Thus Spake Shevek

film. literature. history. politics. culture. philosophical rona dhona in desi cinema.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Those who are great, and those who aspire greatness, live through a struggle against the world. The insignificant individual is sustained by the general insignificance of life itself.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

First, RW degenerates create this perception that LW/communism wants people to remain stuck in poverty and precarity. Then, they attack every leftist/communists for things like phone, vehicle, even traveling abroad. Delusion is not a problem with RW, it is their state of being.

[R a h u l ✨ @Rahul_Speak]

কৌটো নাড়িয়ে ঘুরতে আসা ইতালিতে আমাদের গরিব শ্রমজীবী নেত্রী ।
লাল সেলাম কৌটো নেত্রী @DharDipsita

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Cockroach or monkey, we are in for the revolutionary work.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Trivia: even if you just replaced ‘Pakistan’ with ‘India’ there, it would still be a legit statement.

[Randhir Jaiswal @MEAIndia]

India lodges strong protest regarding holding of “General Elections” in “Gilgit-Baltistan”

🔗 https://t.co/J3YFXQrSBh

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Hitler was a socialist in the same way Modi was a chaiwala and MA in Entire Political Science.

[Paresh Rawal @SirPareshRawal]

Hitler was a socialist.
So all socialist are Hitler .
A Madhavan logic !

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

@amlankiron Only if it had some precedent in recent times. The same we expected with mob companies, now all of them keep increasing charges as they wish and, even after 5G, network problems persist in cities too. State electricity should have been more, but that’s never happening with BJP.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

BJP bringing one after another UP-made development to Kolkata. Power cut every day for many hours in most parts of the city. CESC and state electricity all the same.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

@amlankiron well, this whole week from south, port to even maniktala, beleghata, day, night, hours and hours. saw people sleeping on footpaths about bengal chemical metro last night due to blackout there.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

‘so, is the driver Najmul Hassan in the room with us right now?’

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

My driver Najmul Hassan answers me when I ask why is kolkata so empty — he said ( his words) “ didi, the Bangladeshis have gone - they would squat and crowd .. so kolkata is emptier now”

[NDTV India @ndtvindia]

🔴#BREAKING | सूत्रों के हवाले से बड़ी खबर: पटना गोलीकांड में खान सर की गिरफ्तारी के लिए पुलिस ने स्पेशल टीम गठित की। जांच की जिम्मेदारी DIU को सौंपी गई है। सूत्रों का दावा है कि देर रात किसी भी समय खान सर की गिरफ्तारी हो सकती है।

#Patna #KhanSir

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Well, we know that even Modi was not elected in 2024.

[Lt Gen DP Pandey @LtGenDPPandey]

Aurangzeb was elected?? Missing him already? These are intellectuals that led India for decades. No shame to feel about an external rule?? Who are these people??

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

This is why Marx did the wholesale thrashing of the progressive Hegelian Left on the Jewish question. All this boohooing while a group of Hindus can do bhajan on the train/airport, aarti in hospitals, and a Muslim praying silently in the same place would attract a police case.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

India being a Hindu majority country is by default a Hindu ‘friendly’ country. This level of false equivalence and victim complex of the majoritarian was not there even in the pre-nazi era anti-semite discourse of European nations.

[pallavi ghosh @_pallavighosh]

Islam friendly gym in palakkad ! Whatever this means - and if there are Hindu friendly gyms - it will become an issue

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

With the spectacle of TMC dissolution, BJP-proxy media has already changed the public discourse. Prior narratives of cases against TMC leaders have disappeared. ED/CBI notices to Abhishek/Mamata may continue, while BJP gives free pass to the rest. Poriborton ft. washing machine.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

‘Non-ideological’ is a sorry euphemism for being a status quoist, and ‘money’ is the most ideological thing that there is, the most appropriated tool and medium of the capitalist architecture. And, status quoists have always been a party to oppressive and exploitative structures.

[Rahul Pandita @rahulpandita]

The problem is not Modi, the problem is not journalists simping for him. The problem is people who thinking simping for Rahul Gandhi (or any politician) is kosher.

There was a man once who’d help edit videos of the wife of a Congress leader. You’ll be surprised at what he has become today. Tomorrow, if the Congress comes back, he will be making those videos again.

We now have a huge spectrum of non-ideological supporters of Modi (in journalism and in cinema and elsewhere) who have understood that it is a good time to make money. They have kept their pride in their bank locker and go about creating their portfolios.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

‘justice’ is when a child murderer has his house bulldozed by a govt famous for letting children die in the hospital by not ensuring oxygen supply.

[Tavleen Singh @tavleen_singh]

I oppose bulldozer justice but would like to see Yogi Adityanath use it to punish the man who in full public view killed a baby by bashing its head on the street repeatedly. He said he did this because the baby’s mother refused to marry him.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

well, nothing new about it.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

Irony is Ram Guha is a most ideal Congressi ever though. Liberalism eating own shit aint new; it's called internal contradictions.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

they have continuously jeopardized rahul’s progressive initiatives and standing, whether it is on economic front or majoratarianism and communal hate spread by rss-bjp against minorities esp muslims. he could either continue to be relied on them, or build his parallel base.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

even if one goes by the argument that rahul gandhi is forcing a unity of thought/party line within congress, the sad reality is that among old folks of congress, most are feudal, highly rss-indoctrinated, consequently unreliable by default in the present political reality.

[Hartosh Singh Bal @HartoshSinghBal]

this is common knowledge and common talk within the cong, but they know nothing can be done, so they want this not to be said outside the party, perpetuating the problem. the last thing rahul tolerates is someone with a differing opinion, hence the yespersons & incompetents.

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

@syedFZmehadi @Panditcasm 😂 idhr hi hun maalik

[Thus Spake Shevek @writingback]

the boy was disappointed with exam scams, but sanghis are forcing him to call out all the scams. hell hath no fury like a high schooler scorned.

[Sarthak Sidhant @sidhant_sarthak]

@_svs_ why is ashwini vaishnav still the rail minister after some of the worst accidents?
why is amit shah still the home minister after manipur?
why is narendra modi still the prime minister after whatever is happening in india?