Buster_Disrupter

[old toons @oldtoons_]

Story time?

Back in the winter of 1955, an Uzbek politician and writer named Sharaf Rashidov went on a diplomatic trip to Jammu and Kashmir.

While he was there, he saw a live performance of "Bombur ta Yambarzal" (The Bumblebee and the Narcissus), a famous 1953 opera by the local poet Dina Nath Nadim.

On stage, characters played literal forces of nature: the spring narcissus, (Yambarzal) and the king of bees (Bombur) represented life and freedom, while winter blizzards symbolised oppression.

Rashidov was so moved by the performance that he went home and turned the story into a 1956 book called "The Kashmir Song", translating the flower's name to its more common regional equivalent, "Nargis".

By 1965, this local Kashmiri tale traveled all the way to Moscow's Soyuzmultfilm studio, that turned it into a gorgeous animated short film called *Nargis*. The animation team crafted the film in the ornate, miniature-painting style characteristic of traditional Russian Palekh lacquer art known for its folkloric elegance. At the same time, the characters’ flowing draped garments, vibrant attire, and decorative jewelry clearly draw inspiration from Indian cultural aesthetics, giving the film an exotic, fairy-tale quality that blends Soviet artistic traditions with the story’s Indian roots.

The film arrived at the perfect time. During the 1950s and 1960s, India and the Soviet Union shared a massive cultural exchange. Hindi cinema was wildly popular across the USSR with films starring actors such as Raj Kapoor drawing large audiences and becoming cultural touchstones. Amid this mutual fascination, Nargis served as a vivid example of how a great story can easily cross borders and connect completely different worlds.

[Namita @namitathapar]

I left for bombay at 6.30 am like the hard working professional that I am & stopped the car at 7 am to make this reel as I’ve long realised that silence is not a virtue & one must speak up when they are disrespected. Yes if wrong things happen at any workplace that are against basic human rights, me & all of us should speak up. I don’t care about the personal trolling, I’m used to it last 5 years since shark tank but the purpose of this reel is to request all the proud Indians in this country to start speaking up when they see something wrong, out of humanity, out of patriotism. Jai hind. Now off to another joyful & complex day at work !

[Aarti Tikoo Singh @AartiTikoo]

I was not always a supporter of reservations or affirmative action in India. I once believed that meritorious and talented women should simply summon the courage to compete on equal footing.

My views were shaped by my experience in my personal life—most men in my family are progressive and as a result, I didn’t face any patriarchal oppression. In my personal space, I always enjoyed the freedom to think, speak, and decide for myself.

But having seen and experienced how large sections of patriarchal men in Indian public life either systematically crush honest, talented, and competent women, or exploit and abuse them, I
realize that merit or courage alone is not enough when the societal playing field is so deeply uneven.

Meritocracy is a myth when access, opportunity, and safety are not equally distributed. That is why I now firmly and unequivocally support 33% reservation for women in the Indian legislature. It is not a concession — it is a correction.

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

मैं सभी सांसदों से कहूंगा...

आप अपने घर में मां-बहन-बेटी-पत्नी सबका स्मरण करते हुए अपनी अंतरात्मा को सुनिए ...

देश की नारीशक्ति की सेवा का, उनके वंदन का ये बहुत बड़ा अवसर है।

उन्हें नए अवसरों से वंचित नहीं करिए।

ये संशोधन सर्वसम्मति से पारित होगा, तो देश की नारीशक्ति और सशक्त होगी… देश का लोकतंत्र और सशक्त होगा।

आइए… हम मिलकर आज इतिहास रचें। भारत की नारी को… देश की आधी आबादी को उसका हक दें।

[Narendra Modi @narendramodi]

I would like to appeal to all Members of Parliament…

Please reflect upon your conscience, remembering the women in your own families.

The legislation to ensure women’s reservation in legislative bodies is a significant opportunity to do justice to women of our nation.

Please do not deprive our Nari Shakti of new opportunities.

If this amendment is passed unanimously, it will further empower the women of our country and strengthen our democracy.

Let us come together today to create history.

Let us ensure that the women of India, who are half of the nation’s population, receive their rightful due.

[Prime Minister of Israel @IsraeliPM]

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu:

“Israel will not remain silent in the face of those who attack us.

Spain has defamed our heroes, the soldiers of the IDF, the soldiers of the most moral army in the world.

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[Buster_Disrupter @BusterDisrupter]

@johnstanly You write quite badly, ideologically-laden stuff without an understanding of the situation. Whoever reads The Hindu btw? It used to be good but with writers like you, it’s has become a cesspool.

[Buster_Disrupter @BusterDisrupter]

@NickKristof What a knee-jerk column.

[Mindful Maven @mindfulmaven_]

20 Tiny Habits That Will Change Your Life In 6 Months:

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[Buster_Disrupter @BusterDisrupter]

@venkat_fin9 Ditto

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@ihailmyindia Irony just died. Write this is Hindi, behen. Decolonize your mind too.

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@Prometheus87974 @DipshikhaGhosh “Fair share” Uncleji

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@voiceofhindus What’s “world has to bent” ? Kuch like a padhna toh seekh lo? 😂😂

[Buster_Disrupter @BusterDisrupter]

@SaibBilaval Ha ha true

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@amjadt25 Use Chatgpt less

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@AdityaRajKaul He’s taking pot shot-and you are amplifying it! Wow!!

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@ahmedsharif Use ChatGPT less, brains more

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@ssundarraman Use chatgpt less - remove dashes

[Sam Dalrymple @SamDalrymple123]

The Last Maharaja of Punjab

In a quiet corner of Suffolk, just beyond the hedgerows and honey-stone cottages of Thetford Forest, stands a country house unlike any other in Britain.

[Infinite Books @infinitebooks]

Murakami, what a paragraph