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Avantika Tewari

3 years

Announcing the publication of my article “Confronting Agamben on the Pandemic: Biopolitics, Class Struggle and Surveillance Capitalism” with Law, Culture and the Humanities. The complete article can be accessed through the following link:

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

1 year

All major Indian trade unions have called upon the govt to scrap agreement with Israel to export Indian workers & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products & refuse to handle Israeli cargo. #BDS #Gaza

No ‘export of workers’ to Israel, say trade unions in India

All major trade unions have called on the govt to scrap the agreement with Israel & appealed to workers to boycott Israeli products and to refuse to handle Israeli cargo

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The police said, “Joote maaro saalon ko!” Snatched the flag of India and beat up students ruthlessly. Watch how they pulled me away from the students to isolate me, they said, “Isko auto mein daalo!” “Photo lo iski aur badnaami karo!”

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Watch | Delhi Police detain #JNU students protesting outside HRD Ministry. Here's what we know.

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This young protestor jumped on to the the water cannon, turned the tap off and jumped right back on to his trolley, during yesterday's protest at Punjab-Haryana border. #BharatBand #bharatbandh

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“I hope none of you should feel sympathetic to my condition. I don't believe in sympathy, I only believe in solidarity. I intended to tell you my story only because I believe that it is also your story. Also because I believe my freedom is your freedom." GN Saibaba, adieu.

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3 months

Cute corner.

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1 year

@RanjalnC Workers don't simply seek bread by any means necessary. The dignity in labor is reduced to mere survival, and taking a political stance often involves contradicting one's own interests. Why do we have so many 'surplus' laborers to exchange? That's a question worth asking.

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What’s being branded as global ‘mobility’ for workers is a crude exportation of labor as capital in lieu of trade agreements that bolster the interests of the ruling classes.

Israel set to hire 1 lakh Indian workers amid war with Hamas? MEA says... | Today News

MEA Spokesperson Arindam Bagchi stated that India is working towards providing its citizens with access to global workplaces and is discussing a bilateral framework with Israel in the construction...

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7 years

Caste based discrimination is real, its violent manifestations shouldn’t have to be a grim reminder of the reality!

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JNU

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It's #WorldPhotographyDay ! Share a peek at your city through your lens 📸

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5 years

Kya Najeeb ko dhundne ke liye iss tarah zameen-aasmaam ek kiya tha? Expecting more ‘left extremists’ conspiracy theories to emerge from this.

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5 years

Has the media ever cared about ‘verifying’ the hateful lies that madhu kishwar & her ilk spread on a daily basis? No!

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A brilliant visual essay on housing, exploring how its excess creates terms of non-belonging by distancing the city from its people and environment, reducing both to mere abstractions of urban progress and property. Watch link:

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NTA rakes in over 500 crore annually from exam fees, essentially operating as a profit-driven entity in the entrance and testing industry. It collaborates with private companies profiting from infrastructure, content, testing, coaching, and publishing. #NET #NEET

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Follow the money: the reason NEET hasn't been cancelled yet is because billions of rupees are at stake in this exam, with the coaching mafia making it impossible for the government to reach any autonomous decision. NET isn't as commercialised yet, so it was cancelled in a day.

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7 years

To all the Shivshankars of the world, @TimesNow . The public University is not a company to produce automatons that maintain status quo! Stop using your ‘efficiency’ bullshit to side with a sophisticated strategies of control and surveillance.

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3 years

Capitalism kills and offers courses on processing grief.

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3 years

It’s unfathomable and devastating but Mahavir uncle, Natasha Narwal’s father is no more. Scrap UAPA! Free us from this cruelty which criminalises dissent! @PinjraTod will communicate further.

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1 year

@RanjalnC @beomthepineapp1 Then that choice should have ideally preceded a diplomatic negotiation, but it didn’t. The choice is enabled by political considerations.

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4 years

Found the video. This is called swag se swaagath. Your tear gas, your lathis, your water canons, your might will be shaken by the resolve of struggling people, toiling masses. All power to the people! #BharatBandh #BharatBand #FarmersDilliChalo #Farmers #FarmerProtest

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5 years

Around 120 million migrate from rural areas to insecure urban jobs annually. But did such tenuous employment ever guarantee dignity and security of life and livelihood? #MigrantLivesMatter #COVID19 #CapitalismIsThePandemic

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7 years

All that noise by the Supreme Court about the ‘misuse’ of PoA act, 498A, but not a word about the legality & permanence of ‘temporary extraordinary’ laws like AFSPA, UAPA, MCOCA- which legitimise State repression? #SupremeCourt #SCSTActReview

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7 months

Chappals of JNU are also revolutionary! 😅 #JNU #JNUElection2024

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3 years

@AfricaFactsZone Every year a black woman is medicalised, re-assigned gender and disqualified from competitive sport. Let Caster’s words ring loud, “A man can change the rules but he cannot rule my life.”

Caster Semenya Disqualified: Talking “Sex” without Discussing the Materiality of the (social) Body

“Person with normal levels of testosterone would be at a performance disadvantage.”

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4 years

Why the public sector employees, unemployed youth, big farmers & small farmers are coming together to protest privatisation, corporatisation despite their internal conflicts and contradictions. Read:

Ten central trade unions observe Bharat bandh today; banks, transport services affected

The workers are protesting against the ‘the anti-people, anti-worker, and anti-national’ policies of the Narendra Modi government.

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@Avantikatewari

5 years

From today’s protest at #Gargi college! This incident must not be made a pretext for providing security solutions, enhancing surveillance on women but it exposes the systemic impunity that perpetrators enjoy w/o autonomous institutions to address SH.

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@Avantikatewari

6 years

ABVP unleashing violence in JNU again. @banojyotsna @UmarKhalidJNU @Shehla_Rashid @kanhaiyakumar @TheQuint Posting a video which was received via Whatsapp. You can hear them call people, ‘Naxali,’ among other things.

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4 years

From the ongoing #Swiggy workers' strike in Chennai. This concerns delivery ‘executives/agents’ all over India, who have been working throughout the lockdown.

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@Avantikatewari

6 years

Everyday ABVP finds an excuse to act on its impulse to beat up people in JNU & an entire troll army comes to their defence. Right now, they are beating up students outside Jhelum Hostel, calling them ‘Naxali.’ But that’s ‘not good enough’ for the blood-baying trolls.

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@Avantikatewari

1 year

Delighted to share that I'll be joining the @csdsdelhi as a Visiting Fellow. Thrilled to contribute to their initiative on Digitality and Democracy in India. If you have any thoughts, ideas for collaboration or research papers, please feel free to share them with me.

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@Avantikatewari

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I never anticipated growing up in a world where observing Dhirubhai Ambani's school's annual day would be part of obligatory media consumption.

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GMR Group partnered with IDEMIA to deploy facial recognition tech for DigiYatra service at Delhi, Hyderabad, and Goa airports. Digi Yatra is run by a private 'non-profit body', not covered under RTI.

Digi Yatra Not Under RTI as Run by a Private 'Non-Profit Body': Ministry of Civil Aviation

Facial recognition technology (as Digi Yatra) was introduced at airports in December 2022. Serious concerns related to the use of facial recognition technology – its storage, sharing and security as...

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I don't want to blame the women near the scanners or the guards who are just doing their jobs. What I do want to ask is this — why obfuscate the choice for passengers to opt for Digiyatra, especially when biometric information which needs informed consent is at stake? (4/4)

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4 years

#AcademicChatter #AcademicTwitter Me looking for work like:

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I am honored to have received the conference fee scholarship and accompanying support to attend the ILO-sponsored International Network on Digital Labour conference in Santiago, Chile.

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4 years

The govt has now dug up 25-30 feet trenches in the National Highway to stop farmers from Punjab from reaching Delhi. #FarmerProtest #FarmersBill2020 #FarmersDilliChalo

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7 years

Remember, the coffin of the man who killed Akhlaq in Dadri was covered with the tricolor. This is no councidence, the state condones and supports anti-minoritarian violence.

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3 years

The poor of the country are not just disproportionately dying but they are also the ones who are keeping us all alive. They are the ones carrying, manufacturing, distributing, communising oxygen and other resources. Twitter is not answering our desperate appeals, they are.

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6 years

A protest by the community to save themselves has been turned into a bloodbath by the state machinery. We condemn this violence and injustice! Join the protest May 23rd at *4PM* at the *New Tamil Nadu House* near Chanakya Cinema Hall in Chanakyapuri. #Thoothukudi

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Dalit Leader डॉ सुशील गौतम (Dr. Sushil Gautam) along with 5 others arrested in Meerut. Please spread the word. - via @nakulssawhney #NoMoreFalseCharges

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5 years

Earlier today Bhim Army’s protest demanding the release of @BhimArmyChief

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Shaheen Bagh welcomes Chandrashekar Azad with Ambedkar. #CAA2019 #NRC_CAA_Protest

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6 years

Sept 2017: ABVP ne phir yaad dilayi auraton ko university mein unki jagah, khud bhool gaye apni seema! #PinjraTod #DUAgainstCurfew @Shehla_Rashid

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1 year

This is so bizarre, how will they get ‘five attendances’ if they are detained?

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1 year

Comrade @abhigyan_AISA and I, we are being held at our flat because PM is coming to campus! Why is @narendramodi so afraid of us? Whole campus turned into police cantonment to protect a PM from accountability! Shame on Delhi police!

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6 years

भले ही दिल्ली में छात्राओं को अभी उनके संघर्ष में जीत न मिली हो लेकिन भोपाल, रायपुर और केरल की छात्राओं ने अपनी बहुत सी मांगें प्रशासन से मनवा ली हैं. #PinjraTod @kanhaiyakumar @UmarKhalidJNU @KhabarLahariya @KashishBihar

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3 years

Natasha lets a smile stream out at our length to answer the anticipation of happiness that remains imprisoned with her. Her eyes supplicate us to remain hopeful even as her own hopes remain inaccessible. She walks into Tihar as Mahavir Narwal knew her to: fearless & gentle.

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5 months

Kuch ho na ho, BJP's fall in this election has ignited a surge of repressed laughter on Twitter.

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6 years

This is not simply a reflection of ‘apathy’ of humans but also of the material reality of everyday survival in this country. The ache din that never translates to anything concrete except for statues. Then they say shit like: #MurtiFirstMandirNext

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4 years

self reminder: cite as you write or die! #AcademicChatter

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2 years

I'm excited to announce the news of the publication of a volume of essays edited by Amshuman Dasarathy and me, titled, "Feminist Perspectives on Social Media Governance."

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5 years

Don’t worry, ABVP, your popularity will remain intact in the echo chambers of sycophants on your master’s payroll. So long as you represent & serve the interests of ruling castes & classes of society, you shall enjoy both your own popularity & its symptom, a reactionary populism!

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6 years

दिल्ली हो, रायपुर या केरल, यहां पढ़ने वाली छात्राओं की कहानी एक जैसी है. वे बताती हैं कि विश्वविद्यालय अनुदान आयोग (यूजीसी) के नियमों के बावजूद कैंपस में छात्र-छात्राओं के लिए भेदकारी नियम हैं. @_YogendraYadav @swaraj_abhiyan @anuradhagoyal

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1 year

Saddened to hear the news of Lacanian scholar, Mari Ruti's passing. Sharing a selection of quotes from her writings, hoping that they will serve as inspiration for more individuals to discover and explore her invaluable work.

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3 years

Natasha’s father is fighting COVID-19. “What kind of a law puts you in prison without proof?” As Natasha Narwal languishes in prison under UAPA charges, her father Mahavir uncle has been waiting while standing in strong in struggle and solidarity!

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@Avantikatewari

6 months

“Chamkila, who defied caste barriers in music and experimented with the ‘vulgar’. The question of caste assertion in Chamkila’s music manifests subtly through defiance and disobedience.”

Imtiaz Ali obsesses over vulgarity, misses Chamkila’s cultural resistance against purity

Peter Manuel's ‘Cassette Culture’ showed the booming Bhakti music during the '80s and '90s when Anoop Jalota, Gulshan Kumar achieved success by singing the sanitised Bhajans.

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6 years

JNU need conscientious media to be there immediately. The bigoted channels can make their bucks another day, today, please stay out of it. We still haven’t found Najeeb! We can’t let it repeat. The uni is under siege! @sunetrac @dhrubo127 @jamewils @UmarKhalidJNU @Shehla_Rashid

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Mahmood Mamdani at IIC on “Homelands,” and its political configurations under colonial occupations.

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@Avantikatewari

4 years

Terminating students for non payment of fees at a time when the world is gripped by the pandemic and the country, in the clutches of oligarchs is criminal.

IIT(ISM) terminates over 200 students for non-payment of fees

December 9 dean order allows appeals for reinstatement

www.telegraphindia.com

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@Avantikatewari

7 years

It cost #GauriLankesh her life, speaking truth to power. #PostTruth #AltRight #Antifa

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@Avantikatewari

8 months

We are excited to host @veenadubal at @csdsdelhi on March 1. She demonstrates how digitalised variable pay practices in platform work constitute algorithmic wage discrimination challenging notions of ‘fair wage’ & equal pay laws. Link to the article:

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State medical colleges must be equipped with infrastructure to prevent doctors from enduring 36-hour shifts. Build secure public institutions for access to healthcare & knowledge. Oppression persists by isolating women’s struggles, making some lives seem expendable than others.

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@Shehla_Rashid @sunetrac @dhrubo127 @jamewils @UmarKhalidJNU This is terrible, how can students be expected to ensure the counting of votes goes smoothly and also resist violence, while recording evidence of the same? All power to JNU community, fight the fascists!

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3 years

He walked beside her, feeling her unhappiness, sharing her pain, laughing off troubles, dancing in celebration and in assuredly complementing her life, he touched the lives of us without ever directly knowing each one of us.

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4 years

Dense chats: “Even in academia, the best thinkers are the ones who disregard the rules of academia and aren’t traditionalists. So if you don’t see yourself as belonging there, there is no better thing that! Who would want to belong in academia anyway?” #AcademicChatter

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3 years

Are strangers always kinder than friends?🤔

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4 years

हरियाणा के किसान अपने ट्रैक्टरों से खनौरी बॉर्डर पर पंजाब के किसानों के लिए रास्ता साफ करते हुए। (Farmers of Haryana clearing the route for those from Punjab at the Khanauri Border) #किसान_एकता_जिंदाबाद #FarmersProtest Photo: Randeep Sangatpura Via Navkiran Natt

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In our ten years we have not seen so many women on the streets at night, Ekta mein zor hai behena taalon mein ab zor nahi! #PinjraTod ⁦ @Shehla_Rashid ⁩ ⁦ @UmarKhalidJNU ⁩ ⁦ @TheQuint ⁩ ⁦ @timesofindia ⁩ ⁦ @htTweets ⁩ ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩

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Organising a workshop for @csdsdelhi on ‘Digital Subjects and Citizens: Recasting Democracies in Networked Societies to be held on 8-10 April, 2024. Please apply if the themes resonate with your work.

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The women from Jai Bhim Nagar are expanding the way in which the logic of security embeds class privileges, which is in turn perpetuated by the systemic rule of law which remains silent when working class is dispossessed of their homes and rendered vulnerable & insecure.

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2 years

ABVP just dropped the latest, “no woman no cry” iteration.

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4 years

Its unbelievable, that they dug up roads, offloaded water canons in biting cold. Didn’t let anyone assemble in Delhi and the PM had no words to spare? #FarmersDilliChalo #FarmerProtest

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Wrote something. For two years, the digital landscape has been rife with premature obituaries for Noam Chomsky – penned one moment, retracted the next – a testament to a collective fixation on the theoretical “end of an era.”

Premature Death of an Author: Noam Chomsky in Digital Discourse

Courtesy: Lee Lockwood

tewari-avantika.medium.com

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4 years

#AcademicChatter why can’t we hyper link?

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@Avantikatewari

7 years

After accidentally injuring joirno at lathi-charge on students- Police: Sorry, thought you were from JNU. After mistakenly detaining RSS’ Sinha- Police: Sorry, thought you were Dalit. Not all lives are equal in their experience with Law.

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2 years

Before the students and teachers could even address the gathering on the GN Saibaba hearing, they were dragged out of the university compound and taken to the Burari police station.

AISA - Delhi University

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This video captures students being dragged from University Plaza towards the gate so that, they be conveniently detained and shoved into buses and vans.

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“Despite the apparent separation of these projects, technocracy and Hindutva operate in tandem and continually threaten to leak into one another.” @bulletprooflama presents yet another insightful essay.

New Silk Roads - Mila Samdub - Technocracy and Hindutva: The Architecture of Governance in the New...

Hours after he got off the plane from a five-day trip to the USA in September 2021, a hard-hatted Narendra Modi visited the Central Vista Redevelopment.

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1 year

Discovering a book on Nazism in someone's room is a weak pretext to justify bombing their homes, especially in relation to condemning a genocide.

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Israeli President Isaac Herzog seeks to justify his mass killing of Palestinian children by holding up the book Mein Kampf and claiming it was found in a "children's living room."

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I am okay. I am fine. #loksabhaelctionsResults2024

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2 years

JJ Hospital has confirmed that Gonsalves has been suffering from dengue for close to two weeks and that he could have developed pneumonia too.

Elgar Parishad Case: Vernon Gonsalves Is Latest Victim of Prison Staff's Medical Neglect

JJ Hospital has confirmed that Gonsalves has been suffering from dengue for close to two weeks and that he could have developed pneumonia too.

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6 years

Particularly pitiful to watch @nehakhanna_07 run her ‘debate’ full of RW ppl- using ‘pro-muslim’ to insinuate politics of ‘appeasement’ while not even flinching at the ‘need’ for a Ram temple as though that in itself is beyond questioning. All they seen to debate over is when!

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Life in academia be like: Should I become an influencer to make money? 🧐 #AcademicChatter

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@Avantikatewari

4 years

Rich countries hoarding vaccines for big pharma, sanctioning list of approval, giving itself patents, bullying the world into buying from them. This is not vaccine imperialism, it is global capitalism which continues to remain neo-colonialist and imperialist! #COVID19

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“It’s in process. We don’t have enough to be confident to send it abroad now. But I expect we’re going to be able to do that,” Biden says about sharing Covid-19 vaccines with other countries

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5000 MADE HOMELESS TODAY- PLANS TO MAKE 20,000 MORE HOMELESS IN KHORI GAON DEMOLITION DRIVE!

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5 years

Ratna Pathak at Gandhi Park, Hauz Rani where women have gathered for over 23 days to protest the CAA-NRC-NPR. Sitting there day-in and night-out, through the cold and the rain. #worldagainst_CAA_NRC_NPR @AzmiShabana @NrcProtest @ReallySwara @anuragkashyap72 @ThePeopleOfIN

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@Avantikatewari

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Academia is all about sharing a draft chapter with the supervisor followed by an email begging them to not read the draft you just sent!

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Last thing I want is to interact with my toothpaste.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Interesting reading by @SumanaSiliguri . I enjoyed watching Laapataa Ladies. The point of engaging with popular cinema is to try to inspect what appeals to us about it. The contradiction is real; it must be sharpened with analysis.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

2 years

In Sheffield today and tomorrow to speak at Algorithms For Her 2.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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This is a big win, congratulations to the former General Secretary comrade Sandeep Saurav! CPI-ML has made its mark on the electoral map. Lets remember the migrant worker’s & peasant’s distress, this is also a verdict on anti-people policies of an exploitative system.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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The sting for whatever it’s symbolic worth is not the only ‘evidence’ of ABVP’s guilt & impunity. The State machinery, Institution’s administration, ABVP, RSS’ organisations all are being mobilised against the University. Not just in JNU, everywhere. #JNUTapes

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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"In 2015, The Gates Foundation provided seed money to a Yale School of Public Health project that would become known as Khushi Baby. Now a non-profit, Khushi Baby makes microchip-equipped necklaces for a child to wear at all times to track their vaccination status."

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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There is no denying the agricultural divide among big-medium farmers & the peasantry. To get a sense of why the big & medium farmers suspect a near-total private take-over which will hamper their social dominance, economic interest. Read:

Why Farmers Are Protesting Against Laws Which Will ‘Supposedly’ Help Them | Vivek Kaul

There are multiple sides to this story, which aren’t really being put forward in the general media.

vivekkaul.com

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Scenes from the Johannesburg Protests! @nehadixit123 @nakulssawhney @HistoryInPics @democracynow @thewire_in @scroll_in @telesurenglish @BBCWorld #AntiCAA #CAA_NRC_Protests

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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SKM statement on the repeal of three anti-farmer laws.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Bengaluru, India's tech hub, faces a dire water shortage, with a daily shortfall of 500 million litres. This raises concerns about its water-intensive data centres as their capacity is projected to quadruple by 2029.

Will Water Crisis Be a Hurdle in India’s Data Centre Dream?

Since India's data centre capacity is set to increase 4x to 2.01 thousand MW in 2024, water scarcity has raised concerns over its sustainability.

analyticsindiamag.com

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

3 years

There is a need to examine this paradigmatic shift in education towards an online mode of transmission, which also implies a shift towards greater privatisation and centralisation of the education system. #RejectNEP

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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If only the #Indian citizenry had stood up with its sentience on millions of #Adivasis due to be evicted after the apex court judgment. War has been waged on their bodies for millennia.

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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Fans of Diego Maradona gathered in central Buenos Aires to pay their last respects to their football hero. Boca Juniors switched off all the lights at their iconic La Bombonera stadium on Wednesday night, but left Diego Maradona's personal box lit up. #maradona10

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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In his 1931 essay “Left-Wing Melancholy,” Walter Benjamin said, when right wing peaks, “political meaning exhausts itself in the reversal of all revolutionary reflexes,” turning critical discussions into “objects of distraction, of amusement, made available for consumption.”

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Avantika Tewari

@Avantikatewari

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In prison, Jackson co-founded the Black Guerilla Family, a Marxist-Leninist organisation. He wrote, “I met Marx, Lenin, Trotsky, Engels, and Mao when I entered prison, and they redeemed me.” A hero we must all read.

Prisoner Prophet: Revisiting George Jackson's Analysis of Systemic Fascism — Hampton Institute

By Colin Jenkins The rise of Donald Trump has brought talk of fascism to the forefront. While comparing US Presidents to Hitler is certainly nothing new - both Obama and W. Bush were regularly...

www.hamptonthink.org

Jonathan Peter Jackson

@MudandMayo

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Happy Birthday to my uncle George Jackson. He would have been 83 today

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