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[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Richard Nixon was alive to see a movie called All the presidents men. It covered him and his scandal. He had to watch it win multiple awards. Watched multiple songs, movies and to shows parody him. I firmly believe the powerful people of this time who ban content, the journalists who serve, will live to see the art made about them and this time. Witnessing how history will remember you and being powerless to change it, will humble all at the end.

[Rajdeep Sardesai @sardesairajdeep]

IMPORTANT: So censorship has reached OTT as well? Satluj has been pulled from Zee5 without any clear explanation. The platform merely says it will be “unavailable in India until further notice.” OTT won audiences because it gave space to bold, original storytelling. If that space shrinks, what exactly is left?😡

[Mirza Waheed @MirzaWaheed]

An Indian film company has announced a film mocking scores of Kashmiri teenagers blinded by pellet guns in 2016. I wrote an essay on it at the time. Assuming people still read long form in the age of hate cinema.
https://t.co/UILQKZg2Zy

[God @TheTweetOfGod]

Messi.

[Shabin @shabin_kk]

@ScoopWhoop Jason Statham 😄

[Thomas Fazi @battleforeurope]

Crazy that this is getting barely any coverage. This year’s European Press Prize was just awarded to an investigative report by the Dutch newspaper De Volkskrant. It is entitled “What the Wounds Tell” and in it the journalists Maud Effting and Willem Feenstra document the cases of 114 children in Gaza under the age of 15 who were struck by a single bullet to the head or chest. Almost all of them died or were left severely disabled. They chose to document only the cases of boys and girls under the age of 15 (though often much younger: aged 3, 4 or 7) because these are children who can be immediately identified as such. “A single bullet in these parts of the body is a clear indication that these children were deliberately targeted“, the two journalists write.

This is the article: https://t.co/YkZrpqBWBQ

[Shabin @shabin_kk]

@SangitaSJindal @TheJSWGroup @sajjanjindal Edited!

[Vivek @Vivek_Investor]

"If your only tool is a hammer, everything starts to look like a nail"

- Mark Twain.

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Students who ask about board exams, journalists, neet college kids, Gen Z, artists, comedians, businessmen, dog lovers, anyone who questions governance….according to twitter all these people are secretly Pakistani :-) Right wing twitter brain, one massive reverse Durandhar 🤷‍♂️

[Shabin @shabin_kk]

@zoo_bear 😂😂

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

T 5753 - Ahh ! The smell of Ethanol in petrol ..!!!

[Shabin @shabin_kk]

@arvindhishappy Dosti bani rahe moment 😂

[Kapil @kapsology]

A note to journalists around the world:

If the PM of India visits your country, please ask him questions, because in India he has not faced a press conference for the last 12 years.

For the sake of the journalistic community, please do us this favor.

RT for good karma.

[devuu;) @devuuux13]

The Real Kerala Story

VS Joy, a Christian candidate is set to become an MLA from Muslim dominated Thavanur assembly of Malappuram district against CPIM sitting MLA, KT Jaleel 😭🫂

There are only 2% Christians in that constituency 🔥⚡

[serish @serish]

Aadhaar is Schrödinger's card: If you have it, it is utterly useless. If you don't have it, all hell breaks loose.

[Soutik Biswas @soutikBBC]

On Raghu Rai: of his many unforgettable frames, I keep returning to Age and Innocence - that 1982 Baroda photo essay where a blind Muslim beggar and a mentally challenged Hindu girl share a beautifulf, wordless companionship. This is Rai at his most tender- and devastating. 1/4

[#YeThikKarkeDikhao @YTKDIndia]

Meet Kanpur Mayor Pramila Pandey.

She has been the Mayor of Kanpur since 2017.

Let’s see what Kanpur actually looks like under her nearly decade-long tenure.

An explosive thread 🧵

[Prashant Bhushan @pbhushan1]

Can’t believe my eyes! Former CJI Gavai with a hate spewing fraudman! What kind of message is he sending to the judiciary! Shocking!

[Mallikarjun Kharge @kharge]

A desperate and frustrated PM @narendramodi with nothing meaningful to show for the last 12 years, turned an official address to the nation, into a political speech, full of mudslinging, and outright LIES. The Model Code of Conduct is already in place and it was very clear how PM Modi misused official machinery to attack his opponents. This is a travesty of Democracy and the Constitution of India.

Modi ji mentioned Congress 59 times and women barely few times. That tells the country everything about his priorities. Women are not the BJP’s priority. Congress is, because Congress stands on the right side of history.

Congress has always supported women’s reservation. We were the party that passed the Women’s Reservation Bill in the Rajya Sabha in 2010 so that it would not lapse. The BJP could not get that Bill passed in the Lok Sabha. They brought another Bill in 2023 and the Congress Party supported that too. That Bill still exists. In fact, it was notified on 16th April, while the Lok Sabha was discussing these delimitation Constitutional Amendment Bills. This was done by the same Prime Minister. The fact that it took the BJP 3 years to notify their own bill, shows their commitment to India’s Naari Shakti !

Modi ji should STOP lying to the nation —

1. He should implement 33% reservation for women in the existing 543 Lok Sabha seats under the 2023 law. Do not deny women their due representation now.

2. Stop mixing up the delimitation bills, i.e, the 3 Constitution Amendment Bills with the Women’s Reservation Bill. Stop lying to the nation that this was an amendment to the Women’s Reservation Bill — the Nari Shakti Vandan Adhiniyam. It was NOT. This was purely a delimitation Bill, brought in to create further division and redraw the electoral map in a manner that can only benefit the BJP.

3. Apologise to 140 Crore Indians. Congress has always been pro-reform. Congress transformed Indian agriculture through the Green Revolution, strengthened dairy development through the White Revolution, created our Space sector, made India a Nuclear power, Liberalised the economy in 1991, 60 Crore ADHAAR cards were distributed before Modi ji took office. Congress passed RTI, RTE, Food Security Act, MGNREGA - which Modi ji repealed.

We passed some of the most important pro-women laws in Indian history — from the Hindu Code Bills which your ideological forefathers opposed to workplace sexual harassment laws, domestic violence bills to criminal law reforms after the recommendations of the Justice Verma Committee.

The BJP has been anti-women in both action and attitude. They have no answers for Hathras. They have no answers for Unnao. They have no answers for the treatment of Haryana’s women wrestlers. They have shielded rapists within their own party. They released the rapists in the Bilkis Bano case. They have garlanded criminals and rapists. The NCRB data itself shows that crimes against women are highest in BJP-ruled states.

After 12 and a half years in power, in the middle of an international crisis, high inflation, a deteriorating economy, sliding Rupee, and deep public distress, the Prime Minister had nothing to offer the nation except a political speech.

Even with the Model Code of Conduct in place, he chose to blame the Opposition, especially Congress, for his own failures, his own betrayal, and his own apathy.

Lastly, BJP-RSS divides the nation. RSS supported the British against Indians and wrote mercy petitions to them. Every Indian knows that Modi Jis political masters — RSS are against WOMEN. They believe in Manusmiti, which encourages DIVISION, and NOT the Constitution of India.

[Shabin @shabin_kk]

@AmitShah