The majority of Indians eat meat and eggs. But the government promotes vegetarianism as intrinsic to Hindu practice. Now many Indian states won’t include eggs in free school lunches despite their nutritional benefits, reports.
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Journo/reporter and law grad. Wrote a bunch of stuff here & there.
Mostly on this site nowadays for pop-culture awareness and the navel-gazing.
Tired.
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Can someone book an appointment with this sleazy "doctor" (if ayurveda now makes people trained medical professionals) -- and then ask him why he thinks it's ok to post photos of minor girls without their consent?
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Just a curiosity…Please don’t mind.
What is the point of wearing such short dresses in school?
Do girls become more intelligent by wearing short dresses?
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After over two years in Taloja jail. Scholar and anti caste activist, Dr Anand Teltumbde walks out of prison:
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Banaskantha: Inside Asia's largest Dairy Hub.
This report highlights how the rising fodder prices is milking small farmers DRY compelling them to do multiple jobs. Not just this, but 'Casteism' an invisble factor in the industry.
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Oh yes, because everyone once jailed in UAPA matters and who made bail thereafter clearly ended up "spreading misinformation" and causing unrest via social media after their release.
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Opposing Umar Khalid's application for interim bail, Delhi Police has told a court that "he is very likely to spread misinformation by use of social media during his interim bail period which cannot be prevented and is likely to cause unrest in the society".
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Is the Home Minister suggesting that the State was involved in the Gujarat 2002 violence? Startling statement.
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Union Home Minister Amit Shah says anti-social elements earlier indulged in violence in Gujarat as Congress supported them, but after perpetrators were "taught a lesson" in 2002, they stopped such activities and BJP established "permanent peace" in state
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#BREAKING Supreme Court dismisses NIA's petition challenging Bombay High Court's order granting bail to Anand Teltumbde in the Bhima Koregaon case.
A bench led by CJI DY Chandrachud refuses to interfere with the HC order and dismisses NIA's SLP.
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If sycophancy was a class taught at university, I’d be using every tweet of hers as a live demonstration.
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when congress attacks Akshay kumar they support Richa chadha’s comments ? #justasking …
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Reports suggest that foreign students could be barred from the UK unless they secure a place at an “elite university”.
Sounds like the already insufferable OxBridge sorts may just be among the only ones allowed to study in the UK.
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If you are in the media business, you learn fast. Back in the day, Vineet Jain posted some mild criticism of Amit Shah, on the eve of a Times Summit. On the morning of the summit, the group got word that both headliners, Modi and Shah, were "unable to attend". +
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As the #TimesNowSummit2022 kicked off in Delhi, Times Group vice chairman Samir Jain presented a flattering account of union home minister Amit Shah, who was seated on stage next to Vineet Jain, the group’s MD and the former’s brother.
#MediaShot
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What a petulant man. Riding so high on the wave of scary jingoism. Willing to throw his own industry’s peers under the bus for a political pat on the back. Terribly sorry for Richa, she is clearly being targeted here.
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Hurts to see this. Nothing ever should make us ungrateful towards our armed forces. Woh hain toh aaj hum hain. 
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It’s over for everyone the day I manage to be on this level of code-switching
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If you made it till here, I recommend reading the whole report, put together by me, @arpanc & .
We interviewed more than a dozen protesters & port supporters, police officials, and reviewed hundreds of pages of legal documents.
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Timely, great reporting.
Read on:
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This month, I visited the southern tip of India, where the construction of a $900 million mega port by world's third richest person, Adani, is hanging in the balance.
What's happening on ground is a story for history books.
A thread on the @Reuters report we published today
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USCIRF today released a new report which provides an overview of religious freedom conditions in #India in 2021 and 2022.
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Judge Sahab(s) makes a statement regarding payment of wages for the work done by advocates and still does not pay the interns who work day in and day out at his chambers for at least 6 weeks.
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It's out! It's out ! 📢
Read this brilliant story by on trans persons search for a home, and society's constant surveillance on their bodies.
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Our first story!!
What "home" means to some transgender persons in India, and do they ever find it?
@ManuMoudgil narrates trans persons’ search of a home within and outside.
In collaboration with @BehanBox . Supported by @pulitzercenter
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This October, when India slipped on global hunger rankings, the Women & Child development ministry claimed such rankings “tainted India’s image”.
Meanwhile, many (largely BJP-backed) states still refuse to provide eggs to school kids — vital to tackling malnutrition.
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Eating meat and eggs is treated with suspicion and disdain by India’s Hindu supremacists. But it could be a fix for persistent malnutrition that afflicts Indian children, @_sabahgurmat writes.
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Excellent, brave. Meanwhile the English side have chickened out of wearing pride armbands
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Breaking: Iran national football club stand mournfully and refuse to sing national anthem of clerical regime during first match against England at World Cup 2022 in act of protest against Khamenei henchmen’s violence
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This ad came out in 2018. There were 'boycott' calls then too, but it now feels like another universe altogether. Wow
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Worth reading this letter by Adv. Rajesh Chavda, former colleague of Justice Trivedi. Would also be interesting if any other colleagues wrote of her tenure as the state’s law secretary in the aftermath of 2002.
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Why reservations matter: A letter to Justice Trivedi from an ‘untouchable’ ex-colleague scroll.in/article/103760 via @scroll_in
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The 4-acre land was leased to Republic TV on February 24, 2022 – as UP elections were underway. On the same day, 600 kms away, Arnab Goswami was throwing soft questions at Yogi Adityanath in Ayodhya.
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Every utterance of his gets more and more harmful each passing day.
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SG Tushar Mehta claims many human rights defenders and NGOs endorse Naxalism and Maoism.
"They send their own people as fact-finding team in conflict areas, & come to predetermined conclusion that the armed forces were at fault. Then, they come to this court."
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A diplomatic conundrum. Our VP pays an official visit to a country which has kept 8 Indian ex-Servicemen under detention without charges, trial or explanation?
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Quite the story.
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Members of Bajwa’s immediate and extended family started a new international business, shifted capital abroad, and bought foreign properties.
@Ahmad_Noorani
#FactFocus #BajwaLeaks
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Amol Palekar and his partner Sandhya Gokhale have been fairly active on civil liberties issues like his contemporary Naseer saab (and Ratna Pathak). Truly convinced that Bollywood people with theatre-world affiliations are just better, and Hindi cinema doesn’t deserve them.
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Why am I only JUST learning about Fratelli selling the Indian version of Wine In A Can, including picnicworthy bubbly rosé?
I have been living under the worst rock.
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An old video of Chakwal Group whose track "Ishq Aap v Awalla" was produced by Coke Studio ft. Meesha Shafi. The folk group was led by the energetic Jahangir Shah back then. (Wait for him)
Cherish the unadulterated version of this captivating melody.
#FolkMusic
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- Born in 1944 in Mumbai to freedom fighters - Ayodhyanath Sachdeva and Asghari Begum.
- Her father named her Tabassum, keeping her mother's religious sentiments in mind, while her mother kept her name Kiran Bala, keeping her father’s religious sentiments in mind.
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Will there be a retroactive effect of this judgement though?
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The hypocrisy of the Indian diaspora is overwhelming
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An interfaith wedding function in Maharashtra's Vasai was cancelled today after Sudarshan News's Suresh Chavhanke tweeted the invitation alleging 'love jihad'.
Breaking on .
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Looks like is responding to quite literally every single person’s tweets…except those demanding bare minimum action against Chavhanke for inciting mobs against an interfaith couple by leaking their private information.
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Replying to @ShreyaG71236460
We have informed traffic branch. @MTPHereToHelp
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Going to miss a platform with calls to #boycott any brand which isn’t Hindutva enough, where interfaith couples get doxxed & neoNazi Indians campaign for others to be removed from jobs. Just laugh when I read “Twitter was great for amplifying marginalised people” takes. Ya ok.
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It won’t be happening but objective fact is that a shut down of Twitter and most importantly WhatsApp would do India a lot of good.
But it won’t happen, there’s no way technology this useful to divisive and hateful political actors is going to end any time soon.
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Go to Report ▶️ someone else ▶️ harassed or intimidated with violence ▶️ posting their private info ▶️ home address
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हत्यारे अफताब के वसई में ही अब “ इमरान और दिव्या” का होने जा रहा है निकाह/ विवाह का निमंत्रण सार्वजनिक हैं। उसी ग्राम के “अफताब ने श्रध्दा” के 35 टुकड़े करने के ह्रदय विदारक अपराध के बाद भी यह कैसे होने जा रहा हैं ? #LoveJihad_ActOfTerrorism #LoveJihad #Shraddha
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