Election Commission’s software has made a massive blunder. It’s translating Hindi/Urdu names by treating them as if they were English.
For example, the name was Muhammad Iqbal Beg, but the software turned it into “Mohammad Iqbal Bheek Mangte Hain”.
Another example: A woman’s name was Phool Kali Devi, and the software changed it to “Murkh Kali Devi” .
Absolute chaos, what’s going on?
You fail to see a difference between a moral opposition to the death penalty, and "mercy", that's down to you.
Personally I would have liked to see murdering scum like Kasab and Kodnani condemned to life with hard labour. I had in mind cleaning railway tracks every day.
Modi has wasted one of the biggest opportunities in modern Indian history.
People put him on a pedestal & gave him unprecedented power, trust, and political capital.
He could have transformed India. He could have challenged regressive practices, even within Hinduism, and pushed society towards a more progressive and rational future.
But instead, he chose to appease the most regressive elements of society, religion and culture.
He had the opportunity to change India for the better. Instead, he chose to exploit its worst instincts.
What a wasted decade.
What a lost opportunity.
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"Le chef-d'œuvre le plus abouti du capitalisme contemporain n'est ni l'iPhone, ni la start-up licorne, ni même le milliardaire visionnaire.
Non.
Son produit phare, son bijou anthropologique, sa plus belle réussite, c'est le pauvre de droite. Une véritable prouesse sociale, dépouillé matériellement, mais riche en certitudes contre ses propres intérêts.
On l'a façonné avec soin. On lui a expliqué que ses problèmes venaient toujours d'en bas ou d'à côté, l'immigré, l'assisté, le fonctionnaire, le chômeur, jamais du haut. On lui a appris à hair l'impôt tout en survivant grâce aux services publics. À défendre les héritiers tout en n'ayant rien à transmettre. À applaudir ceux qui l'écrasent, pourvu qu'ils parlent fort et promettent l'ordre.
Le pauvre de droite est une créature fascinante, il vote contre lui-même avec ferveur, persuadé qu'un jour, peut-être, il sera du bon côté de la barrière. Il confond la brutalité avec le courage, l'autoritarisme avec la protection, l'injustice avec le mérite. On lui vend la peur en kit, l'identité en solde, la colère en vrac par abonnement mensuel.
À l'aube de ce monde nouveau, les monstres ne surgissent pas des marges : ils montent des urnes, des plateaux télé, des slogans simplistes. Ils prospèrent sur la misère organisée et la lucidité sabotée. Le capitalisme n'a pas seulement produit de la pauvreté ; il a réussi bien pire : la rendre docile, obéissante, hargneuse, et reconnaissante. Un chef-d'œuvre je vous dis !"
Maximino Fernández
I am not objecting to his views per se which he has expressed on our press and discussion groups. He can continue to do so within the country, but why look to do so internationally? Feed the international narrative on this issue.
Over the past few days, the USA seems to have been making considerable efforts to defame our greatest PM Narendra Modi.
Dear Narendra Modi Ji, please hold a press conference and silence all these foreign forces and rumours once and for all
Is he mentally fit to be a PM? Does he know what is happening in the economy?
Jobs, layoffs, education, tax, FII, AI, debts etc.
His clock stucked in 2013. He is still behaving as a PM candidate and he is in opposition.
What I don't get is, if we are ready to glorify this murderer, why are we at all surprised that others don't agree with us about acts of terrorism against us?
At this year’s @litlivemumbai , I shall be in conversation with Naresh Fernandes, the brilliant editor of @scroll_in . The session is titled “Gandhi Matters”, and will be held at the NCPA’s Experimental Theatre, 24th October, 630 pm onwards.
@tajmahalfoxtrot
Mohan Bhagwat says "demonic forces" from the West want to "install their own proxies". Rajnath Singh says youth are being made "instruments of anarchy".
In 1922 and 1942, the Brits spoke of Gandhi's "anarchical mood", "the anarchy to which Mr. Gandhi seems to look forward with such complacency".
This is the real toolkit: tar every popular struggle as "anti-national" and hope it sticks.
The BJP has no idea how it sounds, in its uncanny echoing of everything the British Empire once said about the freedom fighters of the Congress.
Independence then, Constitution now.