This is a banger of a song. Brilliantly composed, produced, and executed. Instagram is going to be flooded with reels featuring this song now.
Video: https://t.co/QfNwSrBPcU
My respect for Social Reformers of past has grown in multiples . It must have been so tough for them to convince society against Sati, Child marriage and women exploitation. We can’t convince people to stop firecrackers for their own lungs . Salute to them🫡
The 'Chinese spy' affair story by New York Times targetting Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is reminiscent of a similar Chinese funding story they cooked up against @newsclickin , one of India's most important independent news portals. This false story was later used by the BJP government to jail its editor Prabir Purkayastha and literally freeze its operations. So whenever you hear a story which a Chinese angle from NYT, take it with a pinch of salt.
She is Olivia Banerjee, a gold medalist former student of Presidency University, Kolkata. The university has banned her from entering the campus & pusue her PhD there. The Reason is she sprayed a ABVP recruitment poster with words "FUCK RSS, Rapist, Casteist". This was followed - An FIR. Then she and another final yr postgraduate student from the sociology dept were expelled despite Olivia keep insisting that she alone sprayed these lines.
Following the University action, the CM Suvendu Adhikari said “The ABVP has been cleaning cockroaches, termites, ‘dimagi naxals’ and others from the campuses of Presidency and Jadavpur.”
It is that CM who few months ago brought a rally of half naked naga sadhus in front of prestigious Jadavpur University to flex his majoritarian politics.
To expel Olivia and the other student they misrepresented the facts. They blamed them of insulting Swami Vivekananda as the ABVP used Swami Vivekananda's photo in that recruitment poster.
When was Swami Vivekananda an RSS or ABVP member? He wasn't a cheap communal person either. In today's India, if he had existed, the BJP-RSS would've called him anti-national, dimagi naxal. Putting his photo on the posters of such a cabal of hate is itself an insult to him.
Sometime back CM Suvendu said now they will start cleaning Dimagi Naxal from campuses.
Olivia isn't scared btw. Nor the alumni and the other teachers.
The English Professor of the University Dr. Kalyan Kumar Das, had written on his Facebook a day after their expulsion, “I don’t teach my students to become morons incapable of speaking truth to power! Let that sink in, powers that be!”
I remember Netaji Subhas had also been expelled from this same institution when it was Presidency College. That time too, the reason was student activism.