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Ex-Blogger, movie, theater, kdrama lover & bibliophile :) Member of @Crashlandedonkdramas podcast Opinions all mine, no association with my organisation/podcast

Delhi/Bangalore
Joined March 2008
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โ€œim too busy for a relationshipโ€ is no longer a valid excuse. jensen huang found the time for THREE and he ran a multi billion dollar company. lock in.
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And she is one innocent person in this saga.
I know this is corny, but take a moment today to think about Jensen Huang's wife, who is experiencing today as a massive and traumatic humiliation. I know nothing about her, but she almost certainly deserved better.
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Ranbir Kapoor's Ramayana Can't beat this Masterpiece
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
Why are these Vande Bharat trains taking the same time as normal trains? And they are twice as expensive
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Today I learned you could be fired as CEO of trillion dollar company for having multiple extra marital affairs, one of whom turned out to be a spy; but you can remain president of US while being a serial adulterer, rapist, accused pedo, convicted felon and Russian asset.
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I agree. This should have been sorted as a priority.
I have no doubt in my mind that life-saving drugs and therapies must be made available to anyone who needs it at a price they can afford... and if the government needs to arm-twist pharmaceutical companies to do it, so be it so my wife is taking a targeted therapy, it costs six figures each month
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
I have no doubt in my mind that life-saving drugs and therapies must be made available to anyone who needs it at a price they can afford... and if the government needs to arm-twist pharmaceutical companies to do it, so be it so my wife is taking a targeted therapy, it costs six figures each month
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This mass censorship requires proper discourse.
Statement : Meta told the Home Ministry it acted against 61,000 posts in the fortnight after Chalo Sansad. IFF calls for the record to be made public. New Delhi, 13 November 2026 Meta has told the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the cybercrime arm of the Ministry of Home Affairs, that it acted on more than 61,000 Facebook and Instagram posts it classified as violent and inciteful between 25 July and 7 August 2026, @ThePrintIndia reported on 12 November. That is about three posts a minute for 14 days. The period begins on the day the Education Minister resigned and the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ended its protest at Jantar Mantar, five days after police used tear gas and a lathi charge against its Chalo Sansad march. The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the absence of any public account of this action. Meta disclosed the figure to the Home Ministry at a meeting on 21 August, and it became public only because the minutes were filed in the Supreme Court's suo motu proceedings on digital arrest scams.. In IFF's assessment, the minutes record direct pressure from the Ministry of Home Affairs on the content Meta carries. As per the report in The Print a meeting was chaired by Rajesh Kumar, I4C's chief executive, and followed reviews by the Union Home Secretary, a parliamentary committee and a court-monitored committee on digital arrests. Its scope was wider than financial fraud. According to ThePrint, I4C sought an in-person briefing on "how the algorithm amplifies or suppresses specific content and viral accounts", an analysis of bot networks across prominent handles, and Meta's draft guidelines on deepfakes and re-uploaded content for review. The minutes, as reported, do not state what the 61,000 posts concerned. It is not known which agency, if any, flagged them, or which law or company rule Meta applied. I4C itself did not accept aggregate figures when Meta cited 70 lakh pieces of content removed, it asked for examples with links. Users and the public are entitled to the same detail. Complaints received by IFF show what was being restricted on Instagram as the period began. Here we are relying on our own inbound queries and requests for pro-bono help and legal assistance. 1) On 23 July, a story about the protests shared by a private account with 137 followers was made unavailable in India through what Instagram described as "an automated system implemented pursuant to legal requirements" under the IT Rules, 2021. 2) On 24 July, a reel by the journalist Ila Kazmi showing a Delhi Police facial recognition van scanning protesters at Jantar Mantar was withheld on a notice from "The Government of India / Law Enforcement under Section 79(3)(b)", which referred her to the Government of India for any questions. The Delhi High Court has directed the Home Ministry, the IT Ministry, the Delhi Police and Meta to produce the notice and will next hear the case on 17 November. 3) On 28 July, three days after the minister's resignation, Instagram withheld a video published on 15 June by the current-affairs page Unmutezone under the title "Why Modi Can't Ask Dharmendra Pradhan to Resign?". Its editor reported that a second video was blocked on 3 August. Press reports describe similar restrictions. Newslaundry reported that an interview by the journalist Yaqut Ali with a former CJP spokesperson, posted on 26 July, was blocked in India within minutes, and that Facebook reels on the protests by the creator Jyoti Yadav, including an interview with AAP's Sanjay Singh, were restricted. It later reported restrictions on Instagram posts by Scroll and The Hindu about pellet-gun victims in Kashmir. None of this content is violent or inciteful, and Meta has not said whether it forms part of the figure. The Home Ministry is involved at each stage from notices under Section 79(3)(b) reach platforms through the Sahyog portal, which I4C operates where close to 1.95 lakh blocking orders were issued to Instagram, Facebook and YouTube between March and July 2026, most of them through the portal, and Meta has integrated its systems with it so that flagged content can be restricted without human review. On 27 July the Delhi Police, which reports to the Home Ministry, was reported to have directed platforms to remove posts it considered offensive to the Prime Minister. Meta's transparency report lists violence and incitement among the categories that I4C refers to it. A ministry that operates this channel and also reviews Meta's enforcement figures and algorithm is supervising online speech. We regret to state that the Supreme Court's own proceedings have provided an avenue for such censorship without sufficient checks and balances. In the suo motu digital arrest case, in which it directed intermediaries to place their proposals before I4C, and in the Just Rights for Children Alliance matters, in which it indicated that platforms may lose safe harbour, the Court has largely acted as a facilitator of executive action rather than as an adjudicator of its constitutional limits. The objectives of curbing fraud and protecting children are legitimate, but the supervision they have enabled now extends to lawful speech and results in censorship without legal authority. These restrictions do not have a basis in law and often executive rulemaking is being used to circumvent the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. Section 79(3)(b) sets a condition for a platform's immunity and in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015), the Supreme Court confined it to court orders and government notifications within Article 19(2). The power to block lies in Section 69A, which requires written reasons, committee review and, following Tanul Thakur (2022), a copy of the order and a hearing for the author. Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules requires each intimation to state reasons, the provision, the unlawful act and the URL, and to be reviewed monthly by a Secretary-rank officer. These requirements cannot be met through an automated integration with a three-hour deadline, whatever share of the 61,000 posts came through Sahyog. Further, we state that while it may constitute a category of harmful speech, "Violent and inciteful" is not a ground for state mandated censorship under Article 19(2). Shreya Singhal protects discussion and advocacy and permits restriction only at the stage of incitement; a video asking why a minister has not resigned is discussion. Nor is there any clear statutory basis for I4C to perform the function of review a platform's content guidelines or to ask which accounts its algorithm promotes. Our demands 1) The Ministry of Home Affairs must publish the minutes of its meetings with Meta in 2026 and state how many of the 61,000 posts were flagged by I4C, the Delhi Police or any other agency through Sahyog. 2) Meta must publish a breakdown of the 61,000 posts by the rule or law applied, the action taken and the requesting authority, and give each affected user the notice on which it acted. Further monthly breakdowns with qualitative disclosure is necesary. 3) I4C must withdraw its requests to review Meta's draft guidelines and to be briefed on its algorithm. Oversight of this kind requires a law made by Parliament and may only be performed by an independent regulatory body with a clear mandate and objective. 4) The Union Government must publish the monthly Secretary-level reviews under Rule 3(1)(d) for July and August 2026. 5) Meta must end the automatic execution of government and police flags in India and provide human review, a reasoned notice and an opportunity to respond before any restriction. Users whose posts or accounts were restricted in India in July or August 2026 may write to [email protected] with screenshots of each notice.
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
Statement : Meta told the Home Ministry it acted against 61,000 posts in the fortnight after Chalo Sansad. IFF calls for the record to be made public. New Delhi, 13 November 2026 Meta has told the Indian Cyber Crime Coordination Centre (I4C), the cybercrime arm of the Ministry of Home Affairs, that it acted on more than 61,000 Facebook and Instagram posts it classified as violent and inciteful between 25 July and 7 August 2026, @ThePrintIndia reported on 12 November. That is about three posts a minute for 14 days. The period begins on the day the Education Minister resigned and the Cockroach Janta Party (CJP) ended its protest at Jantar Mantar, five days after police used tear gas and a lathi charge against its Chalo Sansad march. The Internet Freedom Foundation (IFF) condemns the absence of any public account of this action. Meta disclosed the figure to the Home Ministry at a meeting on 21 August, and it became public only because the minutes were filed in the Supreme Court's suo motu proceedings on digital arrest scams.. In IFF's assessment, the minutes record direct pressure from the Ministry of Home Affairs on the content Meta carries. As per the report in The Print a meeting was chaired by Rajesh Kumar, I4C's chief executive, and followed reviews by the Union Home Secretary, a parliamentary committee and a court-monitored committee on digital arrests. Its scope was wider than financial fraud. According to ThePrint, I4C sought an in-person briefing on "how the algorithm amplifies or suppresses specific content and viral accounts", an analysis of bot networks across prominent handles, and Meta's draft guidelines on deepfakes and re-uploaded content for review. The minutes, as reported, do not state what the 61,000 posts concerned. It is not known which agency, if any, flagged them, or which law or company rule Meta applied. I4C itself did not accept aggregate figures when Meta cited 70 lakh pieces of content removed, it asked for examples with links. Users and the public are entitled to the same detail. Complaints received by IFF show what was being restricted on Instagram as the period began. Here we are relying on our own inbound queries and requests for pro-bono help and legal assistance. 1) On 23 July, a story about the protests shared by a private account with 137 followers was made unavailable in India through what Instagram described as "an automated system implemented pursuant to legal requirements" under the IT Rules, 2021. 2) On 24 July, a reel by the journalist Ila Kazmi showing a Delhi Police facial recognition van scanning protesters at Jantar Mantar was withheld on a notice from "The Government of India / Law Enforcement under Section 79(3)(b)", which referred her to the Government of India for any questions. The Delhi High Court has directed the Home Ministry, the IT Ministry, the Delhi Police and Meta to produce the notice and will next hear the case on 17 November. 3) On 28 July, three days after the minister's resignation, Instagram withheld a video published on 15 June by the current-affairs page Unmutezone under the title "Why Modi Can't Ask Dharmendra Pradhan to Resign?". Its editor reported that a second video was blocked on 3 August. Press reports describe similar restrictions. Newslaundry reported that an interview by the journalist Yaqut Ali with a former CJP spokesperson, posted on 26 July, was blocked in India within minutes, and that Facebook reels on the protests by the creator Jyoti Yadav, including an interview with AAP's Sanjay Singh, were restricted. It later reported restrictions on Instagram posts by Scroll and The Hindu about pellet-gun victims in Kashmir. None of this content is violent or inciteful, and Meta has not said whether it forms part of the figure. The Home Ministry is involved at each stage from notices under Section 79(3)(b) reach platforms through the Sahyog portal, which I4C operates where close to 1.95 lakh blocking orders were issued to Instagram, Facebook and YouTube between March and July 2026, most of them through the portal, and Meta has integrated its systems with it so that flagged content can be restricted without human review. On 27 July the Delhi Police, which reports to the Home Ministry, was reported to have directed platforms to remove posts it considered offensive to the Prime Minister. Meta's transparency report lists violence and incitement among the categories that I4C refers to it. A ministry that operates this channel and also reviews Meta's enforcement figures and algorithm is supervising online speech. We regret to state that the Supreme Court's own proceedings have provided an avenue for such censorship without sufficient checks and balances. In the suo motu digital arrest case, in which it directed intermediaries to place their proposals before I4C, and in the Just Rights for Children Alliance matters, in which it indicated that platforms may lose safe harbour, the Court has largely acted as a facilitator of executive action rather than as an adjudicator of its constitutional limits. The objectives of curbing fraud and protecting children are legitimate, but the supervision they have enabled now extends to lawful speech and results in censorship without legal authority. These restrictions do not have a basis in law and often executive rulemaking is being used to circumvent the fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression. Section 79(3)(b) sets a condition for a platform's immunity and in Shreya Singhal v. Union of India (2015), the Supreme Court confined it to court orders and government notifications within Article 19(2). The power to block lies in Section 69A, which requires written reasons, committee review and, following Tanul Thakur (2022), a copy of the order and a hearing for the author. Rule 3(1)(d) of the IT Rules requires each intimation to state reasons, the provision, the unlawful act and the URL, and to be reviewed monthly by a Secretary-rank officer. These requirements cannot be met through an automated integration with a three-hour deadline, whatever share of the 61,000 posts came through Sahyog. Further, we state that while it may constitute a category of harmful speech, "Violent and inciteful" is not a ground for state mandated censorship under Article 19(2). Shreya Singhal protects discussion and advocacy and permits restriction only at the stage of incitement; a video asking why a minister has not resigned is discussion. Nor is there any clear statutory basis for I4C to perform the function of review a platform's content guidelines or to ask which accounts its algorithm promotes. Our demands 1) The Ministry of Home Affairs must publish the minutes of its meetings with Meta in 2026 and state how many of the 61,000 posts were flagged by I4C, the Delhi Police or any other agency through Sahyog. 2) Meta must publish a breakdown of the 61,000 posts by the rule or law applied, the action taken and the requesting authority, and give each affected user the notice on which it acted. Further monthly breakdowns with qualitative disclosure is necesary. 3) I4C must withdraw its requests to review Meta's draft guidelines and to be briefed on its algorithm. Oversight of this kind requires a law made by Parliament and may only be performed by an independent regulatory body with a clear mandate and objective. 4) The Union Government must publish the monthly Secretary-level reviews under Rule 3(1)(d) for July and August 2026. 5) Meta must end the automatic execution of government and police flags in India and provide human review, a reasoned notice and an opportunity to respond before any restriction. Users whose posts or accounts were restricted in India in July or August 2026 may write to [email protected] with screenshots of each notice.
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
"Men get raped too" Yes! Yes they do and in 99.9% cases by other men so why are you mad at women?
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
ื›ืœ ื–ื” ื”ื™ื” ื ืžื ืข ืื ืžื ื›ืดืœ ืื ื‘ื™ื“ื™ื” ื”ื™ื” ืžืฉืœื™ื ืืช ื”ืœื•ืžื“ื” ืœืžื ื™ืขืช ื”ื˜ืจื“ื” ืžื™ื ื™ืช ื•ืืชื™ืงื” ืืจื’ื•ื ื™ืช
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
Censorship under Modi-Shah has come to a point where websites are being taken down based on FAKE court orders. No other country in the world gives the govt such immense powers to take down content. Question is: why did the IT Ministry not even bother to verify the so-called court order? Or is this a new dirty tactic for censoring content as long as the govt doesnโ€™t get caught? Beyond scary.
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Actors from Ramanand Sagarโ€™s Ramayana commenting on the new film with the entitlement as if they are actual avatars.
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
Nobody calls a woman a whore faster than a man that canโ€™t fuck her
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Instagram restricted our story on the ECIโ€™s internal records of 2024 elections within two hours, citing the IT Rules. And when we posted about the restriction, that post was removed too. Watch and share this video to see what @TweetSumedha & @VenkateshNSS reported on.
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
How pathetic and shameless it is to use a fake educational certificate while holding one of the highest constitutional positions.
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
I got a visa to India and was supposed to leave this morning to attend the Bharat Summit in Hyderabad. I had been invited as a panelist and speaker on the future of media and press freedom. But ยซorders from aboveยป in the Ministry of Home Affairs have cancelled my visa. Here is my message for @AmitShah
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
IMPORTANT : The high profile Gokul Dairy Co-operative chairman election in Kolhapur won by the Mahayuti govt in Maharashtra . The Congress backed panel had earlier won the 25 board member elections by a narrow 13-12 margin. The Fadnavis-led govt brought in an ordinance and nominated four additional members with voting rights! Final result? 16-13!! So if 13-12 can be turned into 16-13 by an ordinance, what chance does the farmer-voter's mandate really have? Demo-crazy Maharashtra istyle!๐Ÿ™
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BJP, in sheer desperation, will now make sure Modi ji's memoir is written, published and declared the international bestseller of the century, all within the next 30 days !
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Poonam Sharma ๐Ÿ‡ฎ๐Ÿ‡ณ retweeted
Ramayana :Part 1 was watched in a packed hall. I was quite taken by how the film looks at Ravana and his origin story. The scene where his many personas debate among themselves was quite a compelling one. I did feel the Ram-Sita relationship needed more moments and sketching out
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