Jasmine Kaur 🌈

had the opportunity of writing about imtiaz ali's amar singh chamkila for @epw_in thanks to @Ankit_Kawade_ ! please don't hesitate to dm/email for an unpaywalled version epw.in/journal/2024/1…

#TransRights #RejectTransBill2026

The audaciousness of Indian forward caste with which they claim their unequal share & right to oppress/marginalise is sickening. Our society legitimises inequality. Equitable distribution of resources, access, and simply to live should not be controversial.

This is seriously depressing, but not surprising. It's the 'anti-woke' side of left circles. Chomsky: 'the hysteria that has developed about abuse of women.'

@Taimur_Laal possible answer: philpapers.org/archive/NGUHTG…

What is it about Twitter that makes people so nasty? No other platform is even close to twitter in terms of nastiness? Why?

This is the most exhaustive effort to map the organisational network of the RSS, based on the extensive academic effort of a team led by @FelixPal8, hosted at @sciencespo, and fact-checked and mapped by @thecaravanindia. Nothing of this scale has been attempted earlier. Here👇🏾

If you haven't already read @kavita_krishnan's piece on what Noam Chomsky’s friendship with Jeffrey Epstein says about progressive politics, now is the time to read it scroll.in/article/108902…

More bad news for mobile phone users in India (after SIM binding): Our government is mandating a government app (sanchar saathi) on every new phone, permanently, Reuters reports. Will be pushed to your phone via OTA. New smartphones need to have it. Users cannot delete it. This is a first. India has never before required an unremovable state app on every device. Russia does btw, with its MAX Messenger (started September 2025). A few comments regarding this: 1. Sanchar Saathi is a lost phone tracker, but if it gets embedded with no possibility of removal, it becomes a government tracker on your device. IF the government is allowed to get away with this, what’s next? A mandatory digital ID app? Digiyatra forcefully installed on each device? An app that disables VPNs or tracks your app and browser history? An app that sends copies of your messages to the government once a month? Once the OS layer is opened to the state, it doesn’t close. 2. Legally, one can argue that your mobile phone is your personal space, and this is an invasion of your personal space. It’s where we have our most private conversations. Exchange sensitive information with people we trust. How do we know this app isn’t used to access files and messaging on our device, which is unencrypted on device? Or a future update won’t do that? This is clearly an invasion of our privacy. 3. Remember how the government exempt itself from much of the Data Protection Law. This explains why. The Data Protection Law will make private companies more accountable and the Indian government less accountable. 4. Bloatware is already an issue with some phones (It’s why I don’t use Samsung). Now there’s more, and this time the government is forcing bloatware. I guess we’ll all have to root our phones now. When you buy a phone with bloatware, you're choosing to buy it with bloatware. This is different. 5. The way things work with India’s Department of Telecom, there was no public consultation, the order wasn’t disclosed. Just forced. This is dictatorial in nature. If they get away with this, more will follow.

Frustrated by the poor condition of the Mumbai-Ahmedabad national highway (NH‑48), severe traffic congestion over 100 residents from the Naigaon-Chinchoti-Vasai area have written to PM Modi, seeking permission to die by suicide. They complained that what was once a one-hour commute for them has, over the past two months, stretched to five or six hours.

"Many poor commuters work or live within a few kms of each other and rarely travel the long distances that justify train travel. This casts serious doubts on the government’s motivations behind hemorrhaging money on the Metro, instead of fortifying other modes of transport."

@januskopfs exportify and then spotify2mp3

Does anyone have tips on how to migrate your liked songs library to a different app if you’re trying to leave Spotify? Same question about migrating documents from Google Docs to other applications? Please help, thank you.

Let that sink in. I mean really sink in. Global military spending at £2,700,000,000,000. This is enough Money to fix world hunger 25 times over.

We’ve launched the Savitribai Phule Resource Centre in Gadchiroli to empower SC/ST students through higher education. Classes have begun, but admissions are still open. I appeal to all friends and well-wishers—support us in sustaining this important initiative. @src_networks

Decolonial-Debrahmanical-Deimperial (D3) Research Network Read w/us - open.substack.com/pub/d3research… Connect w/us - docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAI…

i am looking to move into pre-occupied flats with female(s) in locations like noida (!!), hauz khas or okhla by august. if anyone has these locations in mind, wants to room w me, or even house hunt together, please do reach out <3

@coffeesufi it's gonna be okay

can someone hug me very tightly and tell me it's gonna be okay or st@b me multiple times? either of it is okay

@coffeesufi relatable

at a bad place since yesternight (gurgaon)

We need public cooling — massive air-conditioned community centres like libraries/art galleries/museums where working class Indians can shelter from heat. We need shade trees on city streets. We need urban parks and waterbodies. We need a national climate emergency.

Kuffir Da is co-founder of Round Table India. His work revolutionized anti-caste knowledge production and gave voice to countless people from marginalized communities. He is now bedridden after a stroke and needs urgent support. Please support and amplify.

From a restless, mischievous baby in my arms to a smart young man by my side. Then. And now. . . . At the launch of my book, The Reluctant Mother: A Story No One Wants To Tell