Sankalp Swami

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reforms should and must be brought in to keep such people in power in check. people in power can and have always abused misused their powers. this is ridiculous.

wondering how many such cases might have gone unnoticed or how many have been suppressed by these monsters. reading this was pretty disturbing, but justice has been served and rightfully so

https://www.thequint.com/news/jayaraj-bennix-custodial-deaths-rarest-of-rare-verdict-tamil-nadu

A Night in Sathankulam That Changed Lives Forever

In a landmark ruling on the Sathankulam custodial deaths, nine policemen have been held guilty of murder and cover-up. Jayaraj-Bennix's deaths had triggered massive protests across Tamil Nadu in 2020.

The Quint

changed my approach a bit as I progress with DDIA. on completion of each chapter, I have decided to read papers relevant to that chapter.

currently reading - Dynamo: amazon's highly available key-value store focusing on making deliberate tradeoffs between availability, and consistency.

https://www.allthingsdistributed.com/files/amazon-dynamo-sosp2007.pdf.

#DDIA #distributedsystems

DDIA is changing my life already. fact is i m only three chapters in, wow!!

#DDIA

Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi raising an extremely important point on selective outrage in this country. with those in power only worried about left-wing extremism, MP asks for a discussion on all forms of extremism including the hinudtva's right-wing extremism

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IEmG2NWLvz8

“When will parliament discuss right-wing Hindutva extremism?” | Aga Syed Ruhullah Mehdi MP | Maktoob

YouTube
making a conscious decision to learn vim/nvim in these times of vibe coding
What happened to the JNU students who challenged Modi? | True Story

YouTube

"Have I been able to carry on my research and writing, whereas he has not, because my first name is Ramachandra and not Umar?"

https://scroll.in/article/1089800/ramachandra-guha-in-praise-of-dr-umar-khalid-from-one-historian-to-another

Ramachandra Guha: In praise of Dr Umar Khalid, from one historian to another

The young scholar’s work, though not without its flaws, is one of one of the most accomplished doctoral dissertations by an Indian that I have read.

Scroll.in
2026 is going to be an amazing year.
sundays for now. everyday very soon. hopefully yay:))