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#Event | @thewire_in presents 'Urdu Hai Jiska Naam' A two-day event to celebrate the history and diversity of Urdu. Join us for engaging discussions, qissagoi, mushaira, storytelling for children, and lots more! 📅August 1 & 2 📍Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi 🔴Free Entry!

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A two-day event to celebrate the history and diversity of Urdu. Join us for engaging discussions, qissagoi, mushaira, storytelling for children, and lots more!

📅August 1 &amp; 2
📍Jawahar Bhawan, New Delhi
🔴Free Entry!

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The Wire@thewire_in · 9 h

The Bombay High Court Should Know that Prevention of Genocide Is Everyone's Business @sarayupani✍️ thewire.in/law/bombay-hig…

thewire_in's tweet card. A court which truly cared about the dearth of widespread activism about any of these issues would recognise the root cause – the decimation of civil society and spaces for free speech and dissent.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 9 h

Backstory: Indian Media No Longer Dares to Go into the Dark Labyrinth of Torture A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson. @pamelaphilipose✍️ thewire.in/media/backstor…

thewire_in's tweet card. A fortnightly column from The Wire's ombudsperson.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 10 h

#Report | Reality of Modi’s Free Flat Scheme for Juggiwallas Swabhiman Apartments in Delhi expose cracks in the in-situ rehab promise—200+ jhuggis razed, families left in limbo amid poor infrastructure. | @VishalBadgal3, @malvika_chy Watch Now: youtube.com/watch?v=AitsSC…

thewire_in's tweet image. #Report | Reality of Modi’s Free Flat Scheme for Juggiwallas

Swabhiman Apartments in Delhi expose cracks in the in-situ rehab promise—200+ jhuggis razed, families left in limbo amid poor infrastructure. | @VishalBadgal3, @malvika_chy

Watch Now: youtube.com/watch?v=AitsSC…

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The Wire@thewire_in · 11 h

J&K Admin Suspends Two Policemen Over Killing of Gujjar Man, New Details Emerge @Gaamuk✍️ thewire.in/government/jam…

thewire_in's tweet card. Shot by police, Mohammad Parvez lay in an injured state in a suburban area of Jammu for some “15 to 20 minutes” before a police team arrived to take him to the hospital.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 11 h

India's Democracy on a Precipice: Will the State Take a Step Back in Bihar? Badri Raina✍️ thewire.in/government/dem…

thewire_in's tweet card. Contravening the constitutional provision, the Election Commission has cavalierly sought recourse to the US system by asking citizens to fill out forms justifying their status as voters.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 12 h

#TheInterview | In response to SIR & compromised EC, Opposition Should Boycott Elections: @Planet_Deb to Karan Thapar Full Conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=b4T7fW…

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The Wire@thewire_in · 12 h

'Sarzameen' is a Daft Bollywood Melodrama Oversimplifying Kashmir’s Militancy Problem Kayoze Irani’s film is heavily inspired from American action films set in the Middle East which valorise the US armed forces. @LunkyFallow✍️ thewire.in/film/sarzameen…

thewire_in's tweet card. Kayoze Irani’s film is heavily inspired from American action films set in the Middle East which valorise the US armed forces.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 13 h

#TheInterview by Karan Thapar: "If not one already, Israel's on the fast road to becoming a pariah state; it's guilty of genocide in Gaza": @gershonbaskin Full conversation: youtube.com/watch?v=_ZIj0x…

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The Wire@thewire_in · 13 h

It's the Small Things | Between the (Train) Lines What was the point of this endless loop? Sankhya Ravi✍️ thewire.in/society/its-th…

thewire_in's tweet card. What was the point of this endless loop?

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The Wire@thewire_in · 14 h

It's the Small Things | What's Enough? A small step to begin that long journey is enough. Kanishk Chaudhry✍️ thewire.in/society/its-th…

thewire_in's tweet card. A small step to begin that long journey is enough.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 14 h

In Graphs: Where India's Underweight Children Live The Union women and child development ministry's numbers, released in a parliament reply, show the extent of stunting and wasting among children. @Banjotkaur✍️ thewire.in/health/in-grap…

thewire_in's tweet card. The Union women and child development ministry's numbers, released in a parliament reply, show the extent of stunting and wasting among children.

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The Wire@thewire_in · 14 h

Asked to Investigate UPA Govt's Use of 'Fake Notes' That Never Were: Ex-Finance Secretary Subhash Garg @SravastiDasgup2✍️ thewire.in/government/fin…

thewire_in's tweet card. In his new book Garg writes there was ‘suspicion in the mind of the PMO that the previous government had used the currency note printing presses to print notes over and above what were officially...

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