Eid in Gaza. The spirit of humanity is irrepressible.
Even a genocide cannot break that spirit.
Free Palestine.
Down with US-Israeli hyper-imperialism.
Near Girish Chandra Dey & Sons sweet shop in Kolkata’s Lake Market, there’s a cart. No signboard. No branding. The wife assembles plates. The husband makes rotis. That’s it.
No written menu. You figure it out from the smell. Chicken curry. Veg kofta. Duck egg kosha. Basanti pulao. Chicken liver curry. And prices that feel like a mistake.
I’d gone to pick up duck egg kosha for my Maa. She has a thing about haansher dim. I was waiting, watching. Plate. Ladle. Roti. Steam. Phonepe. The usual.
Then a man walked in from the direction of Lake Mall. Office clothes, slightly worn. Small plastic bag in hand.
“I work there,” he said, nodding toward the mall. Then: “Aaj shudhu ruti enechhi. Torkaari lagbe… taka kaal debo?”
(Brought rotis today. Need some vegetables… can I pay tomorrow?)
No pause.
The wife reached for a plate. Mixed vegetables. Then egg curry — not asked for, just added.
“Aage khao, taakar kotha pore hobe.”
Eat first. Money can wait.
The husband took the plastic bag, warmed the rotis on his tawa, handed them back.
No word. Just done.
The man sat on the ledge nearby and ate.
Will a restaurant with mood lighting and a curated playlist do this?
Somewhere, size got in the way. Compassion became a process.
Here, if you’re hungry, you eat. That’s the whole system.
And somehow that’s the most premium experience in the city. In any city.
Massive retrenchments happening in TCS, in which thousands of employees made forcefully resign from company.
KITU extends all support to the affected employees and urges the management to respect the law of the land and reinstate all retrenched employees with immediate effect.
IT employees are preparing for an effective resistance under the banner of Karnataka State IT/ITeS Employees Union (KITU) against Karnataka government's move to increase working hours. Street campaigns and gate meetings are being held across Bangalore.
Resist #12hrWorkDay
We are not ready to die for your profits.
L&T Chairman S.N. Subrahmanyan's remark advocating a #90hrWorkWeek reveals nothing but the insatiable thirst of these capitalists for profit through the ruthless and inhuman exploitation of the Indian working class.
#90HoursWork
This is Shaban al-Dalou, a 17 year old Palestinian who did well in his exams and liked to play the guitar in his spare time. His was the arm you saw on fire at Al-Aqsa Martyrs Hospital complex in Deir el-Balah. This is another war crime by Israel. I imagine Shaban as an older man, playing songs of love and resistance for our world. Rest in peace, dear young boy.