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“You cannot accuse a person who has been sitting on 23 days of hunger strike that she is calling for violence.”
AISA's Neha Bora (@neha_aisa) rejects allegations that protesters are advocating violence or anarchy. She recounts alleged police brutality, prolonged detentions and attacks on demonstrators, while accusing the BJP, RSS and right-wing groups of violence against protesters.
Watch her conversation with Nidhi Razdan (@Nidhi) on DeKoder: youtube.com/watch?v=et0iOoz3…
#NehaBora #Protest #BJP #ECI #SIR #GenZProtests #PoliceAction #RightToProtest #Democracy
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You’ve heard a lot about Umar Khalid through the media. But amid the media witch-hunt against him, there has been very little space for him to speak for himself, especially since he’s spent the last six years in jail.
So I want to tell you a little about my friend Umar, in his own words, as shared with his family and friends.
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Manhandled, dragged, assaulted n misbehaved inside a police vehicle and dumped by the roadside - for the crime of speaking to the media.
This is not merely an assault on an MP. It is an assault on democratic freedoms and the rule of law. More chillingly, it happened within hours of the Supreme Court issuing directions to safeguard peaceful protest and constitutional rights.
I have written to the Hon’ble President of India @rashtrapatibhvn , the Chairman of the Rajya Sabha @VPIndia and the Chief Justice of India seeking urgent intervention and fixing accountability for the police personnel, and action on the question of parliamentary privilege.
The Government cannot intimidate democracy into silence. It cannot substitute the force of the baton for the force of debate. And it shouldn’t expect the people to surrender their constitutional freedoms merely because those in power find dissent inconvenient. The strength of a democracy lies not in its capacity to suppress dissent, but in its ability to address it.
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আরশোলাদের ঠেকাতে দিল্লির সুন্দর রাস্তাকেই নোংরা করতে হচ্ছে!😃😂 এমন অভিনব বুদ্ধি কার মাথা থেকে বেরোল, সেটা জানার কৌতূহল হচ্ছে! 🤔🤣
প্রতিবাদ ঠেকাতে গিয়ে যদি রাস্তারই এই অবস্থা হয়, তাহলে এদের জ্ঞান-বুদ্ধি নিয়ে প্রশ্ন ওঠাটাই স্বাভাবিক!😊🙄
T V Jayan retweeted
Pleased to receive @AmeerShahul’s new book.
With healthcare costs already high, a silent takeover is making the system even less accessible to the average Indian. Behemoths of global capital are quietly buying up Indian hospitals, pharma companies, insurance players and diagnostic labs. The Indian body is being mapped, monetized and managed from boardrooms across the world.
In The Silent Syndicate, Ameer Shahul investigates this dangerous infiltration and the long-term risk it poses to India’s healthcare sovereignty. The patient is no longer at the centre of the healthcare ecosystem — capital is.
Even Keralam, a model for impeccable public health, is feeling the heat.
Congrats to my friend Ameer for this valuable contribution.
Highly recommended.
#TheSilentSyndicate #HealthcareIndia
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Every investigative book begins with a question. Mine was simple and terrifying:
Why is healthcare in India getting more expensive, even as access gets worse?
That question led me down a trail of boardrooms, balance sheets, and policy loopholes. What I found became my third book:
THE SILENT SYNDICATE: How Big Finance Is Destroying India’s Healthcare
Out now from @HachetteIndia and @HachetteBooks
This is not a story about bad doctors or greedy hospitals. It’s about something far bigger:
Western private equity firms, institutional investors, and pension funds quietly swallowing Indian hospitals, diagnostics chains, pharma companies, and health insurance players.
The result?
- Healthcare costs rising faster than inflation
- Treatment decisions driven by returns, not patient need
- A system increasingly designed for investors, not patients
In The Silent Syndicate, I trace the money, map the networks, and tell the human stories behind the numbers.
From corporate hospitals to small-town clinics, from policy files in Delhi to fund meetings in New York, this is the untold story of who really owns your health.
If you care about India’s future, read the book.
Available now on Amazon, Flipkart, and in bookstores across India:
🔗 amazon.in/dp/9357314016
#TheSilentSyndicate #Healthcare #India #PrivateEquity #Books #NonFiction #InvestigativeJournalism
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Read my case study on how I fought for 22 months with
@careinsuranceIN to get my claim approved
Read full case here : careinsurance.info
Never ever take any insurance policy from @careinsuranceIN. These people will sweet talk you into buying their policy but will look for every possible way to wriggle out from paying your claim. Worst, they do not have a dedicated helpline for customers to call. @CareHealthIndia
Do you know why does @Jaspritbumrah93
deceive batters again, again and again? Neuroscience may have an explanation, says @kvijayraghavan
in a recent @shaastramag column
shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/essay…
Happy that FB just reminded me of a story that I broke some 13 yers ago on Indian scientists identifying Queen Ketevan DNA in Goa! @GeoEmbassyIndia
telegraphindia.com/science-t…
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This issue of IIT Madras Shaastra is a must read if you are a #Weather enthusiast. Three wonderful stories by my colleagues @tvjayan and @rekhadixit123 The first on the history of Monsoon forecast in #India and the new research that's happening shaastramag.iitm.ac.in/lead-…
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I am offering a 3-credit, 30-hour course on introductory evolutionary biology on the NPTEL platform. NPTEL courses are free for anyone, anywhere in the world, but require registrations, which is open as of now.
onlinecourses.nptel.ac.in/no…
Kindly spread the word.
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Neither India nor Pakistan can win a war against the other, as both are nuclear powers. Interventions can happen again, and the lesson Pakistan may have learnt is that it can get away with it in future too. That takes India’s Pakistan policy to a dead end.
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The view that people from #IndusValley might have moved South might have to be re-looked. Entire Indian sub-continent was culturally integrated by 2500 BCE.
But why is #PMModi silent on Iron age antiquity in #TamilNadu, #SouthIndia?
#IronAge #DravidianModel #DravidianStock
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Debate on arsenic life revisited after 15 years. Science in times of internet, women in science, nature of life. The scientist at the centre of the debate dropped out, went into music, and is back into science again, exploring boundaries. #arseniclife
nytimes.com/2025/02/11/scien…