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Also, data collected through RTIs by lawyer @socialjurist Ashok Agarwal shows the Delhi Government has managed to push students out of school in alarming numbers to show better #boardexam results.
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- India Gate. Protest against #DelhiPollution , despite heavy, scary, and overpowering police presence.
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- Replying to @ApkalWomen pay a price if they stay at home (unpaid care-giver to all members of family), and a price if they go to work. India has a long way to go in creating an equitable society.
- Salman Rushdie when asked: “Are you a feminist?” “What else is there to be? Everything else is being an asshole.”
- Ever since the #BhimaKoregaon activists’ arrest, police confiscates mobile phones before arrest or at the time of ‘raid’. Who gave them this right? Detailed Washington Post and Financial Times’ reporting has shown how stuff can be — and was — planted on mobiles and laptops. 1/2
