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Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
At the #PublicImpeachment of Gyanesh Kumar, social activist @nikhilmkss introduced Kanta Prasad who has been denied a vote on the grounds that he is dead. (He spoke very convincingly for a corpse!). The deprivation of the right to vote is a crime against the Constitution and a blot on our democracy. There must be accountability!! @ECISVEEP
Many congratulations to both of you @OmarAbdullah and @Nidhi !
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
I tell the strange tale of a 13-year-old who joined the mob burning alive Staines & his 2 sons
I write of his long incarceration, his torment & then his conversion to Christianity
We see the frightening revival of the same hate in Odisha & central India
scroll.in/article/1096401/ha…
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
While the Modi government has refused to take part in meetings of South Asia Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) in Islamabad due to differences with Pakistan since 2016, it has joined SCO meetings there in the past, including SCO-Regional Anti-Terror Structure (RATS). In September, India sent SCO National Coordinator Alok Dimri to Islamabad to attend the first coordination meeting for Pakistan’s SCO Presidency and events leading up to the leader’s Summit in Pakistan, scheduled for August 2027. In November 2024, External Affairs Minister S. Jaishankar had represented India at the SCO Heads of Government (HoG) Meeting, and all eyes will be in who will represent India at the SCO Heads of State Summit next year.
Excl: In a first since 2023, Delhi invites Pakistan Minister for inaugural SCO Civilisational Dialogue in November
PM Modi to inaugurate event with representatives of more than 25 countries, to be held at the 16th Century Purana Quila fort in Delhi. Reporting with @sreeparna_c
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
Your number plate can reveal your full name, address and insurance details to anyone with ₹29 and an app.
Our RTIs found that NIC issued 25,000+ private credentials to query VAHAN and eChallan since January 2024, leading to 17 million private lookups. On October 1, private data sharing was quietly switched off with no public notice. Meanwhile, the logs that could prove misuse are set to expire.
We’ve filed first appeals demanding accountability and preservation of those logs.
Found your details on a third-party vehicle app? Write to us at [email protected]
IFF is independent and citizen-funded. Support our work by becoming a member. internetfreedom.in/donate
#VAHAN #DataProtection #RTI #Privacy #InternetFreedom
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
Week After Epstein Photos Made Headlines, BJP Makes Hardeep Singh Puri By-Poll Candidate for Rajya Sabha
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Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
Instagram removes a cartoon about censorship. Journalists’ posts are withheld. Protest coverage disappears. And the explanation? “Legal requirements.” When content can be blocked without clearly identifying the order, authority or specific grounds, who holds power to question that decision?
Freedom of expression cannot depend on opaque notifications from a platform.
Bizarre and nonsensical.
Instagram removes the reel posted on LiveLaw's official page about the ECI's affidavit in the #SupremeCourt.
The reel, which was only an explanation of the ECI's version, was removed by Instagram saying, "We received a legal request to restrict this content".
There is no explanation how the reel (instagram.com/reel/De_dnDnOW…) violated any law.
@instagram @Meta
The same video is available on YouTube - youtube.com/watch?v=OuEYr-bY…
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
"If the Supreme Court had been vigilant, the Election Commission would never have reached this miserable state." says Prashant Kishore
🚨MASSIVE BREAKING : Prashant Kishor brutally EXPOSED Supreme Court🔥
Kishor just said what every Indian is thinking🔥
SC issued a notice to the Election Commission today. PK's reply:
> "Nothing will happen just because the Supreme Court issued a notice"
> "Under the Supreme Court's nose, the model code of conduct was broken"
> "Under the Supreme Court's nose, votes were bought in Bihar by spending ₹20,000 crore"
> "And the Supreme Court said it doesn't want to intervene"
Then the line that hits hardest:
"If the Supreme Court had been vigilant, the Election Commission would never have reached this miserable state."
Think about it for a second.
> Voter rolls, poll dates, MCC, money, religion, caste, counting
> PK says on every single one, EC stands with the ruling party
> And he's right that removing Gyanesh Kumar alone fixes nothing, because the rot is the system
Dear Supreme Court,
You are the guardian of the Constitution. Notices don't protect democracy. Action does.
When the referee is compromised and the guardian stays silent, who does the voter turn to?
NOTICES WON'T SAVE DEMOCRACY. ACTION WILL 🗿🔥
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
Can anyone "officially" buy a child?
Just like that, dog ownership must come with a responsibility test.
Buying or adopting a dog must not be as easy as buying a handbag or a piece of furniture.
1. Can you afford its food, veterinary care and emergencies for next 15 years?
2. Is everyone in the household on board?
A dog is not a status symbol.
Changing your mind after bringing a dog home is a SIN, unethical. For you, it may be a change of preference. For the animal, it can mean losing the only family it has known.
I once saw Rottweilers crammed in a 2 room matchbox flat for breeding. The sight broke my heart. Living beings reduced to breeding machines. PLEASE do NOT buy dogs. Adopt.
Oreo is a 2-year-old Golden Retriever in Greater Kailash 1, South Delhi. A baby arrived in his family and they can't keep him.
Friendly, fully vaccinated, and he gives his paw. Call or WhatsApp: 98101 65517
ALT Oreo, a golden retriever with a blue collar, sitting on a wooden floor with his tongue out
ALT Oreo the golden retriever sitting on a lane and offering his paw
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
Months after BJP VIce President said and retracted comments about India stopping oil imports under US Pressure, RS MP and former Foreign Secy and Amb to US says govt gave up Iranian and Venezuelan oil because US told it to.
#FactsAreFacts
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
We at The Reporters Collective @reporters_co, a tiny non-profit newsroom, stood up to defend journalism against govt attempt to paralyse the profession through a Trojan horse in the Privacy law. We filed a case before the Supreme Court in February 2026 and launched rti404.com, a watchdog project to protect RTI and journalism, both.
Months later the for- profit big media businesses have realised, not just journalism but revenue of their media business would be hurt too by what the govt is doing.
We are glad they have eventually seen value in joining us.
Read Our Statement from February 16, 2026. 👇
reporters-collective.in/blog…
EXCLUSIVE: India’s biggest news publishers including Ambani's Network18, Adani's NDTV, Indian Express, Times Internet & others mount the most high-profile challenge yet to Modi’s privacy law, warning it would “render investigative journalism a benign and neutered recorder of events.”
DNPA (@publishers_news) has taken the law to the Supreme Court. They argue it would trample investigative work and let New Delhi identify journalists’ sources.
The provisions “constitute pre-censorship which is anathema to any democracy worth its name,” the group’s 698-page filing says.
The key concerns:
🔹 Consent: requiring a journalist to notify the subject of an investigation and seek consent “would allow that subject to destroy evidence, intimidate witnesses”
🔹 Erasure: people can withdraw consent and demand their data be erased, which the group says could force publishers to unpublish or heavily redact news reports
🔹 Sources: a “nakedly unguided” power to demand information that “can extend to privileged communications in possession of a reporter or the informant”
In a letter to the government, the group said India “has chosen to grant broad exemptions to the state, while failing to extend any corresponding protection to the press.”
reuters.com/business/media-t…
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
If Prasar Bharati can spend ₹15 crore a year on a DD News show featuring a star anchor, while the ISRO Chairman’s basic pay is about ₹27 lakh a year, shouldn’t we rethink our priorities? If India wants to conquer space and attract our finest scientific minds, our rewards must match our ambitions.
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
When Big Media reports this bizarre and bogus exchange between @narendramodi and an AI-driven hologram of a dead man as “Modi interacted with Swami Chinamayananda” they betray a wilful gullibility that puts even the demonetisation-era Godi Media fantasy about microchip-embedded currency notes to shame.
#WATCH | Prime Minister Narendra Modi interacted with Swami Chinmayananda through holographic technology at the Chinmaya Amrit Mahotsav.
The moment recalled their historic meeting in 1993.
"It makes me happy that the person I spoke to in 1993 has now become the Prime Minister of India. Whatever you have done for India so far, we are all proud of you," said Swami Chinmayananda.
The interaction showcased confluence of faith, spirituality and modern technology.
#PMModi #Holography
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
CJI Chandrachud Used To Seek Government's Pre-Approval Before Collegium Discussed Names For Judicial Appointments : Justice Kaul
Justice Kaul said CJI Chandrachud was too deferential to the Government in appointment matters.
livelaw.in/top-stories/cji-c…
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
"It is becoming increasingly clear that India’s efforts to revamp Kashmir by stamping out resistance and establishing central control of its administration have failed."
This is an outstanding @CrisisGroup report on Kashmir. By @donthi_praveen et al
crisisgroup.org/rpt/asia-pac…
Maya Mirchandani 🇮🇳 retweeted
The case should be handed over to the NIA, ED and CBI. Such a serious offence that someone criticised the Modi government's performance. This regime doesn't even want to pretend that India is a democracy.
Delhi | An FIR has been registered against unidentified persons after two posters questioning the government's performance were found pasted inside a train on the Delhi Metro’s Airport Express Line. The FIR was registered under Delhi Prevention of Defacement of Public Property Act, 2007 and Metro Railways (Operation and Maintenance) Act, 2002. Police seized the posters, and the Special Cell is also involved in the investigation: Delhi Police
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TVK, DMK walk out of meeting over SIR deletions, demand Gyanesh Kumar’s resignation
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