Kannan Gopinathan @naukarshah@mstdn.social

In 2017, DEA Secy asked Goyal, Deputy Secretary: "Why were electoral bond details shared with RBI?"

It was after Goyal’s letter to Deputy Governor Kanungo that the disagreement between the government and the RBI came to a head.
https://indianexpress.com/article/india/in-2017-dea-secy-wrote-why-were-electoral-bond-details-shared-with-rbi-6140267/

Shameful. Beyond words.

It is now fairly clear that it is the Indian government that has spied on lawyers and human rights activists.

@naukarshah ने तो पटना वालों का दिल जीत लिया। ख़ासकर नौजवान तो बहुत ही प्रेरित हुए। निर्भय ... कन्नन!

ऐतिहासिक पटना विश्वविद्यालय के पटना कॉलेज में कन्नन।

Where Tavleen Singh finally gets it. Somewhat.

https://indianexpress.com/article/opinion/columns/sending-my-son-aatish-taseer-to-exile6110639/lite/

@naukarshah

My Mastodon experiment begins now.

Till Monday morning, I'm off Twitter and will be using Mastodon instead. Let's see how this goes!

If it goes well, I don't mind having a 2 day/week Mastodon only rule.

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The opposition to fascism can't be subtle, it needs to be in their face.

We live in a country where a parking dispute escalates to a level where policemen protest for 11 hours asking for justice and lawyers try to commit suicide by dousing themselves with kerosene.

Amaze #India is amaze.

This is the poem "Hang Him" for which Sanjay Hegde's account was blocked. Must share everyone.

KS smoothly moves to how Article 19 is not only a freedom to disseminate information. But also a right to receive information. Even for citizens outside K. Person sitting in Delhi has a right to know what is happening in J&K.

So this abrogation of right not only on persons in Kashmir but also people outside.

In the history of India, seven million lives have never been paralysed in one stroke..

This is never contemplated under this Constitution. Which is why this kind of matter has never come before this court.

It is today, Kashmir. Tomorrow it could be Nagaland.

State has to be citizen's benefactor. All restrictions on rights have to be for citizens' benefits. Cannot be abrogative of the rights.

The Rules have been completely and comprehensively flouted. All orders have to be set aside immediately.

VG next point: Review Committee to review these orders within five days is mandatory under the Rules. No averment in any affidavits that there has been any review of these shutdown orders.

So FRs of an entire State has been taken away by a process where orders are overbroad, vague, disproportionate, without reasons issued by an incompetent authority who is a police officer, and no review committee constituted or reviewed.