sonyswamy

LLB Campus law centre, Delhi University

[SANJAY HEGDE @sanjayuvacha]

Some time ago when Sudha Murthy said something about using her own cutlery to ensure purity of her food, people like me immediately pointed out the implicit casteism. @virsanghvi among others, did not get the implications of what had been said. Here is a video which may act as a backgrounder

[❦ @luvmecore]

This is not an ad or a movie; it’s a National Award event. See the difference between kriti and kangana dresses not just dresses,you can also notice their behavior.

[surajyengde @surajyengde]

dr laxmi berwa, the legendary organizer from the 1970s. this brave hearted man did not cow down to the bullies of indira gandhi. equally took on morarji desai & vajpayee. read about his activism, archiving & VISION—the first dalit organization in the US in Caste A Global Story.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Remember the RTC driver in Jagityal, Telangana who lost his job for speaking about paddy procurement yesterday??

This is exactly what he was speaking about! He asked the government to focus on this instead of doing naam ke vaste dharnas on fuel price hikes.

These are the scenes at paddy procurement centers in most part of Telangana today.

This one is from Gajwel!

Farmers have been literally begging the government to procure the food grains for over a month.

With the last night’s sudden thunderstorms, most food grains are in drainages.

Almost six months of their backbreaking hard work, monetary investment, blood & sweat - is now in the DRAINAGE!!!

All because the Telangana Congress Government couldn’t finish the procurement process of paddy & maize on time.

In a country that is still very much dependent on agriculture, in a country where malnutrition is predominant and hunger is a daily story - this is the importance food grain procurement is given!

Trust me, this is not the scene in Gajwel alone. Every single procurement center - at least 20/30 percent food grains are in the drains!

[sonyswamy @sonyswamy1]

@revathitweets absolutely disheartening to hear this @TGSRTCHQ @TelanganaCMO

[Revathi @revathitweets]

CRITICISM IS A CRIME!
And Telangana Is A Different Country??

Bairi Ashok is a normal RTC Bus driver.

He was passing by a dharna by the Congress leaders near Jagityal-Dharmapuri, Telangana.

Ashok enquired about the traffic.

They told it was a dharna about petrol & diesel prices hike.

Ashok then advised that these leaders should first take care of the paddy procurement.

Because farmers who toil day & night for six months are dropping dead sitting in sweltering hot sun in front of their produce for days together. He requested the government to start the procurement process immediately.

Due to extreme weather conditions and sudden rains, these food grains are also getting washed away.

Ashok, as a normal human being expressed his opinion. He was grief stricken looking at the plight of poor farmers everyday.

So! How does the government reward him??

He was told today to “go back home and he doesn’t have a job anymore”..!!

Bairi Ashok is shocked. He didn’t commit a crime, he didn’t abuse anyone, he didn’t resort to corruption, he just felt bad for the farmers and shared his thoughts.

When Chief Minister Revanth Reddy came to power, he promised seventh guarantee that is not in their election schemes- seventh guarantee of liberty, the freedom of speech and expression!

@TelanganaCMO @revanth_anumula under which rule was Ashok suspended? The suspension letter clearly says the action was taken for “criticising the Congress government “!!!

Is there a special constitution in Telangana?

Is Article 19, Freedom of Speech and Expression a defunct fundamental right in Telangana?

Is Telangana part of India?
Or is this another nation?
@RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi

ప్రజాపాలన అని దండోరా వేశారు?
ప్రగతి భవన్ కంచెలు కూల్చేశామని ప్రగల్భాలు పలికారు??

[Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez @RepAOC]

This is what drinking water in Georgia looks like after Meta began data center construction in the community.

Today I called for EPA and Congressional investigations into the impact of data center construction on local drinking water supplies.

We cannot take water for granted.

[S M I L E Y @smileyboyoff]

The climax of Ustad Hotel is one of the most soul-touching moments in Malayalam cinema.

[sonyswamy @sonyswamy1]

@AlwaysMadhuu @AlwaysRamCharan three of them were nepo kids🥲 okkoru okkola eshirru no sync

[స్థితప్రజ్ఞుడు @hellochaitu]

Woke up to this and I’m on a loop ❤️

[surajyengde @surajyengde]

the caste system in america.

- creation of illogical hierarchies
- marking the lower, making them an object of threat
- protection of honor through the dominant women
- violation of caste codes brought physical punishment
- entire community is ostracized https://t.co/fvycDocINL

[surajyengde @surajyengde]

the lower caste whites hang on to something they think can protect them from social meltdown. their obvious targets are vulnerable outcastes.

this system is meant for graded protection of privileges that is beyond the lower castes yet they claim it.

[surajyengde @surajyengde]

Caste A Global Story book launch at Penn.

[Revathi @revathitweets]

Have You Heard of Belli Lalitha?

Belli Lalitha was one of the seven siblings in her family, she had no formal education and in fact worked as a labourer in a spinning mill.

At the age of 25, she became so powerful that governments and people in power feared her.
So much so that she was chopped into 17 pieces and her body was strewn across in Bhongir, Telangana.

Belli Lalitha was a traditional Oggu Katha singer. She was fondly called “Telangana Gana Kokila”; Nightingale of Telangana. She founded the Telangana Kala Samithi.

Though not properly educated, she used her lived experiences of being a labourer in a spinning mill & wrote and sang songs that reverberated amongst Telangana public, especially women.

She became voice of the oppressed Telangana public and questioned the existing Andhra rule.

Demanding for a separate state, she sang with her heart in “Daga Padda Telangana” Sabha. She became an icon for separate Telangana movement in Bhongir, Warangal, Medak, Mahabubnagar.

She also rescued many women who have been pushed into prostitution in Hyderabad.

On 26th May 1999, Lalitha came back home from wok and stepped out for a meeting and never came back home. Police refused to acknowledge her missing case. When people started agitating a district level police officer went to the extent of saying they would have encountered have they caught her and wouldn’t simply arrest her.

A fake letter in her name was circulated. Her character was assassinated by a few media houses. Entire 10 districts of Telangana people started coming on to the streets and questioning the government.

After four days, a woman’s dismembered body parts were found in an agricultural well. Police denied they are Belli Lalitha’s. For 13 days police kept recovering a woman’s body parts across Bhongir.

Finally! On 10th June 1999 midnight, Lalitha’s head was found.

Thousands attended her funeral and people raised slogans against the then CM Chandrababu Naidu and Home Minister Alimineti Madhava Reddy. People till today believe that Madhava Reddy started getting jittery about Lalitha’s rising popularity in Bhongir, his constituency. She was to contest in the elections too.
And it is widely believed that they wanted to even silence the Telangana statehood voices.

Police and government tried to pass her murder as a murder of passion. They demeaned her character and spread vicious stories about her. But her brother Krishna fought and filed a case on gangster Nayeem who executed similar murders earlier.

Much later, police said gangster Nayeem’s brother Alimuddin and his associate was behind Lalitha’s murder. Her brutal murder angered and inspired many to join the separate Telangana movement.

She was as powerful as Gaddar but being a woman from golla-kuruma community, her story was largely remains untold.

Belli Lalitha was a voice of resistance, a voice that made powerful people uncomfortable.

Wanted to share Belli Lalitha’s song and story on her birth anniversary.

[Mani @manikanta143]

Ilanti ammai kavali ra babu naa life lo kuda 🥰🥰🫣🫣

[Dhanya Rajendran @dhanyarajendran]

Sister Ranit
Bhavana
Asha Achy

Three Sexual assault survivors who waived anonymity saying shame must change sides.

But is the system ready? @Indulekha_A spoke to Justice Madan Lokur who laid down some of the rules

https://t.co/x9GSGqbZyZ

[Deadly Law @DeadlyLaw]

For the first time in India, the Supreme Court has formally allowed passive euthanasia in an individual case under the framework laid down in the Common Cause judgment.

A bench of Justices JB Pardiwala and KV Viswanathan permitted withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment for a 32-year-old man who had remained in an irreversible persistent vegetative state for 13 years after a fall from a building.

The Court noted that the patient survived only through clinically administered nutrition via PEG tubes, and that medical boards had unanimously concluded that continuation of treatment merely prolonged biological existence without any possibility of recovery.

Accepting the recommendation of both the Primary and Secondary Medical Boards, the Court directed that life support be withdrawn in a dignified manner at AIIMS’ palliative care centre, ensuring a carefully tailored process.

The Court also clarified an important procedural point:
once both medical boards certify withdrawal of treatment under the 2018 Common Cause guidelines (as modified in 2023), judicial intervention is ordinarily not required. High Courts will only need to ensure that Magistrates are informed of such decisions.

The judgment also recommended that the Union Government consider bringing comprehensive legislation on passive euthanasia.

In deeply moving observations, Justice Pardiwala recorded appreciation for the parents who cared for their son for over a decade, noting that love sometimes means caring even in the darkest moments.

This case becomes the first real-world judicial application of the right to die with dignity recognised in Common Cause.

But it also raises difficult ethical and legal questions.

Should India now move towards a clear statutory framework on passive euthanasia, or should courts continue to regulate it through constitutional jurisprudence?

[Nethrapal @nethrapal]

Reservation vs affirmative action
Dalit assertion in India is different from Black political mobilisation in the US. For one, the faculty of elite institutions in America are much more diverse than in India. Reservations were designed as corrective mechanisms in a society where social capital, networks and inherited privilege determine life trajectories

My article in the New Indian Express, National Edition, stresses what Dr. Ambedkar mentioned: that untouchability is more severe than slavery. Comparisons across faculty %, government jobs representation all indicate that Blacks have been integrated into American society, but the same with Dalits is a big question mark.

Read on. For the full version, visit : https://t.co/i2zsvzNQZK

The pdf version of the article can be downloaded below
https://t.co/8EBIjpTQjB

[sonyswamy @sonyswamy1]

@Rampagerrrr batasarulu chestharu😂