Cynthia Stephen

Stray dog menace mauls paper cup

paying citizens can't be suddenly disenfranchised. The once outstanding commission of India beginning to resemble a big ICE agent, making Indian citizens feel insecure. So regrettable. @GhoshAmitav @ranjanakumari @cynstepin @BrindaAdige @Sydusm @SeemaM4 @ajay43 @_YogendraYadav

In her 20s in the 1960s. She didn't know after a few decades she would become the Hazrat Zainab of modern world. Zainab, who stood in Yazid’s court after the battle of Karbala & exposed the injustice of the ruler. She, Late Zakia Jafri. The true icon of Nari Shakti. 🧵 1/13

On 1st Feb 2025 the Hazrat Zainab of this 21st century - Zakia Jafri passed away. @TeestaSetalvad tweeted Alvida Zakia Appa. Your eyes held the truth, your heart held on to hope even as the years flew by, 22 years, and a system turned away. We shall remember, we shall overcome... Zakia Jafri became a beacon of hope. The hope that gives strength to every oppressed person in this world to fight for justice against a mighty but corrupt state. Her fight was more than justice for her murdered husband. It was a fight for the idea of a secular India. And the Supreme Temple of Justice did what it is known for......... no need to say more. I wish Shri Supreme Leader mention her name as an example to Nari Shakti someday...

@rakhitripathi Illegally Seems the BDOs are deliberately stalling the paper checking even after SC directions. Must be booked for contempt of court! @rashtrapatibhvn @indSupremeCourt @MahuaMoitra @MasalaBai @_YogendraYadav @pbhushan1 @nikhilmkss @BrindaAdige @cynstepin @derekobrienmp @Sydusm

I wonder if anyone has heard such an accurate depiction of Human Voice being played on an Instrument! Really Stunning as if the violin is singing the song. This is Dr. Jobi Mathew Vembala, who is Asstt Professor at SST College of Music, Thycaud, Trivandrum, Kerala.

An activist has filed a PIL in the Nagpur Bench of the Bombay High Court demanding that the ₹40-45 lakh monthly cost of 'Z Plus' security for RSS Chief Mohan Bhagwat be recovered from him personally. The petitioner argues that using taxpayer money for a non registered organization is unjustified, citing a 2023 Supreme Court ruling on security cost recovery.

@BrindaAdige @Anjmeh @KathyayiniC @NWM_India @RuchiraAGupta @apneaap @sanlaapindia

@MamataOfficial He got intel that he is losing West Bengal & Tamilnadu both hence this drama. The downfall of Jumla @narendramodi is near !

@MamataOfficial क्या एक भी जुमला सच हुआ?

It is deeply unfortunate that the Prime Minister chose to mislead the nation rather than address it honestly. Let me put this on record. Trinamool Congress has always championed higher political representation for women. We have the highest proportion of female elected representatives in both Parliament and the State Legislature. In the Lok Sabha, 37.9% of our elected members are women. In the Rajya Sabha, we have nominated 46% women members.The question of opposing Women's Reservation does not arise and never has. What we are fundamentally opposed to is the Delimitation exercise that the Modi Government was plotting to push through by using women as a shield for its vested political agenda. What we are fundamentally opposed to is the altering of Babasaheb Ambedkar's Constitution, the division of this nation and the usurpation of power through gerrymandering, by redrawing political contours to hand greater representation to BJP-ruled states at the expense of others. This is an assault on federal democracy. And we will not watch it happen in silence. If this government was genuinely serious about this noble cause, why did it wait nearly three years after the passage of the Women’s Reservation Bill on September 28, 2023? Why rush it through when several states are in election? And why couple it with Delimitation? Trinamool Congress has stood for women for decades. We will continue to. But we will not be lectured on a subject that the ruling dispensation neither understands nor respects. And Mr. Prime Minister, the next time you address the nation, have the courage to do so from the Floor of Parliament, where you are subject to scrutiny, challenge and accountability. What you did yesterday was cowardly, hypocritical and fork-tongued. You can feel power slipping through your fingers. And you are prepared to go to any extent to hold on for just a little while longer. That is all this was.

Breaking!🚨 DMK played a Masterstroke DMK introduced a Private members bill in Rajya Sabha to provide 33% Reservation to Women without Census & Delimitation with immediate effect If BJP really cares for Women, then they should support this 🙌

The doctor walks in with two things, a medicine and an injection. The medicine is for the fever, what the patient came for. The injection is a medical trial. It carries side effects. Nobody asked for it. The doctor says: you get the medicine only after the injection. The patient asks: why, I only want the medicine for the fever. The doctor says: procedure. But here is what the doctor does not say. He controls when the injection happens. There is no date scheduled. There is no appointment booked. This is what Modi did with the Women's Reservation Bill, the medicine. India wanted the medicine. Modi bundled it with an injection called delimitation, a redrawing of constituencies that India did not ask for, did not need as a precondition, and that previous governments implemented women's reservation without. The delimitation condition is not a constitutional compulsion. It is a lock built into the law by the man who holds the key. The credit was collected in full. A special Parliament session. Historic occasion. Opposition corralled into applause. Prime time. In the end, India walked out with the fever. The medicine was always there. The doctor is a dictator.

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Let there be no confusion. Most newspapers, barring a few, have chosen headlines that misrepresent what actually happened in the Lok Sabha. Echoing the same line, several ministers and TV anchors seem to be amplifying a narrative shaped 'elsewhere.' The facts are plain and simple: the Women’s Reservation Bill remains intact. What was defeated was a poorly conceived attempt to redraw the political map of the country, pushed without consultation or consensus. Facts matter. Narratives cannot be allowed to replace them. Let that sink in.

The Constitution (131st Amendment) Bill, 2026 was defeated because the BJP tried to redraw India’s electoral map for its own political advantage, under the cover of women’s reservation, as stated by Congress President Shri @kharge & LoP Shri @RahulGandhi. The Congress has always supported 33% reservation for women in Parliament and Assemblies. We backed it then and we back it now. But why did the BJP try to tie women’s reservation to delimitation? Why was a popular reform used as a shield for a controversial political exercise? Why was there no written guarantee in the Bill to protect southern, eastern and northeastern States? If the BJP was serious about safeguarding these States, why was it left to verbal promises and speeches? HM Amit Shah’s hollow assurance to get an amendment within an hour, rang hollow, because the intent & intention for consensus was simply absent. It was a conspiracy design to weaken many states and hurt India’s Federal structure. This has now been foiled. The truth is simple: the BJP wanted to use outdated population figures to alter representation in a way that would benefit it politically, while punishing States that invested in education, healthcare and population control. This was not about women’s empowerment. It was about political engineering. The INDIA bloc saw through this design and stood united to defeat it. Now that the Bill has failed, one question remains. Will the BJP finally implement 33% reservation for women under the already enacted 2023 law? Or will it continue to use women’s reservation as a political slogan while delaying it in practice?

"Women aren't fools. They see everything. That PR and media hype( manipulation )won't work anymore...." Priyanka Gandhi ji in her Press Conference challenged Modi Government "It's a Black Day for them because they've felt a shock for the first time, which they deserved. If you ( Modi ) want to do something concrete, bring back the( Women's Reservation ) bill that was passed unanimously in 2023, supported by all parties. If you need to make a few small amendments to it so it can be implemented now, do it and implement it now. Give women their Rights, right now. But don't try to mislead them by twisting it around and attaching it to other things. Do it now. We're all ready..."

@nethrapal Have shared widely on WhatsApp to relevant groups.