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Sanghis who insist that we only got our independence on 2014 are suddenly very angry at people who post "are we really independent?" types of posts on 15th August claiming that it insults the freedom fighters
When the country doesn’t have easily accessible public libraries, piracy is sometimes the only option. They’ve been collaborating with the police to arrest poor street vendors and small book shop owners. Evil, just evil
speaking this way about a minor is far more disgusting than anything she could've ever said against narendra modi.
the kind of campaign that the andhbhakts launched against her is vile, are you aware that treating a literal child this way is punishable under pocso? furthermore, there wasn't even anything wrong or punishable about what she said. is narendra modi above the law? is he above accountability and dissent? is he beyond the scope of free speech?
It's highly appreciated that someone finally spoke about that so called innocent minor girl.
Till date, all gutterchaap नर और मादा cockroaches have proudly circulated her reel across social media, with captions suggesting that she had “nailed Modi” by abusing him....
But I completely echo your concerns, and I thank you for speaking about the rights of minors.
Now the question arises: who brought this so-called minor girl to the protest site—a place where, according to claims, 958 individuals, including murderers, rapists, and POCSO offenders, were identified through the FRS system and confirmed by the Delhi Police?
And how many minor girls were present at the protest site alongside these alleged offenders?
I think there should be an immediate arrest of Abhijeet Dipke along with all नर और मादा cockroach for bringing minor girls to Jantar Mantar, particularly in the presence of individuals with serious criminal records had already been identified.
Yes, you are absolutely right. There must be accountability.
All the नर और मादा cockroaches who made this so called innocent minor girl viral by repeatedly sharing a video of her allegedly abusive remarks must also be held accountable for their role in amplifying such content involving a minor.
the irony of talking about abuse while calling an entire section of society "gutterchaap" seems to be lost on you, but that's not surprising.
now to talk about your claim of offenders being on site: not only is this just blatant whataboutism, it is also utterly unsubstantiated. yes, "the criminals" identified via state-sponsored surveillance by our extremely reliable, very efficient AFRS, whose last recorded assessment by the High Court came back with a grand total of 1% accuracy, struggling to correctly differentiate basic things such as gender among children.
and what exactly is this statistic trying to prove anyway? NCRB recorded an average of 86 reported rape cases daily in India, not considering the fact that the National Family Health Survey (NFHS) estimates that over 90% of sexual assaults go unreported. one would be as safe walking on the streets of this country as they would be at jantar mantar. you're saying this in a country where about 151 MPs and MLAs have declared cases of serious sexual offences against women (oftentimes multiple offences), and that's just the women who were brave enough to speak out about it. women are not even safe in their own homes.
secondly, yes ofc we should book abhijit dipke instead because he was the one who leaked the private details of a 15-year-old child, wasn't he? oh wasn't he the one who openly declared a prize for anyone who could track down a minor? he must be among the thousands of incel sanghis sending her rape threats, then?
cjp hosted an open protest, and those who wanted to express their dissent against the government voluntarily joined. i'm not sure what is meant by "bringing minor girls to jantar mantar", you make him sound like he was trafficking minors to appear at the protest site.
ps: crazy, you only care about women in this context. might i ask you what you think of brijbhushan sharan singh?
Nothing. Just putting this here so everyone can point and laugh at "Abhijeet Dipke should be booked under POCSO because a teenager participated in a protest organised by him." Splendid. Slow claps. Amazed by this sheer and proudly displayed absence of any brain cells. No intelligent lifeform found in that sentence.
Some people still haven't got the memo that Hindutva or Hindu nationalism is a movement or an ideology that was born from the advocacy of some highly educated people who sought to unite Hindus against a real existential threat that at the time wasn't merely physically attacking Hindus but also legally tried to disenfranchise Hindus. It is thanks to those "Hindu nationalists" that you as an Indian with a Hindu name (even if you're an atheist / non-believer / anti-hindutva / secular) have a country to call yours.
Imagine being a psychopath who thinks that bringing up the roots of someone who's part of a genocided Hindu minority group is a gotcha. Don't they know that Indian Hindutva nationalists would rather support a pro-Hindu person from literally anywhere else over an Ajmal Kasab apologist Indian wannabe leftist? Lol
“hindutva saved you because you’re hindu” is genuinely one of the most historically illiterate flexes i’ve ever seen 😭
bitch saved me from WHAT??
india did not get independence because some rss uncle spawned in 1925 and said “dw guys i got this.” the freedom struggle was fought by literally millions of indians across congress, revolutionaries, communists, socialists, workers, students, peasants, dalits, adivasis, women, minorities etc.
and the organised hindutva movement does not get to steal that credit retroactively.
the hindu mahasabha literally participated in governments with the muslim league. savarkar's politics during wwii involved cooperation with the british war effort and recruitment/militarisation rather than joining the congress-led mass struggle. the quit india movement happened and the hindutva organisations were not exactly standing at the front screaming angrezon bharat chhodo.
and here's another little historical detail these people mysteriously develop amnesia about:
the rss didn't even regularly hoist the indian tricolour at its headquarters for decades.
the nagpur headquarters only began regularly hoisting the tricolour on independence day and republic day much later. for years, the organisation's relationship with the national flag was so fucking weird that you could apparently be the self-appointed guardian of “nationalism” while treating the actual national flag like an unwanted guest.
then independence happens and suddenly everyone discovers they were apparently the founding fathers of india 😭
what did you actually build?
the constitution? no.
indian citizenship? no.
universal adult franchise? no.
the anti-colonial mass movement? no.
the republic? no.
and when hindu society itself desperately needed reform, suddenly the great defenders of hindu civilisation became allergic to reform.
hindu code bill comes along to give hindu women stronger inheritance, marriage and property rights and conservative hindu organisations go ERM ACTUALLY THIS IS AN ATTACK ON HINDU CULTURE 🤓☝️
untouchability and caste oppression exist and somehow the people screaming about saving hindu civilisation aren't exactly leading the fucking revolution against the hierarchy inside hindu society.
because apparently “protect hindu civilisation” means protecting the civilisation from women getting rights.
and politically, the record is repeatedly less “protect indian national interests” and more “protect our ideological interests, india be damned.”
colonial rule? cooperation when convenient.
quit india? not their mass movement.
muslim league? apparently coalition partner when politically useful.
hindu social reform? suddenly civilisation is collapsing because women might inherit property.
indian tricolour? apparently too spicy for the headquarters for decades.
then gandhi gets murdered by a hindu nationalist.
nathuram godse was a hindu nationalist who murdered gandhi, had been associated with the hindu mahasabha and savarkar, and the independent indian government subsequently banned the rss.
so forgive me if i don't start crying about how these people personally handed me my country.
caste-oppressed hindus? apparently also hindustani enough to be told to shut the fuck up.
and then you have the audacity to tell me, an indian national, that i supposedly owe my country to your ideology?
girl please.
you live in a western secular country and want to cosplay as the constitutional architect of india from the safety of another fucking continent 😭
if you want a hindu nation so badly, wonderful. advocate for it in your home country. go make bangladesh a hindu rashtra for all i care.
but don't come crawling with this “hindutva gave you india” bullshit.
india is not an rss family heirloom.
you people keep demanding credit for a house you didn't build while spending half your time trying to set the fucking furniture on fire.
and im jus gonna leave this: the "kasab apologist" nonsense
Komuram Bheemudo: "Make that bastard kneel now!" Part 2/?
Hey! Hey! Hey! Remember how the whole point of the public flogging was to make Bheem kneel?
Who am I kidding? We are reminded of it constantly throughout the flogging
Ram's failed attempt #1
Ram's failed attempt #2
This bitchiest bitch to ever bitch
Ram's failed attempt #3
This asshole dickfuck vomitted straight out of hell
Ram's failed attempt #4
And in the end, Bheem has his way. He falls, but he does not kneel. They break him, but they cannot be bend him. They can command him, threaten him, brutalize him, but they cannot subdue him. He is the tiger, he cannot be tamed.
But!
BUT!
BUT!
You know what detail makes me go absolutely feral is interesting?
Bheem is not the one who kneels after the flogging.
RAM DOES!
RAM IS THE ONE WHO IS BROUGHT TO HIS KNEES AT THE END OF THE FLOGGING!!!
And I don't even mean this in a metaphorical sense (though that one is true as well)
Ram. Is. Physically. Kneeling. Beside. Bheem. I cannot stress this enough.
This is a KEY moment in the movie. It's a turning point.
We know that seeing the unarmed civilians rising up against the armed British forces in the wake of Bheem's defiance is what spurs Ram to finally, FINALLY arrive at his epiphany. His idea of what a revolution is and how it can be achieved is too narrow, too rigid, too costly. The sacrifices are too many and at what point will the ends justify the means?
But to change his viewpoint (again both literally and metaphorically), RAM HAS TO BEND FIRST! Once Ram bends, only then can he finally SEE!
And what is it that makes Ram bend? It's his LOVE FOR BHEEM! His love for Bheem changes him.
So these, that is, the shots where Ram is SEEING a revolution, an actual revolution in action, sparked by nothing more than Bheem's song and his indomitable spirit....
....come AFTER these shots. Where Ram is compelled by his love for Bheem to bend down and kneel
Compare this with Ram's introduction scene.
There is a revolution going on. People show up in front of a police station on the outskirts of Delhi to protest the arrest of Lala Lajpat Rai, a prominent Indian political figure, in Kolkata, armed with nothing more than torches, flags, and their righteous anger.
Ram watches the revolution. But he does not SEE it. He is so focused on his distant goal that he is blind to what is right in front of him. What is literally staring at him in the eye.
So, what does Ram do with his myopic worldview? He quashes the revolution. He stamps out the very thing he is fighting for. He breaks the spirit of the revolution, the spirit of the people, and he watches stone-faced as the protesters limp away, defeated. All because he cannot SEE the revolution for what it is.
So, with these two scenes in mind, we understand that this is not the first time Ram has witnessed a revolution. The people's uprising in the wake of Bheem's torture is nothing new to him. He has watched it all before, has actively participated in snuffing it out even.
The only factor that changes between these two scenes is the presence of Bheem..... and Ram's love for him. It's Ram's love for Bheem that bends his inflexible worldview. It's Ram's love for Bheem that makes him take a step back and actually see the true meaning of revolution. It's Ram's love for Bheem that shifts his perspective. It's Ram's love for Bheem that makes Ram willingly give up a 15 year long mission he has been toiling endlessly for.
Love is THE MOST powerful force in RRR. No amount of pain, grief, anger, heartbreak, trauma, brutality or violence can wipe it out. It is love that shines and love that emerges victorious. And after the flogging, Ram's love for Bheem is the most powerful driving force in his life, more powerful than a lifelong mission, more powerful than a promise made among tears and blood.
The visual storytelling and symbolisms in this movie are insane. I am going to scream about them for the next 80 years.
@luxshine No, but here's the thing! Bheem never sees Ram BEGGING him to kneel because Bheem makes it a point to not look at Ram's eyes during the flogging 😃 Just like Ram refused to look Bheem in the eyes during the betrayal 😃
So, Bheem thinks it's a cruel order, a sick powerplay from Ram when it's actually a desperate plea 😃 I. Am. Not. Fine 😃
I mean, I'm sure that even if he had seen Ram in the eye (Although he does, while singing, and throwing the biggest 'fuck you' not just to the British Raj but to RAM specifically) and understood what Ram was trying to do thanks to their weird telepathy, he still wouldn't have kneeled.
Because he had a THING TO PROVE. And he did. With his own blood. And we all love him for that.
Oh, definitely. If anything, I believe it would have made Bheem even more defiant. Like no, you made your choice, Ram. And now I am going to make mine. You will NOT make me kneel
now more than ever, we need the power of friendship and the magic of storytelling. but not the disney shit. i’m talking about the raw, animalistic gumption to fight god
(The post flogging scenario has a lovely parallel to the reward Bitchy McBitchface offered to Ram for finding the Gond Protector. Because, if he allows Bheem to die, he'll be rewarded with the bounty he's worked for all these years. However, if he allows Bheem to live, he'll be promoted to a slightly less shitty human being before shuffling off this mortal coil).
(For once in his miserable life, this cretin makes the right choice).