Films & Words
Mumbai, India
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Directed this film with @bopanna_g for @CRED_club featuring queen of the interwebz Rakhi Sawant.
Produced and written by One Hand Clap
True for films as well.
When I read older books, I'm always struck by how unoptimized they are. Books wandered in their prose, had meandering backstories for side characters, and had strange and illogical plot points. Now, it's like every word in a book has to be razor-focused, hurtling toward the conclusion. There's no room for idle dreaming.
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Rape impunity is a material and a dignity harm to women: it signals that violence against women is permissible, and incentivizes men to commit it. Every rapist who is sent to prison is a small refutation of this prevailing order, and a small win for women’s liberation.
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From “Reportedly” in The India Cable: One Editor who was part of the Editors group invited by home minister Amit Shah, asked a boiler plate question in Hindi, “Are you worried about the fallout of the Election Commission controversy”? Amit Shah reportedly said, “That is why I have called you people here.” Little doubt that they were briefed thoroughly what to do by the super Editor.
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Essentially, this is now the biggest threat to the survival of electoral democracy in India
A kill switch controlled by New Delhi
ECINet, the Election Commission of India’s (ECI) comprehensive digital platform, has a feature through which viewing of enumeration form details is enabled State by State. This means that access for State Nodal Officers (SNOs) could be switched off anytime making it a centralised platform, according to an audit by ‘Charchagram’, a civic tech initiative.
✍️@sreeparna_c
thehindu.com/news/national/o…
Mandakini retweeted
This could not be more wrong, morally and legally. @SauravDassss and @AshutoshRanka must be freed, because they should never have been jailed.
It is not a crime to raise your voice for the youth of your country. It is not a crime to demand a better future for the youth of your country. It is not a crime to protest, or to carry the Tricolour in protest. Free them.
🚨BREAKING: Delhi Police has sought an extension of CJP Leaders @SauravDassss and @AshutoshRanka’s Judicial Custody over Jantar Mantar peace bond breach.
@Cockroachisback @DelhiPolice
Mandakini retweeted
The ordeal that @AshutoshRanka and @SauravDassss are going through should tell you that there is no judiciary, no rule of law, no constitution no nothing.
They have destroyed everything India had fought for.
Regardless of whether you agree with them or not, speak up for them because if they aren’t free you aren’t either.
Mandakini retweeted
Indian Express and Ritika Chopra are single handedly standing between Modi and whatever little is left of Indian electoral fairness.
Absolute warriors.
As the Election Commission launches a special drive in 20 states to bring back voters “left out” in the SIR, its officers are staring at a unique problem: persuading lakhs, possibly crores, of people to fill Form 6, the “Application Form for New Voters,” which asks them to declare they are applying “for the first time.”
Form 6 is the right route back, and officials say signing it invites no legal action. But people who’ve voted for decades balk at calling themselves new, and many believe the declaration is false.
Against that backdrop, Maharashtra’s CEO has proposed a fix: drop “New Voters” from the title, and let the deleted say they were enrolled before and cite their old EPIC number.
Break by @vallabhozarkarr
indianexpress.com/article/in… via @IndianExpress
Mandakini retweeted
Sometimes I think about both waves of COVID in the country and how it was the mass general volunteering of common people that saved lives while the government was busy dumping bodies in rivers, how can you forget how can you forgive, lost so much to covid bec of the incompetency
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ASTONISHING: CJP’s Ashutosh Ranka and Saurav Das still in judicial custody for trespass and violation of prohibitory orders while waving the tricolour at Jantar Mantar (not an act of violence by any reckoning), and Hindu Raksha Dal members who were caught on camera beating protestors out on bail (an act of brazen goondaism). Yeh hai kanoon??😡
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IDF style use of the female body in propaganda to pinkwash political violence - yuck.
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This country owes these kids a debt that cannot be repaid. They know every single day how outnumbered they are and how likely they are to face brutality and detention, and yet they come out again and again.
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Anarchy is breaking up political parties using money, destroying the independence of the CEC and the Supreme Court, and detaining people for years on end without trial.
The BJP has got you so used to anarchy that systems like basic democracy and rule of law feel alien to you.
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As building after building in Mumbai votes for "redevelopment" residents don't understand the concept of "carrying capacity". All need to read this important report on how the city is hurtling towards disaster deccanherald.com/amp/story/i…
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ankita's parents being detained doesn't surprise me. everyone who even tried to meet hathras victim's parents, including rahul gandhi, were lathi charged & detained. this is a govt of rapists by rapists for rapists. they protect them. they enable them. they thrive on all this 🤢
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Let's see how many in the Bombay film fraternity stand up for one of their own (Imran Khan) now. This should be fun.
