a good law of history is that if you ever find yourself opposing a student movement while siding with the ruling class, you are wrong.
every single time. in every era. no matter the issue.
The sacked Delhi Police Commissioner should feel good after yesterday. At least he can face his children and say that the merciless beating of India’s youth was not under his watch and perhaps he was removed exactly because he would not have allowed the same on Tadipar’s orders!
एक देशव्यापी परीक्षा के पेपर लीक होने पर किसी भी लिहाज वाले इंसान को ख़ुद ही इस्तीफ़ा देना चाहिए था। यहाँ बच्चे दुख में मर गए, महीनों से गुहार चल रही कि दफ़ा हो।
ऐसी क्या ख़ानदानी संपत्ति माँग ली कि बच्चों पे लाठी-गोली चला रहे हो? जिस जनता ने कुर्सी दी है वही कह रही कि उतर जाओ।
The govt labels those who receive minimum rights - pension, scholarship, ration, housing - as "Labharthi" (beneficiaries), and those like Adani who will get 40% money in advance to build marine drive along the Ganges and the rest over 15 years, as "partner", "developer".
The rich, so-called "upper middle class" of India did not care when government schools, hospitals, etc went to the dogs. They did not care about bigotry or bulldozer. They sent their kids to fake "dummy" schools that skipped actual learning and prepared them for MCQ competitive exams like IITJEE and NEET instead.
But their kids do take the NEET and CBSE. Many fancy schools are still CBSE-affiliated, and only the ultra rich tier 1 city elites go to IB schools. ICSE too isn't too common outside the big cities with British legacy.
This is their Niemoller moment but they are too dumb to understand that they are responsible for this.
My son started reading “Glimpses of World History” by Nehru and was stunned by the knowledge and quality of writing.
he innocently asked: “If someone so intelligent was India’s first PM, how did we end with Modi?”
Told him, Beta Hindu Khatre me hai, Not my Fault
Twisha Sharma shows us why patriarchy is zindabaad in India: women have to die to be believed, while men only need to cry wolf to become national victims. Every 20 minutes a woman dies due to dowry harassment, yet the tiny percentage of “fake cases” make headlines. Waah!