Asim Ali
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Asim Ali
@AsimAli6
Political Researcher & Columnist. Words
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- Idk why Indians are feeling smug. The reason the mob stormed the Capitol was that institutions are working there : the judiciary threw out his election suits; state officials had rebuffed him; media called out his lies. Its India where every institution is subordinated to one man
- Remember when everyone said if Muslims accept the Babri verdict there will be lasting peace. Lol. There were zero protests. Then they brought in the CAA, excluding just Muslims. And now we have the worst communal riots in almost a decade. So yeah just giving up rights dosent work
- I like how upper castes go to elite Catholic schools, get a good education, secure good jobs, and then later whine about how they were taught wrong 'secular history' and had Bible lessons. You could have gone to Saraswati Shishu Mandir then, or maybe send your kids there.
- In UP, Muslims have been picked up en masse from all over,thrashed, their homes barged into, properties confiscated & met with live fire on streets. And no one will be prosecuted because it is being done by the State. UP is already Hindu Rashtra. A thread on chilling reports(1/n)
- Middle class ***** with the same old line - "Don't criticise. Dont be negative. Govt is trying is best" when poor people are literally starving These same people lose their shit at the customer care guy if their 15 Rs are wrongly deducted or their internet stops for half hour.
- Lalu's rule irrevocably broke the stranglehold of Brahmins, Bhumihars, Rajputs & Kayasths on Bihar politics. It provided a sense of dignity & equality to tens of millions of people, which is why they kept voting him back.Threads like these are a very distorted UC perspective(1/n)Today is Lalu Prasad Yadav's birthday. No politician in the history of India has harmed an entire generation of his state than this man. His greed and corruption not only destroyed the state's progress but made the term "Bihari" an abuse.
- I'm living in Yogi's UP while writing articles on the oppression of Muslims every other week in national & intl media.Under my name You are a faceless troll hiding in some corner of Australia So why dont you take your "mY cOmMuNitY" self righteousness & shove it up your as*hole
- If a mob of Muslims had destroyed a temple in 92, all the organisers of the mob would be in jail, rather than in elected offices. And far from a protracted legal dispute, there would have been a promptly reconstructed temple. This whole process has been a mockery of secularism.
- Sanjiv Bhatt did. He got a 30 year jail sentence.This man is my hero. "If you don't have anything constructive to say, keep your mouth shut," he told the US president. Could we ever have an officer like this in India who would dare to speak truth to his political masters?
- Australia is full of snake-filled remote areas, but only 2–3 people die of snake-bites there in a year. In India the number of deaths are 58000. This is abt a State-elite complex that doesnt see rural poor/tribal communities as citizens deserving basic mid-20th century healthcareVIDEO | Odisha: Woman dies of snakebite after daughter carries her 5km through the forest due to lack of road access. In Kandhamal’s remote Dumeripada village, Rajani Majhi carried her snake-bitten mother, Balamadu Majhi, 5 km through the forest due to no road access. Locals
00:00 - It's weird how no one talks about 2002 anymore. I mean we talk of Mughals every other day, but not something that happened within this generation and fundamentally shaped us and led to where we are today.
- As I've argued in Hindutva lynching cases, when you commit a murder for ideological reasons, and capture it on camera to disseminate it to a wide audience, it's a proper case of terrorism. And so it is with the Udaipur murder. Can have no justifications in a civilised society.
- In the Bollywood nepotism outrage, entrenched power is only attacked when it represents cultural distance. For example, no one attacks Sunny Deol, son of a superstar, because he is the icon of muscular nationalism in cinema, which the BJP appropriated by making him an MP. (1/4)
