Rewatching Mahanagar as an adult was genuinely awe-inspiring, owing to the craft surely, but for how Ray was advocating women taking a principled stand against workplace harassment and racial profiling way back in the 60s?! Woke before woke was even a thing. Master for a
reason.
Birinchi Baba was written by Rajsekhan Basu in 1920s, about a hundred years ago. Satyajit Roy made Mahapurush in 1965. In 2026, West Bengal Government welcomes Bageshwar Baba.
Yk what else is free in Delhi? Human life.
You can be sitting in your supposed 'home' away from your actual one, on a random sunday morning and an entire building can collapse on your head just because some people didn't do their jobs well and nobody took any accountability.
Corruption is not an issue anymore because everyone understands (and even respects) this basic human urge to hoard, to make more money. We even celebrate the top 15-20 billionaires of the nation as some sort of beacons of our culture and pride.
But what gets missed in this razzle-dazzle is that corruption is not just someone making extra money by bending rules - it also means those bent rules KILL people. In building fires, collapses, fake cancer medicines, adulterated foods, drunk driving, and a hundred other ways.
Corruption actually means someone making money by murdering people, murdering us.
Grateful for the beautiful skies, the constant chirping birds, greenery and kind March weather which I have been keeping me company while I read about the loneliness of Sonia and Sunny!
@NikhilTiwarit18 न पढ़ाई से दूर-दूर तक का नाता है, न सोचने-समझ पाने की क्षमता। कभी कोई उच्च शिक्षा की परीक्षा भी नहीं दी होगी। बस भगवा-सनातनी तोता रटी हुई चार पंक्तियां बकने लगता है। इसी विश्वविद्यालय में जब ए.बी.वी.पी. छात्रों पर लाठी और पत्थर बरसाता है, तब राष्ट्रहित में चूं नहीं निकलती है।
Devastating new report from @reporters_co showing how my beloved university @JNU_official_50 is being degraded and destroyed by ideologically motivated and corrupt recruitment.
https://t.co/iq39l5hwm5
update on fundraiser:
we have received ₹1,12,331 as of now. today is the last day to contribute in case you’d like to. we had a target of ₹1,20,000 so that each family gets ₹40K each. Pls amplify this so that we achieve this goal and pls don’t send any money after 11:59 PM IST
You saw @narendramodi's ridiculous video saying he forgives 'our daughters' for their abusive language at Jantar Mantar ... now read @AnandTeltumbde's brilliant piece in defence of the profanity of the protesters.
"Every hegemonic order establishes not only acceptable political opinions but also an acceptable political language. Civility, respectability and decorum become part of the discipline through which power regulates dissent: protesters are expected to be polite even while protesting injustice. But history suggests that ruptures typically begin by breaking this linguistic convention. The language of revolt is seldom parliamentary. It is emotional rather than measured, mocking rather than deferential, often deliberately transgressive – and what looks like vulgarity to the establishment is frequently the first public expression of accumulated humiliation and anger."
https://t.co/Cohhvz8AnW
Sexual violence against women does not occur in a vacuum. It thrives in a culture that insists women must live within moral boundaries defined by men, and that when they dare to cross those boundaries, men are entitled to punish them.
🚨IMPORTANT STATEMENT🚨
The Cockroach Janta Party demands that the @DelhiPolice immediately cease and desist from unlawfully detaining, intimidating or preventing citizens from reaching Jantar Mantar and refrain from creating an atmosphere of fear and siege around Jantar Mantar.
@Cockroachisback
Modi Government strategy now;
- Close all access to Jantar Mantar
- Make this protest as a sit in protest away from the eyes of people
- Stop, harras and arrest people who are showing a slight interest in going there
- Suspend all internet, food delivery, water supplies
This is going to be a long fight for the students and not easy.
The protest now needs to be decentralized.
Across the city at different places and across the country in different cities.
I am 100% certain that if Godi Media existed during the Jalianwala Bagh Massacre, it would have blamed people for gathering there and protesting against the Rowlatt act.
Mr. Modi, our students are demanding Dharmendra Pradhan’s resignation.
Don’t insult their intelligence with this pathetic midnight video.
1. Sack Pradhan.
2. Punish those who beat students.
3. Apologise