#Rana Ayyub

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[reading-writing-revolution]

Just ahead of the US presidential inauguration, The Citizens are bringing together Asif with three of the experts featured in the film who have lived with authoritarianism and reported on its dark reach: Nobel Laureate Maria Ressa, journalist and writer Rana Ayyub and journalist Carole Cadwalladr. The conversation will explore the moment we’ve arrived at, what to expect and how to fight back the rise of techno-authoritarianism. This virtual dialogue will also preview the film 2073, and hold space for audience Q&

[literarydystopia]

"Gujarat Files" by Rana Ayyub presents in-depth interviews with those responsible for maintaining law and order in the State of Gujarat during the pogrom of 2002 when about a thousand Muslims were killed. Rana went as an undercover journalist to Gujarat in 2010 and stayed there for eight months. What she has unearthed is not surprising as hearsay from the State of Gujarat always pointed to the complicity of the then State Government and senior officials in the organising and spreading of riots in the state but what she presents very succinctly is irrefutable evidence of this compliance.

[kathor]

Rana Ayyub on Reporting in Modi’s India

[kharisubas40972]

Karishma Tanna, Harman Baweja and Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub star in Hansal Mehta’s next series Scoop; crime drama to stream on Netflix from June 2 : Bollywood News

After entertaining audiences with back-to-back successes in Khakee, Trial By Fire, Rana Naidu, Class and Toothpari, Netflix will soon drop another genre-defining drama series! Come June 2nd, Hansal Mehta and Netflix will bring audiences a new series – Scoop. The intriguing drama will have audiences unravel the Scoop, which will be headlined by Karishma Tanna, Mohammed Zeeshan Ayyub and Harman…

[shut-up-rabert]

rana ayyub claims that muslims didn't protest in favor of the udaipur terrorists even though they did and pelt stones. what a liar.

No surprise there, I mean does she even have any credibility at this point? She’s been a big fat liar ever since 2002 Riots, maybe even before that. Has been called out by Saudi of all places. That fucking pathetic excuse of a journalist has always been anything but a proper reporter, and it’s about time she got booked like Zubair, but for spreading false information. Things aren’t looking good for her with Teesta’s arrest anyways. There’s a reason she has been slapped with fine as much as she has.

I can bet my two cents that had this news not blown up the way it did, she would’ve either covered it up as false news or made it the tailor’s fault to justify their doing.

[suvarnarekha]

"judiciary is an independent, unbiased body."

[indizombie]

A columnist who didn’t want to be named in this piece voiced a common criticism of Ayyub—“I don’t think activism is journalism." “I am not an activist, I am an active journalist," says Ayyub. “I am not a journalist who won’t cry when she sees the suffering of riot victims. In the new world order, journalism has new meaning." Ayyub believes wrong must be called out, just as feminists are calling out the witch-hunt against Rhea Chakraborty after the suicide of actor Sushant Singh Rajput. Or just as her editor at the Post, Karen Attiah — and countless other black journalists — have in recent times repeatedly called out the discrimination against African-Americans. “I cannot remove my lived experience as a Muslim from my journalism. That’s not me making myself the story."

Priya Ramani, 'The impossible Rana Ayyub', Livemint

[bauliya]

If anyone wants to know exactly what's going on in India:

excerpts (please read the whole thing):

..Kashmiris greeted Modi’s decision with protests, claiming that his real goal was to inundate the state with Hindu settlers. After the initial tumult subsided, though, the Times of India and other major newspapers began claiming that a majority of Kashmiris quietly supported Modi—they were just too frightened of militants to say so aloud. Television reporters, newly arrived from Delhi, set up cameras on the picturesque shoreline of Dal Lake and dutifully repeated the government’s line.

As the reports cycled through the news, the journalist Rana Ayyub told me over the phone that she was heading to Kashmir.

...Mobs of Hindus prowled the streets, yelling, “Take revenge and slaughter the Muslims!” According to eyewitnesses, rioters cut open the bellies of pregnant women and killed their babies; others gang-raped women and girls. In at least one instance, a Muslim boy was forced to drink kerosene and swallow a lighted match. Ehsan Jafri, an elderly Congress Party politician, was paraded naked and then dismembered and burned.

...We rode in silence for a while. I suggested that maybe it was time for her to leave India—that Muslims didn’t have a future there. But Ayyub was going through a notebook. “I’m not leaving,” she said. “I have to stay. I’m going to write all this down and tell everyone what happened.” 

[filmantidote]

Under the leadership of the BJP, India has witnessed a systematic campaign of othering Indian Muslims, frequent lynching, communal riots, farmers' protests, growing impoverishment due to failed fiscal policies, etc. Yet those in Bollywood who have not openly endorsed the BJP have remained remarkably silent on these issues.

In fact, leading lights of the Indian film industry who have expressed admiration for Hollywood stars speaking truth to power (specifically against the Trump administration) in the United States have had nothing to say about the hate crimes and bigotry raging in their own country.

There has also been a conspicuous silence in Bollywood when some brave actors have been hounded for expressing views critical of the government. When Naseeruddin Shah, one of India's most prolific actors, spoke about a culture of hate being propagated in the country in a video for Amnesty India, he was trolled and attacked, and none of his colleagues came to his rescue. When Indian superstars Shah Rukh Khan and Aamir Khan criticised intolerance in the country, no one defended them within the industry, as they faced harassment and were accused by BJP leaders of being "anti-national".

That Bollywood has swayed between silence and praise of the BJP is perhaps not surprising. After all, the Indian film industry has historically had a rather compliant relationship with politics. Actor Amitabh Bachchan, for example, who helped Modi whitewash his image while he was still being accused of complicity in the 2002 anti-Muslim riots in Gujarat, also campaigned in the past for Indian Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi of the Congress party. Another Congress prime minister, Indira Gandhi, who imposed a state of emergency on the country in the 1970s, ruling by decree and curbing civil liberties, was a favourite of the film industry which would clamour around her for group photo-ops.

The important difference is that today India is at a crucial juncture where the multiculturalism and secular nature of the state is being put to the test.

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Rana Ayyub on Reporting in Modi’s India

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Trouble For Rana Ayyub: Charges Filed Against Journalist Over Alleged Money Laundering

Trouble For Rana Ayyub: Charges Filed Against Journalist Over Alleged Money Laundering

A chargesheet filed by the Enforcement Directorate names journalist Rana Ayyub, a vocal critic of the Prime Minister Narendra Modi-led administration, in relation to alleged money laundering involving funds she allegedly raised from the general public for social welfare work, including COVID-19 relief. A month after the first COVID-19 lockdown began, in April 2020, Ms. Ayyub allegedly created…

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Twitter Blocks over 80 Links Following Legal Notices by Government

Twitter Blocks over 80 Links Following Legal Notices by Government

In response to legal notices from the government through 2021 regarding content relating to the farmers’ protests, Pakistani government accounts, and a report by a non-profit organisation that claimed internet freedom in India was declining, Twitter has blocked access to over 80 links on the social media platform, mostly specific posts but also a large number of accounts. Some of these…

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Twitter 'Withholds' Journalist Rana Ayyub's Account in India

Twitter ‘Withholds’ Journalist Rana Ayyub’s Account in India

Journalist Rana Ayyub has posted a notice from Twitter which informed her that the microblogging site has withheld her account in India under Information Technology Act, 2000. Ayyub on Sunday took to her Twitter account to post the notice and said: “Hello @Twitter, what exactly is this?” The notice from Twitter that Ayyub shared read: “In order to comply with Twitter’s obligations under India’s…