Barun Mitra

Bengali by culture. Indian by constitution. Atheist by conviction. Hindu by choice, an identity no one can impose or deny. Faith in humanity, reason, freedom.

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

#JimmyLai, the billionaire #capitalist has put his life on the line in defence of #Freedom in #HongKong . https://t.co/SjaWazpvro @p_m_robinson
The legend of Jimmy Lai will only grow no matter what happens now. The Lamp of #Liberty can't be extinguished 🪔

[Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch @NagrikEkta]

Today, on Martyr's Day, please join Gurgaon Nagrik Ekta Manch in a citizens' campaign to protest against hate politics threatening to destroy India's diversity
Share the hashtag
#HatePoliticsNotInMyName
Use our poster as DP, cover pic. Tag us
Link to campaign materials in bio

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

@BhramarBioStat @MaxSalTweets There is a huge gulf in Covid-19 approaches and outcome between Mumbai and Delhi. The reasons lie much beyond the nature of lockdown or level of testing. Mumbai managed its second wave very holistically, Delhi is still doing everything ad hoc.

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

No prison is big enough to contain free speech

स्वतंत्र विचारों को कभी बेड़ियों में नहीं जकड़ा जा सकता।

बोल की लब आज़ाद हैं तेरे..!

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

#JimmyLai and other democracy activists were released on bail. #Hongkongprotest https://t.co/Y1nbrpEFwT

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

#JimmyLai, the billionaire #capitalist has put his life on the line in defence of #Freedom in #HongKong . https://t.co/SjaWazpvro @p_m_robinson
The legend of Jimmy Lai will only grow no matter what happens now. The Lamp of #Liberty can't be extinguished 🪔

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

@AmitCTweets @amitvarma @srajagopalan @maniyarpur @RajivKumar1 @amitabhk87 @haryannvi @ReallySwara @nconeindia @learning_pt @prabhat_sharmaa @AzmiShabana @MandarKagade @sanjeevsanyal @Sanjaygarg122 There is a method in the madness. An uneducated and illiterate population is the cannon fodder used to win political dividend #EducationReality One issue where there is a political consensus cutting across party lines.

[Parth J Shah @parthjshah]

What a self serving argument-the farmers who agree are good and those who disagree are stooges!! So much for the respect for opposition and democratic discourse. Jail those who disagree! Don’t fall for this @PrakashJavdekar @PMOIndia @kumaranand #btbrinjal

[Mitali Saran @mitalisaran]

Read @nehadixit123's fantastic investigation into how Haryana Police is using alleged cow-smuggling to carry out extra judicial killings. Leaves you shaking with anger and grief. As one of her interviewees says, "Our own country has turned against us." https://t.co/DzFKg2CbM5

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

@wansaiful Hearty congratulations for helping to write a new chapter in the political history of Malaysia 🇲🇾! The benefit of the first constitutional change in govt thro' ballot box will more than offset the personal loss in your constituency. All the best 👏💐

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Those of you who cheered encounters in UP:- This is an inevitable fallout of giving cops immunity from questioning. https://t.co/pjE8VKXs6W

[Anamika @AnaMyID]

The more power in the hands of government the more distrust. But it seems that most want big government with all its big welfare programs. More welfare, more graft & inefficiency...and then, those who wanted the most from government, complain the most because it is out of control

[Amit Varma @amitvarma]

Do read this excellent piece in @ThinkPragati today by Alok Prasanna Kumar. https://t.co/cw4tA4LBpT

[Nitin Pai @acorn]

My head hangs in shame. https://t.co/8wCGOCTwsm

[Deepak Shenoy @deepakshenoy]

There seems to be a cash crunch on. If so I have a few alternate theories other than the ones politically being discussed. (Thread) https://t.co/rvMZeU7WVm

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

The real tragedy is that the religious bigots & pseudo-nationalists, while pretending to claim a glorious past, are at present engaged in despicable acts of defending killers & rapists, bullies & bombers, something none of the ancient ancestors did. https://t.co/9pA4ZRiNbc

[Kaushik Basu @kaushikcbasu]

The tragedy of religious fundamentalists & hypernationalists is that instead of spending time trying to do mathematics, philosophy, literature or science, they spend their time trying to show that 5000 years ago their ancestors did mathematics, philosophy, literature and science.

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

Ramesh Kumar Jalla, IPS, SSP Crime Brunch, supervising SIT.
Advocate Deepika Singh Rajawat, lawyer for the victim.
DSP Shwetambri Sharma, member SIT, #Kathua #JusticeforAfisa
In these dark times, Indians feel justly proud of such men and women.
https://t.co/CfvZwTaSb4

[Barun Mitra @barunsmitra]

"I told them that as an officer of the J&K Police, I had no religion and my only religion was my police uniform”. DSP Shwetambri Sharma, a member of SIT that cracked the horrific rape in #Kathua #JusticeforAfisa
Hope #UnnaoRapeCase will be solved too. https://t.co/WZ0PYj5lc5

[Neha Dixit @nehadixit123]

Remember the Post Traumatic Stress Disorder #Holocaust survivors lived with? I met Taufeeq who survived a #MobLynching attack in 2013 on accusations of #CowSmuggling while 3 of his friends died. For the last 5 yrs, he has lived with the burden of survival. https://t.co/G1QkBOxeV8

[Shruti Rajagopalan @srajagopalan]

.@barunsmitra on how India has shackled the largest private sector industry in India. https://t.co/wjEIjUZ2oq

[Pragati @ThinkPragati]

Why does Agriculture lag behind while the rest of the economy moves on ahead?

@barunsmitra has some answers: https://t.co/43ILxIoAcO