Thursday, January 23, 2014

Tweets from Kavita Krishnan, Gautam Chikermane, and 6 others

     
samai,
Here's what's trending on Twitter this week.
 
     

Deepanjana Pal @dpanjana

That's from this excellent piece by artist Aastha Chauhan on the everyday racism in south Delhi: in.news.yahoo.com/somnath-bharti… (via @chasingiamb)

21 Jan

Somnath Bharti and the terrible, everyday racism of a south Delhi mohalla

Last week's savage attack on a group of Ugandan and Nigerian women living in Khirki Extension shocked the country. But what if you have been living in this neighbourhood and witnessing this xenophobia…

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Kavita Krishnan @kavita_krishnan

Letters minus full story: telegraphindia.com/1140121/jsp/fr… @ArvindKejriwal had no problem falsely claiming Ugandan Govt had thanked his Govt for raid!

21 Jan

Letters minus full story

New Delhi, Jan. 20: Letters flashed by Delhi chief minister Arvind Kejriwal today to justify his law minister Somnath Bharti's vigilantism against Ugandan nationals last week have boomeranged on the Aam Aadmi Party that…

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Prasanto K Roy @prasanto

@Vidyut But yes. The media may have failed her, as @rahulabhatia said so eloquently on @qz qz.com/168455/indian-… @MehrTarar

20 Jan

Indian media failed Sunanda Pushkar, and now she's dead

On 1/15, Sunanda Pushkar, the wife of Indian minister Shashi Tharoor, took to his Twitter account to post lovesick messages that she claimed were written to him by Mehr Tarar, a Pakistani journalist. On 1/16, the…

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Gautam Chikermane @gchikermane

There is on display a 'Federation of Anarchists' on the streets of Delhi says @arunjaitley: arunjaitley.com/en/my-opinion-…

21 Jan

STABILITY VS. ANARCHY

The past week has been a learning experience. I followed very closely the vision of India espoused by three different leaders. Rahul Gandhi's address to the AICC was intended to boost the morale of his party cadres…

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Kejriwal's Diary @fakeriwal

Morning! Slept fine last night by roadside. Slight panic at 2AM on rumor Salman Khan was driving thru. Else all ok. pic.twitter.com/ETBXVcchuu

21 Jan

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BJP @BJP4India

21 Jan

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Tinu Cherian Abraham @tinucherian

Some ppl are so excited in their new job that to attack AAP they counter their own previous statements @thekiranbedi pic.twitter.com/uCotauJ5QW

21 Jan

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José Covaco @HoeZaay

Misheard Lyrics. Bane in Tihar.
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21 Jan

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