John Mathew @_johnmathew

An uninhibited woman-writer, a world citizen, with international acclaim, is a real challenger to parochial ideas of the ruling ideology. The lead character’s wilful breaking of borders would give puritans and conservatives sleepless nights. bit.ly/3Cv8ZTT

With #Demonetisation, the denotified notes could not be used except for a few purposes such as to buy fuel at petrol pumps, groceries at Kendriya Bhandars and medicines. They could not be used even for trade and manufacturing. scroll.in/article/100987… @arun_historian writes

“If frying pakodas is classified as employment, begging should be included as well.” The ‘pakoda’ employment is consistent with the government’s position, often articulated by the PM, that India must generate job creators, not job seekers. thewire.in/economy/pakoda…

In a hard-hitting and sharply critical interview to Karan Thapar, Ramchandra Guha has said Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s leadership style is the principal reason for the mishandling of the present COVID-19 crisis. thewire.in/government/wat…

This excoriating philippic against our hopelessly compromised fourth estate by the peerless Avay Shukla is the best thing you'll read about the Indian media today: avayshukla.blogspot.com/2020/09/once-u… How sad for our country, though, that our "free press" has been reduced to this!

Ram Mandir can’t wait for Covid vaccine. Modi is Hindutva leader first, India’s PM later News Editor @RuhiTewari writes #ThePrintOpinion bit.ly/3306ebb

Why did India buy Chinese rapid testing kits for #COVID19 when other countries have complained about its accuracy? In the words of a TV showman, the nation wants to know! theprint.in/opinion/tharoo…

How, thanks to Tablighi Jamaat, #COVID19 became the world's first circumcised & bearded virus: Shahjahan Madampat at his savage & sharp best: outlookindia.com/website/story/…

The Prime Minister’s National Relief Fund has a balance of Rs 3,800.44 crore and the PM has carte blanche on how to use that money. Why, then, was a new fund required? And why is the trust deed not in the public domain? thewire.in/government/pm-…

The @BBCNews deserves praise for reporting how Indian police corroborated with Hindutva thugs to attack Muslims during Delhi’s pogrom.

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“It was a fanatical wing of the Hindu Mahasabha directly under Savarkar that [hatched] the conspiracy and saw it through," said Sardar Patel about the assassination of Mahatma Gandhi. thewire.in/history/savark…

A wall that is over half-a-kilometre long and seven-feet-high is being constructed in Ahmedabad to hide a slum cluster from the view of US President @realDonaldTrump and PM @narendramodi. thewire.in/government/guj…

Is the CAA unconstitutional? Are BJP MPs and ministers ignorant of the sedition law? And has the Supreme Court let us down? These are three key issues that Justice A.P. Shah addresses in his special interview with Karan Thapar, for The Wire. thewire.in/rights/justice…

"Don’t you get it? We have done it! We have touched the pinnacle of non-performance, which makes us the first nation to earn the coveted title, ‘No country for a budget’." | Biting satire from Chitra Padmanabhan. thewire.in/humour/goli-ma…

In an outspoken and hard-hitting interview with Karan Thapar, @pbmehta speaks at length about Modi 2.0 and says that this government is “more insidious” than Indira Gandhi’s government of 1975-77. thewire.in/video/karan-th…

Really unfortunate that the Central Government is distributing flood aid based on their vote share. And still they accuse the opposition of votebank politics!

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Really unfortunate that the Central Government is distributing flood aid based on their vote share. And still they accuse the opposition of votebank politics!

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The same police that enter Jamia without being asked wait outside JNU to be invited to take action. Why the deafening silence Mr. Tukde Tukde Shah? Innocents no more indianexpress.com/article/opinio… via @IndianExpress

Close on the heels of the Centre denying #Kerala the additional flood relief granted to seven States, it has demanded that the State government immediately pay the cost of the rice allotted during the floods bit.ly/39SxDNA

"To include religion in KYC details is an unconstitutional move. This is the first time that banks are introducing religion as a criterion for any banking activity and must be steadfastly opposed," the Financial Accountability Network India wrote. thewire.in/banking/rbi-fe…