Sohini M.

Nothing much. Socially awkward. Love cricket, cinema, poetry and sunsets. Photography 📸 is passion!

[Sohini M. @Mittermaniac]

"If you approach Mumbai by the sea, it looks like a miniature New York."
— Khushwant Singh

[Sameer Mohan @sleepyhead148]

Cameraperson Parth's first three insta posts (when you land up on his profile) are about personal loss over the last three years. For a man to go through so much and turn up here. This is selflessness.

[Gurjot Ahluwalia @gurjota]

GenZ making a lot of people eat humble pie today.

[Annesha Ghosh @ghosh_annesha]

Gen Z dominating all sorts of Honours Boards 🤌

[aree_shuklajii @th_anonymouse]

Right wing is crying like b!tches because GENZ finally used the same abusive language at the protest that you perfected.

You started this entire shitshow with a fake video on day one, you spent years calling every woman who disagrees with you a prost!tute, r@ndi, wh0re, h0e, used-up h@g without a second thought. You morphed photos, doxxed them because of different ideology.

Your Malik stood on stage in front of thousands and casually degraded women with “50 crore ki GF” and “jersey cow” while you all cheered.

That’s your culture. That’s what you celebrate. That’s what you have normalised.

Now the same venom is coming back at you and suddenly you’re soft, sensitive little victims?

F*ck your tears. You built this hell.

You enjoyed every second of it when it was aimed at women you hate.

You deserve every single word thrown at you. You deserve to ch*ke on the exact language you spent years flooding the internet with.

You acted like pure demons for years.
Now sit in the fire you lit and shut the f*ck up. 🤡

[Samuel gnanadurai @Samuelgnanadur]

This is stuff made for movies.

A Chief justice calls young ppl cockroaches.

An America based researcher starts a party in the name of cockroach.

He comes back, starts a movement and makes a big, strong govt minister resign.

What a story line!

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

Nothing as precious as the ruling party and its adherents whining about abusive language. The party's IT Cell, and its trolls, use the most vulgar sexual abuse for women politicians, women journalists and others. The PM, list to all sense of the dignity of his office, uses "Congress ka widhwa" for a senior politician, cat-calls a then sitting CM in West Bengal... and then you whine? Go suck on a lemon.

[Ashok Upadhyay @ashoupadhyay]

Why is Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation unprecedented?
Because in 24 years, 9 months, and 18 days since Narendra Modi became Gujarat CM on October 7, 2001, and in 12 years, 1 month, and 29 days since he became PM on May 26, 2014, no minister of his council has resigned under sustained public and political pressure.
The only comparable Cabinet resignation was M.J. Akbar in 2018, following #MeToo allegations.
That is what makes Dharmendra Pradhan's resignation politically significant.

[Sanjay Sipahimalani @SanSip]

“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.

[Sohini M. @Mittermaniac]

@iammony Thank you, Moni Da 😊

[A.J. @beingabhi2712]

Whole country is busy in resignation of Dharmendra Pardhan.

Meanwhile somewhere in sugar factory of Maharashtra :

[Ramki @ramkid]

Protest humour is probably the highest form of humour. Some samples. +

[Aditya Kalra @adityakalra]

Reuters Flash: India has ordered telecom firms to disable mobile data services in central parts of the Delhi, in and around the site of youth protests, sources told Reuters. Companies are complying; there's no data/internet around Taj Hotel, India Gate, central parts of Delhi

[beabadoobee @deezgutss]

baghban me sahi kiya tha aapke bacchon ne aapke sath

[Sohini M. @Mittermaniac]

@talesfromaaroo @shantanub Thank you! 🙂

[Eri🌻 @Erishuuu]

We are Anti-national.

[Catty @CatWomaniya]

Him during every issue in the country.

[alkalien @alkalien]

Headlines from 1922.

[Moon @mooncastic]

Scenes from Jantar Mantar

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

The govt has a well-established playbook for dealing with popular anger.

First, black out the protest while it is happening (it helps to have the visual media under its thumb). Then broadcast carefully selected clips: any violence by protesters is isolated and endlessly replayed while violence by the state disappears from the frame.

Next, bring in “influencers” to muddy the waters. Follow up with ad hominem attacks and straw men: the protesters are anti-national, externally funded, agents of chaos determined to obstruct the nation’s progress.

If the Opposition remains silent, ask why. If it joins the protest, accuse it of exploiting the movement for political ends.

The purpose is to shift the discourse, step by deliberate step, away from the grievance that brought people onto the streets. Soon, no one is asking why students are protesting. Everyone is arguing about Rahul Gandhi, security protocols and the motivations of the protestors.

We watched this playbook unfold during the anti-CAA/NRC protests. We are watching the rerun now.