Smiti Sharma

Advocate

[Smiti Sharma @smitisharma3]

@jamewils And I will not forget this news report.
https://t.co/QoRhouygRt

[Piyush Rai @Benarasiyaa]

Rahul Gandhi being taken away from the protest site.

[TIMES NOW @TimesNow]

BREAKING || Rahul Gandhi Detained During Protest Near 7, Lok Kalyan Marg.

[Siddharth @SidKeVichaar]

Visual Proof 🚨

Delhi Police themselves are pelting stones at children

Shameful!

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

Listen to what the Doctors who'd come to the Delhi protest site to help the Injured have to say.

Hello, @RubikaLiyaquat @smitaprakash @anjanaomkashyap @AmanChopra_ @SushantBSinha @AMISHDEVGAN @sudhirchaudhary @chitraaum @navikakumar, Pro Govt Propaganda se fursat mile toh ye bhi dikhado..

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

मैंने भी डिम्पल यादल को इतने गुस्से में नहीं देखा। डिम्पल जो बात कह रही हैं किसी का भी सब्र जवाब दे सकता है मगर वे आपे से बाहर नहीं हैं। अपनी बात मज़बूती से रख रही हैं। एक युवा लड़की जिस भरोसे के साथ महिला सांसद से शिकायत करती है, महिला सांसद उस भरोसे को बनाए रखती हैं।

[Supriya Sharma @sharmasupriya]

What ANI and others are not reporting:

Vikas Garg, arrested in money laundering case, is from BJP. Convenor of its economic cell in Delhi. Father elected three times on BJP ticket.

More in @sighyush’s report: https://t.co/573rqU2oEC

[Karan Rajpal @IronyMeter]

There is a simple truth you need to know about the entirety of Dwarka Expressway.

And it has to do with water. Plain, simple, untreated water withdrawn from the ground, mixed with sand, cement, and aggregate to form concrete.

The water available all along the Dwarka Expressway has very high fluoride content. When this water is used to make concrete, it doesn't cure and set well. Year after year, you will hear of more and more projects all along the Dwarka Expressway having such kinds of structural issues as life goes on.

Chintils Paradiso, an entire multi-tower project, has been written off, and lawsuits are going on between residents and the builder, even in the Supreme Court.

And you know what the Supreme Court has told them? The residents and the builder need to work it out between themselves.

The builder's solution to residents is to vacate your house (now forcibly vacated due to orders by the GMDA or MCG), take some minor rent from me and pay me more money when I build the new towers at today's price.

I have talked about the importance of introducing class action and tort laws in India.

Because in India, your risk is not only that the builder will not deliver. Your real risk is that they will deliver something which may not stand the test of time, even across a decade.

Dwarka Expressway is the country's largest example of engineers not following basic material science and delivering something which is not substandard by design, but by its very existence.

[ravish kumar @ravish_journo]

वो someone अपने पिता की शह पर नहीं मोदी सरकार की शह पर कर रहा है। यह फैसला अकेले नितिन गडकरी का नहीं है। प्रधानमंत्री मोदी का है। इससे पहले इस सरकार के कितने फैसलों को लोग वैष्णव का फैसला, निर्मला का फैसला, प्रधान का फैसला बता रहे थे? E20 नई नोटबंदी है।

[The Wire @thewire_in]

Alarm Bells Ring as Supreme Court Refuses to Hear Plea Against Bengal Govt's Linking of Welfare to SIR

[Sagarika Ghose @sagarikaghose]

Shocking, heart rending account . If this can happen to R. Rajagopal, former Editor of @ttindia , imagine what citizens with far fewer resources are enduring. Deleted from the electoral roll. Denied the right to vote. Passport renewal stalled for 100 days because of an adverse police report linked to that deletion. Forced to miss his own daughter’s wedding abroad. And then told a passport is “not proof of citizenship.” This is what the slow erosion of basic citizenship rights looks like . Even more disturbing is the silence of much of the mainstream media. WHY ARE SUCH HARROWING STORIES being INVISIBILISED.

[Paranjoy Guha Thakurta @paranjoygt]

The Telegraph editor’s passport not being renewed in Kolkata

Note from R. Rajagopal
Former Editor, The Telegraph
——-
In March this year, my name was deleted from the Ballygunge constituency electoral roll in Kolkata, apparently because the Special Intensive Revision process could not trace either my name or that of my late father in the 2002 voters' list. My father, a Gandhian, retired professor and former State Secretary of the Gandhi Smarak Nidhi in Kerala, passed away in 2016. I remain unable to understand how a conscientious voter like him could have been absent from the rolls.

Like nearly 27 lakh other residents of West Bengal, I was excluded on account of what were described as “logical discrepancies”. No reason was furnished even after I submitted my matriculation certificate, and my appeal is now pending before one of the tribunals constituted pursuant to the Supreme Court's directions. As a consequence, I was unable to vote in the recent election.

More distressing has been the fate of my passport renewal application. Although I completed the biometric formalities on March 19, 2026, police verification has not been cleared because my name no longer appears on the electoral roll. Despite submitting several alternative documents, I have been informed that they are insufficient. In fact, today (June 27, 2026) is the 100th day since my biometrics for passport renewal were taken. I was formally informed last week by the passport-issuing authority that Kolkata Police sent an adverse report, citing the deletion of my name from the voters' list. I have been asked to appear before the Regional Passport Office in Calcutta "immediately" but when I sought an appointment, without which it is difficult to gain entry, the date granted is July 17, 2026.

In between, our daughter, a journalist in California, got married in San Francisco on April 17. Needless to say, it would have been impossible for me to attend the wedding in the absence of an active passport, notwithstanding my possession of a valid ten-year US visa.

For all practical purposes, I find myself in a state of civic uncertainty although recently the government iterated that a passport is no proof of citizenship. Much of my time is now consumed by efforts to reconstruct family records and secure documents dating back several decades….

My days begin with checking my voting right appeal status and then the passport tracker. Then I write to the college where my mother taught in 1965 and to her school from where she passed out in 1959, asking for any document that proves she existed. The school has been very helpful but not the college. Similarly, I speak to prohibition campaign activists in Kerala, running down a list I collected after coming across an activist's name in a group by chance, asking for any news clipping or photographs that show my father campaigning against illegal liquor vends and communalism.

Some close friends and public figures have helped me in all these efforts. However, I am unaware if any media outlet or journalists' association or guild (of which I am not a member) has shown any interest in my situation. A senior journalist reminded me that this situation is by no means unique as "rejection" has been the daily certainty confronting millions of Indians for centuries. I accept that point.

My intention has never been to project myself as a victim. Rather, I have wanted to underline a larger point: if someone who spent his professional life in journalism and edited a relatively known newspaper can encounter such difficulties, one can only imagine what the truly marginalised must endure. Did I approach any newspaper? No, because I do not want it to become an issue concerning me. Do editors and journalists know about my issue? Of course, several do. If they don't, they should not be in the profession, don't you think?

Yet, the complete silence of newspapers on this issue has confirmed my suspicion, now reinforced with personal experience, that so-called mainstream journalism has little to do with my life. I do not "read" any newspaper now. I glance at some but hardly find anything that piques my interest.

[Govind Pratap Singh | GPS @govindprataps12]

बिहार के बांसघाट पर बना नया श्मशान घाट 1 रुपये की लीज पर 10 साल के लिए ईशा फाउंडेशन को सौंपा गया है.

अब यहां अंतिम संस्कार के लिए लोगों को कम से कम 3500 रुपये देने पड़ेंगे.

जबकि ���ास के सरकारी श्मशान घाट में सिर्फ 300 रुपये देने पड़ते हैं.

- पत्रकार @pushymitr जी की रिपोर्ट

[Maktoob @MaktoobMedia]

Kolkata schools to drop eggs from mid-day meals after the Hindutva-associated ISKCON takes over meal services, drawing criticism over children’s nutrition and the imposition of vegetarian dietary practices.

https://t.co/HngXPZu2H0

[UN Human Rights Council Investigative Bodies @uninvhrc]

Israeli forces have killed over 20,000 children & injured 44,000 more since 7 Oct. 2023, Srinivasan Muralidhar, chair of the @UN Commission of Inquiry on the Occupied Palestinian Territory & Israel, told reporters today. #HRC62

More on their new report ➡️ https://t.co/gK2KhtlgFb

[Aaditya Thackeray @AUThackeray]

If the MEA believes Passport is not a document of citizenship:

1) What do the police verify before granting a passport?

2) Does our country give passports as travel documents to non Indians as well?

3) Wouldn’t this announcement create doubts in the minds of other countries, of whether non Indians get Indian Passports as a travel document?

Beyond its very confused foreign policy, how much more absurd can the MEA become?

[Atul Londhe Patil (INDIA Ka Parivar)🇮🇳 @atullondhe]

दो भारत बन रहा है
1. वंदे भारत वाला
2.सांस ना ले पाने के कारण घुटन से मरने वाला

बाकी पॉजिटिव बातें करते रहिए 😐 https://t.co/xlWPbLauz6

[sanjoy ghose @advsanjoy]

If acche din had a visual it is this. An indian sailor’s dead body rotting while her Prime Minister is enjoying his holiday in the South of France!

[Mr Sharma @sharma_views]

DELHI: PROMISED DOUBLE ENGINE. GOT DOUBLE TROUBLE.

REPORTER: Centre BJP. Delhi BJP. Mayor BJP. Councillor BJP. MLA BJP. MP BJP.

RESIDENT: My 9-month-old baby got stomach infection. Doctor said change the water.

REPORTER: This is Delhi Jal Board water. This is Bisleri.

RESIDENT: RO also failed. We are buying water to drink, cook and wash the child.

A little girl brings a bottle of dirty water: “Uncle, show this on TV.”

[SriSathya @sathyashrii]

🚨 Massive controversy erupt in Wadala (East) ahead of #MumbaiMonsoon.

While private contractors were paid crores for mechanical drain cleaning, residents of LBS Nagar & Korba Salt Pans caught them using child laborers to manually haul toxic garbage out of deep nullahs with zero protective equipment.

​This isn't just a scam; it’s a criminal violation of child rights. Strict action needed NOW! 🚨

​#MumbaiNews #BMC #ChildExploitation @mybmc @CPMumbaiPolice @NCPCR

[Vir Das @thevirdas]

Madam @navikakumar I’m aware comedy isn’t journalism. We are both funny, in VERY different ways. Here’s a fact, you posted asking people for their take. I responded with mine. Sometimes questions are followed by answers. I empathise, this seems like new territory for you. Anyway….imma bounce 🙏