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barathi

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1 month

Where were you when this was happening to our olympians?

ANI

@ANI

2 months

#WATCH | #ParisOlympics2024 : During the India House launch in Paris, International Olympic Committee (IOC) member Nita Ambani says, "The day is not far when India will host the Olympic Games. May this be our collective resolve at the opening of the India House" She says "Today,

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The day a Brahmin gets into a sewer and cleans the city's filth because he has no other means of livelihood is the day any of them have the right to open their mouth and say the letter R in Reservations.

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Rural India giving it back is in an indication that the agrarian crisis and the huge damage to employment avenues hasn't gone unnoticed by the "masses". Real issues matter. Rozgaar roti over rabble rouser punchlines.

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genz is quite alright

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Well, Pallavs, the Modi govt didn't let India breathe quite literally.

pallavi ghosh

@_pallavighosh

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The india bloc won’t let the government breathe easy -

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People have no idea how much money billionaires have. If they did maybe they'd not rush to defend them so much.

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@bhav_paaji

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Mukesh Ambani after 54th pre-wedding function of Anant and Radhika

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India's heatwave stories are sending shivers down my spine. Climate change has been on the streets for a while, but this is a sinister reality check. And predictably, it's the country's most vulnerable paying the cost for the rich's sins.

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My life's biggest disappointment is realising that so called progressive (leftist) peers also value the same things in people: elite institutional brand, network value, and if you are a woman - how conventionally attractive you are.

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An insta page called "India is not for beginners" and it's basically just poor people trying to get through life.

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Poverty and unemployment at record high and Indian journalists worried about inheritance tax alienating the uber rich. Have some shame.

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3 months

This is our Kissinger moment.

Dr. Goutam Guha

@goutamguha10

3 months

Lal Krishna Advani veteran BJP leader and former Deputy Prime Minister of India admitted to AIIMS in Delhi, now in stable. Praying to Prabhu Shri Ram for his speedy recovery 🙏🏻 Source: @IndianExpress

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revolution is inevitable, but i wish it was immediate (like tomorrow)

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Logic aside. How this reads is that capitalists will have a large supply of workers they can pay in exposure instead of appropriate salaries.

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@ndtv

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#BudgetWithNDTV #Budget2024 #BudgetSession

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Sorry if discourse is spoiling your moodTM madam. If 'non-residents' are such a nuisance then clean your houses, make repairs, college garbage, and chop your vegetables on your own, stop hiring people to work for less than minimum wage. 👍

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uapa must go. the opposition cannot dance around it. unchecked and arbitrary arrests cannot be the norm.

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Barkha on odd day: women are strong and don't need period leave. We must prove to capitalists that we are okay with being exploited. Even day: why she box?

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Kind of poetic that some of the constitution copies still have their plastic cover 😭

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@arvindgunasekar

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Members of United Opposition, INDIA start 18th Lok Sabha with a resolution to uphold ‘Constitution of India’. Members enter the Parliament with a copy of the Constitution.

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It feels like some of you have never seen a woman in real life

Mahdi Baladi 🇲🇦

@MahdiBaladi1

1 month

Does a female have hair on her fingers?! هل يكون للانثى في أصابع يديها شعر ؟! #OlympicGames #ImaneKhelif #ParisOlympics2024 #Paris2024Olympic

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can't stop laughing sorry

Gaurav Sabnis

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2 months

This is a historic moment for not just the United States but the planet. Can you imagine the maturity and patriotism it takes to be the most powerful person in the world and walk away from it voluntarily? Regardless of your politics, you gotta salute Biden for this.

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1 year

what kind of depraved mind thinks of a gross human rights violation as a Linkedin moment of this is why my job is important

Abhinandan Sekhri

@AbhinandanSekhr

1 year

1 arrest (not sure if its a culprit yet). PM Modi breaks his silence after shameless muteness for months... THIS is the power of visuals. THIS is the power of news and THIS is the power most of legacy media has surrendered to power politics and sarkari ads. Remember that.

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if you want food in 10 minutes cook it in your kitchen

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3 months

Ok do something then

Mahua Moitra

@MahuaMoitra

3 months

If by prosecuting Arundhati Roy under UAPA BJP trying to prove they’re back, well they’re not. And they’ll never be back the same way they were. This kind of fascism is exactly what Indians have voted against.

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It's funny how the urban middle class thinks that just because they don't personally "hire" domestic workers, they are not living on the blood and sweat of the working class. The city you frequently romanticize was built by the working class.

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Life update: Just started an Mphil at the Centre for Socio-Legal Studies at @UniofOxford / My research will focus on the marginalization of workers in the waste sector. Excited and super nervous!

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every day I get closer to thinking history is the most powerful social science discipline, perhaps why it's under such a violent attack

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6 months

Quick summary of TL discourse today: Brahmins are the least casteist. BPJ is the cleanest party. India is the most democracy.

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Upper caste scholars use Ambedkar as a proxy for clear conscience. Scholarship that genuinely cares about the margins should acknowledge his mistakes which were obv a product of his time. He accepted a shift in beliefs in his later life; law has little space for emotions.

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1 year

This is what happens when you privatise health care and publicise mediocre stand up

Amit Thadhani

@amitsurg

1 year

What is Right to Health act that doctors are opposing? A simple explainer. It’s happening to us today. You the regular business owner will be next.

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getting the rapist capital punishment isn't going to make workspaces safe for women - how many more rounds of this useless journey must we take?

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I will be in the job market soon. I'm looking for teaching/ research jobs in India. Since 2019, I've worked on various aspects about waste in Indian cities through a people's perspective, my current work examines waste in colonial Madras. Please RT for good vibes. 😭 🙏🏼

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Indian cities are built by the working class many of whom are migrants. The construction of classic infrastructure such as drainage pipes, bridges, roads depend on various kinds of "outsider" bodies. These sectors will not survive without the large and cheap supply of labour.

Sharath Sharma Kalagaru

@sharathmsharma

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Kannadigas built this city and migrants are just here to earn their livelihood. Bengaluru is thriving for decades, soon after independence. Its not because of the migrant workforce, it’s because of the people of Karnataka, Kannada culture, environment, climate and warmth we offer

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every once in a while I am struck by how stupid Brahm1ns were (are)

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New entry ❤️

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Plenty of bad news, but 2024 has had some gems. them losing a y o d h y a and Bengali man stealing hasina's fish are my highlights.

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The kind of courage "western democracy" will never know.

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@QudsNen

11 months

#BREAKING | A massive protest in #Nablus in the #WestBank #now .

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Hey @PrashantKishor

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I for one cannot wait to read op-eds about the global swing to the left, like we saw for the right in 2016-17.

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Kamala can hire the unemployed Smriti Irani as her VP and both of them can be brown girls for genocide.

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4 months

An India free from hate in our lifetimes inshallah.

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1 year

Not sure if it's still cool to do a book thread, but in 2023: I've read some super books For eg, this gritty, funny, and ceaselessly life-affirming lesbian memoir rooted in the very material realities of being queer in India. It made me weep, but mostly it surprised me. I didn't

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The government cannot announce tests and cancel them on a whim. People depend on them to set their lives. Students deserve a responsible education system not a potpourri of bureaucratic negligence.

SFI

@SFI_CEC

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SFI vehemently condemns the atmost irresponsibility of NTA And Ministry of education in conducting national examinations. They've being doing a mockery of the entire education system since the inception of NTA.

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City streets in Lala Deen Dayal's photographs (1844-1905)

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Why is there so much funding and energy going into enforcing digiyatra, when something as basic as the roof wasn't maintained?

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8 months

My master's thesis (responsible for my career & MPhil) wouldnt exist without Indian Kanoon. Apart from its practical use what is often unsaid is that it's also an archive— potent as a research subject by itself—; and frequently under a threat of vanishing. May they persist.

Indian Kanoon

@indiankanoon

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Today is our 16th anniversary! 🎂🎂🎂🎂 We are thankful to all our users for loads of love for last 16 years and a constant reminder that we need to keep improving!

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Imagine saying the very workwrs you hire to do your work being a nuisance to you....no words.. abolish gated societies 👍

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Plenty of bad news, but 2024 has had some gems. them losing a y o d h y a and Bengali man stealing hasina's fish are my highlights.

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80% of academia is convincing yourself you are important enough. 19% is knowing how to read and write paragraphs. 1% is aesthetics.

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as more time passes, the power of the Shaheen Bagh protests— the kind of hope it conjured— becomes clearer.

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Will miss @CPR_India 's budget briefs :(

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JK Rowling in hinthi dubbing.

barkha dutt

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This is appalling. And will be the end of Women’s Sport as we know it- and for which generations of women have fought so hard .

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ah genoc1de the best cure for gender inequality 👍

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5 months

Says more about your social circle than it does about Indian students.

Gaurav Sabnis

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One thing I've noticed in my almost 2 decades in this country is how many young Americans are idealistic, into activism, marching, protesting, speaking truth to power without any agenda. Just to stand for what is right. The youth in my birth country are very pliant by default.

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Signing off Michaelmas with @m_bhimraj 🥶✌️ - how lovely to discuss our shared interests in caste, waste, and law @UniofOxford

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Not one brain cell was involved in the publication of this article.

Shekhar Gupta

@ShekharGupta

10 months

'Queer for Palestine helps neither queer nor Palestine. It’s just a cry for attention' @NikhilRampal1 writes in ThePrint #PoV

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It's tragic how OTT sites have coralled all major sporting events like Olympics into their private enclaves. It used to be so much easier to watch something without jumping the subscription hula hoops.

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good to know that apart from exploiting workers tomato also offers refrigeration of the caste system 👍🏼

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Our dedicated Pure Veg Fleet will only serve orders from these pure veg restaurants. This means that a non-veg meal, or even a veg meal served by a non-veg restaurant will never go inside the green delivery box meant for our Pure Veg Fleet.

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The Israeli army itself has come out and said it doesn't have confirmation about the beheading of babies but Indian journalist with zero shame and journalist ethics has gone ahead and twiddled her thumbs to come up with this morally reprehensible statement.

barkha dutt

@BDUTT

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Babies have been killed in their bedrooms say latest reports from Israel, some beheaded . If you’re still doing an “on the other hand” on #Hamas , its just morally reprehensible. Yes, raise your voice for innocent civilians everywhere , but without intellectualising barbarism.

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Ambedkar Jayanti friends, and a special one to my sister and newly minted brother in law. Jai Bhim to them and their love. Please send them all your good vibes and wishes. 💙❤️✊🏼 சாதியை ஒழிக்க!

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I also experienced hunger for 120 hours while going from Bombay to Rajasthan 20 years ago because I refused to succumb to the family tiffin (puliogare)

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@timesofindia

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#Infosys founder #NarayanaMurthy recently revealed that he 'experienced hunger' for a straight 120 hours when he was hitchhiking in Europe 50 years ago. Read more at:

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my room from the street - am I doing academia solely for the stationery?

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the "billionaire writer" to "known transphobe" headline description pipeline

One Take 🎬

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Known transphobe J.K Rowling has been named in a cyberbullying lawsuit filed by Olympic gold medallist Imane Khelif. (via )

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sanitation workers must clean your toilets but they aren't clean enough to use them

Mudit Gupta

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Please read the poster carefully and ponder, is this the kind of India you had/have imagined? Utter shame.

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I can say some, but really there have probably only been like a couple of exceptions in my life so far.

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The fact that Butler has to clarify that it's the system not bodies that is the problem should tell us how much transphobia has regressed the feminist movement.

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@WomenAreReals

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“If gender is to liberate us, why can't I, as a lesbian, have a dick-free space? A space that is for women only, without penises?” @AmandaKovattana asks Judith Butler. “I think you can do that in your home.” Yes, Butler literally told lesbians to stay home & the audience cheered

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yes, this is what my daily schedule looks like

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@squarehaunting Wake up, blame the rich, look cool, sleep.

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sunday sandwiched between two mid beverages and grand overthinking

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reached that moment in my research where I've "stumbled" upon a twenty-year old conference proceeding that says and does the exact same thing as I hoped to do 🥲 🥹🌚🕳️

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Bye. See you never 👍🏼

Smriti Z Irani

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Such is life... A decade of my life going from one village to another, building lives, nurturing hope & aspirations, working on infrastructure ― roads, naali, khadanja, bypass, medical college and more. To those who stood by me through loss and victory, I am forever grateful. To

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Celebrate your victories. Vanity can be helpful. Humility when caressed by under-confidence can be narcissistic and self-destructive. To be meaningfully political don't be shy to speak about your privilege and disadvantages - you'll make mistakes, but the only way is through.

Sneha Annavarapu

@SnehaAnnavarapu

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Don’t care for resolutions for the next year but would love to know your reflections over the past year. What’s the one life lesson 2023 has taught you?

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‘They don’t know if they’ll survive’: The Indian garbage pickers working through extreme heat

A look inside the punishing world of India’s garbage pickers

For millions of Indians, the extreme heat of the summer makes their daily lives even harder.

www.euronews.com

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"According to World Bank estimates, nearly 75 per cent of India’s workforce, or 380 million people, depend on heat-exposed labour." - @shagun__k

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It's good to keep aiming higher, that's how one grows, but always, remind yourself where you were, and how far you've come. To others, who may not know your journey, it won't mean much, but to you— it should be the highest reward. You're doing great.

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Dalit and Bahujan scholars owe it to him, to hold his legacy with strength and pride not nervousness of being cancelled.

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Thinking of this one time a slam poet said "I am intersectional" and I burst out laughing in a quiet crowd.

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Get students to not ever use the word ‘intersectional’ in their essays challenge.

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@TheBanat Idhu oru joke-a, sir?

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Just an emotional outburst after reading the most callous article quoting Ambedkar in the most right wing context.

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Erstwhile apolitical people reacting to things is a good thing. What are you angry about? That you saw injustice before it was a thing. People can evolve - it's how radicalisation works.

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Sex workers are not your shields against rapists. The same argument is also applied, even more frequently, to the porn industry and it's such a horrifying way to look at such a precarious occupation.

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I respect prostitution because yall have no idea how this profession has saved us from getting sexually assaulted.

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please see attached new_same_innovation_final_version23.doc to exploit workers

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Much awaited life update 📢 After months of building in Stealth, Excited to announce that we are building Swish: 10-min food delivery app ( @justswishin ) Many of you might be asking how did a bunch of crypto enthusiasts end up launching a food delivery app? thread 🧵

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Embarassing af. No amount of cash or life threats can explain this level of tweet.

Shehla Rashid

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Honoured to be invited to witness history being made today as Hon’ble PM @narendramodi ji takes oath to serve the nation for the third time. It’s a once-in-a-lifetime event when the leader of such a large democracy gets the mandate to serve for the third time. The number ‘3’ is

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My fav @SaraNAhmed quoting a famous Indian scholar. (Jokes apart - so grateful to be attending this. I cannot in words describe what it's doing for my fragile and crumbling mind ❤️)

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This is worse than Shilpa Shetty saying Animal Farm can teach children to love and care for animals.

Sooz Kempner is going on tour! L I N K I N B I O

@SoozUK

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JK Rowling doesn't understand Lolita. It is not a great and tragic love story, it is terrifying book written from the POV of a peadophile, a very obviously unreliable narrator, and at no point are you meant to say "this is so romantic". She's 12, Joanne. What the FUCK, Joanne.

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Good morning. No, it wasn't a dream.

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Lol.

barkha dutt

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2 months

Congratulations, many to #AnantAmbani and #RadhikaMerchant and their families for what must have been an exhausting but utterly special week. Some images from a wedding that has literally and metaphorically been the centre of the universe this week #AmbaniWedding

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There can be genuine grief for RG Kar and valid hurt disappointment from DBA and trans people who point out "certain" victims are neglected. Public sympathy is classed and casteist. However, no need to be hopeless about change or dismiss genuine criticism. Two things can be true

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one thing about academia is you cannot stay away from br*hmin bullshit no matter what asocial gymnastics you do

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3 months

Forget the cynics and Godi media, hope is a good thing guys. Let's hold on to it.

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1 year

😂 who gave wokeness points to BYJUS?

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7 months

Good luck living in a world made of dust, evil, and collapse then. Long live workers' solidarity. ✊🏾

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all of these people should be fired and any law preventing that repealed

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I understand the need for pre-written obituaries, but the concept is chilling.

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@mycrotchetyluv Crazy to me that dad being right was the takeaway from Taare Zameen Par a movie literally about how kids need attention to their particularities. Indian men...

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@squarehaunting

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Waiting for a delayed flight and looking back at some of the things I managed to write through a chaotic year: 1/n Two pieces on caste discrimination in higher-ed:

How caste discrimination permeates the language of meritocracy on campus according to Dr. Lakshma...

Several authors have written about the diverse manifestations of caste discrimination through the lens of reservation in universities, taunts and beyond; they have also suggested solutions.

www.thehindu.com

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