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Just one more person in the universe. On Twitter for fun. For equality and peace in this inequal world.
Katılım Şubat 2021
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@PadmajaJoshi Wonder what might be split between gushing ‘aw so cute’ and facepalm
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When there is nothing to hide, there is nothing to fear.
What happens to India’s image when the world sees a compromised PM panic and run from a few questions?
Helle Lyng@HelleLyngSvends
Primeminister of India, Narendra Modi, would not take my question, I was not expecting him to. Norway has the number one spot on the World Press Freedom Index, India is at 157th, competing with Palestine, Emirates & Cuba. It is our job to question the powers we cooperate with.
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It’s astounding how a democratically elected & by all accounts, popular, prime minister has not held ONE open press conference in 12 years. There have been addresses to the nation, election speeches, monologues at public rallies, there has been a lot of ‘mann ki baat’, but not one free Q&A session with the press.
For a leader who has had overwhelming voter sentiment in his favour for a decade, holding an unscripted conference should never have been an issue. And yet, here we are.
This isn’t lack of confidence. This is complete disdain for the press — a message to us that I will never allow you to ask me questions and yet, you will report on every single word I say. It is a message of contempt. It is a misplaced sense of power.
Manisha Pande@MnshaP
The Norway and Netherlands episodes are consistent with a communications posture Modi has maintained throughout his more than a decade in power: no open, unscripted press conferences, at home or abroad.
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@YRDeshmukh @RuhiTewari The posts are getting longer. Mohandas Pai is also on it. Modiji has roped in all his influencers to justify
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Agree with everything you said, just extending the last line with a different PoV. I totally agree with you that this is total contempt towards media for sure, which is rooted in his personal experience on how he was treated by the same media twenty years back. He felt targetted. Let's agree on one thing that our much celebrated editors way back then were equally compromised to the other side of spectrum, so I can't really blame him for that contempt. Modi realised he can't trust the media for his messaging and opened up a direct line of communication with voters. The new age social media platforms came handy in that process. And all of a sudden the role of media became redundant in that context. So all in all, the fault isn't his alone, imho. Yes, in a civilised constitutional democratic norms, we would have loved an open press conference. But looking at way Donald Trump is treating American media in his open press conferences, it feels like almost a saving grace that we are getting a contempt of non-engagement. Not sure if a certain Amit Shah or Yogi or Himanta Biswa Sarma or even Kejriwal or DK Shivkumar for that matter would be any different from Trump treatment if they were to occupy the top post some day.
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@HelleLyngSvends @NotAfangirll_ You are getting a new set of fans.
You are showing mirror to all of Indian media.
You are a star
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@HelleLyngSvends @peeleraja @bainjal This will be mind blowing experience for you as a journalist. You will (if have not already) that our PM has an entire defence ecosystem- which protects him 🙂. Gaslighting is a preferred deterrent
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@bainjal I was just getting water and came back 😊 thank you for your perspective.
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Narayana Murthy trashes AI as hype, asks IT leaders to be less greedy ndtv.com/india-news/nar…

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🚨India loses all spots in world's top 100 companies as equity crash bites
For the first time in years, not a single Indian company figures among the world's top 100 listed firms by market capitalisation , a measure of how deeply and relentlessly the selloff in domestic equities has cut.
Reliance Industries, the country's most valued firm, has slipped to around 106th globally from 57th at the start of 2025 and 73rd at the start of 2026. HDFC Bank, India's most valued lender, now ranks 190th, down from 97th at the start of 2025.
Bharti Airtel stands at 202nd, falling from 164th at the start of 2026. ICICI Bank and State Bank of India have dropped to 274th and 276th respectively, from 215th and 231st at the start of 2026.
The decline has been sharpest among India's top technology stocks. TCS, the country's largest software exporter, has seen the steepest fall, with its global rank dropping to 314th from 84th at the start of 2025 and 171st at the start of 2026.
Infosys, India's second largest IT firm, now ranks 590th, down from 198th at the start of 2025 and 330th at the start of 2026. ITC has slipped to 702nd from 296th and 466th at the start of 2025 and 2026 respectively.
By @rravindia
moneycontrol.com/news/business/…
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@HelleLyngSvends He has. It done a single press conference in 12 years. It would be great if he actually engages
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The Hathras case that shook the nation not just for the sheer brutality of it but also the manner in which it was handled by the UP govt. A must watch documentary by @TanushreePande
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