Naruto

Indigenous Peoples Unite🌻

[Rishikesh Taksale @rishilectual]

You can do all the good things in the world, you can save people from consuming adulterated food but if you don't follow PM Modi you can be labelled as "anti national"🤡

[📍SHANGH CHE🚭 @JosephNaga1986]

⚡In 1992, Naga men were brutally k!lled and Naga women inhumanly treated. When the Nagas retaliated unforgivingly on Sept 13, they shrewdly blamed the Nagas and started to observe Sept 13 as ‘SAHNIT-NI’ or ‘Kuki Black Day’, conveniently obscuring the fact that it was them, the #Kukis, who started the entire Naga-Kuki saga.

Now this SoaB @paolienlal is trying so hard to shift the blame to the Naga for all those atrocities.

[SOAB: Son of a B*tch]

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[Diego A. Ballestero @InsurgentMemory]

Another platform rushing to rehabilitate Cofnas as the “victim.” The masks are coming off. This is bigger than one academic: it is a network defending racial hierarchy and calling it “free speech.” Now we stand together and fight it together

[Jawhar Sircar @jawharsircar]

How can information regarding CEC's visits all over India be kept secret from RTI as "personal" ?
Does Mr Gyanesh Kumar Gupta pay for these trips from his pocket?
⁦@SaketGokhale⁩

[Steve Hall @ProfHall1955]

Those such as myself who pointed out a power network behind Cofnas were ridiculed as conspiracy theorists. Now the big, stupid US state at the centre of the network wades in like Biff Tannen to threaten a Belgian university wanting rid of a postdoc 'race scientist'. Dark times.

[Guerra en la Universidad @GuerraenlaUni]

Cuando la universidad de Yale expulsó a David Graeber, el antropólogo más influyente de los últimos 50 años, el gobierno de EEUU no dijo nada. Cuando una universidad belga expulsa a un académico racista de tercera división, el gobierno de EEUU amenaza con sanciones.

[Marc Owen Jones @marcowenjones]

Cofnas himself believes low quality work doesn't justify a position at a top University. So with that in mind, he shouldn't mind if he's suspended from university given the feedback on his academic work.

[Diego A. Ballestero @InsurgentMemory]

1/ Yesterday Cofnas was supposedly an independent academic exposing corruption. Today the U.S. government is publicly threatening to review its relationship with Ghent on his behalf.

[Manisha Pande @MnshaP]

Meanwhile, in Uttarakhand, the SIR takes a predictable turn

Just 5 BJP-linked men across 5 constituencies filed 6,500 objections seeking to remove voters from the rolls. Every single voter they targeted is Muslim.
https://t.co/v1mjspZzke

[Kevin Jon Heller 🇺🇸🇩🇰 @kevinjonheller]

It appears @nathancofnas is about to receive the kind of scrutiny he thinks applies only to others (and other races). Soon everyone will know that he is a complete academic fraud.

[Sajjan Kumar Singh @sajjanjnu]

A classic case of incentives degenerating into an absurd farce. 🤦‍♂️
The crisis: Students are opting out of Delhi University's 4th-year UG courses due to severe career concerns.
The "solution": Allow them direct entry into a Ph.D. program!
But what if this incentive fails to retain them? What's next? Will a 4-year UG degree with a 7.5 CGPA make you eligible to become a lecturer?
@UniOfDelhi #DelhiUniversity #HigherEducation #HEI #Academia #FYUP

[Karuna Nundy @karunanundy]

Why is this half-witted bullying passing for anchoring news television? And for this long?

[Abhisar Sharma @abhisar_sharma]

Arnab looked like an idiot. @Rhiyahir did not cry. Did not capitulate. She spoke gracefully. Arnab the sycophant was abusive and defensive. In Journalism , you question people in power. You punch up the weight. This coward only sucks to the powerful.

[Anjali Bhardwaj @AnjaliB_]

First privacy of bahu-beti was cited to deny CCTV footage of polling stations, now privacy of CEC Gyanesh Kumar is being cited to deny details of official visits undertaken by him and the public money spent!
This is EXACTLY why the govt amended the RTI Act through the Digital Personal Data Protection (DPDP) Act- in the garb of protecting personal information, shield public servants from accountability.
Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act was amended through DPDP to expand the scope of the exemption to prevent disclosure of ALL personal information. Earlier the RTI only allowed denial of such personal information which had no relationship to public activity or interest.

[Naruto @Thenagashield]

@Neiphiu_Rio @PemaKhanduBJP Sir, post something on the government plan & policies in improving the interstate relations.
Say-Connectivity issues between Mon, Nagaland & TCL in AP.

Happy birthday can be done on the phone!

[Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan]

Maybe you shouldn't elect a person like that president either.

[Pawan Khera 🇮🇳 ಪವನ್ ಖೇರಾ @Pawankhera]

The excuse for hiding the names of those behind ₹35,715 crore in Bank of Baroda loan write-offs during just 6 years is “privacy” under Section 8(1)(j) of the RTI Act.

If that is the logic, why are small borrowers publicly shamed and subjected to public recovery action?

These are public funds, and the public has a right to know who benefited from such massive write-offs.

One can’t help but ask: are these big borrowers, who have caused considerable losses to the bank, connected to the BJP - and is that why they are being shielded?

[Naruto @Thenagashield]

@behindttruth Can you tell why Thadou is not Kuki? I have read few articles on this but yet to understand their arguments. Thank you!

[Dr. Sabreena Ghaffar-Siddiqui @sabreenaGS]

For all those wondering why we keep insisting on making sure you know that Nathan Cofnas is not just a white supremacist eugenics race realism racist but also a Jewish supremacist, here’s him telling you in his own words how Jews are superior to non-Jews. 👇🏼

[Nibir Deka @nibirdeka]

Understanding the Hate Towards Assam: The UP of the Northeast

Assam is sometimes called the Uttar Pradesh of the Northeast. Rarely as a compliment.

The stereotypes given in Meghalaya are familiar. Assamese tourists come to the hills, stop their cars beside a beautiful viewpoint, eat Maggi and leave the packet behind. Sometimes the anger is deserved. I have seen our own aunties behave as if every flower in Ward's Lake is part of a government horticulture scheme meant specifically for them.

But then there is the other side.

An AS-numbered car misses a signal somewhere around Dhankheti, and suddenly the driver is a Dakhar. One bad indicator and several Galis are invoked.

There is a reason this mistrust exists.

During the Hill State movement, Assam was seen as the dominant state, and for legitimate historical reasons. Questions of language, administration and cultural imposition created resentment among the hill communities. Meghalaya itself emerged from that history.

But history has an interesting habit. The circumstances change faster than the politics built around them.

Today, there is hardly any Assamese expansion happening inside Meghalaya. The average Assamese isn't waking up in Guwahati dreaming about buying a plot in Police Bazar. Yet in parts of the political imagination, the old Assamese aggressor remains alive and well due to a lack of new political imagination.

And that is where history slowly becomes stereotype.

We saw the contradiction again recently. A protest concerning recruitment and transparency, a domestic Meghalaya issue involving the KSU, somehow ended with vehicles bearing Assam registration numbers being targeted.

That distinction is important. The KSU does not represent every Khasi. The Khasi community does not represent all of Meghalaya.

But outrage doesn't enjoy nuance. So Assam retaliates. Block the road. Stop the vehicles. Teach them a lesson. Half the homestays in Shillong get cancellations.

Revenge served? Not quite.

Because somewhere near Khanapara, an Assamese cab driver is now sitting inside his vehicle, calculating his EMI. His livelihood depends on taking tourists from Guwahati to Shillong every day.

You thought you were punishing Meghalaya. Your rhetoric also punished the Assam cab-walla.

And indiscriminate retaliation doesn't stop to ask whether the person inside an ML-number vehicle is Khasi either. He could be Garo. He could be Jaintia. He could have absolutely nothing to do with whatever happened in Shillong.

This is the great comedy and tragedy of the Northeast.

We spend enormous amounts of energy proving how different we are, only to discover during every blockade that our economies are hopelessly dependent on each other.

Shillong needs tourists arriving through Assam. Assamese cab drivers need Shillong. Meghalaya needs roads through Assam. Assam needs Meghalaya's markets, people and tourism economy.

Our students cross these borders. Our businesses cross them. Our friendships cross them. Our romances occasionally cross them too. (Except that Jaintia baddie who never called me back)

Some disputes deserve anger. Assam is absolutely right to be angry. But collective punishment is intellectual laziness.

An Assamese littering in Shillong doesn't represent Assam. A Khasi vandalising a car doesn't represent Meghalaya. And neither side becomes safer by converting a number plate into an ethnicity.

Conclusion – The Northeast is a contradiction until you accept we are all connected and that none of us can exist without each other.

And one personal disclosure before somebody inevitably questions which side I am on. My work as a journalist has taken me across the length and breadth of this region. I was born in Assam, but when I report on conflicts between its people, I cannot afford to see everything through one particular lens.