The optics
Release a (muted) video where he is sermonizing everyone. Hand gestures & all. Everyone looking at him with awe & dedication. No one else shown saying anything, like in front of God
Objective of the optics: he is in control, he is the smartest, he is working v hard
Muted cabinet video. Modi speaking, everyone listening. Optics they are trying hard to push: strong leader, hardest worker, smartest person in the room.
For all we know, he might just be explaining his dhokla recipe.
Reducing human existence to rank lists in an equally faulty education system only be defeated by a larger and broken ecosystem, is sucha deep rooted structural flaw that should be called out more.
This country tells students: 'One exam decides ur future.'
Then repeatedly fails to protect that exam. #NEET
Wrote this for every exhausted student surviving caffeine, pressure, panic attacks and the great Indian academic circus.
"Exam-pocalypse Now" ⬇️
https://t.co/comIoZmQKJ
I just spent some time with this visitor to Bengaluru. That his spine is straighter than mine may not be entirely due to the difference in age.
@kunalkamra88
If you’re unemployed, you’re basically the ideal citizen in Narendra Modi’s vision of the country: you stay home and save petrol, you don’t have money to buy gold or travel abroad, and since you’re jobless, no one’s planning a big destination wedding with you either. And because you’re always at home, you can keep watching TV news channels, which helps him by distracting people from monitoring or questioning what’s being posted and removed on the internet.
Narendra Modi’s funda is simple:
– If it’s about duty, Indians should do it
– if it’s about responsibility, Nehru did it
– if it’s about credit, Modi did it
Abusing Modi Ji for being stupid, lacking foresight, and not planning ahead is easy especially when you don’t know what’s really happening behind the scenes.
So, before making any critical comments please wait for Dhurandhar 3 to find the reason for why it was done.
15 sociologists who understood society before society understood itself:
1. Karl Marx : the system does not just exploit your labor, it shapes your desires too so that you never stop labouring
2. Max Weber : modern life while chasing systematic existence traps people inside invisible cages called rules, efficiency, and routine
3. Émile Durkheim : loneliness is not personal failure, it is what happens when society loses cohesion
4. Pierre Bourdieu : your “taste” in music, food, language, culture is an inherited class privilege disguised as choice
5. Michel Foucault : power works best when you think someone is watching you all the time and you start policing yourself without anyone forcing you
6. Erving Goffman : social life is like performing in a theatre, and people are performing different roles in front of different audiences sometimes in front of others as front stage and sometimes in private as back stage
7. Zygmunt Bauman : modern relationships feel fragile because society itself has become unstable and always changing shapes like a liquid
8. C. Wright Mills : your private struggles are often public issues created by larger systems.. so if you are finding it difficult to find a job, it might be less about you and possibly more about how it might be the economy at this moment.. same is with personal struggles with relationships, break ups, divorces, depression, infidelity, meaninglessness.. it’s less about you and more about how the society is at the moment
9. Herbert Marcuse : people can feel free while living inside systems designed to control them
10. Jean Baudrillard : modern society does not consume products, it consumes symbols, images, illusions
11. Antonio Gramsci : the strongest domination is when people voluntarily accept the ideas hurting them
12. George Herbert Mead : your “self” is not born inside you, it is built through interaction with others.. so your image of yourself in your head is how you think others think about you..
13. Talcott Parsons : society survives because millions of people silently perform expected roles every day and agree with what rewards come with those roles
14. Harriet Martineau : you cannot understand a society unless you examine how it treats women and the powerless
15. Ulrich Beck : modern society creates risks so complex.. and society is categorised accordingly on how well one can ward off risk better than others.. and it’s reaching a point that even progress itself starts becoming dangerous
Will share more in coming days and how sociology really makes your life better 😊