Shinjini | Modern Gypsy @shinjini@mastodon.social

@TheDonkeySays

Even if we only consider votes polled, with the sheer number of candidates per seat, it's very difficult for any candidate or party to say they got the popular vote. If they do, they're just being uneducated idiots.

Majority seats != Majority votes

@KayKap @shinjini @Iwalkalone @musafir @Poonamsharma

@wabbster @KayKap @shinjini @Iwalkalone @musafir @Poonamsharma Exactly my logic when bhakts say majority government. I remind them that maybe 75% people probably had voting rights, out of which maybe 10% of that 75 didn't get to vote for xyz reasons, then of those maybe 66% vote, and of those who voted only 38% gave them vote. So it's basically 17% of voters who voted for them and 83% voted against them.

@TheDonkeySays They are doing it; hard hitting questions are being asked. The only thing the Congress is not obliging the Peee by getting openly involved in the protests; if it does, protests will lose the power that day itself This is not a Peee vs. congress battle, this is a Peee Vs. Common People battle...And for others, RW media is not reporting... PG, Chidu, all of them are going hammer & tongs, from grassroots also, local media chk karo..@shinjini @Iwalkalone @musafir @Poonamsharma

@shinjini Has always been a bubbling cauldron, esp on the Hindu-Muslim front, but has also been the leading light in communal harmony. Disparate threads did you say. That is UP; when politicians play, it gets played but when sanity returns... oh man, there is no state more beautiful, proud and glorious than UP... it has to wake up again... it will... akhir pet pe laat kab tak sahega @TheDonkeySays @Iwalkalone @musafir @Poonamsharma

@shinjini Stirring the pot only works for so long... and the backlash is very strong, acche se acchon ko rulata hai toh yeh do kya hain. Aur Hindi heartland unfortunately is quite fickle, the moment yogi goes and action is taken against him... yeh sab bheegi chuhe banege @TheDonkeySays @Iwalkalone @musafir @Poonamsharma

@shinjini @Iwalkalone @KayKap @TheDonkeySays I am really sorry for spamming you all with this quote again and again and again. But this is really relevant and appropriate for the times we are living in.

“It is possible that they may lose the battle. But sometimes resistance is not a matter of choice. Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battlefield.”

~ Ravish Kumar

@Iwalkalone The protests are not slowing down. The spontaneous ones are now converting into sit-ins and more organised ones. And the media cannot cover them like they should.

"Dear Delhi Police, We Too Have Kids"

~ #ShaheenBagh Protesters to Delhi Police

https://www.ndtv.com/india-news/shaheen-bagh-protesters-dear-delhi-police-we-too-have-children-shaheen-bagh-protesters-reply-to-cops-2167381

#ShaheenBaghProtest #NewDelhi #CAA_NRC #CAAProtests #India

RT @AsimAli6@twitter.activitypub.actor
My piece arguing that people vote for Modi mainly because of long term ideological shift towards majoritarianism & not because the alternative is Rahul G (contra Guha, Komireddi etc). Even if RG were to disappear tomrw, things likely won't be better(1/4)

https://theprint.in/opinion/even-if-you-take-rahul-gandhi-out-of-politics-the-idea-of-india-wont-spring-back-to-life/352462/

RT @JamunKaPed@twitter.activitypub.actor
Our latest: Perhaps, a reminder is needed for those dismissing the anti-CAA protests as gimmicks. India's most vulnerable have taken to the streets to protect it's holiest book. The Constitution of India.

What are the rest of you protecting?

The fediverse is a public forum.

Your posts are only as secure as the admins of every instance that your home server federates with, in terms of private and followers-only messages.

If you're going to talk about sensitive information, keep it to Signal or other secure 1-on-1 channels.

Assume that everything you post to the fediverse, is being scooped up by multiple gov agencies around the world.

The Milan scrape was only notable because they made their findings public.

If a university scraping feeds did it, it's safe to assume other, bigger organizations have been doing it for much longer.

The revolution is here
https://www.indiatoday.in/india/story/shaheen-bagh-women-send-defamation-notice-to-bjp-it-cell-chief-amit-malviya-over-paid-protest-charge-1638598-2020-01-20

Education, real education, exposes one to cultures that are outside the comfort zone of their society - those little differences that make caste, color, race, gender, sexuality, nationality seem less important - makes one question the established norms that make oppression seem "natural".

That's the only reason for dictators, riding on 'othering' propaganda, to hate not just educated people but, the idea of true education itself.

Their ignorance fuels their insecurity, which fuels their rage!

RT @angshukanta@twitter.activitypub.actor
My name is Bond. Electoral Bond. I work undercover. The public ain't my lover. The Executive hatched me. The Judiciary patched me. I'm the grease in the Prime Minister's palm. I'm the silence in the corporate calm. https://twitter.com/TheLeaflet_in/status/1219134303952502790

Listen Folks!
Go read this. Smile! Feel hope! Thank me later!

https://moderngypsy.in/2020/01/20/art-journal-desolate-hope/

@shinjini

We are told to choose and move to any of the Muslim nations of our choice. But why should we? We didn’t move, even in 1947, when we had a chance, we chose to stay back in India as a secular nation.

India is where we belong and we are NOT going anywhere.

https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/blogs/barracks-beyond/the-m-word-muslims-modi-and-my-motherland/

@sanjayuvacha @shinjini @TheDonkeySays

I am buying this book tonight itself.
Just found this online.
https://www.thehindubusinessline.com/blink/read/sadhus-akharas-and-sacred-games/article28096621.ece

I'm hosting the Open Mic tonight 7-9PM at The Habitat, Khar West, Mumbai. Bring me your love odes, your breakup blues, your protest rhymes, your rhythmic angst - I want to hear it all!

The kiddo reciting Rahat Sahab's 'Kisi Ke Baap Ka Hindostan Thodi Hai' will make your day! Here is yet another version of @Varungrover 's #HumKagazNahiDikhayenge

https://youtu.be/-RrjBRve5Cg