muralidharan

Apolitical. Cynical. ReTweet for fun too. Like does not necessarily mean 'like'.

[muralidharan @muralidg]

Phew!!! Now, this is one long and detailed thread that @Aabhas24 never would have wanted to deal with.

Must read thread by @TenzingLamsang

[Tenzing Lamsang @TenzingLamsang]

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Hi, Aabhas, just saw your tweet today as I have been off Twitter for a few days.

Surprised that you are ignorant of the abundant historical evidence of destruction of Buddhist sites in India.

Drawing from various historians, their works & news articles here is a list.

[pranav pradhi @pranavpradhi1]

Yes, I can. Unlike you, I’m not a bhakt of any leader or party. Uttar Pradesh was under Congress rule, and Vir Bahadur Singh was the Chief Minister. There were systematic attempts to cover up the crime. I wasn’t born in 1984, but I have friends who lost their fathers and families in that riot. I feel angry with Congress leaders like Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar who led mobs to kill innocent Sikhs.

But in my memory, the worst pogrom was in 2002, and the difference between you and me is that I don’t follow any of the leaders responsible for any of the riots. But you are still behaving like a bhakt of one of them.

Guess an “illiterate” journalist has far more moral clarity than a veteran journalist. 😊🤗

[pranav pradhi @pranavpradhi1]

Yes, I can. Unlike you, I’m not a bhakt of any leader or party. Uttar Pradesh was under Congress rule, and Vir Bahadur Singh was the Chief Minister. There were systematic attempts to cover up the crime. I wasn’t born in 1984, but I have friends who lost their fathers and families in that riot. I feel angry with Congress leaders like Jagdish Tytler and Sajjan Kumar who led mobs to kill innocent Sikhs.

But in my memory, the worst pogrom was in 2002, and the difference between you and me is that I don’t follow any of the leaders responsible for any of the riots. But you are still behaving like a bhakt of one of them.

Guess an “illiterate” journalist has far more moral clarity than a veteran journalist. 😊🤗

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: So Shiv Sena (UBT) ‘rebel’ MP Om Raje Nimbalkar says he is leaving party because ‘he needs to secure development funds’. A worst kept secret is now coming out: if you want funds for your constituency, you now have to be on the right side of the party in power. Is this how a multi party democracy is going to work? These ‘development funds’ don’t belong to any party or individual but are paid for by us the tax payers: by discriminating between parties, a terrible precedent is being set. Will CAG or any constitutional body take notice ?? 🙏 (by the way, anecdotal evidence shows that most of the funds end up as local projects to favoured contractors on commission basis).

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@DattaDamayanti I enquired with so much of Vinamrata 🤲

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@barandbench So, how many went Milord 🤷

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@PriyankKharge @amitmehra @JethmalaniM Epic! Brilliant riposte by Priyank Kharge. Must read!

[Aidan Simardone @AidanSimardone]

I saw children with their faces ripped off from Israeli attacks and you fuckers called it “self-defense”

[Steve Sweeney @SweeneySteve]

What David fails to mention here is where the I$raeli soldiers were killed. Just for clarity they were in Lebanese sovereign territory as an invading/occupying force

Lebanon has the right to defend itself, enshrined in international law.

But David seems to think that I$rael should have the right to carry out killings and massacres with impunity and complains when its soldiers face resistance.

You couldn’t make it up.

[Piers Morgan @piersmorgan]

How can anyone still support this Israeli govt when psychopathic monsters like Ben Gvir are ministers in it, advocating genocide in Lebanon? Disgusting.

[Seyed Abbas Araghchi @araghchi]

This is not a rant by a random genocidal lunatic. It's a public post by the national security minister of the Israeli regime.

The genocidal death cult headquartered in Tel Aviv is a threat to all of humanity. It threatens all humans. Its only interest is permanent war.

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Based on what I’m reading about the judgment of the Delhi High Court in the Telegram case, I’m just putting this on record that I completely disagree, on principle, with the Delhi High Court’s decision to uphold the Indian governments ban on Telegram in the country by dismissing Telegram’s petition. As a citizen, I expect better from our courts, in terms of upholding our right to free speech. I felt the same way about how X's pushback against censorship via the Sahyog portal was dealt with.

This ban on Telegram is disproportionate for multiple reasons:

1. Blocking a platform on the basis of an apprehension of fraud based on a feature that can be/has been fixed is frankly ridiculous. The Indian government did not prove that it exhausted all possible avenues to prevent the fraud. Pre-censorship is an extreme step.

I’d like to remind everyone that a decade or so ago we mocked Kapil Sibal for demanding precensorship of Facebook. Now I see tweets justifying precensorship of Telegram.

How have we come to accept such extreme forms of censorship? The word “information” may be broad in terms of how the law is written, but shouldn’t it be the role of a court to restrict the misuse of broad phrases and the power that the government gives itself?

2. Blocking of a platform is different from blocking of a group is different from blocking of an account, is different from blocking of a post. They're not mere "information".

The blocking ends up restricting legitimate speech not just for an individual user but Telegram’s entire set of over 100 million users, including me.

As I’ve mentioned earlier, I’m on groups on Telegram with thousands of business owners, where business transactions take place: this impacts businesses, income and employment.

We’re a country struggling to employ people because of whimsical and ignorant acts by a comfortable privileged and rent-seeking bureaucracy that has lost touch with the struggles of common people, and sees its role as one of herding sheep rather than enabling growth.

3. This sets a problematic precedence where the government of India will, on a whim, threaten to block entire platforms because they don’t accede to their extreme-censorship demands.

Courts should strike down such acts from the government, because after this verdict, the sword of being shut down will hang on every platform.

Expect MEITY and the Home Ministry which runs MEITY to now use this verdict as leverage against platforms to compromise our fundamental rights even further.

This strengthens the infrastructure for censorship in the country, and I expect this will have a bearing on the IT rules that will follow.

This, in my opinion, is a sad day for our democracy and justice in the country. John Russel in his newsletter that is read across South East Asia correctly called this ban shooting the messenger.

For investors looking at India, and for those with money in the Indian economy, this is once again a negative signal.

We need a stable economic environment for investment to flow in, and for employment to be generated. Meanwhile, Indian corporates are holding back on capital investment because of the same regulatory uncertainty.

It feels like 2013 again.

[Dr Ranjan @DocRGM_]

After Exposing Corruption, A Journalist Finds His House Being Raided By The Police At Midnight.

Modi's Corrupt Double Engine Govts

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

My dear @sanjaynirupam, पहले शिवसेना की संगत में थे, फिर कांग्रेस की संगत में, और अब भाजपा की संगत में हैं। गिरगिट भी बेचारा हालात देखकर रंग बदलता है, लेकिन आप तो संगत बदलते ही पूरी विचारधारा भी तेज़ी से अपडेट कर लेते हैं। 🫡

[Amitabh Dubey @dubeyamitabh]

Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei stated in a Bloomberg interview that the India AI Summit was "extremely disorganised".

About the chaos on stage: "There was Narendra Modi up there suddenly telling everyone to hold hands..." (collapses with laughter).

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

INTERESTING: the 6 MPs who are defecting from Shiv Sena (UBT) are to be provided enhanced Y plus security by the Govt . So first you defect from the party on whose symbol you were elected, then you get ‘rewarded’ with extra security. All of course on tax payers expense!! Yeh hai Bharat ki rajneeti ka kamaal!😡

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@lehrilalswm_25 @awesh29 This should not have happened. The judiciary always needs to keep an arms length distance from politicians, anyone connected with the govt, godmen, etc. if they cannot, they should not opt for this job.

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@BBCNews Irony died a million deaths 🤐

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@VishweshwarBhat If i hadn't seen the pic of @prakashraaj , I would have thought you were talking about PM Modi 🤣🤣🤣

Only monologues and hit-and-run statements. No presser in the last 12 years and journalists like you played dumb.

But, it's true, you need a spine!

[muralidharan @muralidg]

@NikkiHaley The full paragraph is nothing but 🐂 💩.

[The Resonance @Partisan_12]

@NikkiHaley Iranians chanted 'Death to America,' so you want them killed?

What punishment do you deserve then for writing 'Finish Them!' on the bombs to be dropped on the children in Gaza?

You're an ugly Evil woman!