Last year, one IITian on my fb explained the “genius of Modi in saving India from Corona by beating utensils through “Resonance Theory”. Yesterday, I DM’d him to ask if the frequency of all the utensils beaten failed to meet the “natural frequency” of Coronavirus. He blocked me
I also wonder if
#BhagatSing
was alive would he rebel against the government chosen by his own people by a democratic process or will he support them?Had he seen Bharat Mata cut in pieces based on religions would he still choose to be an atheist or will he wear his Basanti Chola?
I am so sad. I voted for Modi thinking there would be “growth” & I could brag some numbers to my American cousins. But now Modi is cracking down on my civil liberties. I thought that was supposed to happen to only Muslims & Dalits. Here’s my long lament on how disillusioned I am
Champion of the poor - first & foremost !
Hail our beloved PM Sh
@narendramodi
Ji for securing food & nutrition for all....
He has always been the first to secure wellbeing of those most vulnerable.
@PMOIndia
@MoHFW_INDIA
#Unite2FightCorona
I once met an Afghan man who’d witnessed the Soviet, Taliban & American eras in Afghanistan. He had been a student activist in his youth. A socialist, he told me of the hope the Saur Revolution brought. He cried when he spoke of the hope that was killed & his country ruined 1/3
In Bihar, a teenaged Dalit girl was abducted, raped & brutally murdered. There are no marches, no candle light vigils, no media outrage. Sexual assault on Dalit women is considered banal, inconsequential. Outrage depends on caste & class location of the survivor / victim.
What is happening to Wasim Jaffer is Uttarakhand’s internal matter. So, the Tendulkars, Kohlis, Sharmas, etc will not violate Uttarakhand’s sovereignty by speaking up for Jaffer.
California has sued .
@Cisco
for caste discrimination against a Dalit. It defends 2 Brahmins who mentally harassed a Dalit & twice denied him promotion. No force in the world can civilize Hindus. As Hindus migrate with their filthy mindset, caste will emerge as a global problem.
Have a problem with Azaan but will sit through the whole night hollering “Zor se bolo….”, “Saare Bolo….” through loud speakers and playing “bhajans” set to music of vulgar Bollywood songs.
8 lakhs per annum is “economically weak” & needs a quota while those earning barely 2.5 lakhs per annum aren’t eligible for scholarships & should fund their own studies. India’s social justice logic is merely a continuation of mythical stories of “ek gareeb brahmin”
CJI Chandrachud is like that annoying high school head boy who will talk of rights, equality etc to win debates & then be excessively subservient to teachers to be their favorite.
If you ever feel worthless, remember there’s this Sampath dude who wrote a biography of Savarkar in 2 volumes of a thousand pages each based entirely on what Savarkar had to say about himself.
The Soviets were nothing like the Americans, he said. They weren’t there to occupy us. They wanted to save Democratic Afghanistan. The Americans crushed our democracy with drugs, guns & religion. When Soviets left Afghanistan, I feared what would come in their place 2/3
His eyes would twinkle as he lived his youth and went back to the Kabul of his memories. He told me of the socialist murals on the walls of his university. He sighed & said, “I will die here in an alien land. Perhaps it’s just as well. My Afghanistan doesn’t exist anymore” 3/3
If Modi wins 2024, two things are certain to happen viz a viz India’s public sector. Banks & Railway privatization. This is the reason why public sector banks & railways are deliberately being run down. Their privatization at throwaway prices will eclipse all corruption scandals
Police report in case of the Dalit girl raped in Muzaffarpur says the vaginal swab didn’t find any sperm. This is how structural violence operates. This is how caste & class affect who gets outraged about & who gets justice. No solidarity here. No marches for Justice.
A crowd of goons chanting Jai Shri Ram forcibly entered Gargi and sexually assaulted students. How in the world is no one talking about it ? In any civilized country, it would have triggered an outrage. What kind of a society & state does this to its women ?
An IIT dude who swears by science forwarded me Jaggi Vasudev’s “lucid explanation” on CAA.
I asked him if he believed that Jaggi’s wife died of absorbing excess energy from a lingam.
His Reply : That’s a different kind of science. You won’t understand.
Savarna Middle Class is genuinely scared. But still not willing to accept it was Modi’s wilful apathy not mismanagement which has led to this catastrophe. Modi is counting on that to sail through like Demonetization. There his trope of nationalism, & corruption worked a spell 1/n
Varun Grover has a supreme business sense. As a comedian he is anti Hindutva & as a lyricist he’s not averse to working in pro Hindutva rags like Prithviraj Chauhan, minting money in the process. Used to crack jokes on Mayawati but now writes anti caste columns. Brilliant !
A Dalit, Ambedkar, wrote the provisions of the reservations in the Constitution. He didn’t sub classify Dalits. But Mishra, Trivedi, Chandrachud, Sharma - A Brahmin majority bench decided that it’s constitutionally permissible to sub classify SC/ST without any factual basis.
I lost my cousin to Covid. He’s left behind his wife & young kids. A brilliant, compassionate man who would have gone to become one of the better judges this country would have seen, was taken away from us. It’s heartbreaking. Please take care of yourselves.
Updates from Bijnor : 101 Muslims have been arrested and charged under section 307. 20-21 happen to be juveniles. All being sent to Distt HQ, Bijnor. Need urgent media attention on this. Journalists following me please draw attention to this. Internet in Bijnor has been suspended
Reporters from UP tell me that almost all land around the temple area in Ayodhya now belongs to rich Gujaratis. One told me that in 2022 itself he met a bunch of rich Gujarati NRIs who were scouring the area for a luxury hotel. Hardly any contract has gone to local contractors.
Only a morally dead society will celebrate an event which left death & destruction in its wake. An event which still makes millions filled with fear & evokes painful emotional scars. A blot on the conscience of the republic & society as a whole.
Media & judiciary haven’t switched loyalties. They sense the anger in the upper middle class & are merely acting as safety valve for that anger. Also the scale of tragedy is such that they cannot remain untouched. When time comes, don’t be surprised by where their loyalties lie
A Muslim man who saved a crane & befriended it was booked under the Wildlife Protection Act. Meanwhile, the state itself is sending protected animals to adorn the zoo of an imbecile rich brat to whom India’s media is collectively orgasming. Vishwaguru for a reason.
Tripura, with 74 pet elephants as per the 2022 Animal Census, has sent 23 elephants to Jamnagar including 12 elephants recently. Many of these "healthy" and "fit to travel" elephants were transported from Arunachal Pradesh, Assam, Tripura to the RKTEWT
With Draupadi Murmu as President, the BJP has mastered the politics of representation in its attempts to create a uniform Hindu identity without actually “delegating” any political power to the marginalized. Yet to be seen if this bluff would be called out by those it targets 1/n
I remember the hypnotic spell Ekta Kapoor’s drivel had cast on Indian Middle Class. Modi’s hypnotic spell mirrors that. He figured out quite early that they could be sold anything if it was shrouded in grandiosity, melodrama & appealed to their baser instincts in name of morality
Air India sold to Tata for a pittance~ 18,000 crore. Next in line would be LIC, railways & the banks.Hindusthan is happy because Modi is showing Muslims & Dalits their place. A Happy marriage of capitalism & Jai Sri Ram. Only a Revolution can upstage this not electoral politics.
If the resignation of PBM is a warning sign for academia in India then what was the arrest of Anand Teltumbde ? UC liberal forced to resign are warning signs but Dalit academics ka toh chalta hai.
The PM’s way of getting out of tight spots has been to either go visit his mother, talk about his supposedly humble past , pick up strategically placed litter and if nothing works then bawl. Almost 8 years of this drama and India’s middle class still can’t have enough of it.
Sampath’s sources for Savarkar’s biography consist of Savarkar, Savarkar’s family, Savarkar’s biography by Dhananjay Keer & Swarajya magazine articles. If Sampath actually submitted this for evaluation as part of some coursework, he would fail miserably.
I am married to a Sanghi. We bet on just who and how many innocents are going to be jailed every month. Last time I lost & had to buy him a bottle of his favorite scotch. We exist. He’s the wind beneath my wings.
Now that CIA has classified Bajrang Dal & VHP as "religious militant" organizations, Proud Hindus living in America are going to boycott America by giving up their green cards and coming back to work in North India.
What Middle Class Hindus are thinking right now- "Hey, we voted for you to slaughter kids of Dalits & Muslims not attack our kids, our malls, our pubs, our clubs, our schools....This is intolerance"
A lot of vitriol which comes out against missionary schools in India, some of them quite elite, is because their emphasis on English has allowed children of lower caste working classes to escape clutches of poverty, document caste abuse & express themselves to global audiences.
Amidst fears of being deported, I’ll be teaching my first course this summer on India’s descent into fascism.
We will begin with the advent of Islam in South Asia, Orientalist conception of South Asian History & Hindu Nationalism.
Breaking from Yogendra Yadav : Hindutva is actually a reaction to Owaisi’s politics. Until Owaisi won those seats in Bihar, RSS was actually a group of sanyasi peacekeepers.
Rich Brahmins like Chandrachud, Mishra, Trivedi should willingly give up their reservation in judiciary so poor Brahmins may become judges. It will be good for the whole Brahmin community.
Kejriwal has specifically prohibited Christmas & New Year celebrations in NCT, while bars can open with 50% capacity. The genius of the man is that he does silently & slyly what RSS proclaims to do openly.
You mean that South Delhi Bungalow my father worked so hard to get will be taxed when he bequeaths that to me. That also means that the two flats I own in Gurgaon will also be taxed when I bequeath them to my kids. That’s so unfair.
Ranga, a nobody, was first platformed by .
@newslaundry
. His initial views which were extremely Casteist were rendered acceptable by many liberal journalists, decrying him for his views today. You saddle us with these depraved excuse of human beings if they serve your agenda.
Fuckers can’t even pretend to be decent folks without being casteist. Our leader is so great that he’s serving water to a Dalit “despite being a Brahmin”.
If this is how the “law” works in this country Buddhists across India should file claims to find if temples constructed were done so after razing stupas. DN Jha said evidence was visible in Vidisha, Satdhara, Deurkothar, Mathura, Sarnath, Shravasti just to name a few places.
Spent time reading the NEP. I remember Shamika Ravi’s idiotic, privileged take on how higher education is not a public good & those who can’t afford it should just undergo vocational training. This is exactly what this NEP seeks to do. Reinforce existing class & caste hegemony.
The “Two Nation theory” has been used by nationalist historians on both sides to justify their respective ideologies & creation of separate states. Indians blame it on Jinnah & Muslim league. Pakistanis justify partition on the basis that Jinnah subscribed to it 1/n
When you stand up for a community based on a principle, it doesn’t matter whether that community reciprocates or not. You’re not standing up for them. You’re standing up for a principle. You’re doing it for yourself. They don’t owe you anything.
Watched Darlings - Not only is the movie quite classist but portraying a poor Muslim man as a drunkard who abuses & tortures his wife does nothing but play into the communal stereotyping of Muslim men in the current political climate.
Reservation has nothing to do with how rich someone is. It’s not a poverty alleviation scheme. It’s meant for representation. And Tina Dabi & her kids can also be discriminated against. Do Savarnas torture Dalit students at IITs because of their caste or because they are rich ?
Partition should be revisited, not through Modi’s lens but Manto’s. Stories make an indelible impression. Stories which highlight the rapacious nature of men irrespective of community. That men looted, killed ,abducted not out of communal hate but simply because they could so.
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@Nidhi
We all know how hard it was for you break into journalism with your father as editor in chief of PTI. Btw, a Harvard Professor like you should know that even the capitalist haven that is America has an inheritance tax.
The Congress sounds more left than the left parties. Inheritance tax is a terrible idea. Also, they make it sound like those who make money are bad people. There’s nothing wrong with making money especially when you have worked hard and earned it. The Congress needs to figure
Congratulations.
@Profdilipmandal
Finally someone like Smriti irani has taken note of your communal, arguments to pit Dalits against Dalit Muslims & Christians. The same Smriti Irani who fabricated lies against Rohith Vemula. I hope you get what you deserve for selling your soul
BJP loses Dalit votes & SC very conveniently allows sub classification amongst SC/ST without any factual basis. Now BJP can fracture Dalit vote in North India state wise by advancing some at the expense of other. Well played Headboy Chandrachud.
Rawat’s legacy is that he allowed the armed forces to act as an extension of the ruling party & a violent enforcer of its ideology in Kashmir & NE. His tenure heralded the death of the supposed neutrality of the armed forces and my implication the death of Indian democracy.
Sharjeel Usmani knows how to time travel. He travelled backwards in time & radicalized Hegdewar, Savarkar, Golwalkar by showing them his tweets from 2021. It resulted in the partition of India, numerous riots since 1947, destruction of Babri & the election of Modi. Poor Hindus.
DY Chandrachud institutionalizes creamy layer while speaking on diversity & caste at Brandeis. His son Abhinav Chandrachud wrote a book on caste, quotas and Indian judiciary. “Woke” Brahmins making money by talking about Casteism while making sure their power is never challenged.
.
@Profdilipmandal
‘s friends have revealed that he wrote Modi’s election speeches. If this is true, then little wonder Modi sounded totally unhinged. You make someone spew stuff like “Congress will steal your Buffalo”& wonder why he didn’t invite you to his oath taking ceremony
Ruchika is doing an outstanding job in busting Hindutva propaganda & taking history to the people. This is what academia should have been in the first place. Sangh parivar is running thousands of pages on social media peddling its propaganda in name of history. Need more like her
2023 was the year we learnt the following in history
1) Nalanda was not burnt/destroyed by Bakhtiyar Khalji, there's no primary source for that as I explain here
2) Forced conversions done by Mughals is a myth, and 9 more Mughal myths here
So all of a sudden Republic TV journalists are developing a conscience because their work environment is toxic. Never mind that it was asleep when Republic was sowing seeds of genocide.But sure applaud them as heroes until their conscience sleeps again for some other Arnab
The richest & the most powerful of Indians are attending Modi’s “coronation” at his invitation. But Modi’s victory is “anti elitist” & a “class war”. Sure. Idiots.
Now that the caste identities of the rioters who raped Bilkis and killed her entire family is known, haven’t seen a single tweet which says, “Brahmins are the foot soldiers of Hindutva”. That’s all there’s to know about the vicious casteism which exists behind such ideas.
Good. Ready to adopt if only you’re willing to clean sewers, collect dead animals and skin them. Also bonus diet of beef twice a day. Will sign a contract to that effect.
My name is Parnika and I belong to General category. If any person from the reserved category(SC/ST) is willing to adopt me, I'm ready to provide 5 lakh cash (after the formation of caste certificate).
BSP by supporting BJP on 370 has abetted fascism. It cannot be at the vanguard of Dalit emancipation while it aids fascism. BSP also is marking the beginning of its own doom.
In the process also burnt alive Graham Staines and his kids but that’s acceptable. The important thing is that this murderer is “disciplined, austere & simple”.
Born to a poor family,
#PratapChandraSarangi
, a disciplined RSS worker, worked right from the roots to reach great heights in life which he truly deserves for his austere lifestyle and simplicity.
#ModiCabinet
Germany's Chancellor Olaf Scholz: “At this moment, there is only one place for Germany — the place at Israel’s side. Our own history, our responsibility arising from the Holocaust, makes it a perpetual task for us to stand up for the security of the State of Israel.”
Aam Aadmi Party filed the case for sub classification, Kapil Sibbal represented them & BJP is celebrating it. Tells you all you need to know about so called anti fascists who profess to fight BJP. When it comes to caste oppression, 20% Savarnas will always be united.
South Asian student associations at Ivy League universities ought to be about samosas and Bollywood screenings. Something has gone profoundly wrong if they’re instead associated with assaulting Jewish students on campus and writing letters that blame Israel for Hamas atrocities.
India’s public universities had a culture of intellectual freedom. Some of the best minds were products & taught there. If even half the outrage being expressed about Ashoka had been expressed for how the state ruined public education, perhaps we wouldn’t be in this state today
Must laud the Scindias for consistency in their politics barring a blip. Sided with the British in 1857. Siding with their most ardent followers in 2020.
Don’t think India ever had a more incompetent MEA than Jaishankar & a more ridiculous foreign policy. To get Indian Celebs who are little known globally to reply to what could’ve been inconsequential tweets made India a laughing stock while relations with allies really at a low.
Because your ancestors didn't carry excreta on their heads or skin dead animals. And your parents didn't clean toilets with bare hands. If you want this "privilege", we can arrange something for you. Your kids would get that SC/ST certificate. Do contact.
Fuck. Can't deal with all these hot "liberal" takes on how far BJP has come from Vajpayee's days. He engineered a massacre in Nellie & the demolition of Babri, you morons. This is why India is facing what it's today. Grow a fucking pair. Idiots.
Modi’s political strategy starts and stops at religion. And Amit Shah’s at buying out the opposition. Indian Media : “Great orator. Mass leader. Chanakya”
What is Chandrachud going to do about the sexual abuse of kids in Badlapur ? Is he going to take suo motu cognizance, lambast the state government for breakdown of law & order & then constitute a task force to recommend safety measures for children at school ? Guess not.
A special kind of cell should be reserved for such disgusting human beings who laugh at the tears of the poor being bulldozed by fascism. One day I hope you lose it all.
Dramatic increase in demand for bulldozers. Are we increasing domestic capacity for manufacturing or will we have to depend on imports??
#JustAsking
. 😝😝😂😂
So 476 out of 829 selected UPSC candidates were coached at Samkalp Foundation - an RSS run coaching institute. The Indian state has been taken over from within but the question is What was the Indian Left doing ? How could it fail here despite knowing Gramsci talk about hegemony
Heh, if Barkha Dutt was reporting during 1857, she would report that the mutineers had raped and killed white women & children because the East India Company’s army told her so.
Some folks attacking “Indian liberals” for citing multiple global media reports (and Biden) on babies killed in
#hamasattack
. Except for one denial, which too I reported, worlds media has quoted an Israel general on this.Apparently this makes us bigots. What does it make them ?
Why can’t they just elect that shooter to the Parliament like we do to mass murderers ? Why can’t their media white wash the murderer by publishing stories of how much he loves cows and how little he sleeps ?
A shout out to Ambedkar. He was the guy who warned us from the very outset that Hindu raj would be the greatest calamity for this country. Some people (us upper castes) scoffed at him then, but he was dead right.
India’s Liberal journalists are more concerned about NZ journalists expressing solidarity with their fellow Muslims by wearing head scarves than with Sanghi goons beating up a Muslim family in broad daylight in Gurgaon. Majoritarian bigot in Savarna Hindus bared for all to see