not a blocking power. In Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015) 5 SCC 1, the Supreme Court read down the provision. Intermediaries may be required to act only on a court order, or a government notification confined to the grounds under Article 19(2) of the Constitution. Blocking is governed exclusively by Section 69A and the Blocking Rules, 2009, which require a hearing and reasons recorded in writing, subject to review. Directions issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal evade these safeguards, and constitutional challenges to this parallel regime are pending before High Courts.

2. The reasons in the order are circular. The order asserts that the repositories contain "information which is prohibited under any law" without naming any such information, and rests on what the application is "capable of" enabling. Anticipated misuse of a communications tool is not a lawful basis to prohibit the tool. By this logic a telephone exchange could be sealed.

3. The order cites Section 43 of the IT Act, a civil compensation provision, alongside conspiracy and abetment offences under the Bharatiya Nyaya Sanhita, 2023, against a platform that hosts code.

4. A three hour deadline issued close to midnight forecloses legal assessment and recourse, and fails the proportionality standard in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020) 3 SCC 637.

The order also fails on its own terms as deleting a repository does not delete the application from any phone that carries it, and the mesh keeps functioning without servers. What the takedown actually prevents is scrutiny of the underlying code.

IFF demands that the Government of India:

1. Withdraw Notice No. 11072601011432 dated 23 July 2026 issued to GitHub.
2. Publish every takedown direction issued under Section 79(3)(b), Rule 3(1)(d) and the Sahyog Portal, with the reasons recorded for each.
3. Restore full connectivity around Jantar Mantar, publish all suspension orders, and disclose the legal authority for the deployment of jammers.

We stand with the developers and the young protesters whose speech this order seeks to silence.

[The Quint @TheQuint]

Nine years ago, S Anitha became the first victim of NEET in Tamil Nadu, and one of the most prominent faces of Tamil Nadu’s fight against NEET.

In 2017, the 17-year-old from Ariyalur had scored 1,176 out of 1,200 marks in her Class 12 Tamil Nadu State Board exams. Her medical cut-off score was 196.75 out of 200 — marks that would have placed her among medical aspirants under Tamil Nadu’s earlier admission system.

But that year, NEET became mandatory for medical admissions. Anitha, who had prepared through the state-board syllabus, could not secure a medical seat through the national entrance exam. She became one of the earliest voices opposing NEET in Tamil Nadu, arguing that a common entrance test would disadvantage students from rural areas, government schools and marginalised communities.

Anitha’s brother S. Manirathnam, who has now joined the Cockroach Janata Party (CJP) protest in Delhi, says her fight was deeply personal.

He says Anitha was raised by their father, a daily wage labourer, after their mother died when she was seven. He recalls that Anitha wanted to become a doctor because their mother’s death due to an illness had shaped her dream of entering medicine.

“She wanted to become a doctor because she had seen the suffering caused by the lack of medical care,” Manirathnam said, recalling his sister’s journey.

Anitha joined the legal battle against NEET and became one of the petitioners before the Supreme Court, seeking relief for Tamil Nadu students. The Court did not grant the exemption sought by the state, and days later, on 1 September 2017, Anitha died by suicide at her home in Ariyalur.

Speaking about the impact of NEET on his family, Manirathnam said, “NEET has destroyed my family.”

Years later, he has joined the CJP protest, saying Tamil Nadu’s opposition to NEET began with students like Anitha, who questioned whether a single national entrance exam could account for the inequalities faced by students across the country.

@hey_eshwar reports.

[eppy @epppyyy]

AevyTV has done an important investigation.

Instagram feeds are manipulated with a lot of horrifying videos to manipulate people.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

More strict actions against paper leaks to come in tomorrow’s Cabinet!

[svs 🇮🇳 @_svs_]

GenZ's relationship with Modi also has to be noticed. He was never their saviour, but his Godi Media was in their houses every night and then a few years later they can't recognise their parents. They know him very well, helplessly sitting on the floor or at the dinner table while parents watch news and slowly get more and more difficult to understand. The emotional imprint of the house has changed and yet somewhere inside they remember how it used to be.

Arnab might have been cocaine for the voting age population but for these kids he is an interloper in their house. Why in their very souls.

That's why Godi Media gets what it gets at the protest.

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@ANI sarcasm^ btw (in case someone doesn't get that the education system needs a reform so that merit goes beyond marks)

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@ANI idc about allat bro, why aren't you AIR1? Should've studied harder

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@narendramodi @Wangchuk66 @GitanjaliAngmo Did you just wish him well as if he lost weight due to a condition and he wasn't on a 3+ week long fast protesting for accountability from you? Not enough.

[Ramesh Srivats @rameshsrivats]

"Anti-national", "Deep State", "Anti-Hindu", "China Plot".
All usual techniques have been tried. In vain.
Because these are WhatsApp techniques.
They don't work against an Instagram generation.
That records and shares everything.

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@UnivofDelhi Teaching students to stand down when they have the best opportunity to exercise and strengthen democracy is a major major L. Shut down tbe univ atp. Whoever decided this is a cuck of the highest order lmao.

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@DrMurliManohar_ didn't expect Margdarshak Mandal special forces lel

[nisarga @ni5arga]

see y'all at jantar mantar tomorrow, will be staying over the weekend as well.

[Anand @astrobiojoe]

@ARanganathan72 Based 🗿 Dissent shapes democracy, nothing wrong about that. Godi media lynched indian democracy, cops brutalized peaceful protestors, there was a suspicious stone truck. All retaliatory violence was instigated by the govt and their forces. Stay seething, Ranga. Tick tock.