i'm a fucking indian trans man from buttfuck of nowhere. we didn't have proper water lines 15 years back and english is my third language stfu i've been through hell and back and still managed to transition but oh do tell me how privileged i am
I don't know if this is a new development but ISKCON, arguably the most famous and active Hindu organization in and outside of India, seems to have turned into the most loyal allies of the far-right Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) in India! (1/n)
sangh pariwar extremism won bengal and the first thing they did was vandalise statue of a man who died in 1924. you don’t desecrate what you’ve defeated, you desecrate what still frightens you, cowards
i say this as a communist but the communist party truly will breathe its last breath unless it commits to the ideology and stops playing electoral power games. ballot victories come after ideological ones. what have we done to radicalise the youth against neoliberalism? zilch.
More than the cultural losses and distortions posed by a saffronized West Bengal, I worry of what will happen to poor Bengali Muslims already prefigured as 'Bangladeshis'—and if this will have further impact on non-Muslim minorities in Bangladesh
Horrible day for federalism. Bengal and Tamil Nadu were flag-bearers for federal rights.
MGNREGA / Delimitation / Devolution / Education Policy
What happens when these important (civilisational, should one say?) states become subservient to Delhi?
Unable to get over that skeleton fiasco from Odisha. Being born in India into a marginalised community is a curse. Our system is an absolute hellhole for poor and downtrodden people.
me when my phone was off for hours and then i switched it on and my childhood bsf had dmed me on instagram saying rip and thas how i found out my grandma died…
Seeing Rai’s coverage of the genocide in, and liberation of, Bangladesh radically changed my sense of what South Asian history “looked like”. An extraordinary life which brought so many other lives into the light.