Harshit

@UnivofDelhi'20 @IITDelhi'23 @EUErasmusPlus'25
Works on Visuality, Imagery and Media (transdisciplinary)

[Harshit @harshit__x]

Meta-list of organizations, institutes, researchers and students involved in the following areas:

[New Direction AFRICA @Its_ereko]

🚨 Senegal captain Kalidou Koulibaly speaking facts:

"Africans can’t have their people" at the World Cup because of US travel bans.

Every other team gets their fans. But Global South teams like Senegal get blocked while the West lectures everyone about "inclusion" and "human rights".

This is the same empire that bombs, exploits, and restricts — then cries when others resist.

Football should unite people, not separate them with racist visa policies and double standards.

Stand with Koulibaly. Stand with the fans. Stand with the Global South.

No bows. Just raw truth. 💪🏿🇸🇳

[Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) @internetfreedom]

Statement : Shutting down Telegram is a band aid solution and is a disproportionate answer to exam fraud

The Internet Freedom Foundation objects to the directions announced today in the National Testing Agency's press release on action against the Telegram platform. On the NTA's recommendation, the Ministry of Electronics and Information Technology has, under Section 69A of the Information Technology Act, 2000, restricted access to the whole of Telegram in India until 22 June 2026, and has separately ordered the platform to switch off message-editing for every Indian user until 30 June 2026. This is a blunt, nationwide measure aimed at the conduct of rampant fraud rackets, and on the Government's own admission is constitutionally incompatible.

At the outset it is important to note that Section 69A and the Blocking Rules of 2009 framed under it allow the Government to block access to specific “information” on a computer resource. They do not extend to switching off an entire intermediary, still less to ordering a company to redesign its product by removing a feature for a whole country. In Shreya Singhal v Union of India, the Supreme Court upheld Section 69A because it is narrow and hedged with procedural safeguards. Reading it to authorise shutting down a platform that lakhs use is an overbroad restriction by the NTAs own admission. For the message-editing direction the release identifies no source of power at all. If one exists, the order must say so.

The release argues against itself

A restriction on access has to be the least intrusive measure that achieves its aim as per the constitutional test of proportionality laid down in Justice K.S. Puttaswamy v. Union of India (2017) and applied in Anuradha Bhasin v. Union of India (2020). The NTA's own narration shows the block fails its nodal agency, the release says, “has secured the prompt take-down of a substantial number of Telegram channels, groups and bots”, and this targeted work “is the reason the harm caused by these rackets has been contained to the extent it has”. If channel level takedown contained the harm, the case for a blanket block collapses and hence the Government has reached for a heavier tool while conceding that a lighter one was working. The collateral cost sits on the record too as noted in the press release. The block, the NTA accepts, “affects lakhs of citizens who use the Telegram platform for legitimate personal, educational, professional and informational purposes”. The release also says there is "no such paper available outside the secured examination chain" and that “the security of the examination is unaffected by the action taken”. If the exam is secure and no leak exists, what is being suppressed is rumour, and rumour cannot justify closing a platform when specific blocking and criminal prosecution remain available.

Students use of Telegram

The block of telegram is reactive and ineffective and will punish ordinary users instead of addressing the systemic source of exam leaks. This blocking comes in the final days of NEET preparation, when thousands of students depend on Telegram for study groups, doubt-clearing, and shared resources. Also, it is important to consider that the source of exam papers leak will occur from inside the system, among insiders and across the printing and logistics chain, with the platform being the most downstream channel for distribution. Hence, switching off Telegram, is merely a deflection from the repeated failures that will continue while media attention is directed towards this Telegram ban.

Lack of transparency

At present only a press release from the NTA has been provided, which recommended the block but the reasoned order of MeitY, the authority that issued it, has not been released. The Anuradha Bhasin decision requires that orders restricting access be published so they can be tested in court. Here the order, and the reasoning of the committee behind it, stay out of view, and we do not know whether Telegram was heard at all. An announcement of a block is no substitute for an order the affected party can challenge.
Blunt to enforce and very easy to evade
Usually, app-level blocks run through IS-level DNS and IP filtering. They are over inclusive, sweeping in lawful use, yet simple to evade as a determined exam leak racket moves to a VPN or a mirror within minutes while ordinary users lose the service for a week.

We ask the Government to:

1) Publish the MeitY Section 69A order and the NTA recommendation behind it, with reasons;
2) State the legal basis for the message editing direction, or withdraw it;
3) Confirm whether Telegram was given a hearing under the Blocking Rules, and place the committee's record before any court that hears a challenge; and
4) Lift the platform-wide restriction and rely on the targeted takedowns the NTA itself credits with containing the harm.

We emphasise that the NEET (UG) 2026 re-examination is worth protecting and it concerns the future of lakhs of aspirants. It requires securing the entire process of examination rather than reaching for purported band aid solutions that instead cause more harm. The State cannot switch off a service used by lakhs to answer the wrongdoing of a few, and cannot do it through an order no one affected is allowed to read. On its own facts, the Government has done both.

New Delhi, 16 June 2026.

[Pavel Durov @durov]

Indian telecom Reliance is sabotaging access to Telegram for millions of users OUTSIDE India (including the UAE) via a rogue method called BGP hijacking.

The sabotage seems intentional, as Reliance has ignored multiple reports.

This may be part of a competitive war, as Reliance is partially owned by Meta — the company behind WhatsApp.

Network operators are advised to reject unauthorized BGP announcements from Reliance (AS18101) to prevent route hijacks and ensure stable Internet access for their users.

Such abuse of global Internet routing is alarming. I wouldn’t be surprised if Reliance/WhatsApp were also behind the recent lobbying effort to ban Telegram in India.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

Indian elites want western aesthetics without western value systems.

Farmers' markets but no farmers. European-style parks and skateboarding arenas but restricted to residents of their gated communities. Western style protests but against Trump, not Modi. Rap music but with lyrics that have no angst about caste. Pride parade but with the KJo/Orry aesthetic.

You don't get a Paris or New York like this. You only get a Hiranandani or DLF.

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

The five left parties – Communist Party of India (Marxist), Communist Party of India, Communist Party of India Marxist-Leninist (Liberation), All India Forward Bloc, Revolutionary Socialist Party – have issued the following joint statement:

[VishwaGuru_Ghantal @Vishwaguru2026]

Mastraam masti Me ,, 😑

Waise wo 2 din , 2 car Lekar Jo nautanki ki thi yaad hai kisiko ????

[Gabbar @Gabbar0099]

Nailed it 🔥

True 💯

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Had to be said.

[রাজ শেখর @DiscourseDancer]

This govt wanted to remove the word Socialist from our preamble but by mistake removed Sovereign

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Modi's foreign trips follow a script:

1. Video of him boarding his plane
2. Arrival in foreign country
3. Watches dance by foreigners
4. Meets NRIs
5. NRI woman cries on meeting him
6. Muted videos of meeting officials
7. Gets an award he can't pronounce
8. Boards plane for next country
9. Loop to step 2

[H’ur @Hur1]

There was more outrage in the Qatar World Cup for alcohol being banned than there is in this World Cup for people being banned.

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

The tragic loss of Indian sailors in the Gulf of Oman is deeply distressing. The Union Govt must abandon its subservient approach towards the US & hold it accountable. India must firmly demand a halt to regional military aggression & insist on safe international shipping routes.

[Ariana Jasmine @arianajasmine__]

So Russia is banned from FIFA because of their invasion of Ukraine, but America is allowed to HOST THE FIFA GAMES WHILE BOMBING IRAN???

HOW DOES THAT WORK?????

[Wyatt Reed @wyattreed13]

Fixed this for you @CNN

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

I checked PM Modi’s timeline expecting at least a word of sympathy for the three Indians killed in a U.S. military strike. There is none. Not a condolence message. Not a public expression of grief. Instead, the timeline is dominated by replies to world leaders congratulating him on becoming India’s longest-serving Prime Minister.

[Tajinder Singh @TXingh]

From accepting sanctions to getting Indians ships bombed, what kind of 56” India has chosen?

[Roshan Rai @RoshanKrRaii]

Pune, please hesitate 😭☠️

[Benny @benny0122333]

@MEAIndia SHAMELESSNESS. Your citizens were targeted and this is your response?