“Not all battles are fought for victory. Some are fought simply to tell the world that someone was there on the battlefield.” — ravish kumar

the urban areas having the most votes for NDA and the rural areas having more votes for INDIA explains a lot about the country and where the mainstream hate actually comes from

"Remember that all through history, there have been tyrants and murderers, and for a time, they seem invincible. But in the end, they always fall. Always." - Mahatma Gandhi

धुँधलायेंगी सब स्मृतियाँ नर भी प्रज्ज्वल नहीं रहेगा प्रेम अमर था प्रेम अमर है देश हमारा यहीं रहेगा।

#Gaza is slightly smaller than the Isle of Wight.

Let's make one thing clear "EVM hacked" is a lazy term to describe any and all of the following 1. EVMs found in hands & vehicles of BJP workers 2. EVMs gone "missing" 3. EVM storage room CCTV camera suddenly "malfunctioning" 4. EVM "malfunctioning" 5. EVM & VVPAT mismatch 6.

We're horrified at yet another attack on a UN-run school in Gaza that has killed dozens, including children. We're in a never-ending loop of killing, condemnations, and inaction. Civilians in Gaza are paying the heaviest price for world leader's inactions. #CeasefireNOW

Would be a grave mistake to over-read the verdict as popular rejection of Hindutva or the victory of any alternative "idea of India". The opposition rightly focused on a progressive, egalitarian future. The fight should be on caste & class inequality, not status-quoist secularism

Reading excerpts from the cross-examination of Otto Ohlendorf, commander of Einsatzgruppe D, during the Nuremberg subsequent trials, for my research, I came accross this chilling exchange. The most terrifying thing though is how familiar it feels in the current context

BREAKING: DIGIYATRA EXPOSED❗🧵 Here’s how your beloved DigiYatra uses facial recognition technology (FRT) Content warning: ***DYSTOPIAN USES*** ⚠️⚠️ 1/10

Great Nicobar Island, is small but has extremely high levels of biodiversity. 95% of the island covered in rainforest and it’s home to 11 species of mammals, 32 species of birds, 7 species of reptiles & 4 species of amphibians, all found only here. Watch the beautiful clip. 2/21

Indian govt's plan to make Great Nicobar a modern city is a project of plain settler colonialism. 50 yrs later Shompen and Nicobarese tribes will be slave-workers in their own land, with their forests and ways of living wiped out. India's plight was this less than a century ago.

10 Great Papers to Expand Your Econ Frameworks 1) Rational Fools - Amartya Sen Sen at his best, engaging with Econ models whilst having a strong philosophical background. This paper presents insightful challenges to revealed preference theory. jstor.org/stable/2264946

NTA and its shady chairman 🧵 Meet Dr. Pradeep Kumar Joshi, the serial offender who has no taste of merit but repeatedly secures coveted appointments by just being a loyal RSS man. His career is as phenomenal as any chamcha could dream of. Let's go through his biodata. (1/n)

Israel pours concrete in Palestinians’ irrigation wells. I think about this one every other week. July 2023 (there was a ceasefire on Oct 6 etc etc). The brutality, inhumanity and injustice of all of it.

J&K LG flagged off the Amarnath Yatra today, The Yatra ties the Muslim Locals & Hindu Devotees, each one complementing the other's needs, a bit more. In 2022 a Sradhalu slept on the Horse & was about to fall, horseman IMTIYAZ saved the Devotee, but couldn't save himself. 1/10

I never grow tired of this video.

a Zionist fanatic at the Oxford Union angrily asks George Galloway if he is racist because of his opposition to the genocidal Israeli occupation, and is applauded by the audience. Here's Galloway's response that gets the audience to applaud him by the end:

A story written by an angry poet. Injustice ➡️ grit ➡️ redemption.

Two physicists, Arnab Priya Saha and Aninda Sinha from the Indian Institute of Science, inadvertently discovered a new formula for calculating π while working on string theory. Their findings were published in Physical Review Letters in January 2024. This formula generates an