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[plaguedoctor049]

Guys, I don't think we won, ' cause, the new education misnister is worse that the prev one.

Also, all the current political parties are filled with goons having multiple F.I.R registered against them.

Manipur is still burning.

Assam is flooded.

People from LGBTQ+ communities are still facing discrimination by both the people and the govt.

Women are still getting k!lled for dowry.

And many more....

[shining-star-in-the-sky]

Joshi has 6 publicly funded FIRs but, he was never convicted because of political power, he defended rapists convicted of gang rape. He is corrupt as fuck did fuck all for the city he was the MP of and will do fuck all for the nation as well.

We just can't win. And people are out there questioning the protests. The media has still not let go off the 20th July(but, they're making students look like monsters)

[plaguedoctor049]

Guys, I don't think we won, ' cause, the new education misnister is worse that the prev one.

Also, all the current political parties are filled with goons having multiple F.I.R registered against them.

Manipur is still burning.

Assam is flooded.

People from LGBTQ+ communities are still facing discrimination by both the people and the govt.

Women are still getting k!lled for dowry.

And many more....

[yaadonmein]

Bharatiya Janta:

“First they came for the Muslims And I did not speak out Because I was not a Muslim Then they came for the Dalits And I did not speak out Because I was not a Dalit Then they came for the trans people And I did not speak out Because I was not a trans person Then they came for the students And I did not speak out Because I was not a student

Then they came for me And there was no one left To speak out for me”

my paraphrased version of one of my favourite poems, the ever-relevant masterpiece written by Niemöller, “First They Came” (original below):

andhbhakts will get their comeuppance. mark my words.

yes it’s about the NEET suicides murders (your govt has STILL done nothing in terms of accountability for them, btw). but to me, and I hope to everyone who cares about this, it’s ALSO about every single murder and killing and injustice that has been perpetrated by the govt since 2014. it’s about every oppressed minority, not just the most visible or recent one. it IS political. it IS about the failings of this cowardly govt and uneducated prime minister. and REAL patriots will agree with this.

Jai Hind. Jai Bhim. Inquilaab Zindabaad. 🇮🇳💙

[dandylion-s]

What's happening in India right now

I know this is not a platform where issues from the global south get any attention, but I'm still going to write about it because it's something I can do. For the past month, young people in India have been protesting the country's education system and demanding the resignation of the education minister, Dharmendra Pradhan, following the leak of the country's medical school entrance exams after which 21 students committed suicide.

Today, 20 July 2026, police in Delhi and Mumbai beat protesters with batons, tear gassed them, shot them with rubber bullets and illegally detained them. Protesters included students, children, young people including young women whose clothes were torn, and people of all ages.

The Modi government has done this MANY times before. In Kashmir, in Manipur, multiple times in Delhi itself. They are banking on people getting scared and the protest losing steam. I beg you to not let that happen. I'm not a huge account, I don't have thousands of followers. The only thing I can do is speak with the voice I have.

Delhi isn't even the only place they have treated protestors this way TODAY. Police beat up adivasi protesters in Madhya Pradesh who have been trying to protect their land. This protest has gotten significantly less attention but it stems from the same vile nationalist government.

Your reblog or your like may not do anything but it's essential that we keep talking about the Modi government's continued violence against civilians. The government uses its pet media machinery and the armed forces as mercenaries for its agendas and to silence people, all while they use our money to enrich themselves and then beat us into submission. Please don't let this happen.

[screwyoubatjokesiscanon]

What has India come to? Where is the accountability? Consequence? What happened to people's rights? To "Democracy"?

Police Brutality. Expired Tear gas. Lathi's with iron nails. Adults, students and children were beaten up. People are injured. Those who spoke out are in jail. All for what?

A Peaceful, non-violent, Hunger Strike, with an aim to get Justice for the students -dead and alive- who's entire lives were ruined.

This is just the beginning. If they put this fire out, they'll think they can do anything and no one will be able to stop them.

We cant let this spark for change die out, it needs to be talked about. People need to start caring, because today you might think this doesnt affect you, but then tomorrow when you have to deal with something , it will be too late and there would be no one to stand with you.

Change is possible. Our neighbours in Nepal did it, Bangladesh, Sri Lanka and Indonesia too. Its India's turn now.

News channels arent covering this, but this needs to reach more people.

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

tw // forced displacement, state violence, destruction of indigenous land

there is something happening in madhya pradesh (india) right now that not many people are talking about.

it's called the ken-betwa river linking project. ₹44,605 crore (40 million USD). india's first ever river interlinking project.

the project is being built inside the panna tiger reserve. to make way for the daudhan dam, over 6,000 hectares of protected forest land will be submerged. 12,000 trees have already been felled inside the reserve. estimates for the total number of trees that will be destroyed across the project range from 2.3 million to 6 million. the supreme court's own central empowered committee flagged this. the panna tiger reserve had tigers declared locally extinct in 2005. it took years of work to bring them back. the project will now drown the habitat that recovery was built on. it also threatens the ken gharial (crocodile) sanctuary and critical vulture nesting sites downstream.

22 villages are directly affected in the first phase alone. over 7,000 families. gond and kol adivasi (tribal) communities who have lived on this land for generations, whose entire existence — food, income, culture, identity — is tied to jal, jangal, zameen — water, forest, land. they are being told to leave.

most families have rejected the rehabilitation package. the compensation is below market rate, surveys have discrepancies, and many families have received nothing at all. homes have been demolished during the monsoon season. people are living in the open, in the rain. there are videos of a tribal family sitting among the rubble of their home circulating on social media. the administration says precautions were take but families say they were inside when the walls came down.

when they protested, the government of india filed false criminal cases against them. cut off electricity to villages. demolished schools. and then, on july 19 at 5am, police moved in and forcibly broke up a 17-day sit-in on the banks of the barana river. the protest leader amit bhatnagar, who had been on hunger strike for 11 days, was taken away. the police say he was hospitalised because his health "worsened." (exactly what happened with sonam wangchuk) the protesters say he was detained before he could speak to the media about alleged corruption of ₹400 crore (4 million USD) in the project. the protesters' slogan was: nyay do, ya maar do — give us justice, or kill us.

this is being done in the name of providing water to bundelkhand, a drought-prone region. that's a real problem that deserves a real solution. but the people being displaced are asking something reasonable: show us the surveys. pay us fair rates. give us land for land, not just cash. consult our gram sabhas the way the law requires.

india has some of the most biodiverse forests on earth. the adivasi communities who have protected that land for centuries are not obstacles to development. they are the reason any of it still exists. and they are being evicted, intimidated and arrested so a dam can be built inside a tiger reserve that the government's own courts said should not be touched.

[sxturn-to-mxrs]

to all the non-delhi residents/people who can't join the protest for xyz reason, who are feeling helpless and guilty and don't know what to do: spread the word.

no, seriously, spread the word. there is so much misinformation out there, partly due to the useless indian media channels who are calling protestors fighting for a chance to be heard "terrorists". they're saying that the protestors are committing brutality (like throwing stones) against the police when it is the opposite.

its a police using teargas and batons against teenagers, women and literal children. they're ripping the clothes of the women. people are badly injured. all because our corrupt coward "education" minister cannot take accountability for paper leak which caused over 20 deaths by suicide.

some are trying to derail the protests, calling the protestors "anti-national" and but you have to do your part in ensuring that this revolution isn't over until dharmendra pradhan resigns and the youth of india are heard and acknowledged. it will save the future of the students who are currently preparing/will prepare for similar exams.

spread the videos of the police brutality (save them if you can), write emails to the pmo, and share as much info as you can about the protest; how and why it is happening. speak up; online and also in real life, translate posts/videos, make your own. correct and educate people who are still against this movement. don't let this die out until our government finally listens to its citizens.

don't stop making noise.

[fuckthisshit-ugh]

please read this even if you're not indian. especially if you're not indian.

you've seen the jokes. india is "dirty", indians are "everywhere", why don't they fix their own country. ok. let me tell you why, and what's happening right now while nobody's watching.

first, the history you skipped: britain ruled india for two centuries and drained it. economist utsa patnaik's research estimates around $45 trillion in today's money was taken. the india that got independence in 1947 was one of the poorest countries on earth. every "why is india like this" question starts there. you don't get to profit off a robbery and then mock the crime scene.

now, what's happening RIGHT NOW:

in may the question paper for NEET leaked. that's the national medical entrance exam. over 2.2 million students took it. cancelled. years of studying, families' savings poured into coaching, gone overnight because someone sold the paper. students died by suicide after. these were kids who wanted to be doctors.

and out of that came a protest movement. a gen z group called the cockroach janta party, started by a 30 year old named abhijeet dipke, got 22 million instagram followers within DAYS. they've been doing a sit-in at jantar mantar in delhi demanding education minister dharmendra pradhan resign.

and then there's sonam wangchuk. if you've watched 3 idiots, he's the real engineer the character was based on. built solar schools in ladakh. invented ice stupas so himalayan villages have water. spent his whole life on education. he's 59 and he's been on hunger strike for 17+ days now. reporters went to see him this week and he was too weak to talk. and the troll armies are calling him "anti national" and "foreign funded". a man starving himself for other people's children. that's the thing here, anyone who asks a question is suddenly a traitor.

it's not one incident, it's everywhere you look:

• infrastructure worth thousands of crores failing within months of the ribbon cutting. tunnels collapsing in regions where heavy rain is a guarantee, not a surprise.

• youth unemployment near 10% for ages 15 to 29, 13.6% in cities. in a country of 1.42 billion where more than half the population is young.

• only about the top 3% of indians earn above 10 lakh a year. meanwhile billionaire wealth keeps ballooning and the headlines celebrate it.

• manipur burned for over two years. an ethnic conflict, tens of thousands displaced, and the prime minister barely said the word manipur while it happened.

• journalists raided. critics' houses bulldozed. activists sitting in jail for years without trial under laws like UAPA. our press freedom ranking has cratered.

• even the petrol is a fight now, ethanol blending pushed through while drivers complain about their engines and get no straight answers.

and through all of it, the PM, who came to power on religious polarisation (americans, sound familiar?), travels abroad for photo ops and has not held one single open press conference in over a decade. not one.

what i'm asking:

if you're not indian: share this. our media mostly won't cover any of it because the big outlets are owned by the same billionaires the government serves. the only reason wangchuk's fast is getting any coverage is people refusing to look away.

if you ARE indian: speak up even if you're comfortable. especially if you're comfortable. join the protests. add to this, correct me, translate it. staying quiet is a choice when nothing in this post touches your life.

india is not "dirty". india was robbed, and it's being robbed again, from the inside this time. but it's also the country where a 59 year old will starve for strangers' kids and 22 million young people will rally behind a party literally named after cockroaches, because cockroaches survive everything.

we can still save her. but only loudly.

reblog. share. don't scroll past.

[depsidase]

[creatingblackcharacters]

""...In most major teaching hospitals of New York it was the unwritten policy to do elective hysterectomies on poor Black and Puerto Rican women with minimal indications to train residents." In 1972, medical students at Boston City Hospital (BCH) protested the policy of performing unnecessary hysterectomies on Black women in order to allow residents to practice. The students also complained that experimental procedures, the coercion of patient signatures, and falsifying medical records were common practices amongst Black patients. So did students at Columbia University. The chairman of the BCH OB-GYN program did not deny the charges, but blamed "one bad apple".

Across the nation, Black women who trusted obstetricians to deliver their children were being surreptitiously sterilized, and this revelation poisoned relationships between them and their doctors. To accomplish the sterilizations, practitioners lied to patients, forged consent forms, or falsified medical records to reflect an "appendectomy" or gallbladder removal, so now it is impossible to know the exact number of African-American women who were sterilized without their knowledge.

Nor is there any record of how many such hysterectomies, if any, or medically justified. Some women, like Fannie Lou Hamer, would never told by their doctors that they had been sterilized, and others never found out. One of the few methodical surveys conducted revealed that at least 60 percent of the Black women in Hamer's native Sunflower County (Mississippi) unwittingly suffered postpartum hysterectomies.

By 1980, sterilization had become the most common form of birth control, and it still is, edging out condom use by 1%. But African American women remain far more likely than whites to undergo a hysterectomy, although researchers have known for over a decade that they are at a higher risk of the procedures complications and are more likely to die from surgery. According to the National Center for Health Statistics (NCHS), 41 percent of Black women who use contraception with sterilized, compared with only 27 percent of white women. Within a century, reproductive coercion had taken a 180° turn for Black women. During slavery, Black women had been forced to procreate, but now they were being forced into sterility. The consistent factor was white control."

Chapter 8- Medical Apartheid, Harriet A. Washington

I checked- as of 2022-23, by .1 percent, sterilization is still the number one option! 11.5 to 11.4 with the pill.

[depsidase]

[depsidase]

[afriblaq]

Don't forget this was around 1943

3 million deaths

india

British

Afro Think Tank

[depsidase]

[thelovergirljasmine]

Never forget. 🗣️🤎✊🏽

[probuccalfat]

a film called satluj starring one of india’s biggest artists, diljit dosanjh, got released and pulled from streaming in india within days. the film covers a truly awful time in punjab when a separatist movement started a peaceful protest that became an armed insurgency, which lead to indian military and police forces committing unbelievable police brutality and extrajudicial killings, with thousands of punjabis going missing or cremated in secret. my mom lived in india in the time this happened—her brothers often tell stories of how they were beaten by police on the way home from school, they come up in fragments and haziness. it’s difficult for them to talk about it.

the film spent up to four years in production, including insistences from the censor board to make more than 120 cuts in an effort to minimize parts of the story. it was pulled from streaming with no explanation. this is horrifying and devastating. india is still murdering any separatists to this day and still stoking anti-sikh hatred.

[bluestockingbaby]

Diljit Dosanjh’s Controversial Film Pulled From India After One Day

Less than two days after debuting on ZEE5, the platform removed the Diljit Dosanjh-starrer from its Indian catalogue for unexplained reasons