Dheeraj DeeKay™

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Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. We are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly.

Martin Luther King Jr.

That is precisely what I have to say on Sonam Wangchuk. Right now the Hindu right wing ecosystem is hyper active spreading lies about Mr Wagchuk trying to discredit him. While I sympathise with him for his fight and cause is just, I cannot in right mind forget his support of Modi government against Kashmiris when the state was divided and people were kept under mass arrest with their movements constrained and their leaders held against their wishes and their democratic rights. Mr Wangchuk all these years has not updated his stand on Kashmiris or their wrongful incarceration.

Same goes for Saurav who's chief spokesman for CJP. He stuttered on question on Umar Khalid and said he is not the issue for him or something on those lines. Khalid was a student when he was arrested. He remains in prison without any trial. How is his wrongful arrest not an issue or issue not worth commenting?

The other guy in their troika had made comments against trans community who happens to be the most marginalized people already.

Hope they understand why they have not had the support of masses at large. A movement should be clear of injustices done to anyone. Try to think of farmers protest and why they enjoyed widespread support.

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Rivers, Forests, Women: How The Hindu Society Often Defiles And Destroys What It Claims to Love And Revere

There are always a dozen ways to look at things. Some of those ways lead to change that is beneficial to larger people and some to inaction and continued benefit of few. The ongoing project or rather ghastly movement to cut as many trees as possible, to clear as much forest land as possible remains one such thing which is being looked at and discussed in very many ways. But from most discussions,…

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And They Called Faiz an Unbeliever, an Atheist, a Communist and All Sorts Of Names

And They Called Faiz an Unbeliever, an Atheist, a Communist and All Sorts Of Names

The title is a comment under Sabhi Kuch Hai Tera Diya Hua Ghazal sung by Iqbal Bano and penned by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Iqbal Bano has sung selec

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It's quite interesting don't you think how until we had a non Hindu govt we were concerned about corruption and bribes, a train accident and we would demand resignation of railway minister, a terror attack would mean home minister would have to lose his job, any rape allegation and the minister would have to step down including removed from party etc etc but ever since we were blessed with the Hindu govt, suddenly this country - it appears the whole set of people also got replaced. We had record number of railway accidents, record number of terror attacks including in capital, record number of corruption, crony capitalism and conflict of interest allegations, rape allegations even from Olympic medal winners, minister's convoys killing farmers under their four wheelers, bridges falling and so on but no accountability from govt. Nobody losing any job. Forget about arrest and such.

Tells you something about the religion and religious people doesn't it?

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Arundhati Roy on Religious Nationalism, Dissent, and the Battle Between Myth and History

“Our hopes have been cauterized, our imaginations infected.”

https://lithub.com/arundhati-roy-on-religious-nationalism-dissent-and-the-battle-between-myth-and-history/

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So Deewar was Bollywood propaganda because Amitabh Bachchan said he does not believe in God inside a temple while wearing 786 on his arm...

The biggest anti Hindu propaganda then was Ramayana where villain Ravana was shown as a great Brahmin who is also made to be biggest Shiva devotee and then to add more insult he is made to rape some celestial lady and later he was shown abducting Sita. It was out and out propaganda to defile Brahmins and to show Hindu god in bad light.

Aditya Dhar should be made to write new epics surely.

*Amitabh isn't hero of the film and even dies later. Shashi Kapoor in fact is the good guy who does to temple regularly etc. But why let facts come in your way.

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She doesn't want to be your hero. It's worthless for any of us to lionize her if we aren't doing anything concrete to end capitalism or genocide in our own lives.

Her whole intent in being arrested by Israel twice was not for you to focus on her, it's to draw attention, and preferably action, to the causes she's fighting for.

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Also 'survival of the fittest' is a process that is supposed to render an entire species better at living in their environment, allowing ultra-rich do-nothings to arbitrarily starve the people who do the actual work is not a survival strategy it's suicide

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How do people in tech not understand the basics of AI. Wrt coding these models are trained on code that's available online. Large part of it is a bad code, junk. Like anything in the world. Most of it would be average and below average the large mass of it. AI does not have a mind of its own. More the merrier means junk is good. It generates bad code, too many lines for something can be achieved in few readable lines. And the code is hard to follow.

I mean people take some time to understand their own code after an year, how will they make sense of this thoughtless junk after an year?

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Wrt former chief of Indian Army Naravane's book that Narendra Modi govt does not want published or known to public - Indian public especially the core Hindu vote base of RSS-BJP - do they trust Indian army or not? Or do they believe in their daddy more than Indian army?

Where do their loyalties lie? Indian army or daddy supreme? And what is their definition of nationalism and nationalist? Is it to stand behind Indian armed forces or daddy prime who regularly finds supporting rapists and murderers?

Indian army or rapists? Guess which will the Hindu vote base choose?

What religion do supporters of Ram Rahim and Asaram belong to? Those who garlanded rapists of Bilkis Bano, what religion do they belong? VHP which platformed them, who does it claim to represent? The Bajrang Dal that vandalized churches, what religion does it represent? Do Hindus look at VHP, Bajrang Dal, RSS members with disdain and shame? No. Why's that? How do they tolerate rapists and murderers? What motivates them in not feeling any shame?

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And They Called Faiz an Unbeliever, an Atheist, a Communist and All Sorts Of Names

The title is a comment under Sabhi Kuch Hai Tera Diya Hua Ghazal sung by Iqbal Bano and penned by Faiz Ahmad Faiz. Iqbal Bano has sung select verses from Faiz’s ghazal. Full ghazal and its English translation are below. The translation is from me and is of course not perfect or anywhere close to poetic brilliance of Faiz but is only offered for those who don’t understand Urdu and can get some…

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India Is Exploding With Illegal Infiltrators As Per Union Government; How Incompetent Are Indian Armed Forces Really? And Why Are They Allowed To Still Draw Their Salaries?

As per the Indian government, India is teeming with infiltrators (ghuspaithi). These illegal people have entered across India in Bihar, Jharkhand, Bengal, Kerala and so on. And they are in large numbers. They, as per the Home Minister, the Prime Minister and other important people in the Indian government, come from Bangladesh, Pakistan and elsewhere. They are, according to the Indian government…

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So many of the Indigo flights yesterday were delayed 9 hours or so only to eventually get cancelled. Imagine being at airport for all those hours plus two hours more for all the unnecessary checking.

Many complained how they were not even offered water to drink.

This is not the first time nor will it be the last time.

Problem is two pronged. One of course is the government end of it where we do not have laws or rules for these situations. All laws from banking to mobile networks to air travel are for safekeeping the companies. For every small mistake there's law to punish the customer. Low balance? Fine. Flight date change? Pay due. You can't even receive calls now when your data pack ends. There are no plans without data just to receive messages or calls. But is there a law to punish companies for never working ATMs? Flight delays? Cancelations at last time? Bad seats? Food? No network or bad connections? No no no.

Other is market part of it. Usually if there's competition in market then companies fear bad service and so they do their job well for fear of losing customers. But Modi govt since it arrived has been favoring just select corporate houses killing competitors one by one. Imagine the number of mobile operators during Congress time? They're all gone. This govt even killed BSNL to favor jio. Same story with airlines and with banks in name of nationalization they've killed many local banks like Syndicate bank etc.

This is same Hindi, Hindu, Hindustan one nation one everything policy because less diversity makes for easy control. India's strength lies in more diversity. Less diverse we get, more prone to all kinds of anti-people attacks.

Clock has long ticked for meaningful reset. But as Arundhati Roy said, 'We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.'

There's still hope provided we agree that there's a problem, ailment, disease to cure.

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Our strategy should be not only to confront empire, but to lay siege to it. To deprive it of oxygen. To shame it. To mock it. With our art, our music, our literature, our stubbornness, our joy, our brilliance, our sheer relentlessness – and our ability to tell our own stories. Stories that are different from the ones we’re being brainwashed to believe.

The corporate revolution will collapse if we refuse to buy what they are selling – their ideas, their version of history, their wars, their weapons, their notion of inevitability.

Remember this: We be many and they be few. They need us more than we need them.

Another world is not only possible, she is on her way. On a quiet day, I can hear her breathing.

Arundhati Roy, War Talk

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My name is cow

And wen is cold

I stand outside

To lik the snow

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America is the reason why many natives do not want to live in their birth countries, for instance it is American weapon and money that's making Palestinians seek refuge outside their lands. Or many countries which are devastated by US directly or by its puppet states like Israel.

If you don't want immigrants and refugees, stop orchestrating situations that make living in home countries precarious.