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28 Dec 2019
Smartphones Transformed India. Now Indians Are Turning Them Against The Modi Government. buzzfeednews.com/article/pra… #longread
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dialogue retweeted
5 Dec 2019
Scoop: Kashmiris disappeared from WhatsApp overnight due to a FB policy that deletes inactive accounts automatically after 120 days. The internet has been shut down in Kashmir for 4 months now.
(By @PranavDixit)
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dialogue retweeted
7 Nov 2019
“I’ve developed a chronic cough since I came to Lahore — and I haven’t even seen the worst of the smog season yet.”
- by @NishSwish
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dialogue retweeted
10 Oct 2019
India is Creating a national facial recognition system, and critics are afraid of what will happen next -@PranavDixit
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Violators will be jailed for up to three years and fined up to $7,000.
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“Human rights are being snatched away as we speak.”
(via @PranavDixit)
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dialogue retweeted
6 Aug 2019
An Indian court is trying hard to get WhatsApp to break its encryption, possibly at the behest of the government. The ruling could have major consequences on not just WhatsApp but all tech platforms in the country. buzzfeednews.com/article/pra…
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dialogue retweeted
5 Aug 2019
#ExpressExplained | What are Articles 370, 35A? — a quick explainer you must read
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The announcement comes at the same time the company said that it lost 130,000 subscribers in the United States from April through June.
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The order issued by Higher Education Secretary R Subrahmanyam last week lays down a mechanism seeking to “connect all the student’s Twitter/Facebook/Instagram account” with social media accounts of higher education institutions as well as the HRD ministry
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dialogue retweeted
28 Jun 2019
"Water is provided only to the Brahmins and people fight with us when we approach the hand pump."
Dalit residents in the UP's Chitrakoot region are being denied access to water sources by upper castes.
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dialogue retweeted
26 Jun 2019
Ayushmann Khurrana’s new film 'Article 15' is the latest addition to the archives of the Brahmin-Saviour complex huffp.st/iX7Lmma
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"Brace yourself. Indian subscribers are coming!!!" (via @PranavDixit)
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dialogue retweeted
3 Jun 2019
From woke to broke: @aktalkies has the inside story of how AIB crashed and burned huffp.st/zdmzsKb
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dialogue retweeted
6 May 2019
Here's 10 ways you can help victims of #CycloneFani in #Odisha right now [a thread]
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More than 120 million of the app’s 500 million users are from India. bit.ly/2VKVQ0C
“We don’t want our services to be used to manipulate people," Facebook wrote in a blog post.
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The Congress had on Monday moved the EC to stall the release of the film on the grounds that it is a politically-motivated film. thewire.in/politics/adr-gove…
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The author talks about her memoir, shedding her secret, and how a wave of Dalit assertion in art, music and culture could change the game for a new generation. thewire.in/caste/coming-out-…
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dialogue retweeted
22 Mar 2019
Copies of diary entries that are with the IT dept note that BS #Yeddyurappa paid the BJP central committee 1,000 crore; Arun Jaitley and Nitin Gadkari 150 crore each; Rajnath Singh 100 crore; and LK Advani and Murli Manohar Joshi 50 crore each. bit.ly/2Fsspec
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