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Aug 28, 2018 27 tweets 11 min read
Early Tuesday morning, a team of Pune police raided the houses of activists Vernon Gonsalves and Arun Ferreira in Mumbai and also the home and office of activist Stan Swamy, 83, in Ranchi, among others.

A little background in this thread: scroll.in/latest/892159/… On January 1, 2018 clashes broke out in and around Bhima Koregaon, the site of an annual Dalit gathering. Dalits claimed they had been attacked by people with saffron flags, while Marathas claimed they had been attacked by Dalits. scroll.in/article/863605…
Jul 29, 2018 16 tweets 8 min read
Thread of Justice BN Srikrishna #dataprotection committee analysis:

Here's @Ujwala_U, saying the draft Bill puts digital economy ahead of individual’s rights over data scroll.in/article/888371… Next, @smithakprasad argues that there are gaps between that the report says would be ideal and what the draft Bill actually delivers: scroll.in/article/888365…