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Indian farmers’ protest in December 2020. Image via Wikimedia Commons by Randeep Maddoke. CC0 Public Domain.
On February 1, Twitter temporarily blocked people in India from viewing more than 250 accounts that appeared to express support to the farmers’ protests that have rocked the country for the past four months. The accounts were restored around six hours later.
Twitter then told news agency ANI that it withheld the accounts in response to a request from India s Ministry of Electronics and IT to block accounts that had tweeted the hashtag #ModiPlanningFarmerGenocide for making “fake, provocative, and intimidatory tweets.”
The US-based platform explained its decision by pointing to its policy of withholding content in certain countries, which it employs when it receives “a request from an authorized entity” in that jurisdiction.
India Slams International Celebrities’ Support of Farmers’ Protests
India Slams International Celebrities’ Support of Farmers’ Protests
Randeep Maddoke
In statement, foreign ministry describes as inaccurate and irresponsible any commentary that does not factor in efforts to resolve the months-long demonstrations
The External Affairs Ministry of India on Wednesday issued a statement criticizing international celebrities for commenting on the ongoing farmers’ protests, claiming “vested interest groups” were trying to malign the country by mobilizing support against it.
On Tuesday, U.S. singer Rihanna, climate change activist Greta Thunberg, comedian Lilly Singh, U.K. lawmaker Claudia Webbe, author Khaled Beydoun, and U.S. lawyer and activist Meena Harris the niece of Vice-President Kamala Harris shared stories about the ongoing protests on their social media pages, and urged their followers to look at the months-long campaign against controversial “reforms” impl
Our battle for love must be militantly waged – and beautifully won: Arundhati Roy
The text of Arundhati Roy’s speech at the Elgar Parishad 2021, Pune on January 30.
By News Desk| Published: 31st January 2021 11:05 am IST Courtesy Muslim Mirror
By Arundhati Roy
I thank the organisers of the 2021 Elgar Parishad for inviting me to speak at this forum to mark what would have been Rohit Vemula’s 32nd birthday and the 1818 victory of the battle of Bhima Koregaon. Not far from here, Mahar troops fighting in the British Army defeated the Peshwa King Bajirao II under whom Mahars and other Dalit castes were cruelly persecuted and ritually debased in indescribable ways.