Tomorrow even
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:29 (four years ago) link
A cousin linked me this to correct the misinformation I have apparently been exposed to from the MSM. It certainly provides an, um, alternative perspective: https://www.facebook.com/watch/?v=140303730563256
― Sund4r, Saturday, 14 March 2020 17:32 (four years ago) link
Really alarming situation described here for vast numbers of people who are stranded under the sudden lockdown, with reports of widespread police violence: https://www.democracynow.org/2020/3/26/amitav_ghosh_india_coronavirus_lockdown
― Sund4r, Friday, 27 March 2020 03:05 (four years ago) link
With this and his Kashmir actions I believe Modi's solidly in the lead and pulling away from the field as the most horrible authoritarian elected president right now. When you consider the field includes Duterte and Bolsinaro, that's quite an achievement.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 27 March 2020 04:18 (four years ago) link
leading the vanguard of never-letting-a-crisis-go-to-waste, uttar pradesh suspends almost all labour laws for 3 years to spur investment https://www.business-standard.com/article/economy-policy/up-govt-to-exempt-businesses-from-all-but-three-labour-laws-for-3-years-120050701531_1.html
― The Cognitive Peasant (ogmor), Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:11 (four years ago) link
Tesla should move it's factory over there
― xyzzzz__, Sunday, 10 May 2020 17:47 (four years ago) link
Haven't brought myself to read the last story yet but this story seems to put the rest of the world to shame: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/14/the-coronavirus-slayer-how-keralas-rock-star-health-minister-helped-save-it-from-covid-19
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:04 (four years ago) link
It's fantastic! I posted that on the UK pols thread
― xyzzzz__, Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:20 (four years ago) link
Yeah, I thought of putting it on Canadian politics, esp as Kerala has basically the same population size as Canada (and is more dense). Our handling of this doesn't seem as satisfactory anymore.
― Feel a million filaments (Sund4r), Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:21 (four years ago) link
Impressive!
― pomenitul, Thursday, 14 May 2020 19:26 (four years ago) link
Three Indian soldiers killed in a clash with the Chinese Army in Galwan Valley.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
So this situation has been going for a while?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:13 (four years ago) link
Since independence, i guess, but this is apparently the first time anyone has been killed in 45 years.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:17 (four years ago) link
There was a Chinese 'incursion' about three weeks ago, i think, that kicked things off again.
Actually, to be more accurate, i think the incursion came as part of the Chinese response to India building a new bridge across the valley, against China's objections.
― ShariVari, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:19 (four years ago) link
apparently now it's up to 20 casualties
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:20 (four years ago) link
The report I heard mentioned hand to hand combat, rocks and clubs used, it sounds as brutal and deadly as army combat gets without shots being fired.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:26 (four years ago) link
I saw that too. 20 soldiers beaten to death strains credulity imo, but obvs it's too early to know anything concrete
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:30 (four years ago) link
yeah the subtext probably is shots were fired but neither side can admit that.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:29 (four years ago) link
The two armies jostled and hand-to-hand fighting broke out – neither side armed in line with decades of tradition supposed to ward off the possibility of escalation between the nuclear-armed neighbours.Then an Indian commanding officer was pushed, fell from the narrow ridge and plunged to his death in the gorge below.Reinforcements from the Indian side were summoned from a post about 4km away and eventually about 600 men were fighting with stones, iron rods and other makeshift weapons in near-total darkness for up to six hours, Indian government sources said, with most deaths on both sides occurring from soldiers falling or being knocked from mountain terrain.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:38 (four years ago) link
jfc!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:56 (four years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-52990324?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:56 (four years ago) link
Not even the well connected middle-class are being saved. The BJP will be ramping up their culture war etc. to max levels to get auntie voting for bigotry at the next election.
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:03 (four years ago) link
afaict the main control in place to combat COVID is a 9pm - 5am curfew. idk what what's meant to do other than curb potential disorder.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:26 (four years ago) link
xpostok wow I hadn't realized the insanity of fighting in that kind of terrain
― dip to dup (rob), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 11:47 (four years ago) link
It's off-the-scale crazy. These are two advanced, nuclear-armed superpowers fighting with sticks in the dark for six hours.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 17 June 2020 12:02 (four years ago) link
Looks like Modi has blinked. Says there was no incursion into Indian territory. China has subsequently reiterated that the valley is within their LAC.
Good to see it de-escalate.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 20 June 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
Indian government proceeding with criminalizing intermarriage: https://t.co/3hdeBSMXpL— Murtaza M. Hussain (@MazMHussain) December 5, 2020
Genuinely interested to see how far he can push stuff like this and still have Western leaders pal around with him.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:58 (three years ago) link
In a country where love was meant to be a celebration, Narendra Modi has criminalised interfaith love because it is a regime that has survived and sustained on hate. My take on legitimising the dangerous and fictitious Love Jihad theory in @PostOpinionshttps://t.co/agSPBTm7vF— Rana Ayyub (@RanaAyyub) November 29, 2020
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Saturday, 5 December 2020 11:59 (three years ago) link
Wtf? No way this is constitutional?
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
Likely not, but it will have to go to court first
― rob, Saturday, 5 December 2020 14:44 (three years ago) link
Kerala High Court did rule this way: https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/all-interfaith-marriages-not-love-jihad-court/articleshow/61147349.cms
― actually-very-convincing (Sund4r), Saturday, 5 December 2020 16:56 (three years ago) link
Heartbreaking and believable: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/dec/23/pollution-killed-nearly-17-million-people-in-india-in-2019-study
― They sold me a dream of Christmas (Sund4r), Thursday, 24 December 2020 06:03 (three years ago) link
why aren’t we talking about this?! #FarmersProtest https://t.co/obmIlXhK9S— Rihanna (@rihanna) February 2, 2021
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 3 February 2021 15:07 (three years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2021/may/18/indian-mosque-bulldozed-in-defiance-of-high-court-order
― rob, Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:20 (three years ago) link
Ugh, that seems shockingly brazen, even for the BJP.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Tuesday, 18 May 2021 16:48 (three years ago) link
In other shockingly brazen, even for the BJP news...
Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram have been put on notice in India and may cease to exist for failing to comply with Centre's new I-T Act. New social media rules to come into effect on May 26. @maryashakil shares more details with @ridhimb pic.twitter.com/wLvsSbbOqH— News18 (@CNNnews18) May 25, 2021
The short version seems to be that they forged some documents suggesting Congress was planning to run a campaign that would ‘tarnish the image of the country’ over COVID, Twitter labelled it as ‘manipulated media’ when senior politicians posted it, the police raided Twitter’s offices yesterday and now they, and Facebook, have 24 hours to comply with new laws or face closure.
― Scampo di tutti i Scampi (ShariVari), Tuesday, 25 May 2021 07:19 (three years ago) link
Wow.
I got a FB msg from a cousin in India today so I'm guessing they either complied or the rules aren't being enforced?
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Wednesday, 26 May 2021 17:59 (three years ago) link
some follow up here: https://slate.com/technology/2021/06/india-silicon-valley-twitter-google-censorship.html
― trap door to hell opens underneath (rob), Sunday, 13 June 2021 17:18 (three years ago) link
Finally read this; it's as depressing as I feared.
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:45 (three years ago) link
Went back to it after reading this: https://theprint.in/india/journalist-activist-jailed-under-nsa-for-45-days-over-cow-posts-in-manipur-its-not-unusual/684133/
― Sequel to Sadness (Sund4r), Monday, 5 July 2021 17:53 (three years ago) link
Sometimes writing editorials is not required. Just the placement of news is enough pic.twitter.com/9tyP9JkMym— Ghazala Wahab (@ghazalawahab) June 28, 2022
― rob, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 12:57 (two years ago) link
o_O
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:16 (two years ago) link
more on Zubair and Alt News: https://restofworld.org/2021/fact-checking-modis-india/
― rob, Tuesday, 28 June 2022 13:53 (two years ago) link
Protesters occupy President's residence, burn down PM's and force both to resign in Sri Lanka: https://www.nytimes.com/article/sri-lanka-president-protests.html
While I don't question that there are good reasons to want a revolution in Sri Lanka, it's v unclear to me what will come next and nothing I've seen suggests that the protesters have a clear idea themselves. Also, one thing I've not seen addressed anywhere yet is whether Tamils or Muslims are represented among the protesters.
― No purposes. Sounds. (Sund4r), Monday, 11 July 2022 13:05 (two years ago) link
Indian government accused of attack on democracy as 141 MPs suspended:https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/dec/19/indian-government-accused-attack-democracy-mps-suspended-modi-bjp
― rob, Tuesday, 19 December 2023 18:33 (ten months ago) link
Really grim
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:37 (ten months ago) link
Modi has done so many fascist things over the years, it’s so expected
― mojo dojo casas house (gyac), Wednesday, 20 December 2023 09:55 (ten months ago) link
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/live/ckdgg87lnkdt
Hasina has stepped down and fled the country.
― ShariVari, Monday, 5 August 2024 10:44 (two months ago) link
100+ dead.
― nashwan, Monday, 5 August 2024 12:09 (two months ago) link