@bainjal@tjoseph0010 Simplest thing that this rogue prime minister is not able to comprehend. Provide special trains labelled " only for migrant labour" to alleviate the misery of people. Being original chai wala, should have some empathy sense.
@DrRohinighavari , with due respect, even a hardworking sex worker who sells her body but does not sell her integrity or ideology for a few pennies deserves more respect than women like you who compromises their principles for money and temporary fame.
'Moral Mooring - The Buddha, Ambedkar and Nehru' - an outstanding exposition by @manojkjhadu 👇👇
"Constitutional democracy is neither merely a legal arrangement nor simply a political system. It is a way of inhabiting the world, a continuous practice of respecting human dignity, questioning arbitrary authority, extending compassion beyond one's own community, and recognising that no society can remain free while large sections of its people remain excluded"
I call on New York City Mayor Zohran Mamdani to cancel the Madison Square Garden event featuring Mohan Bhagwat, one of the most prominent and dangerous leaders of far-right Hindu fundamentalism in India.
Bhagwat is the so-called supreme leader of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), which was founded in 1925, and is the hardline, ideological backbone of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s far-right Bharatiya Janata Party. From its early days, the RSS modeled itself after Nazi Germany and continues to base itself on fascist ideas, violence against Muslims and other minorities, and oppression of working people.
Since Modi came to power in 2014, India has seen horrific escalation of mass repression and violence in regions such as Kashmir, and increasing attacks on Muslims, oppressed-caste communities, and working and poor people as a whole. The BJP-RSS leaders and the billionaire class in India have built close links with the genocidal and apartheid state of Israel. Israeli Pegasus spyware has been used to carry out shocking levels of surveillance of Indian activists, public officials and independent journalists.
By refusing to use his Mayoral position to cancel the event and condemn Bhagwat and the RSS, Mamdani is failing to stand with Muslims and other oppressed communities in India and with the Palestinian people. Modi's right wing regime has gone even further down the road of authoritarianism than Trump, and it is the responsibility of socialists to take a stand against it.
During my decade as the lone socialist on the Seattle City Council, I used my office to build movements to win the nation’s first resolution condemning anti-Muslim, anti-poor citizenship laws by Modi and BJP-RSS. I also won the first and only ban on caste-based discrimination outside South Asia. The Modi regime is retaliating against me by refusing to grant me a visa to visit my mother and family in India.
I thank Hindus for Human Rights @Hindus4HR, the Indian American Muslim Council @IAMCouncil, and other organizations who are demanding that Mamdani shut down Bhagwat’s event.
During the British rule, my grandfather was in Andaman cellular jail for 4 years, at the age of 17-21; followed by several bouts of solitary confinement across various prisons in undivided Bengal. He was undaunted. During the Second World War, he barely escaped the bombing of
One that is capacious and intellectual (dimaagi, is it?) enough to not only hold many cultures, but also to commit to futures that are able to build new, better and just worlds of freedom.
Babasaheb Ambedkar was not merely a freedom fighter, he was a revolutionary who fought to free millions from a form of slavery that had survived for centuries.
He did not pick up a weapon; he picked up the pen, the law and the Constitution. He challenged the caste system, shattered the foundations of untouchability, fought for women’s rights and demanded dignity, equality and justice for those who had been oppressed for generations.
While political freedom ended British rule, Babasaheb fought for something deeper, freedom from caste, discrimination, untouchability, religious oppression and social slavery.
This Independence Day, let us give the respect Babasaheb deserves, not just as the chief architect of the Constitution, but as one of the greatest revolutionaries in India’s struggle for social freedom.
Jai Bhim ✊