Haaris Khan(حارس‎)

Ham parvarish-e-lauh-o-qalam karte rahenge. Jo dil pe guzarti hai raqam karte rahenge.

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[Cockroach Janta Party - CJP @Cockroachisback]

Are we really witnessing a ruling party openly calling for mass genocide?

We cannot simply brush this off.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

Abdul went to inspect the govt school in Bengal where he once studied. He lost his father after they were attacked by goons (allegedly from BJP) for speaking up about the poor condition of govt schools.

It makes my blood boil that people are being murdered simply for demanding better schools.

CJP stands firmly with Abdul and his family. We demand the immediate arrest of those responsible for his father’s death. A CJP team will visit West Bengal and ensure that Abdul and his family get justice.

And to the hatemongers who think they can silence us through violence: we are not going to back off. Attack our members, threaten us, try to intimidate us, we will only fight harder.

We will not be silenced. We will not be intimidated. We will keep fighting for better schools.

[UN Special Rapporteur Richard Bennett @SR_Afghanistan]

A year ago, we warned against the normalisation of Taliban rule. We repeat that warning today with greater urgency, because the temptation to normalise has grown while the grounds to justify it have not. Normalising a regime that systematically persecutes more than half of its population does not promote change; it legitimises oppression.

https://t.co/JZAc9j5hDt

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

The enemy has progressively migrated from
1. the forest (Maoists/Naxals), to
2. the city (Urban Naxals, originally coined by Vivek Agnihotri, and eventually appropriated by wholesale by BJP to 'other' those they don't like), to
3. the mind (Dimagi Naxal, a lazy dogwhistle aimed at students who protest without bending or bowing to BJP's diktats).
The beauty of this dogwhistle is that it is generic enough to deny (plausible deniability), though it won't stop anyone from BJP or the TV newshounds from (ab)using anyone and everyone who questions BJP/RSS. And so the crude labeling and malignant 'othering' continues.

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

The most misinformation is peddled by legacy media. Not by reels. And young people are much smarter and more informed than we give them credit for. They cut through the BS. This patronising approach needs to stop.

[Karthik 🇮🇳 @beastoftraal]

Watch closely and Modi's 'forgiveness' video does 6 things at once... and none of them are about forgiveness at all. It reframes a protest into a family drama, and asks the country to watch it as one:

1. Selective gendering of outrage
Modi's latest video registers "cultural shock" only at "our daughters" using abusive language. There's no equivalent line for the male protesters in the same crowd using identical language, possibly because of how BJP's IT Cell and "supporters" online (including the handles followed by Modi himself) have thoroughly normalized all sorts of abuse online for years. Modi's silence on this is hardly neutral, I believe - it simply marks women's transgression as the one requiring special anguish, while male vulgarity remains background noise, unremarked and continued to be "employed" to browbeat, shut down and instill fear.

2. Paternalism as agency erasure
Adult and near-adult (recently vocal) political actors are reduced to "misguided children" and "daughters" who have "lost their way" and need the leader's guidance. The language converts protest into a parenting problem. It strips them of political subjectivity and repositions them as dependents requiring moral correction rather than citizens making a political claim.

3. Forgiveness as optics, not principle
The public offer of forgiveness is conveyed even as BJP-aligned accounts published protesters' home addresses, phone numbers, workplace details, and family names (one office-bearer publicly called for more women to be "identified" and "made famous" with FIRs filed and no apology to be accepted). CNN-News18 went on a hounding spree too, with camera in hand. One protester received explicit death and rape threats while another was pressured into a filmed apology. Modi's video performs magnanimity while the machinery of 'state-led consequence' runs in parallel, goaded by BJP's supporters. Magnaimity in the sheets, hounding in the streets.

4. Civility as deflection
By elevating the tone of the abuse above the substance of the protest, the message relocates the story. Modi's video never once names the paper-leak allegations or the Education Minister's position and eventual resignation while blaming 'anti-national forces', the actual grievance that brought students to Jantar Mantar in the first place. Language becomes the crime while the underlying question of institutional accountability is removed from the frame.

5. Consistent paternal style, not a one-off
This is not an exception, of course. From Beti Bachao Beti Padhao's "daughters of the nation" idiom to this video's "we don't disown our teeth even if they bite our tongue", Modi's communication style has a standing template: the nation as family, himself as well-intended, insanely wise, corrective father, and dissent as waywardness requiring his patient guidance. The latest video just applies the same template to a fresh set of dissenters.

6. Who does the work in "forgiveness"
The video assigns every party a role: he forgives (the active gesture), they must learn (the passive correction), and the public is invited to embrace his account f events as the shared, settled one. It's not just that the video erases the protesters' agency, but it recruits the audience into ratifying the paternal frame as consensus, so that anyone still angry looks like they're refusing the leader's generosity rather than continuing to ask a legitimate question. Stupendously wily.

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

Tone deaf @anupamachopra

[r @bekhayalime]

I don’t think Saif Ali Khan or Anupama Chopra realized that “Free Palestine” isn’t Javier Bardem’s personal quote, it’s a slogan against Israel’s illegal occupation and the ongoing genocide of Palestinians. Their laughter came across as tone‑deaf and deeply insensitive.

[Pratik Sinha @free_thinker]

Just like UAPA and TADA, Congress is on its path to create yet another draconian law.

[Eye on Palestine @EyeonPalestine]

Communication jam has begun. We are approx. 160 nautical miles away from Gaza. Help us to break the siege.

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@airtelindia there is no clear communication regarding what is the IR service activation pack. None of your customer care staff is able to explain it. There is no clear mention on what type of prepaid pack we need to have, if I have a roaming prepaid,why will I need service pack?

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@theliverdoc Doc, is there no evidence that the medium chain saturated triglycerides in coconut oil are better?

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@KSRTC_Journeys since you are charging a premium for the flybus service, it is expected that the service is also good. I was traveling on 29th March 4:00AM bus from the airport, the toilet and the bus was stinking of urine, please maintain basic hygiene.

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@theliverdoc Is it true that there is mixed opinion with coconut oil being healthy because of its medium chain triglycerides content?

[Due Dissidence @DueDissidence]

Julian Assange: "My naivete was believing in the law. When push comes to shove, laws are just pieces of paper. And they can be reinterpreted for political expediency."

[Habib Khan @HabibKhanT]

Afghan women are defying the Taliban's ban on women speaking in public by singing out loud. Let’s stand with them and support their powerful voices.

[LiteraryVienna @LiteraryVienna]

“I imagine one of the reasons people cling to their hates so stubbornly is because they sense, once hate is gone, they will be forced to deal with pain.”

James Baldwin, The Fire Next Time
* August 2, 1924

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[Sayema @_sayema]

This is Umar Khalid. His biggest crime is that he believes in staying conscious of our democratic rights. He is behind bars for a speech where he said ‘Hamein nafrat ka jawab mohabbat se dena hai.’
#ReleaseUmarKhalid
#ReleaseAllPoliticalPrisoners
#Umarkhalid1400DaysInJail

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@james_agodas Please check DM

[Haaris Khan(حارس‎) @Khn_Haaris]

@agoda why do you take booking when you are under to provide an invoice for the same. Your agent tells me that it is not legal for you to even send a mail to hotel asking for invoice, which sounds very weird and not true. Please resolve the issue and share the invoice.