they have no problem with jk r*wling using her platform to spread transphobic rhetoric but an author expressing solidarity with palestinians and opposing a genocide is somehow controversial and warrants censorship
You’ve heard a lot about Umar Khalid through the media. But amid the media witch-hunt against him, there has been very little space for him to speak for himself, especially since he’s spent the last six years in jail.
So I want to tell you a little about my friend Umar, in his own words, as shared with his family and friends.
When such fucktards are still the majority in India, can't help but feel that all these protests may be in vain. But still I hope, that democracy and common sense shall prevail
The state of women in India.
A husband gets his wife gang raped in the name of purification rituals.
They tied her to a tree, beat her, forced the man accompanying her to rape her in front of a crowd gathered to mock her, filmed and circulated the assault to teach her a lesson.
84-year-old INC chief and 72-year-old CPI(M) chief passing the mic and attentively listening to a 28-year-old student activist.
This is the beauty of a real democratic political culture where experience and position don’t outweigh the value of a voice.
Police repression cannot be whitewashed by branding videos exposing it as “misleading.” When protesters face extrajudicial methods of suppression, documenting and exposing such abuses is a democratic duty, not a crime. @DelhiPolice cannot be allowed to turn censorship into a weapon to hunt down those who expose its brutality. The uniform is not a licence for impunity, and state power cannot be used to silence the truth.
This is the most horrific detention story you will hear today.
At 8 PM, this bus stopped at a community centre in Pandwalan Khurd (see photo).
Detainees fractured. Four minors present. Everyone barbarically beaten up. No lawyers allowed to enter.
This is how we got here. ⬇️
So if you’re wondering why protesting needs permission, it’s because we have an executive-centric constitution that has been interpreted by a historically executive-centred court, to uphold colonial executive-centric laws as constitutionally compliant.
Polit Bureau member and former Keralam CM @pinarayivijayan, Rajya Sabha MP @JohnBrittas and Central Committee member and former Keralam Finance Minister K.N. Balagopal have been detained in a jeep and are being taken away, The Wire reports.
They were on their way on to Jantar Mantar to join the students and youth of India who are fighting for a just electoral system!
Shame on this government for this crackdown on the fundamental rights of Indians!
#JantarMantar
"He is a victim of Indira Gandhi's Emergency... He has become a victim of the undeclared emergency of Narendra Modi and Amit Shah. We will not buckle under pressure."
❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥❤️🔥