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  1. Pinned Tweet
    10 Aug 2019

    Almost all of my work as a journalist at has been about highlighting atrocities on dalits, social and state injustice to dalit victims, and plight of poor farmers What 'wing' does that make me?

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  2. 5 hours ago

    We need a statement on this by

    दिल्ली पुलिस ने अपनी चार्ज शीट में ताहिर हुसैन को दिल्ली दंगों का मास्टर माइंड बनाया है, जबकि पूरा देश जनता हैं कि दंगे किसने कराये असल दंगाइयों से अभी तक पुलिस ने पूछ ताछ तक नही की, मुझे लगता है कि ताहिर हुसैन को सिर्फ मुसलमान होने की सज़ा मिली है।
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  3. 8 hours ago

    Did a quick research on people refusing dalit-cooked food during quarantine. Very few cases, really. We come up with alarming headlines over a few cases, but don't talk about many inter-caste dining initiatives in villages. Bringing you one such case study from Bihar soon

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  4. 10 hours ago

    So many mothers lost their sons. So many wives lost their husbands. Shops burnt, houses looted. Children attacked with acid. Livelihoods lost. Delhi riots happened just three months ago. Yet, they continue to call for more street action, more violence. Tragic.

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  5. 13 hours ago

    Anybody has a personal experience with them? How they operate? What they do?

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  6. 13 hours ago

    I don’t think media, particularly national media, has covered this dark industry ever.

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  7. 13 hours ago

    This shady “vashikaran” business is rampant in west UP. Everybody knows it’s fraud and a crime racquet, yet no crackdown. Don’t we repeatedly hear of such tabeez-giving ‘tantriks’ and ‘Bengali babas’ killing ppl and raping women? And they are overwhelmingly from one community.

    My report on the absolutely shocking murder case of a 19-year-old girl by her boyfriend, also a ”vashikaran” practitioner, in as much detail as I could manage. The story of how a college girl from Ludhiana got trapped in love and chopped to pieces
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  8. 13 hours ago

    We perhaps don’t appreciate the police for the good things they do. In this case, the had very weak clues to begin with. A dismembered body of a girl who had little link left with her own family. Kudos to the team that pursued it for a year

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  9. Retweeted
    14 hours ago
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    Thanks for bringing this up, ! We need to end this culture of self-Orientalism and colonisation of minds. I've been writing on these lines for a while now, and just started a new series called "Reversing the Gaze", to lead the way on this.

    What would it look like, if the rest of the world reported on the U.S. in the same exoticised, patronising, subversive tone as the Washington Post or NYT use for China, India, Iran, and Russia? Find out, with my Reversing the Gaze series in .
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  10. 14 hours ago

    It happens often that you get to know of a family facing real bad crisis and stress and when you ask, you realise that a few thousands is all it takes to take them out of it. Glad to be of help.

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    Prashant and Deepak are brothers who were stuck in Delhi during lockdown while their aged parents were in Bihar. No income, no way to return, pressure of rent. He thanks for our timely monetary support that has helped the family brave the crisis. We wish them the best
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    14 hours ago

    तव मम किं संबन्धं किं कार्यम् ? जयतु धर्मं, कृण्वन्तो विश्वं आर्यम् . What is our relation, what is our job? Jai of Dharma, make world Arya. - संजीव नेवर

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  12. 16 hours ago

    Have seen many interfaith 'love' stories ending up like this - the girl chopped to pieces. Have talked to various experts and got some insights. There is indeed a pattern.

    My report on the absolutely shocking murder case of a 19-year-old girl by her boyfriend, also a ”vashikaran” practitioner, in as much detail as I could manage. The story of how a college girl from Ludhiana got trapped in love and chopped to pieces
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    Jun 2

    This is the best thing I’ve seen on Twitter. Lol. Dumbasses.

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  14. Jun 3

    Who butchers cows daily? Not the ones who revere them. Who eats their meat? Not the ones who revere them. Doesn't matter what surname they have.

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  15. Jun 3

    Those who truly revere Ganesha, Hanuman and the female form, don't kill them. Why is that difficult to understand.

    We worship Lord Ganesha and kill and abuse elephants. We worship Lord Hanuman & get pleasure out of watching monkeys being chained & performing degrading tricks. We worship and revere female goddesses and resent strength in women,abuse,maim them & practise female infanticide. 🙏
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  16. Jun 3

    Okay, are there contradictory reports on the cracker-laced food theory? Pls share.

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  17. Jun 3

    Like pregnant jumbo, another young elephant is suspected to have died in April due to cracker-laced food. This is is so so heartbreaking

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  18. Jun 3

    This is a report by Hindi daily Patrika from June 14, 2019, when the girl’s body was discovered from a pit by a villager. It has left the villagers shocked and the police worried as vital clues had been destroyed

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  19. Jun 3

    You know, the girl’s mother slapped one of the accused women during Meerut police’s press conference two days ago. The woman was narrating how she removed the girl’s clothes before Saqib strangled her. ‘How could you do it as a woman,’ the mother asked

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  20. Jun 3

    I suggest you read the girl’s story as narrated by her uncle, who lives in a small town in Himachal. In the end, I also asked him if he thinks it could have been prevented in any way. Have written what he said. Read also how solved the case with very weak clues

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  21. Jun 3

    When I hear such cases, I don’t fall for easy explanations like ‘Saqib posed as Aman and when she found out, he killed her’. This is NOT how things happen What I repeatedly find is girls’ lack of trust and bonding with their own families and foolish blind trust in strangers.

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