Win for Indian women.
A deeply misogynistic society that hates women from the moment they’re born until the day they die doesn’t deserve their reproductive labour.
I visited the southernmost tip of India.
I stood at Indira Point. I walked under trees that have stood for centuries. I dove into coral reefs among the most vibrant on earth.
And I sat with the people who live there. Tribal communities, whose land is being taken away by violating the Forest Rights Act. Settlers, many of them former soldiers, placed on these islands by the Indian government, who aren’t getting fair compensation.
The Modi government and BJP tells you Great Nicobar Project is about defence. It is not.
Expand INS Baaz - we will back the government fully. The Navy has been asking for expansion for five years - it has been ignored.
They tell you it is about a transhipment port. It is not. India is already building one in Kerala, which is on the mainland.
What it actually is: 1.5 crore trees felled. Coral reefs erased from official maps. Soldiers and tribals displaced - so one businessman can build hotels and casinos on India’s most irreplaceable ecological land.
Every young Indian I have spoken to understands this. You know that no amount of profit is worth destroying what can never be recovered.
I stand for ecologically balanced development. These islands can be the most extraordinary sustainable destination the world has ever seen. That is the India worth fighting for.
#GreenOverGreed
#NicobarMatters
#WorldEnvironmentDay
Guys I’m thinking 6th ko jail jaake aayein. We all already know there’s going to police and perhaps even some arrests when @Cockroachisback protests. No?
I asked an influencer how she gets killer monetisation (min 15 deals/mo) and she told me she bought followers and sustained engagement (10m/mo) and pays for them every month. It’s not cheap (60k/mo) but she’s making 8-10l on the deals so it’s a biz expense. Sab moh maaya hai 😵💫😵💫
Any tom, dick n harry walks in.. says "your culture is great" we get excited.. it does not matter who said it or what evidence backs it... as long as the claim flatters us and pushes the timeline further back, we accept it without question.
'Pashupati Seal' - the name was given by John Marshall, the original excavator, who identified the central figure as a "proto-Shiva" in 1931 and we proudly accepted.
Since the 1970s, serious scholars have dismantled almost every part of Marshall's reading... some don't agree with most of what he said...
the academic consensus today is simple. We DO NOT KNOW who this figure is.. we may never know until the script is read.
Still we made sure it is called 'Pashupati'
Why - cos it suits us.. it feels good.. it feels like proof.
The prob is not even pride in our past..the prob is treating speculation as settled fact. A civilisation confident in itself does not need to lock its history in place. It can sit with uncertainty.
The Indus valley people were sophisticated, urban, n impressive on their own terms.. we don't need to forcefully make them our religion, which is complex and diverse!