"I am not agree with your analysis. I am not agree with your information. This absolutely. Misguided, information to you. From where you have pick up this type of garbage, I do not know."
Somehow people overlook the fact that the independence movement did not just kick out the British it was an epic revolution that established a democratic republic and kicked out these lazy, greedy, parasitic maharajas and nawabs forever.
Ambani family is weird max...as elite Gujaratis, it seems they do not consume any Gujarati literature, poems, plays...surely there is some high Gujarati literature and art worth consuming. Instead they seem to be totally Bollywood obsessed -- the garbage of Indian culture.
Mr.Modi has exerted absolute control over gujarat since 2001, ie 23 years. Out of these 23, he had a favourable government at the centre for 13 years, 10 of these, Modi himself controlled both centre and state. Why is Ahmedabad not Singapore yet?Lee Kuan Yew took <25 years?
This is straight up Nazi-style anti minority propaganda. Josef Goebbels had commissioned a documentary called "The Eternal Jew". This is from the same school of genocide-enabling propaganda. The people who made this should be put behind bars.
Funny stuff from a housing society in Pune...BJP thugs going around collecting ₹3000 per household on pretext of Ram Mandir donation. A while after that, 2 local BJP thugs with no known income but known to handle cash for the party bought 2 MG Hectors. Society members fuming 😂.
India going through a period of peak population, peak inequality and peak unemployment, all at the same time. Also peak exodus of anybody who can afford it.
This idea of taking a dog to the park and throwing frisbees is so alien to India (as alien as Sanyal's fake American accent) that I was sure there is only one reason why he used it: the glorious Indian right wing tradition of plagiarizing some white academic.
One of the political party’s manifesto is to redistribute the wealth of the rich to the poor. The really poor need to be uplifted but this thought process is so pathetic.
It is like saying If we take 4 points from RR and 4 from KKR and SRH and re-distribute it to the bottom 3
My understanding of post-independence Indian politics is: Until the late 1980s there was a tacit understanding among UC Hindus to support liberal secularism. This allowed them to maintain control over the country while LC were still poor and illiterate.
Getting married soon. Glad to have a fiancee who asks me to teach him shlokas of different deities in our evening conversations after working hours instead of useless gossip.
We enjoy going to temples rathar than movies, parks, pubs and whatnot!
I was very worried about finding
So prescient. In 2002 I thought she was being sensationalist. My friends used to call her a pseudo-intellectual. But literally every word she has written or said has come true. Object lesson for me, personally.
Akshay Kumar is my hero. Not only has he pledged allegiance to one of the remaining major functioning liberal democracies, he is also looting money from a fascist government and repatriating it back to a safe liberal space.
The names of the 2 deceased in the hit and run in Pune are Aneesh Awadhiya and Ashwini Koshta. Both from different cities in MP, working in Pune. Both Hindus. This is what sanghis are trying to make out of this. These people disgust me. I can't think of them as humans.
4. Constant gyaan
Gyan from Unkils. Gyan from aunties. Gyan from 18 year old chutiyas. Monthly Gyan from vishwaguru modiji. India is the land of Gyandus.
Which spiritual class do you belong to?
1. 30L+ annual household income => Jaggi Vasudev
2. >=15L <30L annual household income => Sri Sri Ravi Shankar
3. <15L annual household income => Baba Ramdev
It's India's greatest misfortune that a bunch of people not only physically ugly but this crass and totally lacking in culture or taste managed to become this wealthy. Perhaps it shows deeper faults in our society where such people can be allowed to get so rich.
Just wanted to point out that it's impossible to take this photo unless the subject freezes and holds this position with the front leg slightly suspended in the air. How bizarre it must be to see this narcissistic photo shoot.
Imagine if in a period of 3 years, all the kingdoms of Europe were dissolved and replaced by constitutional republics...that would be seen as momentous...somehow the de-royalization and de-feudalization of India is kind of unsung.
3. Literature
In other countries you have to read Kafka. In India you can experience Kafka directly. Just try change of address on aadhaar while you move to another city and need a new gas connection.
What is happening with Rhea Chakraborty has now become a lynch mob on a national scale. It is amazing how Modi and Shah only have one skill-set and one stratagem for acquiring and sustaining power. It has worked since 2020.
Hey India! Where could u have possibly watched
#ManVsWild
ft PM
@narendramodi
? Guess where we saw it!
We in B'luru South had a spl screening in cinemas with our dedicated, passionate flood relief volunteers
Perfect way to thank them before we head to NK tonight for relief ops
Was watching an interview of Saif Ali Khan after the release of "Tanhaji" and he was asked about the right wing hate factory and he said, "I know it's there, but I'm earning well, kids are doing well, health facilities are getting better, so I don't know". Ab bajao pungi.
Few years ago I went to Hampi, a UNESCO World Heritage Site. A lot of Israelis come to Hampi to chill after their military service. There are a bunch of hotels and bars that cater to them that DO NOT ALLOW INDIANS. On Indian soil. The locals help them enforce it too...
Bhakts gonna have a meltdown when they find out it's not 35A removal, state trifurcation, 370 abolition, establishment of Xinjiang-style detention centres or any of their other pet fantasies, but just a statewide flag-hoisting jamboree.
Hope Govt comes up with a very very good reason for its Op Kashmir. A friend in Gulmarg was running a hotel with 80 % occupancy till last week, now all tourists gone and business is kaput overnight. Wouldn’t happen anywhere else in the country bang in middle of tourist season.
I love Andaz Apna Apna because every character in that movie is a fraud or immoral person of some sort. The only upright & ethical characters are the fathers of the two heroes, who end up getting ripped off. It is the truest representation of the core moral character of Indians.
Breaking on
@indiatoday
Psychiatrist Dr Kersi Chawda report on
@itsSSR
mental condition accessed. Sushant stopped taking medicines and had panic attack in first week of June 2020. Suffered severe anxiety, depression, existential crisis. Part of investigation records given to CBI.
The counter response to this LC mobilization was Hindutva. Hindutva is very much an UC controlled movement, which offered "violence against non Hindus" as an outlet to LC aspirations.
6. Adventure
Only country that has designed its roadways on Grand Theft Auto, and has a road minister who looks like The Penguin and thinks like The Joker. Only country that provides an off road experience on road.
1. Instant geolocation
You can't get lost. Even if you land blindfold at 2am in any Indian city, you'll instantly know you're in India through the signature sound
kkhhhhroooookkkhh
which is a habitual Gutkha consumer clearing his throat.
India has had a lot of really stupid ideas brewing in its middle class living rooms for the last half of it's independence. A fetish for authoritarianism, pseudo-economics, genocide, pseudo-science, medical quackery, caste supremacy, anti-feminism, hard government etc etc...
RG press conference was fullscreen. The moment he spoke about Modi's corruption and Adani, he was moved to small square in the corner. These are Haramis of
@IndiaToday
2. Music
Music is everywhere, from the hammering and drilling of carpenters to the musical horns of the truck driver to bhajans of mataji to unkils watching YouTube with speaker, India has you covered. No need for a streaming app for music, music streams into your ears directly.
In Marathi, the four suits of playing cards are called ♠Ispik, ♣Kilvar, ♦Chaukat and ♥Badaam. Chaukat and Badaam are obvious but Ispik and Kilvar always seemed to have some unknown etymology., Turns out they're from the Dutch "Schoppen" and "Klaveren".
#TIL
The Bengali word for pirate, 'Harmad,' originates from the Portuguese & Spanish word for a naval fleet, Armada. And the Bengali words for the 4 suits in cards, Ciriton, Ishkapon, Ruhiton, horoton actually come from the Dutch. Sailors gave so much to our languages.
Disagree 💯. Tendulkar also stood strongly for what he believed in and never backed down. He wanted tax exemption for his Ferrari and didn't stop till he got it. He wanted his son to be in IPL and got it. Thought parliament was useless & ignored it. Activist!
Now this time it has taken 10 years for the money to run out... the experiment has been run to its full course, and still, LCs see no equity in Hindutva, economy is fucked, and there is increasingly diminished joy in the misery of others.
North Indians of this generation are not aware that their ancestors saw Marathas as raiders/barbarians and collaborated with the Mughals. Rajputs being the best example. This appropriation of Shivaji is a very recent phenomenon.
@baxiabhishek
शर्म नहीं आती, अकबर और दवूद पे कितनी फ़िल्में बनाई है? कितनी बड़ी बड़ी फ़िल्में बनाई गयी हैं, ये मिला मराठाओं को अपने खून के बलिदान के बदले? इनमें से एक भी फ़िल्म शायद मेन्स्ट्रीम हिंदी नहीं है या फिर रिलीज़ नहीं हुई किसी ने तो कभी सुना भी नहीं इनके बारे में।
Even those 10 years under UPA, apart from cases about 2002 riots (his own karma), he had no obstruction from central govt...he was getting investment from Reliance and Tata etc and central govt did not hinder him the way he maliciously hinders non BJP state governments today...
"We were selling LCs Hindutva kool aid, making money from it too. please don't confront real structural problems of caste or we will really have to share power with them."
Gaand phat rahi hai in logon ki.
The more caste is brought up, the more the consolidated Hindu vote breaks. Opposition has understood this and playing that game. And yes even that
#BrahminGenes
trend is splitting the Hindu vote. Don’t know if people realise that.
But by the late 1980s LCs had begun to enter the political mainstream, were educated and had sufficient resources to demand equal share of power and representation at the top.
Modi has kind of protected India by making India irrelevant globally. We are not a major player in any sector or an essential link in any global supply chain. Hence we are not a threat to anybody, just an amusing side note in human affairs.
मैंने एक बार स्पाइडर मैन मूवी देखी और उसकी तरह दीवार पर चढ़ने की इच्छा हुई। पहली बार कोशिश की तो विफल हुआ फिर बार-बार कोशिश करते-करते चढ़ना सीख गया। बड़ा होकर IPS बनूंगा : यसार्थ तीसरी कक्षा का छात्र, कानपुर #यूपी
That’s the beauty of Indian democracy. A dalit boy-peon (Sushilkumar Shinde) can be CM & then Home Min of India. A constable (Bhairon Singh Shekhawat) CM & then Vice-President of India. And a chaiwala the PM. That’s why our politics is the toughest but fairest playground..
7. Public Transport
Only country to safeguard existential rights of public transport and that has a strong, vibrant grassroots community of bus rights activists.
The closest I've seen an Indian take a dog to the park is someone who owns a team of huskies in Dadar, who has their dog walker walk them around Shivaji Park.
LC thought this violence asked of them would be like a test, which if they passed, they would usher in a flat hierarchy of Hinduism and equal share in power.
2 times this was tried (1977 and 1989), it was so disastrous and incompetent that the country almost went bankrupt. in 2014 though, Manmohan Singh had raised Indian wealth enough for this idea to be tried a 3rd time.
This is why the govt is terrified. They can see that they stand to lose an entire generation of LCs for multiple decades as they are seeing through the charade of Hindutva. So trying to bribe their way out of looming decimation.
When most of the population are struggling financially, government employees are generally well off. After almost losing power, this government is running like a headless chicken. The pension benefits removed by Vajpayee, duly continued by MMS, has been brought back by Modi.
Massive brainwashing seems to have happened in the extended family after the Udaipur incident. Many relatives whom I did not expect to be this radicalized calling for boycott of Muslim businesses etc. Whatsapp + TV Media + echo chambers. Won't end well.
There are 3 levels of panic:
1. PM Modi has constituted high level committee to look into the matter
2. PM Modi is looking into the matter personally
3. PM Modi has been spending 16 hours a day working on this matter
@vijai63
@JeffBezos
Sometimes do take a break from threatening your fellow Indian citizens and businessmen who want to do business in India even in a very difficult economic situation that your pappa has created.
See this from an LC person's perspective...the opposition leader is pointing out "you LC have no representation in elite cultural spaces, forget about power spaces". Rijiju, like Duryodhana, asks "why should we cede even a needlepoint worth of space?"
This sort of mockery would've gone well in 2014. But say this to the Hindutva LC subaltern who has bashed up Muslims and still stood in demonetization lines, paying GST, braving inflation, jobless, no prospects. The humour is lost on him now.
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Note that this period also includes the entire period where China went from zero to being the global manufacturing powerhouse it is today...why was Mr.Modi unable to do the same in Gujarat...he had full license to do it...
VIDEO | Gujarat-based businessman Bhavesh Bhandari and his wife donated their lifetime earnings of over Rs 200 crore to adopt monkhood. The couple led a procession in Sabarkantha, Gujarat, yesterday as they donated all their belongings.
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Today landlord ji was telling me how Modiji in term 3 is going to straighten everyone and everything like the thelaawala in front of our bldg who doesn't pay any tax. Then he mentioned how he had trouble laundering black money from the sale of his property in Lucknow.
Just got off call with our engineer in India. It’s almost 4am there.
Every 30 minutes I’d tell him it’s late he should sleep but he refused to cut the call until he debugged everything perfectly.
There’s no question of burnout when you’re surrounded by people like this
One thing i appreciate about Rahul Gandhi, is he has been ahead on the curve on many issues. Also, he doesn't care about the social reaction to what he says. People are in no mood to handle the truth in India. I have said the same in my family and there is massive pushback.
#WATCH
Congress MP Rahul Gandhi: It is like a tsunami is coming. India should be preparing itself not just for
#Coronavirus
but for the economic devastation that is coming. I am saying it again & again. Our people are going to go through unimaginable pain in the next 6 months.
Wow wow wow! Vinesh Phogat defeats the Olympic champion and world number 1. NEVER EVER forget that this is the same Vinesh who was subject to the most vicious character assassination campaign, who spent months on the street as a lead figure in women wrestler protests against an
After watching Modi's speech today, I am convinced that he is living a version of the Truman show. His aides are giving him fake newspapers, showing him made up TV content. Perhaps the version of ToI he gets has a headline about how 80% of Americans think India is the Vishwaguru.
Overall my observation is that a lot of Rahul Gandhi hate now comes from the top 0.01% Indians who are terrified that 99.99% of India is now not as vehemently resistant to Rahul Gandhi as before.
[
@sardesairajdeep
in Aushtwitz]
"This was a conflict between two sides the camp commanders and the inmates. I have spoken to the camp commanders to understand their side. I tried prodding the ashes of the inmates but they refused to respond. We must understand both sides. Gnight"
Youth in our country would remember the names of Bollywood actors and cricketers
But when asked the names of at least 10 Startup Founders, most of them remain clueless.
@jerxn_
My mom is convinced that Fat Anant has some tragic incurable disease and that Neeta Ben is granting world's most expensive and long drawn out "Make a Wish Foundation" type last wish.
Rahul Gandhi has gone to a place even MK Gandhi or Nehru did not go...people ridiculed this man, but I think he will leave behind a legacy of historic proportions.
My big fear is liberal educated class in India underestimates the degree to which the conservative elites and middle classes have been radicalized in this country. I have heard otherwise innocuous pensioners advocate for genocide and much worse.
Fundamentally, Modi's skill and insight is to seek the worst tendencies in Indian society, then to amplify those and create mass paranoia until the mass becomes collectively implicated in some terrible act of violence.
Gandhiwad works only against an opponent that has some conscience and ability to introspect. British colonials were bad but British civil society, labour pty and press often took India's side. OTH Gandhiwad does NOT work against Sanghiwad. Gandhi's own murder a testament to this.
#WATCH
| Nagpur: On Toll tax, Union Minister Nitin Gadkari says, "Now we are ending toll and there will be a satellite base toll collection system. Money will be deducted from your bank account and the amount of road you cover will be charged accordingly. Through this time and
There should be a Moharram style self-flagellation parade every year for those who supported Demonetization on Nov 8th, 2016. And free lifetime airport lounge access and unlimited airmiles for those who immediately condemned it.
@srivatsayb
@India_MH12
Even worse, after she passes the question to the bureaucrat (probably Ajay Bhushan Pandey), even he doesn't answer the question and goes off on a complete tangent.
The more people from Northeast I meet, I kinda feel sorry for them. They're so polite and classy, well mannered. They are totally out of place in 'mainland India'. Pure historical accident that we are in the same country.