An XY chromosome boxer can beat the shit out of another female boxer but a 100gm overweight and you are kicked out and no Gold no Silver no medal for you. These are your rules Olympics?
Forget religions, forget elections and politics...just listen to the speech as an Indian and nothing else .. 🇮🇳
Worth listening to ..
In 3.11minutes speech there's 13 times clapping and in the end standing ovation 👏🏽👏🏽
After watching the video of the old man, many good people (both Hindus and Muslims) reached out to help him. It's good and you must do that but don't ignore the larger question—why is a population of 220 million Indians targeted and demonized with the most senseless and filthy accusations—juice jihad, thook jihad, COVID jihad, love jihad, land jihad and what not.
Some say it's a strategy to win elections. Of course, it is.
Some say it can lead to violence and riots. Maybe it can.
Some say it creates hate and division. Yes, it does.
But beyond everything, it makes an entire section of the society feel underconfident and depressed.
It hurts them. It belittles their sense of humanity. It demolishes their sense of belonging.
Every Muslim in India, no matter where they stand on the ideological, sectarian, or religious ground just wants one thing back—their self esteem and dignity. Nobody wants to be the target of cruel bulldozer jokes. They have no hope that it will die down when it comes from the absolute top. Call them Abdul or Puncture Putra or whatever you want but it's a situation where they've been pushed to the wall and turned into a joke for everyone to laugh at them and entertain themselves. But they are not a weak people. They have shown remarkable resilience and proved that no matter what their minds will never bow down before those who humiliate them.
It's now a common conversation in an upper middle class Muslim household that their sons/daughters should move abroad. Many people have moved abroad. What about those without means? They can't go anywhere.
How do you respond when your Prime minister calls you a Mangalsutra thief, buffalo thief, and thug who's eyeing everyone else's property.
A lot of Muslims work as masons, laborers, small farmers, electricians, rat miners, plumbers, cooks, house helpers, and gig workers. You think that these people are robbing you?
The real question is not about helping individuals. It is about starting an important conversation. Why does he feel so emboldened to think that humiliating Muslims is gonna win him elections?
While the Arvind Kejriwal arrest story has taken over the news cycle, here is something for all of you to mull on. The SBI had sought time till end June to complete the matching of electoral bond donors to political parties saying it was a time consuming exercise (end June yaane post election) . Guess what? An intern friend (and many newspapers) have already done the matching in a few hours. What does that say about SBI and indeed about institutional integrity in the country? And on whose orders was this absurd timeline given? Thank god the SC saw through this charade . #ElectoralBonds
If someone who is such an avid supporter of test cricket and so passionately loves playing for India chooses to miss two games, it must be a deeply compelling reason. So let us wish Virat Kohli well, hope this phase passes and that he returns happier.
I can’t think of a shittier airline than @IndiGo6E - the virtual monopoly they enjoy currently has gone to their head. And how!
My son flew last night from Kolkata to New Delhi to connect to the Delhi-Istanbul flight.
The CCU-DEL flight scheduled to depart at 9 pm left at 10.45
Home Minister @AmitShah who has chosen not to speak in house on security breach is raising a very important criminal procedure code reform bill (to be renamed Bharatiya Nyay sanhita) for passage with 97 opposition LS MPs suspended (2 more today). NINE SEVEN, NINETY SEVEN! Among them likes of @ShashiTharoor@ManishTewari@supriya_sule@SaugataRoyMP (many others) who can scarcely be MPs who anyone would even remotely suggest deserve suspension. Important legislation that will have HUGE ramifications for generations to come deserves serious debate, not reflex action suspension. LS speaker should have made the effort to bring both sides together instead of wielding the stick so readily . Dangerous precedents being set. Think.