Ritika

Pottering around films, journalism & comms.
Currently @drishyamfilms
Ex- @youthkiawaaz, @KhabarLahariya, @bsindia
Tweets are personal. Personal is political.

[Kaushik Raj @kaushikrj6]

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[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Meanwhile, Here's the unforeseen technical issue due to which the train service is temporarily curtailed at a Metro station which was inaugurated a few days ago.

[Kunal Kamra @kunalkamra88]

2 days ago I release a podcast with Prof- Apoorvanand about the sorry state of academic freedom in Indian Universities..

I wake up this morning and hear that he has been denied leave to go speak at an academic event in America which is the exact censorship we discussed about.

[Assal Rad @AssalRad]

Nothing to see here, just Doctors Without Borders saying Gaza is a mass grave and Israel is systematically destroying Palestinian life.

In other words, GENOCIDE.

[Film Updates @FilmUpdates]

Eid Mubarak.

Today, our thoughts are with the people of Palestine, Sudan, and Congo, who are once again enduring Eid amidst the horrors of genocide, war, and persecution.

Please consider supporting them through the resources in this thread if you can 🧵

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

Unelected, unaccountable BMC destroying comedy studios instead of fixing potholes on Mumbai's roads.

[Anish Gawande @anishgawande]

"Mumbai's Habitat studio, a preferred venue for stand-up comedy shows, has decided to shut down after Shiv Sena workers vandalised the premises last night to protest comic Kunal Kamra's jokes."

Naukri bana nahi sakte, barbad karne mein lage hue ho.

[Gary Stevenson @garyseconomics]

The only time in history we had decent living conditions for ordinary people was when we taxed the very rich. These two things are connected.

[Nikhil Taneja @tanejamainhoon]

I wonder why the mainstream media only asks our honourable ministers to immediately respond when it comes to comedy. When it comes to poor air, bad roads, lack of women's safety, drunk driver caused deaths, farmer suicides, riots - the mainstream media doesn't want any responses or action?!

Tumhara desh bhi hai bhai.. tumhari zindagi pe zyada asar joke se hota hai ya quality of life se?!

[san 🇵🇸 @ndsnas]

Hamdan Ballal — the co-director of No Other Land — has been kidnapped and beaten (and allegedly lynched). The fact that there is barely any coverage of this is horrifying.

[वरुण 🇮🇳 @varungrover]

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[Alishan Jafri @alishan_jafri]

Instead of punishing the goons who vandalized the Habitat studio in Mumbai, the state is carrying out a demolition in the studio. This is how due process goes for a toss in the world's largest democracy.

It just proves Kamra's point.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

Last year, Maharashtra saw 210 hate speech events where speakers threatened Muslims with brutal violence, boycott and extermination.

Don't remember seeing CM Fadnavis ask any of those speakers (many were his colleagues) to apologise for their words.

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

We owe it to Kunal Kamra for standing for free speech and media freedom. It was he who went to court against the govt trying to introduce its fact check unit as part of IT rules and got a stay order

[Friendly Neighborhood Comrade @SpiritofLenin]

The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.
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The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.
The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.
The first 27 pages, the age is listed as 0.

[Mr. Chau @Srirachachau]

Straight up do not understand why anyone would wanna read something that wasn't from a person. Already hard enough to find time and focus to read, why would I bother if it's not from anyone's perspective, it's just words

[#WOMENSART @womensart1]

Emilie Flöge (1874-1952), innovative fashion designer who aimed to reform dress designs for women. Though not noted widely by history, she influenced the work of her companion, the artist Klimt and featured in his work #WomensArt