Leftist?😊 there is no left or right when it comes to food, only the centre of the plate! Jiyo aur jeene do is India’s culinary motto: never step into someone’s kitchen/plate and yes, do reach out to the hungry. . (by the way, most of TN (and India) is non veg! )🙏
If Karnataka uses its own money to feed and support its own unemployed and poor, Hindutva calls it freebies
If Karnataka’s money is used by the PM for rations of 81 cr poor - mostly in UP, MP etc - Hindutva calls it a masterstroke
If a densely populated city in the Global South receives 500 mm of rain in 24 hours, like Madras did, it’s going to flood. That’s not in question.
The question is: should we send so much of our tax money to Uttar Pradesh when our own lives are in such peril?
Let me add a last disclaimer and go off X for a while.
Europe has failed to keep its Jewish identity because of the Holocaust, of which the back-reaction was not felt by the Germans but by the Palestinians. Europeans should have acted in a way to protect the holocaust survivors
Conversation I had recently:
Me: “His total comp is around $750k/yr, he’s doing fantastic.”
Other person: “Yeah but that’s in the Bay Area where cost of living is high, so that’s not very much.”
…Living in the bay area is very expensive, but it’s not *that* expensive.