Ankit |انکت💙

@7511_s

हमको मालूम है जन्नत की हकीक़त लेकिन, दिल के खुश रखनेको गालिब ये खयाल अच्छा है।। ---- मिर्जा गालिब

Rajkot, India

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Ankit |انکت💙 @7511_s

over 5 years ago

@jaydeepgami @MichaelVaughan @ronak05barasiya No man....!!!!! जीत में शालीनता होती हैं। हार में मनोमंथन होना चाहिए।।। -- अटल बिहारी वाजपेई 🤝

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Vir Das

@thevirdas

about 2 months ago

X and the mainstream media today is going to be filled with cynical 'pragmatists' flexing about how one off protests mean nothing, idealism has no place in India, and of course the normal 'everyone but us is anti-national' rhetoric. It simply reveals how unimaginative they themselves are. If you're young, be respectful, above all be peaceful, but be passionate and loud about your demands. It is your birth right, even if it amounts to nothing. You deserve an honest education system. Don't let a bunch of people with bent spines and full bellies tell you otherwise.

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Sincere Dibya

@TheSincereDude

4 months ago

24 questions. 3 hearings. Zero apologies. They asked him - “Do you feel remorse?” No. “Are you sorry?” No. “Apologise and this disappears.” Still no. Because Article 19(1)(a) wasn’t written so artists could fold it up and hand it back the moment a powerful politician gets uncomfortable with satire. Kunal Kamra has challenged the government’s unconstitutional Fact-Check Unit in court, challenged the Sahyog portal, and now he’s standing in their own legislature, refusing to bend. Youth of India, this is your role model. Not the ones on billboards. What other artist in this country is holding the line right now?

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Sandeep Manudhane

@sandeep_PT

7 months ago

6 lies, wrapped in corporate feel-good morality Let me unpack each one by one - Lie # 1. For centuries, class divides kept the labor of the poor invisible to the rich. Factory workers toiled behind walls, farmers in distant fields, domestic help in backrooms. The wealthy consumed the fruits of that labor without ever seeing the faces or the fatigue behind it. No direct encounter, no personal guilt. Truth: India's primary fractures aren't around class, but caste. You intentionally avoid any mention of the dreaded word, as your entire primary support group will revolt. Also, most middle class and all rich employed many many poor folks (mostly from lower castes & lower classes) whom they always saw face to face, daily, for many hours, without battling an eyelid. And whom they did everything to treat miserably - as a simple example remember your society's apartheid lift (the service lift, compulsory for all workers)? Lie # 2. The gig economy shattered that invisibility, at unprecedented scale. Suddenly, the poor aren't hidden away. They're at your doorstep: the delivery partner handing over your ₹1000+ biryani, late-night groceries, or quick-commerce essentials. You see them in the rain, heat, traffic, often on borrowed bikes, working 8–10 hours for earnings that give them sustenance. You see their exhaustion, their polite smile masking frustration with life in general. Truth: A total lie as the poor (lower castes, lower classes) were always right inside our homes always. Gigs have only made a few extra seconds of contact at the doors. In elite societies, not even that as they send their maids to collect the parcels from "that other lift" (apartheid) 'where that delivery boy left that parcel', or from that main door. Only a blind elite will not have seen the armies of poor toiling in the streets, without of course the red gear and bags they're to carry now in gigs. At least to that extent you're being honest. (In 2017, I fought tooth-and-nail with my RWA to have all lifts opened for everyone, 24x7, to end the visible apartheid against workers (including your gig workers). Nine years on, the freedom has held. That is what genuine concern should be like.) Lie # 3. This is the first time in history at this scale that the working class and consuming class interact face-to-face, transaction after transaction. And that discomfort with our own selves is why we are uncomfortable about the gig economy. We want these people to look our part, so that the guilt we feel while taking orders from them feels less. We aren't just debating economics. We are confronting guilt. That ₹800 order might equal their entire day's earnings after fuel, bike rent, and app cuts. We tip awkwardly, or avoid eye contact, because the inequality is no longer abstract. It's personal. Truth: We have dealt with the less fortunate for ages, as our maids, our cleaners, our drivers, our liftmen, our general helps, and many many more. We (most of us) have always paid them a pittance, while feeling no guilt at all. What you call guilt now is actually a real sense (in some enlightened minds) of realizing how badly our society has gone wrong, and instead you couch your exploitation now in poetic words and throw it back to society in the most blunt of ways. This is exactly the worst form of capitalism, couched in hollow morality, while sucking out every drop of lifeblood from workers. Your choice of words (miscreants) exposed you entirely. That's exactly why you're covering up for it now. Lie # 4. Pre-gig era, the rich could enjoy luxury without moral discomfort. Labor was out of sight. Now, every doorbell ring is a reminder of systemic inequality. That's why debates explode. It's not just policy. It's emotional reckoning. Some defend the system (“they choose it”), others demand change (“this isn't progress, its exploitation”). And here’s the uncomfortable twist: the unsaid ask of clumsy ‘solutions’ isn’t dignity. It is about returning to invisibility. Truth: The rich are enjoying luxury even today without any moral discomfort at all. Are they chopping down entire mountains and forests while retaining their morality? Are they capturing and cornering national public assets for pittance while crying alone in their bedrooms? Are they settling abroad in hordes while bathed in morality? Are they looting billions from banks and scooting out of a moral sense? The labour in factories was never out of sight, nor at construction sites, nor in large stores. What you call clumsy solutions are your way of branding anyone demanding dignity and honour. Sad. Lie # 5. Ban gig work and you don’t solve inequality. You remove livelihoods. These jobs don’t magically reappear as formal, protected employment the next day. They disappear, or they get pushed back into the informal economy where there are even fewer protections and even less accountability. Over-regulate it until the model breaks, and you achieve the same outcome through paperwork instead of slogans: the work evaporates, prices rise, demand collapses, and the people we claim to protect are the first to lose income. And then what happens? Truth: No one called for banning gig work. No one at all. If people wish to work for you, brilliant, let them. All demands are about giving living wages without exploitation, and without a God complex. What you call formal economy (just because they use your phone apps) is actually worse than informal economy jobs because it's a pretence. You create a nightmare scenario just to scare people into accepting your version of truth (which is part exploitation, part nonsense, and remaining part your necessity). Lie # 6. The rich get their old comfort back. Convenience returns without faces. Guilt dissolves. We go back to clean abstractions and moral posturing from a distance. The poor don’t become safer, they become invisible again: back in cash economies, back in backrooms, back in shadows where regulation rarely reaches and dignity isn’t even debated. The gig economy just exposed the reality of inequality to the people who previously had the luxury of not seeing it. The doorbell is not the problem. The question is what we do after opening the door. Visibility is the price of progress. We can either use this discomfort to build something better (which we keep doing continuously as delivery partners are our backbone), or we can ban and over-regulate our way back into ignorance. One of those choices improves lives. The other simply helps the consuming class feel virtuous in the dark. Truth: So you assume cash economies are exploitation? Are you equating cash (earned with hard work) as black money and exploitation? Are you sure your customers in high-rise societies are actually seeing your gig workers face to face? Most have already installed structural apartheid by separating the lifts that these workers use! Why don't you ask the government to open large-scale manufacturing units in each district to employ lakhs of these whom you so condescendingly claim to uplift? Because then your model itself will collapse. Continued structural misery with no way out at all is your actual guarantee of success and that's what you're now using fancy words to justify, instead of genuinely honestly respecting the truth and giving fair honest wages. You do zero capex and maintenance on assets your labour uses (bikes and other things) and call yourself a capitalist. You are just a socialist protected by poverty, aided by the State machine, constantly masquerading as a free market angel. In reality, our Indian society is one giant pyramid of multiple rigid layers, each doing its best to suppress the ones below, and bootlicking those above without any pangs at all. You choose to present the truth in a light that's convenient to you, but is not at all the truth. It has become second nature for middle class Indians now to justify all exploitation, as that becomes their own escape route for being totally unable to do anything against their own exploitation by various means. All you need to do is reach out to your own "partners" and listen to them, and give them honourable wages & terms of work. And stop branding the dissenters and involving law enforcement to threaten those. But then, all we might get again is another hugely long tweet with no meaning at all. Final truth: India has no real capitalism, no real free-markets, no choice of work (for most). All our capitalists have done is privatization of profits, socialization of losses, and guilt-burdening for anyone who calls this out.

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