Forced to stay indoors, more than 40 million people have tuned in to the livestreams of two hospitals being built: Cement mixers become unlikely celebrities in #China #coronavirus lockdown
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Deputy editor @restofworld . Previously Thomson Reuters Foundation, Reuters, Bloomberg, FT. IWMF grantee. SOPA awardee. Aunt. Opinions my own📚🏃🏽♀️🧘🏻♀️🚂
- Despite the Bhim Army’s muscular stance, @BhimArmyChief Aazad has also cultivated an aura of charismatic approachability through deft use of social media; even Aazad’s luxuriant mustache—a style seen by some dominant castes as a status symbol—is a form of #Dalit resistance.
- Not a headline from the Onion. Perhaps they need a thesaurus: #India journalist Mohammed Zubair booked for calling hate speech accused seers ‘hatemongers’ scroll.in/latest/1025282… via @scroll_in
- On 9/11, I was a grad student at NYU and at a freelance gig midtown when the first plane struck. We were asked to evacuate, and I ended up at the hotel where #ShahRukhKhan - in town to promote Asoka - was staying. I interviewed him in his room. Surreal. #NeverForget #September11
- Guards armed with rifles escort Dr. Kumar Gaurav as he makes the rounds at his hospital in #India to protect him from relatives of #Covid -19 patients @dansiddiqui reut.rs/3ajug2C
- #Belgium seeks new name for the King Leopold II road tunnel as it takes on colonial past and gender #inequality reut.rs/2Rj4jrv
- Women - particularly Muslim women - have no safe spaces online. @TwitterIndia do better.26.4 thousand tweets, most are abusive, rape and death threats, calling me a terror sympathiser. Most tweets are by the Indian right wing & Saudi nationalists who are attacking me after i posted a tweet in solidarity with Yemen and calling out the Saudis. Hello @TwitterIndia
- Replying to @rinachandranThe very same people who talk about giving back after they have made their billions are the same people who don’t pay their workers enough, who don’t pay their taxes, who are hoarding all the benefits of economic growth @AnandWrites #inequality
- #AmazonFire : #Brazil rainforest burning at record rate, space agency warns bbc.co.uk/news/world-lat…
- #Kerala Model vs Gujarat Model: when it comes to indices of population (declining birth rates), education (high literacy for women) and health (lower infant mortality, higher life expectancy), Kerala has done as well as parts of Europe @Ram_Guha ndtv.com/opinion/give-u…
- #India COVID-19 crisis: In the plan to boost a newfound pride, pseudoscience was promoted for the last seven years, which damaged India’s ability and preparedness to fight the coronavirus and contain the severity of the public health emergency. gulfnews.com/opinion/op-eds…
