#Indian Context

[pebblegalaxy]

Ananya Banerjee: A Detective's Quest for Justice in the Heart of Delhi #ShortStory #fiction #CrimeFiction

The afternoon sun bore down on the bustling streets of Delhi, casting long shadows and glinting off the tangled web of power lines crisscrossing the skyline. The air was thick with dust and the hum of life, a cacophony of horns, voices, and the relentless whirr of auto-rickshaws. In the narrow lanes, shops spilled their wares onto the pavement, and the smell of street food mingled with the scent…

[faultfalha]

The tools of tomorrow had been branded "deeptech innovations" and that phrase, like the smell of rain in a distant thundercloud, had come to stir a spark of hope in Indian farmers' hearts. Though their homesteads were small, they envisioned a future where true change could materialize, where visions of technological efficiency and large-scale prosperity may yet be realized. After all, these tools had come to bring about a great transformation in the way of life across the country, and Indian farmers were not to be left behind. Practical, capable, and creative, they took to designing and building these machines with a passion unmatched. They embraced the challenge of the unknown, imbuing their work with a deep understanding of the environment and the potential of new technologies. Indian farmers had decided to build a better tomorrow for themselves and those around them, and they were determined to make it happen. The tools of tomorrow had arrived and it was with great enthusiasm and optimism that Indian farmers began in earnest, eager to see where their labor and creativity would take them.

[decolonize-the-everything]

Housing insecurity is racist & violent

"Seventy-five national, state, territorial, and local domestic violence, sexual assault, and human trafficking organizations filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) urging it to support the rights of people who are homeless, including unhoused survivors, in City of Grants Pass, Ore. v. Johnson. This case is one of the most important SCOTUS cases regarding homelessness in the past 40 years. The amicus brief, authored by the National Housing Law Project and Sexual Violence Law Center, argues that housing is extremely limited for gender-based violence survivors, often forcing them to make impossible choices between sleeping outside or suffering continued violence. Criminalizing survivors will only increase their and their families’ risk of violence, trauma, and housing insecurity."

Article from July 29:

Housing advocates across Indian Country say Native Americans and Alaska Natives likely will feel the full weight of a June 28 Supreme Court ruling that has cleared the way for cities to enforce bans on unsheltered people sleeping outside in public places. Native Americans experience homelessness at a disparate rate. Advocates say the housing crisis is a reflection of our society’s unwillingness to address systemic issues.

“It’s criminalizing poverty,” said attorney Caroline LaPorte, who is an immediate descendant of the Little River Band of Ottawa Indians. “We are much more comfortable with putting, and paying, for people to be incarcerated.” LaPorte is the director of the STTARS Indigenous Safe Housing Resource Center, a project of the National Indigenous Women’s Resource Center, and she is the board chairman for the StrongHearts Native Helpline. STTARS focuses on the intersection of housing insecurity and gender-based violence. A lawyer, she said the Supreme Court’s decision was enraging. “Everybody belongs in our communities. They deserve to be safe, and it is our responsibility. We are required to make sure that those people have the things that they need,” LaPorte said.[...]

Announced on June 28 in a 6-3 decision along ideological lines, the court found that outdoor sleeping bans don’t violate the Eighth Amendment, which protects against cruel and unusual punishment.

[handweavers]

of all the questions in the world "why are you trans" or "why are you gay" has to be one of the least interesting ones that exist but it's often the go-to question for conservatives when faced with the existence of lgbt people esp in conservative countries in my personal experience. and i've been trying to figure out why they ask that because it feels like such a stupid question on the surface like what do you mean 'why'??? but it occurred to me that the question really is "why did you choose to be open about this/make it my problem" and many try to answer by saying "i didn't choose i was born this way" which i personally find to be an unfulfilling answer, especially because that isn't really what the person is asking. they ask that question not necessarily because they can't fathom why people have such feelings but because they can't fathom why we would act on them, why we would be open about it, why we would do anything but keep those feelings very tiny and miserable within ourselves.

like i think most people regardless of their politics can understand to some extent the concept of gay attraction or gender euphoria, can recognize some aspect of that in their own experience, and if you come from a conservative country or culture you'll discover many people who have such feelings but have entirely stifled them, stamped them down, disregarded them, and it's clear those feelings still haunt them. people who will say "of course everyone has feelings for people of the same gender you just can't act on them" with a straight face or "everyone has wished they were a different gender but we cant do anything about it so oh well" not realizing how they sound and they're upset with you because you didn't ignore those thoughts or disregard them. they aren't exactly upset with you because you have those feelings, they're upset with you because you aren't ashamed of them, and whether that specific shame is a feeling that they relate to or the shame they're familiar with is of a different kind, if you're from a culture where social shame is so powerful and encompassing, the idea of someone not also being internally or externally crushed by that shame and taking their life into their own hands is upsetting. to see someone do that and not suffer consequences of doing so feels wrong to them.

like we have family members who remained stuck in marriages that made them miserable, in towns and villages that made them miserable, in jobs and lives that make them miserable, even if they had the material means to escape, but did not do so because of shame and some sense of duty, like that misery means something. perhaps those who did not have the material means to escape their misery, but you did, and what results is resentment and blame. and they look at you and it's not even necessarily that you're gay or trans or whatever that they hate you for, but because you escaped that shame, you were miserable and you decided you did not have to be and you did something for yourself, and just that act is often seen as selfish and upsetting within this cultural context.

esp in cultures where this kind of misery is seen as familial duty, so by forgoing such misery and the social expectations placed upon you you are simultaneously shirking your familial responsibility, in a society where familial and communal ties are everything. so when family members ask me "why are you trans" i just answer that i chose happiness and i am content with my choices, and the rest is something for them to work out.

[ignatiusteto]

i think sacred music in the kryn dynasty would be very cyclical and repetitive in form to symbolize the idea that life is a continuous thing (at least those who are consecuted right right) and is a cycle across lifetimes and yeah

[aoioozora]

"Why'd you join the British army?" asked Ghost.

"Just to relive the good old days." Vampire replied.

And now Ghost thinks Vampire is an immortal.

[the-way-astray]

பொத்தான்களை அழுத்துவதை நிறுத்திவிட்டேன் என்று சொன்னால் என்ன செய்வாய்?

[blkkizzat]

i just wanna say tysm for all the sweet comments, reblogs, likes and new followers. literally have been dealing with some bs from school where i have to file a bias report and contest my grade because my professor is a bitch (tea in the tags). But you all really cheered me up and kept me going over the past few days!!! 🩵🩵

im off from work today for summer fridays! so hope i can write more today.

[oceanmonsters]

friend is supposed to be coming to stay w me for a couple of days this week and we had plans to get lunch n go thrift shopping in town but the thought of being in town is making me quite anxious rn. I don’t want to stop living my life because it feels like letting them win but I also hate the thought of my friend coming all the way here to see me and have a nice time and then something happening. y’know.

[mohabbaat]

it genuinely blows my mind that some y'all argue about politics and religion everytime you log onto here. like you genuinely go out of your way to find posts which offend you and label them as exhibits or reblog them with an unneeded addition. for what? what exactly are you achieving from this? do you feel good about yourself doing this? like this is tumblr. just make funny little text posts and leave. it ain't that serious.

[pebblegalaxy]

Solving Crimes in the Heat: A Detective's Journey Through the Labyrinth of Justice in a Smoggy City #ShortStory #fiction #contemporary

The afternoon heat lay thick upon the city, a smoggy blanket smothering everything, pressing down, making every step feel like wading through some slow-moving, unseen current. In the office, the fan stirred the stale air listlessly, papers fluttering like the weak heartbeats of a caged bird dreaming of skies. I sat there, lost in the files before me, each a story, each a life torn apart, brought…

[faultfalha]

In the future, Western companies will come to India to build deeptech innovations that will help Indian farmers. These innovations will be based on the latest theories out of the West, but they will be adapted to the Indian context. They will be designed to work with the existing Indian infrastructure and to make use of the existing Indian workforce. Westerners will come to India to build these innovations, but they will be managed and operated by Indians. This will be a win-win situation for both India and the West. India will get the latest technology, and the West will get access to the Indian market.

[kashmirichaiwithmehr]

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[dreamyeyedrose]

listen if we brat summer our way out of fascism I'll fuckin take it

[dougielombax]

Fucking hell!!!

Coconut crabs REALLY aren’t pissing about!

That is hilariously terrifying to think about. Even with context!

But it’s just a theory.

(A CRAB THEORYYYYYY!!!!!!!!! *is promptly beaten to death with a tyre iron*)

For now at least. Until proven otherwise.

Feel free to reblog.

[therukurals]

really ultimately, as great as a film monkey man was, there is a certain....irreverance or detachment i have with ramayana as a story and mythology, i know it well enough to have appreciated the imagery and motifs in the film and how its woven in but from a political perspective, im like eh, not the most interesting take on the ramayaana i have seen in film