Doubt it but I am going to taking any glimmer of hope.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 31 December 2019 16:49 (four years ago) link
Good news (I think):
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/feb/11/india-modi-ruling-party-poised-to-lose-delhi-election-after-polarising-campaign
― toilet-cleaning brain surgeon (pomenitul), Tuesday, 11 February 2020 14:49 (four years ago) link
Pogroms taking place in Delhi..
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:33 (four years ago) link
Mobs using data to work out who to target:
Wow! What fantastic use of technology. Using an app, rioters identified vehicles belonging to the Muslims and then burnt them down.#DelhiRiots #DelhiBurning #delhivoilence pic.twitter.com/21CG5g7zan— Chaai Wala (@Chaai_Wala) February 26, 2020
Absolutely not an unforeseeable/ unforeseen consequence of the government-level move to ensure everyone is trackable online and irl.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:41 (four years ago) link
fuck this is horrible
― pet friendly (Euler), Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:49 (four years ago) link
Horrifying
― Sund4r, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 17:50 (four years ago) link
xp
Over 200 million Muslims call India home. Widespread anti-Muslim mob violence has killed at least 27 and injured many more. Trump responds by saying, "That's up to India." This is a failure of leadership on human rights.https://t.co/tUX713Bz9Y— Bernie Sanders (@BernieSanders) February 26, 2020
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 26 February 2020 22:10 (four years ago) link
so incredibly grim
― ogmor, Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:12 (four years ago) link
It’s grotesque and the coverage is almost universally lying about it too.
― median punt (gyac), Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:47 (four years ago) link
Soul-crushingly depressing, but I can't say I'm surprised, what with a fucking firestarter at the top.
― romanesque architect (pomenitul), Thursday, 27 February 2020 09:50 (four years ago) link
Hard to even read: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/mar/01/india-delhi-after-hindu-mob-riot-religious-hatred-nationalists
― Sund4r, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 02:40 (four years ago) link
following events through arts/food/politics-related indian twitter is strange/bathetic/poignant, ppl talking about how to gently persuade modi-sympathising relatives, very dark humour, outrage with centrist platitudes... when the stakes are raised the discourse still follows the same rules. makes this piece about the media and discourse around the 2002 gujurat violence and rwanda in the 90s very interesting imo
https://thepolisproject.com/journalism-as-genocide/#.Xl4cL6j7SCo
― ogmor, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 09:09 (four years ago) link
lots of reports of dalits being attacked as well, par for the course I suppose
― ogmor, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:10 (four years ago) link
There's a strong anti-leftist / anticommunist element to this as well. RSS types are obsessed with the idea of 'urban Naxalites' undermining the country.
― ShariVari, Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:23 (four years ago) link
Waiting for the first cricket team to refuse to play India. You'd have thought New Zealand would have, if anyone. Maybe today at the WWC?
― strangely hookworm but they manage ream shoegaze poetry (imago), Wednesday, 4 March 2020 10:28 (four years ago) link
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 (three years ago) link
So this situation has been going for a while?
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 09:13 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
apparently now it's up to 20 casualties
― dip to dup (rob), Tuesday, 16 June 2020 18:20 (three 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 (three 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 (three years ago) link
yeah the subtext probably is shots were fired but neither side can admit that.
― calzino, Tuesday, 16 June 2020 19:29 (three 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 (three years ago) link
jfc!
― calzino, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 07:56 (three years ago) link
https://www.bbc.com/news/amp/world-asia-india-52990324?
― xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 17 June 2020 10:56 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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 (three 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