Leonard Fernandes
@leonardjensan
Co-founder: @dogearsetc, @cinnamonteal, @publishingnext. Founding member, @bookshopsindia. Tweets mainly on books/bookselling in India. #supportindiebookstores
Our rather small bookshop. If you are in South Goa, do drop by.
timesofindia.indiatimes.com/education/news… A figure that has been thrown for many years now, in the absence of reliable data. Look at the figures for other countries. India, meanwhile, has a nice, round figure.
Reminder: Nazis didn’t think they were the bad guys. They thought they were fighting to preserve Western civilisation. Sound familiar?
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
A joint statement on Gaza from AFP, AP, BBC News and Reuters
The israelis admit they destroyed over 1,000 trucks of humanitarian aid meant for Gaza including food, vital medical supplies and bottled water qudsnen.co/israel-buries-…
This is performative aid. Not effective, not safe and utterly dehumanising.
BREAKING: Israel to allow foreign countries to drop aid into Gaza from today, a senior IDF official tells Sky News 🔗 Read more trib.al/meMidLt
I'm sorry if this is antisemitic but I think it's wrong to deliberately starve thousands of children to death.
Beheaded babies. Mass gang rapes. Hamas HQ under hospitals, Blocking ceasefires, Stealing aid … Israel says jump. Western media says: “How high should we lie?” Every blood-soaked fairytale gets debunked—after the bombs fall, the children die, and the headlines move on.
Breaking News: Israeli military officials say they have no proof Hamas routinely steals UN aid, undercutting a claim Israel has used to limit food for Gaza. nyti.ms/4opoK4n
I'm not sure that people realize how abnormal it is for journalists to be killed in wars. More have been killed in Gaza (232) than in the Civil War, World Wars I and II, the Korean War, the Vietnam War (+Cambodia and Laos), the Yugoslav wars, and the Afghanistan war, combined.
Breaking: An Israeli airstrike just killed Adam Yahya Abu Harbid, a cameraman for Al-Quds Al-Youm channel, along with all members of his family, after targeting their tent in Al-Yarmouk market in Gaza City.
Pythagorean Theorem? Gone. Theory of Evolution? Gone. Periodic Table? Also gone. At this rate, NCERT might soon replace textbooks with WhatsApp forwards. What are we even teaching our kids?
In January 2024, on the basis of Israeli claims that 12 UNRWA employees out of 30,000 might be Hamas, the US, UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and others stopped funding UNRWA, de-legitimatising the UN aid model and directly paving the way for Israel's final solution in Gaza
The idea that Hamas is a major reason why Gazan civilians lack aid is just Israeli propaganda to cover for its deliberate attempt to starve the population
Exclusive: USAID analysis found no evidence of massive Hamas theft of Gaza aid | Reuters reuters.com/world/middle-e…
India was the first non-Arab country to recognise Palestine as a state back in the ‘80s.
We strongly condemn President Macron’s decision to recognize a Palestinian state next to Tel Aviv in the wake of the October 7 massacre. Such a move rewards terror and risks creating another Iranian proxy, just as Gaza became. A Palestinian state in these conditions would be a…
No coming back from this. Everyone has been changed forever. And I genuinely don’t think those people who enabled Israel’s genocide realise that. They’ll never write another column or make another speech without being reminded of their blood soaked hands.
Why is there no outrage over this witch hunt of Bengali speaking Muslims?
“I’ve not eaten for the past three days.” Kabir, 51 who came from Delhi, was picked up the police just because he speaks Bengali and is a muslim? Read: hindi.newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur… newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur…
“I’ve not eaten for the past three days.” Kabir, 51 who came from Delhi, was picked up the police just because he speaks Bengali and is a muslim? Read: hindi.newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur… newslaundry.com/2025/07/25/gur…
if you're wondering why 'the dam has broken' on Gaza, it's simple. Israel carried out their final solution. It's done. Every town has been flattened, everyone still alive is experiencing a level of famine they can't come back from. Criticizing it now is too late. That's why.
Palestine is recognized as a state by 147 countries, and that hasn’t prevented a genocide. Don’t be distracted by performative western BS by its corrupt leaders.