Mitali Saran

@MitaliSaran
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Freelance columnist/writer, formerly Business Standard & Outlook Traveller. Words in Deccan Herald, The Wire, Caravan, NDTV Blogs, Mint Live, NYT Opinion, and a couple of book chapters here and there. #India

Important newsflash from the Dept of Non Sequiturs

RT @[email protected]

Aero India will be held at Airforce station Yelahanka from Feb 13 to 17. Due to this, sale of non-veg food is prohibited within 10 km radius of the Airforce station& meat/chicken/fish shops in 10 km radius of the Airforce station must also remain closed from Jan 30 to Feb 20:BBMP

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/ANI/status/1619022741222592513

ANI on Twitter

“Aero India will be held at Airforce station Yelahanka from Feb 13 to 17. Due to this, sale of non-veg food is prohibited within 10 km radius of the Airforce station& meat/chicken/fish shops in 10 km radius of the Airforce station must also remain closed from Jan 30 to Feb 20:BBMP”

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Ghosts of Gujarat: India bans the BBC’s Modi film | Censorship | Al Jazeera https://www.aljazeera.com/program/the-listening-post/2023/1/28/ghosts-of-gujarat-india-bans-the-bbcs-modi-film
Ghosts of Gujarat: India bans the BBC’s Modi film

A documentary on Modi’s role in 2002 Gujarat riots causes a media maelstrom in India. Plus, UK press vs labour unions.

Al Jazeera

Here's part 2 of the #BBCDocumentary.

The democracy-loving Government of India got Twitter to withhold my tweet linking to the first episode, let's see if they also mind retweets.

RT @[email protected]

Watch: A good link to the BBC documentary part 2 on "The Modi question", which our govt is trying to prevent people from seeing
https://odysee.com/@Archive:90/India-The-Modi-Question-S01E02:6

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/pbhushan1/status/1618125609657569281

Narendra Modi BBC Documentary 'India: The Modi Question' | Season: 1 Episode: 2

Odysee

On Mr Modi's BFF, #Adani.
"We believe the Adani Group has been able to operate a large, flagrant fraud in broad daylight in large part because investors, journalists, citizens and even politicians have been afraid to speak out for fear of reprisal."

RT @[email protected]

NEW FROM US:

Adani Group – How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The Largest Con In Corporate History

https://hindenburgresearch.com/adani/

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🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/HindenburgRes/status/1618077612680818688

Adani Group: How The World’s 3rd Richest Man Is Pulling The Largest Con In Corporate History

Today we reveal the findings of our 2-year investigation, presenting evidence that the INR 17.8 trillion (U.S. $218 billion) Indian conglomerate Adani Group has engaged in a brazen stock manipulati…

Hindenburg Research
The #BBCDocumentary flies in the face of Modi's 20-year-long, and let's face it, very expensive whitewashing exercise. Authoritarians want 'One nation, one version'--but democracy is multiplicity, and not everyone has amnesia. My column for @[email protected].
https://www.deccanherald.com/opinion/one-nation-one-version-1183382.html
One nation, One version

The guiding principle of the Modi government is ‘If you can’t fix it, bury it.’ Information is power, so suck up as much of it as you can, keep it to yourself, do your best not to let anyone else have any, and reshape or discredit as necessary any that does make it out into the world. Sit on NSSO unemployment data until after an election, don’t release the yearly National Crime Records Bureau statistics, omit to show on the PM’s website that he spent much more time making election speeches than on attending Parliament, and take down an expert report on the subsidence in Joshimath.

DH News Service

That a documentary triggers emergency powers of censorship is a great compliment to the documentary.

RT @[email protected]

Orders were also issued to Twitter for blocking of over 50 tweets with links on Friday using emergency powers under the IT Rules, 2021. Both YouTube and Twitter have complied with the directions, say sources.

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/vasudha_ET/status/1616736257270493184

Vasudha Venugopal on Twitter

“Orders were also issued to Twitter for blocking of over 50 tweets with links on Friday using emergency powers under the IT Rules, 2021. Both YouTube and Twitter have complied with the directions, say sources.”

Twitter

Predictably enough, pointing out crimes and misdemeanours gets you death threats.

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In a startling revelation, #VineshPhogat on Wednesday alleged that Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President and #BJP MP #BrijBhushanSharanSingh has been sexually exploiting women wrestlers for many years. https://www.deccanherald.com/national/wfi-prez-sexually-exploited-women-wrestlers-i-received-death-threats-vinesh-phogat-1182290.html

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/DeccanHerald/status/1615693258209857538

WFI prez sexually exploited women wrestlers, I received death threats: Vinesh Phogat

In a startling revelation, a crying Vinesh Phogat on Wednesday alleged that Wrestling Federation of India (WFI) President and BJP MP Brij Bhushan Sharan Singh has been sexually exploiting women wrestlers for many years and sought the intervention of Prime Minister and Home Minister for his removal.

DH News Service
Here’s a powerful antidote to the amnesia surrounding Narendra Modi, courtesy the BBC doing what Indian media has failed to do. Must watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vMhmc_btlaM&t=3s

RT @[email protected]

Whether out of sycophancy, fear or naive optimism, the media decided to forget all the awkward “butcher of Gujarat” and “merchant of death” monikers it had once conjured up for Modi. So did influential liberal thinkers.

From 2019, @[email protected] writes: http://bit.ly/2J22rzX

🐦🔗: https://twitter.com/thecaravanindia/status/1614914227789074433

The Indian media's collective, voluntary amnesia about Narendra Modi

The English mainstream media and many intellectuals have helped whitewash bigotry and scrub Modi’s failures and missteps out of the public discourse.

The Caravan
A couple of episodes into the gripping, sensitive #TrialByFire. Shoutout to @[email protected] for being a bloody brilliant actor.