vardy b

metro etiquette enforcer

[vardy b @brightaize]

@GhoshSamyak @yusufpore @spectator who tf even asked

[Noah Khrachvik @khrachvik]

His books were readily available to read in USSR. They were studied as any ideologies would be studied.

There is a great story Michael Parenti used to tell about a trip he took to USSR. He was with a bunch of American academics, who had been talking down on the Soviets and the censorship they guessed they had been under.

When one of them asked a Soviet academic which western theorists he’d read, he rattled off a long list, which both Friedman and Hayek were on. The Soviet then asked the American which Soviet theorists he’d been able to read.

And the American couldn’t list a single one.

That story is a perfect encapsulation of how real, effective censorship works. You’re not outright forbidden to read. You are, instead, gaslit into it with billions of dollars worth of propaganda, information marginalization, distortion, and lies.

This is why you still find people today who believe in cartoons, rather than simply opening their eyes and looking at the real world, who retreat into safe abstractions rather than face the cold, hard reality that we are the most propagandized, socially engineered, and brain washed people in history.

[Double Down News @DoubleDownNews]

“I want to kill someone today & it might be you"

"They wrenched my trousers & underwear down & I was raped by one of the soldiers"

"Other people had guns inserted inside them"

"My daughter was syringed with an unknown substance"

Juliet Lamont's Gaza Flotilla testimony:

[Dr Rahmeh Aladwan @doctor_rahmeh]

The couple in this video are Wesam Mekdad, a Palestinian from Gaza, and his heavily pregnant German wife.

Police were called after Wesam broke his TV — he had just learned that 'israel' murdered his brother. The couple were cooperative. They explained the situation. The wife wanted to ask the police if she can accompany her husband.

The police responded with brutality.

People from Nationaal Protest (an anti‑immigration group) are so outraged by how a pregnant woman was treated that they have offered to help the couple file a complaint against the police.

The wife gave birth earlier than expected. A baby girl. Healthy, thank God. Her name is Reem. 🤍

[vardy b @brightaize]

@banglani build capacity with what, gaumutra?

[vardy b @brightaize]

dp dekho laude ki

[Icons of India @ICONSIndiaIN]

@ANI I wish he had studied with the same zeal for his boards. Has lost his focus at an early due to dirty politics.
#CBSE

[Rana Ayyub @RanaAyyub]

This is what an Emmy awards acceptance speech looks like. Kudos

[vardy b @brightaize]

wot

[Pop Base @PopBase]

Olivia Rodrigo speaks out on criticism for wearing babydoll dresses during Popcast interview:

“What’s really, like, disturbing is I feel like I have worn outfits that are revealing on stage. Like I’ve been on stage in like a sparkly bra, little shorts, which is my right. That’s fun. I felt cool and comfortable in that. And like that wasn’t “inappropriate” — but me, like, fully covered up in a dress that people deem to be, like, childlike was inappropriate. And I just think it just like shows how we really normalize pedophilia in our culture. And also it’s just this rhetoric that we’re fed as girls since we’re so little, which is like, ‘Don’t wear that because then a man is going to sexualize your body and it’s your fault.’ Like it’s so weird. And I didn’t think I looked sexy in that at all — I was like ‘This is so cool. I feel like I look like Kathleen Hanna or Courtney Love.’ All these people who are my heroes.”

(https://t.co/J74WyG3Etv)

[vardy b @brightaize]

@Archana_Mirror @PuneCityPolice @CPPuneCity inke ghar pe bulldozer kab chalega?

[vardy b @brightaize]

waise to saare sanghi guillotine deserve karte hai lekin ashok srivastava jaiso ke liye wo bhi kaafi nahi hai, kuchh specially painful aur humiliating banana padega agle reign of terror ke liye

[Brown Sugar 🍯 @_vimzzzz]

But it’s me who must write ielts

[vardy b @brightaize]

@simpcelle yaaar he deleted the sanatan samvidhan answer

[vardy b @brightaize]

@simpcelle 🤣🤣

[Roman Gautam @romangautam]

“Modi’s regime is only a partial realisation of Shourie’s later vision for India. For the ways in which it isn’t, we should be grateful.”
Mihir Dalal read through damned near all of Arun Shourie's 30 or so books (no mean feat!), plus articles and interviews and more, to write this incredibly deep and perceptive intellectual biography of perhaps the most influential Indian journalist of his era.
Shourie traded repute as a leftist dissident to shape the intellectual scaffolding of the Hindu Right – and took much of the country’s elite with him. Along the way, he prophesied many of the themes that define India as we know it today: in Mihir's words, "the unlikely union of capitalism and Hindutva, the spectre of leftist treachery, the rationalisation of dominant-caste superiority on the basis of 'merit', the presumed regressiveness of Islam in contrast to the putative greatness of the Hindu tradition, a paranoid fear of real and imaginary threats to the Indian state."
Even that is a partial list. There's much, much more that Shourie wrote about in theory that has come about in practice, and many features of the Emergency he criticised that are today everyday features of Modi's rule. One way to read the piece is as a treasure hunt: see how many parallels you can spot between the perfidious prophet's visions and the realities of India today. Dive in and try it -- you'll understand Modi's India much better after reading this piece.
https://t.co/gqS9vPsVMv

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name is Aradhana Prakash.

She was 14 years old in August 1990. Ruchika Girhotra’s best friend. A fellow tennis trainee at the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association.

She was in the room when S P S Rathore called them both to his office. He sent her out on a pretext. When she returned she found Ruchika distressed.

She was the sole eyewitness. The only person who could testify to what happened that day.

For 19 years Rathore tried to silence her.

He filed civil case after civil case against her family. Cases against journalists covering the story. Cases against the lawyers fighting it.

Ruchika died in December 1993. Her father and brother were harassed so badly they had to leave Panchkula entirely.

Aradhana and her parents stayed.

Her father Anand Prakash and mother Madhu Prakash attended over 400 hearings across 19 years. Every single one. They never settled. They were never intimidated.

The court found Aradhana’s testimony unimpeachable. The judgment relied on her as the sole witness to convict Rathore in December 2009.

When Rathore was attacked outside court by a member of the public she went on television and asked people not to take the law into their own hands. She said that for 19 years they had always worked within the law.

Her father Anand Prakash died of prostate cancer in January 2018 aged 74. He had attended more than 400 hearings. He lived long enough to see Rathore convicted. He did not live long enough to see justice feel complete.

Yesterday, many people here read the story of Ruchika Girhotra for the first time.

Most of them had never even heard her name before.

They should.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[Sann @san_x_m]

Her name was Ruchika Girhotra.

She was 14 years old. A tennis player from Panchkula, Haryana.

On August 12 1990, she went to meet S.P.S. Rathore at his office. He was the Inspector General of Police and head of the Haryana Lawn Tennis Association. He had promised her father he would arrange special coaching for her.

When her friend stepped out of the room, he molested her.

Her family filed a complaint three days later.

Rathore had her expelled from school. Her father was suspended from his bank job on false charges. Six cases were filed against her brother Ashu. The family's house was forcibly sold. They fled to the outskirts of Shimla and took up earth filling work to survive.

On December 28 1993, days after Ashu was paraded in handcuffs through their neighbourhood, Ruchika consumed poison.

She died the next day. She was 17.

Rathore threw a party that night.

He then refused to release her body to her father unless he signed blank papers. Those papers were later used to forge documents accepting a false autopsy report.

Despite a police inquiry recommending an FIR against him, Rathore kept getting promoted. He became the Director General of Police of Haryana in 1999.

The case went through 40 adjournments and more than 400 hearings over 19 years.

In December 2009 a court convicted him of molestation. He was sentenced to six months' imprisonment and fined Rs 1,000.

The sentence was later enhanced to 18 months. The Supreme Court upheld his conviction in 2016 but reduced it to the time already served. He walked free.

The judge who tried to add abetment to suicide charges against him was forced into premature retirement.

The judge who dismissed those charges was a neighbour of Ruchika's family involved in a property dispute with them.

S.P.S. Rathore was later invited as a VIP guest to a Republic Day event in Panchkula.

Ruchika Girhotra was 14 when he molested. She was 17 when she died.

Follow for stories India deserves to remember.

[vardy b @brightaize]

@simpcelle jnu

[vardy b @brightaize]

2029 🤞

[vardy b @brightaize]

@simpcelle so gaya

[vardy b @brightaize]

til vevo didn’t stand for very evil video organisation