अंडा से इतनी दुश्मनी मत कीजिए, ऑमलेट पसंद नहीं तो बॉयल खाइये। बंगाल में भी खाइये. बिहार में भी खाइये। बच्चों को खिलाइये, ख़ुद भी खाइये। जो खाते हैं उनको खाने दीजिए, जो नहीं खाते हैं उन्हें मत दीजिए। लेकिन जो मन करता है वही कीजिए। अंडा क्या दाल भी बंद कर दीजिए, भात भी बंद कर दीजिए। बंद करते करते खुद को कमरे में बंद कर लीजिए।
“Perhaps you have forgotten. That’s one of the great problems of our modern world, you know. Forgetting. The victim never forgets. Ask an Irishman what the English did to him in 1920 and he’ll tell you the day of the month and the time and the name of every man they killed. Ask an Iranian what the English did to him in 1953 and he’ll tell you. His child will tell you. His grandchild will tell you. And when he has one, his great-grandchild will tell you too. But ask an Englishman—” He flung up his hands in mock ignorance. “If he ever knew, he has forgotten. ‘Move on!’ you tell us. ‘Move on! Forget what we’ve done to you. Tomorrow’s another day!’ But it isn’t, Mr. Brue.” He still had Brue’s hand.
“Tomorrow was created yesterday, you see. That is the point I was making to you. And by the day before yesterday, too.
To ignore history is to ignore the wolf at the door.”
— John le Carré, A Most Wanted Man
Israeli authorities and security forces deliberately targeted Palestinian children, resulting in genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes in Gaza, and war crimes in the occupied West Bank, an independent UN inquiry said https://t.co/61poVhRzmR
The bag of milk, the shoes at door… Whoever made this will win an award, probably a few. I’m sobbing, this is beautiful. This is who we are. We’ve welcomed the world for almost 140 years. We’re made for this moment. #CanMNT#FIFAWorldCup
While we are on the topic of Nehruvian socialists and the Soviet Union, here is Nehru's condolence speech in the Indian parliament on Joseph Stalin. The parliament was later adjourned that day as a mark of respect for Stalin.
If you're comparing these sweet ladies quietly making a minute long reel in saris to a loud, obnoxious group doing garba or playing Haryanvi pop on speakers, you are extremely obtuse and deliberately indulging in whataboutery to add to a problem, not fix it.
Unpopular opinion: If a country still depends on a 93-year-old engineer like E. Sreedharan for major railway decisions, that’s failure. It simply means we failed to build a strong new generation of engineers and planners. He may have been great in his time, but no system should depend on one old man forever.
Opening Twitter immediately after waking up to check the state of the world is basically our generation’s version of our grandfathers reading the newspaper every morning.
You're a worker. You don't have to agree with every decision of the communist movement or of the socialist states throughout history, but to disavow them in their entirety means you disavow your own right to imperfectly fight for liberation. This is your history, too.