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getmemymicroscope · 2 months ago

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First, the beginning half-plus of this movie - essentially everything involving his mother - is an absolute borefest. I know you need to build up the story (what story they're trying to build up, I don't know). We've seen this "mother forbids son from fighting" thing before - that horrible Liger movie comes to mind, and it may not have been the mother, but someone also forbid Zayed Khan from it in that Rocky movie way back when - and it's almost always really dumb. Admittedly, we still haven't gotten to that bit yet. But mostly, just not a fan of his mother. And the way she treats everyone - the students, Shruti, her own freaking son - is shit.

That's the second annoying bit: the way the story is told. Clearly they're trying to channel Bahubhali, but like - come on. The first half of this movie is entirely focused on a bunch of random baddies wanting to kidnap an idiot girl (seriously, when your dad is apparently so adamant - apparently, because we only get it as a throwaway line - about not coming to India, maybe ask before making the decision?) for some guy (who we haven't seen again, so we have no idea why he's even important) - and the second half of the movie does nothing for that storyline, other than Shruti Hassan being as much of a listener to the story as we are (literally, they just cut to her a couple of times at the end when she's like "hold up bro, I need a minute" and "hold up bro, I need a drink"). The second half is told entirely in flashback about something that happened - we don't even know when. And by word usage, at some point we're going to see a fracturing of this friendship, though there's no signs of it yet so that'll obviously be in the sequel (I wonder if he'll still be teal then, or if his skin will have returned to normal skin?)

So yes, story wise, utter shitshow. HOWEVER, and this is a big HOWEVER, when we finally get to the action sequences in the final 30 minutes of the movie (and the one right before the intermission, with Prabhas) - that is pretty fucking epic! Bloody and gory as fuck, and we see literal rolling heads and literal disarming and dislegging, along with some bland attempt at dialogue between our leads, but it is pretty excellently done.

Prabhas has very little dialogue, which if I remember anything from my recent rewatch of Saaho, is a good thing; Prithviraj, meanwhile, doesn't even show up for the first half of the movie. But, also, I don't think Prithviraj is much of a good guy - or, at least, based on his statements towards the end of the movie, it's gonna be a hard sell to convince us that he's anything more than an anti-hero. Which is an odd switch, cuz kid him seemed like a decent guy. But then, I guess power corrupts. Of course, he also lets a lot of the evil shit that goes on to, well, go on, so I guess maybe he never was fully good anyways.

The backstory is also very weird. Like, I get wanting to set up a fictional land in this world (and it isn't like it hasn't been done before), but this idea of a country that literally tells partition-time India "we won't be part of you and won't be governed by your rules, but we'll control your laws" and somehow exists outside the map is ridiculous. One this if it's inside the country (think like Wakanda, which can be hidden in the middle of Africa), completely different if it's somehow an alternate country between 2 others that suddenly would have to be on every map. And that's made ridiculous, again, by the whole unexplained "oh, there's that seal that means we can't touch anything." Like, what? Again, probably explained in part 2 - but it does make part 1 that much more confusing. There's a lot of dialogue about politicians taking sides and what-not, which is part of the reason the movie is almost 3 hours long, which also tends to slow things down.

Not as much as the very confusing, unexplained backstory about a rich businessman (why does he even matter to anything?) who somehow is hiding out, unfound for YEARS, amidst all the people and CCTV footage in India (and, more importantly, with all those people, clearly a ton of people who would sell him out immediately, much like they do with his daughter). But apparently they needed the backstory as a way to introduce Shruti, which was important so that they could tell us (er, her) the entire story in flashback, and to give Prabhas' character a reason to ... well, I don't know really. In the 'current time,' he just saved her and then disappeared, because all we see after that is Shruti and Bilal driving and Bilal telling her a story.

Good job with the actions sequences though.

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denimbex1986 · 1 year ago

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'AI isn't the biggest story of 2023 – it's Hollywood hogging the limelight.

From Taylor Swift's huge tour to the release of highly anticipated Hollywood movies, music and film have also been having a positive effect on the US economy...

Taylor Swift

The "Anti-Hero" singer has made waves with her debut Eras Tour that's included dozens of shows across 17 states.

"Swifties" seeing the concerts have helped boost hotel revenues and could generate $4.6 billion in total consumer spending, the Common Sense Institute said. That's bigger than the GDP of 35 countries.

Moreover, Swift also shelled out $100,000 bonuses to truckers on her tour. In total, she doled out over $55 million in bonuses to staff, including dancers, crew, and caterers in what's not only a win for those workers but the economy too...

"The only thing more rare than an open seat at Taylor Swift concert this year is a slowdown of the US consumer," Jamie Cox, managing partner at Harris Financial Group, told Insider...

"Barbenheimer"

Another promising sign for the economy is the "Barbenheimer" phenomenon. The release of "Barbie" and "Oppenheimer" on the same day last month not only breathed new life into struggling movie theaters following the pandemic, but has also driven wider consumer spending on entertainment, Bank of America noted.

The Wall Street bank said in a note that its cardholders have spent 23.7% more on entertainment in the week ending July 29 compared with the same period last year. "'Barbenheimer' likely drove the continued surge in year-on-year entertainment spending growth," analysts Shruti Mishra and Aditya Bhave wrote in a note.

Meanwhile, AMC Theatres posted record revenues in its 103-year history between July 21 and July 27, when "Barbenheimer" were finally released after months of publicity.

In two weeks, "Barbie and "Oppenheimer" have grossed hundreds of millions each, with Greta Gerwig's life in plastic-themed film set to make at least $1 billion at the global box office...'

#Taylor Swift #Barbie #Oppenheimer #Greta Gerwig #AMC Theatres #Barbenheimer

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xtruss · 4 years ago

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The Dead Professor and the Vast Pro-India Disinformation Campaign

— By Abid Hussain & Shruti Menon | BBC Urdu & BBC Reality Check | December 10, 2020

captionThe UN Human Rights Council meets at least three times a year and reviews UN member states' rights records

A dead professor and numerous defunct organisations were resurrected and used alongside at least 750 fake media outlets in a vast 15-year global disinformation campaign to serve Indian interests, a new investigation has revealed.

The man whose identity was stolen was regarded as one of the founding fathers of international human rights law, who died aged 92 in 2006.

"It is the largest network we have exposed," said Alexandre Alaphilippe, executive director of EU DisinfoLab, which undertook the investigation and published an extensive report on Wednesday.

The network was designed primarily to "discredit Pakistan internationally" and influence decision-making at the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) and European Parliament, EU DisinfoLab said.

EU DisinfoLab partially exposed the network last year but now says the operation is much larger and more resilient than it first suspected.

REVEALED: Indian Chronicles – how a massive 15-year influence operation successfully targeted the EU & UN with 750+ fake local media and 10+ zombie-NGOs. Executive Summary & full report: http://indianchronicles.eu Here are the facts 👇 (1/n) (EU DisinfoLab @disinfoEU)

There is no evidence the network is linked to India's government, but it relies heavily on amplifying content produced on fake media outlets with the help of Asian News International (ANI) - India's largest wire service and a key focus of the investigation.

The EU DisinfoLab researchers, who are based in Brussels, believe the network's purpose is to disseminate propaganda against India's neighbour and rival Pakistan. Both countries have long sought to control the narrative against the other.

Last year, the researchers uncovered 265 pro-Indian sites operating across 65 countries, and traced them back to a Delhi-based Indian holding company, the Srivastava Group (SG).

Wednesday's report, titled Indian Chronicles, reveals that the operation, run by SG, is spread over at least 116 countries and has targeted members of the European Parliament and the United Nations - raising questions about how much EU and UN staff knew about SG's activities, and whether they could have done more to counter those activities, especially after last year's report.

Mr Alaphilippe said the EU DisinfoLab researchers had never encountered such co-ordination between different stakeholders to spread disinformation.

"During the last 15 years, and even after being exposed last year, the fact that this network managed to operate so effectively shows the sophistication and the drive of the actors behind Indian Chronicles," he said.

Some of the many news sites the investigation found to be fake

"You need more than a few computers to plan and sustain such an action," he said.

The researchers cautioned against "definitively attributing Indian Chronicles to some specific actors such as Indian intelligence services" without further investigation.

Ben Nimmo, a disinformation network expert, told the BBC the uncovered network was "one of the most persistent and complex operations" he had seen, but he too was wary of attributing it to a specific actor.

Mr Nimmo, who is director of investigations at digital monitoring firm Graphika, cited previous examples of privately-run large-scale troll operations. "Just because they're big, it doesn't necessarily mean they're directly run by the state," he said.

The BBC approached the Indian government for comment but had received no response by the time of publication.

Of ghosts and defunct NGOs

One of the most important findings of the open-source investigation was establishing direct links between the Srivastava Group (SG) and at least 10 UN-accredited NGOs, along with several others, which were used to promote Indian interests and criticise Pakistan internationally.

"In Geneva, these think tanks and NGOs are in charge of lobbying, of organising demonstrations, speaking during press conferences and UN side-events, and they were often given the floor at the UN on behalf of the accredited organisations," the report says.

The investigation shows that the operation led by SG began in late 2005, a few months after the UNHRC was founded in its current form.

One particular NGO which caught the eye of the researchers was the Commission to Study the Organisation of Peace (CSOP). The CSOP was founded in the 1930s and won UN-accreditation in 1975 but became inactive later in the 1970s.

The investigation found that a former chairman of the CSOP - Prof Louis B Sohn, one of the 20th Century's leading international law scholars and a Harvard Law faculty member for 39 years - was listed under the name Louis Shon as a CSOP participant at the UNHRC session in 2007 and at a separate event in Washington DC in 2011.

The listings shocked the researchers because Prof Sohn died in 2006.

Louis B Sohn "appeared" at events years after he died

The authors dedicated their investigation to the professor's memory, writing that his name had been "usurped by the malicious actors in this report". They said CSOP "had been resurrected, and its identity hijacked in 2005 by the same actors depicted in our first investigation".

The investigation also shows there were several hundred pro-Indian interventions by the non-accredited NGOs, which were repeatedly given the floor at the UNHRC on behalf of the accredited organisations, pursuing the same agenda of maligning Pakistan.

On other occasions, NGOs and organisations which seemingly had nothing to do with Pakistan or India according to their stated objectives would get the opportunity to speak at the UNHRC and target Pakistan.

In March 2019, during the UNHRC's 40th session, United Schools International (USI), another UN-accredited organisation with direct links to SG, allowed its slot to be used by Yoana Barakova, a research analyst with an Amsterdam-based think-tank called the European Foundation for South Asian Studies (EFSAS).

Ms Barakova spoke about "atrocities committed by Pakistan" during the session. She told the BBC that EFSAS was a partner with USI and she was "not responsible for organisational logistics". The BBC received no reply when it contacted the director of EFSAS, who also represented USI at the same session to criticise Pakistan.

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The primary news agency re-packaging and boosting pro-India content related to SG appears to be ANI, established in 1971, which describes itself as "South Asia's leading multimedia news agency, with more than 100 bureaus in India, South Asia and across the globe". Indian news media, especially broadcast media, thrive on content provided by ANI.

EU DisinfoLab found at least 13 instances of ANI re-publishing mostly anti-Pakistan and sometimes anti-China op-eds by Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), originally published on EU Chronicle, one of the fake news sites linked to SG.

EU Chronicle was born in May this year when EP Today, a site flagged in the previous disinformation report, was simply discontinued and renamed.

The EU DisinfoLab report said: "The actors behind the operation hijacked the names of others, tried to impersonate regular media such as the EU Observer... used the letterhead of the European Parliament, registered websites under avatars with fake phone numbers, provided fake addresses to the United Nations, created publishing companies to print books of the think-tanks they owned.

"They used layers of fake media that would quote and republish one another. They used politicians who genuinely wanted to defend women or minority rights to ultimately serve geopolitical interests and gave a platform to far-right politicians when convergent objectives could be reached."

Protesters demonstrate against Pakistan outside the UNHRC in Geneva last year

Mr Alaphilippe said the news agency ANI was being used to give legitimacy to the entire "influence operation", which relied "more on ANI than on any other distribution channel" to give it "both credibility and a wide reach to its content".

ANI's news reports have found space in many mainstream Indian news outlets and publishers. Its content was further reproduced on more than 500 fake media websites across 95 countries, the researchers found.

Demonstrations in Europe conducted by organisations linked to the Srivastava Group have also been covered by ANI, as well as by fake media websites linked to SG.

Focus on the EU and UN

According to the findings of the investigation, the disinformation network had a two-pronged strategy to spread influence.

In Geneva, the think-tanks and NGOs were in charge of lobbying and protesting, and taking the floor at the UNHRC on behalf of accredited organisations.

In Brussels, the focus was on the MEPs, who were taken on international trips and solicited to write "exclusive" op-eds for fake outlets like EU Chronicle, which would then be amplified using ANI, the researchers found.

A group of MEPs appear regularly in the investigation. One of them, French MEP Thierry Mariani, has written two op-eds for EU Chronicle and was also part of a controversial visit to Indian-administered Kashmir last year.

"If the Indian government is behind the newspaper [EU Chronicle], it is not my problem," Mr Mariani, a member of France's far-right National Rally, told the BBC.

Organisers and delegation members met Indian PM Narendra Modi during the MEPs' controversial 2019 Kashmir trip

"I sign what I want and I feel, it is my opinion. I have connections in [India's governing] Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) and I support the government of [Narendra] Modi," he said.

Two other MEPs named in the report - Angel Dzhambazki from Bulgaria and Grzegorz Tobiszowski from Poland - denied having written op-eds that were published on EU Chronicle.

The articles under their names were also reproduced on ANI.

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Asked what the EU is doing to fight disinformation networks, EU spokesperson on foreign affairs Peter Stano pointed to the action taken to expose EP Today last year.

"Exposing the disinformation and those who spread it is one of our main instruments," he told the BBC. "We will continue to identify them and call them out."

But he said questions about finances and transparency of NGOs registered in Brussels were for Belgian authorities to answer.

Rolando Gomez, a spokesperson for the UNHRC, told the BBC that it was the prerogative of NGOs to raise whichever issue they wish to address and whoever they grant space to speak on the floor.

"There are no rules stating that an NGO must speak to specific issues. Doing so would amount to infringing on their freedom of speech," Mr Gomez said.

The International Institute of Non-aligned Studies is UN-accredited and openly linked with the Srivastava Group

Gary Machado, managing director of EU DisinfoLab, said he thought the muted reaction to the revelation of the disinformation network was partly because it was "clearly managed by Indian stakeholders".

"Imagine if the same operation was run by China or Russia. How do you think the world would have reacted? Probably with international outrage, leading to public inquiries and probably sanctions," he told the BBC.

But the activities of MEPs named in the report prompted criticism from some of their colleagues.

MEP Daniel Freund from the Greens said fellow members needed to declare their activities.

"There have been at least 24 breaches of rules in the past years. Not a single violation has been sanctioned. So there is little incentive to respect the rules when the worst that can happen is to file a declaration after you have been caught," he said.

Another member, who did not want to be named, said MEPs contributing to sites like EU Chronicles had been identified as "election tourists".

"A ragtag group of MEPs from the bottom of the parliamentary barrel who prefer to travel on sponsored trips by unsavoury governments rather than invest in their mandate," the MEP told the BBC. "How PR stunts with such individuals could be even conceived as helpful is baffling."

The BBC put questions to ANI and to nine other MEPs who have written op-eds for the EU Chronicle and made visits to India, Bangladesh and the Maldives, but received no response.

Who are the Srivastavas - and what next?

The investigations from last year and this year show a man called Ankit Srivastava at the centre of the entire global operation that was uncovered. More than 400 domain names have been bought through Mr Srivastava's private email address or through email addresses belonging to his organisations, the EU DisinfoLab investigations found.

The Srivastava office gate, with the Indian Institute for Non-Aligned Studies and New Delhi Times on the right

Then, there's a case of the mysterious SG-owned tech firm Aglaya. Its website has been inaccessible since at least February this year but in the past the company has advertised products for "hacking/spy tools" and "information warfare services".

Aglaya's marketing brochure mentioned the ability to "hamper country level reputations" and described some of its services as "Cyber Nukes". In a 2017 interview with Forbes magazine, a man called Ankur Srivastava claimed he "only sold to Indian intelligence agencies".

It's unclear what relation, if any, he has to Ankit Srivastava.

A third Srivastava appears to be Dr Pramila Srivastava, chairperson of the group and mother of Ankit Srivastava.

Dr Harshindar Kaur, a paediatrician from the Indian state of Punjab, told the EU DisinfoLab researchers that in 2009 she had been invited to the UNHRC in Geneva to give a lecture on female foeticide when she was threatened by a woman called Dr P Srivastava, who claimed to be a "very senior government official from India".

Dr Kaur told the BBC it was Pramila Srivastava who had threatened her.

The BBC emailed Ankit Srivastava asking him to respond to this and the other allegations in the report, but received no reply. When the BBC visited the firm's offices in Delhi's Safdarjung Enclave, staff there would not answer questions.

What might happen to the network, or how it might evolve, in the light of the latest investigation is unclear.

The authors of Indian Chronicles say their findings "should serve as a call to action for decision-makers to put in place a relevant framework to sanction actors abusing international institutions".

Mr Alaphilippe said following the 2019 investigation there had been "no official communication, no sanction, nothing. This passivity gave a message to Indian Chronicles: you've been exposed, but no consequences".

"We think there should be consequences to disinformation and we expect actions to be taken. The biggest failure from institutions would be if another report is released next year on the same actors with the same techniques," he told the BBC.

"This would mean that EU institutions are ok with foreign interference."

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coldsore-sound · 4 years ago

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KEMIA / COLDSORE

KEMIA / COLDSORE by KEMIA / COLDSORE

This is the 3rd release KEMIA is involved in on TOTES FORMAT. This time on a split release with COLDSORE, in which both projects explore the lower realms of experimental electronic music. Nothing really new for both of us, but still, it feels like we managed to dive a little deeper with sounds emerging from elevated levels of (de-)pressions. Fragments of forgotten field recordings mangled and/or layered into [myzik kɔ̃kʁɛt] burdening, menacing and melancholic, loops and minimal melodies creating pulsating mazes, opening up into vast horizons, just to cave in to claustrophobic spheres in which breathing seems impossible. Capturing moments and freezing time to make it possible to connect and try to make sense(s). Decoding resonances to physical and psychological environments into a conserved acoustic signal. [a tape version is in the making.]

here’s some field-notes for the COLDSORE track: The work of memory collapses time. the first ever recording of me playing (with) a guitar - the musical instrument of the colonizers - as i used to call it, when people, usual white men have grabbed the communal guitar in the main house of the anti-motorway protest camp in the squatted forest, i used to live in. they started to play without asking, if any of the ears around want to listen. most were ok, it seemed, but i was bored to death by the ever repeating tunes (it took decades for me to be positively touched by BELLA CIAO again). sometimes, when sitting alone, on the rat-infested sofas, i took the instrument myself, to play it my way, for my ears. much to the annoyance of people who came in, thinking someone plays a conventional song. i don't recall one time i was not asked to stop or pass the instrument to someone who can actually play. we also hear field recordings of a 'harvester', a multi-purpose forest destruction machine, that has been part of the vast clear cut around my forest exile. there are also sounds of a unconventional strong and out of season hail fall, that has destroyed parts of my vegetable plants this year, one of those mass-produced shruti-boxes and a big electrical turbine that is used to dry grain in an old wooden barn. the title is a quote of the text 'On the Concept of History' by Walter Benjamin, of which you can find an english translation over here: www.sfu.ca/~andrewf/CONCEPT2.html if you prefer the original german version, it can be found here: www.textlog.de/benjamin-begriff-geschichte.html this work is inspired (a result of?)) by many traumatic experiences of mine, that i wanted to write about more here, but failed. it is mostly about the eviction of my above mentioned home, which has been in '98 and got me fall into the deep end of my anyway heavy depressions and added up some serious PTSD on top of that. in the recent years that really kicks in hard and a bunch of serious re-trigger moments have made me realize how bad i am actually doing. the re-triggering occurred while following the recent evictions and destruction of other occupied forests that people try to save from the greed for money made by coal mining or by building motorways, but at the same time create places to live lives in common, based on anarchic ideals. something that is in most parts of society not exactly possible and which poses a danger to the status quo, in which a dominant system based on capitalism, white supremacy and patriarchy and it's resulting forms of oppression, like anthropocentrism choke every non-conforming act either under a boot or in a deadly embrace. FULL SOLIDARITY WITH THE STRUGGLE IN ALL OCCUPIED FORESTS (especially HAMBACHER WALD & DANNENRÖEDER WALD)! MAY THE RAIN OF SHIT ON COPS AND ALL STATE HENCHMEN NEVER STOP! THEY ARE ALL BASTARDS! MAY THE BRIBED POLITICIANS CHOKE WITH THE NEXT BREATH THEY TRY TO TAKE! THEY ARE RESPONSIBLE!

#totes format #kemia #coldsore #release #split tape #noise #drone #acab #thewordforworldisforest #walter benjamin

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obedmanwatkar · 5 years ago

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#Basavanna

“The rich will make temples for Siva. What shall I, a poor man, do? My legs are pillars, the body the shrine, the head the cupola of gold. Listen o Lord, standing things shall fall, that which moves shall stay”

―Prophet Basavanna the Great.

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Today is the anniversary of Legendary Basavanna (1134- 1196 A.D), the founder of monotheist Lingayat Movement.

We know the story of Apostle Thomas the disciple of Jesus Christ was Murdered in south India by a BRAHMIN.

And later on, entire Christianity was Hijacked and Brahminized/Hinduised.

They invented Indian Christian Theology, in other words, Indian BRAHMIN theology which failed to inspire masses and annihilate the evil caste system.

Till today entire Indian Christian religion including modern day evangelical Christianity of India, stands on Justifying Caste as Christian way of life by seeking Christ in Evil Sanskrit/Brahmin literature like Vedas/Geeta/Mahabharata/Ramayana/Upanishads etc, to escape from this criticism BRAHMIN Christian Theologians (both south Indians and North Indians) title this hijacking process as ‘Contextualization’.

On the other hand, the masses were mystified by MAYA (Illusion) view of life.

Brahmins/Aryans Dominated society and snatched the priesthood from OBCs/DALITS/TRIBALS 93% population of India and DEMONIZED the GOD of the Bible i.e. GOD of India's marginalized people in their Literature and they themselves became 'gods on earth' (Aham Brahmasmi).

Their doctrine of KARMA, Polytheism snubbed and Silenced the revolting spirit of the people. Superstitions and crude beliefs reigned the mindsets of people. It was such on a reactionary horizon that Subaltern Non-Brahminical/Non-Hindu Dravidian Christianity Revolutionary movement rose up and later Merged into Shaivism which later in 1134- 1196 A.D under the leadership of 'BASAVANNA' produced an organized movement Called 'LINGAYATISM'.

This Monotheistic Anti idol, Anti Caste, Anti Brahminical/Hindu/Vaishnavite, Non-Sanskrit literature (Vedas/Geeta/Ramayana/Shrutis/smritis etc). Under the Leadership of BASAVANNA roused the masses by X Raying the religious and philosophical tenets of BRAHMINISM/HINDUISM/SANATAN DHARMA. Even Brahminized Buddhism, Brahminized Jainism, Brahminized Islam, and Brahminized Christian Religion was cross-examined.

BASAVANNA Like 'Moses ' was a mass prophet He gave the priesthood back to the OBCs/Dalits/Tribals, He introduced intercaste dinings, intercaste marriages etc etc. He also established institutions like ‘anubhav mantap’ meaning the 'Tabernacle of experience of the mercy of God of all nations', which can be titled as ‘The world’s first ever anti-race, anti-caste, gender inclusive diverse parliament’ in the history of humankind, where the process of increasing knowledge, having debates and developing the liberating philosophy was undertaken. Women also took part in this movement.

Akka Mahadevi was one of the leading female leaders of his Movement. Basavanna was murdered by casteist/Brahminical forces and his literature got almost demolished. But some of his followers were successful in saving the main aspects of his preaching. We take the brave and great revolutionary tradition of Basavanna forward and We salute Basavanna the Great soul. Brahmins tried to Hijack this movement too and kept promoting the LIE that Lingayats are Hindus, Basavanna’s Followers were fighting for their independent Identity for many years and finally, they got it a year ago.

Long Live the Legacy of BASAVANNA the great soul. Long Live the Revolutionary Subaltern Debrahminized Movement of resistance.

Sharnu Sharnarthi!

Obed Manwatkar

#UprootBrahminism #AbolishCasteSystem

#LetTheKingdomCome

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dilbecharafullmoviedownloa-blog1 · 4 years ago

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So, dear web series lovers, you don’t need a Disney Hotstar Specials video subscription to see this exclusive web series, which will hit theaters in India in 2020. The Hundred will be shown on the film’s official YouTube channel on July 6, 2020. You can also watch the Dil Bechara movie on Netflix, Hulu, Amazon Prime Video and other online streaming services.

The filmmakers of Dil Bechara have revealed the release date, the trailer has been released and the enthusiasm of the fans of the youngest actor has made it the most anticipated film of the year. Directed by Mukesh Chhabra of Fox Star Studios, it is set to be released on Disney Hotstar on July 24, 2020.

The untimely death of Sushant Singh Rajput has left his fans and the industry mourning the loss of this wonderful soul of an actor. Fans will break records to remember the late actor and we all mourn with him.

Directed by Mukesh Chhabra, it will be released on OTT platforms on July 24, 2020 and will feature Sushant Singh Rajput, Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Manoj Bajpai, Anurag Kashyap and others. SUSHANT SPARKAR’S highly anticipated film, Dil Chahara 2020, will be one of the most popular films as there will be a lot of excitement and excitement for its theatrical release. Streaming is scheduled for July 24, 2020, and we will see SaifAli Khan in a new role as the film’s lead actor.

The trailer for the film was recently released and took the internet by storm, becoming the most-read movie trailer in recent days. The trailer by Dil Bechara shows a blossoming love story between two central characters, played by Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi. Saif Ali Khan, Abhishek Bachchan, Manoj Bajpai, Anurag Kashyap and others recently spoke to a news outlet where he was asked to share his thoughts on the makers “decision not to see him in the trailer. Dil Chahara is not there, but the trailer for this film.

The helpless lady of the heart in the upcoming - of - age drama Dil Chahara 2020, the directorial debut of Mukesh Chhabra. Based on the novel of the same name by Kizie Aur Manny (translated), it is called "Kizies Aur Miguel” or “Manny” in translation and stars Abhishek Bachchan, Ali Fazlul Haque, Manoj Tiwari, Anurag Kashyap, Shruti Haasan and Manish Srivastava.

The film’s theatrical release has been postponed several times, but Sushant Singh Rajput’s fans have rallied to ensure the actor’s final film is released.

This Hindi film of the coming age is based on the story of Dil Chahara (translated “helpless heart”), a young girl in the middle of her life.

The film, directed by Mukesh Chhabra, was originally scheduled to hit Indian cinemas in May, but was postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic. The studio has decided to release Dil Bechara instead on streaming services, and it will soon appear on Disney Hotstar.

The film was due to hit theaters on May 8, but has been postponed indefinitely due to the coronavirus lockout. However, the actor’s fans have expressed a desire to see his final film in the cinema as a tribute to him. With the film already ready for release, Disney Hotstar will release it as soon as Rajput dies this week.

The film will be released in India on May 8, 2018 and the US on June 1, 2019, with a theatrical release in China on June 2, 2020.

The Bollywood film Student Year 2, distributed by Fox Star Studios, is set to hit theaters on May 10, 2019. Watch the trailer for the Dil Chahara 2020 Hindi film below, which will be released on Monday, July 6.

Directed by famed casting director Mukesh Chhabra, the film is based on the story of a terminally ill main character who explores the beautifully nuanced notion of death and its connection with humanity. The scene in the hospital Kizie - Sanjana can make Nikkhil Advani go down in history as one of the most memorable moments in the history of Bollywood films. Rajkumar Hirani, who is very close to Sanjay Dutt, delivers a superb performance as the terminally ill character in Dil Chahara.

The first season of Mirzapur was released in 2018 and fans have been waiting for it ever since. The second season of Dil Chahara, the third and final episode of the series, was released on October 2, 2018.

Kabir Khan is captain of the Indian men’s ice hockey team and lives a middle-class lifestyle with his widowed mother and wife. PK was the first major Indian film to hit US theaters after the 2014 release of Dil Chahara.

Dil Bechara Full movie download in HD 720p from Filmywap

The Indian army is planning a similar action after 59 Chinese apps were banned in the US in 2015 under the country’s anti-terror laws.

The blog has provided a detailed report on the Hindi film Dil Chahtaa 2020 and its plot. The sci-fi film is being shot with a massive budget of 500 million rupees and is set to hit theaters on July 24, 2020. Saif Ali Khan is starring alongside Amitabh Bachchan, Shah Rukh Khan, Anil Kapoor, Manoj Bajpai and Manish Tiwari.

The trailer for the film was recently released and took the internet by storm after becoming the most-read movie trailer in India. The Dil Bechara trailer showed a blossoming love story between the two central characters, played by Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi. However, the makers did not show Saif Ali Khan in the trailer and he was removed from the internet after becoming one of the most popular movie trailers.

Dil Bechara with Sushant Singh Rajput and Sanjana Sanghi was released digitally on Disney Hotstar on July 24. Saif recently spoke to a news outlet where he was asked to share his thoughts on the fact that Dil BeChara does not feature any of his favorite actors from his past films.

The film is a tribute to Sushant, who died of a heart attack on June 14 after a long battle with cancer at the age of 52.

Dil Bechara Full movie download in HD 720p from Filmywap

Dil Bechara is based on the book “The Fault” by star John Green, which was made into a Hollywood film of the same name in 2014. It is based on his best-selling book “A Mistake in the Stars,” which was also adapted for the Hollywood film of the same name.

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Ten Interesting Nepali Novels

1)Palpasa Café (narayan wagle)

Palpasa Café tells the story of an artist, Drishya, during the height of the Nepalese Civil War. The novel is partly a love story of Drishya and the first generation American Nepali, Palpasa, who has returned to the land of her parents after 9/11. It is often called an anti-war novel, and describes the effects of the civil war on the Nepali countryside that Drishya travels to.

2)Unlikely Storytellers (bikash sangruala) The book focuses on a central character Deepak, a journalist and the stories are woven around the characters during the insurgency period of Nepal. The book has themes of lost childhood, love, sex, marital infidelity, war, guilt and more.

“https://publicationnepalaya.com/book/unlikely-storytellers”

3)Titled earth (manjushree thapa)

Startlingly original and closely observed stories that capture the dynamism and diversity of Nepali society in a time of great flux In Tilled Earth several compressed, poetic and deeply evocative micro-stories offer fleeting glimpses of small, private dramas of people caught midlife: an elderly woodworker loses his way in a modern Kathmandu neighbourhood; a homesick expatriate nurses a hangover; a clerk at the Ministry of Home Affairs learns to play Solitaire on the computer; a young man is drawn to politics against his better judgement; a child steals her classmateâ€™s book . . . The longer stories in the collection, too,span a wide course, taking subjects from rural and urban Nepal as well as from the Nepali diaspora abroad. In â€˜Tilled Earthâ€™ a young woman goes to Seattle as a student, and finds herself becoming an illegal alien. â€˜Love Marriageâ€™ is an inner narration by a young man whoâ€”defying family pressureâ€”falls in love with a woman of the wrong caste. In â€˜The Buddha in the Earth-Touching Postureâ€™, a retired secretary visits the Buddhaâ€™s birthplace, Lumbini, only to find his deepest insecurities exposed. With their unexpected, inventive forms, these stories reveal the authorâ€™s deep love of language and commitment to craft. Manjushree Thapa pushes the styles of her stories to match the distinctiveness of their content, emerging confidently as a skilled innovator and formalist.

“ https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions/products/tilled-earth”

4)While the Gods were Sleeping: A journey Through Love and Rebellion in Nepal (Elizabeth Enslin)

The Constituent Assembly of Nepal, in its very first meeting, abolished the monarchy in May 2008. After that watershed event, however, the way forward has been stalled by vexing questions. How is power in such a fractious polity to be shared? Which form of governance is best suited to the country - republicanism? federalism? How are the excesses of the decade long civil war to be reckoned? How is the People's Liberation Army to be integrated with the Nepal Army? To what extent should neighbours be allowed to interfere in the internal politics of the nation? And why is it that the Constituent Assembly, years after it was elected, cannot draft a Constitution that is acceptable to all? In The Lives We Have Lost, Manjushree Thapa asks these vital questions and many others. In seeking answers, finds the nation still muddling its way from crisis to crisis, in desperate search of a centre that will hold.

“https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions/products/the-lives-we-have-lost-essays-and-opinions-on-nepal”

5)Buddha's Orphans( samrat upadhyay)

Called “a Buddhist Chekhov” by the San Francisco Chronicle, Samrat Upadhyay’s writing has been praised by Amitav Ghosh and Suketu Mehta, and compared with the work of Akhil Sharma and Jhumpa Lahiri.

Upadhyay’s new novel, Buddha’s Orphans, uses Nepal’s political upheavals of the past century as a backdrop to the story of an orphan boy, Raja, and the girl he is fated to love, Nilu, a daughter of privilege.Their love story scandalizes both families and takes readers through time and across the globe, through the loss of and search for children, and through several generations, hinting that perhaps old bends can, in fact, be righted in future branches of a family tree.

Buddha’s Orphans is a novel permeated with the sense of how we are irreparably connected to the mothers who birthed us and of the way events of the past, even those we are ignorant of, inevitably haunt the present. But most of all it is an engrossing, unconventional love story and a seductive

and transporting read.

“https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions/products/buddhas-orphans-a-novel”

6)Blue Mimosa(parijat) Shirish ko Phool is one of the best Nepali Nobel

of Parijat. Shirish is the beautiful flower, shirish is also known as Mimosa.

Parijat originally known as Bishnu Kumari Waiwa is great Nepali Novelist who

has won prestigious Madan Puraskar for her great Nepali Novel Shirish ko Phool

in 2022. Blue Mimosa is the translated version of the novel Shirish ko Phool

which has also been adapted in the literature curriculum of some colleges in

some English-speaking countries. This program was recorded from Ujayalo FM

(Shruti sambeg ) with a very beautiful voice of Achyut Ghimire .I can't forget

to that Achyut Ghimire's contribution for his talented voice.

“https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10579671-blue-mimosa”

7)The City Son: A Novel(Samrat Upadhyay)

In The City Son, acclaimed and award-winning author Samrat Upadhyay has crafted a spare, understated work examining a thorny subject: a scorned wife s obsession with her husband's illegitimate son.

When Didi discovers that her husband, the Masterji, has been hiding his beautiful lover and their young son Tarun in a nearby city, she takes the Masterji back into her grasp and expels his second family. Tarun s mother, heartsick and devastated, slowly begins to lose her mind, and Tarun…

“https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions”

8)Other side of the Paradise(Kenny Pandey)

Sadhu predicts the end of the world. As the East and West come together, a young boy longs to taste cheese. A monsoon thunderstorm awakens memories of a flood. A young man returns from India and encounters the New Buddha. And a hungry policeman steals some vegetables. Amidst desire, longing and the awareness of suffering, these stories ask the common question: What is the nature of existence? Why do we suffer? Can we ever fulfill the hunger of the human heart?

“https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions/products/the-end-of-the-world-a-collection-of-short-stories”

9)The Lazy Conman and Other Stories: Folktales from Nepal(Ajit Baral)

Do you not have eyes? Canâ€™t you see that I am watering my tree?â€™ The merchant said, â€˜But there are clothes on the branches.â€™ â€˜Yes, I would expect a clothes-tree to grow clothesâ€”wouldnâ€™t you?â€™ Kakaji is a lazy man, much given to sitting around, until, one day, his wife kicks him out in a rage. After a series of adventuresâ€”which involve a tree that bears clothes and a dancing bear that shits silver coinsâ€”Kakaji comes home rich and resumes his…

“https://vajrabookshop.com/categories/nepalese-fictions/”

10)Summer Love(subin Bhattarai) here was crowd to see the entrance result in Central Department of Environmental Science, Kirtipur. In the notice board Atit saw the name - Saya in the number one. He did not see Saya but just her name. He was impressed by her name, and when he met the beautiful and talented Saya, he fell in love with her. And their two-years-collage-romance starts…

“https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17371265-summer-love”

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historical materialism - (free online) issue 26(2): identity politics

Introduction

Marxist Interventions into Contemporary Debates

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/marxist-interventions-into-contemporary-debates

Ashok Kumar, Dalia Gebrial, Adam Elliott-Cooper, Shruti Iyer

This special issue responds to ongoing debates around what has been termed ‘identity politics’. We aim to intervene in what are make-or-break questions for the Left today. Specifically, we wish to provoke further interrogative but comradely conversation that works towards breaking-down the wedge between vulgar economism and vulgar culturalism. Critically, we maintain that just as all identity categories are spatially and temporally contingent – socially constructed, yet naturalised – so too is this current bifurcation between ‘class politics’ and ‘identity politics’. Ultimately, we call for an intellectual and organisational embracing of the complexity of identity as it figures in contemporary conditions; being a core organising-principle of capitalism as it functions today, a paradigm that Leftist struggle can be organised through and around – and yet all with a recognition of the necessity of historicising, and ultimately abolishing, these categories along with capitalism itself.

Genealogies

Identity and Identity Politics. A Cultural Materialist History

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/identity-and-identity-politics

Marie Moran

This paper draws on the cultural-materialist paradigm articulated by Raymond Williams to offer a radical historicisation of identity and identity-politics in capitalist societies. A keywords analysis reveals surprisingly that identity, as it is elaborated in the familiar categories of personal and social identity, is a relatively novel concept in Western thought, politics and culture. The claim is not the standard one that people’s ‘identities’ became more important and apparent in advanced capitalist societies, but that identity itself came to operate as a new and key mechanism for construing, shaping and narrating experiences of selfhood and grouphood in this period. From a cultural-materialist perspective, the emergence and evolution of this idea of identity can only be properly understood in relation to the social contexts of its use, namely, the new contexts of consumption of capitalist societies, and the development of new forms of group-based struggle from the 1960s. What the analysis shows is that it was the commercialisation and politicisation of older essentialist understandings of selfhood and grouphood in these contexts that has given rise to the concepts of personal and social identity as we know them today. By exploring the material conditions that have given rise to the contemporary powerful attachment to ‘identity’, this paper offers a new point of departure from which to pursue many issues of concern to critical theorists and radical activists today, including the conflict over identity politics in radical circles, the historical and social processes behind their development and at least partial co-option, and their relation to neoliberal political-economic formations today.

Intersectionality and Marxism. A Critical Historiography

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/intersectionality-and-marxism

Ashley J. Bohrer

In recent years, there has been renewed interest in conceptualising the relationship between oppression and capitalism as well as intense debate over the precise nature of this relationship. No doubt spurred on by the financial crisis, it has become increasingly clear that capitalism, both historically and in the twenty-first century, has had particularly devastating effects for women and people of colour. Intersectionality, which emerged in the late twentieth century as a way of addressing the relationship between race, gender, sexuality and class, has critiqued orthodox Marxism for its inattention to the complex dynamics of various social locations; in turn Marxist thinkers in the twenty-first century have engaged with intersectionality, calling attention to the impoverished notion of class and capitalism on which it relies. As intersectionality constitutes perhaps the most common way that contemporary activists and theorists on the left conceive of identity politics, an analysis of intersectionality’s relationship to Marxism is absolutely crucial for historical materialists to understand and consider. This paper looks at the history of intersectionality’s and Marxism’s critiques of one another in order to ground a synthesis of the two frameworks. It argues that in the twenty-first century, we need a robust, Marxist analysis of capitalism, and that the only robust account of capitalism is one articulated intersectionally, one which treats class, race, gender and sexuality as fundamental to capitalist accumulation.

History from Within. Identity and Interiority

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/history-from-within

Hannah Proctor

Critics of ‘identity politics’ tend to assume that any exploration of subjective experience is tantamount to an affirmation of liberal individualism. This essay attempts to counteract this assumption through an analysis of case histories and research publications by twentieth century psychoanalysts and psychologists. Such texts demonstrate the ways in which even the most ephemeral psychological experiences – dreams, fantasies, desires – are bound up with structural forms of oppression. Furthermore, these texts – through processes of abstraction, generalization and classification – indicate ways in which interiorities clash up against externally defined identity categories; oppression is lived but lived experience also exceeds and complicates identity.

Afro-Pessimism and the (Un)Logic of Anti-Blackness

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/afro-pessimism-and-unlogic-anti-blackness

Annie Olaloku-Teriba

In the coming months and years, the left faces a historic juncture. On the one hand, racist violence is on the rise across the West, and the political class seems intent on mobilising both overt and subtle racism. On the other hand, strategies of anti-racist organising, which have developed on both sides of the Atlantic, have reached a theoretical impasse. Now, more than ever, a serious project of historical and intellectual retrieval is necessary. This article interrogates the theoretical limitations of ‘anti-blackness’ as an analysis of racialised oppression. Through the thought of Frantz Fanon and Steve Biko, among others, this paper argues that theories of ‘anti-blackness’, specifically those rooted in Afro-pessimism, are predicated on a theoretical shift away from relational social theory to identitarian essentialism which obscures, rather than illuminates, the processes of racialisation which undergird racial oppression.

The State

Feminism Against Crime Control. On Sexual Subordination and State Apologism

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/feminism-against-crime-control

Koshka Duff

Its critics call it ‘feminism-as-crime-control’, or ‘Governance Feminism’, diagnosing it as a pernicious form of identity politics. Its advocates call it taking sexual violence seriously – by which they mean wielding the power of the state to ‘punish perpetrators’ and ‘protect vulnerable women’. Both sides agree that this approach follows from the radical feminist analysis of sexual violence most strikingly formulated by Catharine MacKinnon. The aim of this paper is to rethink the Governance Feminism debate by questioning this common presupposition. It asks whether taking MacKinnon’s analysis of sexual violence seriously might, in fact, itself give us reason to be critical of political strategies that embrace the punitive state. By raising this question, this paper aims to persuade radical feminists to listen to critics of carceral politics rather than dismissing them as rape apologists, and critics of carceral politics to listen to radical feminists rather than dismissing them as state apologists.

Judaism, Zionism, and the Nazi Genocide. Jewish Identity Formation in the West between Assimilation and Rejection

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/judaism-zionism-and-nazi-genocide

Sai Englert

This paper explores contemporary Jewish identity-formation and the centrality of official Holocaust memory and Zionism – understood as the ongoing settler-colonial project aiming at the formation and maintenance of a Jewish-exclusivist state in Palestine – to this process. It argues that identity politics within the Jewish community are based on an understanding of identity, which assumes it to be static and individual. In doing so, this political approach reproduces the essentialisation of Jewish communities under the banner of Zionism and official state history. The paper aims to show how this process of identification between Judaism, official Holocaust memory and Zionism has been a state-led process, rooted in the historical development of antisemitism and European colonialism. In order to do so, it builds on a critique of classical Marxist analyses of the Jewish question. It finally proposes a more fluid approach to identity, which understands it as socially constructed, contested, and subject to political contestation.

Forging New Political Identities in the Shanty Towns of Durban, South Africa

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/forging-new-political-identities-shanty-towns-durban-south-africa

Richard Pithouse

This contribution offers some observations with regard to political identities in a popular movement largely based in the shantytowns of Durban, South Africa. It seeks to examine, via more than a decade of immersion and research, one instance of how popular organisation and mobilisation has been mediated through shifting political identities. It argues that if discourse professionals on the left are to become effective actors it will be necessary to take popular political identities a lot more seriously, and to enable mutually transformative engagement between theory and actually-existing forms of popular striving and struggle.

Solidarity

Racism and the Logic of Capitalism A Fanonion Reconsideration

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/racism-and-logic-capitalism

Peter Hudis

The last several decades have produced a slew of important studies by Marxists of the logic of capital, as well as numerous explorations by postcolonial theorists of the narratives that structure racial and ethnic discrimination. Far too often, however, these two currents have assumed different or even opposed trajectories, making it all the harder to transcend one-sided class-reductionist analyses and equally one-sided affirmations of identity that bypass or ignore class. In light of the new reality produced by the deepening crisis of neoliberalism and the looming disintegration of the political order that has defined global capitalism since the end of the Cold War, the time has come to revisit theoretical approaches that can help delineate the integrality of race, class and capitalism.

A ‘Beautiful half hour of being a mere woman’ The Feminist Subject and Temporary Solidarity

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/beautiful-half-hour-being-mere-woman

Lucy Freedman

Taking Mina Loy’s articulation of femininity in her poem ‘One O’Clock at Night’ as a point of departure, I examine a false dichotomy facing contemporary feminism: should we identify with or reject the gender imposed upon us? In conjunction with a materialist analysis which posits women as a class, this paper argues that Loy’s discussion of gender could provide a useful framework with which to critique the ‘soft abolitionist’ approach trending today; a largely online movement which assumes that the individual can permanently sever themselves from the confines of gender and construct an autonomous political subjectivity from this shared (and often openly traumatised) ‘non-identity’. This paper discusses criticisms by trans theorists of the notion that liberation can be located from within gender, and explore ways in which the identification-versus-rejection question has been engaged with in historical feminisms. This includes Monique Wittig’s partial rejection of the term ‘woman’, and a strand of 1970s radical feminism termed (by its critics) ‘the anti-woman line’. In its conclusion, this paper looks to the present – using the feminist-activist group Sisters Uncut as a case study. It asks whether a dialectical praxis, looking to the conversations around ‘identity’ had within historical feminist movements, could inject contemporary feminisms and struggles with a politics of solidarity or political subjecthood, cutting through debates based on narrow understandings of identity and non-identity.

Cultural Formation and Appropriation in Merchant Capitalism

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/cultural-formation-and-appropriation-merchant-capitalism

William Crane

Discussions of ‘cultural appropriation’ in popular culture suffer from an inherited politics of authenticity and ownership originating in a liberal legal–ethical framework. Using Raymond Williams’s and Stuart Hall’s cultural theory, this paper pinpoints the place at which cultural-appropriation discourse goes wrong – an essentialist and anti-historical notion of colonial encounters. We can overcome these limits through Marxist cultural and historical analysis. Outrage about colonial violence which most often roots appropriation discourse is better understood within the context of an account of the transition to capitalism beginning with the Low Countries and its eastern colonies. Furthermore, the Marxist idea of the cosmopolitan cultures of both capital and labour offers a productive path for the history of culture rooted in the same colonial encounter.

Defining My Own Oppression Neoliberalism and the Demands of Victimhood

http://www.historicalmaterialism.org/articles/defining-my-own-oppression

Chi Chi Shi

This article explores a central paradox of contemporary identity-politics: why do we look for recognition from the very institutions we reject as oppressive? The article puts forward the case that neoliberalism’s continued assault on the bases for collectivity has led to a suspicion that ‘the collective’ as an essentialising concept. The assault on the collective coupled with the neoliberal imperative to create an ‘authentic’ self has led to trauma and victimhood becoming the only bases on which people can unite. This manifests discursively and theoretically in the primary trope of contemporary activism: ‘intersectionality’. Mobilising around this analytical concept has led to an analysis of oppression that, even as it claims to be systemic, is totally dematerialised and relentlessly individualised. Instead of building collective power, we are left with a politics of individual demand coming from a coalition of dispersed subject-positions.

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Shruti Rajkumar at HuffPost:

Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.) and far-right commentator Laura Loomer butted heads on social media Wednesday, after Loomer made an egregiously racist post about Vice President Kamala Harris. In a post on X, Loomer said that the White House will “smell like curry” if Harris, who is South Asian, wins the presidential election. “White House speeches will be facilitated via a call center and the American people will only be able to convey their feedback through a customer satisfaction survey at the end of the call that nobody will understand,” Loomer wrote on X in response to a post Harris had made about her family. That went too far for Greene, who jumped to Harris’ defense. “This is appalling and extremely racist. It does not represent who we are as Republicans or MAGA,” she responded. “This does not represent President Trump. This type of behavior should not be tolerated ever.”

Loomer, known for her extreme anti-Muslim beliefs, fired back at Greene in multiple posts attacking her personally, and also doubled down on her smears of Harris. Loomer was seen palling around with Trump as part of his entourage at the Philadelphia airport ahead of the ABC News presidential debate Tuesday night. On Wednesday, she joined Trump in New York to commemorate the anniversary of the 9/11 attacks.

Far-right crackpots Laura Loomer and Marjorie Taylor Greene went after each other over Loomer’s X post that was very derogatory towards Kamala Harris by invoking anti-South Asian bigotry. MTG, however, ripped Loomer for that tweet.

#Laura Loomer #Marjorie Taylor Greene #X #Kamala Harris #South Asians #Asian Americans #Bigotry #Racism

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20 SIGNS OF PSYCHOPATHY

Most often, psychopaths are defined as people who display certain characteristics. These characters are

self-absorbed behavior moral deprivation absence of emotions a complete lack of empathy However, this is a loose definition of psychopath. Psychopaths have many more characteristics than just the ones listed above. If you want to understand the exact characteristics, you are at the right place. Keep on reading to find out how to identify if the person you have been interacting with is a psychopath.

Who are defined as psychopaths?

Unfortunately, there is no gold standard test for identifying a psychopath or falls on the psychopathy spectrum. Many characteristics of psychopathy also overlap with characteristics of anti-social personality disorder.

An anti-social personality disorder is a broad term that describes a mental health issue. The person repeatedly acts out and breaks laws and rules as frequently as possible. The percentage of people with anti-social personality disorder who also have psychopathy is fairly low.

Who are psychopaths?

I hope you are finding this post interesting. If you are, then please subscribe to the Guilt Free Mind. I plan to release more posts on psychopathy and mental health tips. this way, I can notify you about the release of the new blog posts directly in your inbox. If you love to watch videos, please subscribe to the YouTube channel of Guilt Free Mind, Shruti’s Art Studio. Do not forget to hit the notification bell. YouTube will notify you about new video releases.

In this article, I will focus on the most common characteristics of psychopaths and how to recognize if the person in front of you is one.

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Weight loss to heart health: Did you know these amazing benefits of walnuts? | Health

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Weight loss to heart health: Did you know these amazing benefits of walnuts? | Health

Walnuts, the crunchy and delicious tree-based nuts, somewhat resembling the shape of a human brain from inside, are loaded with tremendous benefits. Apart from boosting brain health, several scientific studies have proved that they are excellent for cardiac health, weight loss, promote a healthy gut, and are a good snacking option for diabetes patients.

One ounce of walnuts provides 4 gm protein, 2 gm fibre, lots of manganese, magnesium, phosphorus and zinc, selenium, some vitamin B, loads of E and good fat, according to experts.

Walnuts are an excellent source of plant-based omega-3 ALA (alpha lipoic acid) which helps protect against many diseases. “ALA has many medicinal benefits, they are high on antioxidants and help prevent against liver degeneration, inflammation and aid in improving memory function,” Shruti Bharadwaj, Senior Clinical Dietician, Narayana Hrudalayala Multi Speciality Hospital Ahmedabad, told HT Digital.

ALSO READ: Study reveals eating walnuts daily lowers ‘bad’ cholesterol, may reduce cardiovascular disease risk

Walnuts are a must-have for people aiming to lose weight, with diabetes, heart diseases and pregnant women for their wonderful benefits.

Here are some of the benefits of walnut as per Bharadwaj:

Heart Health

The first amazing benefit of walnuts is their contribution in cardiac health. A good source of Omega 3, walnuts help to decrease the LDL cholesterol in our body.

Weight loss

Nuts like walnuts and almonds are excellent in weight loss because apart from their protein and fibre content, they also provide satiety which is important for weight loss.

“It’s a myth that walnuts are high on calories and fat. Consuming 4-5 walnuts halves or 13 gm each day is ideal and has 87 kilo calories,” says Bharadwaj.

13 gm walnut (5 no.)

Kcal: 87

Protein: 2 gm

Fat: 8 gm

Fiber: 1 gm

Carbs: 1 gm

Brain function

Walnuts are good for your memory and protect against several mental health issue. According to studies, long-term supplementation with walnuts in the diet can significantly improve memory, learning skills, motor coordination, and anxiety-related behavior.

Anti-ageing benefits

Consuming walnuts has many anti-ageing benefits too. Oxidative stress and inflammation play important roles in the aging process, dementia, and many age-related diseases. Walnuts have multiple components with antioxidant and anti-inflammatory effects, which may have additive or synergistic effects in suppressing inflammation and oxidative damage, according to a study.

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A good snacking option for people with diabetes

People with high diabetes, who also have high cholesterol levels or high triglycerides levels can consume walnuts on a daily basis. It has healthy fats and being plant-based source, a good source of omega 3 ALA. There are three main types of omega 3- alpha-linolenic acid (ALA), eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA), and docosahexaenoic acid (DHA). While walnuts have ALA, flaxseeds have the other two kinds of omega 3 i.e. EPA and DHA. ALA is generally present in all plant-based nuts. Every 100 gm of walnuts has 9 gm of ALA which is considered healthy, according to Bharadwaj.

Walnuts being low GI (Glycemic Index) food are recommended for diabetes patients as a good snacking option. 2-3 walnuts or 13 gm of walnuts are ideal. The glycemic load of walnuts per 100 gm is 2 which is considered good.

Beneficial in pregnancy

In pregnancy, walnuts are recommended because omega 3 in them plays an important role in infant’s brain development. The fibre and protein content of walnuts too are important when you are expecting a child.

How many walnuts one should have in a day

“I usually recommend 2-3 whole walnuts to my patients which means 4-6 halves of them. The best time to have them is in evening time between 6 pm to 6:30 pm when people experience hunger pangs or may feel like munching. You can also include walnuts in your breakfast. For people with poor digestion or gastric trouble, the walnuts can be soaked before consumption,” Bharadwaj elaborates on the ideal quantity and the best time to have walnuts.

Who shouldn’t have walnuts

People who have chronic kidney disease (CKD) must take walnuts on the basis of their levels of phosphorous and potassium and must consult a doctor on whether they can have them at all or not.

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Amazing health benefits of Mustard seeds (Sarson) via /r/herbalism

Amazing health benefits of Mustard seeds (Sarson)

MUSTARD SEEDS (SARSON)

Mustard seeds are one the ingredient in the masala/spice box of Indian kitchen. In india it is one of ingredient which is regularly used to make many dishes. Mustard has been used as both food and medicine in Ayurveda. Mustard leaf is considered as a vegetable, while the seeds are used as a condiment and constitute the source of mustard oil. It shows antioxidant, antibacterial, antiinflammatory, carminative, antifungal property.

Mustard oil is used in Indian cooking for preparing pickles to dry vegetables to curries to fried foods. It is particularly common in the Bengali cooking as well as used for cooking in parts of Gujarat, Assam, Orissa, Bihar, Haryana, Punjab, and other parts of India. In Indian kitchens, mustard oil is like the olive oil of India, the “king of all oils.”

It has different names in different languages such as Marathi name(Kalamohare, Shirasi, mohari), Hindi name(Sarson / Rai), English name(Wild turnip), Kannada name(Sasive), Telugu name(Nallavalu, Avalu), Tamil name(Karuppukkadugadi), Bengali name(Sarisha), Punjabi name(Sareya, Rai), Banarasi name(rai, Kalee sarson).

Vitamins and minerals content

Vitamins : A, C, E, K, B complex, folates

Minerals : calcium, copper, manganese, iron, magnesium, selenium, zinc, sodium, potassium

• Excellent source of essential B complex vitamins

• It contains about 60%-69% monounsaturated fatty acids: 5- 33% erucic acid and 12% oleic acid. It has approximately 21% polyunsaturated fats: 6% alpha-linolenic acid, an omega-3 fatty acid, and 15% linoleic acid, an omega-6 fatty acid. It has 12% saturated fats.

Types of mustard

1) Yellow/white mustard

2) Red mustard

3) Black mustard

• Red mustard is similar to white but white mustard is better

Oil intake from mustard seed

Mustard oil is extracted via cold compression of mustard seeds. Another method is steam distillation of mustard seeds immersed in water. Traditionally, cold pressed oil (Kachi ghani) was used. Steam distillation yields more oil but is not the best for health.

Properties and Benefits of mustard

Property

• Qualities – Laghu (light), oily, unctuousness

• Taste – Katu (pungent), bitter

• Taste conversion after digestion – Katu(pungent)

• Potency – Ushna(hot potency)

• Effects on Tridosha – Balances Kapha and Vata Dosha. Increases Pitta Dosha.

Benefits

• Hrudya – acts as cardiac tonic, congenial for heart

• Rakta Pitta Vardahana – increases Pitta and worsens blood vitiation.

• Agnivardhana – improves digestion strength

• Nidrakari – induces sleep

• Raktapitta krut – increases Pitta and vitiates Rakta (blood), not indicated in bleeding disorders.

useful in:

• Kushta – skin diseases

• Kandu – itching, pruritus

• Kantharoga– Throat and voice related disorders

• Graharoga – Psychiatric disorders

• Krumi – worm infestation

• Ama – A product of indigestion and altered metabolism

• Shruti –hearing disorders

• Sheersha Anilarti – headache due to Vata increase

• Pleeha – Disease of the spleen, Splenomegaly

• Shoola – abdominal pain

Mustard leaves categorised as leafy vegetables

It is sakṣāra (slightly alakaline), madhura (sweet), nātyuṣṇa (not so hot in potency) or uṣṇa (hot in potency), tīkṣṇa (penetrating), guru (heavy), rūkṣa (drying) or snigdha (unctuous), vidāhi (triggers inflammation), grāhi (astringent), baddhaviṇmūtra (reduces output of urine and feces) and reduces kapha and vata.

Application, uses and health benefits

1) Mustard oil has high smoking point, hence it can be used for deep frying or high heat stir frying.

2) It is a powerful antioxidant. It is best when consumed in its raw form.

3) Mustard oil helps to lower bad LDL cholesterol and increase good HDL cholesterol.

- Improvement in cholesterol decreases triglycerides or blood fat levels, thereby, preventing hyperthyroidism, kidney disease, and obesity in addition to enhancing heart health.

4) Mustard oil lowers the risk of Cardiovascular Disease. It is good for massaging and relieves joint pain. It promotes healthy skin, teeth, and hair.

- A recent comparative study done on varieties of edible oils revealed that mustard oil reduced the risk of cardiovascular diseases by 70 percent, so mustard oil cuts down the risk of heart diseases if used in moderation.

5) In India, people massage their gums with salt in mustard oil, and this improves oral hygiene.

6) In Ayurvedic medicine, mustard oil is used as a poultice for massage and a detoxifier. It has anti-aging properties. When massaged into the body, mustard oil can act as a skin antioxidant. It can remove tan and dark spots as well as lightens the skin. Mustard oil is rich in vitamin E, and it shields the skin from free radical damage from the sun’s ultraviolet rays as well as pollutants in the environment. It is like a natural sunscreen. Moreover, the vitamin E in mustard oil increases immunity and circulation.

7) As a Mustard oil rich in Omega-3 fatty acids with lot of nutrients(such as beta-carotene, iron, fatty acids, calcium, and magnesium) which are good for hair health and growth. Before using any type of oil hair please consult ayurveda practitioner, because oil which is used for hair is also depends on persons body type. For an example Mustard oil is not suitable for Pitta body type person because of its hot potency, it may damages the hair and change the color of hair also.

8) Mustard oil lowers inflammation-associated pain and has a calming effect on the body. Massaging joints and whole body with heated mustard oil relieve arthritis and pain. It revitalizes and relaxes the body by increasing blood circulation. OR You should use this Mustard oil as base for essential oils for massage.

9) When mustard oil is applied topically, it also has anti-fungal properties, as it contains allyl isothiocyanate, which inhibits fungal growth.

10) Mustard oil has shown efficacy in relieving cold and cough when applied onto the chest or inhaled(mustard oil steam treatment, which involves adding a few drops of pure mustard oil to boiling water and inhaling the steam.). Its strong aroma helps in removing excess phlegm from the respiratory tract. OR you add/pour 2-4 drops Mustard oil in nostrils which helps to remove blockage due to cold.

11) Mustard oil stimulates digestion. This oil is a known digestive stimulant and helps the intestine in producing digestive juices like bile, which increase the peristaltic movement of food.

12) Powder of rosted black Mustard Seed with sesame oil is applied on ulcers and non healing wounds.

13) Make a fine paste of red/black Mustard Seed(unroasted) powder with water and applied over forehead, which helps to reduce headache.

14) Mustard oil is mixed with small quantity of fine paste of turmeric and cooked. This oil is applied all over the body. This pacifies itchy rashes. Prefer warm water bath after applying.

15) Make a fine paste of equal quantity of mustard seed, garlic and ginger and apply this over joint pain and muscular swelling.

16) In cases of abscess / wounds with initial stage of pus formation, mustard paste is applied to quicken pus formation, before incision and draining.

17) Tender green plants as well as green pods can be eaten as vegetable or salads.

Note : 1) Avoid adulterated mustard oil with argemone oil, which is highly toxic.

2) Animal studies conclude that excessive use of mustard oil may be harmful to health due to high amounts of erucic acid.

Refrence :

for more information Mustard seeds (sarson)

1) Indian Journal of Traditional Knowledge Vol. 8(3), July 2009 : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/215533380_Mustard_and_its_uses_in_Ayurveda

2) book: Herbs and SpicesEdition: firstChapter: 12. MustardPublisher: Woodhead Publishing Limited, Abington Hall, Abington Cambridge CB1 6AH, EnglandEditors: K V Peter. : https://www.researchgate.net/publication/280131369_Mustard

3) https://www.researchgate.net/publication/277132591_Health_benefits_of_Mustard_seeds

4) https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5159089/

5) Bhojana Kutuhalam

6) Bhavaprakasha Nighantu

7) charak samhita

8) Sushruta samhita

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