Shubham

Epitaph: "One who knew things that nobody should have known and things that nobody needed to know."

[Suhasini Haidar @suhasinih]

MEA needs a less clichéd and more serious script for the PM's visits abroad, one where he engages with his hosts on substantive issues, rather than his own accompanying troupe and Indians settled abroad.

[ओजस @Dilliwalanerd33]

There is no memorial or anything at the place where hundreds lost their lives in plane crash... British Ambassador is coming to a place which Indian govt basically has forgotten. Honestly if India commemorated all such deaths via accidents there will be thousands of memorials.

[Aunindyo Chakravarty @Aunindyo2023]

I am privileged to be associated with the high-profile cases against two news organisations — NDTV and Newsclick.

I was also one of the many picked up from my home by 8 cops and questioned in the Newsclick case.

Although my ordeal was very short — and the cops were extremely polite and almost apologetic — it traumatised my family, especially my kids.

My anger at that time all but made me abandon my father's teachings of never letting my politics come in the way of my analysis. I am glad to say that I was able to transcend the temptation of becoming a partisan commentator.

However, I do not question the establishment for what happened to me. I had already experienced the state's overreach as a three-year-old, when my father had to go underground for a year during the Emergency.

My question is to the mainstream, legacy news media — especially those who do various shades of Journalism of COURAGE.

What made you regurgitate whatever was fed to you against Newsclick, or indeed against NDTV?

What made you not look at the obvious holes in the stories concocted against them?

Why did you not even do your patented 'he said, she said' journalism? Why was it only what HE said?

Make no mistake — YOU are the real enemies of democracy.

[Vinay Aravind @vinayaravind]

Never forget the role that the filthy rag @nytimes played in this.

[Lisa Sthalekar @sthalekar93]

@mufaddal_vohra Really?? First in 60 years 😜

[anjali mody @AnjaliMody1]

How to raise a kid: "My parents encouraged rational thinking. They never shut down discussion. They encouraged debate, perspective and logical reasoning. That shaped the way I approach public issues today."

[LPC @landpalestine]

Iran arrives at World Cup wearing pins of 168 schoolgirls killed by the United States

[RAHUL @RahulSeeker]

Anand Patwardhan’s award-winning film "Father, Son and Holy War" has been removed from YouTube. The doc once faced censorship battles before India’s Supreme Court ordered Doordarshan to air it uncut.

Even a 15 min small clip from it explains why, even after 30 yrs. 🙂
Watch 🎧

[BBC Sport @BBCSport]

Somali referee Omar Artan, who was set to be the first from his country to officiate at the World Cup finals, has been denied entry to the United States.

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

Now this is bizarre, sorry. Without claiming credit for being a "hater" -- I question his politics, not the man -- it is a stretch to claim that I can trust Modi to handle a Gulf crisis (he demonstrably can't), China attack (huh? he failed) or other emergency (Covid came, and found him wanting). Argue that RG doesn't have experience -- that is a whole other thing -- but to suggest that Modi can be trusted to handle any sort of crisis, major or minor, when the record of 12 years demonstrates the opposite, is a reach too far.

[Prem Panicker @prempanicker]

One day, sooner than later, this hate being so openly performed will result in some act that will make us a pariah nation.

[Shubham @thatsharmaboy]

@ugach_kahitarii The Manohar family has such diverse interests!

[Debashis Basu @Moneylifers]

Rajesh Exports is a large listed company. Something funny with its accounting @suchetadalal http://t.co/IYLLSWy18p

[Anwesh Satpathy @anwesh_satpathy]

I have a strong intuition he’s going to get the shock of his life when he realises how few of these online followers are ready to hit the streets.

[Kunal Purohit @kunalpurohit]

#BashirBadr was heartbroken when rioters targeted his Meerut home during the 1986 riots.

He was moved to Bhopal, and in dejection, wrote lines that will outlive him:

Log toot jaate hai ek ghar banane mein, tum taras nahi khaate bastiyaan jalane mein.

[Man Aman Singh Chhina @manaman_chhina]

Bashir Badr deserved a state funeral.
Petty, partisan, communal, bigoted politics should not have denied this honour to one of the tallest poets India has produced in modern times.

[Samridhi Tewari @samridhitewari]

bashir sa’ab. today & forever.

[Javed Akhtar @Javedakhtarjadu]

آج ہماری زبان اردو تھوڑی اور غریب ہو گئی ۔ بشیر بدر ایک انتہائی خوشگو شاعر ہمیشہُ کے لیے محفلُ سے اٹھ گیا ۔ یہُ شاعر اور اس کی شاعری ہماری یادوں میںُ ہمیشہُ زندہُ رہیںُ گے

[www.sidin.co @sidin]

Hey I voted for culture war, why economy is not improving?????????

[snow @sanuukii]

the obsession of govt authorities to uproot native trees and plant palm trees in the name of beautification need to be studied