Gerard de Souza

#Goa correspondent @httweets;
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[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

A collection of crime stories I've written is now live, do check it out...

[Rupa Publications @Rupa_Books]

In #CrimesofPassion: When Desire Turns Deadly, journalist @gernalist looks at 11 tales of love, loss and violence through a detailed analysis of court documents and newspaper reports. #TandoorMurdercase #PriyadarshiniMattoo #NeerajGrover #ScarletKeeling

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@CJShashank @CountryGulshan The only correct answer in this entire thread.

[Anonymous @YourAnonNews]

Fascism does not arrive saying “I am fascism.” It arrives saying “law and order,” “border security,” “anti-woke,” “election integrity,” and “national emergency.”

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@baxiabhishek Yeah. Also a round trip is almost as cheap as a one way ticket.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

A booth in Bengal's New Town with 88% Muslim voters recorded 97% votes for BJP, handing BJP the seat. CPI(M) got 1 vote, TMC 5.

'This is an impossible result, where did our votes go?' ask locals. @shinjineemjmdr @Onkeyta_ & @Holytripper heard them.

https://t.co/AxzmjwBorr

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

A booth in Bengal's New Town with 88% Muslim voters recorded 97% votes for BJP, handing BJP the seat. CPI(M) got 1 vote, TMC 5.

'This is an impossible result, where did our votes go?' ask locals. @shinjineemjmdr @Onkeyta_ & @Holytripper heard them.

https://t.co/SM8Tbvi20v

[Josh Kaplan @js_kaplan]

NEW: An Indian billionaire was in Trump’s crosshairs. Then he poured millions into an obscure startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr. https://t.co/2iwJp53vbB

w/ @JustinElliott @Amierjeski

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@InGoa24x7 What's the use of the app if there are no regular buses along most routes at appropriate timings.

[Justin Elliott @JustinElliott]

New story:

An Indian billionaire was targeted by the Trump administration.

Then he poured millions of dollars into an obscure startup secretly backed by Donald Trump Jr.

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@jardelito Beton

[Asim Ali @AsimAli6]

In an electoral autocracy, dissent is trapped like flies in a glass bottle. They are content to let you buzz around from time to time, as long as you don't test the limits of your walls. But to be effective you have to crash into those walls, repeatedly, until you find a way out.

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

Appalling that Telangana CM Revanth Reddy proudly admits his 'HYDRAA' is inspired by Hitler. It exposes his RSS roots & facist mindset and @INCIndia leadership owe explanation to the Nation on the issue.

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

The Supreme Court's judgment on SIR is the ADM Jabalpur of our times. The signal is unmissable: once the regime puts its foot down on a ‘politically sensitive’ matter, shutters are down for constitutional remedies in the courts. At a moment when the republic needed its guardian the most, the apex judiciary chose to abdicate its constitutional responsibility.

As Bertolt Brecht foresaw—instead of the people electing their rulers, now the rulers are free to elect their people. My complete analysis in @IndianExpress: https://t.co/JTDhzeOP2b

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@InGoa24x7 Insurance company won't pay if he was driving under the influence.

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@irationalised That's what the ruling politicians will have you believe.

[Ekta Chauhan @ekta2993]

Workers of the hotel trying to make a living would be arrested but not the officers who turned a blind eye when illegal construction was going on.

[Vijaita Singh @vijaita]

The government should send a clear message that data sanitisation must not be undertaken under the guise of re-verification- The Hindu Editorial on Census story we reported yesterday.

https://t.co/CSsMXkYF7y

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

"I was trolled endlessly by people online, some even called me anti-national" —This is the trouble when the country, in a deranged trance, shows allegiance to a person and a political party, forgetting that the actual country is beyond and far bigger than that individual and party.

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

@DilliDurAst We aren't shrinking. Not yet at least. It takes about three decades after having achieved fertility rate of 2.1 for the population to actually start falling.
Also, our infrastructure is about three decades behind, so we are going to feel crowded for a long time to come.

[Gerard de Souza @gernalist]

#Goa needs to learn a lesson or two. #savekarapur

[daz @MetamateDaz]

Albanians just showed the world how it's done.

The government was selling off prime coastal land and protected islands to Jared Kushner and linked investors for a massive luxury resort turning public beaches and nature reserves into private playgrounds for the ultra-rich. The people said: HELL NO. Thousands poured into the streets under “Albania Is Not For Sale.” Protests turned fiery. They stormed government buildings and burnt down the Prime Minister’s house. This isn’t just about a deal. It’s about sovereignty. It’s about refusing to let your country be auctioned off to foreign billionaires while locals lose access to their own coastline. When elites sell the nation’s future for kickbacks and luxury resorts, the people have every right to push back hard. Respect to the Albanians for refusing to be colonized by cash. Other countries should be taking notes.