Mohith Shivakumar

(Reluctantly) Litigating in the Supreme Court to survive, scrolling memes to cope.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

The Azim Premji Foundation pledged 1500 crores of its own funds over three years to provide eggs to kids in mid day meals in Karnataka. They’re the reason kids in Karnataka get eggs 6 days a week.

But they’re rarely hyped up in the way iskon is

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

ISKCON's greatest PR coup is convincing people like this that they give free food while in reality they are just contractors paid by tax money

[Abhijit Majumder @abhijit_MLab]

In the egg-in-midday-meal debate, the most insensitive comments I’ve seen so far:

“There is no malnutrition in 🇮🇳 .”
“They can eat egg at home.”
“Protein intake isn’t the government’s job.”

I served on a school committee where 10-11-year-olds chewed gutkha to suppress hunger.

[peeleraja @peeleraja]

As an Indian millenial it is hard to believe that as kids, our tv had PSAs asking us to eat eggs. Look at how far we have come.

[Siddharth Sharma @SiddharthS85]

Ok Bangalore Twitter need help.

My cousin is undergoing cancer treatment at HCG (near Mission Road).

He needs blood donations and we have exhausted our family members.

If anyone is willing to donate please ping me - I will share details. Any blood group is fine - the hospital just needs replacement.

(Please RT for karma. We need as much blood as possible)

[sleepy cat || @iamdatemike.bsky.social @iamdatemike]

I’ve not been late to an exam

That’s because my parents know to drive, we had a car, and they drove me to every exam

NEET videos are heartbreaking because they don’t account for kids traveling by public transport (maybe multiple buses or trains) that are always delayed in India

[Sharik @sharik19]

One of Mr Modi's first large anti-Muslim feats as Gujarat's CM: Charging 124 innocent Muslim men with UAPA and pushing them and their families into cycles of poverty, humiliation, boycotts, and depression

https://t.co/utYW5kYVbf

Support @Article14live's fine journalism!

[ವಿನಯ್ ಕೂರಗಾಯಲ ಶ್ರೀನಿವಾಸ Vinay K S @vinaysreeni]

Dear @krishnabgowda avare request you to please have similar interactive meetings with slum residents collectives, street vendors and powrakarmika unions and others invested in the city. Let not the elite only guide policy.

[Rema Nagarajan @RemaNagarajan]

Farmers ask a pertinent question: Why not develop arid regions, devoid of farming instead of turning lush green agricultural lands into concrete jungles?

[Sandhya Ramesh @sandygrains]

This Indian army officer who had served for two decades in the army and had retired to begin working with UN peacekeeping missions, was the first UN-associated international casualty from Gaza in May 2024. Natl media never mentions him anymore and PM got a medal from his killers.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

There has to be a better way than this torture - board exam marks are fine for college admissions.

[Vidya @VidyaKrishnan]

I spent 2yrs on a Pulitzer funded investigation for @HimalSouthasian against drug manufacturers/ drug inspectors NONE of whom were doing their jobs.

This man now says babies died coz they used a larger spoon or some such as if the rest of us are imbeciles. Unreal.

[Anjali Bhardwaj @AnjaliB_]

Dear lordships,
- 100+ RTI users have been killed for exposing corruption & thousands attacked and harassed- SC is silent.
- ⁠The Whistleblowers Protection Act passed in 2014 not implemented till date- SC is silent.
But every few days the SC berates RTI activists and calls them names- cockroaches, busy bodies, and today the Court is asking who are citizens to monitor public works! Perhaps your lordships need to be reminded that in a democracy citizens are sovereign and tax payers have a right to know how their money is spent. Courts should deal with individual cases on merit without passing derogatory remarks about those who hold power to account.

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

Indian trains are a death trap for ordinary people - no amount of shiny Vande Bharat reels will change the fact that for the majority of our population, this is the material reality of transportation

[churumuri @churumuri]

When a Congress chief minister bred on RSS samosas can:

🤡 name Hitler as his inspiration
🤡 fabricate Hitler's favourite word
🤡 talk blithely of assassinations
🤡 compare building demolitions in Hyderabad with Gaza and Iran

and receive applause, you can see India's future. @revanth_anumula @RahulGandhi

[Yogendra Yadav @_YogendraYadav]

The Supreme Court's judgment on SIR is the ADM Jabalpur of our times. The signal is unmissable: once the regime puts its foot down on a ‘politically sensitive’ matter, shutters are down for constitutional remedies in the courts. At a moment when the republic needed its guardian the most, the apex judiciary chose to abdicate its constitutional responsibility.

As Bertolt Brecht foresaw—instead of the people electing their rulers, now the rulers are free to elect their people. My complete analysis in @IndianExpress: https://t.co/JTDhzeOP2b

[Sarayu Pani @sarayupani]

This is how institutions in India perpetuate Apartheid like conditions.

What is wrong with putting I love Mohammad posters INSIDE a mosque?
But the Sambhal cops will make it into a crime and file an FIR and use that to seal the mosque.

[Chirag @chirag]

Our man at 18 has given more interviews and faced more grilling by Journos in a few days than the PM of India has in the past 12 years.

PS: discussions about mangos are not interviews.

[Rishika Pardikar @rishpardikar]

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