Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected]

Free Software & Commons Advocate at @FSFTamilnadu. Tweets on Privacy, Commons, Cooperatives and Marxism. (He/Him).

[Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected] @imprashere]

I am changing my DP in support of #KeepAndroidOpen campaign. I suggest you too. With hardly 3 months left we need to popularize it more. https://t.co/UyWYgCrqsX

[Sirajuddeen @_sirajuddeen_]

In view of keepandroidopen movement, my current profile pic will stay this

[Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected] @imprashere]

#NewProfilePic

[Srinivas Kodali @digitaldutta]

@dhanyarajendran @Squeal @Indulekha_A This is what was told again and again by architecta of Aadhaar or any of Digital India's system which are directly experimented on people without actually designing them right. This will continue and the same arguments will be used again and again.

[Nilesh Trivedi @nileshtrivedi]

This is the UIDAI playbook. Simply deny there is any problem. Never address the direct questions. 😂

All govt software should be built in public, and rolled out gradually.

India's gov-tech "visionaries" have set a really bad precedent. Instead of transparency, they built opaqueness for institutions and vulnerability for citizens.

[Anupam Kher @AnupamPKher]

Asked my driver,"Why r u late?""Sir. Came by Cycle.""What happened to motorcycle."His reply,"Sir, it is kept at home now as a showpiece.":)

[Siddarth K.M. (சித்தார்த் கோ.மு.) @Sidzepp]

Former BJP Tamil Nadu unit chief Annamalai says if the saffron party were in power in the State it'd use guns and bullets to stop crimes against women and children.

Brij Bhushan, Kuldeep Sengar, Bilkis rapists, Manipur mobs operated under "double engine" govts.

[TheNewsMinute @thenewsminute]

Economists are warning that India’s economy is becoming increasingly unequal. While the wealthy recovered after Covid, many workers and small businesses never fully did. @PoojaPrasanna4 explains India’s economic crisis in #LetMeExplain https://t.co/xGtO1e9cRn

[Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union @kitu_hq]

TCS CEO K. Krithivasan earns over ₹28 crore in FY 2025–26 — approximately 333 times the median salary of TCS employees.

The wealth we create must be shared fairly.

✊ Unionise the workplace to end wage theft.

Join KITU : https://t.co/3mrbspkilO

[Marxist Reader @marxistreader]

பெண்கள் பங்கேற்காத எந்த போராட்டமும் வென்றதில்லை. பாசிச போக்குகளுக்கு எதிரானபோராட்டங்களில் பெண்களை ஒன்று திரட்டி அவற்றை வெற்றிபெற செய்வோம்!

வாசிக்க 👇

https://t.co/ZW3FwBpoCH

#Fascism #Feminism #Hindutva #Marxism

[Pinarayi Vijayan @pinarayivijayan]

The draft of the Delimitation Bill, 2026, that is now available in the public domain seems to suggest that the BJP-led Union Government is keen on proceeding with a delimitation exercise without accounting for the current proportional share of the States', vis a vis their representation in the Lok Sabha.

Such an exercise would be highly unjust, as it would penalise those very States - including Kerala - which took conscious efforts to sincerely implement the National Population Policy, 1976. On the other hand, States that lagged behind in population control measures would be seemingly rewarded for their ineffective implementation.

Federalism has been recognised as an inalienable part of the basic structure of our Constitution and in a federal democracy, the raison d'être for representation cannot be mere numbers. There has to be an inclusive approach by taking into account the sentiments of all those who would be impacted by the proposed delimitation exercise, especially the States.

A consensual approach in this matter is absolutely essential. The present attempt to increase the number of seats in the Lok Sabha, through an amendment proposed to be brought about in a haste will undoubtedly destroy the spirit of consensus, which was the corner stone of our Constitution making.

To rush through with the delimitation amendment, in the garb on implementing women's reservation is nothing but a ploy to mask the real objectives behind this entire exercise. The fact that it is being taken up when the election process to four State assemblies and one Union Territory is yet to be completed has raised genuine suspicions about the political considerations behind it.

Considering these strong grounds, it is imperative that the present Delimitation Bill which is sought to be taken up without fair amount of discussions be dropped forthwith.

At the same time, women's reservation in the Parliament and the Legislative Assemblies can be and should be implemented right away, without any linkages to delimitation or census.

#Delimitation

[Prakash Raj @prakashraaj]

Nothing but just khee khee khee of 40 minutes …. Phone pe Hugging . #justasking

[Theekkathir @Theekkathir]

பிரதமர் அவர்களே, இது தமிழ்நாட்டின் இறுதி எச்சரிக்கை! | முதலமைச்சர் மு.க.ஸ்டாலின்
#Theekkathir | #MKStalin | #Delimitation

[Dr P Thiaga Rajan (PTR) @ptrmadurai]

Is he really that hate-filled that he loses rationality?

Who "introduced" this bill - calling the Parliament to session w/ 2 days notice - in the middle of TN & WB elections? If we dont react now, then when?🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

This is an existential question for our state.

So we must ask every NDA Party & Candidate every day during this election :

Where do you stand on this Bill? With Tamil Nadu, or Delhi?

[Angshuman Choudhury @angshuman_ch]

Delimitation is only one part of a larger, hydra-headed regime of mass data collection that is opaque and will have far-reaching consequences on citizen privacy and political representation.

@digitaldutta tells me in this @barbedwires_sub episode: https://t.co/6xnyzeIXR0

[Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union @kitu_hq]

Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union strongly condemns brutal repression of agitating factory workers in Delhi NCR’s industrial belt. KITU expresses full solidarity with workers, demands their immediate release, and calls for unconditional withdrawal of all cases against them

[Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected] @imprashere]

#TaxTheRich should be popular demand of the crores of Indians today, everything else is a deviation.

https://t.co/2Cmd0RjGpz

[CPI (M) @cpimspeak]

Remembering Babasaheb Dr BR Ambedkar on #AmbedkarJayanti

[Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected] @imprashere]

@SSAadarsh I was expecting such a reply. Thanks for confirming that the idea of caste is exclusive & divides people. India cannot practice fraternity or equality without eradicating caste as Ambedkar said.

[Prasanna Venkadesh @[email protected] @imprashere]

The concept of "The Rameshwaram Cafe experience center" opened at #Bommasandra recently is nothing but a manifestation of Brahamanical supremacy hiding in the name of Tradition & culture. By pricing high, they systematically also keep everyday people outside.