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As India enters its 75th year of independence, it’s a fitting time to unveil a dream of a ‘better’ India. An India where harmony prevails over hate; where those who target any citizen for their religion, caste, community, region, are prosecuted and convicted for hate speech. Hate cannot be ‘normalised’ in any manner or the culture of impunity promoted under the guise of tedious what-aboutery of competing religious identities.
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In the last few days, the national media has been abuzz with ‘Snoop-gate’ or Pegasus-gate, the data leaks from India and across the world that suggest that thousands of phone lines were being tracked by an Israeli spyware Pegasus. I am not surprised by the revelations, what I am honestly surprised by is that so many people are surprised by it. Anyone who has been involved in tracking the Indian government will know that we have long lived with a state that snoops on its citizens.
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#rajdeepsardesai #straightbatwithrajdeep #StanSwamy #BhimaKoregaon #UAPA #Hindutva #urban Naxal
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Two weeks ago, I asked a question: is this man a terrorist? I was referring to Father Stan Swamy, the priest who at 84 has been arrested in the Bhima Koregaon case under UAPA and accused of being part of a Maoist group based on very flimsy evidence. This week, I ask another question: who will compensate these three young Indian citizens for the 13 months they’ve spent in jail, accused again under the UAPA for their role in the anti-CAA protests that were seen to lead riots in Delhi last February. I don’t think you need to be introduced to Natasha Narwal, Devangana Kalita and Asif Tanha, two from JNU and one from Jamia: their faces are plastered all over the newspapers and tv channels after the Delhi high court granted them bail this week. But it isn’t just an ordinary bail order; this was a scathing indictment of the Delhi police, the union home ministry that the police reports to, and our criminal justice system.
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This weekend marks one year since the death of actor Sushant Singh Rajput.. one year since a large section of the media and viewers were obsessed with a single question: was Sushant murdered or did he commit suicide? Reams of newsprint and certainly hours of tv time was used up to engage in a tabloidish drama that frankly was eventually a little nauseating.
