In 2023, I reported from #Manipur regarding #pellet gun injuries suffered by 17 yr old Kishan Loitongbam. He was a class 12 student in Imphal who took part in a school students protest, after two fellow students went missing and were later found dead. Kishan was shot with a #pellet gun by RAF personnel at point-blank range in his right shoulder. His shoulder was shattered. Doctors told me that there were around 90 pellets lodged in his shoulder, but they could remove only 60.
Another , 17 yr old student, Soaibam Uttam, suffred pellet injuries to his head. More than 50 pellets were lodged in the back of his head. Along with them, six more school students suffered pellet injuries. All eight of them were minors. At that time, Kishan's father asked me ," The RAF could have used water cannons or carried out a lathi charge to disperse the students. Why did they have to use pellet guns against student protesters?Have #pellet guns ever been used against school students protesting in #Delhi, #Mumbai or other parts of mainland India? Then why only in Manipur?"
I had answered him 'no' back then. But three years later, pellet guns have also been used against protesters in #Delhi, may be not on minors, but definitely people participating in a student protest.
If the police alone get to decide what is an "exceptional situation," then doesn't every situation become exceptional whenever they want to justify the use of #PelletGuns?
Given below are the then X-rays of the pellet injuries suffered by Kishan and Soaibam.
For this single reason I will never side with these soft talibanis.
Want to control everything about a person.What to eat,whom to marry, where to roam,what to watch,what to read... everything.
Hell bent on making India like Afghanistan.
இந்த ஆட்சி அமைந்ததில் இருந்து அரசியல் களத்தில் பலரும் முன்பின் முரணான கருத்துக்களை சொல்லி அவர்களின் கொள்கையில் ஊசலாட்டத்தைக் காட்டிய போதும், ஆளூர் ஷானவாஸின் பேச்சு ஆறுதலை மட்டுமல்ல. நம்பிக்கையையும் கொடுக்கிறது.
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We're losing seats
We're losing investments
We're losing water that's legally ours
We're being laughed at by the neighboring states
Still these mufuckas care about nothing other than defending a dumb CM who is only good for photo ops
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THE ANNA HAZARE -ARVIND KEJRIWAL AGITATION DESTROYED THE CONGRESS. AND WITH IT INDIAN DEMOCRACY.
Coal allocation : Rejected. Case closed.
2 G Spectrum: Rejected. Case closed.
BJP’s “ appeals” to higher courts are performative.
Arvind Kejriwal became CM.
Narendra Modi became PM.
Mainstream media played the biggest role in the tamasha.
Prashant Bhushan would say later that the IAC movement had RSS anchorage.
And now students face pellets and AK 47.
🦔AI companies are bulk-buying rare books, scanning them through high-speed machines that cut the spines off, and shredding the originals. A service called ISBNdb facilitates orders of up to a million books and keeps buyers anonymous. Pre-2022 books are premium because they're free of AI-generated text. A federal judge ruled the practice is fair use because eliminating the original means only one copy exists at a time. Anthropic hired the former head of Google Books partnerships to obtain "all the books in the world."
My Take
This got to me. A bookseller told 404 Media that rare books with almost no surviving copies are being fed into this pipeline. Books that survived wars, fires, and centuries of handling are being shredded so an AI can learn to write a better marketing email.
ISBNdb's website literally says "'AI company destroys two million books' is not a headline that generates sympathy," and they still built an entire business around making it happen quietly. They offer NDAs as a feature. They coach clients to call it "digital preservation."
I've covered AI companies scraping the internet, torrenting libraries, and stealing music. This is worse because it's irreversible. You can re-upload a website. You can reprint a bestseller. You can't replace the last three copies of an 18th-century botanical text once someone shreds them for training data. And the judge said it's legal. So it's going to accelerate.
"We shred rare books and offer NDAs so nobody finds out" is a legitimate business model in 2026. What a timeline.
Hedgie🤗
First in my bloodline to witness a State CM wanting a 10th floor beach view office on the advice of his astrologer. Yes it is exactly ridiculous as it sounds.
All for a party that idolizes Kamarajar who spent most of his life in a simple rented house.
CM Vijay is a classic example of a "Gucci Marxist".
"மக்கள் பணத்தில் ஒரு பைசா கூட தொடமாட்டேன்" - Proceeds to use tax payer's money for his luxury beach view office when there is a perfectly fine historical CM office in Fort St George.
“Don’t make it political,” says the party that has turned movies, music, social media, petrol, employment, education, and the value of the rupee into a political battleground.
பார்ப்பன அமைச்சர் பொறுப்பேற்றதில் இருந்து கோவில் நிலங்கள் தனியாருக்கு மாற்றப்பட்டு வருகிறது.
திமுக ஆட்சியில் சட்டபோராட்டம் நடத்தி சேகர்பாபு மீட்ட பல ஆயிரம் கோடி ரூபாய் மதிப்புள்ள நிலங்கள் எல்லாம் ஒரே ஒரு பார்ப்பன பெருச்சாளி உள்ளே நுழைந்து திருடிக்கொண்டிருக்கிறது
It's honestly funny how ppl can compartmentalise so well & blame Dharmendra Pradhan or Nirmala Sitharaman or Ashwini Vaishnaw or Nitin Gadkari without assigning any blame to Modi/Amit Shah or the rest of the party. Do you all truly believe these folks operate in a vacuum?
Small account posing to be neutral and asks Kidukkipudi kostins + zero posts in the last one year.
*Checks following list of 4 ppl*
1. Thalaimai Tharkuri
2. Known Abusive and fake news Tharkuri
3. Lady Tharkuri
4. Rasigan Tharkuri
Dei dei dei 🤡🤡🥱
If anyone has any video/evidence where a police abused you please share those videos wherever there was any way you could identify that personnel
I am working w a pro bono lawyer for filing suits for this please please please do reach out
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