محترمہ پربھا ✅Just another day in new India, Hindus not wanting a Muslim professor to teach Sanskrit. But Hindutva is different apparently 🙄
Amit Ramesan 🇮🇳Prabha, you are just doing the same thing the BJP is doing : conflating Hinduism and Hindutva.
Hindutva by itself is morally indefensible ; why allow it to hide behind Hinduism?
Agreed, Hinduism itself has a long way to go before we can create an egalitarian society in India.
The "boil the ocean" approach isn't going to work ; let's prioritize the struggle against Hindutva and save our nation first, over reform in Hinduism.
@AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan
Please don’t do false equivalence. Hindutva ideology did not do this Hindus did this, same with many other things. Let’s stop pretending that majority Hindus are turning bigoted
Manny@Deepsealioness @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan We keep on denying, but everywhere FB, Twitter & WA groups, the story is the same. We label them as Hindutva, but all of them happen to be our own friends, colleagues & relatives. Just handful of Hindus who r openly calling out the hatred. V keep on saying 31% when almost the entire country voted for Modi with a massive mandate. It's time we recognize this. At the moment, I personally feel, all is lost and V r no different than the Nazis.
NSure ✔@cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan
You forgot the EVMs, friend!!
I am finding more & more bhakts unhappy with snoopy. Some themselves feel the pinch, others have bros/ sis/ dear friends feeling the pinch and so, the change!
Neither ultra rich nor ultra poor will feel it - one has too much money to bother, the other isn't bothered coz they haven't seen money...
It is the middle class that feels it and the majority of us are middle class!!
I don't think we should blame EVMs whenever the result goes against us; look at MH results.
Besides, do consider the various opinions here that Mr. Modi still enjoys substantial, if waning, support.
Let's prepare for the scary scenario : there's no fixing.
There's a lot of good work being done by @naukarshah , @poonamjourno et al. on EVM issues in parallel, so I'd say , once again : we should prepare for the scary scenario of "No fixing."
@AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @ranjona @KavitaKrishnan i never believed that EVM have been solely responsible. I have asked so many people, shopkeepers, uber drivers, househelp here in Pune, Maharashtra. All of them voted 4 Modi in lok sabha elections. The state elections too, they voted for BJP. There is a huge class divide. For them Modi is a cult figure, who has destroyed the rich & the corrupt Khangress & he is correcting the wrong
Ranjona@cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan
And yet i have met many who said they did not vote Modi, especially in May 2019 and yet... anecdotal evidence although us journalists use it all the time, is interesting but not a complete yardstick.
And yet i have met many who said they did not vote Modi, especially in May 2019 and yet... anecdotal evidence although us journalists use it all the time, is interesting but not a complete yardstick.
@ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan my observation might not apply 2 other places, because Pune is urban and has large Brahmin population who always votes 4 BJP. I know so many who distributed sweets when Babri was felled down. Many have distributed pamphlets in the 90s that Taj Mahal was built over a shiv temple. Those pamphlets also provide proofs (all false). My own relatives r all blind bhakts, except 4 just 5 of us.
ansh_blue@cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan it's a combination of both then, where the race is neck to neck tamper the evms... But we've turned far right in extremely short span of time
@ansh_blue @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Maybe, friend. But what goes up will come down too!
Raghu R@cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan relatives, friends, high school classmates, neighbors...all seem to be under the thrall of "dear leader".... If not for Mastodon, I would be forgiven to think we are an endangered tribe
@RaghunathR @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
It's changing before my eyes! Someone's brother has lost his job, someone else is bothered by the prospect of paying tax on his gold. Someone else is now worried that his property is worth much less now, while someone else has now started seeing the devious agenda - completely disregarding economy & humanity if the bjpee
No, I'd say bjpee fandom is getting weaker by the day, coz their policies spare noone!
@NSure @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Also I'd say people are scared to speak up.
Also I'd say people are scared to speak up.
@ranjona @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Indeed. Life is precious to each one of us!
But if life itself is threatened, even a butterfly would fight back and that situation is drawing near!
Once we get rid of hacked EVMs, we will see the real number of bjpee bhaktha!
SabinaBashaIndeed, yes. The same amongst us should take those extra 2 steps to ensure peace, IMHO !
Well Sabina, when we remove hacked EVMs totally from the scene, we will know the truth!
Out of 540 LS seats, the results of 370 haven't been tallied, don't add up! THAT tells a story, isn't it!!
Saumyajit@NSure @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan Couple of my friends have voted Congress for the first time in their life in the Maha elections. They are not bhakts but lifetime BJP voters.
@Saumyajit @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
The Prodigal Voters! I'm happy you have a ready example for what I believe strongly in! May the examples multiply like rabbits!!
@NSure @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan The cult of the bhakts still remain though.
@Saumyajit @RaghunathR @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
I think it is a few people making all the noise.
I'm more worried about the large number of quiet sheep!! Hopefully, they will grow larynxes and stings soon!!
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Justice Katju: "Everything has collapsed in India, all state institutions have become hollow and empty shells, and largely corrupt, while the Indian economy is tanking and the people’s distress is growing, with record and rising unemployment.
http://www.therationaldaily.com/opinion/a-french-revolution-is-coming-in-india/
A French Revolution is coming in India - The Rational Daily
All indications are that some kind of French Revolution is coming in the Indian subcontinent, as I have said in my articles ‘India edges closer to its own French Revolution’ published in the week.in, ‘The stormy petrel is on its wings’ published in indicanews.com, and ‘Why India is headed for its own French Revolution’ published in dailyo.in. Consider …
Bihari Coder@cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @NSure @KavitaKrishnan just wanna say something, Please read Harry Potter. And understand the reaction of people when rise and fall of Voldemort happened. People on both sides kept fighting but most of them came out only when their side is winning. Times now show the same. We all are fighting our battles so that we can collectively win the war.
@BaankeyBihari @cprogrammer @ranjona @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
And where did she (harry potter author - I forget her name) get that from???
From observing LIFE! Every revolution has followed the same pattern!
@ranjona @BaankeyBihari @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Thanks, Ranjona! 😊
I remembered the name a bit after pressing TOOT! 😂
@NSure @BaankeyBihari @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
Haha! Murphy's law never fails!
Haha! Murphy's law never fails!
@ranjona @BaankeyBihari @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan
No it doesn't fail, ever! 😂😂😂
@ranjona @NSure @cprogrammer @AmitRamesan @naukarshah @poonamjourno @KavitaKrishnan Thanks!! @ranjona @NSure The reason I am referring the book here is that it keeps things in black and white. While real life people are very colourful. It’s quite easy to loose perspective while debating things.