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[Darab Farooqui @darab_farooqui]

Long post on Satluj and Khalra.

Hartosh Singh Bal keeps blabbering two things to call Satluj propaganda like a petulant child.

A 1992 magazine and a 1995 interview. Fine. Let's look at both honestly. And then let's look at what he conveniently forgets to mention.

First, the man's actual journey. Since Bal is so fond of biography.

Khalra came from a family of Ghadar revolutionaries. His grandfather Harnam Singh was tried in the 1915 Lahore Conspiracy Case.

As a young man in the early 70s, Khalra was a member of Naujawan Bharat Sabha. Yes, Bhagat Singh's organisation.

In 1992 he ran a magazine called Liberation Khalistan.

By 1993-94 his full-time work was human rights, in the Akali Dal's Human Rights Wing, going through municipal cremation records by hand. By 1995 his tools were writ petitions and press notes.

I am not going to claim I know what he believed in his heart. Nobody alive can tell you what happened inside that man between 1992 and 1994.

But look at what he did. A leftist youth. A questionable phase in the darkest years Punjab has ever seen. And then documents, courts and the Constitution.

That is not some detail you squeeze into one scene. That is a transformation. That is a whole chapter, honestly a film of its own.

Any filmmaker who invents that inner journey would be manufacturing the exact propaganda Bal claims to be fighting.

The movie starts in 1994 because that's where this story starts. A man walks into a cremation ground looking for a friend and walks out carrying six thousand names.

The CBI, restricting itself to just three municipal cremation grounds in one district, in a state where every town has one, still confirmed 2,097 of them.

And understand this clearly. Khalra was killed to stop the counting. After his murder, the counting was stopped anyway. Officially. At three grounds.

Second, the 1995 interview where Khalra calls Bhindranwale a Sant and a martyr.

This proves much less than Bal thinks. Sant was the man's standard honorific.

Even the mainstream Indian press used it in his lifetime. And after 1984, reverence for the dead is the Panth's mainstream grief, not a separatist programme.

Refusing to let your community's dead be branded criminals is not politics. It's mourning.

Millions of Sikhs who want nothing to do with Khalistan carry that exact sentiment. If it disqualifies Khalra, it disqualifies most of Punjab.

Third, the film itself. I watched it the way I read every screenplay. Because that is literally my job.

1. Not a single murder is shown on camera.

2. The CBI, an arm of the Indian government, cracks the case. It's practically one of the protagonists.

3. The police call the militants terrorists throughout. Even the worst cops see themselves as saviours. High moral ground in the mouth, unthinkable cruelty in the hands. That's not glorifying militancy. That's exactly how impunity talks.

4. The film doesn't even paint the whole department black. The new DGP is a good man. The honest cops are shown scared of the rotten ones.

Scene after scene, the makers keep balancing things that didn't even need balancing. That's not propaganda. That's restraint. I'd say too much restraint.

And now the part neither of Bal's exhibits can touch. The registers. The one thing Bal never brings up.

1. Khalra's politics did not write those cremation records. The police did.

2. His politics did not certify 2,097 illegal cremations. The CBI did.

3. His politics did not convict his killers. The courts did, right up to the Supreme Court in 2011.

4. A partisan with a photocopier still copied real documents. And every single institution of the Indian state that examined them said so.

5. And note this too. His killers were convicted. But for the mass cremations themselves, the case ended in compensation orders. Not one officer was ever tried for that policy. The man who counted the dead got justice. The dead he counted got a cheque.

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[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

@RanvirShorey But lets not try to be politically correct at all times, take side of your brethren when they are up against state itself. Otherwise it will be too late

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

@RanvirShorey This kind of questions only exist online. The question doesn't make any sense in real world. I had same nagging thoughts towards hindus before a hindu classmate asked me "Are we enemies?", and the whole sepratist philosophy I knew just tumbled down.

[vittorio @IterIntellectus]

https://t.co/Qt46TOy2hT

[Fight With Memes @FightWithMemes]

This kind of knowledge bomb could save someone from a lot of trouble in their teens.

[ً @prinkasusa]

Humans shouldn't always stay at home, even if you have nothing to do. Because staying at home for too long makes the brain become dull and leads to overthinking. You'll have more negative emotions. Psychology calls this state mental rumination. Most of the time, people who stay at home long term are not physically lazy - but mentally exhausted. You increasingly do not want to go out or see people. Even going to the supermarket downstairs to buy a bottle of water feels troublesome. You start to get used to being in a daze alone, scrolling through your phone and staying up late. Then you repeatedly struggle with yourself in an empty room. You think you're resting. But in fact, you're quietly draining the vitality of life. Your brain needs stimulation. Movement. Connection. Without it, your thoughts turn inward and spiral. The longer you isolate, the harder it becomes to break the pattern.

[Autism Capital 🧩 @AutismCapital]

If there’s one learning lesson you need to take away in 2026 it’s that the truth doesn’t matter anymore and reality isn’t real.

People will invent narratives and facts to suit desired objectives and if enough people agree, that’s the new reality. People who point out that the emperor has no clothes will be crushed. Katherine Maher of Wikimedia said it best herself. “Our reverence for the truth is a hindrance to getting things done.” (Paraphrasing)

We’re living in a world where lies don’t matter anymore. There are only words and how effective they are to reaching desired outcomes. People don’t care about the truth. They care about achieving their goals.

We’re living in Demon times.

[goma @soigomaa]

For thousands of years, babies slept with their mothers. When they cried, they were attended to. Then two men came along: Dr. Holt and John B. Watson. They said babies should be trained. That babies had to fit the assembly line schedules of their parents. "Newborns must cry to expand their lungs," they claimed. "Simply let them cry it out." And that's how the "cry it out" sleep training method was born. Watson treated babies like experiments. "Never hug or kiss your child," he wrote. "Shake hands with them in the morning." After all, mothers needed rest, to attend to their husbands and households. Watson had four children. Three attempted suicide. One succeeded. And we still follow it today. Because once you convince a mother to ignore her baby's cries, you've broken something primal.

[Bryan Johnson @bryan_johnson]

The coming years are going to be insane. I say this figuratively and literally. The primary reason is because society is about to enter a phase transition.  This is what a phase transition looks like.

Water at 99°C is hot, stable, behaves like a liquid and follows the laws of hydrodynamics. At 101°C, water becomes a gas, making it chaotic, expansive, and following a different set of physical laws.

The difference between 2026 and 203X is the difference between 99°C and 101°C.

To make this tangible. Imagine you’ve become a proficient swimmer. Mastering your stroke, breathing and pacing. The water is a predictable substrate that you use to model your decisions. This is life at 99°C.

At 101°C the pool turns to steam. You stroke your arms but don’t move. You kick and don’t find resistance. Your swimming proficiency is no longer an asset, it’s a liability. Your muscle memory is a mismatch for the new environment. You have to unlearn to relearn.

This is what life planning is going to feel like going forward.

For most of history, you could make a pretty decent guess about what the future would look like. If you were a farmer in 1400, you knew your grandchild would probably be a farmer in 1450. That was even true in 2003 when I entered college. One could confidently attend college, select a career, plan a profession, and map out retirement by age 65.

We felt confident in these plans because we depended on broad trends (coarse graining) that reliably predicted the future. Things may change here and there, but not enough to give you any pause in your life-planning decision making.

That stability is now gone. For example, my son is 20 and neither he nor I have any idea how to think about his life. Should he go to college? Is college still relevant? What should he learn? Life planning shortcuts are now dead. No one knows. Before, having a five year plan was responsible. Now it’s reckless because the world is moving faster than we can model. The speed of reality exceeds the speed of the observer.

This is the source of the low level anxiety that many people feel. Humans are prediction machines. When an error emerges from what you predicted (water) to what you get (steam), the body registers it as trauma.  It leaves us in a state of chronic hyper-vigilance, scanning a horizon that refuses to sit still.

In this new reality, the move is not to have better maps, but to build better systems. This is what I’ve been building with Blueprint. An algorithmic system of health and decision making that moves as fast as technology, allowing me to evolve alongside.  The more I detach from ideas, norms and expectations, the smoother the glide. The hardest part is letting go of what we know and trust.

This is part of a series of essays that I’ve been writing for my upcoming book Warriors & Caretakers of Existence. A plan on what the human race does when giving birth to super intelligence. If we want the extraordinary existence that is on offer, we’ll need to fight for it.

[Sama Hoole @SamaHoole]

Patient: "Every marker improved on carnivore."
Doctor: "Except LDL."
Patient: "It went from 120 to 180."
Doctor: "That's concerning."
Patient: "But particle size shifted to large fluffy."
Doctor: "LDL is LDL."
Patient: "Triglycerides dropped to 60."
Doctor: "The LDL though."
Patient: "HDL increased to 80."
Doctor: "We focus on LDL."
Patient: "CRP is 0.4."
Doctor: "Your LDL is high."
Patient: "Is there anything that would make LDL not matter?"
Doctor: "No."
Patient: "So I'm healthier but in danger?"
Doctor: "Exactly. We should start statins."

[Massimo @Rainmaker1973]

Marriage triggers universal personality changes in less than two years.

Marriage goes far beyond a legal or social commitment—it acts as a powerful catalyst for genuine psychological shifts in both partners. A landmark longitudinal study followed 169 heterosexual newlywed couples, assessing their Big Five personality traits (openness, conscientiousness, extraversion, agreeableness, and neuroticism) at 6, 12, and 18 months post-wedding. The findings reveal consistent patterns of change that emerge early in marriage, largely independent of factors like age, premarital cohabitation, or the presence of children.

Husbands typically showed increases in conscientiousness, becoming more responsible, organized, and dependable—traits that support the demands of shared life and household stability. Wives, on the other hand, experienced notable declines in neuroticism, reporting reduced anxiety, anger, and emotional volatility, which translated into greater overall emotional stability.

However, these adaptations came with trade-offs. Both partners tended to become less open to new experiences, possibly as they settled into familiar domestic routines and routines. Extraversion also declined, with couples often prioritizing their relationship over wider social networks, leading to fewer outings and interactions with friends. Additionally, agreeableness decreased for both husbands and wives, suggesting that as the initial "courtship mask"—the idealized, highly accommodating behavior of early romance—fades, partners may become less patient and more prone to friction in everyday interactions.

These shifts appear remarkably universal across the sample, occurring regardless of baseline differences. While some changes (like heightened conscientiousness in men or reduced neuroticism in women) correlated with higher marital satisfaction over time, others (such as drops in agreeableness) highlight potential sources of strain.

Because these personality transformations are largely inevitable, experts emphasize that marital longevity depends not just on initial compatibility but on deliberate efforts to cultivate self-control, patience, and forgiveness. Couples who actively work to adapt to these evolving dynamics are better positioned to maintain a healthy, satisfying relationship as the honeymoon phase gives way to long-term partnership.

[Lavner, J. A., Karney, B. R., & Bradbury, T. N. "Personality change among newlyweds: Patterns, predictors, and associations with marital satisfaction over time." Developmental Psychology, 54(6), 1172–1185. DOI: 10.1037/dev0000491]

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Worth studying

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

My conversation with @elonmusk. Live today at 3pm ET. https://t.co/RyaZFmvC8i

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Yeah, @Jack is right

[Dr Jordan B Peterson @jordanbpeterson]

This is seriously bad news....

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

@AlexAndBooks_ The secret !!!
Changed my entire thinking pattern.

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

Slow and soothing sounds make everything sounds perfect 😂
#IndiaDoesNotSupportCAA

[Mr. X @ImMrXsd]

Have you read act fully?

I haven't readi it fully but "Modiji ne kiya jai to sahi hi hoga"

#IndiaDoesNotSupportCAA

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

यह जाएदाद/काग़ज़ात काफ़ी है ना..??
गवाह है सब दरख़्त पूछो ना जा के ...#अहन

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

भारत भाग्य का विधाता..

नाम : अनवर ख़ान

पिता का नाम : राशिद ख़ान

कहाँ रहते हो : अब लग रहा कहीं के नहीं रहे

कोई मकान के जमीं के काग़ज़ात ???

मेरे वालिद कहते है,
उनके अब्बा के वालिद साहिब स्कूल में माली थे,
(1/n)

[AS @AvtarSinghhh]

बहुत सालो पहले हिंदू ,मुस्लिम,सिख,जैनीयो, ईसाईओँ के बच्चों के लिए जामुन तोड़ के लाया करते थे..

फिर सब बैठ के खाया करते थे...

जिस जगह खाया करते थे...

वहाँ अब जामुन के 100-200 दरख़्त है अब भी वहाँ हिंदू ,मुस्लिम,सिख,जैनीयो, ईसाईओँ के बच्चे जामुन तोड़ के खाते है... (2/n)