Sneha

Reluctantly writes. Plays with mud. Likes to eat. Buy my book 👇🏼

[Sneha @trailsofink]

Imposter syndrome rarely lets me talk about my work, but here goes. A small thread.

Even though I have been working as a writer for years, I never thought I’d write a book my friend Yogi walked into my life & offered me this opportunity. Normally, my overthinking self would 1/4

[Brittany Hughes @RealBrittHughes]

Hey @Netflix: The first season has 10 episodes and you binge it in a week. The second season airs three years later with 8 episodes that come out in two random chunks six weeks apart for no reason. And by the time it airs, you've forgotten the first season anyway and it's not worth the time to go back and rewatch it.

There. Just saved you a crapton of consulting money. You're welcome.

[Sneha @trailsofink]

We’re living The Office.

[Mohammed Zubair @zoo_bear]

PM Narendra Modi : India celebrated its Republic Day on January 26 last year. Twenty-six... 2 plus 6 equals 8, and Indonesian President Prabowo Subianto's birthday is on the 17th, 1 plus 7 also equals 8. Same same.

[Sneha @trailsofink]

Hot take on Main Vaapas Aaunga: some films get more credit than they deserve because we agree with them.

Hiding before all the hate stats rolling in.

https://t.co/DWQnMRrld0

[Doctor @DipshikhaGhosh]

Show his face. Show the girlfriend’s face. Show his older videos. Show CCTV footage of him meeting his girlfriend. Make it prime time news. Show snap screenshots. Give it Siya level coverage. Come on. Don’t be shy. It’s only fair.

[vadakkus @vadakkus]

Still blows my mind how powerful Mexican passport is. Mexicans do not require any visa to enter 156 countries incl all 27 Schengen states, Japan (!) (180 days), all of Central & South America & Caribbean (ex. Cuba), most of SEA, Qatar & UAE, etc
Supposedly unsafe Cartel country.

[Pratham @dp_331]

One of the biggest misconception an average Indian has is that USA has a lot of “mental health issues and drug/alcohol abuse” issues and us Indians have some sort of superior “family system” which is the reason why we don’t have these issues.

[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Bhai Hartosh,

I share your politics, and I am the last person to pull down someone on my own side. You open your piece on KPS Gill by admitting you cannot be unbiased. I respect the honesty.

But bhai, admitting you are the nephew is not the same as admitting where your evidence comes from. And your evidence has a problem you never mention.

Your table comes from the Institute for Conflict Management. Your key text, quoted at length and recommended to readers in its entirety, is Gill's own essay, Endgame in Punjab, published on https://t.co/EVbRVIWIyT, the website of that same institute.

The Institute for Conflict Management is your Mama's baby. He founded it. Who do you think we are?

You accuse Human Rights Watch of quoting Gill out of context, and your correction is what? Quoting Gill more fully, from Gill's own website, backed by Gill's own institute's numbers.

You told us you were the nephew. You did not tell us the data was the uncle's.

Second, Ribeiro. You dismiss Julio Ribeiro as a liberal favourite because he speaks against Modi today. Fine.

But you never mention that Gill was appointed Security Advisor to Chief Minister Narendra Modi in May 2002, right after Godhra, and later publicly defended Modi by putting the blame for the riots on the police and not on the political leadership.

If speaking about Modi today counts against Ribeiro, then working for Modi counts against your Mama. You cannot run the test on one man and give the other a pass.

Third, the cremations. You call the figure of 25,000 disappearances a fabrication, and on the data you may even be right.

But look at what your own correction concedes: roughly 7,650 unidentified cremations over eleven years. Your calculation, not mine.

Then you compare this to peacetime NCRB figures on unclaimed bodies. A beggar who dies on a railway platform and a man picked up from his home by the police; for you these are the same category of corpse?

Your whole NCRB comparison rests on one assumption: that the label "unidentified" was honest. That is exactly the assumption this case destroyed.

We saw it as recently as Covid. The Indian state does not hide bodies, it renames them on paper. That is why the world's excess-mortality estimates were many multiples of our official count. This is not hard to do in India today. In the 80s and 90s it was even easier.

And in Punjab it was not a suspicion, it was the finding. Executions were logged as encounters. Custody deaths were logged as escapes. The murdered were registered as unclaimed. You are citing the register to defend the man, when the register itself was the weapon.

And what sits under that register is not in dispute. The CBI confirmed 2,097 secret cremations at just three grounds in one district, and cremation workers testified that multiple bodies were often burned on firewood meant for one.

The Supreme Court called it a flagrant violation of human rights on a mass scale.

The NHRC identified 1,513 of those bodies and compensated their families, including 195 people who were in police custody immediately before they died.

Jaswant Singh Khalra, who found these bodies in the firewood registers, was abducted by the Punjab police and killed for it.

The Supreme Court upheld life sentences for the officers who did it. Not one of these facts appears in your article. Not one.

Your table of monthly killings does not answer any of this, because the charge against Gill was never the maths of the body count. It was what the state did in the dark, under his command. It was what he did in the shadows of bureaucratic cover.

And you know it. You write that accusations of custodial torture in Punjab are likely true, and that such excesses were just ordinary Indian policing. Read that sentence again, bhai.

You have admitted the torture. And your defence is that it happens everywhere. That is not a defence. That is a confession.

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[that poonam ka chaand @sabsezyadaa]

A 4 year old was raped by 4 men- she died.
A 13 year old was sold and then raped by 30 men…
Meanwhile @ndtv is doing this sensationalist BS.
Because children and women are raped on the daily in India, same boring shit. But men are killed very rarely…

[Hans senfuma @senfumahans]

Its funny how everyone's idea of heaven is a complete untouched paradise, crystal clear waters, lush green forests, enough food for everyone, classless, moneyless, stateless, a Utopia of peace, unity andhappiness. But here on earth it's considered a leftist ideology.

[Atul Khatri @one_by_two]

The Govt has purposely installed potholes on Indian roads so that the continuous shaking of the car helps blend Ethanol to Petrol ✨️

[Bhaumik Gowande @bhaumikgowande]

Raise infra failure. You shall hear "Act of God," "unprecedented," "high-intensity rainfall”, “mumbai wettest city”.. They said it this year, last year, the year before, and have been saying it for past 150 years but will Never reform.

[Harleen🌺 @harlynn_12]

Everybody is focusing on Dia Mirza, but nobody focused on what Soha Ali Khan said:
“Imagine to stand up to somebody who is an adult and to have that conviction”

B*tc standing up to a poor person who is providing you a service is far easier. Try standing up to Ambanis when they had a million functions and parties for their wedding all over the world! Then, you danced to their tunes and showed no class.

It was only possible for her child to stand up to that ADULT because he was a poor working-class person. Otherwise, we have all seen how sycophant you Bollywood folks are! Children learn from the adults around, this is what they have learned. Respect the rich, boss the poor around.

Also, this is how these nepo kids become so delusional, because they are surrounded by yes men. Nobody is blaming the child here, but how promotional these “stars” are with their kids. Instead of telling that child that this is not how things are done or that change is promoted, she comes on a podcast, “Oh, see my child is Greta Thunberg incarnate.”

Their lectures only start when it's the poor, not the manufacturer of such polluting stuff. The Indian elite is such a hollow class of people. They are educated, yet so ignorant. They live in a bubble. Please touch some grass. These poor people are trying to survive day-to-day; they don't have the energy to think about paper straws or paper bags. Poor didn't open a factory and started manufacturing plastic goods. It's the responsibility of the government to eradicate such stuff from the source. Ask the government to ban such factories; they always like to ban things. What are they waiting for?

Poor coconut seller’s whole life can't have the carbon footprint of what someone like Dia Mirza produces in a year.

Please keep your lectures to yourself. While you are teaching your kids performative environmentalism, teach them empathy, and show them the actual lives of poor Indian people.

[Edgar Allan Poeha @bhanilaessence]

Does it not alarm anybody that we now have a government that can erase your exitence from the voters list, arrest and jail you on any random pretext, seize and auction off your property, erase your entire constitutional existence and it would be all within the realm of "law"?

[Nabiya Khan @nabiyakhan_25]

Perhaps the greatest violence is that political prisoners stop being seen as people. They become symbols to celebrate, defend, or condemn, while their fears and ordinary humanity disappear from view. We forget that they are not just heroes or images hanging on Tihar’s walls but are living, breathing, struggling human beings still inside those very walls. They shouldn’t have to remind people that they are human.

A must read interview!

[Kapil @kapsology]

Ex-Chief Election Commissioner Mr. Rajeev Kumar will get ₹1,50,000 per month as a pension and ₹3,00,000 per month as the Non-Executive Chairman of HDFC Bank.

₹4,50,000 per month for doing absolutely nothing.

[Sarvesh Tiwari @bhAratenduH]

8 Sep 1991, Indian Express, Lucknow.

Head Pujari of Ram Janma Bhumi temple since before the temple locks were opened — accused VHP leaders of siphoning off of donations for the temple, and for making shady land deals. He was removed from the post.

In 1993 in an interview to @madhukishwar, he told he was afraid for his life. A couple of months later he was actually murdered. #RJB #ayodhya #Ayodhya_Ram_Mandir_Donation_Scam

[Pravin Sawhney @PravinSawhney]

There it is. Modi will not attend Ali Khamenei funeral.
Extremely unfortunate for India.
At the time when the world is going through a once in a century change, India has chosen not to stand with Global South nations & the New World Order - where hope, development & prosperity resides.
Nothing should be expected from India's BRICS presidency this year!

[Christopher Clary @clary_co]

With respect for these two esteemed individuals, this is not the delegation you send if you want to demonstrate a desire for close India-Iran ties.

[Edgar Allan Poeha @bhanilaessence]

They were always all in it together. Cant remember of another time when all the different pillars of democracy conspired to enable the mass disenfranchisement of Indian citizens. Its staggering that this is not all we are talking about cause this how it will be from now on

[Varun Oberoi @varun_oberoi]

Chat, can we please have one flex for India, which is not predicated on exploitation of the poor?