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मंदिर में आरएसएस कार्यकर्ताओं पर चाकू से हमला करने वालों के घरों पर चला बुलडोजर, जानें पूरा मामला

मंदिर में आरएसएस कार्यकर्ताओं पर चाकू से हमला करने वालों के घरों पर चला बुलडोजर, जानें पूरा मामला

Rajasthan News: जयपुर के मंदिर में 10 आरएसएस कार्यकर्ताओं पर चाकू से वार करने के मामले के बाद बुलडोजर ऐक्शन सामने आया है। पुलिस ने आरोपी पिता-पुत्र के घर पर बुलडोजर चला दिया है। पुलिस ने मामले के बारे में जानकारी देते हुए कहा कि एक मंदिर में जागरण प्रसाद वितरण का कार्यक्रम चल रहा था। । इसी दौरान पास में रहने वाले पिता-पुत्र आए और कुछ देर चाकू से हमला कर दिया। उन्हें देर रात चल रहे कार्यक्रम से…

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Hindutva's Foreign Tie-up in the 1930s

Archival Evidence

To understand militant Hinduism, one must examine its domestic roots as well as foreign influence. In the 1930s Hindu nationalism borrowed from European fascism to transform 'different' people into 'enemies'. Leaders of militant Hinduism repeatedly expressed their admiration for authoritarian leaders such as Mussolini and Hitler and for the fascist model of society. This influence continues to the present day. This paper presents archival evidence on the would-be collaborators.

By Marzia Casolari

Source: Economic and Political Weekly, Jan. 22-28, 2000, Vol. 35, No. 4 (Jan. 22-28, 2000), pp. 218-228

'Fascist' was in Sumit Sarkar's words, "till the other day a mere epithet" ('The Fascism of the Sangh Parivar', Economic and Political Weekly, January 30, 1993, p 163). It has come to define the ideology and practice of the Hindu militant organisations. It is a common place, accepted by their opponents, as well as by those who have a critical, but not necessarily negative, view of Hindu fundamentalism. Defining the Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh (RSS) and, in general, the organisations of militant Hinduism I as undemocratic, with authoritarian, paramilitary, radical, violent tendencies and a sympathy for fascist ideology and practice, has been a major concern for many politically oriented scholars and writers. This has been the case with the literature which started with Gandhi's assassination and continues up to the present day with works such as Amartya Sen's India at Risk (The New York Review of Books, April 1993) and Christophe Jaffrelot's The Hindu Nationalist Movement in India (Viking, New Delhi, 1996), the latest book published on the subject, or the well known Khaki Shorts and Saffron Flags (Orient Longman, New Delhi, 1993), which came out soon after the destruction of the Babri masjid. As a result, the fascist ideological background of Hindu fundamentalism is taken for granted, never proved by systematic analysis. This is an outcome that is, to a certain extent, explained by the fact that most of the above-mentioned authors are political scientists and not historians.

It is a fact that many of those who witnessed the growth of Hindu radical forces in the years around the second world war were already convinced of the Sangh's fascist outlook. Particularly acute was the perception that the Congress had of these organisations and their character. There is no need to mention the already well known opinion of Nehru, who, right from the beginning, had pointed at these organisations as communalist and fascist.

Less well known is the fact that, as shown by a confidential report circulated within the Congress most probably at the time of the first ban of the RSS, after Gandhi's assassination, the similarity between the character of the RSS and that of fascist organisations was already taken for granted. In fact, the report itself states that the RSS

...Started in Nagpur some sort of Hindu Boys Scout movement. Gradually it developed into a communal militarist organisation with violent tendencies.

The RSS has been purely Maharashtrian brahmin organisation. The non-brahmin Maharashtrians who constitute the bulk of C P and Maharashtra have no sympathy with it.

Even in the other provinces the chief organisers and whole-time workers will be found to be inevitably Maharashtrian brahmins.

Through the RSS the Maharashtrian brahmins have been dreaming of establishing in India 'a Peshwa Raj' after the withdrawal of Britishers. The RSS flag is the Bhagwa Flag of the Peshwas - Maharashtrian rulers [who] were the last to be conquered by the British - and after the termination of British rule in India, the Maharashtrians should be vested with political powers.

The RSS practises secret and violent methods which promote 'fascism'. No regard is paid to truthful means and constitutional methods.

There is no constitution of the organisation; its aims and objects have never been clearly defined. The general public is usually told that its aim is only physical training, but the real aims are not conveyed even to the rank and file of the RSS members. Only its 'inner circle' is taken into a confidence.

There are no records or proceedings of the RSS organisation, no membership registers are maintained. There are also no records of its income and the expenditure. The RSS is thus strictly secret as regards its organisation. It has consequently... (National Archives of India (NAI), Sardar Patel Correspondence, microfilm, reel no 3, 'A Note on the RSS', undated). Unfortunately the document stops abruptly here, but it contains enough evidence of the reputation the RSS already had by the late 1940s.

This document, however, is by no means exceptional. An accurate search of the primary sources produced by the organisations of Hindu nationalism, as well as by their opponents and by the police, is bound to show the extent and the importance of the connections between such organisations and Italian fascism. In fact the most important organisations of Hindu nationalism not only adopted fascist ideas in a conscious and deliberate way, but this happened also because of the existence of direct contacts between the representatives of the main Hindu organisations and fascist Italy.

To demonstrate this, I will reconstruct the context from which arose the interest of Hindu radicalism in Italian fascism right from the early 1920s. This interest was commonly shared in Maharashtra, and must have inspired B S Moonje's trip to Italy in 1931. The next step will be to examine the effects of that trip, namely how B S Moonje tried to transfer fascist models to Hindu society and to organise it militarily, according to fascist patterns. An additional aim of this paper is to show how, about the end of the 1930s, the admiration for the Italian regime was commonly shared by the different streams of Hindu nationalism and the main Hindu leaders.

Particular attention will be devoted to the attitude adopted by the main Hindu organisations during the second world war. During those crucial years, Hindu nationalism seemed to uneasily oscillate between a conciliatory attitude towards the British, and a sympathy for the dictators. This is in fact far from surprising because - as will be shown - in those years, militant Hindu organisations were preparing and arming themselves to fight the so-called internal enemies, rather than the British.

More generally, the aim of this paper is to disprove Christophe Jaffrelot's thesis that there is a sharp distinction between nazi and fascist ideology on one side and RSS on the other as far as the concept of race and the centrality of the leader are concerned.^2

I Hindu Nationalists and Italian Fascism

None of the works mentioned above, Jaffrelot's included, deals with what I consider a most important problem, namely, the existence of direct contacts between the representatives of the fascist regime, including Mussolini and Hindu nationalists. These contacts demonstrate that Hindu nationalism had much more than an abstract interest in the ideology and practice of fascism.

The interest of Indian Hindu nationalists in fascism and Mussolini must not be considered as dictated by an occasional curiosity, confined to a few individuals, rather, it should be considered as the culminating result of the attention that Hindu nationalists, especially in Maharashtra, focused on Italian dictatorship and its leader. To them, fascism appeared to be an example of conservative revolution. This concept was discussed at length by the Marathi press, right from the early phase of the Italian regime.

From 1924 to 1935 Kesari regularly published editorials and articles about Italy, fascism and Mussolini. What impressed the Marathi journalists was the socialist origin of fascism and the fact that the new regime seemed to have transformed Italy from a backward country to a first class power. Indians could not know, then, that, behind the demagogic rhetoric of the regime, there was very little substance.

Moreover, the Indian observers were convinced that fascism had restored order in a country previously upset by political tensions. In a series of editorials, Kesari described the passage from liberal government to dictatorship as a shift from anarchy to an orderly situation, where social struggles had no more reason to exist.^3 The Marathi newspaper gave considerable space to the political reforms carried out by Mussolini, in particular the substitution of the election of the members of parliament with their nomination (ibid, January 17, 1928) and the replacement of parliament itself with the Great Council of Fascism. Mussolini's idea was the opposite of that of democracy and it was expressed by the dictator's principle, according to which 'one man's government is more useful and more binding' for the nation than the democratic institutions (ibid, July 17, 1928).%4 Is all this not reminiscent of the principle of 'obedience to one leader' ('ek chalak anuvartitva') followed by the RSS?

Finally, a long article of August 13, 1929, 'Italy and the Young Generations', stated that the Italian young generation had succeeded the old one to lead the country. That had resulted in the 'fast ascent of Italy in every field'. The article went on to describe at length the organisation of the Italian society according to fascist models. The principal reasons of the discipline of the Italian youths were strong religious feelings, widespread among the population, attachment to the family, and the respect of traditional values: no divorce, no singles, no right to vote for women, whose only duty was to sit at home, by the fireplace. The article focused then on the fascist youth organisations, the Balilla and the Avanguardisti.

One may wonder how the Indian journalists could be so well informed about what was going on in Italy. Very possibly, among their sources there was a pamphlet in English, published by an Italian editor in 1928, entitled The Recent Laws for the Defence of the State (copy in NAI, Foreign and Political Department, 647G, 1927). Emphasised, right from the beginning, was the importance of the National Militia, defined as "the bodyguard of the revolution". The booklet continued with the description of the restrictive measures adopted by the regime: a ban on the "subversive parties", limitations to the press, expulsion of "disaffected persons" from public posts, and, finally, the death sentence.

Significantly, the shift from the liberal phase to fascism is described by the pamphlet in strikingly similar terms to those employed by the above-mentioned articles:

This step [the shift to fascism] has struck a death blow to the thread-bare theories of Italian liberalism, according to which the sovereign state must observe strict neutrality towards all political associations and parties. This theory explains why in Italy the ship of state was drifting before the wind, ready to sink in the vortex of social dissolution or to be wrecked on the rocks of financial disaster.

Another inspiring source of the literature published in Kesari must have been the work by D V Tahmankar, the correspondent of the Marathi newspaper from London and admirer of the Italian dictator. In 1927 Tahmankar published a book entitled Muslini ani Fashismo, (Mussolini and Fascism), a biography of the dictator, with several references to the organisation of the fascist state, to the fascist social system, to the fascist ideology, and to Italy's recent past. An entire chapter, the last, was devoted to description of fascist society and its institutions, especially the youth organisations.

One can easily come to the conclusion that, by the late 1920s, the fascist regime and Mussolini had considerable popularity in Maharashtra. The aspects of fascism which appealed most to Hindu nationalists were, of course, both the militarisation of society and what was seen as the real transformation of society, exemplified by the shift from chaos to order. The anti-democratic system was considered as a positive alternative to democracy which was seen as a typically British value.

Such literature made an implicit comparison between fascism and the Italian Risorgimento. The latter's influence on Indian nationalism, both moderate and radical, is well known.^5 However, whereas the Risorgimento appealed to both moderates and extremists, fascism appealed only to the radicals, who considered it as the continuation of the Risorgimento and a phase of the rational organisation of the state.

The first Hindu nationalist who came in contact with the fascist regime and its dictator was B S Moonje, a politician strictly related to the RSS. In fact, Moonje had been Hedgewar's mentor, the two men were related by an intimate friendship. Moonje's declared intention to strengthen the RSS and to extend it as a nationwide organisation is well known. Between February and March 1931, on his return from the round table conference, Moonje made a tour of Europe, which included a long stop-over in Italy. There he visited some important military schools and educational institutions. The highlight of the visit was the meeting with Mussolini. An interesting account of the trip and the meeting is given in Moonje's diary, and takes 13 pages (Nehru Memorial Museum and Library (NMML), Moonje papers, microfilm, m 1).^6

The Indian leader was in Rome during March 15 to 24, 1931. On March 19, in Rome, he visited, among others, the Military College, the Central Military School of Physical Education, the Fascist Academy of Physical Education, and, most important, the Balilla and Avanguardisti organisations. These two organisations, which he describes in more than two pages of his diary, were the keystone of the fascist system of indoctrination - rather than education - of the youths. Their structure is strikingly similar to that of the RSS. They recruited boys from the age of six, up to 18: the youths had to attend weekly meetings, where they practised physical exercises, received paramilitary training and performed drills and parades.

According to the literature promoted by the RSS and other Hindu fundamentalist organisations and parties, the structure of the RSS was the result of Hedgewar's vision and work. However Moonje played a crucial role in moulding the RSS along Italian (fascist) lines. The deep impression left on Moonje by the vision of the fascist organisation is confirmed by his diary:

The Balilla institutions and the conception of the whole organisation have appealed to me most, though there is still not discipline and organisation of high order. The whole idea is conceived by Mussolini for the military regeneration of Italy. Italians, by nature, appear ease-loving and non-martial like the Indians generally. They have cultivated, like Indians, the work of peace and neglected the cultivation of the art of war. Mussolini saw the essential weakness of his country and conceived the idea of the Balilla organisation...Nothing better could have been conceived for the military organisation of Italy...The idea of fascism vividly brings out the conception of unity amongst people...India and particularly Hindu India need some such institution for the military regeneration of the Hindus: so that the artificial distinction so much emphasised by the British of martial and non-martial classes amongst the Hindus may disappear. Our institution of Rashtriya Swayamsewak Sangh of Nagpur under Dr Hedgewar is of this kind, though quite independently conceived. I will spend the rest of my life in developing and extending this Institution of Dr Hedgewar all throughout the Maharashtra and other provinces.

He continues describing drills and uniforms:

I was charmed to see boys and girls well dressed in their naval and military uniforms undergoing simple exercises of physical training and forms of drill.

Definitely more meaningful is the report of the meeting with Mussolini. On the same day, March 19, 1931 at 3 pm, in Palazzo Venezia, the headquarters of the fascist government, he met the Italian dictator. The meeting is recorded in the diary on March 20, and it is worth reproducing the complete report.

...As soon as I was announced at the door, he got up and walked up to receive me. I shook hands with him saying that I am Dr Moonje. He knew everything about me and appeared to be closely following the events of the Indian struggle for freedom. He seemed to have great respect for Gandhi. He sat down in front of me on another chair in front of his table and was conversing with me for quite half an hour. He asked me about Gandhi and his movement and pointedly asked me a question "If the Round Table Conference will bring about peace between India and England". I said that if the British would honestly desire to give us equal status with other dominions of the Empire, we shall have no objection to remain peacefully and loyally within the Empire; otherwise the struggle will be renewed and continued. Britain will gain and be able to maintain her premier position amongst the European Nation (sic) if India is friendly and peaceful towards her and India cannot be so unless she is given Dominion Status on equal terms with other Dominions. Signor Mussolini appeared impressed by this remark of mine. Then he asked me if I have visited the University. I said I am interested in the military training of boys and have been visiting the Military Schools of England, France and Germany. I have now come to Italy for the same purpose and I am very grateful to say that the Foreign Office and the War Office have made good arrangements for my visiting these schools. I just saw this morning and afternoon the Balilla and the Fascist Organisations and I was much impressed. Italy needs them for her development and prosperity. I do not see anything objectionable though I have been frequently reading in the newspapers not very friendly criticisms about them and about your Excellency also. Signor Mussolini: What is your opinion about them? Dr Moonje: Your Excellency, I am much impressed. Every aspiring and growing Nation needs such organisations. India needs them most for her military regeneration. During the British Domination of the last 150 years Indians have been waved away from the military profession but India now desires to prepare herself for undertaking the responsibility for her own defence and I am working for it. I have already started an organisation of my own, conceived independently with similar objectives. I shall have no hesitation to raise my voice from the public platform both in India and England when occasion may arise in praise of your Balilla and Fascist organisations. I wish them good luck and every success. Signor Mussolini - who appeared very pleased - said - Thanks but yours is an uphill task. However I wish you every success in return. Saying this he got up and I also got up to take his leave.

The description of the Italian journey includes information regarding fascism, its history, the fascist 'revolution', etc, and continues for two more pages. One can wonder at the association between B S Moonje and the RSS, but if we think that Moonje had been Hedgewar' s mentor, the association will be much clearer.^7 The intimate friendship between Moonje and Hedgewar and the former's declared intention to strengthen the RSS and to extend it as a nationwide organisation prove a strict connection between Moonje and the RSS. Moreover, it makes sense to think that the entire circle of militant Hinduism must have been influenced by Moonje's Italian experience.

II Moonje’s Plans for Militarising Hindus

III Eve of Second World War

IV Savarkar and Nazism

V Waiting for the Right Enemy

VI Conclusions

Notes

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi inaugurated the Ram temple in Ayodhya in the key northern state of Uttar Pradesh in January in hopes it would earn him a massive victory in the national election that concluded in June. That didn’t happen—at least not to the extent that Modi, his Hindu-nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), and their ideological fountainhead Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS) expected.

In what has widely been described as a shock result, the BJP won merely 240 seats in the 543-seat parliament, after setting a target of 400 seats. Modi has formed a government but only with support from other parties.

Like any election result, the outcome had multiple causes that will take time to fully sort out. But one thing is already clear: Modi failed in his long-running bid to homogenize India’s Hindus across castes and cultures and consolidate their vote for his political benefit.

In 2014, Modi came to power on the back of religious nationalism and security issues, and he continued that trend in 2019. This year, in the absence of any urgent security threat from regional rival Pakistan and rising concerns over unemployment, inflation, and authoritarianism, Modi banked on the RSS’s homogenization strategy.

The Ram temple was built on a site long disputed with Muslims, where a 16th-century mosque stood until December 1992, when a group of Hindu nationalists razed it to the ground allegedly on the BJP’s provocation. Experts said the BJP had envisaged the temple would instill pride in Hindus, feed their Muslim animosity, and bring them under the Hindu umbrella to choose Modi.

Even though, by and large, the Hindu community seemed to have been pleased with the inauguration of the temple, that didn’t translate into votes for Modi across the Hindu hierarchy. Instead, the results exposed the weaknesses of the homogenization exercise.

Hartosh Singh Bal, an Indian journalist and the executive editor of the Caravan, said there is “diversity in Hinduism” and the election results prove that it can’t be “papered over by directing attention and hatred outwards” toward Muslims. This election proves that “Hindus are not a monolith” and that “various segments of Hinduism have a successful chance of taking on the BJP,” he added in reference to tactical voting by lower castes in Uttar Pradesh against the BJP.

Karthick Ram Manoharan, a political scientist at the National Law School of India University in Bengaluru, said that in Tamil Nadu, a state in southern India with the second-biggest economy in the country, the BJP did not win a single seat out of a total of 39.

“Hindus are the absolute majority in Tamil Nadu, but they still mostly vote for the secular Dravidian parties,” Manoharan said in reference to local parties that have emerged out of social movements opposed to an upper-caste Hindu order that the BJP and RSS have been long accused of nurturing and propagating.

In March, just a month before voting began, I witnessed saffron-colored flags expressing support for Modi’s party jutting out from rooftops and windows in tightly packed homes in western Uttar Pradesh. Some people I spoke to said that BJP workers had decided to adorn the neighborhoods as they pleased, but underneath the flag-waving, a large-scale discontent was brewing over a lack of employment opportunities.

The upper-caste youth seemed confused, if not yet disenchanted, with Modi and in the absence of industry and strong local economies once again mourned the loss of government jobs to affirmative action. (The Indian Constitution reserves almost half of all state jobs for people from lower castes and others who confront a generational disadvantage and historical discrimination.)

Meanwhile, Dalits, who sit at the bottom of India’s Hindu hierarchy, in hamlets nearby who depend on the quota for their dignity and livelihood were quietly recalibrating their options. The mood was starkly different from 2014 and 2019 when I visited some of the Dalit-dominated parliamentary seats in Uttar Pradesh. Back then, Dalits I met were upbeat and decisively pro-Modi. They said they supported him since they believed that he might raise their stature in the Hindu hierarchy.

But 10 years later, they suspected the BJP was plotting to weaken the constitution, the only assurance of rights for marginalized communities in a country where upper-caste Hindus continue to hold social capital and economic power.

Recent comments by BJP leaders that if Modi won 400 seats, he would change the constitution spread anxiety among lower castes that the party intended to scrap the reservation system. The BJP repeatedly denied this, but the suspicion that it is first a party for upper-caste Hindus is deep-rooted among lower castes, and experts believe the comments were part of the BJP’s political strategy.

“They were testing the waters to see what would be the reaction,” said Sushil Kumar Pandey, an assistant professor of history at Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University in Lucknow and the author of Caste and Politics in Democracy.

“The opposition picked it up and campaigned on it, telling people a change in the constitution could mean losing your livelihood, your jobs,” Pandey added. “That worked at a time [when] people were also scared of privatization” and in government-run sectors.

For Dalits, it was about more than jobs. The Indian Constitution is nearly worshipped by the community and celebrated en masse on the birth anniversary of the Indian intellectual who wrote it. B.R. Ambedkar was no fan of Ram and advocated against the caste discrimination inherent in Hinduism all his life, even converting to Buddhism when he felt there was no escaping caste-based prejudice. While he couldn’t annihilate the caste system, he ensured that the constitution offered lower castes a quota in government jobs to gradually uplift them.

In his honor, and as an ode to the progressive document, Dalits sing songs in praise of the constitution and hail it as the upholder of their dignity in a society where they continue to be belittled. Any change to the text was unacceptable. “Their cultural identity is linked to this book,” said Ravish Kumar, a journalist and the host of a popular YouTube news show.

In the south, too, there was a fear of culturally being subsumed by a Hindi-speaking upper-caste elite. Indian federal units, or states, were defined in the 1950s on the basis of language, and to this day south Indians identify themselves on the basis of the language they speak. The Ram temple had no resonance in the southern states, particularly in electorally significant Tamil Nadu, with the highest number of seats regionally. Tamils were wary that the RSS’s homogenization agenda would drown out their cultural ethos and impose a secondary status on the Tamil language.

Manoharan, the political scientist, said that in Tamil Nadu, it was “not so much religious but fear of cultural homogeneity” and “a language policy which will give importance to Hindi speakers over Tamil speakers and upper-caste Tamils over other backward castes.”

In a state where “88 percent people come from so-called lower castes” and “69 percent have jobs under affirmative action through a special act,” people were also extremely worried that the BJP may “water down” the employment quota promised in the constitution, Manoharan added.

The southern Indian states have a longer history of resistance to upper-caste domination, a higher literacy rate, better economies, and a tradition of secular politics. While the BJP maintained its tally of 29 seats from the last election, it is being seen as a poor result considering the inroads the RSS has made in the south.

For instance, in the southwestern state of Kerala, the RSS has more than 5,000 shakhas, or branches, second in number only to Uttar Pradesh, India’s most populous state—yet “despite the fact that the RSS has thousands of training grounds in Kerala, they are unable to get influence,” said K.M. Sajad Ibrahim, a professor of political science at University of Kerala. “That’s because while religion is important, communal harmony is more important to people here. BJP tries to create tensions, and that doesn’t work here.”

The BJP managed to gain one seat for the first time in Kerala, but that isn’t being attributed to its ideological success or expansion of homogenization project but to the winning candidate’s personal appeal. Suresh Gopi, the winning candidate, is a popular movie star.

In many states in the Hindi belt and even in the south, the BJP did well. The upper castes and urban voters are standing firmly behind Modi. Kumar, the journalist, said it would be foolhardy to dismiss Modi—and the bigger Hindutva, or Hindu nationalist, forces backing him—just yet. He said Hindutva hasn’t lost and only faced a setback. “The BJP was trying to dominate caste politics with Hindutva,” he said, “but the election result shows that dominance has cracked.” However, he added, “it has only cracked—the ideology still has wide-scale acceptance.”

Everyone else Foreign Policy spoke to concurred but added that Hindus are far too diverse to be homogenized. Manoharan said the results exposed the weakness of the homogenization agenda and its faulty premise. “Hindutva’s aim for homogeneity is confounded precisely by a structural feature of the religion-culture it seeks to defend—caste,” he said.

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S2 E12 | LuLaRich, MLMs, UK politics and why you shouldn’t drink Borax

In this week’s episode of The Ayesphere, Joy makes Aye watch LuLaRich, a Prime documentary that looks into the harmful and predatory world of LuLaRoe. Why? Because we need to talk about why people are drinking Borax on TikTok (We cannot emphasize enough Do Not Do That) and how people fall prey to predatory scams and the cult indoctrination used to keep them there.

After that, Aye gets Joy up to date with everything going on in the UK regarding the Labor Party’s swing toward right-wing conservatism, their anti-worker-union stance and the harmful Tory policies they’re threatening to enforce. It’s been a helluva a week.

Also, there’s some static in the recording this week. Sorry about that.

(Trigger warning, this week’s episode contains discussions about cults, medical abuse, emotional abuse, and the UK government forcing the disclosure of rape to gain child welfare benefits.)

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A friend of mine is currently having his novel shopped around by an agent, and what he's been hearing back is that the Big Five publishers almost exclusively want books with wordcounts of around 100 000 (to the point where authors with longer manuscripts, especially debut authors, are being told they should trim down to that length).

Near as I can tell, this has not always been the case; I can personally recall many authors within the last 30 years or so who debuted with 600-page doorstoppers. But longer books are more expensive to edit and manufacture, and so I can't help but wonder if this is a cost-cutting measure — publishers trying to produce their books as cheaply as possible, in order to squeeze more money out of each sale.

I don't exactly miss the 600-page doorstoppers, but it's good to remember that even the literary world isn't immune to the siren song of enshittification.

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FIN7 hackers set up a fake company to recruit for cyberattacks

Much like the website, Bastion Secure’s advertised vacancies look legitimate enough, too. The fictitious company is looking for programmers, system administrators and reverse-engineers, and the job descriptions are similar to those you’d find at any cybersecurity company. But Recorded Future said that FIN7 — under the guise of Bastion Secure — is looking to build a “staff” capable of conducting the tasks necessary for undertaking a range of cybercriminal activity.

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“I'm really interested in algorithmic enforcement and generally understanding the impact that algorithms have on our lives,” Ada Ada Ada told me in an interview. “It seemed like the nipple rule is one of the simplest ways that you can start talking about this because it's set up as a very binary idea—female nipples no, male nipples, yes. But then it prompts a lot of questions: what is male nipple? What is a female nipple?”

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I watched Abigail and The Guest more or less back-to-back recently and have discovered my cat is entranced by Dan Stevens. She wouldn't stop staring at the TV whenever he was onscreen. I don't know what to do with this information.

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Hihi Skyen :) I was wondering if you had any thoughts on the movement of bringing back old personal websites and webrings and rejecting the social media capitalistic hellscape

Last year I got into old websites and Neocities stuff, even getting into coding to make my own website there, and you come across as the type of person who could have some interesting thoughts on a subject like this :O

Such as being a content creator and being inebitably shackled to popular social media, for the lack of a better word.

I don't know, sorry if this is silly, I hope you're having a nice day :) Love your content, been following for years!

Oh I have a lot of thoughts about that actually, and not just because some of my videos are sponsored by Squarespace™

Squarespace™, build your online presence today!

In seriousness, though... I am first of all strongly in favor of the personal website (I should really get around to properly rebuilding my own). Platforms fundamentally cannot be trusted, and their amoral business interest is to homogenize their users as much as possible, the better to package them as product for advertisers, which is their business.

Personal sites are personal, they allow you to take back control of your online profile and online life, and of the things you publish. They are absolutely fantastic for any creative worker as a means of building a strong portfolio and brand, albeit at the cost of requiring upkeep and maintenance.

The thing they lack, and it is a critical thing, is discoverability. They lack the means to connect with an audience, to be found among the hundred billion websites on the global web.

It used to be Google took care of that, but its search results are increasingly bought and paid for and the scope and scale of the internet makes it functionally impossible to make it to the front page of any search result unless you have money to drop on serious SEO and, of course, advertising with Google. So now the platforms hold a functional monopoly on that feature. Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, Tumblr... at this point even TikTok serves that role.

I could make the videos I want, no significant number of people would ever have seen them if not for YouTube's recommendation algorithm. And because my audience is hooked to their platform, trying to get them to pick up sticks and come with me to a new one is... functionally impossible. Worse is that a vast majority of web traffic in the modern day exists on mobile, and the vast majority of THAT is locked in the ecosystems of apps, which introduce their own host of walled garden conditioning and barriers to drawing users to personal websites.

These issues can be addressed in some ways by old school means:

Mailing lists

RSS feeds

Webrings and other linkswaps

Old-fashioned networking

But it will almost certainly never reach the scope and scale of discoverability platforms can do by sheer dint of their size and resources.

Which is why I wouldn't necessarily recommend personal websites as a Content Creator's™ main form of publishing, for example, but as a supplemental way of building a presence online.

But as a thing to build for yourself, a means to stake your claim to a space on the internet that belongs to you, as a means to be creative, a personal website is a fantastic project.

[audiofictionuk]

New Fiction Podcasts - 15th September 2024

BIRCH Audio Drama As we work on getting this series off the ground we wanted to share the audio story for our PILOT episode. So make a like a tree and give it a listen. In this post-apocalyptic animated series, trees are sentient beings fighting against the humans and other nefarious threats for control of the dwindling water supply on earth. Birch, the head of this GREEN PIECES resistance is a NY street cop of a plant, born of references and bathes in bad-ass-ery, but will he have what it takes to bring down AVERAGE JOE... Well, will he punk? https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240907-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f999a544/podcast/rss

Bond Beyond Blood Audio Drama Evelyn Green, a hard-hitting journalist, and Thomas Wright, a detective-in-training, become unlikely partners as they investigate the peculiar deaths of ex-detectives Frank and Lilah. Listen along and piece together the mystery as they fall into the chaos of the supernatural! This audio drama podcast is a mystery thriller with supernatural horror aspects that takes place in the American South. This series is also a sequel to Bond Beyond Death, but you do not have to have heard the previous show to understand this one fully. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240904-04 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/bond-beyond-blood/

All At Sea Audio Drama February is the captain and lone sailor of the Zenith, a longliner traversing the Pacific Ocean. But time is wrong, the sea is empty, and the world is quiet. ALL AT SEA is a microfiction podcast about being lost at sea at the end of the world. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240908-01 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/all-at-sea

The Tear Stained Throne Audio Drama The kingdom Duimouire is ruled by the Skien family, Queen Simone and King Tobais. A family that has been deemed the ruler of this land for one hundred and six generations. But when Queen Simone struggles to conceive an heir to the throne her entire world shifts at the possibility of her losing her crown. Her best friend, Lady Crestfield tells her about a healer across the West Sea who is rumored to have the ability to heal any illness. After much debate Simone sets off on her journey to find this healer, the weight of her unsteady future on her shoulders. But little does Simone know, there are https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240907-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f62f8f40/podcast/rss

ApocaPodcast (SciFi D&D style TTRPG) Audio RPG ApocaPodcast is an actual play, role-playing game podcast that follows the lives of three survivors in the imaginary Post-Apocalyptic SciFi world of Toprak. Most of what you’re going to hear will be live improvised role playing. We will be using the ABC role-playing game engine. ApocaPodcast aims to be a “family friendly” podcast by avoiding foul language and adult themes. However, there will be plenty of “fantasy violence” from fighting fantastical beasts that might tear someone to pieces, to the well-placed exploding head shot against a humanoid creature. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240909-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/992b4208/podcast/rss

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Momento Talis Audio RPG A group of four nerdy friends who love to play TTRPGs. Follow along as we delve deep into the Fairelands of Candela Obscura. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240725-06 RSS: https://media.rss.com/momentotalis/feed.xml

The World After Amazon: Stories from Amazon Workers Audio Book The World After Amazon is a collection of 9 short speculative stories, written by rank-and-file workers at the corporation that has transformed the way we read and so much more.Amazon's sci-fi propaganda tells the story of a company using cutting-edge technology to deliver a utopia of cheap consumer convenience. But its workers pay the price, toiling in dystopian conditions to create a future that will exclude them. What happens when those workers reclaim the radical imagination and their power to tell their own stories?The World After Amazon can be ordered in print or read or downloaded online for free, and is also available as a podcast and audiobook. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240904-05 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6259126/episodes/feed

Goons & Runes: The Nightmare Sun Campaign (DND) Audio RPG The Nightmare Sun is a D&D 5E homebrew campaign set on the Plane of Notierdes. Set in the year 1316, the PCs begin as a batch of surviving mortals contending with a world that has seen the apotheosis of Demon Lord into the sole Overgod of the Planes. Following this unholy reckoning, demons and undead have flooded the Planes and driven all other creatures to near extinction. Mortals eke out survival in the fringes of the wilds or live in absolute servitude to indulgent demons or undead rulers. However, even in this world cast with eternal twilight, there are those who struggle to carve their own destinies. But will you join them as they rise above the bleak world or simply bear witness to their doom? https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240831-03 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/goonsandrunes/feed.xml

Wicked Dames Audio Drama When Violette and Elisabeth Fischer’s mother goes mysteriously missing in 1942 Berlin, they are presented with an unthinkable decision; kill a Nazi or risk the truth of their mother’s identity falling into enemy hands. In the wake of their mother’s mysterious disappearance and surviving their first trial, the innocent teen sisters team up with a serial killer moonlighting as a lounge singer, a Jewish girl in hiding, and the privileged daughter of a Nazi sympathizer to take down a Nazi General and save their mother. But little do they know, they’ve waded into a thick web of lies and betrayal. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240910-01 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f7a53208/podcast/rss

SNPR: Supernatural Public Radio Audio Drama A scripted comedy podcast series! Supernatural Public Radio, or SNPR, is a Peppermint Bottle Production. It's a short-form audio comedy about a local radio station, WKUG99, and its newest reporter, Salem Woods. Salem has to cover the occult and the uncanny for newbies (like himself).  https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240912-01 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2400822.rss

Words from Friends Audio Book Ever wished you were friends with a bunch of brilliant, talented writers who could bring you stories from a range of genres? Well, now you are. Words from Friends is a podcast which presents two short stories centred around a new theme every episode; from romance to thriller to science-fiction-neo-classical-coming-of-age dramas, we've got it all. So, pull up a chair and let this team of brilliant storytellers make you feel write at home. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240806-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f85f7e38/podcast/rss

Firebreaker Audio Drama Coronation Presents "Firebreaker: The Legend of George and the Dragon". Starring David Henrie ("Wizards of Waverly Place") and Elizabeth Tabish ("The Chosen"). Welcome to the world of Firebreaker, an exhilarating audio drama that takes you on an adventure of courage, friendship, and sacrifice. Join us as we delve into the captivating legend of George and the Dragon, a story that has inspired generations. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240710-02 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/f773e108/podcast/rss

Murder Matrix ( English Thriller podcast) Audio Drama A fiction suspense thriller audio series that'll urge you to put on your detective shoes and tag along the story's characters to find the mystery beyond the maze of 7 episodes. You can tune in every week for a fresh episode and a new case with an intricate connection between them. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240906-01 RSS: https://www.spreaker.com/show/6288898/episodes/feed

Uf de Spur - de Umweltkrimi vo Züri Audio Drama Anna und Lukas arbeiten beide auf der Redaktion des Regionalboten. In ihrer Freizeit gehen sie gerne auch mal zusammen in die Natur. Auf ihren Spaziergängen und über ihre Arbeit stossen sie immer wieder auf seltsame Vorkommnisse, denen sie auf die Spur gehen. Da sind verschwundene Tiere, verfaulte Lebensmittel auf der Strasse, ein umgestürzter Mobilfunkmast und seltsame Zeichen bei einem verlassenen Haus. Der Mensch interagiert seit eh und je mit der Natur. Dabei kann es zu Konflikten kommen, wenn das sensible Ökosystem zu sehr gestört wird. Arten verschwinden, das Ökosystem wird instabil und gefährdet wiederum die Gesundheit von uns Menschen. Viele Konflikte können verhindert werden, wären sie den Menschen bewusst, denn Lösungen sind vorhanden. Mit diesem Podcast möchte das Amt für Abfall, Wasser, Energie und Luft des Kantons Zürich Umweltkonflikte ins Bewusstsein rücken, die wenig bekannt sind und aufzeigen, was jede und jeder dagegen tun kann. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240910-02 RSS: https://feeds.captivate.fm/uf-de-spur/

Pulp: Chilling Tales Served Cold Audio Book There is a dimension beyond the mundane, a realm where the ordinary twists into the extraordinary. A place where shadows conceal secrets and the unexpected and bizarre lurk around every corner. Welcome to Pulp. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240910-03 RSS: https://feeds.buzzsprout.com/2403232.rss

DS Billings Mysteries Audio Drama Detective Sergeant John Billings has risen swiftly through the ranks to become one of Scotland Yard's youngest detectives, but in his private life he struggles with the demons of loneliness and morphine addiction. In these full length mysteries he will lead you on a thrilling journey into the darkest recesses of Victorian society. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240910-04 RSS: https://feeds.acast.com/public/shows/ds-billings-mysteries

The World Savers Audio Book From the makers of Super Smash Cadens and Caden’s Creepy Capers, this podcast series follows the adventures of the superhero team The World Savers as they try to put a stop to their nemesis, Dr. Maniacal, and many other foes. https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240905-03 RSS: https://anchor.fm/s/e897cdac/podcast/rss

Wave Makers Audio Plays Audio Drama Monthly anthology series of audioplays in a variety of genres https://audiofiction.co.uk/show.php?id=20240909-03 RSS: https://feed.podbean.com/wavemakersaudioplays/feed.xml

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

#20yrsago Leveraging RSS at Disney ETCON talk https://craphound.com/rssetcon04.txt

#20yrsago Tim O’Reilly’s Emerging Technology keynote https://craphound.com/timetcon04.txt

#15yrsago Trough of No Value: the period when objects aren’t new and aren’t collectible https://theonlinephotographer.typepad.com/the_online_photographer/2009/02/the-trough-of-no-value.html

#15yrsago Making a toaster from scratch, mining the raw materials https://web.archive.org/web/20090212194252/https://www.we-make-money-not-art.com/archives/2009/02/-thomas-thwaites-the-toaster.php

#10yrsago NYT vs wget: technologically illiterate Snowden coverage https://www.techdirt.com/2014/02/10/new-york-times-uses-scare-quotes-to-highlight-how-they-dont-understand-how-snowden-copied-documents/

#5yrsago Vast majority of Americans and Europeans believe ad-targeting and feed customization are immoral https://www.forbes.com/sites/johnkoetsier/2019/02/09/83-of-consumers-believe-personalized-ads-are-morally-wrong-survey-says/?sh=5d08570819f5

#5yrsago Trump’s properties routinely employed (and abused) undocumented Latino workers, including dozens from a single Costa Rican town https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/my-whole-town-practically-lived-there-from-costa-rica-to-new-jersey-a-pipeline-of-illegal-workers-for-trump-goes-back-years/2019/02/08/8cdbc1dc-2971-11e9-97b3-ae59fbae7960_story.html

#1yrago Poor people pay higher time tax https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/10/my-time/#like-water-down-the-drain

[007rebel]

You know....

In India....There is running biggest controversy about hindu v/s muslims....And main responsible are BJP minister and they are wanting to boycott muslim workers and small business of muslim community.

In India...RSS creat biggest program against muslims with BJp government,at present condition are not same as before...

[personal-ly]

Don't forget that the current Indian government and its capitalist cronies are also trying to support Israel. It was our unions who condemned the export of workers to Israel to replace Palestinian workers. Adani has major investments in Israel. Fuck adani and fuck the maniacs in bjp and rss. Pro Palestinian protestors were arrested in India

[infantisimo]

it is really hard to explain to city people that what they call pop culture is vastly different from what is actually pop culture in the mofussil. the biggest pop culture phenomenon is our dear leader and the subsequent wielding of media and distribution to serve the bidding of the brahmins and rss. even media and distribution 'in opposition' to it, survives because of it. i am limited by dilli only so forgive my sweeping, prejudiced statements. but pop culture predominantly is tarak mehta ka oolta chashma, bigg boss, kapil sharma show, not hip hop, skateboarding, djs and influencers. pop culture is predominantly the thousands of mini ott videos and complete television programmes mx player and facebook are flushed with, not netflix and amazon prime and other subscription based services. television is not dead in this country. it has only been swallowed by big tech. predominant social media and opinion building zones are sharechat, facebook and whatsapp. not twitter cliques and linkedin bokachodas. the view from the city is skewed, narrow and misinformed. pay attention to what the kids and elderly are watching. look at what the indian diaspora brain on this app is writing and thinking. look at how the teenagers on this app who tag 'desi' on shit perceive the world. why do you think these tech overlords want to go 'regional', 'vernacular', 'localised'? the metropolis is small shit compared to the rest of the subcontinent. do you remember when city people realised poor migrant workers exist during the cruel migrant exodus of 2020 lockdown? why do you think dettol sells 10 rupees soap? why do you think hindustan unilever sells shampoo sachets?

[jerryswon]

Why Investing in Your Team Is an Investment in Your Business

Why Investing in Your Team Is an Investment in Your Business http://jerryswon.com/why-investing-in-your-team-is-an-investment-in-your-business/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=why-investing-in-your-team-is-an-investment-in-your-business Investing in your team is not just an act of goodwill; it’s a strategic decision that can yield significant returns for your business. Whether through training and development programs, fostering a positive work culture, or providing opportunities for career advancement, investing in your team can profoundly impact your organization’s success.  Here’s why investing in your team is an investment in your business: Enhanced Performance and Productivity:  Putting money into training and development initiatives can give your staff the know-how they need to do their jobs better. Workers who are comfortable and knowledgeable in their positions will probably be more productive and provide better work. Improved Employee Engagement and Retention:  Workers are likelier to be engaged and dedicated to their work if they feel appreciated and supported. It shows that you are interested in your team’s performance and future when you invest in their professional development and well-being. This can increase a worker’s sense of loyalty and community, which lowers turnover costs and increases employee retention rates. Fostering a Positive Work Culture:  Attracting and keeping top talent requires a positive work culture. You may foster a work atmosphere where employees feel inspired, encouraged, and appreciated by funding programs that increase employee satisfaction, such as team-building exercises, flexible work schedules, and recognition schemes. Business success can be fueled by a positive work culture that fosters innovation, creativity, and teamwork. Building Leadership Pipeline:  Investing in leadership development programs can help identify and nurture future leaders within your organization. By providing opportunities for skill development, mentorship, and career progression, you can groom talented individuals to take on leadership roles in the future. Building a solid leadership pipeline ensures continuity and stability within your organization and prepares you for future growth and expansion. Staying Competitive in the Market:  In today’s rapidly changing business landscape, staying competitive requires having a skilled and adaptable workforce. Investing in your team’s professional development ensures they stay updated with industry trends, technological advancements, and best practices. This positions your business to remain competitive and agile in evolving market dynamics. Enhanced Customer Satisfaction and Loyalty:  Well-trained, engaged, and motivated employees are more likely to deliver exceptional customer service. Investing in your team’s development improves performance and enhances customer experience.  Mitigating Risks and Challenges:  Investing in your team’s skills and capabilities can help mitigate risks associated with employee turnover, absenteeism, or skill gaps. A well-trained and engaged workforce is better equipped to handle challenges, adapt to change, and overcome obstacles, reducing the likelihood of disruptions to business operations. Investing in your team is an investment in your business’s future success and sustainability. By prioritizing employee development, engagement, and satisfaction, you can create a positive work environment where employees thrive, driving business growth, innovation, and long-term success. The post Why Investing in Your Team Is an Investment in Your Business first appeared on Jerry Swon | Financial Consultant |NJ.

[digitalmarketingsahil]

Narendra Damodardas Modi born 17 September 1950)is an Indian politician who has served as the 14th prime minister of India since May 2014. Modi was the chief minister of Gujarat from 2001 to 2014 and is the Member of Parliament (MP) for Varanasi. He is a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and of the Rashtriya Swayamsevak Sangh (RSS), a right wing Hindu nationalist paramilitary volunteer organisation. He is the longest-serving prime minister from outside the Indian National Congress.

Modi was born and raised in Vadnagar in northeastern Gujarat, where he completed his secondary education. He was introduced to the RSS at the age of eight. His account of helping his father sell tea at the Vadnagar railway station has not been reliably corroborated. At age 18, he was married to Jashodaben Modi, whom he abandoned soon after, only publicly acknowledging her four decades later when legally required to do so. Modi became a full-time worker for the RSS in Gujarat in 1971. The RSS assigned him to the BJP in 1985 and he held several positions within the party hierarchy until 2001, rising to the rank of general secretary.[c]

[thesaleswhisperer]

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35:56 The Importance of Authenticity in Sales

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[infosnack]

Black people are more likely to be physically restrained in emergency rooms study finds

Black people are more likely to be physically restrained in emergency rooms, study finds https://www.statnews.com/2023/09/25/emergency-departments-restraints-racial-disparities/?utm_campaign=rss In the chaotic environment of an emergency room, hospital staffers sometimes face the question of whether to use physical restraints when a patient is experiencing a behavioral crisis. Using restraints is meant to be a last resort in the face of a patient’s agitation in order to keep health care workers and others around them safe. But restraints can also lead to severe adverse outcomes for patients, including physical and psychological trauma. A new study, published Monday in JAMA Internal Medicine, highlights how restraint use can both arise from, and further contribute to, racial bias against patients. Read the rest… via STAT Health - Science, medicine and healthcare news https://www.statnews.com/category/health/ September 25, 2023 at 11:36AM

[futuristech-info]

Joby Aviation is landing in Dayton, Ohio, and it already wants to meet future employees

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