Aakash Joshi @Joshi_Uncle Twitter profile

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Aakash Joshi

3 years

In #Gurugram fear and apathy over #Namaz -- and the rich, the investors and "job creators", most likely to move away eventually. Meanwhile, those with no choice stay and soldier on. Did some reporting after ages @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

4 years

. @sardesairajdeep 's show has those involved in #Covid_19 fight from every South Asian country, including Pakistan. Each of them is polite, glad to be invited. Two things emerge. We are too boastful, all our neighbours have low infection rates. And this is how tv must do news

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Aakash Joshi

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2 years

Sometimes, it feels like #Congress is still in power or that it's the only political party which is supposed to be ethical. #Liberals love to hate it because its the only party that might listen. My piece in @indianexpress @IEopinion

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Aakash Joshi

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7 months

A piece about #SanjeevSanyal 's 'let-them-eat-cake' moment of an elite economist. "Poverty of aspiration" is an easy out, displays a poverty of imagination.

Sanjeev Sanyal as WhatsApp uncle: Blaming Bengalis and UPSC aspirants

It is a bit rich that one of the principal economists in the government of India is literally victim-blaming the drivers of the much-touted demographic dividend

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

3 years

(1/2)Last week, after losing two friends in one night, the mother of a third who is in the US, was critical -- her Oxygen dipping fast. We searched -- and failed -- to find her a bed. After frantic messages and pleas, the first person to help, with alacrity, was @priyankagandhi

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Aakash Joshi

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3 years

As always, best

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3 years

Kangana Runout’s Message To Twitter

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Aakash Joshi

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5 years

For better or worse, the @IndianExpress editorial and Opinion desk remains as stolid as ever — no guerrilla postscripts. The postscript in Abhishek Lodha’s article was very much his own, heads on the team remain intact. For institutional wit, read our third edits.

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Post Script of Indian Express Opinion Piece. Of course heads will roll. Either its the persons last day at Job or has mad guts.

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Aakash Joshi

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8 years

. @RakeshSinha01 on RSS and the imminent expansion from politics to ideas in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 years

. @laluprasadrjd on #BabriMasjid destruction and how it threatened the idea of India in @IndianExpress #ExpressOpinion ?amp=1

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Aakash Joshi

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3 years

@priyankagandhi arranged for a oxygen cylinder and did so without fanfare. None of us knew her personally, she did not know us. She did what we hope people in public life will. Here, a pic of the cylinder being delivered to @sahirraza1986 . Thank you, for saving a life

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

It isn’t surprising that #VijayMallya met #ArunJaitley before he fled to London. What does it say about the fairness of democracy when plutocrats purchase legislative power?

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

3 years

This, my grandmother, a communist for much of her life. Certainly, lesser sons of great sires a couple of generations on.

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3 years

Kalpana Dutta. Member, Indian Republican Army, Chittagong Group. An 18 year old college student when she was arrested while on reconnaissance just a week before the attack on the European Club in 1931. She got bail, went underground & managed to evade the police till 1933.

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Aakash Joshi

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3 years

Aren't they in the Union cabinet?

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Google CEO is from IIT Kharagpur. IBM CEO is from IIT Kanpur. Twitter CEO is from IIT Bombay. Where are all the JNU passouts going?

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Aakash Joshi

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8 years

. @sufisal on the importance of #indiapakistan culture over #jingoism in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

9 years

Not a @ArvindKejriwal fan, but the #OddEvenPlan has a few lessons for all sarkari campaigns, including #SwachhBharat

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#Kejriwal 's #OddEven success and the art of running a campaign, by @Joshi_Uncle

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

. @tmkrishna subtly political and marvellously mesmerising. A performance that was meant to be, despite the best efforts of some. A great way to bring in #DelhiWinter

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Aakash Joshi

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11 months

Some thoughts on the immorality of a "new" idea of the nation, built on the edifice of #BabriMasjid destruction. In @ieopinion for @IndianExpress

On December 6, a question: How many election wins absolve the criminal destruction of Babri Masjid?

It is difficult to be a part of the celebration of 'New' India, as you remember the difference between right and wrong

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

What #NoidaWomen aggression, bigotry tell us about the core of our social heritage, society. But despondency aside, there is also hope in the dignity of working people in urban India. My piece in @ieopinion @IndianExpress

Exploiters like us: Noida video tells an uncomfortable truth

Aakash Joshi writes: What is apparent is the use of humiliation as a tool against people considered “lesser” and its seeming acceptability. But there may be a silver lining

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

A piece on #MamataBanerjee -- from #ParthaChatterjee crisis to Opposition chaos -- and what her party needs to do to have sustained national relevance. In @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Arrest of a minister, a lesson for Mamata Banerjee

Aakash Joshi writes: TMC chief does not hold all the cards in fight against BJP, needs to build bridges with the rest of the Opposition.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

A piece in @IndianExpress after reading and speaking with @TaylorCSherman on how the reality of Jawharlal Nehru is far more interesting -- and perhaps admirable -- than the myths that surround him.

Taylor C Sherman brings out democratic core that guided Nehru’s policymaking

In ‘demystifying’ the myths around Nehru, Sherman also throws light on the complexity of the time he governed in.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

“The pen is mightier than the sword... only if you have a very sharp pen and they have a very small sword.” — Terry Pratchett

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

First-person essay in @IndianExpress #SundayEyewith each I, I cringed a bit. But most fun to pour out the sadness of accumulated failure on to newsprint.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

The vicarious pleasure of watching #ChrisRockSelectiveOutrage and watching a man take a bully's violence and turning it into finely-honed art, and pummelling the assaulter with it. A quick piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Chris Rock’s ‘Selective Outrage’: Why neither a slap, nor ‘wokeness’ can stop the comedian

He shows that an artist at the top of his game can take being a victim of assault, and beat his perpetrator with the truth he wrings out of the experience.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

. @MohanCRaja on what India needs to do, how its external orientation must change for #PMModi promise of a developed country to materialise. @IndianExpress @ieopinion

C Raja Mohan writes: Diplomacy for Viksit Bharat

C. Raja Mohan writes: Our diplomatic discourse remains trapped in a framework that emerged when India was weak and vulnerable 75 years ago. The fears of a 'developing nation' can’t be the guiding...

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

1 year

A piece on why you can't build a resilient institution by throwing money at a building for @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Ashoka University and the hypocrisy of ‘liberal’ branding

Its mostly Caucasian philosophy department would raise no eyebrows if India's most elite private university actually stood up for the moral values it professes. Since it doesn't, better to stick to...

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

9 years

A great piece on the new and improved #RahulGandhi by the eloquent @ShashiTharoor in @TheQuint http://t.co/C1BbCtV6NZ

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 years

Political parties in Nepal will have to explaincorruption @YubarajGhimire3 in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

As ever, a beautiful piece by @tmkrishna on the genius and humility of a great artist in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

TM Krishna writes: TV Sankaranarayanan was my hero and my muse

I remember him as the artist who graciously invited all of us to participate in Karnatik music’s aural euphoria

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

Behind a veneer of patriotism, #Raazi hides a deep villian. My piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

Sharda University row: Is #Hindutva totalitarian, #Fascism ? @IGuruPrakash argues the comparison is insulting to civilisational Hinduism in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Hindutva and Fascism: Attempt to put them in the same bracket is intended to insult the civilisat...

The University Grants Commission has rightly initiated action against the setting of a question paper in a private university that targets the faith of the majority community.

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Aakash Joshi

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5 years

Outside @IndianExpress noida office -- Red Bull FTW. #LockdownDiaries #lockdownindia

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Aakash Joshi

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5 years

The upper classes have long walked themselves off out of fear, now the polarisation after #DelhiRiots2020 is making sure every solidarity is destroyed, every commmunity segregated

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5 years

Gates are cropping up in Hindu pockets of Brijpuri & Shiv Vihar. One resident said, "We have to put up gates between our areas & their 'Pakistan'." A metalworks shop owner in Gali No.1 of Brijpuri said he has orders for abt 10 gates. People are pooling in money to pay for them.

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Aakash Joshi

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8 years

. @SaniaFarooqui on #tripletalaq #ucc and rights vs laws in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

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2 years

Why #RahulGandhi , his poor manufactured image helps #BJP tactically, and why he still presents a challenge ideologically. @ieopinion @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

My attempt to talk about #PhilipRoth the man who could make the carnal cerebral in @IndianExpress books page

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Aakash Joshi

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2 years

A piece on #RohingyaRefugees being demonised by the AAP. To be a genuine alternative on the national stage, it needs something resembling a vision, ideology that separates it from the BJP. My piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

AAP’s opposition to Rohingya settlement shows a parochial party, unfit to be a national alternative

The demonisation of destitute and desperate refugees — all of them Muslim — is only the latest instance of the AAP trying to 'out-Hindutva' the BJP. It is tarnished by an outlook that looks at...

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Aakash Joshi

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4 years

Sholay, Deewar, Jaane Bhi Do Yaaro -- three films that would not pass the "hurt sentiments" politics and law of today. My piece in today's @IndianExpress @ieopinion #tandavwebseries

When gods could take a joke on screen

With every case of “hurt sentiments”, works of popular art that can resonate across decades become a little less likely to emerge.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 years

My piece on the moral black hole of #StephenHawking 's cosmology and the lights from his life in @IndianExpress @ieopinion #InGoodFaith

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

8 years

#TheVersusNation - @Shehla_Rashid on death of nuance and bigotry as debate in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

2 years

How easily we forget the casualties of muscular nationalism -- or the evils great and petty caused by it. A piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Iqra from Pakistan loves Mulayam from India. But a heartless state doesn’t care

By separating two people who did nothing but find each other, the law has shown that it is a product of our small-minded nationalism.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

It is rare to find something written with such skill, so well, that shapes and moves the mind. Alok Rai has written one of the finest pieces in any newspaper, anywhere in ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ ⁦ @ieopinion ⁩

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

The first thing to do is to bear witness to what's happening in the city, to the country. Then, perhaps, to find a way back to decency. #DelhiRiotTruth #IndiaAboveHate

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5 years

In Shiv Vihar, two schools stand adjacent to each other -- Rajdhani Public School and DRP School -- both having been ransacked and burnt. Deserted, they hardly look like schools anymore. • #delhiriots #delhi #delhigenocide #delhiriots2020 #northeastdelhi #delhipolice

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Aakash Joshi

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3 years

With every passing day, every incident like this, we lose a bit of our soul. And every election win seems like a horcrux, paved with misery, anger, malice and death.

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Zeeshan Khan, 32, suffering from 'bipolar disorder', was assaulted, forced to lick his own spit, and asked to chant ‘Jai Shri Ram’ at BJP protest site in Dhanbad, Jharkhand. Khan was told: "Thook Chaato, Uthak Baithak karo...Bolo Jai Shri Ram". Video

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5 years

A piece that doesnt do justice to my grandmothers, but wrote it all the same because they would have been against the I justice of New India, each in her own way. For @IndianExpres SundayeEye. #ShaheenBaghProtests

Why the Shaheen Bagh dadis remind me of my grandmothers

My grandmothers, Dida and Thakuma, were pushed to be great women, in different ways. Today, the women at Shaheen Bagh face, in some ways, as grim a political circumstance that Thakuma did. But they...

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

From the wisest feminist I know: I hope those complicit in enabling sexual offenders are also analysing their role in perpetuating patriarchy. Their actions legitimize and normalize such predatory behaviours. #MeToo #MeTooIndia #TimesUp #SexualHarassment

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Aakash Joshi

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7 years

Corruption in #Nepal causing public anger @YubarajGhimire3 in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

No medicine so bitter as the one you made yourself.

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Former Censor Board Chief Pahlaj Nihalani files a plea in Bombay High Court against Censor Board after it reportedly suggested around 20 cuts in his upcoming movie 'Rangeela Raja' (file pic)

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Aakash Joshi

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8 years

#Sufism in its corrupted form is no ideological cure to nihilist terror

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Aakash Joshi

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9 years

. @TheQuint team having our litthi breakfast on the road. #BiharPolls #BiharMobile2015 @gaurav2patna is here too. http://t.co/3Szxo7zBE0

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Aakash Joshi

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2 years

The late Inder Bhan Madan's cartoons, on display at FICA, Lado Sarai, are a fascinating view at Indian modernity. More importantly, he represents what it means to do art for its own sake in an age of self-promotion

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Aakash Joshi

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5 months

India's voters have shown that that they don't won't to be labharthis or beneficiaries or subjects -- just citizens

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Aakash Joshi

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1 year

Uttam Pradesh

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Aakash Joshi

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7 years

For journalists, and all the people who consume media -- how we are letting you down. A brilliant piece

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How the media has come to happily collaborate with the @narendramodi scheme. My piece in @ttindia today

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Aakash Joshi

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1 year

The violence in #IsraelPalestineWar is tragic. But as it is condemned, some perspective

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

4 months

What do the #Hindujas and the so-called "middle-class" Indians have in common? We are all Homo Hierarchicus -- a society and people with inequality at their heart. My piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Caste, inequality and domestic help: We are not so different from the Hindujas

We may point fingers at the billionaire NRIs who are accused of exploiting and trafficking domestic workers. But let’s not forget that our own privileged lives are protected and made glossy by...

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

This brilliant piece by Jeya Rani, translated by @kavithamurali points to something that we should all know — sections of the state now protect the worst forms of inequality, #casteist status quo. #HomoHierarchicusSarkar via @thewire_in

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Aakash Joshi

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9 years

A blog about eating #beef in #Patna while covering the #BiharPolls with @AviralVirk for @TheQuint #BiharMobile2015 .

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Aakash Joshi

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5 years

How a well-made film can be the most dangerous propaganda of all -- on #urithesurgicalstrike and #chalojeetehain winning the national award in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

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#ExpressOpinion | Films like ‘Uri: The Surgical Strike’ and ‘Chalo Jeete Hain’ give longer life to the jumla, @Joshi_Uncle writes. Read:

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9 years

A short piece on #SafdarHashmi and how he would almost certainly be #AntiNational for the ever growing Indian right

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Aakash Joshi

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6 years

My piece on #LokSabha debate and how the lack of a curated feed helped @RahulGandhi in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

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6 years

The diary of a long suffering machine as it expresses hurt over #evm_ को_बैन_करो rhetoric — ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ editorial

I, EVM

I am tired of the aspersions on my integrity. Blame the people if you don’t like the result

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7 years

The sheer lack of remorse on #lynching and minority baiting -- great piece by @harsh_mander in @IndianExpress

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5 years

The article that says everything that needed to be said, on the day. @pbmehta at his best, on among the worst days in @IndianExpress #Kashmir

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

8 years

There are rumours that @iamjohnoliver is doing a piece on #DeMonetisation for #LastWeekTonight this season. Will be fun to watch, if true

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We're back tonight at 11! Doesn't seem like there's anything we absolutely have to talk about, but I'm sure we'll come up with something.

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. @YubarajGhimire3 on why #NepalVotes2017 is not a celebration for electorate in @IndianExpress

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1 year

"As a wit once said about this Prime Minister, whenever there is an atrocity the only thing worse than the PM not speaking is him speaking." #ManipurVideo

Pratap Bhanu Mehta writes: After Manipur, our self-serving morality

The video of the assault on women shakes us to the core. But our reactions -- and the PM's -- do not address the atrocity

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 months

For those despondent by exit poll, remember it's just a trailer. Entertainment before the final, whatever the result -- picture abhi baaki hai. Excellent piece by @Poojaspillai in @IndianExpress

After election, post script on exit polls: A thriller scripted by the Indian voter

Turns out, the exit polls on June 1 were the trailer for a film that never released

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Aakash Joshi

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2 years

After the shock of #SalmanRushdieAttacked this piece by @kaushikdasgupta -- invoking Sahir Ludhianvi articulates brilliantly what so many of us feel. In @IndianExpress @ieopinion

After the attack on Salman Rushdie, remembering Sahir Ludhianvi

The poet wrote: “Tu badle hue waqt ki pehchan banega, Insaan ki aulad hai insaan banega”. As Salman Rushdie fights for his life, we are nowhere close

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5 months

A sore decade, a saffron decade -- now the sun rises.

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10 months

Imroz, Amrita and a love beyond love. A beautiful piece by @SuanshuKhurana In @IndianExpress @ieopinion

How Imroz’s love built Amrita Pritam, as a woman and a poet

His passing is not just the loss of a talented artist — it is akin to losing Amrita all over again

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7 years

The horrendous experience of watching #Padmaavat -- my piece in @IndianExpress

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. @joshi_uncle on watching #Padmaavat and how Sena, sarkar have taken Indian down a disturbing path in @IndianExpress #ExpressOpinion

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. @YubarajGhimire3 on #YogiAdityanath and his resonance in #nepal

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A fine, heartbreaking piece by my colleague @Poojaspillai -- we know about bigotry, normalised. Now, beginning in Gujarat, on the cusp of an Apartheid state. In @IndianExpress @ieopinion

I was lucky to escape bigotry growing up in Gujarat. Children today might not be

The story of the Vadodara woman whose right to live where she wants to is sought to be rescinded because of her faith and her faith alone feels like a fork in the road for Gujarat. State authorities...

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Aakash Joshi

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3 years

Why, as the last few weeks of chaos and tragedy have taught us, governments matter. But with elections becoming almost antithetical to democracy, we get gross negligence. My piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion #COVID19India #AssemblyElections2021

What does an electoral victory in India mean today?

Elections are increasingly seen as referendums on policies and ideologies. It is not as simple as that.

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2 months

Another example -- not that one was needed -- of #VineshPhogat 's grit and courage. She wrote for @IndianExpress @ieopinion as she took on the might of BJP's Brij Bhushan Singh.

Special to Express | ‘Today we can stand without fear, look Brij Bhushan in the eye, and tell him —...

“The framing of charges (sexual harassment and outraging modesty of women) against former WFI president and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh is a win for us but our battle will continue in court”

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2 years

The "lack of data" argument to delay Christian and Muslim #Dalits reservation is, perhaps, a way for sarkar to avoid its kartavya. The prevalence of discrimination is well established. A great argument. @IndianExpress @ieopinion

On reservations for Dalit Christians and Muslims, a question of government’s intent

Satish Deshpande writes: A fresh study on caste among Christians and Muslims is needed, but the existing evidence already shows that the Dalits among them suffer from the same kind of social discri...

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Aakash Joshi

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4 years

What's happening with all that #PMCaresFund money?

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1 year

A quick piece on the mob, pretending to be a majority, stifling the voices that should matter -- those whose right to live, love and marry as they choose, religion no bar. @IndianExpress @ieopinion

BJP leader calls off daughter’s wedding to Muslim man: Only the mob is free

What does the bride-that-was-to-be think? What does she think of her right to choose her own happiness or, for that matter make her own mistakes, being decimated by small-minded politics?

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Aakash Joshi

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3 months

Half way through the first chapter on G B Pant, and already worth much more than the cover price. Do read Shyamlal sir's @RTIExpress book on UP CM's if you get the chance.

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@RTIExpress

3 months

Glad to sign a copy of #AtTheHeartOfPower for Aakash Joshi ji ⁦ @Joshi_Uncle ⁩, our⁩ couleague ⁦ @IndianExpress ⁩ opinion. ⁦ @rudrawrites ⁩ ⁦ @Rupa_Books ⁩

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I know almost nothing about classical music, but this piece is one of the many reasons @tmkrishna is a public intellectual we must pay attention to. The public, the Commons, are becoming anything but. #ShaheenBagh

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 months

Apparently, 2002 se April Fool chal raha hai

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

4 years

The sheer absurdity of the #RoyalFamily as a concept, the vapid nonsense of celebrity rebellion -- the right tone for this ridiculous reality show. A brilliant piece by @PatrickFreyne1

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

#MeAt20 -- because it's the apocalypse so why the hell not

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

.⁦ @jaffrelotc ⁩ argues — convincingly — the huge foreign policy losses India suffers because of #US and ⁦ @realDonaldTrump ⁩

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

Prabhat Patnaik, brilliant as always, on the false binary at play in #RBIvsGovt narrative

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

1 year

A piece on why many of us have a moral responsibility to watch the #Muzaffarnagar video, and bear the burden to bear witness to and remember the many wounds, large and small that mark India's public life since 2014. In @IndianExpress @ieopinion

You need to look at children being turned into a mob in Uttar Pradesh

From Akhlaq to Junaid, Una to Muzzafarnagar – and from the highest pulpit in the capital to a village dealing with a civilisational system of hierarchy – there is a barrage of prejudice, of loud...

indianexpress.com

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 months

It's been fascinating to learn (as someone who didn't know anything) of the tensions and connections between orthodoxy, caste, and creativity in Carnatic music. And how T M Krishna has challenged and enriched the practice and art. Do read @SuanshuKhurana

The Sangita Kalanidhi and Carnatic music’s great divide

The Sangita Kalanidhi is not only well-deserved. It’s also a message to the divided world of Carnatic classical music to look within.

indianexpress.com

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

Just re-watched Vishal Bhardwaj’s Haider and re-read this 2014 piece by @SankarshanT on the darkness behind the veil, once upon a time in #Kashmir — who know what sordid mess will come now, after the Great Change.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

8 years

In Nepal, high handedness of India vs civility of China @YubarajGhimire3 in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

1 year

This too shall pass

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

Why #BillGates has nothing on #TerryPratchett — the prophet of our times, the hope for the not-rich, not-successful would be intellectual. A piece for @IndianExpress #SundayEye #GoodOmens @neilhimself

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 years

Why hinduisation of thanas by #YogiAdityanath is dangerous - my piece in @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

7 months

#KejriwalArrested ,Congress accounts frozen. With the targetting of the Opposition reveals how little the ruling regime thinks of the voter. Piece in @IndianExpress @ieopinion

Kejriwal in custody, Congress without money: BJP government’s attack on Opposition shows how little...

A powerful BJP, with a popular prime minister, need not fear electoral loss. So why is it arresting opposition leaders and freezing their accounts ahead of the elections? Only one explanation makes...

indianexpress.com

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

3 months

Post election, has anything changed in terms of the much lamented "chilling of free speech"? And where is civil society in this new reality? Ironically, Chomsky is the thinker who might give the best analyis

Vidheesha Kuntamalla

@Vidheesha7

3 months

BREAK : After all, university is the only space where a student is allowed to be wrong. But at SAU, this week we find out about how a PhD proposal citing Chomsky’s criticism of the PM led to the resignation of the supervisor. I report @IndianExpress

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

9 years

Near the saket malls the #OddEvenPlan day 1 is being followed. @TheQuint

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

6 years

Prabaht Patnaik, as brilliant and sound as always, on the structure and function of the assault on higher education by the present dospensation.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

3 years

Today's @IndianExpress #SundayEye -- brilliant stories on grief, loss, love, time and the emotional anaesthesia of prolonged sorrow from #COVID19India -- ideally to be read fully and properly in print/epaper

IE Lifestyle

@lifestyle_ie

3 years

#SundayEye | More than ever, we need stories of love now to help us grieve and heal collectively.

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

4 months

Had an insightful conversation with @_YogendraYadav on the crisis of pollster credibility, the meaning of the mandate for NDA and INDIA, and what to expect now for @IndianExpress

Yogendra Yadav Interview: How He Got The Lok Sabha Elections Predic...

Yogendra Yadav Interview: In an exclusive interview with The Indian Express, psephologist, Yogendra Yadav, the man who came closest to getting Verdict 2024 r...

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Aakash Joshi

@Joshi_Uncle

5 years

Why democratic victories are not the ultimate aim of #RSS and why #HinduRashtra is not here -- yet. My response to .VInay Sitapati in @indianexpress @ieopinion

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