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Arnab Ray

@greatbong

4 months

Read the book. As simple as that. And if you have, please rate and review.

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

Once upon a time, Kohli was competing with Babar and Williamson, now he is competing with Greta.

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4 years

Shame on Congress IT cell for not knowing the difference between Goswami and Ray.

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4 years

Shame on @greatbong for using such uncouth language at some one like Smt Sonia Gandhiji, who has sacrificed so much in her life for India. #ArnabVirus #ArnabGoswami_is_terrorist #ArnabGoswamiDalalHai

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4 years

Rajdeep doing an interview on nepotism and privilege with Javed, Zoya and Farhan Akthar. Now I have seen everything.

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2 years

Sidhu has done to Congress what he had done many times when he was a cricketer: run better batsmen out and then get out himself.

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2 years

Been in india for 3 weeks now and one amazing thing is the efficiency of delivery services. Those who stay in India have no idea how terrible delivery services are in major cities like LA. Some anecdotes…

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

So Babar Azam and Pakistani media person used an anti-Hindu slur on TV. And we have people defending it as an idiom. No, if your idiom is a slur, you can’t use it in this day and age, and people who are defending that as an idiom use this logic every other day.

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3 years

What I had said, 3 years ago.

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2 years

Lal Singh Chadda trailer just goes to show that commercial Bollywood still thinks that copying (even a licensed copy) a 90s English movie and then having an aged male actor putting on an “already hit” expression (from PK) is commercial gold.

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

My daughter made a password generator.

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2 years

It’s always fun when it happens to others. Not so much when it happens to me.

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

This is how normalcy returns, dear Marxists, through capitalism.

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4 years

First KFC is open in #Srinagar and people have gone bonkers. As my friend said “yai fried chicken ke dukaan hai, COVID ka vaccine nahee.” #COVID19 .

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Saurabh Netravalkar is the personification of the dreams of men like me growing up in India. -Computer Science in a top university in the US -Defeating Pakistan in a World Cup game -Playing an instrument and having a nice singing voice. Some people do roll six all their lives.

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Arnab Ray

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Nikhil Gupta is being extradited to America, Fine. But David Headley was not extradited to India for crimes of a different magnitude. How is that acceptable? How is this not caving in? If India is to be Viswaguru, then we need to decolonize our foreign policy.

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4 years

Gavaskar writing in the Sportstar. The reason Kohli is different from Natarajan is that the former has the power of advertisers, the freedom to set rules in the BCCI, a pliant BCCI admin, social media troll army, and media sucking up to him for access. The latter has a yorker.

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3 years

Never knew that Babur thought like this.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Simple harmonic motion.

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

Since Yogendra Yadav is on all channels, here is a profile on him I once wrote.

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

One take away from all this. Desist from posing with T-shirts that will come back to haunt you.

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2 years

And yes there was a time when the NRI uncle, on his visit to India, would say how great US was. Now NRI uncles like me visiting India say the exact opposite thing.

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

World Cup 2011 feel. Gill is Gambhir, Pant is Dhoni.

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Arnab Ray

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6 years

If you are not moved by this picture, I wish I had your heart.

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Arnab Ray

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5 years

Yogendra Yadav of cricket.

Michael Vaughan

@MichaelVaughan

5 years

Easy Win for Australia today ... 😉 #CWC19

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

Kohli being relieved of the captaincy is like Gandhi being ejected from the train, he can now move onto greater things: like reforming society and selling more products.

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Arnab Ray

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10 months

No racism here. A white country can bomb a brown country on accusations of having a WMD. No evidence needed. A white country can accuse a brown country for conducting assassinations on their soil. No evidence needed. A brown country can do nothing to a white country that lets

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Arnab Ray

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2 months

Say you are the daughter of Anil Kapoor without saying it…

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Arnab Ray

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7 months

As Vanga pointed out, it’s perfectly fine to have Hindu villains who are visibly Hindu but flip the script and it’s “Islamophobia”.

TheNewsMinute

@thenewsminute

7 months

Animal’s Islamophobia and its many parallels to the Hindutva project | Faseeh Ahmad EK writes #AnimalTheFilm #Bollywood

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

So “kagaz naheen dikhayenge” was basically a refusal to show source of income.

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Arnab Ray

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6 years

Many Bengali intellectuals are more concerned about democracy being murdered in Karnataka then in the panchayat elections in their own state. In their defense, many of them live in Karnataka rather than in their own state.

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Arnab Ray

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5 months

Note how Gemini has been trained, for American non-allies, American allies and Americans? Shame @Google .

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2 years

People like Yoya are saying that people died in the thousands in UP in absence of oxygen. AAP is claiming their win in Punjab is because of their excellent handling of health & education. No one challenges AAP. My aunt died in Delhi due to no oxygen, I begged & pleaded on twitter

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Arnab Ray

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9 months

Have been seeing some posts comparing Hamas with Indian freedom fighters. As a grandson of a Tamra Patra-felicitated freedom fighter who served his best days in Cellular Jail, Andaman for “violent activities against the Crown” let me tell you what he told me. My grandfather

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

Just heard that in Hyderabad PCR test results come back in 4 hours. Here in LA, my daughters test results came after 5 days from a private tester. Of course @NPR ’s India’s correspondent might have an interesting hot take on this.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Nitish Kumar is like Aishwarya Rai’s character in Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam, falls in love with A, gets married to B, pines for A, ditches B, comes back to A and then changes mind to go back to B.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Yes she has a political opinion. Just like you had when you were in UGC.

Yogendra Yadav

@_YogendraYadav

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Introducing the new VC of JNU -- clearly a role model of scholarship for its students and faculty.

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Arnab Ray

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5 years

One person BJP needs to thank in Bengal. Roopa Ganguly. She was on the front lines, getting beaten up, while other leaders sat in Delhi studios.

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

Mithunda and Arnab Goswami unleashed together on TMC's castle. The siege of Bengal begins.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Went to Art Institute of Chicago. Besides the rampant stealing (sorry gifting) of artifacts from Hindu temples, the word “Hindu” isn’t mentioned, though Buddhism is, as a major world religion. This is erasure. I would have said this is Hinduphobia but I am told it doesn’t exist

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Arnab Ray

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5 months

When @rameshsrivats said, "Why are people not countering Dhruv Rathee with facts," I thought I would write this post. Please share widely, and the post tells you why you should.

On Dhruv Rathee’s Video

Dhruv Rathee, India’s premier Youtube content creator, recently posted a video titled “Is India Becoming A Dictatorship?” (The answer he provides is “Yes”). That video…

greatbong.net

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

How’s the “kufr toot gya” today?

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

How terrible it must be for Lady Liberty standing with her arm raised with a torch, that too when Liberty Island is open to tourists in the day time when you don’t even need a torch.

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2 years

Bay Area flooded after a day of rain. Difference with India is that there aren’t the 300 dollar an article media mavens trying to cash in with a “this is the third world” stereotype-pandering article in a foreign newspaper.

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Arnab Ray

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5 months

Indian woke lesson number 105: it’s fine to make fun of a woman’s looks if we don’t agree with her. No patriarchy then.

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Imagine if four Americans were killed in India in two weeks. Also no statement on Hinduphobia from any government official in US.

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4 years

My thoughts on the Harvard professorship collected all together.

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2 months

Since Yogendra Yadav is back in the news again, a profile I wrote on him in 2020. —— Who is the Kim Kardashian of India? My answer will surprise you. It’s Yogendra Yadav. No one knows what he is famous for. He is supposed to be an expert in predicting elections but is

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The Kuku FM CEO, whose company sponsored the Dhruv Rathee video on how India is not a democracy but a dictatorship now accuses Google of something similar. Sir, Google is a private company which has no obligation to make you successful. You use its platforms and you have to obey

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Arnab Ray

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3 years

The absolute definition of cultural appropriation.

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1 month

This is how elections are won. “Didi gives me a thousand rupees and I don’t have to ask from my husband. I am so happy. “

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8 months

In today’s Times of India Suhana Khan, daughter of Shahrukh Khan, recently, at a public event, praised Alia Bhatt, daughter of Mahesh Bhatt, for being a role model for environmental sustainability by destigmatizing wearing the same ensemble multiple times through her repeating

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

As I had said in my podcast, Tulsi Gabbard has been rejected by the Democratic Party despite being a veteran, a woman of color and a progressive. One, not the only reason, is the identity she has chosen: political Hinduism.

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

On Dr Banerjee’s NDTV interview on the farmer’s bills.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Yes this is classic cultural appropriation.Removing the word “bhujangashan” so that the benefit may be enjoyed, minus acknowledging the heritage of the non-Western people who came up with it.

WebMD

@WebMD

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Cobra pose is great for stretching your stomach and back muscles -- here's how to do it correctly:

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Arnab Ray

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On NDTV, Bengali data scientist affiliated with BBC is saying right wing in India spreads more fake news than left. This is based on analyzing 3 countries and interviewing 80 people in these countries. Yes 80 people in 3 countries.

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Arnab Ray

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6 years

Your party ruled my state for 35 years, before asking Modi that question why don’t you answer mine? You didnt create jobs, you destroyed jobs, forced the middle class out of the state, destroyed the education system and whatever industry we had.

Sitaram Yechury

@SitaramYechury

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The point is, Modi promised 10 crore new jobs before 2014. All we have at the end of his term are job losses and the destruction of livelihoods. So such ploys are meaningless. Where are the Jobs? #Jumlas

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3 years

Oh my God. Hindu hotels being seen for the first time in Bengal! They even went back in time to 1940 to write this book titled “Adarsha Hindu Hotel”, to introduce this divisive concept to the Bengali mind.

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3 years

One thing about Sardesai: how easily he gives in when someone more powerful than him pushes back, be it Gavaskar or Ambani or Pranab Mukherjee. The bravado is only for those weaker than he is.

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3 years

My parents got their covid shots more efficiently in Calcutta than they would have in California. It is just so amusing to go over US media’s doomsdaying over India from an year ago.

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8 months

Remember this. This blatant display of double standards, driven by transparent bigotry, merely strengthens the bigots on the other side.

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4 years

For a party that is run on a last name and nothing else, I expected better.

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Arnab Ray

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2 years

Each of those bundle of notes from the house of confidantes of Partha Chatterjee being recovered has a story, procured by jobless desperate people through loans and exhausting their savings, and handed over in the hope of a job that was never going to be given.

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Arnab Ray

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5 years

Fringe media organization tries to dehumanize the murder of an individual by appending his ideology before they even get to his name.

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Fringe Hindu group leader Kamlesh Tiwari shot dead in Lucknow.

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3 years

Taliban supremo updates his LinkedIn.

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5 years

Genuine question: what has Pallava done for ISRO and Indian science? He reports on science, but other than what exactly are his contributions? I mean, Charu Sharma reports on cricket, but what is his contribution to the sport?

Prannoy Roy

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I agree. It’s absolutely sick. Yes, Pallava made a mistake, a terrible rude mistake and NDTV has said so. Pallava has apologised - sincerely. He has apologised to NDTV too. That’s it. Pallava has done more for ISRO & India’s science than all the ghastly trolls put together.

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It’s a sad day when Prakash Padukone has to be introduced as merely “Deepika Padukone’s father”.

Mufaddal Vohra

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8 months

Deepika Padukone and her father will be attending the World Cup Final.

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Bangladeshis celebrate India’s defeat (need to know Bengali to understand what they are saying) .

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Babur’s dad talks about the problem with the Congress party

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Growing up in the 90s, Agarkar was the guy I dreaded. In any 250 chase, if Srinath or Kumble had bowled us back into the game, along would come Ajit the loin in the 42nd over for his third spell, spraying it on both sides of the wicket. Cricinfo would just type FOUR one after

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2 years

How Bengalis become liberal.

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Karan Johar does a war movie.

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5 years

Can't find the clip but I think it is Kanhaiya Kumar saying that there is right to education guaranteed by law. As far as I know, Article 21A is for right of education from 6 to 14, I presume JNU students do not fall within that age bracket.

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We have a Bangladeshi actor campaigning in India for Indian elections. Think about that. Just take a moment.

As Ferdous Canvasses for Trinamool for Second Day, EC Official Says Need to Look at His Visa...

BJP leader Mukul Roy said this was a violation of the poll code and he would urge the EC to cancel the candidature of TMC's Kanaia Lal Agarwal for whom the Bangladeshi actor had campaigned.

www.news18.com

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Arnab Ray

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4 years

The reason the Atish Taseers and William Dalrymples exert such influence is not because they sell a lot of books so publishers are afraid of their clout, no it’s because they control Jaipur Lit Fests and the invitations to the big champagne table.

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3 years

Those “liberals” who are supporting what happened at Red Fort by saying “it’s not a Khalistani flag, but a religious flag”, realize that you have just provided the justification for the unfurling of Bhagwa flags on national monuments. Somehow I feel you will react different then.

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5 months

When you don’t understand the difference between someone spending their own money and the government spending your money.

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4 months

It’s autocratic to arrest an opposition leader before elections unless it’s Trump in US, which then becomes democratic

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3 years

When you don’t look at your own backyard because you are too busy running down the other guy.

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6 years

Meme of the year.

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3 years

The fake news of the Netaji picture being that of Prasenjit was a carefully constructed misinformation campaign against the office of the President and through it BJP. Check out coordinated tweeting by media figures, influencers etc.

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4 years

I hope the actions of Bloomsbury has shown convincingly to all those who used to say "the counter to a book is not banning it but another book" that their privilege is that they don't need to ban a book to make sure it does not see the light of day.

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The mood at the Wire and Scroll right now is like mine was when Travis Head was hitting sixes in the final.

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India is the only fascist regime where the election process goes exactly opposite to what the dictator said it would.

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3 years

“Non native”. Just when you think you have seen everything from NDTV, it still has the power to surprise.

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If this was India, this would be end of democracy. The principal opposition leader being convicted of corruption.

MSNBC

@MSNBC

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BREAKING: Donald Trump found guilty on all 34 counts of falsifying business documents in New York

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4 years

Aah the same country who said India had “invaded and occupied” Jammu & Kashmir.

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Ashwin’s interview should be seen as a very senior cricketer lashing out at a toxic environment created by Kohli and his understudy Shastri. That he contemplated retirement just goes to show how bad it was.

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The joy in Indians of seeing an Indian origin man lose an election and an Indian origin social media company meet its demise.

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4 years

The “he-must-be-a-fascist-Sanghi” at DC yesterday who turned out to be a Congress supporter shows how juvenile the equating of conservative in US with conservative in India is. As I have been saying in my podcast.

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2 years

Mainstream Hinduphobia in a chain T-shirt store, showing Yoga as devil worshipping.

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Arnab Ray

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6 years

Shocking ! So that means Modi was not in the national registry of railway platform tea-sellers that we have been maintaining for the past fifty years or so.

Rohan Gupta

@rohanrgupta

6 years

There is no record available that shows Prime Minister Narendra Modi was a tea-seller on railway platforms or trains during his childhood, an RTI query has revealed.

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All the divisive posturing in our national life can go away if you just pay each side enough.

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The irony. @iamjohnoliver relishing the prosecution of one democratic opponent before elections while calling Modi a dictator for exactly same thing in India.

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Who in the world, asks Biden, declares independence of areas that fall within the jurisdiction of other countries? And then he imposes sanctions. I don’t know sir, but your ally Pakistan has for decades declared Kashmir in India to be independent & under occupation. No sanctions?

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26/11 changed India. The immediate impact was ejection of Pakistani contestants from reality shows and no franchise bidding for Pakistani players in the next IPL. It isolated the Aman ki Asha gang from the mainstream, it laid to rest the “Main Hoon Na” narrative that both

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The difference between when disaster hits the US and the India is that the former does not have a cabal of journalists desperate for international validation & who will write exactly what their sponsors want to hear in return for 500 dollars.

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We had a pastor speaking at the Presidential inauguration, no Indian style secularism here.

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Do check out where Iranian and South Korean cinema is. They do not do derivative work, you may not like everything they do, but at least they are original.

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The irreparable harm that Congress loyalists under Rahul Gandhi are doing to their own party. When you cheer against your own country’s interest because you are not going to rule it, you will never rule it.

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This is Pol Pot level of Communism.

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4 years

Indian Americans: Kamala is one of us. Kamala: if you really think so, can you please not say that again and again?

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The story about the elephant killed in Kerala by giving him a firecracker and the elephant’s reaction through it all affirms my belief that the last place you should look for humanity is in humans.

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