Rahul Chhiber

6ft 2in north-indian male, wheatish complexion, well-built, last seen at appu ghar. Tweet on politics, videogames, pop culture & tech.

[arun rathod 💁🏼‍♂️ @dietcoke1108]

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[Sonam Wangchuk @Wangchuk66]

Message from Sonam :

20th JULY

आज़ादी का दूसरा आन्दोलन
भय मुक्त भारत, अन्याय मुक्त भारत

Freedom from injustice (Like paper leaks)
Freedom from Fear (my illegal detention)

India’s 2nd FREEDOM MOVEMENT
March to the Parliament
Please make it a big success

Sent through Gitanjali
from my illegal detention at Safdarjung

[Gitanjali J Angmo @GitanjaliAngmo]

I have lost faith in Safdarjung Government Hospital.
The hospital told us @Wangchuk66’s potassium had dropped to 2.9, describing it as alarming and life-threatening. Yet, in its public health bulletin, it conveniently omitted the actual number, referring only to "decreasing potassium levels." When after 10 hours and repeated requests, they allowed us to take samples of his blood at 10.30 pm, an independent laboratory test reported 3.5, well within the normal range.
Despite repeated requests, the hospital has refused to discharge him or allow us to shift him to a private hospital of our choice. With around 30 police personnel stationed on our floor and well over 100 across the hospital, our movement is severely restricted. It is not medical care. It is illegal detention.
If anything happens to Sonam, the hospital authorities and the government must bear full responsibility.
I have therefore moved the High Court and sought an urgent hearing today, praying for permission to shift Sonam before his health deteriorates further. No family should have to fight the system simply to choose where their loved one receives medical care.

[Live Law @LiveLawIndia]

"All citizens are being made slaves of Indian Government. They cannot stage protests, they cannot agitate-What is all this? Now so many papers have been leaked. If people protest, you will slap cases... What is this? It is the right of the citizens to protest.

The petitioner has just raised slogans like 'BJP Government Murdabad', 'Amit Shah Murdabad'... Why citizens can't raise such slogans? Why externment orders for such slogans?" - Bombay High Court Judge Justice Madhav Jamdar asks.

[Ramachandra Guha @Ram_Guha]

Umar Khalid’s brilliant PhD thesis has just been published as a book. It is a rigorously researched and richly readable history of Adivasis in Chotanagpur. May his cruel incarceration end soon, and Dr Khalid write more fine works of historical scholarship.
@juggernautbooks

[Rofl Gandhi 2.0 🏹 Commentary @RoflGandhi_]

Rajesh Exports ke saath toh hamare sahab ka Purana naata hai.

Pic Courtesy ( Prashant Mehta Facebook, Founder Promoter of Rajesh Exports Limited & Rajesh Mehta's Brother).

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

I am not saying that Bollywood actors were part of an organised campaign against the UPA, when petrol prices were raised repeatedly in 2011-12.

But, they definitely are part of an organised silence right now.

[P. Sainath @PSainath_org]

Even by the standards of a country ranking 157 of 180 nations in the World Press Freedom Index, the reaction of the authorities to the ‘Cockroach Janata Party’ is beyond extraordinary. The public response to that imaginative prank should have signalled to them a deep discontent, even distress, among young people. Instead, as The Indian Express reported, it was framed as jeopardising the country’s ‘national security’ and ‘posing a threat to the sovereignty of India.’ Decades ago, the Malaysian lawyer and poet Cecil Rajendra wrote this brilliant poem that captures the idiocy of it better than any pompous editorialising could (not that our ‘mainstream’ media would dare do even that much).

[Melissa Wong @Melissa_WongMT]

This little one radicalized me to a level I didn’t know existed inside of me.

[Ruhi Tewari @RuhiTewari]

Again, it does NOT matter whether the remaining 33,99,861 have the right documents or not. What matters is that they did not get adequate time to make their case & seek redressal. This is gross injustice. Why was the SIR not conducted earlier? Inclusion should be the norm, exclusion an aberration.

[Gabrielle Cathala @GabrielleCthl]

Malgré la loi sur la peine de mort raciste votée fin mars, le Parlement Israélien est toujours membre observateur de l'Assemblée parlementaire du Conseil de l'Europe.

Je défends cet après-midi l'exclusion de la Knesset de notre Assemblée. Le temps des doubles standards a assez duré.

L'Etat d'Israël ne respecte pas les droits humains, il n'a pas sa place au Conseil de l'Europe.

[Osama Bin Javaid @osamabinjavaid]

Iraq has some of the world’s largest oil reserves but the money it earns doesnt fully flow through Baghdad. Instead, a system set up after the US invasion in 2003 still gives it lasting leverage over Iraq's oil revenues

Replug @AJEnglish’s viral explainer

[Saurabh Bharadwaj @Saurabh_MLAgk]

Big Breaking

In the court of Hon’ble Justice Swarn Kanta Sharma, Mr. Arvind Kejriwal has filed another affidavit.
In it, he has stated that both the children of the Hon’ble Judge are working on Central Govt Panels ie under Sr Adv Tushar Mehta. Mr. Tushar Mehta assigns cases to them. In such a situation, it would be difficult for the Hon’ble Judge to pass any order against Mr. Tushar Mehta.
Therefore, along with other reasons, the Hon’ble Judge should recuse herself from the case.

[The Protagonist @protagonist_xi]

Asking for a salary hike in New India is Anti National and can get you arrested and labeled a Pakistani terrorist

[The Times Of India @timesofindia]

A high-level election review meeting on Wednesday turned volatile when a senior election observer openly challenged CEC #GyaneshKumar, later leading to the observer's removal.

More details 🔗https://t.co/iwIba0yi3h

[Mark Slapinski @mark_slapinski]

I'm genuinely confused

What the fuck was the point of the Iran war?

[Philip Proudfoot @PhilipProudfoot]

So the US’s supremely advanced democratic checks and balances on executive power can do nothing about US president threatening to wipe out an entire civilisation?

cool, just checking.

[Lowkey @Lowkey0nline]

The BBC claims to have found an Iranian inside Tehran to whom it attributes the following statement:

“About them using an atomic bomb or levelling Iran… I’m OK with all of these.”

[Bernie Sanders @BernieSanders]

While the world focuses on the destruction in Iran, we must not ignore what Israel is doing in Lebanon.

1,461 have been killed.
4,430 have been injured.
1.2 million have been displaced.

Israel now occupies 14% of Lebanon.

Enough is enough. No more US military aid to Israel.

[Rahul Chhiber @rahulchhiber]

@araghchi Heartbreaking.