Kunal Vohra
@VohraKunal
Film-maker
My documentary, Longen Folk To Go On Pilgrimage, is an official selection at the 8th Kolkata People's Film Festival (March 31 to April 3). The film looks at various aspects of the Kanwar Yatra: from the religio-cultural to the socio-economic, from the environmental issues 1/2
NEW: 🇮🇱 Israel confiscates baby formula from foreign doctors at Gaza checkpoints — British surgeon Nick Maynard 'No formula allowed in. Every carton seized'
That it's become an issue because of sanitation issues it's apparently leading to, rather than the targeting of Muslim migrants, which is what it's really about, says everything about the kind of society we are.
Bengali workers are fleeing or hiding across Gurgaon in an apparent drive to catch "Bangladeshis". The radio silence on this matter is SICK. Pigs screw over people's lives for power games, the powerful support it w 0 empathy, and the rest only moan about city services collapsing.
Director General of Hospitals in the Gaza Strip, Dr. Mohammed Zaqout: Gaza is experiencing a horrific famine… More than 100 people have died due to malnutrition, including 90 children.
Please watch this. If you're American or British, you're paying for the mass famine Israel has been imposing and continues to impose on Gaza. Alex de Waal is a leading famine scholar who has worked on most recent famines. Listen to what he says here about starvation in Gaza:
Mass starvation expert Alex de Waal warns that the humanitarian crisis in Gaza is the “most intense, most severe,” and “minutely engineered” act of deliberate starvation since World War II:
To keep the entire lot of these genocidal maniacs in prison for the rest of their natural lives would be the kindest punishment the world can hand these guys.
Horrible and the most horrific testimony you will ever hear I have spoken on a space with @AbujomaaGaza, who explained the process of the “Death Traps” the GHF have created…I quote “regularly posts the aid distribution schedule on Facebook. Each time, around 60,000 to 70,000…
Have some shame, don't leave Gaza alone. Enter Gaza now. Stop the famine, you can.
How can anyone function normally while knowing a trapped population is being starved? This isn’t normal!!!!!!!! This isn’t ok!!!! Our governments are supporting this!!!
Ambulance sirens are sounding simultaneously across the #Gaza Strip in a coordinated distress signal, highlighting the escalating famine and the collapse of the healthcare system. (Source: IG: mohammed_fayq) The world is about to witness the mass death of thousands due to an…
The forced starvation of the Palestinians can be solved in 24 hours. OPEN THE FUCKING GATES!!! OPEN THE FUCKING GATES!!! OPEN THE FUCKING GATES!!! OPEN THE FUCKING GATES!!! OPEN THE FUCKING GATES!!!
Wtf is wrong with the whole world??? We're STARVING in Gaza, literally no food at all!!!
Today, we’ve literally nothing to eat. I’m not exaggerating. I have money, but there’s simply nothing to buy and I swear I can’t stand this hanger How much worse can things possibly get?
Our greatest dreams have become just a piece of bread.
We talked about this before. Someone did. A lot did. But I don't care about being repetitive more being clear. I find myself increasingly disturbed by the narrowness of the narrative we are forced to deploy: Israel kills women and children. As if the horror needs gender or age…
"...the complicit State allows the pilgrims a sense of power they otherwise don't possess in their everyday lives. And, when this comes riding a tidal wave of entitlement, it becomes more than just a simple manifestation of religiosity. It becomes a platform for Hindutva..."
Kanwar Yatra is state’s way to let the impoverished working class hooliganize, and dominate streets to feel powerful for a brief period. A class which would otherwise, if not kept busy in such religious bacchanalian, would perhaps demand some modicum of dignity from the rulers.
We need a sky under which kids won't just die.
Among the many things that have changed since 2014, the one that has allowed the maximum damage to happen to India is the inversion of the idea of journalism and what/who it is meant to serve.
Does any Indian journalist interviewing a Pakistani politician on Op Sindoor, Lashkar & Jaish expect a real answer? If not, why go through an exercise that achieves nothing for India, allows their core audiences gloating rights & doesnt even move story forward journalistically?
Two more sewage deaths in the National capital, that too in a hospital premises. Same story repeated - forced to work in toxic fumes without any safety gears! It is also the same story of criminal administrative negligence and political apathy! #stopkillingus #dalitlivesmatter
This could have been written today, but it was written over 50 years ago. Think about that. Think about all that suffering. This is Zionism.