This current narrative around @cohere just makes me so sad man.
Canada finally has an AI company that’s having an impact at a global scale and, instead of celebrating that success, Canadians are tearing it down.
I fully understand that when government capital is in the mix that it warrants an extreme level of accountability. That money comes, in part, from the contribution of hard working people across this country.
But as a proud Canadian, why would you not want your government supporting one of the most clear success stories over the past decade?
As a country we should be doing everything we can to support these success stories and the people working hard to make it a success.
South Asians have been at the forefront of wokism for years lol.
Even more hilarious is cribbing about Islamophobia yet labeling concerns about Hinduphobia as "Hindu victimhood" just weeks after some groyper's gun jammed at a Hindu temple, foiling a potential mass murder.
Hi! Friendly reminder Diwali is celebrated all over the world! There are Hindus in places like Fiji, Suriname, and Detroit, Michigan!
Ancient Hindu texts make Diwali what it is down to its core. Sikhs and Jains celebrate Diwali as they are our dharmic siblings, and they’re always welcome to do so with us. The more the merrier.
But they celebrate it for completely different reasons on overlapping dates, nor is it their primary festival.
Taking the most important festival of our faith, stripping the word Hindu, and replacing it with the arbitrary geographical label “South Asian” is called HINDU ERASURE. You do this to downplay our community’s significance and concerns.
Abdul El-Sayed goes even further than merely downplaying. He signed a pledge to profile and investigate Hindu donors for alleged “ties to the RSS” (whatever that means).
And why should we take his words on the Aurora temple mass shooting plot seriously?
He’s previously said attacks on places of worship is a matter of “Hurt people hurt people.”
I’m voting for Mike Rogers on Tuesday and if you find Hindu erasure like this concerning, you should too.
In 50 years, one of the most common deathbed regrets will be “I wasted my life on short-form videos” and the darkest part is they won’t even remember a single one
@moodslayer95 A lot of the urban middle/upper middle class family I have back home are always abusing him lol (and these are Gujaratis). Fwiw my family is hella Sanghi
@aishik_panja@Marcjac47016208 The Hindus who eat beef are like Reform Jews and Mainline Protestants. They’ll all be gone by the third generation.
If you want to be religious, then stand for something.
History will perhaps judge Prime Minister Narendra Modi as one of the most consequential reformers of our times, in the league of Lee Kuan Yew and Deng Xiaoping. In one crucial respect, his achievement may be even more remarkable.
The World Bank’s latest estimates reveal an extraordinary transformation. Nearly 50 crore Indians moved above the lower-middle-income poverty line between 2011–12 and 2023–24. Extreme poverty fell from 27.1% to just 2.6%.
Consider the circumstances in which this transformation has taken place. A decade marked by a global pandemic, wars, geopolitical instability, supply chain disruptions and slowing global growth. Yet India has emerged as one of the fastest-growing major economies.
But what makes Modi’s leadership truly exceptional is the political environment in which he has pursued this transformation.
Lee Kuan Yew, the architect of modern Singapore, once famously remarked, “No single person can change India.” He pointed to India’s extraordinary linguistic and social diversity and the immense difficulty of governing such a complex nation. He contrasted this with China, which he considered far easier to govern and transform because of its more centralised political system and greater linguistic cohesion.
Lee Kuan Yew transformed Singapore. Deng Xiaoping transformed China. Both were extraordinary leaders. But Singapore was a small city-state, while China’s transformation took place under a one-party political system.
India is different. A billion-plus people. Hundreds of languages. Extraordinary social, cultural and regional diversity. Competitive elections, powerful state governments, independent institutions, competing interests and multiple constitutional checks and balances.
Reforming a country of this complexity, at this scale, while continuously seeking and winning the people’s democratic mandate, requires a rare combination of political acumen, administrative ability and leadership.
Modi has demonstrated that democracy and decisive development are not mutually exclusive.
That is perhaps his greatest contribution, not just to India, but to the global faith in democracy itself.
When the history of great reformers of the 21st century is written, Narendra Modi will deserve a place among the foremost.
@hay_banda Going to a random Garba for show doesn’t mean he’s an ally of the Hindu community. He’s been to pro Khalistan events and never has really advocated for concerns of the Hindu community. It’s in his interest for a secularized watered down Hinduism with no sense of identity
@indiaemerges@ShivAroor Also the sugar stereotype is hard overdone. Kathiyawadi rotlo odo ane chaash is most definitely not full of sugar lol. Even a proper Amdavad style thaali doesn’t have sugar filled dishes and is super top tier.
Look at the superiority complex at display here. You will teach us civic sense? If you want to teach the world civic sense why don’t you pick up what’s happening in Paris and use that as to what good civic sense looks like.
But Rajat, the receding hairline guy, isn’t trying to teach any civic sense. Instead he is making videos targeting other Indians coz that’s what gets him the likes and clicks so that he can sell more insurance to the Indians he is making fun of in his videos.
If you don’t want to be stereotyped, leave the country and go back to India. You won’t be stereotyped there. Currently it’s an embarrassment for me to be associated with people like you, not the other way around.
@akhivae No… it’s not rly pushback. In Kerala them slaughtering a calf wasn’t pushback, it was unnecessary. Them commenting “beef beef” under any vegetarians post isn’t pushback. Call it out and don’t do what about ism. Bengalis and Malayalis have an insane superiority complex
@ShawnBinda I’m 100% naming my kid something super ethnic - maybe a vikramaditya. Assimilation is how you integrate in society, it is not letting go of your identity (of which name and language is a big part). These people cannot force us to let go of that.
@indiaemerges@Honhaar There’s this place in Scarborough (a Gujju enclave of Toronto) that has the most banger fafda jalebi during Dussehra. My family would get in line at 7 AM. Nothing of the sort in LA unfortunately :((