While the Coke Studio creation Pasoori is breaking boundaries and winning hearts, the ravishing Bharatanatyam Dancer tells a fascinating story of defying dictatorship. A thread on dance and dissent. 1/17
करवा चौथ के लिए मेरी प्लानिंग, आप भी करना अच्छा लगेगा👇
-सुबह दबा कर नाश्ता
-दोपहर में खाना
-शाम को नाश्ता
-फिर रात को दबा कर खाना
-करवाचौथ जैसे दकियानूसी त्यौहार की दिनभर आलोचना
-महिलाओं को करवाचौथ ना करने के लिए प्रेरित करना
भला गाय के भूखी रहने से सांड की आयु बढ़ जाएगी क्या?
The mother of a 9 year old Dalit girl who was raped and murdered was told to remain quiet and not cry at the cremation. Yeh hai Hindustan. We are all complicit in our silence.
Thread:
I thought I had heard all the #Partition stories my family had to tell. I was wrong, thankfully:) I don't remember how we stumbled upon this today, mom & I. Sometime in the '80s, my mum's neighbour -- a Mr Gossain -- visited Pakistan to see his ancestral home.
Seeing lots of tweets suggesting that Twitter & Facebook might be banned tomorrow after IT Rules 2021 come into effect.
Some news entities irresponsibility playing on this with alarmist clickbait headlines too
https://t.co/9THFXXGxRe
This is wrong. I'll explain:
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Last week:
-Faisal, a vegetable vendor, killed in police custody
-Asif, a gym owner, lynched by a mob
-Shaikh Md, a mobile shop owner, beaten up naked by vigilantes
-Saleem, beaten up to vacate house
Whose fault is it?
Radicalisation of society? NO.
Some Muslim guy tweeting.