bhagwat is a liar.
Golwalkar, rss chief, on reservations, 1966: Continued special privileges on the basis of caste only is bound to create vested interests in them...It would, therefore be proper that privileges should be based on the economic conditions of the people.
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At a relative's 10th ceremony met a Brahmin engineer uncle. He was lecturing on inheritance tax. Congress removed it bcoz Rajiv wanted to inherit Indira's property.
Told him IG died 1984. Inheritance tax was abolished for deaths after 1985. Told him read something other than WA.

1/. If Mandela’s election victory 30yrs ago was highwater mark of recent human history, the current state of world feels like a low point

Yet despite the current despondency, there are lessons to be learned & hope to be gleaned from that day & the movement that made it possible

In case you actually want to read on Razakars. Two articles

The villainy of Hyderabad’s Razakars during the tumult of 1947-48 is a well documented chapter in the history of the erstwhile princely state.

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The comments section on this post shows exactly why we need a change in the current polarized environment in India especially in the context of healthcare.

This is a news related to medical care. A large number of people in the comments section do not understand (or maybe have…

Every time reporting/meeting/stringing involving working-class persons, hear the refrain, “Aap yeh humse pooch toh rahi hai lekin iss se humko kya faayda hoga? Humein kya milega”
Newfound respect for P. Sainath’s journalistic advocacy of trying to compensate worker interviewees.

“Picasso almost ended Dora Maar's career, convincing her, when they were a couple, to quit photography because he was intimidated by her talent. There is a long list of artists suppressed by the petty hacks of European modernist movements, and a longer list of female innovators…

No proof or material to show that AAP received funds or advanced kickbacks from the South group, let alone utilizing them in the Goa election campaign. Not a single rupee was traced back to the #AAP , and the allegations by #ED are devoid of any tangible evidence : Arvind Kejriwal…

The ridiculousness of this preposterous move by Ramban DEO. How does the friggin Model Code apply to a ration shop owner (who is NOT a govt employee), that too for attending (NOT participating or addressing) an election rally?

Kya bakwaas hai ye, dear ECI.

I was briefly detained near LeMeridian as the then CM KCR convoy was moving out

I was trying to move from main road to service road/foothpath as we had baby with us.
Police snatched my bike keys, verbally abused me, despite having women & baby with me

VIP culture is detrimental

Traffic stopped again for CM Revanth's convoy second day in a row. Can't the police have a channel at least instead of disrupting and making people wait in the heat I wonder.

Waiting for a few seconds even in this heat is terrible.
#Hyderabad #Summer

If there is one set of cases which needs to be fast tracked, it is not criminal cases against MP/MLA but election petitions. They go not just to the root of democracy but is democracy itself. High Courts/ SC should have exclusive benches to hear EPs, decide within reasonable time

BREAKING: The Institute of Political Studies (Sciences Po) in Paris joins the worldwide students uprising against genocide and for a free Palestine.

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How the mainstream media helped create something out of nothing

Fahad Faasil's take on how he wants audiences to interact with films is quirky and refreshing. He has a point because I think there's case to be made that film criticism/appreciation has become excessively self-indulgent. People discuss films threadbare in 2 hour podcasts. They…

I keep thinking about this. When my grandfather and his family escaped massacres in Mardin, they took their key with them to Palestine. When zionist militias forced him out of his home in Jerusalem, he took his key with him. He held on to both keys of his homes until he passed.

For some reason Facebook doesn’t find these kind of groups necessary to take down. Somehow men sharing women’s pictures + posts and inciting “belt” violence is safe to be on this platform.

This whole drama on inheritance tax and wealth redistribution shows the importance of having your ear to the ground. If activists and ideologues is all that INC leadership listens to, they will keep losing. Listening to the advice of those who have skin in the game is essential.

Not to be vulgar but The Atlantic is publishing exactly what you’d think a magazine run by an American volunteer for the IDF (who deployed him as a prison guard no less!) would publish