Not a single prominent Indian sportsperson or sports administrator or politician has come out and condemned the incident of Vandana Katariya's family in Uttarakhand being abused with casteist slurs by two UC men.
It's not by accident. It's a calculated, measured silence.
I'm always amazed at how craven and sad a concept that Humans of Bombay is. This "founder and CEO" nicked an idea from an American guy who was documenting the struggles of ordinary people and refugees in NYC and elsewhere- and turned it into a moneyed influencer page.
omg people in Bangalore use CAB AGGREGATORS AND GPS????!!!!!!
woe to us in Bombay and Calcutta and elsewhere who wait for the 10:30 Slow Bullock Cart to Churchgate/Sealdah.
An open letter to every pro-pharmaceutical company simp defending price-gouging:
Vaccines are not the same as multiplex tickets, pizza, Netflix subscriptions, etc. 400 bucks per dose is cheap for you, because you are a microscopic minority in India.
No one cares about peak Bengaluru.
Let's talk about Peak Pune culture.
Turns out, I have two mutuals on Facebook with that DRDO scientist-cum-RSS dude who was giving away missile secrets to ISI in exchange for B&V.
Thank you for objectifying men.
Thank you for making men realise they are nothing up a monthly paycheck.
Thank you for making men realise that their value is based on their employer. I am sure you aren't going to choose the ones who are in BYJU's or TCS, Accenture, etc.
Thank
Everyone is nitpicking what or who is to blame for the mess at Delhi airport, or what people have seen is the marked decline in the quality of services at the Mumbai airport.
Somehow, both airports being privatised and run for a profit never comes up.
Wild, wild story. Strap in.
Her social media is just pictures of her mother, memes mocking TMC, and flaunting her association with the BJP (she pals around with the WB governor and garden variety BJP leaders).
Yesterday, she was arrested. (1/n)
Should we hang ourselves over non-availability of
#vaccines
? Practically, certain things are beyond our control, can we manage them? asks Union minister Sadananda Gowda
“डिग्री दिखाओ Campaign”🎓
आज से रोज AAP के नेता अपनी Degree देश के सामने रखेंगे
मेरे पास 3 डिग्री है:
1️⃣BA (Delhi University)
2️⃣MA (Oxford University)
3️⃣2nd Master's (Oxford University)
देश के सभी नेताओं से अपील: अपनी डिग्री दिखाएं, खासकर BJP के वरिष्ठ नेता।
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@AtishiAAP
Only Indian vegetarians are this ridiculous and paranoid about other people being meat-eaters is because their vegetarianism is generally not out of love for animals, but out of caste and religious purity.
Why are vegetarians so annoying man, the audacity to tell me that I can’t cook non veg in my damn house if they move in is hilarious
They then started negotiating, no seafood n eggs, only chicken that too twice a week
Moron couldn’t stop saying I’m pure veg after every sentence
Even your capitalist laiseez-faire El Dorado, the United States, is providing Covid-19 vaccines free of cost, irrespective of citizenship, and health insurance eligibility. Because even they have the common sense to widen vaccination coverage in the face of loss and hesitancy.
The sadder/creepier part is that the guy who discovered it, had to later flee the country in order to avoid arrest, after multiple Catholic groups filed spurious cases against him.
In 2012 a statue of Jesus in India mysteriously began dripping water from its toes. Worshippers started collecting it and drinking it believing it was holy. The source of the water was later found to be a clogged toilet near the statue.
This dude really thought he could get away with narrating all of that spin and fluff to Emily Maitlis, who vivisected a member of the British royal family on television.
“If you create panic out of the crisis, every government has a right to control the panic.”
As Covid critical posts are removed on social media platforms in India, the BJP's
@gopalkagarwal
responds with “tweeters have to comply" with the country's content regulations
#Newsnight
Just an amazingly revealing view on whom the BJP has an ideological death-grip on.
Venky uncle's foreign vacations will be ruined, but will still vote against his economic self-interest.
We travel twice for vacations abroad in a year. 20% TCS hits us where it hurts the most .
@nsitharaman
is an absolute pathetic joke who is intent on sucking out every last penny and every last bit of fun in our lives. I ll still vote BJP though. Sadly.
PM Modi is asked to recite a recent poetry of his in the
@NewsNationTV
intvw. He asks for HIS file which is duly handed over, and he starts fiddling with a bunch of papers. The paper on which there's a printed copy of a poetry also has a printed question on the top.
1/3
Just about every news channel has determined how almost each and every caste and creed voted, SC, ST, Lingayat, Vokkaliga, Muslims, and all else.
Just that the data for Brahmins seem to have gone missing.
#Karnataka
None of you libertarian pro-corporate simplords have ever entered a government hospital, where the vast majority of vaccines in India are administered (in many states, it's more than 90%).
More wild: this "actress" has apparently told cops that she has been a pickpocket for quite a while, and frequents high-end events for that purpose. In fact, she maintained an actual diary, to tally her earnings from pickpocketing, which cops have now found. (FIN)
I am always amazed at how grifting comes so naturally to some folks. Especially this dude.
Almost nine years ago, on this exact column, he sniggered that Modi's rise made some people use the word fascism "promiscuously".
Here's the wildest part, why was a small-time actress, so not famous that she wasn't even identified as one by the cops initially, arrested at a book fair.
Answer: she was pickpocketing at the fair, and was caught with Rs 65000-odd in cash, that she nicked. (3/n)
The second person to speak in the video is Manoranjan Byapari. He was born in what was then-East Pakistan, to a Namah Shudra Dalit family, and learnt reading and writing in prison, where he was sent for being a Naxalite. He is now a bestselling writer.
Anyone who is angry, depressed and rattled with current situation is an entitled brat,if tom Sun decides not to shine it does not owe you any explanation,this earth which nurtured and mothered you suddenly became hostile,she does not owe you an explanation.Calm down you fools 1/2
"Pradeep (that scientist dude) is my friend and strong nationalist and RSS follower he cannot do this😭😭😭😭"- one dude.
Another dude, replying to that comment: "Someone may have copied his SIM😭😭😤😤".
@SubhashiniAli
It's better that communists stay out of commenting on Netaji.
Communists & Japan:
If we read the book Churchill's Secret War by Madhushree Mukerjee, page 183, we will find the answer.
Why Japan (& Netaji) became equal enemy of Bengal Communists (CPI) & how they put the blame
Indian upper middle classes and rich folk are almost unique in their absolute and utter hatred for poor people.
Just about every single Bombay rich dude's life is subsidised by poor people, who are forced to live in slums due to wage suppression and discrimination.
She was arrested at about the last place you'd expect, at the Kolkata Book Fair, which ended on Sunday at the Central Park in Salt Lake, north-eastern Calcutta. She is also apparently an actress, and even campaigned as a "celebrity" for the BJP. (2/n)
It is important to remember that people ‘proud to be followed by Modi’ have tweeted venom against JNU for months. Those who control the BJP’s social media machine need to find out.
"If nothing else, Occupy forced a conversation about class and capitalism in America."
@astradisastra
on
#OccupyWallStreet
's influence on electoral politics, debt cancellation, climate justice and democracy ⤵️
#20teens
.
@MarthaRaddatz
: "It is so horrible to know, we are in America where this is happening, on Capitol Hill. I'm not in Baghdad. I'm not in Kabul. I'm not in a dangerous situation overseas. We are in America."
LATEST:
Only people who are "street" politicians like her get that only optics beats optics.
Only a clear, unambiguous message drives home the point, not "Modi has hijacked Ayodhya" hand-wringing.
None of the milquetoast BJP-lite hindutva by Indian liberals online.
Airports are public utilities, and no public utility should be run for a profit. It necessitates corner-cutting- there are no ways around it. If the airport operator finds that installing a new baggage processing system eats into the UDF they're collecting, they won't do it.
She was seen disposing a large purse into a dustbin by a cop, who later approached her and started enquiring. She tried to explain it away as disposing a cold drink bottle, but that story quickly fell apart. (4/n)
Watch: EAM Jaishankar explains diplomacy in Mahabharat terms:
-Greatest Diplomats: Shri Krishna, hanuman ji
-Kurukshetra: Multipolar India
-NAM: Balarama, Rukma
-Arun: Emotionally interdependent
-Strategic patience: Krishna forgiving Shishupal several times
Another man, who posted the story: "Pradeep has RSS background so it can be sabotage too... won't be like Nambiar (?) sir (??) or Purohit sir (??????)".
Dear lord.
Neelesh Misra first asks "how is this casteist" and proceeds to describe casteism. And a whole lot of brahmins replied saying omg truuu not casteist at all.
"Non vegetarians might not understand" lmao.
Um, how is this casteist?
I am vegetarian. When I dine my friends ensure that the serving spoon used for my food isn’t used for non veg food. Non vegetarians might not understand this but it is so.
If she wants to take her own cutlery as well, fair enough, what’s wrong in that?
@akm1410
Startup bro/founder types in the OP replies are congratulating Bhasin for his "honesty" and are posting words of encouragement, after he literally admitted to accounting fraud.
They aren't even considering the massive layoffs, because regular folks don't matter, of course.
Apparently, Uddhav, Pawar, and Thorat have nothing better to do than to pay someone to send raunchy texts to a 59 year-old defence scientist for entrapment.
"We should stand by Modi sarkar only😤", she says in Marathi, among other things.
Omar Abdullah, Mehbooba Mufti, Sajjad Lone, all have been placed under house arrest. Internet services are almost unavailable.
An entire state's population is living in darkness, without any sniff of democracy, due to a manufactured crisis.
#JammuAndKashmir
Lemme tell you, Bhumika.
When India's former AYUSH minister, aka a real-life Minister of Magic, caught Covid, he was seen nowhere near medicine theatre personnel like you or any other air-guitar medicine folks.
He promptly went to Goa's biggest private hospital.
The government tried taking the private operator route for railway stations as well, through IRSDC, a venture which ended in failure, and all stations under IRSDC have now been returned to their respective railway zones, operated at public cost.
If you wondered why the patron saint of self-appointed nerds is yapping about Mars again, it's because Tesla has had to recall nearly 700,00 cars, representing 25% of all cars sold by Tesla till date.
The most UC Hindu diaspora story imaginable. Folks be working at Google and then be triggered by anti-caste activist trying to shed light on casteism in Silicon Valley, an issue increasingly in the spotlight due to multiple caste discrimination lawsuits.
Google canceled a talk by an Indian Dalit activist after employees targeted her, saying she was "anti-Hindu."
Thenmozhi Soundararajan appealed to CEO Pichai — who belongs to an upper caste Hindu family — with no result.
25% of U.S. Dalits report facing verbal/physical abuse.
@abhijeetwa
No. Kleptomaniacs steal from anyone and anywhere, and not items of much monetary or useful value. It's a mental health issue.
This person is just a thief. She chooses high-end, crowded events to steal.
Kolkata HC not only entertains VHP’s seemingly ‘frivolous litigation’ of lioness Sita & lion Akbar but asks duo be renamed
Unconvincing judgment since it makes lions’ names overarching problem rather than Hindutva communalisation of names
HC should call case ‘abuse of process’
@appadappajappa
My building has four-five cats which often scream at each other every night.
And that is still less chaotic and more on tune than this mess.
Why are India’s farmers protesting? The government tried to change the decades-old agriculture laws and that’s when the manure hit the fan.
If you don’t know, now you know.
An elected representative of India, however, can certainly campaign for a President seeking re-election. It's called having your cake and eating it too.
When you are staring at a $100 million severance package for publicly humiliating and firing a star employee with a disability, word salads that blame others are all you have.
@danielhoughton
@anothercohen
@iamharaldur
I would like to apologize to Halli for my misunderstanding of his situation. It was based on things I was told that were untrue or, in some cases, true, but not meaningful.
He is considering remaining at Twitter.
Stadium is an absolute library innit? Not a snowball's chance in hell Wankhede or Eden or Chepauk would have been this quiet, even if India were losing.
@cricketworldcup
He's not wrong. The Apartheid DF Malan government of Apartheid South Africa passed two laws in 1949 and 1957 that forbade any sexual or marital relations between Europeans and "non-Europeans". Which is why Trevor Noah was "born a crime".
30 day ban on flying on someone for drunkenly exposing to a elderly woman and urinating on her, and who was initially simply allowed to exit the plane calmly upon landing at IGIA, nearly two months back.
Everything about this screams powerful person.
You're telling me that a hyper-capitalistic work environment that fetishizes long hours and has caused one of the highest rates of suicide in the developed world is BAD FOR FAMILIES???!
Hey P*llavi Ghosh, look at this, some Canadian dude is interfering in India's internal affairs by soliciting donations for a temple and now commenting about farmers. Please do a story.
Farmers constitute an extremely important part of our country. And the efforts being undertaken to resolve their issues are evident. Let’s support an amicable resolution, rather than paying attention to anyone creating differences. 🙏🏻
#IndiaTogether
#IndiaAgainstPropaganda
-- Dhyan Chand lurking in a corner.
-- Massive photo of The Man.
-- The Param Vir Chakra medal being passed off as the Khel Ratna.
-- The hashtag.
It's only appropriate that this has been tweeted by Sambit Patra, one of the pro-vice chancellors of WhatsApp University.
"bonds per government metrics" is the new, Indian scale of measurement.
Up there with Germans' "Volkswagens per lost world wars" and British "cups of tea per stolen jewels".
Agniveer is a societal disaster waiting to happen. Thousands of 21 year olds, with an incomplete education and with arms training, will land in a society with already-high unemployment.
If you ever wondered how clueless and tone-deaf liberals are, here's this guy comparing a privileged academic being forced out of a private university, to the brutal sexual assault of a woman that resulted in her death.
@JanusBlinked
If ours was even a less-rich European country, cops and child protection folks would have kicked into their house and taken the child away from his parents.
Tamilnadu's Aruna Vijay , who is a marwari jain, who was in the top ten in Sony TV 's master chef India, refused to cook the dish wherein she had to put eggs. She stood for her principles, and values even at the cost of losing 25 lacs. Proud of her.
#vegetariansociety
The need of the hour is for all of us to work together for the development of India and the empowerment of every Indian, especially the poor, downtrodden and marginalised.
We cannot allow vested interest groups to divide us and create disturbance.
Dear Muslims, garba is a deeply religious affair - it’s not entertainment. It’s a celebration of Navadurga, of the mighty Devi and her nine forms. If you want to participate, please do ghar wapasi and submit to Maa. Else, pls stay away. Thank you.
I look at something like this and think of my grandma who used to cook for nearly 20 people, three meals a day including her kids and her sister-in-law's kids. With a smile on her lips and with much love. I only see entitlement and selfishness in what she says
My dude was born in the Netherlands, plays in France, wears a shirt with betting sponsorship logos, but is still a homophobic snowflake who cannot have a rainbow-coloured shirt number.
@AnantikaMehra
Rocket Singh was a delightful film. A superb cast, and a great storyline, although it may look a little mundane and low-key. Underrated.
The fact that we learnt about you in school as a pioneering IPS officer, and all that has come down to you sitting through a communal programme celebrating a shameful and illegal act, should shame all of us, even if you gleefully post videos of it.
Another formation d school children made was of the proposed Shri Ram Mandir at
#Ayodhya
. All such performances enabled d school ensure all of its 3800+ school children participate in d annual festival of Sri Rama Vidya Kendra, Kalladka Village, near Mangalore
@PTI_News
@ANI
Of course, he never had to pay a price for change of heart/hypocrisy/whatever it is. Not even a public mea culpa.
He got to be the agitated liberal at litfests, became vice-chancellor at a lib university, and still gets to write columns lamenting an eroding democracy.
Sure, Ramesh Bidhuri is a human landfill. But Nero's guests are as guilty as Nero is. Liberals online as dissing people from South Delhi for electing him, not seeing that the two people who were sitting behind Bidhuri are a doctor (also the grossly incompetent former health min)
@abhiandniyu
@gudugudugudu_
A dude who served time in prison for a fake encounter was in that very stadium, but yes, an Aussie pitch invader with a Palestine tee is a "criminal".
Nearly 8 years later, my Times of India journey is ending this month. Have no words but to thank my bosses, colleagues, the friends I made along the way, and the city of Pune, which made me one of its own.
Here's to a new city, and new experiences.
@TOIPune
Whatever you might think about Fadnavis, he has nailed being (and more importantly, appearing) the alpha in his equation with Shinde.
He might be deputy CM, but in this ad, there's no doubt as to who is in charge. Because we are wired to read from left to right.
Don't know which Dalit wedding (since they made it a point to say that's what it was) or Buddhist wedding looks like this - but sure. Might have made more sense to show them donate the crores they spent on this gala, to support Dalit-owned businesses or anything more practical.