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In case you missed it: How the government made corals disappear off the Great Nicobar coast
True Story episode with @_Vaishnavi_R
WATCH: youtube.com/watch?v=I4GPep…
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Jeslyn George
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Unapologetically Feminist…. opinionated 😃… wary of all political parties, specifically the BJP…My motto… in a world where you can be anything, be kind…
Katılım Şubat 2022
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To Understand
#TheGreatNicobarProject, watch Kunal Kamra's 22-minute video, "GoodBye Nicobar."
The Great Nicobar Project will destroy not just 850,000 trees, but approximately 10 million.
The government's sole aim is to benefit Adani.
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Rahul Gandhi just walked through the forest Modi wants to flatten.
Here’s what won’t make it to the press release:
→ Govt told Parliament 8.65 lakh trees would be felled. Scientists say the actual number is 1 CRORE+
→ Adani Group filed an official expression of interest to build the Great Nicobar port
→ ANIIDCO literally self-certified its own environmental clearance; its MD was simultaneously the Environment & Forests Secretary of the islands
→ The Chief Secretary who chairs ANIIDCO’s board was also on the committee investigating complaints against the project
→ Coastal maps were quietly reclassified from CRZ-1A (prohibited) → CRZ-B (permitted) to make the port “legal”; with zero public disclosure of the methodology
→ The Nicobarese tribes withdrew their consent in 2022, citing unsettled forest rights. The project moved forward anyway
This is a UNESCO Biosphere Reserve. Two national parks. The last home of the Shompen people; all 200 of them.
And the government is bulldozing it for a port that Adani wants to run.
Rahul Gandhi is right. This isn’t a project.
It’s a heist in the tricolour’s clothing.
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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The “great nicobar” development project include
-A thermal power plant that will produce coal ash
-Data centre that will guzzle water and emit heat in sensitive bio diverse zone
-Gouge corals and plant them in other places (no joke, the doc state it)
-Take over the only nesting site and the water route that leads to it of the leather back turtles
-Pave sea fronts with concrete that are nests of an amazing native bird - megapod
-chop off the most unique to this island of million years old canopy trees.
One has to be depraved to be destroying this most sensitive bio diversity hotspot for resorts, data centre and what not.
The politics for environmental protection has to rise up and that’s why happy to see him talking about it.
@RahulGandhi
Rahul Gandhi@RahulGandhi
I travelled through Great Nicobar today. These are the most extraordinary forests I have ever seen in my life. Trees older than memory. Forests that took generations to grow. The people on this island are equally beautiful - both the adivasi communities and the settlers - but they are being robbed of what is rightfully theirs. The government calls what it is doing here a “Project.” What I have seen is not a project. It is millions of trees marked for the axe. It is 160 square kilometres of rainforest condemned to die. It is communities that have been ignored while their homes have been snatched away. This is not development. This is destruction dressed in development’s language. So I will say it plainly, and I will keep saying it: what is being done in Great Nicobar is one of the biggest scams and gravest crimes against this country’s natural and tribal heritage in our lifetime. It must be stopped. And it can be stopped - if Indians choose to see what I have seen.
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Open letter to @svembu
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Dear Sir,
Amongst the trickle of those who come back to India - most do it for personal reasons. Some miss their family (others want to get away from them) Some miss the convenience of house helps (others we are told, fall in love with 10 minute delivery & UPI payments)
In the 2000's there was a time when post liberalisation euphoria and India's rapid economic climb - encouraged people to come back to their motherland. That that was the time when folks came back with a missionary zeal, the concept of 'reverse brain drain' had started to take root...now India is the global leader of exporting skilled labour & talent.
It seems that our political leadership takes inspiration from China's political authoritarianism - but not what it did to become an economic powerhouse. China did not beg folks to come back to motherland - it launched the Thousand Talents Plan - incentivising the best and brightest to come back home. We haven't tried yet.
Even your plea to Indians abroad - is trying to play on the fears to NRIs that they will get trapped in the battle between the 'hard right' & 'woke left' .... so the reason for coming back to India is not growth / opportunity / better life / healthier environment - but escaping persecution and xenophobia that is increasing. Still Indians are choosing to stay back. (Why?)
You spoke a lot about respect & I agree that global respect today comes from a nation's technological prowess. The question that you need to ask is - why is it - that despite 'producing sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess' we are nowhere on the technological horizon? Do have the courage to ask why has the Govt allowed the systematic decay of scientific thinking & R&D??
Forget getting talent back from America tomorrow... are we doing anything to stop the fleeing of talent abroad today? Where is the missionary zeal of the Govt in that?? Or the focus is ripping the social fabric more and getting more votes???
Finally about the respect that India always had abroad. That was not because of our nuclear bombs, our market size or chest thumping leaders - Indians ALWAYS got the respect because of our cultured civilisational values, non violent attitude, proclivity for hard work & family values.
You would have to agree Sridhar, that we are literally abandoning all this - while chasing some some false bravado, as if this is a Bollywood movie.
In the real world - unless and until we introspect where we went wrong, all this begging and pleading will be of no use & that brain drain will only keep increasing.
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PS - The introspection should begin at home.
Sridhar Vembu@svembu
Open letter to Indians in America. -- Dear brothers and sisters from Bharat: Like I did 37 years ago, you arrived in America with no money but with a good education and cultural heritage from Bharat. You achieved outstanding success. America was good to us. For that we must remain grateful - gratitude is our Bharatiya way. Yet today, a significant number of Americans, may be not the majority but not too far from it either, believe that Indians "take away" American jobs and our success in America was unfairly earned. You may think the next election will fix this, but your choice would be between people who hate our Bharatiya civilisation and people who hate civilisation itself. That is the "hard right" vs "woke left" battle. You are mere bystanders to that conflict. Meanwhile there is one thing that is true now and will be true in the future: the respect Indians command world-wide will substantially depend on the fortunes of India herself. If India remains poor, the woke left will give us moral lectures with pity and the hard right, different moral lectures with scorn ("hellhole") and we must not confuse either with respect. Respect in today's world, along with prosperity and security, comes from one source: a nation's technological prowess. India produces sufficient brain power to achieve that prowess but alas we exported so much of that talent, particularly to America. As we develop that prowess in India, our civilisational strength will assert itself. As difficult as it is for many of you to contemplate this, please come back home. Bharat Mata needs your talent. Our vast youthful population needs the technology leadership you gained over the years to guide them towards prosperity. Let's do it with a missionary zeal. Respectfully Sridhar Vembu
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An example is being made… no one should even think of doing this again…. That’s the message that is going out…. !!
Manu🇮🇳🇮🇳@mshahi0024
📍So the harassment of the Mumbai woman has begun. My colleague and I were discussing this same issue two days back after this Mumbai woman episode. Although he is not a Modi fan, he said that since the issue is now viral, no action will be taken against her. I said, if you think BJP will let her go like this, then you are mistaken. She will probably be harassed so much to make an example out of her, to ensure nobody dares to take such a step in the future. BJP is a party that can fall so low, nobody can imagine.
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@Nher_who Really??? Example of bravery??? A man who murdered women for showing hair? Now he becomes a brave man??? He was a vile man much like Trump and Netanyahu….
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Reporter: Why was Leader Ali #Khamenei at his residence?
Security official: Mr. Khamenei insisted on continuing his life normally without any exceptional measures like hiding in bunkers
Man this guy was an example of Bravery
He knew he would die, still choose to fight back !!
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Jeslyn George retweetledi
All religions oppress women, the degree varies but they all do. Women suffer the most in a dictatorship. But more than two things can be true too. While I don't understand how anyone can be celebrating the assassination of leaders of sovereign nations by another nation, we cannot ignore the fact that the same leader was a dictator and his strict Islamic regime oppressed women. Just weird to celebrate a man because he supported Palestine. He doesn't get a free pass because he did that. Things are not black and white and more nuanced.
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I still remember my time in Netaji Nagar, South Delhi. It was the early 2000s. Three of us Northeastern women professionals shared a rented flat. We were working, independent, trying to build our careers in the capital like thousands of other young people.
I also had a dog.
A stray who found us and decided we were his people.
We called him Dylan.
One day, Dylan slipped outside without his leash for a few seconds. Before I could react, a neighbour stopped his car outside our house. I had seen him around. I assumed he was decent.
He rolled down his window and said, “Keep your dog tied. We know what all goes on inside this house.”
And then he drove off.
I stood there, frozen.
It wasn’t about the dog.
It wasn’t about the leash.
It was about three Northeastern women living together in South Delhi.
The insinuation was clear. The judgement was automatic. The racism was casual.
I didn’t shout back. Shock does that to you. It silences you in the moment and then replays itself in your head for years.
That was more than 20 years ago.
And here we are again.
Three Arunachali women were harassed over something as trivial as dust falling after an AC repair. They were allegedly called 'massage waalis' etc., etc. The script hasn’t changed. Just the decade.
We have seen this before. We saw it in the tragic death of Nido Tania and, again, recentlt Angel Chakma in Dehradun after racial slurs and assault. We have seen it in countless cities. And I am certain we have not seen half of it, because so much goes unreported.
Twenty years later, the same language.
The same suspicion.
The same moral policing.
The same othering.
Sometimes people say, “You’re overreacting.”
But this is not a one-off. It is a pattern.
I have now lived in Australia for over 15 years. Have I seen racism here? Of course, no society is perfect. But I can say honestly, I do not experience the frequency and brazenness of racial stereotyping here the way I did in Delhi as a Northeastern woman.
Which is why I find it ironic when some Indians living abroad are quick to label Australia as deeply racist, while refusing to examine the prejudice that exists within our own society.
We cannot demand dignity globally and deny it locally.
Diversity conversations cannot just be corporate slogans. Inclusion cannot just be panel discussions. It has to begin in neighbourhoods, in apartment blocks, in the language we use for women who look different from us.
Sometimes it begins with something as small as a dog named Dylan. And sometimes it begins with finally admitting that this is not oversensitivity. It is lived experience.
Twenty years is a long time.
How many more decades will it take before these stories stop repeating?
#racism #NorthEast #MalviyaNagar #ArunachalPradesh
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@follow_amj You really don’t understand the issue correctly. You can eat or choose not to eat beef! It’s the choice that we have is what makes me a proud Malayali. Same with pork. No one can force anyone to do anything in Kerala. Thats the beauty that shoukd be celebrated!
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I am a Kerala Christian!
I don’t eat beef.
And I am proud of it!!
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Where’s the women’s commission? Or are they only to take action against people of certain parties?!
Rajesh Griglani@griglani
I am utterly aghast, ashamed, and heartbroken watching this video from the Rajasthan Assembly. Here we have Bahadur Singh Koli, a BJP MLA, shamelessly spewing sexist venom during a budget debate-comparing the BJP's budget to the "birth of a boy" that's "always useful," while dismissing the Congress's as the "birth of a girl," implying it's worthless and the reason they're in opposition. What kind of regressive, patriarchal poison is this? In 2026, when we're supposed to be building a progressive India, elected representatives from the ruling BJP-NDA alliance are openly degrading women and girls on the floor of the house! This isn't just a slip of the tongue; it's a window into the deep-seated misogyny and gender bias that plagues our government. No wonder India's sex ratio continues to plummet-mindsets like this fuel female foeticide, discrimination, and violence against women. How many more girls must suffer because of such toxic "Manuwadi" ideology that treats daughters as burdens and sons as assets? It's sickening, and it makes my blood boil. I fail to understand: Why do women in India still vote for these scums? Sisters, mothers, daughters—you make up half our population, yet you empower parties that belittle you at every turn. Is it fear? Conditioning? False promises? Wake up! Your vote is your power; don't hand it to those who see you as second-class. And men-every single one of you was born from a woman. Your mothers carried you, nurtured you, sacrificed for you. How can you support a Manuwadi party like the BJP that peddles this garbage? Are you blind to the hypocrisy? These rascals, these Male Chauvinist Pigs (MCPs) in suits, sit in power because of your votes too. Until we throw these misogynists out of government—MLAs, MPs, the whole NDA cabal—we'll never achieve true equality, liberty, or justice in this country. This video isn't an isolated incident; it's symptomatic of a larger rot. We've seen BJP leaders make derogatory remarks about women time and again—from "item girls" slurs to victim-blaming in rape cases. Enough is enough! Let's demand accountability. Tag your representatives, share this far and wide, and vow to vote for change. Women deserve respect, not ridicule. India deserves better. @RahulGandhi @priyankagandhi @kharge @kcvenugopalmp @MukulWasnik @JitendraSAlwar @girishgoaINC @AlankarSawai @vidyarthee @PratishthaINC @LambaAlka @SupriyaShrinate @NayakRagini @RichaChadha @sonalpateldatta @MahilaCongress @pravchak @KRajuINC @ShayarImran @tarinid #MisogynyInPolitics #BJPFailsWomen #GenderEqualityNow #ThrowOutTheMCPs #ManuwadiExposed #RajasthanAssembly #VoteWisely
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അരി പത്തിരി ബീഫ്, പുട്ട് ബീഫ്, ബീഫ് നെയ്ച്ചോർ ഇത് ആണ് എന്റെ ഫേവറിറ്റ്
ദ.മൂ@DasaMool
നെയ്പ്പത്തൽ വലിയ താത്പര്യം ഇല്ല. റവ ഉപ്പുമാവ്, നീർ ദോശ, സാധാ ദോശ, വെള്ളപ്പം, പാലപ്പം ഒക്കെ കിടുക്കനാണ് ✌️❤️
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Admirable !! But how pathetic to see no one came to support her… I guess we’re all desensitised to everything these days!
MN@NizzUtd
An elderly woman in Kozhikode, Kerala, bravely stopped a scooty rider from misusing the footpath and sent him back to the road. Her civic sense and determination truly deserve appreciation.
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@ajay43 Actually it’s not a surprise…. Kerala men are as patriarchal as they come…. No difference from any other men!
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Over the last two days, idiotic Kerala men making idiotic reels have completely destroyed their own image and proved themselves to be as misogynistic and patriarchal as anybody else.
Surprise, surprise! 🙄
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@gauravsabnis Yeah….There’s no north or south or east or west…Men are the same shitty men everywhere, every single where!! Kerala is as patriarchal as they come…. Absolutely no difference… please dont let anyone tell you otherwise! The last week has shown what the literate state really is!
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When real life writes a better rebuttal than you ever could.
Deepu@deepu_drops
Kerala showing no mercy to the accused 'Shimjitha Musthafa' 👹
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@deepu_drops Please stay in your cages, please don’t come out, at least women and girls will be safe!!
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@simplychoo I always say, Kerala men are as progressive as they want to be. We women experience freedom but only how much they will allow us to have!! Patriarchy runs very deep indeed…
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Don’t come at me. This is my lived reality.
Kerala men are often branded as "progressive" but in my experience, that progressiveness is largely performative.
Patriarchy runs deep, especially among those born and brought up in Kerala.
I have never felt comfortable travelling +
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