Fyodor meowsky

क्या जुलमतों के दौर में भी गीत गाएं जाएंगे? हां जुलमतों के दौर के ही गीत गाए जाएंगे!
DU/Shivaji college/History

[Clifton D' Rozario @clifroz]

So trade union activism is now a conspiracy? Workers and trade unionists speaking up is part of their fundamental right to freedom of speech and expression and to form associations or unions. Speaking up against exploitation cannot be criminalised in this fashion.

[Devina Mehra @devinamehra]

Does this man look Chinese to you?
This is an authenticated contemporary painting of Emperor Akbar

At a Lit Festival yesterday, @authoramish said that it was absurd that we think Akbar looked like Prithviraj Kapoor. As per him, to our eyes, he would've appeared Mongolian or Chinese

Also that his language wasn't Urdu but Turkish/Persian

Nobody had asked him about this!
He said it on his own as an example of the historical absurdities we believe... and repeated it about three times. According to him Akbar was Central Asian, looked nothing like an Indian

Now I see this as a real problem when we've left history in the hands of so called history narrators instead of history scholars, because make no mistake, it is a scholarly discipline

If Mr Tripathi had done even a bit of research on either history or geography he would have come to know that while Akbar's court language was Persian, by his generation, the spoken language in the royal household was close to what is now Brij Bhasha & Haryanvi - what later evolved into Hindustani. Akbar incidentally also was very interested in Sanskrit and Sanskrit texts. Of course, he was famously illiterate so could not read/write in any language

Back to geography and Prithviraj Kapoor. Mr Kapoor was born in Peshawar probably in the same mohalla my grandmother (my parents are both Peshawar born)
If only Tripathi had picked up a map of Asia, he would have found that even Babar's birthplace is only about 700 km from Peshawar - about 30% less than the distance between say, Delhi and Patna. The world is, surprise surprise, a continuum where faces don't magically transform at borders of modern nation states. That is why many in Mumbai persistently mistake me for a Parsi or Irani. Or why Prithviraj's son had blue eyes 😊

The burden of Mr Tripathi's song was that all history is biased with an unstated corollary that therefore any made up version of history is as good or valid as an academic's
This is a dangerous slope in any field

History ultimately has to be based on original (preferably contemporary) accounts if available, as well as other sources like archaeology, architecture, sculpture etc

A close friend of mine, a world renowned business strategy professor, once said to me, "I've more in common with a Ph D in History or Physics than I have with a management practitioner. My mindset is that of an academic". He has the discipline of researching everything from original research papers so much so that during Covid all of us in the batch gave up trying to keep up with the fast changing medical research & delegated it entirely to him to read the papers properly and advise us on the latest research, along with the caveats
That is the discipline of #academics!

This whole thinking that no rigor is required to start spouting your version of history or anything else at all makes me wince

Even assuming earlier #history writings are biased they've to be refuted by proper #research, not made up stories!

[Dipankar @Dipankar_cpiml]

LIC now puts the common people's savings at risk to insure Adani - ₹33,000 crore LIC funds invested in Adani. And the people of India are kept totally in the dark about this massive diversion of funds to keep Adani afloat - it takes the foreign media to reveal the bitter truth.

[Dipankar @Dipankar_cpiml]

By terming the consecration of Ram Mandir in Ayodhya as the establishment of India's true independence, Mohan Bhagwat has reiterated the RSS line rejecting India's freedom movement and the Constitution of India even as India celebrates the 75th anniversary of the Constitution.

[CPIML Liberation @cpimlliberation]

Condolence Statement on the Demise of Former Prime Minister Dr Manmohan Singh

28 December 2024.
Dr Manmohan Singh will be remembered as a soft-spoken and rather accidental Congress Prime Minister, the only Prime Minister from a minority community till date, who presided over ten years of stable coalition rule. As an economic administrator and then first as Finance Minister in the PV Narasimha Rao government and finally as the Prime Minister of the UPA government, Singh was instrumental in effecting major shifts in both economic and foreign policy spheres, marking India's transition from the Nehruvian era of mixed economy to open market neo-liberalism and from non-alignment to strategic partnership with the United States.
The first phase of UPA government with significant Left backing also saw a series of progressive legislations like the Rural Employment Guarantee Act and Forest Rights Act that sought to create some safety net for the poor in an otherwise overwhelmingly pro-rich and pro-corporate policy environment. Paradoxically Manmohan Singh will also be remembered for both pro-citizen measures like the Right to Information (RTI) Act as well as for a series of actions that significantly eroded civil liberties. Back in power for a second successive term after the Indo-US nuclear deal, his government presided over the amended UAPA and Operation Greenhunt in Chhattisgarh, with Singh himself labelling Naxalism the greatest internal security threat to India even as fascist communal venom and violence spread across the country.
By 2014 the UPA government had come under the cloud of charges of mega corruption – which remain unproved - and advocates of unbridled neo-liberalism also accused Manmohan Singh of policy paralysis. Corporate India and the RSS were ready to seize the opportunity and replicate the Gujarat model of communal carnage and extra-judicial governance on the all-India plane. The country has since been reeling under a relentless fascist onslaught marked by unprecedented levels of corrupt crony capitalism, systematic subversion of the Constitution and erosion of rights of citizens.
As a former Prime Minister, Manmohan Singh of course continued to speak out primarily on issues of economic mismanagement. The comments he made about demonetisation in the Rajya Sabha, calling it a monumental disaster, a brazen case of organised loot and legalised plunder, continue to resonate as the economy has never really overcome the serial blows of demonetisation, GST and prolonged unplanned lockdown.
As we approach the 75th anniversary of the coming into force of the Indian Constitution, and the foundation of the Indian republic, the nation would remember Manmohan Singh as a Prime Minister who while departing fundamentally from the economic and foreign policies of Nehru remained a steadfast champion of the Nehruvian legacy in upholding the constitutional principles of diversity, secularism and federalism. CPI(ML) extends heartfelt condolences to Dr Singh’s family and all his friends and admirers.

- Central Committee, CPI(ML) Liberation

[Dipankar @Dipankar_cpiml]

Comrade Sunil Chandravanshi, member of Arwal District Committee of @cpimlliberation was gunned down yesterday evening on Karpi-Imamganj road. Crime is on the rise in NDA-ruled Bihar and opposition leaders are becoming targets. Bring the killers to book. Red Salute to Com. Sunil.

[Dipankar @Dipankar_cpiml]

#ReclaimTheNight idea has struck a massive chord in West Bengal. These photos are from Naihati around 8 PM. As the night grows the crowd is only expected to swell. A collective affirmation of women's freedom is the most reassuring way of ushering in India's #IndependenceDay2024

[CPIML Liberation @cpimlliberation]

On the occasion of the 52nd Anniversary of Comrade Charu Mazumdar's Martyrdom and 50th anniversary of Party Reorganisation tributes were paid to martyrs and departed leaders and pledge was reiterated to strengthen the party and prepare for a new phase of growth and expansion. CPIML Gen Sec Dipankar Bhattacharya, Rajaram Singh, Ravi Rai, Sucheta De, Sudama Prasad and many comrades from Delhi paid tributes to martyrs at the party central headquarters at Charu Bhawan in Delhi.

[Fyodor meowsky @a_ramik]

@dpradhanbjp must resign!

Onwards to day 3 of indefinite strike against the corrupt @NTA_Exams!

#INDIA_AGAINST_NTA

[Fyodor meowsky @a_ramik]

#INDIA_AGAINST_NTA

Onwards to day 3 of indefinite strike!

[The Indian Express @IndianExpress]

Jawaharlal Nehru University Students’ Union (JNUSU) protests at Jantar Mantar against the NEET-UG fiasco

Students demanded the scrapping of the NTA and the resignation of Education Minister Dharmendra Pradhan due to alleged exam irregularities.

Participants from All India Students Association (AISA) and DU's Krantikari Yuva Sangathan joined with slogans like "Dharmendra Pradhan istifa do" and "Scrap NTA".

They also called for a NEET-UG re-examination and an end to centralised exams.

📹: @chitral_k

#neetug #neetexam #education #jnusu #neetpg