Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳

Journalist, Writer, Teacher. Forever student. @AshokaUniv. proud @NDTV alum. winner @RedInk_Awards/ @RNGawards/@e4mtweets, fellow @newindiafndtion. Views Mine!

[Vali Nasr @vali_nasr]

In this article Narges Bajoghli and I argue that the war has brought about a generational change in Iran’s leadership, bringing to the fore men with different experiences and outlook on state, society and foreign policy. This new generation is now confident that it ways has won significant strategic wins which it intends to translate not only into a new regional order but also a new domestic order and social contract with the population.

The scale of the war and it took for Iran to survive it and fore the U.S. into a stalemate has also changed Iranian society in profound way. Social grievances remain but will express themselves in this new context. We explain why pre-war ways of understanding Iran don't explain it anymore.

“The emergent Islamic Republic will remain highly authoritarian. But the categories that Western analysts have often used to describe the Islamic Republic’s various factions—hard-liner versus moderates, ideologues versus reformists—will be less accurate than ever. The new Islamic Republic’s priorities, and how it pursues them, will be shaped by the specific experiences of its two wars with the United States and Israel: the losses Iran sustained, the confidence its leadership gained, and the new social contract the fighting has made necessary and possible.”
https://t.co/RATaDcKLBK

[Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 @maya206]

Wow

[Marc Caputo @MarcACaputo]

“What the fuck are you doing?!” Trump lit into Netanyahu over the Lebanon bombing:

“You're fucking crazy. You'd be in prison if it weren't for me. I'm saving your ass. Everybody hates you now. Everybody hates Israel because of this."

@BarakRavid & I

https://t.co/b1lEZEmN6p

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

Disagree. Universal franchise and democracy is not a top down process- it is a basic right.

Founding leaders of the Indian Republic recognised this, more than "chose" it for the people, and any subsequent leader that tries to backtrack from it loses the people's support.

[Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 @maya206]

When is the world going to get up and stop Israel from the unbridled aggression it carries out every day against humanity? Enough is enough

[sarah @sahouraxo]

BREAKING:

Israel is dropping bombs near Jabal Amel hospital in Tyre — striking residential buildings packed with civilians.

These are not military targets.

They are homes. A hospital vicinity.

The scenes are horrifying.

[Nidhi Razdan @Nidhi]

Horrendous experience of passengers on board @flysrilankan from Delhi to Colombo flight number UL 196 . Reported engine failure before take off, passengers are kept inside the aircraft without an AC for almost two hours. Worse , zero communication from the airline. Many pax want to cancel, airline not allowing them and being rude and difficult. What do they do @DGCAIndia @RamMNK ?

[courtneybonneauimages @cbonneauimages]

The main road to Nabatieh, Lebanon

[Priyanshi Sharma @Priyanshi50]

We’re all hypocrites for making air pollution only an issue in winters.

This is the current AQI in Delhi. Severe. 400+. Even in peak summer.

This screenshot is from the central government’s @CPCB_OFFICIAL, not any private platform.

[Al Jazeera English @AJEnglish]

Protesters in Naples, Italy have unfurled a giant shroud bearing the names of 18,457 Palestinian children killed by Israel’s genocidal war on Gaza.

[Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 @maya206]

Unbelievably tone deaf and insensitive. The hallmark of absent governance of a power hungry government.

[PunsterX @PunsterX]

Peak irony!

People were protesting to demand water in Indore.

Police brought water canons to disperse them.

[SamSays @samjawed65]

The theatre of the privileged: can’t cook, can’t clean, can’t manage kids, can’t drive, can’t walk the dog… and now apparently can’t carry shopping bags either.

The availability of cheap labor in India has created an entire class of adults without basic life skills.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Whether the cockroach janta party is a legitimate movement or not, is not the question. Time will tell. But the traction they received, the sentiment behind it, the rhetoric from the youth, all legitimate. And if all that wasn’t legit enough, the utterly dumb move of shutting down their accounts legitimised everything.

[Abhijeet Dipke @abhijeet_dipke]

This is the screen recording of our audience demographic which we have shared with media before our account was hacked.

More than 94% of the audience is from India.

Why is a Union Minister @KirenRijiju labelling Indian youth as Pakistani?

[Parakala Prabhakar @parakala]

I unpack the ‘mystery’ behind Bengal’s electoral ‘miracle’.

Here’s the link:

https://t.co/n7uN1qmzxi

[Deepal.‏‎‎Trivedi @DeepalTrevedie]

India’s lapdog media is furious and damning the Norwegian journalist @HelleLyngSvends for asking our PM a real question; but absolutely silent on why Education Minister @dpradhanbjp still has a job after NEET — taken by 22 lakh students — was leaked like a roadside pamphlet.
In today’s India, questioning power is “anti-national”. Failing an entire generation is apparently governance. And Good Godi Journalism. #Journalism #india #NEET

[Giorgia Meloni @GiorgiaMeloni]

Le immagini del ministro israeliano Ben Gvir sono inaccettabili. È inammissibile che questi manifestanti, fra cui molti cittadini italiani, vengano sottoposti a questo trattamento lesivo della dignità della persona.
Il Governo italiano sta immediatamente compiendo, ai più alti livelli istituzionali, tutti i passi necessari per ottenere la liberazione immediata dei cittadini italiani coinvolti.
L’Italia pretende inoltre le scuse per il trattamento riservato a questi manifestanti e per il totale disprezzo dimostrato nei confronti delle esplicite richieste del Governo italiano.
Per questi motivi, il Ministero degli Affari Esteri e della Cooperazione Internazionale convocherà immediatamente l’ambasciatore israeliano per chiedere chiarimenti formali su quanto accaduto.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

🇪🇸SPAIN'S IRENE MONTERO GOES OFF ON EU VICE-PRESIDENT KALLAS: “Israel has been for 24 hours Kidnapping European Citizens And You’re SMILING?!”

“What would you do if it were Iran? If it were Russia?
But since it is ISRAEL, you smile and look the other way.”

“Shame on you”

[Owen Jones @owenjonesjourno]

Israel has committed every war crime there is to commit.

It has slaughtered, raped and tortured Palestinians.

But now because they subjected Westerners to a TINY fraction of that on camera:

Israeli politicians and cheerleaders are panicking.

Nauseating!

[Barry Malone @malonebarry]

These are international civilians, innocent of any crime, who have been illegally abducted in international waters by Israel. That’s what we’re looking at here.

[sarah @sahouraxo]

Israel killed every single child in this photo in South Lebanon within less than 30 days.

They were not combatants.

They were children.

[Pedro Sánchez @sanchezcastejon]

Las imágenes del ministro israelí Ben Gvir humillando a los miembros de la flotilla internacional en apoyo a Gaza son inaceptables.

No vamos a tolerar que nadie maltrate a nuestros ciudadanos. En septiembre anuncié la prohibición de acceso al territorio nacional de este miembro del gobierno israelí. Ahora vamos a impulsar en Bruselas que estas sanciones se eleven a escala europea de manera urgente.