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Rahul Pandita

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Journalist, author, student of India. Long-distance runner. Mathematics and cognition. Hermitage seeker. Carnegie Distinguished Fellow @ColumbiaIGP

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1Jul 4, '24I have all respect for cricket and those who play it. But it’s a bit scary to see how much free time people have in the middle of a weekday for something as inconsequential (for th50.7×977k6.9k592280
2Aug 31, '24You want Bangladesh to protect her minority. And in your own backyard you enable — yes, ENABLE — this.24.8×479k4.1k88096
3Apr 22, '25After Pulwama, we crossed a certain rubicon in terms of retaliation. This time it has to be firm, clear, without any vagueness of satellite images. Hit them, and hit them so hard t22.9×442k11k1.6k273
4Jun 11, '24Equating Kashmir with Palestine is monumental stupidity. Asking the Indian state to do an Israel in Kashmir is a call for genocide.18.9×364k3.3k711154
5May 10, '25This is in bad taste right now. You expect the opposition to not indulge in politics at this crucial time. You should follow your own advice.17.6×339k9.9k1.7k141
6Jun 28, '24Basically an airport has fallen over a poor taxi driver. Try telling his family that it was built in 2008.14.1×272k10k1.7k112
7Mar 31, '24Susan Sontag in February 1976, a time when she had what she called “fits of lucidity.”12.9×248k5.9k8821.7k
8Jun 4, '24Nobody knows anything about India. This is one thing one should know about India.10.6×205k5.2k712174
9Apr 22, '25Do not wait for RAW assets to give you GPS locations of symbolic targets. Open your artillery tonight. All heavy guns. We should be able to see the smoke from the venue where Mr Du8.5×165k5.6k1k175
10Oct 29, '1920,000 litre oil used to light up 500,000 earthen lamps in Ayodhya. Total cost: 133 crores. Here a poor girl trying to collect a little oil from these diyas to take home. Look at t8.1×013k4.9k101
11Feb 13, '24If you think that the emir of Qatar releases people (accused of espionage) at a film star’s request, then you have found a new, most-potent variety of marijuana.7.2×139k3.1k46926
12Apr 23, '25Not the time to say this, but I will say it anyway: time to end the daily comedy show at Attari border. You have turned BSF personnel deployed there into stage ushers who stimulate6.9×132k5.7k1.1k72
13Jun 28, '24Not a single city in India has remained liveable. No rules and regulations, peak corruption, voters’ indifference towards the daily misery of their lives.6.7×130k4.4k883118
14May 8, '25We are at war, gentlemen.5.9×113k3k34442
15May 12, '25Small or big is not the question. The question is: why are they still coming?5.7×110k4k82159
16Feb 26, '20I spent the entire day in Northeast Delhi. Will file a dispatch later. But in the worst-affected Chand Bagh area, the Hindu residents of Moonga Nagar have levelled serious allegati5.3×010k5.4k140
17Apr 28, '25Dude, there were 700,000 Kashmiri Muslims on roads in early 1990, shouting La sharqiya, La gharbiya, Islamia Islamia. Of course you took part in battle and you chose a side. It is 4.8×93k4.4k1.2k205
18May 8, '25Notice a pattern. Many of those who remained silent to October 7 or even termed Hamas attack as “resistance” have suddenly turned pacifists.4.6×88k4.3k894121
19Sep 9, '20I am sorry, but from the demolition of a wall you cannot understand the pain of Kashmiri Pandits. You do not know how it is when all your hair turns white in three days; you do not4.5×012k1.8k46
20Apr 5, '21“मैं अनिल कुमार दुबे... आपका भाई, आपका बेटा... आपका भतीजा...”4.2×012k2.8k76
21Aug 12, '22In solidarity with #SalmanRushdie4.1×013k2.1k104
22Mar 26, '19You are not fighting in Siachen. Just take a flight and vote.4.0×011k3k9
23Aug 23, '20When first videos surfaced, of rioters with firearms and petrol bombs on Tahir Hussain's terrace, you simply said he was not present there. When his presence there became certain, 3.9×08.8k3.4k227
24Jan 28, '21A new group from Muzaffarnagar has just arrived at Ghazipur in support of farmers.3.7×010k2.5k20
25Oct 31, '18As the Police and Doordarshan team came under attack from Naxals, DD assistant cameraman recorded a message for his mother.3.2×05.7k3.6k68
26Apr 20, '22You are a sick person, Navika. It takes a lifetime to build four walls you call Home.3.2×07.9k1.2k35
27Aug 4, '20Breaking: top intelligence sources reveal that the suicide bomber in Jalalabad jail attack in Afghanistan is Kalukettiya Purayil Ijas from Kasargod, Kerala.3.1×06.1k2.7k93
29Jan 21, '20I am a Kashmiri Pandit who lost everything in 1990, while you were doing God knows what in Bombay. I am the writer of #shikara and I would not let anyone compromise on the Pandit s3.1×08.2k1.9k32
30Feb 13, '25Of course there will be zero FIRs on this. Law in this country is a joke.2.9×55k3.3k43457
31Aug 18, '21Press Conference :-)2.8×09.3k1.4k26
32Aug 7, '19Hello, tonight’s dispatch from Kashmir Valley: situation on Day 3 much relaxed than Day 2. Restrictions relaxed by at least 50 percent. This is Srinagar at 7.45 pm2.7×06.3k2.2k31
33Dec 17, '19If this is a religious war, then we must know.2.6×04.5k2.8k51
34Sep 23, '19An elderly Kashmiri Pandit lady, Pitti Kaul, shot dead by Islamist terrorists in Srinagar in October 1990. Burhan Wani can kill to seek revenge for an imaginary slap by police. But2.6×05.4k2.8k43
36Dec 12, '20A friend sent a picture of my home in Srinagar this morning. Now occupied by one Mr. Wani. Sheen mubarakh.2.4×07.2k94633
37Jan 10, '20BJP needs people with sharpness of another level that can match @kanhaiyakumar and not get decimated like this.2.4×06.1k1.4k74
38Jan 15, '22Anyone who eats at a Dalit household, whether in a paper or a steel thali, and feels obliged to mention it, cannot be a friend or a well-wisher of Dalits.2.4×08.2k83315
39Aug 4, '18I am fighting a civil defamation case all by myself, filed against me by a powerful IPS officer, just because The Hindu management chose to put its tail between legs. So let’s not 2.4×04.4k2.7k4
40Jan 17, '2030 years of exile from Kashmir. Let us now pledge that we will return home. [Kashmiri Pandit friends: please record this video statement and put it up with #HumWapasAayenge ]2.3×05.7k1.8k24
41Apr 28, '181. In the wake of a new string of lies about Jagmohan and Kashmiri Pandit exodus, the facts are: On January 19, 1990, Jagmohan was in Raj Bhawan in Jammu when a vicious, orchestrat2.2×03.2k2.5k285
42Apr 29, '21सर चुप हो जायिए, भगवान के लिए चुप हो जायिए2.0×06.1k1k11
43Apr 18, '22Hello @IPS_Association does this man work for you?1.9×05.2k1.3k26
44Apr 18, '22For a moment I thought she was enacting Raj Kapoor in Mera naam Joker since it was so popular in these parts.1.9×05.7k832107
45Feb 9, '20The vicious woman’s main objection was that we have cast Muslim actors to play Hindu characters. Two: while she was busy taking instructions from her handlers in the hall where she1.9×04.1k80928
46Mar 29, '19I have been travelling through Bihar. Every child, man and woman knows about “surgical istrike” and that we got 300 of them for our 40. They are totally convinced.1.8×04.7k1.2k10
47May 24, '19A quick thread on the spectacular victory of @narendramodi 1. Algorithms don't work in India. Think of the voter in slow motion. Between house and polling booth (s)he decides whom 1.8×03.5k1.5k157
48Nov 23, '21A mother’s heart does not understand decorum of ceremony.1.8×06.1k62563
49Feb 28, '19Centre decides to ban Jamaat-e-Islami, Jammu and Kashmir. Big, big step. A step that will go a long way in containing radicalism in Kashmir. Should have happened long ago.1.7×04.5k1.4k2
50Apr 17, '21Everything has collapsed. You are on your own. A handful of good people helping you by stretching their mandate, that is it. History will be very unkind as it should be.1.7×05.7k83722
51Feb 14, '19Cheering on a film about emerging victorious in a small flash is not the same as winning a war. How is the hosh, Sir?1.7×03.4k8617
52Aug 13, '21As Afghan lives are destroyed, your yearly reminder of how the western media contributed to it.1.7×04.4k1.3k97
53May 6, '222020. 2022.1.7×04.9k1.1k47
54Jan 9, '20सर मैं हिंदी में कोशिश करता हूँ. इसका पहला प्रयोग कश्मीर में हिंदू अल्पसंख्यकों के प्रति हिंसा में किया गया. ३ साल बाद भले ही दिल्ली में इसका प्रयोग अलग हुआ हो. ३ साल बाद.1.7×04.2k1.3k19
55Sep 7, '20This nonsense can happen only in this country. Political workers, sarpanches, who risk their lives every day in Kashmir for India die like orphans. Someone else makes a few silly r1.7×04.6k1k10
56Aug 17, '19The cave on the Shankaracharya hill in the heart of Srinagar where Adi Shankara is believed to have been in meditation.1.6×05k1k31
57Aug 14, '19The real question to ask about Shah Faesal’s detention is this: he was put under house arrest a day after the abrogation of Article 370. When was he released, when did he reach Del1.6×03.7k1.5k19
58Apr 26, '19Sorry, we cannot first lose 40 jawans and then say we killed 42 in retaliation. That ratio is terrible. And the 42 would have been eliminated by the forces in any case, Pulwama or 1.6×03.9k1.4k3
59Aug 11, '19It is amazing how a set of Delhi journalists are undermining the work of some of their fellow journalists in Kashmir, calling them “agency-enabled”, hiding their own incompetence a1.6×03.9k1.3k9
60Sep 1, '21The man who sent thousands of Kashmiris onto the path of death while nurturing and nourishing his own has died.1.6×05.4k67810
61Mar 17, '22कश्मीरी पंडितों से सहानुभूति वाले रखने वालों का प्यार सुबह-सुबह उमड़ आया है।1.6×03.7k77862
63Jun 7, '19In traditional Kashmiri Pandit food there is no use of onion/garlic. Even in meat dishes. Nobody has ever found it bland. I have eaten @AkshayaPatra food several times with relish 1.5×04k1.1k10
64Feb 26, '20This is an all-out Muslim mob. On top and on the road below. They have fire arms and petrol bombs. Now go and have a chai-biskut.1.5×03.5k1.4k21
65Apr 3, '19“I will tell you what our moral victory is. Our moral victory is that in their campaign videos both Congress and BJP are asking for Azadi”. @kanhaiyakumar tells me in an interview 1.5×04.1k84011
66Aug 8, '19You are hellbent on communalising this. Ek nishaan, ek vidhaan, ek pradhaan has been on Jana Sangh’s agenda much before 1990. Stop spinning Aug 5 decision as revenge for 1990.1.4×03.2k1.3k7
67Dec 15, '21Indian liberals rushing to defend Aurangzeb :-)1.4×04.6k60067
68Jun 15, '18Ravi, my brother, my first hero, taken away from us this day in 1997 by Islamist extremists.1.4×02.9k1.4k5
69Feb 10, '19You know what is most shameful about this clip? That not one — not one — person sitting among the audience mumbled a word in Palekar’s defence. He must have felt so lonely.1.4×03.2k1.1k13
70Jun 8, '20Because it is an old disease in New Delhi: if you are pro-India in Kashmir, your life is worth dirt. If you are a separatist, you will have Z security.1.3×03.3k1.1k9
71Apr 4, '19The post-Pulwama complexities of these elections: on April 2, @kanhaiyakumar stopped in a village in Begusarai to speak to a group of people waiting for him with garlands. A minute1.3×02.9k1.2k32
72Jan 19, '20A rare family photograph that survived exodus. Taken at my Kashmir home in 1982. Mother in blue (left), me in red on the floor with a toy pistol. 8 years later, on 19 January 1990,1.3×03.4k1k8
73Jan 7, '20Our collective memory. The story of all of us. We will never forget 1990.1.3×03.3k92120
74Aug 5, '20I know educational institutes are closed right now. But take an online class. Begin with the neighbouring Shahe-Hamdan mosque, and as field trip go look at the ochre mark on its re1.3×03.7k87330
75Feb 11, '20Like your filmmaking skills, your propaganda sucks as well. I am saying the removal (or non removal) of AFSPA has no connection with Kashmiri Pandits. I am in that studio to discus1.3×03.9k62315
76Aug 5, '22A few thoughts on the third anniversary of the revocation of #Article370 in Kashmir: militancy is at its lowest ebb. Every house, every shop in South Kashmir is on excel sheet of S1.3×03.9k60096
77Oct 8, '21लोहे के भीमकाय पुतलों पर करोड़ों बहाने वाली सरकार एक ग़रीब आदमी का शव उसके घर नहीं पहुँचा सकी।1.3×03.6k80914
78Mar 11, '22There is no work from home option in politics.1.3×04.6k31113
79Jan 15, '20यह जो हमदर्दी है, इसके पीछे वर्दी है1.3×03.7k8433
80Oct 7, '21It is easy to share false news of Kashmiri Pandits celebrating Janamashatmi in the Valley for the first time since 1990. But zero security for them despite repeated intelligence in1.3×03.8k75412
81Feb 11, '20दरअसल आप बहुत ही ओछी सोच वाले इंसान हैं. इंडस्ट्री में थर्ड ए.डी. से ऊपर के सभी लोग जानते हैं आपने मुंबई में इतने साल किया क्या है. मेरी फ़िल्म जो है सो है. लेकिन ख़ुदा न ख़्वास्ता1.2×03.3k5835
82Oct 5, '21At some point we must also fix responsibility for xenophobia that has resulted in today’s killings in Kashmir. Specimen: a post from Kashmiri journalist, Aasif Sultan, currently in1.2×03k1.1k46
83Oct 28, '21In 1983, during the first international match between India and West Indies in Kashmir, the whole stadium was aflutter with Jamaat flags. In 1986, when Javed Miandad hit that sixer1.2×03.2k90236
84Aug 26, '20Wow, this is for the first time that a person will be writing his own autobiography. Imagine, his own!1.2×04.1k2984
86Oct 4, '21सबके अपने अपने कैमरा वाले होते हैं (इसमें कोई बुराई नहीं है। बस दूसरे करें तो कटाक्ष करने से बचें)1.2×03.9k5128
87Oct 7, '21Four Hindu government school teachers in Central Kashmir have been directed to leave their accommodation and shift to a security camp nearby.1.2×03.3k77211
88Sep 3, '20I don’t know how political scientists have missed this phenomenon so far — a “fascist Hindu rightwing” government targeting the ethnic Hindu minority in Kashmir.1.1×03.3k7309
89Jan 26, '22Guntur today. Can we ask @APPOLICE100 why a citizen cannot wave the national flag anywhere on the sovereign territory of this country?1.1×02.9k84010
90Jan 7, '20#shikara1.1×03k7146
91Jan 7, '20Trailer out at 1 pm today. #shikara1.1×03k6055
92Apr 8, '22सॉरी, मनोज, पजामा मानसिक रूप से विक्षिप्त लोग फाड़ते हैं, राम भक्त नहीं। ऐसे समय में जब राम के नाम पर चंद गुंडे दूसरे समुदाय की बहु-बेटियों के साथ बलात्कार करने की खुली धमकी दे रहे1.0×03.2k5527
93Mar 10, '21The Shankaracharya temple in Kashmir in all its glory on the evening of Shivratri.1.0×03.4k46216
94Dec 10, '21Dushman marre te khushi na kariye, Sajna vi marr jaana1.0×03.6k38823
95Oct 8, '20Testimony that such things can happen when individuals rise above the absurdities of Left and Right. Nobody felt the need to know his name, his views on Shaheen Bagh, Ram Mandir, H1.0×03.4k41416
96Feb 3, '22The BJP ecosystem needs to make up its mind on Rahul Gandhi. On one hand you insist that he is a “nobody,” but the moment he speaks, you use your entire muscle power in trying to b1.0×03.3k3869
97Aug 28, '20The majority community in Shopian takes Kashmiriyat so seriously that some have even learnt Sanskrit hymns just in case a Pandit dies and they have to perform last rites.1.0×02.9k52730
98Jan 28, '22Where was Suman Toor herself when her mom was left like that at the railway station?1.0×03.3k36116
99May 28, '20सच पूछिए तो अब घोर कांग्रेसियों को भी ये पढ़ने में शरम आ रही है1.0×03.3k4308
100Mar 10, '22You can make professional Modi haters happy — those who get their academic tenure, or apartments, or YouTube hits from this hate. Or you can try and understand how this country has0.9×03k40427

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