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Debasish Roy Chowdhury retweeted
New on #TPIGlobalOutlook: The Cockroach Janta Party in India should worry Modi and the opposition alike as a cry of help over the failure of representative democracy, writes @Planet_Deb @TodaInstitute @CJP_2029 tinyurl.com/bd2x6k53
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Political parties trade people's will like candy bars in the schoolyard and then wonder why people do not relate to them and gravitate to apolitical movements like the Cockroach Janta Party
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The Nationalist Citizens Party of India (NCPN) contested two seats in Tripura in the 2023 Assembly election and received 822 votes (0.03%). The party did not contest the 2024 Lok Sabha election. However, it now has 20 MPs in the current Parliament. Tripura has only two PCs.
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How helpless is the Indian state, friends with none and no capacity of our own to evacuate citizens from war zones. Millions of pointles hugs of foreign leaders and silly photo ops masquerading as foreign policy do not make up for deficient state power. Proof
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Distress call from the Indian captain of MT Celestial in Oman
Their second officer Nishanth Uirthanathan died two days ago and his body has started to decompose
The crew is trying keep the body cool with just cold water while urging Indian govt help
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This country is at war?
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury retweeted
Jun 13
Years after the ₹13,000 crore PNB scam shook Indian banking, one thread of the Nirav Modi case has now been downgraded
A special CBI court in Mumbai transferred a ₹321.88 crore fraud case to a magistrate's court, after the CBI itself said there's no evidence the bank's officials were complicit
The diamond merchant remains a fugitive. The case against the institution he allegedly exploited just got smaller
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury retweeted
Jun 13
Along with Modi’s complete capture of governing institutions, media and funding sources, the persistent organisational weakness of the Opposition makes the prospect of electoral correction seem impossible. scroll.in/article/1093476/wh…
The lack of a viable alternative to the ruler deepens the crisis of representation.
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury retweeted
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Who names a fingerprint reading machine Eklavya??😭😭
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Crime is a third of what it was in 2002. The murder rate in England and Wales is nearly half that in 2003. In London, it's at its lowest ever. Foreign nationals are underrepresented in violent offences. Yet hateful hysteria thrives in defiance of the facts zeteonews.co.uk/p/belfast-ri…
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The country that gave the world Kamasutra "muted the word sex from subtitle" of Disclosure Day👏
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The tough executive decisions New India's elected executives have to make
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The decision to drop “dham” was taken by CM Suvendu Adhikari following a request from BJP leader and Odisha CM Mohan Charan Majhi. scroll.in/latest/1093470/ben…
Sambit Patra, Lok Sabha MP of Puri, where the main Jagannath temple is located, handed a letter from Majhi to Adhikari.
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Cockroach movement is a reflection of the decay of political parties, an expression of a crisis of representation that pervades democracies today. The claustrophobia of a post-truth polity with captured media and institutions exacerbates this disconnect toda.org/global-outlooks/coc…
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Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. The Trump administration is spending more than $100 million to fight the “emergency” of “white genocide” in South Africa motherjones.com/politics/202…
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If the point of these meetings is to show that the idea of INDIA bloc doesn't work, maybe they need to stop trying. Everybody kind of already knows openthemagazine.com/politics…
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Old India was about building. New India is about destroying. We are condemned to suffering dangerous kakistocrats
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When a Congress chief minister bred on RSS samosas can:
🤡 name Hitler as his inspiration
🤡 fabricate Hitler's favourite word
🤡 talk blithely of assassinations
🤡 compare building demolitions in Hyderabad with Gaza and Iran
and receive applause, you can see India's future. @revanth_anumula @RahulGandhi
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Debasish Roy Chowdhury retweeted
We were absolutely floored by the millions of you that watched us make silly water sillouettes on our driveway last summer. We are starting out the summer the only way we know how, and this time it’s all about movies! What else do you want to see? We have a whole summer ahead, a driveway and a hose. The possibilities are endless!!!
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"Aap log to chahte hi nahi koi padae hum logon ko"
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खान सर की छात्राएं FIR का नाम सुनते ही ऐसे पुलिस पर भीड़ गई.......
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Modi did it better
Jun 7
JUST IN: 🇺🇸 Trump drops NBC’s mic on the ground, walks off an interview with Kristen Welker.
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Sharon Stone gets emotional talking about the moment her marriage ended after her husband got FURIOUS over her decision to have a double mastectomy and breast removal due to a breast tumor instead of focusing on her health 😳💔👀
“He was furious. And the doctor said to him, ‘If I had more patients like her, we’d have more women alive today. You need to sit down.I said, ‘I make the decisions, not you.’ That was the end of the marriage.”
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